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It’s going to be harder to spin that, considering the headline news is that Florida is losing $1 billion, especially for Republican donors.

Abortion is actually a really good example of how your claim is totally wrong. Texas has been completely controlled by Republicans for about 2 decades now, and in that entire time they’ve wanted to make abortion illegal. And yet, they didn’t. Why? Because a federal court ruling - Roe v Wade -...

No, you didn’t give an example of a state ignoring a federal court ruling. You can make it simpler by actually answering the question asked. The government can sue whenever they want, but the courts are the ones who decided if a state broke a federal law. The government suing doesn’t prove...

That’s because he didn’t actually have a problem with how RCID/Disney operated. He didn’t even know about RCID before all this started.

Do “them parks” have different rules than theme parks?

We’re almost 900 pages into a thread detailing the trampling of the 1st amendment by the governor, and it’s just one of the numerous incidents of him doing so. I think you’re mistaken on which party needs constitutional education.

There’s plenty of examples of federal judges basing their decisions purely on politics. Powerful organizations are dedicated to putting ideologues, many of them unqualified, on the bench. It’s naive to pretend like that’s not happening. Just look at the judge shopping that goes on in TX, where...

Chilled speech is a 1st Amendment violation.

We can't pretend this is taking place in a vacuum. This has nothing to do with safety; it's purely punitive. Because the only goal in this is to punish Disney, we also can't pretend that they would go about the inspections in a good faith manner. Not to mention the fact that the state has...

You may have been right in the past, but we have many lower court judges who are unqualified and confirmed solely for partisan reasons. Judges are free to rule any way they like -- they just have to come up with some pretext for their ruling, no matter how thin or transparent. I can think of...

If you’re referring to the bill I think you are. 75% of Floridians oppose it, including 61% of Republicans. That’s why the governor signed it at midnight with no press. It’s not a political winner, and it’s already cost him support from big money Repiblicans donors.

Well, the Lt Governor said that if Disney were to disregard their woke agenda, the state wouldn’t take action against them, so the retaliatory aspect is pretty assured, wouldn’t you agree?

Even conservative media has had enough of this feud. From Larry Kudlow on Fox Business: “I just want to observe that Governor DeSantis is close to making a fool of himself with his Walt Disney obsession. This has been going on now for months and months and months. And I would argue that it is...

A North Carolina lawmaker has introduced the "'Mickey’s Freedom Restoration Act," to encourage Disney to move its operations there. Great name for a bill!

It wasn’t commercial speech. It was political speech, which is 100% protected speech. Per the constitution, courts would side with Disney if the can prove DeSantis’ actions were retaliation for their speech. Which shouldn’t be hard to do, considering he and the legislature have flat-out said...

It is pretty simple. Disney has the right to express a political view. The government does not have the right to punish them for it. That’s not my opinion - that’s the Constitution’s. Take it up with the founders or the Supreme Court if you disagree. It is petty. And unconstitutional.

How did Disney subvert municipal law?

The Supreme Court ruled corporations have the same rights as people in Citizens United. Disney didn’t attack the government or governmental officials with the intent of doing harm. That’s utter nonsense. Disney exercised their constitutionally protected right to free speech by disagreeing with...

Disney disagreed with a law that, contrary to your spin, was solely designed to demonize a particular marginalized community. Disney was entirely within their 1st amendment rights to disagree. DeSantis’ retaliating for criticism is unconstitutional. What part of the lies that DeSantis is...

A top Republican billionaire donor has stopped plans to finance DeSantis’ presidential run over his authoritarianism, and he claims others are doing the same. He specifically mentioned DeSantis’ book banning and abortion actions. I’m sure his anti-business actions with Disney won’t be any more...