In the face of the government shutdown, I am seeing so many people come out of the woodwork about SNAP benefits that it reaffirms my lack of faith in humanity and lack of desire to convert to Christianity.

SNAP fraud is less than 1% because the program is managed better than it was when I had to turn in my oldest son’s father for filing a fraudulent application alleging that he had sole custody of our son when a court order was just finalized barring him access to our son also not allowing him to claim our son as a dependent for any purposes, and when I had to turn in an ex-boyfriend’s mother for egregious SNAP fraud. This got both of them lifetime denials from public aid, which we found out about the hard way with Monster’s father when we found out that Medicaid was barred from covering any of his end-of-life costs for multiple reasons. The manner of his death and health conditions of his that came up on postmortem toxicology ruled out him donating anything of his, even organs, in his death and I do not blame Jefferson County for coming to that conclusion. I just quite literally blame them for everything else like having to harass the state of Kentucky for a year to find out anything at all about his death even though we were his family, all because they were afraid of getting sued. When they admitted what his injuries were they admitted that.

My friend Rea started expressing concern that she would not survive this presidency when Trump was re-elected, and now that she has succumbed to complications of Neurofibromatosis type 2, I wish I had taken her even more seriously than I had already taken her. I wanted to meet up with her at some point in time.