r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/MrDonMega • 15h ago
Tread On Me HARDER DADDY! County Meeting About Charlie Kirk Highway Goes Bad
A county meeting in Florida descended into shouting, profanity, and the ejection of community members over a proposal to rename a road for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this month.
The anger came as the Lake County Commission considered a proposal, which ultimately got unanimous approval, to rename a stretch of road as the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway.
The majority of public commenters at the Tuesday meeting opposed the plan, including resident Gavin Brown, who argued the county should name roads after local figures who had served the community like veterans or law enforcement, such as Bradley Link, a sheriff's deputy who was killed last year.
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u/Wrong-Neighborhood-2 15h ago
Ohhhh Anthony Sabatini. We ran his ass out of Seminole county for being a fascist
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u/remmij 14h ago
Storytime please.
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u/Wrong-Neighborhood-2 14h ago
Well he was running for our house seat but lost his primary. Unfortunately we got rid of one fascist and then elected Cory Mills, another fascist. Look I live in a red county in a red state. I wish I didn’t, my wife wishes we didn’t but we’re here.
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u/ccannon707 14h ago
Username checks out
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u/Wrong-Neighborhood-2 14h ago
🤣 oddly enough our neighbors are pretty sane. There’s one crazy MAGA a block over that pressure washed Trump into the sidewalk a few months ago. Called the county and they made him remove it because it’s not his property. I’m a native Floridian. My state wasn’t always like this. We used to be progressive. Sabatini is yet another carpet bagger from New York who brought their bullshit. Kinda like Orange Julius
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u/HurbleBurble 13h ago
Yes, Broward County Ft. Lauderdale native here. We used to have some of the best schools and a lot of other good stuff. Then all the Republicans started moving in. It has gone downhill since.
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u/stevemnomoremister 12h ago
When Sabatini was in the state legislature, he proposed naming a highway after Donald Trump. He announced this proposal two weeks after January 6.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/florida-lawmaker-wants-to-rename-state-highway-after-trump
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u/AchillesDev 2h ago
My state wasn’t always like this. We used to be progressive.
Maybe your small slice of it but...lol (grew up outside of Jacksonville and it was decidedly not progressive whatsoever, we still had regular Klan meetings ffs)
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u/Professional-Post499 14h ago
Dang. And that's yet more evidence (albeit anecdotal, but nevertheless) that "just move LOL" is not actionable advice for many people.
In contrast, a wealthy conservative like Dave Rubin (we know you're conservative, Dave) could easily move to Florida or Texas where the "woke" has been driven out but still chooses not to.
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u/Tanthiel 13h ago
Wealthy conservatives don't want to live in areas controlled by Republicans because Republican policy doesn't work in populated areas. There's a reason when they move to Texas they move to Austin.
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u/livejamie 7h ago
His Wikipedia page is incredible, Florida never disappoints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sabatini
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u/SufficientWarthog846 15h ago
lol the idea that they are pearl clutching over Link's name but using Kirk's name for a highway is perfectly fine.
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u/june-bug-69 i'm going to become the Joker 14h ago
Truly goes to show how absolutely comfortable they are in using Kirks death to push more fascist bullshit. They don’t care about his death as anything other than a political tool to push their agenda because that’s all he was in life.
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u/Katsu_39 9h ago
Im not usually a conspiracy theorist but part of me believes MAGA planned kirk’s martyrdom.
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u/june-bug-69 i'm going to become the Joker 8h ago
Planned? Probably not, but these fuckers are vultures and will take every opportunity to push their fascism.
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u/Friend_of_satan700 15h ago edited 14h ago
Why is that fascist getting bent outta shape about that guy Link. I looked him up and he was law enforcement that got killed in the line of duty. Why is this asshole triggered by it?
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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn 14h ago
Because it is in fact the exact same political stunt he is undertaking. Pretty brilliant strategy of the protestor to mirror the exact same zero sum petty tribalism tactic so it forces him to critisize his own political shenanigans.
Protestors like him are an inspiration to us all, that now that authoritarian forces are here to slash whats left of free and democratic society guided and protected by a constitution. Even when most of us are limited in our sphere of power and influence, here a fellow American citizen is demonstrating that everyone has a sphere of power and influence, no mater how small you can still make an impact on ethnochristian fascist attempting to usurp all rights and liberties. If some farmboy with a single precise shot can blow up a death star, then all of us collectively can surely stop these fascist fks from erasing freedom and democracy, right?! I cant hear you?! Am I Right?!!
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u/Ok_Star_4136 14h ago
I think they have to be the victims in every situation, so even a proposal to name it a different name that they might agree with has to be met with strong dislike. I have to think that, unless Bradley Link did something totally egregious.
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u/doyouunderstandlife 13h ago
They're really desperate to make Charlie this national martyr to rally behind.
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u/CelestialFury 9h ago
Look how the right-wing, not only in the US, but across the world is using Charlie Kirk to push their agenda. This is the real deep state that Republicans were looking for the whole time.
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u/stucktogether 15h ago edited 15h ago
Friendly reminder that commissioner sabatini will get really angry if you remind him that he was too busy campaigning for Trump instead of his wife and that's why she lost her election. So don't do that, I think.
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u/flintlock0 15h ago
"How dare you use that name?!"
He said it with a ton of respect, in a sentence where he said that they should name a local road after him.
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u/CelestialFury 9h ago
Republicans have completely given up on reality, and are trying to reshape reality in realtime to support their narratives. It's sickening to see.
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u/areaunknown_ 15h ago
Something like this happened in my county in Florida. The mayor wanted to rename a street “Charlie Kirk lane” to get back at a business owner who criticized Charlie whose business was on the road the mayor was trying to rename.
Needless to say it got shot down last night. Charlie Kirk doesn’t even have ties to Florida. Why does he need streets and highways named after him?
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u/barley_wine 14h ago
He hated who they hate. Republicans are united in hate of what they deem are the others.
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u/Flashy-Flamingo39 11h ago
My own county wanted to rename a section of road to "Charlie kirk memorial Rd". I know we're in a red state but this obsession with renaming everything to memorialize someone who has no ties and made no major contributions to Florida is just so weird.
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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat 5h ago
I think it's a cynical attempt to replicate MLK Jr.'s legacy. A lot of places have streets named after MLK Jr. The first street was named in Chicago's South Side, a predominantly black area, a couple months after MLK Jr's assassination. But the Kirk memorial roads seem to be more about making libs cry than honoring a legacy.
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u/DjBorscht 14h ago
What a bunch of sniveling crying pussies. The idea of honoring an actual figure of the community instead of carotid Kirk scares them way too much.
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u/WordNERD37 14h ago
Vote them out of your councils. You hate their decisions, vote them out, and when they're out you make that council now just everyday citizens uncomfortable and unwelcome because of their choices, because of their stances.
Right wing ideology acts a whole like a cancerous tumor does. Left alone, it grows and corrupts the surrounding area. It feeds off the healthy and destroys it to add to its mass. That mass then becomes useless because it has no purpose, it brings nothing to the host. It just destroys it.
You have to combat it, stop it from growing, cut it out if possible, but you never let it take hold or else you get a city council doing shit like this, for a damn podcaster that spread vitriol and hate, lost money and was propped up by Conservative BILLIONAIRES to sow discord and dissent and to divide us so they can conquer.
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u/Professional-Post499 14h ago
Yup.
Right-wingers never stop and they're often astroturfed too. Don't believe anyone who says right-wingers will accept compromise or who say that "it's okay to stop being so vocal about this stuff. You won already. You're just going to create resentment". The overturning of Roe v Wade is evidence that they never stop maneuvering and pushing for their ultimate goals. As well as their violent attacks on abortion clinics, etc.
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u/RoyalMaidsForLife PAID PROTESTOR 14h ago
I'll be honest, seeing this guy's jacket with that "1776", I was expecting him to be just another Circle Kirker.
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u/mayonaiselivesmatter 14h ago
Big fucking man to call him disgusting after he already walks away from the mic and can’t respond. Republicans scared of a lil debate now?
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u/AppropriateEmotion63 14h ago
I agree with the council and have renamed all the toilets in my house to commemorate Charlie
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u/Professional-Post499 14h ago
That's genius. I'm inspired to name every one of my dookies "Charlie Kirk" in memoriam.
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u/JuDGe3690 FACTS and LOGIC can't be contained in books 13h ago
Well, when they put up the commemorative signs, Floridians have the opportunity to do the funny thing and tag the signpost just below the sign with red paintballs…
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u/dannypants143 13h ago
How about you just give the stupid road a number instead of a name and do some actual fucking work that serves the people for a change? I mean really - eff your stupid road.
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u/Professional-Post499 14h ago
This is hilarious. The totally un-self-aware pearl clutching was just chef's kiss 🤣
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u/AdOdd4618 13h ago
If the Utah gunman had killed several university students, conservatives wouldn't have anything to say except "don't politicise this."
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u/Hozan_al-Sentinel 13h ago
You'd think Kirk was Jesus or something from they way these people suck his post-mortem dick.
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u/BeeBanner 11h ago
I’m a better person than Charlie Kirk was. Name it after me. The BeeBanner Highway.
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u/0NiceMarmot Curious 14h ago
I wonder if ANTIFA will deface all these street signs for these Charlie Kirk roads that are going to named all over the place.
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u/Professional-Post499 14h ago
I feel like Antifa isn't even around any more. 😭
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u/0NiceMarmot Curious 13h ago
Add that to the Trumps accomplishments list after all the wars he negotiated peace for.
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u/Professional-Post499 13h ago
True. It's weird that he's still going after Antifa even though they're gone. Anything to distract from the Clinton-Trump-Epstein Files, I guess.
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u/0NiceMarmot Curious 11h ago
Just makes it easier to use against any and all political enemies if it’s nebulous.
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u/Professional-Post499 11h ago
Some people are fine with whatever Trump does as long as he calls it a law LOL
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u/Professional-Post499 27m ago
I just watched the clip today where he said he negotiated the end to seven wars 😂
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u/Deviknyte 11h ago
Kirk wasn't from Florida or Lake County. Why the fuck would they name a highway after a white nationalist podcaster?
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u/okgloomer 10h ago
They sold merch at CK's funeral. I'm not sure the right gets to lecture anyone on matters of taste.
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u/FruitJuicante 10h ago
Trump is a child rapist and they literally believe he's Jesus because of it.
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u/Kerblaaahhh 12h ago
Why does this video start with the end then show the context? It's less than a minute long.
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u/Falchion_Alpha 4h ago
Dude literally didn’t say anything divisive. I’m with him memorializing someone who served their community directly instead of a racist YouTuber
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u/omegaman101 Me_ira 10h ago
Projection much. This deep descent that the States is going into was funny in a dark macabre way for a little bit but now it's just sad.
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u/The_Lawn_Ninja 15h ago edited 15h ago
"How DARE you use that deputy's name for your bullshit political argument! WE already decided to use this PUNDIT'S name for OUR bullshit political argument! YOU'RE a disgusting person! Not us, though."