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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 146 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I bet he plans on charging rent to the prisoners at California rates or some bullshit

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes...?

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Somebody needs to just wave something shiny in front of him to distract him from this stupid idea.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 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.

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