Bizarre coverage of the 2020 Border Security Expo in San Antonio, TX

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/21/bizarre-coverage-of-the-2020-b.html

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What the hell do you get in your goody bag?

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If King of the Hill was still on the air I feel like this could be the basis for an episode in which the nominally conservative Hank becomes a militant anti-ICE/border security activist.

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Oh Mark, you are barely touching the brilliance that is All Gas No Brakes. Their interviews are really raw, and they talk to people really on the farest fringes of reality. Incredible reportage. No one else comes close.

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I like yucks as much as the next guy, but Jesus fucking Christ, do NOT put your head over the muzzle of a gun seen at ~4:20.

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“Worker girls”?

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I live in Texas. King of the Hill was virtually a documentary.

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I think the spud might have been trying to say “working girls”.

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all gas no brakes is such a great channel, you should check out his other videos, especially the george floyd murder protests coverage for some real decent - on the ground - reporting and the trump rally or anti-mask protests for some real insanity on the part of interviewees.

he’s really good at finding the most crazy people and letting them make fools of themselves,but has done solid reporting as well in some rarer cases (george floyd protests)

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Yeah, that’s a big WTF moment. I’m surprised he wasn’t escorted away.

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But I think the reporter missed a terribly important follow up question.

Edit: typo and sentence structure

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A small Guatemalan child

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I got a rock…

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Agreed! The recent AGNB is incredible.

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Grilling on gas is like cooking on a lit dinosaur fart. Charcoal is green. Well, greenish black.

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Because of your comment, I went to go look at the channel. This video is amazing.

The editing is very responsible because they hide the faces of people who could be incriminated by being on screen, but they show the faces of people who are less likely to be incriminated. It’s contextual, not only based on what they say, but where they are.

Also, check out the image on the shirt of the guy at 5:38. (He starts speaking at about 4.38)

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This strikes me as if Eric Andre and Sasha Baron Cohen had a kid together with Napoleon Dynamite, and he became an activist reporter.

Strong sense of forced obliviousness to bring out awkward truth in subjects like Andre.

This expo- these people- I can happily imagine an America without these complete shitheels of human beings. I hope that building collapses on them and everything they enable

And I don’t buy Reeboks- but now I certainly never will

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That Minneapolis vid is lit. It’s fire🔥

I especially liked how the clothing racks were even on fire, in little places, then the guy took the everything must go sign, irony

Seriously though just listening to the comments I can hear how fed up people are. One wonders if the lawmakers are watching these videos to see what people actually doing this think.

I haven’t really watched but a couple clips of all these protests since they started just because I already get it, but it was powerful to actually hear from the people right there and see how they felt

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The only thing I found disappointing about the looting was everyone was ignoring the crayons. Grab the crayons for the kids, man!

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Thank you @deanputney & @hoffmanbike!
I’ve checked his other videos and they are really worth watching. “All gas no brakes” is a perfectly fitting description of his channel :rofl:

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