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Lucky Luciano

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4. I think Reagan closed a lot of these facilities which did lead to...

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 06:35 PM

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…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.

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

He can be the first customer. Ocelot II Monday #1

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

Egg Zack Lee Botany Tuesday #63

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You got all that from the OP? MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #44

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

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

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

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

Thanks for your input! Lucky Luciano Tuesday #48

You are welcome. Thanks for reading it. Hekate Tuesday #52

Wow. MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #46

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Americans will be getting horrible diseases now. Irish_Dem Monday #12

Only if he checks himself in! MrWowWow Monday #13

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

One flew over the GOP nest multigraincracker Monday #15

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

Just like in Russia Bmoboy Monday #18

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

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

There you go Bayard Tuesday #51

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

Deflection YET AGAIN? Brainfodder Monday #25

He's barely comprehensible. Joinfortmill Monday #26

......and fully reprehensible Prof. Toru Tanaka Monday #33

ROFL. True. Joinfortmill Tuesday #62

Yes MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #47

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

White House is the insane asylum twodogsbarking Monday #29

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

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

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

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

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

If so he should be committed. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday #39

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

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

It wasn't his idea MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #43

I thought Trump died? LeftInTX Tuesday #45

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

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

Creedmor and Bellevue are still operational Danmel Tuesday #56

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

I pass Creedmor all the time. It's off the Long Island Expressway in Queens. Danmel Tuesday #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 Tuesday #60

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

Trump Crazy House eringer Tuesday #64