A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis is sounding off about campus protesters, and they are sounding off right back, with “Free Palestine” and other related chants soundtracking a press event Wednesday.
The Florida Governor started his day in Gainesville at the University of Florida, where he was greeted by pro-Palestinian slogans as he messaged about how encampments wouldn’t be tolerated in Florida the way they were elsewhere.
“So much of this is just such a farce that it’s just kind of embarrassing to even hear some of this nonsense,” DeSantis said at one point, as chants distracted speakers.
DeSantis said students protesting were “completely fine” with how Hamas “went into Israeli communities and baked babies in ovens, raped women, assassinated elderly people in very brutal ways.”
The Governor offered extended meditations on protest movements around the country, including at “elite institutions.”
“I think a lot of these people that are just spouting nonsense, they don’t know what they’re talking about,” DeSantis said, wondering if those schools are “just graduating a bunch of imbeciles.”
“How many of them actually have studied the history of this? Very few. They’re just doing this because they think it’s a cheap cause. The reality is if you actually study the history of this, you would be able to see there’s never been a Palestinian state. That was (controlled by the) Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years. Then the British mandate, then the UN partition plan and basically Israel accepted that and the Arabs rejected and they went to war and they lost.” DeSantis said in an attempt to invalidate the protesters’ arguments.
The Governor also reiterated guidance he’d made earlier in the year to encourage students from elsewhere to come to Florida schools.
“Some of these universities that haven’t been able to keep the peace, that are not standing up for their students, those students are going to be able to hotline into our universities. Now they’ve got to be qualified, but I think a lot of them are qualified and I think would be very value added.”
11 comments
rbruce
May 8, 2024 at 11:55 am
I support Gov DeSantis in using taxpayer money to fly all Hamas supporters to Gaza to fight the Israelis.
rick whitaker
May 8, 2024 at 9:16 pm
RBRUCE, are you sure, that would be a HUGE amount of money. double your taxes if you want.
ScienceBLVR
May 8, 2024 at 11:57 am
DeSantis the history major.. the Israelis are killing a lot of babies, too, in retaliation. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.. and the US is helping them do it. That’s why those crazy college kids are protesting, Ron. One does wonder why the kids aren’t protesting about the Ukrainians killing Russians, but Hey the only good commie is one that’s dead. Palestinians, too, according to Ronnie..
My Take
May 8, 2024 at 12:31 pm
DeSantis thinks (reflexes) like a typical redneck. You see it again and again.
“Put a goober in a suit and he’s still a goober.”
Normally even a redneck exposed to a good education would sound less-redneck, but it didn’r stick with DeScamus.
Impeach Biden
May 8, 2024 at 7:29 pm
Goober huh? Let’s see a graduate of Yale and his law degree from Harvard. Oh yes and a United States Naval Officer. Let’s see your resume New York loser.
My Take
May 8, 2024 at 10:20 pm
But he still thinks and talks like a goober..
Dont Say FLA
May 13, 2024 at 12:43 pm
Baseball, baseball, couldn’t find a job due to degrees being in baseball despite showing “history” and “law” on them, so he joined the military. Three strikes. If Trump wasn’t umpire, Rhonda would have been out. Of all Trump’s mistakes, Rhonda was his biggest.
Michael K
May 8, 2024 at 1:08 pm
Idiot.
I just read that Israel is leading the way in research and cultivated meat production – which makes sense. Does Rhonda’s prohibition on cultivated meat therefore amount to a pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli position?
One can be sympathetic to the massive death toll and massive starvation of Palestinians – and understand that not all Palestinians are Hamas.
College student protests have been ahead of the nation on a variety of important issues: the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, and the Iraq war, to name a few. An alleged history major should know better.
Dont Say FLA
May 8, 2024 at 2:52 pm
Rhonda super genius argument is that the past happened, therefore some humans do not qualify for human rights today?
That sound exactly right for how Dee “thinks,” having “graduated” from Imbecile League Baseball College where he apparently took far too many balls to the chin and far too few college classes.
MH/Duuuval
May 9, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Hamas “baked babies in ovens” — where and when did that occur? Dee is conflating the Nazis and their ovens with Hamas. Please, dilettante, stay out of the classroom.
Sundance
May 12, 2024 at 3:12 pm
America is in the new age of flier power love, peace, weed and empathy with all that jazx