Separate but equal homeless places coming up. 
Leave Immediately
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he wrote on Truth Social.
We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Trump’s remarks come as he has increased his rhetoric about countering crime in the District in recent days, after a former member of the Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted in an attempted carjacking.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Action to End Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets
ENDING VAGRANCY AND RESTORING ORDER:
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore order to American cities and remove vagrant individuals from our streets, redirecting federal resources toward programs that tackle substance abuse and returning to the acute necessity of civil commitment.
- The Order directs the Attorney General to reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees that limit State and local governments’ ability to commit individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others.
- The Order requires the Attorney General to work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Transportation to prioritize grants for states and municipalities that enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders.
- The Order redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, or other facilities.
- The Order ensures discretionary grants for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery do not fund drug injection sites or illicit drug use.
- The Order stops sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from being housed with children, and allows programs to exclusively house women and children.
Moved Into Treatment Centers
“The Order redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, or other facilities.”
But what “funding” is that? Is Trump approving funding?
Actually, he can’t. Is Congress approving funding for” treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, and/or other facilities”?
“Shifting these individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment is the most proven way to restore public order.,” says Trump.
The Left would agree. So, where’s the funding?
Good News on Funding!
I am pleased to report “As part of First Lady Melania Trump’s BE BEST Initiative, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $1.8 million dollar investment to prevent homelessness among young Americans aging out of the foster care system.”
$1.8 million. Wow. Let’s do the math on that.
In 2024, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States reached a record high of approximately 771,480, representing an 18% increase from 2023, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
$1.8 million / 771,480 = $2.33 per person.
I am quite certain that Melania Trump’s generous BE BEST Initiative will cover everything.
Send Em Where?
The good news keeps getting better. All we have to do is send the homeless elsewhere.
I am waiting details on this part of the plan ” We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
Every city in the country should hop aboard this amazing plan. We need to ship the homeless far away from D.C, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and everywhere else too.
This is so obvious, I cannot figure out why no one has thought of it before.
The Executive Order Is In
Thou Shalt Be Homeless Elsewhere!
Is this a great plan or what?
It ensures Trump will not see homelessness in or around D.C.
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I am sure we are going to see another surge in homelessness.
But that’s OK because we now have a brilliant plan to make sure Trump does not see homelessness in or around D.C.
Addendum
A reader commented “I think everyone would agree that sleeping on the streets and taking over public areas is not a good solution.”
I agree with that. So should everyone. But $1.8 million won’t do a thing.
Trump says “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.“
I want to see details of that plan and how it works. So should everyone else.
Let’s be honest. All we have is a vague executive order, with no details, whose real purpose is to ensure that Trump does not personally have to see the homeless.
Addendum
A reader commented “I think everyone would agree that sleeping on the streets and taking over public areas is not a good solution.”
I agree with that. So should everyone. But $1.8 million won’t do a thing.
Trump says “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
I want to see details of that plan and how it works. So should everyone else.
Let’s be honest. All we have is a vague executive order, with no details, whose real purpose is to ensure that Trump does not personally have to see the homeless.
““I think everyone would agree that sleeping on the streets and taking over public areas is not a good solution.”
It was in the past and still is in many parts of the world.
“Diogenes the Cynic famously slept in a large ceramic jar, or “pithos”, which was essentially a tub or barrel used for storing grain or wine. He also slept in public places like the steps of buildings or on the streets, often in defiance of societal norm”
“During the Victorian era the practice of paying for a ‘two-penny hangover’ was incredibly popular among the country’s homeless population and the term ‘two penny hangover’ was so commonly used that it made its way into contemporary literature. A two-penny hangover is not the description of a very cheap night out, nor is it the amount it would cost you to get drunk in Victorian England. It is actually somewhere you could go to sleep if you were one of the thousands of homeless and destitute living in the country’s main cities at the time. If you lived on the streets and had managed to make some money during the day, depending on how much you had, you could spend the night in one of three ways; paying a penny to sit-up, two pence to ‘hang-over’, or 4 or five pennies to lie down.
Victorian society was struggling to pull itself out of centuries of poverty, degradation and ‘Mother’s Ruin’. It could be argued that society was suffering from a collective hangover from the country’s previous struggles through the industrial revolution, disease outbreaks and poor laws of the 18th century. In contrast, for some people at least, Victorian England was also a period and place of prosperity and innovation.”
There are three, maybe four, classes of individual who are homeless.
Who is planning to front the money for this? Homeless is a major industry where the nonprofit pays itself first and very little trickles down.
Take those at the top toss them into the streets dump the extra millions into true homeless communities, shanty towns as the rest of the world knew them and were in the US.
END THE GRIFT FIRST!
In theory every good Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Mormon should be housing at least one homeless person or family.
I have a female friend in the Philippines. She is working poor caring for eleven people doing CSR work in a dirt poor part of a dirt poor section of the country which is dirt poor.
Go on vacation to Jamaica and LEAVE your tourist hotel to roam the shanty towns.
Statements like should not be are simple to make but the reality on a MASSIVE GLOBAL scale is ridiculous.
It ONLY hurts people when those homeless or poor impinge upon some above their class life style.
Same problem with Crack as long as it was the hood no one cared, then it moved to middle class neighborhoods and whitey gots his panties in a bunch.
Some middle class mom who’s kid OD on Fentanyl, or maybe something else, wants to sue SOCIAL MEDIA! Gee mom WTF were you? Hasn’t there been a WAR ON DRUGS, for nearly a century?
My opinion is move EVERYONE else out of DC or UPPER CLASS areas and give the homeless those pl;aces to live.
Wait until it is your turn and see if you agree then,
I get the downvote I’m not certain if it is a Muslim obligation to aid their fellow man.
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Psalm 41:1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; Psalm 72:12 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. Proverbs 14:21 Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
if Jesus came back now, he would die in jail.
He would be deported for sure
Not in Gaza, he would never see adulthood.
Boondocks did an episode of MLK living and coming out of a coma.
Black writer, black producers and cast, but if you quote it on Reddit it is racist.
Google it being a number of years old it still holds true like the comic, nothing ever changes.
What did MLK have to say about Jesse Jackson when he woke up?
If Brigham Young were alive in the past five decades he would have been Trump and Epstein’s best buddy. And shaking in his boots that that list and those flight logs never saw the light of day.
For the record I have never desired to be perfect.
Too many strings attached.
To desire not to desires is still desire.
Maybe she has other desires than to be perfect.
You have clearly never watched a woman get dressed for any major event.
Are you Billy Joel? Personally, I’d rather live with sinners than die with saints.
Jesus also said-“Say that I have come to bring peace on earth, I say no but rather division” (KJV Luke 13:51). You can prove anything with bible verses. Religion has no place here; we are dealing with reality not fantasy!
John 12-8 “The poorwill always be with you. Need more quotes?
See this is great until you realize that this is just having a good community. Something we in America are taught to hate so we can shut up, work more, buy more plastic thing, and keep plastic thing to self.
You’re forgetting “covet other peoples plastic things. “
He never sees the homeless. He’s always flying by helicopter or plane or is in the back of a limo on the rare occasions he’s being driven.
As for the money, we are taking in 20+ billion a month in tariffs. Just use some of that.
Just use some of 20+ billion a month.
Sorry, it has been used for tax reduction for billionaires.
May be next time. That’s for Democratic party.
At the moment just stay out of city centre.
Trump is a nut. Lost his mind. No more Boomers as President.
I can’t understand how Americans won’t solve problems nor give a sh!t to try. Whether homelessness, crime, debt, war mongering, etc, we just kick the can.
I still work and amongst people. The educated don’t care either. Just point fingers at Democrats or Republicans. I got a friend, a liberal, who cares just about his 401k doing well. Like he said to me, why should I care if eggs go up. This is mentality the pervades most of Americans.
We are doomed. Don’t be in denial, and prepare.
Arm yourselves. It won’t be the military you’re fighting… It’ll be the fat boys from ICE.
Anything “public” or “social” is anathema to these people. If it can’t be rounded up and hauled away, pretend it doesn’t exist, like pollution. Government isn’t the solution, they say, but they offer no alternative solution. Just get the problems out of sight, out of mind. And do a pretend exec order with no funding.
Solving social problems is socialism! Now, solving Wall St’s problems is the purest form of capitalism and freedom and liberty and apple pie and 💩
Kamala would certainly have said she would fix homelessness.
They’ll ship them to blue states and then complain about how the problem is out of control in blue states.
Fuckin’ A Mish. We need to build camps in the spirit of those built a century ago but with an emphasis on detoxification and reintroduction into society with skills that can pave the way for a decent life. It will cost a lot. If we are intent on curing the ills of the social problems (drug addition primarily) of this time, it will cost us. First, make drug dealing a capital offense. Bust the cartels with drones.
The Donald will send’em to El Salvador.
I Think Melania Trump Is on the same level as Maxine Sanders, Ghislaine Maxwell, Amber Heard, Eva Braun, Meghan Markle, Erika Kirk, Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, Kim Kardashian, Carlton Gebbia, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leona Helmsley, Elena Ceaușescu, Chrissy Teigen, Sarah Ferguson, Usha Vance, Marina Abramović, Lisa Vanderpump, Eva Perón, Kris Jenner, Lotta Volkova, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Belle Gibson, Rebekah Neumann, Imelda Marcos, Casey DeSantis, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Michele Lamy, Ri Sol-ju, Lara Trump, Erika Jayne, Patrizia Reggiani, Virginia Thomas, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jiang Qing, Carmen Polo, Asma al-Assad, Cilia Flores, Grace Mugabe, Safia Farkash, Hinda Déby, Heather Mills, Oksana Grigorieva, Denise Richards, Elaine Chao, Louise Linton, Jordon Hudson, Belle Gibson, Vanessa Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Asia Argento, Ivana Trump, Blac Chyna,
I Think Melania Trump Is The Once Worst First Ladies of the United States Ever
I Think Donald Trump Is on the same level as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Harvey Weinstein, Peter Nygård, Jimmy Savile, Diddy, Marilyn Manson, Jeffrey Epstein, Kevin Spacey, Matt Lauer, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, R. Kelly, James Franco, David Copperfield,
I Think Melania Trump”makes Meghan Markle look like Mother Teresa by comparison”
I Think Barron Trump needs to Stay away from Princess Isabella of Denmark, Princess Josephine of Denmark, Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland, Princess Leonore Duchess of Gotland, Princess Adrienne Duchess of Blekinge, Leonor, Princess of Asturias, Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Princess Eléonore of Belgium, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès, Marchioness Barbara Berlingieri, Countess Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck, H.I.R.H. Ildiko von Habsburg-Lothringen,
I Think Donald Trump Hosts Occult Halloween Party at Mar-a-Lago Club
I Think Donald Trump Is Definitely Not Monarchs of United States
The Homeless are Human- this has to be fought in every town across this nation. We can’t allow this to continue. https://invisiblymisdiagnosed.com/2025/10/10/camp-loveland-reveals-systemic-targeting-of-lovelands-most-vulnerable/
Great – we will take 100% of your salary or move 10 of them into your house.
Which do you prefer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkedaSWJV2g
I Think Melania Trump Is on the same level as Eva Braun, Elena Ceaușescu, Marina Abramović, Meghan Markle, Sarah Ferguson, Virginia Thomas, Eva Perón, Amber Heard, Leona Helmsley, Carlton Gebbia, Ri Sol-ju, Louise Linton, Imelda Marcos, Casey DeSantis, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Chrissy Teigen, Elaine Chao, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Lara Trump, Erika Jayne, Patrizia Reggiani, Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Sorokin, Rebekah Neumann, Vanessa Trump, Asia Argento, Ghislaine Maxwell, Martha Bomgardner, Wallis Simpson, Heather Mills, Oksana Grigorieva, Michele Lamy, Lotta Volkova, Jiang Qing, Carmen Polo, Asma al-Assad, Cilia Flores, Grace Mugabe, Safia Farkash, Hinda Déby, Belle Gibson, Jordon Hudson,
Wherever you move them, it has to be compulsory. Some ideas are jail, mental health institutions, public housing, or designated campgrounds. We should also abolish minimum wage because no one will pay them that much.
Reagan cut funding for mental institutions. Shutting them down without a plan. Thats what started the homeless issue in the first place.
Now trump wants to move them dc out of his site. Prob will dump them in some dem city.
Caught an interview out of austin i think it was. Reporter was talking to a bunch of homeless. Turns out most were released from some halfway house and were not even from the city And had no way to get back to where they are from.
“Send Em Where?”
Martha’s Vineyard?
L.A. has over 40,000 homeless and has only managed to cut that by 4% over the prior year, despite a large sum devoted by tax payers to alleviate the problem.
Not good cuz they might drop them off near you.
Lol. I bet he will try to ship them to El Salvador
IMHO-Most homeless are the end game of the 60’s culture. Drug use, damaged dna passed on the subsequent generations and continued alcohol and drug use excaberated by an entitlement culture. I’m old and remmber when homelessness was rare and the crazy behavior evident in DC was nonexistent. When drugs were introduced in the alte 60’s everything changed including street people and crazy behavior. Pass the dobbie-lol
I worked for a short time with my local city government. The city had a prostitution problem.The police were asked to do a study to find out why these women were turning to prostitution. Answer? All but one were foster home kids who were kicked out at age 18 when the state stopped providing income for them. The one who wasn’t a foster home kid was diagnosed as bipolar, but came from a family without the income resources to provide mental health care. The political solution? Turn to the “faith based community”. LOL.
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”
― Héloïse, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
The base problem is simply trump and MAGA. Get rid of both and return to some semblance of sanity.
86/47
This is every bit as absurd as Maxine Waters telling homeless protesters to “go home and come back tomorrow”.
I’ve never seen the homeless crisis in California cities or Philadelphia. But I did see it in Washington DC. The monuments were clear of vagrants but the regular parks were completely taken over by trash-ridden encampments that looked like a war had been fought there. Truly disastrous outcomes from disastrous policy.
What exactly was the “policy” and who voted for it?
So, Washington DC is the new Gaza? For God’s sake, these people may be homeless, but they are American citizens.
I keep harping of the ” other things ” not being paid attention to.
Netflix price hikes drive users to piracy. Streaming platforms bleed subscribers while piracy profits soar. Google search collapses under AI junk and SEO farms. Netflix and Google break the internet without anyone noticing
Wildfires destroy homes in France, Greece, Turkey, Canada, California
( This one is for fun the getting even Balls Maduro has)
Venezuela’s President Offers $50 MILLION For Epstein Files Release!
(creeping police state)
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro: We’re Going to ‘Look For’ Anti-Semitism Cases to Prosecute
NVDA, AMD To Pay 15% Of China Chip Sales To US; Report
US Special Forces Request Two Tesla Cybertrucks For Missile Testing (Comment on ZH)
“…the 33 “vehicle targets” must have all fluids and batteries from every vehicle removed, including the Cybertruck’s 1,600-pound battery.”
Why?
Will the ones that they target IRL have all all their fluids & batteries removed?
It makes more sense to blow up the cyber trucks with the batteries installed to see how they react to various munitions.
I’d like to see what a Tesla battery does when it’s hit with a white phosphorus munition.
I’m beginning to think ChatGPT writes his little online missives – given that he’s taken to wandering around on the roof of the White House babbling to himself.
You really think he is all wired up on diet Pepsi typing away like a fifteen year old?
And CHATGPT, I never used but tried Grok and Claude, tend to pretend to be more humanized.
No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d;
All murder’d: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour’d thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?
dumbfuck distractions from epstein and stagflation………and Gaza and Russia
And all the subtle background placement for a coming police state.
During a news cycle those policies and odd actions become mere blips rapidly forgotten.
Then one day they are policy.
What he used a policy from 1789 ( alright I’m bad with the years). How many laws have been written and forgotten since then accept for the few that have already wargamed every possible scenario.
He’s move them to one of the one liberal rural states.
In my neck of the woods the homeless have replaced the winos….how times change
Gaza is just a test run for the USA.
But if they gaol the criminals and keep the homeless out of Washington the how will the DNC murder the next Seth Rich and blame it on street crime?
Cr hacking into a telephone pole.
There must be an addendum to the Exec Order: “You cannot spend that $2.33 on Sugary Drinks, Single Cigs, Potato Chips or Chewing Tabakee.”
What sugary drinks cost 2.33?
How does SNUS fit in that model?
Many years ago the National Socialists in Europe had an effective and efficient solution.
However it eventually proved unpopular.
Same with the Communists:
“He who does not work, neither shall he eat”
Trump will dump the homeless in vacant office buildings outside DC, in VA and Maryland, to reduce CRE vacancy rates.
Who lives in the the top 7 counties?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virginia_locations_by_per_capita_income
Close by. Bunk up!
Maryland?
Ever watch the Wire season where the gang bangers were using nail guns and dumping bodies in abandoned row houses?
The above is from a NYT article today on Social Security.
Perhaps we need to bring back the concept of “poorhouses”? In return for housing and food, people can do civic tasks, such as clean the streets, paint over graffiti and myriad other tasks that need doing in every town?
Do what Biden did in San Francisco when he met foreign dignitaries there…then do it longer.
The comment was made to highlight the behavior is bipartisan, cosmetic, unsustainable.
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However, from 1984-1992 I worked in a chem dep/mental health facility. We closed in 1992 and oh so many have shuttered since then because treatment that has any chance of success usually requires long lengths-of-stay with staffing 24×7 and, when insurance stopped or reduced paying, it wasn’t as profitable. Now I’d be hard-pressed to tell anyone with mental health or addiction issues where they could get true inpatient care. The homeless usually fit this definition.
So the most poignant part of the blog post is…”Send Em Where”.
I stay out of the cities as much as possible.
Got to start somewhere with something.
Mish loves to stir the pot! This one is up there.
Remember the photographs of Warsaw by Roman Vishniak? Enough said.
Secondly, mental illness is mainly incurable, many of the homeless today suffer from it. A bubble in baby boomers gives also a bubble in mental illness. Add in some other shit talk if you wish.
I read recently that you don’t throw your trash in the garbage, you “send” it elsewhere for someone else to deal with.
I actually laughed out loud on that one! It’s because you’re not thinking in 5D Mish!
But Trump is doing what is standard operating protocol for republicans and that’s to ship people they don’t like off somewhere else. Gov. Abbot and Desantis solved immigration by shipping immigrants to other people’s door step.
Trump can make ICE gestapo see homeless as possible immigrants and presto ship them off to West Africa.
Concentration Camps?
Soylent Green is people!
MWBA (Make Washington, DC Beautiful Again)?
You appear to have overlooked the most important part of this quote, which is that it only applies to those AGING OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.
According to Perplexity, this number is relatively small (see below). Additionally, simply because someone ages out of the foster care system DOES NOT mean that they WILL become homeless and will need assistance from this fund.
Therefore, the number of people this $1.8 million fund would apply to is most likely significantly less that the number exiting the system annually.
Trumpville doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well as Hooverville.
trumpsump?
Income inequality is the result of thinking banks are intermediaries between savers and borrowers.
In “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”, pg. 81 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.): John Maynard Keynes gives the impression that a commercial bank is an intermediary type of financial institution (non-bank), serving to join the saver with the borrower when he states that it is an: “optical illusion” to assume that “a depositor and his bank can somehow contrive between them to perform an operation by which savings can disappear into the banking system so that they are lost to investment, or, contrariwise, that the banking system can make it possible for investment to occur, to which no savings corresponds.”
In almost every instance in which Keynes wrote the term “bank” in his General Theory, it is necessary to substitute the term non-bank in order to make Keynes’ statement correct.
Income inequality has existed since the earliest caveman days. Someone always has more than others, often because they are either more spendthrift or better thieves.
This isn’t going away until the AI’s take charge, robots do all the work and money is something you see in a museum.
In your dystopian scenario, humans have no value or opportunity for a better life. One of these days, I’ll put some thought into this.
Why not think on it now?
Used to be that homes were built with porches in the front of the house. Now they only build decks in the back of the house.
This is a global problem, wherever they are sent there will already be an existing population problem. Unless, perhaps Alaska with a survival kit and rations. Perhaps a camp to house a million people in Alaska? No, it’ll be Gaza strip; each military transport will carry homeless caucasions. The remainder will go to central america.
The solution s easy – Soylent Green tanks! And I am not being facetious.
If you can’t find/hold onto work and can’t gainfully support yourself in a manner accepted by mainstream society, then what value do you add to society?
I want to be the one to play God please.
The idea of a god entity is an obsolete and archaic, non-technological concept for uneducated savages to explain things they didn’t have the knowledge to understand.
New hobo flavor!
What’s mainstream society?
Do the Mennonites and such qualify as OK even though they aren’t a part of main stream society?
There are plenty of islands that are more humane than Alaska and much closer/cheaper to ship them to.
California has a few: San Miguel/Santa Rosa/Anacapa Island etc. Can drop them off there and drop/ship in food. Temperature is decent and being on an island means no access to the mainland or drugs / booze etc.
This whole push-the-homeless-from-DC thing seems a bit… strange and belabored to me. Doesn’t Trump have more important things to do?
His actions since he took office for the second time have had a tinge of the bizarre to them. I’m not saying he’s suffering from dementia, but saying things like we’re gonna have a UFC cage fight on the White House lawn is just plain friggin’ ODD. His universal tariffs, seen in that light, represent a further extension of the oddness.
I used to like Trump. I really did. He wasn’t the typical politician and I even enjoyed his “Grab em by the p***y” remarks. But lately I’ve cooled on my ardor toward him. In retrospect, it’s a strange situation we find ourselves in where he’s president. Something’s outta whack in the system and it’s got to be corrected.
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Eat the RICH!
It’s called “I’m too old for this job”.
Not sure if you will read this.
I was watching some Canadian cop show and the two detectives were observing Hookers for some reason.
One asked the other which he would take, and he kind of looked at his partner and asked what do you mean.
The partner said he would take the oldest because she was the best trained and knew what she was doing.
The partner stared open mouthed with a WTF look.
Realistically it makes sense.
you are a decent writer. outside box thinking. good blog.
There’s a rise in homelessness with the extraordinary decline in temp hiring services.
End stage Capitalism.
Maybe Trump is taking them to Mar a Lago.
I really don’t like Trump but I don’t blame him for the homeless problem that the nation has. However his solution is like a lot of other of his solutions, just order someone around. It doesn’t really solve the problem, at best it moves or hides it and more likely makes the problem worse for someone else.
Stop the nation thing it is world wide and has been for centuries.
Only when upper class white folk feel pissy is it then an issue.
I never saw these guys out there until the 80s.
Sometimes. You had that whole hippy thing where many could go crash at some house or commune.
You still had and have the Hobo culture.
I pointed to the Lucille Ball made for tv movie in 1985 Stone Pillow as an example.
Back then they were “bag Ladies”.
So when we’re cleaning up after all of this, is anyone going to say they didn’t see the signs?
Actually, we would all better off if congress was moved to Tierra del Fuego and a new White House built in Bolivia. It’s true that congressmen/women have homes, but they are the epitome of welfare queens. If we elected homeless persons to congress, to fill all the seats, and gave them plenty of crack, the creation of new laws would greatly diminish.
Wrong! The creation of new laws would stay the exact same! Seeing as they haven’t passed a real one in years.
I agree. We need a room of even more deeply mentally challenged adults to make sensible rules.
There are plenty of homeless shelters with capacity.
The first problem, as I understand it, is that many people don’t want to follow the rules of the shelters and abstain from drug and alcohol use, and want to keep all hours. The other problem is mental illness, and a treatment center is needed for that.
But the people who don’t want to go to the shelters literally pitch a tent with everyone else who doesn’t like the rules. You get enough of them and their numbers allow them to take over parts of a city, to the detriment of those who follow the rules.
We have had vagrancy laws for hundreds of years for a reason. This isn’t a new problem, but our tolerance of it is new.
I think everyone would agree that sleeping on the streets and taking over public areas is not a good solution.
Sometimes it takes someone taking action (legitimate or not) to start getting something done. Trump is definitely of the move now and get permission later mindset, and that seems to have been working for a number of things.
Funding in DC is not hard to arrange. It’s just a matter of organizing it.
“I think everyone would agree that sleeping on the streets and taking over public areas is not a good solution.”
I agree with that. But $1.8 million won’t do jack doogie.
And Trump says “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
I want to see details of that plan and how it works. So should everyone else.
You are undoubtedly right, but Trump is not a typical politician (understatement of the year).
He always blurts out the outrageous thing first, and somehow, someway, a policy comes of it down the road. He sees his job as drawing attention to what he wants and letting others figure out the details.
I think his base understands that he’s the barker, and that his people are the tacticians.
That’s not everyone’s flavor, for sure.
Didn’t they once call that throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks?
I hear it’s ketchup for Trump.
Shall I quote the Taco flavored kisses again?
Yep on the money and allow my answer for the sleeping on the street part.
We’re as likely to see that as the unredacted Epstein list.
It isn’t a question of “tolerance”. There were specific court orders that prevented movement of homeless until the current Supreme Court vacated these legal restrictions last year, which now allows the homeless to be forced to move on. .
Suggest reading the following:
The problem is getting increasingly worse since cities have started ‘tolerating’ these camps rather than rousting them as soon as they set them up. They have to start rousting these people immediately with dogs, pepper spray, rubber bullets etc. Make it uncomfortable and they will leave.
I saw this article where a landlord facing fines because there was a homeless camp on his property and the clean up is a Hazmat site (10K plus in costs) due to needles, gas containers etc. This is why you have to roust ASAP.
https://komonews.com/news/local/landlords-face-fines-deadlines-over-unauthorized-homeless-encampments-unhoused-we-heart-seattle-capitol-hill
Except “rousting” them cost money. You need a ton of police and if you get resistance they end up in jail then require use of the court system to sort out the crime. And if they get 30 days in jail or more then there is that to pay for as well.
Do the math and add it all up and you’re talking millions of dollars every time you “clean up” one of these camps.
The cost is the real reason things don’t get done anymore. It’s part of the reason that cities stopped responding to crimes under $50 in many cities which in turn created tons of petty crime and everything locked up behind glass shelves.
Just put them in the paddy wagons, drive them outside city limits and drop them off. Burn everything in the camps so they have nothing but clothes on their backs.
They won’t be back and it won’t cost money keeping them in jail.
And when they leave, they just cease to exist?
Some will die of exposure for sure esp when they leave with nothing (no tents etc) but clothes on their backs.
Some might eventually get clean once the drugs stop flowing.
Either way the problem will sort itself out quickly.
I’m not claiming it’s nice. I’m claiming its going to fix the problem.
They aren’t just gonna curl up and die. They’ll do what it takes to survive, and none of it will be legal or beneficial to society.
“There are plenty of homeless shelters with capacity.”
Easily falsifiable claim, stated confidently but with no source of course.
https://streetlightnews.org/homeless-shelters/
This article provides actual data sources that refute your confident yet false claim.
The replies to your post allow your false claim to stand and therefore the whole thread you started is a waste of everyone’s time. This is what one one little falsehood does to civil debate. We’re seeing this writ large in the national discourse. Facts matter. When we ignore them or get them wrong, we eventually pay the price.