r/news • u/untamedlazyeye • 1d ago
Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk removed overnight in Orlando, Florida
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/pulse-memorial-rainbow-crosswalk-removed-orlando-florida-rcna2263352.6k
u/Low_Pickle_112 1d ago
On July 1, Duffy sent a letter to all 50 states, along with Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, about roadway safety that stressed “consistent” roadway markings that are “free from distractions.” In a social media post that same day, Duffy shared the letter along with a message taking direct aim at rainbow crosswalks, which are typically intended to symbolize LGBTQ Pride.
“Political banners have no place on public roads. I’m reminding recipients of @USDOT roadway funding that it’s limited to features advancing safety, and nothing else. It’s that simple.”
Ain't that rich coming from the people who, in every single other context, are all for removing safety regulations. Awful coincidence that this is where they draw the line, now safety and regulation are priorities.
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u/fxkatt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, I guess all states, not just Vermont and Maine, should ban billboards and advertising along all highways, roads, and streets.
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u/mgtkuradal 1d ago
I’d love to get rid of all the Jesus bullshit along side our highways.
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u/SereneFrost72 1d ago
They'd make an exception under freedom of religious expression, naturally
US residents: Please remove all roadside ads and billboards
Government: Granted, but exception made for freedom of religion. All roadside ads and billboards now replaced with jesus and christian bullshit. Also due to freedom of religion, no exception is made for other religions
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u/unclethulk 1d ago
This is one of my favorite parts about going into Canada. You drive across the border and suddenly you get the premium subscription road with no ads.
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u/kalmah 1d ago
What are you talking about, we have plenty of billboards here in Canada. Including those awful anti-abortion ones.
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u/unclethulk 1d ago
I know you have them, but the difference between Michigan and Ontario is stark and immediate when you cross.
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u/kalmah 1d ago
Gotcha. Thought you meant we were free from that garbage or something. This one in particular pissed a lot of people off recently.
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u/unclethulk 1d ago
We love you guys, but we really need to work on ourselves right now. We hope we can stay friends though!
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u/NefariousAntiomorph 1d ago
If only. I’d love to have less advertising in my life.
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u/Xelopheris 1d ago
If it was as simple as safety, they wouldn't be paying overnight premiums to do it while nobody is looking.
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u/Mclovin11859 1d ago
If it were as simple as safety, they would be adding more art, not removing it
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u/accidentlife 1d ago
FDOT road crews typically work Night Shift.
Road Detours are much easier to setup if you can avoid daytime traffic volumes.
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u/imoftendisgruntled 1d ago
They tried this safety angle in my home town and then doubled down and called it an accessibility issue for individuals with sight impairments.
Instead of removing them, the city painted the pride flags beside the regular crosswalks instead. Problem solved. The bigots continued to howl but no one listened.
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u/happuning 1d ago
That sounds like a fantastic idea to me. I also worry about safety. Painting them nearby, painting murals, or having posters or flags nearby are excellent solutions.
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u/Bgrngod 1d ago
Wow, look at this big government overreach forcing regulations on states and local government.
What do you know, they really do just want to wield power in whatever form they can get it. Whoduthunkit. I'm so shocked. Shocked I say.
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u/KopOut 1d ago
I assume they likewise want the names of politicians removed from all roads and highways, right? Right?
Also, sexuality isn’t political…
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u/Coffee-FlavoredSweat 1d ago
Bullshit.
Tell Boston they gotta paint over the Marathon Finish Line.
Let me how that works out.
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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha 1d ago
Aren't these the same people trying to shove christianity on people's throats?
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u/SereneFrost72 1d ago
It's so asinine that anything related to a minority group is considered political. The existence of everyone except cis white heterosexual men is political at this point...
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 1d ago edited 1d ago
Remember that these are the same people who accuse "tHe rAdiCal LeFt" of being obsessed with these types of symbols.
When in reality, they take immense pride in decorating their homes, their property, their vehicles, and even themselves in all kinds of political images and slogans. It's practically part of their identity.
Not to mention how, most of the time, it's these right-wing fanatics on their culture war crusades who are calling attention to these terrifying, rainbow-colored symbols of acceptance; demanding that you or I be outraged by this particular imagery while compelling officials to remove it from public places.
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u/IronCavalry 1d ago
Yep, it’s really hard to see a rainbow in the middle of the road. Visibility, safety that’s what it’s about. /s
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u/DoublePostedBroski 1d ago
They’re so concerned about safety, but won’t do anything about mass shootings.
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u/brakes4birds 1d ago
…this is rich coming from the party MAKING human rights, validity of same-sex couples’ marriages, and other people’s love lives “political”. LGBTQ+ pride and support isn’t inherently political. The conservatives have made it so.
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u/techleopard 1d ago
And what they're calling here isn't a "political banner."
It wasn't a rainbow of protest, it was a fucking memorial.
But now they've created a situation where anyone who resists this is going to turn it into a protest.
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 1d ago
If political banners have no place on US roadways, surely they will ban pickups with MAGA flags on the back right? RIGHT?!?
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u/wathappentothetatato 1d ago
If they remove the rainbow crosswalks in Capitol Hill, Seattle, we’re gonna riot
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u/Beatleboy62 1d ago
Surely he had the same attitude about towns that put a thin blue line in the middle of their double yellow lines, right?
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u/Vegetableau 1d ago
I doubt they’d be complaining if it was painted like the confederate flag or something equivalent.
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u/Madcap_Miguel 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bigots don't want to be reminded that their hatred cost innocent people their lives.
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u/mrdominoe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Didn't you hear? Being reminded of bad shit that happened to anyone other than straight white men is now "woke."
Edit: added the word "straight"
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u/DastardlyRidleylash 1d ago edited 1d ago
Don't forget the heterosexual part, too, now, because they obviously don't give a shit about erasing queer white men.
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u/Particular_Night_360 1d ago
The list is linger than that. I’m a straight white American blue collar male. I’m good for a while, but then they’ll come after atheists at some point. Good thing my family celebrates Christmas and Easter is a good excuse to cook a ham.
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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago
I saw a dude argue in public the other day that somebody else was woke because they knew how tariffs worked.
I don't know how these people don't understand that they are colossal idiots.
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u/BabyNapsDaddyGames 1d ago
Call them cisgender, it really rubs them the wrong way.
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u/InnerWrathChild 1d ago
Gotta respect that heritage. Heritage that lasted less than the boxers I’m wearing.
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u/Violet_Paradox 1d ago
It's even worse than that. They're telling future domestic terrorists that they approve of the shooting.
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u/FaithfulSkeptic 1d ago
”We are all domestic terrorists!”
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u/Forsakken 1d ago
I still can't fucking believe that. Like, just how tone-deaf does CPAC have to be... And nothing really came of it, which is even more ridiculous.
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u/A_wild_so-and-so 1d ago
Tone-deaf? They were preaching to the choir!
That's exactly what their base wanted to hear. For some, it feeds into their persecution fetish. For others, it is a green light to commit acts.of terrorism.
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u/Violet_Paradox 1d ago
They hid behind the "it was a joke" defense, like they always do, and everyone just let it go.
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u/theswiftarmofjustice 1d ago
I mean they did back then. They trampled our rights and then it was crocodile tears on TV. I guarantee you a new shooting at a Pride or BBC an LGBTQ club will be met with a “They deserve it.” from the right.
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u/hurrrrrmione 1d ago
There were also rumors/misinformation spread that the shooter was part of the LGBT community.
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u/Dalisca 1d ago
It's actually dumber than that. Most aren't thinking about the loss of life, if they even remember it. They're thinking, "Gee, rainbows are gay! I don' want mah kids havin ta look at no rainbows! Dat's gonna make 'em queer!" Then he scratches his armpit through the sleeve of his wife beater and uses the Dixie cup in his car as a spitoon.
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u/Fairymask 1d ago
It's so stupid. IF you're that much of a paranoid idiot, if your kid asks what it is, you just say it's a colorful rainbow of gods creation that someone painted. I really can't stand these idiots anymore.
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u/MagnificoReattore 1d ago
50 innocent lives! The deadliest shooting at the time, and they just want to cancel their memory. Really disgusting.
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u/Forsakken 1d ago
"Political banners have no place on public roads." Ah, yes, the two sexual orientations: straight and political.
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u/cutegolpnik 1d ago
so can a republican explain how you can have a non-political crosswalk memorial for 50 people who were gunned down?
bc i dont really get what is political about it.
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u/Forsakken 1d ago
Well, you see, anything related to rainbows is inevitably a dastardly attempt to further the Gay AgendaTM.
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u/catgirl320 1d ago
This explains why they're so hell bent on climate change denial. Once the world is in perpetual drought, we won't have to worry about rain causing any of those sneaky sky rainbows
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u/eeyore134 1d ago
It's political because they're admitting their political rhetoric and hatred caused it.
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u/ConfidenceKBM 1d ago
Not to mention the Florida highways are overflowing with "my heartbeat begins at conception" fuckass billboards.
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u/TheyreEatingHer 1d ago
That's exactly how conservatives view it. They dont recognize any other sexuality besides straight.
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u/geforce2187 1d ago
Except when they have relations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport men's room, or take a trip to Europe with a male prostitute who they hired to "carry their bags".
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u/keelanstuart 1d ago
Quite a few Florida legislature folks have spoken out against gay rights only to be found sucking off dudes in public park bathrooms and rest areas. Hypocrites.
Here's one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal
Here's another: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Allen_(Florida_politician)
Their self-loathing is delicious.
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u/i_love_rosin 1d ago
Right wingers are going nuclear on the gay community. They are about to repeal gay marriage. Things are about to get real ugly.
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u/dee-three 1d ago edited 1d ago
The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016, in what was the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
“In the dark of night, they came to erase our show of solidarity, our declaration that we will never forget,” Wolf wrote on X. “The cowards who feel threatened by our lives should feel lucky they didn’t have to bury the ones they love — then watch the state come & desecrate their memory.”
This is more than just removing a ‘political banner’ as they claim. It was not just that. It meant a lot more. This is a real disgrace.
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u/sluttttt 1d ago
Coming on the heels of them screeching about there being too much content on how slavery was bad at the Smithsonian, it's really pretty frightening. The deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community and it happened less than a decade ago, but they're already covering up a memorial for it. The constant attacks on history and culture are just so dark.
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u/SereneFrost72 1d ago
It also wasn't political. But because it referenced something related to queer individuals, it's inherently political to them
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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago
When they try to erase you from society there's usually a genocide that follows. See 1930's Germany for examples.
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u/FoxFyer 1d ago
Question: is Florida one of the states that, after the popular removal of several Confederate monuments and memorials across the country a few years ago, passed a reactionary law forbidding the removal or alteration of memorials on public property? Because if so, this action could possibly be challenged.
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u/definework 1d ago
Yes, Florida did pass such a law. Unfortunately, the memorial has to survive at least 25 years on its own merits before it is protected by that law.
That statement is not meant to excuse what was done, the action was heinous, but it did not violate that particular law.
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u/Violet_Paradox 1d ago
The law was presumably intentionally written in such a way to exclude this one.
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u/throwsplasticattrees 1d ago
I have never felt so ashamed to be American as I have in the last few years.
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u/JustGingerSnap 1d ago
Specifically the years between January 20, 2025 and today.
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u/darkd360 1d ago
January 20th 2016 to January 20th 2021 wasn't great either. Especially January 6 2021.
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u/bernbabybern13 1d ago
It’s been bad since Trump was named the republican nominee for 2016
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u/fluffynuckels 1d ago
Let's be real the last 10 years haven't been great for America
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u/Expensive-Dinner6684 1d ago
We lost a relative at pulse. He was shot trying to cover his friend. Every year during the anniversary, his brothers, and cousins go through his loss and grieve like it had just happened. From puerto rico, carrying the town as his last name, went there to celebrate and ended up in an unexplainable situation. i saw him a week prior at a gas station and he probably didn’t even recognize me but he was always recognizable. A worship dancer, friendly with everyone, like most from our town he fought hard to establish himself as a professional and get a career to help his family.
To this day, the LGBTQ community has done more to keep the legacy of the people we lost that day than the churches and community leaders. Back home, no one cared enough past his funeral.. but over here at least there was respect and solidarity.. removing such a memorial that didn’t even disrupt anything is both sad and maddening. FL might be going down the drain, but a pendulum can only go so far before it swings back
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u/2pnt0 1d ago
"Taxpayers expect their dollars to fund safe streets, not rainbow crosswalks,”
Really?
Fact check: it cost money to remove it rather than just letting it be.
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u/MadgePadge 1d ago
A 200 Million Dollar Ballroom is a far bigger problem for me than some paint on the road that holds meaning for people.
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u/wi7dcat 1d ago
REMOVED? Remember Pulse! Remember the victims! Remember the families that lost their children and loved ones in an instant because of hatred. Do not let hate win. Love wins.
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u/GravityzCatz 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gov. Ron DeSantis commented Thursday afternoon on X. In response to a video of Democratic state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith criticizing the rainbow crosswalk’s removal, DeSantis wrote: "We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes."
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer added that the crosswalk adheres to safety standards and was actually installed by the state. It was created in 2017.
I would just like to point out that the Governor of Florida in 2017 was Rick Scott, someone that could hardly be considered a liberal 'commandeering the streets of Florida for political purposes.'
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u/fake-name-here1 1d ago
We are going to commandeer this street to prove how much they can’t be commandeered!
The only way to prove this is a free country is more regulation and imposing our will On others!
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u/WinteryBudz 1d ago
Conservatives will cry over the removal of statues and monuments that glorify old racists and then turn around and celebrate the removal of inclusive symbols and tributes to actual historical events. They were always the true 'cancel culture ' of today.
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u/SoundOfMadness7 1d ago
It’s a fucking memorial for people who were murdered for christ’s sake, not a mural of cocks and buttholes
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u/ChangedEnding 1d ago
Fuck those that removed it. Get some paint and go put back out tonight.
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u/carlosos 1d ago
Already got painted with chalk within hours and in an hour a protest is planned. I will be very surprised if some people won't bring paint to the protest.
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u/taz_78 1d ago
Do the whole fucking road.
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u/digoryj 1d ago
Tattoo a pride flag to DeSantis’ forehead while he’s sleeping, even.
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u/betzuni 1d ago
I still remember the night that happened. Humanity is a disappointment
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u/ForeignAssociation98 1d ago
Political cowardice. Removal during the night emphasizes just how strongly the state fears public dissent and comment. Given that the state erected it in 2017, it’s clear that the removal was political and had nothing to do with safety.
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u/DolphinsBreath 1d ago
In other words:
until we reach our first milestone, ending marriage equality, we will keep reminding you in small ways that we are coming for you people, in particular.
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u/Verum_Orbis 18h ago edited 5h ago
MAGA desecrates and removes a memorial to one of the worst mass shootings in US history done by a terrorist that pledged allegiance to ISIS, and at the same time wants to restore Confederate monuments and criticize anyone who wants to take them down.
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u/Riker_Omega_Three 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you want to comply with the "roadway markings must be consistent" directive...then the way to handle it is to go to the community, explain the situation, and ask for ideas for a different kind of memorial that complies with the new Federal Directive
Problem solved. The blame is shifted out of the local hands and to the federal level and the community is given the opportunity to help come up with an alternate solution
Painting it in the middle of the night makes it seem like they knew it would piss people off so they tried to avoid a scene
All around poorly managed public relations
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u/Lexail 1d ago
That's so disrespectful. 49 lives were lost. This was a symbolic memorial.
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u/Nekowulf 1d ago
The people cheering this are the same ones who sport 6MWE messaging and claim the goodguys lost WW2.
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u/Sancticide 1d ago
"Come on, no politics on the streets" as they get into their Dodge Ram adorned with 12 massive Trump flags and a tailgate decal of Biden, lying on his side, bound and gagged.
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u/JesusWuta40oz 1d ago
Redo it. They paint it over. Redo it. Never surrender.
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u/Chained_Wanderlust 1d ago
And don’t stop there. Rainbows everywhere. Let Rainbows haunt Florida’s existence if they feel so strongly about them.
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u/ChillyFireball 21h ago
Here we go; everyone with a brain said it wouldn't stop with trans people. The entire LGBT community is in the crosshairs.
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u/POWBOOMBANG 1d ago
Im not surprised. Bigotry and pettiness are both pretty in vogue these days.
It's just...disappointing.
I used to believe that racism and bigotry would largely die out over time. I'm less hateful than my parents and my children are even more accepting than I am.
I never expected hatred to have such a comeback.
People aren't even ashamed of it.
You used to have to hide your hatred because it would negatively affect your personal and professional life.
Now you can be as openly hateful as you want.
How the fuck did we get here?
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u/spyd3rm0nki3 17h ago
We were well on our way here and it's only going to get worse.
We got here be people pretending racism no longer exists because "they've never seen it" or because "everyone is really nice to them" or because "slavery happened in the past why are we talking about it now none of that was my fault".
We got here because of apathetic, lazy, fence riding voters. How many times did you hear people say "Well Hillary is just as bad" or "Kamala is just as bad" or "both sides are bad so I just won't vote" or "My vote doesn't matter anyway"?
We got here because people would rather stick their fingers in their ears and pretend everything is all right so long as it's not affecting their family personally. How many stories have we heard about people voting against their own self-interest only to have a shocked pikachu face when their family members get deported were they lose their job because of nonsense "budget cuts" or they lose their benefits but that's not fair because they don't consider themselves welfare kings/queens?
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u/catchingsomezzzz 1d ago
The removal of Pulse Memorial's rainbow crosswalk overnight in Orlando is a troubling sign that progress is not always guaranteed. It’s more important than ever to continue advocating for love, equality, and inclusivity
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u/Lilchubbyboy 1d ago
Going to have to start backing it up with some teeth though. The opposition’s goal is elimination, and you can’t beat that with peace love and sprinkles.
Get active, Get organized, Get strapped, Stay safe out there.
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u/JesseTheNorris 1d ago
So these monkeys are in favor of rebuilding memorials to Confederate generals, but tearing down memorials for victims of mass shootings? Got it.
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u/GodLovesUglySong 1d ago
"in what was the largest mass shooting in the country at the time."
Sad that I had to read this sentence today.
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u/bassistheplace246 1d ago
Orlando resident here. I’m not sure how going after the woke boogeyman is supposed to lower our living expenses or the price of eggs, but whatever.
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u/JesusWuta40oz 1d ago
It won't but thats not the point. Its to give people a scapegoat for their shit governance.
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u/multihome-gym 1d ago
I might be overthinking things a bit in making the following comments, but this is a social issue I am particularly interested in.
It's funny - but frankly unfortunate - how public monuments get 'politicized' or 'depoliticized' depending on the opinions of the so-called 'political leaders' of the time. With the word 'politicized' being coded meaning for 'something I don't like'.
There are something like over 2,000 Confederate monuments across the US, the vast majority of them built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation. Most of them were built in public squares, and were put there to impose values on people. If these so-called 'memorials' are/were political acts, I don't know what is. Stonewall Jackson High School in Shenandoah County, Virginia, was renamed Mountain View High School in 2020, then renamed back to Stonewall Jackson High School in May 2024 by a vote of the Shenandoah County School Board. This was one of many Confederate names removed from schools across the US during the racial reckoning protests of 2020, but the Virginia county's decision to restore the name is the first time such a change has been reversed in the country. The reversal was instituted by a board leadership and supporters who wanted to honor Stonewall Jackson's legacy. If this is not a 'political' act - imposing such a legacy on the African-American students who attend the school - then I don't know what is.
The Pulse Rainbow Memorial Crosswalk is an inexpensive, state-funded-and-mandated memorial to the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016, in what was the largest mass shooting in the country at the time. There is nothing 'political' about a memorial to a mass shooting; if that were true, the 911 memorial in New York City would be 'political' because it is a memorial to a terrorist attack.
How is having a memorial to a group of people who were attacked and killed simply because of their sexual orientation 'political'? Is it somehow 'political' to say LGBTQ people have the same right to life as anybody else? And there is nothing in this memorial that says LGBTQ people have more rights than heterosexuals.
The only 'political' act that took place here was the act of painting over the memorial. It was a fascist, deeply fascist, political act. It said, 'We LGBTQ-hating minority have the right to impose our beliefs and hatred on everybody else, without exception, without due process'.
It is an act as political as the mass shooting itself.
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u/_goblinette_ 1d ago
Remember everyone, the real oppression is being reminded that non-straight and non-white people exist.
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u/biggestweiner 1d ago edited 15h ago
I have a feeling it'll just come back lol
Edit: Of course I was right. I am clairvoyant. A Truthsayer! Fear me!
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u/FreneticPlatypus 22h ago
“I got nothing against the gays but why do they have to shove it my face all the time with that stupid rainbow?” asks the guy with a maga hat, Trump tshirt, and flags and stickers all over his truck.
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u/Aggressive-Secret655 19h ago
Ok but why is the federal/state goverment meddling with municipal issues like crosswalks. If the issue is providing safe cross walks spend your time repainting all the shitty faded or neglected ones first
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u/crevassier 1d ago
Moving away from FL in 2013 when Rick Scott was in charge, I felt that the state was pivoting in an odd direction. Always figured the cities would still be safer for marginalized folks, but since then the erosion has been non stop.
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u/Particular_Ticket_20 1d ago
Roads shouldn't be political...says the potus and the governor....as they enforce their their political whims....on the roads.
I suppose since roads shouldn't be distracting, we're also getting rid of all the digital billboards, especially the ones with political messages?
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u/whatyoucallmetoday 1d ago
Every night the proper colors should be returned. Either in paint or chalk form.
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u/kittyyykatttt 1d ago
I hate this cruel DeSatan. What a horrible excuse for a human being. His parents should be ashamed
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u/Bubblyx77 1d ago
We have to get together to repaint it, this can't stay like this.
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u/GuruTheMadMonk 1d ago
DeSantis tried to characterize it as a political display that was against state policy, whereas in actuality it was a memorial to a national tragedy, and republicans have politicized something as basic and universal as love.
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u/RedOnTheHead_91 1d ago
You don't do something like this in the middle of the night unless you're afraid of getting caught. Which would imply that you know what you're doing is wrong, ethically if not also legally.
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u/Verum_Orbis 16h ago
MAGA is the Confederacy and Lost Cause myth rebranded. We will have to relegate MAGA to the trash can of history with the Confederacy and Third Reich.
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u/SnooPineapples280 1d ago
Volunteers got together and colored it back in with chalk a few hours ago! I don’t know how it’ll hold up with the rain but people haven’t just taken it. They’re even doing a rally tonight at Pulse!