I believe that the way they are allowed to run these encampments will impact everything about how US prisons will be run in the future. Hope I am wrong.
Somebody--Heather Cox Richardson?--was wondering if they would revive actual slavery, as 13th Amendment allows for prisoners, to replace migrant workers. I throw up a little in my mouth.
I think that lines will blur and ICE will be delivering Americans to prisons and I cant imagine them delivering Americans to US prisons, which I imagine they will, and once finished, asking for a tour of the place, high fiving everyone, going through like celebrities. The warden may not like their ideas, 1/3 of the corrections officers may think they are horse shit, but 2/3 of the staff will gather round them adoringly as if they were so many Elvises crooning on bales of hay. As of now even in sane states with some oversight you can expect so many staff to present themselves as outright hostile, and not one act of kindness isn't begrudging.
IF ICE comes in to our prisons and says certainly, you were always always right when every single day you said among yourselves a dozen times that every single person in here, all of them, are disgusting cons, each will cheat, and steal from you, or knife you for no reason (this is chapter and verse, a requirement of entry, even altruistic volunteers must nod along as they fill out forms) who should never be trusted, they can never be reformed, because they are pure vermin, well what you say is absolutely true.
And ICE says to the staff that incidentally this is another example of how the instincts of the people keeping these places from breaking out into riots every day, who do the actual work are right again and again and again.. And you need to know, he wants you to know personally, all prisons workers, that he understands that your job is a working emergency every single minute, your President knows it, and that you sacrifice like warriors on the battlefield each day as you suit up in the locker room. He wants you to know how proud he is of each of you, and that he would invite all corrections workers to a big event so he could meet them, but, of course, you have to be here or these vermin would all escape or burn themselves to ground. He loves his correction officers, in federal, state, county, and municipal prisons, and he's so sick of hearing how liberals tie your hands so you cant run these places the way you want. The President hopes that soon he will be able to write an Emergency Executive Order that will give you immunity from so many kinds of actions that are necessary for you to work effectively, and he thanks you for your overwhelming support of him in both elections.
Since we all (even and maybe especially the teklord fascisti) know that millions of people will die early and awfully due to hyperquick climate disasters, the point of the US Fascist Consortium is to make certain that only one sort of people die. Those without superpowers. The few, the cryptoid, the (undeservedly) proud, will be fine and dandy when the hotness comes.
Well yeah, that's the assumption, that the leopard wearing an ICE hat won't be knocking on your door, let alone your housekeeper's or landscaper's or roofer's, hence the universal lamentation "why would they take her? It must be some kind of mistake". They're pouring All That Money into ICE for a couple of reasons, and ramping up the camps is one of them. How that hits the economy is a wide open question only of how badly, and when.
Oh, you meant Climate Change that isn't affecting anything. We've been ignoring it at a social level all along, though some city, county, and state plans have been developing for years. I know the long promised insurance issues are in full swing in Cal, and people of unknown provenance have been claiming that Fla flood insurance is propped up by the state for now. Same thing, depends on decisions by opaque markets and Events, dear boy, events.
There is widespread Doomcasting, but people with a reputation at risk stoutly refuse to throw a dart at the calendar for when their disaster du jour goes bang, but all insist it is inevitable. They know a clusterfuck of this scale is unique in human history. You could compare it to some mad king bankrupting his kingdom, or a Tsar letting events completely slip out of his control, maybe. All they say is no man knows the day or hour of its coming, but come it must. If this is not true then nothing is, and brother you're on your own.
When the actuaries say "Yeah, we'll cover that – here's our rates", then enterprise occurs. When they look at the wall awhile, then look straight at you a bit longer than you are comfortable with, then roll their eyes and say "Nope", your little plan is vaporized. Unless of course your financial team are loons. Or unless of course your financial team is a guy with so much money that it literally does not matter if the whole thing goes up in smoke...
Eventually the entirety of human civilization will be a rounding error for some dude who's just looking to park some cash...
I believe that the way they are allowed to run these encampments will impact everything about how US prisons will be run in the future. Hope I am wrong.
Somebody--Heather Cox Richardson?--was wondering if they would revive actual slavery, as 13th Amendment allows for prisoners, to replace migrant workers. I throw up a little in my mouth.
I think that was indeed she.
I think that lines will blur and ICE will be delivering Americans to prisons and I cant imagine them delivering Americans to US prisons, which I imagine they will, and once finished, asking for a tour of the place, high fiving everyone, going through like celebrities. The warden may not like their ideas, 1/3 of the corrections officers may think they are horse shit, but 2/3 of the staff will gather round them adoringly as if they were so many Elvises crooning on bales of hay. As of now even in sane states with some oversight you can expect so many staff to present themselves as outright hostile, and not one act of kindness isn't begrudging.
IF ICE comes in to our prisons and says certainly, you were always always right when every single day you said among yourselves a dozen times that every single person in here, all of them, are disgusting cons, each will cheat, and steal from you, or knife you for no reason (this is chapter and verse, a requirement of entry, even altruistic volunteers must nod along as they fill out forms) who should never be trusted, they can never be reformed, because they are pure vermin, well what you say is absolutely true.
And ICE says to the staff that incidentally this is another example of how the instincts of the people keeping these places from breaking out into riots every day, who do the actual work are right again and again and again.. And you need to know, he wants you to know personally, all prisons workers, that he understands that your job is a working emergency every single minute, your President knows it, and that you sacrifice like warriors on the battlefield each day as you suit up in the locker room. He wants you to know how proud he is of each of you, and that he would invite all corrections workers to a big event so he could meet them, but, of course, you have to be here or these vermin would all escape or burn themselves to ground. He loves his correction officers, in federal, state, county, and municipal prisons, and he's so sick of hearing how liberals tie your hands so you cant run these places the way you want. The President hopes that soon he will be able to write an Emergency Executive Order that will give you immunity from so many kinds of actions that are necessary for you to work effectively, and he thanks you for your overwhelming support of him in both elections.
Improper fetchins up, etc.
Since we all (even and maybe especially the teklord fascisti) know that millions of people will die early and awfully due to hyperquick climate disasters, the point of the US Fascist Consortium is to make certain that only one sort of people die. Those without superpowers. The few, the cryptoid, the (undeservedly) proud, will be fine and dandy when the hotness comes.
Well yeah, that's the assumption, that the leopard wearing an ICE hat won't be knocking on your door, let alone your housekeeper's or landscaper's or roofer's, hence the universal lamentation "why would they take her? It must be some kind of mistake". They're pouring All That Money into ICE for a couple of reasons, and ramping up the camps is one of them. How that hits the economy is a wide open question only of how badly, and when.
Oh, you meant Climate Change that isn't affecting anything. We've been ignoring it at a social level all along, though some city, county, and state plans have been developing for years. I know the long promised insurance issues are in full swing in Cal, and people of unknown provenance have been claiming that Fla flood insurance is propped up by the state for now. Same thing, depends on decisions by opaque markets and Events, dear boy, events.
There is widespread Doomcasting, but people with a reputation at risk stoutly refuse to throw a dart at the calendar for when their disaster du jour goes bang, but all insist it is inevitable. They know a clusterfuck of this scale is unique in human history. You could compare it to some mad king bankrupting his kingdom, or a Tsar letting events completely slip out of his control, maybe. All they say is no man knows the day or hour of its coming, but come it must. If this is not true then nothing is, and brother you're on your own.
Ah, the insurance...
When the actuaries say "Yeah, we'll cover that – here's our rates", then enterprise occurs. When they look at the wall awhile, then look straight at you a bit longer than you are comfortable with, then roll their eyes and say "Nope", your little plan is vaporized. Unless of course your financial team are loons. Or unless of course your financial team is a guy with so much money that it literally does not matter if the whole thing goes up in smoke...
Eventually the entirety of human civilization will be a rounding error for some dude who's just looking to park some cash...