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.
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.
Can we also add that he is like the worst Donald Trump impersonator I’ve ever met. He can’t even bring the right kind of stupid to the party 🤣
Ramaswamy is starting to give him a run for his money now though.
Dude had zero shot with the GOP, with that name and skin color.
Till he told them what they wanted to hear.
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.
Ok PETA
Based, lets do it
I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t go pulling this shit. Please. Stop.
“pick me, pick me!”
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Yikes. Reported for threatening violence. My comment really hit a nerve, didn’t it?
I understand why Ron was booed.
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.
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Well, he can’t, unless his pet legislature changes the rules again.
Should release the manifestos so we can show how this dude idolized Treump and DeSantis.
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.
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.
Ed Waters is a HBCU, one of only four in Florida, and the only one in Duval County. Jacksonville is only 120 miles from Rosewood. Put those two facts together and it is possible that at least one person in that audience was a direct descendant of a Rosewood survivor, or personally knows people that are.
Ed Waters is also less than three miles from Hemming Park; it’s even more likely that at least one person in that audience is a direct descendant of someone who was in attendance on Ax Handle Saturday, or was even there themselves.
Have I mentioned nearby St. Augustine and swimming pools yet?
And that’s just three incidents out of many in North Florida. This list goes on.
But Meatball Ron thinks if Florida doesn’t allow civil rights and black history to be taught, everyone will just forget.
It’s been decades since I lived in Florida, I’m not a person of color, and even I remember these things.
Nobody’s forgetting jack shit, except those racists who need to forget because they want to engage in more of the same and not have to be face to face with the daily knowledge of what horrendously shitty people they truly are.
I applaud the massive self-restraint of every person there, because I don’t know if I could have done the same. Ron’s very lucky all he got was booed.
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.
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.
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.
