I can remember back in the early/Mid 80’s when Reagan got rid of the insane asylums.
I can vividly remember driving past a huge one down in the lower San Francisco bay area in a 2 ton flatbed truck that had just been closed.
I was in my 20’s and wilder than a March Hare myself at the time and EVEN THEN, I knew that it was a bad idea and that bad things were going to come of it.
Looking around now, 40 some years later, the states, local governments and the NGO’s have learned how to make billions of dollars off of it, disguising it as “Homeless Programs”.
A shit ton of these “Homeless” people are crazier than Shithouse Rats and ciities like Portland and Vancouver both are over run with them. These are just the 2 I have personal knowledge of. The entire country is like that now.
It appears Trump is finally going to address this issue head on with an Executive Order. It needs to be turned into law.
President Trump Signs HISTORIC Executive Order to Bring Back Mental Institutions and ‘Insane Asylums’ – “Hate to Build Those Suckers But You’ve Got to Get the People Off the Streets!”
President Trump announced he has signed a historic Executive Order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums to America.
No more “catch and release.” No more allowing dangerous, mentally unstable individuals to terrorize innocent families on the subway or set up encampments in front of our businesses.
Speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room to mark his first year back in office, Trump didn’t mince words about the sheer necessity of this move.
Trump:
“You’ve got to get rid of your sanctuary cities, and I hope our people know that we’re not going to pay sanctuary cities. We’re not going to pay them anymore.They are sanctuaries for criminals. They hold criminals. We’re not going to pay. They can sue us and maybe they’ll win, but we’re not giving money to sanctuary cities anymore as of the beginning of the month.
We began the process of eliminating cashless bail. Well, cashless bail is where it all started. It’s a disaster. And then other places—I don’t know if it started in New York. I remember it starting in New York. Somebody comes in, murders somebody, and they let them out. No bail, no nothing. Basically, cashless bail means you just get the hell out. And they go outside.
We have one case where a guy murders somebody, gets released, and goes out and murders somebody—two people in one day. No, we’ve got to get rid of cashless bail. They’ve got to pay. You’ve got to have bail. There’s a reason for bail. Long tested.
I signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums. We’re going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but you’ve got to get the people off the streets.”
Who did what, now?
“The Community Mental Health Act of 1963… was an act to provide federal funding for community mental health centers and research facilities in the United States. This legislation was passed as part of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier.[1] It led to considerable deinstitutionalization.”
“The CMHA provided grants to states for the establishment of local mental health centers, under the overview of the National Institute of Mental Health. The NIH also conducted a study involving adequacy in mental health issues. The purpose of the CMHA was to build mental health centers to provide for community-based care, as an alternative to institutionalization. At the centers, patients could be treated while working and living at home.
Only half of the proposed centers were ever built; none was fully funded, and the act didn’t provide money to operate them long-term. Some states closed expensive state hospitals, but never spent money to establish community-based care. Deinstitutionalization accelerated after the adoption of Medicaid in 1965. During the Reagan administration, the remaining funding for the act was converted into a mental-health block grants for states. Since the CMHA was enacted, 90 percent of beds have been cut at state hospitals, but they have not been replaced by community resources.[4]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mental_Health_Act
The last time I went to San Diego, the bums were EVERYWHERE. The word “homeless” is akin to sugar-coating a turd. These people are BUMS. Public parks were rendered nothing more than giant bum camps with no sanitation at all. The smell of urine and crap was EVERYWHERE. You couldn’t escape it! That was in ’17. I can just imagine what it’s like now! I haven’t been to LA or San Fran in a while but have heard from those who’ve been there that San Diego is NOTHING compared to those two cities. As far as I’m concerned, build walls around all these places and put signs on them saying “INSANE ASYLUM…” Cheaper… Quicker… Closer to the truth…
No need to keep nuthouses around when they all move to Congress.
The biggest, glaring problem I see is – where will you find the medical professionals (shrinks) that are of sound mind and able to pass judgement on sanity? They’ve already revised the DSM to the 5th edition that normalizes all kinds of craziness!
Worse than that even, is the systemic unwillingness of a soft and stupid society to mete out appropriate consequence to those who need to suffer them. Just as criminals are now coddled and repeatedly given a pass to avoid incarceration (and thus commit more crimes) I don’t believe for a second that head cases will be declared such, and then forcibly institutionalized, even if the institutions required for that purpose were to be built and adequately funded (which I also don’t believe will ever happen).
Once again, we have entered a period of history where the only real solutions will come from the barrel of a gun.
Buy Greenland as well. Spend that money asshole. Until something is done for the veterans and the suicides stop, FUCK OFF, rump.
Yes, there is the matter of not being able to pay for any of these pipe dreams in the first place (as with virtually everything else government does now) and the absolutely enraging inability to prioritize what should rightfully be funded. Just another reason it all has to be burned down, there is no saving this system, it’s fucked and done
Send all the whackos to Greenland – the northern portion…
The problem with bringing back the loony bins is the left when they regain power…and they eventually will…will turn these places into the American version of a psikhushka…a politically motivated prison for anyone who opposes them.
Phil Email Me Please Sir.
Phil email me brother!
I used to pick up hitchhikers on a regular basis. The only one I gave multiple rides to was Fred, an 80+ year old. Long story short, Fred was tossed into the looney bin when he was 6 or 8 because he kept running away from home to avoid an abusive stepfather. Since he wasn’t crazy, he was the model patient, didn’t cause anyone at the asylum issues. When he turned 21, he announced it was his birthday and they had to let him out. Nope. The doctor in charge saw Fred as a cash cow. The asylum had a complete conflict of interest regarding getting state funding for an easy patient, so why let him out?
He was finally released when Reagan closed the asylum. Since Fred was pretty close to homeless, I asked him what he thought of Reagan. “Thank God for Reagan. Without him I’d still be locked up.”
Europe and Canada have the same problem when it comes to assisted suicide. Conflict of interest of the people in charge.
Live next to someone who needs to be in an asylum. Currently, our jails function as holding cells for the mentally ill. They go in, get their meds adjusted, and come back out.
However, the abuse potential for political prisoners is high. I’m on the fence and don’t know which way to go. Certainly are a lot of people that need help and can’t manage their own lives.
I picked up a hot chick in sandals walking in the rain 50+ years ago and had an experience. We took her back to the hotel and were partying when the manager called the room to inform me of a plumbing issue and needed to come to my room. Since Im a pseudo plumber I started to wonder, and the hot chick was talking a little crazy and wanted to hid in the shower……so I flushed my weed when I saw the guys in uniform. She stayed in the shower.
I didnt connect the crazy chick to the uniforms until I saw the patch from the crazy house on their shoulder.
They informed me she escaped out the front door and the fire house saw me give her a ride. I didnt go to jail…..but I got no pussy and lost a sack…..good times, as I still have the story.
Crazies are out there for sure. They all just went into politics and Im fine with institutionalizing the fuckin lot!
MC
I don’t object to institutionalizing actual crazies. I do object to holding people against their will for no other reason than a fat check from the state.
An extreme anti-gunner I know was always disappointed I wouldn’t agree that crazies shouldn’t be allowed guns. But she finally tipped her hand when she said you’d have to be crazy to want one.
The former system was abused. I see no reason to believe the next one won’t also be abused.
The present system is just as abusive and crooked. The only thing that changed the psych system administers and psychiatrists perfected their game and hid it beyond a slick marketing façade and of course psychotropics via the pharmaceutical companies.
They call them Learing centers now
So where are the billions of $ to build the funny farms going to come from?
The House just forwarded from committee the next budget bill. All 1000+ pages of it which DOESN’T DEFUND ANY of the programs identified by DOGE as wasteful or fraudulent.
None. Not one. Not even Dept of Ed.
Ding ding ding. We have a winnah!
cashless bail
why were they given bail in the first place
Don’t need to build anything, there’s plenty of empty malls not being used.