DeSantis Declares War on Disney

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
A spoon, sugar up, the medicine, go down, The medicine
go down, Go down. Songs from the Disney classic Mary Poppins. Yeah,
I get that, but as we as we were, we're
gonna talk about Disney, but we really ought to up

(00:26):
our Disney game from the stuff that was like our
parents enjoyed to any of the things that my kids
watch currently on Disney. Kids don't listen to the show.
How all the parents see all these movies too? I
haven't seen a heck of a lot of Disney stuff
since I watched Mary Poppins forty freaking years ago. How

(00:49):
do you like this one? Hi ho, hi ho? It's
to the radical left we go. No Disney lurching leftward
at the behest of their employees, especially in Florida, is
now in a state of something like political war with
Rhoda Santas in the Florida legislature. What's the movie with
the two lesbian girls in the Little snool? Whoa, whoa, whoa?

(01:12):
What now? What's that movie frozen? Frozen? To that Disney
frozen fish sticks? That's Disney rights are what Disney owns.
Picks are Disney freaking owns everything By the way look
at their corporate charts. Someday it's scary. Let's let's up
our game, modernize it a little frozen, which is ten

(01:33):
years old. Anyway, back to you. So here's the deal.
When Florida passed their parental Rights and Education Bill, which
made the insane assertion that you shouldn't teach six, seven
and eight year olds about transgenderism and gender bending, and

(01:53):
teaching first graders that maybe they're a little girl and
even though your parents told you were a little boy,
you're probably a little girl, which is all designed by
the way to wedge, to to place a wedge between
parents and children so that the radical left and education
can better turn your kid into a little revolutionary. And

(02:13):
we have people saying that out loud, Marxist teachers saying
that out loud, I have six months to turn these
kids into revolutionaries, that sort of thing. So anyway, when
that law passed and the lefty media started calling it
the don't say gay bill, Disney was initially silent, but

(02:34):
when a bunch of their woke employees got all mad
about it. And this is interesting because generally speaking, if
you work for Disney, you tow the line they have
incredibly high standards and zero patients for Yeah, well, I
work for Disney, but I'm gonna do it my own way.
They have no tolerance for that. But a bunch of

(02:55):
their woke employees stage to walk out and protested, and
so Disney came out and it said, uh, we're in fact,
I don't have this statement in front of me. I
wish I did, But they said, essentially, we're not in
favor of this law. We think it's bad, we think
it's evil, and we want it to be repealed. Okay.
So De Santis and the Florida legislature legislature didn't appreciate

(03:17):
that at all and thought to themselves, so Disney, which
we have coddled for decades and decades, are now going
to start bashing us politically, and here's the route they're going.
Florida in the sixties created these special districts that give

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like an entity like uh, the Disney Corporation, the right
to manage its own area as if it's like the
Vatican or an Indian reservation or something like that. Uh,
they can oversee the land use environmental protections. It exempts
them from a bunch of taxes, It exempts them from
wastewater regulations, sorts of stuff. Are you aware of this?

(04:00):
I was completely unaware of this until like last week
I heard Charles c to Be a Cook of National
Review talking about it. He lives in Florida, and I
had no idea that they had gone that far in
terms of courting Disney back in the days, like you
get this chunk of land, like it's like an Indian reservation. Yeah. Yeah.
And this Ready Creek District, which is the one we're

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talking about that encompasses Disney and their four theme parks
to water pork parks, sports complex, hotels, stores, restaurants, etcetera,
is called Ready Creek. They even have their own fire
fire Department board of supervisors. That's how they're allowed to
use like seven little people down in the mines the
way they do. Boy Boy Black long always at risk,

(04:44):
especially for the smaller of statues. Their lungs are smaller,
and they don't even care. Apparently the Disney people really
exploited but these According to someone who was involved with
Disney's finances UH a few years ago, um But was
speaking to the Wall Street Journal, UH, that special district
relationship saves Disney tens of millions of dollars a year,

(05:07):
tens of millions, and so RHN De Santis ran it
up the flagpole. All these agreements that were made back
when hell lb J was walking the halls of the
White House. Uh, they have to be sunset. They ought
to be reconsidered on a regular basis. And the Senate
passed that bill of Florida State Senate by margin a

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twenty three sixteen that would dissolve the special status grant
into the company that allows Disney to self govern. Um. Now,
how it's gonna do in the other house, I'm not sure.
But as one analyst put it, Disney kicked the hornet's
nest and De Santis and the Republican controlled Florida government said,

(05:53):
we're not going to take that from y'all. So how
this plays out? Who knows. Looking through the most popular
Disney movies of the last decade, have you seen Soul
And we just watched that the other day. No, that
was the one that has the John Batiste music in
it and everything like that. That's a cool movie that
you would enjoy that. That's that's it's it's pretty cool. Oh.

(06:16):
I finally I misplaced the statement by Disney when the
UH Parental Rights Bill passed. It's it's worth reading because
you'll understand why Florida is so mad at him. And
then we can go back to discussing the more recent
over of Disney films. Up as a Disney movie, Hercules
is a Disney movie, The Lion, King of Cars Jesus
and then you know that's thirty years old, but at

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least it's not sixty years old. Wow, Jack still chewing
out the staf So this anger knows no limits. So
on the Disney story, Um, some of you should form
a throuffle with Johnny Deppen Amber heard some of my
favorite libertarian crowd people are really not liking to santis
is uh, you know, cancer culture attempt to go after

(06:57):
Disney or whatever. I also, but I find the Paul
takes interesting flip the other way. So now, all of
a sudden, the left is okay with Disney, a giant
corporation getting all these tax breaks and environmental breaks and
all these different things so that they can make a
gazillion dollars. All of a sudden, that's cool because they're
on your side politically. You don't mind that this corporation

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I mean, remember when um Amazon was going to go
into Brooklyn and ao C. I didn't want that to
We're not gonna let them get any special tax breaks
to bring jobs to Brooklyn, no way. But Disney did
that on a level. I don't know if it's ever
happened in the United States on this level the way
it did in Florida back in today, and now all
of a sudden, they're the heroes of the left. So

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the politics always get very confusing on these stories. Why
it's as if they don't have any principles at all.
It's as if they pretend to have principles just to
get over and then abandon them the second they're inconvenient.
How shocking And yes, I am looking at you AOC
and not just because you're hot. So Disney, here's their statement.

(08:05):
Florida's HB fifteen fifty seven, also known as the Don't
Say Gay Bill. Wait a minute, Wait a minute Wood,
Why would a major corporation that gets enormous tax break, well,
putting that aside, why wouldn't enormous corporation go with the
propaganda name used by the coropora gassive progressive media. Why
I'll keep reading Florida's Florida's HBT seven, also known as

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they Don't Say Gay Bill, should never have been passed
and should never have been signed into law. Our goal
as a company is for this law to be repealed
by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and
we remain committed to supporting the national state organizations working
to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for
the rights and safety of the l g b t
Q plus members of the Disney family, as well as
the lgbt Q plus b b Q community in Florida

(08:50):
and across the country. You know, I'm reminded of the
whole tax exempt status for certain uh charities and churches
and that sort of thing when they're overtly political organizations.
You know, you you can't have your Mickey Mouse steamed
cake and eat it too, Disney. We'll see where this goes.
And and we although again it's like that's a ninety

(09:14):
year old reference. Really, although Mickey's still a symbol, right, Yeah,
he's a symbol. Yeah, exactly. Nobody, Well, my kids watch
is it on HBO Max someplace you can find all once?
Probably on Disney, you moron, it's Disney Plus. Anyway, my
kids love the super old timy ones, and they like

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how old it is because at the beginning it tells
you what year it is. And then watching you know,
not just Steamboat Willie, but any of the old black
and white stuff and seeing on there, gosh, this is
from nineteen thirty five or whatever, they find that fascinating. Um.
I had a point here. Oh yeah, if I work
for a company, whether I'm a worker there or I'm
a stockholder for a company, quit getting involved in political

(09:55):
issues at all, whether I agree with them or not.
I just just don't do that. Let's just make car
widgets or give people kids ride on the teacups or
whatever it is we do. Let's just do that to
as many people for as much profit as we can
and stay on political issues. Yeah. The the fashion of
what's the term that people throw around for the woke, uh,

(10:15):
the woke corporate thing. There's a there's like an hip term,
the woke. H I can't remember, Like you grown like
that though, And I'm trying to get off my law.
Like your brain, like your brain makes noises like you're

(10:37):
lifting something heavy. How do you know it doesn't? But anyway,
this this trend of corporations having to just show off
how woke they are. Good Lord, please let this be
short lived. But anyway, Florida has a representative government. They
vote their legislators and their governor in and out, in
or out, so this will play out according to the

(11:00):
of the voters of Florida. And I think it's perfectly fine.
You get tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks
for reasons that are, you know, fifty eight years old,
and and yet you're gonna kick the hornet's nest of politics. Okay,
we'll see how that goes. Michael Mouse is legal name.