I reached out to spokespeople for all 22 Democrats Monday morning with a simple inquiry: I wanted to know if they planned to make a statement or take any sort of action—like a censure—against Rep. Walberg for his call for the destruction of Gaza.

Only three offices responded.

“Deranged and depraved,” Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York said through his press secretary, which was surprising given Torres’ aggressive and unapologeticsupport for Israel. (He’s literally in Israel right now.) I followed up, pointing out Torres’ vote to censure Tlaib and asking if he thought Rep. Walberg’s comments were on the same level. His press secretary said yes. When I pressed further, asking if Torres planned to call for a vote to censure, I received no reply.

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    3 months ago

    Democrats are a bunch of racists cheering the genocide of brown people.

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      3 months ago

      It’s white people with money and/or power in general. Has nothing to do with political leaning.

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      2 months ago

      You’re so desperate to be angry that you’re totally delusional.

      I don’t know if you expect people outside the weird cry-bubble to take you seriously or if it just makes you feel good to like this? It seems very much like the the conspiracy nuts that like to justify their lack of engaged participation in society by pretending to be too good for it.

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        2 months ago

        explain why are democrats sending weapons to support genocide.