Alligator Alcatraz Isn't Just a Prison. It's a Mirror. And It's Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?

[babylonsister]

Alligator Alcatraz Isn’t Just a Prison. It’s a Mirror. And It’s Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?
by Thom Hartmann | July 3, 2025 - 5:47am

— from The Hartmann Report


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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” (aka the “GOP Donor Fellatio Act”) contains a 13-fold increase in ICE’s budget, turning it into the largest single (secret, masked) police force in America, along with, in aggregate, close to $100 billion to build a new series of “detention facilities” all across America.

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What’s being built in the Florida Everglades, for example — what they’re calling “Alligator Alcatraz” — is not just another immigration facility. It’s a political prison engineered not merely to detain, but to humiliate, dehumanize, and broadcast terror.

It’s America’s first open-air symbol that our democracy is not just dying: it is being dissected publicly, cruelly, and with calculation.

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It’s surrounded by dense marshland, home to pythons and alligators.

“Let them try to escape,” Trump smirked at a recent rally. “They better know how to run from an alligator.”

This isn’t just cruelty. It’s performance. It’s state-sponsored sadism, broadcast as patriotism. DeSantis and Trump are now competing in a bizarre effort to show who can be more cruel.

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/114274/alligator-alcatraz-isn-t-just-a-prison-it-s-a-mirror-and-it-s-asking-us-who-are-we-really

[underpants]

1. Link to the source article. This is astounding

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-budget-bill-ice-federal-law-enforcement-spending_n_6862d326e4b02e5da206771c

[Biophilic]

2. This exactly who they are.

Not only are they not trying to hide it or at least down play it, like last time, now they are blasting it out to the world as loud as they can. They are friggin proud of themselves. So very, very proud.

[Septua]

3. Looks more and more like Hitler's regime every day

Psycho/sociopathic president, weaponized DOJ, weaponized DHS, paramilitary ICE...WTF?

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/types-of-camps/concentration-camps/

Trump could wake up one morning and declare Fauci conspired with China to plant the Covid virus in the U.S., tell Bondi to arrest him and there's no one to stop it from happening...WTF?

Or he could just make up some bullshit that Nicolle Wallace and Jamie Raskin are covertly conspiring to obstruct justice by interfering with the deportation agenda and have them arrested...who's going to stop it?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/politics/trump-krebs-khalil-taylor-crackdown-dissent-what-matters

[Johnny2X2X]

4. I see and feel the United States marching towards genocide

That's where this ends if you study history. Whenever a nation demonizes a group of people and decides to arrest and detain this group of people en masse, atrocities occur. We've demonized immigrants and the government has declared immigrants have no rights, and they've set up their treatment to be punitive by design. You've got an armed police force who wears masks and answers only to the President, not to the Constitution.

Whether it's at this new facility in Florida, or in some other hell hole we don't even know exists yet, they are going to dig large holes for mass graves. There are no exceptions in history that I can find for what is happening to happen without mass graves being found. Will it be discovered after only a few hundred or few thousands graves? Or will they be able to hide it into the millions or hundreds of thousands?

[in2herbs]

5. It is becoming more and more known as Alligator Auschwitz. Both names are good, but I like Alligator Auschwitz.

[Hotler]

6. Don't include us in that. It's a reflection of the repug & MAGA voters. They own this shit all by themselves.

The selfishness, cruelty and hate flows up from the repug & MAGA voters and spews out from the orange convict and his minions on the hill.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. I was going to say ... not who are we, but who is this bunch of red-hatted ghouls.

And the answer is just one more downward revision in a seemingly bottomless series.