Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott really got underneath the skin of liberals on Tuesday after he put out another warning concerning “socialists and communists” traveling to his state, going on to say in a video posted on Twitter that such individuals are “not welcome.”
“I’m warning socialists and communists not to travel to Florida. They are not welcome in the Sunshine State,” Scott wrote on Twitter, according to Fox News. As the video continues, Scott informs both socialists and communists and anyone else who is a fan of big government they should “think twice” before coming to Florida.
“We’re the free state of Florida. We actually don’t believe in socialism, we actually know people, some people in our state lived under it and we know people that lived under socialism. It’s not good,” he went on to say. “We like freedom, liberty, capitalism, things like that.”
Podcast host and special correspondent at Vanity Fair Molly Jong-Fast went on to state on social media that she “finally found a politician who makes Ron DeSantis seem charismatic.”
Scott first put out the travel advisory back in May, stating in a press release that the state of Florida was “openly hostile” towards those who hold to socialist and communist ideology. “Florida is openly hostile toward Socialists, Communists, and those that enable them” and that before they consider “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.”
“Let me be clear – any attempts to spread the oppression and poverty that Socialism always brings will be rebuffed by the people of Florida,” Scott stated in the travel warning. “Travelers should be aware that attempts to spread Socialism in north Florida will fail and be met with laughter and mockery.”