Disney announces it won't move forward with a proposed $1 billion development deal in Orlando,

supposedly in retaliation against Governor Ronda Santis, but that isn't the real story.

The U.S. military prepares for Pride Month, and Wired Magazine goes orgasmic over Pete Buttigieg.

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Well, Disney is trying to spin dross into gold,

and the media are there.

They are eating it up.

According to our legacy media,

Disney has heroically stood up to the predations of Governor Ron DeSantis. Now, you'll remember that this whole fight started because last year, Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature pushed a bill that said that you cannot sexually indoctrinate kids up to the age of eight in the state of Florida. That's now been extended all the way through high school. That you're not allowed to teach kids sexual orientation and gender identity nonsense in the classroom. And Disney put out a statement saying this was just terrible. They opposed it with every fiber of their Mickey Mouse being. You must trans the kids. It's very, very important that small children be told that boys can be girls and girls can be boys and that wherever you put your dingleberry, well, you know, that's just the same. It's all, it's all the same.

There's just pure moral equivalence between all forms of sexual activity and all the rest.

And Disney, Mickey Mouse is going to stand behind this particular form of morality.

It was very, very important that Disney take a stand.

And Ronda Santis was like, well, so here's the deal.

If you guys decide to use these special privileges that we, the state of Florida have given you, to get involved in ultra-Crepidarian pursuits in which you decide that you are going to simply sound off on everything that affects the state of Florida, but nothing that affects your business, well, you know, you don't need that special tax district anymore. Because guess what? You don't get to take take the special tax benefits. You don't get to take the carrot without the strings that are attached. That's not how any of this works. Now Disney is fighting back according to the media. So how are they fighting back? How are they fighting back? They are fighting back by pulling the plug on one billion dollar development in Florida. According to the New York Times, in March, Disney called Governor Rhonda Sanchez to Florida anti-business for his scorched earth attempt to tighten oversight of the company's theme park resort near Orlando. Last month, when Disney sued the governor and his allies for what called a targeted campaign of government retaliation, the company made clear that $17 billion in planned investment in Walt Disney World was on the line. Does the state want us to invest more,

employ more people and pay more taxes or not, said Robert Eiger, Disney's chief executive. Now,

there are a lot of people in the state of Florida who voted for Governor DeSantis, including

people like me, my entire family, that say, well, hold up. So if the choice is between

corporations that take special tax benefits and then use that largesse in order

to press forward a bunch of social leftist garbage that undermines the standard of living

in the state of Florida, keep your jobs in California, if that's the actual choice.

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