The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened
  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    16 minutes ago

    The last thing that America needs is another jail. They have more jails and inmates than any other country on the planet. Also it would cost much more to refurbish Alcatraz than it would to build a new jail. The orange rapist is an idiot.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 minutes ago

    So… You take a prison which:

    • Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
    • Needs serious rebuilding and modernization;
    • 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 to be kept functioning.
    • Only has its name and somber history working out, because “prisoners should be afraid of the historic evil prison”.

    Yes. Brilliant idea. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first “tenants”. So please do make that prison as disgusting and inhumane as possible, if that’s the case.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1721·
    4 hours ago

    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:

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      4 hours ago

      Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        1 hour ago

        I feel we also devalue Bush jr. for the way he chose to speak to people. I feel you could call Bush a smart man, even politically savy, while still talking like a layman. However, Trump is genuinely dumb like his speech implies, and people just roll with it.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      4 hours ago

      This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea

      so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to…

      and for entertainment purposes, not just to find ‘biased’ news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1091·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 hours ago

      See, I don’t know. He’s been posting about cutting funding, so I could see him turning it on expecting to see a bunch of queers making out with ostriches or whatever the fuck he thinks goes on at PBS but instead got an idea. Which is kind of sweet, if you think about it. That’s so PBS, they can’t help but educate even if the viewer is a fascist penis wrinkle.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      It’s like a billion dollar rebuild and a multi million dollar yearly budget, why the fuck would we ever open this shithole ever again.

      It lasted like 30 years specifically because sadly corroded the ever loving fuck out of everything and last I heard salt water isn’t any less salty then 1969.