Hey, remember when Rashida Tlaib, my least-hated U.S. politician and the only Palestinian-American representative in Congress, was censured for sharing a video that called for freedom "from the river to the sea" in support of Gazans being targeted for literal genocide by the IDF? What do you think GOP congressman Tim Walberg will get for *checks notes* boldly declaring we should nuke Gaza like "Nagasaki and Hiroshima" and then calling for the U.S. to end all humanitarian aid to millions of people literally suffering from an engineered famine in Gaza?
"The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also weighed in, saying “this clear call to genocide by a member of Congress should be condemned by all Americans who value human life and international law”.
“To so casually call for what would result in the killing of every human being in Gaza sends the chilling message that Palestinian lives have no value,” CAIR executive director Dawud Walid said.
“It is this dehumanization of the Palestinian people that has resulted in the ongoing slaughter and suffering we see every day in Gaza and the West Bank.”
Look, Walberg's minions can cry about it being a metaphor all they like, but the fact is the video evidence available online and the fact that he suggested the same solution to ending the war in Ukraine, makes it very clear that it wasn't. There really isn't a whole lot of room to parse quotes like "we shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid" and "it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick." This was definitely Timmy boy signaling to his cracker base (which hates Michigan's urban Muslim population) his willingness to "kill 'em all" while backing his party leader's (Trump) longstanding policy position of starving Palestinians out of Gaza by blocking U.S. aid to one of the most vulnerable populations on Earth; in the middle of an IDF genocidal campaign of collective punishment against Gazans no less.
Of course, given that murdering Palestinians en masse is officially a bipartisan policy position in American politics and the GOP doesn't do accountability in its own party, I'm willing to bet you a fresh Tang sandwich that absolutely nothing will happen to Walberg in response.
PS: sorry about the Tribune link but most of the major national "liberal" media outlets were hiding this story behind a paywall when I was searching it up online late last night.