Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
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
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.
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.
Like a spoiled 4 year old in so many ways...
Yep, I've been saying "he isn't just a narcissist, he's narcissistic in the way a 5-year-old would be".
I'm sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some "policy" came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, "crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025" There are just mountains of BS to sift through.
So... You take a prison which:
And you get:
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.
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.
Yes...?
It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.
No it is what they said and they are lying. You confused fooled with dumb, anyone can be fooled such as anyone that thought Biden would do environmental issues and stop the destruction of our race etc
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.
Somebody needs to just wave something shiny in front of him to distract him from this stupid idea.
Nobody in the trump regime is ever going to prison because you wont elect me president..I, the only candidate who would actually guillotine traitors, imprison their cucks, and take all the wealth from criminally active billionaires and their labbyists, and cap wealth accumulation.
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.
Ikr, him watching pbs would be a good onion though
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.
Lmfao whatta coincidence!
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.
I'm sure he wasn't even aware of what station was airing the movie. He was flicking through the channels and saw one that was interesting.
Please get this man addicted to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I bet tinyhands would think Big-ears are the good guys
He would emulate the protagonist Ferengi race... even more than he does now.
"I am hereby placing a 100% TARIFF on transport fees for any Q visiting from the Q Continuum. As you know, one of them turned me literally orange, 'as a joke'. If this dangerous criminal is found in Federation space again, I have given out orders to immediately apprehend the Q responsible and hold him in Alcatraz Prison. The Q will then be ransomed back to the bloodthirsty murderers of the Q Continuum."
Stop letting this man watch television.
He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
His supporters have been so crippled by centuries of inbreeding they see him as their genius messiah, literally.
Inbreeding is more likely to produce offspring, but also more likely to produce offspring with genetic defects, and marrying someone very genetically different is less likely to produce offspring, but dangers are fewer.
I mean, provided you can't find a neanderthal to marry today, the latter concern is not too important.
So both are not too bad, fertility is important sometimes. It's the natural regulation of population.
BTW, about diversity and all that ... it's good, but triggers the psychological and biological mechanisms (EDIT: reducing fertility) in the parts of population smart enough to be diverse.
So nature also regulates such disturbances. Like the Force in Star Wars. Humanity works the way that if smartasses become too smart, dumbasses would have their asses so it would all cancel out to a more even distribution.
PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.
😬 pretty easy to side with the Cardassians for someone like Trump...
The monkey paw will curl, damn :(
trump would probably claim the wormhole as the 51st state and claim he's friends with the jem'hadar
Ok, so we take out DS9. But TNG on repeat for sure.
By executive order Section 31 is formed. CIA director raises eyebrow in contempt.
He'd get a kick outta their legal system...
pbs should air all the presidents men 24/7
We already have this https://mastodon.social/@realGulDukat
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.
There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries
Not a documentary.
It's a Clint Eastwood movie, not a documentary.
There's just no way he watches PBS
documentaries
Ftfy
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.
Alcatraz was a ridiculously expensive prison. That is why it closed down. Meanwhile as a museum it is actually generating millions of dollars every year in revenue.
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.
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.
Don't do that. Consider how intelligent and belligerent all humans you interacted with are. Consider the few rotten eggs. Consider that they are lost and need guidance. Stop being an asshole if you don't want to be subjected to asshole. The golden rule and karma are concepts that arise naturally as an objective truth that we collectively don't understand yet can easily observe in personal trials everywhere
Consider the few rotten eggs.
The majority of voting Americans aren't "a few rotten eggs".
Consider that they are lost and need guidance.
It's 2025. This has been going on for a decade. We already went through one term with this dumbfuck as a trial run. There are no excuses now.
The golden rule and karma
Karma does not exist. The golden rule is only a rule if it is followed.
Alzheimers in full bloom.
Spiced up with malignant narcissism.
watches a movie about the most famous prison escape ever
thinks it would be good to open said prison
which is not based on real events but dumnald is so stupid he cannot tell the difference
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.
He watches PBS?
The good thing about this is that everyone who saw the rock movie knows the timing for the boiler room doors so they can easily escape
He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!
That man has dementia.
The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha
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.
OK, now that's pretty funny.
I was close! I figured he'd just watched The Rock.
The story is far too complex for him in that one
We all know that he doesn't watch PBS. Too educational.
Not to mention he just cut funding for it
I bet we can tie a lot of his actions to the boob tube schedule
In the first admin it was clear he was watching Fox by reading his tweets and comparing.
This man has no brain. There's a deranged parrot in there...
Yes, the whole democratic party and voters were flim flammed by a brainless person.
Not scoring many points in there chief. Just makes the Dems look even worse
"Haha, you Dems stepped in shit", says the Magat wearing shit warpaint.
Wasn't that place at least as famous for successful escapes as it was for being a tough and scary place of punishment? If you're whole bag is turning back the clock to a time you thought was tougher, more punitive and therefore somehow more effective at deterrence and your decisions are more cultural than rational; shouldn't you pick somewhere not famous specifically for failing at it's entire purpose of existence?
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
This just reinforces my theory that he saw Canadian Bacon at some point last summer.
thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo
I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.
Or the movie about "the bus that couldn't stop"
Yeah that’ll keep government spending down.
( /s, obviously)
For some reason I read that as auschwitz.
Not that different for the purposes he wants.
I mean...
Unrelated but his stupid ass grin pmo so fucking much. Like Nigel Farage's but worse.
He doesn't want it rebuilt or modernized in any way. The more medieval the better. A spot to dump undesirables and forget them.
Trump announces a new King's decree that toilets shall now be 75% larger after trying to fit his fat fucking ass on a regular toilet.
He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.
And I said I want an orange juice
Sundowning…
Nah he fell asleep watching The Rock, that’s more his style.
Sounds like he belongs in retirement home.
Sounds like he wants to renovate his retirement home.
Aren't films like this always showing somewhere?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I genuinely want somebody who thinks this is a good idea to explain to me why this is better than building a new maximum security prison on the mainland.
