When the Money Maker Stops Skaking

 I have been watching, with attention rapt, the goings on in Orlando Florida and Disney in Particular. I have to say, the entertainment value alone is well worth watching mainstream media.

With Disney's ham-fisted reaction to their woke employees, people they have hired and put into positions of power, provoked the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, to act in the best interest of the people, not even voters yet, of his state.

I know. In this world of political expediency and Cultural Marxism, how is this possible that one man can stand against the Disney Juggernaut?

Well, Virginia, when The House of Mouse decided to not even bother reading what their employees were so up in arms about and went on a media diatribe against DeSantis, then stoically proclaimed they would not be a political football, well, I think the video Bob Cheapak posted as an apology to said Woke employees, you could see the gun pointed at his head. He was sweating like a Canadian in the Florida sunshine in September.

So many were saying that DeSantis could do nothing. I knew they were wrong. How would I know, you ask? Well, because I've seen it done in my own locality with a major university. Baylor University, that Bastion of Southern Baptistry and wholesomeness, right. Kinda like Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Orlando. 

Baylor once had a choke hold on anything happening in Waco, along with the Lacy family. They controlled which businesses could come to Waco, which hotels were built to host their alumni during football and basketball season and which restaurants we could eat at. No lie. When I moved here twenty-five years ago the only big name restaurants we had were Olive Garden and Red Lobster out at Richmond Mall.

Now we have a veritable embarrassment of restaurants be their chain or local eateries.

I'd been here a few years and lived through the City of Waco, with severe pressure applied by Baylor when a Caterpillar shop was being built in our industrial district. It's a grant to the city which was to host industry and business to being jobs and opportunity to our fair city. Nothing had happened there but a Sherwin Williams plant. Why? Because Sherwin Williams will never be bigger than Baylor. Are you beginning to sense a theme?

It broke completely when they applied pressure to Caterpillar, and they took all of the installed tooling in the shop and went home. Baylor had not foreseen that eventuality. Caterpillar let that campus sit idle, paying the taxes and keeping up the brush, but otherwise they did nothing. Then something wonderful happened, well, a lot of wonderful things happened.

We woke up one day and the tooling was being reinstalled and not only that, Caterpillar was putting in a distribution center not half a mile away from the plant. What caused this miracle?

A tornado hit the ancient industrial center in Waco taking out a Coca-Cola bottling plant. Coke quickly purchased an Industrial park plot of land and built a new bottling plant and Baylor could only suck it. The area exploded and Waco took out so many of the speed bumps that Baylor had put in place to make sure no one was bigger than them in this county and business exploded. We got a huge Walmart distro center and miracle of miracles; We got a major Amazon distro center that is months from opening with an Amazon store on site as well.

Since Baylor lost its choke hold on the county, we have had businesses building all over the damned place. We even sailed through the pandemic retard response with almost no casualties. We have a governor that is a lot like DeSantis, but who likes suing the Federal Government more than making public addresses.

Yesterday's news that a Special Assembly of the Florida Legislature who convened only to vote on repealing the Reedy Creek Act put into place in the 60s to keep Disney in the blighted area of Orlando. It's unprecedented and kind of scary in a Company Town kind of way. DeSantis was right, Disney could have built their own nuclear reactor to provide their own power needs and the State of Florida would have been powerless to even regulate the thing. Disney was, in point of fact, much like Indian Reservations in that they were autonomous.

Scary when you consider the freaks running the place now.

Orlando, it might hurt for a few years, but you will come through it and have way more to show for it that Disney's Freak Show hanging around your neck like a lode stone. What are they going to do? Move? WDW is twice the size of Manhattan... right. It's laughable and if they do someone else will move in. But I seriously doubt you need to worry about that. 

You need to keep in mind that the freaks are a fraction of a percentage of the population and Disney only want the elite at their parks. Fine. Plan change, we go to Universal instead because my grandkids like Harry Potter and Nintendo way more than they do The Mouse. My money spends there better anyway.

Now, for the bad news, Disney ain't the only theme park in the USA. Texas has tons of them and not one has a Mouse on it. Stay closer to home and see more, spend less, but when you want to do the Big Show, go to Universal. We can still support the "Cast Members" that were called employees once closures hit, by contributing to their food centers and job centers.

It will hurt at first, all major change does, but you will come out stronger and better for it while Disney, much like Baylor, tries to keep impressing the idiots who sent into the heights of choke hold insanity. Death Throes. Baylor was brought to heel, but they keep trying and keep getting slapped back by locals who have long and resentful memories.

Master’s Degree required to shelve books that pays six bucks and hour. God, I will never forget the palate cleanser that interview was.