Posted on 03/27/2016 12:46:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
MEXICO CITY — Whom would you build, if you had to make a monster of mythical proportions? An evil equal to a biblical scourge? A traitor to be burned in effigy whose fiery demise would cleanse our corrupted souls?
In Mexico, that would be Donald J. Trump. (J for Judas?)
Or at least a 10-foot-tall papier-mache version of him: eyes wide, mouth agape, with a painted-on business suit and golden mane. On Saturday night, just as every year on the day before Easter, Mexicans gathered on street corners and church squares to celebrate the Holy Week and set fire to their Judases, a popular ritual in this heavily Catholic country. Those demons are typically forked-tongue devils and flaming dragons, and often, like this year, reviled politicians.
“For Latinos here and in the U.S., he’s a danger, a real threat,” said Leonardo Linares, a 52-year-old artist who built a Trump effigy over the past week in his Mexico City studio. “He’s a good man to burn as a Judas.”
Linares, a jolly craftsman in paint-splattered clothes, presided over a block party that attracted hundreds of revelers, with kids chasing cotton candy wisps and pitched funny-foam battles. Linares and his relatives, who have been running this show for decades, chose the order of the Judas burnings, beginning with diminutive devils and wee minions and moving to the big dogs: President Obama with a cigar in his mouth and a Cuban flag, a black-clad Islamic State fighter with a kalashnikov, and the grand Trumpian finale.
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Maybe some day it will come to this country.
HA! A guy can dream, can't he?
Doesn’t look like Trump, it looks like a white man.
Build the wall.
Trump keeps making all the right people act like morons. I like that.
For Latinos in Mexico, it is the corrupt Mexican government that is the real threat.
Can’t wait to return the favor on Cinco de Mayo...
+10 feet.
fixed it
Some Mexicans are so stupid but they manage to get more attention than they deserve.
Keep it up, Mexico.
Your turn is coming.
So Christian of them.
It takes a lot of gall to THREATEN a country that gives you a free ride.
TOUGH SHIT!
I have had my Jeep totaled by an ILLEGAL WHO DROVE OFF.
An ILLEGAL who came into this country and CONTINUES TO COMMIT ILLEGAL ACTS because he essentially has no IDENTITY.
F’ these assholes!
Everyone who lives in the REAL WORLD is fed up with them.
It’s going to be a hell of a lot cheaper to send them ALL BACK than to pay for their crimes, INCARCERATION, WELFARE, cell phones, MEDICAL CARE, free year round lunches, high reproductive rates and RENT subsidies.
Keep in mind also that the so-called muslim refugees have NO IDENTITIES either.
None of these people are require to REGISTER WITH THE GOVERNMENT.
We are being ROYALLY SCREWED by politicians on both sides and they aim to INCREASE IT.
Maybe we can give them back about 17 million who can work on the fence from their side. Let’s remove all American industry and aid. They will sing a very different tune!
The day after Christmas 2014 a dreamer drove through an intersection without stopping during a power outage and t-boned my wife’s car. Airbags deployed. Totaled our car. Cost 30 grand for a new one. I could write a book about what has happened just next door to my house. To me, it’s not just the crimes, it’s the fact that these folks don’t know how to behave in a middle class neighborhood. I am sorry for your loss and can imagine your anger.
HA! which just reinforces Trump’s credibility.
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