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Leftists lashed out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who showed Disney who’s really the boss when he signed a bill eliminating the corporation’s special status in the state, and one of them was HBO’s Bill Maher who accused the Sunshine State Republican of “demagoguing” on education while admitting that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
During Friday’s edition of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the host devoted time to Disney which only hours earlier had its special status revoked by Florida’s enormously popular governor who signed off on the bill passed by the legislature that the California-based entertainment giant would no longer enjoy privileges not allowed for other businesses operating in the state.
In his opening monologue, the comic made light of what is a rapidly intensifying problem for Democrats and their corporate muscle who are only digging in deeper in defense of “woke” ideology and groomers being given a safe space to operate in America’s classrooms before settling in to address the matter in a more serious manner with his guests, conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham and Caitlin Flanagan, a writer for The Atlantic which serves as the gospel for the coastal cultural elite.
Republicans are acting like there’s a sign when you go into Disney World that says 👉“You must be this tall to undergo gender reassignment surgery.” pic.twitter.com/36YAdDDdhZ
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 23, 2022
Maher kicked off the panel discussion with what he called “one of the saddest stories” about the House of Mouse which was busted down by DeSantis, saying that while he really “doesn’t give a sh*t about Disney,” he reminded his audience “they fired me once, I have every reason to hate them,” referring to the plug being pulled on his show “Politically Incorrect” in 2002 after his inflammatory remarks about 9/11 only days after the terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center and murdered thousands of innocent people.
“But I don’t hate them, I feel sorry for them because they live in this country where nothing is ever enough,” he said. “I mean at first they, you know, Disney…I mean Florida passed the “don’t say gay” law so Disney didn’t say anything like ‘ok, we just make fairies and elves riding in teacups’ so they got all sorts of sh*t from the left from that, because… and then they’re like ok because they always were one of the most gay-friendly companies in the world.”
“And now DeSantis, of course, he’s demagoguing this, but he wants to stop them from having their Vatican status there, and they just want to get people in the teacup,” expressing sympathy for a company that opposes democracy in Florida while turning a blind eye to abominable human rights abuses in China, the largest market for their products.
After giving the panel a chance to offer up their own takes, Maher acknowledged that there is a problem in the nation’s educational system.
“But it hinges on whether there really is something going on in the schools that never was going on there before and maybe shouldn’t be going on,” he said. “So we got information today about this because this is about what is going on in schools all across the country but Florida is, of course, a focal point because it’s Florida.”
He then addressed the 41 percent of math textbooks that were rejected by the state for content, specifically regarding the cancerous Critical Race Theory, opining that the four examples that were just released by the Florida Department of Education were mostly a “nothingburger” but that in one instance, a bar graph that measured “racial prejudice by political identification” had crossed the line.
(Image: Screenshot/Florida Department of Education)
“Why use that example?” Maher asked. “What happened to like, a train leaves Chicago?”
DeSantis put it best during a press conference this week.
“You know math is about getting the right answer and we want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer, it’s not about how you feel about the problem, or to introduce some of these other things, there’s a right answer and there’s a wrong answer and we want all our students getting the rights answers.”
Math is about getting the right answer, not about feelings or ideologies.
In Florida, we will be educating our children, not indoctrinating them. pic.twitter.com/BmhBXEljYM
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 18, 2022
What really gets the left’s goat is that not only is DeSantis right about what’s really being taught to kids behind the backs of their parents but that their attacks on him have spectacularly backfired, only serving to draw more attention to groomers and their defenders while elevating his national profile.
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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Remember Bill, math is racist. No longer is getting the right answer to a math problem good enough. Well, at least in blue states. Of course the rest of the world still sees value in getting the right racist answer to math problems, and those students will get the jobs. The others? Well I understand that LA, Frisco, Portland and Seattle still have thousands of openings in their homeless enclaves. Maybe they can set up shop in the Disneyland parking lot. Then they will have free access to young kids just itching to have sex with unwashed homeless adults. Maybe top it off with some drugs to keep the high going.
Let’s go Brandon, and take Bill with you.
Let me ask you something, William…do you happen to have any children?! Or any grandchildren?! I don;t but I have little tiny nieces and nephews, and if any of them are taught any of that horrid stuff in school OR theme parks, I’ll knock whoever is doing that into the middle of next week. just like I;d do to YOU if YOU ever go near them!!!
disney makes approximately 60+ billion a year. In Orlando they make over 17 billion per year. For over 50 years they have been getting tax exempt benefits to the tune of about 200 million a year. The surrounding area of Orlando will not have to foot the bill. Reedy Creek can be funded and more from the 200 million in taxes. Of course the dem mayor of Orlando is all in a huff because if I were a betting person, he was probably getting something from disney in his back pocket. – As an aside, his wife was on the panel to impeach President Trump, and they hate Governor DeSantis with the same passion.
Then there is the little business about grooming of young children. The CEO of disney in a video was quite giddy with excitement about changing characters to lgbt and being able to influence (grooming) young children. Did you ever wonder what they do with those tunnels under the parks? Over the years many employees have been arrested for transporting women and children. If you do not have children, you will not understand. All those with children do, or should as to protect their children should be a priority. In an interview after the law was signed, a kindergarten teacher said he was sad that he can no longer tell his class about his sex life with his husband. – These are 5 year old kids that can barely tie their shoe laces. disney isn’t the magic kingdom, it is the pedo kingdom. for the record I was born and raised in Florida, a Florida native..
Bill Maher is nothing but a comedic hack that thinks he is funny. Disney is getting what it deserves. All kinds of people go to Disney. By siding with abusing little kids and the insane lgbqt+mouse idiots, you just lost a big majority of your kingdom. What really would be funny would-be Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Bill Maher in a threesome and place it on CNN to boost their viewers numbers.
Imagine if this was a large oil refinery complex with the powers of zoning and taxing? Would be headlining on CNN/MSNBC every night, demanding it be brought under county/state control.
That’s what it is. A fantasy world.
First, the lying, fascist left, ALWAYS accuse the Right of letting corporations and big business slide when it comes to taxes.
NOW, when Gov DeSantis signs a law that requires Disney Corp in Florida, to PAY THEIR TAXES, the Dems get upset…..
Democrats = Stupid hypocritical people
What do you expect from an organization that lives in LALA LAND………
The dems and other leftist felch-monkeys have way overplayed their hand. The fact that it takes a while for the culture to fully respond caused the dems to get emboldened and to double-down.
If left a nation of free people, the American ship will right itself, but if the left is powerful enough to go full-authoritarian, then we may lose liberty forever.