American ‘Squid Game’ Could Be Coming to Gitmo
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:24.2 | for a truly disturbing segment that we're going to talk about. One of the more outlandish |
| 0:29.5 | and gobsmacking ideas that I've seen. But apparently a memo has been sent to Donald Trump, |
| 0:34.6 | or at least to the White House, that is outlining this idea that the United |
| 0:38.6 | States should turn Guantanamo Bay, where we've had, what is it, prison camp, more or less, |
| 0:45.5 | they want to turn it into a transformative, prosperous city, using a prosperous charter city |
| 0:52.4 | to basically put immigrants into work camps, develop it into a tourism, and I don't know, like tech site, like one of these Middle Eastern cities. |
| 1:02.9 | An economic engine. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, an economic engine that you can also just kind of check out the Caribbean Sea. |
| 1:09.6 | Four Seasons Guantanamo. |
| 1:12.7 | There's so many layers that are so uncomfortable about this entire thing. |
| 1:16.8 | But apparently it's gone like the attention of the tech bro set who think it's a great idea. |
| 1:22.0 | Tim, you read the article. |
| 1:23.6 | You've seen the charter or you've seen the proposal. |
| 1:26.2 | What do you make of it? |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.4 | Shout out to the folks |
| 1:28.1 | of tea the new republic for flagging this uh powerpoint um look i want us just preface this by saying that |
| 1:34.6 | unlike some folks that i think the author of the tian article i'm not like against the idea of |
| 1:41.6 | doing crazy new futuristic cities. |
| 1:50.1 | That sort of thing appeals to me is like whatever capitalist future kind of guy. |
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