How to make friends and influence people in the MAGA media ecosystem
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That this is now a successful career strategy tells you all you need to know about Donald Trump, MAGA, and the Republican party (three terms for exactly the same thing at this point):
In recent days, Fine has declared “Palestinian” identity evil and compared Muslims unfavorably to dogs. He has previously called for the destruction of all “mainstream Muslims” and the genocide of everyone in Gaza.
An article in Newsweek stated:
“California Governor Gavin Newsom has called on Representative Randy Fine of Florida to resign over comments the Republican made about Muslims.
“’If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,’ Fine wrote on X on Sunday.”
Governor Newsom responded, “Resign now, you racist slob.” . . .
In response to an X (formerly Twitter) post with an image of a Palestinian infant reportedly killed by an Israeli air strike, Fine responded with “Thanks for the pic!”
Fine defended the bombing of a building with American journalists inside, publicly responding “Yes!” to a post inquiring if it was okay that reporters were among the targets.
In another incident, he privately wrote “Go blow yourself up!” to a Florida Muslim after they challenged his social media posts, calling on an Islamophobic trope that Muslims are prone to violence or suicide bombings.
In December 2023, as Palestinians awaited much-needed humanitarian aid, Fine mocked them, posting on his X account, “Stop the trucks. Let them eat rockets. There are plenty of those. #BombsAway.”
In September 2024, Fine brazenly celebrated the recent killing of 26-year-old Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, writing that it was “One less #MuslimTerrorist,” and further promoted violence against American citizens, encouraging the Israeli government to “#FireAway.”
In November 2024, Fine warned Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that they should “consider leaving before [he] gets there,” followed by “#BombsAway,” an open threat against two Muslim members of Congress.
Later, in 2025, Fine wrote to Tlaib again, calling her a “Muslim terrorist” and once more endorsed withholding aid from starving Palestinian civilians to whom Tlaib called attention.
Fine’s blatant Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian bigotry extend beyond members of Congress.
In another X post from January 2025, Fine wrote that he was working on “the need to solve America’s #MuslimProblem,” invoking a common Islamophobic stereotype that an entire religious community poses a threat to American national security.
In March 2025, while serving in the Florida State Senate, Fine told a member of the public wearing a keffiyeh, a symbol of Palestinian culture, to “enjoy your terrorist rag” and defended his anti-Palestinian remarks by claiming: “I’m the chairman, I can say whatever I want.” Later, Fine’s rhetoric escalated, as he publicly called “for all ‘Palestinian’ organizations to be federally-designated terror organizations” in a post on X.
In May 2025, Fine suggested on national television that the United States should use nuclear weapons against Gaza, invoking the atomic bombings of Japan as a model for dealing with Palestinians. When asked to explain this genocidal rhetoric, he doubled down with a racist and dehumanizing response, claiming that half of Gaza’s population is “married to their cousins” and has “mental defects,” and that “you’ve got to have a mental defect to interpret the comment that way.”
This is another example of how cumulative radicalization works. I don’t think the Red Army and the Sixth Army are going to solve this one, though.