But more importantly, who wore it better?
California has a new Governor, a very handsome man named Gavin Newsom who was once married to Donald Trump Jr.’s current girlfriend. He is dashing, with an iron jaw and hair swept back. He is also very liberal, very progressive and girls really go in for that (except his ex-wife and Donald Trump Jr.’s current girlfriend.)
I would like to have a discussion, here, about which people are more beautiful, liberal ones or conservative ones, but Gavin Newsom just traveled to El Salvador to be el salvaldor economico and thumb his nose at Donald Trump whose son, Donald Trump Jr., happens to be dating his ex-wife.
Donald Trump very recently cut aid to the small Central American nation.
What will salvar El Salvador?
Surfing of course and let us turn to NBC news for more. Let’s do it right now before we have any more discussion of ex-wives and girlfriends.
California masterfully markets its surfing culture and Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he wants to share that expertise with El Salvador to help boost tourism and provide more economic opportunities for its impoverished citizens.
“There’s no doubt there’s a lot we can do together in this space,” Newsom said after a discussion about the surfing industry’s economic potential with local business owners, investors and U.S. Ambassador Jean Manes.
He’ll have a willing partner in President-elect Nayib Bukele, who he met later. Bukele has an initiative titled “Surf City” aimed at investing in beaches to drive tourism.
“We have the best surfing beaches in the world and they have the other ones,” he told reporters after meeting with Newsom. “So we want to work together.”
Newsom said the state’s tourism arm, Visit California, has already expressed interest in working with El Salvador.
Though El Salvador has among the highest homicide rates in the world and the U.S. government warns its citizens about traveling there, Newsom and Bukele said tourist areas are much safer than other parts of the country. Bukele said he’ll work to get the U.S. travel advisory removed when he takes office.
Etc.
So go to El Salvador and surf because you ain’t a sissy but there are a lot of sissies who won’t go equalling more waves for you.
Ok.
Now that we’re through with that, who wore it better?
Gavin Newsom…
Or Donald Trump Jr….
Vote in the comments below!
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DJT, Jr.
Candy, Martin, what’s not to love!?
We were talking narcotics, why you gotta go and bring human trafficking into it!? What did trafficking ever do to you?
I saw KJ’s story when she was in the news after meeting with Pope Frank. Truly tragic, even moreso that it happens on the regular to thousands of missing women and children across Mexico and other countries.
But back to drugs! You can’t just pop a squat and leave unqualified turds like, “you don’t know what you’re talking about” and “the DEA reports are bullshit” (which I partially agree with for reasons you listed and others EDIT: well maybe not bullshit, just not inclusive of the entire picture) on the floor without backing it up. I mean you can because it’s the internet, but that’s no fun!
Lasso me up some sources Hoss, I want to know more cause learning be FUNdemantal!
LGR, why aren’t we using our military to quell the chaos in our sister nation on our border? We spend so much time and effort destabilizing the ME, why not clean up Mexico, then CA?
I live in an Ag town, talk to the field workers as part of my daily business. Informally, half would return home if they could. But those people can’t which identifies them as refugees, not illegals. A wall would only keep them in IF it was safe to return.
Cocaine today is a third the price, pure in quality when it was cut generously, and available everywhere. What other product are you aware of that experiences that economic history? All after the “War on Drugs”.
The concept that Cartels are flooding is pure fear because it’s not true. Prices for weed have plummeted, another victim of so much supply. The clandestine growers before recreational sales did have a gang challenge, but now wealthy Ag companies are growing the weed under dubious Govt. semi permission. The production is all but gentrified. The value is suppressed, the black market disappears. I know, the FEDS came into town en masse, busted all the Avo guys growing a few plants in advance of the election legalizing growing.
Brother, it’s a very complex problem and can’t be explained by sound bites. Reagan era enterprises are still causing peripheral damage throughout our hemisphere. Privatized prisons with occupancy standards contractually guaranteed???? The wealthy using the shadow labor force for every home need.
I work for people of extreme money. I speak spanish because their staffs are all shadow labor, poorly paid in comparison to vineyard labor.
The gangs throughout the region are a result of power vacuums filled by desperate, increasingly violent people with no legit opportunity. Just the Chapo conviction caused so many murder sprees in Michoacan, Guerrero, Sinaloa…. it’s profound.
Why don’t we use the US military to clean up Mexico/CA? Our sister nation, some of the best surf in the world and a resource rich area that just needs to be stabilized. A return to the rule of law. A sense of hope and opportunity for the greater demographic of humans living in fear.
Instead, our glorious leader wants a vanity wall, isolationism. A simple solution is not possible and he doesn’t want hard work.
I agree. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
You obviously don’t know shit about California AG.
All of the wall prototypes have failed the basic tests so far. The only thing it will stop is farm workers who are currently needed as there aren’t enough immigrant farm laborers in the USA at the moment.
I wish you were right LGR.
The wine industry and the weed industry north of SF has literally stripped the AG community of it’s labor with their one upping the pay that was set at 15. an hour. Vineyards set the scale at 20., the weed industry set the new scale at 25. Easy work too cleaning buds all day long. As many hours as you can work.
What that means for flower and food production is no labor.
The pinch is also being felt in Oxnard with the same factors involved.
These farmers were ahead of the curve, minimum wage wise. They rely on a stable, invested work force on products without exorbitant margins.
If you listen to the conservative narrative, “illegals” are the cause of all evil, but it’s actually corporations who take advantage of the cheap labor.
You never see unemployed Mexican nationals in my town. Never. Plenty of white bums who won’t work for 15. Incidentally, the white bums are the MAGAT’s whose futures were “taken away” from them which is really just the marketplace evolving and them being not willing to grow.
Spot on.
Come on man, the wall will do fuckall to stem the tide. Didn’t you watch The Wire?
It’s well documented, by the DEA of all organizations, that most of the goodies coming up from Mex pass through legal ports of entry hidden in trains, planes, and automobiles. Okay maybe not trains, I just love that movie and couldn’t help myself. It’s rare to see the Esses humping that shit over no man’s land.
Lot of nice lookin’, non-TSA-suspicion-arousing white folk also like to smuggle drugs on planes for cartels.
Oh, and boats too, those Dominicans, and even some Mexicans, love their boats. They hop all over the Caribbean and S. Florida making deliveries. It’s kind of like Miami Vice, except in real life, with no Crockett and Tubbs. Or maybe if Crockett and Tubbs sucked at their jobs.
And let us not forget our friends in the Far East! The Chinese are doing surprisingly well using maritime resources and the post (of all things!) to get their goods and sundry stateside as noted by the uptick in Fentanyl deaths. Yet another grip of junkies Shanghaied!
Finally, Trump really needs to check his twelve, because the HA and the mob are moving plenty of candy over the border and they actually are humping it across in places where no one is looking in BC. And Canada, BC in particular, makes it easy, even easier than the US, to launder drug money. Why no northern wall I wonder?
Like the war on drugs, the wall will be a total drain on tax dollars that are better spent just about anywhere else and it will amount to two things, jack and shit.
Sorry three, a shrine to Donnie’s ego.
Hail to the chimp
From an outsiders perspective it makes sense as both countries mentioned in the article appear to be run by criminals.
The points in El Salvador are full…can’t fit any more people.
Ever met a drug addict who couldn’t find drugs? “Supply routes” are temporary, supply is everlasting. A step in the right direction would be further decriminalization of drugs and unencumbered, state-sponsored treatment made available.
Their politics and water are both the same:
Dirty.
No contest…GN wears pre-op gf WAYYYY better than Slow Donny wears post-op gf.
I was with you up until the wall part
US interventions created all the crisis’. The wall is a vanity project at best.
If it were safe to return to Mexico/Central America, they will have to build a wall to keep our shadow labor force in.
I know AG people in norcal and they say they don’t have enough Mexicans. Just another boogey man to sell fear
You’re speaking my language now, SSD.
I think conservatives are more beautiful but the liberals are more open minded and can be very beautiful when they are coming from behind.
… are coming, from behind.
-there I fixed it-
Given the effort she has a) put in surgically enhancing her face, and b) trying to force a smile for the camera, her ‘resting bitch face’ would probably be the only thing natural connected to her face.
It must be a status symbol to gain entry into the clique.
I kinda feel like when they’re alone together, they remove their faces and it’s all pretty weird under there.
Yeh I get that vibe like in Roald Dahl’s book The Witches when they all meet up cackling about the evil deeds they like to commit on children etc.
Having worked in politics, I can categorically say going Left was better… but going Right was always easier.
running for class president dont count, i think
Congratulations on Reports From Hell!
Looking forward to reading this book!
Is there a release date yet?
Thank you! I am turning over to editor end of May but I don’t know when it releases…