This afternoon Bob Iger of Disney announced the company is scrapping a plan to build a $1 billion office complex in Orlando, “costing the state more than 2,000 six-figure jobs,” it says here. One suspects Florida needs Disney more than Disney needs Florida.
More information has come out on Diane Feinstein’s recent medical issues. It wasn’t just shingles. I realize she’s being kept in her position for procedural reasons, but this points to just one more way Senate rules need to be changed. Keeping her in the Senate is bordering on grotesque.
Speaking of grotesque, Josh Hawley’s “manhood” book is out, and the reviews are brutal. I especially like Lloyd Green at The Guardian, Robin Abcarian at the Los Angeles Times, and Rebecca Onion at Slate.
I want to ask Sen. Josh Hawley a question about "manhood" in general:
Senator "Hee" Hawley, how "manly" is it to run for your life from your own supporters?
Especially not long after giving them a fist-bump outside?
Now, I 'm not from Missouri.
But in NY, where I'm from, that's not called being "manly" – it's called being chickenshit.
Keeping her in the Senate is bordering on grotesque.
…and cruel.
Regarding Hawley… he is an idiot.
Regarding Disney: It's a good strategic move. letting Rhona Santos know there are consequences to using the power of the state to silence dissent. I'm not clear if the decision to do the project in CA is final, but it would be a beautiful insult.
The article on Disney notes that other companies had objected to the "Don't say gay." law that caused Desntos to declare war on the Mouse. What's special about Disney? They are the biggest employer in FL – bringing them to heel would be a demonstration of Ron's power. They are a fixed target – they've invested a huge fortune in Orlando – in excess of 200 Billion. DeSantos may have calculated that Disney HAS to kneel and kiss his ring.
There's another factor. Disney is a media giant. They have the power to create social trends, making heroes in ethnic groups DeSantis would prefer to see villains. There have been comments from the DeSantis camp that content is part of what they'd like to affect. The members of the new Reedy Creek group created by DeSantos to replace the Disney-run district are almost all social warriors with no experience in the responsibilities of infrastructure, which was the bread-and-butter of the previous group. They were gonna leverage power over projects Disney wants to create a censorship board, IMO.
I live in my own little world of delusions. One happy one is Disney creating a cartoon villain. perhaps queen Rhonda, who tried to makeover everyone in the kingdom to reflect her perverse worldview (which no one anywhere in the world shares.) And perhaps without anvils, she gets crushed like Wil-E-Coyote on a regular and comical basis. Make it clear enough that anyone over the age of ten would get the gag and not so direct as to get Disney sued. (Though a suit by DeSantis would be good advertising and great comedy.)
You must see this ad for Lucas Kunce, a Democrat who’s running against Hawley. Hawley is brutally mocked in the ad. I have no idea how well Kunce would do in Missouri, but he’s the real deal when it comes to blue-collar fighter, and would mop the floor with Hawley. In the ad, Lucas has a couple things to say about Josh’s new book.
Thom Hartmann put me on to this article about how Kansas Republicans are plotting to make life miserable for LGBTQ people, their goal is to drive them out and make Kansas a conservative sanctuary. They held a two-hour meeting about it in a Baptist church, secretly recorded. What’s next, Kristallnacht?
We laugh at DeSantis, but you can bet he’s a hero to red-state Republicans like those in Kansas. They’d love to copy Florida.
Beau of Fifth Column, talked about a poll that asked people about changing their religious affiliation over their lifetime (he doesn’t mention who did the poll). The number of people making this change has dramatically jumped in the last couple of years. Two of the top reasons: (1) hate preached against LGBTQ people (about 30%), and (2) politics (17%). No wonder they think the End Times ™ is coming.
I’m angry that the country and its future is being held hostage by the likes of Matt Gaetz, MTG, and Kevin McCarthy. The day the Durham report came out, McCarthy tried to spin it as proof Adam Schiff is a liar, even though Schiff is barely mentioned in the report. MTG and McCarthy are two people I can’t watch, their ugly behavior is something I don’t need.
In this video about messaging Beau talks about how progressives are high-minded, and have difficulty in dealing with people who are basically evil.
I’ve observed that MTG is the master at wielding a destructive tongue, and I don’t know if she taught this to McCarthy or where he picked it up.
I was very disappointed last year when Kunce lost the Dem Senate primary to Trudy Busch Valentine. Valentine is of the Busch beer family, and I guess people were voting for the beer lady. But she was an ineffective general election candidate who didn't like making public appearances and refused to debate Republican Eric Schmidt, who won the general. I thought Kunce was far better prepared to take the fight to Schmidt and might have had a shot. Maybe he'll get the nomination next year.
Bank Dick Promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpBRMlo9CH0
Never has the right been "right" but never ever, it seems, has it ever been quite as wrong as it is today. Who in their right mind would look at Josh Hawley as a role model for manhood? When has the business of America not been business? As to Feinstein, all I can say is we are always the last to know when our cells are not replicating well anymore. It is a problem of the end game. At some point our job becomes getting the hell out of the way. For many republicans this will be the only job they need to try to ever do.
Never has the right been "right" but never ever, it seems, has it ever been quite as wrong as it is today. Who in their right mind would look at Josh Hawley as a role model for manhood? When has the business of America not been business? As to Feinstein, all I can say is we are always the last to know when our cells are not replicating well anymore. It is a problem of the end game. At some point our job becomes getting the hell out of the way. For many republicans this will be the only job they need to try to ever do.
I started to read "Manhood" but couldn't finish, the book just would not stay on my lap because of my enormous
and clumsy fingers which cause me problems holding things and sometimes typing.