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Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it's not even connected sections.
But Mexico was going to pay for the wall...
8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that's a real achievement.
But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren't many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.
Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project.... right?
Then, there's the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they're not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.
So, it's 8%, but it's not the hard 8%, it's the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
It's a decent article explaining where money didn't go, how much of the wall isn't really connected l.
The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.
It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.
Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP's strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.
Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.
It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it
For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.
I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.
USA would much rather support genocide in palestine than resist genocide in ukraine.
Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.
Mario's Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.
Another descriptive term is wagging the dog (referring to the tail having disproportionate leverage over the beast) which is a (not uncommon) presidential tactic of taking a serious military action in order to distract from other scandals.
News media, including classic liberal media will allow other stories to die to report on attacks or invasions (or when you can get it, attacks on the US by foreign units).
George W.Bush used this method, but also blitzing the public with countless scandals. (George H. W. Bush did too) So Trump's kitchen cabinet was likely informed by history when considering becoming Bibi's personal B.
We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day
Yeah, man, let's get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That's what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one's talking about it. That's the problem.
You think "nobody" is talking about it?
What a tiny world you live in
I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain
I wonder what came of that
Oh yes we are. The news has a short memory but we don't. F that guy.
I thought the 2024 election rigging was all wild speculation?
I agree the pieces are there for it to happen but I didn't see any actual evidence.
I saw an analysis of results in deep-blue Arizona cities where there were quite a few people who voted for Trump...then Democrat down the rest of the ballot.
It's not hard evidence, but it's suspicious. The problem the US has is that the winners are quite okay with winning at any cost and don't see a problem, even if the win was stolen.
Establishment Dems have been trying to sell the fantasy concept of a full Democratic ticket, with Trump at the top. I'm sure there are a few, but they are as rare as white squirrels.
The idea that it was common is ridiculous. I've never heard ANYONE say that voted that way.
There's an active court case in New York uncovering indications of tampering and wild statistical anomalies. This blog is a little conspiratorial sounding, but it's also doing a difficult job of putting back together the pieces of what is looking like a well executed technological coup.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
Yes and no. As others have stated, there isn't a whole lot of evidence that any specific cheating was happening. But historically Republicans have always cheated and if there was a way to cheat they would cheat. They have been slowly putting people into positions that would allow them to affect the elections. They have been making laws to make it harder for people to vote that they don't want voting.
I think the more interesting question is if they did cheat, would it even matter?
It would change the narrative but it's not like they would follow the courts of they said it was stolen and had to be redone or something
They wouldn't redo the vote, Harris conceded, so it's over.
They could, however, prosecute everyone involved, and throw them in prison for a long time.
You are much more optimistic than I.
More and more evidence is coming to light. Even more will come out, eventually they'll start getting connected together, and eventually names will be attached.
Unfortunately, it won't be the cowardly Dem leadership that will find this. People on the outside are going to have to uncover the facts and blow it up to the point that the Dems can't ignore it.
It does feel like that story just got moved from way too fast.
The news around Donald changes faster than the weather in the mid-west. He's done more or been involved in more in a few months than most presidents could accomplish in 2 full terms.
Throwing a brick into a dryer is less chaotic.
Spot on!