r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Welp

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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