Commentary on Spin

Foiled by AI Positive Spin Machine

Seriously, NightCafe WTF?

Attempt Eleven: Trump being eaten by an alligator on a golf course. Image created by author using https://creator.nightcafe.studio/

My goal was to satirize Trump's inhumane Alligator Alcatraz. I asked Nightcafe’s AI creator to give me an image depicting the perpetrator of this insanity on a golf course being eaten by an alligator. After all, he had quipped, this was the purpose of Alligator Alcatraz to eat criminals (I paraphrase).

Trump was asked by the press if the idea of this detention center in the Florida Swamps was that detainees would be eaten by alligators should they try to escape. Trump actually said, “I guess that’s the concept. This is not a nice business. I guess that is the concept.”

Trump toured a building in the Florida Everglades that is now officially called “Alligator Alcatraz.” This so-called migrant detention center even comes with merch!

Let us call it what it is, a concentration camp. What makes it a concentration camp rather than a prison? According to Merriam-Webster’s definition, it is a place where due process dies.

Con·cen·tra·tion camp (ˌkänsənˈtrāSH(ə)n ˌkamp)

a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are…