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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:49 AM Sep 2019

Trump's border wall to go through a TX resort & golf club populated by Trump supporters

Another week, another group of Trump voters who supported him because he was going to hurt other people and are now sad to learn that they too will take a hit. This time around, it’s senior citizens living at the River Bend Resort and Golf Club in Brownsville, Texas, who are facing the prospect of Trump’s border wall being built right through the middle of their community.

Fifteen holes of the golf course and 200 homes could be on the far side of the border wall, and residents worry that the key code-operated sliding gates in existing border barriers often malfunction. “You’re fixing to fence 400 U.S. citizens behind a wall with a gate and most of them have medical problems,” one man told The New York Times, saying that ambulances are needed at the complex at least three times a week. “Our gate fails, somebody’s going to die.”

Oh, so now fencing people up and denying them medical care is a big problem?

Resident Susan Kaper said both that “If there’s a good purpose for having that wall cut right through our little community, I guess I would go along with it. But I’ve yet to hear any reason why to do that,” and that it would be “silly” to base her 2020 vote on the wall. No, really. Donald Trump declared a national emergency and took money from a power substation in Puerto Rico and multiple schools on military bases to get this thing built, and it’s going to go through the middle of her retirement resort, leaving hundreds of people outside the wall, but it would be silly to consider a little thing like that when voting.

Another man said, “None of us at our age need the additional stress,” but that doesn’t mean he won’t vote for Trump again in 2020.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/6/1883840/-Trump-s-border-wall-to-go-right-through-a-Texas-resort-and-golf-club-populated-by-Trump-supporters

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Trump's border wall to go through a TX resort & golf club populated by Trump supporters (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 OP
I can't wait for these people to die. One hopes it will be soon, as they live in a retirement Coventina Sep 2019 #1
What idiot surveyor screwed up the original project? Throck Sep 2019 #2
quote: Forrest Gump CDerekGo Sep 2019 #3
These seniors make snowybirdie Sep 2019 #4
Look at Turtle NOW bitching about Trumps wall money being RIPPED OFF Bengus81 Sep 2019 #5
He's cruel. CrispyQ Sep 2019 #6
Best of all -- We're open to the public! underpants Sep 2019 #7
NYT headline - South Texas Resort Includes a Pool, a Golf Course and, Maybe, a Border Wall underpants Sep 2019 #8
NY Times left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 #10
Don't install that Border Wall software on your PCs crazytown Sep 2019 #14
The US is, de facto, ceding territory to Mexico Jake Stern Sep 2019 #9
Great example of hoisting with their own petards. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2019 #11
They can get great medical care in Mexico Zorro Sep 2019 #12
If this is the biggest price they pay for delivering their country into the hands of a madman Brawndo Sep 2019 #13
thoughts and prayers HAB911 Sep 2019 #15
LOL...hell I'd almost chip in for this one.......... Bengus81 Sep 2019 #16
Obviously not his golf course. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #17
Bwah HAH!1 UTUSN Sep 2019 #18
Thoughts and prayers lindysalsagal Sep 2019 #19
Womp Womp assholes. Good luck. Sure hope those gates work when you really need them to. nt Blue_true Sep 2019 #20
Hey you voted for this, assholes! Initech Sep 2019 #21
So, if you hit the wall with your golf ball AnnieBW Sep 2019 #22

Coventina

(27,115 posts)
1. I can't wait for these people to die. One hopes it will be soon, as they live in a retirement
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:52 AM
Sep 2019

community.

On edit: hopefully they die between now and next Nov.

snowybirdie

(5,225 posts)
4. These seniors make
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:57 AM
Sep 2019

the rest of us cringe! Stupid and self satisfied with an "I've got mine" attitude. Hope the gate breaks and she can't play the next hole, forever languishing in Mexican territory!

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
5. Look at Turtle NOW bitching about Trumps wall money being RIPPED OFF
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:59 AM
Sep 2019

from a school project in HIS district--and he's ready to FIGHT it and STOP Trump from doing so. Those PUKES are always on board with PAIN to others until it hits home.

Snowflake FUCKERS................

CrispyQ

(36,461 posts)
6. He's cruel.
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:00 PM
Sep 2019

He gets just as much pleasure hurting those who voted for him as those who didn't - maybe more. It's an affirmation that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue & get away with it; he can hurt the people who voted for him & they will still vote for him again.

underpants

(182,788 posts)
7. Best of all -- We're open to the public!
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:01 PM
Sep 2019

The River Bend Resort & Golf Club boasts an 18-hole championship golf course nestled along the beautiful banks of the Rio Grande River. Filled with 25-year-old oak trees, immaculate manicuring, quick greens and masterful design, River Bend is without question one of the most unique golf courses in the Rio Grande Valley. Best of all — we're open to the public!

http://www.riverbendresort.us/





http://www.riverbendresort.us/

Monthly dues
Individual $175
Family $325

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
9. The US is, de facto, ceding territory to Mexico
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:26 PM
Sep 2019

Wouldn't it be great if Mexicans decided to settle on that newly acquired territory?

Brawndo

(535 posts)
13. If this is the biggest price they pay for delivering their country into the hands of a madman
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:43 PM
Sep 2019

then they're getting off too easy.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
16. LOL...hell I'd almost chip in for this one..........
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 04:24 PM
Sep 2019

Run that SOB right through the middle of those rich asses golf course.

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