10,000 Ranchers Oppose Trumps Stupid Wall

[L. Coyote]

Unlike Trump, I guess they know the price of rope!

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/03/10000-conservative-ranchers-just-came-trumps-wall/

10,000 Conservative Ranchers Just Came Out Against Trump’s Wall
By Benjamin Locke - April 3, 2017

Thousands of Conservative Texas ranchers and landowners may have voted for President Trump but they just announced that they are adamantly opposed to his planned border wall.

The Texas Wildlife Association (TWA), representing about 10,000 members, who manage 40 million acres of ranches and hunting leases, says they support efforts to stop illegal immigration but the Trump plan makes no sense as presented.

“We just see so many problems,” TWA Chief Executive David Yeates told the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.

Those include years of legal battles over the use of eminent domain to take ownership of the privately held land; interrupting access to water from the Rio Grande River for landowners, their livestock, and wildlife including black bears, mountain lions, deer, bighorn sheep; destroying the scenic beauty of nature in many places; and doing other damage to the environment. ................

[Paladin]

1. Amazing how eminent domain can change peoples' outlook.

I have absolutely no sympathy for these trump-suckers.

[LenaBaby61]

11. I have absolutely no sympathy for these trump-suckers.

Same here.

[sprinkleeninow]

23. "How do ya'll like me now?" SUCKAS!

[Lochloosa]

2. Too fucking bad. I have no empathy for these assholes.

They should have listened to his speeches.

Idiots.

[hatrack]

3. Aaaaaand who did THEY vote for?

That's right, they voted for this.

Fuck.

Them.

[Botany]

6. The same Texas ranchers are now having trouble getting help to work on their ranches too.

n/t

[L. Coyote]

20. Trump's impact on workers affects the entire economy.

[Kablooie]

4. There's one Trump voter that found her house will be on the Mexican side.

[rickford66]

16. She might get better health care now.

[SticksnStones]

21. How do you accidentally build your house over on the Mexican side of your land?

While I'm empathetic to these landowners plights...you had to think positioning your house in Mexico would come back to haunt you at some point...

[ProfessorGAC]

24. I Didn't Read It That Way

I saw the article yesterday, but i got the impression she has riverfront property and the plan is build the fence a certain distance from the river. So, she would still be in Texas but the fence would be north of her house.

Pretty sure i got that right.

[BarbaRosa]

29. As I saw it, her property is on a bend in the river.

Rather than follow every nook and bend in the river the fence will follow a straight line. So her property is an peninsula in nowhere land, Mexico across the river and USA on the other side of the fence.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. Thanks

Yeah, that's what was said. I didn't remember the exact detail.

Since the fence estimate is alreay $250 per inch, can you imagine the cost of if they did follow every nook and bend? It would double.

[riversedge]

36. Well, Trump did say --that the wall facing the US would be beautiful.

yes, he did say that

[Horse with no Name]

27. Apparently Texas has to cede the Rio Grande

To build the stupid wall....

[Gothmog]

5. The Trump wall is a very stupid idea

[chelsea0011]

7. So, where did they think the wall was going to go if not on their property? I bet they thought

the wall would be built on Mexican land. Dumb asses.

[L. Coyote]

8. On the border, down the middle of the Rio Grande.

Sometimes it is just wrong to attribute thinking to some people.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Can You Imagine the Cost, If. . .

. . .it was down the middle of the river? The current proposal is already $250 an inch.

[Dawson Leery]

9. Typical conservatives.

The rules don't apply to them.

[ProudLib72]

10. Everything is bigger in Texas

Just not so much your ranches anymore.

[Lucinda]

12. Both Hillary AND Trump told people who Trump was

shame they didn't listen...

[Orrex]

13. Will they be voting Democrat in 2018 and 2020?

No? Then they can go fuck themselves and the horses that they rode in on.

[Vinca]

14. Whose land did they think it was going to be built on???

[kstewart33]

15. They voted for him and now they're stuck with him.

No sympathy or empathy. They helped put in charge of this country, an unstable, immoral con man. They're reaping what they've sown.

[LisaM]

17. But we're stuck with him, too.

Every day is like a living nightmare.

[kstewart33]

19. So true.

Which makes me even less empathetic with these guys. They're not like many Trump voters who are jobless in dying towns. They were and are desperate. I understand how desperation can make people vote for a convincing con man who promises them exactly what they most need, even when they have reservations about him.

But the ranchers? No.

[boston bean]

18. Trump openly commented numerous times how wonderful eminent domain was/is.

These persons deserve no sympathy for their own ignorance in believing he meant nothing he said.

[DK504]

22. Oh boo boo kitty

Are they going to start crying now? Poor poor babies, to stupid to actually pay attention to the shit spewing from the orange asshole. They would never believe he would screw them ASAP.

[exboyfil]

26. Waiting for the next shoe to fall

The very cheap leased land for ranching (that some ranchers refuse to pay anyway). I guess I am all for selling that land off to the HIGHEST BIDDER.

[JHan]

28. Upset only because this directly affects them.

typical.

[democratisphere]

30. drumpfanov is building a monument to his legacy. drumpfanov's wall of shame

is a fitting reminder to the horrendous administration that destroyed our democracy and country.

[Throck]

31. Who's going to issue passports to the cattle and all those sheep?

[Crunchy Frog]

32. Elections have consequences.

[riversedge]

33. Google a map of Big Ben National Park--it is HUGE...

I spent 2 days camping there about 7 years ago . Such beauty should not be fenced off.


.............."“If you take away access to the Rio Grande,” added Yates, “you take away the water for 50,000 acres of irrigated farmland, not to mention the drinking water for cattle and migratory path for wildlife.”

The group is also offended by what they see as the stupidity of the plans for Trump’s wall along the Mexican border. For instance, the Big Ben National Park, which has over 801,000 acres, represents about 1,000 miles of the Southern border, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is sparsely populated and is the home of hundreds of specials of birds, reptiles, and animals, many protected by law..........................

[L. Coyote]

34. Anyone who has driven across West texasknows this ideais insane. Rope. $8.00

Plus, a rope costs $8.

[onecent]

35. Good I hope these ranchers can get their way.....Trump is ignorant...

[JDC]

37. F Them. Completely.

[Egnever]

38. 9950 Ranchers don't want what they voted for...

[Aristus]

39. Have fun, assholes!

I don't like eminent domain any more than you do. But if it happens to you, don't come running to me for sympathy...