{"id":35657,"date":"2019-02-12T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35657"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:25:50","slug":"the-real-el-paso-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/the-real-el-paso-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"The REAL El Paso Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night Resident Donald Trump, aka Pervertivo Bandito, continued his campaign to build “the wall”, intended in the short term to keep Latino’s out, and in the long term, to keep whites from escaping.  He held a phony rally in El Paso, TX.  There he and his Sheeple lied about El Paso, lied about the wall, and battered a reporter.  Fortunately, a couple blocks away, Beto O’Rourke led the real El Paso rally.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Less than a mile away from the El Paso, Texas stadium in which President Donald Trump delivered what critics described as a bigoted and lie-filled case<\/a> for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as many as 15,000 Texans<\/a> rallied and marched Monday night in a powerful display of opposition to both the wall and the broad anti-immigrant agenda it represents. <\/p>\n

“This is the strong and resilient border community I proudly grew up in,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy coordinator with the ACLU’s Border Rights Center, said<\/a> as the “March for Truth” kicked off early Monday evening. “No boots. No detention beds. No border walls. No more dollars for DHS.”\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u2026According to Texas authorities<\/a>, somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 people gathered for the anti-Trump, anti-border wall rally across the street from the president’s event, where\u2014contrary to the president’s characteristic lies<\/a>\u2014the venue could only hold 6,500 due to fire regulations…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s the video<\/a>.  It starts at around 30 min. and ends around 43 min.<\/font><\/p>\n