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Dem candidate for Florida governor compares DeSantis to Hitler, draws criticism
Komo News ^ | 1/18/22 | ZACHARY ROGERS

Posted on 01/18/2022 3:39:51 PM PST by MAGA2017

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (TND) — A Democrat who is running to be the next governor of Florida is facing criticism after she openly compared the state's current Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., to Adolf Hitler.

Appearing on NPR's Friday Roundup Podcast, Nikki Fried was asked by the show's co-host Melissa Ross to explain a tweet Fried had made in which she called DeSantis a "dictator".

Ross questions Fried, hoping to clarify: “Are you comparing DeSantis to Hitler?” Ross asks.

“In a lot of ways, yes,” Fried says in response. “I have studied Hitler and how he got to power, you know, wanting his own militia.”

DeSantis has become a popular target for criticism from the left, after becoming one of the first Republican governors to reopen his state during the coronavirus pandemic. Fried, who is currently Florida's agricultural commissioner, is one of the state's most vocal opponents to DeSantis and his policies.

Fried responds to Ross's question by bringing up Florida's Cuban population, who escaped dictatorship to find opportunities in America, saying they are now once again being oppressed by a dictator-esque power in the form of DeSantis' governance.

"[DeSantis] is doing everything possible to take away power from local governments,” Fried says. “Taking away people’s abilities to protest. Making it harder to vote. Talking about banning books... That’s what dictators do. Fried then invokes the Hitler comparison, saying she sees similarities between DeSantis and the infamous Nazi leader."

(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: desantis; fried; hitler; hitleresque; nikki; nikkifried
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

If she’s so worried about politicians who resemble Hitler, why does she belong to a party which supports the PLO and BDS?


21 posted on 01/18/2022 4:03:00 PM PST by Fedora
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To: MAGA2017

It’s what Democrats do. It’s so expected that it doesn’t even shock anymore. They started with George W Bush. He was called Hitler and they even did an ad where they blamed him for a black man’s death where he was dragged in chains behind a truck with white people at the wheel.


22 posted on 01/18/2022 4:04:30 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: MAGA2017

Did DeSantis kill 6 million Jews? Did I miss that?


23 posted on 01/18/2022 4:05:12 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: MAGA2017

Wait until she learns what most Americans are comparing her to.


24 posted on 01/18/2022 4:07:54 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Belteshazzar

That’s what they say. You know someone’s lost the argument when they invoke Hitler.


25 posted on 01/18/2022 4:09:48 PM PST by livius
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To: MAGA2017
Looks like a cross between Pelosi and Jack Nicholson.


26 posted on 01/18/2022 4:12:09 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: MAGA2017

Is there really any other kind?


27 posted on 01/18/2022 4:17:22 PM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Pollard

Jeebus. What happened to her face?

Poor lady.


28 posted on 01/18/2022 4:19:02 PM PST by Lazamataz (He who does, does not talk. He who talks, does not do.)
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To: Lazamataz

Here’s the full hot/crazy matrix, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Nikki+Fried&iax=images&ia=images

Pelosi + Jack Nicholson + The Joker


29 posted on 01/18/2022 4:23:22 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: MAGA2017

His brain is fried.


30 posted on 01/18/2022 4:41:31 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Pollard

Did you notice the bat shit crazy eyes on that one?


31 posted on 01/18/2022 4:48:06 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: MAGA2017

This is the same dictator who insisted on putting her picture on every Dept of Ag stamp on every gas pump in Florida. The state Supreme court found she overstepped her authority, just like Hitler.
This is a perfect example of a wannabe dictator labeling a patriotic freedom fighter precisely what the Florida Supreme court found her guilty of.


32 posted on 01/18/2022 4:49:21 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Hatred is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: MAGA2017
OK, The Joker is the closest analogy to this:


33 posted on 01/18/2022 5:07:28 PM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: MAGA2017
She would have polled higher if she was photographed naked sleeping in her own puke the morning after meth-induced sex with a local prostitute.

But nah, she had to play the hitler card.

34 posted on 01/18/2022 5:27:08 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Hitler?

See IV here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2587374/posts


35 posted on 01/18/2022 5:41:15 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Lazamataz

“ Jeebus. What happened to her face?”

She fell off the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down. When she struck the ground her face caught fire and they put it out with an ice pick


36 posted on 01/18/2022 5:57:53 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: wjcsux

Crazy eyes?

She has crazy everything.


37 posted on 01/18/2022 5:59:29 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: MAGA2017

The only reply from him should be “B!tch, if I was Hitler, you’d already be in a concentration camp!”


38 posted on 01/18/2022 9:01:26 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!!)
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