I wish I believed you. But unfortunately you offer facts not in evidence.
The noise is the tactic. The media is the messenger. And voters are trusting institutions they shouldn't.
We need folks like Ron to do better.
But what will happen to San Fran's most recognised tourist attraction? Will tourists be allowed to visit a working prison? I could see an opportunity for Tourist selfies with hardened criminals in chains as the background. MAGA Hillbillies and rednecks would have a reason to visit California!
Alcatraz, how MAGA. Stay out our state Donald. I'm in the Central Valley of CA. The last time you were here you flooded a town and dumped our farmers summer irrigation water. Don't lie, the water you wasted was 350 miles from fires that were already out. There's no "big faucet" you idiot.
Holy sh1t, folks. This is what it looks like when you have ZERO self-awareness, and every ugly thing you say about others is directly about yourself.
Serial criminals, lil donny?
How many thousands of court cases has he been involved in?? My god! He belongs in the basement of the jail!
Lol.... his campaign donors apparently want a new prison to cash in on taxpayer's money with...
Does he get to decide who's guilty by whim?? Like he's been doing?
1) I hope if he does reopen it, that is where he will be held when he’s finally sent to jail.
2) No way he wrote that. Dregs? No. He let Stephen Miller write that.
Trump says a lot of nonsense. The rock has been a vacant tourist attraction for 60 years. The cost of bringing it up to code as an active prison would be equal to a manned space flight to the moon. If not more
Right. Who in the Federal Prison System wants to live in Oakland and San Francisco? But also, we can build a Super Maximum prison anywhere. Not to give Grandpa any ideas, but we have huge states out west with tons of room for Supermax prisons, for a fraction of the cost of renovating Alcatraz.
They would have to tear down the current buildings which would cost millions. From an environmental perspective it would nightmare! The entire project would be close to a billion dollars east!
Sadists who will put up with shitty work conditions so they can continue to be sadists is like 85% of all corrections workers.
What will inevitably happen is... Contagious disease. THAT'S what will give would be guards pause. Cuz... They won't think about that until it's too late.
Also re “substantially enlarging..”
from my time in SF, I seem to recall it’s already most of the island, not including the other residential office/facilities buildings which makes me wonder - does he understand how islands work??
Does he not realize that Congress would have to appropriate the funding to actually do this. The amount of money it would cost to rebuild, and upgrade Alcatraz to meet modern security standards would cost more that it would be worth.
They’re going to move the prisoners out Friday afternoon (keep a few to work the gift shop), tours on the weekend then ship them back in Monday morning
"Alcatraz Island is owned by the United States Government through the National Park Service, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It was originally part of the U.S. military, then became a federal prison, and is now a popular tourist attraction and national park site." 🤨
He’s starting with Alcatraz and will expand into the Presidio/Golden Gate Recreation Area. Pretty much borders the north west part of San Francisco. He wants destroy the area.
I'm guessing it will cost a million dollars to do a feasibility study to find out it will cost billions to make Alcatraz a viable prison. Trump says he wants to expand, but, DUDE it's a freakin' ISLAND and a small one! Trump&crew should definitely take a tour first. Lock 'em up for a while, too.
Where to incarcerate the COUP fascists working in Trumpism's attempts to annihilate Democracy and install fascist authoritarianism? Alcatraz might work. Just sort of wondering... 😀
This will be comedy gold. Jack LaLanne swam handcuffed from Alcatraz to SF to celebrate his 60th birthday. And a local swim club does it often too. Here's a guy in his 70'ies who just completed his 100th swim from Alcatraz to SF. https://youtu.be/gtcnQv4p16A?si=chUiNnIZ9syt53Jr
The chutzpah! Our nation's #1 Criminal, #1 Lawbreaker, #1 Corrupt Conman & Grifter, Impeached Felon, continually ranting & raving about criminals not getting locked up in horrible maximum security facilities. Grant us karma against this monster who wants others to suffer because they have dark skin.
Yes, because the country with the highest incarceration rates doesn’t have enough prisons. 🤦♀️ The constant stupidity and cruelty of this regime is exhausting.
“This is because Trump is being turned down by the courts. He’s found another avenue to send his perceived, and delusion’s of grandeur, enemies!” @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @meidastouch.bsky.social Another photo op for Kristi Noem to showcase prisoners on ‘The Rock’.”
He gets good milage on the "filth, bloodshed and violence" theme. He never mentions that most mass shooters are Trump supporters. An understandable oversight.
He is talking about black men and women. The Central Park five who he has yet to say they were innocent. He can’t send black people out of the country. So he wants to send us to Alcatraz! But he let January 6 prisoners out. So make it make sense
Knowing what a great admirer of film he is, I’m surprised he hasn’t suggested turning all of New York City into a federal prison like they did in “Escape From New York.”
Where’s Snake Plissken when you need him?
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I wish someone would research & create a diagram summarizing relationships between
* For-profit prisons
* Private prison lobby
* Harsh sentences passed into law by politicians taking prison lobby $
* Cheap Forced labor provided to corps by prison industry
My theory: he hung with movie ambassadors Voigt, Gibson and Stallone and they yakked about Alcatraz films. Meanwhile he's planning 100% tariffs on movies filmed outside the USA. Mango Mussolini's going all cinematic this week. 🍿
It was closed in 1963 because of high costs to operate and crumbling infrastructure. Those problems have only increased since then. It's also a moneymaker for the SF economy
" It's also a moneymaker for the SF economy" ... that is the ONLY reason why Trump wants to close it down as a tourist attraction, to hurt SF. Reopening Alcatraz as a prison would mean razing it to the ground and rebuild from scratch. Would be much easier to do in the Nevada desert, for example.
JFC. Alcatraz closed because the operating expense of the prison was becoming too high and the salt water was destroying the prison. Trump is an idiot.
And it's been unmaintained for 62 years imagine what it would take to make it safe to house prisoners not to mention it sits on a major fault line imagine the cost for an earthquake Retro fit he's a demented moron .
I was there in the '80's. You could tell then that the building itself is not salvageable. You would have to demolish and haul all that stuff off before you could even start.
Make it stop! The clown just never shuts up - if anyone knows something about being a contributor to misery and suffering - it’s the orange buffoon. Something is so desperately wrong with him - the orange savior must not have to rest on Sundays!
I suppose it’s useless to point out that the US has, and has had for a while, one of the world’s highest incarceration rates. And that many other countries, with immigrants, are safer even though they have lower incarceration rates.
So after reading about the Time interview I have to wonder who is writing trumps bullshit on his truth social whatever it is? The writing is not indicative of trumps abilities although the themes are in keeping with his rants.
You can see it’s really him typing and not some random employee… beyond all the absurds he still manages to incorrectly write a simple sentence separating subject and verb with a comma. Your president, ladies and gents.
Financially it would be well worth it. If AI is to be believed, the main facility at IL’s Stateville is 64 acres, with the total site being 2200 acres. Alcatraz Island is 22 acres, the entire island. I can’t think of any better way to waste…I mean spend billions and billions of dollars.
Does #ConvictedFelonDon, the chronic🤪🤡dumbfuqk, realize that Alcatraz Island — w/ da prison built in 1912 — is in DILAPIDATED CONDITION & would likely need MASSIVE new building/rehab project⁉️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏽♂️
The island has limited capacity & probably NOT enuff space to house the👺Trump admin & GOP #SeditionCaucus‼️
Okay, keep Alcatraz a national museum & offer “LIVING EXHIBITS” in the solitary confinement section 4 #FelonDon Trump & maybe some key members of da #TrumpCrimeFamily, Elmo Musk & his #DOGEbagHackers, #Project1860 shitbags & #GOP #SeditionCaucus & Trump cabinet‼️😂🤣
#TrumpTowerAlcatraz💩🚽
#Trump2daRock
I live in CA and near SF and have been to Alcatraz many times..it’s old and the structure isn’t stable it’s deteriorated considerably over the years without maintenance. Trump is nutso,completely whacked out to even consider the place as habitable. You would have to build a new prison there!
It’s an island. He can put anyone there and surround the island with armed security boats, shooting anyone who tries to escape. He doesn’t care if it’s hospitable, it’s an isla de muerte.
Make Alcatraz the new MAR-A-BUDGET-WEST where Trump and REGIME can live out their days locked up. We San Franciscans would not mind keeping lock and key as justice served for the world. Trump can keep signing EOs chained to a desk, of how to run his little kingdom as the other bow down to him.
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Quit. Being. His. Sheep.
The noise is the tactic. The media is the messenger. And voters are trusting institutions they shouldn't.
We need folks like Ron to do better.
Did he referring to himself with that post?
Serial criminals, lil donny?
How many thousands of court cases has he been involved in?? My god! He belongs in the basement of the jail!
Does he get to decide who's guilty by whim?? Like he's been doing?
EXACTLY
Maybe that's the idea
2) No way he wrote that. Dregs? No. He let Stephen Miller write that.
Builders are likely concerned that the investment won’t pay off under a different administration.
Government by “old man yelling at sky” is getting very tiring, and expensive.
in the high desert, used to be the Air Force Base and now it's a prison.
What will inevitably happen is... Contagious disease. THAT'S what will give would be guards pause. Cuz... They won't think about that until it's too late.
from my time in SF, I seem to recall it’s already most of the island, not including the other residential office/facilities buildings which makes me wonder - does he understand how islands work??
*in
🤦♀️
https://www.nps.gov/goga/red-power-on-alcatraz.htm
So, hope you're right? ???
The Left: No, you can't!
Trump: i will reopen Alcatraz to send there american criminals.
The Left: No, you can't!
Basically the Left is for criminals being not punished. They think society is guilty for criminal behaviuor. They should admit it
Moving quickly to 1930s depression
Where’s Snake Plissken when you need him?
He's right, it will be a symbol of law, order and justice. Just not in the way he thinks.
Although, maybe I shouldn’t take for granted that fiction vs reality matters any more.
https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
his ongoing crime spree and incompetence.
Obsession with crime & punishment is one of the signs of fascism.
* For-profit prisons
* Private prison lobby
* Harsh sentences passed into law by politicians taking prison lobby $
* Cheap Forced labor provided to corps by prison industry
It is nothing short of enslavement.🤷🏻♀️
Who's lapping this rubbish up still???
#SaveAmerica
Maybe more prisons is the wrong answer.
See what he did there?
Continued comments about Judges trying to go against him & “threaten” safety of Americans.
DO NOT ALLOW TRUMP &
REPUBLICANS to ATTACK RULE of LAW!
For the Historically Challenged :
We have THREE CO-EQUAL BRANCHES of GOVERNMENT!
Trump has now self hard wired, in what is left of his wiring, to believe judges are predisposed to crimiality.
And let his cult know.
The island has limited capacity & probably NOT enuff space to house the👺Trump admin & GOP #SeditionCaucus‼️
#TrumpTowerAlcatraz💩🚽
#Trump2daRock
For anyone who opposes him.
For crimes against humanity!
Sad, you went from leaders of the free world to pure hatred!