JD Vance is a heartless jerk about homeless people
Vice President JD Vance visited Georgia on Thursday, where he attempted to sell local GOP leaders on President Donald Trumps increasingly unpopular policies by attacking homeless people who struggle with mental health issues.
I don't know for the life of me what happened in this country where we decided that the compassionate thing was to let somebody fester on the streets instead of beinstead of get the treatment that they need, Vance told the audience at a Republican National Committee meeting held in Peachtree City. He wondered why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids.
You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family, Vance added with his trademark derision.
The Trump administrations definition of the treatment that they need, supported by the radical right-wing Supreme Court, involves rounding up unhoused individuals with the help of military shock troops.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/21/2339578/-JD-Vance-is-a-heartless-jerk-about-homeless-people

Jilly_in_VA
(13,052 posts)Why not just say that Shady is a heartless jerk and leave it at that? Because he's a heartless jerk about a lot of things, including his wife.
Haggard Celine
(17,471 posts)But they eventually run out of them, so they move on until one day they're beating down your door. Project 2025 is being implemented now and it's going to bring us a fourth reich if it isn't stopped.
Grins
(8,848 posts)for the impaired and/or homeless. It, like almost everything - started with Reagan!
Warpy
(113,913 posts)Yes, it used to be better, JD, then Reagan got in and oversaw a massive transfer of wealth from working people to the rich.
Add in a bunch of libertarian lawyeers in the 70s who wanted state hospitals closed and the mentally ill back in their communities. Republicans shot down every attempt to fund community based mental health care and the new laws said crazy people couldn't be ,medicated unless they agreed to it, which they wouldn't because they were often crazy enough to think everybody was trying to poison them. The crazies were abandoned to the streets, and that's another part of the problem.
Then there's the scarcity of housing thanks to people who see housing as an investment instead of a place for someone to live, builders who built the wrong kind of housing in the wro9ng places, and gentrification on all that Reagan money.
And of course there are the consequences of the war on drugs, which gave us more bathtub drugs like meth and now fentanyl is everything being sold on the street. You want to take that on, be my guest, but I know a failure when I see one. War aint working.
So there you go, JD. The yuppie final solution of moving these people to concentration camps that are worse than the old state hospitals wer is going to get pushback, a lot of it, since most of these people who make you frightened still have families, even though those families can't cope on a daily basis. They don't want a relative mistreated, either.
So, Mr Hedge Fund Phony, you want to overturn all the bad decisions that contributed to this, I will applaud your efforts I'd like to go back to the occasional end stage alcoholic asking for change instead of seeing whole families in tents on the street. Oh, right, you're a Republican. You think kicking them in the gut some more will worrk because you like kicking people who can't kick back.
chouchou
(2,357 posts)...until they lie in the gutter, thou make thy Scum-ith pick the lettuce and fruit for thy wealthy" Praise be..
JBTaurus83
(665 posts)Euthanasia? It is not as though we are proving healthcare, lodging, food or job training to them.
Skittles
(167,472 posts)heartless jerk about pretty much anything that involves people needing assistance