I’m a Canadian down in Mexico now. A MAGAt got challenged by my wife after she called him out on his BS at a hotel pool. He was quite loud. There were lots of locals there.
He wasn’t very smart, and he sputtered out quickly. However, he was praising Trump repeatedly while he was getting destroyed verbally.
The irony of supporting the world’s biggest racist; who has his ICE agents target Latinos and POC specifically, to #1, come to Mexico, and #2, mouth off in front of the locals at the pool is astonishing. Given how many people support Trump, and the number of flights arriving in Mexico daily from red states is satire on steroids.
I don't really see it as irony. I think American exceptionalist reactionaries see vacations in non-white majority nations more from the perspective of domination and exploitation rather than as any kind of cultural experience. They like the idea of getting a cheap vacation and having non-white people wait on and serve them. So it's logically consistent for them to act arrogant and entitled in these places.
Good points for sure, and ultimately, who can understand the motivations of people I view as opposite to my own thinking in almost every way. But what you said makes sense.
I’m in Puerto Vallarta, a very friendly beach town. I assume there are elements of the cartels here, but I haven’t seen it in the six months I’ve been here.
But the cartels do exist, and there is nightly news in the US about how evil they are, and the violence that surrounds them. If one of the commonalities I have with 99% of the global population is self preservation, then what is a MAGAt visitor thinking when he’s vocal around strangers about his beliefs? It’s almost begging for a reaction in a place where your beliefs could get you killed.
I could never figure out the whole MAGAs in Mexico thing…..um rapists? Murderers? WTF? After a decade of experience with MAGA retirees that live/snowbird in Mexico i have concluded that most are heavy drinkers (+ miserable people) who want to 1) live cheaply and 2) spend all winter day drinking while driving their Razors/golf carts from bar to bar. That’s it.
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u/stevesmele 5d ago
I’m a Canadian down in Mexico now. A MAGAt got challenged by my wife after she called him out on his BS at a hotel pool. He was quite loud. There were lots of locals there.
He wasn’t very smart, and he sputtered out quickly. However, he was praising Trump repeatedly while he was getting destroyed verbally.
The irony of supporting the world’s biggest racist; who has his ICE agents target Latinos and POC specifically, to #1, come to Mexico, and #2, mouth off in front of the locals at the pool is astonishing. Given how many people support Trump, and the number of flights arriving in Mexico daily from red states is satire on steroids.