Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
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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.
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.
No.
He was dumb but playing dumber. I can't think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.
Yeah, that I can get behind. His Texan shtick was an obvious act. But, even without that, I don't think he had an IQ of 100. Like most politicians he had good emotional intelligence, and an ability to connect with people. Still, it was clear that even pretty basic concepts were a stretch for him.
There was a Histioriometry test done, and the journal Political Psychology estimated around a 119 for ol’ W.
And Trump weighs 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat.
I used to think that Trump was just dumb. But, recently I've become convinced that he's actually able to seem smarter than he actually is. Meaning, he appears to have an IQ of maybe 90, but he's faking it because he's actually closer to 80. His various coping mechanisms allow him to seem smarter than he is, but that "smarter than he is" still doesn't bring him up to average.
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.
He probably just didn't know how to change the channel back to Newsmax.
He was mindlessly flicking through the channels until one seemed interesting.
I doubt his interest extends that far.
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.
He likes to free style
You see, geopolitics is like jazz...
Honestly he needs to enter into a rap battle
If nothing else the US can be number one for rap
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.
You can spend the night in a cell in Alcatraz already. I did it as a little scout. I would absolutely not call it luxury lol.
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.
Next up on truth social:
An put a tariff on movies so he doesn't do it again! Oh, wait...
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.
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.
At the very least, you cant elect anyone who is wealthy.
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.
He would deport Geordi, Whorf and Data for not being white. And probably O'Brian for being Irish.
Ha ha irish being white! Whats next, italians? Ha ha ho ho
I think I think i read that fanfic back in the 90s.... co-starring Long-Luc Dickhard and Chestly Crushher?
Lieutenant Commander Dat Ass
He’d keep Guinan around?
Trump would send Guinan back home, where she would be immediately assimilated.
What if she used her Q-fightin' powers
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.
Let him watch all the television he wants. Stop letting him interact with people and things.
Let him interact with people and things, but in a retirement home where he belongs.
THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL, HOME FOR INCURABLE TYRANTS AND KINGS
The only final solution I support.
No I'm thinking a bunker with 9 foot thick concrete walls, no door, a 1.5 inch diameter hole for air and McDonald's french fries, a television and one of those brown blankets they wrap you in when your house burns down. And maybe if you put me in a good enough mood I wouldn't turn a garden hose down the air shaft.
"Old man yells at cloud" isn't the issue, "Old man can order airstrike on cloud" is.
*Nuke a hurricane
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.
Nah, but he will order people to refer to him as the Great Nagos.
*Grand Nagus
The one the fancy jewelry guys are worshipping?
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.
Well yes but it has a cool sounding name
Simple solution.
Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.
Idk, it looked pretty big in the documentary The Rock. Maybe they still have some nerve gas there too.
It’s a national park and trump doesn’t follow laws
There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries
It's a Clint Eastwood movie, not a documentary.
Not a documentary.
Ftfy
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.
As in "Trump's been president since 2016" or as in "2020 elections were robbed in favor of candidate Biden"?
The later. Also there’s some COVID lab leak conspiracy shit.
These weren’t the standards that were presented to the public or teachers to review - they were swapped out at the last second from reasonable versions:
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
The majority of voting Americans aren't "a few rotten eggs".
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.
Karma does not exist. The golden rule is only a rule if it is followed.
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.
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
OK, now that's pretty funny.
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.
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.
Dementia Donnie should not be running this country.
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
European here. It makes all of you look worse but from what I've seen so far only the orange asshat and his cult have brought this much chaos worldwide.
Bring back boring, boring is good. Otherwise you're speedrunning the president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho timeline
Camacho would be an improvement, he listened to people smarter than him.
"Haha, you Dems stepped in shit", says the Magat wearing shit warpaint.
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
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?
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"
Unrelated but his stupid ass grin pmo so fucking much. Like Nigel Farage's but worse.
For some reason I read that as auschwitz.
Not that different for the purposes he wants.
I mean...
Yeah that’ll keep government spending down.
( /s, obviously)
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.
Sundowning…
He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.
And I said I want an orange juice
Nah he fell asleep watching The Rock, that’s more his style.
Aren't films like this always showing somewhere?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sounds like he belongs in retirement home.
Sounds like he wants to renovate his retirement home.
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.