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East Coast surf mecca Orlando, Florida finds itself in hot water after displaying less than rabid patriotic fervor ahead of 4th of July: “A lot of people probably don’t want to celebrate our nation right now, and we can’t blame them.”

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The United States of America celebrates its 246th birthday, tomorrow, though not all citizens of this great nation are happy. World Surf League commentator Chris Cote called for the holiday to be “cancelled” via Twitter, Australian Jessi Miley-Dyer, WSL head of competition and tours, went further and called for an abortion of the land’s Supreme Court, others are planning to ignore the festivities as protest and the city of Orlando, Florida, an East Coast surf mecca, just released a tepid invitation to their firework show reading:

A lot of people probably don’t want to celebrate our nation right now, and we can’t blame them. When there is so much division, hate and unrest, why on earth would you want to have a party celebrating any of it? But in all seriousness, you know in your heart, Fourth of July fireworks are amazing, especially when you are standing in 90° heat, 100% humidity, next to 100,000 of your closest friends. In that moment, something takes over and we all become united in an inexplicable bond. Yes, America is in strife right now, but you know what…we already bought the fireworks.

Light-hearted?

Funny?

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Sensitive?

Many did not think so, including the Fraternal Order of Police, and forced the annual host of Surf Expo, the largest surf-based trade show on earth, to release the following statement:

The city of Orlando sincerely regrets the negative impact our words have had on some in our community. We understand these words offended some of our residents, which was not our intent. We value the freedoms we have in this country and are thankful to the men and women who fought and continue to fight for those. We take pride in celebrating the 4th of July to express our gratitude to those men and women and honor the country we live in.

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Earnest.

Forced.

But how do you feel about the day? Ready to fly those famous stars and straps or red, white and blue all over?

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Doug Landback

Orlando is a surf mecca? You might want to check a map…it’s about an hour drive to the ocean, depending on traffic.

Boat Docks

Just curious how one assumes the title of Patriot? I can understand “citizen” or “American”. Just asking about the service because at least those folks have a little skin in the game, done something beyond just live here before staking a claim.

No Feelings

The mushrooms. Badgers too if I remember right.

No Feelings

They told me they don’t mind.

No Feelings

Well, if “us” is “Americans” then there is an “us.”

Unless you’re shrooming, in which case yeah, we’re all one, part of the cosmic whole, puking our guts out.

No Feelings

Where would we find more? We’re down to just looking at alternative stupid shit for the existing idiots to do.

No Feelings

Or even read Huckleberry Finn.

We really need to bring back tarring and feathering. We just might run out of tar and feathers.

No Feelings

The Surf Expo staff is just sore because they got Monkeypox in Orlando.

Being from Orange County CA, I’ve never had any desire to go to Orange County FL or the other Disney, Universal, etc. resorts. Orlando always sounded a bit revolting.

I thought that Orlando was not near the beach, though. Am I wrong?

tim_nelsen

British Parliament Forms July 4 Commission To Investigate Colonial Insurrection

https://media.babylonbee.co…

Martin Collins

Hate to say it, and your late to the party, it’s been over for some time now, sad., Safety has replaced Liberty in the country formerly known as the United States of America.

karlaK

Orlando is not a surf mecca, nor is it on the coast. It’s an hour drive away.
And, except during hurricanes and tropical storms, the waves are shitty anywhere within a 3-hour drive.

James Southern

To bad you do see through the propaganda people. A few do but most are Pavlov’s dogs today. You have been so socially engineered that you believe anything a teacher, professor, reporter, or left winged globalist politicians says without questioning it.
Those who hate capitalism should just move to Cuba or Russia to see the effects of communism and Marxism. It ain’t the free, loving, safe, and entitled system you think. Cuba is a shambles in horrible poverty from decades of Marxist/communist rule. The people are not just poor but have some of the worst healthcare, education, and living conditions on the planet with few exceptions for great athletes, military, and government officials. Russia, the former communist Soviet Union, now being run by a former KGB head who is a hardline communist and now a dictator, was in such decay before they dumped communism for a couple of decades that the people that were not great athletes, government officials, and military almost without fail were so impoverished that it used to take months to save up to buy a new pair of pants for work. If you had saved enough to but one of the Russian made cars it was a waste because the cars would literally break down almost daily. It was so bad that the defectors were telling that secretly the people had jokes about the Russian vehicles and about how even when it’s running fine it takes a minute for it to fall apart.
Your revisionist/Marxiat propaganda that you have swallowed as fact is just that. Propaganda. Most of the history even in colleges has be erased and replaced with specific hot topic issues that only hit specific parts of history in any detail but do not tell you how things have changed, what accomplishments have happened to make everyone’s life better, nor how that so called race relations actually was getting so much better only Thirty years ago that if the subverted had not infiltrated every aspect of education, government , and media and piped up the propaganda to make people feel like the country is horrible and to create more prejudice then we would likely only be talking about getting rid of prejudice groups like the KKK, BLM, ANTIFA, and other subversive groups that want to make us hate it despise each other. Fact is that it was becoming less prejudice by the day. The problem with that was that the political antagonizes who are predominately Democrats, globalists, Regressives and other psychotically twisted people that want the prejudice to stay hot to keep them relavent had to turn up the heat so they began using more catch phrases and propaganda to make things seem worse than they are.
For example, the man killed in Ferguson was a known thug. He had just attempted to rob a store. He had a gun at the store. The police didn’t know if he still had it on him.
The man was huge. A physical giant compared to most. He had a violent past and the police knew it. When he resisted arrest he was given many chances to stop and co-operate but did not. Knowing his violent past and using common sense the police acted accordingly. It had nothing to do with his skin colour.
The nurse who was shot and killed in her apartment was a tragedy. Truthfully thought was partially her fault when you take a look at the facts. A black minister there laid it out best. He said that she had recently kicked her ex-boyfriend out of her apartment. He was a known gang banger and drug dealer.
Instead of moving on with her life and finding someone without that kind of influence to be around her and her family she then started dating his partner in crime and moved him in. This is what lead to the issue.
The evening/ morning in question, the police served three other warrants in the same case. The were served almost simultaneously and no one else was injured.
The neighbour got rowdy and the police had to calm that down. One neighbour fired shots. They took that neighbour into custody.
When they knocked on her door her new boyfriend grabbed his weapon, ran into the room and as he was going for the door the police broke it in. It hit him and an officer looking through the small opening saw a gun. About that sane moment she stepped around the corner into the room and they began to fire because the officer shouted gun, gun. He was the only one who saw the gun. The others were behind the door and fired into the room. She was struck and killed.
They followed protocol but protocol isn’t perfect and never will be because every situation is unique. Now when you ask how it is partially her fault use your head. If she had not chosen a fellow gang banger and dealer to replace the former boyfriend, and had he not went to the door with a gun, they would not have had a reason to fire. She made a bad choice, and he also made a bad choice. If he had left the gun in the bedroom the cop would not have hollered gun, gun, and they would have had no reason to fire. Therefore her bad decisions are what lead to the situation and the boyfriends bad decision lead to the shooting and her death so in all honesty they are responsible just as much and more than the police who followed protocol. Their decisions and actions lead to the police firing into her apartment so like it or not they are the ones who caused her death it just happened to be a bullet from the police that made it final.
This country is not perfect and no country is but you still have more opportunities, less prejudice, and a better life here than in the communist, Marxist, socialist, dictatorships, and other places in the world so wake up and stop believing every piece of revisionist propaganda you are being fed and stop being Pavlov’s dog.

toofattosurf

punctuation pls…

Martin Collins

Superbly explained, well done, common sense explanation of state of affairs.

tim_nelsen

not the popular view…but unfortunately a fireable offense. truth!

tim_nelsen

that’s a one-sided representation…I heed to it!

Sean Connery

The sad part is that she actually thinks she is a person of influence.

Dexie

I am an American and I am a Patriot. It is the looney left who wants to create discouragement .. I refuse to give them any of my space I stand by God who made this Country. I stand by the Declaration of Independence. I stand by the US Constitution. I stand by the First Amendment. I stand by the 2nd Amendment. I stand by Pro Life. I stand by Parents who are standing up to their Local Board of Educations. I also refuse to get brainwashed into helplessness. Let the Independence Day Celebrations be loud and defying.

Boat Docks

by chance did you ever stand in line to enlist?

toofattosurf

…………………. crickets……………………………..

Free willy

Why do right wingers always tell liberals to go to Russia and china but then say how great fascist countries like Russia and Hungary are? All while receiving capital from China like trumps new platform. Then go and say how the government is bad and needs to be abolished. But never saying what will replace it?

84092, 92673

Always better to live in a fascist country than a communist one.

Piskian

Spam,Ospreys,and baseball for everyone!

channelbottom

This is going to be possibly the most important case ever heard in SCOTUS history. Essentially the fate of the entire US democracy will rest on how it’s decided (by an illegitimate, anti-democratic court )

https://www.businessinsider…

Enjoy our fun here while it lasts because it could be that a literal, not metaphorical civil war is about to happen in 2024, and once the US melts down, you can say bye bye to stability of the rest of the world.

Thanks Gingrich and McConnel, you are both evil. Literally, not metaphorically, evil.

Chief Hot stuff
Working Class Hero

This is scary shit. Still pissed RBG didn’t retire during Obama’s second term. What a fucking cunt. Happy 4th everybody!

Boat Docks

Only thing that’s going to happen in 2024 is the repubs curb stomping the dems. The way the dems did to the repubs back in 96 and 08.

Crazy Lary

2024 is the year military experts say china’s navy will have the ability to challenge western nations and take over Taiwan. So if western nations aren’t able to produce micro chips and are reliant on Taiwan it would either force us into conflict or force us to be reliant on china. What will the newly elected Republicans in 2024 decide? Seems like mich and his wife, Donald and his new platform are already reliant on china. Who loves USA government? Club K Container Missile System 2013 / User.One.1 ost’n energy’ser bunny
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

channelbottom

In 1851, Thomas Paul Smith, a 24 year old African-American from Boston outspoken in his opposition to school desegregation, was tarred and feathered by a group of African American Bostonians opposed to segregation.[16]
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The Wednesday, May 28, 1930 edition of the Miami Daily News-Record (Miami, Oklahoma) contains on its front page the arrests of five brothers (Isaac, Newton, Henry, Gordon and Charles Starns) from Louisiana accused of tarring and feathering Dr. S. L. Newsome, who was a prominent dentist. This was in retaliation for the dentist having an affair with one of the brother’s wives.
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Future Australian senator Fred Katz – a socialist and anti-conscriptionist of German parentage — was publicly tarred and feathered outside his office in Melbourne in December 1915.[22] A week before the 1919 Australian federal election, former Labor MP John McDougall was kidnapped by a group of about 20 ex-soldiers in Ararat, Victoria, and subsequently tarred and feathered before being dumped in the town’s streets. He had earlier been revealed as the author of an anti-war poem that was perceived as insulting Australia’s soldiers. Six men were charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm, but pleaded down to common assault and were fined £5 each. Many newspapers supported their actions.[23]
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In August 2007, loyalist groups in Northern Ireland were linked to the tarring and feathering of an individual accused of drug-dealing

-Wikipedia

Gwen Walz’s Eyes

Someone should do a story on famous surf families that marry into each other.

Nate/Marin

Brutus

that’s why I come here so the voice of reason can point me in the right direction…so pray tell……….what’s ya history of T7F???

munnstrosity

Ready. To drink alcohol, take narcotics and enjoy the day on the boardwalk. If you dont like the USA., stop sucking around here crying about politics and stupid issues and GTFO. Take a plane, take a train, take a car….


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