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Woke Fail: Disney Still Planning to Invest $17 Billion in Florida Despite Fight with Ron DeSantis
Breitbart ^ | 31 May 2023 | David Ng

Posted on 05/31/2023 9:10:27 AM PDT by proust

At a recent conference, Disney parks chief Josh D’Amaro reportedly said the company is still looking to expand or enhance existing attractions at Disney World in Orlando to the tune of $17 billion.

D’Amaro was speaking last week at the the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference in Boston, according to a CNBC report. He told audience members that the $17 billion investment “gives you a sense of how aggressive we’re being in Walt Disney World.”

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KEYWORDS: antiwoke; desantis; disney; fl; florida
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So much for them moving their business elsewhere, as predicted.
1 posted on 05/31/2023 9:10:27 AM PDT by proust
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To: proust

Governors are temporary. They know that. They’ve got way too much money sunk in there to move out. Just the process of building a “replacement” park would take twice as long as DeSantis is going to be there.


2 posted on 05/31/2023 9:12:26 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: proust

Disney made a big deal about cancelling their huge planned Florida office campus, blaming it on Ron DeSantis/Republicans. Ignore the fact that in the post-Covid world, only complete morons are building corporate office space. You can probably buy the stuff for $0.50 on the pre-pandemic dollar. Maybe less.


3 posted on 05/31/2023 9:14:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: proust

They have to. Where else will they go? Oh, they could relate to San Pelosishitsco. Great weather, fresh turds, and lots of candidates to play Mickey Mouse & friends.


4 posted on 05/31/2023 9:15:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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5 posted on 05/31/2023 9:17:05 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Da Coyote

Yes, please go to Commiefornia and get out of Florida!


6 posted on 05/31/2023 9:17:49 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: proust

What are they gonna do, airlift Disney World to Massachusetts? They’re in a bind.


7 posted on 05/31/2023 9:18:35 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: discostu

That’s right, any threat to cut back spending in Florida is based on Disney losing real money in other entertainment areas.

ESPN which they own is hemorrhaging subscribers, due to all the cord cutting, they have laid off dozens and dozens of people including on air personalities.

A number of their recent movies have been disasters, not enough people are willing spend money on movie tickets to be fed Transgender propaganda.

One way or the other DeSantis will be gone in a couple of years and a more friendly Governor will take his place.


8 posted on 05/31/2023 9:18:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Boogieman

Besides that, Florida mad at you is STILL a better deal than California or most other blue states pretending to want your business. The taxes, regs and laws in those states cost business, too.


9 posted on 05/31/2023 9:21:10 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: discostu

There’s that small matter of the warm weather that lets the Mouse operate year round.


10 posted on 05/31/2023 9:24:47 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: discostu

Florida’s a red state... there’s no way we’re going to elect anyone who supports the sexual mutilation and sterilization of children.

And we’re NEVER going to allow ‘queer sex/gender ‘education’ for our kids in grades K - 3 (the original bill groomers at Disney supported.)

Maybe Disney should pack up and move to some Blue State, BlueCity hellhole where their ideas ‘fit’. Maybe Chicago’s South Side? Or San Francisco? Disney could rename their park “Epstein’s playhouse’ and go hard core porn with it... Or they could stay the hell out of politics and remember Walt was a good man and stay to his vision.


11 posted on 05/31/2023 9:29:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (American companies: YOUR Ad Agency needs to look like America NOT like a San Francisco Gay bathhouse)
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To: bobcat62

Maybe Disney could move to Mexico — it’s warm there - and they could work out a deal with the cartels.

Cartels are moving lots of young children into American whorehouses... Could be be a match for groomers.


12 posted on 05/31/2023 9:33:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (American companies: YOUR Ad Agency needs to look like America NOT like a San Francisco Gay bathhouse)
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To: proust
Among the coming attractions is a Moana -themed exhibit called “The Journey of Water,” which will be a self-guided outdoor trail where “you can play and interact with water as it travels from the sky to the oceans and back again,” according to Disney.

I wish they would give up sex politics and just go back to being Disney... And upgrading Epcot would be great. Please Disney, dump the groomer crap.

13 posted on 05/31/2023 9:36:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (American companies: YOUR Ad Agency needs to look like America NOT like a San Francisco Gay bathhouse)
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To: FreedomPoster

Right on.

Disney management suffers from Raskolnikov syndrome.

If you are your own god, then everything is permissible for YOU.

Except in the real world, it is not.


14 posted on 05/31/2023 9:41:10 AM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: proust
The Denver Nuggets are going to play the Miami Heat in the NBA Playoffs, so here's what Polismoker said:

Governor Jared Polis @GovofCO · 20h Calling @GovRonDeSantis and @Disney on a friendly wager. If the @nuggets win the finals against the @MiamiHEAT , Disney World will move to Colorado, the ACTUAL happiest place on earth to do business, have fun, and be free! #ColoradoForAll

15 posted on 05/31/2023 9:42:47 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: proust; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; ..
This $17 billion is to be spent over the next ten years.

I guess money talks.

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

16 posted on 05/31/2023 9:44:34 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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Disney made a big deal about cancelling their huge planned Florida office campus, blaming it on Ron DeSantis/Republicans.

Actually, Disney blamed it on the Californian flakes & nuts not wanting to move to Florida. The newspapers and talking heads on MSNBC/CNN/FOX are TRYING to blame it on DeSantis/Republicans.

That was the $900,000,000 complex for animation, I believe. This $17,000,000,000 is to increase rides at WDW and/or build new rides. I wonder how much the failed Star Wars immersive hotel experience cost them?
17 posted on 05/31/2023 10:50:05 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: proust

IOW, DeSantis is winning.


18 posted on 05/31/2023 10:52:31 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ro_dreaming

Large capital and maintenance expenditures at WDW have long been needed. Many of the rides there and at its associated attractions have gotten stale and need major work, while the entire complex has been up against capacity limits and guest safety and comfort issues for some time. The park also suffers competition from Universal and Sea World.


19 posted on 05/31/2023 2:36:04 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

Yes, I know. I lived in Orlando for a while...


20 posted on 05/31/2023 4:39:16 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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