“Crybabies and losers say life isn’t fair. And Trump is both,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. “Want to be President? Then get in the ring pal.”

“He needs to step up and do it. Nobody is entitled to this nomination”, said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said, “Former President Trump, the tough guy? The guy that says he’s gonna fight for America but he’s not willing to stand up, he’s gonna wimp out? Wimp out and not get on that debate stage?”

“I think it’s a mistake not to do the debates, but that’s going to be up to him and his campaign,” Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel told Fox News on Wednesday.

Of course being the experienced strategist, Donald Trump ignored the noise and replaced it with air horn blasts.

As it becomes increasingly likely that Donald Trump will skip the first Republican presidential debate next month, the ratings-obsessed ex-president is thinking about counterprogramming the Fox News event by appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show at the same time, Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday.
— Daily Beast, 7/19/23

That would be quite the tag team gut punch. Imagine the humiliation and ensuing mockery if a social media live stream drew more views than a nationally televised event.

Donald Trump has compelling reasons to skip over the bear trap.

“Ronald Reagan didn’t do it, and a lot of other people didn’t do it,” the former president said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” last weekend.

Former President Donald Trump again said he might ‘possibly not’ participate in the first Republican primary debate scheduled for August 23. But in a phone interview Thursday with Reuters, the ex-president went a step further and said he might plan some counter-programming to the debate. Trump said he was entertaining offers to hold a separate event during the debate or later in the same evening.

‘We’ve had a lot of offers, whether it’s a rally or whether it’s an interview by somebody else,’ he said. ‘Not to be braggadocios but the debate will not be a very exciting one if I’m not there.’

Almost all are in agreement with that forecast which is why Fox News seems to be pushing the GOP presidential candidates to implore Trump to show up to the Milwaukee debate.

Fox News personalities Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, John Roberts and Piers Morgan have all come out in agreement: In their opinion, Donald Trump should absolutely participate in the first Republican presidential candidates debate of the 2024 cycle, which will be held next month in Milwaukee — and broadcast on their very own Fox News.

The former president has refused to commit to the Aug. 23 debate, and he indicated as recently as Sunday that he’s leaning against it. (“When you have a big lead, you don’t do it,” he told interviewer Maria Bartiromo.) So in the meantime, various hosts on Fox have taken it upon themselves to use the network’s airwaves to try to make the case to the man himself.

And we should always be skeptical of almost everything proclaimed by the media, about the media. In fact, assuming the opposite is safest.

Fox News management has not encouraged on-air talent to lobby Trump to appear at the debate, according to a network official familiar with the situation.
— Washington Post, 7/22/23

Based on past experience, Trump is wise to be careful when it comes to getting a fair shake from Fox News and their debate moderators.

Executives at the Rupert Murdoch-owned network, though, are scrambling to get Trump to show up in August, as my colleague Gabriel Sherman reported earlier this week. “Fox is trying to get Trump to say yes. They’re offering him the world to show they can be trusted,” a top GOP operative who was briefed on the conversations between the campaign and the network told Sherman, with one senior Trump campaign official noting that host Sean Hannity has been in frequent contact with the former president to try to smooth relations between Trump and the network.
— Vanity Fair, 6/3023

Following the Dominion defamation lawsuit that Fox settled for $787.5 million, the company reportedly placed a “soft ban” on putting Trump on air.
— Business Insider, 7/22/23

Fox News would clearly be the loser if Trump declined to participate in the upcoming debate. Trump knows that advertisers are monitoring instead buying up ad space because why spend the money if a sizable audience won’t be there? This is where Donald Trump has all the leverage over Fox News. This won’t be the only debate on the channel and an absence for the first one would send a message, loud and clear to any other network as well as the Commission on Presidential Debates, of which he’s also likely to tell go pound sand… that is, until the last minute.

The reality is the other GOP Republican presidential candidates NEED Donald Trump there so they can try and punch up. The need the exposure on a national platform to try and convince voters what they say they’d do if elected president. The looming problem for them is that they’ve yet to feel the sting of a looming 24/7 liberal media onslaught. No Republican has ever had to weather the five-year-plus storm Donald Trump endured and still received the most votes a GOP presidential candidate ever has. The Republican bottomfeeders claim to be tough, but we’ve also seen our candidates back off many times just when the ground-and-pound on the Democrat was most effective.

Donald Trump is the only candidate who won’t tell the American people what he will try to do. Donald Trump has done it. He has a documented and unprecedented track record as president.

He has no reason to go on a stage, totally outnumbered by opponents in a forum “moderated” by the Jersey Girl and Eddie Munster, and respond to insults from Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie to defend promises kept.

Why should Trump voters acquiesce and admit the 2020 election was on the up and up just because the media will shame and ground pound them until they do?

CNN’s Gary Tuchman speaks with New Hampshire voters following the CNN Republican presidential town hall with former President Donald Trump.
— CNN, 5/11/23

We’re to believe the same Joe Biden, who spent most of the campaign out of public view, got more votes than Barack Obama. We’re to believe Joe Biden, who made numerous gaffes of senility and racism, overcame setbacks because he had a superior delivery? We’re to believe all of the vote count irregularities on Election Night and following morning were something we must ignore?

While the Democrats and their media insist there was “no evidence of voter fraud”, that doesn’t really mean it didn’t happen. It’s just they don’t want Republicans to talk about it, especially because the most significant election interference came from the media, the Democrat Party and their activists.

It started right after Donald Trump’s election in 2016. You know, when Democrats insisted he was an illegitimately-elected president and tried to decertify his victory.

And one by one, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — presiding over a joint session of Congress to validate the Electoral College results in Mr. Trump’s victory — turned back their challenges with a stoic message, pounding his gavel without hesitation. “It is over,” Mr. Biden said at one point, as Republicans rose to their feet to cheer.
— New York Times, 1/6/17

The election interference began with the “Russia collusion” hoax, that despite it’s origins from the Hillary Clinton campaign, occupied more than two years of slanderous media coverage and a taxpayer-funded special counsel investigation that offered a half-assed vindication of Trump the left refuses to accept to this day.

If Trump were to reclaim the White House in 2024, Former Attorney General Bill Barr warned of “chaos” and the potential for Trump to self-sabotage his own agenda as president.
— USA Today, 5/7/23

Chaos usually requires a catalyst. In the case of the Trump presidency, it was an unrelentingly partisan media and Deep State, butthurt their preferred Hillary Clinton was rejected by the American people and determined to do everything they could to exact revenge and damage from Day One on.

They attacked hourly for over five years, Trump responded rather directly (see: “mean Tweets”), and we all know a second Trump term would be more of the same.

That’s the “chaos” Barr, other mouthpieces, and Republican presidential candidates will refer to but will absolve the instigators by not mentioning them.

Trump’s first term was engulfed in the “chaos” the left and their media created, resulting in two failed impeachments, an intentional pandemic and despite all that, his accomplishments for the American people were numerous and historic. We always hear the squishy excuse their non-votes because “both sides are the same”. The American people will have a very recent and clear contrast between the Trump and Biden presidencies. Only blind hatred would make a Democrat vote for an additional four years of this shit; their best option would be to stay home, must to the consternation of the left.

More election interference will be needed to offset Biden-voter lethargy, and the first will be to remind and assure voters that vote fraud did not happen in 2020, 2022, and won’t happen in 2024. Common sense won’t work. You have to admit, intimidation did when it counted most.

State and federal judges — some appointed by Trump — have dismissed more than 50 lawsuits brought by Trump or his allies alleging election fraud and other irregularities. Independent experts, governors and state election officials from both parties say there has been no evidence of widespread fraud.
— Reuters, 12/21/20

THIS is the basis for the left’s demand Trump voters accept the election result they worked very hard to achieve. So why would state and federal judges, some appointed by Trump, dismiss these lawsuits? Simple.

The nation witnessed a full summer-plus of liberal Democrats running wild through the streets of America, disrupted public freedom of movement, looted, burned, injured and killed police and civilians alike. The media excused the “mostly peaceful” rioters, demonized law enforcement, and even some politicians worked to fund-raise for the bail to release the domestic terrorists.

The vandalism and looting following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police will cost the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent history. The protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims
— Axios, 9/16/20

Nine of the people killed during protests were demonstrators taking part in Black Lives Matter protests. Two were conservatives killed after pro-Trump “patriot rallies”. All but one were killed by fellow citizens.
— The Guardian, 10/31/20

Imagine being a judge in 2020; a judge that probably has a spouse and children. Despite their oaths to faithfully render lawful decisions and verdicts, let’s also note they are human beings. They, too, witnessed the summer of violence and it’s understandable that they would prefer not subject themselves and their families to intimidation (or worse) at the hands of organized, angry liberal mobs. It’s not like the left doesn’t intimidate judges, even those with federal protection….

CNN political analyst David Gregory called the attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh “horrifying” and slammed the left for being “so hypocritical” about blaming the right for mob violence and not addressing their own side’s role in motivating such behavior.

Gregory declared, “And this is horrifying. I mean, activism has its place, of course, speaking out has its place, but to threaten a Supreme Court justice and his family outside of his home is beyond the pale, cannot be tolerated, every politician has an obligation to stand up, condemn this and to do something about it.”
— Fox News, 6/9/22

Intimidation wasn’t denounced by the left because it’s a tactic they will use until their violence takes out someone of elevated stature on their side. Then we’ll ALL be implicated and told to turn down the volume.

Republican candidates and blabbermouths can warn voters about the possibility of “chaos” if Donald Trump again earns the nomination, let alone the presidency in 2024, but if Ron DeSantis promises calm if he’s elected, he’s either a liar or dangerously naive. Local media is nothing compared to what’s in store for him should he secure the Republican nomination for president. It’s obvious he knows that.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday that exempts records related to his travel from the state’s robust public disclosure law. Republicans said the measure was necessary to protect DeSantis and prevent details about his travel habits and security detail from falling into the hands of people who might be plotting an attack on the governor. Asked about the measure last week, DeSantis said it wasn’t his idea.

Sure.

The law applies retroactively and would cover his extensive use of state planes throughout his time as governor. It would also cover records related to visitors to the governor’s mansion, opponents said.
— CNN, 5/11/23

Not a good look from someone who claims to be a voice of calm and reason, compared to you-know-who.

Now that we have millions of new potential Democrat voters (illegal aliens) that will be invading cities and neighborhoods across the nation between now and the next election, there will be more than enough rioting and destruction that will provide cover for any targeted intimidation the left wishes to conduct.

Donald Trump has been there, done that, and seemingly relishes in any opportunity to stick it to the next-in-line who foolishly believes they’ll be the one to finally put him in his place. All the others running have witness it happening to him but it won’t become real until it happens them, and it WILL be real.

There will be chaos. The left has made it not just a threat but a promise.

Seeing how most in the media, political class are useless in any other profession, it’s incumbent on them to keep their gravy train going. In the political world it means not upsetting big money donors, contractors and lobbyists who shower them with unseen perks and help them fund reelection campaigns. In the media, it means no pushback to the myth that they are trusted in the dissemination of news and opinion. Donald Trump is a threat to all of them and the very idea of him running again and possibly winning is something they need to nip in the bud immediately and they rightly assume they can create a fissure between him and his supporters. This HAS to be done and it’s started.

As evidenced by his first term, Donald Trump was a very rare breed of politician: he made campaign promises, he kept them, and the country was physically better off. He did this despite a Democrat, Deep State, and media blitzkrieg that began from his initial presidential announcement in 2015 to present. In the end, the American people ultimately won and despite the latest false narrative that his nominations cost the party the midterm election, an unheard of 80% of Republican candidates who received Trump’s endorsement, won their primary and general election.

Given the present onslaught, you’d never believe Republican voters were ever recently all-in with a Trump 2024 run for president.

As of August, 82% of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump in 2024. So what (if you’re to believe the media and Republican establishment) happened between then and now? One name-calling stint by Trump turned into a quick coronation for DeSantis… seriously? We don’t even know the true back story behind it because Trump doesn’t initiate; he counter-punches. And since when should we not be wary of establishment Republican candidate choices made for their voters?

If Donald Trump can be successfully taken out before the 2024 primaries, which is highly unlikely, who stands to gain? The answers are rather obvious.

GAIN: THE DEEP STATE

Of course the media made scant mention of it, but Donald Trump scared the hell out of the government establishment when he signed an Executive Order regarding Schedule F, which he would use his Constitutional right to hire federal employees who are loyal to the values of the president they duly elected and fire those who would “resist”, and we know a lot of resistance went on during his presidency. Thanks to the 2020 election results, the federal government class was spared but they also know Schedule F will be one of the top items on a President Trump agenda in 2025 and for good reason.

A Trump presidency in 2025 means a living hell for federal tyrants like Anthony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, and others whose federal policies have brought on severe hardship, and/or actually killed an obscene number of Americans.

A Trump presidency defangs an out-of-control federal enforcement culture that believes they alone decide our elections, who will or will not be allowed First Amendment freedom of assembly, who can and cannot lie under oath, who can be framed with impunity, and who will be punished with punitive legal bills to stave off partisan investigations. Schedule F will invoke departmental reviews and the actions of types like James Comey and Clapper, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lois Lerner will not go unaddressed. The undeserving should not be allowed to walk away after the damage they successfully inflicted on political opponents. If jail isn’t an immediate possibility, the loss of those cherished pensions should be the first things rescinded.

A Trump presidency (at least on Capitol Hill) means hundreds of thousands of liberal Democrat federal employees, with incomes two or three times the national median, potentially imperiling a very comfortable lifestyle, generous potential pension and benefits, respectable mortgage payments in gentrified neighborhoods, fully-stocked refrigerators and pantries, fancy car payments, private school tuitions, and the obvious inability to find comparable employment with inflated salaries.

GAIN: RON DeSANTIS

So what’s behind the current spat between the boys? Something must be happening behind the scenes. Trump knows, is letting the appropriate parties know he’s on to them, and the dirty specifics will be revealed when it stings the most.

Note who’s staying clear of the dust-up: Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy….

If Ron DeSantis were to join Trump on the ticket, he’d potentially have four years experience as a Veep and could be poised for eight years as POTUS. A DeSantis run now for the presidency takes four years off his time near and/or in the White House. Who benefits from that? Not the American people, but having Trump gone is a win for the GOPe, Democrats, and their media. Trump supported DeSantis when no one outside of Florida knew he existed. Loyalty is hard to come by within the Republican Party.

DeSantis, Lake, etc. have followed the successful Trump playbook on how to handle a hostile local and state media (a few names by The View panel doesn’t count).

We have no idea how DeSantis would hold up with a 24/7 national media, federal agency onslaught coming down on him, his campaign staff, and his family for months and maybe years. It won’t be pretty and only Donald Trump has shown he can take hundreds of punches without being knocked down, let alone out.

For example, a 2022 fictionalized version of the “Trump pee tape” has emerged, targeting DeSantis.

Twitter Stunned by Character on Series Claiming to Have Been Sexually Assaulted by DeSantis

While this is outright slander, there will be millions of ignants on social media who’ll believe it actually happened as well as those in the media who’ll pose this as possible art-imitating-life and force DeSantis days and maybe weeks to refute.

It’s only the beginning. DeSantis may hope Trump announces soon so many of those front-runner arrows won’t be aimed solely at him.

GAIN: GOP ESTABLISHMENT

A Trump presidency attracts America First candidates to serve Americans and threatens those so-called Republicans who ran for the power and perks they’d receive; the needs of their voters are secondary and of low very priority. Remember all of those reliable Republicans like Lisa Murkowski insiders like McConnell supported.

A Trump presidency hastily eliminates the lower tier candidates who know going in they have zero chance of winning the nomination. Adding “presidential candidate” to their resume could help them achieve pundit status (a paycheck) at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, etc. If they are humiliated at some point by Trump yet speak out against him, job prospects obviously improve.

GAIN: GLENN YOUNGKIN, WINSOME SEARS

Why has Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears now turned on the Trump who endorsed and supported her ticket?

Never assume politicians make comments off the cuff and strongly-worded, behind-the-scenes instructions have not come down from on high with carrots attached.

The people speculating about Youngkin’s national future don’t much care what he has done or not done for transportation infrastructure in Northern Virginia. They think the 55-year-old former investment banker may have found a formula to make the last six years just fade away—to return to the GOP leadership style we associate with names like Bush and Romney.
— Politico, 7/14/22

Ah, the golden Bush and Romney years. Only bubble-wrapped D.C. pundits hope that’s what Republicans want to revert back to.

If (Trump-endorsed) Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin were to run and receive the 2024 nomination as a possible VP to DeSantis, Sears would become Virginia’s governor without the inconvenience of running for it. Kinda’ like New York’s Kathy Hochul’s unelected promotion when Andrew Cuomo was pushed aside. For the political class, that’s some good incentive and all that need be done is a simple twist of a knife in the back by someone who knows how to use a bayonet.

Given his pedigree, Youngkin is the kind of “Republican” who’ll burns his voters after the election while going easy on Democrats. Just give him time.

GAIN: THE MEDIA

While there’s a notable ratings, thus revenue lag after Trump left office, who knows how he’ll approach the #FakeNewsMedia the next go ’round. For those of us who were actually IN the news business damn well know, ethics rules have clearly been broken, the public has been lied to way to many times to count, the media’s Constitutional protection should be revisited, and Trump is the only politician with the guts to start this discussion and they know it.

The obvious need be stated for CNN and MSNBC viewers: the media was given Constitutional protection so it could be a watchdog of government and report back to The People. We clearly have a media that is self-serving, has chosen a side, fabricates stories, invents “sources”, demands we only know what their chosen political party wants known, buries what their chosen party wants buried, destroys the reputations of those who are enemies to their chosen party, while using the First Amendment as their personal shield.

Impartial media that just reports the news is what should be protected. Opinion, disguised as news, should not be and thanks to the media’s overreach during the Trump years, several have been forced to pay millions in settlements because of their intentional slander of Americans. If there’s no more Trump, the media’s ground-and-pound of Americans will continue unabated, if not increase, since punishing is just what they love to do most.

So take all this drama with a grain of salt and look at it as another opportunity to vet those who would portend to “lead” us.

Remember, there are many in the conservative media who did everything they could to damage Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016 because he didn’t pass their personal litmus test. Some of these so-called unelected “leaders” have yet to apologize for the damage they did then, and more are back at it again today because it gives them relevance.

Donald Trump won despite them and can win again despite them.

We can only hope a 2025 Trump presidency cleans the whole house, not just the toilet.

President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic dropping an F-bomb in a seemingly-lighthearted conversation with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy during his Wednesday visit to Florida to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Ian. 
— Business Insider, 10/5/22

Again playing that very tired what-if game, you can imagine how batshit crazy the legacy media would be had a President Donald Trump said something similar personalized to his family. The main question would probably be, just what did he mean by that?

At least Don Corleone was a bad ass in his younger days and used the typical tactics to amass wealth and power. He didn’t need to say “No one fucks with a Corleone”. It was a given.

Joe Biden is a feeble old man who has trouble walking up stairs and wants to come off as all big and bad, but based on what? He’s been in government for over half a century, dodged any opportunity to serve in harms-way five times, an old woman could kick his ass, and the only muscle he has is a federal law enforcement infrastructure that stands between him and anyone who’d throw a shoe at him for all the damage he’s personally inflicted on the nation.

“No one fucks with a Biden”, puh-leez.

It’s common knowledge the left is all about incrementalism and much of what they want to do to the nation is done, as much as possible, behind closed doors because it’s really annoying when they have to explain themselves. Having to make cogent, logical arguments tend to escape them.

Libs of TikTok is a favorite among terminally online conservatives, who believe the account’s cherry-picked curation of primarily LGBT-oriented content lends credence to right-wing conspiracy theories claiming America’s youth are being coerced and “groomed” into homosexuality and transgenderism.
— Rolling Stone, 4/19/22

Libs of TikTok is basically a Twitter account where the creator uploads TikTok videos, voluntarily posted by liberals, where they are who they are. Many just look and sound weird, and most illuminating of late are videos of those in the teaching profession who brag about how they’re indoctrinating children to be gay, transgender, etc. giddily behind the backs of parents. The timing of these video creation is inconvenient given the recent issues involving Walt Disney and Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” bill.

It wasn’t enough for Twitter to take the expected action against Libs of TikTok. Activists joined in, including those in the so-called media.

Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s internet culture beat reporter, is being accused of “doxxing” the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.”
— New York Post, 4/19/22

So, WHO is Taylor Lorenz really…?

“They’ll threaten children?” “Terrifying!” “It’s horrifying!” Spare us the phony outrage. These are the same leftists who strategically and happily send protesters to homes of those they oppose, frightening children inside.

And while she would obviously be the first to deny it, Taylor Lorenz is a snowflake bully. At 37, she’s hardly what would be considered a mature journalist. Back in the day you’d have to have many years of success and traditional following to be given an opinion forum.

Imagine being so insecure (and busted) you have to tell people how they should read what you write even though the punishment inflicted isn’t enough….

Taylor Lorenz is an activist using her position at a national media outlet to target a private citizen SHE personally doesn’t like.

Taylor Lorenz harassed an account yesterday with a similar name. In a desperate attempt to fish for information, she threatened the account that they will be implicated as “starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people” if they don’t respond to her
— Libs of TikTok Tweet, 4/19/22

While an argument could weakly be made that the creator of Libs of TikTok is a public person because of “anonymous” appearances on other media platforms, we all know Lorenz would be quickly called into a corner office if she doxxed Tom Cruise or Beyoncé because those public people have really good lawyers who can write “cease and desist” in fonts big enough to get the attention of outraged shareholders and nervous insurance companies.

Immature or vindictive types in the media believe any opposing private citizen is fair game. They also assume, because they hide behind the title of “journalist”, they should personally remain unscathed. Not sure when Lorenz last read the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, but the media guaranteed the right to publish whatever they wish. There’s nothing in that Amendment to shields them or their employees from criticism and/or ridicule.

Not surprising, Taylor Lorenz isn’t even a good “journalist”.

The profound pathologies driving all of this were on full display on Saturday night as the result of a reckless and self-humiliating smear campaign by one of The New York Times’ star tech reporters, Taylor Lorenz. She falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen of having used the “slur” word “retarded” during a discussion about the Reddit/GameStop uprising.

Lorenz lied. Andreessen never used that word. And rather than apologize and retract it, she justified her mistake by claiming it was a “male voice” that sounded like his, then locked her Twitter account as though she — rather than the person she falsely maligned — was the victim.
— Glenn Greenwald, 2/7/21

Looks like we have a pattern.

And sorry, supposed professional journalists don’t cry because readers (as mean as they can be) don’t like them or their work just before they decide to publicly bully and harass others. I’m not sure very much, if any, footage exists of female journalism pioneers crying because of an adverse audience reaction.

So yet again we have another teachable moment.

The problem is liberals seldom learn from them, especially media millennials. They take no responsibility for their misdeeds and consistently make things worse for all involved.

The Walt Disney Company has added themselves to the groups who believe it’s their right to have access to and sexualize children, now as young as kindergarten age, and they’re pissed off there is actual opposition to their desires.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557, also known as the controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, into Florida law during a press conference Monday morning The bill, officially called the Parental Rights in Education bill, was signed into law at Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill around 12:30 p.m.

“We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination,” DeSantis said in the press conference. The Florida Senate previously passed the related SB 1834 22-17 in early March before it reached the governor’s desk. The newly signed legislation restricts what kids could learn about sexual orientation in elementary school. The new legislation limits discussion of LGBTQ issues in kindergarten through third grade.

The bill also allows parents to sue school districts if teachers discuss homosexuality or gender identity.
— NBC 2, 3/28/22

Coupled with the lies pushed by transgender activists and the media (“Don’t Say Gay” is what the left repeats is in the bill), Disney employees are going to openly defy the bill and target any politician who believes woke, gay advocate teachers talking with kindergarteners about their genitals is a bad thing.

The problem is that we’re now talking about families potentially boycotting a two or three dollar chicken sandwich. Disney products are not cheap. Disney+ goes for $8 a month or $80 a year for ad-free streaming, or a Disney+ with Hulu and ESPN+ bundle runs for a starting price of $14 a month or $168 a year. That will amount to a noticeable savings to the monthly family budget, avoiding a company whose abusive employee bullies are giving a middle finger to their customers, that is until they get over the outrage Christopher Rufo’s release of this video has caused.

Disney employees are now claiming to be the victims of “right wing media online harassment” and have organized an astroturf campaign to “mitigate the hate with the hashtag #DisneyPRIDE.” The campaign has been a flop, generating virtually no online support.
— @realchrisrufo Tweet, 3/31/22

But here’s where things can get real dicey for the Mouse.

Not even taking Bidenflation and war into account, a family going to Disneyworld in 2022 costs a serious amount of money and planning.

5 Nights Pop Century — $1228
5 Day Base Tickets — $1988
2 Days Genie+ — $128
MCO-Disney Transportation — $200
Assume flights and dining increase 3% — $2187
Total Base Trip — $5731

This is an easy removal as a family budget option, especially to a venue that has obvious contempt for how parents wish to raise their normal children. We’re talking millions monthly of potential losses to Disney just because a very small percentage of the national population believes they can bully the majority into submission over their desire to indoctrinate children behind the backs and/or over the objections of those who raise them.

A sleeping giant is a lot more powerful than a mouse and millions of Americans will take a pass on an abusive “Happiest Place on Earth”.

Disney employees plan massive walkout over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
Disney employees stage ‘huge’ walkout to protest ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill response, as company says it supports LGBTQ community
Disney workers ‘full-scale walkout’ over the company’s response to so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

It didn’t take long for “massive”, “huge” and “full-scale” to be whittled down….

Some Disney employees organize walkout to protest so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill

Reports from Los Angeles showed “dozens” showing up for a “chill” protest and in Orlando, epicenter of the Disney controversy, there was reportedly only one protester who walked off his job.

It’s like the gay protesters expected Disney to grovel even further so they wouldn’t walk off the job, and when push came to shove, it was a whole lotta nuthin’.

In yet another example of progressive projection, those who claim to be oppressed are just a part of the long-standing oppressors in a workplace all too familiar to conservatives.

Published Monday and provided to The Daily Wire in advance, the authors reveal that they do not feel safe in their jobs and say that Disney has “come to be an increasingly uncomfortable place to work for those of us whose political and religious views are not explicitly progressive.” The staffers say they’ve watched silently as Disney villainizes and condemns political leaders who share their opinions:

As employees of the Walt Disney Company, we believe in the dignity of all people. This is why we do what we do. We write stories. We make costumes. We act in parades. We run cruises. We stream movies. We make magic. We do this because our work contributes to a fountain of wonder that inspires joy, awe, and delight in guests and audiences of all ages. We are proud employees of the Walt Disney Company. We love our jobs because we get to share the wonder of life and human experience with millions of people worldwide.

However, over the last few years, one group of cast members has become invisible within the company. The Walt Disney Company has come to be an increasingly uncomfortable place to work for those of us whose political and religious views are not explicitly progressive. We watch quietly as our beliefs come under attack from our own employer, and we frequently see those who share our opinions condemned as villains by our own leadership.

The company’s evolving response to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida has left many of us wondering what place we have in a company actively promoting a political agenda so far removed from our own. TWDC leadership frequently communicates its commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where cast members feel comfortable sharing their perspectives and being their authentic selves at work. That is not our workplace experience.

Over the last few weeks, we have watched as our leadership has expressed their condemnation for laws and policies we support. We have watched as our colleagues, convinced that no one in the company could possibly disagree with them, grow increasingly aggressive in their demands. They insist that TWDC take a strong stance on not only this issue but other legislation and openly advocate for the punishment of employees who disagree with them.

An internal poll within the company went out a few months ago asking us if we felt accepted in the company. Many of us didn’t complete it because the nature of the questions made us worry that the results of the poll could be used to target us for quietly holding a position that runs against the progressive orthodoxy that Disney seems to promote. TWDC has fostered an environment of fear that any employee who does not toe the line will be exposed and dismissed.

Much has been made of our internal efforts to Reimagine Tomorrow, but as much as diversity and inclusion are promoted, the tomorrow being reimagined doesn’t seem to have much room for religious or political conservatives within the company. Left-leaning cast members are free to promote their agenda and organize on company time using company resources. They call their fellow employees “bigots” and pressure TWDC to use corporate influence to further their left-wing legislative goals.

Meanwhile, those of us who don’t align with this vision keep our heads down and do our work without bringing our personal beliefs into the workplace. We’ve done this without complaint because we don’t want to rock the boat, but the boat is being rocked, and our leadership seems compelled to reward those who are rocking it.

Employees who want TWDC to make left-wing political statements are encouraged, while those of us who want the company to remain neutral can say so only in a whisper out of fear of professional retaliation. The company we love seems to think we don’t exist or don’t belong here. This politicization of our corporate culture is damaging morale and causing many of us to feel our days with TWDC might be numbered.

Furthermore, as this politicization makes its way into our content and public messaging, our more conservative customers will feel similarly unwanted. You can only preach at or vilify your audience for so long before they decide to spend their money elsewhere.

Working for The Walt Disney Company is a dream come true. We love being part of creating the magic that so many people around the world enjoy. Our storytelling is second to none. It resonates with people from all walks of life across the political spectrum. Our parks are the source of joy and inspiration that Walt hoped they would become. Every year, millions of guests escape an increasingly divided world to a place where they can relive fond memories of the past and savor the challenge and promise of the future. They do this alongside thousands of other guests that might not have anything in common with them other than a shared love of Disney.

The unique brand of family entertainment that Disney is known for is an objective good in this dark world. It brings people together and provides cultural touchpoints that even the worst enemies can unite over. At the height of COVID lockdowns in the Summer of 2020 when the country was fiercely divided over a range of issues, Hamilton provided us something to collectively celebrate. At the end of an incredibly contentious election year, The Mandalorian was there to soothe a weary nation with non-political entertainment we could all enjoy no matter who you voted for. When Disney takes sides in political debates, they deprive the world of a shared love we all have in common. TWDC is uniquely situated to provide experiences and entertainment that can bridge our national divide and bring us all together.

CEO, Bob Chapek had the right idea in his original statement that he has since walked back. In Chapek’s own words, “As we have seen time and again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds. … Instead, they are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame.” Disney is far more important and impactful to the world by avoiding politics than it will ever be by embracing a political agenda. By focusing on entertainment that inspires us with stories of universal appeal, we are doing good in the world.

Disney shouldn’t be a vehicle for one demographic’s political activism. It’s so much bigger and more important than that. More than ever, the world needs things that we can unite around. That’s the most valuable role The Walt Disney Company could play in the world at this time. It’s a role we’ve played for nearly a century, and it would be a shame to throw all of that away in the face of left-wing political pressure. Please don’t let Disney become just another thing we divide over.
— Disney Employees’ Open Letter in Favor of a Politically Neutral Disney

While gay activists believe it’s their right to introduce sexuality to kindergarteners on up and suggest any push back is bigotry and oppression, look at the language used by those same activists towards anyone who opposes them. The goal could be to limit their environments to only people who think like them.

After the “massive” walkout at Disney, it’s still appears to be a very small group.

DeSantis had none of it, didn’t give O’Brien the apology to the president he sought and made the biased, thin-skinned media look even more partisan and pitiful.

Good job, Jay.