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Polybius

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30. My mother used to say "don't cut off your nose to spite your face"

Reply to usedtobedemgurl (Reply #20)

Wed Feb 5, 2025, 01:59 PM

3 hrs ago

Cuba is silly not to cash those checks. The US isn't leaving, so might as well take the money and put it into something useful. Just my opinion.

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At Guantnamo Bay detention camp, tents go up and troops await detainees [View all] cliffside 18 hrs ago OP

So they're going to "concentrate" various populations in these "camps"? They'll be "interned" there? Prairie Gates 18 hrs ago #1

Hegseth said in the article it was just "temporary transit" until paperwork and travel arrangements are made cliffside 18 hrs ago #5

Theresienstadt was a so-called "transit camp" Prairie Gates 9 hrs ago #23

We are a fallen nation Solly Mack 18 hrs ago #2

Unfortunately agree ... but still have hope. nt cliffside 18 hrs ago #6

We still have to fight. Solly Mack 18 hrs ago #7

Exactly! nt cliffside 18 hrs ago #10

You are. arthritisR_US 15 hrs ago #21

Well if Cuba doesn't challenge this Frasier Balzov 18 hrs ago #3

Not sure what they can/will do. nt cliffside 18 hrs ago #8

The forum is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Frasier Balzov 17 hrs ago #12

Thanks, unsure if any court order will be followed :( nt cliffside 17 hrs ago #13

What would that do? Polybius 15 hrs ago #17

If the Court rescinds the Guantanamo Bay Lease Frasier Balzov 15 hrs ago #18

No court will do that, the lease is pretty much absolute and doesn't expire unless both sides agree to terminate it Polybius 15 hrs ago #19

Gross Prairie Gates 9 hrs ago #24

Cuba never wanted us there. usedtobedemgurl 16 hrs ago #15

It's definitely a lease, but it's from 1903. Frasier Balzov 15 hrs ago #16

They can call it a lease but it does not change the fact we are unwanted. usedtobedemgurl 15 hrs ago #20

My mother used to say "don't cut off your nose to spite your face" Polybius 3 hrs ago #30

I admire them. usedtobedemgurl 2 hrs ago #31

They are hurting themselves though Polybius 2 hrs ago #32

It has nothing to do with money ..... usedtobedemgurl 2 hrs ago #33

It's the old bullshit about the worst of the worst. Klarkashton 18 hrs ago #4

Yes that was mentioned, supposedly first military plane today operated by the defense department had 9 to 10 migrants .. cliffside 18 hrs ago #9

These psychopaths are worse than barbarians. Initech 18 hrs ago #11

Your country was derived from that. arthritisR_US 15 hrs ago #22

Sweep up the 15 Saudi pilots families Submariner 16 hrs ago #14

The official Trump gulag. He'll probably sell t-shirts and commemorative NFTs. Vinca 9 hrs ago #25

"The worst of the worst" Docreed2003 9 hrs ago #26

My takeaway too Johnny2X2X 9 hrs ago #28

Huge waste of tax dollars. Have to ship in Emile 9 hrs ago #27

If they meet their goal of 1500 detainees a day, will only take 20 years to gather 11 million illegal immigrants dutch777 9 hrs ago #29