Walt Disney was a storyteller.
That is who he was and that is what made him so successful. He made his mark turning classic stories into animated legends. And then he created not one but two amusement parks on each coast of the country for families to show up. In turn, the company he created evolved into one of the biggest conglomerates in the world, recognized around the world, and encompassing a huge portion of the media. Disney the company owns Star Wars and Marvel and ESPN and the ABC Network and DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox and National Geographic, and countless other forms of media and entertainment.
And the two amusement parks that punctuate the world of Disney are not some small ventures with a handful of roller coasters and a water park. These are massive facilities with their own police, fire, and rescue services. The Walt Disney World resort has several hotels, a monorail service, a wildlife preserve, campgrounds, spas, golf areas, even a yacht resort. All of that in one facility.
Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, is a lawyer who became a sleazy politician and currently serves as the governor of the fascist state of Florida. And it is because of DeSantis that Florida is the fascist state that it is.
Ron DeSantis is not a builder or a businessman or a storyteller. Aside from his family, the only thing he has ever created in his life was opportunity for himself. Opportunity as a lawyer, as a congressman, and now as a governor. And he thinks he can use all that to become President of the United States.
DeSantis, aka DeFascist, is a slimy stereotypical politician. He looks and acts like a classic Disney villain. He bullies his way though to get what he wants, and he attacks those that question or oppose him.
His handling of the COVID-19 global pandemic in and of itself should be considered a crime against humanity worthy of trial at the Hague. He fought against data collection of virus outbreaks, even going so far to have the person who created the original program arrested. His outright hatred of masks and vaccine mandates went so far as to him openly bullying schoolchildren in front of cameras for wearing masks.
DeFascist is such a villain that should have an animated vulture behind him mirroring his every move. The disgust that this commentator has for him as a human being for these acts alone is brobdingnagian.
But now he’s escalated his villainy to try to go after Disney... because they dared to question him.
DeFascist has been imposing his will through his state, including ramming through legislation that outlaw schools from making any reference to LGBTQ+ people. He calls it “parental rights”, but it is best known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
The current executives at Disney were slow to say anything about it, something the previous CEO had no problem doing in the past to support the various LGBTQ employees there. And when new CEO Bob Chapek finally spoke up, it was far too little and way too late to stop passage in the legislature.
Now normal politicians would take the obvious win. It was going to pass. They knew it was going to pass, and the half-assed late-to-the-party condemnation from the Almighty Mouse really meant nothing.
But… no, not DeSantis. The petty little Italian snowflake took the criticism of his “Don’t Say Gay” bill personally. So he retaliated. He had his spinless lackies in the state legislature attack Disney by ending the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which gave Disney World a form of self-governance. This allowed Disney to provide for its own fire and police and infrastructure. All the roads and electricity and services for that area are paid for entirely by Disney and without any kind of oversight from the local counties.
DeFascist DeSantis thinks this will hurt Disney.
DeFascist DeSantis, dictatorial ruler of Fascist Florida, is definitely in de-wrong.
What this does is it gives Disney a multi-million-dollar tax break. They don’t have to foot the bill for the infrastructure anymore. The two counties that it affects will now have to pay for the police and fire and ambulance and hospitals and roads and electricity and sewers and the traffic lights and the mass-transportation. They will also have to cover the bonds placed on all of those projects.
The local taxpayers will have to be on the hook for about $2 billion. That’s “billion” with a capital “B”.
And you think your taxes are too high!
And all because the widdle Italian thug got his widdle feelings hurt.
Now this could be overturned in the courts. This political retaliation for a statement made by the CEO of Disney is a direct violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is a government sanction because of speech.
Then again, the widdle Italian thug really doesn’t seem to give a crap about the rights of others anyway.
I haven’t even brought up the other thing that Disney could do in response to this. Because you know the local counties will not be able to handle the tax burden. Their neighborhood gangs of Karens and Kens will throw their temper tantrums at paying anything and they will demand that their local corrupt leaders say “no” to anything Disney asks in order to even maintain that massive infrastructure that they no longer have to pay for themselves.
Disney could, at that point, just shut everything down and leave Orlando.
The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, the Star Wars exhibitions, the resorts, the Animal Kingdom, the spas, all of it. Gone. Shut down and relocated. The governor of Colorado just offered Disney a place to call home. The Disney cruise ship can go dock in Savanah, Georgia. They still have Walt Disney Land in California. Georgia can pick up the film studios. Think of the thousands of people who work there. They’ll be out of work or moving elsewhere. Think of all the local businesses that made their money because of Disney World. Gone. Bankrupt. Shut down. The massive Orlando airport hub, which brings people in and out from around the world, would most likely be a ghost town because nobody will want to be there without Disney.
Oh yeah, there’s also the Universal Theme Park. But do you really think that owner Comcast will want to pick up the bill when Disney is absolved of it? Or do you think they’ll also cut their losses and bail?
Let’s get brutally honest here… snowflake Governor Ron DeFasicst DeSantis really screwed up when he decided to pick a fight with the Almighty Mouse over his bruised ego. His payback will end up costing his own citizens billions in taxes and lost business.
Does he really think he can somehow topple Disney? Make them bend their knee? Better groups have tried and failed miserably. Normally I complain about any entity being “too big”, but in this case that bigness is an asset to Disney. It protects them from the abuses of a dictatorial thug with a fragile ego and an army of sycophants in Tallahassee.
I probably should also point out that this payback is supposed to take effect in 2023, just one year away from the 2024 elections. If the widdle snowflake has any plans on running for the White House then, that’s when all of the consequences of this action will be highlighted, and it will all have his little sensitive name on it. Yeah, he may want to hold off on those White House aspirations.
The thing about villains is that Disney has pretty much wrote the book on bad guys. From Fantasia’s rising demon horde to Cruella De Ville, Maleficent, Scar, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Thanos, Baron Zemo, Hades, Ultron, the Red Skull, and even Secretary Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. Compared to all of them, fragile widdle Ron DeFascist DeSantis doesn’t even compare to Gaston from “Beauty and the Beast” or Prince Hans from “Frozen”. His villainy is just pathetic, and it doesn’t take a suit of armor or a super-soldier or a Jedi knight to stop him. It just takes prosecutors willing to prosecute and judges willing to smack him down.
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