There is no honest way to spin this, but Murphy, truly one of the most despicable members of the Senate, tried anyway.
Democrats, like Murphy and the ethics-blind citizens who elected him (and many equally terrible people), really and truly hate the President of the United States so much that they are actively rooting for Iran to prevail in the current conflict. This is a half-century-long enemy of the United States that is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans as well as terror attacks all over the Middle East, and that has made “Death to America” and the end of the state of Israel its openly stated mission, and that recently massacred tens of thousands of its own people because they demonstrated against Iran’s dictatorial theocracy.
Has any member of Congress publicly cheered the enemy during a U.S. war? Is that not, as Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution defines treason, “adhering” to enemies of the U.S. and, “giving them aid and comfort”?
Then, after the response to Murphy’s stunning declaration of pleasure in a setback for the U.S. and the success of an enemy’s efforts to defeat his own nation, Murphy managed to further prove his warped character by lying, and obviously so:
He really expects anyone to believes he was being “sarcastic,” and is trying to blame the public for not understanding his subtle wit. He’s an asshole, but that label is too good for him.
Murphy should be prosecuted, and if not, then rebuked by his own party.
He won’t be of course. He’s invoking Rationalization 55. The Joke Excuse, or “I was only kidding!”…
“This is a common backtracking strategy when someone has been caught making a hurtful, unfair, false or otherwise unethical statement… defenders of comedian Wanda Sykes apply[ed] the joke excuse to her purely mean-spirited comment about Rush Limbaugh at a White House Correspondents Dinner, when she said “I hope his kidneys fail.” What a knee-slapper! As a general rule, “I hope you die” is not a joke, no matter who says it. Even when it is a joke, the jokester is still accountable for how people react to it. When a Washington D.C.’s shock-jock made the second of two racially-charged quips…he lost his job and his career, because his employers didn’t want somebody on their payroll who made those kinds of “jokes.” …Nobody should accept the defense that “it was a joke” if it wasn’t a good enough joke to compensate for the damage it did, the people it hurt, or the trouble it will cause. …[P]eople and organizations …make jokes in public at their peril. Professionals. Elected officials. Scholars. People who expect to be taken seriously and trusted.”
But he wasn’t making a joke or being sarcastic. You know, I know, and he knows he was pandering to the anti-Americans and Trump Deranged in his increasingly perverted party.
The Democrats have given Republicans and the voting public so much evidence of their party’s ethics rot that the campaign ads write themselves. If the GOP cannot convince its supporters and a wave of progressives with a conscience to reject what the Democratic Party has become, it won’t be able to blame gerrymandering in Virginia or anything other than its own incompetence and the self-destructive ignorance of the American people.
Ethics Alarms 
Chris Murphy’s statements are an illustration that the Democrats love their own party more than their country. Gallup reported in June 2025 that 92% of Republicans consider themselves patriots while only 36% of Democrats do. Globalism is more important to the average Democrat than patriotism.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/692150/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx
The main enemy of the Democrats is Donald Trump; the Democrats would rather see Trump lose on Iran than win. Iran knows this, and this is one of the reasons why Iran is so intransigent. Iran hopes to run out the clock until a next election put the Democrats back in a position of power, and return to the policies of Obama and Biden.
Textbook Schrödinger’s Douchebag
PWS
Nicely done. I believe these people are living in a dystrumpian reality, where all reason, objectivity, and sanity have been abandoned.
jvb
I don’t think this was a “joke”, but it demonstrates one of the problems with responding to online comments – unless you clearly note that your response is satire, sarcasm, or humor, the reader will see it as real.
After decades of online communication being common, you would expect that users would recognize that.
The real tragedy in all this craziness is that I read somewhere that the Democrat’s rhetoric is so extreme and their intentions so far off the reservation that the general public simply does not believe it is true when people, or even news outlets (such as there are) expose them.
So I suspect that this is a major factor in Murphy’s ability to do this with relative impunity. The cognitive dissonance among his voters is so extreme that they will accept even the most patently absurd defense of his actions and choose not to believe the evidence of their own eyes.
Three monkeys come to mind…
I can legitimately see his response as sarcasm. A flat delivery of the words ‘awesome’ or ‘great’ is frequently used to describe something that is objectively bad. It’s at best a sign of online incompetence on his part. Poe’s law exists for a reason.
Because it was just the word awesome without punctuation or capitalization, that’s honestly how I would have read it. However, if I were to ever join twitter and post something like that, it would be followed by a 😐 or something like it to indicate my lack of enthusiasm.
Much like many other jerks in office, I don’t particularly WANT to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I feel like it’s the right choice.
Wow, I don’t. Consider the source.
It was a palindrome for “terrible“…