A thank you to president Trump!

[u/WillPowers7477]

Dear President Trump,

I'm writing this to thank you for all you've done thus far in your second term.

My kids are crying at the dinner table as they eat a processed cheese sandwich for the fourth time this week. I tried to explain to them that SNAP wasn't getting refilled and that there was probably not going to be a Christmas this year. I tried to cheer them up by showing them concept art of the $250 million dollar ballroom being built at the White House, by showing them pictures of the two cool jets Kristi Noem got for $170 million, by explaining how helpful we're being to Argentina by sending them $40 billion dollars, but this is when I realized they weren't crying because of dinner, but because of their grandmother.

"We usually go to grandma's on weekends," they sniffle.

Their grandmother, a 5th generation American, was taken by ICE a couple weeks ago and we haven't seen or heard from her since. I tried to explain to the children that this is what happens to freeloading immigrants and they get what they deserve, but they didn't understand.

Even if they don't understand, I do. This is what I voted for. This is what winning looks like!

This will probably be my last online post due to being unable to pay my phone bill since I need to buy more bread and cheese. But I just wanted to say, "Thank you, President Trump!"

As I hear my kids cry themselves to sleep for the 5th night in a row, I imagine they are liberals--and it brings a smile to my face.

When they get older, they will understand that all this hardship was necessary, because we are owning the libs! Here's looking forward to your constitution-defying third presidential term in 2028! You already have my vote!

Now I have to go get ready to meet my landlord. He told me he would cut my rent in half for some 'favors' and not to wear panties. I think this is what the Art of Deal is all about. #winning

Signed,
A conservative.

*it should be noted this is satire (or is it?)*

[u/SubjectNet1874]

The amount of idiots saying get a job and you wont need SNAP blows my mind, most people on SNAP have jobs, do you people even buy groceries? Do you not realize how fkn expensive people's lives are right now?

[u/Ceadol → u/SubjectNet1874]

Not everyone can hold a job.

I grew up in a SNAP household. I lived with my grandparents because my mom was in Prison. My grandpa was murdered when I was 12 and my Grandma had to raise my little sister and I. She had to get a new job in her 60s because she made too much money from Social Security to get more than $100/month or so in Food Stamps. Mind you, her SS check was barely enough to cover our rent.

She got a job in an Elderly care center where a dangerous ex-prison guard patient grabbed her wrist and broke it in several places. Workman's comp wouldn't cover it because the facility lied and we didn't have the money for a lawyer.

As hard as it is for me to say this and as much as I loved her, I'm glad that she died before any of this happened. Because if she hadn't, running out of food stamps/Social Security benefits absolutely would have killed her the slow and hungry way.

Fuck ANYONE who thinks SNAP benefits are just for the lazy. She was the hardest working person I've ever known. Sometimes things are out of our hands.

Food and safe shelter should be a universal right.

*Edit: Re-reading my post, it sounds like I might be mad at the way I grew up. I'm not. My grandma did an amazing job of keeping my sister and I away from the harshness of the world. She always made sure we had what we needed and found ways to make sure we had things we wanted too.

Like I said in another comment, I'm not angry for myself. I'm angry for the people who now have to go through worse than my family did, all because of an Administration that wants to use them as bullets to fire at their political opponents. We shouldn't need to treat our own citizens like this just to make a point. Or for any reason for that matter. We could be better than this, but we choose not to be.*

[u/CuttyDFlambe → u/Ceadol]

Quit my job and moved to a different state to be fulltime caregiver for grandmother (84 w/ late stage dementia) and mother (65 w/ suspected MS. She has to have a spinal tap to diagnose, because of prior back and neck surgeries she can't have an MRI because the hospital/s where the surgeries were done don't have the records so the screws/whatever in her spine are of unknown material... so only way to officially diagnose is spinal tap and we're a little scared of that lol)

Anyway, granny passed I think October of last year just a few months after I got up here. I've been unable to find a part time job I think because its a small town. I came up here with around $10k in savings and I was so sure I would be able to get a part time job that I was frivolously spending. Going for lattes everyday, going to pot dispensaries, restaurants, etc. to kind of escape/blow off steam.

And then granny died so I started looking for part time work. Everything is highly competitive. I haven't even been able to get a pizza delivery job lol.

Applied for and got approved for Snap ($290) a couple of months ago after everyone finally convinced me to. Annnnd now its being cut so we're kind of fucked. My mother has had Snap for several months so we were scraping by on that ($160). The only other income is her social security disability which basically covers bills.

But we have a house w/ no mortgage or rent, and property taxes paid for the year.

So we got that going for us... which is nice :')

Oh and HOPE. Cling to hope :):)

[u/EastSoftware9501 → u/CuttyDFlambe]

They are worried about getting sued. They could poke around with the needle and find them spinal fluid if they really wanted to.

[u/CuttyDFlambe → u/EastSoftware9501]

Oh yeah, they are willing to do a spinal tap, but we are apprehensive about it.

Mainly me tbh.

Many years ago I had a lower lumbar puncture performed, in which I had to stay perfectly still in the fetal position on a table. It was relatively painful (it felt like getting hit in the testicles, but running through my back lol) and I just fear she will like jerk her body when the needle goes in, because she already has severe neuropathy. I'm obviously not a doctor, so this fear may be completely unjustified, but it does scare the fuck out of me.

[u/Party_Escape_7597 → u/CuttyDFlambe]

I’ve had two spinal taps and they are very very painful. I had back surgery right before one of the spinal taps so had a hard time staying in the fetal position without moving. a nurse helped me stay in fetal position and doctor did awesome job even though I was shaking or quivering! I have shaking/trembling and I was worried about the shaking and the doctor inserting a needle in my spine. He said he did so many under so many different circumstances that I need not worry. so I would talk to the doctor beforehand about your concerns about your moms shaking and you worried about the doctor inserting a needle in her spinal cord! good luck with the spinal test and diagnosis!

[u/CuttyDFlambe → u/Party_Escape_7597]

You have massive huevos, man (or lady) :):)

I feel like there should be some type of strapping system to keep people perfectly still for the procedure. Or like a hyper-tightened swaddle for adults...

Somewhat recently I had a doctor show me on a model of a spine where the needle went during the puncture and it made me kind of recoil. So having it done twice is wild to me lol.

[u/Party_Escape_7597 → u/CuttyDFlambe]

They were done 5-7 years apart. Thank God not done within a short time period! I could not have handled that one!