:oh-shit: Legitimately spooky and also fucking insane
The desantis army rebelling is the only shot we have at blowing up florida
the dems would roll over and let them overthrow the government and the cons would arm them to sicc them on the dems, there's no shot we're getting to send the Atlantians the worse gift we got
just roll your coal hard enough for mother nature to get pissed enough to send a catagory 7 hurricane to turn the florida swamplands into the poo lagoon
If Florida goes underwater the entire ocean dies. The amount of toxic garbage in that state is enough to totally ruin the ocean biosphere forever.
Yep, it would also need to eat several large cities worth of toxic garbage
Not gonna happen, Florida is too important as a toe in Latin America (re: its many opportunities for profit, adventure, money laundering, etc) and rich retirees gotta have their golf.
Florida is too important as a toe in Latin America
Given the current leftist swing across the global south, I have to wonder at what point white populist reactionaries decide it's a bloodline thing. Then Latino Floridians are going to get the same treatment as Taiwanese and Korean Americans.
"Going"? Where have you been? The sabre rattling with China is a red herring, neo-Monroe Doctrine is real "agenda".
The sabre rattling with China is a red herring
I don't know about that.
State Sen. Annette Taddeo, another gubernatorial candidate, wrote on Twitter that DeSantis was a “wannabe dictator trying to make his move for his own vigilante militia like we’ve seen in Cuba.”
I mean, she's a lib, but still terrible take.
The Florida State Guard was created in 1941 during World War II as a temporary force to fill the void left behind when the Florida National Guard was deployed to assist in the US combat efforts. It was disbanded after the war ended, but the authority for a governor to establish a state defense force remained.
States have the power to create defense forces separate from the national guard, though not all of them use it. If Florida moves ahead with DeSantis’ plan to reestablish the civilian force, it would become the 23rd active state guard in the country, DeSantis’ office said in a press release, joining California, Texas and New York.
So not unprecedented or unknown...but:
The move by DeSantis comes on the heels of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s directive warning that National Guard members who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus will have their pay withheld and barred from training.
Yeahhhh....
So imagine a Freikorps, only instead of being traumatized by WWI and the trenches on the western front, these will be the dumbest members of the group that the Armed forces can't find a use for.
Once I stopped framing America's collapse as a Roman empire style collapse and reframed it as china's century of humiliation, it started to make a lot more sense. Warlord period let's goooooooo
I'm still not clear how "armed band of civilians dedicated to enforcing the Governor's will at gunpoint" isn't just "The State Troopers".
That said, I'm excited to see the Peninsula of Florida go the way of the Peninsula of Korea, in the hope that we can get at least half of the state on the right track again.
Imagine the bay of pigs, but somehow even worse
Edit: basically just the Venezuela thing
