For much of the past year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has stupidly picked a fight with Disney. Disney fought back several months ago, filing a first-amendment lawsuit against DeSantis’s efforts to control DisneyWorld and the entire Disney/Orlando-adjacent community which operates like Disney’s private fiefdom. In the months since Disney sued DeSantis, the Mouse has taken him to the woodshed. DeSantis’s presidential campaign is dead in the Florida swamp and his “anti-woke” policies have tanked the state’s economy and led to a massive brain drain out of the state. So… Meatball Ron decided to cry “uncle,” but he did so in the most hilariously patronizing way possible.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop the lawsuit against him.

Last Call host Brian Sullivan asked DeSantis why he doesn’t just pick up the phone and call Disney CEO Bob Iger to resolve the dispute. “We’ve basically moved on,” DeSantis said. “They are suing the state of Florida. They are going to lose that lawsuit. So what I would say is, ‘Drop the lawsuit’ You have the state that even CNBC ranks as number one of all 50 states for economy.”

Disney sued DeSantis in April, claiming that the governor violated the company’s First Amendment and other constitutional rights. DeSantis led an effort to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Florida theme parks, in what Disney said was retaliation after it opposed a parental rights bill, known by detractors as the “don’t say gay” law, last year.

DeSantis told CNBC that the special district was a case of giving “extraordinary privileges to one special company at the exclusion of everyone else.” But Disney’s lawsuits includes numerous examples where the governor engineered efforts to target the company specifically, including legislation aimed at regulating its monorail system, while boasting that the company has been silent on social issues.

[From Deadline]

Disney IS suing the state, of which Meatball Ron is the chief executive. Disney also has a full list of disparaging comments, lies and slander made by DeSantis personally, so yes, DeSantis is in it and he can’t just use his platform to cry “it’s not about me, they should drop the lawsuit.” He should have thought about that before he used the power of his office to slander a business which brings in billions of dollars in tourism to the state. Again, I don’t like a lot of what Disney does with their business and Bob Iger is a real villain in the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, but I fully support their war with DeSantis and I hope they destroy this vile little man.

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