DeSantis: I want my own military!
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Actually, I do...during the winter.
You keep avoiding the real issue: Even if it's "fully paid for within the FL budget," why spend more money to get the same extra help the state could get through its current Florida National Guard program?
Because they can't get sent to Syria. Or Afghanistan. Or wherever else the Pentagon may want to send the regular national guard..Actually, I do...during the winter.
You keep avoiding the real issue: Even if it's "fully paid for within the FL budget," why spend more money to get the same extra help the state could get through its current Florida National Guard program?
Actually, I do...during the winter.
You keep avoiding the real issue: Even if it's "fully paid for within the FL budget," why spend more money to get the same extra help the state could get through its current Florida National Guard program?
Oh, so you are ok with the amount of money, just not the fact that it's standing up a Florida Guard, since CNN told you that it's DeSantis' white supremacist personal militia or something?
Ok.
I just find it curious that our staunch fiscal-conservatives want to spend millions of dollars to recreate a separate force when it would be easier -- and FAR LESS expensive -- to expand the state's current guard.
How in the hell would you even know that? You don't. If you actually read the story that I linked, it said that we're talking about a whopping 200 Florida Guard members and they're basically volunteers that they have on standby in case they need to activate them to support the National Guard.
It's this little thing called commonsense.
Soooo...who trains them? Who equips them? Who insures them? Who coordinates their response? Seems like those 'whopping' 200 could be a special part of the regular Guard and save Florida taxpayers the unnecessary duplication of training, coordination, and support.
I started looking stuff up regarding the NPR story how Trump places had more COVID deaths . I guess you could cross tab voter registration against death rates or you could specifically get death records and look up party rolls and then ask was Richard Head who from COVID a republican or democrat ?
I read there were 5 states that went for Trump that had also highest death rates. Oklahoma was a big one. Then I was scratching my head and asked, weird, Oklahoma has more native peoples than any other state . am I to believe they all vote Republican? I then searched some data . Native people have a death rate of over 13,000 per 100,000 cases while white people it was around 8,000 per 100,000 . Of course not knowing voter registration by race I cant assume Trump or Biden. It's interesting though in Oklahoma more native Americans died and Hispanics than white people . THE MEDIA would lead you to believe all the Hispanics and natives are Democrat . If that's largely true for Oklahoma , then while the state went for Trump those more likely to die from COVID have been Democrat and not Republican. Or, the media is just wrong on voter demographics and truly more Republicans are dying.
I bet when you break Florida down the data tells a different story. Either way , most people I know both democrat and republican are vaccinated and the one person I know who died from covid was vaccinated and he tended to vote R . He was 65 years young . I think my county here in NC went for Trump. I don't think NPR results actually mean much one way or the other
Oklahoma: All Race & Ethnicity Data
Historical time series of race and ethnicity data in Oklahoma.covidtracking.com
I think you are missing the point. The virus obviously doesnt care who a specific person voted for, but the #s clearly show that deaths are higher in red states/counties than in blue states/counties, and it is mostly due to the responses of the state and local governments, and even conservative media.
If it’s so common sense then surely you can find something to prove your claim. Go ahead, find it.
Or, you could just admit that you got trapped in yet another “Let’s cry about Ron DeSantis” hit piece from the media and said things that are ridiculous and untrue. Cut your losses.
I need to 'prove' that creating an entirely new guard will cost more than expanding the current one??!? I thought you were smarter than this.
Did you actually read that idiots post? Lmao you are a sadist aren't you?
did a LITTLE research on this. either 23 or 25 states have them in some form, and every state has it on the book where they can have one.
How whacked out is this mofo. You can't make this up. Desantis is a f k n idiotSMH.
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to reestablish a World War II-era civilian military force that he, not the Pentagon, would control.www.cnn.com
