Congressman Randy Fine thought he was firing off a warning about America’s supposed decline. Instead, he ended up sparking a viral roast.
Over the weekend, the Florida Republican shared a clip of men in pup play gear — a BDSM subculture that occasionally pops up at Pride events and in queer kink spaces — and declared it proof that the country was in crisis. “If we don’t tackle this mental illness, this is what will be roaming our streets all across America,” Fine tweeted. “Leftism must be crushed.”
The post set off shock waves across social media, drawing ridicule from users who wondered less about the video and more about why Fine seemed so familiar with it. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was among those who couldn’t resist chiming in. Her quote-tweet cut straight to the point: “Why are you tweeting your private likes?” wrote the New York congresswoman.
It was the kind of one-liner AOC is known for — short, sharp, and devastatingly effective. And while her reply quickly made the rounds, she wasn’t the only one poking holes in Fine’s outrage.
“Lmao what?!? 99% of leftists had no idea this existed until you posted it, you massive weirdo!” one user shot back. Another added, “you will never in a million years come across this unless you specifically search for (b)it.”
Others mocked his fixation more broadly: “It’s crazy how they pay attention to this stuff more than the left does.”
Another imagined Fine’s subtext more bluntly: “Every time a MAGA dude says ‘mental illness,’ what I actually hear is ‘this made my wee-wee twitch and I don’t know how to deal with it.’”
If Fine hoped to make pup play the latest battleground in the culture wars, the response suggested otherwise. Instead of sparking moral panic, his post turned into a running joke about conservative obsession with queer sexuality — a fixation critics say says more about them than about the people they’re trying to demonize.
As one commenter summed it up: “I never knew this existed until you posted it. Dafuk are you watching, man?”



























































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