GOP Rep.: Bales Of Marijuana Concealing Nukes Can Cross Border

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 22, 2017, 12:01 PM EDT

A Republican congressman from Arizona defended the construction of a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border by arguing that a nuclear weapon could be smuggled across a porous border in a bale of marijuana.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), whose district is just over 100 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, referenced the illicit drug trade in a discussion Wednesday with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.

“The reality, Brianna, is that we have to measure all of the costs, ancillary and otherwise, and make the best decision that we can. But I can suggest to you that there are national security implications here for a porous border,” Franks said. “We sometimes used to make the point that if someone wanted to smuggle in a dangerous weapon, even a nuclear weapon, into America, how would they do it? And the suggestion was made, ‘Well, we'll simply hide it in a bale of marijuana.’”

“So the implications of a porous border have national security dimensions that are very significant and that bear a lot of conversation when we talk about costs," he said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trent-franks-marijuana-border-nuclear-weapon

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Idiot

[sarcasmo]

2. Using the failed war on drugs to push an insane border wall.

What's next? This is your brain on marijuana videos.

[lark]

3. Freaking stupid and idiotic.

The inmates are in charge of the asylum, to our great peril.

[Aristus]

4. "Let's send marijuana to the US and make a lot of money!

Let's send with it a weapon that will kill the people who buy our marijuana! Because that's, like, the best business model EVER!"

[Blue_Tires]

73. Smuggling nuclear weapons is about the only thing

Mexican ditchweed is good for

[exboyfil]

5. A nuke is not going to be built in Mexico

It will be built probably in the midEast or Korea, and transported by ship. Which is easier - a coastal landing or a coastal landing in Mexico, overland trip, across the border, and transport to a high population center (most of which are already on the coast).

The easiest delivery would be in some sort of personal boat docking in any of a myriad number of cities and detonation right on the boat.

The stupidity is so bad - it burns.

[atreides1]

16. Here you go

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Let's you see what the possible effects of a nuke would be!

[hueymahl]

58. Well that is damn depressing!

Interesting though, in a very morbid, scary way.

[JohnnyRingo]

49. Add to that plan to hide it in a bale of weed.

...something a dog can sniff out from 100 feet. Might as well plaster a radioactive hazard placard on it too.

[HoneyBadger]

76. We have nothing to fear from NK

or people smuggling one nuke through MX or to CA by sea. Russia is our nuclear enemy. No one else is close. End of story.

[Mendocino]

6. Wow man

this dope is da bomb!

[BumRushDaShow]

45. The nuclear bale would allow you to create one of these

quarter pounders -

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. +1

[yallerdawg]

7. I don't know...

All the wild fantasy movies I've seen, more likely the pot would be hidden in the bomb!

"Drug cartels" don't really want to kill their customers, do they?

[brush]

32. Yep, gotta be easier ways to get a nuke in.

LIKE SAY, ALL THE EFFIN PORTS ON THE COASTS.

What do these people eat to think up such stupid sh_t?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

77. It should work, to get past those plutonium-sniffing dogs at the border.

Bombs? No officer, just another couple bales of weed, nothing to see.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. Franks - a very Gohmert or Bachmann or Blackburn- like individual

[Betty88]

9. This a great idea....Put a nuc in a pile of pot, the dogs will never smell that nt

[rickford66]

10. WTF ? Why hide it in a bale of MJ ?

Why not just smuggle the nuke the way you'd smuggle the bale? Where do they find these guys?

[Else You Are Mad]

34. Because it makes...

Mexicans both drug smugglers and terrorists at the same time.

[rickford66]

37. I rarely LOL reading these posts, but LOL

[theaocp]

11. Or, you could just

smuggle a nuke on its own. It's not like the border is going to say, "Hey! It's JUST a bale of weed. Let it on through!" What the fuck kind of bullshit fear mongering is this amateur up to?

[bronxiteforever]

12. Who needs bales of pot

When bales of dark money can so easily buy a president for an actual nuclear power?

Maybe you should do some investigating Trent!

[Orsino]

13. But what about the anchor babies concealed insides those nukes, Congressman?

And are you just giving a pass to the Zika in their bellies?

[MindPilot]

64. And what about the poor aborted babies who will never grow up

to enjoy a thermonuclear fireball?

What about THOSE children, Congressman?!

[njhoneybadger]

14. WTF border wall, drug war, fear mongering nuclear threat

all rolled up in one package.

[Zambero]

15. Yup, they'd surely package them nukes in something unsuspicious

Like marijuana. Just think about it. Once detonated, it would be the ultimate Cheech & Chong "Up in Smoke" moment. Sniffer dogs routinely detect packing peanuts, wooden crates, and bubble wrap every time, but everyone knows they are completely oblivious to pot!

[njhoneybadger]

61. "Hey man, let's put the nuke in the bale,yeah man they'll never find it there."

Hey man, let's get the whole town high man,yeah man put the bale on the bond fire man,

[logosoco]

17. Well, then let's start going all our marijuana HERE and we won't have to

import it!!!!

[Crowman2009]

18. I never heard of marijuana being formed in bales.

Not even the dumbest smuggler of all time would carry around marijuana in bales.

[Brother Buzz]

50. I gather you've never seen a square grouper?

[Crowman2009]

66. Well I meant hay-like bales.

[BruceWane]

19. Ultimate Conservative Boogeyman!!!

Oh! The terror!

The threat of a thermonuclear marijuana bomb! Not only will you be vaporized, your moral fiber will be shredded by evil drugs!

BOO!

[dixiegrrrrl]

63. but think of the high from that detonation!

Ok..it will be a brief high, admittedly. but still....

[haele]

20. Make marijuana legal, and you don't have to worry about nukes in bales(!) of MJ....

Bales? That's going to need a huge backpack to transport it in across a border fence. Something big enough that two people are going to have to haul it, unless you can get the Mexican Mr. Universe contestant to haul it 70 miles across the desert on his back...

How does Mr. Franks think that amount of MJ is smuggled into the U.S.? Hint: A large Wall is not going to stop someone transporting a "bale" of MJ with even a small suitcase nuke hidden in it.

They're going to use a boat, or hide it in an 18-wheeler amongst crates of other imports for a "bale of marijuana". Or they're going to just ship components of a nuke along with a couple normal U.S. traveler's medical devices - or hidden as parts of other imports that they can intercept because they've got the manifest and know where it's going to be at any point in the shipment.

Typical unimaginative conservative.

Haele

[meadowlander]

60. Or just bring it through one of the many tunnels

already built or being built.

[dalton99a]

21. Like they're going to spend millions on a nuclear device and trust it to dopeheads

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. Dave's not here, man. NT

[MindPilot]

59. "Harold and Kumar Go Nuclear"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

22. Every pothead is a terrorist!

Don't blame me; I'm a draft resister in the war on drugs.

To be on the safe side, we should grow our own.

[hollowdweller]

23. He's not entirely wrong BUT-

Customs only screens a small amount of packages that come into the US legally, there's just not the manpower.

I'd think coming across from Mexico would be one of the least likely. More likely in a shipping container or something.

[n2doc]

24. If they really wanted to hide them from Franks

They would hide the nuke in a pile of intel reports on Putin-Trump ties. No Repub would ever look inside those!

[keithbvadu2]

27. OUCH!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. Duzy. NT

[keithbvadu2]

25. serving in Congress since 2003

Too bad he didn't care back when Dubya was in office and republicans controlled both Houses of Congress.

[elmac]

29. oh, like anyone would ruin good pot

by nuking it, duh!

[leftyladyfrommo]

30. Like anyone is going to waste good pot

That way.

[C_U_L8R]

31. That may be just what the world needs

An atomic bong-hit

[billpolonsky]

33. A bale of marijuana from Mexico?

What century is he living in.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I'm having a lot of fun just imagining

an entire bale of high quality marijuana.

[yellowcanine]

42. No one said it had to be high quality. In fact it could be a bale of hay.

Which would actually make more sense. I can't believe we are actually discussing this as if it were real.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

48. Oh, I know. But I'm having fun with my little fantasy.

[Cryptoad]

36. Is that what happened in Bowling Green?

[jmowreader]

71. No, that was the Swedish attack

The Bowling Green one was a Corvette with a cast crank.

[defacto7]

38. That's what I call...

the stupid manipulating the ultra stupid.

Wha? Is lead leeching into the drinking water down there?

[HopeAgain]

39. So they would hide it in contraband that dogs can smell?

Just because it is too easy to sneak in nukes and they want to make it more challenging?

Someone please let the pot smoking terrorists know that we aren't all as dumb as the republicans!

[yellowcanine]

40. Wait - that doesn't even make sense. Do these guys even listen to themselves?

"How can we make sure that no one notices that nuke we are carrying across the border? I got it, we will hide it in a bale of marijuana, which the border police won't notice!"

[Dan]

41. That is so untrue...

why use bales of marijuana, when they can either charter a rich man's plane; or donate a few thousand to a member of the GOP and they will personally allow it to enter.

[BumRushDaShow]

43. Do they plan to put a fence along the Gulf of Mexico too?

Or how about the thousands of miles along the entire West Coast?

[yellowcanine]

44. SNL is going to have a field day with this.

I envy those guys these days.

[LittleGirl]

47. What an idiot

Doesn't he know that people are growing their own now? WTF Dude. There are how many states with legal MJ now? How many states with MMJ? Come on, stop being the stupid party. ugh.

[onenote]

51. a nuke could be hidden in a palette of Canadian bacon

So let's build a northern wall, too.

[meadowlander]

52. That's some ninja level stupid.

I suspect, Trent, that the bad hombres prefer to hide the one illegal thing in something else that isn't illegal. Pro smuggler tip there.

[Jeroen]

53. Anyone can get a complete circus into the US undetected

Seaports, containers, corruption and a little luck.

[diva77]

54. Reminds me of Condoleeza's "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"

[tazkcmo]

55. Easier to hide it

in that huge empty space in his head.

[MindPilot]

56. Now, that is a mushroom cloud I could get into!

mmmm Uranium Kush

I can't believe some of these congressdudes can dress themselves and go outside without a helmet.

[EarlG]

57. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase

"this shit is the bomb."

[MindPilot]

62. All joking aside, this is about the stupidest thing I ever heard.

Anyone with the actual technical and scientific wherewithal to build a nuclear device for the purpose of detonating it with in the borders of the US, would probably simply do it here. If they smuggled in some actual material, that would probably come by ship stashed in a box of engine blocks or something.

[CanonRay]

65. All the more reason to grow it here!

[left-of-center2012]

67. Maybe in a bowel of guacamole?

Or a Trump Tower taco bowel?

[MindPilot]

69. You may need this...

?itok=176aQXrp

[Panich52]

68. One more reason to free the weed here.

[jmowreader]

70. How big do they think bales of marijuana are?

Wouldn't it be more efficient to put one in a case of Ivanka Trump shoes and send it as containerized freight?

[bora13]

72. bale out?

would this be considered a bale-out of Mexico?

[IcyPeas]

74. it's the Grizzlies that I'm worried about.....

they could just come across the border with MJ and nukes. I heard it somewhere, someone told me, it's true.

[kiranerys]

75. Maybe he saw that story about the guys who built a drug catapault on the border fence?

And imagined "hey, if they can catapault drugs over the border, maybe they could catapault a nuclear bomb!". Nevermind that nuclear weapons weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds.