we shouldn't be spending a dime on humanitarian Aid it it should be like nasagi and yoshima get
over quick Speaker 1: Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg is a Christian pastor. He's a so-called
good Christian, and he has a solution for what's going on in Gaza. Drop nuclear weapons. Talking
about Hiroshima and Nagasaki during a sort of, voter or town hall or sort of event. Take a look
at this. We're going to look at the video in a moment. And this is just a reminder of
the competing visions. And it's sort of like a if you don't like the Biden approach on Israel Gaza,
then I have a little secret to tell you about the MAGA approach on Israel and Gaza. And we'll
get to that in a moment. The Detroit News reports Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking
Gaza and ending humanitarian aid. Michigan U.S. Representative Tim Walberg suggested that
nuclear weapons or new killer, as George W Bush like to call them, should be dropped on Gaza,
which his office said was a metaphor to support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas. Hell of a
metaphor. Which, of course, as usual. Oh, blood bath was just a metaphor for the potential
problems in the auto industry. From now we know the context. We understand how he sends these
not so subtly coded message to his followers. So let's take a look at the video here. And,
the audio isn't awesome. It's recorded from the audience, but I think we should hear all of the
key parts. If we listen closely together. Speaker 3: At least I.
Speaker 5: Want you to go for it. Yeah. Speaker 1: So the question is, why are we spending
money to build a port to get aid to Gazans? Speaker 5: It's Joe Biden's reason we need
to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. I don't think we should. I don't think any of our aid goes to
Israel to support our greatest ally argument that you would receive from us in our hand and Russia,
rather than using you in China to with them and help me helping you. Told us we shouldn't be
spending a dime on humanitarian aid. Maybe it should be like Pakistani and Persian.
Speaker 1: You know. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. So, listen,
I think it really is not a subtle difference between the Biden approach and the,
Maga and Trump approach. And I know that people sometimes write to me and they say, I'm so angry
because Biden keeps arming Israel. You know, the reality is that U.S. aid and military aid has gone
to Israel for decades and decades. That's not new under Joe Biden. And to expect that Biden is just
going to end that isn't particularly realistic. I want to live in a reality where we deal with what
is rather than what maybe we would like. And the options are I mean, listen, there's there's really
two options. It's Biden or Trump. If you want to pretend for a second that there's a third option.
And by polling, the third option would be Robert F Kennedy Jr. Robert F Kennedy Jr is quite hawkish
on Israel, I would argue, even more than Joe Biden. So if you want to just rank who the choices
are, and if you're not happy because you believe that the Biden administration is too hawkish from
the perspective of Israel in this conflict, then the last person you would want would be Trump
and the Tim Wahlbergs and others. Or RFK Jr also wouldn't be a great choice because he's also more
hawkish than Biden. So you can say, well, then I'm going to stay home. All right. Well you're
just helping Trump. Then you'll just help an even more hawkish person become president. Okay. Well
then I'll write in Cornel West or Jill Stein. Well, you're just helping Trump. Well, I'll vote
for RFK Jr. Well, if he wins, he's more hawkish than Biden on this issue as well. So I think that
if people don't want to live in the real world, that's fine. And we see some of this on the right
and we see some of the some of it on the left, wanting to live only in theory and in philosophy
and in hypotheticals. There's a very real situation where it's going to be Biden or Trump,
or if you believe that the math would work out, RFK, all of the options other than Biden are more
hawkish. Biden's the guy who wants to build the port to get aid to Gaza. Biden's the guy who has
asked for some restraint and has had some dissent expressed relative to Netanyahu. You could say,
well, it's not very solid. Fine. But he's at least done some of that, whereas the others
have not. These are the three options. And so if you are primarily concerned with this issue in
the context of the 2024 election, which remember, most people aren't this this ranks ninth, 10th,
11th or not at all in terms of voter priorities. But if for you, Israel, Gaza is the number one
priority when thinking of a president of the three options, there's really two. But let's include
RFK just for kicks because he's even worse than Biden on this. It's Biden, Trump, RFK and Biden
is clearly the best on this issue. So sending them, what does it matter? Do you think that the
Gazans who might totally be disappeared if Trump is president, do you think it will matter to them
that you sent a message about your displeasure with Biden by staying home, which got Trump
elected, which led to Trump saying to Israel, take it all out, nuke it for all we care? I don't think
that that's something I'd be satisfied with. And that's the way I would be thinking about this.