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The Florida governor is working with the legislature to overturn the entertainment giant’s latest oversight agreement.
Three generations into the GOP's embrace of its religious crank faction, its leaders are forgetting where the money is coming from. Directly attacking huge corporations is not a sustainable plan for a movement that spent the last half century rolling back the government's ability to do just that.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Them sowing: lmao fuck yeah this is great
Them reaping: wtf this sucks
The religious right don't care about money as much as abusing raw political power.
Spoiler Alert: Enacting anti-majoritarian policies tends to end up with those same majorities turning against that political party.
If the GOP loses Florida or Texas - either one - they are a no-go electorally. Demographically they are fucked in both states.
Right wingers being bitten by the demons they created, and blaming it on the very people that warned them against it, is my new favorite chapter in the hellworld saga.
Be funny if this lead to Disney having complete immunity to political regulation and leads to them being legally able to assert statehood legally and the domino effect towards the grim dark cyberpunk future
The year is 2045. Disney is wrapping up the siege of Miami, with elements of the 64th Airborne Mouseketeers finishing the house-by-house clearing of the remainder of Florida State Guard's notorious "DeSantis' Demons". There are rumors of immediate executions of the captured Demons.
William Gibson is kicking himself for not writing a novel called "Dworld" about 30 years ago.
Emphasis mine.
News: Disney has filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, alleging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" over "protected speech" that "threatens Disney's business operations" and "violates its constitutional rights."
"Disney regrets that it has come to this."
DeSantis: "I love you - you know that, right? I'm a Disney adult. I heard you want to talk to me."
Mickey: "Yes, I do."
