Doc, you seem to just accept as given US (and El Pais) claims that Hunter and Casteñeda were just innocent victims of the "eeeevvvvillll" Bolivarian state, looking for gringos to arrest. While both may have been "targeted" because their nationality made them stand out, both were given due process and tried in open court... as were the others, duly convicted in trials which cannot be said for the 250 Venezuelans, where were outsourced to a foreign prison.
What was particularly noticeable has been the framing of this "prisoner swap"... in which the convicted US criminals were called "hostages", and the Venezuelans ... several having never been given even the minimum of due process or a court hearing... where whisked off as much for political reasons as anything else.
Making me wonder which is the two nations is the real "rogue state".
I have to admit to being outside of my expertise, but it seems that deporting a person because they have a autism awareness tattoo to be tortured without any legal representation or ability to challenge what happened has to be an offense that someone in the government can be sued over.
"Last Friday, Donald Trump’s El Salvador torture prison problem sort of went away when all of the more than 250 Venezuelan men whom Trump sent to the notorious CECOT prison"
IMO, the Fulvous Fuckwad is performing stage magic by classic misdirection. Wonderful, 250 ***illegally*** rendered to CECOT have been released in Venezuela and Maduras released ten Americans in exchange. What isn't mentioned is all of the others who have been illegally exported to a shitload of third world countries where torture is a standard prison treatment (and where most, if not all, know no one and can't speak the country's language). The month of May ICE had about ⅛ the total number of exportation flights as in the past twelve months. Among a few of the countries taking in those the current regime is ridding the US of include:
* Viet Nam
* Venezuela
> "- Through May, since the resumption of flights in February, there were 22 flights
-Deportations to Venezuela restarted the first time in October 2023 and operated into January 2024. During those 4 months there were only 15 deportation flights to Venezuela."
* Guatemala ("– flights increased by 25 (109%) from April.")
* Nine African nations: Senegal, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Chad, Mauritania, Angola, and Mali ("It is important to note that because of the lack of transponder coverage the exact stops in Africa are difficult to identify, especially for the small jets, and getting more difficult all the time. Errors will be on the missed side generally, not on the over counting side if any.")
* S Sudan
* Honduras ("flights more than doubled by 19 (119%) from 16 to 35 in May")
* Other Removal Destinations "(Nicaragua (5), Brazil (2), Dominican (3), Haiti (1), Cuba (1), and Jamaica (1) ... Chile, Tajikistan, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Laos, Uzbekistan, and Belize"
IDK about anyone else, but I sure as shit feel safer and thankful to the nations willing to take in the undocumented vermin who had the audacity to enter the US seeking a better life for them and their families, and to the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster for initiating the mass removal of illegal aliens. (Gangbangers, mentally unstable or violent criminals -- like the 5'5" 100 pound Latino mowing your lawn or the stoop laborer harvesting your veggies -- all.)
Nice thought, but won't happen. Those who hire the reporter will suffer the same treatment as the AP for asking an uncomfortable question, or like the WSJ for publishing the truth about the Perv-in-Chief.
So, who's taking credit for getting those prisoners in Venezuela released - Li'L Marco, or Ric Grennell? Weren't there stories last week about them stepping on each other toes while both were pursuing American foreign policy there?
In Trump's world there's always room for another felon.
What about the other meathead in that picture flashing the idiot white power sign, yuk yuk?
Biggest question -- did he buy any Trump memecoins?
Ta, Dok. Just when I think this maladministration can't get any worse, they top themselves.
Is that one guy on the left making a white supremacist hand sign?
Yes, he is, because we live in the worst timeline
Doc, you seem to just accept as given US (and El Pais) claims that Hunter and Casteñeda were just innocent victims of the "eeeevvvvillll" Bolivarian state, looking for gringos to arrest. While both may have been "targeted" because their nationality made them stand out, both were given due process and tried in open court... as were the others, duly convicted in trials which cannot be said for the 250 Venezuelans, where were outsourced to a foreign prison.
What was particularly noticeable has been the framing of this "prisoner swap"... in which the convicted US criminals were called "hostages", and the Venezuelans ... several having never been given even the minimum of due process or a court hearing... where whisked off as much for political reasons as anything else.
Making me wonder which is the two nations is the real "rogue state".
Re; the photo. Proof that humans can breathe farts.
I have to admit to being outside of my expertise, but it seems that deporting a person because they have a autism awareness tattoo to be tortured without any legal representation or ability to challenge what happened has to be an offense that someone in the government can be sued over.
So, given ICE's belief that anyone with tattoos is a gang member subject to deportation, how long until Pete Hegseth is sent to El Salvador?
Not soon enough.
"Last Friday, Donald Trump’s El Salvador torture prison problem sort of went away when all of the more than 250 Venezuelan men whom Trump sent to the notorious CECOT prison"
IMO, the Fulvous Fuckwad is performing stage magic by classic misdirection. Wonderful, 250 ***illegally*** rendered to CECOT have been released in Venezuela and Maduras released ten Americans in exchange. What isn't mentioned is all of the others who have been illegally exported to a shitload of third world countries where torture is a standard prison treatment (and where most, if not all, know no one and can't speak the country's language). The month of May ICE had about ⅛ the total number of exportation flights as in the past twelve months. Among a few of the countries taking in those the current regime is ridding the US of include:
* Viet Nam
* Venezuela
> "- Through May, since the resumption of flights in February, there were 22 flights
-Deportations to Venezuela restarted the first time in October 2023 and operated into January 2024. During those 4 months there were only 15 deportation flights to Venezuela."
* Guatemala ("– flights increased by 25 (109%) from April.")
* Nine African nations: Senegal, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Chad, Mauritania, Angola, and Mali ("It is important to note that because of the lack of transponder coverage the exact stops in Africa are difficult to identify, especially for the small jets, and getting more difficult all the time. Errors will be on the missed side generally, not on the over counting side if any.")
* S Sudan
* Honduras ("flights more than doubled by 19 (119%) from 16 to 35 in May")
* Other Removal Destinations "(Nicaragua (5), Brazil (2), Dominican (3), Haiti (1), Cuba (1), and Jamaica (1) ... Chile, Tajikistan, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Laos, Uzbekistan, and Belize"
(Countries, numbers, and quotes via https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e221cacff87ba2d2833cf54/t/683e3abe5cbcc22f5dce1067/1748908738621/ICE+Air+MayTHCPDF.pdf
IDK about anyone else, but I sure as shit feel safer and thankful to the nations willing to take in the undocumented vermin who had the audacity to enter the US seeking a better life for them and their families, and to the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster for initiating the mass removal of illegal aliens. (Gangbangers, mentally unstable or violent criminals -- like the 5'5" 100 pound Latino mowing your lawn or the stoop laborer harvesting your veggies -- all.)
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The first journalist that stands up and asks "what the actual fuck is wrong with you" should get a Pulitzer, this is how far we've sunk.
Nice thought, but won't happen. Those who hire the reporter will suffer the same treatment as the AP for asking an uncomfortable question, or like the WSJ for publishing the truth about the Perv-in-Chief.
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So, who's taking credit for getting those prisoners in Venezuela released - Li'L Marco, or Ric Grennell? Weren't there stories last week about them stepping on each other toes while both were pursuing American foreign policy there?
Oh that's cute, one of them is making the White Power Sign!
I just wanna know where he’s gonna live so I can stay away.
Awesome material for a Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy...if it weren't so sad.
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia Let in my Mother and she was a bingo cheat. So both sides......