It has to be said and shared. Madness, sheer cruelty, we couldn’t imagine such a dystopian farce of government of what used to be the best in the world. Falling like Rome and its bloodthirsty gladiator entertainment
I’m also Sorry to be a downer, friends. We’re not going down without a fight for goodness, decency and righteous effort.
“Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and we’ll exploit you for years of cheap labor until a felonious demagogue comes along falsely labeling you as rapists and thieves, ultimately separating you from your children whose citizenship he’ll strip away, as he imprisons you in a cruel and unusual way before outsourcing your imprisonment to an evil foreign dictator without due process of law.
Yes, that's how it goes when you have a baby tyrant with a huge marketing/propaganda network. There is a reason why some states have such low education standards.
Colour me thoroughly disgusted living under this veiled bigotry and hatred Mary!! This dysfunctional, dystopian nightmare is being run by the billionaire class, one, none of us will ever be part of! Fuck Trump and his coterie of connards!!
Yeah, I am feeling a bit down with all of this cruelty all of the time.I guess that’s the point-to demoralize until we are in some dark place thinking we are hopeless.I may be down but I am still in this fight.These people are ghouls and are guilty of crimes against humanity.I personally would like them all to go before some Nuremberg type trial with the same punishments for the guilty.
We all remember Sheriff Arpieo from Arizona....he had a tent city where 'inmates' wore pink. But I bet that was the Hilton compared to this catastrophe. What happens if there is a hurricane???
Oh, it was no Hilton, Douglas. Consider this: tent city is no longer standing but it was 117 in Phoenix yesterday. And it was 94 at 4 am. It was cruel, hands down just like the monstrosity they are promoting today. Sick bastards.
The best thing that could happen is if one of the staff is the first to be an alligator or python's lunch. I mean, who would work in such a place? Only the evilest of the evil.
Have the ICE agents always been jackbooted gestapo assholes or is it just since tRump? I hope that they realize that, "I was just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg and it won't work when their time comes.
Yes, but the tents were because of overcrowding in the jails. Plus, the inmates could choose to serve their sentence in the tents and get 2-for1 credit as time served. Plus don’t forget their meals consisted of green bologna sandwiches.
If I remember correctly Joe cost the state of Arizona about $12,000,000 to settle all the lawsuits for his unlawful actions. And he also used inmates as chain gangs for labor, again with the 2-for-1 day service time.
Here jeff, I upswing for you. Republicans are the party of the KKK (despite their stupid bullshit line about the Democrats being the party of the KKK which is utter bullshit). So here is the history lesson of the Southern Dixiecrat (and why Republicans want that shit to say in their fucking closet of skeletons).
I too feel nauseous at the continued out-in-the-open pure hatred. Sometimes it's hard to not think about it all day but then they "win" again. Trying to do something uplifting every day, even if it's just thanking the sun for shining.
One of your best. I do not see or hear any outcry about this. Less than 100 years ago we ripped Japanese Americans from their homes and put them in concentration camps. Many lived in what had been horse stalls.
THIS is on a scale and by design to be even more atrocious.
Where are the protests and outcry? Has Chuck Schumer written a powerful letter to his pal DonDon?
We see that nothing happens aside from handwringing. Thank you for this genuine ringing of the alarm bells.
There are protests happening about this. Mostly by the people who live in the Everglades. There are still Native American Tribes that live in the Everglades.
🤬🤬🤬🤬💀💀💀🤬🤬🤬🤬 I'm really beginning to feel that each and every one of the evil assholes in this Administration should be dragged down there and made to live like the they expect the undocumented HUMANS that they kidnap and force to live in such conditions.
And you know, if any of them died...I guess I'd just have to shrug and say.."Well, we all die. People die in prisons, in county jails...yup, it happens." I'd especially like to see KKKaroline Liar Leavitt and Stephen Miller locked in that "facility". I'm tired of trying to feel compassion for people who have none themselves.
In fact, I wish them ill. I was out early this morning to do some shopping. It was 102 degrees at ten o'clock. Who else is out? Crews laying blacktop, gardeners raking and clipping, Etc., etc. Those people were not white and may not have been "legal", God bless them. What have these people done to deserve incarceration in a Hell hole? We live in horrible times.
I saw pictures of them protesting. I believe it was locals and environmentalists. I'll post if I can find the link. I try not to give mainstream media my energy. so I don't remember where I saw. Also the article in the Miami Herald (I was able to see it without paying but I believe they have a paywall) was excellent. Again, I try not to read mainstream media but there are still journalists who really care about the truth and are talented writers.
because nothing can be done about it... can there?
it's like writing letters and shouting into the wind that the sky is blue and it should be red. Nothing will happen under this Nazi regime. It will take a powerful act from the Universe to change things and so far, even that has been letting us down.
Wish I had a more uplifting spin on this situation.
I never thought I'd see the day where putting people in a concentration camp would be joked about on national TV. This surpasses anything Joseph Goebbels did. He was never "smart" enough to have concentration camp jokes on German radio! And merchandise too! I'll just bet that if I went to a MAGA-heavy area of this wonderful fascist country of ours, I'd see a lot of people wearing those T-shirts and hats.
Things like this are so surreal that I can't get my mind around them. I keep hoping that I'm having a nightmare, and will wake up.
I live in FL and fully expect to see neighbors wearing these shirts. I would not be surprised if many of them were POC. Just not on Next Door someone (not in favor) asked what people thought about this travesty and most people were gleeful about it.
These POC neighbors of yours should not too smug. I have read and seen videos of POC's being racially profiled in LA and shoved into vans by the ICE gestapo, even when they are American citizens! Anyone with brown skin is fair game. Nab them, slap them around, stuff them in a van, immigration status be damned. The streets are very quiet these days. Everyone is staying home.
Plenty of far right black and brown people down here, especially Cubans, are on board with this shit. I met a teacher at one of the protests who told me that the biggest magats in his classes were black teens.
I just googled it and I can't really understand it but I know lots of Cubans are in the Miami detention center now. One died yesterday. With the DOJ now prioritizing denaturalization no one with naturalized citizenship is safe.
🤯😢 I wonder just how gleeful they'll be when Trump's "Civil Rights Division" starts grabbing ordinary American citizens and parking them down there--for minor protests or exercising their First Amendment rights by writing a critical article about some policy.
Of course these folks don't believe such a thing will ever, ever happen to THEM. They think Trump "loves" them. Well, Trump's love is fleeting and will last only as long as they are useful to him.
Yep, Trump is a man baby barbarian...every bit as nastily uncivilized as a barbarian military group under Alaric I or a Genghis Khan horde of Mongolian warriors....only less disciplined and more volatile.
I’m glad you wrote this, it needs to be screamed from every mountain top on a 24/7 loop. The fact that the GOP is actually proud of this is mind boggling. We need to round all of them up, dress them in their beyond disgusting t-shirts and drop them off there. Then we put a large iron gate on the only way in or out and feed the key to an alligator. Oh yeah, we need to then destroy the runway so there is no hope left.
We can airdrop food and water - I wouldn’t want you to think I’m completely heartless…
It's not mind boggling. It's on-brand. I'd be all upset if they were successfully getting us to clutch our pearls at every escalated performative atrocity. Except it's becoming less effective (but not completely yet, so they have to keep upping their cruelty game). They're bellowing at us as if we're to be cowed into submission, yet the larger response is "meh, fuck you". ICE goons were asked to check right back out from the Pasadena hotels they'd just moved into. Seems the locals got a little steamed at having the Nazi cosplayers amongst them. And Tom Homan is gonna, what, burn the hotels down? Arrest everybody in Pasadena? What a useless tool.
Read the room. What are we seeing from them? Incoherent explosions of impotent rage from the SecDef. Epic, fully-network-covered humiliation of the President at his Birthday Parade. A performative and strategically pointless bombing raid. And now a tent city slapped up in the Everglades, custom-designed to clutch pearls. See a pattern? Do they look like people at the top of their game? Masters Of The Universe who will certainly enslave us all ?
Do I know how this is going to go? No, of course not. And neither does anyone else. We've been unmoored from reality so long that all the teeth-gnashing and cloth-rending gets out of date pretty quick. It tells me that what we thought was reality, was not really, they were just comfortable fictions we told ourselves and each other to get through the day. So, in the meantime: Meh, fuck 'em.
Instead of the ovens, it will be dying in the hot tents with no water. Disposal will be easy, as bodies are left out in the swamp as gator food. Instead of talk to the hand, talk to the gator. The cruelty knows no bounds.
It absolutely has to be written. This is wrong!!! But what do we do about it? There is no discrimination between good law abiding refugees, people who contribute enormously to our society, and criminals.
I want to see these people, Homan, Noem, MILLER, TRUMP, etc., prosecuted in The Hague! These aren’t war crimes, they are crimes against humanity.
There may be trials, but I doubt at the Hague. The US has no history of abdicating it's sovereignty and does not support the ICC. It all depends on how much blood is spilled between now and then.
As it stands, their crimes are mainly against the Constitution, and at an unprecedented scale. If the rubes get what they say they want (actually haven't heard much on this lately), a civil war, and there is a genocide, then all bets will be off. In that case, the United States will be a failed state and would likely be under the stewardship of our former allies (if we're lucky). In that case, then our own legal precedents will be moot and an ICC or similar action could be executed under the supervision of other nations.
If, however, we manage to navigate through this relatively bloodlessly, then I think the scenario could ultimately unfold similar to the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commissions' in South Africa. If it came to that, the vast scale of culpability (77 million citizens who supported Trump) would require some mechanism to heal the society and have it reform around unifying ideas of justice.
One day in the future, when all of this nightmare has vanished from the earth, it should call out for something equivalent to the Nuremberg trials, with the leading traitors being held accounted. Don't even think about Donny, Vance, and Miller appearing at it, as they will all have killed themselves by then, although talking about Donny, he would definitely be too much of a coward to do so, but then Melania will be happy to help him with it. As for the rest, most of them will plead not guilty, and hope for being pardoned by some kind of law magically instituted by King Donny in advance during his regime.
Probably the same kind of lesson that more than half of the German population had to go through after the end of World War II.
In these people's minds there are two groups. One group has "made it" and are totally entitled to every luxury. Another group are losers and who cares what the hell happens to them? It's that simple.
Rethuglicans' attitude toward people is very Calvinistic. If you're rich and powerful it's because Gawd luvs you and thinks you are awesome. If you are poor and/or disabled in some way, it's because Gawd hates you and thinks you suck.
Jeff - you are the best! No one writes about this shitty horror show better than you. I can’t believe what is happening and I’m surprised that I’m laughing while reading your Substack. When I’m not laughing I’m crying.
We're seeing it right now, with Faux commentators laughing about alligators and pythons, and concentration camp merchandise.
Plus which, in a really twisted way---NOT defending him---Hitler, loathsome creature that he was, had a sort of ideology, and a world plan, as horrific as they were. tRump....has no plan, has no overarching belief. Like a demented toddler, he just throws bombs everywhere for the fun of watching things explode and burn. All the while monetizing everything he can. On the evil-and-depraved scale, that might be worse. I dunno.
The orange sadist's Hitlers are behind him, manipulating him: russvought and leoleonard. They let him throw the shit around as long as he signs off on what they want. Need to add to that the sadistic, stupid stephenmiller.
Plus Putin-era Russia with its Stalin-legacy Siberian gulags (where Navalny was killed) and modern day China's treatment of the Uighurs in dehumanizing re-education camps. The Florida swamp concentration camp .... no words to add to Jeff's post.
Yes, you are absolutely right about that. And of course there are surely hundreds of other horrific regimes throughout history that have treated various groups sadistically.
Is it just me, or is the ACLU being super quiet on this? Unfortunately, I didn't expect anything from the Dems...perhaps they are writing "strongly worded letters"?
Ok, so do you have a sense for the why and how on that? Trump has had umpty-ump rulings against him, yet cases of his actual defiance of an order have been nil. Why?
I don't think we understand enough about how it all works, there seem to be mechanisms that aren't immediately visible, leading to paradoxes:
1. The situation above
2. Trump is barking mad, by all accounts, why hasn't he nuked anything? Isn't he the Supreme Commander and can unilaterally act against a 'clear and present danger' to the country (in his view)?
3. Why were Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass not arrested on federal charges? As they say, you can indict a ham sandwich if you want to.
4. Why did they never even prosecute Hillary?
5. What specific things will trigger a TACO?
We need to understand what stops Trump so we can get more of it.
"cases of his actual defiance of an order have been nil" What are you talking about? The very first ruling against him, that it was totally illegal for him to dismantle USAID and refuse to let the appropriated funds be spent for their designated purposes, was completely and utterly defied.
You are correct, of course. I got out over my skis on that one. Nil isn't the right word to use. My question stands, though, what *does* stay his hand and why? What possible repercussions does he fear that prevents him from going further than he has? How many TACOs have occurred that we don't even know about?
The question is not so much about Trump, I think what we see is what we get. It's the processes and people in place that are having effects on his behavior, that we can't see and don't understand.
DeSantis is something else again, worthy of another discussion. Li'l White Boots is dealing in a whole different reality down there.
Yeah, that's a point that Pete has been emphasizing lately also, that despite Donnie presenting himself as this unstoppable steamroller, he does actually back down fairly often. There are certain things, like the USAID dismantling and the mass deportation campaign, that the behind-the-throne forces will not let him back down on, but other things he will give up in order to spark the kind of pushback that would threaten those goals he apparently has to keep pressing regardless of pushback.
I believe the DOJ and Bambi are losing 97% of it's cases in the last 6 months,historically the DOJ wins about 98% of it's cases,and used to enjoy a 'good faith' presumption,that is long gone, certainly the legislative branch have rugburn on the knees from fellating Cheetolini,the judicial branch isn't going to go so quietly.
More of the same and to see these laughing jackals thinking this cruel horrific shit is funny is beyond belief. And FEMA money is funding this hellhole while DeSatan gets to witness cruelty while him and the smells like ass fragrance peddler face no consequences for this heinous crime against humanity. If only those two twisted lowlifes had to spend a week or two in those tents.
I wouldn't be surprised. The fossilized retreads in Democratic leadership can barely manage themselves out of bed let alone lead the fight against facism.
Actually not true. They are not being covered by the media AT ALL. They want the voters to think nothing is being fone so no one will vote for Democrats or stay home and the Republicans will keep the majority. Don't lose heart.
A PLAN of a concept... let's not get too ahead of ourselves, now! A poll from last summer showed that .01% of suburban chinchilla farmers were 'slightly concerned' if the Democrats were to 'push back too hard on President Trump's policies'.
Not at all. The media wants you to believe that. The Democrats have a minority in both houses. They have no power because either Democrats didn't vote there was some cheating going on.
"Why would anyone spend that kind of money to smell like Donny when you can just shit yourself and roll around in hamburger grease for free". Priceless.
Whenever KKKaroline opens her trap all I can think of is the lyrics from Dirty Laundry about the bubble headed bleach blonde that comes on at five, she tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's a death cult, what the fuck.
Me too. Unfortunately MAGA has a tremendous tolerance for cruelty. It's the best tolerance ever, no one has ever seen anything like it. Big strong men come up to them, tears streaming down their faces, and say "How do you do it? No one has ever been as joyfully cruel as you. Thank you so much."
Oh, we know. They can't even handle mild truths that they don't like. They'd cry like a kicked puppy if someone did to them what they want to do to people. The J6 group showed how they react to reasonable consequences for actual actions. Multiply that reaction by infinity and that is the outcry you'd hear from them
The fact that this is the first White House to have an official on-site Christian advisor, and they celebrate stuff like this makes me wonder what version of Christianity they practice.
Will it though? Unfortunately, it took outside powers to take down the Third Reich. No one is coming to rescue us from ourselves. Today I woke up and thought: they’re just going to let us do our monthly protests and share our pain and outrage online and go along their merry way destroying our lives. Do we have the numbers and commitment to do what’s necessary to bring this all down? I mean put it ALL on the line. I’m increasingly and sadly thinking not.
You are utterly on target here. And yet. People who are under complete and locked-down totalitarian regimes STILL come out to give their Supreme Masters a hearty Fuck You Very Much. Hungarians. Russians. People who have some experience with this for real.
We're newbies at this whole being oppressed thing, and still trying to get our footing, so give us a break. And on the other hand, dictatorships with staying power have a mastermind diabolical genius for organization and a crack bureaucratic machine at their fingertips. What have we got? Be honest. The performative stunts the regime is staging are becoming more rickety by the minute. The Parade, the pointless bombing mission, and now a tent city slapped up and marketed with T-shirts. Does Hegseth look like he's at the top of his game? He's screaming incoherently at press conferences, panicking to paint any criticism as "disloyalty to the troops". Yet, nobody's having it.
How will all this go? Shit, I have no idea. But so far, it sure hasn't been following a straight line, and the regime isn't looking stronger, but the opposite.
Locally, 50501 invites us to rally at the courthouse (location for protest rallies—over 4,000 at last one) all weekend, but I agree, they are fruitless. I guess the BBB passed. Now there will be many Dachau imitations. California, where I live, will be brought to its knees. Denaturalizations amok. Now we will get a taste of Gaza. Perhaps we deserve it after all.
Staying prepared for the military industrial complex, I once worked for Jane…the billionaire class have waged this war, going down without a fight isn’t my thing!!
I just called my rethug congressman's office to ask that he speak out against this concentration camp in Florida. The aide who answered the phone claimed they knew nothing about it. So I read him the text of the speech you referenced, Jeff (thank you) and there was a long silence and the aide said, "Oh. Well I'll pass your message along to the congressman."
Books will be written about this period in history. And it will be an abysmal tale to be told. Start with the demolition of USAID. And now the relentless attacks on immigrants and even American citizens. Now have our own version of concentration camps. Where will the bottom be? I fear for us.
I live in this hell hole of a state. The heat index in the Everglades today is 102 degrees. In my wildest imaginings, I could not concoct such cruelty. You are right, Jeff, people will most certainly die.
Gov. DeSatan is out of his damn mind! Forget about the misery this is going to cause many innocent people, the economy here is going to come to a screeching halt. We have a extremely high number of Latinos, particularly Mexicans that run just about everything. Apparently his cruelty overrides common sense.
And our Cubans who made a deal with the Republicans to be considered "white" not Latino, by getting their community to vote republican, when this is the kind of things their grandparents fled from..
I wouldn’t want to go in any showers at this camp because we know what that means. Zyklon B kills more than bugs.
Trump’s fragrances are commonly know as eau d’ shit. As offensive smelling as he is.
When it’s time to hold these assholes responsible, I suggest they get to cool their jets at that camp. Thanks Ron! You’ll be able to enjoy your new resort.
WTF? Maybe Alligator Auschwitz or Crocodile Concentration Camp would be better names. Alcatraz was a prison for convicted criminals, gangsters, etc. This is a literally concentration camp for people apprehended without due process until the government decides what to do with them. There is no analogy to Alcatraz. Auschwitz was established as a concentration camp. We need to stop accepting the administration’s deceptive branding and refer to this as Alligator Auschwitz or Crocodile Concentration Camp.
On the brighter side, at least Kkkaroline recognizes that this alien detention camp is illegal.
Far be it for me to sound like an apologist for the Germans during the Nazi era, but the actual Nazis were afraid of a public outcry over their handling of Jews, Roma, Sinti, disabled people and dissidents, so did not publicize, and located the worst of their horrors - the death camps - in foreign countries.
Congratulations, Amerika, you are out-Nazi-ing the original Nazis.
I asked my mom (born in 1926) why the Allies didn't do something about the camps in WWII. She said they didn't advertise them or publicly talk about them. This of course was before social media, TV and satellite spy cameras. Your post is 100% right about the difference.
Yes, that is true: the allied public was kept in the dark. However, through a heroic effort, some few escapees from the death camps were able to get the word out to allied leaders, who decided in their infinite wisdom to a) keep it secret; and b) that diverting a few bombers to take out the rail lines to the camps would deter them from bombing schools, hospitals and museums in German cities. /s
My mom said that they would go to the movie theater and see reels of the news about the war. No TV or computers then. So the news they got was old anyway. You know some people knew. I’ve been to 3 concentration camps and there were always locals who were hired to work at the camps. Stuff like that never stays quiet.
I worked in that area of the everglades for Corps of Engineers in 1971. Most workers quit after a month or so because of the heat and mosquitos. I had just gotten back from Vietnam and it was worse climate wise. Fucked up place to imprison human beings. People will die there. Can't believe how gleeful the governor and the Republicans are about this. DeSantis did enjoy seeing prisoners being tortured in Guantanimo after 9/11. He's really fucked up and so proud of himself.
hope this one isn't too much of a downer, folks. it had to be written
It has to be said and shared. Madness, sheer cruelty, we couldn’t imagine such a dystopian farce of government of what used to be the best in the world. Falling like Rome and its bloodthirsty gladiator entertainment
I’m also Sorry to be a downer, friends. We’re not going down without a fight for goodness, decency and righteous effort.
Three hundred years to build the US and a few months to dismember it. No bonesaws required
The inscription on the Statute of Liberty is now meaningless to this sick, broken country.
New, more honest inscription:
“Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and we’ll exploit you for years of cheap labor until a felonious demagogue comes along falsely labeling you as rapists and thieves, ultimately separating you from your children whose citizenship he’ll strip away, as he imprisons you in a cruel and unusual way before outsourcing your imprisonment to an evil foreign dictator without due process of law.
But thanks for coming, and have a nice day!”
Grandpa Fred Trump would be so proud of Donnie wouldn't he?
Ah, yes; poor, unfortunate child would finally get a pat on the head for outstanding cruelty.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”.
haha
Spot on! 😔😔😔
Yes, that's how it goes when you have a baby tyrant with a huge marketing/propaganda network. There is a reason why some states have such low education standards.
Colour me thoroughly disgusted living under this veiled bigotry and hatred Mary!! This dysfunctional, dystopian nightmare is being run by the billionaire class, one, none of us will ever be part of! Fuck Trump and his coterie of connards!!
It’s been headed that way since Citizens United. Too much money sloshing around DC not to attract criminals
Exactly Lynn!!
Sorry? No need to be sorry. You are not the downer here. That’s a bit like
apologizing to a bad man because you got upset when he beat your child.
Yeah, I am feeling a bit down with all of this cruelty all of the time.I guess that’s the point-to demoralize until we are in some dark place thinking we are hopeless.I may be down but I am still in this fight.These people are ghouls and are guilty of crimes against humanity.I personally would like them all to go before some Nuremberg type trial with the same punishments for the guilty.
America failing from a straight up LACK OF IMAGINATION is what’s getting to me… smdh
Sorry, sir. It's a fucking downer. My pissedoffitude has been cranked up to eleventy kintillion. I hate these goddamn chodes.
Nicely said Tara!!
We all remember Sheriff Arpieo from Arizona....he had a tent city where 'inmates' wore pink. But I bet that was the Hilton compared to this catastrophe. What happens if there is a hurricane???
The people will probably die. Trump and DeSantis don't care. They have told us who they are and we need to believe them.
People ARE going to die. The very idea probably gives DeSadist a chubby.
And all this time I thought his chubby was due to those Go-go white boots.
They're probably counting on that. Saves the money that they spend on room and board. (or gas chambers)
They would call
It God’s will.
And then they’ll force them to rebuild, the fucking fucks. What’s really wrong with slavery?
People are going to die for certain Deborah, turning the tables on their abhorrent cruelty is the plaguing question!!
Oh, it was no Hilton, Douglas. Consider this: tent city is no longer standing but it was 117 in Phoenix yesterday. And it was 94 at 4 am. It was cruel, hands down just like the monstrosity they are promoting today. Sick bastards.
And not only is central southern Floribble HOT; in a normal year, in the Everglades it will also be God Almighty humid as well.
The best thing that could happen is if one of the staff is the first to be an alligator or python's lunch. I mean, who would work in such a place? Only the evilest of the evil.
Unemployed Americans will be forced to take jobs with ICE, which will be flush with funds and will offer ICE Agents full medical benefits.
I'm so mad today that I could spit, cry, or both.
Have the ICE agents always been jackbooted gestapo assholes or is it just since tRump? I hope that they realize that, "I was just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg and it won't work when their time comes.
DeSatan should be the first staff member to work there. Maybe he’ll be the first to keel over.
Less mouths to feed and deport
*Fewer* mouths
Grab your tent pole and ride to someplace safer?
Yes, but the tents were because of overcrowding in the jails. Plus, the inmates could choose to serve their sentence in the tents and get 2-for1 credit as time served. Plus don’t forget their meals consisted of green bologna sandwiches.
If I remember correctly Joe cost the state of Arizona about $12,000,000 to settle all the lawsuits for his unlawful actions. And he also used inmates as chain gangs for labor, again with the 2-for-1 day service time.
Wow that is an important question. Do they have an evac plan for this hellhole?
I’m sure they’ll get the guards and staff out immediately.
No, there is only one narrow road in or out.
That's exactly my thought.
If there’s a hurricane, they die.
Here jeff, I upswing for you. Republicans are the party of the KKK (despite their stupid bullshit line about the Democrats being the party of the KKK which is utter bullshit). So here is the history lesson of the Southern Dixiecrat (and why Republicans want that shit to say in their fucking closet of skeletons).
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/i-am-sick-and-fucking-tired-of-repulicants
As always, jeff, Liked, Restacked, Quoted, and Crossed. Our readers love you, keep on doing the good work, Uncle Jeff.
I recently read the book, A Fever in the Heartland, an excellent history of the KKK, and I have to say the parallels are chilling.
I have read somewhere that the Nazi's actually learned "how to nazi" by studying the KKK, their organization and methods of terrorization and torture.
Republi-klan.
Perfect play Bruce!!
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I thought my ability to be stunned by this administration had maxed out, but this makes me feel physically ill.
And as a transgender American there is a non-zero chance that I'll end up in such a place.
I too feel nauseous at the continued out-in-the-open pure hatred. Sometimes it's hard to not think about it all day but then they "win" again. Trying to do something uplifting every day, even if it's just thanking the sun for shining.
Fuck that. You come live with me. I gotchu. 🫂
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Come to Canada. You're the people we love!
Canada doesn't want an American invasion. If I could stay there, I would go tomorrow.
You're right, we don't want an invasion of any sort, but we would welcome non MagaT's ...
Be safe and choose your friends wisely.
We can hope not
One of your best. I do not see or hear any outcry about this. Less than 100 years ago we ripped Japanese Americans from their homes and put them in concentration camps. Many lived in what had been horse stalls.
THIS is on a scale and by design to be even more atrocious.
Where are the protests and outcry? Has Chuck Schumer written a powerful letter to his pal DonDon?
We see that nothing happens aside from handwringing. Thank you for this genuine ringing of the alarm bells.
There are protests happening about this. Mostly by the people who live in the Everglades. There are still Native American Tribes that live in the Everglades.
I heard from a FL protector friend that the protest was cancelled because they had blocked any entrance that led to the road of the facility?
🤬🤬🤬🤬💀💀💀🤬🤬🤬🤬 I'm really beginning to feel that each and every one of the evil assholes in this Administration should be dragged down there and made to live like the they expect the undocumented HUMANS that they kidnap and force to live in such conditions.
And you know, if any of them died...I guess I'd just have to shrug and say.."Well, we all die. People die in prisons, in county jails...yup, it happens." I'd especially like to see KKKaroline Liar Leavitt and Stephen Miller locked in that "facility". I'm tired of trying to feel compassion for people who have none themselves.
I have zero compassion for these neo-Nazi republik-kklans. None. zero.
In fact, I wish them ill. I was out early this morning to do some shopping. It was 102 degrees at ten o'clock. Who else is out? Crews laying blacktop, gardeners raking and clipping, Etc., etc. Those people were not white and may not have been "legal", God bless them. What have these people done to deserve incarceration in a Hell hole? We live in horrible times.
I saw pictures of them protesting. I believe it was locals and environmentalists. I'll post if I can find the link. I try not to give mainstream media my energy. so I don't remember where I saw. Also the article in the Miami Herald (I was able to see it without paying but I believe they have a paywall) was excellent. Again, I try not to read mainstream media but there are still journalists who really care about the truth and are talented writers.
because nothing can be done about it... can there?
it's like writing letters and shouting into the wind that the sky is blue and it should be red. Nothing will happen under this Nazi regime. It will take a powerful act from the Universe to change things and so far, even that has been letting us down.
Wish I had a more uplifting spin on this situation.
I never thought I'd see the day where putting people in a concentration camp would be joked about on national TV. This surpasses anything Joseph Goebbels did. He was never "smart" enough to have concentration camp jokes on German radio! And merchandise too! I'll just bet that if I went to a MAGA-heavy area of this wonderful fascist country of ours, I'd see a lot of people wearing those T-shirts and hats.
Things like this are so surreal that I can't get my mind around them. I keep hoping that I'm having a nightmare, and will wake up.
Tragically, this is not a nightmare.
I live in FL and fully expect to see neighbors wearing these shirts. I would not be surprised if many of them were POC. Just not on Next Door someone (not in favor) asked what people thought about this travesty and most people were gleeful about it.
The residents need a bigly, beautiful hurricane before this shithole opens.
Well it's open already and they're apparently moving people in tomorrow. Enrique Tarrio of course was there today.
But he's brown! WTAF.
💀🤬💀🤬. Tarrio should be in prison...but he's strutting around down there? Toss him to the gators, somebody!
But of course
These POC neighbors of yours should not too smug. I have read and seen videos of POC's being racially profiled in LA and shoved into vans by the ICE gestapo, even when they are American citizens! Anyone with brown skin is fair game. Nab them, slap them around, stuff them in a van, immigration status be damned. The streets are very quiet these days. Everyone is staying home.
Depressing!
Seriously? POC?!
Plenty of far right black and brown people down here, especially Cubans, are on board with this shit. I met a teacher at one of the protests who told me that the biggest magats in his classes were black teens.
1st they came for the….
I've heard that Cubans are in danger of losing their "exemption". Is that true?
I just googled it and I can't really understand it but I know lots of Cubans are in the Miami detention center now. One died yesterday. With the DOJ now prioritizing denaturalization no one with naturalized citizenship is safe.
🤯😢 I wonder just how gleeful they'll be when Trump's "Civil Rights Division" starts grabbing ordinary American citizens and parking them down there--for minor protests or exercising their First Amendment rights by writing a critical article about some policy.
Of course these folks don't believe such a thing will ever, ever happen to THEM. They think Trump "loves" them. Well, Trump's love is fleeting and will last only as long as they are useful to him.
Barbaric.
Yep, Trump is a man baby barbarian...every bit as nastily uncivilized as a barbarian military group under Alaric I or a Genghis Khan horde of Mongolian warriors....only less disciplined and more volatile.
And considerably less competent. Attila made sure his hostages got fed as well as his subjects did.
All these folks who get their jollies over every evil thing this administration does badly need a real lesson in FAFO.
I don't think they can ever learn, but I'm willing to try to teach them.
Anyone else ready to withhold taxes yet? I don't want my tax dollars spent in support of this.
The waking nightmare that is our government keeps 👏🏽getting👏🏽worse👏🏽
The Trump fragrance made me laugh. Like, wanna smell like shit and desperate to be loved? Here’s your chance
Should be room spray - not cologne. 🙄🤪😁
Yeah, I'm guessing his fragrances smell like dirty diapers. The Trumpanzees will eat it up!
We rely on you to give us a clear picture of what‘s going on - not your fault that it’s so dark
I’m glad you wrote this, it needs to be screamed from every mountain top on a 24/7 loop. The fact that the GOP is actually proud of this is mind boggling. We need to round all of them up, dress them in their beyond disgusting t-shirts and drop them off there. Then we put a large iron gate on the only way in or out and feed the key to an alligator. Oh yeah, we need to then destroy the runway so there is no hope left.
We can airdrop food and water - I wouldn’t want you to think I’m completely heartless…
It's not mind boggling. It's on-brand. I'd be all upset if they were successfully getting us to clutch our pearls at every escalated performative atrocity. Except it's becoming less effective (but not completely yet, so they have to keep upping their cruelty game). They're bellowing at us as if we're to be cowed into submission, yet the larger response is "meh, fuck you". ICE goons were asked to check right back out from the Pasadena hotels they'd just moved into. Seems the locals got a little steamed at having the Nazi cosplayers amongst them. And Tom Homan is gonna, what, burn the hotels down? Arrest everybody in Pasadena? What a useless tool.
Read the room. What are we seeing from them? Incoherent explosions of impotent rage from the SecDef. Epic, fully-network-covered humiliation of the President at his Birthday Parade. A performative and strategically pointless bombing raid. And now a tent city slapped up in the Everglades, custom-designed to clutch pearls. See a pattern? Do they look like people at the top of their game? Masters Of The Universe who will certainly enslave us all ?
Do I know how this is going to go? No, of course not. And neither does anyone else. We've been unmoored from reality so long that all the teeth-gnashing and cloth-rending gets out of date pretty quick. It tells me that what we thought was reality, was not really, they were just comfortable fictions we told ourselves and each other to get through the day. So, in the meantime: Meh, fuck 'em.
Believe what, that what we thought was reality, really wasn't?
I misread.
Alligator Auschwitz.
That's a story that needs telling as often as necessary, Jeff.
Instead of the ovens, it will be dying in the hot tents with no water. Disposal will be easy, as bodies are left out in the swamp as gator food. Instead of talk to the hand, talk to the gator. The cruelty knows no bounds.
Nazis gonna nazi, but DerSantis is a sadist, too.
DeSadist, is a very apt name for that bot-like piece of corrupted trash.
It absolutely has to be written. This is wrong!!! But what do we do about it? There is no discrimination between good law abiding refugees, people who contribute enormously to our society, and criminals.
I want to see these people, Homan, Noem, MILLER, TRUMP, etc., prosecuted in The Hague! These aren’t war crimes, they are crimes against humanity.
My son is an attorney. I told him the same thing. They will be prosecuted in The Hague for crimes against humanity.
There may be trials, but I doubt at the Hague. The US has no history of abdicating it's sovereignty and does not support the ICC. It all depends on how much blood is spilled between now and then.
As it stands, their crimes are mainly against the Constitution, and at an unprecedented scale. If the rubes get what they say they want (actually haven't heard much on this lately), a civil war, and there is a genocide, then all bets will be off. In that case, the United States will be a failed state and would likely be under the stewardship of our former allies (if we're lucky). In that case, then our own legal precedents will be moot and an ICC or similar action could be executed under the supervision of other nations.
If, however, we manage to navigate through this relatively bloodlessly, then I think the scenario could ultimately unfold similar to the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commissions' in South Africa. If it came to that, the vast scale of culpability (77 million citizens who supported Trump) would require some mechanism to heal the society and have it reform around unifying ideas of justice.
One day in the future, when all of this nightmare has vanished from the earth, it should call out for something equivalent to the Nuremberg trials, with the leading traitors being held accounted. Don't even think about Donny, Vance, and Miller appearing at it, as they will all have killed themselves by then, although talking about Donny, he would definitely be too much of a coward to do so, but then Melania will be happy to help him with it. As for the rest, most of them will plead not guilty, and hope for being pardoned by some kind of law magically instituted by King Donny in advance during his regime.
Probably the same kind of lesson that more than half of the German population had to go through after the end of World War II.
See George’s answer ⬇️
Who said Donnie isn't an environmentalist? Once the “illegals" die of heat stroke they become Gator Chow!
I am devastated to read your comment, because I think that is what will happen.
In these people's minds there are two groups. One group has "made it" and are totally entitled to every luxury. Another group are losers and who cares what the hell happens to them? It's that simple.
Rethuglicans' attitude toward people is very Calvinistic. If you're rich and powerful it's because Gawd luvs you and thinks you are awesome. If you are poor and/or disabled in some way, it's because Gawd hates you and thinks you suck.
Rethuglican Jesus is a fking a$$h0le.
Back to the Middle Ages of Kings and royalty, and everyone else.
Same as it ever was. If you were disabled in an industrial accident in 1890, no workman's compensation, no disability, no pension. Just your bad luck!
True. The fight to make everyone matter has been going on forever.
Jeff - you are the best! No one writes about this shitty horror show better than you. I can’t believe what is happening and I’m surprised that I’m laughing while reading your Substack. When I’m not laughing I’m crying.
No worries. Every day has a downer du jour.
A couple of months ago, I thought that things couldn't go any lower. Boy, was I wrong. Need to use a new reference point: Nazi Germany.
With Nazi Germany being the best-[i.e., least worst]case scenario in the realm of awfulness. The orange blob's actions go down from there.
One-cheeseburger-too-many can't happen soon enough.
How much is farther down than Nazi Germany can he go?
We're seeing it right now, with Faux commentators laughing about alligators and pythons, and concentration camp merchandise.
Plus which, in a really twisted way---NOT defending him---Hitler, loathsome creature that he was, had a sort of ideology, and a world plan, as horrific as they were. tRump....has no plan, has no overarching belief. Like a demented toddler, he just throws bombs everywhere for the fun of watching things explode and burn. All the while monetizing everything he can. On the evil-and-depraved scale, that might be worse. I dunno.
The orange sadist's Hitlers are behind him, manipulating him: russvought and leoleonard. They let him throw the shit around as long as he signs off on what they want. Need to add to that the sadistic, stupid stephenmiller.
Plus Putin-era Russia with its Stalin-legacy Siberian gulags (where Navalny was killed) and modern day China's treatment of the Uighurs in dehumanizing re-education camps. The Florida swamp concentration camp .... no words to add to Jeff's post.
Yes, you are absolutely right about that. And of course there are surely hundreds of other horrific regimes throughout history that have treated various groups sadistically.
Is it just me, or is the ACLU being super quiet on this? Unfortunately, I didn't expect anything from the Dems...perhaps they are writing "strongly worded letters"?
The ACLU has been very busy taking the Trump regime to court. I didn't check the website, but I doubt they're ignoring the gulag.
Big deal - whose going to stop Desantos - they will ignore any court edict
Ok, so do you have a sense for the why and how on that? Trump has had umpty-ump rulings against him, yet cases of his actual defiance of an order have been nil. Why?
I don't think we understand enough about how it all works, there seem to be mechanisms that aren't immediately visible, leading to paradoxes:
1. The situation above
2. Trump is barking mad, by all accounts, why hasn't he nuked anything? Isn't he the Supreme Commander and can unilaterally act against a 'clear and present danger' to the country (in his view)?
3. Why were Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass not arrested on federal charges? As they say, you can indict a ham sandwich if you want to.
4. Why did they never even prosecute Hillary?
5. What specific things will trigger a TACO?
We need to understand what stops Trump so we can get more of it.
The money and the adulation vs the cost and the humiliation.
The more we humiliate the whole bunch, and particularly the Tangerine TACO, the worse they behave. Right up to the instant they implode in failure.
"cases of his actual defiance of an order have been nil" What are you talking about? The very first ruling against him, that it was totally illegal for him to dismantle USAID and refuse to let the appropriated funds be spent for their designated purposes, was completely and utterly defied.
You are correct, of course. I got out over my skis on that one. Nil isn't the right word to use. My question stands, though, what *does* stay his hand and why? What possible repercussions does he fear that prevents him from going further than he has? How many TACOs have occurred that we don't even know about?
The question is not so much about Trump, I think what we see is what we get. It's the processes and people in place that are having effects on his behavior, that we can't see and don't understand.
DeSantis is something else again, worthy of another discussion. Li'l White Boots is dealing in a whole different reality down there.
Yeah, that's a point that Pete has been emphasizing lately also, that despite Donnie presenting himself as this unstoppable steamroller, he does actually back down fairly often. There are certain things, like the USAID dismantling and the mass deportation campaign, that the behind-the-throne forces will not let him back down on, but other things he will give up in order to spark the kind of pushback that would threaten those goals he apparently has to keep pressing regardless of pushback.
I believe the DOJ and Bambi are losing 97% of it's cases in the last 6 months,historically the DOJ wins about 98% of it's cases,and used to enjoy a 'good faith' presumption,that is long gone, certainly the legislative branch have rugburn on the knees from fellating Cheetolini,the judicial branch isn't going to go so quietly.
Unfortunately it does not matter what any judges rule if the Supreme Court is determined to let Dumb Antichrist have his way anyhow.
Exactly
That's spelled "DeathSantis" and he's not done killing us, who live in the state.
A veritable feast it is for them.
More of the same and to see these laughing jackals thinking this cruel horrific shit is funny is beyond belief. And FEMA money is funding this hellhole while DeSatan gets to witness cruelty while him and the smells like ass fragrance peddler face no consequences for this heinous crime against humanity. If only those two twisted lowlifes had to spend a week or two in those tents.
I wouldn't be surprised. The fossilized retreads in Democratic leadership can barely manage themselves out of bed let alone lead the fight against facism.
Actually not true. They are not being covered by the media AT ALL. They want the voters to think nothing is being fone so no one will vote for Democrats or stay home and the Republicans will keep the majority. Don't lose heart.
There's that. It's always been an MO of the right my whole life, get people so upset they just give up and stop trying.
Yes, and it works. Most of the media is in agreement. And low education standards and funding in some states keeps people stupid.
And Fox News and OAN and Sinclair and all the far right podcasts.
👆🎯Fucking bingo.
'Fossilized retreads' is a good one! True.
AOC for Speaker!
They have a concept of "strongly-worded letters"...
A PLAN of a concept... let's not get too ahead of ourselves, now! A poll from last summer showed that .01% of suburban chinchilla farmers were 'slightly concerned' if the Democrats were to 'push back too hard on President Trump's policies'.
Biden was President last summer.
You're absolutely right. I got giddy.
Lynn remember the Democrats are in the minority so they can’t do anything without 4-5 republicans/magapublicans jumping ship🤦🏼♀️
Dems equally complicit as Rethuglicans
Oh knock that shit off.
Tell it, Kate. Dumpty loves it when Dems attack each other. You’d think we knew better by now. Ugh 😑
Not at all. The media wants you to believe that. The Democrats have a minority in both houses. They have no power because either Democrats didn't vote there was some cheating going on.
Noisome troll alert. 🧌
They are busy filing lawsuits.
"Why would anyone spend that kind of money to smell like Donny when you can just shit yourself and roll around in hamburger grease for free". Priceless.
Whenever KKKaroline opens her trap all I can think of is the lyrics from Dirty Laundry about the bubble headed bleach blonde that comes on at five, she tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's a death cult, what the fuck.
"It's interesting when people die"....... Hmm, Henley was onto something....
It was prescient in 1982. At a live concert he dedicated the song to Rupert Murdoch.
Yes KKKaroline Lie Vitt can fuck straight off.Another blonde bimbo in a long line of these “bubbled headed bleach blondes” imfo
I thought so too!
What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck……infinity and beyond!🤬 Only words I have today!
Only ones needed Tess!!
At some point the abject cruelty will reach critical mass and it will blow up in their fucking faces.
I've been waiting for that day for over a decade now.
Me too. Unfortunately MAGA has a tremendous tolerance for cruelty. It's the best tolerance ever, no one has ever seen anything like it. Big strong men come up to them, tears streaming down their faces, and say "How do you do it? No one has ever been as joyfully cruel as you. Thank you so much."
I would like to see how THEY the MAGAs could handle the cruelty if perpetrated on them.
Oh, we know. They can't even handle mild truths that they don't like. They'd cry like a kicked puppy if someone did to them what they want to do to people. The J6 group showed how they react to reasonable consequences for actual actions. Multiply that reaction by infinity and that is the outcry you'd hear from them
Since Reagan here, at the risk of dating myself.
Well, I'll counter with Nixon. Any yes, I'm old enough to have watched the trials on TV.
I was a young teen and yes my parents watched the trial, and the nightly news every night.
The fact that this is the first White House to have an official on-site Christian advisor, and they celebrate stuff like this makes me wonder what version of Christianity they practice.
Remember the Inquisition????
Paula White is NO Christian. A grifter and fraud.
True dat Diane, this country is full of them, most are based on religion!!
They worship the Antichrist.
I’m counting on it.
Will it though? Unfortunately, it took outside powers to take down the Third Reich. No one is coming to rescue us from ourselves. Today I woke up and thought: they’re just going to let us do our monthly protests and share our pain and outrage online and go along their merry way destroying our lives. Do we have the numbers and commitment to do what’s necessary to bring this all down? I mean put it ALL on the line. I’m increasingly and sadly thinking not.
You are utterly on target here. And yet. People who are under complete and locked-down totalitarian regimes STILL come out to give their Supreme Masters a hearty Fuck You Very Much. Hungarians. Russians. People who have some experience with this for real.
We're newbies at this whole being oppressed thing, and still trying to get our footing, so give us a break. And on the other hand, dictatorships with staying power have a mastermind diabolical genius for organization and a crack bureaucratic machine at their fingertips. What have we got? Be honest. The performative stunts the regime is staging are becoming more rickety by the minute. The Parade, the pointless bombing mission, and now a tent city slapped up and marketed with T-shirts. Does Hegseth look like he's at the top of his game? He's screaming incoherently at press conferences, panicking to paint any criticism as "disloyalty to the troops". Yet, nobody's having it.
How will all this go? Shit, I have no idea. But so far, it sure hasn't been following a straight line, and the regime isn't looking stronger, but the opposite.
Correction - white people are new to the whole being oppressed thing. Black people have been dealing with it since day one here....
Locally, 50501 invites us to rally at the courthouse (location for protest rallies—over 4,000 at last one) all weekend, but I agree, they are fruitless. I guess the BBB passed. Now there will be many Dachau imitations. California, where I live, will be brought to its knees. Denaturalizations amok. Now we will get a taste of Gaza. Perhaps we deserve it after all.
Staying prepared for the military industrial complex, I once worked for Jane…the billionaire class have waged this war, going down without a fight isn’t my thing!!
Fingers crossed, although I'm not too hopeful since they don't seem to care and no one calls them on it. They keep doing what they are doing.
No pushback
and when it happens they blame the democrats and try to punish them for their own faults.
Yep, the Russian propaganda is hard at work pushing that disinformation. Too many gullibles buy the broad-brush "both sides are the same"
You're wrong. We are much more likely to strangle to death on our own pearls long before they meet with disaster.
Earnestly praying for that, and the SOONER the BETTER!
Bigotry never disappears, it simply lies in waiting David!!
And history proves that, over and over again, Patrick!
How?
God we are a sick bunch-Tshirts? The racism in this country will be our undoing. I’m never speechless but we’ve reached ANOTHER new low. 😭
Remember the idiots wearing T💩p diapers?
And carrying JD Vance cum cups?
🤮
Yeah, that one never made any sense, further proof they live in an echo chamber.
I just called my rethug congressman's office to ask that he speak out against this concentration camp in Florida. The aide who answered the phone claimed they knew nothing about it. So I read him the text of the speech you referenced, Jeff (thank you) and there was a long silence and the aide said, "Oh. Well I'll pass your message along to the congressman."
Standard reply from Sergeant Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes: “I know nothing.”
You’ll get 🦗🦗🦗
No one could have made this up-the HORRORS OF THE REPUGS.
Anybody who has kids and supports this depravity is an unfit parent.
Books will be written about this place and the atrocities that happen there. And the mass graves discovered around it after it shuts down.
Books will be written about this period in history. And it will be an abysmal tale to be told. Start with the demolition of USAID. And now the relentless attacks on immigrants and even American citizens. Now have our own version of concentration camps. Where will the bottom be? I fear for us.
I don’t see a bottom. They will the history of what was before all of this.
Too late. Lives will be lost and lives will be ruined
Jokes on us - we probably won't survive or the skills to record history won't survive.
Toss them in the swamp.
I live in this hell hole of a state. The heat index in the Everglades today is 102 degrees. In my wildest imaginings, I could not concoct such cruelty. You are right, Jeff, people will most certainly die.
Gov. DeSatan is out of his damn mind! Forget about the misery this is going to cause many innocent people, the economy here is going to come to a screeching halt. We have a extremely high number of Latinos, particularly Mexicans that run just about everything. Apparently his cruelty overrides common sense.
Same in my state. I believe we are 51% Hispanic now. I really don't care what color people are, only if they are decent human beings.
And our Cubans who made a deal with the Republicans to be considered "white" not Latino, by getting their community to vote republican, when this is the kind of things their grandparents fled from..
Yes, but will we hear/read about it😔😢
JFC these people and even worse are the people that voted for them.
I wouldn’t want to go in any showers at this camp because we know what that means. Zyklon B kills more than bugs.
Trump’s fragrances are commonly know as eau d’ shit. As offensive smelling as he is.
When it’s time to hold these assholes responsible, I suggest they get to cool their jets at that camp. Thanks Ron! You’ll be able to enjoy your new resort.
I imagine if there actually were showers for the detained, they would be out in the open with no privacy, just for shits and giggles for the staff.
WTF? Maybe Alligator Auschwitz or Crocodile Concentration Camp would be better names. Alcatraz was a prison for convicted criminals, gangsters, etc. This is a literally concentration camp for people apprehended without due process until the government decides what to do with them. There is no analogy to Alcatraz. Auschwitz was established as a concentration camp. We need to stop accepting the administration’s deceptive branding and refer to this as Alligator Auschwitz or Crocodile Concentration Camp.
On the brighter side, at least Kkkaroline recognizes that this alien detention camp is illegal.
Excellent point, GW, as depressing as it is.
No words. Just describing these horrors is more than enough. We weren’t wired to process this vile, unbelievable horror.
Far be it for me to sound like an apologist for the Germans during the Nazi era, but the actual Nazis were afraid of a public outcry over their handling of Jews, Roma, Sinti, disabled people and dissidents, so did not publicize, and located the worst of their horrors - the death camps - in foreign countries.
Congratulations, Amerika, you are out-Nazi-ing the original Nazis.
I asked my mom (born in 1926) why the Allies didn't do something about the camps in WWII. She said they didn't advertise them or publicly talk about them. This of course was before social media, TV and satellite spy cameras. Your post is 100% right about the difference.
Yes, that is true: the allied public was kept in the dark. However, through a heroic effort, some few escapees from the death camps were able to get the word out to allied leaders, who decided in their infinite wisdom to a) keep it secret; and b) that diverting a few bombers to take out the rail lines to the camps would deter them from bombing schools, hospitals and museums in German cities. /s
My mom said that they would go to the movie theater and see reels of the news about the war. No TV or computers then. So the news they got was old anyway. You know some people knew. I’ve been to 3 concentration camps and there were always locals who were hired to work at the camps. Stuff like that never stays quiet.
I worked in that area of the everglades for Corps of Engineers in 1971. Most workers quit after a month or so because of the heat and mosquitos. I had just gotten back from Vietnam and it was worse climate wise. Fucked up place to imprison human beings. People will die there. Can't believe how gleeful the governor and the Republicans are about this. DeSantis did enjoy seeing prisoners being tortured in Guantanimo after 9/11. He's really fucked up and so proud of himself.