Social workers are quitting their jobs because they refuse to
carry out the policies that have been implemented by their right
wing culture warrior Governor Greg Abbott.
Who has decided to persecute families who are loving toward transgender Children and
has even called for investigations for
parents who provide gender affirming care to their kids.
Now, just to give you a recap in February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
issued a nonbinding opinion stating that gender affirming healthcare for
transgender youth is a form of child abuse.
So that's how it started.
Okay, they set the foundation for their disgusting policies of persecution.
A week later, the governor Greg Abbott directed Department of Family and
protective Services.
To investigate parents who support their transgender Children and
allow them to access gender affirming medical care by their doctors.
And so, we even shared a specific story of a family that was in fact being
investigated because they were offering counseling to their transgender child.
Now, here's what DFPS, the Department of Family Services had to say and
protective services had to say about this.
I will resign one staffer wrote in February in response to de FPs,
Associate Commissioner for statewide intake,
Steven Black's email guidance on Abbott's directive.
Now the same employee wrote in a separate email to a colleague quote, I have told
my boss, I will resign before I report on a family whose child is transitioning.
Then there was another employee who spoke out and
wrote in an email to her supervisor that the directive was Effing bull poop.
I like that, you know, trying to keep the language as classy as possible,
even though the rage is there.
And since the beginning of the year,
almost 2300 employees have in fact left the department.
That doesn't mean that every single one of them quit as a result of the terrible
directives that have been implemented by these right wingers.
But several employees said that they were offended by Greg Abbott's order to
launch child abuse investigations into families of transgender Children.
A former director cited the you know, turning it into a political issue,
and questioned why employees tasked with caring for
Children were caught up in culture wars and legal battles.
The focus has been taken so far away from child safety,
that I don't wanna do this job anymore.
Said one anonymous Houston area caseworker, and the list goes on and on.
And on one hand,
I actually commend them because it takes a lot of courage really to to quit your job.
To make a point, to take a political stance and and share your disdain and
displeasure with policies that persecute innocent people in the state.
But there's also a terrible consequence to this as well, in that, you know, there's
already a shortage of social workers, not just in Texas, but across the country.
Social workers have too many cases in their caseload.
They're overworked.
They're paid and losing more social workers as a result of the lunacy that
we're seeing among these culture war, obsessed politicians is really
going to hurt the people of Texas at the end of the day.
It's really gonna hurt Children who are in fact being abused.
It's just, it's crazy.
But this is what the priorities are for right wingers,
it's not to make your life better.
Well, the only thing they offer up is making other people's lives worse.
Yeah, so the story is both very simple and a little bit complicated at the same time.
So the simple part first, so the republicans want to use big
government to intrude on the decisions that your family makes.
Remember what they said in Virginia.
My God, they're teaching critical race theory and they won't listen to parents.
So, war on parents that democrats are doing well, what is this?
This is literally a war on parents.
They're saying if you parent your kids in a way the government disagrees with.
We will enforce political correctness on you and we will send the jackbooted thugs
of the government to impose government tyranny on how you parent your kids.
And we might, by the way destroy your family by charging you with a crime for
caring about your kids.
Take your kids away and given to people who probably will hate them and
tell them that their lifestyle is terrible and that they're evil.
So they destroy the kids psychology for the rest of his life, right?
These are the monsters that are republicans, monsters, they're terrible,
evil, immoral people, This is what they do to families in America.
They hate families.
All they want is, I want to be the dictator in charge.
You do as I tell you my morals, what morals?
Republicans don't have morals.
So that's the super simple part of this story.
And all republicans, are you crying that I called you evil and immoral?
That's what you've been calling democrats for 40, 50 years.
And the idiots in mainstream media are like, okay, yeah,
they're allowed to call you the most heinous things in the world, but
you never, you better not ever call a republican anything else otherwise.
Well, say you're disqualified from politics.
I don't care about your stupid rules.
Republicans have proven in Texas that they are deeply immoral people who
want to use big government to break up innocent families.
That's who they are at their core.
Okay, so now the complicated part, well, the problem is we have principles and
I told you 100 times when the republicans go around saying I'm not going to
enforce the law.
I remember Kimberly Jameson talking, she said, now gay marriage is legal.
I don't care, I'm not gonna give them a marriage license.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do my job, Right?
Well, that it can't work.
But the problem here is these conscientious objectors are also saying
they don't wanna enforce the law and they're not morally, they're very right.
The more the law in this case is disgusting and evil.
Okay, so but that puts them in a very hard spot.
So what do they do as people of principle?
A lot of them have quit.
Okay, but now that leaves that department with nothing but right wingers.
So the minute the right wing passes a law that is reprehensible,
people of good morality and decency quit.
And then they win, because then they have the government filled with nothing but
right wingers who can't stand your family and
how you make choices trying to kidnap your kids away from you.
At the same time though Jake, I mean,
it reminds me a little of what happened in Florida.
Where a prosecutor who signed a pledge indicating that he would
not enforce laws that would persecute women seeking abortions.
He would not pursue cases involving parents providing gender affirming
care to their Children.
He got fired.
Rhonda Santis came in and
he apparently has the power to unilaterally fire a prosecutor who,
by the way, was elected by the voters in the county that he was serving in.
I you know, interviewed him just last week on Wednesday.
And so, I bring that up, because if you are a social worker and
you have ethical concerns about what these directives are.
If you don't carry out what is demanded of you by the directives in Texas,
they'll get rid of you, they'll just get rid of you.
That's exactly what happened in Florida.
>> That's because republicans love big Government.
So now that's a fact, that's a fact.
It's proven indisputably in this story.
And if you said that on cable news, they'd laugh you out of the room and
never let you on television again, they said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We're doing propaganda here that democrats love big government,
and republicans are for small government.
But what do you mean, they're using big government to break up innocent families?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you're not allowed to say things that are true on television.
Okay, well, we just said it, it's a fact, it's a fact.
Republicans love the tyranny of big government as long as they're using
it to oppress you with their immorality and their evil, evil intent.