Excerpt: By March, however, the state’s vision began to change. That month, state lawmakers and the governor revealed that they wanted to assign the State Guard $89 million to buy boats, planes and helicopters. They wanted a specialized unit within the guard to have police powers and the ability to carry weapons. And they wanted to boost the State Guard to 1,500 members. Instead of being activated only during emergencies within Florida, they could be sent to any state to “protect and defend the people of Florida from threats to public safety.”
I remember when this story hit the first time when nothing had really happened yet. People all said “it’s just for helping during disasters and shit! Stop being hyperbolic!”
Well, here’s the update showing the “hyperbolic” people were unfortunately correct.
And this time the libs will ignore it, heads in the receding beach sands, secure in their minds that they were always correct, everything is ok, Trump was Hitler and FDR-Biden beat him. All is right in their world.
This amuses me too. Because in a disaster, there’s more concern on “law and order” (read: punishing people whose lives are already destroyed by a natural disaster) than on aid. I know that in general talking about government budgets as a zero-sum game isn’t very accurate, but in this case, wouldn’t you rather have money allocated to aid after a disaster than law enforcement after a disaster?