Jack Ohman for March 01, 2023

Only the USA would call itself normal, the rest of the world thinks you’re crazy.

Another brilliant image of Republican hypocrisy. Can you believe these guys? But you know what.. knowing what we do .,.about what they say ….and what they believe…. and what they whisper among themselves .., compared to what they say publicly ….sheesh… You just got to know.. you have know that they don’t believe a word of anything they’re saying in public. They’re just hoping that it will appeal to their voter base.

You do know he got married at DisneyWorld, don’cha?

’Wonder if that has anything to do with his animosity thereto?

USA is a madhouse. Filled with weirdos.

So, has DeathSentence figured out the economic cost to Floriduhh if Disney just tells the state to kiss off, and pulls out completely????

Hit this one out of the park, Mr. Ohman.

It may be time for Disney to move operations. I know, big job, lots of expense. But I bet there are other states that’d make it worth their while.

Yup. Certainly explains why so many are fleeing to Florida. Especially from blue states.

Go get em Jack !!

I’ve been referring to FL as DeSantistan for what I think to be good reason. If he even gets near the White House, Ii’ll be happy that I’m gonna be 80 in 2024 (and that applies if trumpelzebub gets near it again )

The Republican party was the party of limited government and the party that supported corporations and business.

The GQP party is the party of ANTI-woke, ANTI-LGBTQ, ANTI-immigrant, ANTI-anything that ain’t good ole white christian nationalism and now the ANTI-business and ANTI-corporation when they dare to express an opinion that doesn’t line up with the current line of tripe that is being spewed forth.

When DeSantis asks for money from Disney, should he be surprised that it is all being donated otherwise?

And this is another reason why Jack has one of those Pulitzer thingies.

The last panel might be a preview of what’s next: Governor DiVisive and his lackey legislature will direct amusement parks to allow (or better yet, require) open carry.

Margie T. Green has a good idea, divorce, I nominate florida as the first to go.

florida border is reasonably straight, should be easy to fence the place off.

Makes the gates so that you can enter florida, but never leave, like he11.

not true they took over control but they left the debt for Disney

I can see it now. The DeSantis States of America. Scary.

Is DeSantis the face of “Florida Man”, or is his ultimate goal to turn the USA into a national “Florida Man”?

Snowflakeland

The current issue of Harpers tells of DeSantis’ role in torturing prisoners in Guantanamo

Having watched the Repuglicon circus for the last 10 years or so, I have concluded that some of them are crazy, some of them are stupid, some are both, and so they believe their own BS. And some are cynical opportunists exploiting their ignorant base. Not good in any case.

tRump’s depiction looks a lot better than him.

He says he will control Disney. I don’t think so. If he thinks they won’t leave, watch them.

DeSantis’ takeover of Disney is necessary for him to establish firm criteria for the structure of his Volksgemeinschaft vision (humorous irony)

’…It is worth pausing a moment to grasp the full breadth of what is going on here. First, DeSantis established the principle that he can and will use the power of the state to punish private firms that exercise their First Amendment right to criticize his positions. Now he is promising to continue exerting state power to pressure the firm to produce content that comports with his own ideological agenda.

Whether he is successful remains to be seen. But a few things ought to be clear. First, DeSantis’s treatment of Disney is not a one-off but a centerpiece of his legacy in Florida. He has repeatedly invoked the episode in his speeches, and his allies have held it up as evidence of his strength and dominance. The Murdoch media empire, which is functionally an arm of the DeSantis campaign, highlighted the Disney conquest in a New York Post front page and a Fox & Friends segment.

Second, DeSantis’s authoritarian methods have met with vanishingly little resistance within his party…’

Here’s bitter irony regarding DeSantis. In 2009 when he got married it was at of all places Disney World

Republicans are trying to use Disney as an example of what happens when a business denies them money. Disney built an incredible vacation destination in Orlando, but under the control of the likes of DeSatan, it would be forced to close sooner than later anyway. People want to visit the happiest place on earth. Not the most oppressed place on earth. The changes DeSatan would bring to Disney, would force them to close their doors, as many people would stop going, and the ones that would support it, would be bringing their guns. No happy endings there. Unfortunately, most of the suitable states that could work for a new Disney World with 4 seasons of suitable weather are just as loony and oppressive as Florida.

As it is, if forced to move to keep the happy, Orlando might keep a certain amount of tourism, but it would lose large without the draw of Disney.

It’s a small mind after all…

What goes around comes around. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUnOHihAU0

It’s not unhappy if you’re DeSantis. Or one of his millions of drones.

One allegation I’ve recently been hearing is that under the whole “Improvement District” bit Disney was obligated to maintain their own fire department but was in fact woefully under-funding it.

I heard one commentator joke that a replica fire engine used in one of the parades was in better shape than most of the actual trucks they had.

If so, then things like this probably would have been grounds for Disney to lose their special status anyway.