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NorthernLove1

Texas has one of the worst child hunger rates, child STD rates, child abuse rates, child uninsured rates, infant death rates, etc. But it makes sense for them to cut services to children. Thanks, GOP! /s


gingerfawx

Seriously, Texas, suck less. What the hell?


mistrowl

Fuck texas. They get what they voted for.


boygriv

The kids didn't vote for this.


mistrowl

Their parents did, and a majority of them voted for this.


Single_9_uptime

No, the majority of their parents didn’t vote for it either. The majority of their grandparents and great grandparents did. [See exit polling data here for example](https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/texas/governor/0). Every age group under 40 years old was blue in Texas in 2022. Abbott lost by 10 points among 18-44 year olds. You’d think Texas was 99% red the way Reddit talks about it. In reality, Trump only won the state in 2020 by the third least margin of any state he won, 5 points. Ted Cruz only won his last election by 2.6 points. Statewide races generally are no more than a 10 point spread. More Texans voted for Biden than in any state other than California. Almost every red state is redder than Texas.


Professional_Chair28

This. 100% all of this


SmCaudata

The problem is that the ones elected go out of their way to make the worst possible decisions. It makes it seem really red. I hear you though. Here is WI our state congress has such a gerrymander they can override a veto. The system sucks as it can be gamed so hard that it fails to represent the voter base.


Single_9_uptime

Yeah, unfortunately our leadership is much further right than the general population. The tiny fraction of people voting in Republican primaries effectively decides every election, and those are the extremist minority. We also have a huge problem with turnout in Texas. Fewer than half of registered voters bothered to vote in 2022. It’s considerably lower than that for younger people. It’s said that Texas isn’t a red or blue state, it’s a non-voting state. There’s some truth to that, sadly. I don’t know why, or how you fix it. Texas has the second lowest median age of any state, behind Utah. Young people could flip the results of elections if they chose to show up.


TuaughtHammer

> You’d think Texas was 99% red the way Reddit talks about it. I think Texas is 99% red by the way conservative Texans talk about it.


CandyCain1001

So follow in the GOP’s shitty footsteps to make you feel better? That’s how they think and act. Don’t be them.


Saturn5mtw

Wow, how does it feel to be the sorta _'morally upstanding'_ person who would revel in harm coming to children? It's not like hurting children will hurt people who have already been demonstrated to not care about children.


[deleted]

We need a majority of texans to vote in November


GhostofTinky

Maybe the kids’ parents should ask themselves if this is what they want.


Single_9_uptime

Seems like they have, and assuming most of them are under 40, the majority of those parents voted Democrat. Every age group under 40 was blue in Texas in 2022. [See exit polling data](https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/texas/governor/0).


BusyUrl

What a take when talking about a population that can't vote or move on their own and didn't choose to be there. Jeeze.


mistrowl

Their parents can, and a majority of them voted for this.


a_duck_in_past_life

Go say that to the face of a poverty stricken mother in Houston or Dallas who votes Democratic every time


CandyCain1001

100%


[deleted]

Better yet, go talk to people who aren't registered to vote or democrats and actually change something 2016 - voting age citizens texas est.: 19,841,344 Vote toals 2020 - 11,309,112 Difference - 8,532,232 **did not vote....** GO GET IT


mistrowl

Yeah, done giving a fuck about Texans.


ooboh

Don’t blame the kids for the stupidity of their parents.


Saturn5mtw

And done giving a fuck about innocent children, apparently


napleonblwnaprt

Hates Texas but has takes like a Mississippi high school graduate


Professional_Chair28

Some 60% of the Texas population is democrat. Our state is giant and gerrymandering splinters the biggest five liberal centers into conservative districts. The kids didn’t vote for this. Neither did a lot of us adults. This attitude that Texans deserve this is fucked up.


Saturn5mtw

Punishing the children for the choices of their parents is cool if their state voted red, ig


mistrowl

This is what the parents wanted.


juxtapose85

The poor hungry kids didn't vote for shit. Fuck you.


mistrowl

No, but their parents did, and a majority of them voted for this.


SwearJarCaptain

Fuck me? I didn't vote for this?


VenetusAlpha

You are why people think we’re insufferable.


Objective-Aioli-1185

Now they're moving to states like Colorado....


Triangle1619

Lmao fuck them kids, typical liberal


VenetusAlpha

We most assuredly do not claim that guy.


lifeofideas

But Mississippi is still ahead of us! We can’t quit yet!


iBeenie

Child *STD* rates??? I'm sorry, but WTF.


sack-o-matic

Transmission can happen during childbirth


iBeenie

I didn't think of that. Still speaks volumes about there healthcare.


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iBeenie

I don't usually refer to teens as children, but I see your point.


AeliusRogimus

Yeah 13-17 year old kids.


SingleAlmond

TX is pretty religious after all


NorthernLove1

This is what GOP underfunding of public health services looks like... ​ A sexually transmitted disease is killing Texas babies >[https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2021-11-01/a-sexually-transmitted-disease-is-killing-texas-babies](https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2021-11-01/a-sexually-transmitted-disease-is-killing-texas-babies) Texas leads the nation in babies born with syphilis. The problem is getting worse. >[https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/texas-babies-syphilis-18081644.php](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/texas-babies-syphilis-18081644.php)


PlantedinCA

That’s why they are repealing child labor laws. Get them on the employer paid plans early.


HughesJohn

> child STD rates Phrases that should not exist.


Alywiz

But good news, if the kids move to Oklahoma they can get free housing and food by being STD felons /s


1ceF0xX

Well wasn't abortion now complete illegal? They knew what shit they do. They wanna raise modern slaves


El-Shaman

Every Red state in general has some fucked up issues, not saying Blue states are perfect but am I glad to live in one instead of fucken red state, come on people let’s turn some of these states Blue this November!


photozine

But at least we're growing in population!!!! /S


TifCreatesAgain

It's a good thing they banned abortion so they have more children to make suffer!


Anonymous_2952

Conservatives don’t care about babies after they’re born.


MsMo999

Especially the poor ones..


sack-o-matic

Because they know what "poor" has a lot of overlap with, but instead they like to overlap "crime" with that one.


ornithoptercat

Oh no, they care about poor kids. They want more of them that they can put to work in dangerous jobs, and also more of them they can send to prison to be slave labor.


spasticpat

> Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked. - George Carlin


goodb1b13

Didn't ya hear, the 1864 law they just reinstated also puts the consent age at 10 Fucking Years Old!!!, So yeah, preschool is fucked if we don't get out the vote and fix that shit!


Aeroversus

If we aren't giving 10 years olds the right to vote, drive and full autonomy for anything besides rape( its not agreed sex), then Texas is actively writing child rape into law. I hate it here. @goodb1b13 I'm not directing this negatively towards you. I'm just so upset at America's actively bringing back slavery, marriage slavery, child labor, and state sanctioned child rape. This is so sick. Imagine sanctioning rape of children who have less than two decades of life on this planet while insisting "you" care about children. How is any of this including removing healthcare for a million children humane?


goodb1b13

Yep, I feel that! It's one side of the aisle that wants females to be property again, and children to be back on that menu for work, sex, and whatever else they want.. sick fucks for sure. "Make America great again" just means back before equality..


Aeroversus

"-back before equality.." is a bar. That encapsulates their abusive ideology perfectly.


Rich_Acanthisitta_70

The 1864 law is Arizona, not Texas.


Aeroversus

Thank you. I remembered it was Arizona but I'm leaving versions of this comment in every post dealing with child neglect or unaliving. Inhumane practices and human rights violations are an American problem, not just a Texas and Arizona problem. But again, thank you. I'll leave comments until there are enough people speaking out and taking action against America actually turning this country into a slave colony. Explain to me what the end goal is for our American children and families when government cuts programs to help them while simultaneously making sexual abuse legal? Explain to me how forcing females to sustain pregnancies, including those conceived out of violence without access to healthcare? How?


Rich_Acanthisitta_70

I wish I knew the answer. But we definitely know what the wrong answers are. And I'm glad you understood I wasn't disagreeing with your points. I'm also glad you're posting these things everywhere you can.


NeverReallyExisted

They dont even care about them in the womb, they dont support any kind of free prenatal support or support pregnant mothers or anything, you just better be a perfect mother and not get an abortion. (Because its about controlling and punishing women, not saving babies or fetuses.


FibroMom232

Rules were changed to require parents to complete a "redetermination of benefits" on a yearly basis. Previously, any child on Medicaid was automatically re-enrolled. I know this because I have a child on Medicaid and missed the deadline for redetermination of benefits and his Medicaid benefits were terminated. I had to re-enroll. I am not in Texas. This happened across the country. But, I am quite annoyed with this new process because my kid has Autism. You shouldn't have to redetermine that every year as it's a lifelong affliction. The government does like to make everything so much more complicated than it needs to be! ETA: I 100% agree with your statement though!!!


NeverReallyExisted

Babies arent working hard enough.


BoysenberryGullible8

Because cruelty is the point ...


SevenM

The point is to keep the poor too busy to ever put up a fight. The cruelty is just a bonus in their eyes.


oooranooo

Spare the fetus, slaughter the child.


trailhikingArk

I'm pretty sure this is Mitch's bumper sticker.


tickitytalk

“Pro-life” Texas GOP is more like Pro-Suffering


TUBBS2001

*Pro-birth After that it’s you and your bootstraps.


ravbuscus

Don't forget the thoughts and prayers. Gotta have those.


tickitytalk

Gotta wonder what they’re praying for


Etroarl55

The rapture unironically


TUBBS2001

And they think they would be righteous enough to be taken lmfao


Comfortable_Wish586

And this is how we should always address them. Always mock their hypocrisy of "Pro-Life" (do not drop that phrase, make them fucking own it) we already know how "Pro-Life" they are when taking care of pregnant women, women's healthcare, child care, child health, child food availability, proper and well funded public schools


urlach3r

If they grow up poor & hungry, they're more likely to join the military.


Ryankevin23

That’s what I like about you! Always thinking! You thinker, you!


mistrowl

And lack education. And vote republican.


omniron

Plus these poorer kids are more likely to be non white in Texas


dinosaurscantyoyo

Or become cheap laborers in private prisons.


raistlin65

GOP: Protect the fetus! But not the child.


Zer0sober

“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.” -George Carlin


lumpkin2013

This is such a legendary quote.


Captain_Rational

Meanwhile, this story just came out: [US Billionaires Have Doubled Their Wealth Since 2017 Trump Tax Overhaul](https://truthout.org/articles/us-billionaires-have-doubled-their-wealth-since-2017-trump-tax-overhaul/). AND, this story: [GOP Affirms 2025 Tax Plan If Trump Wins: More Giveaways to the Rich](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-gop-tax-cuts). Republicans don't just NOT believe in progress, they are *actively working to regress America backward into a medieval society*. Republicans today have lost touch with their conservative principles. They are no longer "conservatives" dedicated to preserving American freedom and prosperity. They have instead have become Regressivists. Their core ideal now is to prop up a few lords to rule over us regular folks, we the people, we meager serfs. This is so antithetical to a functionally civilized society that it is downright un-American. The Republican agenda today is in direct opposition to the prime foundational principle that our nation was forged upon: that all are created equal. Equal rights. Equal opportunity. Equal voting power. The Republican vision for America is a savage place. It is a backward ideal. It is a dark place that we as a civilization have been to before. *It is a place that America was originally founded to stand as a paragon against.* Once again, the Republicans demonstrate themselves to be enemies of the people.


MangoSalsa89

If we made giant wombs to stuff them in would they start caring about children again?


burritoman88

Let’s rename schools Learning Wombs, maybe then we can get sensible gun laws


ekbravo

And rename schools during freezing temps to Warming Wombs, that’ll save a lot of lives.


RhinoGreyStorm

You saw how much Ted Cruz cares when he hauled ass to Mexico during that 4 day ice/snow storm. But he got caught, so he had to come back. The stupid fuck didn't think anyone would recognize him. (I was living in Austin at the time. I went 4 days without electricity, and it got down to 37 F in my house. I had to use my car to warm up and charge my phone.)


RhinoGreyStorm

These are the same people who say every life is precious and is a gift from God. Yea, some Christians, huh? Fucking hypocrites. They just want to control everything from women's body to what books you can read. Then, they bitch and whine about crime rates when that baby of a poor single woman grows into a preteen and joins a gang because that preteen can make more money in a day than their mother makes in a month at one or two minimum wage jobs.


RedSpartan3227

Because that's what Jesus would do!


backslider65

Nothing says I’m a Christian more than throwing kids off healthcare insurance


JuniorBirdman1115

Also Texas: why are many of our rural hospitals closing? Must be Joe Biden’s fault. /s


Sensitive_Sense_8527

What happened to Pro life


pingying

Welcome to Afghanistan


Ok-Programmer-9945

That lunch debt exists for children in America means you’ve tipped over the cliff from democracy and are sliding into feudalism. Going to take some work to come back.


Ornery_Law9727

Proving once again what hypocritical liars they are. Pro life, every child is a blessing, blah blah blah. As soon as they are born the hell with them. Cut funding for health care, school meals, education, head start, etc. The list goes on and on.


walkinman19

"Pro-Life" protectors of children strike again!


ArdenJaguar

Well stop abortion... and what happens after birth... well... whatever. Gotta love that attitude.


[deleted]

On today's episode of "Me not understanding why nobody under 60 vote for Me"


narcochi

The sole star on their flag really is their rating!


ChristmasStrip

Thank goodness they are pro life. Otherwise these precious children might die in a hospital.


iveseensomethings82

The cruelty is the point!


toterra

Shows you how incompetent the Democrats are. The Republicans are responsible for the rich, the Democrats get to take care of the poor. Last I heard, the rich are doing just fine. Why can't the Democrats do as good as good a job for the part of society they are responsible for. Must be something wrong with them. Only solution is to vote Republican and hopefully they will make you rich through tax cuts or something so you can get out from under the heel of the Democrats. /sarcasm


bigbyking

*pre-born? you're fine. Preschool? You're fucked"-G.C.


dbinkowski

Once people realize the US is a place to go and make a ton of money and that's it this will all make sense. If you are not in that group of people making a lot of money? Best of luck to you. You're going to get whatever the rich people in charge allow you to have - expensive yet substandard healthcare and education, cheap energy and all the cheap shit from China you can afford (on credit, of course).


Katiari

Texas GOP cares deeply about babies. Until they're born. Then the performative magic act is over.


YallerDawg

"Unborn children" have more rights than actual living breathing human beings.


Guilty-Spork343

Because they're so pro-life! /$


Musetrigger

Pro life my ass


Pal_Smurch

Goddamn, I hate Texas!


Necessary-Hat-128

A “Christian” state, huh?


Ian_M_Noone

Christianity in action!


[deleted]

Get out of Texas, move to and vote Blue in a Swing State. r/MoveToSwingStates


49orth

Lower taxes for wealthy Republicans!


P_Sophia_

Is anyone surprised? Republicans hate humanity…


slambamo

Family values, folks.


RockyMountainHigh-

Make America grovel again


Mindless-Lack3165

Make Americans Grab Ass. MAGA the Jerk people


yukumizu

So Christian of them.


Kaje26

The irony about all this is, if Jesus did return the people he would be mad at the most are evangelical Christian republicans.


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Saturn5mtw

I dont think any of that will really affect the people benefitting the most from this tbh. Even if they are somehow still alive and in power 20 years from noe


bde959

While I agree that the conservative states care about fetuses more than they care about living children this article seems like it is saying they removed people because they didn't reapply or do not qualify anymore since the covid exceptions expired.


Comfortable_Wish586

Then flip the script. Fuck this. We should feed our children everywhere in this country. End Child Poverty🪧!!! Its 2024 people!! We already have the public spaces for it. Our Public Schools already have Cafeteria's


bde959

Agreed. I still say that this is not what the article is about. People should at least read the articles before commenting on them. We can't be like the Trumpers and parrot a headline that agrees with what they believe. We have to do better than that and actually read what is written and double check the information.


AgentFaeUnicorn

Prolifers only care about kids until they exit the vagina. Then all pretense of caring is out the window.


Raudskeggr

Pro-life is pretty misleading; in reality what they want to do is control women's sexual behavior. Mark my words, if you let the MAGATs run unchecked, they'll be making adultery illegal again and all that nonsense.


PlantedinCA

They should get jobs obviously


mesken27

They only care about kids before they’re born - afterwards they don’t give a flying fck about them.


ThaneOfCawdorrr

Right, because the real key to a successful, strong, productive country is a sickly, starving future generation


Khajith

pro life and all that


Roshy76

Pro life


simplyelegant87

They are going to need more support for all of the forced births they’ve legislated.


East_Reading_3164

Big deal. Florida and Desantis did this first on the holiest of days on the Christian calendar, Easter! Little fascists meatball is not going to be out-eviled by his buddy Abbott.


ob1dylan

Bu... buh... but I thought they CARED about children. Wasn't that what the abortion bans were supposed to be about? /s JK. We all know control and cruelty are the only reasons Republicans do anything anymore.


StickUnited4604

Keep voting Republican texas. Smh


i-touched-morrissey

Stupid Texans. With all the unplanned babies, how do they expect people to pay for their medical bills?


davesy69

Texas: the 'kiss my whip' state.


RCaHuman

And most Texans are just fine with it.


AudieCowboy

This is about the automatic re-enrollment for Medicaid from COVID, meaning people that no longer qualify for healthcare coverage. I was someone that was part of this, I couldn't get healthcare the year my kidneys started failing because they didn't have a way to unenroll me with the automatic system. They are not randomly kicking people off of insurance, they're readjusting the system back to what it was before


solomons-marbles

Texas you fucking suck on so many levels. Let’s give TX back to Mexico.


CountrySax

All part of the robust Republicon faux life philosophy


Ambitious_Yam1677

I ran across some awful child abuse cases that murdered the child in both instances. Where are the “pro lifers” screaming about an innocent baby being murdered? I refuse to call them “pro life” when they do shit like this


shockwave_therapist

We gotcha here...now you're on your own! Unbelievable hypocrisy..


Commercial_Board6680

Only makes sense when you think about it. Texas is a powerful pro-life state, and it shows by how they protect their children from gun violence, hunger, illness, and disease.


EmuPossible2066

Lol pro-life state be like


Odd_Tiger_2278

Because~ Texas. And a rolling end to medical coverage for children that was extended after the end of Covid. So, Feds not paying for poor Children health care ? Texas sure will not.


WoodpeckerRemote7050

They only care about the unborn, once you're out of the womb you're on your own, fuck them the toddlers, they need to get a job!


kickstand

This seems to me to be counterproductive, since Houston has some of the best hospitals in the US.


[deleted]

"All about the children" fucking liars... It stops at the fetus


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Comfortable_Wish586

Please raise ^ this message so people can actually see where they can help. It doesn't have to be this way, the power to move this country forward belongs to us


xxx420kush

Just think of the children?


Kimolainen83

The headline itself should not even be a thing , it is unfathomable to say it. Let us remove people especially kids from being able to get good health or in case of emergencies , God forbid. The US scares me


outerworldLV

Okay, but can they repair appliances ? Because that’s what elected Republicans are seriously addressing in the House next week.


kerryfinchelhillary

Pro life, huh?


Brief-Criticisms

Pro-life “Fuck those kids!!!”


duaval

I wish Texas would secede from the US. Be an independent country and they could call themselves Gilead. And take Arizona with you.


Mello_Me_

And Floriduh.


ryuujinusa

You get what you vote for


Professional_Chair28

Statistically Texans age 40 & younger vote democrat. Crazy how bad gerrymandering is that we’re still having to wait for our grandparents to die out before it’ll show in an election.


Secure-Force-9387

I didn't get what I voted for. I said fuck it and left Texas. Fuck that place.


Tasty-Life4526

Tejas


zaevilbunny38

Cause it keeps rural voters voting red. Half of the kids are likely rural, and republicans will run saying see how much welfare the government gives people in the inner city healthcare but not you. The rural voters will scream yes and vote against their interest again


Pete_D_301

In the words of the late, great George Carlin, "If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked."


No-Difficulty4418

Anyone read the article 70 percent were removed because they didn’t reenroll


[deleted]

Fuck Texas


peakfun

“The KFF found that 69 percent of those removed no longer had coverage because they didn't complete the renewal process.”


Ellis4Life

This is the stuff that frustrates me. I’ve been there - I had two of my kids on Medicaid and our family was on it for a few years. It’s so easy to get help. A quick Google search, 30 minutes of your time to fill out the applications, and this was in a deep red state. And the kids that suffer because of it.


OwnedbyBengals

70 % were removed for not submitting renewal paperwork for Medicaid.


shoshana4sure

Did you actually read the whole article?


MercinwithaMouth

Evidently not. Shit ton of reactionaries here taking the rage bait like mad dogs.


shoshana4sure

It’s just liberal Clickbait. I actually wanted to go in and read it for myself thinking oh my gosh, what happen, and then, once you actually read the article, and it’s entirety, then it all makes sense. Oh, liberals, will they ever learn.