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I posted that video last Tuesday and these were my exact words....
When the Walt Disney Co. went looking for evidence to feature in its new lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, its lawyers found much of what they needed in DeSantis’s own recently published memoir.
Buried in Disney’s complaint against DeSantis is something surprising. Numerous quotes taken from “The Courage to be Free” appear to support the company’s central allegation: that the Republican governor improperly wielded state power to punish Disney’s speech criticizing his policies, violating the First Amendment.
Memoirs by presidential aspirants often lay out a blueprint for their coming candidacies. DeSantis’s does, too. It boasts extensively about his war on Disney to advertise how he would marshal the powers of the presidency against so-called woke elites.
Disney’s lawsuit cites exactly these passages. DeSantis — who signed a law taking control of Disney’s special self-governing district, and moved to nullify the company’s efforts to work around it — repeatedly flaunts the truth: These were retaliation against Disney for opposing his “don’t say gay” law limiting classroom discussion of sex and gender.
* DeSantis’s book brags about his rapid mobilization of the state legislature to target Disney’s tax district. The same passage declares that this happened because of the company’s “support of indoctrinating young schoolchildren in woke gender identity politics.” That admits to retribution against speech opposing his legislation.
* The book rips Disney for vowing to work to repeal the governor’s law, describing this as “a frontal assault” on it. That, too, is a description of political speech. Yet the book menacingly declares that, after this, “things got worse for Disney,” and that it would “soon find out” the truth about Florida’s war with Disney, i.e., the state would punish that speech.
* The book describes DeSantis’s discussions with Republicans in the Florida legislature about whether they were prepared to tackle the “thorny issue involving the state’s most powerful company.” That confirms Disney was the unique target of legislative action.
* In a companion to the book’s launch, DeSantis wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed that explicitly discussed governmental actions against Disney as an effort to “fight back” against its “woke ideology,” which is to say, its political speech.
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DeSantis and his advisers had good reason to calculate that boasting about his war on “woke Disney” would be a winner. Only a year ago this did look like formidable politics. But since then, a string of DeSantis’s staged uses of state power against assorted woke and liberal enemies have flopped.
The governor chartered planes to transport unsuspecting migrants from Texas to liberal Martha’s Vineyard. But investigative reporting revealed the scheme as almost a political version of an opera buffa, and he hasn’t chartered another one since.
Meanwhile, as The Post reports, the voter fraud police that DeSantis created to great fanfare have struggled to find anything real. Their targets have suffered serious life consequences, mainly demonstrating arbitrary cruelty.
All of this shows how hollow these right-wing theatrical exercises have become. When you start with the thrills you hope to inspire in the Fox News audience and build policy around that, the results tend to collapse once the lack of a real policy rationale becomes widely understood. If quotes from DeSantis’s own memoir lead to another such implosion, it would represent a spectacular and richly deserved form of political justice.
This sort of shit (the secessionist and anti- shit, not you)…because what we have going for us IS our diversity. Of people’s backgrounds and ideologies, yes, but also of geography and resources and so on. The notion of separating things out over ideological differences would seem to be the ultimate self-own.KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 1:23 pm i mean, California alone is the WORLD’s 5th largest econ…
never mind
It's hard to imagine that someone who graduated from Harvard Law school would demonstrate such ignorance, as to spell his personal enmity out for a particular co. like DeFascist did in his book, no matter how insanely driven he is to own the libs in a craven attempt to gain the power to advance his scheme on a nationwide basis as president.jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 11:29 am Good example of a more generalized phenomenon.
Opinion - How DeSantis accidentally handed Disney a potent weapon against him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... rump-2024/
When the Walt Disney Co. went looking for evidence to feature in its new lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, its lawyers found much of what they needed in DeSantis’s own recently published memoir...
All of this shows how hollow these right-wing theatrical exercises have become. When you start with the thrills you hope to inspire in the Fox News audience and build policy around that, the results tend to collapse once the lack of a real policy rationale becomes widely understood. If quotes from DeSantis’s own memoir lead to another such implosion, it would represent a spectacular and richly deserved form of political justice.
I think it definitely illustrates that there's not necessarily anything magical about the brand name on a degree.Feral wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 3:01 pmIt's hard to imagine that someone who graduated from Harvard Law school would demonstrate such ignorance, as to spell his personal enmity out for a particular co. like DeFascist did in his book, no matter how insanely driven he is to own the libs in a craven attempt to gain the power to advance his scheme on a nationwide basis as president.jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 11:29 am Good example of a more generalized phenomenon.
Opinion - How DeSantis accidentally handed Disney a potent weapon against him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... rump-2024/
When the Walt Disney Co. went looking for evidence to feature in its new lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, its lawyers found much of what they needed in DeSantis’s own recently published memoir...
All of this shows how hollow these right-wing theatrical exercises have become. When you start with the thrills you hope to inspire in the Fox News audience and build policy around that, the results tend to collapse once the lack of a real policy rationale becomes widely understood. If quotes from DeSantis’s own memoir lead to another such implosion, it would represent a spectacular and richly deserved form of political justice.
It's truly hard to believe. I find myself shaking my head every time I read or hear yet another update about how lame his effort is.
The entire idea of red state and blue state is a bullshit notion to begin with.jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 1:42 pmThis sort of shit (the secessionist and anti- shit, not you)…because what we have going for us IS our diversity. Of people’s backgrounds and ideologies, yes, but also of geography and resources and so on. The notion of separating things out over ideological differences would seem to be the ultimate self-own.KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 1:23 pm i mean, California alone is the WORLD’s 5th largest econ…
never mind
(And yes, the New Confederacy would lose out, MORE, were this to happen. But we’d all lose.)
No one told me there was going to be math in the politics forum.zsn wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 4:32 pm I posted this in another thread……the GDP ratio of Blue:Red is about 3:1.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/2 ... l-them-out
To PhD’s point: we use the distance from a major league (Big 4 Leagues) venue as a measure of blue v. red. It’s a good surrogate for urban/rural division. Rate of urbanization drops approximately in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from said venue
Hes going to have limited options where to move. A lot of states or moving to ban child abuse. Im sure California will always be there tho
Colorado is a great place for people who want to be free from the fever wet dreams of the Christofascists. We could use another shooting guard on our church rec league team also.