Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) drew fury this month when he cheered on the mass death going on in Gaza under Israeli occupation, saying that Palestinian civilians should “starve away” until the remaining Hamas hostages are released. He got into a feud with Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), an ardent support of Israel himself, who called Fine a “bloated, braindead, blithering idiot who has no business being in Congress,” and was below the title of “jester” as that would be “an insult to jesters who have more brain cells.”
And it’s not just Democrats who are fed up with Fine’s antics.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a far-right, MAGA lawmaker infamous for embracing conspiracy theories, posted a lengthy manifesto on X Monday evening, tearing Fine to shreds over his glee at the idea of mass death.
“I remember the first time I met Randy Fine when he was a candidate before he barely won Florida’s deep red 6th district seat, as we were being told he might actually lose the seat because the strong Trump district couldn’t relate to him and didn’t like him,” wrote Greene. “He was telling me that he and his wife were looking forward to moving to Washington and he hadn’t even won yet. I said to him that Washington isn’t a good place to live and he should live in the district he will represent. You know that whole ‘representative’ thing. But he was adamant that they did not want to live in the district.”
“I thought, no wonder that district doesn’t want to elect him,” she continued. “I can only imagine how Florida’s 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children.”
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza,” Greene concluded. “But a Jewish U.S. Representative calling for the continued starvation of innocent people and children is disgraceful. His awful statement will actually cause more antisemitism.”
Fine won a special election earlier this year in a closer-than-expected race, and GOP figures in Florida were reportedly exasperated by how much he put the heavily Trump-backing seat at risk by alienating voters.