‘Dream Defenders’ Protesters Furious That DeSantis Staffer Ate Cake During Their ‘Occupation’ Of Gov’s Office
Give that guy a raise: “Ron DeSantis staff eating cake while Floridians are in crisis. Typical.”
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I was going to do a serious post tonight, really. There’s a lot of heavy stuff going on.
But then I saw a tweet by our old “friends” at Dream Defenders. You remember DD, don’t you? They are the activists who formed after the Trayvon Martin shooting, with the help of the Tides Foundation. Over the years they turned into a toxic stew of Israel and America haters, but mostly Israel.
We first wrote about Dream Defenders in 2015:
Anti-Israel activists have been attempting to hijack the Ferguson, Eric Garner and #BlackLivesMatter protests since early August, just after Michael Brown was killed.
I documented the infiltration and hijacking in a series of posts and an Op-Ed in The NY Post:
This is all part of a larger effort, particularly on U.S. campuses, to use “intersectional” theory to tie domestic race issues into Palestinian complaints about Israel, among other ways, through exaggeration and in some cases fabrication of alleged Israeli training of U.S. police. That way, any use of excessive force by a U.S. policeman is cause for anti-Israel activists to blame Israel and try to stoke hatred of Israel in domestic communities….
The group produced a video … of a “flash mob” it organized in Nazareth in Israel (which they referred to as being in “Palestine”):
In 2016, we did an exhaustive research post, Dream Defenders: Defending the Dream of Anti-Israel Activism:
We wrote recently how BDS is a settler-colonial ideology, in that it invades, conquers, and subjugates other movements to advance anti-Israel actvism.
There are few instances where this is more apparent than Dream Defenders, one of the key groups in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dream Defenders was initially formed to protest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws in Florida, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Yet, following the pattern of many organizations who organize under the ideology of ‘intersectionality‘, Dream Defenders has transformed itself from an organization fighting for a change in the criminal laws of the state of Florida, into one which is identified with the bizarre attempt to link Black Lives Matter to the Palestinian cause. The struggle to protect young black men in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. from allegedly unlawful police violence apparently also involves ‘liberating’ Palestine, i.e. the destruction of the state of Israel, and bizarre crushes on terrorist organizations like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine….
This post will look deeper into the evolution of Dream Defenders from a local organizing committee in Florida into a national movement inciting against Israel.
In the course of just 3 years, the movement evolved from a group of college students and activists into a national organization celebrated by traditional ‘radical chic’ celebrities such as Angela Davis, and newer ones, like Marc Lamont Hill; was invited to the White House to meet President Obama; has organized propaganda ‘delegations to Palestine’ with high visibility on social media; has endorsed the BDS movement, advocating boycotts of Israel; celebrates terrorist movements, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and culminating in members of Dream Defenders authoring the highly controversial statement endorsing boycott as the official position of the Movement for Black lives, and smearing Israel as an ‘apartheid’ state that practices ‘genocide’.
Read the whole post, it goes into excrutiating detail on the role DD played in the rise of BLM.
I haven’t thought much about Dream Defenders in the following years; they hold periodic protests, but no longer are at the center of the BLM or other universes. Somehow I’m on their mailing list, and they have a habit of announcing grand protest plans that are going to change everything, and change nothing.
I got an email blast about a plan to take over Ron Desantis’ Governor’s office today.
EMERGENCY PRESS RELEASE
HAPPENING NOW: DREAM DEFENDERS OCCUPY GOVERNOR’S OFFICE AND DEMAND MEETING AND END OF RIGHT WING ATTACKS ON DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Dream Defenders lead an alliance to challenge the right wing attempt to dismantle American democracy and establish a new Confederacy.
Dream Defenders are currently occupying Ron DeSantis’s office and demand he come home to face his constituents; and to inspire other states with similar extremist governments to take action against the right wing attempts to dismantle democracy and establish a 21st century confederacy across the United States.
“Gov. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers have chosen to attack many of Florida’s most vulnerable and historically marginalized communities with policies that attack who they are, who they love and how and what they learn,” said Dwight Bullard, Sr. Political Advisor at Florida Rising who is currently sitting down in the office….
And so they did. So much drama!
We BACK!@Dreamdefenders @BlackVotersMtr @AAPolicyForum @FLRising #CantBanUs #BlackVotersMatter #BLKFLA #WeWontBLACKDown https://t.co/bUMP7YwexZ
— Jamal STEELE/Jamil Davis (@JamalSTEELE) May 3, 2023
— Dream Defenders (@Dreamdefenders) May 3, 2023
Ron DeSantis is a terrible human being pic.twitter.com/8ioIVX8Sxf
— Nelini Stamp 🐺🐜 (@NelStamp) May 3, 2023
But then I saw this on Twitter, and got a good laugh:
Update: Ron DeSantis staff eating cake while Floridians are in crisis. Typical. They go to sleep in mansions, while the rest of us pinch pennies to pay rent. They lounge in yachts, while our kids are gunned down in their schools. We say enough. Our problems > your money pic.twitter.com/YlqfOWlvU9
— Dream Defenders (@Dreamdefenders) May 3, 2023
That guy deserves a raise.
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He was waiting for the exterminator to finish up his office.
The states need to have the same laws that the federal government has to use against these progressive fascists. Obstructing to legislature, etc
Based.
“Let them eat cake.” — some famous dead person
“Yum!” — anonymous DeSantis staffer
“Follow the money!”
famous comment maker
Isn’t this in Texas?
Nope — Tallahassee, Florida.
This mob should be shown the door by police
The mob should never have been allowed into the legislative chamber at all.
Eating cake = mockery of their self-importance
Priceless.
The left can’t stand being mocked. So our response, pour it on.
Floor it – PEDAL TO THE METAL.
It’s really the only way.
Unless we nuke them from space, but that engenders so much collateral damage.
It’s a dilemma.
Devil’s food cake?
Angel Food cake. That’s why they were pissed off.
The next attack on Desantis.
He ate Jello Pudding.
Bill Cosby was once the spokesman for Jello.
Therefore Desantis endorses roofie rapists.
De Cake Dance!
Oh my gosh, I’m actually embarrassed for them.
They’d be angry if they couldn’t be furious about something.
Chicago erects a “wall”. NYC tells them to stay away. Martha Vineyard (Obama et al) “deport” them. DEI or DIEversity
I totally support their DEMAND .. (for the ) .. END OF RIGHT WING ATTACKS ON DEMOCRACY . If there are such attacks I totally support ending them.
I am, however, WAAAAY more concerned about all the left wing attacks on democracy, and demand the end of them too!
Is morbid obesity a requirement for Dream Defender membership?
Amazing how fat one can get in the absence of gainful employment.
We have the fattest, ugliest protesters on the planet
I tire of hearing Palestine spoken of as a once-legitimate nation state that Israel has been illegally occupying since 1948 or thereabouts.
So many lies…..
It’s the real-life equivalent of our war with Eurasia.
The idea that the office staff are lounging on yachts is hilarious.
Every Republican and his/her staff are issued yachts, mansions, and stretch limos. Word is they’re all getting private jets in 2024..
Well, yeah of course they’re getting issued private jets. How else they gonna fly to those climate crisis / de-carbonization group-gropes?
While I applaud the man for eating cake in their faces, I think an ice cream cone would have been more insulting. With colored sprinkles.
Cake a la mode! Go for all the delicious things.
They think that what they’re doing is important and people should pay attention? When this happens in the future they legislators should adjourn for the day while the “protesters” are arrested and thrown into prison.
‘Face his constituents’…ok take up every single ‘protesters’ ID to determine who among them has a FL ID. Then ask them why such a large number appear so…..large. We all put on a couple pounds as we age despite our best efforts but many of these folks don’t appear to be making any effort at all.
If they are visibly failing to take care of themselves why would we be inclined to allow them to set policy for anyone else? A few pounds are one thing. Obesity is quite another and demonstrates lack of self discipline, hypothyroidism aside, which I would wager isn’t the case with the majority of these folks in the photo.
Obesity = further evidence of oppression.
Thoughts:
1) Yet, they apparently think “their problems” can only be solved by “our money”; and
2) Most of them look too fat to physically remove. Obesity continues to be the dominant health problem among the oppressed.
With all of the people moving to Florida, I’m sure there’s a construction crane around they could use for deadbeat removal.
Looks like a bunch of over ripe slugs..
I wonder if any of them have ever heard or read any of Heather McDonald’s stuff about the numbers of “Police” brutality towards black men? It is very small and doesn’t reflect the number of times the incident was caused by the black man resisting arrest. Even then the numbers are still very small compared to the crimes caused by the same group. Every anti-cop group ignores the basic cause of the problem and refuses to address it which is the destruction of the black family.
Obviously just more trans genocide!
I hope the cake came from Masterpiece Cakeshop!
The DD group believes it is entitled to big-time respect. It appears like they are looking for respect in all the wrong places.
We need to find out who the staffer is and send him another cake–I’ve never seen cake put to a better use than demonstrating how insignificant the left’s tantrums are