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
  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    324·
    5 个月前

    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:

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63·
      5 个月前

      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.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      5 个月前

      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.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      5 个月前

      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.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    5 个月前

    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.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      5 个月前

      Yes…?

      It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nuBannedEnglish
        1·
        5 个月前

        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

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 个月前

      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.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        At this point you’re gonna have to do that first, and then I’ll elect you after, because we can’t trust any words spoken on the campaign trail by anyone anymore.

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    5 个月前

    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.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      9·
      5 个月前

      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.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      5 个月前

      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.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    44·
    5 个月前

    He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    5 个月前

    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.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    5 个月前

    And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He’s not the only genius there.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    5 个月前

    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.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuBannedEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      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

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 个月前

        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.

        • KeenFlame@feddit.nuBannedEnglish
          1·
          5 个月前

          That’s not true, and I can notice that you never tried the golden rule. The majority of voters in the US is an extremely small group of hateful people, and they are a few rotten eggs. They are misguided by foul mistreatment by the profit incentives and they are lured into rage by corrupt media. Without education in a first world country you arrive at this automatically if you employ hyper capitalist policy.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    5 个月前

    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.

  • katy ✨English
    24·
    5 个月前

    watches a movie about the most famous prison escape ever

    thinks it would be good to open said prison

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 个月前

      which is not based on real events but dumnald is so stupid he cannot tell the difference

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    5 个月前

    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.