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

[groundloop]

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.

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[groundloop]

1. Anyone who's visited Alcatraz knows how stupid this is

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]

5. I've never been there

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]

11. I have been there....took the tour at the most 5 years ago.

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]

2. Will Pam make a pitch for stocking SF bay with alligators?

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]

3. Is there a go fund me set up to bribe the ferry crew to just leave them there?

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

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

[johnnyfins]

4. Watch the ferry trip. Pam especially. Maybe

it's to drop some hard drives into SF Bay...

[chowder66]

6. Idiots. Plain and simple.

[Skittles]

13. idiots pandering to even bigger idiots

yup

[djacq]

7. 1000 percent Dum

"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

[Tree Lady]

8. They are just messing with CA

Diverting their attention.

[kimbutgar]

9. I predict there will be massive protests and protesters will block her access to boat docks unless she takes a

Helicopter there.

[FredGarvin]

10. Blue Wave incoming!

YOU GO GIRL!

[mwb970]

12. Well of course it's stupid.

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