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
  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    10 days ago

    Alcatraz was a ridiculously expensive prison. That is why it closed down. Meanwhile as a museum it is actually generating millions of dollars every year in revenue.

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    12 days 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
      3·
      12 days 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·
        10 days 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

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days 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.

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      which is not based on real events but dumnald is so stupid he cannot tell the difference

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

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

  • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 days 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.