Politics Thread

[paulxu]

Google can often keep you from posting things that are wrong, especially if they are made up by people just to stir up hate.

[paulxu]

FORTY MILLION DOLLARS to detain 400 migrants at Gitmo. That's $100,000 a person just to hold them for a few days — when they could far more easily be held in the United States!

Just a couple weeks ago it was reported to have cost $16 million. So the price tag is skyrocketing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...amo-costs.html

Wouldn't it be great if we had a department of government efficiency? They could root out this obvious waste of our taxpayer dollars.
We'd call it DOGE...and get some billionaire to run it with a bunch of kids. What could possibly go wrong?l

[ArizonaXUGrad]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...amo-costs.html

Wouldn't it be great if we had a department of government efficiency? They could root out this obvious waste of our taxpayer dollars.
We'd call it DOGE...and get some billionaire to run it with a bunch of kids. What could possibly go wrong?l

How do they even come up with that number? Read this and decide for yourself....

Gitmo has been in Cuba for a really long time. Surely the facility is either close to fully depreciated or fully depreciated. That would mean the only facility cost is the maintenance.
The costs then would have to be clothes, utilities, food, healthcare, combined salaries of the staff on site.
If you assign a reasonable number for each, I have zero idea how they even get up to 16M much less 40M.

Perhaps those numbers are a tad inflated.

[paulxu]

Maybe this is part of the costs:

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/deportat...fits-ice-trump

[paulxu]

Who wants to tell JD that Biden wasn't in office in 2019? Anyone?

[waggy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...amo-costs.html

Wouldn't it be great if we had a department of government efficiency? They could root out this obvious waste of our taxpayer dollars.
We'd call it DOGE...and get some billionaire to run it with a bunch of kids. What could possibly go wrong?l

How do they even come up with that number? Read this and decide for yourself....

Gitmo has been in Cuba for a really long time. Surely the facility is either close to fully depreciated or fully depreciated. That would mean the only facility cost is the maintenance.
The costs then would have to be clothes, utilities, food, healthcare, combined salaries of the staff on site.
If you assign a reasonable number for each, I have zero idea how they even get up to 16M much less 40M.

Perhaps those numbers are a tad inflated.

I was starting get worried, but thankfully Stacey Abrams has this covered with over 1B to spare.

[Smails]

Great to see the Corey Booker show taking place in DC. Speaking non-stop on the floor for 20+ hours now..that's the beauty of the fillibus.....oh wait...he's not trying to speak against any particular piece of legislation. He's just complaining about Trump non-stop without offering solutions or what he sees as a path forward. Amazing times...

[xuwillie]

Great to see the Corey Booker show taking place in DC. Speaking non-stop on the floor for 20+ hours now..that's the beauty of the fillibus.....oh wait...he's not trying to speak against any particular piece of legislation. He's just complaining about Trump non-stop without offering solutions or what he sees as a path forward. Amazing times...

Dude has lost it

[xubrew]

So earlier this week Donald Trump, Kid Rock, Bill Maher, and Dana White all had dinner together at the White House. I think this might be the most unique guest list for any dinner in the history of the White House!!!

I will say this for Donald Trump! He has had some AMAZING dinners!! The Clemson football team banquet is the greatest banquet in the history of all of sports!

[bobbiemcgee]

I was starting get worried, but thankfully Stacey Abrams has this covered with over 1B to spare.

How much could ragtops cost?