They are shutting down the Galactic Starcruiser in california which they charged 5K a night for guests. What are they growing there? Layoffs?
They made a business mistake and are rectifying it. Large corporations have layoffs all the time. Doesn’t mean the business is failing.
Of course Disney isn't failing, they have made several terrible choices and are making big cutbacks in projects. I'm shocked people here are not for changing the law so they don't have total control over an area so much they can write public debt and build a nuclear reactor if they want. It's insane.
I was not for that and think it is not a good idea to give a private company regulatory control over a territory. That said DeSantis isn’t citing that as the reason and he’s been fine with giving other private companies like The Villages similar control. For that matter as a state legislator he supported Disney’s district.
Lol…. It wasn’t a problem until the GOP led culture wars. They have the largest concentration of amusement parks and resorts in the world, can you think of any reason why they’d want to control the area like a municipality that provides basic services?
the pettiness is off the charts Is Ronnie really only 5’7? Ron DeSantis is so small, he can enter the house by walking through the dog door
This guy is getting a reputation as a mad dog. If he doesn’t check his ego and crusades, his political career is going to wither in the vine. He’s about to find out that the GOP is really just all about money. The fake issues are just to wag the dog. NAACP issues travel advisory for Florida, says state "has become hostile to Black Americans" Florida's GOP Senators Issue Warnings to Ron DeSantis
In July 2021, the son of a high-ranking New York Police Department (NYPD) deputy allegedly plowed his car into Black Lives Matter protesters in New York City, injuring a teen. The protesters were calling for the firing of a cop who hurled homophobic slurs at a suspect while beating him. A year later, Justin Burgos, arrested and charged with reckless endangerment that night, was hired by the Apopka Police Departmentoutside Orlando, Florida In addition to the job, Burgos got a bonus: $6,693.44, a check for coming aboard, offered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to recruit cops to the Sunshine State, where they could work in a state where mantras like “defund the police” weren’t being chanted by protesters. Burgos isn’t the only officer to take the money. In response to a Daily Dot FOIA, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity provided a list of the over 1,700 officers who received nearly $9 million. The issues with officers don’t stop with Burgos either. In response to DeSantis’ call, the Daily Dot found officers who since joining Florida police departments have been arrested for kidnapping and murder and officers who, before they moved to the Sunshine State, had numerous complaints against them, ranging from excessive force to false imprisonment to sexual extortion. Josh Bogwandas was hired by the Miramar Police Department in December of 2022. He too received the same $6,693.44 check. Six months later, police came to his door, a woman calling 911 after escaping from his alleged abuse. According to reports, he choked her and pulled her by her hair, chasing her after she escaped the house and dragging her back in. The victim, who wasn’t named, suffered “several bumps, marks, scratches, and cuts, including on her forehead, lip, right arm, and neck,” reported Mirimar News 10 Bogwandas was charged with domestic battery and kidnapping and the charges are still pending. The Miramar Police Department cut ties with him after. Chloe Davidson joined the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department on August 5, 2022. Five months later, Santa Rosa County Police came to her door, after responding to a domestic disturbance. Her husband had been shot dead, and Davidson was booked on felony murder charges after police found no evidence she acted in self-defense. She, too, received a nearly $7,000 check from DeSantis. The charges against her are still pending. The money is part of HB 3, legislation designed to improve policing in Florida. DeSantis dubbed it the “strongest law enforcement recruitment and support initiative in the nation.” It provides funds for officer pay raises and training programs, and features a signing bonus for new members of Florida’s police departments. DeSantis claims this policy is taking a stand for neglected officers across the nation. “If you’re being mistreated, you’re not being supported—whether you’re on the West Coast, whether you’re in New York, whether you’re in Chicago, any of these places—if you’re qualified and you can fill a spot here, you know, we’re gonna get your back,“ DeSantis said in April. “We’ve stood for this being a noble profession. We want to support the folks who are protecting us.” It was clearly a hit. On April 6, DeSantis announced more than 1,750 bonuses had been issued to newly employed law enforcement recruits in Florida as a part of his program. The Daily Dot obtained the full list of the officers. The governor hasn’t taken this PR opportunity for granted. He has taken a tour throughout the state, hand-delivering these checks to grateful cops. These police stations have reciprocally presented the governor with tokens of appreciation, including a gag $5,000 bill with DeSantis’ face on it. The figures in the Daily Dot’s sheet appear to be officers who received the $5,000, an additional $1,000 bonus, and possible relocation funds. While police have come from all across the nation, a number of officers appear to be fleeing the NYPD, which faced significant backlash for their violent response to the racial justice protests in 2020 after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Numerous reports have detailed the exodus of law enforcement from the NYPD following the open invitation from DeSantis in 2021. In the list of bonus recipients, the Daily Dot found at least two dozen officers with identical names that also appear in NYPD’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) database, a searchable site run by New York City that makes public reports filed against officers for things like excessive use of force and racial profiling. The complaints against names in the database and on the bonus list include accusations that officers unlawfully pepper sprayed, assaulted, and pointed their firearms at suspects, as well as used chokeholds and offensive language regarding race and ethnicity. Allegations were also made that officer propositioned individuals for sex and performed unwarranted strip searches. The Daily Dot is not naming the officers who it could not independently verify were NYPD officers who got DeSantis’ Florida bonus. One officer on the list of bonus recipients—Daniel Meblin, who worked for the NYPD—was accused in April 2021 of making a sexual proposition toward an individual. An internal investigation was reportedly dropped in August of that year, after investigators were unable to contact the complainant, according to 50-a, an independently run database that tracks outcomes of complaints and is sourced directly from NYPD data. Meblin was also one of several officers involved in a $160,000 settlement stemming from an incident in May 2020 during protests in New York over the deaths of Floyd and Taylor. Meblin and his fellow officers were accused of illegally detaining a peaceful protester before “punching him in his face, head and other areas of his body” before striking them with a baton and obstructing their breathing, according to court documents. A photograph of Meblin in the 50-a database matches that of an officer who was hired by the Palm Beach Police Department the same month that Meblin left the NYPD. The Palm Beach PD confirmed to the Daily Dot that it employed the same Daniel Meblin and said he had been an “exemplary” officer since coming on board. The department said it was aware of the disciplinary complaint involving sexual solicitation against Meblin, who they say disclosed it during the hiring process.
Short people don’t win presidential elections. It’s a fact. He should get those heal pads that trump uses.
Trump surrounds himself with bad characters and criminals. It looks like DeSantis might not be so different.
Ron DeSantis to announce 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday in conversation with Elon Musk https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/politics/ron-desantis-elon-musk-president-announcement/index.html Let the fun begin
Oh man that's going to be a lot of mutual dick sucking off of two people who are going to praise each other for their work and advocacy towards fighting wokeness and protecting free speech.
