Texas Trump supporter unhappy with "the wall" on his property..."it's gonna ruin my lifestyle here"

[Miles Archer]

West of the River Bend Resort, the landscape reverts to fields of onions, cotton and corn. Richard Drawe leans against his pickup truck at his farm headquarters south of the town of Weslaco. He has worked this rich delta soil all his life, like his father and grandfather before him.

"I'm 70 years old and it's gonna ruin my lifestyle here of living in the country," he says. "To have that wall there is just gonna really disturb me."

Drawe knows he can't beat Washington, D.C., so last fall, he reluctantly sold the government a ribbon of land so they could erect the fence across his property. Like Jeremy Barnard, Richard Drawe supports Trump and is all for increasing border security — he just doesn't want the wall on his property.

"I told them that this stupid wall is gonna have lights on it. It's gonna be like being behind a prison wall, lights and everything," Drawe says. "And I said, 'You put them lights up on me and my house, I'm gonna shoot em out.' Of course, I had time to calm down."

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/805239927/between-president-trumps-border-wall-and-the-rio-grande-lies-a-no-man-s-land

[irisblue]

1. aawwww

[guillaumeb]

2. poor Trump supporter.

He took the money for selling the land that his ancestors might have stolen from Mexico.

[Faux pas]

3. So the reaping begins

[budkin]

4. Thoughts and prayers

Poor guy...

[democratisphere]

5. If we truly has checks and balances this idiotic wall would have gone nowhere.

[ooky]

6. The only thing worse than a new wall beside your house

is a new lighted wall beside your house.

[BusyBeingBest]

7. File this under: You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me.

[The Genealogist]

8. He doesn't want the wall on HIS property, eh?

Well, snowflake, you can just suck it up. He clearly had no problem with it til it affected him personally. Did he just think they were going to take land from liberals so they would be pwned? How very Republican of him.

[lunatica]

9. Was he chewing on a stalk of wheat too?

He sounds like a real keeper.

[Laelth]

10. Dude. You get what you vote for.

It is difficult for me to be sympathetic in this case.

-Laelth

[11 Bravo]

11. Fuck him. That's what he voted for, so he needs to quit whining.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Y'all love em Nazis til they shit in your back yard, doncha?

[walkingman]

13. Maybe he'll think about it when he votes this time.....typical shitkicker from Texas.

[Ilsa]

17. Uh, no. He'll vote for him again, against his own interests and

his family's interest. He'll just shoot out the lights that bug him. Neighbors can shoot out their own lights.

[Blues Heron]

14. Will it have loudspeakers and a tape loop? Just like Abu Graib? That would be awesome

Every Freedom Wall should have a sound system

[RT Atlanta]

15. "get over it"

was a phrase the 'pukes used to enjoying using and it seems appropriate here.

Take it up directly with donnie t if you have a problem with it.

[Totally Tunsie]

16. $5 says he votes for Chump again.

[bullwinkle428]

32. They interviewed several - some of whom PLAN TO VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN!!

[Karma13612]

18. Well Drawe, Trump has ruined

A LOT of voters lifestyles.

How about we vote out the Motherf**ker in November.

Actions have consequences, huh?

[shanti]

19. Boo hoo

Sucka!

[Roland99]

20. Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. I feel bad for him but..

What the fuck did he expect? This was very predictable.

[phylny]

22. Let me guess before I read - he supported Trump, right? n/t

[RhodeIslandOne]

23. GFY buddy.

[Initech]

24. You voted for this!

[GoCubsGo]

25. Bed. Made. Lie.

[dem4decades]

26. Haha. Tough shit.

[blueseas]

27. Poor Trumpian

[BlancheSplanchnik]

28. I hope he's awake and miserable every night. Trumphole.

[John Fante]

29. I really don't care, do you?

[JDC]

30. F you and your soon to be disturbed country lifestyle. Enjoy your prison yard landscaping

It's what you deserve.

[Mersky]

31. Didn't think it through. What else has he missed?

So much overlooked.

Nimby idiot needs to track back and question his damn self.

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Gee, I don't remember Hillary asking for a wall.

Shoulda' given that some more thought in '16.