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"They're Embracing Extremism": Sen. Rick Scott on Hasan Piker's Influence

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August 15, 2026 12:00 am

"They're Embracing Extremism": Sen. Rick Scott on Hasan Piker's Influence

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August 15, 2026 12:00 am

The rise of socialism in the Democratic Party is causing concern among Republicans, who argue that it's a threat to American values and economic stability. Senator Rick Scott discusses the issue and proposes a solution, emphasizing the need for a meritocracy and equal opportunities for all.

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How Zong is one of the great leaders of. of this world, the fall of the USSR. Was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century. We must end the American Empire. America deserved 9-11, dude.

I'm saying it. If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would f. Rick Scott. Yeah, kill them. Kill those motherfuckers.

Murder those motherfuckers in the street. Let the streets. Let the streets soak in their f ⁇ ing red capitalist blood. That is Hassan Piker, and this guy is the voice of the socialist movement. A guy that has sat down with AOC, has done his podcast.

Same thing with Roe Conna, has done his podcast. Bernie Sanders, as far as I know, is a big fan. He was the one of the few standing by that ridiculous candidate over in Wisconsin that wanted to ban Thanksgiving. He's trying to get a socialist everywhere. You know that he thinks Mao was his idol.

Says the guy killed 14 million people, but he dresses like Mao and quotes Mao and loves China. And this is the voice of the Democratic Party right now. Big story in the Wall Street Journal today saying, you know, they basically have the Democrats climbing up walls because they know he's going to be problematic. You think? Joining us now, a man that he says he wants to kill, Senator Rick Scott.

Senator I know you despise this guy, as do I. But you're but he is not going away. He's ascendant in the Democratic Party. No, they they camp the Democrats all campaign with this guy. Mandami, Hassan Piker, AOC, they run the Democrat Party.

The d Chuck Schumer is scared to death. He whatever they want, he gives them. Every Democrat falls on the sword for these guys. They're anti-Semitic, they want capitalists murdered, they want me murdered.

Okay? They I mean they thought we deserve nine eleven, we deserve nine eleven. I mean, these guys are crazy. And so anybody, like if you're a Democrat and you don't call them out. Then you're part of them.

No question. Like, we've got a guy in Florida running for governor that's anti-Semitic. I call him out. He's supposedly a Republican running for governor. He's anti-Semitic.

I call him out. Democrats need to call this guy out and they just say they are not, there is no room in the Democrat Party for this guy. But guess what? They all go campaign with him because all they care about is power. It's disgusting.

And right now, they just can't figure out what to do with him. RoConna says: well, it doesn't mean I agree with him if I sit down with him. What is your answer to that? Yes. I mean, you you do like, I don't like, some do you think I'm gonna go sit down with somebody that wants me murdered?

So if they say it's okay to sit down with somebody that wants every capitalist in this country murdered. Oh, I just sat down with him. I just had breakfast with him. I just had lunch with him. Oh, I just campaigned with him.

I just voted with him. It's disgusting. So here's Akeem Jeffries, part of leadership that refuses to take a stand, cut 30. You've got the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, with several candidates who are on the ballot headed into these midterm elections. Your thoughts on what that energy, how that represents some of the change that you are talking about that's happening in the progressive wing of your party.

Yeah, so I think we'll see what happens in terms of what the. caucus looks like. On the other side of the midterm election, certainly our focus right now is making sure that we win as many seats as we can in November. And by the way, they they just and Chuck Schumer says, I want a big tent party. And then he has no standard.

They don't care. As long as Jeffries, as long as Schumer are the leader, it's okay. You can be anti-Semitic, you could hate capitalists, you can hate this country, you can say we deserve 9/11. As long as you vote for me for leader, I'm all in. That's what these guys are doing.

This is disgusting.

So I want you to hear, so with this rise of socialism. Republicans, obviously, are going to bring that up. They're going to bring that out. J.D. Vance says: Republicans can't ignore why young people are going for this.

Cut 38. My warning to my fellow Republicans, Will, would be: if we don't get this right, don't blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism. We've got to blame ourselves. And I think what is so unique and refreshing about Donald Trump's economic policies is that it's not the same old economic ideas that you would have heard 30, 40 years ago. He's talking about rebuilding our industrial base, rebuilding the heartland, making our streets safer, making it possible for young people to afford to buy a home.

This is how you stop socialism. You don't stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. As much as I love the free market, you stop socialism by making people's lives better.

So I think you're such a good person to bounce this off of because you are a self-made success story. No one said to you, life's not fair and blame somebody. You just found a way to overcome your circumstances and became extremely successful and then decided to serve into politics after you had that thriving career.

So what do you say to J.D. Vance, who says, you know, Republicans don't blame young people.

Well, we've got to go tell people. Look, I understand that people, look, I understand people are worried about groceries. My family did growing up. I understand people are worried about jobs. My family did growing up.

So what we've got to do is we've got to be the party that says, you know what, we're going to control spending and we're going to get inflation under control. That means we're not going to keep spending $2 trillion extra dollars a year. We're going to say we're going to figure out how to get housing prices down. That means we're going to say at the local level, this is done at the local level, we are going to figure out how we get starter homes more affordable. We are going to figure out how we are the law enforcement party.

We are the party that's going to give you the best education system. But not just an education system. We're going to have an education system that it turns into you, I don't care who you are. Rich or poor, black or white, whatever, you're going to get a great paying job. That's what our party needs to be.

When I ran for governor, I ran on, I'm going to get everybody in the state a job. That's why I ran on it. And people voted for me. I think 500,000 Democrats voted for me because they said, I want a job. I tell people, I live in public housing.

How many of you want to live in public housing? How many of you want to be broke? I've not had one person raise their hand and said, Yeah, I want to be broke. I want to live in that public housing. I wouldn't be on food stamps.

No, but we've got to be the party that says, we have a plan. We're going to figure out how to get you a job, you, you a person job, you a great education, your kids a great education, and we're going to make sure your neighborhood is safe. That's what people want out of the Republican Party. We've got to do it. That means stop wasting their money.

Be honest with them. We've got to start fixing problems. We've got to save Social Security. We've got to save Medicare. We have to have safety nets at work, but people can't defraud us.

So, for example, that's what the Republican Party ought to stand for. No one's against making affordable child care. No one's saying let's make Social Security out of reach. Nobody's saying let's continue to not finance Social Security properly, which I think you're working on in a bipartisan way, which seems to be ultimately very fixable. Nobody's saying that health care should be expensive.

But you got to find a way, fundamentally, to keep up the quality that we have in this country at the same time make it more accessible.

So, but when Bremen says, I want to do Medicare for all, you were in the health care business. What is not feasible about Medicare for all? What they've done is Obamacare, Medicare. That just means you're not going to get. If you think it's the greatest healthcare in the system when government runs something, Why is everybody flocking to Canada for their health care?

are flocking to to socialist countries. I mean, remember how Cuba is supposed to have this great healthcare system. I've never met one person that said, I'm flying to Cuba to get my health care because that's got a great system. When the government runs something, it becomes political.

So it means that you won't be able to afford it, you won't have access to it, and the quality will go to crap. That's exactly what's going to happen. You want the private sector to compete like hell for your money. What we need to do is give you if we're going to if we're going to help you, right, we need to give you the money and you make these providers compete for your money. Stop it and let people compete.

I mean, this is so we do it in grocery stores. Look at the quality of the the food in our country. I mean, we can go to any grocery store we want, right? And you get to buy like food stamps, we don't say, oh, no, we're going to give you a little box and you get exactly this food. No, we're going to give no in food stamps, we say we want to help you, so we're going to give you we're going to give you some money, and you can go to any grocery store you want to go to.

and buy what you want. But in healthcare, we say, no, no, you got to do this and you got to do this and you got to do that. These are all these rules. And so how does it help? Maybe it helps some providers, but for the person who needs health care, it's reducing their access, improve increasing their costs and reducing the quality.

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So Senator I was stunned last weekend. You know, we've been noticing since President Trump took over, the political correctness is going out the window. The DEI is going out the window. We're getting back to a meritocracy when it comes to schools and when it comes to jobs and stop elevating people because of the color of their skin or the religion they have and their nationality. We're getting away from that.

But now we're at the point. Where even the people that were telling us to label our pronouns that men can have babies and that women are just pregnant people, women are not no longer women, and they told us that you have to defund the police and all that craziness and that we should be embarrassed by our past and apologize to people and pay reparations. They're now calling that woke one. That's Woke One. Yeah, we were crazy back then, AOC says, during Woke One.

What did well, we was this a big ruse, this whole thing, where you were vilified for speaking up?

So it didn't work. They know that that people say, you're crazy. I mean, look, I was raised, you were raised that we are doing everything we can to give everybody the same opportunity, right? And so, what they said, no, we're not going to, no, if you're this color, you're an oppressor. Boy, you're a bad person.

That's BS. I mean, think of how many people help other people. We have the greatest country in the world. We help each other. We want people to get ahead.

We don't care the color of their skin. But when you separate people Here's what happens. It makes it toxic. Like right now right now in Florida, I got I've got a guy, Randy Feins, he's Jewish. He's running in a district, and we've got a guy that's basically completely anti Semitic running against him.

That's wrong. We got to accept, look, we got to accept people. We're all different and give everybody the same opportunity for success. I'm in this role I am in because I want kids like me that grew up not knowing their dad, lived in public housing, that has a mom that said you could beat anything. That's what this country has to be.

That's what we have to fight for every day, and that's what the Republican Party should be standing for. We want everybody to have the same opportunity. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's happening now. And remember the new Green Deal? If we don't adopt it, the world was going to end in eight years.

Al Gore said the world should have been over by now. Do you believe they didn't even believe that? I mean, when they there were all these all the pressures on the corporations and the Paris climate change. Power. Power, power.

Look at Fauci. I mean, thank God that Rand Rampaul got him to have to come testify and got that diary out, and now we've got the phone. They just lied to us. He just lied to us. He had no earthy idea, or he believed the opposite, but because they wanted to control us, it's like they want to control our way of life.

Like one thing I'll tell you, I appreciate what Rand did, and also I appreciate what Trump's doing, because Trump's declassifying information, he's showing how much of a deep state there is. There is an unbelievable deep state, and they think they're so much smarter than all those dumb Americans. That's what they think. They treat us all like we're the idiots. Those people up there that have the power.

They get to make all the decision for us. We fought against that with the Soviet Union.

So we got to fight like hell for this country.

So there's no gas cars in New York and California. Are they going to reverse that mandate? Because by 2035, they're going to be getting rid of all those cars. Is that still going to stay in the books? I guess.

I mean, I mean, think about it. Mondami is, I mean, he's just destroying it. Look, I'm a builder, right? I'm a business guy.

So I love the fact that people are leaving New York and coming to Florida. I fought to get them to come down here. But think about who gets hurt. The rich can do that real easy. But people like my family that couldn't afford to move, right?

They're the ones who get hurt by Mondami. That grocery store that he opens is not going to help him. I mean, somebody's going to pay somebody's going to pay for it, so they're going to raise everybody's taxes. I hear you. Bid government doesn't work.

That's causes most of your problems, is government.

Well, Senator Rick Scott, it's going to be a very interesting sprint towards the midterm elections and see if the Republicans can buck history and be the party in power that doesn't pay the price in the midterm. Senator Rick Scott, thanks so much. All right. See you brian. My life is booked and busy.

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