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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
(www.independent.co.uk)
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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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…
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.
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.
The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha
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.
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?
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.
Well yes but it has a cool sounding name
Simple solution.
Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.
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.
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.
Somebody needs to just wave something shiny in front of him to distract him from this stupid idea.
An put a tariff on movies so he doesn't do it again! Oh, wait...
Next up on truth social:
ONE OF MY SUBORDINATES JINGLED HIS KEYS IN FRONT OF ME FOR HOURS. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH ENJOYMENT IN MY LIFE.
MAKE JINGLING KEYS GREAT AGAIN!
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.
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.
thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo
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