DeSantis and FL moving to hammer Disney

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/courtside/can-ron-desantis-control-disneys-content/

This has some of his comments. People actually believed he could control Disney’s content, and that somehow, Disney would leave this power with their municipal district.

DeSantis may be stupid about a lot of things, but he must have known this would not have ever worked out.

Clearly not presidential material.

[Anonymous]

bUt tHeRe ArE nO sTAtE taXEs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: How in the world did they not know about the meeting and changes? Part of me wonders if DeSantis wanted the splash of going after “woke” Disney, but had to know it would never to withstand a court challenge. I have believed since last year that he would quietly hand back the self governance after the election.

You're giving him too much credit. What happened is that he's so busy tweeting and showboating and talking about trans people and wokeness, that he just failed to be careful. He was careless. He's pathetic - he thought that the tweets and Fox spots really were it. And - another argument that he's got awful people around him - no one was knowledgeable or careful enough to pay attention to the public meeting.

Just idiots who are buying their own product. Not a careful, knowledgeable one among them.

[Anonymous]

So in other words, DeSantis and FL are not hammering Disney.

[Anonymous]

New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

I thought republicans were against politically motivated criminal investigations. Strange

[Anonymous]

More on Iger today:
“On Monday, the New York Times reported DeSantis has asked Florida authorities to investigate the Disney World board.

“It seems like he’s decided to retaliate against us,” Iger said during the company’s annual shareholders meeting Monday, referring to DeSantis’ power struggle with Disney in an attempt “to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right.”

“That seems really wrong to me,” added Iger, who returned to his position as CEO late last year following the ousting of Bob Chapek. (It was under Chapek’s short-lived regime that Disney first responded to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and received backlash for not coming out against it sooner.)

“We’re currently planning now to invest over $17 billion in Disney World over the next 10 years,” Iger said, noting that Disney estimates this will lead to 13,000 new jobs within the company and “thousands of indirect jobs” in the state, thus bringing in more taxes for Florida. Iger says any attempts made by DeSantis to “thwart” these efforts is ultimately detrimental to Florida.”

[Anonymous]

I just do not see DeSantis appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

I thought republicans were against politically motivated criminal investigations. Strange

Disney is responding by investing $17B more into the state that is going after them. Way to teach DeSantis a lesson. If they really wanted to push back, they would start seeking bids for another east coast location and they would move every job not tied to the park out of Disney. Instead, they're rolling over

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just do not see DeSantis appeal.

He’s willing to tell teens to take off masks, ban books, kidnap & transport immigrants to bLue StaTes, demonize trans ppl, allow unfettered guns on the streets while not constantly tweeting. What’s not to like? /s

[Anonymous]

We told you this guy was a stinker of a candidate! Careless, reckless, and whiny - too busy worrying about his next Fox hit to actually tackle the very real problems that need solving. And guess what - going after Disney because they like gay people wasn't one of the very real problems, and he couldn't even do that right!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

I thought republicans were against politically motivated criminal investigations. Strange

Disney is responding by investing $17B more into the state that is going after them. Way to teach DeSantis a lesson. If they really wanted to push back, they would start seeking bids for another east coast location and they would move every job not tied to the park out of Disney. Instead, they're rolling over

“We’ve got some great plans for more business in your state, would be a shame if something happened to them.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

I thought republicans were against politically motivated criminal investigations. Strange

Disney is responding by investing $17B more into the state that is going after them. Way to teach DeSantis a lesson. If they really wanted to push back, they would start seeking bids for another east coast location and they would move every job not tied to the park out of Disney. Instead, they're rolling over

I think you're missing the context. Iger is saying they plan to invest $17B into the state, but the anti-business policies of DeSantis threaten that investment.

[Anonymous]

Bob Iger might be the most level headed person in Florida:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-bz-disney-bob-iger-desantis-disney-expansion-20230403-3nikes27v5ai3oix4zbq4new3m-story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New headline:

Disney is Hammering DiSantis

I thought republicans were against politically motivated criminal investigations. Strange

Disney is responding by investing $17B more into the state that is going after them. Way to teach DeSantis a lesson. If they really wanted to push back, they would start seeking bids for another east coast location and they would move every job not tied to the park out of Disney. Instead, they're rolling over

I think you're missing the context. Iger is saying they plan to invest $17B into the state, but the anti-business policies of DeSantis threaten that investment.

Exactly. Disney always plays the long game.

If they pull up out of Florida, DeSantis says "good riddance to bad rubbish" and references The Gays etc if he refers to them again at all. And voters have short memories.

But when they stay in Florida, and they invest in Florida (actually, more than double down on investing), then Disney has a lever by which to complain about DeSantis. They can highlight how hard he is for making them do business -- yeah, those guys, the ones that just doubled-down on Florida. Carping about The Gays has much less weight against that, and it stays fresh in the minds of voters.

DeSantis poked the Mouse. Disney doesn't want to win a pissing fight. They want him to lose his job and never get it back.