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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
From the article, I don't think any children have been turned over to traffickers yet. There's an outcry over children being placed in abusive homes going back several years now, and the agencies involved are warning that without reforms there's the risk children could be trafficked.
Imca is right, it's important to avoid falling into a Pizzagate-style conspiracy mindset.
They should have sent a poet.The Idaho primaries are starting to come in:
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article211208819.html
Only 7/951 precincts reporting so far
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The article states that nearly 1500 children have already been lost. That coupled with the report of there being a "risk" of the children being signed away to traffickers strongly implies that this is already happening. And that's on top of children ending up in abusive foster care.
edited 15th May '18 8:17:10 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedPensylvania's redraw districts are doing some good.
Women Surge in Pennsylvania Races, Buoying Democratic Midterm Hopes
It was a night of major victories for female candidates in a state dominated by men from Congress to the Statehouse. Women showed strength in nearly every region, from the liberal eastern suburbs to the conservative southwest. Democratic women won competitive primaries in two safe Republican districts in western Pennsylvania.
Madeleine Dean, the state House member; Chrissy Houlahan, the veteran; and Mary Gay Scanlon, the lawyer, each won in Philadelphia suburban districts that they are now favored to carry in November, according to results from The Associated Press. Their primary victories raise the likelihood of women cracking the stateβs all-male congressional delegation of 20 after midterm elections.
The women won in districts that were redrawn to replace a gerrymandered Republican map that the State Supreme Court ruled illegal in January. The new map of the stateβs 18 House districts β and the ebullience it set off among Democrats hoping to capture the House of Representatives in the midterms β put Pennsylvania front-and-center among four states that held primaries on Tuesday.
President Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania in 2016 and Democrats, seeking to tap into grass-roots rejection of the president, badly want a version of a do-over in the midterm elections. And the state will be critical to determining whether Republicans or Democrats win control of the House in November.
Nationwide, Democrats need to flip two dozen Republican-held seats to gain a majority in the House. Under the new congressional map, Democrats have a shot at flipping at least three and possibly as many as six seats this fall in the Keystone State, most in a collar of counties around Philadelphia.
Redistricting recognized the shifting demographics that have remade the region from a once-solid Republican enclave.
But the National Republican Congressional Committee, the partyβs chief spending arm, is not easily ceding races in the suburbs. The committee has reserved $7.8 million in television advertising for the fall in the Philadelphia market, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday, its largest early spending commitment of any region nationally.
Ms. Dean was the winner in a suburban district in Montgomery County considered a safe Democratic seat after redistricting. Ms. Houlahan had the good fortune of being the only Democrat running in a district almost as safe, centered in Chester County, which Hillary Clinton won two years ago by nine percentage points.
The House races were the centerpiece, but not the only show in Pennsylvania. In two important statewide primaries for the right to challenge Democratic incumbents β for governor and the United States Senate β the favorites carried the day.
Lou Barletta, a congressman from Luzerne County, who made a reputation on unflinching opposition to illegal immigrants and became an early supporter of Mr. Trump, won the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Bob Casey Jr., a mild-mannered politician who has become a relentless critic of Mr. Trump.
And Scott Wagner, a state senator whose fortune from waste hauling led to an inevitable campaign slogan that he would be Pennsylvaniaβs βcleanup guy,β won the nomination to challenge Governor Tom Wolf.
Mr. Wagner and Mr. Wolf are ideological opposites. Their fall race is expected to include fierce disagreement over Mr. Wagnerβs support of anti-union βright to workβ legislation, in a state where organized labor remains strong. Mr. Wolf opposes the legislation.
Mr. Wagner beat Paul Mango, a former health care consultant and West Point graduate, in one of the nastiest primaries the state has seen. Mr. Mango attacked Mr. Wagner over a protective order a daughter once obtained against him, which prompted a response ad by the daughter in which she angrily defended her father.
In an unusual down-ballot race, Lieutenant Governor Mike Stack, a Democrat who had a falling out with Gov. Wolf, lost to a primary challenger, John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock. Mr. Stack was in the news last year after accusations he mistreated State Police in his protective detail.
Idaho, Oregon and Nebraska also went to the polls on Tuesday. In Nebraska, the Democrat Jane Raybould, a city councilwoman in Lincoln City, won the primary and will face Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican seeking her second term in a comfortably red state.
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Yes but I don't see how this is in any way similar to that mindset.
We weren't looking at some innocuous Trump Administration tweet and imagining that it's cover for some secret anti-immigrant conspiracy. We just thought that sending undocumented immigrant children to military bases was a continuation of their normal cruelty.
Once evidence appeared that showed that we were wrong we accepted it and moved on, the exact opposite of a conspiracy theorist mindset.
edited 15th May '18 8:20:58 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
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Lost meaning ran away, or their guardian isn't answering the follow-up calls, or they moved without notifying anyone. It's bad, yeah, but it's not a new problem either so we should be careful before jumping into "the Trump administration is complicit in human trafficking".
edited 15th May '18 8:21:21 PM by archonspeaks
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The missing children issue has been going back years, mainly because HHS doesn't have the budget to actually verify how these children are doing. They make calls to the last known phone number of the child's guardian to check on them, so the 1500 missing are a combination of not being able to get through to a guardian, not getting a good answer, and actual harm to the child.
My worry isn't that the Trump administration is somehow involved, or purposely handing kids off to bad actors, but that the broader "defund and deregulate" mission will make it even harder for HHS to check up on these kids.
They should have sent a poet.That's probably what makes the Trump administration so dangerous. Less outright malice and more a total lack of regard for consequences. Not that this administration is not malicious too. Trump sure as hell has malice and ignorance in abundance.
edited 15th May '18 8:37:20 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedPennsylvania, Nebraska, Idaho And Oregon, going by 538
Idaho results are at 357/951 precincts reporting in
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article211208819.html
Tell the truth, even knowing I'm in a red state it's a bit disheartening to see just how many more people are voting Republican vs Democrat.
Though I take comfort in the liklihood that, of the current pattern holds, at least Raul "Founding Member of the Freedom Caucus" Labrador is unlikely to be the R candidate for Governor, as he's currently 7 points behind the more moderate, iirc, Brad Little
edited 15th May '18 9:58:07 PM by sgamer82
Looks like Paulette Jordan will be the Democratic candidate for Idaho governor.
Live election updates: AP calls race in favor of Paulette Jordan
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article211208824.html
If she wins, which, I confess, I don't see as likely, she'll be the first woman to be governor of Idaho and first native American to be a governor, period.
edited 15th May '18 10:11:22 PM by sgamer82

I'm more of the mind that at least some of the officials who signed away children to traffickers weren't doing it out of ignorance.
Disgusted, but not surprised