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TexasTowelie

(116,769 posts)
Mon Dec 27, 2021, 08:27 PM Dec 2021

Gov. DeSantis seems hellbent on taking us back to the '60s -- only it's the 1860s

White folks knew how to run a white folks’ country back then


And just like that, it’s 1861.

Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to call this the “Free State of Florida.” If he hasn’t yet wrapped himself in the Tenth Amendment or threatened secession, it’s only because he’s been too busy playing soldiers, organizing his private battalion, rewriting the past, and trying to destroy democracy.

Give him time. You have to lay some groundwork if you want to be the next Jefferson Davis.

Step one: that little militia. Yes, other states also have them. Other states, however, do not have a governor who acts like Victor Orban with a bad case of acid reflux.

DeSantis announced his new Praetorians flanked by sofa-sized gents in camo in front of a sign that read “Let Us Alone.”

Read more: https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/12/27/gov-desantis-seems-hellbent-on-taking-us-back-to-the-60s-only-its-the-1860s/
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