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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts) Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:16 PM Oct 2018

re: Migrant Caravan: At this speed it will take them 72-90 days to get to US border

Pesach Lattin @pacelattin

This is where the "Migrant Caravan" is, and how far they've gone since this started. Based on this speed, will take them 72-90 days to get here. Almost all will settle in Mexico. This is a fear tactic based on GOP wanting votes only.

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re: Migrant Caravan: At this speed it will take them 72-90 days to get to US border (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Oct 2018 OP

You mean to say... Cirque du So-What Oct 2018 #1

That'll never do. Someone get George Soros on the phone, stat! FSogol Oct 2018 #2

Soros would be better off funding another hurricane treestar Oct 2018 #3

Understand it was a goal to get to the border by Xmas. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #4

I backpacked d_r Oct 2018 #5

"George Soros is going to get them here BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #6

Don't accept the GOP framing of a "caravan". These people are walking, not riding. Call it a trek. eppur_se_muova Oct 2018 #7

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)

1. You mean to say...

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:22 PM

Oct 2018

...that this democrat mob won't arrive on election day, greeted by buses that will whisk them straight to the polls?

FSogol

(45,488 posts)

2. That'll never do. Someone get George Soros on the phone, stat!

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:25 PM

Oct 2018

treestar

(82,383 posts)

3. Soros would be better off funding another hurricane

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:27 PM

Oct 2018

to hit red states.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

4. Understand it was a goal to get to the border by Xmas.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:33 PM

Oct 2018

d_r

(6,907 posts)

5. I backpacked

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:37 PM

Oct 2018

20 miles this weekend.

I have a good quality back pack. Good quality hiking boots. Hiking sticks. A water filter with several creeks, two water falls, and a spring on the way. Freeze dried food pouches. A little can of gas and a small backpack stove. A bahco saw and all the fire wood I could want laying around from the past storms. A titanium cup and spork. Light weight and warm sleeping bag. And I love to be outside and this was the place I most wanted to be.

And it was hard.

My pace for two days is about the pace that these folks are making.

God bless these folks. Bless them. I don't imagine that many are going to walk 1,000 miles. Look, I know that people do it all the time, I know someone who came here from Guatemala, but I can't imagine that large a group staying intact across all of Mexico.

That's averaging 11 or 12 miles or so a day. Look, AT through hikers go about six months, and that is twice as far, so 90 days would be matching the pace of the average AT through hiker, they probably average 15 miles a day. Granted, the AT is all up or down hill, but I'm thinking going across Mexico isn't a stroll in the park.

How do you feed that many people moving for three months? Manna?

Bless these folks.

I am so angry and sad at how ugly some Americans are.

BigmanPigman

(51,607 posts)

6. "George Soros is going to get them here

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2018, 04:42 PM

Oct 2018

via 747 airplanes in time for the midterms", is the joke on MSNBC. More BS lies by the moron!

eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)

7. Don't accept the GOP framing of a "caravan". These people are walking, not riding. Call it a trek.