Freshman GOP Rep. Randy Fine calls for “nuking” Gaza in an interview on Fox News.

“The fact of the matter is the Palestinian cause is an evil one,” he says, following last night’s deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers who were outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington where an American Jewish Committee event was being held.

“The only end of the conflict [in Gaza] is complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror,” Fine says.

“In world war two, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender,” he says. “That needs to be the same here. There is something deeply, deeply wrong with this culture, and it needs to be defeated.”

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    We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese.

    How in the ever loving fuck was Hirohito allowed to stay in power then?

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    More than anything else, to me this era is defined by the number of people in positions of power who are brutally obviously full-blown psychopaths.

    It’s to the point that I’m not even sure if this is most accurately considered a political crisis. It seems more a mental health crisis, marked by the fact that so many positions of power are held by people who are so profoundly mentally ill that they likely shouldn’t even be allowed in public unsupervised, much less allowed to hold any sort of authority over anyone else.

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      America reveres the mentally ill, of your condition leans the right way. Have no empathy or care for others? You might fit in with the GOP. Think hoarding wealth and resources for yourself is a great way to be? The GOP is calling your name! Do you want to over tax people with nothing so people with everything don’t have to worry about anything? You guessed it, welcome to the Republican party.

  • Here’s a story. Back at my previous job I had to work with this super MAGA heavyset Israeli man we’ll nickname A. This guy had a chubber for Trump. Back when Trump was separating immigrant families at the border and sticking them in camps, A justified it by saying that “we used to do the same thing to the Japanese and no one cared about it then, so why is everyone up in arms about it now?”

    This was a 50-something man from Israel. I can only imagine he’d be wholeheartedly in favor of this.

    The silver lining is he got laid off after the company got fucked over by Trump