El Paso
The best coverage came from the local folks. (Note: This link will only be good today.)
Not news: Trump lied about the size of his crowd. Trump lied about about crime in El Paso. The crowd shouted “Lock her up” more than once although no women in the Trump administration have gone to jail. Yet.
Rawstory caught the decline in Trump’s ability to describe his protestors.
“Where do these people come from? Where do they come from? They go back home to mommy. They get punished when they get home,” Trump said, using an odd phrase.
Since farmers and ranchers have become increasingly adamant that Trump’s wall cannot interrupt their use the river or take any of their land, Trump announced that he was going to build the wall “on the river.” I guess right down the middle or something. That’ll be an engineering wonder! I give it a week before it ends up in the Gulf of Mexico.
I’ll meet you at Boca Chica beach to watch Trump’s Wall end up in an apocalyptic pile.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Since farmers and ranchers have become increasingly adamant …
Anyone care to guess what percentage of those farmers and ranchers are MAGA-hat Trump voters? But it perfectly showcases the attitude of a Trump voter: screw over everyone else but not me.
1How many times in Einstein’s definition of insanity do the supporters of the ***king moron need to be bussed to one of his rallies only to be thrown under the bus? Donnie has stiffed them on health care, jobs, and no, Mexico isn’t paying for the wall.
2Alan@1, you’ve described both the Trumpanistas and the Never Trumpers. According to the snacilbupeR, they’ve earned their Social Security and other government cheese, while the rest of us should forego what we paid for so they can have more. Idiots with “Trickle Down for the Poor Man” chump change attitudes, while the .01% continues to suck them dry.
3A reminder: far down the Rio Grande River from El Paso, an extremely vulnerable refuge is very close to becoming one of the first and hardest hit victims of this “Wall” to Rethuglican idiocy:
The National Butterfly Center, near Mission, TX.
https://www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/
Read first this summary (“What the Border Wall will do here:”) of their plight on their website homepage (which is a little down the page of the above link):
“1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat…
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall…
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating…
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species…
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting…
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River…”
And also more info at their Faceborg page:
https://m.facebook.com/natbutterflies/
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RE: Boca Chica– as one of few here who have actually spent time at Boca Chica, all that heavy steel and concrete just isn’t going to travel all the way down there, not even in a hurricane.
4I used to often surf and wade fish Boca Chica (often overnight), fished offshore from it (sharks are plentiful there), and just sailed along the beach. I am also one of very few people who have navigated the mouth of the Rio Grande and sailed upriver (since the 1850-80’s) for a mile or two, before running back out through the surf to the Gulf (both ways a very rad ride on a beachcat).
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PS: SpaceX’s heavy launch site is being built (nearly operational now) just a short distance in from Boca Chica Beach (and the Rio Grande). SpaceX is planning some ‘hop tests’ of their BFR (BigF’ingRocket) there in the next few months.
If any of y’all can make it down there it’s probably worth seeing.
SpaceX intends to eventually do their Moon and Mars launches from there. Maybe, Musk & co. change plans often. Personally, I can’t see sufficient Valley infrastructure ever supporting this though, plus one or two major hurricanes making landfall nearby and it’s all gone..
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PSS: I still take a much harder line on the ‘immigration issue’ than y’all do. I used to live on a (very) small road which ran N/S away from the Rio Grande, which was just a few miles south. Almost every morning, for many years, we watched a steady stream of illegals who had just crossed the river from Mexico, walking north just outside our windows (no telling how many had transport); heading further up that road for some major highways, a bus stop, and pick up points. Over time, many thousands of them, multiplied by thousands of other crossing points; all entering the US illegally.
Wow!
““Where do these people come from? Where do they come from? They go back home to mommy. They get punished when they get home,””
Someone has some unresolved mommy issues. He’s unstable. He’s a Mussolini wannabe. And he has a nukalur button.
5See, here’s the thing. It is entirely possible to build a bridge over a river. Building a wall down the middle of a river, one that is deep and flowing rapidly however, will result in a pile of rubble.
What is a pile of rubble good for? Why, that would be creating a ford that would allow people to cross said river dry-shod.
For the first time, I’m in favor of Trump getting to build his wall — so long as HE pays for it.
6I find it amazing how quickly the Trumpenistas rewrite history. Earlier this week, I was lectured that the fake media was lying when they said that Trump wanted a wall along the Rio Grande.
It wasn’t quite as bad as the guy who insisted last month that the wall was just a metaphor for increased border security and I was a moron for not realizing that, but it was close.
7The reason we don’t get to see Trump’s tax returns, two crows, is that when it comes to paying for his wall Trump is an IRS Mexican.
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