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
    340·
    2 months ago

    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
      66·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
        212·
        2 months ago

        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.

          • blargle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            192·
            2 months ago

            He was dumb but playing dumber. I can’t think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              142·
              2 months ago

              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.

              • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
                71·
                2 months ago

                There was a Histioriometry test done, and the journal Political Psychology estimated around a 119 for ol’ W.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              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.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      201·
      2 months ago

      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·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      2 months ago

      Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!

      • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Yep, I’ve been saying “he isn’t just a narcissist, he’s narcissistic in the way a 5-year-old would be”.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    146·
    2 months ago

    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·
      2 months ago

      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.nuEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 months 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.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          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.

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      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·
        2 months 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.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    2 months ago

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

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 months 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

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    2 months ago

    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.nuEnglish
      22·
      2 months 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

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.nuEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          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.