His whole administration.

He is so crazy that in just the past month or so he:

*. Talked about regrassing the parks in Washington D.C. because he knew more about
grass than anybody in the world. There is no such a thing as regrassing.

*. He was so out to lunch that the Canadian Prime Minister had to stop a press conference
with he and Krasnov because Krasnov started to talk about illegals coming to vote in our
elections “but I won’t let ‘em.”

*. Welcomed the man, Vlad Putin, to a U.S. Military Base with a red carpet the very same
man who was paying 100 K per American soldier the Taliban killed in Afghanistan.

*. And some gibberish about Roger Clemens getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame and
if not he or somebody was going to sue Major League Baseball even though getting into
the Hall of Fame is under the control of the Baseball Writers.

The reporter used it and of course if she's with the daily caller then that figures

With the advent of psych meds there is no longer a need for long term hospitalizations.
Of course RFK jr wants to change all that.

I've seen some right wing nuts reviving that term. Guess who will be the first into the asylums?

…highly mentally unstable people living in homelessness. Something like this probably is not all terrible, but I sure as fuck don’t trust this regime with it. No doubt, they will start with the chronic homeless, followed by trans, then liberal activists, etc.

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.

He just sounded like his usual delusional self to me.

See my post #40
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3522416

He just wants things back the way they used to be and doesn't ever consider new information or why things have changed

Just so you know: TL-DR

We went from having almost no visible homeless to having an ever increasing number. It was a stark contrast. Did I mention he promised a support structure that never really came about? Supervised group homes. Professionals to monitor meds and ensure they were taken.

That said, in the 1990s when I served on the County Affirmative Action Commission, we went through a series of interviews with department heads, including the Sheriff. By that time I’d already read about the revolving door of mentally ill in the County jails in Los Angeles, our gigantic neighbor to the south, and had some questions.

First and foremost, since TrumpCo. is fixated on crime and severe punishment, I learned that the very great majority of offenses by the mentally ill were petty crime. Shoplifting food items was common. Yes, 7-11 franchisees need to be protected. But the behavior was so chronic and the jails so ill-equipped to deal with it, that a reasonable person might wonder if there were some other means of dealing with the problem. Law enforcement officers and prison guards have specific training, but it doesn’t include higher-level Psychology classes.

Second, so many were homeless and without the means to gain shelter and keep it. If vagrancy is still a crime (have not checked lately) and they keep ending up in jail — well again, jails are not designed to be homeless shelters.

Third — a lot of the homeless turned out to be dual-diagnosis. They might have a drug or alcohol addiction as well. Jails are not built to deal with that either.

Fourth — why would they turn to drugs or alcohol if they were receiving medication? Sometimes the meds are not available. Sometimes the meds have side-effects that make a person feel crappier. Some people (IF they are bi-polar) miss the “high” of their bipolar cycles (as a chronically depressed person myself, I think I can imagine why someone might want that back) . And finally, maybe the side-effects of alcohol or an addictive drug are not enough to deter a person from finding their own way of dealing with their demons. It’s a free country! No one can make them take meds if they don’t want to! They have the perfect freedom as an American to live and die under the freeway — because Freedom.

In my own self defense, please do not ever imagine that I think all homeless are mentally ill. Plenty of people are in danger of falling through holes in what we laughably call the social safety net. There are just so many vulnerable Americans.

Finally, and from the heart: fuck Ronald Reagan forever.

Criticism of the regime was seen as a form of mental illness:

In the Brezhnev era a new disease was described: ‘sluggish’ or ‘creeping’
schizophrenia, the only symptom of which was the expression of politically
unacceptable views. Dissidents were treated with massive doses of psychoactive
drugs, which produced agonising side effects.

According to one former detainee, Viktor Fainberg, confining political
activists in a mental hospital not only punished the offenders, but also
discredited their ideas in the eyes of the Soviet public which, by and large,
has a rather intolerant attitude to mental illness. Even in ‘mild’ cases
of dissent – for instance, criticising the lack of safety precautions in
the workplace – just placing the offender’s name on the psychiatric register
was enough to ensure years of discrimination in employment, housing and
the educational prospects of the offender’s children

That Russian professionals would label dissenters as mentally ill.

Now we may soon see the same thing here in the US.

Unit another court order bans that.

Today some of these illnesses are easily treated with medication.

Psychiatrists assured everyone that medications would improve the lives of the afflicted.

Try reading a new book, "UnShrunk" to see how that turned out! Author is Laura Delano.

Might be a decent start.


Let's start with the reagan tax cuts and move from there.

Next we'll be hearing about torture devices.

No vaccines, no treatments, no healthcare.

This is one of the torture strategies.

And wears a DNR T-Shirt

Political opposition candidates get locked away "for their own good."

I can hear the ECT machines humming away.

years.

Probably not enough, and some could be improved from reading what other people had to say. And some physch meds have such nasty side effects some people living w mental illness stop taking them. Then there are some people who don't take them period.

My dad suffered from several severe depressions, so I educated myself.

Fuck, drumph, and his cruel ideas!

Once declared insane, It will be easier to incarcerate them without due process.

I'm betting he will have a lot of his Dem enemies list declared insane.

But it will also stigmatize a lot of people with mental illness all over again.

If he does, I don't mind if he puts his name on them!

While simultaneously a criminal mastermind!!

Rose-colored glasses with Nazi anti-glare glaze.

Clearly this is an attack on transgender Americans most on the hateful, bigoted right consider to be ‘mentally ill.’

Conditions reportedly were dismal in the Victorian-era buildings. Is TACO going to give Illinois the money to rebuild?

Fantastic.

Reagan closed these facilities 1970s. It's a Republican thing. We don't need them now we need them. Will we be hiring a new breed of doctors. "Mengele anybody?" Master Race here we come

around the country that once served that function. They would have to build them. Some places have secure facilities for the criminally insane but they are those adjudicated by the courts.

How is he going to pay for any of these projects? We would be bankrupt by the beginning of the new year at this rate!!

"When Reese floated the possibility of the federal government reopening insane asylums for those with 'serious mental illness,' *rump admitted he was open to it."

He "admitted" it?

This is so disingenuous. He considered it after it was suggested to him. He would probably consider any stupid thing anybody brings up to him. He doesn't know what the hell he's saying.

Run by the New York State Office of Mental Health and NYC Health, respectively.
Creedmor is in Queens. He's just so profoundly stupid and lazy.

https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/facilities/crpc/

was that most of Creedmor's campus was pretty much dismantled and sold off but they maintain a building for the care of a couple hundred legacy psychiatric patients. And I believe Bellevue basically rebranded their psychiatric care away from the "asylum" model.

Pilgrim State Psychiatric hospital is still open on long Island although much smaller than it was.
There is still a need for long term psychiatrist care, and institutional care is not inherently bad. But resources need to be provided and support services need to be in place.

and used to be assigned cases in the psychiatric facilities here. She would sometimes tell us heartbreaking stories about what she saw. The one we had here was called "Byberry" (Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry).





https://hsp.org/philadelphia-state-hospital-byberry

It was brutal - not just the care but the environmental conditions (asbestos, etc) of the old buildings themselves (and of course the care methods were shifting), and it was finally announced that it would be closed in the late '80s. But due to the leftover population in there, it took several years to transfer them to other facilities (a bunch went to the closest facility at the time which was "Norristown State Hospital" ).

I remember driving by it before it closed when I was substitute teaching or traveling up to "the Far Northeast" (as that part of Philly was dubbed). They finally tore down the buildings by the mid-2000s and a developer came in to build an "active retirement" community on the large property.

We already have one. A good start. It’s all white and it’s in DC.