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DemoCat's avatar

Ok yes. ICE is sending some innocent people to forever prison in El Salvador. But you can’t throw out the bathwater without throwing out a few babies. Wingnuts don’t actually care about babies either, they just want to appear to care about all the babies. Plus, slutty sex-loving ladies will think twice about having sex for pleasure like a common harlot, instead of for procreation with creepy conservative dudes as god intended.

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biff murphy's avatar

And you're gonna say "Tito Puente, why I've been listening to him for years"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVaisNPgh4

Guantanamerar Guantonimo!

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"I don't know what the law says on that, but I can't imagine the law would say anything different..."

There are not enough libraries to hold all the books that could be filled with the things you "can't imagine."

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Jens TINGLEFF's avatar

Speaking of Cuba and of that song; if you can find it, I totally recommend the film Guantanamera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamera_(film)

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Biff52 is Tariffied's avatar

So Juan McCain got to be a birthright citizen because he was born on a USAmerican military installation, which is considered to be our sovereign soil, and I'm just fine with that, but the military installation at Guantanamo isn't considered USAmerican soil.

Got it.

Fuck Yoo.

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carovee's avatar

I know that all of Trump's cabinet is vile and greedy and loathsome and all the bad things one can be. But Homan stands out, IMO. He's so goddamn eager to imprison whole innocent families.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

As Trump likes to say: "He's right out of Central Casting."

If you are casting for killable Nazis in "Inglourious Basterds."

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Biff52 is Tariffied's avatar

And he's not even a billionaire! Get the hook!

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carovee's avatar

He will be after getting kickbacks for all the private concentration camps.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

The "hook," eh? Is that you, Papa Monzano?

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Michael Englander's avatar

Trump is using Louisiana as Guantanamo North; a Cajun Waystation on the fascism railroad.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. I. Just. Can't. Even. Really, I can't.

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Mormos's avatar

Obama campaigned on closing it. I will not forgive him for failing to do so.

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PuertoRicanMut's avatar

As I recall the retugs in congress passed a law prohibiting it's closure.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

" ... but I'd only do it according to the law ... "

What a complete crock of shit. The only interest that man has ever had in the law has been in having his shysters find ways to circumvent it for him. Now that he's president - again - he's once more taking the carefree attitude that legal is whatever he says it is.

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SethTriggs's avatar

It's only a little jump to summary execution via death squads (maybe recruited from MAGA cultists with large unsecured weapons caches).

Good way to get around habeas corpus too, by just disappearing people to have them renditioned and killed. Then you can say "Not my fault."

This was warned about, but of course people prioritized prejudice, privilege and clout in voting (or non-voting) for President Klan Robe. They did think it was no big that President Klan Robe was openly desiring ethnic cleansing.

It's incumbent that as many of us as possible try to survive.

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carovee's avatar

And eggs. Don't forget about the price of eggs.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Wait. So his excuse for using El Salvador is that "they can do it cheaper than us"?

So, good when it's illegally housing forced renditions of its own citizens, but bad when it's manufacture literally anything? So. Much. Stupid.

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E2's avatar

Yeah, why is Trump exporting American prison jobs?

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House0fTheBlueLights's avatar

Imagine the Middle Passage, but with AI and shipping bots.

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carovee's avatar

Ugh.

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S. E. B.'s avatar

Wait, what? "BORDER SECURITY EXPO"?

With registration booths and lanyards and ID badges and swag bags and execrable lunches and milling about in the lobby during breaks?

Excellent. Just excellent.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

For all of us who had "the whole deportation thing is an excuse to build for-profit concentration camps and use the detainees as slave labor" on our bingo card, DRINK!

And keeping drinking and drinking because jesus fucking christ.

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carovee's avatar

I was sounding the alarm before the election. I don't feel like celebrating though.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

Yeah, nothing to celebrate about this cruel horror show.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Hell, Krasnov had that on his platform.

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irish379's avatar

Is this what John Roberts means by "calling balls and strikes"? As far as respecting precedent, SCOTUS struck down Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus during an actual war, The Civil War.

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El Duderino's avatar

His strike zone is as wide as the Gulf of America

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