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Isgrimnur wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:23 am Congratulations to the Leopards Eating Faces Party on successfully opening the cage.

CNBC wrote:'Nothing is going to happen’
Disney declined to comment on the legislature’s efforts, but the dispute is likely to end up in court, according to David Ramba, executive director of the Florida Association of Special Districts.

Ramba said he has dissolved a number of special districts, but never any that didn’t want to be dissolved and noted that “a lot of lawyers are going to get paid” as the parties work to sort out the operational implications of this bill.

Florida law dictates that special districts created by the legislature can only be dissolved with a majority vote of the district’s landowners. For Reedy Creek, that’s the Walt Disney Company.

“Nothing is going to happen,” said Jason Pizzo, a Democrat who represents the state’s 38th Senate district, during the special session Wednesday. “Everyone in this room knows this is not going to happen. I’m just tired of missing my kid’s baseball games for stuff we know is not going to happen.”

Pizzo was among several state senators who spoke out against the bill ahead of the Senate vote Wednesday. Many expressed frustration during discussion on the legislature floor, calling the legislation a “revenge bill” and “political theater.”

″[The governor] wants to prove a point,” Stewart said. “He wants to prove he’s more powerful, but I don’t think he’s more powerful than Disney.

malchior wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:28 am It's red meat for DeSantis 2024 but it's also a corporate giveaway for a huge tax giveaway to a significant media company. It feels like new graft where scandal is a cover for favors to me.

Jag wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:27 am The dissolution conveniently doesn't start until June 2023. Well after re-election for DeSantis and his cronies. So any fallout from this will affect Floridians after they have re-elected the leopard eating face people. As others have said, it will most likely impact a small, rural blue county most. Disney can just pay for anything they need, but residents can't.

It's an irresponsible shit show all the way around. In any sane time or place it should be the nail in DeSantis coffin, but the amount of people rallying around him for this is staggering.

Unagi wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 1:54 pm That's timely. My child came home today with 3 LGBTQ Rainbow stickers on their face when they got home from school just now.


Amazing what different worlds there are here in America. This (the above face stickers, given out in class) is a 'nothing' in our house, yet rainbow stickers are grounds for termination in TX.

pr0ner wrote: Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:27 am Some people on Twitter are casting that as a loss against fascism because Macron didn't win by *more*, while not recognizing that incumbents don't usually win in France and Macron's faced an uphill climb anyway in terms of the economy and other issues (like being unpopular).

France and the world took stock on Monday of President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election, a triumph for his centrist, pro-European policies and a relief for Western allies, even though the result was clouded by a best-ever showing for the far right.

Mr. Macron became the first French president since 2002 to win a second term, with 58.5 percent of the runoff vote, against 41.5 percent for the right-wing challenger, Marine Le Pen, according to final results from the Interior Ministry. It was a greater margin of victory than predicted by polls after the first round of voting two weeks ago.

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But Mr. Macron’s victory was also narrower than in 2017, when he first faced off against the anti-NATO, pro-Russia Ms. Le Pen. Fewer voters backed Mr. Macron this time around, as the highest abstention rate for a runoff presidential election in half a century — 28 percent — pointed to rising political disillusionment and economic grievance.

Clément Beaune, Mr. Macron’s junior minister for European Affairs, acknowledged on CNN that France was “divided” and “worried,” especially about pocketbook issues such as the cost of living and energy prices.

“The vote was a vote against Janša,” said Kovac. “Against Slovenia on the Hungarian path, against an illiberal democracy in Slovenia, against the government taking over the public television, against the control of judiciary.”

Holman wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:48 pm Also, of course, this was France showing American idiots how to avoid a 2016-style catastrophe.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
Commander Adama
Battlestar Gallactica S01E02

Holman wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:48 pm Also, of course, this was France showing American idiots how to avoid a 2016-style catastrophe.

Jaymann wrote: Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:28 pm Best candidate statement evar by Mariana B. Dawson, running for Governor of CA:

F all politicians.

• Sue CA to Get Your Gas Taxes Back
• Rent Increase Moratorium
• Property Tax Increase Moratorium
• Reduce Taxes, Fines & Fees
• Pro Law Enforcement
• Pro Self-Defense
• Restore Gun Rights
• Reinstate the Death Penalty
• No on CRT
• Student Debt Relief
• Fire Insurance Relief
• Move Homeless Encampments Outside of Cities
• Find a Cure for Fentanyl Addiction
• Pro Business
• Break Up Monopolies
• F All Politicians!
  F means Forget. Don't be dirty-minded.

dbt1949 wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:09 am II never realized it was so strong. I am just so naive .
I guess am just disappointed with the whole human race.

dbt1949 wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:09 am
I guess am just disappointed with the whole human race.

Blackhawk wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:14 am

dbt1949 wrote: Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:09 am II never realized it was so strong. I am just so naive .
I guess am just disappointed with the whole human race.

That's a lot of us.

Trump took something that people hid because it was shameful and had social consequences, and turned it into a badge of honor.

Jaymon wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 4:08 pm
Whatever pile of crazy the state of Florida shows up with in court, Disney is going to rip it to shreds, and walk away with a big pile of profit.