I’m tired of just seeing random Trump ideas without any kind of deeper thought or plan behind it. Alcatraz hasn’t housed a prisoner for a long time. Needless to say, it’d cost a lot of money to get it back up in action. Is this money worth spending? How much is it? What’s wrong with our other supermax prisons in the USA?
It’s embarrassing this guy can just throw out these off the cuff ideas and STILL finds fans in the USA.
Things that won’t happen.
The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.
The place hasn’t had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn’t serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn’t do multiple times better.
Also, you can’t build prisons on national parks.
Lol
Why? Cause it is against the law?
The strength of the bars was never Alcatraz’s selling point. It’s the location.
This is still about the location, but not in the way you’d expect. It’s near Hollywood so movies were made about it and it’s the next most notorious American prison after Guantanamo that Trump has heard of. I guarantee this is his Plan B after Guantanamo didn’t work out.
You think they won’t give out a contract worth tens of millions to update a math balled prison to someone they know?
This is America.
Pretty sure that’s the entire point of this whole thing. Give an insanely overbid contract to someone who will then launder back a sizable portion of it in campaign donations or crypto meme coin purchases. Continue grift until the money runs out.
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I think your “b” broke and fell over backwards, but I brought you a new one.
Alcatraz is a derelict. Getting it up to a functioning prison standard would almost assuredly take knocking it down with heavy equipment and starting over from zero. You could probably, unironically, finish high speed rail for the same time and financial cost, but then you couldn’t try to impress people by showing everyone that you’re the world’s only banana republic dictator with no drip.
You’re assuming Trump cares if it’s up to code. He doesn’t
I’m not sure if you took my meaning. Alcatraz is inoperable. If we moved to cars as a metaphor, we’re not talking about “it can’t pass smog”, we’re talking about “Boomer’s fixer upper that’s been untouched in the front yard for thirty years and is basically unusable as even scrap metal”.
Make rail drip again
It’s a national park. Doesn’t Congress have to allocate and remove national parks?
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https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/index.htm
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz Island, was established by Congress in 1972.
Well, they allocated it, at any rate.
Are we going to send VX gas?
Someone go jingle your keys in front of the orange dunce…
He must have saw something on arcatraz lately and his stupid addled brain got stuck on it. Good god I hate this timeline.
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He probably saw part of “The Rock” while flipping through the channels.
I bet he thinks of himself when the “winners go home and fuck the prom queen” line comes up.
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Found the WoW nerd
Cheaper to just build one in west Texas.
He wants to use the brand recognition as an intimidation tactic.
Nah, escape from Alcatraz was on TMC or Nick at night last night
Asshole probably tuned in to Shawshank and couldn’t keep it straight.
He wants all those dirty hippies in San Francisco to look at it every day.
For his political enemies?
Moron cunt.
Fucking LOL. He obviously has never been there.
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“They’re trying to build a prison!”
“For you and me to live in!”
“They’re trying to build a prison!”
“FOR YOU AND ME!”
This prison was made for you and me 🎶
This is like something an uninformed kid would say. “Ooh! A scary-sounding prison on an island! Yeah, let’s fix that up and use it for real!”
The dude is stupid. You could open 10 (or more) new prisons for the cost of refurbishing the crumbling ruin that is Alcatraz. Then there are the operational costs which would follow about the same ratio.
Wasn’t one alleged point of DOGE was to reduce government waste? Alcatraz was closed due to it being a ridiculously expensive prison. Much more than any other prison at the time.
It was this, not the famous escape of 1963 that caused it to close.
You’re all missing the point here:
California isn’t giving proper respect, they have to be taught a lesson.
So, end the global film industry, put a nightmare prison right in sf bay, and just gradually make it clear they can’t ignore Trump and pretend he doesn’t exist.
