Senate candidate Randy Fine likens college students to KKK

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The Brevard Republican is ready to begin 'fixing the rot' at universities.

A state legislator from Brevard County pursuing a Senate seat has issued more provocative comments on college students.

Less than a week ago, Rep. Randy Fine said he thought that cohort should carry guns.

Now, he’s likening them to one of the biggest domestic terror groups in American history, saying “students are allowed to act like” them.

The accusation came amid a blast against “(p)rofessors and administrators espousing and teaching terrorism; students allowed to act like members of the Ku Klux Klan, and worthless degrees in gender studies and other departments that serve as little more than job farms for unemployable ‘wokies,’” by way of explaining his anger about the college system that awaits his high-school-aged son.

Fine says that, if elected, he will be engaged in “fixing the rot” at universities in the manner that he engaged in issues involving K-12 students during his tenure in the Florida House.

It’s uncertain why Fine, a former candidate for the presidency of Florida Atlantic University, chose to liken college students to the KKK, an organization that peaked in the 20th century with the terror group equivalent of franchises in various states that led to an aggregate membership of roughly four million at its peak 100 years ago.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Klan continues to decline numerically, though it continues distributing flyers as a publicity tool.

Former President Donald Trump, Sen. Rick Scott, CFO Jimmy Patronis, and Wilton Simpson, who helms Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, have endorsed Fine’s latest campaign.

A.G. Gancarski

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34 comments

  • rick whitaker

    April 29, 2024 at 11:04 am

    WHO DOES RANDY FINE THINK HE IS?

    • Dont Say FLA

      April 30, 2024 at 1:46 pm

      I think Randy thinks he is Ashley Moody.

      Put him in a wig and makeup (female-ish makeup, not his normal makeup), and I think Randy really could be Ashley Moody.

      Maybe they are twins, separated at birth. Something fishy with them two. Not sure what it is. But something fishy.

  • LT

    April 29, 2024 at 11:17 am

    Randy is not Fine in the head.

  • ScienceBLVR

    April 29, 2024 at 11:52 am

    KKK? Wow those college kid rascals are lynching folks now? Man, Randy knows a lot lot lot about college campuses and student activism. I had no idea he is such a genius! First Randy says, “Come on kids, put down those books, those protest signs, and pick up some guns! Now let’s build some crosses and burn us some of the “others”
    Randy Fine for president!!!

    • Hung Wiil

      April 29, 2024 at 12:25 pm

      Blowhard

      • rick whitaker

        April 29, 2024 at 1:34 pm

        HUNG, whom is telling you to blowhard? how embarrassing.

        • ScienceBLVR

          April 29, 2024 at 3:00 pm

          Plus, Rick, I guess HUNG doesn’t know a Blowhard is one who brags about his or her own accomplishments, not someone else’s- like Randy’s obvious genius pronouncements

        • Dont Say FLA

          April 30, 2024 at 1:49 pm

          Rick ya beat me to it! LOL.

      • Dont Say FLA

        April 30, 2024 at 1:48 pm

        Hung Lil, what does Rhonda’s strategery for getting picked as Trump’s VP got to do with anything?

  • Phil Morton

    April 29, 2024 at 12:00 pm

    Randy Fine is an idiot, has been for quite some time.

  • Hung Wiil

    April 29, 2024 at 12:23 pm

    Randy Fine is a great unifier. We can all agree that he is an absolute idiot. When he goes on to his eternal reward the world will be a better place.

    • Ocean Joe

      April 29, 2024 at 1:37 pm

      To quote the late Ed McMahon, “You are correct, sir.”

      • Dont Say FLA

        April 30, 2024 at 1:50 pm

        Hung Lil does know an idiot when he hears one?

        Oh my goodness!

        Good for you, Hung. Good for you.

    • rick whitaker

      April 29, 2024 at 1:40 pm

      HUNG, ” his eternal reward”, what kind of pension program is that? surly you don’t mean that heaven and hell lie, do you? modern people don’t need that belief anymore. you must be stuck in an ancient cult mentality. if not, good for you.

      • Hung Wiil

        April 29, 2024 at 4:51 pm

        Rick
        You are the quenticense of modernity.

        I’ll stick with old-fashioned instead

        • rick whitaker

          April 29, 2024 at 9:54 pm

          HUNG, i would say, it will stick with you. it seems that bottom feeders never look up. bottom feeders, have plenty to eat. so you do believe that fairy tale bs religion . not too smart dude.

          • Hung Wiil

            April 30, 2024 at 10:15 am

            Why do you care? There is a thing called freedom, Rick. Now, put your mask back on and go get your booster shot.

        • Dont Say FLA

          April 30, 2024 at 1:52 pm

          Old fashioned homes and furniture are great!

          Old fashioned people, otoh, not so great. The only good thing about them is that most of them die soon and the kids get their awesome home and furniture.

  • PeterH

    April 29, 2024 at 2:21 pm

    What is wrong with this guy?

  • ScienceBLVR

    April 29, 2024 at 2:47 pm

    HEY Randy, this buds got you!
    You the kind of gentleman
    That want everything your way
    Take the SHEET off your face, boy
    It’s a brand new day
    Respect yourself, respect yourself
    If you don’t respect yourself
    Ain’t nobody gonna give a good cahoot, na na na na

  • Bwj

    April 29, 2024 at 3:24 pm

    Pot calling the kettle black. Fine has no problem supporting eroding other people’s freedom as long as it agrees with his.

    • rick whitaker

      April 29, 2024 at 3:35 pm

      BWJ, he’s a gop isn’t he, enough said.

  • He’s really not fit for public office

    April 29, 2024 at 4:02 pm

    Shameless and one of the least pleasant people in Tallahassee, as seen by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

  • MH/Duuuval

    April 29, 2024 at 6:10 pm

    “Former President Donald Trump, Sen. Rick Scott, CFO Jimmy Patronis, and Wilton Simpson, who helms Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, have endorsed Fine’s latest campaign.”

    The company Fine keeps…

  • Michael K

    April 29, 2024 at 6:48 pm

    The “rot” is not in our institutions of higher learning. The “rot” is in the Republican-led legislature with people like Fine who traffic in fear, hate, and division. He seems to relish inflicting cruelty on others he deems to be “unworthy.”

    • Hung Wiil

      April 29, 2024 at 8:57 pm

      There are no good people on either side.

      • MH/Duuuval

        April 29, 2024 at 9:46 pm

        It’s all relative but the Ds are better for the working stiff, whereas the Rs are totally in thrall to Big Money and evangelicals.

      • Dont Say FLA

        April 30, 2024 at 1:53 pm

        Dang it. I been had! We seem to have an imposter Hung Lil.

      • rick whitaker

        April 30, 2024 at 2:18 pm

        HUNG, are you talking about florida? either way, your statement is based entirely on your opinion of what ” good people ” means. i expect my side to be less than perfect, but i can focus on improvement. your statement is designed to rob people of their hope and dignity. i would say, ” there are good people on either side” .

    • Dont Say FLA

      April 30, 2024 at 11:58 am

      In other news today, the costs externalization by “public” universities from state budgets funding them to student loans funding them is why these kids at UF actually have a clue. “Public” Universities are not so public anymore, which is the reason why Randy Fine and Rhona Dee are always going after them these days.

      The higher the proportion of state funding in a college or university budget, the rottener the rot. See New College.

      To see how (formerly) “public” universities that are now mostly “private” in funding go, see UF and the other news story here today about UF being among “The New Ivies”

      And when the brightest kids in Florida at the mostly private, so-called “public” university that is doing so well, when they make a statement about a foreign nation doing ill to other foreigners, Rhonda and Randy crap their diapers like Trump and send in the pigs.

  • My Take

    April 30, 2024 at 7:44 am

    worthless degrees in gender studies and other departments that serve as little more than job farms for unemployable ‘wokies,’”
    _________
    Like FAU’s Jewish Studies degree?

    • Dont Say FLA

      April 30, 2024 at 12:17 pm

      Rhonda and Randy dont like gender studies (or Jewish Studies at FAUI) for the same reason folks didn’t like religion classes in schools in previous decades.

      It’s because if a student has intellectual capacity and studies a subject on which they were indoctrinated by prevailing culture, they’ll likely realize the prevailing beliefs favored by prevailing culture just a bunch of malarkey.

      Religion is malarkey. Gender is malarkey.

      People do normally get born with a winkie or a vay jay jay. Once in a while a baby comes out with both, like fully both, fully there, two organs fully visible side by side when normally they on different people and one goes inside the other.

      While that’s rare, what is MUCH more common is people dropping out their mamas with a mixture of inner bits, having this from the usual winkiie bits, and that from the usual vah jay jay bits.

      The “Gender is Day and Night, Male and Female, but nothing else is possible” people (iow MAGAs), must sleep thru both dawn and dusk every single day not to realize there’s a space in between day then night, and a space between night then day.

      Or maybe they live in orbit where there is no space between day and night. It’s dark then it’s instantly bright and then it’s instantly dark again, repeat several times per earth day. That’s right, people in orbit get a bunch of sun ups and sun downs per Earth day, yet zero sunrises or sunsets.

      And the day and night types, they are definitely not chromosomally or genetically educated or even aware beyond 1979 concepts such as “blue eye parents => 50% blue eye baby” and “bald maternal grandpa => 50% bald baby when they grow up”

      Remember when oil came from decaying dinosaurs carcasses? LOLS! Anybody still teaching that bit of silliness? I remember hearing that one and even as a little kid thinking “just how s-word do they think we are” but as an old person I’ve come realize Oh Hi. They’re that s-word. They’re the problem. It’s them..

      S-word for the first syllable of the name of the baby on Family Guy and the acronym for Process IDentifier. Because this WordPress site comments section tends to disappear comments with that word and the word that isn’t me, it’s [a sheep]

  • Dont Say FLA

    April 30, 2024 at 11:52 am

    Do the FLgOPs not know how every accusation from a G0P is a confession? If they don’t, then don’t nobody tell them. That’s hilarous, Randy Fine calling people KKKs.

    LOLs @ Randy K. Fine. What a Moe. He giving Ron a run for his Modem.

    I wonder if Randy will back from his thing about the idea of college kids with guns giving him a hard on. I bet he backs off of that, and onto the ropes. Kollege Kids should Karry ROPES. Right Randy?

    Here’s anothet LOL @ Randy Fine, now in the running for Florida’s biggest dipstick

    • Icegoddess

      May 1, 2024 at 4:37 pm

      Now he wants to ARM (Jewish) college students, however he is calling them terrorists at the same time… He seems to be very confused right now.

      He is all over the place… I just found a video, where he says he got into Politics because his child was having a hard time with Math . In his family, they can hate running, but not MATH! I can see that.
      His favorite movie is the “godfather” as he learned ALOT about business from that movie……. and he is ready to burn the Harvard degrees he has….

      He may need a visit to the local COC.

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