Pic Of The Moment: So Rick Scott Doesn't Like "Bailouts", Huh?

[EarlG]

Sen. Rick Scott: "We are bailing out out liberal politicians..."

Experts agree this hurricane season will be above-average, maybe even extremely active

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. pox ramanna rick scott.

[Traildogbob]

2. So obvious

No more money for Florida. Start state taxation to cover your damn storms. We are sick of forking cash into the state that will be hit hardest with climate change and does least to oppress it coming. Oh, and pay back Medicare you sleezy, criminal bald shit bag. That damn slick dome slides up trump’s generous size ass like a golf ball into a basketball goal.

[Fritz Walter]

10. There's a reason why he always keeps his collar buttoned

It keeps the foreskin from sliding up and covering his face.
Unfortunately.

[Traildogbob]

11. 😂😂😂

That dick looks kind of looks circumcised. Shame the knife did not slip and take the whole head off.

[nykym]

3. Well gee wiz

Florida gets $23.77 billion back from the Fed.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Earl-- you attributed the quote to "Gov." Rick Scott.

[DFW]

13. Understandable

That is the last office he was legitimately elected to.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. :-)

[47of74]

5. Fuck you Rick

So glad my sister and brother in law moved out of Florida. Don’t have to visit Rick’s state anymore.

[Initech]

6. Well, we're boned.

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[GETPLANING]

7. End the Red State Bailout

[Cyrano]

8. Florida is not a red state

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Southeast Florida, Palm Beach County, Broward County, and Miami Dade county are heavily Democratic. That represents a bit over half the voters in the state. But gerrymandering has fucked that majority.

Does anyone remember the 2000 election that Al Gore won because of those three counties? Well, turns out the Republican Supreme Court said, fuck off, appointed George W. Bush as president and then said that their reasoning could not be used again, anywhere, for any reason.

Don't knock Florida. It is a blue state being fucked by a Republican legislature and a governor whose electoral majority is questionable due to thousands of "lost" votes.

Everyone likes to laugh at "Floriduh." How about some sympathy. After all, we are a state that is occupied, abused and ruled by a Republican minority. "Occupied" is the operational word. Think of Paris during WWII. Many of the French joined the resistance. But what they could do was limited until they were liberated. So here's a cry for help. We need a Democratic president and senate to pass laws to liberate us from the tyrants who call themselves Republicans.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Thank you for saying this!

[iscooterliberally]

37. Thank you for your comments.

I've lived in Florida for most of my life and have voted against these assholes every single time. I despise Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. We have no representation in the senate with these two oath breaking useless parasites in office. It's long past time for them both to go back to private life.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Baldy McFuckStick building his bonafides with the moronic

Deplorable base for a future run at the Rethug nomination.

[dameatball]

20. Yep. First thing I thought of as well. We will be seeing more of this.

[sanatanadharma]

12. Florida is badly managed, ignoring budgeting for repeating hurricanes

A pandemic is a once in a century event. Hurricanes are an annual event.

Florida is proved to be badly managed by the fact that the state ignores known, needed, recurring maintenance.
Capitalism doesn't believe in rainy-day funds, and the rich are 'so fearful' of running out of richness that they willingly sacrifice your children to the god of corporate wealth.

The USA is a rich nation that is full of it...

[aggiesal]

14. IOKIYAR n/t

[Brainfodder]

16. He's a top 10 worst American, has been for a long while?

Something fishy in Florida!

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Typical hypocrite. nt

[Darwin2019]

18. we call him the Naked Mole Rat

but that is not fair to naked mole rats

[Jimbo S]

19. False Equivalency

Sorry, gotta call BS on this meme.

A hurricane is an act of nature. Poor budget planning such as in Illinois is an act o fman.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. I'd say the equivalency is a health crisis vs a weather crisis, which neither IL nor FL budgets for.

[EarlG]

22. A pandemic isn't an act of nature?

[Jimbo S]

26. I live one state over from IL

Illinois's budget has been in a bind for some time not due to pandemic but in stead over promising retirement benefits to public employees. A couple of years back the government attempted due adjust benefits only to be overruled in a lawsuit.

[EarlG]

28. Okay, but

we’re talking about emergency federal funding to deal with the pandemic.

Scott is whining about having to “bail out” other states that need emergency funding. He’s essentially saying that states which have “mismanaged” their finances shouldn’t get emergency funding. (And of course, he will decide what “mismanaged” means.)

By Scott’s logic, if Florida has done such a great job of managing its finances then it wouldn’t need to take federal funding when an emergency strikes. But of course, Scott will immediately request federal funding as soon as Florida gets hit by an hurricane — which he should by the way, because when one state suffers a massive natural disaster then we should all pitch in to help.

But he wants to deny that help to other states, which makes him a massive hypocrite, which is the point of the graphic.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. Fucking lying POS. NY pays more than any other state to bail out the reds.

Fuck you, Scott.

[Collimator]

25. So very funny.

From what I have read, most of the money in the Federal coffers that goes to "bail-outs", federal aid, what-have-you, comes from the more populous and prosperous Blue States. Without their taxation dollars, many of the Red States would be worse off than just their general ignorance and lack of tolerance for a changing world creates.

This is not to denigrate the humanity or needs of those in Red States. And I am certain that different sections of those areas contribute to the common good of this country as well.

What bothers me is not only the divisiveness in this country that is being weaponized by Trump and Co., but the resistance to change that is absolutely necessary to cope with dangerous, larger-scale changes that have been happening all around us whether we approved of them or not.

Some people seem determined to turn the world back to 1950's (or even 1850's) social norms when we are facing problems that must be faced with 21st Century technology, and clear--forward thinking--resolve. And many of the people contributing to that technology and providing that thinking would be shut down, closeted or shackled if those antiquated social norms were reinstated.

Oh, good grief! --as Charlie Brown would say. I just have to keep climbing up on that soap box. I'd switch to body wash instead, but those products also come packaged in boxes.

[Hulk]

27. This is how those sick bastards think

It is always socialism it is always wrong to give anything or help anyone unless of course it is them.

They have zero empathy for anybody. They are self-serving deprived and soulless individuals.... every f****** one of them.

[PatrickforO]

29. He's gotta be shitting us. How dare he?

These bozos are the absolute worst, and Trump? Well, we have yet to see how much lower he can go.

[turbinetree]

30. Okay Gollum got it, use the money that you got from ripping off the seniors................

and bilking senior citizens in Florida and pay for the next hurricane out of your back pocket........POS......

[Wolf Frankula]

31. He's a Conservative.

He believes OTHER states shouldn't get government aid.

Wolf

[Nitram]

32. Just more examples of Republican stupidity. And an over-reliance on, like, three catchphrases.

"Economic stimulus is just a liberal shopping list." "Liberals just want to give rich people's money to lazy moochers and crafty illegal aliens." I'll let ya'll provide the third one.

[Blue Owl]

33. Hey Batboy go fly into an electric fence

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[AnnieBW]

34. This is why I don't want to move there

Between the climate change, the entitled assholes, alligators, and politicians who care more about making money than their constituents, I don't want to move there. My MIL lives there, and my husband has talked about moving there after we retire. We talked about it tonight, and, frankly, if they want to open up and sacrifice the elderly and vulnerable on the altar of Mammon, I don't want to live there.

[Bengus81]

36. I couldn't take the humidity in the summer.......

Hell it's bad enough in Kansas in July and Aug and we're a few miles from any ocean. Used to think how neat it would be to live in a State that was warm during the winter months. But...with climate change the winters now in Kansas are nothing compared to 40-50 years ago.

Hell it was 72 degrees in Wichita on Super Bowl Sunday--Feb 2nd. Instead of throwing another log on the fire I was out on the deck in shorts drinking a cold one.

[Grokenstein]

35. Oh, psh. Of COURSE he won't hesitate to demand a bailout.

And he'll pretend he has no idea what you're talking about when you call him a hypocrite.