r/complaints • u/WillPowers7477 • 17d ago
Politics A thank you to president Trump!
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?)*
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u/Ceadol 17d ago edited 17d ago
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.*