United States Emperor plans to send undesirable citizens to Central American gulags.
this signals a worrying development on the slippy slope towards fascism.
Good day, spectators,
And this is going to be a short one today as, what more can I say when the title alone should send chills down your spine?
Yet, here we are in 2025: Emperor Trump, on a roll, has been caught whispering sweet nothings to El Salvadorian strongman Nayib Bukele—specifically, his dream of exporting American prisoners to CECOT, a dystopian mega-prison where human rights go to die.
Watch: Trump tells Bukele his plan and asks him to build ‘five more’ CECOTs.
For those who missed last year’s documentary (or Bukele’s TikTok glorification of it), CECOT is the stuff of Orwell’s nightmares:
You’ll see 100 men crammed into cells with one toilet. The men usually having centuries-long sentences for even minor gang ties and you’d better believe it’s total isolation from sunlight, lawyers, or family…forever.
But this isn’t about Bukele or El Salvador really. It’s about what Trump is clearly saying to us:
Watch: Trump doubles down on saying he plans to send US citizens to El Salvadorian gulags.
Not just migrants. Not just ‘gang members’ but US citizens. He’s proposing outsourcing due process to a regime that has been breaking human rights records like it’s a competition.
Be under no illusion. This is the endgame of imperial decay: when even punishment becomes outsourced, when the world’s so-called greatest democracy auctions its people to the highest bidder.
And the truly sickening part? He’ll sell it as ‘innovation.’
Welcome to the future. The camps are open.
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If Trump styles himself an emperor, then consider me a modern Liu Bang. He was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Do we really need to tag this to any individual?
Havent some of the Northern European countries hae been exporting prisoners like this for a while now? Here is Norway for example in 2014:
https://www.nrk.no/norge/nederlandsk-fengsel-klart-for-norske-fanger-1.12061022
https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/na-er-det-slutt-for-det-norske-fengselet-i-nederland/s/12-95-3423532011
And the UK is no stranger to the concept either:
https://apnews.com/article/uk-rwanda-migrants-parliament-c9f6f7cef29b7d7655f7c4f0bab7a94f
And why wasnt it called "fascism" while Bush II, Obama and Biden all were running global kidnapping-and-torture programs, and operating a gulag at Guantanamo bay? Did any European government protest this? Or am I hallucinating when I remember the name "Jack Straw" in connection with such matters:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/libyan-rebel-leader-abdul-hakim-belhaj-supreme-court-wins-right-sue-jack-straw-torture-mi6-cia-operation-extraordinary-rendition-a7530996.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38649683
https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news-and-stories/libyan-torture-survivor-wins-right-to-sue-jack-straw-for-complicity-in-his-torture
There are deep rooted and longstanding problems. Blaming orange one gets attention and clicks, but its not the right approach if you want to understand or fix the issues.