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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

He watches PBS?

[-] griD@feddit.org 19 points 3 hours ago

PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 7 points 3 hours ago

😬 pretty easy to side with the Cardassians for someone like Trump...

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

He'd get a kick outta their legal system...

[-] griD@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

The monkey paw will curl, damn :(

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Ok, so we take out DS9. But TNG on repeat for sure.

[-] nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

By executive order Section 31 is formed. CIA director raises eyebrow in contempt.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours 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.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 hours ago

Alzheimers in full bloom.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 hours ago

And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He's not the only genius there.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

by popular vote

Every accusation is a projection.

2020 election denial is now a high school standard in Oklahoma btw.

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

As in "Trump's been president since 2016" or as in "2020 elections were robbed in favor of candidate Biden"?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

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:

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 11 points 8 hours ago

When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals

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.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Sundowning…

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago

I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 7 hours ago

Or the movie about "the bus that couldn't stop"

[-] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 117 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Yes...?

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Next up on truth social:

ONE OF MY SUBORDINATES JINGLED HIS KEYS IN FRONT OF ME FOR HOURS. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH ENJOYMENT IN MY LIFE.

MAKE JINGLING KEYS GREAT AGAIN!

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 284 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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.works 55 points 21 hours 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.

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[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours 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.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

Well yes but it has a cool sounding name

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Simple solution.

Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 39 points 16 hours ago

He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 48 points 18 hours ago

Stop letting this man watch television.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 18 hours ago

Let him watch all the television he wants. Stop letting him interact with people and things.

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 9 points 16 hours ago

Let him interact with people and things, but in a retirement home where he belongs.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago

THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL, HOME FOR INCURABLE TYRANTS AND KINGS

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

"Old man yells at cloud" isn't the issue, "Old man can order airstrike on cloud" is.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 13 hours ago

*Nuke a hurricane

[-] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours ago

The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 125 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 33 points 22 hours ago

Ikr, him watching pbs would be a good onion though

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 19 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

This just reinforces my theory that he saw Canadian Bacon at some point last summer.

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago

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?

[-] Binky@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 18 hours ago

Dementia Donnie should not be running this country.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 12 points 19 hours ago

We all know that he doesn't watch PBS. Too educational.

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[-] cupcakezealot 7 points 17 hours ago

thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo

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