Mouse Vs. Rat. I’m betting on The Mouse. And its attorneys:
The Walt Disney Company has filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials. Disney accuses DeSantis with orchestrating a “campaign of government retaliation” against the company and violating its protected speech.
It’s the latest action in a feud that began more than a year ago when Disney’s former CEO said he’d work to overturn a law banning discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the schools. The law, the “Parental Rights in Education Act,” is called “Don’t Say Gay” by critics.
At DeSantis’ urging, Republican lawmakers passed a bill that stripped Disney of its self-governing authority. But before the law took effect, Disney signed a deal with its outgoing board allowing it to retain development rights on the 40-square mile district. It also included covenants that give Disney final say on any alterations to the property.
At a meeting Wednesday near Orlando, DeSantis’ handpicked board voted to invalidate that agreement. Moments later, Disney filed a 77-page lawsuit in federal court, charging DeSantis and other officials with violations of the contracts clause, the takings clause, due process and its First Amendment right to protected speech. In its lawsuit, Disney says, “This government action was patently retaliatory, patently anti-business, and patently unconstitutional.” The company is asking a federal judge to declare the board’s action “unlawful and unenforceable.”
This may well be the first time that I’m rooting for a corporate behemoth to prevail. But, hey, I loved ‘Beauty And The Beast’, which my kids must’ve watched well over 100 times.
Tucker For President: Our Worst-Case Scenario? Rick Wilson thinks that could be the case:
The most irresponsible thing you can do these days is look away from the worst-case scenario.” So says Rick Wilson. In the week Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, Wilson’s worst-case scenario is this: a successful Carlson campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
He says: “Tucker is one of the very small number of political celebrities in this country who has the name ID, the personal wealth, the stature to actually declare and run for president and in a Republican primary run in the same track Donald Trump did: the transgressive, bad boy candidate, the one who lets you say what you want to say, think what you want to think, act how you want to act, no matter how grotesque it is.
Might I add that the contrast between the ‘boyish’, whatever that means (my guess: terminally immature), Carlson, and the octogenarian Biden would be a lot starker than Biden vs. Cap’n Cheeseburger? Just one more reason why not having a credible primary challenger to Ol’ Joe is a huge mistake. I’ve mentioned Gretchen Whitmer, but I’m open to suggestions.
What do you want to talk about?
“Mouse Vs. Rat. I’m betting on The Mouse. And its attorneys”
Hasn’t DeSantis testified about a million times that this is exactly what the DIsney lawyers claim it is? Every time an Ad runs on youtube DeSantis is gloating about his retaliation against “woke corporations like Disney”.
There is no way the State of Florida is not forced to settle – and for a huge amount. But, hey…enjoy owning the LIBs, you dumb motherfuckers.
In this ad, for example, DeSantis admits (in the first ten seconds) that his strategy is to retaliate against woke corporations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwnsVTM-YA
I just want to know how the maga mob is going to handle watching the draft tonight that Bud Light is sponsoring
“the growing argument on the right that the debt ceiling can be breached with only minimal economic impact”
Thanks to FOX News, most people think default will be another episode of reality TV that doesn’t affect them. Plus the libs will be owned once more!
Dem messaging should be direct and kitchen-table: Republican default will raise interest rates and increase inflation. I think the accepted buzzwords are “skyrocket,” “through the roof,” and “job-killing.”
Pro Mouse, Anti DeSantis all the way. How many times have we played the famed “debt ceiling” game? Believe it’s been going on over forty years and has failed every time the Republicans play it, a classic definition of insanity, but I much prefer stupidity. As for the Trans politician it’s a repeat of the now famous “Don’t say gay”. Assorted political dinosaurs will have to die off but Trans will gain acceptance in time.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/as-sea-levels-rise-the-east-coast-is-also-sinking/
It’s looking like sooner, rather than later, Delaware will be in need of more than beach replenishment.
Would not Pence be one of the last to be interviewed by the grand jury?
Yes. Jack Smith has his shit together. Why Merrick Garland did pretty much nothing beforehand is beyond me.
I think a Phil Murphy ticket with Gretchen as VP would be viable.
You’re just trolling us now.
as always
I like Whitmer too but a Whitmer candidacy would never recover from a vicious primary with destructive racial accusations from Harris fans.
C’mon, Puck. Let some sunshine in.