Right-Wing Protesters Try and Fail to Block Disney World Entrance

[LetMyPeopleVote]

My kids are headed to Walt Disney World for a sibling trip in May. There are multiple entrances to Walt Disney World. It would be impossible to block access to WDW for any meaningful time

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/right-wing-protesters-try-and-fail-to-block-disney-world-entrance/ar-AAWiB3k?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=80be4461ca0642a4a0c98c2632ce6ef7

A so-called patriot convoy of republican Gov. Ron DeSantis supporters descended on Disney World in Orlando, Florida to protest the company’s stance against the state’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Their mission: to form a blockade to keep people from entering Disney World. But it was easier said than done, considering the massive Orlando park has multiple entrances, paid parking, and well, these people are not very smart. In fact, the protesters ended up blocking an entrance to the shopping area Disney Springs, over a mile away from the actual park entrance. Great work, everyone.

Around 100 people showed up to the protest organized by Moms for America, who were protesting Disney’s wildly liberal and controversial stance that…LGBTQ+ people exist? It’s a puzzling protest for many reasons. For one, DeSantis already signed the bill into law. You won this round, dummies. And secondly, Disney made significant financial contributions to the lawmakers and authors of the bill before being called out publicly by their employees. In response, DeSantis claimed that Disney was “trying to impose a woke ideology on our state,” which he declared a “significant threat.” It’s a bold move for DeSantis to insult and alienate one of his state’s biggest job providers and revenue generators, not to mention a globally successful corporation with millions of fans.

Of course, there are no good guys here: not the billion dollar corporation that tried to tacitly endorse anti-gay legislation until it was deemed too unpopular. And certainly not the mouth-breathing cretins holding up Florida traffic for no good reason. None of this changes anything. Disney will still rake in record profits and fans will still flock to their parks. And they certainly won’t miss the money of a handful of rabid Christo-fascists.

[Lovie777]

1. Ugh . .

Just don't attend the "fun" park and stick to the propaganda theme parks which make everyone there angry, mad, haters, entitled assholes.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. When all is said and done

these will be the people with serial infidelities outside their marriages.

[area51]

12. +1 n/t

[multigraincracker]

3. Next.....

nut jobs going after apple pie?

[Chipper Chat]

5. Can't wait for those stupid people to come out against gay Apple trees

"dont eat woke apples"

[sop]

4. I thought DeSantis' recent Anti-Riot Law prohibited protesters from blocking streets?*

DeSantis: "Just think about it, you’re driving home from work, and all of a sudden, you have people out there shutting down a highway, and we worked hard to make sure that didn’t happen in Florida,” DeSantis said. “They start to do that, [then] there needs to be swift penalties.”

"The law also created a broad category for misdemeanor arrest during protests, and anyone charged under that provision will be denied bail until their first court appearance. DeSantis said he wanted that to prevent people from rejoining ongoing protests...It creates a new felony crime of “aggravated rioting” that carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a new crime of “mob intimidation.”

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-signs-anti-riot-bill-20210419-iltp27x5mzcbheeqvyhclhz2xq-story.html

* "Florida's new 'anti-riot' law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as a way to quell violent protests is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Thursday."

"The 90-page decision by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee found the recently-enacted law "vague and overbroad" and amounted to an assault on First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly as well as the Constitution's due process protections."

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035687247/florida-anti-riot-law-ron-desantis-george-floyd-black-lives-matter-protests

Hypocrite DeSantis is now encouraging the very type of protests he railed against when he passed the draconian "Anti-Riot Law" last year. Of course, DeSantis' law was only intended for Black Lives Matter and minority protests, it wasn't passed to persecute his own supporters.

[niyad]

10. You know that those laws are meant for the left, not the sheeples, oooops,

true patriots.

[maxrandb]

6. This post left one thing out about the things that will not change

Disney will continue to fund Retrumplican politicians that propose, vote for, and implement laws and policies like this.

It's pretty fucking simple.

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the corporations, businesses and individuals that fund it.

The worst thing that we could do would be to let Disney off the hook for decades of funding Retrumplicans.

[Takket]

7. And a big thank you to Citizens United for creating this mess

[tanyev]

8. If you want to go to Disney World, the best time to go is when all the RW nutjobs are boycotting it.

[CaptainTruth]

13. +100

[nuxvomica]

9. "woke ideology" is their way of saying "common human decency"

That's where we are now.

[sop]

11. I asked a coworker whose every other word is "woke" what the term meant, and, more to the

point, what the opposite of "woke" would be since he was so opposed to "wokeness." He couldn't respond, he just knew he was against it.

[nuxvomica]

14. That's a dangerous mindset to be in

His influencers can define "woke" to be anything they want, anti-rape, anti-murder, etc., and he'll be against it, a sort of algebra of evil. I've often said that the people who complain the most about their various "rights" have already given up the one right without which the others are meaningless, the right to think for yourself.

[Midnight Writer]

19. Exactly. It is conditioning, or, if you will, grooming. It is all a psy-ops.

[VEGANGTA]

15. Grrr

This makes my blood boil.

I love Disney World.

[Major Nikon]

16. Creme de la Dum

[Initech]

17. Ugh they are literally too stupid to insult.

[Tickle]

18. all this tit for tat

is ridiculous. Disney takes a step , Deathsanctis takes a bigger step and so on...

Now there is a threat to Repeal this. I wish someone from above would call a time out.

The Reedy Creek Improvement Act, otherwise known as House Bill No. 486,[1] is a law introduced and passed in the U.S. state of Florida in 1967, which established the area surrounding the Walt Disney World Resort, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, as its own government authority.[2] It acts with the same authority and responsibilities as a county government.[3]

The bill, which was sought by and pushed for by Disney,[4] was signed into law by Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. on May 12, 1967, allowing Disney to build the infrastructure for the second park.[5] Ground breaking followed for the future Reedy Creek park on May 30.[6] In Roy O. Disney's last act as the company's CEO in 1968, he officially named the second park Walt Disney World.[7]

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. This lady made me smile

Link to tweet

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Isn't it legal to run over protesters in Florida?

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

22. Disney has the LARGEST private security force in the US.

Why aren't THEY protecting the park entrance from these loons ?

These people are just lost. Lemmings about to run off the cliff because someone told them to do so. The latest hate-fad is now attacking Disney. How pathetic.