You probably never heard of Representative Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, until this week. The former Maury County, Tennessee, mayor had been quietly assembling a formidable résumé as one of Congress’s resident buffoons, a former Koch network lobbyist, and a poor man’s George Santos who had largely flown under the national radar as he racked up a string of embarrassing lies and scandals: posing with his family with assault rifles while running in a district that experienced a school shooting, raising $23,000 on GoFundMe to bury his stillborn child then never spending the money, lying about being an economist and an ex-cop who specialized in child sex trafficking.

Now Ogles can add one more incident to this impressive CV: calling for literal genocide.

The congressman was confronted earlier this week by a pro-Palestinian activist pressing him to support a cease-fire in Gaza. “I’ve seen the footage of shredded children’s bodies, and that’s my taxpayer dollars going to bomb those kids,” the young woman told Ogles as he walked through a congressional hallway.