I’ll bet & there might be… How proud your parents must feel about your philosophical skill set.
If Mr. Trump thinks reducing the already declining immigration numbers is America’s #1 priority, why doesn’t he buy the private property that lines most of our borders and use his own money to build a wall?
Even if Obama and Pelosi both had walls around their homes: 1. Private homes, not public land, 2. Private money, not public taxes, 3. Private decision affecting only the owners, not intruding on citizens (land, taxes taken from other departments).
Addresses closely guarded secret information? This isn’t Russia, this is America. I commute past my Senator’s house every workday. No walls, no guards. Just people living.
Ramirez, if you have to make up lies then you don’t have a valid point.
The commenters that back up Ramirez by saying “there might be a wall on one of Pelosi’s homes”, “this is just rhetoric” or any other foolish, empty nonsense should be embarrassed.
I guess if you live long enough everything you knew becomes wrong. My republican grandparents never locked their door, welcomed refugees into their home, and were not afraid of their neighbors. A woman once ran into their home to escape from a drunken husband that was beating her … and my grandfather (in his late sixties) stood up to a much younger drunken man and would not let him in. The only locked door, I remember was the gun closet in their farmhouse before they moved to the city. They did not bring their guns to the city … guns were for hunting, not protection. Policemen were for protection and the young policeman walking the beat in their neighborhood was all the assurance they needed. Today’s Republican’s carry guns for protection and seem to fear their own shadows as well as the imaginary horribles the politicians concoct about immigrants.
There are three kinds of walls we’re talking here (not counting the one around the Pelosi compound.
Wall 01) The Great Wall of China, designed to keep an invading army out.
Wall 02) The Berlin Wall, designed to keep an unwilling population captive and hostage.
Wall 03) The Israeli Wall around Palestine, designed to keep a certain group of people out, allowing the wall-builders the excuse of shooting and killing all who attempt to cross.
Which wall do you choose, Donny? Why, Wall #03, of course!
Trump’s wall is merely an excuse to KILL people. He and those who support his wall (such as Mr. Ramirez, apparently) only need a wall in order to legally KILL border crossers.
Trump’s wall is both racist and immoral. We do not want to be the nation with such a wall. We have the power and resources to solve our problems without becoming the nation that hunts down and kill immigrants fleeing into our nation, looking for safety and security.
Yes, I know. There are also bad guys crossing the borders. But you know what? We also have the resources to handle them. And we can do it without killing innocent people.
@GEEZER — Federal lands might be available “to house hordes of foreign invaders” if they didn’t object to living next to newly installed oil drilling rigs…
I think he is trying to compare a border wall that will take land from people along the border and do nothing to stop asylum seekers/immigrants to a low stone wall at the Pelosi property in wine country. I laughed when I saw the photos. Even an old lady like me could probably make it over and it isn’t continuous, there are post and rail portions anyone could crawl under, climb through….lol….
The only thing Bonespurs’ wall is good for is blocking access for threatened and endangered wildlfie that needs passage around their range. The fences in place cause enough problems already, except to the drug smugglers who don’t worry about walls, they just drive trucks through the access points. And the majority of illegals, as is well known, come in legally, or semi-legally and never leave. Guests who overstay their welcome, like Bonespurs in OUR White House that like the public lands, belongs to all of us.
Why not quote Mick Mulvaney, who is on record as thinking that the idea of a wall on the Mexico border was “absurd, almost childish”, and not only that, “it wouldn’t work”.
Since then, he’s shown the over-familiar Republican agility in stripping himself inside-out like a glove, and (without offering any evidence, because the evidence actually cuts against his new position), intoned that “conditions have changed” and that now a wall is desperately needed. (Desperate is good, but it doesn’t apply to any “need”.)
• Thomas over 5 years ago
I’ve seen Ms. Pelosi’s house . It sits on Normandie Terrace in San Francisco, right on the street. Good old red brick colonial.
Mr. Ramirez if propaganda would get the bigot’s your precious wall, Trump’s 6000+ lies would have done it already. What else you got?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-this-a-wall-around-nancy-pelosis-home/
• Thomas over 5 years ago
@Jbigot
I’ll bet & there might be… How proud your parents must feel about your philosophical skill set.
If Mr. Trump thinks reducing the already declining immigration numbers is America’s #1 priority, why doesn’t he buy the private property that lines most of our borders and use his own money to build a wall?
tbarry718 over 5 years ago
This cartoon is a lie.
SeanT over 5 years ago
It’s that part “and Mexico will pay for it” that I’m waiting for.
Librarylady over 5 years ago
Even if Obama and Pelosi both had walls around their homes: 1. Private homes, not public land, 2. Private money, not public taxes, 3. Private decision affecting only the owners, not intruding on citizens (land, taxes taken from other departments).
• Thomas over 5 years ago
@Jbigot
Addresses closely guarded secret information? This isn’t Russia, this is America. I commute past my Senator’s house every workday. No walls, no guards. Just people living.
Nantucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
Ramirez, if you have to make up lies then you don’t have a valid point.
The commenters that back up Ramirez by saying “there might be a wall on one of Pelosi’s homes”, “this is just rhetoric” or any other foolish, empty nonsense should be embarrassed.
superposition over 5 years ago
I guess if you live long enough everything you knew becomes wrong. My republican grandparents never locked their door, welcomed refugees into their home, and were not afraid of their neighbors. A woman once ran into their home to escape from a drunken husband that was beating her … and my grandfather (in his late sixties) stood up to a much younger drunken man and would not let him in. The only locked door, I remember was the gun closet in their farmhouse before they moved to the city. They did not bring their guns to the city … guns were for hunting, not protection. Policemen were for protection and the young policeman walking the beat in their neighborhood was all the assurance they needed. Today’s Republican’s carry guns for protection and seem to fear their own shadows as well as the imaginary horribles the politicians concoct about immigrants.
Durak Premium Member over 5 years ago
Apple, meet orange.
There are three kinds of walls we’re talking here (not counting the one around the Pelosi compound.
Wall 01) The Great Wall of China, designed to keep an invading army out.
Wall 02) The Berlin Wall, designed to keep an unwilling population captive and hostage.
Wall 03) The Israeli Wall around Palestine, designed to keep a certain group of people out, allowing the wall-builders the excuse of shooting and killing all who attempt to cross.
Which wall do you choose, Donny? Why, Wall #03, of course!
Trump’s wall is merely an excuse to KILL people. He and those who support his wall (such as Mr. Ramirez, apparently) only need a wall in order to legally KILL border crossers.
Trump’s wall is both racist and immoral. We do not want to be the nation with such a wall. We have the power and resources to solve our problems without becoming the nation that hunts down and kill immigrants fleeing into our nation, looking for safety and security.
Yes, I know. There are also bad guys crossing the borders. But you know what? We also have the resources to handle them. And we can do it without killing innocent people.
martens over 5 years ago
Ramirez is very good with graphics, but his thought processes, as illustrated in his cartoons, make him look foolish which is embarrassing to observe.
DonnyTwoScoops over 5 years ago
Maybe Mexico paid for her Wall. They sure aren’t paying for Trump’s.
DrDon1 over 5 years ago
Ramirez’s cartoon would fit right in the National Enquirer or Breitbart News!
genome_project Premium Member over 5 years ago
Ramirez was starting to turn against Donnie boy, but now that Pelosi is back in charge of Congress he has a new target to pick on, truth be damned,
DrDon1 over 5 years ago
@GEEZER — Federal lands might be available “to house hordes of foreign invaders” if they didn’t object to living next to newly installed oil drilling rigs…
gcottay over 5 years ago
Michael Ramirez for Wall Czar! Or press secretary. Or unemployment line.
Real Joel over 5 years ago
Just one little problem, Mikey. There is no wall around Pelosi’s home. Oops. Major screw up.
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
Republicans said Mexico will pay for the wall
now Republicans are saying government workers won’t be paid
until the american tax payer pays for the wall.
Lie and steal is all Republicans do.
Jujeebean over 5 years ago
I think he is trying to compare a border wall that will take land from people along the border and do nothing to stop asylum seekers/immigrants to a low stone wall at the Pelosi property in wine country. I laughed when I saw the photos. Even an old lady like me could probably make it over and it isn’t continuous, there are post and rail portions anyone could crawl under, climb through….lol….
Dtroutma over 5 years ago
The only thing Bonespurs’ wall is good for is blocking access for threatened and endangered wildlfie that needs passage around their range. The fences in place cause enough problems already, except to the drug smugglers who don’t worry about walls, they just drive trucks through the access points. And the majority of illegals, as is well known, come in legally, or semi-legally and never leave. Guests who overstay their welcome, like Bonespurs in OUR White House that like the public lands, belongs to all of us.
Ontman over 5 years ago
Mr. Ramirez is every bit as delusional as his god, Donald Trump..
AndrewSihler over 5 years ago
Why not quote Mick Mulvaney, who is on record as thinking that the idea of a wall on the Mexico border was “absurd, almost childish”, and not only that, “it wouldn’t work”.
Since then, he’s shown the over-familiar Republican agility in stripping himself inside-out like a glove, and (without offering any evidence, because the evidence actually cuts against his new position), intoned that “conditions have changed” and that now a wall is desperately needed. (Desperate is good, but it doesn’t apply to any “need”.)