r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Texas turned CPS into horror show and that wasn't an accident. They've been putting foster children in unlicensed facilities for years, including facilities out of state, on the other side of the US.

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u/heyuhitsyaboi Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

had to google this because holy hell

from US Congressman Colin Allred:

There are about 9,000 children in long-term custody of the state, and an average of 80 children per month were staying in unlicensed and unsafe housing last year. This includes poorly supervised motels rife with sex trafficking, leaving already vulnerable children exposed to abuse. In the past three years, there have been 2,100 serious incidents involving these children without placement, including death, abuse and neglect.
Source: allred.house.gov

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u/RobertDaulson Aug 27 '24

2,100 cases and 9,000 kids. Jesus Christ, that’s almost 1/4.

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

Nope this is totally better than abortion guys, come on! Abortion is literally killing a child! What kind of monster would do that, when we could [checks notes] abandon the child in an abusive, underfunded system and slowly watch it die instead?

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u/Paksarra Aug 27 '24

And this is why Project 2025 also says that all babies have the right to be raised by their biological parents-- they also want to get rid of adoption and the foster system! Isn't that lovely?

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u/NeedsMoreSpicy Aug 28 '24

Forcing defenseless children to remain in the care of parents who never wanted them? Nah, nothing will go wrong with that!

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 28 '24

Forced parentage? Amazing! Truly nothing is better than a child being raised by their real parents, even if love/basic needs met aren’t in the equation! It’s Gods Will™!

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u/don3dm Aug 28 '24

Not to those who aren’t gullible enough to recognize that Project 2025 isn’t anything more than fan fiction.

The project’s controversial proposals led Trump and his campaign to distance themselves from the project in 2024—saying he knows “nothing about it” and calling unspecified parts of it “ridiculous and abysmal”.

Though I’m sure you’ll find a way to convince yourself that it’s Trump’s ideology. We get it. 🤡

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u/Paksarra Aug 28 '24

It's not Trump's ideology, it's the Heritage Foundation.

You know, the people who are sponsoring Vance.

You know, the people who have been pulling the strings since Reagan.

If Trump's campaign knows nothing about it, how the hell did they get Vance to write the intro, and why are all the authors Trump's former staffers?

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 28 '24

You can take it as a joke if you want. The very real people funding it aren’t.

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u/meowqct Aug 28 '24

Because it is.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

No it's the heritage foundation Trump's just their golden goose

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u/chene313 Aug 27 '24

This is exactly why they want to stop abortion- more kids to molest - abuse - enslave - indoctrinate. Look at how many Republicunts are found to be pedohiles - they are absolutely salivating at the opportunity to get their hands on as many children as possible.

Can’t wait to see what happens when they become adults out in the world. The crime rates are going to skyrocket in the next 12-18 - just watch. “CcHrIsTiAn fAmILy VaLueS” my ass - fuck these people forever.

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u/twitwiffle Aug 28 '24

And through no fault of their own (the children)

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

Read a boy named David! Have tissue on the nightstand

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u/fumei_tokumei Aug 27 '24

Only on reddit an you read something this stupid.

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u/comfortablesexuality Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

It's not stupid, it's awful. And it's awful because it's true.

Look. They're sabotaging the care system at the same time that they're putting way more lives into their hands. What sort of behavior motivates that? Anti-social behavior. Psychopathic behavior.

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u/fumei_tokumei Aug 28 '24

If you honestly believe that any significant amount of Republicans want to stop abortion because they want to molest kids then you have spent far too much time on the Internet.

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u/TheLoneGunman559 Aug 28 '24

How many democrats want to lower the age of consent from 18?

How many republicans want to do the same?

Which states are trying to push that same agenda?

Its all republicans and the GOP trying to do it for what other possible reason?

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u/don3dm Aug 28 '24

Yah. Thankfully there’s no Democrat pedophiles! 🤡

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u/UsefulSummer4937 Aug 27 '24

Uhm. Am I alone in thinking this sounds like Texas wants more babies for sex trafficking... Because that's sure as f what it looks like to me...

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u/mirrorspirit Aug 28 '24

They just want more babies. Once babies get older, they start to lose their appeal and start having opinions and preferences and flaws. They start acting like people instead of voiceless props. So the only solution to this is to toss aside these flawed, uncooperative people and bring in more babies.

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u/Ghoulscomecrawling Aug 28 '24

Gotta keep those jails full so Uncle Ted gets his fat check.

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u/Tocwa Aug 28 '24

Since when have babies been “voiceless”? Them got serious lungs on em when they be crying!

When has a baby ever been known to “cooperate”❔

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u/mirrorspirit Aug 29 '24

They're situationally voiceless when an adult can talk over the baby about what they want and what their opinion is. For example, "Kids don't want free lunches because they'll feel too ashamed to accept them."

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u/Tocwa Aug 29 '24

When I was a kid, I had zero problem with free stuff..

but I do get what you mean by that 🤔

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u/twitwiffle Aug 28 '24

Or unending stock of underpaid, undereducated minimum wage workers.

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u/HoneyShaft Aug 27 '24

Proving once again that the GOP stands for Gross Old PEDOPHILES that treat babies/children as nothing more than a product they can use and manipulate.

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u/PiSquared6 Aug 27 '24

Didn't USA lose 300,000 migrant children since 2021

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u/No_Banana_581 Aug 27 '24

So Texas govt officials are straight up sex and human trafficking kids legally. No wonder the republicans in Texas are always so concerned about what sex a child is. They want to know who they’ll traffick out to their rich buddies. Epstein was small time compared to them

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u/don3dm Aug 28 '24

That there are people like you who actually believe such nonsense is terrifying. Please don’t reproduce.

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u/No_Banana_581 Aug 28 '24

Give it a rest. The comment was facetious and you know it. The pos Texas republicans are responsible for what’s happening to those kids. They might as well be doing it themselves.

And do not act like the republicans don’t constantly bring up kids genitals bc that’s all they do, along w trying to lower the age a little girl can be forced to marry an adult man, now that they’re forcing raped ones to give birth. You see how it all connects Cletus

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Oh, and, in 2023, Texas also passed some measures to make it easier for parents whose children were removed by CPS to get those children back. They tucked that in with 'foster kids will be provided with a duffle bag for their belongings instead of garbage bags when changing homes.'

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u/Proper_Raccoon7138 Aug 28 '24

I remember when they started giving us duffle bags! The construction size trash bags were too expensive to keep giving out and we were expected to keep up with that duffle bag until we left care. I aged out in 2019.

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u/Environmental-Ad3438 Aug 27 '24

Got to get that check from tha govment

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u/IsThisThingOn69lol Aug 28 '24

This is the future republicans want. Can't imagine anything more hateful and anti-american. Hell, anti-human for that matter. Vote blue.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

A lot of these kid's are the one's that Trump tried to Teach them a lesson, come to the USA and have your kids taken away!

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u/GoldwingGranny Aug 27 '24

I’m sorry to hear this, but not too surprised.

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u/HellishChildren Aug 27 '24

Texas Tribune has covered it extensively. There's a twelve year old lawsuit about unsafe conditions in Texas foster care. The judge started cracking down this year... and Texas is trying to remove some of the judge's ability to impose punishment.

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u/Stark_Reio Aug 27 '24

Texas government has to be the worst I've seen out of current US so far.

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 27 '24

When they seriously want to secede, we should let them file the paperwork then sell them to Mexico the day before it goes final

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u/rabidsalvation Aug 27 '24

Maybe we should build Texas its very own wall, all the way around.

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Aug 27 '24

Yep let’s give them the wall they want

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 27 '24

Then fill it with water

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u/meowqct Aug 28 '24

Except that good people live there.

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u/rabidsalvation Aug 28 '24

Yeah, I was being 100% facetious. Motherfuckers talking about making a Texas-shaped lake!

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u/mellbell63 Aug 27 '24

Hey Biden could do that this year, he's got immunity!! Otherwise let's sic the prosecutor and the coach on them!!!

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 27 '24

I'm all for any of these solutions.

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u/l337quaker Aug 27 '24

Nah, let them secede. Then they'll realize they are a desert country full of oil right next door to the USA

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 28 '24

We'll need to hand deliver some democracy.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

I totally love this idea is it doable?

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 28 '24

Technically anything is possible.... except surviving a hand grenade suppository.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

I'm thinking it over, can anyone buy one😂 we just throw it right🎇

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u/uglyspacepig Aug 28 '24

Yep. Just yell "woke liberal grenade" before you toss it and they'll dogpile on.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

🤣🤣🤣 cool

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u/HeyitzEryn Aug 27 '24

Yea... their AG is the fucking worst. We should probably see what is on that dudes hard-drive.

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u/Environmental-Ad3438 Aug 27 '24

I whole heartedly agree. Paxton is the loud brash one Patrick is the sneaky one Abbott is the limp Dick

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u/HeyitzEryn Aug 27 '24

Paxton should honestly be in jail for corruption. When I heard the dude got 100 hours of community service... man... there is no justice in this world.

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u/Big-Summer- Aug 27 '24

And you know all those politicians who are behind this crap are absolutely thrilled at everything we’re reading here. We read it and feel concern, empathy, sorrow. The Reich wing assholes read about all these dire outcomes and are filled with glee at causing all this misery.

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u/Environmental-Ad3438 Aug 27 '24

Alabama and Louisiana says hold my Beer

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u/Popular-Ad-3278 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

Kinda like Its importain to save and breed broken ppl and criminals.

Mental instutions, prisons, cops, politicans, needs to keeper those stats high.

Some make it and hats off to those that do.
Sadly the majority struggle their whole life

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u/RickDankoLives Aug 27 '24

What are Texas’s abortion laws?

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u/Popular-Ad-3278 Aug 28 '24

Texas Health & Safety Code prohibits abortions outright, except in certain circumstances. Section 170A. 002 prohibits a person from performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion. There is an exception for situations in which the life or health of the pregnant patient is at risk

Why are you asking ?

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u/RickDankoLives Aug 28 '24

Because it’s totally legal to get an abortion in Texas within 6-7 weeks after conception. A whole month after most people have figured out they are pregnant.

So you got time to decide if you wanna terminate a pregnancy.

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u/Popular-Ad-3278 Aug 28 '24

I think you need to check your source on that one.

Every place i look says its banned or what i wrote in my first post.

There was a gap this summer it appears but as of June 2024, the Texas Supreme Court further upheld the state's criminalization of abortion.

Can you show a source that claims its legal up to 6 weeks ??

I dont think you can

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u/RickDankoLives Aug 28 '24

Texas heart beat law

Still valid from what I can see. Though I’ve been on vacation since the 22nd. Unless something happened during that time then that’s what I know to be the law in Texas.

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u/Popular-Ad-3278 Aug 28 '24

Thank you for this.

Its wierd when you search for it it does not get told you like that.

But looking into heart beat law made it easy .

Then again. I get it. At 6 weeks many dont even notice so thats prob why they just claim it to be banned.

But right is right and you where right !

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u/RickDankoLives Aug 28 '24

Thanks lol. For the record even as a conservative I thought the roe v Wade reversal was a bad move. I have little skin in the game. We had a kid, my wife and I. But we’ve also taken plan B when we weren’t ready.

I do think there is plenty of room for open discussion. Abortions into the 15-20 weeks range becomes a very unsavory practice when you research exactly what’s happening.

Also I do think the states having the choice to chose is inherently a good move for the federal government because they’ve long over reached in many many avenues, though I wouldn’t of picked this particular one to be the flag ship.

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u/Popular-Ad-3278 Aug 29 '24

I acually agree with you here.

15-20 should only be done if there is absolute danger to the Mother or Child will be horrible deformed ect.

I think it should be week 12 or 13 , any higer and a commison or case should be discused, and then its only if there is somthing special about the case .

12-13 is when most medical sience consider it a real life and human

Ea Mother has terminal cancer , og has to start meds to not die, going to prison ect ect somthing like that .

I dont agree with States running it tho , as there are way way to many crazy zelots out there.

There is a difference beetween banning and allowing

One affects everyone the other only affects those that want to.

Banning somthing should always be way way harder than allowing

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u/ForgottenCaveRaider Aug 27 '24

You seem to have struggled with English for your whole life.

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u/CooperHChurch427 Aug 28 '24

Florida DCFS has had kids runaway from those unlicensed facilities and end up in Florida. It's so bad Florida won't return the child to Texas.

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u/HellishChildren Aug 28 '24

In 2022, a Texas CPS worker got fired because a 14 year old girl they had put up in a hotel asked for food and the CPS worker told her to go turn tricks and buy her own food.