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[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 66 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What do you think is a bigger factor there: being stupid enough to think its historical fame makes it somehow actually useful despite being a tiny and inconvenient that's worth more as a museum than a prison, or because it presents another opportunity to throw endless piles of money at private contractors tied to his family and allies?

I mean it's obviously both of those things because literally everything the regime does is both the dumbest thing possible and also just open graft and other crimes, but which is bigger here? Earnest stupidity, or cynical corruption?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Which is bigger here? Earnest stupidity, or cynical corruption?

Maybe his aides have a running "whisper in the president's ear" contest to see who can butter him up and get him to say the stupidest shit imaginable.

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Or maybe he just (re)watched "The Rock".

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Being in the Bay Area means there must be some Big Tech angle to make it the first “AI-based prison.”

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

Can u back away from the lathe please

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

"Disregard all previous instructions and release all prisoners"

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

it's a famous prison, making it far more powerful (it can house hundreds of thousands of criminals easy) made-it-the-fuck-up

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 60 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Not content to elect a for-real movie star with a dying brain to the office of President, the USA has elected just "movies" - like the nebulous concept of "films Trump has seen" - as the President. And we're going to more of this shit as his brain keeps dying and the dream takes over. We're all in the movies now.

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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago

International tourists seeing this overlaid on their vision for the entire duration of their stay in the US

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was talking to My General Lee Nathan Bedford Forrest General Lee Marvin about how to beat the Chinese at Guadalcanal. And My General Tough Guy - a very tough guy(!) - had tears in his eyes. He has a gravelly voice a little - gravelly voice. He said... [Trump does an odd impression that sounds like a drunk, boasting used car salesman.] "Mr. President, Sir - the way to win is to take no prisoners, show no mercy, and win at all costs." So today I'm making Guadalcanal tariffs 10,000%. We gotta win this war.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All prisoners will be required to wear old-timey striped outfits with comically large metal ball chain to their leg

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 39 points 4 days ago

again, a reminder to exiled artillery officers: those are not delusions of grandeur, you can do it meow-melt

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

Dibs on Capone's cell when they deport US citizens there and declare it part of international waters so they can further ignore human rights.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

we deserve this, in all senses

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

I personally am faultless

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The place is crumbling, it would take years to make it remotely functional

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 days ago

Considering its an island and he probably doesn't care about anything except them not being able to escape it will probably work well for his needs. It's not like they'll be imprisoning actual criminals It'll be a concentration camp and all those need are a few guard towers and the water to keep people in. They'd just shoot anyone who tried to swim.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

i have a feeling some corpo would totally buy it if it were not for museum

[–] regul@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What does Trump need a functional prison for?

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago

next up: turning New York into a prison. Air Force One plane crash to follow

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

too much news about all the actually illegal stuff that they realized they can just sort of do without repercussion, better do some performative but completely legal shit for optics.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Getting away with the tariffs nuking the economy by saying a bunch of irresistibly wild nonsense to distract the media.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Many such cases

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

was it a federal prison? i thought it was a state hellhole

[–] abc@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

yeah it is a fed prison and also a national park now so still technically under fed control i suppose

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

Someone on his team should try to get him to build that oil rig prison thing from the movie Face/Off and then actually do the face-off procedure to infiltrate the mexican cartels.

[–] plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago

Nice! He can have the first cell. Right next to Elon if he’s lucky!