I doubt this will even last a week. He'll just beg for extremely expensive shit multiple times a month like always.
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"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."
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Joe Biden is a ""conservative"".
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall during that disability interview.
INTERVIEWER: Now then, Mr. Gagliardi, we've received your application and I have a few questions. Under "Reason for Disability" here you've put "diabetes."
LOU: That's right. I had a sore on my foot--which was fine; I just needed to put some Neosporin on it and wrap it--but then the doctor said it was because of diabetes and they removed a bone in my foot.
INTERVIEWER: Has this condition rendered you unable to perform substantial gainful activity?
LOU: I don't know what that--
INTERVIEWER: Have you lost your ability to perform significant duties over a reasonable period of time while working for pay or profit?
LOU: I don't perform significant duties for pay, because I don't have a job.
INTERVIEWER: Yes, Social Security records indicate that you haven't reported any income since 2007. Is that correct?
LOU: That's right.
INTERVIEWER: Then what's changed, Mr. Gagliardi? You're applying for disability payments because you supposedly can't work due to diabetes, yet you hadn't worked for 13 years before you even got the diagnosis. SSI is not intended to give you a bonus for coming down with a medical condition. Tell me, did you even apply for work at any time during those 13 years?
LOU: I... I live in a very transphobic community, and--
INTERVIEWER: That's not-- [looks at Lou's neckbeard, then involuntarily scoffs in disbelief] That's not what I asked, Mr. Gagliardi. When was the last time you applied for work?
LOU: I, uh, I applied for a job at a bookstore last year. But they didn't give it to me.
INTERVIEWER: One job. You applied for one job.
LOU: Yes.
INTERVIEWER (sighing heavily): Moving on. Can you explain how your recent diagnosis has incapacitated you such that you are incapable of working?
LOU: I have diabetes.
INTERVIEWER: Mr. Gagliardi, millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes live full, productive, normal lives. With proper treatment it really shouldn't impact your ability to work at all. What makes your situation different than theirs?
LOU: I'm going blind! I had to crowdfund an iPad Air 4, paypal dot me slash foxyart hashtag TransCrowdfund needsbeforewants, because I need a really big screen so I can send messages to my drunk mother who hates me!
INTERVIEWER: Have you received a diagnosis of vision loss?
LOU: I don't--I mean, it's definitely going to happen. I heard that diabetes does that.
INTERVIEWER: And even if you did, do you understand that millions of visually impaired people also live normal, fully employed lives?
LOU: No, I--look, this isn't fair! The American Disability Act says I get paid for being disabled and you have to give it to me!
INTERVIEWER: It's called the Americans with Disabilities Act, and it doesn't say that at all. I can point you to a number of resources and agencies that help line up employment opportunities for people with the kinds of impairments that you... [checks file] ... don't have.
LOU: I didn't apply for disability to get told to get a job! You're harassing me!
INTERVIEWER (sighing again): Look, Mr. Gagliardi, you're asking the American taxpayer to give you tens of thousands of dollars a year for doing nothing simply because you have an eminently treatable condition, when you yourself admit you haven't bothered to get a job for more than a decade despite being thoroughly able-bodied. I'm required to pass your application along, but if you want my advice I wouldn't recommend getting your hopes up.
[long pause]
LOU (very quietly): Transphobe. [disconnects video call]
