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A Florida license plate has reopened the debate over the 'Don't tread on me' flag
NPR ^ | August 10, 20225:01 AM ET | SCOTT NEUMAN

Posted on 08/21/2022 7:12:00 AM PDT by V_TWIN

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently tweeted an image of what he said was a new state license plate featuring a coiled rattlesnake and the words "Don't Tread on Me," he said it sends a "clear message to out-of-state cars."

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To: V_TWIN
"A Florida license plate has reopened the debate over the 'Don't tread on me' flag"

It didn't reopen a debate!

It just opened an opportunity for the enemedia NPR to spew its hatred of the United States of America.

21 posted on 08/21/2022 7:35:35 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Allegra
“We’ll tread on you.” Yes, the dream of all totalitarian leftists everywhere...


22 posted on 08/21/2022 7:36:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep, it was a nice choice to run the Gadsden plate after moving to VA


23 posted on 08/21/2022 7:38:22 AM PDT by filospinato
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To: V_TWIN

NPR used to think “sparking debate” was a good thing.


24 posted on 08/21/2022 7:39:11 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: V_TWIN
It's their state....Any objections by any entity other than the people of Florida...they can go to hell.

And Floridians...if you don't like it...get your own.

25 posted on 08/21/2022 7:39:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: V_TWIN

Meanwhile, communist insurgents in the District of Columbia protest against Constitutionally-based restrictions on the DISTRICT by having a first revolutionary war slogan “No Taxation Without Representation” on their license plates.


26 posted on 08/21/2022 7:42:11 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: FreedomPoster

Makes me think of Trump’s Snake Fable.


27 posted on 08/21/2022 7:43:04 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: V_TWIN; Lazamataz
'The imagery of the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag dates to Benjamin Franklin but has, for many, come to symbolize a far-right extremist ideology and the "Stop the Steal" movement that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.'

Only in the minds of the many who have allowed themselves to succumb to the Decadence of Western Civilization and the "woke" psychosis that is its most recent zeitgeist groupthink manifestation.

One cannot exaggerate their stupidity or the evil they allow to result from it:

Rotting cities;
health hazards, such as sidewalks covered with human excrement and contaminated drug paraphernalia and lethal, addictive drugs flooding into the USA;
borders open to drug and human traffickers, terrorists, and nobody knows what else;
rampant, escalating crime all across America;
the USA teetering on the brink of a Stalinist-Naziesque police state;
the transformation of the once-respected US free press into a propaganda machine for corrupt politicians;
the generalized suppression of the freedom exchange of ideas and the unfettered search for truth, which is the foundation of Western Civilization and all its vast blessings and miracles;
widespread corruption of the US Government;
the perversion of America's once-revered and once-trusted government agencies into gestapo-like machines;
the mindless, brainless condemnation and oppression of truth-seeking American citizens concerned about credible evidence of massive co-ordinated election fraud and its serious threat to the American Republic!

None of this sinks into the numbed, brain-washed brains of those who have allowed themselves to succumb to the lethal social sickness of decadence.

The message of the Gadsden Flag is a natural reaction of normal, healthy people to such dangerous threats.

Those who cannot bring themselves to comprehend this, who are so divorced from truth that they cannot, are part of the danger, and, were they wise, they would seek to understand the message of the Gadsden Flag and why so many decent people, people of the highest integrity, morality, intellect, and education, share its message.

Were they wise, the "many" would share the outrage of those who respect the Gadsden Flag.

Were they wise, they would be outraged too--and would seek to remedy the situation.

28 posted on 08/21/2022 7:43:54 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: V_TWIN

If you have a car or truck registered in Florida, you can pre-purchase them here:

https://govhub.com/fl-escambia/fl-escambia/vouchers#gadsden_flag

Need 3000 pre-purchased for them to be produced.


29 posted on 08/21/2022 7:44:36 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: V_TWIN

I will resist the tyranny of government by getting a themed state issued license plate. Nuts.


30 posted on 08/21/2022 7:45:39 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: V_TWIN

There is no “debate” just whining by soy bois.


31 posted on 08/21/2022 7:48:15 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: V_TWIN

It’s all the same as, rainbow flag perfectly fine, battle flag not fine. Put a rainbow on the license plate and see if they bitch…


32 posted on 08/21/2022 7:58:23 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Haven’t you heard? The Betsy Ross flag has been declared a sign of Domestic Violent Extremism by the FBI, along with the Gadsen flag.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Betsy+Ross+flag+has+been+declared+a+sign+of+Domestic+Violent+Extremism&ia=web


33 posted on 08/21/2022 8:12:23 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: V_TWIN

34 posted on 08/21/2022 8:14:05 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Savage Beast

Yup,
Gadsden flag says;
“I Vant to be left Alone!”


35 posted on 08/21/2022 8:17:11 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: V_TWIN

There isn’t any debate.


36 posted on 08/21/2022 8:22:55 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Same thing I tell those who claim the Klan trying to use the Confederate Battle Flag doesn’t magically change its meaning.


37 posted on 08/21/2022 8:23:15 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

What’s to debate?


38 posted on 08/21/2022 8:34:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Steely Tom
NPR used to think “sparking debate” was a good thing.

Only if by "debate" you mean 100% agreement with the left.

39 posted on 08/21/2022 8:35:25 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: V_TWIN

I want to get one for my old pickup truck, when it’s time to renew my tags in December.


40 posted on 08/21/2022 8:39:52 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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