About 7 months ago now, I created a thread that summarized a video interview from Legal Mindset (government name: Andrew Esquire), who is one of the few lawyers specializing in Florida Special Districts law, talking about how all of the attempts at gaslighting about the situation did not actually meet the truth of what was happening, and that DeSantis had actually bent Disney over and spanked their asses with virtually no way out, with a full TLDR of the reasons why listed in the other thread.
Now, there are newspapers and journo's putting out messages with supposed updates about Reedy Creek, spinning the info as DeSantis backing down and Disney winning this fight, especially now that Iger is back in charge.
So the same interviewer did another video with Andrew (one more in-depth about a month ago, and one yesterday with some further Post-Election, Post-Iger clarification). And at least according to Andrew, everything is happening exactly as he called it.
Basically, the "proof" that Disney is winning and DeSantis is backing down is that Reedy Creek will still exist and still have Disney property, and will now just have a board overlooking it. There is just one problem with this narrative: that is what literally every other Special District in the state is like! Part of what made Reedy Creek so unique is that they didnt have that sort of oversight. Now they will, and the board will consist of members from Orange and Osceola counties, as well as appointed representatives from the state of Florida, who are chosen by the Governor.
Now, if Disney wants to do anything, they will have file permits, pay fees and taxes on their work, and have their work approved by the board. Which also means anything they do is going to be going public within hours of them filling the permits, just like what happens with Universal Orlando whenever they plan on doing anything. This is some sort of "win", is it Disney? And the odds they get back their old cushy deal is practically gone now that DeSantis has won a crushing re-election and Iger is back (who has even less pull with Florida representatives than even Chapek did).
So why are they saying that Disney totally is owning DeSantis? Probably the same reason they did the first time: Political favoritism, shills, personal grudges, you name it. Still aint going to help Disney, especially as their financials continue to get worse and worse.
Ok I am sorry to say this but what you wrote is pure Trump cultism.
Trump is definitely vehemently hated more by independents.
Trump will struggle in the sunbelt states compared to DeSantis. Trump is a horrible fit for Texas. Having him and Cruz at the same time on the same ballot is a complete nightmare.
Most conservatives in Texas are boomer cons who truly dislike Trump and Cruz's unnecessarily offensive personality.
Trump has no viable path to victory when he is guaranteed to lose Arizona and Georgia. He would need Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to compensate and no Republican is going to be winning Michigan anytime soon and Trump is not going to be able to beat the fraud in PA when he keeps calling for his base to do only election day voting. Trump suppresses his own turnout.
DeSantis' electoral path is relatively easier. All he has to do is narrowly win AZ, GA and WI.
Trump refuses to start a ballot harvesting operation in swing states and he refuses to get his voters to start voting early. We need to embrace early voting in order to prevent a redux of how Arizona was stolen for Kari Lake in 2022 when on election day the machines in Maricopa county broke. That disproportionately hurt Republican turnout.
DeSantis understands the importance of ballot harvesting and he will adapt to use it when necessary. Trump is too deadset in complaining about the stolen election and refuses to do what must be done to win again.
You somehow think Trump is the only one who can avoid being subverted when the biggest issue is that he likely won't win again in the first place.
I rather win with DeSantis and believe that he can avoid being subverted than run Trump again and watch him lose and let Biden easily get a second term.
Hey, I didn't call you a DeSantis cultist, and you should already be well aware that I'm not a cultist either.
This doesn't sound like Texas to me. Maybe Austin. I know some Lefties in Texas, but I've seen the Trump flags in the suburbs in Texas.
I still don't see why you believe this. DeSantis will be effected by the exact same fraud, and will be exactly just as hated by independents that listen to NPR, but will not have the charisma, personality, or name recognition that brought Trump's base out.
I don't know that early voting is a good idea because the statistics are so strange for early voting. It seems like no republican is early voting, and I don't know if that means that those Republican votes are being thrown away or not. The correct path is to bus Republican voters to Democratic poling stations in Arizona because you can still do that. I don't know about this "Trump refuses to start ballot harvesting". I doubt he's refused to do much of anything.
No, I think he's less likely to be subverted because the man has shown to hold grudges and absolutely piss in the mouth of his enemies that fuck him over (see his Scottish golf course nonsense). And I do not see the evidence that he likely won't win (outside of fraud and GOPe sabotage). And it is fair to say that Trump's biggest risk is the GOPe intentionally throwing the election to kill populism, but I don't see how that would be any less likely under DeSantis.