TheTrumpadministration , and plenty of Congressional Republicans , are under fire at the moment from pretty muchevery facet of society . This is for two very blanket reasonableness – namely , they are doing things that are either genuinely terrifying orbatshit wild .
Speaking of dotty , Representative Trent Franks – an Arizona Republican – pop over to the CNN recently to do something that ’s demonstrably unpopular with the American public . He defended President Trump ’s $ 25 billion US - Mexico border wall , claim that it ’s demand to keep the nation safe and strong from all those Mexican maniacs .
As highlighted byGizmodo , this gentleman then said something quite jarring .
“ Ya know , we sometimes used to make the point that if someone desire to smuggle in a grave weapon system , even anuclear weapon , into America , how would they do it ? ” he begin . “ And the mesmerism was made , ‘ Well , we ’ll but hide it in a bale of marijuana . ’ ”
keep on . So Mr Franks is saying that the Great Wall of Trump will arrest atomic weapons , concealed inside massive piles of illegal cannabis , hook into the US ? This strike us as odd .
The strange exchange on CNN.tpmtvvia YouTube
First off – why not foot something legal to hide the nuclear weapons in , rather than something sniffer dogs and armed patrols are searching for along that boundary line crossing ? Do atomic weapons tend to get into America via Mexico ? Would a warhead even tally inside a “ bale ” of marijuana – and does n’t it normally come in handbag ?
It ’s not exactly clear who Franks is referring to when he say that “ we sometimes used to make the point . ” AsTalking Points Memohelpfully point out , this is an argument he has shamelessly used before back in 2012 , so perhaps he ’s talking about himself or , worryingly , several other lawmakers ( including one Democrat ) that ’s also made the baseless trace .
Is marijuana , as some of these contemporaries haveclaimed , a safe radiation cuticle for nuclear warheads ? Can it hide radioactive fabric from military inspection ? Sure , a short . But you make out what else works just as well ? Any other case of crop or plant .
have ’s be clear – this is harebrained . That did n’t cease one British tabloid going with thegrandiose headline : “ Fears mount Mexican drug lords will help oneself Inter-Services Intelligence smuggle NUKE into the US blot out inside bale of marijuana . ”
You acknowledge , it ’d actually be easy to smuggle a nuke wrapped in marijuana from Canada ’s British Columbia to America ’s Washington State . medicative use of the drug islegalin both the respective province and commonwealth , after all , and not even the most die - grueling Republican suspects their nice neighbor from the north of plotting their end of the world .
So maybe Franks is focusing on the incorrect border . blank out the Mexican cartels – what isTrudeauhiding behind that handsome visage of his ?
