A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis has quibbled about whether the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol Riots constituted an insurrection, but he has no such qualms about making a similar declaration about Black Lives Matter protests and how he would have handled them.
“You as the President, you absolutely have the right to prevent this type of rioting. You know, Bush 41 sent people to L.A. in 92. So Trump could have done it. He refused to do it. I think he was worried that the press would attack him. He was concerned about, you know, re-election and everything,” DeSantis said in Ankeny, Iowa on Sunday, suggesting that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act and mobilized federal law enforcement and military backups in 2020.
Trump reportedly considered invoking the Insurrection Act in 2020 to quell protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but stopped short.
President George Herbert Walker Bush authorized 1,000 Federal riot-trained law enforcement officials to be deployed into Los Angeles, in the wake of protests and violence after that city’s police officers who had beaten up Rodney King were acquitted in a jury trial.
“In a civilized society, there can be no excuse, no excuse for the murder, arson, theft, and vandalism that have terrorized the law-abiding citizens of Los Angeles,” Bush said in 1992.
DeSantis’ floating the Insurrection Act as redress for BLM protests is the latest example of how the Governor evaluates right wing and left wing political actions differently.
In February, DeSantis likened protests at the Florida Capitol to the Jan. 6 riot.
“It’s interesting that if they’re doing that from the Left, then the media says that’s ‘democracy in action.’ They don’t say it’s an insurrection if you take over a Capitol because of that, but I think that’s what it’s getting to.”
20 comments
Tjb
January 14, 2024 at 10:36 pm
DeSantis’s small but influential racist voter base applauds, Ron the bigot.
PeterH
January 14, 2024 at 10:59 pm
DeSantis is now pressing the crazy button! Welcome to today’s Republican Party ….. and you wonder why I’m an independent voter endorsing Joe Biden?
Nsb
January 15, 2024 at 4:40 am
Party of hypocrisy! Just is a collective of idiots misusing the ten ‘RINO’ now.
Literally have moms for threesomes, moms for shoplifting.
Those kissing the ring kissing different rings.
All around embarrassing
allen Thompson
January 15, 2024 at 6:46 am
One of the few things I will agree with DeSantis on is the Insurrection Act should have been invoked during the BLM Antifa riots back in 2020. If it would have been those on the right burning and looting buildings or bringing commerce to a halt by taking over roadways, they would have been calling for the National Guard to be called in no questions asked.
Personally, even though I’m from Florida born and raised not transported, I just can’t bring myself to back DeSantis on this presidential run.
allen Thompson
January 15, 2024 at 6:47 am
One of the few things I will agree with DeSantis on is the Insurrection Act should have been invoked during the BLM Antifa riots back in 2020. If it would have been those on the right burning and looting buildings or bringing commerce to a halt by taking over roadways, they would have been calling for the National Guard to be called in no questions asked.
Trump’s Howler 🙈 Proud Bois of FL
January 15, 2024 at 7:36 am
Give it a rest, Whitey; slavery is NOT returning!
M8ke
January 15, 2024 at 1:51 pm
“Give it a rest, whitey.” What kind of stupid thing is that to say. No one wants slavery to return. What we do want is for people to be judged by their character and not by their skin color or any other physical or mental characteristic. We want DEI to go somewhere and DIE. Dr. King taught many of us many things, and was one of the greatest leaders in American history. Blacks and whites of good faith took his message to heart and loved him. You,sir, on th3 other hand, are a racist.
MH/Duuuval
January 15, 2024 at 4:05 pm
Dr. King also said that when African Americans submitted a bill for centuries of slavery and then Jim Crow, the check they received from America came back marked NSF, or “Insufficient Funds.”
Michael K
January 15, 2024 at 8:55 am
Pitch perfect on MLK day for the white supremacist MAGAs he’s courting. He soon shall fall into the dustbin of history along with his poop maps.
My Take
January 15, 2024 at 9:00 am
DeTritus
My Take
January 15, 2024 at 9:17 am
“AGAINST black [anything]”
The critical criterion-phrase here.
Dont Say FLA
January 15, 2024 at 10:35 am
When somebody says the Insurrection Act was appropriate for folks burning a police station, isn’t that a confessing that person think of the USA as officially being a police state?
Andy
January 15, 2024 at 11:31 am
The primary reason DeSantis, the fascist and racist will lose, “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Jason Renner
January 15, 2024 at 1:24 pm
I think that DeSantis is right about using federal resources for real insurrections like the blm acts of domestic terror in 2020. Burning down buildings and taking over police stations is an act of insurrection. Trump did offer to send the national guard to some blue states like Oregon, but they didnt want to be called racist for taking help from Trump to squash black criminals from destroying their state. Their loss….
George Hill
January 15, 2024 at 1:57 pm
Listening to all these comments and Desantis you now you know why blacks and Emmett Till don’t have any never had a chance.
MH/Duuuval
January 15, 2024 at 4:07 pm
And J6, according to your reckoning, was comprised of rowdy tourists?
AbDeRite
January 15, 2024 at 10:11 pm
“The Right of a Man to Swing his Fist Ends Where Another Man’s Chin Begins.”
(Author Unknown)
Crisis
January 17, 2024 at 1:12 pm
Desantis is from Dunedin, where the Klan had an outpost at the edge of town until the late 1980s. Lots of narrow minded folks were ” born and bred” there.
Dont Say FLA
January 17, 2024 at 4:20 pm
I think maybe ya meant lots of narrow minded folks were “born inbred” along with Rhonda there in Dunedin FL
RVH
January 27, 2024 at 11:32 am
The oxymoron statement of the day “Ron DeSantis thinks”.
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