Trump really must think we’re all stupid.
If you took a commercial airliner from Dallas, TX to Guatemala, it would take over three hours.
The distance is about the same as that from San Diego to Canada, and the majority of the “hike” is in desert terrain.
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a world-famous hike that a few thousand people hike every year. It starts at the Mexian border outside of San Diego and goes to the Canadian border in Washington State. Seasoned through-hikers walk 20 to 30 miles a day, every day. They start in April and end in September. The hike is brutal, requires frequent resupply packages, and only the most persistent and hardy hikers finish it. It also costs a hiker a few thousand dollars for resupplies, several pairs of hiking boots that they wear out, and broken gear. You can find out more by reading one of the many books about hiking the PCT. Here is one of them I reviewed: Book Review: Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer – by Gail M. Francis.
So now Trump is sending over 5,000 American soldiers to the border to wait for 5 months for the first of these migrant families with children in their arms, in flip-flops, with water bottles in their hands, to reach the American border?
There is so much wrong with this. If the president really believes this caravan is a danger to the safety of the United States, he can definitely wait 5 or 6 months until the caravan gets close and then send troops.
In the interim, the military could use its satellite surveillance to keep track of the caravan.
Of course, not a single one of those migrants in the current caravan will ever make it near the United States border due to the immense hardship of the incredibly long trip. It makes the Mormon hand-cart trips in the 1800s look like a walk in the park in comparison.
Obviously, the president and his supporters are using this to scare us. They are using fear-tactics and xenophobia to whip up the ignorant and uneducated, the people that don’t have the insight to look at a simple map and assess what’s really going on.
Fortunately, most Americans can see through this nonsense.
I can only say: MAGA stands for Make America Stupid Again.
But Trump says they have rocks — and they might throw them!!!!! OMG- LOL and he says if they throw them to – act like they are guns!!!
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I suspect this will end in a retraction from Trump — as usual, he reacts and then sees a squirrel across the lawn and his first thought is erased. You’ll see. (The only surprise in this is how the military are cowing down to him, but it is a ploy to keep him believing in their loyalty as they pick their battles — like preventing him from nuclear button pushing… who believe T still has the codes?)