I've seen tons of stories on this today. Yeah, you can cut through steel. Not really news there but you take what you can get.
What this DOES mean, however, is that the Democrats and their media propaganda arm are creating more fake news.
Meaning that... you can cut through steel, but you can't cut through steel? FAKE NOOOS!!!!
See, the real story isn't that you can cut through steel of break through concrete. The real story is that the Democrats are going full court press on the "the wall is useless" story while completely ignoring the fact that, useless or not, it's the best way they have to get what THEY want.
NBC is not a part of, and does not take orders from, the DNC. Just FYI.
Further, the news is simply evidence coming to light of the ability to cut through the wall using common tools. As usual, it means Trump dinged himself when he claimed it would be "impenetrable."
Oh, and yeah, "The Wall" is useless. If you're trying to sell me on the idea that a wall which can be cut through with a $50 tool available at any
ferretería is a good thing, I'm not buying. More importantly, the number of border crossers has fallen steadily, and are now substantially outnumbered by those who fly into the US (mostly from Asia) and overstay their visas.
If the Democrats give Trump his useless wall they will get their DACA resolution and they can move forward on other immigration reform. They can even point at the wall next September and say "What a boondoggle! It's useless and it's all on Trump!".
The could do that. But they won't.
Yeah, that's not entirely on the Dems.
• Trump hasn't put this on the table.
• Last year, there was a "DACA for border support" deal. Trump pissed on it.
• Trump
suuuuucks at negotiations. Among the problems this causes:
- He's boxed himself into a corner, and refuses to compromise
- He's uninformed and unreliable, meaning he isn't clear at all what he's offering Dems
- He's emotionally tied to getting his way (hence the tantrums and threats) -- this is a tactic that has screwed him in the past, with the Plaza purchase and his casino failures
- He's characterizing Dems as worse than dealing with the Chinese, i.e. his domestic political rivals are worse than an autocratic government that (per Trump's own mentality) has taken advantage of and run rings around the US for decades, stealing our jobs and threatening our national security (not the kind of thing you say when you're trying to make a deal with someone btw)
• Most Congressional Republicans have no interest in "DACA for the Wall." Everyone wants funding for repairs and fences and agents and tech, no one wants the wall. For Republicans, trading DACA for the wall sucks, because they are giving Democrats something good (DACA) in exchange for a **** sandwich (a wall they don't want).
• Attempts to boot the Dreamers are tied up in court. That reduces Democrat's incentives to deal.
• Democrats are not afraid to cross Trump. They're probably more afraid of AOC attacking her fellow Dems if they cave. That further reduces their incentives.
• Dems are not getting blamed for the shutdown, and lots of Trump voters are getting hurt. They're not pushing Dems much to make a deal.
The reason they won't is because this whole thing isn't about walls or immigration or anything else for the Democrats. It's 100% about "resistance".
And the reason Trump wants a wall isn't because it's a good idea, it's 100% about politics and throwing read meat to his base, and refusing to "lose the shutdown."
See how that works?
