TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHEN YOU WERE PANTSED. BY A MOUSE. IN PUBLIC.

Yesterday the news that Disney outmaneuvered and outwitted Ron DeSantis’s effort to remove the company’s quasi-governmental powers over Disney World as payback for their support of gay rights made my day, as they say. The interesting and hilarious fact that Mickey Mouse did it eight months ago, not hiding anything but rather acting in full compliance with Florida’s rigorous public-notice “Sunshine in Government law,” rather than what appeared in initial reports to be some last minute switcheroo when the defenders of FweeDumb in Tallahassee took their eye off the ball was icing on the cake.

Ron DeSantis got pantsed in public by Mickey Mouse and it took him eight months to find out it happened.

I think we can dispense with the “Like Trump, but smart” nonsense. DeSantis turns out to be as dumb as any Southern white boy put into office by the inbred white Southern droolers masquerading as “voting citizens.”

It all started on April 19th, 2022, two days after DeSantis’ pet legislature passed the bill that dissolved Disney’s special governing district.

That same day, Disney notified Orange County, the county in which DizzyWorld is located, that the company had just signed two new agreements with the the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The two agreements secure Disney’s rights well into the 22nd century.

Public acts like this have to be done in public. While most people don’t pay attention to the notices of meetings published in the relevant local newspaper, they are there for anyone to find. But the Tallahassee Twits were too busy straightening out their original fuckup. You see, last summer when the tame legislaters passed the original bill dissolving the Reedy Creek Improvement District, they soon discovered that doing so meant they were saddling the citizens of Orange Country - who vote for them - with Disney’s billion-dollar debt, which their bill had just relieved Disney of responsibility for paying.

Big oopsie there.

Thus, they were busy little bees, creating the Central Florida Tourism Supervisory Board, which would keep Disney in line while making sure Mickey kept up his payments. While they were doing that, the agreements Disney signed eight months before were announced publicly at a meeting of the Reedy Creek board on January 25, then adopted by the board on February 8 when they voted in public to officially ratify the agreements.

All legal. All done in public. All following the rules as they are understood in Florida.

As far as the DeSantis Administration goes, they’re the state government. So “who follows local government board meetings!”isn’t an excuse they can use without looking like bigger morons than they already are. They weren’t paying attention. Didn’t sweat the details. They were busy doing what conservative “governance” generally does. If you despise government and don’t really govern, you’re unlikely to sweat the details and pay attention to inner workings of how it functions. You’re unlikely to know what the details even are, let alone how they work.

Once the dildos, er, I mean the new board members, discovered the situation, they proclaimed they would either have the tame legislature pass a new law or unleash a horde of conservative lawyers billing the taxpayers $1,000/hour to get this dastardly deed undone in court.

As Bimbo For Book Burning Bridget Ziegler put it, “We won’t stand for this and we won’t back down. If unlawful actions were taken, this development agreement will be nullified.”

Well, I hate to tell a Southern-fried bimbo that she is in fact a Southern-fried bimbo, and a pretty dumb one at that, but here’s the truth:

Disney did everything by the book, with all the procedural niceties and public notice required. If the Tallahassee Twits try to pass a new law or challenge the agreement Disney made with the previous board, there is a big problem with either move.

Disney entered into a lawful contract with a local government agency, and Republicans like to say they are big supporters of property rights and contracts. Undoing that contact is a major “takings” issue if they try to pass a law that overturns that contract.

And if they go to court, the state legal precedents that would be undone if they were successful would weaken the security of property and contractual rights, especially in real estate.

Who cares about “taking” property and contractual rights in real estate? All the rich developers do. The ones who usually support Republican campaigns with the money made from their real estate developments that are safe because of the sanctity of contacts.

And state law experts say Disney has by far the stronger case. There’s a good chance the Tallahassee Twits can’t pull it off. And whether they do or not, this is a case that will involve years of litigation. And appeals. And lots of media coverage of that litigation.

And while all that is going on, Governator DooDad can’t use his power play against Disney for being “woke” in what’s left of his presidential campaign this year.

And all the doo-doo the overpaid, under-intelligent, otherwise-unemployable Ivy League nitwits of the Political Press Corpse laid on about how DooDad is “a smart Trump,” goes flying out the window.

I mean, being pantsed in public by Mickey Mouse and not being aware it happened for eight months is not the story of a capable competent Authoritarian, is it?

None of the Goobers will be telling Disney that they have to produce “the kind of entertainment families appreciate” if they want to have a new building approved.

Bridget the Bimbo can yell and screech all she wants, and Reverend Water Turns People Gay can complain all he wants about being stuck keeping the roads paved and the trash picked up. All that does is remind everyone that these fools are so fucking stupid they got turned into Public Morons. By Mickey Mouse.

And if DooDad wants to play this out and continue to threaten Things As They Must Be for the rich people he lives to serve, he won’t be serving them much longer.

Check and Mate, Meatball Ronnie. Your white Wellingtons aren’t high enough to get you through this river of shit.

Pantsed by a mouse. And you were too stupid to know it happened.

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