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
    26·
    1 day 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.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    18 hours ago

    Trump announces a new King’s decree that toilets shall now be 75% larger after trying to fit his fat fucking ass on a regular toilet.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 day 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

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

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

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
      118·
      1 day 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
        10·
        1 day 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

      • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        24 hours ago

        “Haha, you Dems stepped in shit”, says the Magat wearing shit warpaint.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    2 days 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
      21·
      1 day 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

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    336·
    3 days ago

    This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.

    This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people’s bodies could be a treatment to COVID:

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      65·
      3 days ago

      If it was just him, it wouldn’t be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I’m sure you’ve seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it’s worthy of a Nobel. It’s seriously deranged behavior. It’s a cult. Except he’s just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go “that’s nice dear” absent-mindedly. He’s so easy to fluff.

      • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
        212·
        3 days ago

        I feel we also devalue Bush jr. for the way he chose to speak to people. I feel you could call Bush a smart man, even politically savy, while still talking like a layman. However, Trump is genuinely dumb like his speech implies, and people just roll with it.

          • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Bush Jr was very good at recalling people’s names he met at some event years ago. That’s more a memory feat than intellicence, but useful in politics. My impression is that he wasn’t a stupid man, but instead, one of average intelligence, also lacking in intellectual curiosity.

            By contrast, Trump is as dumb as a bag of hammers, couldn’t find his ass with both hands, a map and a flashlight, and yet he believes he’s the smartest guy in the room, which wouldn’t even be true if the room only contained him and a housefly.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              20 hours ago

              I used to think that Trump was just dumb. But, recently I’ve become convinced that he’s actually able to seem smarter than he actually is. Meaning, he appears to have an IQ of maybe 90, but he’s faking it because he’s actually closer to 80. His various coping mechanisms allow him to seem smarter than he is, but that “smarter than he is” still doesn’t bring him up to average.

          • blargle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            192·
            2 days ago

            He was dumb but playing dumber. I can’t think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              142·
              2 days ago

              Yeah, that I can get behind. His Texan shtick was an obvious act. But, even without that, I don’t think he had an IQ of 100. Like most politicians he had good emotional intelligence, and an ability to connect with people. Still, it was clear that even pretty basic concepts were a stretch for him.

              • Yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
                71·
                2 days ago

                There was a Histioriometry test done, and the journal Political Psychology estimated around a 119 for ol’ W.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      191·
      3 days ago

      This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea

      so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to…

      and for entertainment purposes, not just to find ‘biased’ news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.

      • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yep, I’ve been saying “he isn’t just a narcissist, he’s narcissistic in the way a 5-year-old would be”.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I’m sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some “policy” came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, “crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025” There are just mountains of BS to sift through.