Ep. 1715 - FIGHT NIGHT: Disney vs. DeSantis
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Disney files a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over DeSantis' attempts to strip them of their special privileges. |
| 0:06.1 | Joe Biden continues to prove his incompetence as the media fall into line, and Democrats find yet another cosplay civil rights hero. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Chbrew Show. |
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| 0:28.6 | off your order. All righty, so Disney apparently wants to make an in-kind contribution to Ron DeSantis' |
| 0:33.5 | presidential campaign. They've now filed the lawsuit attempting to stop Ron DeSantis from stripping |
| 0:38.7 | them of their magical special privileges that have been granted them over the course of last |
| 0:42.5 | half century in the state of Florida. Remember, all of this began because Disney decided to |
| 0:47.1 | insert itself for no good reason at all into the debate over the Florida P parental Rights in Education |
| 0:52.6 | Act, which was designed to simply prevent the sexual orientation and gender identity indoctrination of small school children |
| 0:59.8 | K through 8 in the, it originally started K through 3. Now it's extended maybe K through 8, |
| 1:04.2 | K through 12 here in the state of Florida. And Disney decided to sign into that debate. |
| 1:09.3 | And then after they were basically not wrapped on the knuckles by Governor DeSantis said, listen, stay out of this. This is not your purview. After they did that, they decided to double down on all of that. And then they paid the price. And the price they paid is that they have a special district made just for them. The Reedy Creek District, it was special tax privileges. They essentially got to run the place as their own private fiefdom. Essentially, they got to do all |
| 1:31.1 | the zoning. It was not an elected body. It was essentially just a giant tract of land, huge |
| 1:36.2 | tract of land that was owned by Disney and governed by Disney. And DeSantis and the Florida legislature, |
| 1:42.1 | they said, listen, you do not get to act as sort of a Vatican inside the state of Florida in which you get to dispose, dispensate, papal doctrines to the rest of the state of Florida. |
| 1:52.6 | That's not what you're here for. You are here to provide services to the citizens of Florida, but you are not here to essentially be your own political body in the state of Florida. You have a privilege no one else in Florida has. There are lots of theme parks in Orlando, Universal Studios in Orlando, SeaWorld's in Orlando. There's a lot going on in that particular area. You can just go back to being like any of the other competitive businesses over there, and you don't get your special magical tax district. So Disney now is saying that this is discriminatory. And no, no, no, they get to do whatever they want. They get to not only get the special tax exemptions and all of the, all the abilities to run their own giant tract of land. Not only do they get to do that, they then get to insert themselves in every political controversy in the state of Florida, whether it affects their business or whether it does not affect their business. Now, listen, on a normal level, should businesses |
| 2:39.5 | be able to speak out about politics whenever they want? Sure, they should. And then the consequence |
| 2:44.4 | would be just like what happened with Bud Light boycotts on the business. And Disney, of course, |
| 2:47.6 | has taken it on the chin in terms of the generalized market over the course of the last several years in no small part because they've decided that the sexual |
| 2:54.9 | indoctrination of children is apparently on their radar, something they need to do. Wokeness has |
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