I get it, John. Really, I do. This whole thing is math — and for you math is hard. This counting of votes… is really complicated — when you get to numbers that are so big they might reach… 100. The size of the US Senate.

Overnight, Hinderaker (once again!) tells a transparently refutable lie about the shut down. The position of democratic leaders has been clear for at least three weeks before we even entered — and consistent throughout the now ongoing — federal shutdown. [BTW, now we are entering the second week of the shutdown. My personal assessment is it is likely to last more than a month. Meaning that Donald Trump has presided over the two longest shutdowns in American history, despite controlling Congress and the White House.]

That sensible Democratic Party position is that some 15 million US citizens who presently get an ACA of 2010 version of healthcare ought to be allowed to continue to receive it. That should continue into 2026 and beyond.

Please remember that the Manchurian Cantaloupe controls the White House, the Senate, and the United States House of Representatives. In sum, he decides what continues to get funded next year and beyond.

One of his own GOP senators, Rand Paul, voted against Trump and with the Democratic wing when it came time to talk about the shutdown.

Trump needed only seven Democrats to join some form of a compromise with 53 other GOP aligned senators — on some modest proposal to fund healthcare for US citizens in 2026 and beyond. But the irrefutable fact is that he would not offer even an inch of compromise, even though he controls all three as above.

His approaches on policy are so anti-free market that Rand Paul, and his own party will not vote with him reliably.

So maybe he needed eight democratic votes, instead of seven. But he got exactly 0 of them.

The ACA of 2010, or Obamacare if you prefer, does not provide subsidized healthcare to what John (in racist fashion) calls “illegals.”

And in any event, if a small number of people without papers have been able to get healthcare, that in no manner justifies cutting off 15 million clearly documented as US citizen-Americans from preventative healthcare — as it is irrefutably established by peer reviewed studies that preventative healthcare, as a public good is far cheaper to provide, than to have to rely on emergency rooms to deliver emergency care to these very same 15 million Americans when they present with acute conditions because we refused collectively to fund preventative healthcare for them.

Then they end up on dialysis much earlier in life. Or they end up with a need for open-heart surgery on an emergency basis, when preventative healthcare in both cases might’ve been as simple as changing diet and increasing exercise, on the consistent, gentle and sensible advice of a family doctor.

That is what Hinderaker and Trump want to end: they do not want to spend government money to keep Americans healthy. They don’t wanna spend on emergency care either — in truth (and fairness) — but in point of fact, that is what happens in our system of broken healthcare, due largely to GOP senators, kicking a can down the alley for four decades.

So John lies to say that Mr. Schumer demands “free healthcare for illegals.”

If John were willing to be even 10% honest, he would admit that Donald Trump is a preposterous failure –– because this supposed “art of the deal genius” can’t seem to find seven out of 47 votes on the other side of the aisle to join him in a small compromise to get a win for all Americans.

All he ever does is sow chaos and confusion, so that he can blame someone else — anyone else — for everything that he cannot achieve through reasoned discourse.

He’s an impotent tiny handed, sad little man.

And John is even worse — when he licks Trumpian boots knowing this full well.

Cheers.