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.
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.