I’m banging my head on my desk because *REALLY*???!!!!!

So, someone had a bright idea that’s a bit similar to what he has been fussing about for years. He thinks it’s a great idea. He’s doing a variation of something he’s already done and sees no problems with it. So, what’s wrong with this picture that I’m inflicting “bodily harm” (not really) on myself? What’s wrong with this picture that I’m gobsmacked? Let’s see, here….

President Donald Trump, speaking at the House Republican Retreat in Doral, Florida, suggested Monday that he wanted to fly American criminals to other countries who will incarcerate them for “a small fee.” “I don’t want these violent repeat offenders in our country anymore. If they’ve been arrested many, many times, I want them out of our country,” Trump said.

“Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune. Let them be brought out of our country and let them live there for a while and see how they like it. You’ll see crime all over the country dry up.”

Whaaaaaaat? He‘s screaming about returning all these “criminal” immigrants to their own countries. The vast majorities of them aren’t criminals and have been swept up in these so-called raids by ICE. Well, they’ve put quotas (oh ffs) on ICE so they might be overzealous. But he wants to send OUR criminals to another place. Dude. You can’t have it both ways.

Sure the arrival country would get money for it but…..wtf. I would guess he sees absolutely no problem with this theory since he came right out and said it. Of course, he says a LOT of things that he likely doesn’t understand. See the idea of turning on water pipes to get water from the north of California into the south *rolls eyes* that one was a doozy.

I think this could be very well more expensive than flying “criminals” out of our country. They’d probably be treated better too. Or at least in public they’d be treated better. Maybe. Actually, I have no idea how our criminals would be treated in public. The “criminals” we are deporting are in handcuffs and chains. No wonder other countries are having fits about how their people are being treated. That’s inhumane.

But really now, deport hundreds of illegal immigrants, then send our criminals to another country and pay them for it. This makes less than no sense. I can’t see another country being willing to do this. After the way we’ve treated the immigrants, who is going to want to take in our criminals, payment or no payment? And why can’t I even peripherally understand what the hell he thinks he’s doing? I can’t get into his head like Murf could.

I just try to understand what’s on the outside looking in. And it makes no sense. I suppose this shouldn’t surprise me. It still does. But then I’m not a kind of person who could do that. (Yes, Scott, I’m still getting surprised.) I would guess more experience might give me a better idea of WTF the Confused Carrot is doing, but it’s going to take a while, I think. So here we are with another sound bite that doesn’t make sense. I expect there are (many) more to come.