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groundloop

(13,162 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 09:55 AM Jul 17

Pelosi slams plans to reopen Alcatraz as 'stupid' ahead of AG Bondi's reported visit

Source: News 9 ABC

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will reportedly be in San Francisco on Thursday to announce plans to reopen Alcatraz.

President Donald Trump mentioned in May wanting to reopen the federal penitentiary "to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders."

The former notorious prison, nicknamed "The Rock," was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility. It has been a National Park Service site since the 70s.

"With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration's stupidest initiative yet. It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies," Pelosi said in a statement.

Read more: https://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/former-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-slams-plans-to-reopen-alcatraz-as-stupid-ahead-of-attorney-genaral-pam-bondis-reported-visit-san-francisco-the-rock-national-park-service-president-donald-trump-administration-gov-newsom

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Pelosi slams plans to reopen Alcatraz as 'stupid' ahead of AG Bondi's reported visit (Original Post) groundloop Jul 17 OP
Anyone who's visited Alcatraz knows how stupid this is groundloop Jul 17 #1
I've never been there ClaudetteCC Jul 17 #5
I have been there....took the tour at the most 5 years ago. sdfernando Jul 17 #11
Will Pam make a pitch for stocking SF bay with alligators? Zambero Jul 17 #2
Is there a go fund me set up to bribe the ferry crew to just leave them there? jls4561 Jul 17 #3
Watch the ferry trip. Pam especially. Maybe johnnyfins Jul 17 #4
Idiots. Plain and simple. chowder66 Jul 17 #6
idiots pandering to even bigger idiots Skittles Jul 17 #13
1000 percent Dum djacq Jul 17 #7
They are just messing with CA Tree Lady Jul 17 #8
I predict there will be massive protests and protesters will block her access to boat docks unless she takes a kimbutgar Jul 17 #9
Blue Wave incoming! FredGarvin Jul 17 #10
Well of course it's stupid. mwb970 Jul 17 #12

groundloop

(13,162 posts)
1. Anyone who's visited Alcatraz knows how stupid this is
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 09:58 AM
Jul 17

Alcatraz is decrepit, worn down, ancient, and it would take a huge amount of money to make it anywhere near usable. Besides that it's small and really wouldn't be all that useful as a modern prison. This is another of tRump's many boondoggles.

ClaudetteCC

(82 posts)
5. I've never been there
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jul 17

but still see it as probably one of the most impractical rediculous ideas in recent times. It is prime and confined real estate and has no airstrip for deportation flights.

sdfernando

(5,833 posts)
11. I have been there....took the tour at the most 5 years ago.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:58 PM
Jul 17

No way you could reopen that space. Only option would be to demolish everything and start from scratch....and that would be a shitload of money!....so who would get the no-bid contract?

Zambero

(9,866 posts)
2. Will Pam make a pitch for stocking SF bay with alligators?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:13 AM
Jul 17

Those are chilly saline waters for most reptiles, but it would be no less preposterous than the plan itself. "The Birdbrain of Alcatraz" cometh!

jls4561

(2,524 posts)
3. Is there a go fund me set up to bribe the ferry crew to just leave them there?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:17 AM
Jul 17

They could be picked up when they admit Nancy is correct.

All this administration does is waste money to gratify Fatass45’s masturbatory fantasies.

djacq

(1,729 posts)
7. 1000 percent Dum
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jul 17

"A 1959 report indicated that the facility was over three times more expensive to run than the average American prison; $10 per prisoner per day compared to $3 in most other prisons."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary#Final_years

kimbutgar

(25,681 posts)
9. I predict there will be massive protests and protesters will block her access to boat docks unless she takes a
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:20 PM
Jul 17

Helicopter there.

mwb970

(11,890 posts)
12. Well of course it's stupid.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:46 PM
Jul 17

Everything trump does is stupid, or cruel, or evil, or all three.

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