As a Bay Area resident, I cordially invite Trump to take a tour of Alcatraz. And then I cordially invite the person leading the tour to lock him and the Secret Service agents in a cell and toss the key into the Bay.
Alcatraz is nuthin". Every prisoner had their own cell. Donny needs to go down to El Salvador and build a replica of CICOT. We can dream about the next Democratic president pardoning all the inmates and locking up all those committing crimes the Trump Administration.
Incidentally, there's a project called the DOJ-in-Exile which is gathering evidence of crimes committed by the Trump Administration for future prosecution.
Donnie Demento is planning his big boy military parade on June 14. Here is your chance to get right up close and personal with him - deny him his ratings. Sign up for a protest near you and attend!
We need a couple of billionaires to come out and say : If your a veteran we will pay for your transportation to DC ; house you
in an area hotel/ motel for two nights; and provide you with $100 for food. Then you will protest this sham parade and pour into the streets to block its progress
THAT’S how we can put an end to this bullshitters “parade”
I saw comrades killed and wounded. Thank doG there weren't many. I ran a battery of canons in the mountains. No idea how many dads, sons, uncles, nephews, and cousins we killed. Probably kids and moms too, no idea. We got the target called in and fired. Trump calls all of us and them "losers". I still have nightmares at 75 yo.
Wow!! Do I like this comment!!! There must be some retribution. Those fucks tore up our nation’s capitol for fuck sake! Beat our police officers. And NOTHING WAS DONE!!! By ANYONE DEMS INCLUDED.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. WHAT FUCKEN SHIT WE ARE FED.
Seriously this scenario is what fuels revolutions. And no one will be kind to those who have done what they have done.
We have been betrayed by many in our side. Cowards. And least Trump is open about his many negative traits. Stupid selfish lazy corrupt mind of a child playing with his toys …….. don’t have time for all of them.
I'd be really grateful if someone could tell me what the Democrats ARE doing at the moment. I know some are fighting - but there are 213 members of the house, and 45 senators. I reckon about 245 of that lot are sitting silently on their hands. Any idea why?
Kathleen, I am sure there is plenty of evidence available. Here is a list of at least 18 others that need to be prosecuted along with him. Scroll down please.
“… there's a project called the DOJ-in-Exile which is gathering evidence of crimes committed by the Trump Administration for future prosecution.” God. I hope so!
That would be a phenomenal ending to the insane shitshow we're all having to live through. I'm from SF and have seen the "The Rock" on numerous occasions. The thought of being on an island surrounded by icy, shark infested waters and no golf courses to cheat on or fast food to eat would absolutely terrify dear leader. He wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind. Mob boss Al Capone bought the farm there in 1947 from cardiac arrest and had been suffering from neurosyphillis. Hmm...
One fun fact I recall from my tour of Alcatraz many years ago was that they provided really good food to the inmates, because it kept the level of unrest down. They had a menu posted which looked like what a middle-class family would have.
I would love to see tRump at the edge of shark-y waters or even a shark tank. Diaper drenching overflow! He would have waste matter dripping down is legs
Seriously yes, if it's not a performance he doesn't actually exist, right? And did anyone notice the irony of him watching acatraz on PBS while simultaneously trying to pull their funding? Moron doesn't even cover it. I think 'false prophet' is where I'm landing these days.
The Conman in Chief loves the picture that the spiders in his big fat pumpkin head are spinning of Alcatraz. Sean Connery and Nick Cage, muscles glistening with sweat. Caged men in the middle of water, where no magnet can ever save them. Spare no expense! It must be done!
On the tour they used to let you, if you wanted, go into a cell and feel what it was like to hear the doors slam, but they had to stop that when once it turned out to be almost impossible to get the rusty door open again.
Good story, Robert. We toured the prison in Mansfield where "Shawshank" was filmed. The cells were tiny, maybe 8x12 at most, with two bunks each. In some rows, no light. Just totally creepy. Visitors could walk into the cells, but I couldn't make myself do it. No wonder it's said to be haunted, like Alcatraz.
Who here has been to Alcatraz? My husband and I toured the prison before my son was born (he's 43 now.) Then we went back twice to look at the plants and birds. It was a wreck when we toured the prison, a complete tear down if you ask me. The grounds were also a wreck too, with a lot concrete strewn around. It's not very big. If you're a big developer, I'd waste my money somewhere else.
Actually, after viewing the new building Berkeley just built and opened for the "unhoused", they might prefer Alcatraz in its current condition. More homey, and more like living on the sidewalk.
I am all for that too. The next 18 inmates are to be found in this list on Wikipedia on the line of succession for the US presidency. Scroll down and you will see them all.
When I first looked at that list I did not see any reason to remove Donny before one could legally get rid of the rest of them too, like in 2026, when we hopefully can have a Democratic Congress.
Umm, we really don't have sharks here. We used to have a lot of leopard sharks, but we ate them all, although I did see a picture recently of a three foot long one caught off Berkeley.
If memory serves in S Florida PBS comes in on Channel 2, and Walt Nauta learned long ago that it’s hopeless to try and teach him how to work the remote beyond pressing the red button
If that’s the case, then if PBS in S Florida vacates channel 2 perhaps many independent news/content creators, such as Meidas Touch, Lincoln Project, I Am Politics Girl, Democracy Docket, etc… could form a production company and take over the only channel that Trump can count up to (2).
I had the same reaction....In fact, the only point in all of this daily (hourly?) lunacy that actually surprised me is that Donnie Demento tuned in to PBS. I wonder if he's feeling symptoms of wokeness now? He'd better be careful: if President Goebbels Miller finds out, Donald will find himself on the next plane to El Salvador.
Most likely: Donald's dementia has reached the point that he cannot remember how to change channels (or, possibly, even that there are many channels on a TV).
And only one that he’s smart enough to watch when he turns on his TV alone, PBS Ch 2 WPBT in S Florida that comes on automatically when he presses the red power button because it’s the lowest channel. He’s a red button guy, and one of his ted buttons orders a diet coke while the other turns on the TeeVee
I also find it disturbing that a PBS station decided to show that film, but it is South Floriduh so I guess it tracks…as a floriduh-in I can attest that my local PBS stations show odd programming too.
It actually is based in reality, with a TON of dramatic license of course!
The three prisoners the film is based on actually did escape and were never found, although there have been many theories and even stories of people that knew them later in life as civilians…it’s pretty fascinating!
Oh my fucking God. Shared sacrifice? This from the people who threw temper tantrums and threatened to kill Fauci because they didn’t want to put a fucking mask on to help protect their fellow citizens from a deadly virus? Those people? Fuck all of them straight off.
It is a defining characteristic that conservatives in general and especially MAGAts are selfish to the point of extremism. It's only when it finally hits them in the face that they may start to realize something is amiss. For the deepest cult members, not even then.
Bingo Schnauzer! You can see it, why can't the media. Their whole shtick is BS...they are manipulating Americans to get what they want when they want. Tariffs went from 'we'll all get rich' to 'learn how to sacrifice with less!' This is all deliberate to destroy the nation as we know it. Its a Psy-Op & these farmers, Wall streeters, etc who say....'Let's give this more time to work' are being naieve assholes
"Shared sacrifice" to them means that they think "the others" will sacrifice and they themselves can just do whatever.
I've told this story before--my father-in-law was a pharmacist in a small southern town when COVID hit. Nobody wore masks. So, sick people arrogantly going to the pharmacy when sick all day. Though he was really healthy he died right before the vaccine. All those nice people were so shocked--"Why--he was so healthy! Such a good Christian! I wonder what happened?" Putting on a mask never occurred to them. I will never, never forgive those people for taking my husband's dad. Never. They thought they were so special and couldn't care less about the people around them, and played dumb because it's more important to make some point than to care about people around them.
There were a couple of weeks here where I am where it was so lovely--people taking walks and waving across the street, people with masks standing at a distance to go into the store, everyone being kind and giving others space and going to the store for their neighbors--and then it all went to hell.
It also makes me sad and angry how many people must have known people who died senselessly and STILL don't care. Thank you. Let's never forget what happened and who helped it happen.
Thank you--it shocks me how angry I still get. I don't like hating people, but I think of my husband having to do his dad's eulogy on zoom and then all the people later being so stupid and I feel more hatred and violence than I'm comfortable with.
That just makes you human. Never let others take away your actual identity. You aren't hateful and you aren't violent, you are a compassionate, empathetic, feeling human being. Traits they will never know, and it's not worth trying to decipher or understand. It is what it is.
Yes, I agree with you.I live in a ruby red county in red Ohio.A lot of the people here wore their masks pulled down to their chins so they weren’t protecting anyone.It always angered me that they didn’t think of others, only themselves.
Christians and Catholics so little if not negatively concerned about the common good are still whining about not being able to worship without masks during Covid. They are simply unconscionably evil poseurs.
I don't go many places, but I certainly wear a mask at the grocery store (the main place I go). I dare someone to try and say something to me about it!
I knew a married couple that died two weeks apart in their local hospital after being on ventilators. They had refused to get vaccinated. They were in their sixties.
Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson who knows math said that the rate at which MAGAts were dying of Covid-19 would be enough to change the outcome of some elections.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is brilliant and such a gift to humanity. He posted this today, "Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves there from before the 1950s & 1960s. Then, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you are unsure, the answer is, literally, written in stone."
Thank you for posting this. If all those anti-vaxxers had lived in the days before the polio vaccine, they’d be first in line for any vaccine available. The only vaccine available before the polio vaccine was for smallpox.
So Republicans are now preaching restraint in a consumer-driven society. Wow!! And, furthermore, I'm eagerly awaiting tRump's announcement of revival of the Erie Canal for transporting foodstuffs between Chicago and the Northeast. Someday there will be a huge volume of movies about this ridiculous era in the USof A. Hopefully, they won't be foreign-made.
I'm telling ya, that Pam Bondi is really something. JEEZUS WTF and Holy Shit! Between her and Harriet Hageman I'm not sure there's half a brain in attendance. Bondi and her "all this fentanyl that President Trump has seized that has saved the lives of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE" and Harriet not knowing that San Diego is on the Pacific Ocean and not on the coveted GULF of MEXICO we are dealing with the most seemingly uneducated, ignorant and downright dumbest people on the planet. Please Lady Karma, do your thing soon.
Oh, Pam. . .you are counting on no one knowing that the population of the United States is around 350 million people. Saving 258 million of us from fentanyl would deserve all capital letters. Or it would hint that two thirds of us are druggies.
Obviously the stupid old bastard hasn’t been to Alcatraz; the place would require untold billions to bring it to code. Someone better set a shiny object in front of the dotard to distract him.
Guess he's done with being Pope and now wants to be a movie maker. Hope MAGAts are enjoying the reality show entertainment they voted for. Maybe South Florida PBS will slip "To Kill A Mockingbird" into their programming and POS-in-Chief will learn about racists bearing false witness and mob rule.
I'd be surprised if they weren't really exploring this because it would be a double win for them - closing a very popular national park and throwing billions to a private prison company. It doesn't matter how much it costs if it's going to a RWNJ private company.
I really am surprised that Donny Convict hasn't decrees all codes are now suspended. Being the builder he is, you'd think taking revenge on the code gestapo would be job 1. He really has surprised me. No decrees on we're not switching to new refrigerants. No yanking Biden's money for energy efficient building systems. Donny has disappointed on lack of a building technology revenge tour. He truly has lost his fast ball.
You, Jeff, are going to Alcatraz! LOL. Trump was the most incompetent and incoherent in his full discussion on this. I cannot believe he has any mental faculties left. The psychopath has no clothes. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/white-house-psychopathy?r=3m1bs
I am a native of San Francisco and spent my first 18 years in the Bay Area. For the first 12 years of my life, Alcatraz was in operation.
Everything that comes out of Trump's mind is pure fantasy. Why can't anyone else see that? Why do people pay any attention to him? The rest of our government are toddlers that think just like him. We need prisons for the criminally insane, not immigrants. Trump is destined to be the first prisoner.
I routinely refer to President Bone Spurs now as The King of Bullshit. He literally just makes stuff up as he's speaking. Like today, at his news conference with the new Canadian Prime Minister, he made up mythical statistics to try and prove that the US doesn't need to trade with Canada. It looked like Mark Carney was attempting to move as far away from Trump as possible - while smiling, of course, because Canadians are always polite!
Alcatraz is the latest shiny bright thing. So let’s talk about “shared pain.” Let’s first dispense with shared. It isn’t. Not one member of Congress is contributing to a food bank or taking a pay cut. Not one CEO is worried about a missing house payment or child’s college tuition. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of former Federal employees are on the street or living in the limbo of being fired. I’m sure the farmers in the Midwest would have some comment regarding “shared” as they lose Ag sales—maybe never to return. And for what? We aren’t at war. Explain it to families and friends of those renditioned by the Alien Enemy Act. The only pain we truly have resides at Mar-a-Lago or a tarted up WH.
That movie showed the intelligence and humanity of the Birdman. Forgive the pun, but the point of that movie would fly right over his head. Burt Lancaster was great in that role.
The father of my best friend Phyllis in elementary school, Tom Gaddis, wrote the book Birdman of Alcatraz. It was a bestseller and then was made into the movie with Burt Lancaster.
Don't you think you should ask us, the residents of the Bay Area, the 17th largest economy in the world? I think there are three NO votes in this house. And who's going to build it? Illegal immigrants from across the southern border?
Well, this is California, the 4th largest economy in the world, not just the Bay Area. Why not put it in southern Florida or Bedminster? I'll only take it if they promise to keep t out there, with no heat in his cell. The fog comes right through the Gate and is damp and chilly, especially in July.
He sits on his golden throne, soiled diapers scattered around him, thinks of the most stoopid acts a human can perform and spews, “Eureka, Alcatraz!”
Big thanks to Jon Voight for planting a “let’s tariff the movies” thought into the Bloated Yam of Scam’s big fat pumpkin head. Now they will punish foreign film creators? Nothing is sacred anymore.
Every time I hear that has-been's name I think of that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza is convinced that he bought a car that was owned by Jon Voight.
As a Bay Area resident, I cordially invite Trump to take a tour of Alcatraz. And then I cordially invite the person leading the tour to lock him and the Secret Service agents in a cell and toss the key into the Bay.
Alcatraz is nuthin". Every prisoner had their own cell. Donny needs to go down to El Salvador and build a replica of CICOT. We can dream about the next Democratic president pardoning all the inmates and locking up all those committing crimes the Trump Administration.
Incidentally, there's a project called the DOJ-in-Exile which is gathering evidence of crimes committed by the Trump Administration for future prosecution.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lndnzbfxxs2g
https://bsky.app/profile/dojinexile.bsky.social/post/3lngnnlrw4k26
Donnie Demento is planning his big boy military parade on June 14. Here is your chance to get right up close and personal with him - deny him his ratings. Sign up for a protest near you and attend!
https://mobilize.us/s/Sh8yPn
We need a couple of billionaires to come out and say : If your a veteran we will pay for your transportation to DC ; house you
in an area hotel/ motel for two nights; and provide you with $100 for food. Then you will protest this sham parade and pour into the streets to block its progress
THAT’S how we can put an end to this bullshitters “parade”
How does a draft dodger get a Military parade?
Coercion, bullying, bribery, threats...
By tricking easy marks into voting them into the presidency of the United States of America.
I saw comrades killed and wounded. Thank doG there weren't many. I ran a battery of canons in the mountains. No idea how many dads, sons, uncles, nephews, and cousins we killed. Probably kids and moms too, no idea. We got the target called in and fired. Trump calls all of us and them "losers". I still have nightmares at 75 yo.
$100 won't buy a single meal in DC.
Anwar-Sadat him
Probably not a good idea to put that in print...
For $92 million he will be well protected.
Or maybe the Indira Ghandi way...
Yes. we need to have so many people out that the media will be forced to give equal coverage to that.
Wow!! Do I like this comment!!! There must be some retribution. Those fucks tore up our nation’s capitol for fuck sake! Beat our police officers. And NOTHING WAS DONE!!! By ANYONE DEMS INCLUDED.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL. WHAT FUCKEN SHIT WE ARE FED.
Seriously this scenario is what fuels revolutions. And no one will be kind to those who have done what they have done.
We have been betrayed by many in our side. Cowards. And least Trump is open about his many negative traits. Stupid selfish lazy corrupt mind of a child playing with his toys …….. don’t have time for all of them.
This makes me very happy, knowing a reliable compilation of the crimes will come back to bite him, and his accomplices, in the ass.
TPM always thinks far ahead of even the Democratic party which seems to be floundering except for a few of the outspoken.
I'd be really grateful if someone could tell me what the Democrats ARE doing at the moment. I know some are fighting - but there are 213 members of the house, and 45 senators. I reckon about 245 of that lot are sitting silently on their hands. Any idea why?
Cowards.
My rep had a surprise guest at him town hall - Hakeem Jeffries. I was very impressed.
Kathleen, I am sure there is plenty of evidence available. Here is a list of at least 18 others that need to be prosecuted along with him. Scroll down please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
“… there's a project called the DOJ-in-Exile which is gathering evidence of crimes committed by the Trump Administration for future prosecution.” God. I hope so!
Don't, Kathleen. Anyone he locked up is likely to be dead by 2028. Don't tell him what he "needs to do."
That would be a phenomenal ending to the insane shitshow we're all having to live through. I'm from SF and have seen the "The Rock" on numerous occasions. The thought of being on an island surrounded by icy, shark infested waters and no golf courses to cheat on or fast food to eat would absolutely terrify dear leader. He wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind. Mob boss Al Capone bought the farm there in 1947 from cardiac arrest and had been suffering from neurosyphillis. Hmm...
“icy, shark infested waters and no golf courses to cheat on or fast food to eat would absolutely terrify dear leader”
😂😂😂. That’s good stuff, Rick”
One fun fact I recall from my tour of Alcatraz many years ago was that they provided really good food to the inmates, because it kept the level of unrest down. They had a menu posted which looked like what a middle-class family would have.
Sorry, no Joe Arpiaio mystery meat.
And all the cigarettes they could smoke.
Thanks Walt.
I would love to see tRump at the edge of shark-y waters or even a shark tank. Diaper drenching overflow! He would have waste matter dripping down is legs
I imagine the lack of an audience will be punishment beyond any fear of sharks or water.
Seriously yes, if it's not a performance he doesn't actually exist, right? And did anyone notice the irony of him watching acatraz on PBS while simultaneously trying to pull their funding? Moron doesn't even cover it. I think 'false prophet' is where I'm landing these days.
"He wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind." How about both? (Without a diaper, of course.)
I enjoyed seeing that phrase once again, a favorite of my Mom's.
Your Mom must have been a character! LOL!
That’s what I call ‘context’ 😳‼️
It’s amazing how similar “The man who sold the world” is to Al Capone.
Not entirely.
Al Capone had SOME sort of heart - he initiated the idea of giving free milk to kindergarten and junior school children.
No golf course? The worst punishment ever for Donny!
YES, Alison! I too am a Bay Area resident and will gladly carry that key and throw it to the sharks in the water!
Or throw him in the water. That would be fun to watch.
I have too much respect and appreciation for sharks to toss him in the Bay and risk poisoning the great whites.
Yeah - but it WOULD be fun to see him doing a cartoon style swim stroke trying to get away!
I'm getting a visual, but it needs bongos
There are a lot of us in San Fran area. I also live near San Fran. I 🩷San Francisco.
Wearing only underwear? Too ugly to contemplate.
The sharks would spit him out—too much FAT and not enough meat!
With the sharks! 🤣🤣
I live in SF and I approve of this plan too!
Me, too!
The Conman in Chief loves the picture that the spiders in his big fat pumpkin head are spinning of Alcatraz. Sean Connery and Nick Cage, muscles glistening with sweat. Caged men in the middle of water, where no magnet can ever save them. Spare no expense! It must be done!
😂😂😂
lol
On the tour they used to let you, if you wanted, go into a cell and feel what it was like to hear the doors slam, but they had to stop that when once it turned out to be almost impossible to get the rusty door open again.
Really? We went into the cell used for isolation. Completely dark, no light. It bothered my husband a lot, but it didn't bother me.
He’s very fond of alternative facts. And him calling in to ESPN from Abu Dhabi…really?
Aaron Rodgers would pay good money for that treatment!
He donated enough money to UCB to get the players' locker room at Memorial Stadium named after him. Total ick!
You do know that Aaron Rodgers played at Cal (my alma mater), right? What a political disappointment...
What year was that?
Good story, Robert. We toured the prison in Mansfield where "Shawshank" was filmed. The cells were tiny, maybe 8x12 at most, with two bunks each. In some rows, no light. Just totally creepy. Visitors could walk into the cells, but I couldn't make myself do it. No wonder it's said to be haunted, like Alcatraz.
As well, according to this Internet tidbit, Alcatraz gens about $60,000,000 a year in tourism dollars.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/trump-floats-reopening-alcatraz-heres-how-much-revenue-notorious-prison-generates
Yes, and it's part of the National Parks.
One of the highest grossing National Parks in terms of tourism dollars.
But Kristi Noem wouldn't have to travel so far to do her Halloween-gun-toting-tits-out display....
My exact sentiment Alison, the batshit fuckery pinging around in this stunods head drones on daily…the tour of Alcatraz would have a new exhibit!!
Who here has been to Alcatraz? My husband and I toured the prison before my son was born (he's 43 now.) Then we went back twice to look at the plants and birds. It was a wreck when we toured the prison, a complete tear down if you ask me. The grounds were also a wreck too, with a lot concrete strewn around. It's not very big. If you're a big developer, I'd waste my money somewhere else.
The new Alcatraz will be a boondoggle of epic proportions.
Actually, after viewing the new building Berkeley just built and opened for the "unhoused", they might prefer Alcatraz in its current condition. More homey, and more like living on the sidewalk.
I am all for that too. The next 18 inmates are to be found in this list on Wikipedia on the line of succession for the US presidency. Scroll down and you will see them all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
When I first looked at that list I did not see any reason to remove Donny before one could legally get rid of the rest of them too, like in 2026, when we hopefully can have a Democratic Congress.
Maybe they could lock him in the cell that has Al Capone's name tagged on it. Then, throw away the key into the cold and shark-infested waters....
LOL!!! (But don't forget the magnets.)
Umm, we really don't have sharks here. We used to have a lot of leopard sharks, but we ate them all, although I did see a picture recently of a three foot long one caught off Berkeley.
I mean they tear down standard commercial buildings bc they’re ’too expensive to convert to residential’… huh. Excited to see how this works?!
I am certain he has never seen Alcatraz
Yes, he has! He saw the movie! Oh, you mean the REAL Alcatraz. Yeah, you're probably right.
I think, based on recent US Supreme Court rulings, she would interpret those as "tips," not bribes.
Are you saying he watched PBS? 🤣
If memory serves in S Florida PBS comes in on Channel 2, and Walt Nauta learned long ago that it’s hopeless to try and teach him how to work the remote beyond pressing the red button
If that’s the case, then if PBS in S Florida vacates channel 2 perhaps many independent news/content creators, such as Meidas Touch, Lincoln Project, I Am Politics Girl, Democracy Docket, etc… could form a production company and take over the only channel that Trump can count up to (2).
He’d throw the remote at the TV.
I had the same reaction....In fact, the only point in all of this daily (hourly?) lunacy that actually surprised me is that Donnie Demento tuned in to PBS. I wonder if he's feeling symptoms of wokeness now? He'd better be careful: if President Goebbels Miller finds out, Donald will find himself on the next plane to El Salvador.
Most likely: Donald's dementia has reached the point that he cannot remember how to change channels (or, possibly, even that there are many channels on a TV).
So many beautiful channels!
And only one that he’s smart enough to watch when he turns on his TV alone, PBS Ch 2 WPBT in S Florida that comes on automatically when he presses the red power button because it’s the lowest channel. He’s a red button guy, and one of his ted buttons orders a diet coke while the other turns on the TeeVee
Defunded PBS today, no?
Maybe he thought Antiques Roadshow was on.
Antiques Roadshow: Everything Is Covered In Unspeakably Ugly Gold Paint Edition
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
👍wonderful comment👍
Or if you wanted to go a different way:
Maybe he thought Benny Hill was on
I find that shocking, he's never been for anything educational.
I also find it disturbing that a PBS station decided to show that film, but it is South Floriduh so I guess it tracks…as a floriduh-in I can attest that my local PBS stations show odd programming too.
Probably didn't know it was fiction; probably thought it was factual and historic.
It actually is based in reality, with a TON of dramatic license of course!
The three prisoners the film is based on actually did escape and were never found, although there have been many theories and even stories of people that knew them later in life as civilians…it’s pretty fascinating!
Yep, the Anglin brothers. Florida boys, too
I always loved that part because my mom and her family were Anglin— no relation to the escapees that I'm aware of.
He never got past Sesame Street
Yup.
😂😂😂
He just didn't know it was PBS.
The great tastemaker Hannibal Lector could be a design consultant.
That was my first thought too.
Oh the irony!
There’s an irony for ya!
That was my first thought too. But Clint Eastwood was in it, so there’s that.
That struck me too
Right? I had to post that one
Oh my fucking God. Shared sacrifice? This from the people who threw temper tantrums and threatened to kill Fauci because they didn’t want to put a fucking mask on to help protect their fellow citizens from a deadly virus? Those people? Fuck all of them straight off.
It is a defining characteristic that conservatives in general and especially MAGAts are selfish to the point of extremism. It's only when it finally hits them in the face that they may start to realize something is amiss. For the deepest cult members, not even then.
Something is amiss -- for THEM. To hell with "something is amiss" for all the rest of us.
Bingo Schnauzer! You can see it, why can't the media. Their whole shtick is BS...they are manipulating Americans to get what they want when they want. Tariffs went from 'we'll all get rich' to 'learn how to sacrifice with less!' This is all deliberate to destroy the nation as we know it. Its a Psy-Op & these farmers, Wall streeters, etc who say....'Let's give this more time to work' are being naieve assholes
How about the weekly golf parties at Merde-a-Lago? Our shared sacrifice :: paid by taxpayers
Yes!!!
Where was this "shared sacrifice" among Americans in 2020 when they whined about wearing a mask in public during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic?
"Shared sacrifice" to them means that they think "the others" will sacrifice and they themselves can just do whatever.
I've told this story before--my father-in-law was a pharmacist in a small southern town when COVID hit. Nobody wore masks. So, sick people arrogantly going to the pharmacy when sick all day. Though he was really healthy he died right before the vaccine. All those nice people were so shocked--"Why--he was so healthy! Such a good Christian! I wonder what happened?" Putting on a mask never occurred to them. I will never, never forgive those people for taking my husband's dad. Never. They thought they were so special and couldn't care less about the people around them, and played dumb because it's more important to make some point than to care about people around them.
I am so sorry—I am still disgusted and always will be with how people responded to covid…
Yes, and all the shaming done to us who wore masks. “No one ain’t going to cover my mouth.” There’s your “shared sacrifice.”
The “face diaper” as they called it—I fucking hate those people!
It makes me so angry still.
There were a couple of weeks here where I am where it was so lovely--people taking walks and waving across the street, people with masks standing at a distance to go into the store, everyone being kind and giving others space and going to the store for their neighbors--and then it all went to hell.
Yup—putin and the magat online trolls destroyed any semblance of cooperation. It was absolutely a concerted effort, by many, with evil intentions.
I am so sorry. So many senseless deaths.
It also makes me sad and angry how many people must have known people who died senselessly and STILL don't care. Thank you. Let's never forget what happened and who helped it happen.
That is a heartbreaking story. So very sorry that evil came to your family's door. People can really suck.
Thank you--it shocks me how angry I still get. I don't like hating people, but I think of my husband having to do his dad's eulogy on zoom and then all the people later being so stupid and I feel more hatred and violence than I'm comfortable with.
That just makes you human. Never let others take away your actual identity. You aren't hateful and you aren't violent, you are a compassionate, empathetic, feeling human being. Traits they will never know, and it's not worth trying to decipher or understand. It is what it is.
Yes, I agree with you.I live in a ruby red county in red Ohio.A lot of the people here wore their masks pulled down to their chins so they weren’t protecting anyone.It always angered me that they didn’t think of others, only themselves.
That's even worse than no mask at all. "Oh I get it--I'm wearing a mask but not in any way that does anything--HAPPY?"
Yes, a kind of F U to all of us trying to protect others and ourselves.smh
Christians and Catholics so little if not negatively concerned about the common good are still whining about not being able to worship without masks during Covid. They are simply unconscionably evil poseurs.
God is all-powerful, but he can't hear you with your mask on!
Some of us still wear masks.
I don't go many places, but I certainly wear a mask at the grocery store (the main place I go). I dare someone to try and say something to me about it!
Yes, in Berkeley, many customers wear masks at the grocery store, and so does most of the staff.
I like your name. Classy!
A little piece of paper on their faces was a yooooge oppression to them
Four years later they went to a convention and taped a diaper to their ear
And in some cases, wearing them -- I remember when MAGAts were all about "Real Men Wear Diapers."
😆such dipshits😵💫
I am rooting for a 100% effective vaccine for an especially deadly version of covid. That should clear the deck somewhat.
The COVID-19 death rate was much higher among MAGAts than in the general population.
I knew a married couple that died two weeks apart in their local hospital after being on ventilators. They had refused to get vaccinated. They were in their sixties.
Yep, stories like that were very common.
Gotta fight “The Man”! ooops- now you dead!!
Astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson who knows math said that the rate at which MAGAts were dying of Covid-19 would be enough to change the outcome of some elections.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is brilliant and such a gift to humanity. He posted this today, "Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves there from before the 1950s & 1960s. Then, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you are unsure, the answer is, literally, written in stone."
He didn't originate the "go to the cemetery and look" idea, but he does have a platform as a famous scientist and kudos to him for using it this way.
I should have added that he didn't take credit for it, but rather as you said, he used his platform to inform others.
No worries
Thank you for posting this. If all those anti-vaxxers had lived in the days before the polio vaccine, they’d be first in line for any vaccine available. The only vaccine available before the polio vaccine was for smallpox.
The best part to me is that he was actually watching "Escape from Alcatraz" on a PBS station - oh the ironies of irony!
MAGAts are irony deficient.
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So Republicans are now preaching restraint in a consumer-driven society. Wow!! And, furthermore, I'm eagerly awaiting tRump's announcement of revival of the Erie Canal for transporting foodstuffs between Chicago and the Northeast. Someday there will be a huge volume of movies about this ridiculous era in the USof A. Hopefully, they won't be foreign-made.
See IDIOCRACY.
Actually, I suspect foreign film makers would be more likely to show this debacle as it truly has been than white washing by some in the US.
True. But I was thinking about the silly tariffs on foreign films idea trump hatched
Ah! I get it. Carry on. :D
Only when it suits their agenda.
I'm telling ya, that Pam Bondi is really something. JEEZUS WTF and Holy Shit! Between her and Harriet Hageman I'm not sure there's half a brain in attendance. Bondi and her "all this fentanyl that President Trump has seized that has saved the lives of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE" and Harriet not knowing that San Diego is on the Pacific Ocean and not on the coveted GULF of MEXICO we are dealing with the most seemingly uneducated, ignorant and downright dumbest people on the planet. Please Lady Karma, do your thing soon.
Oh, Pam. . .you are counting on no one knowing that the population of the United States is around 350 million people. Saving 258 million of us from fentanyl would deserve all capital letters. Or it would hint that two thirds of us are druggies.
As a floriduh-in—yes, I knew she would be the absolute fucking WORST.
Obviously the stupid old bastard hasn’t been to Alcatraz; the place would require untold billions to bring it to code. Someone better set a shiny object in front of the dotard to distract him.
Guess he's done with being Pope and now wants to be a movie maker. Hope MAGAts are enjoying the reality show entertainment they voted for. Maybe South Florida PBS will slip "To Kill A Mockingbird" into their programming and POS-in-Chief will learn about racists bearing false witness and mob rule.
I will he would be over being commander in chief.
I'd be surprised if they weren't really exploring this because it would be a double win for them - closing a very popular national park and throwing billions to a private prison company. It doesn't matter how much it costs if it's going to a RWNJ private company.
A pacifier, but he can only have two.
I really am surprised that Donny Convict hasn't decrees all codes are now suspended. Being the builder he is, you'd think taking revenge on the code gestapo would be job 1. He really has surprised me. No decrees on we're not switching to new refrigerants. No yanking Biden's money for energy efficient building systems. Donny has disappointed on lack of a building technology revenge tour. He truly has lost his fast ball.
And think of the prize tag to bury any other ex wife's there.
Don’t worry. He will be over it by tomorrow.
What the fuck was Diaper Don doing WATCHING PBS????
He couldn't figure out how to change the channel
I'm sure some flunky told him about it.
What are ANY of the Nazis doing watching PBS rather than trying to shut it down?
Seeing what the libtards are saying about them? And they are trying to shut it down
The dumbfuck thought it was Putin Broadcasting Services
That's Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax.
It’s the only button he knows to press on the remote…
Channel surfing. Watch the visual.
He can barely read. That's why he has no idea what the document in his office says.
You, Jeff, are going to Alcatraz! LOL. Trump was the most incompetent and incoherent in his full discussion on this. I cannot believe he has any mental faculties left. The psychopath has no clothes. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/white-house-psychopathy?r=3m1bs
Or brains.
I am a native of San Francisco and spent my first 18 years in the Bay Area. For the first 12 years of my life, Alcatraz was in operation.
Everything that comes out of Trump's mind is pure fantasy. Why can't anyone else see that? Why do people pay any attention to him? The rest of our government are toddlers that think just like him. We need prisons for the criminally insane, not immigrants. Trump is destined to be the first prisoner.
I routinely refer to President Bone Spurs now as The King of Bullshit. He literally just makes stuff up as he's speaking. Like today, at his news conference with the new Canadian Prime Minister, he made up mythical statistics to try and prove that the US doesn't need to trade with Canada. It looked like Mark Carney was attempting to move as far away from Trump as possible - while smiling, of course, because Canadians are always polite!
Alcatraz is the latest shiny bright thing. So let’s talk about “shared pain.” Let’s first dispense with shared. It isn’t. Not one member of Congress is contributing to a food bank or taking a pay cut. Not one CEO is worried about a missing house payment or child’s college tuition. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of former Federal employees are on the street or living in the limbo of being fired. I’m sure the farmers in the Midwest would have some comment regarding “shared” as they lose Ag sales—maybe never to return. And for what? We aren’t at war. Explain it to families and friends of those renditioned by the Alien Enemy Act. The only pain we truly have resides at Mar-a-Lago or a tarted up WH.
Yes, but the farmers are looking forward to receiving the $50 BILLION subsidy in the House budget bill
Dip Shit Trump as the Birdbrain of Alcatraz. Great movie!
That movie showed the intelligence and humanity of the Birdman. Forgive the pun, but the point of that movie would fly right over his head. Burt Lancaster was great in that role.
The father of my best friend Phyllis in elementary school, Tom Gaddis, wrote the book Birdman of Alcatraz. It was a bestseller and then was made into the movie with Burt Lancaster.
I 🩷 this one!!!!!
The birdbrain of Alcatraz.
Maybe Trump can do with only ONE SCOOP of ice cream for desert.
With or without the Adderall mixed in?
Never! Not Fat Donny Two Scoops! My name for him for many years.
Now it’s the orange shit stain and that’s coming down to just shit stain more and more
Okay...let's rebuild Alcatraz and put Orange adipose tissue and his band of merry labotomous assholes in their new castle!
Don't you think you should ask us, the residents of the Bay Area, the 17th largest economy in the world? I think there are three NO votes in this house. And who's going to build it? Illegal immigrants from across the southern border?
The Feds never ask. They just go ahead and do.
Well, this is California, the 4th largest economy in the world, not just the Bay Area. Why not put it in southern Florida or Bedminster? I'll only take it if they promise to keep t out there, with no heat in his cell. The fog comes right through the Gate and is damp and chilly, especially in July.
Not to worry. By the time they’re ready to begin work, Dumpy will be out of office or dead.
Love you, bird. But they can’t just put Alcatraz anywhere they want. It is where it is.
And I doubt you’re going to get a vote on whatever, whenever or wherever they’re gonna do
Well, you're a downer. It's supposed to be all about us!
He sits on his golden throne, soiled diapers scattered around him, thinks of the most stoopid acts a human can perform and spews, “Eureka, Alcatraz!”
Big thanks to Jon Voight for planting a “let’s tariff the movies” thought into the Bloated Yam of Scam’s big fat pumpkin head. Now they will punish foreign film creators? Nothing is sacred anymore.
Man, I wish Voight would just STFU
Me too! What a royal POS he is!
Every time I hear that has-been's name I think of that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza is convinced that he bought a car that was owned by Jon Voight.
Fuck Jon Voigt and his George Costanza wood-paneled station wagon