53 points

Listen, I’m not going to close Guantanamo Bay or else all of Hamas will escape from Mexico and I’ll be angry with President Corn Pop

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#CORNPOPDIDNOTHINGWRONG

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Same bestie

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69 points

No way we’re surrendering our beachhead on a socialist state, especially one that’s next door to us.

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73 points

They aren’t even dangling the idea of giving the Cubans their land back. This is just the pipe dream of the prison closing, not the naval base.

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41 points

Empty words for a near-impossible task. You can’t imprison “enemy non-combatants” on American mainland nor can you commit political suicide by deporting them to their home country.

What’s even the point of promising this? What undecided voter is dying on this hill?

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40 points

What’s even the point of promising this? What undecided voter is dying on this hill?

Its not intended to win over voters who are undecided between republican and democrat, its trying to win over those who are undecided between democrat and not voting or protest voting.

whether or not it was effective, I have my doubts.

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I’d like to think people are starting to see through their bullshit.

I’d like to, but I don’t have much faith in americans.

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17 points

Who even cares at this point? They’re trying to buy complicity in the extermination of millions of Palestinians for a half dozen prisoners? What is happening in DC?

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19 points
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this promise was made before most americans could point to palestine on a map. also washington isn’t known for being in touch with what the people really want.

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22 points

They can always open another in Germany or Poland

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Or after the war - Gaza.

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Not even necessary, Isn’traeli prisons will do the trick, and they’re more akin to a much worse Abu Ghraib.

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3 points

They’re going to set up shop in Nauru, obviously

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19 points

What’s even the point of promising this?

At this point it must be to taunt us.

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13 points

That’s prime beachfront property, I wouldn’t close it either

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