What do you think is a bigger factor there: being stupid enough to think its historical fame makes it somehow actually useful despite being a tiny and inconvenient that's worth more as a museum than a prison, or because it presents another opportunity to throw endless piles of money at private contractors tied to his family and allies?

I mean it's obviously both of those things because literally everything the regime does is both the dumbest thing possible and also just open graft and other crimes, but which is bigger here? Earnest stupidity, or cynical corruption?

Not content to elect a for-real movie star with a dying brain to the office of President, the USA has elected just "movies" - like the nebulous concept of "films Trump has seen" - as the President. And we're going to more of this shit as his brain keeps dying and the dream takes over. We're all in the movies now.

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All prisoners will be required to wear old-timey striped outfits with comically large metal ball chain to their leg

again, a reminder to exiled artillery officers: those are not delusions of grandeur, you can do it

neat

The place is crumbling, it would take years to make it remotely functional

too much news about all the actually illegal stuff that they realized they can just sort of do without repercussion, better do some performative but completely legal shit for optics.

next up: turning New York into a prison. Air Force One plane crash to follow

was it a federal prison? i thought it was a state hellhole

Someone on his team should try to get him to build that oil rig prison thing from the movie Face/Off and then actually do the face-off procedure to infiltrate the mexican cartels.

Nice! He can have the first cell. Right next to Elon if he’s lucky!