DeSantis’ Move to Bolster State Guard Fills Gap for Federal Inaction

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently announced that the state government would provide more than $100 million in funding to support the existing Florida National Guard and to reestablish a Florida State Guard. The governor’s press release explained that the funding “supports vital emergency response services that the National Guard provides,” and includes resources “to establish the Florida State Guard” which “will enable civilians to be trained in the best emergency response techniques,” making Florida the “23rd state with a state guard recognized by the federal government.

The governor’s decision provoked something of a partisan freak out on social media, with detractors hyperventilating that the organization would be akin to a “statewide paramilitary force” that “only answers to” DeSantis.

In fact, the governor’s move to allocate funding toward National Guard and State Guard personnel and assets is both prudent and timely, in large part due to the increased inability and unwillingness of the federal government to meet its security obligations to the states.

Recall that several state governors last year were forced to mobilize their National Guard forces to protect human life and property from a rash of violence and insurrection that spanned hundreds of cities and caused billions of dollars in damage. Yet the federal government has largely refused to investigate those crimes or take steps to prevent future violence.

This year, states faced even greater concerns for the safety of their citizens due to a growing list of national security failures by the Biden Administration. These include a refusal to secure the border, inability to secure state and local government networks from cyberattack, the suspension of important executive orders meant to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, and continued willful blindness to a variety of terrorist threats.

This morning, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something contrary to my belief has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same.

I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life— so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone.

You can’t justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.

Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

Universities that advocate equality, discriminate against Asian-Americans in favor of African-Americans.

Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights.

People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.

Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.

$5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.

If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

And, pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”?!

Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.

We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.

Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship, Titanic America, has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast.

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