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By MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla.©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Bob Fosse
“But the DeSantis-appointed supervisors said last week at the second meeting of the revamped board that their predecessors had pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of most of its powers.”
lol pulled a fast one. Ron fails again to do anything meaningful. If his shtick isn’t working in Florida it certainly won’t be any more successful nationwide.
Desert Tortoise
The Mouse has pushed Anaheim city governments around for decades generally getting their way. They convinced the city to condemn a pretty nice well maintained but older trailer park a block back from thier hotels because it didn't fit their august vision of what the "resort district" should look like. Can't have older people of modest means rubbing elbows with their high paying guests and the city dutifully went along. So much for private property rights! So it is interesting to watch this bully bump chests with another bully like two giant blubbery walruses fighting over a female. Lots of noise and snot flying every which way.
lincolnman
DeSantis being humiliated by the Mouse...
Which is worse; getting played by Disney or having Trump call you a "groomer"...
ROFL...
Superlib
Ron got his rear handed to him.
I've been smiling a lot this week.
wallace
Disney has an agreement that will last until 21 years after the last descendant of King Charles III. The Castle of the Mouse strikes back.
Blacklabel
Well sure sounds like DeSantis won’t be winning the nomination, huh?
dagon
And this is why DeSantis loses to Trump.
Culture warring has to be a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Trump knows you certainly do not impact the bottom lines of the mega-corps who are underwriting culture wars to distract the plebes from corporate looting when you are waging your war on "wokeness".
Superlib
Trump is already destroying DeSantis, and now Ron is losing to a mouse. He's going to be done before he even begins.
That clears the way for Biden to beat Trump again by another landslide, and 4 more years of a blue White House.
agondocz
DeSantis appears to be running his campaign to the right of Trump. Running right off the cliff, perhaps?
bass4funk
Love this guy, he’s such a rock star, taking on the fat rat! Love it!
Superlib
Scoreboard
Disney 1, DeSantis 0
People were already concerned with Ron's authoritarian approach to free speech, now he's going to burn through even more taxpayer money hoping to find a crime that he has no evidence even exists.
And now that Trump has taken him down a peg, he looks even worse trying.
bass4funk
Disney 1, DeSantis 1
To be more exact and just a delay, nothing concrete. Disney still has a lot to juggle.
No, the only people that were concerned were the woke left that think the garbage that Disney is presenting is something that the people want, like the old saying, “go woke, go broke.” Disney can continue making crap movies if they want to waste their time. Go for it.
Not in Florida, but in the possible Presidential mixup perhaps
Jimizo
I saw DeSantis interviewed at length the other day. With all the authoritarianism and egregious virtue-signaling, he’s actually incredibly dull.
Coldplay is the first act that springs to mind when I think of DeSantis.
bass4funk
For most liberals he is. It would be more fun to pick on him were he like Trump. He kinda is, same exact policies minus the baggage and younger.
I think more Dynamic like Rush.
Strangerland
Disney showed who are the true OG's in the room, with their masterful move over Disantis; his resultant freak-out will only expose him for hating free speech, and being more focused on ideology than lifting the quality of life of Florida residents who benefit from Disney's presence.
Game over little boy Disantis.
lincolnman
So Liberals call him "dull"....
One Republican calls him a "phony", "RINO Globalist", who bungled COVID, and is a "groomer" and possibly has a gay boyfriend...
Which is worse?
wallace
bass4funkToday 12:27 pm JST
You do realise rockstars entertain
Jimizo
I don’t know about dynamic, but he certainly reminds me of Rush with his overlong, uninteresting meandering.
bass4funk
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/03/18/how-ron-desantis-won-the-pandemic-492163
Here we go more debunked crap.
Dems gossip
Then you’re not listening to the unmistakable time changes, but I get it, I hate chess.
Jimizo
One said he’s very weak. Crying like a child in need of help.
When it comes to cat-fights within a party, the Republicans are nasty. They’ll scratch your eyes out.
Superlib
Not really. They did everyrhing by the book and out in public. Even Trump says Ron got played by Mickey.
This isn't about Disney movies. It's about a real estate district. Ron's attempt to take over a sewer plant doesn't change what scripts Disney creative is reviewing.
Unless, of course, you think Disney should be punished by our government for the movies they produce. Was that your point?
bass4funk
Not sure about that, ask Debbie Wassermann-Schultz talk about being nasty.
I disagree.
Now we are back to believing Trump?? So which is it? Y’all over the place.
Well, the battle is far from over
Naw, the public are punishing them enough by dropping their woke movies
lincolnman
OK...I see you still believe he's a RINO Globalist and a groomer...
Why is Trump spreading it?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109825049366738123
@realDonaldTrump/ - so you think he's now a Dem....interesting...
Superlib
You can say that you disagree, but you can't give any information about RCDC to counter mine so your statement is ultimately meaningless to intelligent people. You'll follow up with more empty statements.
That's the public's choice. But it doesn't have anything to do with Ron punishing Disney over free speech which is the topic at hand. You have no position so you just keep bringing up wokeness talking points as if they mean something to this topic.
bass4funk
I disagree, as long as DeSantis is still in the race, as long as there are not any breaking news to confirm what you’re saying, it’s still ongoing, I think that is how intelligent people would assess the situation at this point
I think it’s the other way around actually
Yes!
I think you’re just upset because it seems like a Ron Desantis is doing a better job than what the Dems expected and that he still in it for the long-haul and he’s not giving up the fight and Igor is desperately trying to find a way to outmatch this guy.
Superlib
You can say that you disagree, but you can't give any information about RCDC to counter mine so your statement is ultimately meaningless to intelligent people.
No supporting evidence. More emptiness.
His last name is Iger. He just stripped DeSantis of all power and publicly critized him. Trump agrees. Disney 1, Ron 0.
bass4funk
Libs said, Hillary can beat Trump as well
Popularity.
Toxic policies
That as well.
I’m not
bass4funk
When people talk about how intelligent they are, we know it’s opposite
No supporting evidence. More emptiness.
I think you are demonstrably wrong. DeSantis will prevail over the big rat.