Did you perhaps mean Race Bannon?
Posted on 06/28/2023 1:56:24 PM PDT by lasereye
Republicans traditionally have been the party that supports business. That's taken a lot of forms, but the classic member of the Grand Old Party supports lower taxes and fewer regulations and stands against unions.
In the modern era, being a member of any political party seems to have taken on connotations beyond whether you support higher taxes on business profits or raising the minimum wage. Now, candidates can't simply paint their feelings about business with a broad brush.
That's because in the current political world not every business gets treated equally by some candidates. Companies now get judged for their perceived political beliefs even if those beliefs have no impact on the core goal of making money.
Instead of treating all businesses the same way, Republican candidates for president, including Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, have waged a culture war against certain companies. Target has fallen victim to this for selling Pride Month clothing, even though Walmart also sells Pride gear without receiving similar fallout.
Anheuser-Busch has famously also been caught up in this political maelstrom and DeSantis has made Walt Disney a special target is his so-called war on woke, which broadly targets companies that support inclusivity.
Disney, however, has received extra attention from the Florida governor, even as the company is the largest single-site employer in his state and a massive driver of tourism revenue.
That's a mistake, according to former Vice President Mike Pence, who is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
Pence, a longshot candidate for the Republican nomination, says the market and consumers will punish companies for being woke. He explained his position in an essay published on Reason, a Libertarian website. He wrote that "the answer to such challenges is not to demand government intervention -- it is to use free market principles to fix the free market itself."
That's playing out in real-time, according to the former vice president.
"That is exactly what is happening around the country," he wrote.
"After Bud Light drew controversy for embracing progressive gender politics, sales plummeted nationwide. In recent weeks, the same thing has happened to Target for similar reasons. Shares of both companies have suffered substantial losses. Without government lifting a finger, woke companies are being called to account for their ideological excesses."
Pence says that the same thing would happen with Disney because of the company's public stand against DeSantis's so-called Don't Say Gay legislation and its other "left-wing values."
"When the governor of Florida decided to launch a full-scale campaign of governmental retribution against Disney, he wasn't taking a page out of the conservative playbook -- he was following in the footsteps of the radical left," Pence wrote.
"In doing so, he not only risked billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs for the state, but even more importantly, he turned his back on the principles that make our country great."
Pence made clear that he believes conservative consumers would have hurt Disney's bottom line without DeSantis's political retribution. He also believes that the government should not be using its power to punish companies that support different values.
"The bottom line is this: Conservatives can either be for politically motivated government intervention in the private sector, or we can be against it," he wrote.
It’s whoever wins at messaging. We won at the defund the police. But lost on the Disney message and the abortion message. Democrats quickly labeled abortion services as women’s health care. We were just glad roe ended and kinda stopped there.
What a mischaracterization and disappointment that turned out to be.
Pence is a pussy.
most people have only a cursorily or pop culture understanding of different politicians this was how much Pences was understood by the public outside his home state when Trump chose him as his running mate. I at the time considered myself more knowledgeable then most and I just did not know anything about Pence. At the time I found his pick suspect only because I remembered how George Bush was forced on Reagan and figured that Pence was the same sort of vice-presidential pick.
Pence is Late.
Trump banged DeS on Best Principles the moment it came out of the gate.
The entertainment market left alone generally rights itself. The economic impact is marked by either correction and recovery, or failure and lo$$.
Is Pence a copycat or just trolling the cheap seats? ☺️
Pence and trump are allying with groomers.. and doubling down.
Wait! Pence is this unlikely ally? Bwahahaha.
(represents no other interests but his/her/it's own)
Did you perhaps mean Race Bannon?
Trump has to earn the nomination like anyone else.
Yes! I forgot that it was “Race”. Thanks!
“Yes! I forgot that it was “Race”.”
How can you forget that? Everything always comes down to Race these days! ;)
LOL! You’re quite right. Good mnemonic. At my age, I have trouble remembering names. Surprised I know my own some days.
Actually, he was okay with the special treatment until Disney pissed him off then he decided to use the powers of the government to address the problems with the Reedley district.
Stupid, nonsensical comment by the article's author.
But nonetheless, marks against both Trump and Pence for siding with Disney. Disney has a huge number of perks and if they are going use their position to influence politics and public social policy and culture they should not expect the government to continue promoting and subsidizing them.
Disney was supposed to develop communities which would’ve presumably been beneficial to them and Florida, but failed to follow through. Their special privilege should’ve been revoked long ago.
Consequences from not honoring an agreement is part of business too, in case Mr. Pence didn’t know. At that point, the Florida taxpayers were being cheated out of promised benefits, as well as having their efforts at protecting their children from sexual predators propagandized by Disney’s media assets which are considerable.
If the other resorts can do business under Florida’s laws, so can Disney.
Auuuuuugh! Lol! Well played :)
When was the last time the entertainment market did that?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.