Submitted 4 hours ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
Alcatraz has been run as a park for the past several decades. You can catch a ferry from San Francisco and go for a tour.
It is not functional as a prison at this time.
Some PBS stations aired the movie Escape From Alcatraz shortly before this pronouncement from Trump.
Quietly imprisoning dissidents at the existing supermax prisons isn’t conspicuous enough. Fuhrer Trump wants to send a message.
Why do newspapers report this shit? Just have a weekly column: “All the dumb shit with no consequences from POTUS”.
On one hand, it’s a distraction form the much stupider stuff.
One the other, it’s troubling that no one around him is even pretending to rein him in
SO? WHY do you THINK they ELIMINATED Education and Social Security!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
Has this reject ever been to Alcatraz?
It’s small and it’s just ancient concrete wasting away. He’d have to tear the entire thing (a historic landmark and museum) down and rebuild it. Then it wouldn’t be able to hold that many prisoners, because it’s a tiny fucking island. Then it would be expensive to maintain, because it has to be serviced by boat.
There’s a reason the fucking thing was shut down in the first place.
Just more word salad diarrhea coming out of this fucking loser’s mouth to distract us from all the shit he’s breaking.