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Posted on 06/20/2026 2:08:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
How did we get to a place in this country where we’ve decided that the humane approach to severe mental illness is to just leave people alone and let them fend for themselves?
If someone is living on a sidewalk, talking to invisible people, wandering through traffic, or spiraling deeper into psychosis, government intervention is now treated like the “evil” thing to do. Activists, disability-rights groups, and this massive network of NGOs have spent decades arguing mental institutions should be used only in the rarest circumstances.
And the results of that disastrous agenda speak for themselves.
Cities all over America are drowning in homelessness, tent cities, violence, addiction, untreated mental illness, and public chaos. All while billions of taxpayer dollars flood into programs that “manage” the crisis rather than solve it.
It’s one big giant grift.
But help is on the way.
It appears the Trump administration is ready to challenge one of the legal foundations behind this scam system.
In a new memorandum, the DOJ claims that federal disability laws have been stretched way beyond what Congress intended, and this is creating restrictions that make it harder for states to step in and help when people are suffering with severe mental illness.
If that argument holds, it could be one of the biggest shifts in mental health policy in decades.
Devon Kurtz:
Today, DOJ broke with 35 years of bad law.
Regarding the integration mandates of section 504 and Title II of the ADA, “the regulations are unlawful.”
This is a shot across the bow for Olmstead and P&A groups that have weaponized it against state programs for the mentally ill.
So, activist groups and regulators are using disability laws to block states from giving needy people treatment so they can keep their grift going.
This is a battle to allow states to implement safety and treatment. It’s also a battle to end this vicious, heartless scam.
Joe Lonsdale:
For decades, the fed govt has been more focused on a psychotic person’s “right” to die on the street than a state’s right to intervene and help them get care. Now, the Trump DOJ is signaling that it will end DC’s incursion on psychiatric care, and let states decide what best helps their people. This is a disaster for the corrupt NGO-grift complex that feeds off permanent misery; it’s great for people in need of help, and those who want safe cities.
Meanwhile, the left is terrified that the mental illness situation could be solved. Left-wing publications like Mother Jones are sounding the alarm bells.
Mother Jones:
On Thursday, the Department of Justice quietly released a memo pertaining to the landmark 1999 disability civil rights case Olmstead v. L.C., which curtailed states’ power to institutionalize people diagnosed with mental illnesses, and related federal civil rights laws. That precedent, the Trump administration memo argues—in conjunction with federal civil rights and disability rights statutes—increases homelessness, a claim that likely signals a push to expand institutionalization in restrictive psychiatric facilities.
The administration’s claims, according to University of Michigan law professor Sam Bagenstos, are not rooted in fact.
“It’s just absurd,” says Bagenstos, general counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget during the Biden administration, calling the Olmstead decision “one of the most effective tools in combating homelessness” by encouraging states to augment mental health and housing services outside institutions.
More concerning is the fact that the White House instructed the Justice Department to produce the document, which Bagenstos says “suggests we might potentially be seeing an executive order” directing DOJ and the Department of Health and Human Services to roll back rules meant to avoid institutionalization. The memo, however, does not change laws itself.
“This administration is trying to take away one of the most fundamental rights that people with disabilities have fought for,” said George Washington University law professor Alison Barkoff.
In December, for instance, the Department of Justice reached an agreement with South Carolina to expand supportive services for people with psychiatric disabilities to reduce rates of institutionalization.
Mother Jones is acting like the real crisis is Trump trying to fix the system, not the fact that the system is clearly broken and human beings are suffering.
Americans can see what’s happening on the streets. They see people in obvious mental distress living on sidewalks, wandering through traffic, screaming in public, and cycling through the same failed NGO programs over and over again.
And that’s why the left is protecting it. They don’t want to lose their government money and their “mail-in” ballot scam.
Roy Rogue:
My jaw literally dropped listening to this
Homeless woman in Los Angeles says NGOs come to them and register them to vote 5 TIMES PER YEAR and pay them $25
Multiple people all confirm they register the homeless 4-5x A YEAR EACH and pay them
This is why Democrats made ballot harvesting by 3rd party networks in California legal
They are registering the homeless to vote 5x each, providing the fake name and address information, and then ballot harvesting hundreds of thousands of ballots
America can’t move forward and be great again while homeless and mentally ill people are being held hostage by left-wing NGOs that have no interest in solving the problem. It’s in their financial and political interest to keep the mentally ill in a state of perpetual crisis.
Let’s hope President Trump can pull off another win and reopen the mental institutions.
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This should tickle the hell out of the Socialist Nazi Snowflakes. They’ll have warehouses where they can store the 20 million Bidenskyyy illegal alien killers and retards.
The problem these days, is that 75% of the people who who look like they are talking to invisible people on the street are wearing earbud phones. You do not always know WHICH 75%.
Most of them know it won’t be too long before they’ll end up in them if they get reopened.
Lib’s are the first residents. Get’er done.
The go off their psyche meds, get whacked out, get brought to a hospital for one reason or another, put back on their meds, all on the dime of the taxpayer, get discharged to a facility, a halfway house or a shelter, don’t like it and leave it for the streets and often illegal drugs where they prompt discard their psyche meds, though paid for by the taxpayers, and get whacked out again.
Whole thing is repeated over and over again. Taxpayers paying of course for it all.
Better to be on the street than have your brain fried with
ECT.
Sounds good. Except mental institutions are functions of state governments.
Just tell the libs that they can still vote and they’ll calm down...............
“Multiple people all confirm they register the homeless 4-5x A YEAR EACH and pay them”
It won’t take long for NGOs to get in on the game..............
Maybe they are worried that they themselves will be put away for good cause.
They are upset because they know that they are headed there.
Seriously - putting people suffering from TDS into an institution where they can get the help that they need is the best way of helping them.
Yes, one of the reasons the states were so anxious to close them is their expense. Another reason is they are a target rich environment for lawyers which means more state expense from settlements. Hiring people that are any good is very difficult.
They are afraid they will lose votes...............
what’s their beef? don’t the DNC types want to get
free taxpayer-paid help to restore their mental sanity?
Liberals don’t want to live in mental institutions, where they belong.
One thing for sure...if the left is upset it’s a good thing for the country 😁
No one would tolerate a dog living on the street but a person, that’s somehow okay. Crazy
I remember only four mass killings not done by organized crime between 1949 and 1970.
Howard Unruh 1949, used a Luger pistol.
Richard Speck, 1966 used a knife to kill eight student nurses .
Charles Whitman 1966 who used a bolt action hunting rifle in Texas.
Charlie Manson gang. Used a knife and a slow to shoot .22 cowboy pistol.
When the mental hospitals were closed, killings by crazies suddenly took off like a rocket.
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