Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference yesterday when he was asked about,
Hey, remember how Disney got the best of ya?
Well, that wasn't exactly what the reporter said, but they brought up Disney and how Disney,
of course, did get the best of Ron DeSantis by passing that resolution that basically
gave them all the power over the district until 21 years after the last Air of the King
of England dies.
And Ron DeSantis is still pretty about that.
So Ron DeSantis let reporters know that one of the plans he's kicking around in that big
old head of his is to possibly build a prison next to Disney World to kind of show 'em what's
up.
Here's what Ron DeSantis said.
So if you look at this whole special district, well, Disney Corporation obviously owns a
lot of it, but the district owns other land.
And you know, quite frankly, I wasn't even thinking about that land.
Oh, but come to think of it now, people are like, well, what should we do with this land?
And so, you know, it's like, okay, kids, I mean, people have said, you know, maybe, maybe
have another, maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks.
Someone even said like, maybe you need another state prison.
Who knows?
I mean, I, I just think that the possibilities are endless.
So, so he's not saying he's gonna build a prison, but somebody suggested maybe he could,
and he's like, I don't know.
Maybe Now, let me go ahead and explain the land issue down there in Disney, for anybody
who has never been to Walt Disney World or Epcot, uh, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom
down in, uh, central Florida, there's a lot of land.
And when Disney was buying up all that land decades ago, before, you know, they had even
started construction on the park, they did it through various subsidiaries so that no
one would see.
It was one company buying up all of the land, but they bought up all of the inclusive land.
So all of that land, and we're talking about God knows how many square miles, all of it
is connected.
So it's not like Disney owns a park and then there's a lot of city or state owned land
around it.
No, no, no, no, no.
Because Disney's all about the aesthetics of things.
They wanna make sure that you can only see what Disney wants you to see.
Why I'm bringing that up is, okay, let's assume for a second, DeSantis follows through with
this plan to go build a prison near Disney.
Okay?
That's, that's not going to affect Disney at all.
It's gonna be so far outta the way.
It would literally be miles and miles and miles away from the closest park or hotel.
It would be completely out of sight unless you built it as tall as the skyscraper, at
which point it would violate building codes for the area and would have to be torn down.
So even if Ron DeSantis wanted to do this, he also couldn't do it in any way that's going
to actually punish Disney.
But that's beside the point.
The point is, Fort Lauderdale is still under water.
Now, I have seen Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, giving the public updates
on the situation in Fort Lauderdale, you know, because they had to close their airport for
a period of time and Buttigieg has been doing a good job to his credit of keeping people
informed about that.
And Ron DeSantis, rather than worrying about his people drowning, worrying about the destruction
to infrastructure is out there still and moaning that didn't that frigging Mickey Mouse got
the best of him.
This is not a serious man.
This is not a man with actual solutions to any real problems down here in Florida.
He is a petty, authoritarian, wannabe dictator that is going to do whatever he wants to do
in that little district to stick it to Mickey.
And the state is dying.
I mean, during Covid, we were literally dying, which by the way, COVID is not over.
I don't know why I said during Covid, cuz Covid is now a thing we just have to live
with because nobody apparently cares anymore.
But DeSantis actions, if we had a functioning government anywhere in this country, DeSantis
would've been removed from power.
DeSantis would've been prosecuted for abuse of power.
But instead, he's heralded by Republicans.
They love him down here in Florida.
This is what it is.
They love that authoritarianism.
They crave the subjugation that Ron DeSantis is subjecting them to.
That's what they want.
That's what they voted for.
And that's why Florida may be a lost cause at this point.