Updated: 11.10.2025 — here on a very snowy Monday morning… Your boy, John Hinderaker claims that the shutdown was what the Democrats always intended, and that all the pain caused was their fault.
Oddly enough, he forgets to explain why Democrats were asking to continue to pay SNAP benefits, so kids wouldn’t starve, all while the MAGA Republicans voted over and over again, and then sued, and then appealed, over and over again (when they lost in the trial courts!) to keep kids from getting food in America.
That sure seemed… intentionally cruel, John.
And in fact, in court papers before the United States Supreme Court this morning, the USDA specifically stated that the reason the vote was happening in the Senate today… was to moot their prior decisions — blocking funding to hungry children.
Facts are quite stubborn things, John — get used to it. And get used to the idea that lying doesn’t work anymore. Cheers! End update.
It looks like a vote to fund the federal government for about 60 days will come as early as tomorrow. Yes, that “just kicks the can down the alley” — over the holidays.
But blaming the few Democrats who are compromising here… is to simply be a shill for the MAGA / Republicans.
You see, that is exactly the narrative they want told. But this shut down, and the starving of American children… is entirely their fault.
Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the US House at the moment. Failing to fund SNAP for the one in five children in America who go hungry more than once a week now, is an egregious moral failing solely residing inside MAGA.
To be sure, I’m deeply disappointed that we haven’t solved continuation of Obamacare subsidies / fundings — in any manner.
But to fall for the “Bernie Bros” formulation of the ultimatum — which would make any Democrat “a traitor” — for compromising in any way (even to feed hungry children!)… is to foolishly play right into Trump’s hands — by not affixing responsibility where it ought to exclusively lie: directly at 1600 Penn. Out.
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