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Ah_so
Well done DeSantis - you're really keeping those LGBTQ supporting companies and their hundreds of millions of tax revenues out of Florida.
But I'm sure California will be grateful to hang on to all those jobs.
wallace
"Don't say Desantis."
dagon
Desantis and his ilk attacked AOC for blocking corporate welfare for an Amazon headquarters in NY. As Amazon later had mass layoffs of its precarious jobs post COVID and automation.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-building-washington-dc-aoc-b2293792.html
In this case Desantis has no care for the welfare of Disney workers, just his political aspirations hanging on targeting the "woke" agenda.
lincolnman
RINO Ron, DeSoros, Shutdown Ron or whatever nickname Trump is calling him this week...is fighting "woke" company Disney...
Trump thinks this fight is a "disaster" and that Disney is "destroying" DeSantis...
Maybe DeSantis should start calling Trump "Don the Woke One"....
So what do the MAGA-faithful here think? Who is right? Is DeSantis correct picking this flight with Disney (who contribute $3 BILLION in revenue to Florida each year)? Or is Trump right that this is all a "political stunt"?
For once, I'd have to agree with Trump - way to stand up for the "woke" Don!
EFD
Rock-Star Ronnie: investment and job killer.
Well done, Ron-Ron. Way to own the mouse (until it gets to court anyway)…
funkymofo
DeSantis has no path to the presidency and he's now stuck in a fight with Disney, one of the biggest employers in his state, he can't back down from over 'woke' policies no-one cares about. Well done, Ron.
Desert Tortoise
I have this sneaking suspicion part or maybe most of the reason for this decision is that the workers currently based in California that Disney wanted to move to a new Florida campus mostly refused to go. Maybe they all refused. Without some experienced old hands in Florida it would prove time consuming and costly to train up a new staff of equal competence and productivity. If all your department heads get together and say no to the move that is a tough problem to overcome. I know if I were one of Disney's staff in California there is no amount of money that would convince me to live behind the Coral Curtain.
Ask yourself how many of those California based employees have kids who are other than white and Christian, are maybe gay or transsexual? Do you think an African American family from California wants to send their kids to school in a place where the textbooks cannot even say Rosa Parks was forced to sit in the back of the bus because her skin was black? Hardly. And none of their LBGTQ staff are going to want to go. Heck, you can't even show some Disney movies in a Florida school without getting in trouble. Their very own product is banned in some cases in the schools. Do you think Disney employees want their kids to go to school there?
I think Disney's next move should be to host a Gay Day at Disneyworld like the one they host at Disneyland. Ron DeSantis' head will explode!
EFD
If Ron Ron wants to his testicles back, they can be found floating in a jar on Bob Igor’s nightstand.
Ron Ron messed with the wrong mouse.
A billion in investment and a couple thousand good paying jobs. Down the drain to prove what a moron he really is.
Rom Ron says he wants to make America Florida. Like a job-losing meth-swamp where educated professionals such as researchers, professors and doctors say “So long, A-hole!”?
If there’s a state that needs health care professionals, it’s “God’s waiting room.”
Yeah, young voters, independents, women, minorities and people who don’t want to get shot so that disco Ron can be the gun nuts’ best boi are going to join swing state voters in saying “Nope. Go back to never never land, Ron Ron. Take your “Freedumb” with you too, ya jerk