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KathyPartDeux's avatar

That just means that all the unguarded crosswalks are fair game.

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Zoey Kuhn's avatar

Honestly I think that would be their best best. The more crosswalks, the less likely they are to stop it

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Zoey Kuhn's avatar

Dang. I spelt best instead of bet. :(

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Samantha Paige (she/they)'s avatar

This is the way 💅

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Yasha's avatar

This is comically pathetic.

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

Yes, tragically so.

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

Next up: Florida Health Department mandates “state approved underwear” change twice daily. In order to ensure compliance; all citizens shall wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes.

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Michelle Paquette's avatar

Oh, that would be “Bananas”. And right in line with the current Florida regime.

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Brooklyn Ricky's avatar

Yes Michelle, thank you! In the movie Bananas, when the new dictator, Esposito, takes power, he delivers a series of absurd decrees such as:

"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish."

"In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check."

"Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now 16 years old!"

I just looked it up to get the exact quote. That last “decree” is so telling.

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Kayla's avatar
7hEdited

Really, nothing better to do? This just goes to show the level of insecurity in these far-right MAGA people.

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Joanne's avatar

What an amazingly productive use of policing. The crime rate in Florida must be nearly ZERO to justify placing 6 policemen on around-the-clock duty to ensure that private citizens don't exercise their rights and show support for murder victims. This must be why Florida felt it could send its national guard units to Washington D.C. What an amazingly freedom loving country we now live in. I don't know about you, but I feel like I've been made so much greater again when I see military units standing on every street corner (just like Pyongyang, Beijing, Havana, Moscow,...) Soon, we'll be able to rid the country of that pesky document The Constitution and its sister rag The Declaration of Independence. While we're cleaning up the Smithsonian, let's strike any references to Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington and all those other misguided fools who couldn't see the greatness of our beloved leader. I'm so depressed I could just spit!

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Jenny's avatar

Moscow doesn't have military units on every street corner (anymore). They've all been fed to the meat grinder of war.

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John Janelle Backman's avatar

That's one hell of a good piece of writing for someone who's depressed. Go you!

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Jesse (They/Them/Theirs)'s avatar

Not shocked, just tired, and wished I can leave this state

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Jessica Tymczak's avatar

The pettiness and vileness of these people has no end. Paint all of the crosswalks in Florida

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John Janelle Backman's avatar

While almost an aside in the article, this sentence whacked me upside the head: "Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent letters to all 50 governors calling for the removal of Pride crosswalks." It leads me to two thoughts: (1) Of COURSE the color of local crosswalks demands a response from the national secretary transportation. FFS. I can't imagine a bigger mismatch between "problem" and allocation of resources to solve a problem. (2) If anyone ever thought that Trump's threats didn't cover LGB people, they can stop thinking THAT now.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

And he tries to hide behind the fig leaf of "public safety" when we ALL know what this is about: just plain old anti-queer BIGOTRY.

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John Janelle Backman's avatar

According to the article, i think, one of the cops on duty also said it was about safety. Because a black-and-white crosswalk is so very much more visibility than a rainbow crosswalk. Wow.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Riiiight. That's their excuse.

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Leah Abram's avatar

Amazingly, Duffy was on a Real World season with a cis lesbian (I watched the whole season, it was the only season of the real world I watched). He's not only a traitor to this country, he's a traitor to his former Real World housemates.

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Stacy Bousquet's avatar

What a great use of public resources and taxpayers money! Florida for the win, once again.

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Jessica Tymczak's avatar

It’s Floriduh, home of Floriduh man….

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Leah Abram's avatar

Which one? Trumpy? DeathSentence? Bolso-Nero? So many to choose from!

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Celeste Irwin's avatar

It would be amazing if this simply caused the proliferation of pride crosswalks in Florida and across the country.

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Leah Abram's avatar

NYC doesn't need them, though. We have so many pride flags you might think it's June here.

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Kathryn Mitchell-Healey's avatar

Let's not forget the very real property insurance crisis that would be a much better use of taxpayer money, but no...rainbows are scary.

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Gynger St Clare's avatar

Like, are the pigs (ACAB) literally parked in a Donut shop parking lot? I swear that looks like a dunkin donuts sign.

I wish the owner of that franchise - and parking lot

Owners would paint their parking lots in pride colors.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

Holy shit it really is.

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Talia Perkins's avatar

We should deliver Rainbow flag color frosted donuts to the cops . . .

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Talia Perkins's avatar

I wonder if a survivor or family member of a victim would be willing to "go to jail" and be a 1st amendment test case? While I do have a metaphorical dog in the fight, I am neither.

Err . . . if I recall the local jurisdiction has no problem with the memorial crosswalk? It's just the state on this one?

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Don Jackson's avatar

Love the humor in the headline. I just hope someone is bringing these cops the doughnuts they're fantasizing about as they stand and stare at the asphalt. Poor sods.

Reminds me of Chalkgate here in Maine, when "moderate" (hahahaha, what a hypocrite) senator Susan Collins tried to have college kids arrested for decorating the sidewalk in front of her home with a message protesting her vote for Kavanaugh. Fortunately, the cops ignored her request. They were probably busy at the doughnut counter.

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Leah Abram's avatar

Those cops, in that one instance, were not bastards.

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Dee E Dressler's avatar

This just in: Hobby Lobby just anounced they will no long carry chalk in the colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo or Violet in the state of Florida. Hobby Lobby declined to say when or if they would allow customers to use the above colors in their art projects or other uses in the future.

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Brianna Amore's avatar

From now on all chalk sold at Hobby Lobby will be MAGA-approved white.

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KiKi_215's avatar

I grew up an hour from there and go home often, and this is just so gross. As mom to an awesome trans teen, we go to Orlando often because it's SO warm and welcoming to the community. It really is. To see these blowhards putting tax payer money to 'guard' an area so many hold sacred makes me want to barf. But trust me, the locals are likely making them feel like total assholes--which anyone that follows through on this kind of order is.

I love Michelle's "what if" and will be sending my buddy that suggestion. She may just spark a movement with it!!!

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