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Ocelot II

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7. Some of those facilities were truly awful, but just cutting people loose

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 05:40 PM

Sep 2025

with no support or outpatient care wasn't the answer, obviously. Trump wants to go back to the bad old days when mentally ill, chemically dependent and developmentally disabled people are locked up and warehoused so nobody has to see them or care for them except to feed them and keep them off the streets. That's the easy way out; really caring for people with serious mental disorders takes money and effort and Trump and the GOP don't want to bother with that.

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Trump Considers Reopening 'Insane Asylums' in Crusade Against Crime [View all] BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP

He can be the first customer. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #1

Agree. Plus he could fill it up with bluestarone Sep 2025 #30

Egg Zack Lee Botany Sep 2025 #63

Be careful what you ask for, you crazy MF'er. walkingman Sep 2025 #2

Does anyone seriously use the term insane asylums? CurtEastPoint Sep 2025 #3

No one in the medical/psych profession uses this term. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #9

Trump does. He thinks immigrants seeking asylum are released asylum patients. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #11

Wait until he starts in on the "sexual inverts" Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #37

I think Reagan closed a lot of these facilities which did lead to... Lucky Luciano Sep 2025 #4

Some of those facilities were truly awful, but just cutting people loose Ocelot II Sep 2025 #7

You got all that from the OP? MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2025 #44

It's exactly what Reagan did, and I can't imagine Trump being more humane than Reagan. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #49

Take it from us Californians who watched it all unfold when Reagan was our governor Hekate Sep 2025 #53

I've noticed Trump following up on a lot of his delusions MadameButterfly Sep 2025 #61

Reagan was gov. of California when he closed the asylums/hospitals, without the promised support system Hekate Sep 2025 #40

Thanks for your input! Lucky Luciano Sep 2025 #48

You are welcome. Thanks for reading it. Hekate Sep 2025 #52

Wow. MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2025 #46

Lemme guess: staffed by the most cruel of ICE's goons? sakabatou Sep 2025 #5

Or the national guard. Maybe sent to the gulags. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #10

The Soviet Union would send dissidents to mental hospitals DBoon Sep 2025 #19

Yes the western mental health community was appalled. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #20

He may try to put them in Alligator Alcatraz. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2025 #32

Hitler killed the mentally ill. The handicapped, impaired, etc. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #55

A certain governor? No, Reagan cut their budgest for tax cuts. bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #6

Pataki (R) would down one of them BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #16

Well, Reagan (as Governor) was largely responsible for the deinstitutionalization movement in California Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #23

I mean. If Trump really wanted to go to heaven, reversing all the horrible shit done by Reagan (and himself) SSJVegeta Sep 2025 #27

Isn't returning to the Dark Ages fun. ananda Sep 2025 #8

Americans will be getting horrible diseases now. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #12

Only if he checks himself in! MrWowWow Sep 2025 #13

How many more can Mar a Lago hold? tanyev Sep 2025 #14

One flew over the GOP nest multigraincracker Sep 2025 #15

"They released (the mentally ill) into society..." LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #17

Just like in Russia Bmoboy Sep 2025 #18

There has been some good various levels of mental heath housing in NYC from people I've occasionally met over some... electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #21

Naturally, Trump will decide who's insane and should be institutionalized. sop Sep 2025 #22

There you go Bayard Sep 2025 #51

From the University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #24

Deflection YET AGAIN? Brainfodder Sep 2025 #25

He's barely comprehensible. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #26

......and fully reprehensible Prof. Toru Tanaka Sep 2025 #33

ROFL. True. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #62

Yes MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2025 #47

Trump is like Reagan, constantly revisiting a halycon past that doesn't exist anymore bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #28

White House is the insane asylum twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #29

"Trump will decide who's insane and should be institutionalized." J_William_Ryan Sep 2025 #31

I thought he was irrevocably opposed to anyone having asylum. soldierant Sep 2025 #34

They tore most of the ones in the Chicago area years ago. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2025 #35

We really have the demented grampa "Back in my day!" bozo at the helm, huh? Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #36

Close Hospitals for Mental Patients (Insane Asylums) topcelts Sep 2025 #38

If so he should be committed. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 #39

Apparently he hasn't noticed most of the decayed structures Historic NY Sep 2025 #41

Why does he think we have an unlimited supply of funds for all these pet projects? William Gustafson Sep 2025 #42

It wasn't his idea MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2025 #43

I thought Trump died? LeftInTX Sep 2025 #45

I agree with TACO. Re-open them all, build hundreds more " insane asylums " for every Republican politician Bread and Circuses Sep 2025 #50

He should be the first one committed. nt moniss Sep 2025 #54

Creedmor and Bellevue are still operational Danmel Sep 2025 #56

From what I had gone down the rabbit hole to find BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #57

I pass Creedmor all the time. It's off the Long Island Expressway in Queens. Danmel Sep 2025 #59

My mom used to be a social worker here in PA (worked for the state and then the city back in the '50s) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #60

Wow...I didn't realize Florida had been closed. n/t Cloudhopper Sep 2025 #58

Trump Crazy House eringer Sep 2025 #64