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DeSantis on Removal of Rainbow Crosswalk: Roads Will Not Be ‘Commandeered for Political Purposes’
Breitbart ^ | 23 Aug 2025 | HANNAH KNUDSEN

Posted on 08/23/2025 3:49:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) this week responded to leftists raging about the removal of a rainbow LGBT crosswalk outside of Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, explaining that state roads will no longer be “commandeered for political purposes.”

The crosswalk outside of Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were murdered in 2016, has been painted over by Florida’s department of transportation. This follows action taken by DeSantis and Republicans over the summer to keep roads distraction-free.

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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer also weighed in on the removal of the rainbow-themed crosswalk, stating he was “devastated” and that the crosswalk actually enhanced “safety and visibility.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crosswalk; fagflag; florida; streets
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1 posted on 08/23/2025 3:49:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

Perfect.


2 posted on 08/23/2025 3:49:40 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

They’re messing with ours, too. Upstate NY...Rochester


3 posted on 08/23/2025 3:51:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Some kid was actually prosecuted in my town for leaving skidmarks on a rainbow-painted crosswalk here. The communist local government is all into this kind of crap, of course. Restoring sanity will be a long-term project, and by no means a sure thing.


4 posted on 08/23/2025 3:55:35 PM PDT by Orosius
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Orlando was one of the woke cities that took down a monument to Florida’s war dead.

The city’s leaders need to work up a whole new value system; one that can be explained in a wholesome manner to audiences of children, women, and men.


5 posted on 08/23/2025 4:03:50 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer also weighed in on the removal of the rainbow-themed crosswalk, stating he was “devastated” and that the crosswalk actually enhanced “safety and visibility.”

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I’m looking at selling LGBTQ toilet paper, perhaps I have my first customer in Mayor Dyer.


6 posted on 08/23/2025 4:06:13 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: Mr. Mojo

Let’s paint MAGA crosswalks everywhere and watch what happens.


7 posted on 08/23/2025 4:09:03 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Mr. Mojo

Or by left wing woke liberal judges.


8 posted on 08/23/2025 4:11:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: airborne
"Let’s paint MAGA crosswalks everywhere and watch what happens."

I'll second that...

9 posted on 08/23/2025 4:14:33 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Actually, A rainbow crosswalk is like painting a target. Why would they think it’s safer?


10 posted on 08/23/2025 4:17:13 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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Dear Gov. DeSantis, do Delray Beach next, like tomorrow.


11 posted on 08/23/2025 4:19:23 PM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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The commies will cry, “Then change the names of roads and streets named after Presidents.”

To which we reply, “Those are not political. Those are historical. Moron.”


12 posted on 08/23/2025 4:37:49 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: Whatever Works

Back in the 70s when suicide jumpers were common around the Texas campus (especially around finals), it was proposed to paint bullseyes next to all the tall buildings on campus. It would give the jumper a target to aim for on the way down and it would give pedestrians warning of where to walk around.


13 posted on 08/23/2025 4:56:55 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Thank you, Trump, Musk, Leavitt....)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Buddy Dyer is a jerk.
He has been in office too long, way too long.
Problem is, there is a dearth in talent to oust Dyer.


14 posted on 08/23/2025 5:08:03 PM PDT by BatGuano (Quantus Tremor Est futurus.)
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To: unclebankster

I’m not sure why anyone would like to jam LGBTQ toilet paper up their . . . you know what!


15 posted on 08/23/2025 5:12:45 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The polikilticized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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I’m not marketing it to you.

Beside, it was intended as humor..... joking around.


16 posted on 08/23/2025 7:17:31 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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Big Perversion taunts voters whom they defeated in court. That’s the message.


17 posted on 08/23/2025 8:20:46 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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Should come as no surprise at all that the Disney-owned “mayor” of Orlando (Buddy= uh huh, guess who’s) Buddy Dyer
is a 3 dollar bill so he’s all about the rainbow and love and kisses in the violent nether world of toots and poofters.
In flagrante caught by his then female wife— in the sack with another ‘jack’. Fact. Soccer fields and paid delivery busloads of illegal aliens dumped in neighborhoods which do not want them, in the dead of night (or any other time). One should say- the “Un”-Desantis urban has been demonrat.


18 posted on 08/23/2025 11:11:53 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Whatever Works

The crosswalk in question is a major thoroughfare- clearly marked now without the silliness of rainbow color- and not very importantly leads (or led to) a Dunkin Donut shop been there for a decade before there ever was a cruising queer club. The dude who shot 49 people was/is a Muzzie, and his “wifey” knew what he was going to do- and got away with not being an accessory.


19 posted on 08/23/2025 11:16:03 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Driving hazard.


20 posted on 08/24/2025 4:36:19 AM PDT by GailA (STOP COMPLAINING, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR FULL SUPPORT NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS.)
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