This is the kind of story that exposes the whole operation for what it is. Not security. Not policy. Just pay-to-play human trafficking with a flag draped over it. Deporting people to countries they’ve never lived in is something we used to teach as a warning, not a business model. You laid out the geography and the cruelty with perfect clarity. Turns out the only borders Trump respects are the ones on a check.
Ghana's rationale is honest and true. They really are committed to Pan-Africanism, and I think they are just making sure that West Africans can get to where they are most comfortable being after their possibly illegal removal from the US.
Hi fellow geographer! I have 2 geography degrees, but more pertinently I was good at geography bees in elementary and middle school which is why I knew these countries and their locations.
Always liked maps, but for me it was a way to follow other interests without getting a generalist degree. Everything has a spatial distribution. The what and why are interesting.
Totally agree. I loved how diverse the topics could be. Thinking back to the thesis topics of people I overlapped with, it was invigorating being exposed to so many different methods and applications.
Anybody want to bet that an obscure Trump family owned LLC will someday be found to have received a significant private kickback from those very high payments to foreign countries to accept a few US non-citizens?
So we can pay Rwanda $30K a head and Eswatini $31,875 a head to take detainees who may or may not have been legally detained, or had access to due process. Oh, how Grand. You forgot to mark the USA on your third world countries map.
I wish Stephen Miller would spontaneously combust. What? It could happen
Equatorial Guinea’s government is so corrupt that after they found oil, the average standard of living went DOWN because the ruler stole so much.
This is the kind of story that exposes the whole operation for what it is. Not security. Not policy. Just pay-to-play human trafficking with a flag draped over it. Deporting people to countries they’ve never lived in is something we used to teach as a warning, not a business model. You laid out the geography and the cruelty with perfect clarity. Turns out the only borders Trump respects are the ones on a check.
Ghana's rationale is honest and true. They really are committed to Pan-Africanism, and I think they are just making sure that West Africans can get to where they are most comfortable being after their possibly illegal removal from the US.
Geography major. I got 1 of 5.
Hi fellow geographer! I have 2 geography degrees, but more pertinently I was good at geography bees in elementary and middle school which is why I knew these countries and their locations.
Always liked maps, but for me it was a way to follow other interests without getting a generalist degree. Everything has a spatial distribution. The what and why are interesting.
Totally agree. I loved how diverse the topics could be. Thinking back to the thesis topics of people I overlapped with, it was invigorating being exposed to so many different methods and applications.
Ta, Marcie. Three out of five ain't bad (and I was close with the other two).
And about damn time too!
Eswatini -- Early Wonkette Happy Hour Cocktail?
You know who else is a disgusting, filthy IV drug user?
Someone colored in part of Burundi, but I'll allow it since the country outlines are just too tiny to stay within the borders using a sharpie.
How did you narrow it down to just three?
Anybody want to bet that an obscure Trump family owned LLC will someday be found to have received a significant private kickback from those very high payments to foreign countries to accept a few US non-citizens?
So we can pay Rwanda $30K a head and Eswatini $31,875 a head to take detainees who may or may not have been legally detained, or had access to due process. Oh, how Grand. You forgot to mark the USA on your third world countries map.
"Remember when the US used to like to spread democracy? Who’s she?"
Oh, Democracy's being spread... tied to a table and tied spread-eagle and all these ghouls are taking turns.*
* I apologizefor the imagery but, let's be clear here... She and we are fucked.
I think we are past Qaddafi-level crazy and have skipped up the ziggurat to "Last King of Scotland" territory.
There's a song about that guy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFeJJAQPiK4
I just got yet another Covid shot as if any sane person here cares.
Lucky it's not in my texting arm.
I don't. Mrs. C and I got both flu and covid shots today.
Twinsies!
We're invincibles!