Posted on 04/07/2022 4:10:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Nothing personal, but the Mouse must die. Oh wait, it is personal, especially for people with little kids who this giant corporation has targeted at the behest of the minority of blue-haired, nose-ringed strange-os in its employ. That Walt Disney is likely turning over in his cryogenic chamber beneath the Disneyland Castle is irrelevant. The man who created an American institution is gone, as is said American institution. It's now a global institution, and the America part is vastly outweighed by the Chi Com component. We used to trust Disney to take care of our kids, not take them over. Well, it made its choice, and it's time to make ours.
The Republicans must figuratively post Mickey's soon-to-be public domain head on a pike. This is what happens to corporations that cross us.
And cross us Disney did. It did not have to stick Donald's beak into Florida's fight to keep grooming perverts from messing with first graders' heads. But stick it did, mewling and howling about the unfairness of Ron DeSantis taking the bullseye off our little ones. It promised to use its power to change the law, not just by advocacy but with contributions and veiled threats to pack up and go.
To which Ron the Avenger replied, "Pack your Schiff."
DeSantis understands the use of power. He's got it. Disney thought it did. But what Disney really has is a vast array of special breaks that helped make it the hulking monopolistic monstrosity that it is today. Look at Disney World in Orlando, a zillion-dollar resort city made possible by a huge spate of special laws that effectively make it a government unto itself. And look at the copyright laws – Mickey should have fallen out of protection decades ago, but the expiration of the 1920s cartoon rodent IP just kept being pushed back by Congress. It is now going to be open season on Mickey in 2024 unless another extension gets granted.
It better not be.
Once, it was understandable, if a bit cronyish, that Disney got what it wanted from various governmental entities. Disney was, well, Disney. Disney World was a place Republican senators loved to take their grandkids to as much as anyone else. And if expanding copyright periods let them keep Mickey in the cage, sure. Disney was beloved. It was trusted. We all grew up on it.
And then Disney treated decades of trust like Pluto the dog treats a fire hydrant.
Disney used its power not for good but for evil. And, more specifically, to screw with us normal people who don't think sex pests should get free access to school kids. And then threaten us with its power.
No.
Not even.
DeSantis should strip Disney of its special bequests in Florida. It's not like Disney can move its city elsewhere. Congress should laugh Disney's lobbyists out of the Capitol when they come begging for a new copyright dispensation. And we should not be shy about letting Disney know why.
You screwed with us. Now you have to pay.
For too long, conservatives did the bidding of the big corporations. But until recently, the big corporations generally used their political power only to carve out special breaks and deals. That was kind of obnoxious, but we were not the target. Corporations rarely dared turn their power on us on social issues. That was the deal.
Then they broke the deal. They decided to take a side against us. Disney was not alone. Now even Oreo is trying to sell us cookies with creamy woke filling. Unacceptable. Now they must pay.
Some conservatives cry out about the unfairness of the government acting against a company for using its power to affect politics and the culture. But our power is through the government and the politicians we elect. We are not morally obligated to be powerless in order to satisfy ideological stickler's arbitrary dictates. Why does Disney get to use its power, but we cannot? How is that right or fair?
Now, the arrangement before was that we would not use our political power against companies, but also that companies like Disney would not use their power against us. Disney changed the rules. Why are we somehow obligated to pretend that never happened and that the old rules are still in effect?
Well, we aren't. While David French might not like it, we are never going to accept being told, "We are going to use our political and cultural power to promote the sexualization of children, but you are morally foreclosed by using the one tool you have to stop it."
Of course, we certainly encourage Disney to whine about how we are being mean by responding to its attack on our kids, but only so we can laugh at it.
Disney picked this fight, and luckily we had Ron DeSantis instead of a Kristi Noem or an Asa Hutchinson there to defend what is right against the Chamber of Commerce contingent that never met a big corporation it didn't slobber over. The GOP needs to understand that big corporations have thrown in their lot with the enemy and that the old rules that once held us back are canceled, repealed, and kaput.
It is time to use our political power to deny those who side against us the breaks and benefits that used to be available when the corporations were culturally neutral. Let them beg the Democrats – hell, they give Dems all their money nowadays, so they might as well get something for it. And to those reticent about flexing our muscles, here's the thing – the corporations taking aim at our kids are getting off lucky. Ron DeSantis could be passing the "Informed Resort Customer Information Act" requiring that any company cavorting with the Chi Coms disclose in every theater and resort with big signs "XXXXX Company does business with the genocidal communist Chinese regime."
Come to think of it, he should do that too. And other corporations, take note. Next November, the party of people you have been screwing with will have majorities in both houses.
Hey, aren't those old rules looking good right about now?
Disney is large enough that it’s an S&P 500 company, so any investment company with an S&P 500 Index fund will have to own a lot of its shares whether they like it or not.
We’ve been doing it too for over a decade. Need more people to follow. Some people in our family slobber all over going to Disney. And even now, probably won’t care.
I’ve known about the farce known as Disneyland since the early 90’s. I wondered how clueless common folks could support them once it was clear that they were trying to brainwash everyone with their insidious agenda. I think Disneyland became a place to park your kids and make them think they were doing something highly acceptable.
80 million people not buying their products(all of them). Should bankrupt them.
Disney has turned into a Communist mining operation that is designed to corrupt our youth and groom them for liberal’s own exploitation. Write them today. I have spent thousands going to their indoctrination camps (Disneyworld, etc.), watching their indoctrination movies, etc., but will no longer support them in any way. Let Hollywood eat them.
Creative destruction is supposed to be good.
When I was a kid I really didn't see much Disney unless it was on "Wonderful World of Disney". I mainly got into Disney's classic features (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, et al) when I was an adult. As a kid I never liked the Mickey Mouse Club.
I no longer watch anything Disney that was made after the classic era. I think the last new Disney movie I saw was Aladdin (the original animated version). I had the Disney + streaming service for awhile but cancelled it after they fired Gina Carano from The Mandalorian for having an opinion that ran counter to the woke zeitgeist. I didn't even finish watching The Mandalorian. I'm not boycotting Disney. I just refuse to watch programming made by such woke trash.
Do you have any idea what Vanguard Group is?
It is a series of index mutual funds designed to track various stock indexes at very low cost to investors.
Vanguard is very popular with millions of investors like me who want to manage their investments at low cost.
How do you “break them up” and extract 30 trillion dollars from them?
Don’t count your chickens just yet, Kurt. Maybe you missed what went on in 2020?
Well maybe not Vangaurd then as they don’t appear to be leftist activists or crooked but the other two are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock#ESG_investing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Corporation#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Corporation#Climate_Change
but then again
ESG - https://institutional.vanguard.com/fund-list/?filters=esg,&sortBy=assetClass&viewType=quarterEndReturnsNAV
CHINA - https://www.vanguard.com.cn/
Hope your portfolio is doing well
Now we know that when the collectivists say It’s For the Children, they really mean it.
Disney Cruises: held at port
ESPN: no games to report on
Disneyland/world: closed
ABC: eyeballs moved to the internet
Disney+: lackluster rollout Disney Movies: theaters shutdown
And yet somehow Disney thrived, and I believe the stock even went up. Very interesting.
PING!
The problem with Kurt is he’s simply too optimistic. How the GOP does depends on how much the Democrats will cheat, and they will likely get away with it as the GOPee sit on their butts.
W T H?
lol
I stopped the Disney thing a long time ago. When I was a kid, Disney World sounded like heaven on earth. I have never been there, and now I never plan on ever going there.
It’s not Mickey’s head we need hoist on a pike!
We’re gonna need a lot more pikes.
I doubt the Chi Coms want the tranny crap too.
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