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Florida Sen. Rick Scott is making another play for attention, and we're going to give it to him mainly out of pity. The man's attempts to stay relevant, to find a constituency any wider than Florida's resident population of invasive pythons, are just so painful to watch that it's—oh, who are we kidding. It's deeply funny.
Scott's current stand-up routine is a warning to "socialists and communists" to stay away from Florida, and it's just so, so try-hard of him.
As Dave Weigel pointed out, all Scott's done here is create a video version of the fake "travel advisory" he put out almost exactly a month ago, one that warns "Florida is openly hostile toward Socialists, Communists, and those that enable them." That was an attempted retort aimed at far more serious warnings put out by the NAACP and by LGBTQ+ groups warning that Florida Republicans' demonization campaigns were turning the state into a more genuinely dangerous place to visit, what with Proud Boys threatening school boards and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mounting an overtly fascist presidential campaign premised on retribution against and elimination of Americans suspected of such "wokeness."
