Ben Sasse Obliterates Chris Murphy for 'Twitter Self-Pleasuring' in Heated Ukraine Aid Dispute

On any given day, Twitter is an absolute bowl of dumb, and when obnoxious politicians like Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) decide to take to the Twitter machine to give us their inevitable hot takes, unfortunately it gets even dumber.

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:

Of the Republican Senators who attended this weeks “Biden isn’t doing enough for Ukraine” press conference…

2/3 of them:

Risch
Sasse
Kennedy
Cruz
Marshall
Fischer
Lankford
Hoeven
Sullivan

voted AGAINST the bipartisan $12B Ukraine aid package. https://t.co/LLArQKh74m

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 17, 2022

Unfortunately, this has been an idiotically common refrain from The Usual Suspects. Sasse and some other Senate Republicans voted against a bill loaded with spending items that had nothing to do with Ukraine, therefore, they are “against aid for Ukraine” or something.

Understandably, this did not sit well with Sasse, who proceeded to engage in a heated back and forth with Murphy on the Senate floor later in the day, getting him to admit that the premise of his tweet was wrong, and leaving him flustered as to how to explain it. Here’s a brief transcript of the key part of their debate:

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:

S: Do you think a single person that voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid?
M: ABSOLUTELY NOT.
S: SO THEN WHAT’S THE POINT OF THE TWEET?
M: The poi…
S: Fan service!
Sasse on Murphy’s “Twitter self-pleasuring.” https://t.co/sBktDs8yNp pic.twitter.com/BMfCsJ4IwF

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) March 18, 2022

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. I get why some people would like things that you stand for 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. The republic got dumber because of that tweet. Nobody learned anything.”

Watch:

Sen. @BenSasse absolutely wrecks @ChrisMurphyCT after the Democrat senator claims Sasse voted against an omnibus bill over aid to Ukraine. The vote on aid was eight-tenths of 1% of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill. Murphy is just humiliated here. pic.twitter.com/6AP04J5wM4

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) March 18, 2022

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. Sasse is right. It absolutely dumbs down America to operate from those mindsets. Dunno about y’all, but I think I need a cigar after watching that. I don’t normally get that from watching Sasse speak, but he was absolutely on point in that back and forth.