Good Homegrown Trouble

I'm beginning to think Bill Maher was wrong about Trump. 

I've seen several stories about Americans who fvcked up in other countries and went to their prisons and lived to tell about it. I've never lost my freedom here (day ain't over yet...) but I know that US prisons, horrors that they can be, are nice compared to third world institutions. There is more structure in US prisons than Mexico or other parts of Central America. It varies, but in many US prisons you can learn a trade, fight forest fires and even get a college degree. In prison here you can pledge a fraternity, although they call them gangs and they're segregated by race. So, yeah, just like college. Oh- and like college, you can experiment with gay sex if you'd like. 

These south of the border prisons are different though. They don't seem interested in rehabilitation at all. The one Trump is using in El Salvador is best described as "Kristy Noem Goes to Auschwitz". Puppy Killer Barbie posed in front of a hundred some men stacked in bunks like we've seen in Holocaust photos from camps all over Europe from WWII. I don't know if they are working these guys to death or if they are working them at all. Regardless, there is no apparent effort to rehabilitate anyone, just punish and warehouse until the guy dies.  

Many of the Latin American prisons were almost comically surreal. Some were like little cities- walled and guarded, of course- but totally unlike the structured tiers and cells of US prisons. Many seemed to be run by the inmates themselves. Think of the prison scenes in "Goodfellas" where the mob guys were all in a big room of their own, cooking steaks and drinking scotch, separate from the regular animals in their cells. Not sure how accurate that depiction was as some experts scoffed. Hollywood, maybe. I don't know because I recall that Al Capone's initial stay in Federal prison in Kentucky was a setup like that. They treated him like royalty in Kentucky. Southern hospitality for an honored guest? It didn't last long as his next stop was Alcatraz where the residents there truly did not care who he thought he was. The chain of command changes in life. It's got to be humbling to go from the greatest gangster of all time, to just another con in a cell. 

As much as I know about Trump's new dictatorial love interest in El Salvador, he apparently solved crime in his country by locking up all the bad guys. He surely didn't mess around with trials and evidence, and this got Trump's mushroom hard. He's got AG Pam- Pam Bondi- looking into the legality of that. Hilarious given that they are already defying courts on every other matter in this once great democratic republic. But that's our boy! He makes no sense, ever. Maybe he's checking on the legality of it just so it's a better sound bite when he refuses to comply. Probably? The thing that really annoyed me about Generalissimo Bukkake, was that, though he wore a suit to meet with Trump, Vance and Little Marco, he didn't wear a tie. Does he even own one? Maybe he'll get one of those Columbian neckties. Where's the Newsmax reporter when you need him to critique someone's sartorial choices? 

So, what do we make of all this? You know- it's Trump. He's an idiot. He's got that stream of unconscious thought thing going on most all the time, where he just blurts out stupidity. Maga and the media love it, and we laugh at it. Yeah, he gets us mad, but we look at him with clear lenses. His new Navy physician says Trump is 6'3" now (our boy has grown!) 230 pounds and apparently has an enviable BMI. I don't know what a good or bad BMI is, so I'll assume it's made up. Suffice to say, save that shit for the believers as us homegrowns' ain't buying it. We can't afford to.