US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year.
Located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America’s most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.
The budget request is seeking money “to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility”, with funds covering the first year of costs.
The plan has been met with scepticism by a number of politicians in California, with questions raised about the final cost of the project and the challenges of running Alcatraz as an active prison.
The maximum security facility was closed in 1963. As a tourist site, it is currently run by the National Park Service.
Lock up the Trump administration there. No heat no nothing f those losers
it would cost a lot more than that.
One of many deeply frustrating things about Trump’s fire hose of terrible and frequently actively evil ideas is that not only do they come in such volumes that it’s overwhelming, but it’s also incredibly hard to tell if something is a brief fixation he will quickly move on from or something that is going to be a recurring issue to deal with.
Which is to say: Christ, he’s back on this one again?
Priorities, I guess.
The worst part is he’ll probably get it. But ask for $152m to improve infrastructure and Republicans say no while Democrats say “No. #blm :)”
ADX Florence is far stiffer and built for even worse criminals while having much less logistical and operational issues vs. Alcatraz.
To use as a political prison.
Kill 2 birds with one stone and make it into a ballroom.
I second this. It seems everyone in Lumpty Trumpty’s orbit is either:
A rapist, child abuser, fraudster, and/or a war criminal.
Putin’s running dog.
Do we get to put him there when the renovations are done?
I fucking hate being stuck in the US. It is legitimately embarrassing. I wish I could move, but that takes years and tens of thousands of dollars to do correctly, even if you were to try to go somewhere with a low GDP.
We pay taxes for this. For all this shit.
are you relatively financially secure (able to park couple grand in a stock, and not be tempted/forced to liquidate it) and willing to take investment advice from a complete stranger over the internet? could speed this whole process up greatly
This is so stupid
There’s a webpage by a former fundamentalist on … would Evangelicals recognize the antichrist?
Then he goes through the Christian & Jewish prophecies…
Here’s 1 from Book of Daniel, ch 11: notice the explicit mention of strongholds/fortresses…
36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt himself and consider himself greater than any god, and he will utter monstrous blasphemies against the God of gods. He will prosper only until the period of wrath is over, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no respect for the gods his ancestors worshipped, or for the god women worship — he won’t show respect for any god, because he will consider himself greater than all of them. 38 But instead, he will honor the god of strongholds; with gold, silver, precious stones and other costly things he will honor a god unknown to his ancestors. 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will confer honor on those he acknowledges, causing them to rule over many and distributing land as a reward.
That’s from CJB, which obviously Benjamin L. Corey doesn’t use, but I find it less-overinterpreted, cleaner to the source material, & usually giving a clearer-view into the warnings…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+11&version=CJB
The antichrist page is https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ with its section on fortresses…
Please keep in mind that
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any time your continuum/soul is trying to communicate MEANING to you, that communication must go through your unconscious-mind and it will distort the message, as it is acting as a “lens”… AND
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the more your unconscious-mind’s assumptions are strong, the more-distorting they are of the message. I complain about modern bibles over-interpreting/distorting the messages, but Daniel himself was distorting the message, because he was re-mapping it onto his local geopolitics, instead of letting it pertain to countries which had no basis in his world ( & Daniel was among the best of the visioneers )
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humankind’s history is cyclical: the biblical prophecies about the “towering monster, with steel teeth & clay feet” kind of thing actually refers to end-of-Age empire, strong, but decaying/rotted/corrupt … which happens to match BOTH The Roman Empire AND The US’s Empire.
So, there’s a kind of double-refraction going-on, which has to be managed, too.
Do see it for the brilliant warning it was, though: there’s stuff in Daniel ( about the “tribulation” ), & in Rev ( about “armageddon” ) which exactly pertains to what’s unfolding, now…
I’d prefer it be called The Great Filter, because that’s what it is, functionally: it filters-out all the won’t-grow-up world-species, force-extinguishing 'em all.
The American Indians called it The Great Purification, & have been knowing about it for the last 9-10 centuries.
Anyways, when one sees through the appearances, to know what actually is usable, then the warnings of the past sometimes forearm one, re the pending changes.
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The Rock has been on the TV again I see
Of course Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz.
It is famously a prison where the worst criminals went. And just as famously, a prisoner escaped, never to be seen again.
He’s just planning ahead. Personal plans. They’re not particularly good plans, they’re not cunning plans - in fact, they’re pretty stupid plans, to be perfectly honest.
He’s spending money like crazy on useless stuff we dont need.
As intended. They’re trying to crash the dollar/currency system to replace it with some crypto backed nonsense. Well that and to make sure the technofascists can own everything.
I guess this is why you can never give a president the power of the purse.
This highlights another breakage in the setup of the American system-- citizens need the power to recall both congressional reps and the president, and justices. It cant just be by periodic elections, and impeachment isnt really a functional process. It barely exists as a check/balance.
Its almost as if the founding fathers designed the system to be subject to special interests acting outside of citizens interests. I think they mistrusted the people more than they mistrustsed aristorcats and wealthy people like themselves. Not beleivers in true democracy at all, in the end.
