Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars

That ICE agent looks a lot like a protestor.

Protesting immigrants seems to be their thing

"And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that's their fault for impinging on you."

He continued, “You get 20 points for adult males, 30 points for adult females, and 50 points for children. Points can be redeemed for ‘DesantisBucks’ once you reach 500 points or more.”

EDIT: a word

Frankenstein approves
- Deep cut
DeSantisCoin, a new crypto backed by the leader of Florida Man
Can I get it in the form of an unregulated memecoin?
- Best I can do is bath salts
God damn, I managed to eat an onion on a /c/nottheonion comment... I rushed over the article to find where that quote was from, only to feel dumber and dumber as it dawned on me that it is, in fact, way past bedtime.
- He may not have said it, but I guarantee he’s thinking it
What's the exchange rate to Stanley Nickles?

Cool, so all we need now is a list of Proud Boy demonstrations in FL.

No not those protests
Put in the work and publish it. The left is full up on “idea men.”

So we have the right to hit you with our car Ron?

I hope he says no, thus protesting your request...
Don't try to be rational with ghouls.

In that case, I guess it's ok to splatter the folks protesting in front of planned parenthood?

Fact check: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said drivers in his state are allowed to hit protesters if they feel as though their life is being threatened. So technically true. But still not great

Which means the same as their ridiculous stand your ground law: right wing traitor lunatics will get away with actual crimes, and normal decent folks will get busted.
- Which begs the question I've been asking for some time now: If someone tries to run someone over, and they respond by (non-fatally) shooting the driver, who gets arrested? (Assume both are white republicans).
Using the “Kyle Rittenhouse” excuse!
“I was so fearful, that I drove from my house in IL to another state with a rifle and shot people because, “I feared for my life! Not like it was murder or anything!”
So now all MAGOTS are free range, hit em if you see them and feel threatened!! So in FL you can run someone over via the governor! So fucking dumb! I can’t even try to understand what is truly going on in America because no one can other than all the oligarchs and billionaires running the country/world!!
Which is the case pretty much anywhere, you have the right to escape.
- I've seen videos of random people just surrounded after a football match or some other shit and they start just fuvking with the car and jump on the bonnet and try to open doors. I would 100% just floor it and good luck guys. But i don't think that's what he means.

This is just one more reason why there needs to be an organization participating in protest spaces specifically to provide armed security, same as Black Panthers provided security for civil rights protests.

People won't be so willing to drive into a crowd of protesters if the bloc has an armed perimeter.

Or an organization keeping our streets free of killibg machines
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Problem is they will disappear, jail, or kill any genuine organizers and infiltrate / sabotage any organization that actually gets to a place of effectively mobilizing a strategy like this.
Don’t get me wrong, I think something like this would help level the playing field and benefit the protesters tremendously but the FBI and DOJ won’t let it happen. Look at the people that tried organizing the Ferguson protests after the death of Eric garner, Freddy grey, Tamir rice, back in 2012-2015 they’re all dead or in jail.
People need to protect and organize themselves. Thats what the black panthers did and that’s precisely why they were so effective. They built up from their preexisting communities.
- Problem is they will disappear, jail, or kill any genuine organizers
  Problem is they are already doing this regardless of if your an organizer or not. If the regime decides you're a target, then you're fucked. So might as well start organizing to defend against those who actively wish to do you and yours harm.
  and infiltrate / sabotage any organization that actually gets to a place of effectively mobilizing a strategy like this
  This is why organizations need to practice good OpSec in order to prevent infiltration.
  People need to protect and organize themselves. Thats what the black panthers did and that’s precisely why they were so effective. They built up from their preexisting communities.
  Yea, and part of what the Black Panthers did in their organizing was to provide armed security for protests, among a plethora of other mutual aid programs.
  Those problems have existed for every single revolutionary effort to exist across history. That didn't stop them and it shouldn't stop us either.

A state governor just authorized vehicle ramming attacks against probably his own citizens. Disgusting and disgraceful.

He's authorizing terrorism against free speech as a loophole for getting around the first amendment
He didn't "authorize" anything. That's not how laws or public policies are created. He's just bloviating like all MAGA Nazis. If it actually happened, the person would be prosecuted based on the law, and their defense of "The governor said it was okay!" would not be accepted by the judge.

This belongs in something like c/evilpeople more than nottheonion

Eh I’d be fine with a crosspost
It’s beyond satire that any politician thinks this is OK to say in any fucking context and little Rhonda should be in jail for it, prosecuted as an accomplice when someone actually goes out and does it

Free speech is where people legally violently kill or injure you for speaking

I think you are forgetting the right of killing and injuring.
Land of freedom!
/s (if not obvious)

Not in the language that these fascists are talking.

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Weird. The more I look at DeSantis the more he looks like a protestor. Just me?

"Law and order"

Realistically it's a "Stand Your Ground" situation for the protestor if they are threatened with deadly force from a car attack, so the protestors can legally shoot drivers who are attempting to run them over. So if Rhonda wants to escalate that's what they are asking for, GTA street wars basically.
- Is Rhonda the new q-tip Florida Karen?

At this point Republicans are just being idiots. They say whatever 1940s idiot shit pops into their head.

Saying this in the 40s in america would get you hanged with an engine as counterweight.

Bear this in mind next time something like a unite the right or Jan 6 happens.

I'm all for hating desantis, but context is important:

We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.

- Dude, if a mob of people are attacking my car, I'm not just going to sit there twiddling my thumbs. You feel free to, though.
- Honest question, what would you do if you were surrounded by people threatening you?

What if we hit him with a car?

He becomes Greg Abbott.
- Greg Abbot was hit by a tree struck by a lightning bolt from god. If you run over DeSantis you're just doing the lord's work.

Is that the original GTA (fuck I am getting old)

That means I have the right to put 9 rounds into the drivers seat before that happens.

or i was thinking, ram the car that is ramming protestors.
I'm not sure a florida jury will buy it but it is abiding the spirit of the law in florida to merc nearby drivers because you fear for your life.
- I wound say 49 Merc then just to be sure.

And people wonder why South Park stopped making episodes. The world of South Park is normal compared to this.

Hmm, I guess if some magat protesters are around they would be fair game to get run over as well.

Same with right to hit Nazis and police with cars.

only if they attack you.
- You really believe if the police attack you you can run them over with your car?

cuz pedestrian in FL means homeless or drug addicts, so they are ok to run over

“Have Right to Hit [liberal, democratic, equality-seeking, anti-fascist] Protesters With Cars [but not pro-fascist, talibangelical, NAZI demonstrators]”

The subtext is important.

I read that as Protestants and wondered how long Desantis had been a Fenian

imagine hitting someone in the car, then the police arrive but dismiss you when they find out the person you hit is a Protestant

This guy has predatory eyes.

And if you're surrounded by cops?

You mean protesters in uniform?

Why are liberals not going ot these protests armed?

Because they are going to peacefully protest
- And how is that working out? So far the right has shown that they are willing to keep escalating. You can bring a gun to a protest and not shoot anyone. I've seen it happen. The rightwingers always back down when liberals show up with guns.
- The drag queen story hour stuff in texas where the antifascists showed up armed did fine. It probably was more peaceful than most.
  Edit: it is important to note texas is an open carry state.
Because they’re stupid

This would be a very easy self defense case for armed protestors.

Whenever i see a circle with stuff radiating in the circle behind him, abd the image is low res, my brain just fills it in with a sonnenrad.

And we're still seeing the chemtrails, not every day but still being sprayed over like roaches.
To clarify, are you saying you believe that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public?

idiocracy is here. told ya'll it'll come. i am so looking forward for a wrestler to be president after kaiser trump. it will be magical.

and the protesters repeatedly yelled, "WE AREN'T GOING TO HURT YOU! WE'RE JUST SMASHING UP YOUR CAR!!"

Rioting against fascism is different to rioting against democracy
While on the democratic side when we have a democratic president, those said would say "WE HATED RIOTS BUT LOVE J6" and "WE HATE ICE BUT LOVE THE CDC"

"Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars" but only if they blow over the legal limit!