Speaking Of Lies - That "Confrontation" In Eagle Pass - It's Just A Bunch Of Agitprop, Designed To Divide People Against Each Other
See the video below on Twitter, and then the images I made from a satellite view of the area between US 480 and the Rio Grande, and those will make the lie obvious, it's election year kabuki...
Here’s the link to the video:
https://twitter.com/TestDummy04/status/1751316255649173688
This piqued my interest, so I decided to have a bird’s eye look at the situation - and the images I saw confirmed - and more - the video above. The big production at Eagle Pass, and a half mile south on US 480, is a “Potemkin fence” at best, and then it’s just a farce. So much for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Fence”, there’s no evidence that such a thing ever existed when you go down the highway a couple of miles. See https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=18FGv_OY0TCSJbaiksm1Soc-tI5Q&hl=en_US&ll=28.66905447319524%2C-100.50150669194768&z=20
Click on the satellite view, zoom out to find areas of interest, zoom back in once you’ve found one – the scale is in the lower right hand corner – and it’s obvious that in numerous places there are no fences across roads with access to the Rio Grande, these roads lead down to a river road on the US side which is between 30 to 50 feet of the river, and these roads with access to Highway 480 from the river road are well travelled, no checkpoints, no barriers, no nothing, just open gravel road.
Here are just a couple of places I looked at, there are a lot more:
From the river bank to the river road, it’s about 40 feet. Here’s another place close by:
Same scale as above, note absolute lack of fence on the side of US 480 and well-travelled gravel roads. A final pair of images, one at the same scale as these, the last zoomed in to show detail:
and the detail:
It didn’t take but five minutes to check this out, and figure out that the media story was bullshit. And also, the media which were on scene could have figured it out even easier - and probably did - so the conclusion is that they’re willing participants in this bit of agitation propaganda - participants in spreading the lies far and wide. As Jefferson once said, “if you don’t read the newspapers, you’re uninformed, if you do, you’re misinformed…” So the conclusion is that with any story which provokes a strong emotional reaction (such as “Border Invasion!!! Put Up A Razor Wire Fence! Secede From The Union! Resist The Feds! Form Convoys Of Patriots!” - it might well do to check out the details of the story so you don’t take precipitous actions based on a semi-trailer load of pure Texas longhorn bullshit…
As wise old Aesop said:
“There isn't going to be any "showdown" at the border, and Bozo Abbott knew that before he lifted a finger. He doesn't have to fold, and those other GOPe governors jumping out of the clown car have no worries either, because they're not doing anything to change things. They're only pretending to "do something". This is a PR flak's wet effing dream: all payoff, and no consequences. Pretending to do something is also the only thing government pulls off consistently. Illegal immigration continues unabated, 24/7/365 from San Ysidro to Brownsville, and they're coming by the trainload every day.
This is nothing but kabuki security theater, by the same people who gave you the unconstitutional Patriot Act and the @$$clowns of TSA instead of actual airline security, and killing actual terrorists. Twenty-two years to get this lesson down, and people are still fucking it up by the numbers. Give a holler when Abbott seals the entire TX border (Also Known As When Hell Freezes Over). Until that happens, this entire made-up fake-news hairball is all piles of bullshit, sprinkled with hopeium and fairy dust.” https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2024/01/fedgov-abbott-25-governors-and-every.html
Ivory Hecker interviewed a person down near the border who said the same thing. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/gateway-beyond-headlines-1-29-24-border-standoff/