Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) shared a video in which he urged socialists and communists to “think twice” before venturing to the Sunshine State. The senator suggested that Floridians like freedom and capitalism.
“I’m warning socialists and communists not to travel to Florida. They are not welcome in the Sunshine State,” the senator tweeted.
Leftists pounced on the lawmaker’s post.
“F*** OFF, FASCIST,” Keith Olbermann wrote.
“This is extremely inappropriate at best, a threat at worst,” former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner tweeted.
“A United States Senator ‘warns’ people who disagree with him politically not to travel to his state. Shameful,” Judd Legum tweeted.
“Without the socialism of Social Security benefits & Medicare payments, Florida as we know it would not exist,” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell tweeted.
“These people are clowns. Every aspect of modern Republican politics is geared toward performative pandering to the extremist base. The idea that a senior US politician would take the time to record a video telling ‘communists’ not to vacation in Florida…is just absurd,” Brian Klaas tweeted.
Scott’s comments echo the “travel advisory” he issued last month.
“Florida is openly hostile toward Socialists, Communists, and those that enable them. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,” the advisory declared, according to a press release.
Scott’s advisory appeared to be mocking an NAACP travel advisory about Florida. The group’s board of directors issued a notice that claimed that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
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