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DELRAY BEACH, FL- Florida activists called on Gov. Ron DeSantis today to suspend his presidential campaign and immediately return to Florida to address the explosion of hate that has occurred on his watch.
On Saturday afternoon, Nazis rallied in front of Walt Disney World (again) and expressed support for DeSantisâ campaign. The governor has yet to respond to the incident, which is consistent with his stunning reticence to criticize white supremacists, even as anti-Semitism has exploded during his tenure.
Floridaâs rise in intolerance and alarming new laws, passed by Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee, have led to travel warnings issued by organizations representing African Americans, LGBTQ people and immigrants.
âRon DeSantis has inspired and empowered extremists to show increasingly brazen displays of bigotry,â said activist Wayne Besen, co-founder of LittleDicRon.com. âThis weekendâs Nazi eruption at Disney World is the latest example of spiraling hate in the Sunshine State. We call on Gov. DeSantis to immediately suspend his campaign and return to Florida to make it clear that division and discrimination are not tolerated. Given DeSantisâ timidity in holding white supremacists accountable, we wonât hold our breath.â
Earlier this week, the LGBTQ publication Out South Florida highlighted Besenâs ongoing campaign to fight Ron DeSantis in an article headlined, âFighting Back, Calling Out.
In the cover story highlighting five LGBTQ Floridians battling against DeSantis, Besen said:
âWeâre gonna hit him from every direction, from every angle, because he’s been a disaster for this state in every conceivable way. DeSantis thinks heâs using our community to be president, but Iâm here to tell you that ain’t gonna happen. Heâs a two-bit tin horn bully with a glass jaw. This is someone who will fold in a fight.â
Besen is the co-founder of the multi-media project LittleDicRon.com, which documents the governorâs reprehensible record in Florida. The Wayne Besen Showâs TikTok Ron DeSantis Playlist has received more than 1.2 million views. Last month, Besen penned an op-ed for the South Florida Sun Sentinel discussing DeSantisâ unconstitutional attacks on drag queens and LGBTQ Pride. He is also the Executive Director of the LGBTQ organization Truth Wins Out.
The indictment of Donald Trump has been called many things from unprecedented to historic. However, the word âclarifyingâ best defines the gravity of the moment. We now unquestionably know that America sits at an unbridgeable divide, and dangerously close to the precipice of civil war.
This does not necessarily mean that the tense situation will spiral into a hot war, although itâs certainly possible. It does, however, mean that we have two competing visions of America that are irreconcilable. Wishful thinking is no longer helpful and there is no other rational conclusion to draw from the Republicanâs reprehensible reaction to Trumpâs indictment.
Former President Trump stole classified documents. He used lackeys to hide boxes of pilfered papers in his tacky Palm Beach corruption castle. There are witnesses, photographs and even tapes. While Trump is innocent until proven guilty, special counsel Jack Smithâs indictment provided a mountain of damning evidence.
Regardless of whether Trump can slither out of being convicted, his reckless actions incontrovertibly jeopardized national security. The indictment states:
The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries, United States nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack. The unauthorized disclosure of these classified documents could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.
For the exception of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and a few other GOP endangered species, the reaction by Republican leaders was to holler and howl. This vile display of unpatriotic and disloyal behavior was not surprising, but it shows how we are occupying the same land but no longer sharing the same country.
When a Party is so in thrall to a vainglorious, autocratic cult leader that it is willing to risk the lives of our service members, intelligence assets and our families, it has unilaterally exited the American experiment. These contemptible actions severed any remaining ties to Americans who remain loyal to upholding the U.S. Constitution.
There are some Republicans, such as Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, an abusive former police officer, who openly called for civil war. He wrote in a chilling Tweet:
President Trump said he has “been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM.” This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That is all.
Raw Story reports that Higgins:
Has previously spoken at events held by mostly white militias, including the Oath Keepers, and sold T-shirts at political events featuring the logo of the anti-government III Percent militia, while threatening to shoot members of a Black militia that took part in Black Lives Matter marches in 2020.
Journalist and author Jeff Sharlet said, âI think this is scary as hellâ and explained Higginsâ obscure military references:
“1/50 k refers to military scale maps & publicly available US Geological Survey maps of areas mostly surrounding military installations. This isnât a metaphor. This isn’t a slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing.
Take this seriously. ‘Perimeter probe’: Higgins thinks indictment precedes bigger attack. ‘rPOTUS’: real POTUS,’ Trump. ‘Hold’: ‘stand back & stand by.’ ‘Buckle up’: prepare for war. ‘1/50 k’: military scale maps. ‘Know your bridges’: militia speak for prepare to seize bridges.
If youâre laughing at Rep Clay Higgins using militia speak, referencing military grade maps, & telling Trumpers to ‘know your bridges,’ recall that Canadian far rightists held border bridges recently in a tense standoff. This is on the table.”
In a normal country, Rep. Higgins would not serve another day in Congress and would receive a knock at his door by the FBI. But his menacing Tweet is heartwarming compared to what MAGA-world is threatening online. Itâs becoming clear that a not inconsequential number of MAGA-affiliated extremists are psychopaths and sadists.
This subset of the MAGA-mob dress-up their fury in political jargon, but their real mission is to sow political discord to create the conditions so they can be unleashed to commit atrocities and crimes against humanity. They are itching for conflict, building arsenals and biding time to exact retribution. Rolling Stone reported on the incendiary rhetoric at an online pro-Trump forum:
User âNerdrem1â insisted taking out a few elites wouldnât make the difference, suggesting the number of dead required was on a genocidal scale: Millions. Â
User âhorsepaste420â wrote: âI just feel like weâre going through the motions until all hell breaks loose.â A commenter named âBlackriderâ concurred: âSame here dude. Stacking bags and loading mags. Just waiting for the calm to end, and the chaos to begin.â
User âvax_was_a_bioweaponâ postedâŚâIf they steal the election again why are we talking about anything but dragging the political elite out of their homes and setting them on fire?â   Â
Scaring you is not my intention. Iâm not predicting that these sick right-wing fantasies will come to fruition. Although itâs possible. The most likely form our civil conflict will take is a fierce competition between blue and red states. We already see the incipient stages with a vast and growing chasm in laws pertaining to LGBTQ issues, reproductive rights, racial justice the environment, and guns.
On paper our nation may remain united, but the division between laws in liberal and conservative states is quickly becoming so vast that it will soon be like living in two different countries. The hijacking of the Supreme Court, under the auspices of statesâ rights, will most likely exacerbate the further division of America into two separate political systems.
The continuous agitation by right wing lawmakers and professional outrage entrepreneurs, as weâve seen post-indictment–will all but ensure random acts of Timothy McVeigh-style terrorism. This might occur sooner than later with Floridaâs new gun lawâoffering no permit carry or training for gun ownershipâeffective July 1.
The winner of this existential struggle between state political systems will be no less critical to the future of democracy and human rights than the rivalry between the United States and China.
The best hope to avoid an irreparable national rift is demographics. Perhaps, our nation can muddle along in tension until demographic shifts and actuary tables allow for the creation of a politics that genuinely reflects our diverse nation. The mass arrests of January 6 insurgents might also give pause to enough extremists that we somehow slide through this overheated, irrational period.
As it stands today, it is increasingly difficult to see how America unifies when a third of the nation appears to defend the theft and coverup by a former president of classified documents containing nuclear secrets and military vulnerabilities that could lead us to losing a war. Those who view Trump as persecuted, rather than perfidious, have already left America mentally. They have moved on to a new national project with its terrifying, authoritarian outlines slowly emerging into view.
Read More »The Freedom March is a right-wing Christian fundamentalist organization that exists to help LGBTQ people âpray away the gay.â They also claim to help people transition out of being trans. So, it was a really bad day for the Freedom March when its founder, Jeffrey McCall, announced online that he was hooking up with multiple men.
Freedom March told the world that he was healed. They sold the lie that Jesus cured him. When Jeffrey McCall said he was straight â we didnât know he meant straight to bed with men.
It gets worse for the Freedom March.
McCall recently announced that she was transgender and came out as Scarlett. So, Scarlett is the new name and gender identity of the Freedom Marchâs founder. This groupâs âgay cureâ worked so well, that their founder tried to âpray away the gayâ and somehow became significantly gayer.
Those thoughts and prayers are always so effective.
When they promised Jeffrey McCall was transformed by Christ, I donât think this is what they meant. Instead of transformation, they got transition. When the Freedom March was exposed as a bunch of grifting hucksters who rip off their clients by selling snake oil cures, they should have wallowed in shame and disbanded. That would have been the moral and ethical thing to do. But there is no shame for the shameless, and there is way too much profit in peddling âex-gayâ poison to vulnerable and desperate people who are taught to hate themselves.
So, these con artists decided to rebrand in time for Pride Month. After McCallâs transition, Freedom March made a transition of its own. The grifting group is now presenting as Rainbow Revival. They are hoping that by changing their soiled, discredited name, people will forget, or lack knowledge, of their past follies and failures.
Watch an excerpt from their ridiculous new online promotional video by clicking our video at the top of the page. Itâs disgusting the way the Freedom March culturally appropriates LGBTQ Pride symbols for their deeply homophobic, completely fraudulent and ultimately failed organization. Itâs grotesque how they deface the rainbow flag to push their right-wing anti-LGBTQ agenda.
They cynically incorporated gay dance music into their video, to make their celibacy cult look like a fun gay nightclub. Clearly, Freedom March, (ahhm) Rainbow Revival, is targeting young people and trying to trick them into thinking they can change. Rainbow Revival is attempting to co-opt gay pride symbols to make sexual frustration, desperate loneliness and depressing despair look fun and fashionable. Trust me, itâs not.
Here is the truth: What this hoax-of-a-group is peddling offers no happy endings and is a dead-end road. The Rainbow Revival can dress up its image all they want, but never forget their founder, Jeffrey McCall, ended up in a dress. She is now known as Scarlett â which means that Freedom March should have been gone with the wind.
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