A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis is taking up for supporters of former President Donald Trump after Hillary Clinton’s latest critical comments about them, and using one of Clinton’s terms in the process.
“Hillary Clinton is deplorable for saying that Trump voters should be placed in a reeducation camp. This just shows how nuts the left has become,” DeSantis tweeted. “The left wants a one-party state — and will get one if we don’t fight back!”
This is DeSantis’ second reheat of the controversy involving the 2016 presidential opponents, but the first where he referenced the former Secretary of State’s “basket of deplorables” characterization of the MAGA movement.
During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” the Florida Governor was asked about Clinton’s proposed “re-education” of Trumpers, calling them “patriotic Americans” and expressing confidence he could reach them.
“I reject that. I mean, look, these are patriotic Americans,” DeSantis said.
“These folks get it. They want to see the country do well. Some people will be with Trump no matter what. But I think the bulk of the people are people that appreciate what he did.”
That’s a different tone from DeSantis had in August when he described some Trump supporters as “listless vessels.”
Ironically, there are parallels between that sentiment and some of Clinton’s remarks.
“Maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” she said.
36 comments
ScienceBLVR
October 6, 2023 at 9:19 am
Yeah, patriotic Americans. Flag in one hand, gun in the other. Good thing, one must be armed in the battle against teachers, books, free academic expression, women, non heterosexuals, truth, science… and so it goes.
Earl Pitts American
October 6, 2023 at 8:31 pm
Good evening America,
Its amazing watching the idiot lefty’s scramble to defend Granny Hills.
Dident we flush that Human +urd, Granny Hills back in 2016?
Yes America, Yes we did.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA …. excuse me America I need to take in some air …. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .
Thank you America
Earl Pitts American
George Santiago
October 7, 2023 at 9:20 am
Finally someone understands we are not socialists we are free Americans with dignity we don’t need that garbage in this country I say kill them All. When they try to force some work nasty perverted things to our children these people are sick and they are a Cancer they need to be eliminated not so much the people but the idea that they could do that to our children.
Biscuit
October 7, 2023 at 11:02 am
George old boy, when you say “Finally someone understands…” in response to ScienceBLVR’s comments, you apparently fail to understand that he or she was being sarcastic about the “Flag in one hand, gun in the other.”
Sarcasm. It’s widely thought to be a human concept, but I think they stole it from cats.
Arf.
Douglas Tankersley
October 8, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Not sarcasm. She means exactly what she said.
Rick Whitaker
October 6, 2023 at 9:23 am
what maga cultist like desantis mean when they say, “patriotic americans ” is white christian supremacists “. they are set on is flipping america into a christian racist dictatorship. much like gilead on the handmaidens tale. when desantis called SOME of the trump supporters,” listless vessels ” he was right. . desantis is trying to heard a large group of wild boars without getting gored.
Kathleen
October 8, 2023 at 12:00 am
“Cultists”? That is almost as ridiculous as Hillary having the guts to come out and say ANYTHING political. She I’d done, over, old news. She belongs below the general public because she is as delusional as Joe. Go away Hillary!
JD
October 6, 2023 at 10:06 am
He’s conflating Nationalism with Patriotism and they ARE NOT THE SAME.
He wants Nationalism because it’s an easy segway to the book of Orban’s Authoritarianism.
At first, given his education, I thought he was too smart to pander, then I thought he might be playing 3d chess (albeit without any class) and then I begin to suspect he was just evil.
In reality, he’s a stupid man. He got into those ivy league schools as the “token” white trash Florida man. His time in the military was all about Nationalism, not Patriotism. And now he’s conflating it on a national stage.
But the voters of Florida (and the Nation) can be obtuse as well, sadly.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ‘”
Rick Whitaker
October 6, 2023 at 7:38 pm
well said
My Take
October 7, 2023 at 1:28 am
The Know Nothing Party . . . Arisen
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/immigrants-conspiracies-and-secret-society-launched-american-nativism-180961915/
George Santiago
October 7, 2023 at 9:23 am
Finally someone understands we are not socialists we are free Americans with dignity we don’t need that garbage in this country I say kill them All. When they try to force some work nasty perverted things to our children these people are sick and they are a Cancer they need to be eliminated not so much the people but the idea that they could do that to our children.
Silly Wabbit
October 7, 2023 at 10:28 am
You kwazy.
Earl Pitts "Dook 4 Brains Leftist/RINO Re-Education Expert" American
October 6, 2023 at 10:07 am
Good Mornting America,
Stand By For News !!!!!
This Re-Education part of “The Ronald’s” Landslide Sweep of our up-coming POTUS win is where we reach deep into our “Bag Of Knowledge” and lean on my, Earl Pitts American’s, human resource skills.
Backstory:
I, Earl Pitts American, having the deepest background of human resource skills of anyone on the planet, always told “The Ronald” we will run our campaign as an employer/employee interview – hiring process. With “The Ronald” being boss, and me, Earl Pitts American, the HR Director, and the voting public being our potential employees.
FYI our potential employees compensation will be Freedom – Truth – Justice – And The American Way.
Having shared the above secrets of how I, Earl Pitts American, have become America’s Go-To-Political-Campaign-Manager will make it easy for even Dook 4 Brains RINO’s & Lefty’s to comprehend how I and I alone have the 100% skills and ability to re-educate all formerly “Problem” Voters into the most dedicated Ron “The Ronald” Desantis supporters on The Planet.
The Re-Education of those Trump hangers on voters will be one of the easiest assignments I, Earl Pitts American, have ever been tasked with.
EPA
JD
October 6, 2023 at 10:11 am
EarL Shitts – prime example of that “ignorance”
Earl Pitts is a Pedophile
October 6, 2023 at 10:58 am
He’s a convicted pedo who lives in a rusted out little trailer in the middle of nowhere because he’s on every sex offender list there is. So this is how he spends his miserable time.
Rick Whitaker
October 6, 2023 at 7:42 pm
i knew billy purser was something bad. i’ll look him up on the state records
Earl Pitts is a Pedophile
October 6, 2023 at 10:04 pm
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=75305
Rick Whitaker
October 6, 2023 at 7:38 pm
you are the ignorance jd spoke of
Dr. Franklin Waters
October 6, 2023 at 10:56 am
Trump supporters hate immigrants, minorities, lgbt people, liberals, moderates, intellectuals, unions, the very rich & the very poor, doctors, and scientists. Did I leave anybody out?
They hate most of the people in this country, but they’re still “Patriots”? Yeah, nah. GTFO Ron.
Modern conservatives actually HATE this country. They’re not patriots.
Earl Pitts "Earl's His Name Politics Is His Game" American Super-Man
October 6, 2023 at 9:11 pm
Dr. Frankenstein, something is wrong here Sir. You are slacking on your expectation to chime in behind my, Earl Pitts American’s many posts of great wisdom with your wacky leftist comments specifically designed and crafted with one thing in mind.
ONE THING:
To Make Me Earl Pitts American LOOK GOOD.
DR. Frank – DO BETTER
QUIT SLACKING and do your job…remember wacky leftist chime in replys to my Genious knowledge postings is your expectation Sir.
EPA
Dr. Franklin Waters
October 6, 2023 at 10:04 pm
F*ck off and die, pedo.
We all know you’re a convicted child rapist.
TJC
October 7, 2023 at 11:18 am
While I understand there really is a convicted sex offender named Earl Pitts, I believe the writer called Earl here is someone else mimicking Gary Burbank’s radio show character.
Note the wikipedia entry:
‘Earl Pitts is a fictional character performed by Gary Burbank, a radio personality from Cincinnati, Ohio beginning in 1968.
Pitts, who is almost always referred to as “Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun” (as in “American”) is a stereotype of a redneck from the Southern United States. As such, Pitts presents a daily “editorial,”…’
Burbank is also in the Radio Hall of Fame for his career accomplishments, the most famous being his Earl Pitts character. The writer here on FP who calls himself Earl Pitts has merely ripped off that character and added a mean streak to it.
Biden Derangement Syndrome
October 6, 2023 at 10:33 pm
President Biden is your tenant and lives in your mind rent-free.
Silly Wabbit
October 6, 2023 at 11:16 am
Patwiotic kwazies.
Earl Pitts "Earl's His Name Politics Is His Game" American Super-Man
October 6, 2023 at 9:13 pm
Love you Wabbit
My Take
October 6, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Real patriots don’t support traitors who tried to subvert American demoracy, or suppòrt scum who spiit on the graves of American war dead.
PeterH
October 6, 2023 at 12:23 pm
DeSantis is so wrong about most things.
Fred Herbert
October 6, 2023 at 4:45 pm
This Pro DeSantis pollster has Ron dropping. Very strange they are pushing Ranked Choice Voting now. I guess that’s what months of frustration will do.
My Take
October 6, 2023 at 6:01 pm
Basket of DETESTABLES is more like it.
And RE-education camps?
How about education.
My Take
October 6, 2023 at 6:03 pm
MAGA — morons or traitors. Little else.
My Take
October 6, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Where is disgusting DeSScamus’s condemnation of Trump’s spitting on our dead and maimed troops?
Marvin M.
October 6, 2023 at 8:15 pm
Ron is just wrong. Hillary Clinton did not say “… Trump voters should be placed in a reeducation camp.”, or anything close to that, but yet that is what DeSantis is quoted as saying in this article.
Someone else characterized what she said as MEANING reeducation camps, and, instead of him like, actually reading all the information before he popped off on twitter, or Xitter or whatever it’s called now, he made a huge broad opinion about something that … someone didn’t actually say. No, Clinton never said Trump people should be in a reeducation camp.
Dude isn’t even careful enough to read the sources of his information before he makes these comments.
PeterH
October 6, 2023 at 9:47 pm
I’m glad Ron DeSantis recognizes that he is a deplorable!
Qristian Deplorables
October 6, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Greet each Christian as you might greet a terrorist.
My Take
October 6, 2023 at 11:29 pm
Hillary has them so hair-triggered.
If I were she, I’d make sure I sent out at least one highly provocative pronouncement per week.
MH/Duuuval
October 8, 2023 at 10:59 pm
You asking for her to be shot because less than this has brought out the armed crazies.
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