4 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Fuck yes, I got the Chron to write about it (yes, the paper sucks ass but at least its something)

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/border-wall-big-bend-national-park-21362974.php

Nice job, that Chron article caught the attention of our friends at TexAgs and even they think this is a terrible idea.

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3596551

7 minutes ago, fuggled said:

Nice job, that Chron article caught the attention of our friends at TexAgs and even they think this is a terrible idea.

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3596551

Fuck them. That thread is fucking horrifying

2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Fuck them. That thread is fucking horrifying

Its a whole lot stupid, with some straight up lying, a fair amount of fear-mongering, and a dash of racism. But coming from Texags, even that is an improvement. That bullshit about the caballeros riding across and stealing from your cars at the campgrounds is next level. However, I'll take any opposition I can get.

Those arguing that they really mean a "smart wall" are lying. There are already cameras, sensors, drones, etc. Park along the road, wade across, come back, and hang out for 10 minutes. BP will be there shortly, I promise.

I remember 10-15 years ago, there was a guy who would stand on the Mexico side at the entrance to Boquillas canyon and sing to tourists and hikers for tips. Everybody called him the "Singing Mexican".

Years ago I walked down from the parking lot with my young daughter on my shoulders to the canyon. He yelled at me "Por la nina" and belted out a song. I waded halfway across gave him a few bucks and a bottle of water. He was very grateful. That dude is about the only thing my daughter remembers from that trip.

On 2/19/2026 at 9:36 AM, GreenspointTexas said:

so billions of dollars spent in big bend to apprehend 2 people per border mile, per year?

I'm going to write a letter to the local papers out there. Where are you getting these numbers?

9 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Fuck yes, I got the Chron to write about it (yes, the paper sucks ass but at least its something)

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/border-wall-big-bend-national-park-21362974.php

Good job. This really needs to blow up before it gets too much further. This is one of the dumber things this admin has proposed and that's saying a fuck ton.

Put a buncha these around the Heights today

A biologist buddy of mine shared this petition. Not sure if it means shit, but even my Trumpy parents signed it. I think the word is spreading, and I'm going to assume you are entirely responsible @GreenspointTexas . Good work.

Here's the bear I saw on the South Rim in 2017. Can't wait to go back again with my boys. I've spent 3 days there, but that place impacted me greatly.

Petition

Edited February 21Feb 21 by hookem2010

1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

A biologist buddy of mine shared this petition. Not sure if it means shit, but even my Trumpy parents signed it. I think the word is spreading, and I'm going to assume you are entirely responsible @GreenspointTexas . Good work.

Here's the bear I saw on the South Rim in 2017. Can't wait to go back again with my boys. I've spent 3 days there, but that place impacted me greatly.

Petition

Thats badass! Always been my dream to see one there. 4 years ago my wife and I legit got 30 feet from a Mountian Lion while hiking the South Rim. May be the only time in my life where I actually could see my life flashing before my eyes

2 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Thats badass! Always been my dream to see one there. 4 years ago my wife and I legit got 30 feet from a Mountian Lion while hiking the South Rim. May be the only time in my life where I actually could see my life flashing before my eyes

I mean, that's probably the Texas mammal to see. Incredible

that...i just...what even...

4 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Put a buncha these around the Heights today

Can you DM me the file so I can print some off?

nvm

Edited February 21Feb 21 by Biff Tannen

On 2/18/2026 at 3:28 PM, GreenspointTexas said:

Adding another 112 miles of border wall as well…..this time between the DOM rock and Lajitas, the from Lajitas to Santa Elena Canyon, then from just east of the canyon, through Boquillas then almost all the way to Sanderson

Total for the entire project now more than 250 miles through a State Park, a National Park, and a protected international biosphere preserve. Last pic is a pic of the overall project

What's the difference between the green lines and the orange ones?

10 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Its a whole lot stupid, with some straight up lying, a fair amount of fear-mongering, and a dash of racism. But coming from Texags, even that is an improvement. That bullshit about the caballeros riding across and stealing from your cars at the campgrounds is next level. However, I'll take any opposition I can get.

Those arguing that they really mean a "smart wall" are lying. There are already cameras, sensors, drones, etc. Park along the road, wade across, come back, and hang out for 10 minutes. BP will be there shortly, I promise.

I remember 10-15 years ago, there was a guy who would stand on the Mexico side at the entrance to Boquillas canyon and sing to tourists and hikers for tips. Everybody called him the "Singing Mexican".

Years ago I walked down from the parking lot with my young daughter on my shoulders to the canyon. He yelled at me "Por la nina" and belted out a song. I waded halfway across gave him a few bucks and a bottle of water. He was very grateful. That dude is about the only thing my daughter remembers from that trip.

Those people doing what it takes to live in Boquillas are a credit to the human race.

Ffront page below the fold in Dmn today

Flyers here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16yC0Fk6Rln2vJyXHo3RsR_2uQECRf_6K/view?fbclid=PAVERFWAQFlw1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadhZZrzK8md_ROy3g3WR0h1O2YTbezqv8Tn_ME5-0Kfx8TaPkZSIJB_XAr-hA_aem_vFPquMPTjEwieXzDQPmc6w

Y'all need to be flooding your rep's phone lines. Y'all need to be encouraging your hippie / sensible friends to do the same.

There is time to stop this, but it requires LOUD action.

And when the time comes, I'll fly in and chain myself to the bulldozers or whatever. But until then, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Sent the Chron article to my super hardcore magat BIL who can't stop himself from bringing up "illegals" at every family function. Even he agrees.

His response:

Agreed and nobody crossed there anyway, too remote.  And they out in the stupid Boquillas border patrol stop in 2013.  Technology could do all this without a wall….

We can stop this. Again quoting Dayton Duncan, "You can save a place, but it's never really safe. It always takes people caring. It always takes vigilance. It always takes effort to to keep those forces at bay that want to crowd in, that want to change it, want to over-commercialize it [or in this case, build a fucking wall through it]. Once it's ruined, it's ruined, but once it's saved, each generation has it's duty to keep it saved."

piece of cake

sam waterston

capricron one

1977

im going to post flyers around Hyde park and campus after the baseball game today

Also here’s a link with resources

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hopefully this will get as much push back as the attempted public land sale last year! that seems like it was maybe the only issue that pissed people off across the political spectrum and got so much pushback they had to give it up.

Fucking Trump and his acolytes are agents of chaos. I cannot help but believe this Big Bend action is yet another distraction for some other big picture fuck-over. I concede this is a big picture fuck-over, but what do he and his minions want to distract us from?
Cynically yours,
boilerhorn.

11 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

Fucking Trump and his acolytes are agents of chaos. I cannot help but believe this Big Bend action is yet another distraction for some other big picture fuck-over. I concede this is a big picture fuck-over, but what do he and his minions want to distract us from?
Cynically yours,
boilerhorn.

I heard Trump called a chaos goblin the other day. Definitely a good moniker.

38 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

Fucking Trump and his acolytes are agents of chaos. I cannot help but believe this Big Bend action is yet another distraction for some other big picture fuck-over. I concede this is a big picture fuck-over, but what do he and his minions want to distract us from?
Cynically yours,
boilerhorn.

That’s fine. I would let them get away with a fuck ton of bullshit as long as they leave my lands alone. Of course, they could all just die and accomplish the same thing, but until then, hands off my land.

FYI, Mrs. Wood (no pics, assholes) took her cousin to Big Bend over the weekend, stayed one night at Chisos and one in Boquillas. The locals are doing well, and as always, they welcome and are very grateful for any of our used stuff that we want to bring over to 'em - clothes, used kid's toys, etc. They absolutely love it, because even when they have money, it's very hard for them to get a lot of things. Oh and fruit. They have none and have a very hard time getting it. We've found that they can really use anything solar powered, esp lights, powerbanks, etc, because they have no electricity at night. ETA: Oh yeah, old man Manuel could really go for some M&Ms. He loves 'em.

They stayed last night with Adriana & her husband, who rent out a nice room in their house to visitors when they can. On FB she's @Adriana.Sanchez.Valdez.2025 if you'd ever like to plan ahead. Her husband Edgar can pick you up at the river if you notify him ahead of time, and will be your tour guide for the day if you like, for $20. He also does horseback rides along and through the river and to the crystal caves. Sometimes she may be slow to reply, because they have no internet at night.

Also, re: the restaurants, we heard from the locals last time I went that the owner of the big restaurant on the left as you enter town is being a bit of a dick to the other locals - using way too much of their electricity and not giving a fuck. Just basically being a shitty neighbor, which is imho a bold strategy in a town that size, Cotton. The people that own the smaller Boquillas Restaurant and Bar are cool though. (on the right as you enter town from the river, across the street from the bigger one)

Last thing ... recently someone (maybe the govt, maybe not ... nobody seems to know for sure) set up a trailer with a sign outside saying you need to show your passport to 'Mexican Immigration' to get a visa, and pay a visitor fee to help improve Boquillas. They give people wristbands to show that they paid. The locals say not to pay it, as nobody is checking visitors for wristbands, and the town doesn't actually see any of the money.

Edited February 25Feb 25 by wood

John Carter got back to me today. I don't think he's going to be very helpful.

11 minutes ago, tchookem said:

John Carter got back to me today. I don't think he's going to be very helpful.

In a congress full of worthless SOBs, he is top-tier in that respect. What a waste of a human life. He lives, when good men have died. There is no God.

55 minutes ago, tchookem said:

John Carter got back to me today. I don't think he's going to be very helpful.

Fuck that guy straight to hell.

3 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

My wife (no pics) also found this today and then found something in that rabbit hole about the 1944 treaty with Mexico guaranteeing both the US and Mexico full access to the water in the Rio Grande. Seems like that might be one good angle to approach this from.

Edited February 25Feb 25 by wood

11 hours ago, tchookem said:

John Carter got back to me today. I don't think he's going to be very helpful.

So your rep has no opinion on the matter but he took a lot of words to establish his lack of a view.

Of course the rep for this district is Tony Gonzales and he’s having to focus on not resigning since he drove his staffer to suicide presumably related to their affair.

12 hours ago, tchookem said:

John Carter got back to me today. I don't think he's going to be very helpful.

Worthless cocksucker responded with an AI generated response. wow.

April 4th Austin peeps. All Texas peeps really

Texas Monthly article from 2008. Despite what The Eagles say in The Last Resort, America doesn't end on the west coast. You drive all the way down Pinto Canyon, then take a right and keep going till the road ends.

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Demolishing the footbridge that connected Candelaria to the Mexican town of San Antonio del Bravo was supposed to put a dent in drug traffic and illegal immigration. Instead it’s made life even tougher for citizens of this desolate corner of Big Bend.

By Katy Vine

October 20080

The Last Link: The bridge between Candelaria and San Antonio del Bravo earlier this summer, before its destruction.Glenn Justice

Driving 25 miles an hour down the main paved road of Candelaria, you can enter and exit the town in 67 seconds, chased most of the way by two barking dogs. There is no square in this border village, no mayor, no park, no grocery or tavern. A single seventeen-pew church (Catholic, of course) stands next to an abandoned two-room schoolhouse, just a short walk from a former store dating to 1912. About 70 people live in the isolated town, and only 7,700 inhabit the surrounding county of Presidio, just west of Big Bend. Most villagers get by on a few hundred dollars a month, so it’s hardly a surprise that only 2 people in town have long- distance telephone service. One of them allows her neighbors to make calls, a courtesy that has made her incredibly popular, since no one can afford a cell phone and, anyway, reception is pretty much a joke.

Survival on this ruthless stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert has always required interdependence, and for Candelaria that has meant reliance on San Antonio del Bravo (population of about 170), on the other side of the river. San Antonio del Bravo has a free health clinic that prescribes medicine for walk-in patients from Mexico and the U.S. (Its residents keep the operation running with donations and volunteers.) Candelaria, meanwhile, has better roads—meaning they are not absolutely hellish—which residents from San Antonio del Bravo use to access U.S. grocery stores and public schools for their American-born children. For as long as anyone can remember, these two villages have operated as one. To ease the journey from one side to the other, locals simply walked across a metal-framed bridge, about four feet wide and forty feet long, which they built and paid for themselves years ago.

Despite complaints from far away about a porous border, this close relationship was never frowned upon in the area. Quite the opposite: For many years the crossing was an unmanned, authorized Class B port of entry. Even after 1996, when a renewed Code of Federal Regulations document no longer included the footbridge as a legal entry point, the new status was more evident on paper than on the ground. (Michael Cronin, who was the assistant commissioner for inspections at the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the time and made decisions on Class B ports, recalls, “We had no staff assigned to those locations, and technically they could only be used if they were staffed.”) But this has changed in recent years. As border security becomes a more prominent issue, footbridges—six in the Big Bend region—have come to be seen as an affront to policy.

Watching the chest-thumping over homeland security on many TV news programs, a person living hundreds of miles from the border might get the impression that destroying these bridges (and, in other areas, building fences) will secure the nation’s perimeter and ensure our safety. When such measures are taken in West Texas, however, the local reaction is hardly relief. After the Border Patrol closed the unofficial crossings at Boquillas and Lajitas in 2002, the lively tourist destinations across the river from the two Texas outposts became ghost towns. Little wonder, then, that this summer, when the villagers in Candelaria heard that their footbridge was going to be destroyed, there was no eruption of cheers. In the early morning of June 23, several members of a Border Patrol maintenance crew put on their hard hats and gloves and sawed the bridge’s metal frame from the concrete block securing it to the ground. Then they chopped the bridge into several pieces and hauled it off to Marfa, 57 miles northeast.

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Many West Texans who knew of the symbiotic nature of the twin villages had anticipated a tragic fallout after the bridge was gone: a massive, if gradual, exodus. Yet, curiously, when I visited Candelaria ten days after the bridge was removed, its residents were already showing signs of resignation to their new circumstances. “I saw them haul the bridge down the road,” said Saul Peña, an eighteen-year-old who wore a UT Longhorns cap and sported the beginnings of a mustache. Peña lives with his parents in a trailer and helps them care for a ranch. “But I couldn’t go down to the water to watch. I was feeding the horses.”

A ten-minute walk from the town’s main street to the Rio Grande and I could see why someone young and agile could afford a degree of ambivalence. At the riverbank, about five feet upstream from where the bridge had stood, footprints in a deep trench led down to the river and up the other side. Looking around at the thick, twelve-foot-tall salt cedar that provided cover for almost 150 miles upstream and 90 miles downstream, it was clear to me that a conga line could cross through the water anywhere and avoid unwanted attention.

As I spoke with Peña, who sat on horseback on the path to the river, we could hear two Border Patrol agents on four-wheelers so loud that anyone crossing could easily have detected their whereabouts. “My horse must have tripped a sensor on the path back there,” Peña said as they zoomed past. Since 9/11, the Marfa sector of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is responsible for this area, has been able to recruit about two hundred agents. They come from all over the U.S., lured by $35,000 starting salaries that increase to $75,000 after three years. With the improved manpower, the sector has been able to beef up its work-detail assignments. One of these is a week-long tour of duty in Candelaria.

We listened to the four-wheelers buzz as they reached the river’s edge and turned back our way. When they crossed our path the second time, the agents stopped and pulled off their helmets, nodding politely. Both men appeared to be in their early twenties, and the younger-looking one, in braces, nervously admitted that this was his first time in Candelaria. It was a big change from his native El Paso, he said. After a little courteous small talk and some awkward silence, the agents told us to have a good day and drove off. “They didn’t go into the brush,” Peña said. “They never do. I don’t know why.”

Looking at the muddy path to the river’s edge, it was impossible not to reflect on the disconnect between policy and reality on the border. The Border Patrol is just doing its job, locals told me. It was a sincere mantra, though they usually uttered it in the same breath as their disagreement with the Department of Homeland Security’s decisions. “The bridge isn’t a threat to national security, but it doesn’t matter,” Presidio county judge Jerry Agan told me. “It’s orders from Washington.” Agan didn’t know a single person who was in favor of the bridge’s removal—not that anyone making the decisions had asked him. “They’ve done away completely with input from the locals and the elected officials in the area,” he said. “They don’t talk to us anymore about anything.”

Peña, like his neighbors, was sympathetic to the Border Patrol’s challenge. Still, its overwhelming task sometimes proved too absurd for him to restrain the occasional joke. Recently, agents had stopped him and asked if he had crossed. Peña replied with a laugh, “I tried, but the river was too full of people.”

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With or without a footbridge, it is possible to scrape by in Candelaria. On plots surrounded by dirt and rocks, small one-story structures are rented to residents for $65 to $100 a month. For centuries, before the invasive, water-sucking salt cedar choked out the indigenous plants and dams up the river turned a mighty watercourse into a scrawny rivulet, this land was farmable. Not so anymore. Though jobs are few and far between, several women work as home health care providers, and some men help out on local ranches.

But the bridge’s removal did have effects, especially for the elderly. On my first day in Candelaria, I visited with Olivia Lozano, a sort of village matriarch. Like the walls of other living rooms I saw in town, hers were covered with framed photos of babies, weddings, young men in the U.S. armed services, and family members who were as likely to reside in San Antonio del Bravo as Candelaria. “I cried,” she said. “It’s like they cut the heart out of the two communities.” For years Candelaria residents like her depended on San Antonio del Bravo’s free health clinic. The trek straight across the Rio Grande on the bridge took 20 minutes walking, an easy enough journey; to cross now, they must drive 45 minutes south to the closest legal port of entry, at Presidio, then head north on the Mexican side via a winding, rocky road for two and a half hours to San Antonio del Bravo.

For those without the time or money to drive such distances, trips to visit family now require a little more athleticism. “My cousin’s wife weighs three hundred pounds!” one man told me. “I had to get her over like this—” he laughed, pantomiming his struggle to push her up the side of the riverbank. Like others I met, he rarely crossed the river to wander farther north than this valley, and it wasn’t difficult to see why he’d risk a run-in with the Border Patrol: An offender without proper documentation is fingerprinted and interviewed, then often released at the bridge in Presidio—a mere detour from a San Antonio del Bravo resident’s intended path back home. (According to the Marfa sector public affairs office, the consequences may include jail time.)

Of more concern to locals than mere visits, however, was the welfare of their schoolkids. Their anxiety didn’t surprise Johnnie Chambers, a 79-year-old retired teacher from the area. (Seeing her hair wrapped in a bun on top of her head, no one would question her résumé.) “These people are here because they want an education for their children,” she told me. Chambers ran Candelaria’s schoolhouse for 25 years until its closing, in 2000, when Presidio ISD decided the operation wasn’t economically prudent. The community had prized academics so highly that young kids sometimes brought their pre-K siblings to class. “The younger ones would ask for homework—even the kindergartners,” she said. These days, about fifty kids catch the bus in Candelaria and ride to Presidio for their education. All are U.S. citizens, but a good number reside at least part-time with family in San Antonio del Bravo. No one in town was certain how these kids were going to get to school without the bridge.

Still, the Border Patrol had no intention of disrupting the students’ routine. Later, when the school year began, one resident would tell me that the children were swimming across the river. “Schoolkids aren’t high on the priority list,” Benjamine C. Huffman, the deputy chief patrol agent at the Marfa sector, explained. Dismantling the bridge, he said, was a necessary measure to deter a more threatening activity: drug trafficking. And though smugglers can cross the border anywhere, a footbridge could be seen as a welcome mat. A person with a backpack of marijuana can leave San Antonio del Bravo and walk up the treacherous terrain of the Cuesta del Burro Mountains and through the desert to U.S. 90, twenty miles north of Candelaria. When he arrives, two or three days later, he stands to make $500 to $1,500 for his work.

For anyone who stays in the area and can’t get a job, drug smuggling becomes an inevitable temptation, as ubiquitous in this region as the heat. Residents told me it happens, though not with a frequency that alarms them, as it does the border agents. William L. Brooks, the public affairs officer for the Marfa sector, said, “I can’t tell you exactly how much comes out of there, but it is way more than a guy with a backpack here and there.” Still, unfortunately, narcotics smuggling on the border is relative, and the absence of a close interstate highway minimizes Candelaria’s role in the big operations that lead to violence. Presidio County sheriff  Danny C. Dominguez said, “Every place is unique, and some places have more activity. This isn’t Juárez or Laredo.”

Some project that marijuana smuggling will only get worse now that the bridge is gone: Closing unofficial crossings, they say, causes towns to evaporate and drug smugglers to move in after any potential informants have left. But when I spoke with Huffman, he strongly disputed that theory. “We were here for many, many years, and we never got the phone call from those little towns saying, ‘The big drug load is coming through.’ We had to catch it ourselves,” he said. Most Candelaria residents I spoke to agreed with Huffman: They valued their lives too much to call someone they didn’t know and blow the whistle on a potentially violent criminal.

But one glimpse at the Rio Grande—bridge or no bridge—reveals the value of a community that is cooperative and vigilant rather than disaffected and alienated. Judge Agan, who was in the Border Patrol from 1970 to 1999, when he retired as deputy chief patrol agent at the Marfa sector, says a working relationship with these communities isn’t impossible or even that difficult. “You’ve got to go down there and cultivate relationships. They’ve got to see somebody other than a badge,” he said. “They want to know you’re trustworthy and that they’re not going to get shot for telling you something they shouldn’t have told you. They don’t like smugglers coming through there any more than anyone else does.”

On my last day in town, I sat down with an older gentleman from San Antonio del Bravo who was in Candelaria for the day, visiting. I asked if he planned to move out of the area now that the bridge was gone. He had a hard time understanding my question. “Leave?” he asked, as if the thought hadn’t crossed his mind. He pays the Mexican government $12 a year in taxes for a house he built himself, and he survives on a small vegetable crop. His sons, who work in the Texas oil fields, send him money sometimes. I asked him if he was able to find work. There was no work in Mexico, he replied, and I assumed a $1,500 U.S. work visa wasn’t a viable option. “How will you live?” I asked. He thought about this a moment and nodded. “I have a goat,” he said. A person with such resilience doesn’t balk when an obstacle is placed in his way or a footbridge is removed from his path. But friendly obligations cut both ways. God forbid we need his help someday.

Well, looks like someone hasn't mastered the spoiler function

On 2/20/2026 at 12:09 PM, fuggled said:

Nice job, that Chron article caught the attention of our friends at TexAgs and even they think this is a terrible idea.

https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3596551

only an aggie : build it on the mexico side of the river

8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

only an aggie : build it on the mexico side of the river

I really do wonder when they say things like this. Are they just trolling or are they really that dumb? I know the answer is probably both, but it just makes me question how their brain works.

The article above doesn't surprise me that the destruction of the Big Bend way of life started in the early 00s.

There are so many elements of the GOP party today that can be traced back to Bush, Rove and Karen Hughes. They understood the dog whistle to attract the worst of the worst because every vote counts, right? They just felt that they could contain the small voting bloc and avoid chaos. Then the dinosaurs escaped, as they do in every jurassic park movie, and ate everyone.

Sure you can go back even further to Lee Atwater or Reagan for other problems, but Bush made it public and mainstream.

On 2/25/2026 at 7:44 AM, HOOKEM4 said:

Worthless cocksucker responded with an AI generated response. wow.

I see you've never written a congressman before.

Standard shit.

However, I do think negative voices register to some degree, if there are enough of them.

Also, it seems hot wheels Abbott might be a good person to ping on this.

Just now, TwiceHorn said:

Also, it seems hot wheels Abbott might be a good person to ping on this.

Abbott will never comment on it. Or the only time would be if pressed in a debate. However he rarely takes questions from real journalists so he can avoid something that he knows is an unpopular Trump action.

2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I really do wonder when they say things like this. Are they just trolling or are they really that dumb? I know the answer is probably both, but it just makes me question how their brain works.

Three advance geologists were in the Starlight Theater in Terlingua two nights ago. They got a very public dressing down by about 20-30 folks whose livelihoods will be crushed by this. They were not violent, but they made sure the geologists knew what they were potentially getting themselves into. Now their photos have been posted in several online forums and all of the restaurants are saying they will refuse to serve them. I was outside when all of this was going down. Folks out here are beyond pissed. Charlie Angell's property in Redford is literally on the Rio Grande. He's been out here for many years now and says he has never seen an illegal alien on his property

Edited February 26Feb 26 by Hornius Emeritus

1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Three advance geologists were in the Starlight Theater in Terlingua two nights ago. They got a very public dressing down by about 20-30 folks whose livelihoods will be crushed by this. They were not violent, but they made sure the geologists knew what they were potentially getting themselves into. Now their photos have been posted in several online forums and all of the restaurants are saying they will refuse to serve them. I was outside when all of this was going down. Folks out here are beyond pissed. Charlie Angell's property in Redford is literally on the Rio Grande. He's been out here for many years now and says he has never seen an illegal alien on his property

Moar!! This is our moment. If they do this, they will go after other parks and public lands also. It’s the modern day Hetch-Hetchy. This is the purest form of democracy. Rise up collectively and stop these monsters from taking your land. Your birthright as Americans.

As a reminder, Brewster County (Terlingua, Alpine, Marathon) went 56-43 for Trump. I hate the rest of us have to save them from themselves.

Jesus fucking christ. They just updated the map. Wall now goes almost all the way to Del Rio. This is gonna cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Who is gettin paid for this shit

Basically building a wall the same length as Houston to Dallas. Longest single build of wall in the entire nation, I believe

15 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

only an aggie : build it on the mexico side of the river

Stupid sip.

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And Mexico will pay for it I'm sure. This is a joke. Even if this did get done, it would take like 50 years. This is just another in a long line of stupid bullshit lies. But we can't take that chance when it comes to Big Bend.

Again, they should just tell their cult that it's done and move on. Take a picture in front of one of the small sections and pretend it's the full length.