What's the matter with Ron DeSantis' Florida?

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DeathSantis is hurting Florida with his war on wokeness and campaign to out-nazi TFG to win the GOP primary

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Last year, after Disney exercised its constitutionally guaranteed right to free expression and publicly criticized the GOP’s legislative assault on LGBTQ Floridians, DeSantis, and the Florida Legislature, struck back by revoking the company’s self-governing status. Now the Legislature has granted DeSantis the power to appoint a five-person board to oversee the theme park in an effort that he said would “force Disney to stop ‘trying to inject woke ideology’ on children.” It’s hard to come up with a clearer example of a political leader using the instruments of state power to punish a company for expressing opinions he doesn’t like — and using that power to influence their business decisions.

In recent weeks, DeSantis has widened his war on the First Amendment. He’s spoken of his desire to weaken libel laws, which would make it easier to sue media organizations for defamation. This direct assault on the freedom of the press was picked up by at least one Florida legislator, who introduced legislation last week that would require bloggers who write about the state government and its leaders to register with the state.

When not violating bedrock constitutional principles, DeSantis and his Republican cronies are force-feeding Florida’s students their take on American history. While DeSantis claims that he’s trying to stop “woke indoctrination” in the Sunshine State, he is seeking to warp their minds with his own form of indoctrination. ,,,,,

DeSantis’ moves are a transparently cynical ploy to win over Republican voters who enjoy nothing more than angering liberals with culture war divisiveness. But that doesn’t make it any less deplorable (and what else can one say of voters who take such pleasure in legislation purposely aimed at enraging, enflaming and endangering their political opponents).

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1. like Abbott, he performs for the cult

that is ALL THEY DO

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2. DeathSantis and Greg Abbott are in a contest to out asshole TFG

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3. Absolutely, that's all we ever hear from these fascist asses. n/t

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4. We have flown to Florida 3 different times, and spent a lot of money it that state...

On one of the trips to Miami we rented a car and went down the keys for 5 days. This was in the late 90's or early 2000's. We spent a small fortune (for us) and loved the southern florida area and especially the Keys.

We are retired now, and although not rich, we're comfortable. Both of us would love to go back to Florida and drive down the Keys again in our RV (full time RV'ers). 1 month in Florida would probably cost us between $5000-$9000 between campground fees, fuel, dining out and all you do to enjoy that area.

We will NEVER go back to Florida (or Texas) until the people pull their shit covered heads out of their asses and get rid of these nazi repuqs.

I still have a hard time believing that so called intelligent "senior citizens" will vote for this amazing pile of dung, DeSantis. Do they not realize he wants to take away their benefits and entitlements? Are they really that fucking stupid?

I guess they are, the voted for him twice.

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5. Disney War Continues As CEO Punches Back At Florida Gov. DeSantis

The development agreement and property restrictions being attacked by DeathSantis and his board members contemplate Disney opening one major park and two minor parks. Disney was planning to sink $17 billion into WDW and those plans may be on hold

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Disney CEO Bob Iger verbally pushed back against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his ongoing war against Disney World and the company, pointing out all the taxes his corporation pays the state and rhetorically asking if Florida still wants its business and all the money that entails.

On May 10, as reported by Deadline, Iger spoke out against DeSantis and the state’s recent legal moves against Disney, claiming that the company was the “largest taxpayer in Central Florida” after paying over $1.1 billion dollars in state and local taxes in 2022. “There’s…a false narrative that we’ve been fighting to protect tax breaks as part of this,” Iger claimed.

“This is about one thing and one thing only, and that’s retaliating against us for taking a position about pending legislation,” Iger said, and then commented on his company’s (tepid) disapproval of Florida’s horrible “Don’t Say Gay Bill.” “We believe that in us taking that position, we’re merely exercising our right to free speech.” He then asked rhetorically, “Does [Florida and DeSantis] want us to invest more, employ more, and pay more taxes or not?”