No surface prep? That will flake off in no time.
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It's probably made of that kind of steel that rusts a bit and forms a protective layer. The paint won't stick and they can repeat the performance next year. It let's them show they're Doing Things.
If they're that bored maybe they should be constructive and go help pick some fruit and vegetables.
Now Congress can earmark 500 million for "wall maintenance", spend $1000 on supplies at Home Depot, get a nice photo opportunity, then go fuck off with half a billion dollars.
It's because Trump ordered it. Even Noem and her lot aren't as fucking stupid as their boss.
And somehow she makes me wonder most of the time.
It was already done on Trump's first term, and flaked in a year.
Lather.rinse....
Yeah that was dumb back then but at least they had a plan for painting more than 7ft high. How do you get dumber when you're already at the floor?
I doubt they did or know this, but there is black rust conversion paint that you can apply directly to rusty steel and it isn't a problem.
They know that wall is built entirely on the US side of the actual border, right? In some areas, more than a mile of territory was effectively ceded. They can go and paint the other side too, if they want.
But how would they get back over?
Borrowed from this post.
Ah sweet a stairway to heaven.
Errrmmmm... I... guess you could call it that. "One man's heaven is another man's..." and all that.
Well, walking up that stairway will send you to heaven.
But those are black too. They might try this after painting the white
Ladders? Milk crates? More seriously, in some places there are actual gates in the wall, which also allow ranchers access to their land on the other side.
Yep, here’s one in south Texas that’s about 1/4 mile from the actual border (the Rio Grande). It seems to be generally left open. The photo is from the “outside”.
Colour of the utility pole crossing over, making it extremely obvious that both sides of the fence are the same country.
It's stolen territory, bub. They didn't cede anything.
What makes it even more funny is that according to the sun movement, the north side gets the least ammount of sun .
So what you're saying is they're painting it black in the hopes that the entire wall becomes too hot to touch during the day to keep people from simply scaling it?
Yes, that is the idea.
Good thing no one will ever think of gloves.
or nighttime
Or ladders
Or have enough cooking experience to tolerate palm-heat well for a while
Luckily they scale the fence with ladders and carpets, never actually touching it.
*ammonite
With rollers, what? Is that real?
Why are they painting a rusty wall
Actually, this makes perfect sense. They're clearly trying to stop the Mexico filter spreading further which is also why the fence is orange before they apply it
also it's a coating, not a paint [it's a paint]
It is simple. Since they are deadly afraid of black things, they think the rest of the world is too.
First state ownership of enterprise, and now jobs programs? Maybe Trump was the socialist president all along!
4D cheese
If you eat it before bed, you wake up yesterday.
He’s going to take it National.
They're using paint rollers in the desert...
Fucking morons. 🤦🏼♂️
It’s weird that they believe in science all of a sudden.
It's very considerate really. Painting it black on the north side helps to keep it cool
She is definitely not bright. They should've ask the cayotes how to get to the otherside to paint.
They should paint the scene on the other side of the fence onto the fence, that way people will run into defence cartoon style.