Not replacing short wall with similar wall
I can’t tell if this is hilarious or terrifying.
did… did a wall write this? pic.twitter.com/wODbt45X52
— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) December 13, 2018
Talking Points Memo cautiously prods the suspicious object:
The Department of Homeland Security sounded a bit like Cookie Monster or The Incredible Hulk in a press release Wednesday detailing how the agency has spent the roughly $1.67 billion allocated to it for fence and wall construction and renovation over the past 19 months.
“DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly,” the release read. “We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.”
To me it sounds like Natasha and Boris in Rocky and Bullwinkle but that’s probably because I’m not familiar with Cookie Monster or The Incredible Hulk.
Anyway, it really is a press release from the real DHS.
The use of definite articles is one of the most difficult things for learners of a language to master, especially if they speak a language that doesn’t have them. Like Russian, for example.
And especially if they’re Trump. He was doing it in that brawl with “Nancy” and “Chuck” the other day; I noticed it and snickered.
Huh, hadn’t noticed. Now I’m picturing Trump as The Hulk. “Trump mad! Trump build wall!”
O wicked Wall through whom I see no bliss!
Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!
–Swan (of Avon)
I wonder who wrote this?
– A stupid point
– made repeatedly
– with simple vocabulary
– and childish syntax.
Hmm.
You know, I have a sneaking suspicion it might be Trump.
@What A Maroon #3 – it sounds like you don’t read much Tom Tomorrow. See, for example:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/12/1811983/-Cartoon-On-a-rampage
Definitely worth checking out the whole strip.