A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor is telling Granite State residents that there are too many “foreigners” at American universities, in his latest appeal to Republican Primary voters.
“I think these universities should be doing more American students anyways. Why are we trying to bring in so many foreigners? But anyways, they do it,” Ron DeSantis said in Laconia, New Hampshire.
He contended that “foreign students don’t have the right” to study domestically. Then he offered a more familiar promise that he says he’d fulfill if elected President.
“If you’re on a student visa and you’re making common cause with Hamas here, I’m going to cancel your visa and send you home.”
The Governor made the comments at an event staged by the Never Back Down super PAC.
Though he hasn’t condemned “foreigners” at universities writ large until now, DeSantis has had plenty to say about Hamas and Palestinians during the course of this campaign.
DeSantis has used Palestinians as a punching bag on the 2024 campaign trail. He has claimed that stateside pro-Palestinian protesters are “bozos” who are “advocating a second Holocaust.” He has also attempted to eliminate student chapters at Florida universities that he says support “Hamas terrorism.” However, that move appears to have been squashed for the moment.
Additionally, the state just held a Special Session of the Legislature that was largely devoted to supporting Israel symbolically.
More recently, the Governor griped about Bethlehem, which is controlled by Palestinian Arabs, as a “pigsty” and went on to complain about a historic mosque next to the Church of the Nativity.
34 comments
Florida Follies presented by AG and Peter
December 4, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Christians hate anything they can’t enslave.
Cohara
December 4, 2023 at 3:38 pm
He’s no “christian”. He’s just a vile Na zi. That’s why he won’t condemn them. They are his biggest supporters. He supports wholesale genocide in Palestine. And he’s pig-ignorant, too. A real vile, nasty piece of work.
Florida Follies presented by AG and Peter
December 4, 2023 at 4:10 pm
He’s a Christian chosen in a landslide by Christians.
Impeach Biden
December 4, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Cohara is one of your typical programmed liberal college students with thousands of dollars amassed in student loans with a worthless degree. She like so many others that can’t function in the real world will probably end up at some university spewing her ant-American values on many other highly impressionable kids that get their news from Facebook, Tik-Tok and other worthless liberal forums. Cohara and the other liberal zombies like her probably couldn’t even find the Gaza Strip or the West Bank on a map. DeSantis proudly served his country while Cohara and others of her ilk have done nothing but smoke dope and play on their computer all day.
Florida Follies presented by AG and Peter
December 4, 2023 at 5:52 pm
Ok Mrs DeSantis 🤣
MH/Duuuval
December 4, 2023 at 11:40 pm
FYI: U.S. oil producers are cranking out a record 13.2 million barrels a day, more than Russia and Saudi Arabia. So, perhaps more is at work in our gas prices than supply and demand.
MH/Duuuval
December 6, 2023 at 11:00 am
My bad: Should read more than either Russia or Saudi Arabia — not both.
TJC
December 5, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Like DeSantis, you want people to believe that college students are “highly impressionable kids,” when in fact they are legal adults with higher I.Q.’s than the average young adult. If one of these college students committed a crime, you’d be the first to say they be tried like any other adult. What you and DeSantis are really fearful of is their brains. Their legally adult brains.
My Take
December 4, 2023 at 2:53 pm
He is DeSScumtis.
“Common cause” = ANYTHING he disagrees with.
“Support terrorism” = See above.
There is a word I have to avoid (even though Hitler didn’t speak English). But this wiggle-wiskered, naked-tailed, cheese-eating wire-gnawer is beneath contempt in his hatreds and lack of honesty. If only he’d scurry away.
Richard C Russell
December 4, 2023 at 3:07 pm
If our FBI and DOJ want to enforce Laws meant to keep America safe, they should be focusing their investigations/spying on current and past foreign college students who are actively participating in anti American activities such as Anti Semantic, BLM, and/or Antifa protests. Disrupting Americans’ rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, must be stopped. Freedom to peaceful protest is a protected right, but when it impedes the freedom of other Americans, it should be illegal and Law Enforcement should intercede, immediately.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
December 4, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Anti Semantic is not the phrase you are looking for.
MH/Duuuval
December 4, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Anti-semantic = manglers of the language, e.g, Trump?
Carol
December 4, 2023 at 3:46 pm
You said “Disrupting Americans’ rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, must be stopped. ” You do know that BLM people are Americans, don’t you? You do know, ANTIFA is an American organization dedicated to keeping fascism away from our doors, like our soldiers did in WWII? What you really meant to say we must not disrupt MAGA and all those haters, right?
rick whitaker
December 4, 2023 at 3:47 pm
richard russell, look up the word semantic. you are too uneducated to comment on complicated subjects. it’s guys like you that make antifa necessary. antifa means anti fascist. based on your comment, you are facististic, so we need to counter the words and works of your ilk. what a loser!
Tom
December 4, 2023 at 3:23 pm
Why so many foreigners? They have money. See, that was easy.
My Take
December 4, 2023 at 4:05 pm
Ýep.
Same with out of state US students who pay full fees without the state-resident discount.
Dont Say FLA
December 4, 2023 at 5:18 pm
They have money, plus they were allowed to read books growing up.
Tom
December 5, 2023 at 7:29 am
Touche! I needed that laugh. Thanks.
Biscuit
December 4, 2023 at 3:27 pm
NewsSpittle out of New Hampshire: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, apparently unable to find his way home, waxed nostalgically about how nice it would be to suppress academic freedom nationwide and not just in Florida, singling out Palestinian students who protest the war in their homeland and act foreign, using accents and clothing that prove they don’t belong in our universities.
When asked how he feels about American students studying abroad, his face turned red and he took a deep breath before answering, “That’s not a word I would use, but yeah, I’m against Women’s Studies. And I can tell you, they don’t study women at Hillsdale College, they study things that will make them money one day. That’s all they need to know. They’re Christians.”
My Take
December 5, 2023 at 12:26 pm
Ron DeSantis, apparently unable to find his way home.
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He could retrace the slime traiĺ.
Carol
December 4, 2023 at 4:04 pm
Some people just can’t recognize genocide unless it is done to Jews. Yes, crazy men tried it on them and now they are trying it themselves. Hate breeds hate, and it always will. I will always be against genocide no matter who is doing it. Don’t listen to the rhetoric about what is happening , open your eyes and just look. The original agreement to form Israel was made limiting the numbers of Jews who could go in and to protect the Arab population that was there. Neither of those things happened. DeSantis doesn’t understand anything about this conflict. He barely knows anything about Florida.
Florida Follies presented by AG and Peter
December 4, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Release our hostages you Hamas apologist…
rick whitaker
December 4, 2023 at 6:10 pm
florida follies, your comment to carol was proof she’s right
rick whitaker
December 4, 2023 at 4:17 pm
carol, good comment.
FreedomFromIgnorance
December 6, 2023 at 7:08 am
Your comment is ignorant and short sighted. You cherry pick facts and then pull out the “open your eyes” trope. People see quite clearly what happened on October 7th. Innocent people were raped, tortured, and slaughtered families. This was not an act of war as their targets were civilians. This was an act of terrorism. If someone wanted to “open their eyes” they could ask…where are all the Jews living in Arab nations? I’ll save you some time. They aren’t welcome there. But plenty of Arabs live peacefully in Israel and have full rights. It’s really awful that Hamas, a terrorist organization, has destroyed Palestine. They have sucked the resources from the people to support their corruption and hate campaign. Those tunnels weren’t cheap to build or maintain. If genocide is happening to the Palestinian people, it is the result of their allowing Hamas to rule their country. By the way, all the news organizations report Gaza has no fuel and no electricity and no internet. How are so many able to charge their phones and take pictures and video and selectively stream them to social media?
I pray that all people who want peace are able to achieve it and that all people, regardless of their nationality or religion, have self determination and access to safe living conditions. But this simply can’t happen for the people of Palestine until they are freed from Hamas. P.S. In case you are wondering, the people of Palestine have still had time to lynch fellow citizens after October 7th. To prevent genocide, free Palestine from Hamas.
MH/Duuuval
December 6, 2023 at 11:03 am
So, the indiscriminate bombing of civilians — collective punishment — is the right course? Just curious: Is there any limit to how many innocent Palestinians should die in this conflict?
Michael K
December 4, 2023 at 4:10 pm
The US should be “doing more students?” Huh? Guess he found a new marginalized group to hate to favor the MAGA xenophobic vote.
Does he know that a lot of Americans study abroad – does he understand exchange programs? World travel opens hearts and minds, and creates bridges of understanding – lessons that our governor must have failed to learn in his elitist Harvard / Yale education. He seems determined to destroy public education in Florida.
My Take
December 4, 2023 at 9:13 pm
He took credit for FAU having a “sister” university in Israel I believe. Surely some students go back and forth.
Joe
December 4, 2023 at 5:03 pm
This angry little guy is showing more and more how gross he really is. He and Casey must be coming up with stuff during threesomes with Stephen Miller.
rick whitaker
December 4, 2023 at 5:32 pm
stephen miller likes being pegged i guess.
My Take
December 5, 2023 at 1:39 pm
Good thing we have all these foreign students. Someone needs to keep the science, math, engineering, and computer departments “fully stocked.” And some will stay.
Too many American students are aimed at getting rich quickly selling hamburger chain stock futures to each other. (I assume the math is easier,)
Ron DiSaster
December 5, 2023 at 2:03 pm
He really can’t help himself but blurt out the most idiotic takes imaginable can he?
BigRoy7
December 6, 2023 at 4:17 am
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, however, are any of us real humans with the understanding of life? The Clone of Florida is totally lost in his attempt to become a president any where, let alone, the Governor of Florida. His talks to me are anti American, anti democratic, along with trying to make every young person 🧒 an idiot, like the ex president. Remember, he wants the kill woke, keep everyone sleeping/blind.
I believe Carol’s comments about the issues here, are spot on, as well as some sensible others. Great 👍 !! Others, apparently have ties with MAGA.
rick whitaker
December 6, 2023 at 2:11 pm
bigroy7, i liked your comment, it said a lot. thanks
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