Let's cut to the chase. De Santis' threat against Disney, revoking their special

[Baitball Blogger]

zoning status is going no where. Why? Because the First Amendment allows them to speak freely without fear of government reprisal.

Which brings up a whole other topic. Why do Republicans keep voting in people who show total ignorance for the law? Don't they realize that Disney has the legal staff to end this with several million dollars of tax payer money as an award?

So much soap opera drama for nothing.

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Some of it is no doubt

performative theater for their debased "base". I don't understand how or why most average non-crazy people still take them seriously and vote for them over and over, though. Is this stuff just not being well-reported or not widely known?

[Caliman73]

40. There are varying degrees of "crazy" and "non-crazy"...

Listen to James O'Brien on LBC. I know that it is British, but it sheds light on how people try to convince themselves about their decisions. There you have people who voted for Boris Johnson, or the Tories and they twist themselves into pretzels trying to talk about how bad "Labour" is because... something something, when O'Brien is point out how Johnson and staffers have broken over 20 laws recently, yet somehow, Labour is so bad (for no identifiable evidence) that they continue to support the criminals.

Same concept here. People continue to support the Republicans even as they break laws and make everyone's lives difficult because ... "Joe Biden is the radical left" Okay, define radical left, what are some radical left policies that President Biden has introduced? "He's a Socialist" Okay, tell me what a socialist believes and what are the policies in place that make President Biden a Socialist? ...

What is happening is that a lot of people have been put off to media by the right wing's constant whining about bias and propaganda, even as they have been the largest purveyors of both.

[Justice matters.]

46. "He's a Socialist" (there's nothing "bad" about that)

Heck, we ALL live in some form of "Socialism" or another.

Paying taxes for infrastructure, for police, for military, for social programs IS "Socialism" and the Scandinavian countries with more "Socialist" programs top the "Best standard of living" charts year in, year out!

Fux Noise and the GQP attack "Socialism" while they benefit from it! (Driving on streets 'n roads to get to work and back, for one basic example...)

[Initech]

2. Ron DeSantis is a fucking idiot.

This is mainly to score points with Fox News viewers and that's about it.

[dem4decades]

7. Desantis is no idiot, however he knows his followers are.

[dameatball]

10. Yep. It seems to work. Revenge politics and being the tough guy attracts those voters.

[Initech]

11. Like I said this move is mainly to score points with Fox News viewers and that's about it.

[certainot]

37. desantis used to worship the now rotting limbaugh. floridians, especially lgbtq and friends are fool

fool to keep ignoring that 5 florida universities that have been pushing anti gay bigotry for 30 years depend on 5 florida universities to keep using their athletes to help 20 xlimbaugh stations sell advertising top pay for all that homophobia (not to mention global warming denial, voter suppression, pub lic ed defunding, teacher hate, anti-CRT woke bullshit)

FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2

alll they have to do is get a community to start a discussion about the absurdity of that and those schools using thousands of black athletes to keep 20 kkk stations going and the rest will follow. without those stations getting a free speech free ride desantis and scott and rubio and many of the other GOP shitferbrains don't have a chance.

[Traildogbob]

28. Be is a fucking DUNK!

In full bloom. He is the very definition of a DUNK. And why it needs to be a thing.
It’s a compo of a Dick and and C**T with out using that nasty C work. But he will pass a bill to outlaw the DUNK work soon as he is told he is one.

[dickthegrouch]

38. You've got it all wrong!

“Don't they realize that Disney has the legal staff to end this with several million dollars of tax payer money as an award? “

Money (damages awarded to Disney) out of public coffers into private deep pockets. Mission accomplished!

[Best_man23]

3. Someone in Death Sentence's circle should tell him

There's an unwritten rule in Florida: Don't F*** with the Mouse.

Disney has more money, more lawyers, more lobbyists, and more government connections that the RNZ, Death Sentence, and their Russian Oligarch backers (allegedly) have.

[sanatanadharma]

4. Let the counties and the state take back the policing, fire and such security from Disney.

Florida is fast on the way to reaching peak peter-principle because the State is led by a dick who skipped Murphy's law class.

[Tickle]

43. The Peter principle

I haven’t heard that used in 30 years lol

[GoodRaisin]

5. They vote for whoever has an R after their name on the ballot and they

themselves are ignorant of the law. “Legal” is meaningless to this generation of Republican shits.

[HAB911]

6. people who are ignorant of the law

keep voting in people who show total ignorance for the law

[Hortensis]

20. Another way to put it, people who don't believe in the law or democracy

don't bother to learn about either and want to smash both when they get in their way. "Lock her up" and steal the election wasn't ignorance, it was strategy. Still at it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Maybe Disney doesn't deserve special status

But they have done more for the state than DeSantis ever did. Would Central Florida have become Central Florida without Disney World?

[Tickle]

44. They don't have

a state income tax and deathsanctis has already said he’d love to make Disney’s park a Floridah state park. Why can’t we all get along 🤦‍♀️🙈🙈🙈🙈

[DBoon]

9. they aren't ignorant of the law

They believe they are above the law. They worship power and domination.Breaking the law and getting away with it means you are powerful, which means republican voters will worship you.

and who was it that said the Bill of Rights was just a piece of paper?

[spanone]

12. The Florida Dictator.

Disgusting.

[bringthePaine]

13. perhaps dick/taterhead...😬

[Warpy]

14. Gov Death Sentence has already fallen into the authoritarian trap

of being told what he wants to hear. Also, it sounds like he's getting legal help from the stellar team assembled by his good buddy, TFG.

Republicans know what the law is. They just think they can get away with flouting it for political expediency.

[Initech]

32. What I find hilarious is that the people who claim to be champions of free speech...

Are literally cheerleading the laws prohibiting the free speech expressions of the LGBT community on the claims that they're doing this "for the children". But these laws are the exact opposite - they are causing way more harm than good and it's going to take years to undo this damage.

The hypocrisy surrounding these laws is totally insane. I'm pretty sure Fox News is pulling the strings here. Fuck them.

[Warpy]

36. Fundagelicals find no irony and find them perfectly consistent with free speech

which should, of course, be only the right sort of speech to be free.

Fundagelicals believe a lot of insane and self contradictory nonsense, haven't you noticed?

[jaxexpat]

15. There is coming to Flora-politica a momentous event. One that's been long anticipated by many.

You'll definitely know it when you see it. From the podium, with the cameras rolling, that final deer-in-the-headlight, I-can't-believe-it's-happening-to-me, vacantish stare, as R. DeSadist at long last realizes his ruse is failing and his shark jumping days are done. Like a collie I had as a boy, he will have caught the car he was chasing and it will be his demise.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Simple bully move. Threaten, accuse, defame, repeat. GOP are masters of this.

[sarge43]

17. "....Disney has the legal staff...

The Mouse House probably has more lawyers than Washington DC and Elon Musk combined.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. disney can outspend , out live and out manuver deathsantis .

[Lunabell]

19. And why is desantis pro-corporations only when they tow his line?

I thought that they believed in the capitalist dream of unfettered corporate power? HYPOCRITES!!

[maxrandb]

23. I'll take "Fscism for $2,000" Alex

[lpbk2713]

21. Disney can keep the issue in court until DeShithead is out on his ass.

After he loses the election (for whatever office he might think he would want to make a try for) what he says won't matter in the least. And Disney and many others will be laughing at him.

[TeamProg]

22. I hope Disney finds a way to SUE the CRAP out of FL. n/t

[ificandream]

24. Not surprised DeSatanis came up with this crap. Repughs are the most vindictive creatures ever.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. The drama is bc wannabe populist DeSantis is manufacturing outrage for the base. . . .nt

[tishaLA]

26. I'm sorry but Disney is getting what it deserves

They moved a bunch of jobs from CA to FL because they were pissed that Gov Newsom's COVID rules kept their park closed longer than they wanted. Then in FL, they couldn't be bothered to say anything about the Don't Say Gay bill until it had passed the legislature and Disney's CEO said "oh, but look at all the good we did for the LGBTQI community with Modern Family." So their workers were rightly pissed and pressed the company into saying something, but it was already too late.

The company chose state tax breaks over LGBTQI people and now the horrible Desantis is using them as a punching bag.

[CaptainTruth]

27. Remember, DeathSentence won by 0.4%.

In other words, he BARELY won. He doesn't have a "mandate from all Floridians," he squeaked into office with a squeak smaller than a fieldmouse, much less a Mickey or Minnie.

In terms of raw numbers, DeathSentence won the election by 32,463 votes, or 0.4%.

Florida had 131 million visitors in 2019, & about half of them, 58 million, went to Disney World.

So the idiot who won by 32,463 votes is picking a fight with the company that brings about 58 million people to his state every year.

Please proceed.

[childfreebychoice]

30. I have been reading many articles about large numbers of ppl moving to tex, FL, Iowa, Idaho

etc, cuz of the "freedoms," lax gun control, bashing gays, crt, no mask /vax mandates, etc. They will be lining up to vote , with few to no impediments to the ballot box. That, along with voter suppression, gives him and Abbott good chance of winning

[Tickle]

45. I had heard

that Florida now has 100k more republicans for the first time. I’m thinking deathsanctis is going to get re-elected and guns will be everywhere

[Skittles]

29. he knows it isn't going anywhere

HE IS PERFORMING FOR THE CULT

[PoliticAverse]

31. "the First Amendment allows them to speak freely without fear of government reprisal."

You really believe a law granting many corporations special rights can't be repealed because one corporation expressed an opinion someone found offensive?

[Mr. Evil]

33. Disney's reply could be very simple and very effective.

All they have to do is threaten to pull up stakes and leave Orlando.

Problem solved.

If Universal Studios park did the same, I guarantee you that Gov. Death Sentence would knock his stupid shit off quicker than TFG can tell a lie.

[Jarqui]

34. I do not understand why a man who has arguably killed as many Floridians

as DeSantis has with his horrible policies on Covid would even be a consideration to carry on as Governor in Nov 2022.

Meanwhile, the reports/polls suggesting that he's leading to replace Trump as the GOP Candidate for President in 2024 darn near make my head explode. I thought going with Trump was craziness. This guy seems more dangerous and will have no problem carrying on from where Trump left off.

[themaguffin]

35. It doesn't matter, like most GQP actions, it's to score points w/the base.

He's a lawyer. He's not stupid. He's a cynical grifting fuck.

[YoshidaYui]

39. Ron De Santis is an

Asshole who will some day run for President, I wonder what his chances are against Kamala Harris?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

41. By design, it's a feature of fascism, not a bug.

Excerpts from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism .....

"fascist aesthetics ... flow from (and justify) a preoccupation with situations of control, submissive behavior, extravagant effort, and the endurance of pain; they endorse two seemingly opposite states, egomania and servitude. The relations of domination and enslavement take the form of a characteristic pageantry: the massing of groups of people; the turning of people into things; the multiplication or replication of things; and the grouping of people/things around an all-powerful, hypnotic leader-figure or force. The fascist dramaturgy centers on the orgiastic transactions between mighty forces and their puppets, uniformly garbed and shown in ever swelling numbers. Its choreography alternates between ceaseless motion and a congealed, static, 'virile' posing. Fascist art glorifies surrender, it exalts mindlessness, it glamorizes death." Sontag also enumerates some commonalities between fascist art and the official art of communist countries, such as the obeisance of the masses to the hero, and a preference for the monumental and the "grandiose and rigid" choreography of mass bodies. But whereas official communist art "aims to expound and reinforce a utopian morality", the art of fascist countries such as Nazi Germany "displays a utopian aesthetics – that of physical perfection", in a way that is "both prurient and idealizing".

.......fascist aesthetics "is based on the containment of vital forces; movements are confined, held tight, held in." Its appeal is not necessarily limited to those who share the fascist political ideology because fascism "stands for an ideal or rather ideals that are persistent today under the other banners: the ideal of life as art, the cult of beauty, the fetishism of courage, the dissolution of alienation in ecstatic feelings of community; the repudiation of the intellect; the family of man (under the parenthood of leaders)."

(emphasis is mine)

Republicans, during my 74 years, have transitioned from just a bunch of smart-ass rich guys that hate taxes and regulation to a core of fascists that are in the process of permanently dividing, de-educating and amoralizing America.


KY..............

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. This will be fun to watch

I was at WDW both in May of last year by myself and with the family in December. My kids are headed back in May. Disney really is a town onto itself and can out last DeathSantis. This will be fun to watch