I hear Obama is working on it. He promised he would close it. I hear he even signed an executive order. But if he can't do it, I'm sure Biden can. One of the Democrat presidents since Bush opened it 25 years ago ought to be able to do it, for sure. Like what are the odds that in 25 years no president who said they would close Guantanamo bay would be able to do it ?

I know the democratic party has shown a huge amount of incompetence by losing to Trump. Twice. But no way they would let that slide for 25 years, right?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You need to elect 20 years straight of Democrat before they can do it. By not electing Hillary in 2016 the counter has been reset and it is all the voters fault.

[–] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Damned instant gratification tiktok generation. Can't even wait patiently for things anymore.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

Look he really wanted to but the courts said no, then gop wouldn't let him and made him sign a bill to upgrade it, then he was foiled by trump undoing his EO right before he left office. Totally nothing else he could have done.

Amazing how almost the exact same thing happened with Bidens student loan forgiveness. 🤔

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

They should just admit they misplaced the keys and can't close it