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"We're hunkered under the bed here in Los Angeles..." (Original Post) pepperbear Feb 2019 OP
I gave into a piece of chocolate cake... If this is the end, I didn't want it to be low carb! LOL hlthe2b Feb 2019 #1
And then the music stopped ... pepperbear Feb 2019 #2
Only mole cake will be allowed after the invaders take over! klook Feb 2019 #27
How long till they get to the central coast? wasupaloopa Feb 2019 #3
Hello to Santa Maria MaryMagdaline Feb 2019 #29
The end is nigh. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #4
Si! NightWatcher Feb 2019 #5
Should Have Built Those Walls at the Alamo MUCH higher Stallion Feb 2019 #8
The missionaries who built it never expected the Spanish Inquisition. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #10
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! nt Popcorn Samurai Feb 2019 #34
I'm in San Antonio as I speak. Our wall has fallen. Luz Feb 2019 #28
Defend the Riverwalk at all costs. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #32
When can we expect aid in San Diego? BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #6
You're on your own pal, people in Florida are down to their last can of sardines. Blue_true Feb 2019 #11
I will rush fish tacos from Rubio's down to you as fast as I can! Dem2theMax Feb 2019 #20
I think they prefer Taco Bell... BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #26
Lol! Dem2theMax Feb 2019 #43
My dog is a Chihuahua BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #46
I'm surprised that only one eye and two ears are missing. Dem2theMax Feb 2019 #47
The Alpha Chihuahua FrankTC Feb 2019 #36
Paper El Shaman Feb 2019 #39
What Trump sees at the border exboyfil Feb 2019 #7
My favorite Zombie movie. Cold War Spook Feb 2019 #41
The taco trucks are approaching DBoon Feb 2019 #9
aim a few taco trucks toward kentucky, please Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2019 #12
Are you planning to starve them out by blandifying their food? DBoon Feb 2019 #13
Wait - I thought the Martians were killed by country music? csziggy Feb 2019 #31
Wow, how'd you come across that Seeburg stuff? Torture of the senses there. yonder Feb 2019 #33
LOL! I searched for "elevator music" on YouTube csziggy Feb 2019 #38
Send extra atomic-level hot sauce for McTurtle. CaptYossarian Feb 2019 #17
not fast enough, I'm hungry JI7 Feb 2019 #24
Here they come... PunkinPi Feb 2019 #30
lol Demovictory9 Feb 2019 #14
I'm really worried about Hawaii B Stieg Feb 2019 #15
Wave a white flag . . . Roadside Attraction Feb 2019 #16
My next door neighbor's kids are speaking Spanish! hunter Feb 2019 #18
Pfffttt, whatever gay texan Feb 2019 #19
Louie El Shaman Feb 2019 #40
OMG! moonseller66 Feb 2019 #21
Land and sea, Cold War Spook Feb 2019 #42
+1000000 hopeforchange2008 Feb 2019 #22
Now how did I know what this post would be addressing? sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #23
Meanwhile, in interior Alaska.... akraven Feb 2019 #25
That is warm beauty. kentuck Feb 2019 #45
Thoughts and prayers relayerbob Feb 2019 #35
Why didn't we listen??? gratuitous Feb 2019 #37
Don't follow the smell of the street tacos... kentuck Feb 2019 #44
Same here in Michigan Buckeyeblue Feb 2019 #48
 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
3. How long till they get to the central coast?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 05:59 PM
Feb 2019

Oh I forgot, my city of Santa Maria is already 73% Hispanic.

The majority here speak two languages.

Not me though.

MaryMagdaline

(6,855 posts)
29. Hello to Santa Maria
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 08:36 AM
Feb 2019

I lived there from 1962 to 1965. Attended kindergarten and one month of first grade at May Gresham Elementary. Family friends still live there. Beautiful town

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,362 posts)
10. The missionaries who built it never expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:21 PM
Feb 2019

Or a siege and assault by General Santa Anna's troops.

Of the two, the missionaries would have given higher odds to a Spanish Inquisition.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,362 posts)
32. Defend the Riverwalk at all costs.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 11:22 AM
Feb 2019

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the burger joints. We shall fight in the taco joints. We shall fight in the pizza joints. We shall fight in the beer joints. We shall fight in the gondolas. We shall fight in the canal. We shall fight in the beer joints (I like beer). We shall never surrender.

-- with apologies to W. Churchill

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
11. You're on your own pal, people in Florida are down to their last can of sardines.
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:46 PM
Feb 2019

We might have to surrender if the terms are right.

Dem2theMax

(9,652 posts)
43. Lol!
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 09:34 PM
Feb 2019

I never saw that! Every dog I know loves lizards. And I totally forgot that chihuahuas love Taco Bell.

BigmanPigman

(51,615 posts)
46. My dog is a Chihuahua
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 12:24 AM
Feb 2019

so I got a little stuffed one from Taco Bell for her to chew up and a t-shirt for myself. I still have the shirt and the stuffed Chihuahua (one eye is missing and both ears).
When the Godzilla movie came out and they made that commercial there was negative backlash about stereotyping Hispanics so they stopped airing them.

Dem2theMax

(9,652 posts)
47. I'm surprised that only one eye and two ears are missing.
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 12:42 AM
Feb 2019

Doggies do love to chew.

I spent the afternoon with a golden retriever. He belongs to a neighbor of mine. Neighbor is under the weather, so I get to play with the dog.

If I want to get his attention, alI have to do is say 'lizard' and that dog goes nuts. It's also a good way to get him back in the house when he doesn't want to come in. I just start yelling LIZARD! and pointing inside the house. Works every time!

I thought the Chihuahua commercials were sweet. It's too bad they had to go away.

FrankTC

(210 posts)
36. The Alpha Chihuahua
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 05:45 PM
Feb 2019

I was raised in San Diego. I know about them packs of feral chihuahuas that terrorize the eastern suburbs -- La Mesa, Lemon Grove, El Cajon, but Chula Vista too. Your only hope is to identify the alpha chihuahua and TAKE HIM DOWN. Good luck!

DBoon

(22,383 posts)
9. The taco trucks are approaching
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:08 PM
Feb 2019

We have bland tasteless food stockpiled to ride them out. Spam, mayonnaise, fluffy white bread, Bud Lite - enough to last years.

WE WILL NEVR SURRINDER!!

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,384 posts)
12. aim a few taco trucks toward kentucky, please
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:02 PM
Feb 2019

I'm interested in conducting some research on the feeding habits of the invaders. Honest, that's all.

DBoon

(22,383 posts)
13. Are you planning to starve them out by blandifying their food?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:05 PM
Feb 2019

even better than killing off those martians with the cold bug.

It worked for that emergency, you could save American civilization with your idea.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
31. Wait - I thought the Martians were killed by country music?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 09:50 AM
Feb 2019


Instead of Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" maybe we need something blander.

yonder

(9,669 posts)
33. Wow, how'd you come across that Seeburg stuff? Torture of the senses there.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 04:58 PM
Feb 2019

I had a job in a greenhouse back in the early 70's. The owner thought his flowers benefited by exposure to Muzak. Not classical, not cool jazz, not anything but Muzak. There's nothing like being forced to listen to the Muzak version of Hawaii-5-O while cutting carnations at 7:00 in the morning. Especially if one was still under the effects of the previous night's fun. Twas a special hell.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
38. LOL! I searched for "elevator music" on YouTube
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 06:40 PM
Feb 2019

Funny thing - much of what I found was more recent and almost decent jazz even though it seemed to be computer generated. I had to hunt for the old elevator music I remembered. They do have Muzak versions, too, if you want to have a true flashback.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
17. Send extra atomic-level hot sauce for McTurtle.
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:50 PM
Feb 2019

Since his blood is "Type Bourbon", he'll combust right on C-SPAN.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
15. I'm really worried about Hawaii
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:39 PM
Feb 2019

There will be no wall around it, and the caravans will soon start swimming there!
This one hell of a national emergency!

 
16. Wave a white flag . . .
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:49 PM
Feb 2019

Wave a white flag, go outside and talk with them.

You'll discover they will share their tequila, cerveza, weed and tacos . . . they are friendly

hunter

(38,322 posts)
18. My next door neighbor's kids are speaking Spanish!
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:03 PM
Feb 2019

Oh hell, all my immediate neighbors speak Spanish, next door, out back, across the street.

Oh no, my not own wife!!!

Holy Cow... my next door neighbor's kids are trilingual. What dark magic is this?

Our community is nothing like the 99% affluent white U.S.A. neighborhoods I grew up in.

My white wild west grandpa warned me this would happen. He was so upset I was marrying, in his words, "a Mexican girl" that he didn't come to our wedding. Men in his family only married white girls. Didn't matter that my wife was born in the U.S.A., as were her parents.

To his credit, my grandpa got over it. Trump's White America needs to get over it too.

The U.S.A. ought to be a place where the best of all cultures is celebrated, and the worst is discarded.

The racism and intellectually crippling English monolingualism of my own white culture ought to have been discarded a long time ago.



moonseller66

(430 posts)
21. OMG!
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:28 PM
Feb 2019

What if...
THOSE people learn about what a boat can do, Precedent Pyutrump? What kind of wall will we need to keep out the boats?

Maybe a Great Barrier Covfefe?

Yeah that's it! We can build it out of that plastic floating in the Pacific. We can get the money from the caddies tips at Mal-a-go-go.
Let's see them get past that! Or tunnel under it!

 

Cold War Spook

(1,279 posts)
42. Land and sea,
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 06:53 PM
Feb 2019

15,000 mile border. But the wall has to be build down almost to the Earth's core and a dome. That might be too big a job for us. We will have to hire illegals to build it.

sprinkleeninow

(20,254 posts)
23. Now how did I know what this post would be addressing?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:59 PM
Feb 2019

As we speak, a so-called illegal 'caravan' parked right on our street, and they're hardly scary or intimidating. In fact,

🎊 🎸 🎶💃 🥙🍹

BLOCK PAR-TAAY!!



Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
48. Same here in Michigan
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:03 AM
Feb 2019

We can fell the vibrations in the ground getting slightly stronger each day. We are eating nothing but taco bell with the hope that somehow we will eventually look less-white.

Sometimes we look at each other in silence but our empty gazes ask the same thing: is it futile to flee for the Canadian boarder?

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