Sanders has been in politics for far too long. Now he’s finally slipping.
Because his sanity is in question after he went on a moronic tirade.
Sanders’ Shutdown Tantrum Targets Trump
Vermont’s independent socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders unleashed a fiery tirade on MSNBC Thursday, baselessly fingering President Donald Trump as the mastermind behind the federal government shutdown—a classic leftist ploy to deflect from Democrats’ own fiscal follies and health care obsessions.
The lights went out at midnight Wednesday when the Senate scraped together just 55 votes for a House GOP-backed funding lifeline, falling four shy of the 60-vote hurdle in a lopsided 55–45 rout.
On All In With Chris Hayes, Sanders railed against Trump’s phantom scheming, slapping him with the tired “megalomaniac” label and whining about power grabs by “oligarchic friends”—all while ignoring how his party’s subsidy demands torpedoed a clean deal.
“Well, you’ve got a president who is acting in an unprecedented way — who is a megalomaniac, who wants more and more power for himself and his oligarchic friends,” Sanders said. “And I want everybody to understand that, at least for me — and I think for many others in Congress — one of the key aspects of this whole shutdown debate is the Senate rules.”
GOP Stands Firm Against Dem Demands
Sanders’ rant zeroed in on Republicans’ refusal to cave to Democratic ultimatums, painting it as a betrayal of Senate “precedent”—as if his filibuster-loving crew hasn’t weaponized the same rules when it suits their radical agenda.
“Republicans need 60 votes — that’s been the case for decades. The point of that rule is bipartisanship, negotiation. You need eight Democratic votes. OK. How do we work together to keep the government open? Republicans, for the first time in modern history, have chosen not to negotiate. They are saying it’s their way or the highway. That is not acceptable,” Sanders added.
Under Trump’s steady hand, the GOP is holding the line for fiscal sanity, refusing to balloon the debt with endless Obamacare giveaways while Democrats play chicken with essential workers’ paychecks.
Sanders’ Scare Tactics on Health Care Ignore Real Stakes
The aging agitator ramped up the drama, doomsaying a shutdown apocalypse that conveniently overlooks how his party’s all-or-nothing Obamacare push is the true roadblock to resolution.
“And I want everybody to understand that if we do not make changes and fight back effectively, you’re going to see 15 million Americans lose their health insurance through cuts to Medicaid and the ACA. According to studies, 50,000 Americans die each year. That’s what’s at stake,” Sanders said.
Democrats are clutching their ACA subsidies like a lifeline, vowing no funding truce without them, while Republicans offer a straightforward extension and call out the left’s shutdown theater as a cynical bid for votes.
Trump’s Monday sit-down with Hill leaders yielded no breakthrough—Dems demanded concessions, GOP stuck to principles—after he wisely ditched a prior Dem huddle, blasting their asks as “unserious and ridiculous.” With Trump at the helm, America’s getting the no-nonsense leadership it voted for, not Sanders’ socialist sob stories.
