Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(05-19-2023, 11:52 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: It's not apples-to-apples for a few reasons. One, the House passed the legislation in Georgia, it did not become law. Two, the legislation would've ended the sales tax exemption for all jet fuel sales, not just for Delta. It just would've impacted Delta more than anyone else. In the Disney case, it was specifically targeted legislation. Third, and most important, DeSantis has stated publicly, including in his book, that the move was retaliatory against Disney for their statements.

Like it or not, our law sees corporations as individuals with constitutional rights, meaning that they have the right to free speech. Government actions that specifically target them and have explicitly been stated to be retaliatory are infringing on those rights. There not a 0% chance of Florida succeeding in this legal battle, but I give them less than a 5% chance, even with a friendly SCOTUS.

That is what strikes me the most and again highlights the difference between DeSantis and Trump.  When Trump was president his supporters took issue with the NFL due to the Kaepernick situation.  Trump didn't start legal action against the billionaire owners of the NFL or attempt to enact retaliatory legislation, he simply said that Kaepernick is a son of a ***** and that the NFL is losing a lot of money now because of their handling of him, or something to that effect.  It's that simple.  You just say stuff and then say that the offending person or corporation is a loser and it's doing very terribly now because it disagrees with you and your supporters.

The playbook is right in front of DeSantis but he doesn't use it.

Bob Iger is a woke coward who is selling out the reputation of a vaunted American tradition of a corporation in order to placate an insatiable cult of leftist ideology and his company is doing very badly for it.  Very badly.  Sad, really.  They were once so good and rich, but now not so much.  We all know the great American patriot and noted conservative, Walt Disney, would never have done this and he would be very very unhappy to see his treasured company run this way.


There, no legal action needed.  Give 'em words, they love words.  If they didn't love words, DeSantis wouldn't be getting his ass kicked in the primary polls.