Orlando exists as a major city because of the tourists that Disney draws |
He's made some bad strategic calls as far as that goes. He's also taking Florida for granted, which he shouldn't. |
It's not like he will lose FL in a Presidential run. Now he's trying to go so far right with these social issues so he can win the other states. |
Yes, we all understand what he's doing - thank you. What we're saying is that he's doing it badly and in these dark times it brings some joy to see him so badly humiliated. No one deserves humiliation more than he does. |
No, Donald Trump deserves it even more. |
Why do you think he's doing it badly? |
I don't think it is a given that he'd beat Trump in FL. Why do you think that? |
Exactly. Hence why he's so stupid. |
Sure. And the state would pay a fortune. That land is worth a lot. Disney would fight to get every penny. |
I mean maybe he’s doing it well, and this is a primary vs. presidential run thing. He needs to get Trump’s hard right base during the primary while looking less incompetent/corrupt than Trump to the smarter folks in the middle. He’ll of course have to pivot hard during the Presidential run at that point because the far right will vote for him regardless. But, in reality, he’s probably just very thin skinned. |
Once a politician has captured Trump's hard right base, no thinking independent or moderate will vote for them. Particularly given the stance on banning books, banning abortions and promoting guns. In 2024, these are the main issues that most suburban moms will be weighing. And on every count, the GOP loses. Americans do not want to live in a Christo-Fascist state. |
He's doing it badly because he was viewed as the most normal, stable, moderate-ish candidate - and that's why he had support. But instead he turned himself into a petty, trans-obsessed clown who is trying to burn down Disney - Disney! - and burning himself down instead. His polling shows how badly he's doing this. His dwindling support from the big donors, who are speaking to the media about how his behavior and weird obsessions are giving them pause. And it's not like it's translating into a huge surge of support - he's losing, badly, to Trump at this point. He seems to be viewed simultaneously as a chaotic far right weirdo, AND as a stick up his a** Paul Ryan acolyte. And that's because everyone can smell the inauthenticity - the unformed raw ambition that seeks power and doesn't really have anything behind it. Trump = who I consider one of the great monsters of our times - at least seems authentic in his lies and inauthenticity. He is the guy in the bizarre orange makeup and flabby suit who grabs women and steals everything he can get his hands on, and lies and lives in a weird mansion with a gold toilet. He can't really walk well and insults people constantly, and has a strange fixation on his own daughter. He craves the spotlight and he craves love, and that's who he is. We know him. I HATE him, but we know him. Who is DeSantis? Do you think you know? He's a cipher. |
^ And also, as PP before me said - there's no running away from what a far right dictator he's become. That 6 week abortion ban? You think he can do that and still convince normal people who just want to live normal lives, that he's the guy? No way. He still think that keeping schools open during COVID will be his calling card, but that was a long time ago now. |
That would depend on if Disney ever fought an assessment. Hard to argue a patch of swamp is worth hundrends of millions when you just argued that it was worthless |
That was then, this is now. That land is worth money because Disney spend the money to develop it. I was in Florida before WDW opened, and that part of the state was an empty swamp. |