The shutdown is not about a wall, really. It’s not about making good on campaign promises. It’s not about border security. It’s about giving the Orange Resident a monument, something what-ever to make it impossible for you and future generations to forget him.
So why not give him a monument, in exchange for opening the government? A monument/mausoleum will be much cheaper than the wall and the shutdown.
It has to be a pyramid. The world doesn’t have a lot of modern pyramids, but show him the pyramid built in Tirana, finished in 1988, to honor and remember Enver Hoxha, Albania’s communist party chief and dictator. Among the architects: his daughter Pranvera and son-in-law Klement Kolaneci. A lot of inspiration there.
Of course the Donald’s pyramid has to be the bigliest, bestest and highest. The exterior will be covered by marble slates, the way Hoxha’s was built, but with 45’s name all over, letters in polished brass (looks like gold). Inside it will be completely empty, symbolizing his heart and soul.
His sons will buy a large plot of land for the pyramid, in the vicinity and visibility of Mar-a-Lago, selling it to the government for five times the original price. Still this alternative will be a superbargain, compared to the wall.
Many gifts come with a condition, this monument also, and it’s an offer he can’t refuse. Ego #1 will receive it provided he steps down from his throne and takes Pence and all White House staff with him. We would even promise him to keep it forever. Hoxha’s pyramid didn’t last long being Hoxha’s – in 1990 the iron curtain around Albania was demolished, a year after it happened in the Soviet bloc, and the pyramid was turned into a US American culture center. Ain’t that cute?
Later it was transformed again, into a more neutral conference center. One period, NATO had an office there. The only thing reminding of Hoxha nowadays is the name of the café in the bottom of the pyramid, ”Mumja” – the Mummy. Marble slates are all gone, deeply missed by the neighborhood kids, who slid down the marble pyramid as if it were an icey hillside. Instead it’s decorated with some grafitti.
What’s gonna happen to the American dictator’s pyramid in the future? Something that he and his sons won’t realize: that this plot of land and the monument soon will be covered by the Atlantic Ocean if fossil fuel keeps being burned at present rates.
More here: Pyramid_of_Tirana
A different view of the wall not being the problem:
Eliminating the government