Posted on 04/20/2022 11:10:48 AM PDT by conservative98
“they should not have special tax status”
That goes way back to orlando giving disney all this compensation just to get them to come there.
Land, Tax breaks and on and on.
There was competition from other cities at the time that also wanted disney in their city.
The Disney streaming service seems to be very successful. And soon with more gay and trans content for the kiddies.
Yay!
A republican politician who walks his talk. thank God for Ron DeSantis.
While l see your point, I am sick of a unilateral culture war. Grooming children is the hill to die on.
Nope. Trump with baggage is way better than any Republican out there but DeSantis certainly is an attractive choice. Hopefully Ron will be happy with vp in 2024.
“ The State of FL punishing Disney for exercising its First Amendment rights,”
The rights protect us from jail not from interpersonal consequences. Punishing ?
Reacting
Disney does not have special rights. They have a special right to tax status Florida gave them. Disney showed contempt to the state of Fla so Fla takes back the favor
First amendment has zero to do with it.
I pay someone to take care of my kids, they tell my kid something unnecessary and disturbing that’s the end of their taking care of my kid
I wish people would use common sense
Was in Orlando this weeks and had to go to Disney Springs to buy my wife clothes, as the airline lost her suitcase. There were so many people therw it boggles the mind.
Disney will be just fine. They will continue to raise their prices and the world will continue to pay them.
Just not me.
If this passes, I expect CEO Chapek will be walked out of Disney by his armpits…
Okay, so other than removing their special rights, who benefits from this move? Will the surrounding communities and counties regain control and empower voters to have a say?
Absolutely, though at that time there was no guarantee of success.
I am old enough to remember the jokes about buying swampland in Florida.
But that was then and this is now.
I don't care any more.
We are all going to play by the same "rules".
"Punch back twice as hard".
Yes, everybody will hate it. The last ones standing will be the ones who end it.
Why do the stockholders put up with this?
Walt and Roy were Republicans. Eisner, I guess, too.
But, institutions which are not Conservative by designation trend to shift leftwards as they age. (Some kind of law by somebody I do not remember.)
Unlike people, who just do the opposite.
>> but we don’t like it when Conservative big business suffer similar
To hell with that concern. We’re at war and the Rats must …
“Why do the stockholders put up with this?”
The principal stockholders are going to be investment funds. That means the individual investors in those funds may not really know that Disney is in their portfolio.
And the big funds these days would appear to have been infiltrated by woke Millennials.
"Grooming" is the hill for the "Groomers" to die on.
Florida should strike Disney as hard as they can, until they either change or are destroyed. No need for even a pretense of apology for taking a hard line.
Doesn’t go far enough.
I suggest eminent domain, to take their pedo park and turn it into a safe for kids park.
Yesterday would not be soon enough.
~Easy
>> I’m just hoping that Disney’s shareholders see this
I hope they lose every damn penny that facilitated the predators’ wicked agenda.
As a resident of FL with 2 children I saw the transformation of WDW first hand. It’s a Pedo Park now.
Every year the park and the special events seemed to have larger numbers of adults w/o children. The employees seemed to cater to them.
Over the last several visits my children were treated rudely by creepy “cast members”. It got to the point where we simply avoided them. We wouldn’t approach them and the children would avoid speaking to them if addressed. It seemed to be getting worse and worse.
There were some seemingly nice employees but the bad ones would ruin the experience. There was no need to expose the kids or continue taking chances with their welfare. When I concluded the kids’ guard was up while in the park I decided it wasn’t worth it and stopped taking the family there in 2012.
It will be very hard for WDW to remove the Pedo Park identity it has now for many people. Their brand now appears to be raunchy Pedo advertising. WDW hasn’t been about kids for 20 years. The LGBTQ employees, ‘cast members’ and fans made sure of that. When I see a WDW Annual Pass Holder sticker on a car I think “Pedo”. Imo that is the intent. Do I see Universal or Busch Gardens pass holder stickers? Nope. Ergo they’re Pedo tags.
“That was then and this is now”
Saw a documentary on pbs some years ago about what went on with Orlando getting disney there.
Every city council member at the time still alive that voted for bring disney there including the mayor at the time were all interviewed.....every one of ‘em said if they knew then what they know now they never woulda let disney in.
They said they would have voted it down flat.
I remember Orlando before DW, used to visit relatives there. It was a sleepy town full of orange groves and I wouldn’t have minded living there at all....now....I haven’t seen the I-4 corridor in probably 30 years if not more....not to mention I haven’t been to “see the mouse” in at least that long, and I only live 2 hours from there.
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