MICKEY MOUSE OUTSMARTS FLORI-DUMB MAN

I hate having to tip my hat to the asshats at Mauschwitz, but they have once again demonstrated what everyone in Hollywood knows: don’t fight The Mouse.

Today is yet another day where we discover that Flori-dumb Governator Ron DeSantis can only be considered “smart” when he is compared to the average white trash gatorbait one finds too many of in the Sunshine State.

This is one of those events that goes a long way to proving he hasn’t got the brains to compete outside Dumbassville, er, I mean Flori-dumb.

To recap: last year when Governnator Flori-Dumb Man was passing the Don’t Say Gay bill though his tame legislature, the gay employees at Disney (there’s a lot of them) pressured Disney CEO Bob Chapek to clear his throat and say that maybe that wasn’t a good idea.

Real Flori-dumb Governor Casey DeSantis told Governator Dimbulb that he couldn’t let that pass, and sticking a finger in the eye of the state’s biggest employer would be a Good Thing when it came to conning the rubes. So Flori-Dumb Man went out without his white Wellingtons on and called a press conference to announce that it was a Terrible Thing that a corporation got to run a government entity in Flori-Dumb and he was going to fix that.

The result was a law removing Disney’s ability to run the Reedy Creek Improvement District that covered DisneyWorld in Orlando, which Disney had run for the past 50 years. The governing board, its name now changed to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District included as members Chairman Martin Garcia, whose private investment firm contributed $50,000 to the governator’s 2022 reelection campaign; Bridget Ziegler, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, the book burners Pertecktin’ de Chilluns - who also happens to be married to Christian Ziegler, the new chairman of the Fascist Party of Flori-Dumb, er, I mean the Republican Party of Flori-Dumb, which has donated $1.75 million to the governor's campaign; Brian Aungst Jr., son of the former mayor of Clearwater and a major supporter of Governator Dimbulb; Michael Sasso, a politically connected lawyer who donated to Dimbulb’s re-election campaign; and “Reverend,” Ron Peri, founder of The Gathering, who makes derogatory remarks about the LGBTQ community, calling homosexuality "evil," and who, in a January 2022 Zoom discussion, shared a conspiracy theory about how tap water could be making more people gay. Hey, it’s Flori-Dumb, right?

The special tax district’s five-member governing body was intended to corner Disney into keeping quiet on cultural issues or risk having the state disrupt their operations.

Governator Flori-Dumb Man even cackled publicly that the new board would have the power to tell Mickey Mouse what he could do with the content the company created across the country in Burbank, if they wanted to keep their show going in Flori-Dumb.

Except, the day before the goobers danced and sang up in Tallahassee while avoiding hungry alligators, celebrating the Victory of The People Against the Mouse, the last meeting of the Reedy Creek Improvement District was held, with proper public notice of the meeting, in accordance with the Flori-Dumb “Government in the Sunshine” law. This was apparently missed by the goobers, who were too busy getting ready to celebrate their mendacious malicious mendacity. At the meeting, the then-board approved a series of agreements and restrictive covenants in a 30-year deal that includes local approval to build another theme park and restrictions that bar the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District’s new Board of Supervisors from making changes to any Disney property without securing company approval. The agreement also includes restrictions barring the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board from using the name “Disney,” any symbols, “fanciful characters such as Mickey Mouse” or marks, among other intellectual property, without Disney’s approval. Disney can sue for damages for any violations, and the agreement is in effect until perpetuity.

The document could be challenged as a violation of the legal Rule Against Perpetuities, a centuries-old contract rule that prohibits the uncertain endless exertion of control over the ownership of private property. If a lawsuit is filed, the state is likely to challenge the agreement based on the rule.

If that should happen, Disney also included a statement that if the agreement is found to violate the Rule Against Perpetuities, it is “in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England, living as of the date of this Declaration.” King Charles in fact has four grandchildren who were alive on February 8, 2023. The youngest will likely live to around 2100, given the age Windsors can survive to, meaning Governator Dumbulb and the Flori-Dumb Fascists are stuck with this for the next 100 years.

In a statement, Disney said, “All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law.”

New Board member Brian Aungst said, "It's a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern."

“Reverend” Peri said, “This essentially makes Disney the government. This board loses, for practical purposes, the majority of its ability to do anything beyond maintaining the roads and maintaining basic infrastructure.” No shit, Sherlock; what was your first clue?

The DeSantis team brought onthe law firm Cooper & Kirk, which recently hired failed Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and once employed Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz, to fight their case.

Any legal proceeding will take place in the circuit court for Orange County, Florida, and will be set for a bench trial, according to the document.

Disney’s move wasn’t missed by DeSantis’ chief political rival, Donald Trump. Taylor Budowich, spokesman for the Make America Great Again PAC said, “Ron DeSantis just got out-negotiated by Mickey Mouse.”

For once, The Donald is right.

You go, Mickey!

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