JohnWickdidnothingwrong
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Nobody distracts like Trump.
It's almost like it's his real purpose.
https://ground.news/article/if-they-refuse-white-house-threatens-homeless-people-with-prison
itsthevoiceman
Why isn't she dead yet?
MissSiesta
ARM THE HOMELESS.
Goatfer
1000% these people are getting shipped off to private prisons to be slave labor.
defensivebackhair
The goal is to put them into private prisons and profit. Its all about padding their wallets and getting slave labor.
JackingMeHoff
In the GQP eyes if you are poor you are a criminal. If you are homeless you have committed a crime against their society. Question is while in jail will Trump feed them?
Futchm
Traitors a piece of shot
And we need legislators to remove laws that the courts deem unenforceable
Maverickaura
I have a place members of the Whitehouse can stay. It's about 6 feet closer to the core of the earth.
Hovencl00f
The Homeless were not involved in the mugging of "Big Ball", and Trump has nowhere to send any homeless people. He cannot jail them for more than a short time for vagrancy.
Roune
Once in jail they will “lose” the paperwork or any number of other things to keep them in there as long as they feel like
GhostTater
This has little to do with homelessness and everything to do with curfew and getting people off the streets. Riots are coming because of what he is about to do next, and he needs a semi-legal hook to send police and troops out to arrest protesters
GodAintReal
I assure you, they can multitask. This is absolutely also about publicly abusing poor people.
LaughingMan2Gig
He plans on putting the homeless and mentally ill in camps . He signed the order for it at the end of July https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/
SavageDrums
I think they meant camps. Places to really help those homeless ADHDers concentrate better.
TheRedBaron8
Jes-us Christ it is not about the crime rate it is about taking over through authoritarian tactics. And if the courts are too slow to put an injunction on this shit it is time to gun up!
HelikaformerNubisKnight9
Hitler called it "Schutzhaft". (Imprisoning s.o. for "his own safety... what an euphemism).
HaukeChristiansen10
Where is the gost of christmas present when you need him
sweetfeetpete
“Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?”
Nephytis
DrBlackJack
I came here looking for this comment! I'm a little sad it's this far down.
Malsbury
Surely jailing homeless people has to be one of modern societies greatest own goal?
ThomasTheWankEnglne
theyll be given food and lodging for the rest of their lives!
TrashCanEnthusiast
Huh, I guess it wasn't just migrants they wanted to round up and put...somewhere. I wonder who's next after immigrants and the homeless?
RElGNMAN
Jail the homeless? We have sunken to new lows these days.
ThatNoPicklePeeThatNoPumpARum
We've been jailing homeless people for a very long time.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
At the risk of getting ahead of things, it's less about people who are homeless than it is about creating a class of people without rights. Are you homeless? Jail, if we feel like it. Do we claim to *suspect* that you're homeless, maybe because you're outside at a protest? Looking scruffy? Whatever? Jail, if we feel like it, and then you're lost, if we feel like it.
PicassoCT
So they are finally building social housing and they call it "jail".. involuntary social housing..
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Yup. And the fun part is, it'd cost WAY less than half as much to just provide safe housing for the same population, much like it would take ~25% as much money to provide universal healthcare as it costs us for the plutocrat-enriching garbage system we have now.
LilyBellGiantess
Jail. Because not having a safe place to live is criminal.
*sigh*
nadakuu
if i were homeless and going to jail anyways. i would just start committing crimes of robbing and shooting CEOs. the american dream seems to be amass enough money quickly enough to avoid justice anyways.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Yup. Because being let down by society is your fault.
Because being a victim makes you the bad guy.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery.
Sh1tMovieGroup
Jail, from someone who should be in one...
graehall
waaaay too true
DanielAsparagus
I’m in social services. I want to point this out, I had a client in California who told me there were 16 homeless beds in the entire state of Tennessee, which is why he hitched a ride out to ca. The waitlist was like 20+ years long. What do you think dc provides? I don’t know. But if you don’t do a crime they don’t put you in jail. Some of my clients would love to go back to jail for shelter. Some states just leave you on the street if you can’t generate jail revenue for a low level offense.
DanielAsparagus
In conclusions I don’t know everything or have all the answers and I’m generalizing, but it’s a true full blown crisis in the US. THE ONLY thing that has kept us going since 2019 was the MASSIVE THROW MONEY AT THE WALL approach taken by Biden to combat COVID and its social impact. Yeah Joe napped a lot, but he wasn’t a pedo and worked with smart staff with good ideas who honestly cared about Americans (and also pandered to Wall Street). Covid grant money saved so many homeless lives & it’s gone
DanielAsparagus
Now I’ve got folks kicked back out to the street and a mere tens of thousands that I can’t even use to support housing, because it’s not even ethical to put someone in a motel for just a month and them throw em back out on the street. Look up HDAP. I had the most amazing funding to be creative with how I housed ONLY those disabled enough to get ssi benefits. Now I’m telling people over 60 with 5% heart function that there’s no where for them to be except the ER. It’s a nightmare shuffle in/out
DanielAsparagus
It takes me about 30k to house someone in a motel for a year. And we did that a lot. And it worked.
Bignholy
The funny thing is, COVID relief proved that the solution to keeping poor people off the streets and functional is *gasp* alleviate being poor.
I am quite sure we could house all ~1200 homeless in DC by building some fucking apartments, hiring some security, and doing actual fucking maintenance rather than letting it go to shit, all of which would cost a lot less than a single Coast Guard mobilization to crush their tents and treat them like animals.
God forbid.
EroticZombiePants
When a co-worker at a former job got divorced, he moved into a motel instead of an apartment. When you take into account motels generally have free utilities and wifi, you really can save a ton of money that way. The biggest issue would be space I'd think.