Day: January 31, 2025

Is This That Camp We Were Warned About?

Back in the days of Obama the idiot Right was using a meme that the admin was going to arrest people and send them to camps run by FEMA….does anyone else remember those days?

Could this be the same thing as their outrageous warning?

Only around 15 people are currently detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, but that number could soon be going up 2,000-fold. President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to prepare a facility to detain 30,000 migrants at the base on Cuba’s south coast, the BBC reports. “We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump said, per AFP. “Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back.”

Trump, speaking after he signed the Laken Riley Act into law at the White House, said the move would double the country’s capacity to hold migrants who are in the US illegally, adding, “it’s a tough place to get out of.” Detaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay is nothing new, but the numbers have generally been very low, CNBC reports. The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center has a capacity of 130, according to researchers at the Global Detention Project. In February of last year, only four people were held there, the New York Timesreported in a look at the place last fall.

Trump’s order directs officials to bring the facility “to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.” Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel slammed the move as “an act of brutality,” the BBC reports. The base itself, he said, is on “illegally occupied territory.”

A good place for Trump to use….the people will be out of sight and in a location that the media is not allowed plus it gives those Marine guards something to do.

I think it would have better used by putting all those traitors from 6 January in prison until their court date.

Again I do not think this is a good thing at all….it is a way to control the narrative something the Trump people are always trying to do for they do not like to answer question on their actions.

We now have our own concentration camp.

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“lego ergo scribo”

DEI? WTF?

We all have heard about the air tragedy in DC….two planes collided and fell into the Potomac and everyone has died. As usual the world is looking for reasons and answers…..and the most damn absurd reason has come from Trump and his idiot minions and supporters….

President scapegoats diversity and inclusion initiatives while addressing air traffic disaster that left 67 dead

Donald Trump used the plane crash in Washington DC to attack his political enemies, claiming Democrats were responsible for declining standards in air traffic control and that the disaster “could have been” caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Trump turned what might have been a sombre a press conference into a baseless rant against DEI, despite no evidence of a link with the crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National airport, which involved an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter.

The president was backed by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who said: “The era of DEI is gone at the defense department and we need the best and brightest.”

Then came the vice-president, JD Vance, who claimed, “we want to hire the best people … actually competent enough to do the job”, and said without offering evidence that hundreds had sued the US government because “they would like to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away because of the color of their skin”.

Trump claimed that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden. He also claimed that when he was president between 2017 and 2021 the US “had a much higher standard [in air traffic control] than anybody else”.

Pressed on his citation of DEI as a cause of the crash, Trump said: “It just could have been.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash-dei

Dems fault?  This is what morons do when they try to sound intelligent.

DEI?  Seriously?

And this claim will fly around social media and idiots will regurgitate it over and over until it is believe by the mental midgets that support conservs and His Majesty…..

Just when you thought their stupidity was as low as it could go…..BAM!  you have this.

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“lego ergo scribo”

Will This End The War?

On the campaign trail Trump promised that he would end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and now we have a ‘leaked’ Trump plan to do just that….

Now this is a ‘leaked’ peace proposal from the Trump side and has not been authenticated…..but for the sake of argument I post it….

The Ukrainian news outlet Strana has published leaked details of President Trump’s alleged plan to end the war in Ukraine in 100 days.

According to Newsweek, which said it couldn’t verify if the details were accurate, the plan starts with holding a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in late January or early February, followed by meetings with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February or March.

The leaked plan calls for a ceasefire to be declared by Easter, which falls on April 20. The truce would involve Ukraine withdrawing troops from Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

Once the ceasefire comes into effect, a peace conference will begin hammering out the details of a lasting agreement. The plan calls for a deal to be reached by May 9.

Once the details of the agreement are released, Ukraine will be instructed to end martial law and mobilization. That would mean Zelensky could lose power since his presidential term expired in May 2024, and he used martial law as the justification for not holding new elections. The plan would require allowing parties who oppose continuing the war with Russia to run for office.

Some of the proposed ideas under the plan for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal include barring Ukraine from joining NATO, an agreement for Ukraine to join the EU by 2030, and the EU facilitating Ukraine’s construction. Ukraine would also be able to keep its military and continue receiving military aid from the US, which could be a non-starter for Moscow.

The proposal would also require Ukraine to cede the territory Russia has captured. Ukraine would have to “refuse military and diplomatic attempts to return the occupied territories” and “officially recognize the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over them.”

Zelensky’s office has denied that the peace plan is authentic, although other media reports have said that Trump tasked his envoy to the conflict, Keith Kellog, with ending the war within the first 100 days of the Trump administration. If the plan is legitimate, leaking it could have been an attempt to sabotage it from moving forward.

Trump has said he wants to speak with Putin, but the Kremlin said on Monday that it hasn’t heard anything from the US about setting up a potential call.

(antiwar.com)

Is this a way to end this thing?

If accurate I do not see this actually working as the conflict stands today……do you?

On a side note:  I agree that Biden should have to tell is what the Ukraine war was all about….

It is no longer easy to tell what the Ukraine War was for. Very early on, U.S. goals got grafted onto Ukrainian goals, and the hybrid braid became hard to disentangle. “This is a war that is in many ways… bigger than Ukraine,” the State Department announced in the first weeks of the war. But, whatever those goals, few of them remain: There will be no NATO membership for Ukraine, there will be no recovery of all of its territory, and there will be no weakening of Russia.

Former President Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do, as does Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky will need to explain to his exhausted nation why choosing the path of war over the path of diplomacy after the Istanbul talks in March and April of 2022 was worth the cost. At that time, what still seemed to be the Ukrainian goals—continued sovereignty and the withdrawal of Russian troops to pre-war boundaries—might have been met. Zelensky must explain why he succumbed to Western pressure to pursue wider ones.

He is going to have to explain why pursuing those wider goals was worth the loss of so much life, limb and land. And, if he is to survive politically and, perhaps, even physically, he is going to have to find someone to blame.

Biden Must Explain What the Ukraine War Was For

Probably got ever going to happen but those idiots in Congress have investigated many lame things….why not one more?

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“lego ergo scribo”