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MAGA weaponizes Children.
MAGA hides behind children.
By Keith Thomas
8/3/2026, 3 pages
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
MAGA SAYS LET THE CHILDREN DIE.
Do the MAGAt White Christian Nationalists running our government, with their Project 2025 goals and policies, practice what they claim their bible and Jesus preaches? In a word, no.
Brown children are a particular target of MAGA. The numbers that follow are as up to date as I can find and although they vary widely it’s safe to say that at the very least we’ve already seen hundreds of thousands of deaths and additional millions will die because of the actions of this administration.[1]
When the MAGA Trump administration cut off USAID they condemned millions (the numbers vary but all ranges are in the millions) to death by 2030. Many sources suggest 14 million deaths by then, of which 4.5 million are children.[2]
So far cuts to USAID have resulted in an estimated 762,000 deaths with 500,000 of those deaths being children.[3] [4] In addition to people dying from lack of medicine, medical treatment and starvation, people are dying from diarrhea. 125,000 children have died from it so far from diarrhea. Ugly ways to die for anyone, let alone children.
MAGA’s actions speak louder than words.
GOD WANTS THEM TO.
It’s not just brown children they’re after though. Poor white kids are on their radar as well.
“Love the sinner, hate the sin” is a bullshit phrase that MAGAt White Christian Nationalists used to use to coverup the fact that they hate LGBTQIA people and want them punished (or dead, in extreme cases).
By now it should be clear that MAGA Republicans use children as cover for their sacredly held beliefs of bigotry, racism, homophobia and misogynism. They’ve been hiding behind children for decades claiming that what they believe and do is to protect children. AND it isn’t their idea. God wants them to do it. MAGAts are on a holy crusade against queers of all stripes, and they say they are doing it for the children because gays are turning their kids queer. They aren’t. They were born that way.
Basically, MAGA doesn’t want kids knowing that there are gay people. They want LGBTQIA people back in the closet and to punish them if they dare to step out. Rainbows trigger them. They freak out over drag queens!
COOTIE SHIELDS
MAGA treats sexuality like it’s a virus that people can catch from someone that’s gay. Here’s the thing, though. Gay people aren’t the problem. It isn’t like people can catch gay cooties from them. LGBTQIA people aren’t the ones causing children or adults to be gay. Gays aren’t the ones abusing/exploiting children. MAGA wants children taught hate and intolerance. If their kids are gay, MAGAts want them to hate themselves.
That doesn’t sound like love.
THE MORAL MAJORITY
Remember them?
The so-called ‘moral majority’ was founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979.[5] Fast forward to today and under Trump that same bunch of immoral moralists are protecting Trump and all his fellow pedophiles in the international Epstein/Trump sex trafficking ring. That’s the MAGAt approach when it comes to protecting children. Say it didn’t happen or wave it off it as not being so bad.
So far Trump has kept most of the record of the Epstein/Trump files and what they did to children out of the public domain for going on 2 years now. TWO YEARS! Hundreds in the MAGA Republicans in Congress know what kind of bad shit is in those files, yet they still provide cover for the ringleader of the cult—Donald Trump and all the pedophiles in the files.
We are going to have to accept that Trump is not going to face any justice and that really sucks. History will have to provide any measure of justice at this point.
That’s why Trump’s having it rewritten.
Dems are eating babies! Dems are murdering children after they’re born! Transgender surgeries are being done in school during the afternoon break! The gays are coming for our children!
PROSECUTING THE VICTIMS
How many times have MAGA Republican “protectors” of children turned out to be the very ones victimizing them instead? If it’s a race, Republicans are the overachievers. Here’s a running < list > of Republican officials that have been reported for sex crimes. https://thebastionusa.com/republican-sex-crimes Here’s a < list > of Trump’s reported sexual abuse of women, including young girls. https://thebastionusa.com/donald-trump-sex-scandals
Note: The two links in the above paragraph are worth clicking. Each story on the pages linked to is sourced. Just click on the little box with the arrow.
MAGA wants to assign guilt and blame for people being gay. When their own families turn up gay people they know that it can’t be their fault. Someone else has to be blamed. I think that so many conservatives are uptight about their own sexuality and hiding their impulses that they end up perverted. Then they take their perverted fantasies out on children because they think about it so much.
MAGA demonizes educational institutions as hotbeds for indoctrinating children. It’s why they pump out bullshit about kids getting transgender surgery, why they insist that pornographic books are in school libraries, that teachers promote a gay lifestyle, etc. For example, the book Charlotte’s Web really triggers them. They are bent on destroying the public education system in this country, all in the name of “saving the children” and Christianity.
Meanwhile, MAGAts support children working. Labor laws protecting children have been rolled back tenfold in the last decade.[6] I guess for MAGA Rs if they’re old enough to fuck, they’re old enough to work.
Or is it the other way around? Hard to say.
STARVE THE POOR
MAGA cut food benefits to children in America as well.[7] So far MAGA Trump has cut food benefits to over 3 million citizens including children. At Trump’s direction, orders for 94 million pounds of food marked for distribution here in the US were cancelled.[8] So, MAGA used the opportunity to fuck over our farmers as well since the contracts were to them. It’s no wonder farm bankruptcies increased 46% under Trump after decreasing under Biden.[9] Somehow, we are saving and protecting the children by taking away their SNAP benefits. Something else their god wants.
(They really don’t like poor people. They lost their fucking minds when they found out that some SNAP benefits were being used for fast food purchases. Dang poor people gittin’ all uppity and thinking they can eat like regular people. They need poor people to not only be poor but also act poor, or something like that.)
Guess what? Most states don’t allow such purchases. Only 9 states allow certain people to purchase fast food at restaurants through the Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). Who’s eligible? Elderly people, the disabled, and homeless that qualify. THE POOR KIDS ARE SAFE FROM FOOD!
MAGA says thank God!
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[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
[2] Ibid.
[3] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-toll-usaid-cuts-withdrawal-chikungunya-vaccine-funding-updated-ebola
[4] https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/news/news-logos/BU-researcher-warns-of-367,000-deaths-from-halted-USAID-programs_.pdf
[5] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Moral-Majority
[6] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-protections-republicans
[7] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/30/snap-food-stamps-big-beautiful-bill.html
[8] https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/
[9] https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/u-s-farm-bankruptcies-increased-46-in-2025/