Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign team and surrogates are hailing the news that Disney – led by Bob Iger – is doubling its investment into theme parks, claiming the corporation has “abandoned the culture war” after clashing with the Florida Governor.
Former President Donald Trump warned in April that DeSantis was mishandling his conflict with Disney, potentially leading to reduced investment in or partial withdrawal from the Sunshine State for no tangible benefit. DeSantis booster John Hasson claims time has proven the former president wrong, as “Disney is increasing its FL investments and has abandoned the culture war”.
But while Disney’s CEO, Iger, has announced an increase in investments in parks and cruise ships, it is not clear how much of this will be allocated to Florida, and worse still, the news came at the same time Disney Parks boss floated the idea of a woke, “Wakanda“-themed attraction.
“We have a wealth of untapped stories to bring to life across our business,” said D’Amaro. “Frozen, one of the most successful and popular animated franchises of all time, could have a presence at the Disneyland Resort. Wakanda has yet to be brought to life. The world of Coco is just waiting to be explored. There’s a lot of storytelling opportunity.”
Nor has Iger actually said he is abandoning the culture war, merely telling investors the company will “quiet the noise” – a statement almost identical to the one the company made in April, before embarking on a summer of wokeness that saw drag queens greeting children at their parks.
Hispanic actress Rachel Zegler, who stars in next year’s live-action remake of Snow White, has also been outspoken about how her new, feminist version of the character will not be saved by a “stalker” prince or have any interest in “true love”, because “it’s no longer 1937.” The seven dwarfs of the original movie will also be replaced with a multi-racial cast of “magical creatures”.
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Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign team and surrogates are hailing the news that Disney – led by Bob Iger – is doubling its investment into theme parks, claiming the corporation has "abandoned the culture war" after clashing with the Florida Governor.
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Naturally, Team DeSantis will try to take whatever small or pyrrhic victories they can get right now, desperate as they are to leave some kind of mark on this presidential primary campaign
Naturally, Team DeSantis will try to take whatever small or pyrrhic victories they can get right now, desperate as they are to leave some kind of mark on this presidential primary campaign show more
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. convicted three individuals for “…a felony conspiracy against rights and a FACE Act offense” for protesting an abortion clinic – suspected of providing illegal late-term abortions – in the city. Two two of the defendants, Jean Marshall and Joan Bell are over 70 years old.
The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law prohibiting protestors from physically blocking access to an abortion clinic, crisis pregnancy center, or place of religious worship. Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – effectively overturning Roe v. Wade and returning the abortion question to the states – President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has stepped up FACE Act prosecutions of pro-life protestors, seemingly in revenge.
According to the DOJ, Marshall, Bell, and the third defendant – 41 year old Jonathan Darnel – each face “a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $350,000.” For Marshall and Bell, the maximum prison sentence would be tantamount to a life sentence in prison for an over-exuberant protest.
In late August, five other pro-life activists were convicted of violating the FACE Act during the same protest. One of the protestors, Lauren Handy, had contacted the Washington Metropolitan Police Department after she removed five aborted fetuses from the clinic’s medical waste. According to Handy, the fetuses showed advanced stages of development indicating the clinic was engaging in late-term abortion – barred by federal law. The Washington D.C. medical examiner’s office said they had no plans to autopsy the fetuses. No charges against the clinic were pursued.
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A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. convicted three individuals for "...a felony conspiracy against rights and a FACE Act offense" for protesting an abortion clinic – suspected of providing illegal late-term abortions – in the city. Two two of the defendants, Jean Marshall and Joan Bell are over 70 years old.
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Critics of former President Donald J. Trump have suggested his approach to abortion is less than desired, citing clipped videos from an interview with Meet the Press, and fundamentally attempting to misrepresent his position and history on the subject.
The self-declared “most pro life president in US history” explained that he now prefers to leave the matter up to the states, and to “sit down with both sides… and negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”
This, after all, was the entire point of the Dobbs ruling, and indeed the U.S. Constitution. But critics who now demand a federal ban have turned on Trump in recent days. Those same critics, hardly coincidentally, are also vocal supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential aspirations.
Using an issue like abortion in a primary against Trump is not just underhanded, it’s also embarrassing for them when confronted with Trump’s record.
1. Roe v. Wade
Trump’s most notable achievement on abortion actually came after he left office. Namely, to have the United States Supreme Court remove Roe v Wade‘s constitutional protections in June 2022, by having appointed several conservative justices to the court.
Indeed, Trump oversaw the appointment of over 150 conservative justices while President, including 43 U.S. Court of Appeals judges and 99 District Court judges. Roe’s overturning alone makes him the most pro-life president in U.S. history, but the ruling itself Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – itself guarantees the matter is returned to the people’s representatives, not federal agencies.
2. Removing Support and Funding for Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title X funds in 2019, leading to a 63 percent reduction in “family planning” visits as well as a $809.4 million funding cut from the program. The move was recognized as a “major policy win for social conservatives looking to prohibit access to abortion.”
The former President overturned Obama-era and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rules to allow states to withhold or cut funding for Planned Parenthood within the first few months of his presidential term in 2017.
Trump also made it a requirement for health insurance companies to disclose if plans cover abortion and even canceled huge contracts for taxpayer-funded experimentation with body parts of aborted babies.
3. Department of Health for Human Services.
Trump introduced a new division at the HHS devoted to “conscience and religious freedom” in 2018, enabling healthcare workers to refuse to undertake specific roles, such as birth control or abortion, based on their religious convictions.
Under his oversight, the HHS published an updated five-year plan between 2018-2022, in which it dedicated its operations to “protecting the life of all Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.”
4. Changing America’s International Stance on Abortion.
The Trump administration cut off all overseas funding for abortions and announced that there is no international right to abortion at a United Nations meeting in 2019.
The U.S., under Trump’s leadership, further removed funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been “complicit in China’s oppressive population control activities, including birth limitation policies and forced abortions,” according to SBA Pro-life America.
That primary challengers would now try to hurl accusations of being “pro abortion” at Trump is self-evidently ludicrous. Especially since none of them were complaining when the above achievements were being racked up.
It speaks to something far darker at the heart of Never Trumpism, to use an issue like this as a cudgel against a man with the best record of any president, living or dead.
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Critics of former President Donald J. Trump have suggested his approach to abortion is less than desired, citing clipped videos from an interview with Meet the Press, and fundamentally attempting to misrepresent his position and history on the subject.
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A new AIDS memorial in Palm Springs, California is stirring controversy, due to its similarity to an orifice which is often people’s first point of contact with the disease.
From one side, the $500,000 memorial looks like a generic, donut-like modernist sculpture engraved with a swirling pattern – but from the other side it resembles an anus.
“The backside of the proposed memorial looks like a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being,” said local activist Gene Brake.
“That’s definitely a butthole,” remarked one social media user.
While HIV and AIDS can be contracted through vaginal sex and needle-sharing, they are most commonly contracted through male-on-male anal sex, with gay and bisexual men accounting for a grossly disproportionate share of the infected.
The lifetime risk of contracting HIV for gay men is one in six, rising to one in four among gay Latino men and an astonishing one in two among gay black men, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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A new AIDS memorial in Palm Springs, California is stirring controversy, due to its similarity to an orifice which is often people's first point of contact with the disease.
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The British General Medical Council (GMC) has updated its internal policy to remove all mentions of the word “mother” for its employees, opting instead for “parent” to avoid female-specific language.
The guidance also changed the term “surrogate mother” in favor of “surrogate parent,” explaining in a maternity document that the “GMC offers maternity to all colleagues going on maternity leave,” including so-called surrogate parents.
The GMC further updated its menopause advice to suggest that it does not only impact women, making clear that it “will work proactively to make adjustments where necessary to support individuals experiencing the menopause.”
Heather Welford of the maternity action group With Woman told one outlet following the guidance update, “[t]he decision by the GMC to obscure the fact that only women have babies is ideologically driven, medically inaccurate and unhelpful to women and babies. It moves away from the drive for plain English and makes medical literature unclear.”
“For medical professionals, the sex of a person is salient to their health care. Reputable organisations such as the GMC should not be changing language on a population level to pander to ideologically driven pressure groups,” she added.
This follows a British government-funded LGBT organization recommending people refer to vaginas as “bonus holes” to increase inclusivity earlier this summer.
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The British General Medical Council (GMC) has updated its internal policy to remove all mentions of the word "mother" for its employees, opting instead for "parent" to avoid female-specific language.
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Author Salman Rushdie, recently attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist in New York, is now claiming the West in which he has sought refuge for decades is not so great, and that a “golden age myth” lays behind movements such as “MAGA” and Brexit.
Despite relying upon the West’s commitment to freedom of expression and millions of dollars in taxpayer resources that have ensured his safety after former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a “fatwa” against him in 1989, Rushdie told an audience on Wednesday:
“Make America Great Again’ – that’s always made me want to ask: ‘When exactly was that?’ What is the date to which we are looking backwards? Was it, for example, when there was slavery? Was it before women had the right to vote? Was it before the civil rights movement?”
Rushdie also hit out at Republicans voters specifically, claiming they no longer value democratic values enshrined in the First Amendment and are embracing authoritarianism due to concerns about the fairness of the 2020 presidential election. He argued, “When you have the large majority of Republican voters believing that the last election was stolen… if the assault on truth has reached that level of success, then we’re in real trouble.”
He made no comment on the authoritarian use of power by the left, in order to imprison those with differing opinions on the matter, including President Trump. Rushdie went on to suggest Brexit – which has never been fully implemented by the British government – was a “catastrophe”.
“In England, the Brexit catastrophe was the result of another golden age myth, which is: ‘England used to be this glorious country and it could be that glorious country again, if only we could get rid of all these foreigners,” Rushdie retorted, without signaling whether or not he, a foreigner, would return to his native India. Probably not, though.
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Author Salman Rushdie, recently attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist in New York, is now claiming the West in which he has sought refuge for decades is not so great, and that a "golden age myth" lays behind movements such as "MAGA" and Brexit.
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Actor and infamous Hollywood liberal Sean Penn wants to make AI replicas of the daughters of major motion picture studio executives and, according to him, let his friends do whatever they want to them. Penn’s bizarre comments come in response to the ongoing Hollywood writers and actors strike, where the issue of studio use and control over AI generated likenesses of actors has become a critical sticking point.
When asked about the strikes during an interview with Variety, the actor proposed his solution to the impasse over AI: asking film executives, on camera:
“So you want my scans and voice data and all that. OK, here’s what I think is fair: I want your daughter’s, because I want to create a virtual replica of her and invite my friends over to do whatever we want in a virtual party right now. Would you please look at the camera and tell me you think that’s cool?”
– Sean Penn, September 2023.
Over-the-top outbursts against his perceived enemies is not unusual for Penn, now 63 years old. In a 2018 opinion piece for Time, the actor declared that then President Donald Trump was the “enemy of mankind” and an “enemy of the state” insinuating that Trump was an immediate threat to the American people. In 2003, Penn took out a full page ad in the New York Times to attack President George W. Bush, warning that the American flag was becoming “a haunting banner of murder, greed, and treason against our principles”
Most recently, the Oscar-winning actor has taken up the cause of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his country’s war with Russia, making a failed push for the Ukrainian president to address the crowd and cameras at the Academy Awards in 2022.
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Actor and infamous Hollywood liberal Sean Penn wants to make AI replicas of the daughters of major motion picture studio executives and, according to him, let his friends do whatever they want to them. Penn's bizarre comments come in response to the ongoing Hollywood writers and actors strike, where the issue of studio use and control over AI generated likenesses of actors has become a critical sticking point.
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The British government is considering banning American XL bully dogs following a series of attacks in the United Kingdom. Home Secretary Suella Braverman described the breed as a “clear and lethal danger” to people, particularly children. Braverman revealed that she has sought “urgent advice” on the matter after an XL bully attacked three individuals, including an 11-year-old child, over the weekend. Over half of the 10 fatal dog attacks in Britain last year involved an XL bully, according to the Guardian.
The American Bully Kennel Club describes the XL bully as a breed that gives the “impression of great strength for its size.” The British public has increasingly embraced XL bullies in recent years, viewing the dogs’ size and strength as a status symbol. However, experts and social media users were divided over whether recent attacks justified a full ban on the breed. Some advocated for stricter regulation of breeders and dog owners, while others supported a ban due to concerns over the breed’s reactivity and prey drive.
In Britain, if an owner is found to possess a banned breed without special court permission, police or local officials can seize the dog, even if it is not acting dangerously. The dog is then assessed for risk by an expert, and in some cases, euthanized. Owning a dog that is considered dangerously out of control in Britain is an offense that carries an unlimited fine and a prison sentence of up to six months. Dog attacks globally constitute tens of millions of injuries each year, with children at the highest risk.
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The British government is considering banning American XL bully dogs following a series of attacks in the United Kingdom. Home Secretary Suella Braverman described the breed as a "clear and lethal danger" to people, particularly children. Braverman revealed that she has sought "urgent advice" on the matter after an XL bully attacked three individuals, including an 11-year-old child, over the weekend. Over half of the 10 fatal dog attacks in Britain last year involved an XL bully, according to the Guardian.
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Five prominent law firms in the United States have been accused of operating diversity programs that either exclude white applicants or explicitly favor minorities. Morrison & Foerster and Perkins Coie were sued last month over their minority-only fellowships, and experts suggest that these lawsuits could have broader implications for the legal profession. Other firms being accused of the practice include Wachtell Lipton, Winston & Strawn, Baker McKenzie, Sidley Austin, and Susman Godfrey. These firms have been ranked as some of the top in the country.
The law firms’ diversity programs, which range from paid internships to mentoring programs and cash awards, have stringent criteria based on race. While many white-shoe law firms have initiatives to boost minority representation, these firms stand out by limiting or entirely excluding white applicants.
The potential legal challenges to these discriminatory practices are expected to increase following the Supreme Court’s decision regarding affirmative action, according to Kenneth Marcus, the former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Education Department during the Trump administration. Some experts believe that these programs violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and complainants argue that they are instances of pay discrimination and favor minority employees.
The recent affirmative action verdict may impact law firms’ decisions in defending race-based programs. Conservative groups they intend to launch a major campaign against radical corporate ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ programs. Professor David Bernstein from George Mason University Law School suggests most of these programs violate employment and contracting laws, including one that is ironically referred to as a scholarship but appears to be an employment bonus. In the case of Wachtell, however, experts argue that the firm has explicitly set aside a quota of first-year positions based on race, which they believe is blatantly illegal.
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Five prominent law firms in the United States have been accused of operating diversity programs that either exclude white applicants or explicitly favor minorities. Morrison & Foerster and Perkins Coie were sued last month over their minority-only fellowships, and experts suggest that these lawsuits could have broader implications for the legal profession. Other firms being accused of the practice include Wachtell Lipton, Winston & Strawn, Baker McKenzie, Sidley Austin, and Susman Godfrey. These firms have been ranked as some of the top in the country.
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The Mayor of Burbank, Konstantine Anthony, was bent over a table and spanked by a transvestite at the Santa Clarita Valley Democrats’ Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser the day before 9/11, causing uproar on social media.
Anthony, who is running for Los Angeles County Supervisor, can be seen smiling and clapping after being paddled by a man in a dress and platform heels in video shared by Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, who said the mayor “received a spanking from a drag queen in front of children” at the event.
The Democrat vehemently denies children saw him being spanked and that the event was only attended by over-21s. Material promoting the event was incoherent, however, saying it was “not suitable for children” but also that it was open to anyone over age 15.
Local media reports it has not been possible to verify whether minors were present or not.
Anthony, who describes himself as an autistic ex-homeless on his website, also suggested that Raichik was “jealous” about his spanking.
WATCH: Konstantine Anthony- the Mayor of Burbank, California, received a spanking from a drag queen in front of children at a Democrat campaign event yesterday.
The Mayor of Burbank, Konstantine Anthony, was bent over a table and spanked by a transvestite at the Santa Clarita Valley Democrats' Drag Queen Bingo fundraiser the day before 9/11, causing uproar on social media.
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