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Ben Sasse Obliterates Chris Murphy for ‘Twitter Self-Pleasuring’ in Heated Ukraine Aid Dispute – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 18, 2022

Twitter can be a complete mess on any given day. And when inconsiderate politicians such as Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), decide to use the Twitter machine for their hot takes, it only gets worse.

Such was the case on Thursday of this week, when Murphy took a swipe at, among other Republican Senators, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse for voting against a bloated spending bill of which only a tiny portion included aid for Ukraine. Sasse had stated previously that he supports the U.S. providing aid for Ukraine in various forms, but because he voted against the omnibus spending bill, Murphy’s spin was that it made Sasse’s criticisms of President Biden not doing enough to help Ukraine ring hollow:

Unfortunately, The Usual Suspects have made this a very common refrain. Sasse, along with other Senate Republicans, voted no against a bill that included spending items unrelated to Ukraine. therefore, they are “against aid for Ukraine” or something.

Sasse was not happy about this and began a heated exchange with Murphy at the Senate Floor later that day. Murphy eventually acknowledged the error in his tweet and left him confused on how to answer it. Here’s a brief transcript of the key part of their heated exchange:

Sasse: “I’m asking a really simple question. Do you think that a single person that your Twitter self-pleasuring was for, do you think a single person that voted against it, voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid?”

Murphy: “Absolutely not.”

Sasse: “Then what’s the point of the tweet?”

Before Murphy could respond, Sasse provided the answer: “Fan service!”

Watch:

In the more complete exchange, which you can watch below, Murphy tried to explain it away by suggesting was that the issue was Republicans being supposedly being unwilling to compromise, but Sasse still didn’t let him off the hook for his Twitter dishonesty, suggesting that “the republic got dumber” because of the tweet (and others like it that frequently come from the likes of Murphy):

“But the real thing we’re talking about is grandstanding,” Sasse continued, doubling back to Murphy’s tweet. “There’s not a person on Earth who’s persuaded by that kind of tweet. You didn’t move anybody. You’re doing fan service for a subset of people who like Chris Murphy. You understand why certain people like the things you support and advocate for. I get it.”

“But there’s not a person who disagreed with you who’s moved because of a tweet like that, There’s not an uninformed American who became informed, but there is a subset of the people who already like you that you got to grandstand for. That’s all that happened with that tweet. That tweet made the republic dumber. Nobody learned anything.”

Bravo. A bunch of things that needed to be said about Democrat Twitter virtue signaling and pretending because someone votes against something they’ve previously said they were for makes them a hypocrite. Dunno about y’all, but I think I need a cigar after watching that one.

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