Nasleep stropoppenverkiezingen #108 The Plot Against the President

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In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.

Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: "I've had it with this guy," he told a group of Republican leaders, according to an audio recording of the conversation obtained by The New York Times.

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Mr. McConnell's office declined to comment. In a statement on Twitter, Mr. McCarthy called the reporting "totally false and wrong." His spokesman, Mark Bednar, denied that the Republican leader told colleagues he would urge Mr. Trump to leave office. "McCarthy never said he'd call Trump to say he should resign," Mr. Bednar said.

But the recording tells a different story.

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But in a brief window after the storming of the Capitol, Mr. McCarthy contemplated a total break with Mr. Trump and his most extreme supporters.

During the same Jan. 10 conversation when he said he would call on Mr. Trump to resign, Mr. McCarthy told other G.O.P. leaders he wished the big tech companies would strip some Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts, as Twitter and Facebook had done with Mr. Trump. Members such as Lauren Boebert of Colorado had done so much to stoke paranoia about the 2020 election and made offensive comments online about the Capitol attack.

"We can't put up with that," Mr. McCarthy said, adding, "Can't they take their Twitter accounts away, too?"

Mr. McCarthy "never said that particular members should be removed from Twitter," Mr. Bednar said.

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Op donderdag 21 april 2022 20:04 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

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Hihi, het mooie aan "factchecks" is dat ze vooral meningen checken. En dan zeggen ze dat de andere mening fout is en hun eigen mening een feit.

En dan zijn er mensen die vinden dat zoiets klopt en logisch is. Best tragisch eigenlijk.

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Op donderdag 21 april 2022 22:24 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Oh er was weer eens een factcheck nodig omdat het MAGA-volgvolk zich makkelijk iets op de mouw laat spelden?

Doet Politifact weer goed

Vreemd genoeg geeft deze poster van de tweet geen linkje naar het artikel met verdere uitleg. Waarom zou dat zijn denk je? Mss teveel feiten voor de lezers van zijn post?

Nou ja hierbij dan toch de link naar het draadje:

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Met daaruit:

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Op donderdag 21 april 2022 22:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dat heeft hij wel, alleen heb jij er moeite mee dat te geloven. Jouw probleem maar de werkelijkheid is anders.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 01:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Over cancellen gesproken:

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En dat alleen maar omdat ze een andere mening hebben!

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‘Don’t Say Gay’ Is Popular? You Don’t Say

One poll shows backing from suburbs, parents and . . . Democrats.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed the education legislation that opponents have dubbed the “don’t say gay” law. It prohibits “classroom instruction” on “sexual orientation or gender identity” from kindergarten through the third grade. Polite opinion is almost unanimously against, but open your ears to the vox populi.

“When Americans are presented with the actual language of the new Florida law, it wins support by more than a two-to-one margin.” That’s from a new poll by Public Opinion Strategies. Overall, 61% of people said they supported the “don’t say gay” law, with 26% opposed.

Even more notable is the breadth of that sentiment. Democratic voters in the poll support the law 55% to 29%. Among suburban voters, which could be a decisive group for the midterm elections, it’s 60% to 30%. Parents: 67% to 24%. Biden voters: 53% to 30%. Respondents who “know someone LGBTQ”: 61% to 28%. Those figures might come as a shock to Florida’s progressive activists, including those who happen to work at Walt Disney.

No poll is dispositive, and the surveys aren’t unanimous. Ipsos asked Americans in mid-March if they agreed with barring “classroom lessons about sexual orientation or gender identity in elementary school.” It found 62% opposed. Perhaps the public has since learned more about Florida’s law, or maybe people distinguish between K-3 and “elementary school.”

The way that Florida implements the legislation also could change minds. But so far the polling is mixed at worst. The current narrative around the “don’t say gay” law—that it’s needless cruelty to children, inflicted by Republican troglodytes—seems to be another example of how much the media and CEOs are out of touch with the public. Meantime, an Axios poll says Mr. DeSantis’s approval with Hispanics is up seven points since December.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 09:31 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:
Altijd een genot om President Trump te horen spreken.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 09:31 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:
Altijd een genot om President Trump te horen spreken.

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Florida Bill to End Disney’s Special Tax District Heads to Gov. DeSantis for Signature

In a setback for company’s Florida operations, GOP-led House passed the bill 70-38 on Thursday

Florida lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would end a special tax district that allows Walt Disney Co. to govern the land housing its theme parks, escalating a weekslong dispute with Disney over its public opposition to a Florida bill that limits classroom instruction on gender and sexuality.

The measure now goes to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has made clear he would sign it.

The GOP-led House passed the tax district bill 70-38 on Thursday, a day after the Senate approved it 23-16. Mr. DeSantis called for lawmakers to take up the measure in a special session he convened this week, after sparring with Disney for weeks over the classroom instruction bill, which Mr. DeSantis signed into law last month.

Stripping Disney of a key operating advantage represents one of the more high-profile backlashes in recent memory against a company for a political stance. Companies have increasingly faced pressure by employees and others to stake positions on hot-button social and political issues, but have rarely, if ever, faced such pointed censure for doing so.

The move also reflects the growing populist, anti-company strain, particularly around cultural issues, in the GOP, traditionally seen broadly as the party of big business. Mr. DeSantis, a popular Republican governor with possible presidential aspirations, is taking on an iconic American company that for decades has brought significant revenues to his state.

The special district, created in 1967 and known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District, exempts Disney from numerous regulations and certain taxes and fees. It has permitted the company to manage its theme parks and resorts in the state with little red tape for more than 50 years.

“I think it’s time Disney had to follow the same rules as everyone else,” said Spencer Roach, a Republican state House member from Lee County, Fla. who was one of the original supporters of the idea of ending Reedy Creek. “Disney will finally be put on an even regulatory and taxing playing field with other theme parks.”

Disney declined to comment and has so far not publicly responded to the special-district legislation.

On Thursday, the White House weighed in against the legislation.

“We oppose the governor taking action against a company because of their opposition to that bill,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling with the president, referring to the Parental Rights in Education law that Disney opposed.

Ending the district could be a complicated process, and is likely to provoke a legal battle that could prolong the public dispute between Disney and Mr. DeSantis. According to a bill analysis by legislative committee staff, dissolving the district could require approval by a majority of the resident electors or landowners of the district.

Reedy Creek’s two residential communities, Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, have about 50 permanent residents in total, most of them Disney employees. As primary landowner in the district, Disney controls most of the votes to elect Reedy Creek’s board of supervisors, giving the company strong influence over any vote within the community.

David Ramba, executive director of the Florida Association of Special Districts, said that the bill will almost certainly draw lawsuits, and that Disney could argue that the legislature doesn’t have the power to dissolve the district with a general law because it was originally created by a special act of the legislature.

“There could be challenges to the constitutionality of the law that was passed if the parties don’t work out some agreement on how to implement the law before July of next year,” Mr. Ramba said.

Under the bill passed by lawmakers on Thursday, any special district established before the ratification of the Florida Constitution in 1968, and not renewed since then, would be dissolved on June 1, 2023. Disney could seek to re-establish a special district after its dissolution.

If the district is dissolved, responsibility for Reedy Creek’s governance would likely fall to Orange County and to a lesser extent Osceola County, according to Mr. Ramba.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said Thursday that lawmakers “have not adequately contemplated the ramifications of what they have proposed” and that county taxpayers could end up on the hook for public safety and other costs. An Osceola County spokeswoman said Thursday that officials would begin analyzing potential financial impacts to the county.

Disney currently pays property and other taxes to both counties. In addition, the company, as the primary landowner at Reedy Creek, provided most of the $153 million in revenue from taxes and fees that the district collected in fiscal 2021. That money covers all of the district’s governing expenses, including paying about 400 employees’ salaries.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 12:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dus de lokale gemeente gaat zorgen voor de infrastructuur. Nu doet Disney het, als part of the deal.
Toch weer een fijne republikeinse belastingverhoging voor de gewone man.

Benieuwd of andere staten een aanbieding gaan doen aan Disney.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 12:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dus de lokale gemeente gaat zorgen voor de infrastructuur. Nu doet Disney het, als part of the deal.
Toch weer een fijne republikeinse belastingverhoging voor de gewone man.

Benieuwd of andere staten een aanbieding gaan doen aan Disney.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 12:54 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Hihi. Oops! Dit krijg je er dus van als je je als bedrijf je gaat opstellen als een politiek activistisch orgaan voor een bepaalde politieke partij.
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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 13:06 schreef HeatWave het volgende:

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Ik denk dat als je aan de gemiddelde Amerikaan vraagt of hij/zij 2000 dollar overheeft om te voorkomen dat hun kind seksueel gegroomd wordt dat ze voor 99,9% meteen zonder blikken of blozen dokken.

Men heeft de "populariteit" van dit activisme zwaar onderschat. Het is een doelgroep van hooguit 10 (alle LGBTQ) tot 0.4% (transmensen) en die doelgroep hebben ze als hun belangrijkste target gemaakt voor hun marketing en agenda.

En nu dit in het openbaar is gekomen door hun gelekte zoommeets waarin ze openlijk toegeven een gay agenda te hebben en doelbewust alles "queer" maken krijgen ze enorme backlash.

En terecht.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2022 13:17 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Dat zal geen 10% zijn, eerder 5%. En meer dan genoeg mensen die je tot de LGBTQ groep kan rekenen, vinden dit ook allemaal niets. In 2020 had schijnbaar bijna 30% van de LGBTQ'ers voor Trump gestemd. Ik durf te wedden dat dit alleen maar gaat toenemen als Amerikaans Links dit soort radicale nonsens blijft pushen.