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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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Addendum to my post above..
Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? Yet semi-auto rifles have been around since 1903. I remember four mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-first-mass-murder-us-history-180956927/
Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.
Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.
Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.
Charlie Manson gang. knives and a .22 cowboy style pistol.
Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies dumped on the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.
Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies dumped on the streets.
Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon
John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan
Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer
David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.
Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.
Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.
Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.
James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds
This is just a SHORT LIST of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.
When you add the MASS MURDERERS and CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is...
LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!Now we can add another name, Decarlos Brown Jr. who knifed Iryna Zarutska.
Now add Rob Reiner and wife to that list. They had no gun in the house when their throats were slit.
And many more since then.
It’s were the Liberals came from ,LOL
Trump’s ready to reopen mental institutions and liberals are furious…
Are they seeing their future?
FEDERAL government needs to open one in every democrap State.
Reagan Was responsible for some of the problems!
AI
Ronald Reagan did not directly close psychiatric hospitals, as mental institutions were primarily state-run, not federal. However, as California Governor, he facilitated deinstitutionalization by signing the 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, and as President, he cut federal funding that was meant to support the discharged patients in local communities. [1, 2, 3]
California Governorship (1967–1975)
• Lanterman-Petris-Short Act: In 1967, Governor Reagan signed this bipartisan legislation, which heavily restricted involuntary civil commitment, effectively ending the practice of locking up patients indefinitely without due process.
• Budget Cuts: Early in his administration, Reagan cut the Department of Mental Hygiene budget and jobs to reduce state spending, although he later authorized funding increases for state hospitals. [5]
Presidency (1981–1989)
• Repeal of the MHSA: As President, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, which repealed the Mental Health Systems Act (MHSA) of 1980.
• Shift to Block Grants: The administration converted federal mental health funding into block grants to the states, which reduced overall federal spending and gave state governments more control. [6]
The Impact
While the deinstitutionalization movement aimed to replace large asylums with community-based care, it lacked adequate funding and infrastructure. Consequently, many individuals with severe mental illness struggled to receive outpatient care. For detailed context on the historical legislation, explore the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 Wikipedia page. [1, 2, 7]
AI responses may include mistakes.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cuwdzk/i_often_hear_that_the_reagan_administration_shut/
[2] https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/03/hard-truths-about-deinstitutionalization-then-and-now/
[3] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Reagan-close-mental-hospitals
[4] https://www.toacorn.com/articles/reagan-didnt-close-institutions/
[5] https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here
[6] https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/7933/11034
[7] https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.51.5.616
Prevent these patients from voting.
60+ million mentally ill liberals, means, we need, many, very large institutions or we can pick a State and make them stay there.
The Democrat/Communist/Jihadist Party/Cult members are furious because they know they cannot lose such a signficant portion of their base to strict voting controls.
Trump is trying to rename Kennedy Center, and having pushback.
In the spirit of renaming, he chould rename Congress as The Natinal US Mental Institution.
It comes with 535 inmates, all fully qualified.
“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.”
I would put that differently. The state doesn’t ave the right to help them get care. Instead, I would say the state has an obligation to protect it’s citizens from the psychotic. When the psychotic craps on the street, creates a slum on the sidewalks with their tent cities, etc., the state has an obligation to intervene and prevent those actions.
I often see people walking and talking with their heads down, making no eye contact with passerbys. When I see this, I tell my wife that cell phones have normalized insanity.
Follow the money ballot harvesters.
Don’t forget, as Justice returns to the U.S., we’ll also need more gallows.
Finally, a place for single older, Leftist women to be warehoused !
Liberals should be worried, their behavior might get them sent there.
Most likely (because of other than their persistent self-loathing) LIBs are furious because they know they will be placed in them. Devil’s Island!!!
The Democrats’ beloved mascots, gays and ‘trans’, used to be classified as mentally ill. As were people fixated on self-mutilation, violence-prone radicals, pedophiles (oops, already mentioned homosexuals) and those obviously stuck in arrested development.
That’s most of a Democrat National Convention right there.
Young ones also ...
Yes. Because if they lock up all the nutcases, there won't be any liberals running around loose.
The demonicRAT Party IS a mental institution.
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