What This Blog Is About

This blog is here to, as much as possible, keep the mores of the Trump administration from being the new normal in American presidential politics.
Not since the Civil War has a president sought to abridge freedom of speech or of the press. No president has ever sought to keep extensive wealth in this country and all around the world while being the number one agent for the American peoples' business. Nobody with a decades' long sexual attraction to his own daughter has ever been president. No other president has been elected with the strong help of the illegal acts of a foreign country. No other president has neither held prior office nor has been a military general. No other president has ever claimed that he sacrificed more than a Gold Star family. No prior president has ever claimed a book to be his favorite, and then not be able to say anything about it immediately afterwards. No prior president has had speeches of Adolf Hitler as bedside reading for an extensive period of time. No prior president has been recorded describing an attempt to seduce another man's wife. No prior president has ever been recorded saying that he could just pick women up by their genitals. No prior president's comments about women have focused so much on their physical appearance. No president with a 4-F draft status has ever claimed at age 70 to be the healthiest presidential candidate ever. No prior presidential candidate has spent more than one minute of his debate time sniffing, as if something was coming out of his nose. Since the creation of the Geneva Convention, no president has ever formally disavowed any part of it. No prior president has been divorced twice, each time afterwards marrying the mistress with whom he has committed adultery.
If these things become the new normal, then the American experiment in free republicanism is over. There is some tiny chance that remembering the mores of a free republic can help heal the damage from this savage, brutal, political and military nightmare.

Monday, September 18, 2017

The Barriers to a U.S.--Mexican Border Wall Illustrated

This blog is intended to document how unrespecting of the often-unwritten mores of the Presidency of the United States the current president is. Now recent presidents have put forth policies based on based on impossible technologies (Reagan's Star Wars) or by manifest denial of a clear fact of a military or diplomatic situation (Nixon's Vietnamization, which ignored that South Vietnamese draftees were disinclined to die for the corrupt figures who had always run their government-- perhaps even Obama's denial that the political base for moderate Afghanis and Iraqis barely existed), but nothing compares to the current president's southern border wall-- a central promise and theme of his campaign, but which a casual knowledge of the territory shows to be impossible. Now--Surprise!-- he's backing off the wall.
The border between the United States and Mexico is defined by a river-- the Rio Grande (the Big River), also known as the Rio Bravo del Norte-- the Wild River of the North-- and runs for almost 2,000 miles.
One of my pet peeves is when English speakers call this body of water the Rio Grande River-- they nearly always pronounce it the Rio Grand River, which is to call it the Big River River
Here are some photos of the Rio Grande.
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These sites are plainly unsuitable for the installation of a border wall.

Even worse, the river moves, which could easily have the effect of the wall not matching the border.

In the past, I submit, a presidential candidate who was considering advocating a wall between the U.S. and Mexico )would have had a staffer do a little research (like what I've done here), looked at the photos and would have not advocated that project. Such statements don't bother the President; the truth is not in him.

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