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
  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 hour 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

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 hour ago

      Yes, the whole democratic party and voters were flim flammed by a brainless person.

      Not scoring many points in there chief. Just makes the Dems look even worse

      • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        42 minutes ago

        European here. It makes all of you look worse but from what I’ve seen so far only the orange asshat and his cult have brought this much chaos worldwide.

        Bring back boring, boring is good. Otherwise you’re speedrunning the president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho timeline

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      59 minutes ago

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

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    21 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.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
      1·
      55 minutes 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

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    22 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.mlEnglish
    283·
    1 day ago

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

  • Hikuro-93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    138·
    1 day 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.

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours 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
        1·
        15 minutes 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.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 day 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.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 day 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·
        52 minutes 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
        4·
        1 day 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
          4·
          20 hours 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.