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In reply to the discussion: Trump Considers Reopening 'Insane Asylums' in Crusade Against Crime [View all]SSJVegeta
(1,380 posts)27. I mean. If Trump really wanted to go to heaven, reversing all the horrible shit done by Reagan (and himself)
Might be a decent start.
Let's start with the reagan tax cuts and move from there.
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Trump Considers Reopening 'Insane Asylums' in Crusade Against Crime [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Monday
OP
Trump does. He thinks immigrants seeking asylum are released asylum patients.
travelingthrulife
Monday
#11
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
Reagan was gov. of California when he closed the asylums/hospitals, without the promised support system
Hekate
Monday
#40
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
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
From the University of Chicago Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Wiz Imp
Monday
#24
Trump is like Reagan, constantly revisiting a halycon past that doesn't exist anymore
bucolic_frolic
Monday
#28
We really have the demented grampa "Back in my day!" bozo at the helm, huh?
Prairie Gates
Monday
#36
Why does he think we have an unlimited supply of funds for all these pet projects?
William Gustafson
Tuesday
#42
I agree with TACO. Re-open them all, build hundreds more " insane asylums " for every Republican politician
Bread and Circuses
Tuesday
#50
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