we'll talk about in a minute. Bernie Sanders, according to Breitbart News, is reporting on that. He was in an interview recently and he said the Democrats will lose our leverage if they vote to resume the pay of air traffic controllers and service members. So talk about tone deaf. When the government is shut down, who is suffering? It's people who are at the lowest economic rung. It's ordinary air traffic controllers and of course service people. That's the most grotesque part of this is if service people are affected. I mean, that's just grotesque. But to refer to it as losing our leverage. Talk about not being able to read a room. Do you know how much we care about Democrat leverage when you can't pay your effing bills? If you can't pay your bills, you just hate their guts from top to bottom. And you probably don't even care who it was that blocked the payments. You just freaking hate their freaking guts. You imagine looking in your bank account and the money isn't there and you know who it is. It's Bernie. And then Bernie says, "We don't want to lose our leverage." Well, you and your leverage, Bernie. Why don't you take your leverage and shove it so far up your crinkled ass that it comes out your ears? You and your leverage.

And by the way, it's not like I disagree with them. I'm not disagreeing with the point. I'm just saying if you do this to people and then you say out loud it's for your leverage. You better fix that. That is such a messaging mistake. Imagine this clown being your president. This is the opposite of reading a room, right? How could you read a room worse than this? Oh, what we need is some massive socialism and don't want to give up our leverage. Should certainly don't want to be paying those people in the military. You and your leverage.

According to Rasmussen poll, 49% of the people polled say that Democrats did the closing of the government for the benefit of illegal aliens. Nearly half of voters agree with a top Trump administration figure on the reason for the current government shutdown. 49% so about half say that the Democrats shut it down to give free health care to illegal aliens. So is the free health care to illegal aliens the reason the government is shut down? Well, it's some of the reason, but the Trump administration is totally dominating the messaging and they have made people argue whether or not they're helping to pay illegal aliens. I'm not even going to get into that argument. It would be easy to argue that's not exactly technically what's going on, but it would be equally easy to argue that well, although it's not technically what's going on, it's exactly what's going on. But I can see why technically you th