Ep. 136: Crony Capitalism on Steroids ft. Guest Host Spencer Klavan
The Liz Wheeler Show
Blaze Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and all American hero, has done something really important |
| 0:07.1 | this week, and it's easy to miss because it's kind of a complicated political maneuver. |
| 0:12.8 | And I wanted to talk about this. |
| 0:14.1 | It's related to his ongoing battle with Disney, the magnificent, enormous corporation that's |
| 0:21.0 | trying to trans your kids, right? |
| 0:24.0 | They've been in this fight over the parents' rights bill. |
| 0:27.0 | This so-called don't say gay that the left has been painting as if they're outlawing |
| 0:31.4 | talking about homosexuality when really what DeSantis and his legislature are trying to do |
| 0:37.5 | is they're trying to keep public school teachers from talking to kids about incredibly |
| 0:43.9 | delicate and sensitive sexual matters without the permission of their parents and before |
| 0:48.6 | they're ready to hear about it. |
| 0:50.4 | So Disney got into this because they were sort of trying to throw their weight around |
| 0:54.8 | to pressure DeSantis out of supporting this bill to pressure the legislature out of passing |
| 1:01.7 | the bill. |
| 1:02.7 | Obviously Disney, major driver of sales and money and tax revenue in Florida, Disneyland, |
| 1:10.0 | or Disney World, sorry, I always get confused, but Disney World is out in Orlando. |
| 1:15.7 | And meanwhile, it came out because of the reporting of the journalist Chris Rufo, you guys probably |
| 1:20.9 | saw this, that they're having these meetings at among high level executives at Disney where |
| 1:25.3 | they're talking about how they need to put more and more LGBTQIA plus plus content so |
| 1:30.2 | that kids get used to seeing, you know, that two men can be fathers or whatever. |
| 1:35.4 | And the content of what they're teaching while that's important is less important than |
| 1:40.5 | the principle at stake, which is do parents have a right to raise their children and to |
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