Freak Out Friday – December 28, 2018

There is much we could talk about. Trump’s declaring that the government shutdown that he swore in front of the world he would take sole responsibility for is actually the fault of those damned Democrats. Trump going overseas to surprise the troops, only to put the faces of Navy SEALS up on Twitter in a flagrant violation of the customary blurring of their features so they can maintain anonymity. The hundreds of thousands of people who are currently out of work with no assurance of when they will be able to return to their jobs.

But instead I’m going to discuss something family related. Trust me, it’s relevant.

My daughter, Ariel, is a teacher in North Carolina. She was working at a newly opened charter school where the classes were small but the students were doing very well.

Yet the state of North Carolina, which specializes in screwing over teachers, decided that the school that had only been opened for four months didn’t have enough pupils, and so they shut it down shortly before the holidays. Merry Christmas.

So now Ariel, who is expecting her second child in February, is out of work, as is her partner. But hey, fortunately at least she has the money from the work she did in her final month.

Except no. She doesn’t. Because the money comes from the Federal government, and with the Federal government closed, no one is cutting checks. So no income for the month of December.

The good news, though, is her partner, Anthony, is up for a government job. It appears it’s pretty much his; all he has to do is pass the security check.

Oops. The department which handles security checks? Closed because of the shutdown.

So basically a pregnant couple in North Carolina has no income, and any chance they have of getting any money is impossible thanks to Donald Trump and his goddamn wall that he swore hundreds of times Mexico was going to pay for.

Now who’s paying for it? American taxpayers, in every way possible.

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