You're right. Blade is a good person and a responsible/capable caretaker.
Probably paid for by medicare or medicaid.
I don't know if Blade's a good person or not, that's not for me to decide. I know he's an asshole a lot of the time, but I also know alcohol can bring out the worst in people. It brought out the worst in me, too. That's why I watch Blade is to remind myself of where I don't want to go and what I don't want to be.
But I was an asshole with a father. I was an asshole with a mother who I can be certain would never in her wildest dreams tell me she was going to kill herself AND that it was my fault. That's some psychopathic shit right there. Peggy called the police on Blade when he drank too much - not the ambulance. It was his viewers who called in welfare checks. I watch Blade because I can relate to him in a lot of ways, and because he's entertaining a lot of the time when he's acting abrasive. But I don't judge him, because I know I don't know enough about him or his life to say he's a piece of shit.
We live in a world with serial killers and child rapists. Examples abound of both of those types of people. Blade threw a dog off him when drunk a few times. I'm not going to sit back and say he's a piece of shit because I've done worse than throw a dog off me or call passing black people niggers. And I sure as shit care about myself enough to never get holes in my legs or lose my toes, so he's not quite playing with a full deck to say the least.
Frankly I can believe that Peggy has kids who don't talk to her, because even as Lit Romney you can tell Blade was concerned about his mom. We've seen him, mid stream, put her on the toilet when he forgot that shit was on. On some level he is a good son, a lot of kids don't even speak to their shitty parents anymore. Maybe he's too good a son - when Peggy was squawking about an obituary, his immediate response was 'need a loan?' as he walked out the door. I imagine she's been using him as a piggy bank and he's too much of a momma's boy to tell her that it's not her money to gamble with (we saw them both go to a casino - nice place to be for a mother and son, no?).
Sorry to have been passive aggressive in my previous response, I can understand why you'd not take Blade at face value regarding his siblings. Two out of three kids not talking to their mother is dark as shit, but it's not uncommon especially in the United States where everyone's out for themselves, even when it comes to health care. I also take the idea at face value because he said it while he was drinking and saying nigger nigger nigger - he wasn't exactly in the headspace of trying to look good. Then we heard his sister talking to him and she sounded at least three times more functional than he does.
I'd tell Peggy to fuck off and go get fish tacos, too.