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.
“Wouldn’t it be more suitable and ideal to have a memorial to honor someone who fought to serve and protect us, have a true Lake County resident who was a brave American hero?” Brown said.
Y’all, the denial of power happens on every possible level. We gain power with every single Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway sign that gets “accidentally” knocked down with a car bumper. Or every Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway offramp sign that gets suddenly redesigned overnight with a can of black spray paint. Deny them quarter on every single front.
Cordless angle grinders are cheap.
Steal the signs
Charlie Kirk does not need streets named after him.
I’m reminded of how residential areas often have streets with themes. Like all of the streets are named after birds or after fables or something.
“Just turn right on Joseph Goebbels Lane, then take a right on Rush Limbaugh Blvd, then take a right on Bill O’Reilly Ave, and finally take a right on Charlie Kirk Cir. Yup, that’s right. My house is right in the center of the swastika.”
USA is not a country anymore, it’s become an insane asylum.
At least in an asylum you can follow the rules and get out to live somewhere else.
What in the actual fuck is wrong with people. Kirk was literally nobody.
They’re doing the Wessel to Kirk - using a relatively unknown person’s death as a unifying figure of propaganda and white-washing.
The Wheezle! Propaganda, buuuuuuuuuudddddddy.
Americans have always been into their cult of personality. You see it every time with their presidents, they’re rabidly pro their guy.
Apparently tribalism and jingoism are the core American traits. It’s astonishing how strongly.
This road will now become a public bathroom.
Its Florida after all, so it probably already was
Fuck your feelings
That’s exactly how representative democracy works: people might be against but decision is made by “elected officials” who couldn’t care less about some “common folk” opinion.
At least at the local level, the only reason it shakes out that way is because the common folk haven’t really been paying all that much attention to what the elected officials are doing, as long as they had an R after their names. At the national level there is additional fuckery, but these are exactly the people they voted for, you can’t exactly blame that on the system. It’s a problem of education and of apathy.
I feel like, after all the long decades of fuckery, this might be the year that they wake up about it because it is finally impacting them directly in a fashion that can’t be explained away. Maybe not but I definitely feel like that is possible.
Sadly, I think we all underestimated just how many people there are in this country that actually desperately want the fuckery. They think it helps them. They think they’re “winning”. I keep thinking they’ll realize, at some point, that it does the opposite. It hasn’t happened yet.
It hasn’t happened yet.
Take a look at those Republican town hall videos though. They definitely have realized, at least some of them. I think it’s mostly just a question of whether it will translate into anything, or whether they’ll just settle back down and get back in their place.
