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(The Hill)   Rick Scott comes at the king, misses   (thehill.com) divider line
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3910 clicks; posted to Politics » on 02 Feb 2023 at 3:45 AM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:49:13 AM  
FTA: "Scott said he learned of the decision in a text message."

BWHAHAHAHAAAHA!
 
HighOnCraic
2023-02-02 3:49:27 AM  
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Palined Parenthood
2023-02-02 4:00:48 AM  
Now This Might Strike Some Viewers As Harsh
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hissatsu [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:06:52 AM  
Scott acknowledged that running against McConnell was the likely reason he was booted from the panel despite his relative seniority on the committee and experience running a major company.

"I probably ran the biggest company almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run. I was governor of the third-biggest economy in the United States, Florida. I've got a business background," Scott said, ticking off his credentials.

I think it should be noted that his tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA is most well known for presiding over massive Medicare fraud that resulted in a more then $2 billion in fines and penalties and 14 felony convictions. He was pretty much forced to resign and got a golden parachute for his trouble, because being held accountable is for little people. To the criminal enterprise sometimes known as the GOP, this is referred to as "a promising start."
 
Phaedrus the Vague [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:42:03 AM  
"I probably ran the biggest company scam almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run. I was governor of the third fourth-biggest economy in the United States, Florida. I've got a grifty background!" Scott said, ticking off his credentials.

One sentence of credentials, and he can't help but lie. Scott was probably a carny before they banned him for having no personal code. FL is 4th, not 3rd, and per-capita GDP is ranked worse than 4th.

The biggest company any senator has ever run might be true, but while Scott was CEO it was guilty of massive fraud, paying $2B in fines--the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history, at the time.

How Scott skated on any charges and failed upwards is a mystery, though Florida! is a partial explanation.

VP and Rep. Cheny was CEO of Halliburton, which was bigger than Scott's company (I think), and might have stolen more federal money.

Fark both of those old frauds.
 
Yaw String [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:50:11 AM  
At or on?
 
Phaedrus the Vague [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:52:40 AM  
Stupid of Scott to run against McConnell. Trying to burnish his credentials before his yet to be announced yet already doomed 2024 presidential run, and just racked up another L.

Now that crafty old bugger McConnell will set traps, pitfalls, poison pills, zerg attacks, etc. for Scott.
 
Alphax
2023-02-02 4:54:46 AM  

Phaedrus the Vague: Stupid of Scott to run against McConnell. Trying to burnish his credentials before his yet to be announced yet already doomed 2024 presidential run, and just racked up another L.

Now that crafty old bugger McConnell will set traps, pitfalls, poison pills, zerg attacks, etc. for Scott.


'Incoming homing turtle shell!'
 
lilplatinum
2023-02-02 5:12:52 AM  
Rick Scott always looks like he just had a third round of chemo.
 
CrazedAndBemused
2023-02-02 5:19:50 AM  

lilplatinum: Rick Scott always looks like he just had a third round of chemo.


Alas and alack...
 
Phaedrus the Vague [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 5:50:51 AM  

lilplatinum: Rick Scott always looks like he just had a third round of chemo.


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indylaw [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 6:14:29 AM  
"I probably ran the biggest company almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run."

No one knows Medicare fraud like Rick Scott.
 
DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 6:20:36 AM  
Do you really think Rick Scott gives two sh*ts about anyone bringing up the fact he led the largest health care fraud scheme in history?

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That's like asking Manchin about black lung disease coverage under Obamacare.
 
mudesi
2023-02-02 6:36:36 AM  
It's all in the game.
 
Rann Xerox [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 6:44:34 AM  

mudesi: It's all in the game.


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Northern
2023-02-02 6:51:09 AM  
Scott is also opposed to that very program, and initiated a failed attempt (thus far) to repeal social security, medicare, and federal Medicaid programs with Sen. Ron Johnson of WI and other GQP officials.
Scott is a psychopath who can't even.  McTurtle is just left enough on that psychological scale to preserve his power.
 
Bigdogdaddy
2023-02-02 6:54:06 AM  
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heavymetal
2023-02-02 6:54:33 AM  
FTFA: "McConnell insisted in November that he didn't have any hard feelings left over after Scott challenged him in an acrimonious race, which McConnell eventually won by a vote of 37 to 10, with one senator voting present."

Scott is a dead man walking. Add in Scott Walker's "plan" which helped keep Turtle out of the Majority Leader position, and this is more than personal. Turtle has turned passive-aggressive into an art form when it comes to political shenanigans.
 
lordjupiter
2023-02-02 6:54:56 AM  
He never should've left Midnight Oil
 
iheartscotch
2023-02-02 7:12:56 AM  
Rick Scott intentionally said on national television that he wanted to completely get rid of Social Security and Medicare. And then he went for Da Turdle.
 
durbnpoisn [BareFark]
2023-02-02 7:23:16 AM  
Rick Scott is what happens when a Stephen King antagonist comes to life.
 
Alphax
2023-02-02 7:24:32 AM  

durbnpoisn: Rick Scott is what happens when a Stephen King antagonist comes to life.


Some people on Fark have claimed to have seen him in person, and that he instantly sets off their Stranger Danger detectors.  He's creepy.
 
corq [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 7:26:45 AM  

Phaedrus the Vague: lilplatinum: Rick Scott always looks like he just had a third round of chemo.

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That's hysterical, he was known in my house during his tenure as "Governor Skeletor" but someone's batboy meme later became my favorite. It's really hard to pick just one meme that covers his career.
 
FarkaDark
2023-02-02 7:45:39 AM  
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Armchair_Invective
2023-02-02 7:50:01 AM  
Ya don't mess with the Gamera, man.
 
Bill the unknowing [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 7:58:24 AM  

DannyBrandt: FTA: "Scott said he learned of the decision in a text message."

BWHAHAHAHAAAHA!


It would have been epic if he'd learned about on Weekend Update with Michael Che and Collin Jost.
 
synithium
2023-02-02 8:03:08 AM  

durbnpoisn: Rick Scott is what happens when a Stephen King antagonist comes to life.


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I always thought Scott was the real life Trashcan Man.

"My life for screwing you out of your old-age benefits" - Trashcan Man Scott
 
groppet
2023-02-02 8:20:04 AM  
The turtle is better at the game than bat boy and will feast on him
 
UberNeuman
2023-02-02 8:36:43 AM  
Rick Scott is the rare example of someone biting themselves and then giving themselves rabies.
 
dsmith42 [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 8:48:36 AM  

corq: Phaedrus the Vague: lilplatinum: Rick Scott always looks like he just had a third round of chemo.

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That's hysterical, he was known in my house during his tenure as "Governor Skeletor" but someone's batboy meme later became my favorite. It's really hard to pick just one meme that covers his career.


He has more than a passing resemblance to Voldemort too.
 
rewind2846
2023-02-02 9:03:33 AM  
""I probably ran the biggest company almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run. I was governor of the third-biggest economy in the United States, Florida. I've got a business background," Scott said, ticking off his credentials."

The company?Columbia/HCA, where he was CEO back in 1997.
The same company that committed the biggest Medicare/Medicaid fraud in US history.
The same company that forced Scott out after an investigation into the company by the feds seizing records from four El Paso-area hospitals that focused on whether Columbia/HCA had committed Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
The same company that paid the US justice Department twice - $840 million in criminal fines, civil damages and penalties in 2000 and again 2002 for an additional $881 million. $1.7 billion total.

Now is not the time to mention this, Bat-Boy. Would be better if it were never mentioned again. Stupid.
 
Soup4Bonnie [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:15:21 AM  

hissatsu: Scott acknowledged that running against McConnell was the likely reason he was booted from the panel despite his relative seniority on the committee and experience running a major company.

"I probably ran the biggest company almost any senator in the history of the country has ever run. I was governor of the third-biggest economy in the United States, Florida. I've got a business background," Scott said, ticking off his credentials.

I think it should be noted that his tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA is most well known for presiding over massive Medicare fraud that resulted in a more then $2 billion in fines and penalties and 14 felony convictions. He was pretty much forced to resign and got a golden parachute for his trouble, because being held accountable is for little people. To the criminal enterprise sometimes known as the GOP, this is referred to as "a promising start."


Came here to say this so I feel like all of your smart votes belong to me.
 
ProbablyDrunk
2023-02-02 11:15:32 AM  

DannyBrandt: Do you really think Rick Scott gives two sh*ts about anyone bringing up the fact he led the largest health care fraud scheme in history?

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That's like asking Manchin about black lung disease coverage under Obamacare.


Manchin? The guy Schumer has left on 5 committees for more than a decade?

Why is it that only Republicans can remove committee members?
 
WheezerTheGeezer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 11:30:21 AM  
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Smelly Pirate Hooker
2023-02-02 11:33:33 AM  
FTFA: Scott acknowledged that running against McConnell was the likely reason he was booted from the panel despite his relative seniority on the committee and experience running a major company.

LOL, is that what it's called now? "Experience running a major company"?

The rest of us call it "fraud," as several others here have observed. But of course, in the Republican party, that's considered a valuable skill. Fraud on a large scale.
 
Drunk Southern Taser Bait
2023-02-02 11:40:54 AM  
Best case but long shot: TFG runs third part in '24. A parade of subpar losers follow and split the GQP vote. Scott loses his Senate seat.

It's a sunny day and I can dream, dammit.
 
Lusebagage
2023-02-02 12:50:13 PM  
Pretty sure bat boy would have done the same thing to turtle boy if he were leader of the minority animals!
 
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