Big Bend Times

12/10/2025

Miss this good boy! Nixon. 2010-2025.

12/10/2025

This is fake news. It’s propaganda dressed up as policy — and it’s economically illiterate. The idea that “reverse migration” is some kind of victory is just nonsense. The countries that thrive the most economically have one thing in common: they attract immigrants.

📌 The United States became the most powerful country on Earth because of immigration.
📌 Canada’s population boom — driven almost entirely by immigrants — is powering its economy.
📌 Germany, the U.K., Australia, Singapore — all high-performing economies — rely heavily on immigrant labor and immigrant innovation.

Every serious economist will tell you the same thing:
➡️ Immigrants don’t “take jobs.” They create them.
➡️ Immigrants raise wages over time, not lower them.
➡️ Immigrants keep industries functioning — agriculture, construction, healthcare, tech, logistics.
➡️ Immigrants start businesses at twice the rate of native-born citizens.

So bragging that America has become less attractive to hardworking people is not a flex — it’s a red flag. It means we are losing talent, losing labor capacity, and shrinking our future tax base. No successful nation brags about scaring away human capital.

If you want to know what actually makes countries weak, it’s this:
❌ A shrinking workforce
❌ A declining birth rate
❌ An aging population
❌ Policies that repel talent and labor instead of attracting it

Meanwhile, the White House is pushing out a brag post that essentially says:
“Good news — nobody wants to come work here anymore!”

That’s not strength.
That’s not leadership.
That’s a self-inflicted wound.

America’s success story has always been a story of immigrants. Turning away the very people who helped build this country isn’t just morally wrong — it’s economically suicidal.

12/10/2025

American Legion to Host New Year’s Eve Party with DJ El Julian

The American Legion will ring in 2026 with a community New Year’s Eve celebration on Wednesday, December 31, featuring music from DJ El Julian. The party runs from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., offering an eve…

12/10/2025

Waterstop. Marfa.

12/10/2025

Alpine. Texas.

12/10/2025

Dinner in Juarez

12/10/2025

Let’s just say the quiet part out loud:
America didn’t get hijacked by “patriots.” It got hijacked by failures — and by the very smart, very cynical people who realized how easy those failures are to manipulate. 🤷‍♂️🇺🇸

For decades, the United States has produced a whole population of folks who never did the reading, never did the learning, never gained any skills, never grew emotionally, never took accountability for a single thing in their lives — and then reached adulthood furious that the world wasn’t built around their bad decisions. They flunked out of life, coasted on the easiest path possible, and then expected the entire country to bend so they never have to feel uncomfortable or inadequate.

Enter the political strategists who said:
“Oh wow… this country has a gigantic pool of angry, insecure underachievers who will believe absolutely anything that absolves them of responsibility. If we just tell them they’re right and everyone else is wrong, they’ll worship us.”

And that’s exactly what happened.

A movement didn’t rise because these people were strong. It rose because someone finally figured out how to weaponize their weakness.
Tell the failures they’re actually the real Americans.
Tell the losers that the smart people secretly envy them.
Tell the ones who never succeeded that their lack of success is someone else’s fault.
Tell the folks who never grew up that maturity is “woke.”

And suddenly you’ve built an army — not of thinkers, not of leaders, not of contributors — but of emotionally fragile adults addicted to being lied to because the truth hurts too much.

Meanwhile, the people at the top of this movement?
They don’t respect them.
They don’t admire them.
They don’t even like them.

They use them.
Because they know these people don’t want solutions — they want soothing.
They don’t want progress — they want validation.
They don’t want responsibility — they want stories that make them feel better about failing at life.

So the grifters show up and say, “Hey buddy, none of this is your fault. You’re perfect. It’s the immigrants, the books, the teachers, the scientists, the cities, the g**s, the trans people — anyone but you.”
And the failures eat it up like dessert. 🍰

Because it feels good.
Because it’s easier.
Because they finally found a political movement where doing the least, learning nothing, and hating everyone is not only accepted — it’s celebrated.

This movement isn’t powered by greatness.
It’s powered by fragility, by resentment, by the bottom of the class finally hearing a bedtime story where they’re the heroes instead of the ones who fell behind.

And the people in charge?
They laugh behind closed doors.
They know exactly who they’re dealing with.
They know if you give failures an enemy to hate and a fantasy to believe in, they’ll hand you the keys to the country — and thank you for the privilege.

America doesn’t have a “patriot problem.”
America has a failure problem — and a ruling class that learned how to turn those failures into a political ATM.

It’d be tragic if it weren’t so predictable. 😬📉

12/10/2025

Rod Ponton and Elizabeth Rogers. Big Bend’s Legal Eagles.

12/10/2025

Y’all Means All. Texas PRIDE!

12/10/2025

Nature Conservancy to Lead Knowledge Night at Marathon Public Library on Dec. 11

The Marathon Public Library will host a special Knowledge Night program on Wednesday, December 11, featuring guest speaker Kaylee French, West Texas Education and Outreach Manager for The Nature Co…

12/10/2025

Big Bend National Park Reminds Visitors to Stay on Designated Roads

Park officials are urging visitors to remain on established roadways after new off-road damage was documented in remote areas of the park. The National Park Service noted that Big Bend’s rugged bac…