Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. One of the things that is so amazing is how easily people have allowed the propagandists to transform “build a wall” into “border security.”

If trump and company have a damn about border security, they would adopt what security experts recommend, which is NOT a wall. They..

2....would hold congressional hearings to determine which is best. Right now, the universally recommended option is technology developed during the Iraq war. But that doesn’t make a good chant to help his Cult get aroused. That was why Trump said his “I know more about tech...

3...than anybody” so he could simply ignore the security experts.

A wall is the most expensive, least effective means of border security. We could spend tens of billions to build it, only to find that organized crime just is using their freighters to ship through the gulf....

4...trump hasn’t arranged for the basic engineering that could take as much as a year to finish. They have not attempted to obtain land clearances. And they have all the money to do that.

This isn’t about a solution. We have our government shutdown because fools don’t know...

5....that Congress is perfectly willing to fund effective border security (that’s why it already costs billions a year) but they are not willing to waste billions on something the experts say will not work.

Our government is closed because trump found a chant he liked. And...

6...uneducated fools like Coulter and college dropouts like Rush think they know more than engineers and security experts.

These people want to waste billions on something that gives them a metaphorical erection. That’s it. They want a “win” no matter how many billions it....

7...costs, no matter how ineffective it is, no matter what the experts say.

Trumpism is know-nothingism. Trumpism is ignorant arrogance.

And the wall is not border security. It is a boondoggle. So trump wants to call it something else? Call it that. #TrumpsBoondoggle.