TAMPA, FL – On the second day of the Turning Point-sponsored Student Action Summit in Tampa on July 23rd, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as well as Sen. Ted Cruz, delivered some fiery speeches before the thousands of attendees where topics such as the antics of the woke left and Democrats soft-on-crime approaches were mocked and ridiculed.
Governor DeSantis brought up the not-so-distant riots of 2020, noting how he ensured to activate the necessary amount of law enforcement to ensure Florida wouldn’t devolve into what plagued Minneapolis.
“When you had the rioting happening two years ago in Minneapolis and it started to spread, in Florida we said, ‘That’s not happening here.’ I called out the National Guard. We had folks in state law enforcement working with our locals, and we said, ‘You are not burning the state of Florida down,’ and they did not do that.”
He also remarked on how his state made it clear during those riots that miscreants capitalizing on the chaos were not going to be receiving the Democrat brand of catch-and-release as seen in such state as Oregon in 2020.
“In the state of Florida, if you’re rioting, you’re looting, you’re engaged in mob violence – you are not getting a slap on the wrist, you are getting the inside of a jail cell.”
Governor DeSantis also highlighted how his administration has put an end to CRT in schools, as well as removing absurd textbooks from the classroom that attempt to inject leftist ideology into subjects like math.
Sen. Cruz also spoke out against the wokeness seeping higher education, sharing a story of an exchange he’d had with a young female college student who explained that she’s compelled to introduce herself in the classroom and share her preferred pronouns.
“All of y’all on campuses across the country, your classmates – even if they’re scared to say it – are looking around thinking, ‘This stuff is nuts.’ I talked to a student recently at one of our woke college campuses who said she’s required in every class to introduce herself and to give her pronouns. Well I’m Ted Cruz and my pronoun is ‘Kiss My Ass.'”
The Texas senator also brought up the rampant gender confusion that has cropped up in recent years during his speech, detailing an interaction he’d had with a reporter back when then-Supreme Court nominee Kentaji Brown Jackson infamously claimed she couldn’t define what a woman is.
“It really is bat-crap crazy. Like, the left, you are no longer allowed to say – here’s radical statement, okay, trigger warning – women exist. Like, what the hell is wrong with you idiots? This is not – they’ve gone to crazy town. By the way, when Kentaji Brown Jackson was up for nomination, there was a reporter who ran up to me all exited and he said, ‘What is the woman?’ And I turned to him and said ‘An adult female human being.’ And he looked at me completely befuddled. He said, ‘Wait a second, that’s actually the dictionary definition! Did you look it up?’ Like no, I just speak the English language.”
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on July 24, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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