At event in Iowa, governor conflates Palestinian civilians with Hamas, the terrorist group that attacked Israel a week ago

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“We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” he said. “If you look how they behave … not all of them are Hamas but they are all antisemitic, none of them believe in Israel’s right to exist.”

Last week, the Florida governor described a pro-Palestine demonstration in Tampa and a “Victory to Palestine” event in Fort Lauderdale as “abhorrent”.

The New York Post reported on Saturday that House Republicans had introduced new legislation to prevent the United States from accepting any new Palestinian refugees who might be fleeing the crisis in Gaza.

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      Matt Gaetz is going to be the next governor of Florida, Trump is going to be the Republican nominee. I’m looking forward to Ron DeSantis disappearing into irrelevance shortly.

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      You should care because he is politically relevant. We have to keep people aware of how awful he is so that he gets voted out and later ignored so he becomes irrelevant.

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      You may not care what he thinks, but he cares great deal about what you think, and he’s trying to put himself in a position where he can do something about it. So maybe you should start caring.

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    I remember when he avoided denouncing neo-nazis protesting in Orlando a few months ago

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    Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…

    Unless it’s bad for my political campaign!

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      You’re thinking too narrowly. R’s don’t just block immigration, they block anything they can if it seems like it might help people. Period.

      They have become the party of obstructionism. I can’t think of a single Republican policy that would make any person’s life better, even ostensibly. Tax cuts for the rich, maintaining low wages for the poor, and culture wars are all they have anymore.

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      Almost every time I quote that poem some fascist comes and argues with me that just because the French put it on a statue that doesn’t mean the American government has to help people. And while that is true, there is a reason the French put it on a gift to the US symbolizing the spirit of America at the time, and I’d like to think we still have that spirit somewhere.

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        The French didn’t put it there. It was written by a Jewish American woman named Emma Lazarus who saw her fellow Jews coming to America and wanted to welcome them and everyone else. And basically the rest of America said, “nice poem, put it on the base of the statue.”

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      Unless it’s bad for my political campaign!

      Oh, make no mistake - cretins like Desantis would oppose immigrants even if it was inconsequential to their campaign.

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    No one’s asking you, Ron. And no one’s suggesting we house them in Florida. We actually want to help them.

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    “abhorrent”

    He’s using the wrong word; it more accurately describes his 2022 re-election as Florida governor.

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    Florida has the third-highest Jewish population of any state. Only New York and California have more. I suspect his constituents support this sentiment.

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          Because not all Jews are Israelis. It’s that simple. I’m a Jew. I’m not an Israeli, I’m an American. I was born and raised in the U.S. I don’t speak Hebrew. I don’t vote in Israeli elections. I’ve never been to Israel and am not especially interested in visiting. I have no particular allegiance to or love for Israel.

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            The only foreign Jewish I can see having a reason to concern themselves with Israel are traditionalists and zionists who give a rats ass about which country “owns” Jerusalem.

            Outside perspective so please correct if this is misguided.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Republican presidential candidate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis has rejected accepting Palestinian refugees from Gaza to the US, speaking at a campaign rally in the US midwest on Saturday.

    DeSantis, who is tracking at around 12% support among Republican voters for the party’s nomination for next year’s presidential election – far below Donald Trump at 58%– spoke at a campaign rally in Creston, Iowa.

    DeSantis’s comments come as some Republicans have sought to amplify an anti-immigration agenda, with claims by Maga-extremists that the Biden administration’s US-Mexico border policy could allow foreign nationals sympathetic to radical Islamist causes into the US.

    The New York Post reported on Saturday that House Republicans had introduced new legislation to prevent the United States from accepting any new Palestinian refugees who might be fleeing the crisis in Gaza.

    Separately, the fraud-indicted New York congressman George Santos has said he was “berated” by anti-war activists at the US Capitol on Friday as they protested Israel’s retaliatory strikes in Gaza.

    Capitol Police said they had arrested Shabd Khalsa, 36, and “charged him with simple assault after an officer witnessed him have physical contact with a congressional staffer in the Longworth Building”.


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    Turn back the clock 70 yeas. As an Italian American I say fuck the Italians. Although most of them were more patriotic than most mother fuckers in this country. Fuck you’s all cause it was racist, you stupid MFs. Forghettaboutit. My father fought the Chinese in Korea, but he love banging Chinese chicks.

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    Part of me almost agrees with this horrible, fascist, racist.

    On the one hand, we should support Palestinian refugees and allow them to enter the US. On the other hand, it is very hard to tell who is a member of or supports Hamas, by their own design.

    However, anyone in or supporting Hamas is likely to stay in Palestine/the Middle East in order to fight their war. So it’s a non-issue to have Palestinians enter the US.