Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.”
Following services earlier in the day, about 200 people showed up at a Sunday evening vigil a block from the Dollar General store in Jacksonville where officials said Ryan Palmeter opened fire Saturday using guns he bought legally despite a past involuntary commitment for a mental health exam.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP nomination for president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness " — was loudly booed as he addressed the vigil.
“What he did is totally unacceptable in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said. “We are not going to let people be targeted based on their race.”
Why is Desantis allowed to lie so blatantly? He encourages this behavior daily!
I also have no sympathy for him getting targeted for this, when all he had to do, after one of these attacks, is denounce the white supremacy that has taken root in Florida.
Just one little press speech: “I do not condone white supremacy in my state and they will find no safe harbor here.”
He reaps what he sows.
"We are not going to let people be targeted based on their race.”
(Except by elected leaders and the laws they pass. Also they’ll be targeting people based on gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, party affiliation, or anything they determine to be “woke” or “socialist”)
Just like all freedom-loving Americans
Why is Desantis allowed to lie so blatantly? He encourages this behavior daily!
This crowd did call him out on his bullshit.
That’s probably code for “We won’t let this be classified a hate crime. Stop targeting white people with your wokeness”
I hate this fucking timeline.
He’s a politician, that’s why
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He hired known neoNazis on staff. They made him a nice Nazi aesthetic ad. He has repeatedly been asked to denounce white supremacists like the Nazis boycotting Disney, and has not.
If you cannot read between those bold lines, you are simply illiterate.
Nah, you’re replying to a sealioner
Block and move on
That’s a new term I didn’t know. Thanks!
That’s because he’s a #fascist piece of shit, whose policies have done nothing but encourage his followers to commit violence, just like this.
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Ramaswamy is starting to give him a run for his money now though.
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Till he told them what they wanted to hear.
Yeah but soon you won’t even notice his skin color when there will be leopards all over his face.
Along with every other POS Republican^1 in office.
1 …but I am being redundant.
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I don’t understand why he was allowed to speak in the first place.
The role of Governor still has a lot of weight regardless of the dirtbag in the position.
A video of a crowd throwing meatballs at Ron DeSantis would be the funniest shit.
Let’s torture a bunch of animals to death and throw their corpses at him! That’ll be so funny!
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Would beyond meatballs make you happy or is there some other greater cause you’d upstream from that action in the name of virtue signaling?
I think you’re confused about what virtue signaling means.
That horse you’re on is so high that it died of hypoxia. How do you sleep at night killing innocent horses in this way?
It’s not very high. Not torturing animals is a pretty low bar.
Ok PETA
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At least animals are safe around me 🤗
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I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t go pulling this shit. Please. Stop.
“pick me, pick me!”
Based, lets do it
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Yikes. Reported for threatening violence. My comment really hit a nerve, didn’t it?
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No no, these lone wolves all exist in a vacuum and spring fully formed like Athena from the head of economic anxiety. Stop it, you.
who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.”
Literally the diary of a madman.
You know in cop shows, and probably real life, the cops watch the crowds at funerals and press conferences and all that because serial offenders will often show up? I feel like DeSantis is the offender here inserting himself where he isn’t wanted or welcome just to scope out the carnage. It’s gross.
Ron DeSantis won’t let this shooting and others like it be taught in Florida schools. Somehow is surprised when the people impacted by his policies express their dissatisfaction.
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Oof. I misunderstood the title and thought Desantis went to the vigil and booed at the people there. Can’t say it would’ve been out of character. As for the actual story, Florida deserves better leaders. Huge respect for the people there fighting for change.
That guy is basically a mega ultra racist fascist scumbag right?
I’d be surprised if he weren’t booed everywhere he goes, with tomatoes thrown at him.
Frankly I’m shocked DeSantis ever thought showing up to this could possibly go well for him. If anything I’d expect that shitbird to speak at the killer’s funeral.
