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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 12 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] farting_contest@startrek.website 2 points 47 minutes ago

He doesn't want it rebuilt or modernized in any way. The more medieval the better. A spot to dump undesirables and forget them.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Unrelated but his stupid ass grin pmo so fucking much. Like Nigel Farage's but worse.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This man has no brain. There's a deranged parrot in there...

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

watches a movie about the most famous prison escape ever

thinks it would be good to open said prison

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago

More ways to increase suffering

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago

It's a Clint Eastwood movie, not a documentary.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Not a documentary.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Good lord, no, keep him far away from California!

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

If him being in California is torture to him, I say do it.

[–] griD@feddit.org 37 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

pbs should air all the presidents men 24/7

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 15 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

😬 pretty easy to side with the Cardassians for someone like Trump...

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

The one the fancy jewelry guys are worshipping?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

trump would probably claim the wormhole as the 51st state and claim he's friends with the jem'hadar

[–] griD@feddit.org 8 points 22 hours ago

The monkey paw will curl, damn :(

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago

He watches PBS?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.nu 0 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 7 points 19 hours ago

Spiced up with malignant narcissism.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

And I said I want an orange juice

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 140 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

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.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.works 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 333 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

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:

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