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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS

www.independent.co.uk

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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS

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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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

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He probably just didn’t know how to change the channel back to Newsmax.
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  He was mindlessly flicking through the channels until one seemed interesting.
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    I doubt his interest extends that far.
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    I’m sure he has a flunky to operate the remote for him.

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