New 'Don't Tread on Me' specialty plate is being promoted in Florida (NBC)

[Pete Ross Junior]

New ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ specialty plate is being promoted in Florida (NBC)

You’ll soon likely have another specialty plate to choose from in Florida. But this latest plate is already polarizing.

Governor Ron DeSantis is promoting a Don’t Tread on Me plate patterned over a flag that was first flown on a warship in 1775 as a battle cry for American independence, but its meaning has changed a lot since then.

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TBH, I always kind of liked that flag. Too bad about who co-opted it.

[SheltieLover]

1. Already a thing here in red shithole TN

I have neighbors with it.

[blm]

2. The morons blaspheme the Gadsden flag.

They have no clue what it actually stood for.

[onenote]

3. Quite a few states offer a similar plate.Surprised it took Florida this long.

Virginia has had one for around a decade. Other states with similar tags: Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. They've ruined the flag of MY ANCESTOR...

... named John Proctor too.

I used to have a pillow with his rattlesnake flag on my couch, but now it's hidden in a closet because I don't want any guests to assume that I'm an INSANE Trump zealot and anti-democratic fascist.

https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/fort-pitt-museum/dont-tread-on-me



Edit: It's the ONLY surviving rattlesnake flag from the Revolutionary War, by the way -- the original that was made during that time period, I mean.

[dameatball]

6. Very cool!

[pwb]

5. Because Florida is a Colony, oh wait

Claiming a symbol of the Revolution, something Florida had no part in. It is like stolen valor from the fighting colonies. It is pukey.

[genxlib]

7. On it's face, this might be upsetting

Until you realize just how many alternate tags they offer. I was in a tag agency the other day and the walls are covered with all kinds of strange options

Looked it up and they have 122 different designs.

Ridiculous