Right wing parties across the imperial core have largely pushed for migrant internment camps outside of their borders during the last years. Now, if Trump also plans to expand the prison-industrial complex, he could obviously just do that, but i’m expecting additional camps to be something like the Tories’ plans for camps in Uganda, the EU’s camps in Libya or the prison islands Australia has been using for a while.
You make a good point. But it’s my wild hunch Trump is going to use the “official acts” stuff because he wants to be special and as an extra special bonus - it will drive the libs absolutely insane. For example - if Trump says “I’m gonna make the first Foreign Enemies Jail in Denver…” and that night Joy Reid totally loses her shit on her show about Trump’s racism because that was her hometown when she was growing up. She swears and is unseemly so the next day MSBNC says she’s “on a vacation” as the execs try to figure out what to do.
That’s absolutely possible, he tends to do random shit on a whim. Just saying that at this point, at the speed he’s moving, most of this stuff is likely to have been drafted in advance by fashy think tanks and follows established playbooks.
drafted in advance by fashy think tanks and follows established playbooks.
I guess Gitmo is relatively simple because Trump’s stooges at the Pentagon will somehow find the money from the DoD for housing all the people year after year. But what scares me is that a lot of what Trump wants to do requires an insane amount of money and resources. The math doesn’t work at all. For example - ICE funding is only capable of doing a tiny bit of what he says he wants to do. So what are the actual plans? Like - how many people does Trump and/or the think tanks want to process a year? And what will be ultimately done with them?
Trump might say he wants to pay (aka bribe) a country like Egypt to take in - I dunno - a few hundred thousand detainees from countries all over the world. That’s crazy. Under international law - that’s highly illegal. Plus it would be an international relations nightmare. But Trump doesn’t care about any of that.
And a yuge problem with my Foreign Enemies Jail joke is that housing people is even more expensive. Even if Trump made those jails as awful as possible to save money and even if succeeds in grabbing money illegally from other parts of the government - the math won’t work either. Also there will be men, women, and kids. Trump would have to break any number of state laws to house them.
I guess Trump could use federal military facilities for the Foreign Enemies Jails. I have an awful feeling that Trump pushed so hard for Hegseth because Hegseth is a yes man and a toxic reactionary who will do whatever Trump wants so that Trump effectively runs the DoD himself. And if Trump says “I want the Pentagon budget to be 50% bigger.” - the fucking dems will help him do that.
I wrote this comment as a stream of consciousness. But I stopped amusing myself. The more I think about it - the more I see the military as the center of all things with Trump in the center and in total control of all that naked power with no limitations at all. Yikes. I ended up really creeping myself out. I better stop here.
Right wing parties across the imperial core have largely pushed for migrant internment camps outside of their borders during the last years. Now, if Trump also plans to expand the prison-industrial complex, he could obviously just do that, but i’m expecting additional camps to be something like the Tories’ plans for camps in Uganda, the EU’s camps in Libya or the prison islands Australia has been using for a while.
You make a good point. But it’s my wild hunch Trump is going to use the “official acts” stuff because he wants to be special and as an extra special bonus - it will drive the libs absolutely insane. For example - if Trump says “I’m gonna make the first Foreign Enemies Jail in Denver…” and that night Joy Reid totally loses her shit on her show about Trump’s racism because that was her hometown when she was growing up. She swears and is unseemly so the next day MSBNC says she’s “on a vacation” as the execs try to figure out what to do.
That’s absolutely possible, he tends to do random shit on a whim. Just saying that at this point, at the speed he’s moving, most of this stuff is likely to have been drafted in advance by fashy think tanks and follows established playbooks.
I guess Gitmo is relatively simple because Trump’s stooges at the Pentagon will somehow find the money from the DoD for housing all the people year after year. But what scares me is that a lot of what Trump wants to do requires an insane amount of money and resources. The math doesn’t work at all. For example - ICE funding is only capable of doing a tiny bit of what he says he wants to do. So what are the actual plans? Like - how many people does Trump and/or the think tanks want to process a year? And what will be ultimately done with them?
Trump might say he wants to pay (aka bribe) a country like Egypt to take in - I dunno - a few hundred thousand detainees from countries all over the world. That’s crazy. Under international law - that’s highly illegal. Plus it would be an international relations nightmare. But Trump doesn’t care about any of that.
And a yuge problem with my Foreign Enemies Jail joke is that housing people is even more expensive. Even if Trump made those jails as awful as possible to save money and even if succeeds in grabbing money illegally from other parts of the government - the math won’t work either. Also there will be men, women, and kids. Trump would have to break any number of state laws to house them.
I guess Trump could use federal military facilities for the Foreign Enemies Jails. I have an awful feeling that Trump pushed so hard for Hegseth because Hegseth is a yes man and a toxic reactionary who will do whatever Trump wants so that Trump effectively runs the DoD himself. And if Trump says “I want the Pentagon budget to be 50% bigger.” - the fucking dems will help him do that.
I wrote this comment as a stream of consciousness. But I stopped amusing myself. The more I think about it - the more I see the military as the center of all things with Trump in the center and in total control of all that naked power with no limitations at all. Yikes. I ended up really creeping myself out. I better stop here.