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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Rick Scott's artificial intelligence will surely keep socialists and commies out of Florida
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/05/11/sen-rick-scotts-artificial-intelligence-will-surely-keep-socialists-commies-out-florida/While Scott wrings his hands over the prospect of a Woody Guthrie Convention coming to Orlando, he is remarkably untroubled that Florida is awash in Nazis, white supremacists, the Klan, Oathkeepers, Proud Boys, antisemites, Islamophobes, anti-LBGTQ hate mongers and folks who live in fear a 14-year-old might read Catcher in the Rye.
Would Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatch his chintzy State Guard to the Georgia border and the states airports to inspect luggage containing contraband such as tomes on the Material Dialectic (you know, an approach for explaining the transition from capitalism to socialism) or perhaps a purloined video copy of The Battleship Potemkin? Would the guard be ever watchful of anyone humming The Internationale? You never know.
Orange state insanity...
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Florida likes to promote itself as a place Where the rules are different here. And they are, just as long as Rick Scott decides what the rules are. Isnt all that freedom swell?
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Wonder Why
(3,660 posts)Johonny
(21,204 posts)As Scott walked away Scott free with his billions in stolen socialist money.
NCDem47
(2,281 posts)And see his "socialists" TV commercial all the damn time.
The first thing I go to is "Rick, you had NO problem taking socialist money from Medicare."
And get rid of that F'n Navy baseball hat you wear all the time (no disrecpect to military; this is directed at HIM). We all know you're BALD underneath. You freakin' alien. Like Ron, such an AWKWARD human being.
paleotn
(18,171 posts)![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Drh5pEWUwAA_mwa.jpg)
sop
(10,630 posts)'Rick Scott's Fraud Settlement Resurfaces'
"...Scott's past Medicare fraud scandal during his time as CEO of Columbia/HCA. When Scott was deposed in 2000 amid the investigation, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times...Columbia/HCA later reached a settlement with the Justice Department of $840 million in 2000, and another settlement of $881 million in 2002, with the combined fines totaling $1.7 billion. At the time, this was the record health care fraud settlement."
https://www.newsweek.com/rick-scotts-fraud-settlement-resurfaces-senate-gop-runs-low-cash-1735418
'WHAT THEYRE SEEING: RICK SCOTT REMINDS EVERYONE HE TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LARGEST MEDICARE FRAUD IN HISTORY'
'MSNBC, The ReidOut: Trump Sycophant Rick Scott Attends His Trial'
Lets unpack why the Justice Department went after Rick Scotts former company, HCA. The Department joined eight whistleblower lawsuits alleging HCA defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and military TRICARE. HCA reached a settlement agreeing to pay $1.7 billion in penalties in the largest Medicare fraud case in history with much of the defrauding happening under Rick Scotts watch...[Rick Scott] says he took responsibility for the fraud in his former company. He also walked away from it all with $300 million in stocks, making him one of the richest members of Congress.
https://www.floridadems.org/2024/05/10/13533/
RICK SCOTT TRIES TO REWRITE HISTORY ON $1.7 BILLION MEDICARE FRAUD CONTROVERSY
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article288431251.html
Lovie777
(12,785 posts)seriously.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,520 posts)paleotn
(18,171 posts)Similar to banana republics where one half of the poor can be paid to kill the other half.
HAB911
(9,054 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,328 posts)Jean Genie
(308 posts)OOOHHH! Commies and Socialists running rampant! Dear me, Ricky, how will Floridians ever survive? I've come to the realization that we don't need "the bad guys" to destroy our country. We're very capable of doing it all by ourselves! Florida - where democracy goes to die!
et tu
(1,128 posts)by himself- so so many rotten apples in the r barrel~