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Shot 3: Make THEM Pay for a Wall
Sometime during the Long Night of Solace…
"Have we heard back from the Mexicans yet?" Hannah asked.
Jane answered "They plan on building their own border wall, citing the exact same reasons as the CSA and starting immediately."
"So 'to keep the barbarians to the north from wandering freely into our lands', huh? Yeah, sounds about right. Looks like Frump's Nazi dynasty got its wish."
"Yeah, good thing Frump died before he could take the Presidency, or the first thing we'd have had to do was smuggle a nuke into DC before he could escalate a pissing contest with anyone."
The Frump family had begun as KKK thugs, with Ronald Frump's father being arrested in 1927 for participating in a mass KKK riot. He had then proceeded to profiteer off the Second World War until he became a real estate mogul, refusing to rent apartments to non-white veterans after the war. Ronald had inherited enough millions in wealth that with even vaguely sensible investments he became a billionaire (and declared bankruptcy multiple times—The SI Constitution still bore the amendments made to prevent any similar bullshit from their own subjects) in time to start shit in the 2012 elections. Those had signalled the end of Brock Obama's reign and the beginning of the Long Night of Solace as the Republican Party seized power. It had changed too much from the party of Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, or even Nixon (who created important environmental laws), and thus the United States of America was no more, hundreds of years of effort of libertarians gone in but a few short years.
The Christian States of America, or, as many called it, the Cannibal States of America, due to their use of the ultimate power trip and/or display of the Arrogance of Men was so full of insanity these days that Ronald Frump's campaign ravings were actually coming true. The CSA was successfully managing to make the Mexicans pay for putting up a border wall. The Mexicans had good grounds to believe the wall would keep the nutjobs out, because the CSA was too militarily fixated on its staring contest with the Shepards to the north have the ability to attack Mexico without risking a huge breach on its home front. Also, Mexican-SI relations were very good after the liberation of Mexico at the end of the Sixth World War from US puppet state status, and after the faction had launched a massive reformation and clean-up (of cartels) campaign. After all, if there was to be any one group running Mexico… then the Shepards had more than enough firepower to not tolerate rivals well.
"So what's their opinion on the idea of giving Texas back to them after the next war, since Texas grumbled about seceding from the USA so often back in the day?" Hannah asked, expecting something funny and appropriately vulgar as the verbatim reply.
Jane shrugged "They said that we'd have to fight a war with them to force them to take it."
"Sounds about right given the reports we've been getting."
The conversation turned to more serious topics such as the New Underground Railroad after that.
A/N: How to make the Mexicans pay for a border wall: make them believe that it will actually keep your crazies out.
