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Tag: Gitmo

  • LINK: Gitmo Used As Photo Op? This Is My Shocked Face.

    NBC News:

    The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.

    In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday. 

    A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the U.S., the official said.

    Gitmo has been a photo op for politicians since the 1960s, so that’s nothing new. I wonder what this one cost? Our tax dollars went to a dog and pony show so…what, some people can see all the brown folks in one place?

    It’s ok to waste millions as long as it hurts the people we hate, right guys?

  • PODCAST: Roley Podcast for 1/31/2025

    A Love Letter to Gitmo

    Royal Rumble 2025. Yeah, I like wrestling. Sue me.

    Automating the whole podcast process?

    AI and my external hard drive full of photos

    Against my better judgment, I’ve opened comments on the site.

    Hero Syndrome: I still think that 2.0 will be similar to 1.0 when it comes to astonishing incompetence. Don’t be surprised if they tank everything trying to solve a problem they created. I just wish they could do that without getting people killed.

    Why even have confirmation hearings if they’re just going to perjure themselves with no consequence? End the hearing if you catch them in a lie. End the hearing if they dodge questions, or don’t answer. End the hearing the first time someone doesn’t answer a yes or no question with a yes or no. Just adjourn, clear the room, and let the nominee sit there. As always, this will not happen. Ever. Wouldn’t it be awesome, though?

    Do we point and laugh at the clown show?

    Samsung announced they are working on a non-invasive blood sugar monitor for a wearable.

    Jim Acosta, Journ-A Lister? I hope not.

    “I did that” stickers—Biden’s on gas pumps, Trump’s on eggs. How original. Please jump off a cliff into a pit of rusty razor blades.

    T.F.E. The F@@king Experts. There’s not a thing they don’t know, just ask them.

  • Thursday, Jan 30th, 2025

    • The fact that FOTUS wants to turn Guantanamo Bay into a ‘relocation camp’ for migrants has me steamed. I know I’ve said this before, but my family was stationed there from August 1980 to December 1982. It was one of the planet’s most unique and awesome places—no other place like it. Then Dubya decided to make it a prison, and that has left a stain on that place that will never wash out. This will ruin it. I’m unbelievably livid, but I’m mostly sad. This is what people will remember about Guantanamo Bay, and not the stories of the people that lived there. I bought the domain gitmomemories.com today, with the intent of finding those stories and posting them on a website there. I don’t know how this will go, but I’ll share more about it when I figure it out.
    • I said that I was hoping for the same level of incompetence out of 2.0, and it appears we got it. Unfortunately, that level of incompetence means the body count continues apace. I don’t want to be Mr. Drama and scream that they’re going to kill us all, but I can’t help but think that a good chunk of people aren’t going to make it out of 2.0 alive. I wish it weren’t so.