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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
(www.independent.co.uk)
There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries
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Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.
Good lord, no, keep him far away from California!
If him being in California is torture to him, I say do it.
He watches PBS?
PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.
😬 pretty easy to side with the Cardassians for someone like Trump...
Nah, but he will order people to refer to him as the Great Nagos.
*Grand Nagus
The monkey paw will curl, damn :(
Ok, so we take out DS9. But TNG on repeat for sure.
He'd get a kick outta their legal system...
By executive order Section 31 is formed. CIA director raises eyebrow in contempt.
Consider how stupid Donald Trump is, then consider how stupid one would have to be to vote for him, then consider that those people are all around you, all the time.
Alzheimers in full bloom.
Spiced up with malignant narcissism.
He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!
He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.
Aren't films like this always showing somewhere?
And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He's not the only genius there.
Every accusation is a projection.
2020 election denial is now a high school standard in Oklahoma btw.
As in "Trump's been president since 2016" or as in "2020 elections were robbed in favor of candidate Biden"?
The later. Also there’s some COVID lab leak conspiracy shit.
These weren’t the standards that were presented to the public or teachers to review - they were swapped out at the last second from reasonable versions:
When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals
I don't know, SOAD radicalized me when I was a teenager and I would say that this is bullshit from a criminological point of view.
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
So... You take a prison which:
- Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
- Needs serious rebuilding and modernization to even function at all;
- Needs a way to be supplied with safe water, plus constant deliveries of all other necessities, likely by boat.
And you get:
- A prison which generates little to no revenue, while needing funds to be kept functioning.
- Only has its name and somber history going in its favor, because "prisoners should be afraid of the historic haunted prison".
Yes. Brilliant idea, truly a Trump deal in all its glory, as we get to see how the casino-bankrupter's mind works. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first "tenants". And whoever comes next declares the prison closed again and leaves them rotting there.
But it is a typical Trump deal, selling vibes of "doing it the rough old way, with guns and hookers and lead paint and gasoline that makes your windows rainbow-colored".
That's what he sells. His fans know it's not achievable, they want a mess sufficient for something better to evolve, and vibes for them signify that mess. It's a bit like Shadow ideology in Babylon V.
Yes...?
It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.
I bet he plans on charging rent to the prisoners at California rates or some bullshit
Beachside property after all. Rockside.
Actually would be a cool idea, make there a combined prison-museum with luxury cells like the one Brejvik spends his time in. If it goes together with a prison reform to in general make American prisons more like Norwegian ones, would be cool.
I mean, inmates shouldn't pay for that, I just caught a thought.
It's more interesting after all, inmates can talk to tourists and not feel too isolated, but live in more comfortable conditions than their historical colleagues, and you still have a profitable museum.
Sort of a prison entertainment park. On an island. One can even have a small computing history museum with an IRIX machine there, next to a few dinosaur pics.
You can spend the night in a cell in Alcatraz already. I did it as a little scout. I would absolutely not call it luxury lol.
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I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.
Or the movie about "the bus that couldn't stop"
Sundowning…
This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.
This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:
Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!
If it was just him, it wouldn't be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I'm sure you've seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it's worthy of a Nobel. It's seriously deranged behavior. It's a cult. Except he's just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go "that's nice dear" absent-mindedly. He's so easy to fluff.
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He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
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Has he been there? Like it's fuckin old. And small. Like really small. I don't know if he can legally do that either. Since it's a state park.
Idk, it looked pretty big in the documentary The Rock. Maybe they still have some nerve gas there too.
Well yes but it has a cool sounding name
Simple solution.
Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.
Stop letting this man watch television.
Let him watch all the television he wants. Stop letting him interact with people and things.
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He wasn't watching PBS... so someone else told him to do it after watching it. Probably same person trying to find more reasons to defund PBS.
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