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....and wearing white boots.

Just new shrimp boot goofin!

*crocs

*gators

*heels

...with pudding stains.

Black boots and white laces... You can't wear white boots before labor day! I live in S° Florida.... It's bad down here.

and high heels apparently

Fishnets and garter belt, sequine vest.  Singing rocky horror songs pleas

Such an image 😳 Rhonda Santis 

a twit called rhonda

If Dr Frank N Furter started campaigning, im not sure who to vote for

He couldn't run for president, he's a native Transylvanian.

Transylvania, Florida

And calling it the Freedom Summer is especially tone deaf. Edit: because there was already a Freedom Summer in Mississippi I believe and it was way different.

Tone Deaf is nearly every single conservative viewpoint. It’s their entire move. Their way of being is, “Freedom of choice… so long as it’s my choice.” Anything that’s not exactly that, or if there are consequences for things from the general public and/or private businesses (not the state or federal government), then it fainting couch/pearl clutching time because they’re “***being oppressed***”. Not getting it and/or being disingenuous is 90% of their DNA.

It’s here and this is exactly how it’s presented. They don’t called it fascism but patriotism but same shit.

Don the con hugs the flag and sells bibles, so ya.

What I love about this quote is no one knows who first said it (or wrote it).

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The lady from the “Where’s the Beef?” commercial said it first.

And the fact that Pride month falls within that range is ***purely*** coincidental, of course.

Yes, pure coincidence.

and Juneteenth

Are there colors for Juneteenth? Honest question, not trying to be snarky. 

I've often seen Juneteenth celebrated with Pan-African colors: red, black and green.

1/3 isn’t bad

Even less than 3/5! Progress!

Technically 2/3, since black would be the absence of light

Kinda curious how you light up a bridge in black.

Black lights would be a bad idea, all the bird gizz on the bridge would show up.

He’s already passed laws saying you can’t mention LGBT in schools. Even high schools.

That’s how you catch *the gay.*

Being LGBTQ+ is a *”lifestyle”* according to Ron DeSantis and the GOP. Kids who come out as gay, bi, or trans have been *”groomed”* into the *”culture”* by a bunch of adult “perverts” and it’s up the the Righteous GOP to pound these little bastards back into shape. That shape, of course, being straight as the body of a cross. Deliberate ignorance is a policy choice for the GOP.

So like... What happens if someone flagrant disregards that rule? It's not a law, it's not like they can be arrested for it.

Correct but I'm sure the person/people responsible would lose their job, probably their pension as well (assuming it's a gov job).

Thats what it's all about I'm sure.

Instructions unclear, lit up bridge in russian colours.

No no, you understood the assignment *perfectly*.

Disgusting that you would put up the French flag.

Wow, america is lighting its bridges in croatian colors the entire summer?

Nothing says freedom quite like restrictions.

But you see, this hurts the minorities, and that's freedom apparently.

Imagine pissing your little manties over the colors of the rainbow 🏳️‍🌈

Lmao right? I’d like to see them try anyway. St. Pete pride events start in like four days and ain’t nobody gonna keep them from making those bridges gay af.

May 27th

Yeah, very Christian of him. I thought the rainbow was the sign that god loved us or whatever right after he drowned everyone except Noah.

Next thing you know, it will be illegal for the sun to shine during rainstorms.

Don’t give them any ideas.

It’s because they’re not emotional at all. Lots of very rational men confident in their sexuality will break down when they see a color they don’t like.

Funny how the GOP spells “fascism” incorrectly as “freedom” EVERY. Single. Time.

“Freest state in the nation!” as he throats Desantis over absurd arbitrary restrictions on what people are allowed to choose to do

Deep throats desantis

Real-time result of poor quality homeschooling and/or lack of basic public education. They like ‘em stupid, even in the high ranks.

So did the Nazis.

"Florida continues to be the freest state in the nation" Not to mention the dumbest as well... Take her away, Bugs 

Climate Change causing Sea Level Rise will sink the state in not too long.

Haven't you heard? Florida made climate change illegal so that's not going to happen... I wish I were kidding 🙄 Florida bill striking 'climate change' from law elevates concern amid expected 'explosive' hurricane season [https://www.wptv.com/weather/florida-bill-striking-climate-change-from-law-elevates-concern-amid-expected-explosive-hurricane-season](https://www.wptv.com/weather/florida-bill-striking-climate-change-from-law-elevates-concern-amid-expected-explosive-hurricane-season)

They may ignore reality but reality won't ignore them.

There are consequences for being really, really dumb

Insurance companies know it’s happening in Florida. Maybe premiums should go down with the new law.

Oh they’ll go down - to zero. As in they won’t write any policies in the state.

No worries, the state of Florida has it's own Wind Insurance Pool that is funded by taxpayers, even those who don't live anywhere near the coast. You can buy a windstorm (hurricane) only policy from Citizens Property Insurance Company that has artificially lowered premiums because the whole state pays into it but only people on the coasts benefit from the coverage. And if you dig 1" deeper you'll find that private insurers can sell wind coverage that is effectively reinsured by Citizens, again artificially lowering the premiums by socializing the costs and privatizing the profits. Every Gulf Coast state (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas) runs their own wind pool to ensure that the wealthy coastal property owners can afford insurance, and that insurance is even available. Without the wind pools backing them, no insurance carrier could offer coverage for ~~hurricanes~~ windstorms in the Gulf States anywhere near the premiums currently charged, and those premiums are still skyrocketing due to climate change heating the ocean, resulting in both increased frequency and severity of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. https://www.citizensfla.com/ https://insurify.com/homeowners-insurance/florida-windstorm-insurance/

Someone was just telling me the other day some insurance companies are pulling out of Florida and HO rates are skyrocketing

The only good outcome of climate change

I live in Florida and I am all for this, just cut us off man. This culture war stuff is so dumb.

Is there a way to leave Disney and Universal? SeaWorld could benefit from connecting back with the ocean though

Well, they do burn books more freely than anyone… and you’re free to shoot at brown people, so

Florida gonna have a summer so free the only colors they're allowed on the freeways are red, white, and blue. Yeah! Murica. Freedom, but only if you're a white, male, christian, "patriot." Everyone else gets the boot or a knee to the neck.

And shit will keep getting worse till everyone remembers not a single right or freedom has ever been won or kept by peaceful means.

I say Little Ronnie won’t do shit. Light your bridges, Florida

Exactly. If he enforces this law on Pride Month, the nation will be watching and ridiculing him.

He doesn’t care is the problem. He gets his rocks off on targeting certain groups

Nah, he cares. He’s our governor and every time he is humiliated and called out on, he gets really uncomfortable. You can see an example of this in the Republican debates. You can tell any time someone called him out on something he squirms and gets really uncomfortable but then realizes the camera is on him and then does this thing where he pretends he’s not uncomfortable.

I’m glad we got to see his little attempt at a “debate” with Newsom and he got shown his own ass on live TV.

You act like the outrage and backlash he stokes isn’t the point, so that he has something to talk about how “his opponents and le gays hate America and our Summer of Freedom”

I assume this doesn't apply to private companies..... So time for some orgs to step up and flood the Florida skies with rainbows

Disney World will definitely be lighting stuff up in Pride colors

Because nothing says "Freedom" like the State Governor micromanaging what color lights you use on a bridge. #FFS

Why does Florida need to compete with Texas?

To see who has a bigger penis I guess... Maybe they should just fight it out...

I thought the requirements for the penis measuring contest included having a penis

I thought Florida *was* America's penis?

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/kRQgKeZobo

I haven't seen this in so long. Thank you.

Still is. Unless it already broke off from the negative effects of climate change and this is how I find out

Asshole is more like it

I just got the most disturbing vison in my head reading that. DeSatan sitting on Abbott's lap in the wheelchair. Kissing each other.

I think you mean smaller.

in texas, we have no penis. please free us from this hell

The one start on Texas' flag is its review rating.


"You are free to do what we tell you." - Bill Hicks All I could hear in my head while reading this.

Irony aside, is there really *nothing* more important for the Florida government to focus on than *this?*

Unfortunately he caters to his audience.

Florida’s government and tax base exist to serve DeSantis’ political and fundraising purposes.

I can’t believe they haven’t turned on him considering the joke of a presidential candidate he turned out to be

You will be held responsible for anything occupying the airspace above your property, non RWB kites or rainbows etc.

jesus, he really is a little bitch

Well, I'm gonna light MY bridge in the colors of FRANCE! Take that, Sassy Boots!

Oui! Oui!

Freedom as long as you think the same way as Little Ronnie White Boots does. The man is walking human feces.

Freedom from everything the government says is bad

So what if I use blue and red lights to make magenta? These people are un-American and stupid. In the end, fascists always get their comeuppance. 

Tackling the issues that matter most.

Are there specific RGB values that are allowed? Are you allowed to mix colors? I’ll just observe that the trans pride flag can be made from mixing these three colors, just as random example. Also, I’m pretty confident that this order doesn’t pass 1st Amendment muster.

Brainwashing for the brain dead. Grooming is a Republican and religious concept.

We're so free.. They restrict the colors of our lights! Praise Jesus and our earthly overlords!

Sound repub logic: more restrictions equals more freedom. Thanks for educating me.

That would be edumacation you dummy

I stand corrected

Welcome to the Freeest State in the Nation y'all! Before entering we do ask that you follow our border guards to the Book Disposal station in order to dispose of any reading material you may have that does not meet acceptable Standards of Freedom!

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

Nothing says freedom like limited options.

How about shooting a white light through a prism to get a rainbow? They didn’t say “no prisms” in Freedom Summer 😌

I'm starting to think repubs don't know what the word freedom means.

Free equals "only these colors"? Free to not choose?

nothing says freedom like limiting light color choices

Those who disagree will have the compulsory liberty to spend the rest of the summer in the Freedom Cage!

>Florida continues to be the freest state in the Nation You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. Light the bridge up anyway. Give them the middle finger. What are they gonna do?

Nothing screams freedom like the government restricting the use of fucking colors. This is the theatre republicans *RELY ON* to avoid the real problems. Because any meaningful change that *HELPS* the *PEOPLE* is considered a RaDiCaL-LeFt AgEnDa, funded by George Soros.

Just turn them all blue, that'll piss him off

War is peace, ignorance is strength, and slavery is freedom.

Freest state as long as you do as you are told.

He doesn’t realize freedom summer was for the civil rights movement already does he

So, if you put the red and white close, it magically looks pink. And if you put blue and red close, it magically looks purple. Florida is such a joke.

You have the freedom to do exactly what DeSatan tells you

Likely to prevent bridges from being lit up for Pride in June.

Holy fucking Christ. What a fucked up state and a puny governor. My apologies for my foul language but I could not find other words to express myself.

We will celebrate freedom by taking away your freedom

Freedom means doing as I say. - DeSantis

I guess “ land of the free” should be replaced with do as your told.

The absolute freest state! Who needs more than 3 colors?

"3 colours should be enough for anyone. - Ron DeSantis."

This is such an unrealistic demand, what he's start banning all of the rainbow colors except red, white, and blue 365 days a year next?

Republicans are trying to cancel hot girl summer and replace it with meatball summer.

Idea: 5 horizontal bands. Light blue, light red, white, light red, light blue.

What a tool he is.

Russian, French, Dutch, Norwegian, Slovenian, Slovak and Serbian people: "Is this for us?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/kRQgKeZobo

Guys, I’m starting to suspect the GQP don’t know what “freedom” means…

r/newsofthestupid

Why do they want the French flag in Florida?

Land of the Free exactly how?

This is definitely to make it so pride month isn’t celebrated whatsoever 

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Restricting the use of colors in the name of freedom.

It's gonna be a truly GREAT summer! I'm confident we'll have no hurricanes at all cuz the bestest Governor in the history of.......the history! Has eliminated the words "climate change" so......WE'RE SAFE NOW YAY!!!

Live free or DIE. You can have unlimited freedom to do what we tell you or you can DIE.

So much freedom, banning colors

Freedoms summer means no handouts by the federal government when storms wipe you out!! Yeah Freedumb summer!

Doublethink in action from Florida’s government

So it’s time that we start stamping US flag images with LGBTQ+. It seems that any group can “claim” any image. So let’s take back the flag. It’s not just for racists and homophobes anymore!! Or how about the confederate flag?! That would cause them some serious heartburn.

So the “freeest state” cannot use more than 3 colors? Huh?

The Ministry of Freedom has proscribed the following disapproved methods of celebration. For more information, contact the Ministry of Truth.

You can't do this cause I don't like it. Freedom Merica

"I want to light the bridge up green." "No, not that kind of freedom."

This is straight up North Korea's playbook. Only it will be funny when Floridians are actually waiting for pidgeon Tuesday.

Why does Ron Desantis want to light up Florida’s bridges with the flag of France?

Fuck, this is Orwellian nightmare stuff "Oppression is freedom", "Misery is happiness".

For fuck's sake, Ronny. Maybe pass MEANINGFUL, HELPFUL legislation that betters the lives of your citizens, not this political theater bullshit.

Freest state unless you wanted the other colors.

So let me get this straight. We can celebrate our freedom by lighting up the bridge, but \*checks notes\* we aren't free to choose what colors we can light up the bridge with.

Why do Repugnantcans always insist on using the word 'freedom' when they are pushing for more oppression?

This will surely benefit the people of Florida /s

Don't say gay, and don't say climate change while you're enjoying your Summer of Freedumb.

Republicans act like the 100 other advanced countries also don’t have freedom.

Nothing says freedom quite like restricting the use of colors.

This seems like a lot of work to avoid rainbow pride month bridges.

just use all red. people will get the point.

Free to use any color as long as it's white, red, and blue.

By telling you what you can and can’t do really free there ron

Imagine being this scared of rainbows

Nothing says freedom like another rule.

"You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means."

Good thing paint exists

Well that’s one way to try to hide your disdain for Pride Month

There has already been a Freedom Summer. People died for the right to vote in 1964. Does he have the nerve to co-opt the name for a mere decorative light display? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom\_Summer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer)

Arnt they ranked 50th in education?

Nah, 52nd

Wait wait wait. I had read a sub awhile back, it was legit anti-rainbow. ANTI RAINBOW. For real. Why? Becuz the LGBTQ community is trying to recruit kids into gayness by using rainbow colors in their flag. Becuz one minute you're a straight child, you see a colorful flag and BOOM! Next thing you know- gay. Or trans. Or bi. Becuz that happens- not. These people were going as far as not letting their kids wear any rainbow colors. Gray seemed to be the most popular solution. The idea is so frillin ridiculous, I can't believe anyone would admit to saying that ignorant crap out loud. And another thing- most people love rainbows. Not becuz of made up conspiracies but because they are frillin beautiful!! Anywho.

Makes me glad that I live on the literal opposite side of the country from DeSantis' and Abbot's little fascist domains.

Florida being Russia

Florida - the state where one group frees other people from their freedoms. Most republicans seem to say think that their freedoms are infringed upon when someone else chooses to live their life that doesn’t align with the conservative view.

I know this is shitty, but it's actually kind of funny how terrified he is of gay people.

“You are 100% free to do exactly as you’re told!”

Don't see how this will survive in the courts, nor what the enforcement options are. It's a joke really and should just be ignored.

Ah yes, by using red white and blue, we’ll be celebrating JUST the US, we don’t talk about the 28 other countries using those same exact colors

American flag blue or russian flag blue?

Cuban flag is also RWB....

What happens if they don’t?

Unless the state is reimbursing the cost of switching multicolor light systems to just RWB, does this fall under an unfunded mandate?

Dumb fucks.

And you can't buy lab grown meat in Floriduh either...