Saturday, August 23, 2025

Florida Locals Defy DeSantis, Restore Pulse Rainbow Crosswalk

People in Orlando have defied Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and reinstated a rainbow crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub, after Florida officials removed the painted crossing installed in memory of the 49 people killed at the site in 2016.

Posted by retort at 10:46 AM | 40 COMMENTS | permalink

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lol

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-23 10:52 AM

LMFAO

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-23 10:53 AM

Removing Confederate Statues To Celebrate Slavery And Jim Crow: BAD
Removing Rainbow Sidewalks To Celebrate Inclusion And Tolerance: GOOD

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-23 11:38 AM

Bizzaro America.

#4 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-08-23 11:46 AM

Pulse nightclub shooting as carried out by a foreigner and American hater with ISIS sympathies typical of the "radical progressives" that hate everything about normal Americans and love everything about non Americans.

Oddly progressives claim tolerance when they are typically just the opposite for legacy legal citizens. Personally all such use of political memes on public property need ended.

#5 | Posted by Robson at 2025-08-23 12:57 PM

Progressives as always fret about opposing politics and creating political memes instead of stopping the actual Issis loving perp

en.wikipedia.org

OMAR MATEEN

#6 | Posted by Robson at 2025-08-23 01:10 PM

"Pulse nightclub shooting as carried out by a foreigner and American hater"

Shooting, you say?
He was an American Second Amendment lover.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-23 01:11 PM

Snoofy have you read about OMAR MATEEN the Pulse shooter and his background? I didn't think so? This is what makes leftists such a threat. They are clueless and then pretend they know something about politics and their love of illegals and crime and the despise of America. en.wikipedia.org

#8 | Posted by Robson at 2025-08-23 02:10 PM

Robson worships MAGA heartthrob Tim McVeigh.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-23 02:24 PM

#9

Yep... that's all Trump is doing really, feeding some blood (of others than himself) to the tree of liberty.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-23 02:28 PM

Also Key West is refusing to take up their rainbow crosswalks. Apparently this is a directive from DeDickwad.

#11 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-08-23 02:42 PM

Did you know if you walk on a rainbow painted crosswalk, it turns you gay?

That's a fact.

Just warning you all.

Good luck out there people.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-23 02:51 PM

Governor Ron DeSatan is on the autism spectrum according to people around him: floridapolitics.com

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-23 03:00 PM

#12: Gosh, I hope these two unwitting people know the consequences of walking on those rainbows: media.cnn.com

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-23 03:10 PM

"Argh! Stupid gay people! Why can't they be pedophiles, mass shooters, or serial killers, like us church-going, God-fearing regular white Americans? Blargh!" leadmill.co.uk

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-23 03:28 PM

You can think what you want about gays that rainbow is a memorial to victims of a mass murder.

#16 | Posted by Tor at 2025-08-23 03:28 PM

Snoofy have you read about OMAR MATEEN the Pulse shooter and his background?

Yes I have.

Same mindset and similar M.O. as the nightclub shooters in Paris.

Broadly speaking, them being gay, and heavy repression of homosexuality by religious fanatics gave rise to a circumstance where the price was paid by a society that more or less is openly accepting of homosexuality.

It was easier to try to kill that, than reconcile that you're a gay Muslim.

It's not uncommon that gays are targeted by people who we might say are "Questioning." Because certain forces in society, mostly conservative, use scapegoats to perpetuate their caste systems, and gays, as a minority, are easy targets.

Because people in these regimented, right vs wrong societies tend to follow these cues from their leaders. A bit like the person in Butler, PA who heeded Trump's call to shoot pedophiles.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-23 04:14 PM

We don't want LGBTard desecration of our streets and sidewalks. Paint it black again

#18 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-23 06:02 PM

"Pulse nightclub shooting as carried out by a foreigner and American hater"

"Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith, who became the first openly gay Latino elected to the Florida legislature in 2016, told Newsweek. "It was inspiring to see so many local residents spring into action in response to the Governor's cowardly abuse of power."

#19 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-23 06:13 PM

#18: Does it hurt hating so many people? Get help.

#20 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-08-23 06:23 PM

Contrary to popular Republican belief, that bible they pretend to read has a very, 'live and let live' attitude for what other people do... and nowhere does it suggest they take over the Gov and make other people live a certain way by law.

As a matter of fact, Jesus and Paul both said there are certain things Christians should not participate in, but that to condemn (kino GK, often translated as judge) other people who did was a major error; that Christians would be condemned as harshly as they condemned other people.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-23 06:45 PM

We don't want LGBTard desecration of our streets and sidewalks. Paint it black again
#18 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Looks like we found the self loathing, closeted homosexual.

The majority of Americans don't care what color sidewalks and crosswalks are painted, it only offends those who are miserable with their own lives, and become furious when seeing other people being happy.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-23 07:49 PM

I see a rainbow and I want it painted black
No colors anymore, I want them to turn black
I see the gays walk by, dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

- "The Bull"

#23 | Posted by cbob at 2025-08-23 11:19 PM

Funny, I thought office holders worked for their constituents...

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-24 02:45 PM

Removing it was overreach. If they want that mural they should have it.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-08-24 03:24 PM

DeSantis is a Florida-Trump fascist POS. He's ripping out bike lanes, and where he can't, he's removing the concrete barriers exposing bike riders to traffic. Looks like they're going to start painting the green bike lanes over as black, too, to match the roads. The GOP/MAGA party is genuinely a party of --------- with inferiority complexes that are determined to make life painful for everyone else because their lives suck so bad but they still think they know better.

Lyndon B. Johnson was dead on correct with his statement "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Too bad for the United States that MAGA/Trump took Johnson's condemnation and turned it into a GOP fundamental operating principle.

#26 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 06:50 PM

@#26 ... He's ripping out bike lanes, and where he can't, he's removing the concrete barriers exposing bike riders to traffic. ...

Back in the day, I was in Florida on business, specifically, a bit inland from the Clearwater area coordinating with Engineers in a different division of the company.

The multi-day visit was in January.

Friday morning, I got a call from the corporate VP I reported to. He told me, stay there for the weekend, we are getting a severe snowstorm here in CT vthis afternoon. Have a good weekend, the company will pay for all, but be reasonable.

So, a free weekend in Florida in January. Awesome.

When I went into the Florida office that day, I mentioned that, and that I wanted to rent a bicycle over the weekend and ride around.

The four other Engineers in the room all immediately said, don't do that.

Riding a bicycle in Florida, they told me, is a death wish. The elderly seem to aim for you.

I took a major step back, an interesting conversation ensued.

I did not rent a bicycle that weekend.

OK, that little story aside...

... He's ripping out bike lanes, and where he can't, he's removing the concrete barriers exposing bike riders to traffic. ...

Why does Gov DeSantis apparently want to hurt bicyclists?


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 07:09 PM

I think Desantis is making a fool of himself and revealing an extreme homophobic side that mosy normal people will see as unhinged; I've pretdety much always thought of him just as nuts as this rediculous episode will be like a tattoo om his forehead that says homophobr and, like a tattoo, it will be there for the rest of his life.

#28 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-24 07:25 PM

Pure spite. You could try to dress it up in safety or DEI nonsense, but at the end of the day, this is all about right-wingers getting back at the dirty ----- who have been out in the open for too long.

If you were to cook a MAGA down to a sauce reduction, you'd get an oily, putrescent slurry reeking of unwashed feet, rotting ginkgo fruit and intolerance.

#29 | Posted by cbob at 2025-08-24 08:06 PM

Why does Gov DeSantis apparently want to hurt bicyclists?

Because bicycles don't make noise and belch smoke like a manly vehicle.

His next move will be to mandate that all electric vehicles must tow a trailer full of burning tires.

#30 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-24 08:17 PM

#30 - Good visual. Hope DeSantis doesn't read it.

#31 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 08:44 PM

LOL they used chalk, this will be washed off everyday in the afternoon thunderstorms

#32 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-25 11:33 AM

Whoosh! Right over your head.

#33 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-25 11:39 AM

Every time someone uses the crosswalk, a Republican turns gay.

#34 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-25 03:34 PM

LOL they used chalk, this will be washed off everyday in the afternoon thunderstorms
#32 | Posted by THEBULL

Won't be long until DeSantis makes is a felony to "deface" a road with chalk.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 03:36 PM

Nothing says "Party of Small Government" like the Governor micromanaging what color a crosswalk is for the entire State.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 03:49 PM

You lose again

Rainbow crosswalk repainted outside Pulse; Florida troopers seen standing by
Demonstrators used chalk to color in erased tribute

#37 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-25 04:56 PM

Turnabout for the ----- that charged people for "defacing" this garbage because someone left a black tire mark on it

#38 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-25 04:57 PM

You lose again
#37 | Posted by THEBULL

But did you win, and if so, what is it you think you won?

#39 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 05:07 PM

Was it a ----- prize?

#40 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-25 10:14 PM

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