Locked up and institutionalized without Due Process.
This reads a bit like he wants a return of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, just without the lobotomies.
Extending involuntary commitment past “a danger to self or others” to include vagrancy is quite the stretch.
The current landscape of medical hospitals is such that involuntary psych holds are often boarding in a medical bed, using extra staff for closer obs for up to a year each, waiting for placement to a mental health bed. Empty mental health beds are rare. Even outpatient therapy is defunded, even in blue states.
Where does Trump think these people are going to be commuted to? Or is his plan to concentration camp them in places like the bedlam of yore?
RFK’s work camps. Farming. To replace the immigrants.
Oh this is definitely going to bring back the institutions of old…
I can’t imagine where they’d find doctors and nurses to work these Trumpian facilities.
There aren’t enough psychiatrists and psychologists for the current job openings. Nurses are likely too marketable to work that type of job unless they’re so bad they’ve been rejected everywhere else.
Of note, prison is the #1 provider of mental health services in the USA. They can’t fill their psychiatry job openings either.
But this might be the plan. Forced rehab in for profit prisons.
Yeah I’d like to believe they’d get this half right and get actual professionals… but it’s Trump and he’ll just create a literal skyscraper of “the bearings will continue until morale improves” and claim it’s a new kind of mental health care or something
That would be my guess - that these people will be sent to Trump’s for-profit concentration camps. It’s straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Remember Tump is also trying to make being against him a mental illness. I forget what the term they tried to coin for it was.
Trump Derangement Syndrome, albeit the verbiage reads like it could just as easily apply to MAGA.
That wasn’t Trump, just the Minnesota Republicans. It was Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Ah thanks for refreshing my memory.
remember they have work requirments for medicaid and section 8 so its basically lose job, become poor and drop to bottom barrel assitance, continued no job means no assitance, become homeless, instituionalized. then america profits somehow. well someone profits.
Private prison labor is the last piece of the profit puzzle
Debtors prison, that’s where we’re at now. I don’t disagree that some houseless people also suffer from mental instability, but they’re the ones you notice.
I live in California and have worked with people who had to sleep in their car. I’ve also been coded before. The experience was horrible; about 20-30 women in an always lit room with no door. Your bed was a chair that reclined. The common area was standing room only during the day while a troubled man shit himself.
All this does is shove a problem under the rug. The cost of living is insane, and support for people struggling with an addiction is handled by local groups.
With medicade gone the problem is about to get a whole lot worse
It’s OK though because I’m not Homeless or Mentally Ill
You are closer to grippy socks or a cardboard box urban camping than you know.
