Desantis wants to create his own palace guard which he alone controls.

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/what-wannabe-totalitarian-fascist-dictators-do-alarm-over-desantis-move-to-form-his-own-personal-militia/

Critics are responding with alarm to news Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis is asking for millions of taxpayer funds to create his own militia force, separate from the existing National Guard.


If a Democratic governor tried to do this the Republicans would be raising holy hell.

[FalloutShelter]

1. So A Praetorian Guard.

What could go wrong?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

4. More like a Preditorian Guard.

Maybe they'll do to him what they did to Caligula. Death Sentence is about as nuts as he was.

[FalloutShelter]

7. Ha... good one.

[dchill]

2. With everything else he's done, he probably should.

[PortTack]

3. This guy is soooo dangerous. Please if you can, give to ronbegone, or Chirst's campaign

He needs to be removed.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Maybe a butternut uniform and black kepi with a swastika on it...

[grumpyduck]

6. Maybe he doesn't know what happened to

Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung.

I wouldn't expect him to.

[Kaleva]

8. Michigan has had something like this for over a hundred years.

"The Michigan Volunteer Defense Force (MIVDF) is a military force, duly constituted as a state defense force and an element of Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The MIVDF is one of the three components of the military establishment of Michigan: the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the Michigan Volunteer Defense Force.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Volunteer_Defense_Force

[onecaliberal]

9. Paging Gavin Newsom to the red phone please. Gavin to the red phone.

Make the same threat.

[sabbat hunter]

11. California

Already has a state militia. He has no need to make any threats, it already exists.

[onecaliberal]

12. No we don't. I live in the wing nuttiest place in the state.

There is no militia controlled by the California governor.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

13. California State Guard

It's one of the largest State Defense Forces in the country if I remember correctly. Solely under the command of the Governor of California.

[onecaliberal]

16. That is not comparable to what Floriduh murder master in chief

Wants to do.

[sabbat hunter]

17. In theory

they are comparable. The problem is that Desantis is bat shit crazy.

[sarisataka]

15. Here you go

https://stateguard.cmd.ca.gov/public/

[sabbat hunter]

10. Other states

including NYS, California have state militas. In NYS it is basically a reserve guard, called up in times of emergency, when the NG may be otherwise occupied, or to supplement the NG. Superstorm Sandy, Sept 11, and during the early stages of the COVID19 pandemic are examples of when they were called up.

DeSantis having one at his disposal is scary though.

Plus I thought the GOP was all about eliminating unneeded spending. This certainly would fall under unneeded.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

14. This isn't a new thing, the majority of states have active defense forces or the laws for them

Florida already has the laws in place for it, they just have been inactive with no funding.