James Fishback
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It's a foreign flag.
I've also said as Florida governor, there's going to be no foreign flags flown on our government buildings or in our state license plates.
And I grew up in Broward County, which is obviously a very urban place now, but where I grew up in Davie in West Broward near the Everglades, we had citrus groves out there when I was a kid.
And so you could quite literally go out to like a Flamingo Gardens and you could smell, you could smell that orange scent on a crisp, airy day.
It was a wonderful smell.
And it is perhaps the sickest analogy that, yes, in a proximate sense, China caused this.
But much like COVID, Tucker, it wasn't China.
It was the government apathy, indifference, and intentional sabotage of our country against its own people.
So true.
Look, I'm not going to sit here and blame Xi Jinping.
He's doing what he thinks is best for his country.
And that means screwing us over.
I guess that's it.
But I can't sit here and say, look, the Chinese are guilty of the fentanyl crisis.
These precursors come from interior of China, get shipped to Mexico, get pressed into fentanyl pills and sent across the southern border.
But really, it is our leaders that have the ultimate responsibility.
They're the last line of defense.
So I think as Republicans, we need to grow up and stop blaming all of our problems and embracing this left-wing victimhood culture.
And so look, China this, China that.
Here's my solution as Florida governor.