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On 4/28/2023 at 10:14 AM, Horn Dog said:

Disney World is a incredible asset for Florida.  Beyond the taxes, the tourism, free advertising and cache as a "destination" is simply invaluable.  If I was governor of another southern state I would be making a real push to provide free land, the same special district autonomy, tax breaks.  Shit I would look into covering a portion of the costs of moving all their shit over.   Sure that is probably a big chunk of change, but can you imagine the effect having WDW locked for 100yrs would have on Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc?   It would be an absolute game changer. 

Why would Disney move from one fucktarded asshole state to another? 

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On 4/28/2023 at 2:32 PM, tx 3 putt said:

Per a rock solid TikTok gossiper, pi’s have turned in their desantis folder to those that paid for their services 

Is that the same source that said Turtle was going to die a couple of months ago?

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Regardless of it is Trump, or DeSantis, Biden should challenge them at the debate to take off their shoes and stand next to him in socks. 

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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

I keep saying this but I truly feel Disney's best thing they can accomplish with taking him on is torpedoing his presidential hopes. This guy will be much more dangerous than Trump because he has a history of weaponizing the Florida government over not just minority groups (African-Americans, LGBTQ+) but people who go against him. He's a fucking tyrant. He will absolutely do the worst things imaginable if he's President. Trump, even though he's terrible, wouldn't try to pull half the shit DeSantis has done in Florida. Trump only cares about Trump. DeSantis wants to destroy all opposition to his agenda. 

Not really, Trump wanted to nuke NK (it was an on and off again love affair) and execute the punk that climbed the White House fence and scurried him to a bunker.

The idea that Trump is literally not the worst thing since Hitler is because he is so stupid he does not know HOW to be a tyrant, he wants somebody else to put him in the throne.

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He already used the Trump line that the Federal judge hearing the case is a "Obama judge". His dumbass doesn't get that even a "Trump judge" would rule against him because he's attacking a corporation. 

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The Florida board that oversees Disney’s theme parks in the state sued the media giant to try to regain control over its expansion plans. (NYT)

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“These agreements reek of a back room deal,” the district’s new board said in its 188-page lawsuit filed in state court. “Out of haste or ignorance, Disney’s deals violate basic principles of Florida constitutional, statutory and common law. As a result, they are null and void — not even worth the paper they were printed on.”

Disney declined to comment.

The lawsuit, which had been expected, is the latest volley in a 14-month dispute between Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Disney World, the state’s largest tax payer and the nation’s largest single-site employer. Last week, after the new board voted to nullify the development agreements, Disney sued Mr. DeSantis and the new board members, claiming “a targeted campaign of government retaliation.” Disney filed its lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee.

 

Desantis seems cooked. I think like the poster above said, Disney is like the left guard who eats up the DT and the LB and takes them out of the play. Desantis is that defensive player being blocked out of the presidential race

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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

From the replies 

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If not for the pudding, that could also be Tucker Carlson. Those two are quite the pillar of emasculinity. 

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3 minutes ago, Pods said:

If not for the pudding, that could also be Tucker Carlson. 

You can't see it in the picture but the DeSantis doll also comes with 6 inch gogo boots.

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1 hour ago, Pods said:

If not for the pudding, that could also be Tucker Carlson. Those two are quite the pillar of emasculinity. 

Eyes aren’t close enough together 

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9 hours ago, PhillyD said:

I can't help but laugh at Disney fucking over meatball with his own homemade dildo.  This is glorious.

 

6 hours ago, HamsterHookah said:

The Florida board that oversees Disney’s theme parks in the state sued the media giant to try to regain control over its expansion plans. (NYT)

Desantis seems cooked. I think like the poster above said, Disney is like the left guard who eats up the DT and the LB and takes them out of the play. Desantis is that defensive player being blocked out of the presidential race

Save this for later... 

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See, there you have it. Even the courts are now against you and I because of what WE believe. They believe in woke.

We believe in America. OUR AMERUCA. The AMERICA our Forethathers built was not built on wokeness and toleration for extremes. We were built to be ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISBLE! But they want to divide us because we don't want to be indoctrinated with their wokeness. They want to force us to accept their way of life, but we don't have to. Their pursuit of wokeness will not trample our LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. FOR ALL!

It's time to Take Back what is rightfully ours. Its time to TAKE. BACK. AMERICA. 

TAKE. BACK. AMERICA. 

TAKE. BACK. AMERICA. 

TAKE. BACK. AMERICA. 

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Alternate intro in case he gets a ruling on his favor... 

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See, there you have it. Even the courts are now with you and I because of what WE believe. We dont believe in woke. 

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Basically, this is the play that's coming. 

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On 5/1/2023 at 12:20 PM, RDCanecutter said:

No shampoo in the hotel room? That's one greazy lil dude.

reminiscent of another Florida Official or Life imitates art

 

 

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I'm fairly certain that we will eventually see DeSantis behind bars. He's using FL politics and his power to punish people and create his own fiefdom. Does anyone not think he isn't somehow personally profiting from all of this? It's doubtful that he would not think it's ok to make millions off his position if he's also only doing half of what we know about.

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On 5/2/2023 at 10:02 PM, Slacks said:

The AMERICA our Forethathers built was not built on wokeness and toleration for extremes.

By accepting immigrants from all nations, religions and ideologies our AMERICA was exactly built on "wokeness".  God damn those people are so fucking stupid.

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But back to the Mouse using Meatball's book in their lawsuit and that leading to discovery...  why does anyone think that matters at all?  It's not like Meatball doesn't gleefully brag about his fascism to anyone in possession of a TV camera in his vicinity.  You don't need discovery to know he's a complete fascist piece of shit.

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33 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

By accepting immigrants from all nations, religions and ideologies our AMERICA was exactly built on "wokeness".  God damn those people are so fucking stupid.

Except those who were “accepted” against their will 

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On 5/5/2023 at 8:23 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I'm fairly certain that we will eventually see DeSantis behind bars. 

He’ll never go to jail, but I’m enjoying watching the self-immolation of his political career.

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59 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Just in time for hurricane season!

So DeSantis fucked with the biggest company in the state, and now his fuckery is going to screw over developers, who have plenty of deep pockets and just want to get their projects done and none of them give an actual shit about whether the guy wielding the hammer or nail gun is here legally or not.

Jason Bateman Cotton GIF

There was a reason why for many years, Rick Perry's largest donor was a developer, and why Perry, etc., pushed guest worker programs at various times.

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Wall Street has decided Meatball Ron is a low-T sack of shit: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/08/wall-street-desantis-reelection-00093736

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Wall Street is firmly in the Never Trump camp. Finding a Republican who can make “never” happen is another question.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had been seen as the top pick to lock down the support of financial titans who have already pumped millions into his state campaigns.

But as he stumbles through gaffes over everything from his personal demeanor and stance on Ukraine to his snacking habits, Wall Street donors are keeping the door open to his competitors, according to more than a dozen bankers, attorneys and political consultants interviewed for this story.

“People will change horses,” said Dave Carney, a veteran Republican strategist for both former Bush presidents. “You may get really excited about somebody and then all of a sudden realize, ‘Eh, not really my cup of tea.’”

Where Wall Street puts its money matters because financial industry executives are among the biggest donors in presidential elections. And while bankers and asset managers generally favor lower taxes and lighter-touch regulation, they also value stability and experience — and they spread their money around to candidates of both parties, meaning they’re very much in play in each cycle.

On paper, that should give DeSantis an advantage. People close to Wall Street donors said his national profile and powerhouse fundraising operation that has included support from hedge fund titans like Ken Griffin and Jeff Yass had positioned him as most able to survive a primary with former President Donald Trump.

DeSantis’ gubernatorial reelection campaign is still loaded with cash, giving him big advantages over possible competitors. But many now say he no longer seems so formidable — at least on Wall Street.

His escalation of a feud with the Walt Disney Co. over its opposition to what critics called the “don’t say gay” law has made for a rocky rollout to an expected presidential campaign announcement in the coming weeks. On April 26, the company announced it was suing DeSantis, saying he violated its First Amendment rights — which will force him to do battle with one of his state’s largest employers in federal court.

It was “‘wait and see,’ and this is why,” said an adviser to one top GOP donor in New York, who like others interviewed for this story was granted anonymity to avoid alienating candidates. “We’re not the only ones who are happy with our decision to wait and see.”

With Trump surging in the polls following his indictment on criminal charges stemming from alleged hush money payments, one executive at a New York bank said confidence in DeSantis’s ability to win is flagging.

“DeSantis is certainly a better option than Trump at this point,” the executive said. “But he’s a really weak option.”

The executive said many are growing resigned to the possibility of a general election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden.

“What we probably wind up with is a choice between a guy who is very old and wants to raise our taxes and reregulate everything, and a guy who could be running from prison,” the executive said.

In the meantime, any hesitation about DeSantis’s viability could be good news for Republicans who have tried to carve out space as business-friendly alternatives to Trump. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott — another South Carolina Republican who has launched an exploratory committee — have started lining their war chests with checks from major investors, according to campaign filings released in April.

During the first quarter, Haley raised about $8.3 million across her campaign, joint fundraising committee and leadership PAC. Scott, the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, raised $1.6 million and had $21.9 million on hand through his Senate committee, according to POLITICO’s analysis of his FEC filings. Those funds can easily be transferred to a presidential committee should he formally announce.

Scott is a fixture in New York, turning up for meetings at various big banks, and is beginning to draw backers at firms like Goldman Sachs. Bankers say they appreciate both his personal narrative — rising from humble beginnings — and his positive message about the power of American capitalism.

Still, Scott and Haley’s fundraising totals remain modest compared to those of DeSantis-aligned groups — one state-level committee, Friends of Ron DeSantis, has more than $85 million on hand.

For many Republicans on Wall Street, “there’s a lot of concern about whether Trump will consolidate support in the polls,” said Ken Spain, a partner at Narrative Strategies who advises investment firms. “Then the concern becomes: Does that freeze money in the investor class? Do people sit on the sidelines if they think the chance of defeating Trump in a primary is diminishing?”

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who leads the House Financial Services Committee, said in an interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills this week that the Trump campaign’s tactics over the next two months will be “well-organized, calculated, surgical.”

“This reminds me a lot of ’16 where everybody’s trying to figure out alternatives to Trump,” he said.

Those dynamics won’t make things any easier for DeSantis, who’s been catching flak over everything from the Disney fracas — a “self-inflicted wound,” one financial industry power broker said — to his arms-length relationship with key donors and GOP allies in Florida.

“I call my donors. I call my supporters. And that’s been an issue that people have complained about with him,” said Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican who has flirted with a 2024 bid.

But Scott, Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and other potential GOP nominees face their own challenges. While DeSantis has shown he can win big in a swing state, other nominees have won in Republican strongholds. Many also lack national name recognition that would put them within striking distance of Trump or DeSantis.

“Scott is pretty fantastic, and if he can perform the way I think he can he has a real chance,” said one senior banker who is trying to organize support for him. “But it’s obviously a big hill to climb.”

DeSantis allies are taking comfort in the difficulties other candidates could have in breaking through. While there’s “some hesitancy from the Wall Street Journal class,” the Florida governor’s resources should be enough to sustain any surge from non-Trump competitors, said Jason Thomas, a Republican strategist who runs a pro-DeSantis Super PAC.

Even though DeSantis has shown a willingness to wage public battles against big businesses — hardly typical of what Thomas labeled a Country Club Republican platform — Thomas said he expects financial services donors to “eventually come home when DeSantis recaptures his first-place position in the nomination process or is the nominee.”

The first executive at the large New York bank said Wall Street would love a candidate like former House Speaker Paul Ryan “or a younger Mitt Romney.”

But they acknowledged that Trump would likely obliterate any candidate from the increasingly small centrist segment of the GOP.

“We all saw what happened to Jeb Bush, who everybody up here loved,” the executive said of Wall Street donors who flocked to the former Florida governor’s 2016 campaign. “He got crushed and crushed quickly, and that would just happen again.”

DeSantis could face another problem even if he does win substantial financial industry backing: Executives say they worry that raising money or donating to his campaign would give Trump the chance to brandish him as a Wall Street lackey.

“We know everyone hates us and that nobody running for president wants to be seen as the ‘Wall Street candidate,’” the first executive said. “So you’ll probably see a lot of people just sitting this one out.”

 

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