Colorado Gov slams DeSantis for ‘socialist attacks on private sector’, offers Mickey asylum in bid for ‘Mountain Disney’

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Colorado Governor Jared Polis is offering his state as an asylum for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, which he apparently believes are sentient beings whose rights have been violated by the Florida State Legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis after the Disney Company’s privilege of self-governance was stripped away in a 68-38 vote.

All that remains is for DeSantis to sign the legislation.

Nevertheless, the culture war must rage on, and Polis insists on sticking his hand into beeswax not his as he launches Twitter salvos at the governor of a state not his own.

“Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away,” Polis tweeted, along with a video of DeSantis vowing to “hold the Twitter board of directors accountable” for blocking Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar offer to buy the social media giant, the Daily Mail reported.

“In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter,” Polis tweeted on Tuesday. “Hey @Disney we’re ready for Mountain Disneyland and @Twitter we’re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are.”

‘We will grant Mickey and Minnie full asylum in Colorado,” he later posted.

According to their website, the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement District “is a progressive form of government” that “encompasses approximately 25,000 acres in both Orange and Osceola counties, servicing 19 landowners, including Walt Disney Co.” On Thursday, the Florida House voted to dissolve the protections and privileges the district once enjoyed in yet another poetic example of the modern cautionary axiom “Go woke, go broke.”

“…when government starts threatening private companies with retribution based on their free speech, that takes us down the road towards authoritarianism,” Polis told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.

“I think it’s important that we can create a culture that goes against this kind of cancel culture that we’re seeing,” Polis said. “And just because a company has a viewpoint you don’t like doesn’t mean that that company should be penalized by politicians, right?”

“Consumers, absolutely,” the Colorado governor continued. “You can choose not to go to Disneyland. You can choose to buy or not buy whatever product you want. But where it becomes inappropriate is where government leaders say we’re specifically running laws that penalize your company because we don’t like the way you’ve exercised your free speech.”

DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw sought to refute Polis’s assertion and invited the governor to “educate” himself on authoritarianism and socialism and refrain from using such terminology to “weaponize baseless allegations.”

“It would be prudent for all politicians to educate themselves on the definition of socialism before weaponizing such baseless allegations,” Pushaw wrote in a statement to Fox News. “Socialism IS: an authoritarian system where the state controls the means of production and the entire economy.”

She continued, “Socialism is NOT: [p]assing legislation to create a more even playing field for all businesses [or] [s]elling shares of a corporation due to evidence that corporation is not acting in shareholders’ best interests and therefore creates unnecessary risks to investors.”

As for Twitter, DeSantis explained that the Florida Pension Fund owns stock in the social media company, therefore the state has a vested interest in a public company that may or may not be doing right by its shareholders.

“[Twitter] hasn’t exactly been great and returns on investment. It’s been pretty stagnant for many, many years,” DeSantis said on Tuesday, adding “I mean, to me, I think that that’s probably an injury to the fund. So we’re gonna be looking at ways that the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duties.”

Polis told the outlet “…no person or company should be singled out because of their ideology or belief and specifically targeted by a bill that’s really anti-business.”

Pushaw wrote in response, “The special district associated with Disney has existed for decades, since before Governor DeSantis was born. Special districts could in some instances show favoritism.”

She continued, asking, “Should a corporation be serving as a regulator and a business at the same time? Should a corporation get to avoid standard environmental permitting processes? Should a corporation engage in eminent domain? Other businesses don’t get these privileges.”

Gov. DeSantis previously expressed support for the legislation, vowing at a fundraiser on Wednesday: “Disney and other woke corporations won’t get away with peddling their unchecked pressure campaigns any longer.”

“If we want to keep the Democrat machine and their corporate lapdogs accountable, we have to stand together now,” he declared.

Once signed – as it most certainly will be – the legislation will go into effect on June 1, 2023.

The posturing from Polis and his defense of the sinking ship of leftism that has become Disney come as no surprise. He is, after all, the governor who recently signed into Colorado law a bill that allows for abortions up to birth and seemingly has zero restrictions in its language.

Meghan McCain summed up that news rather accurately.

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28 thoughts on “Colorado Gov slams DeSantis for ‘socialist attacks on private sector’, offers Mickey asylum in bid for ‘Mountain Disney’

  1. Yup. Dizney would put hundreds of millions of dollars into a park that is open one month a year.
    ‘Sorry. Log ride’s frozen today. Here’s a parka for your 3 hour wait on one of the two rides open.
    WEAR YOUR MASK!’

  2. Did Jared Polis miss the memo reminder that if you stay up on a very tall mountain too long the low oxygen can cause brain deterioration?

  3. Great idea. Build a Mountain Disney in Colorado. Then the pedophiles at Disney can smoke weed with children, so they are more vulnerable. Great job Demoncrats.

  4. Removing the special privileges and making them follow them follow the same rules as everybody else, is not punishing them

  5. The DEMOcrats consider removing SPECIAL TREATMENT as an ATTACK! There’s a WORD that I keep hearing the DEMOcrats use – oh yeah – EQUITY!! Their intent is to make everything EQUAL I guess, but EQUITY doesn’t really mean EQUAL!! It’s what’s leFt after you subtract your LIABILITIES From your ASSETS!! So maybe their intent is to GIVE people stuff so they have “equity”!! What FLORIDA is doing is making disney EQUAL to the OTHER businesses! Same RULES – Same LAWS – NO MORE SPECIAL TREATMENT!! OH and they need to make sure that the TRADEMARKS are not extended again! EQUITY!!!

  6. Denver has a homeless problem; adding all those out of work Disney woke shits to the homeless rolls in Denver would be ill-advised!

  7. In my opinion: Corporations are legal entities entitled to “free speech”. BUT, that does not mean CEO can express personal opinion as if it was corporate speech. The corporation Board of Directors have a legally binding fiduciary duty to act for the benefit of shareholders. So CEOs, hired by the Board, which is working of behalf of shareholders, need to check to see if the shareholders share that personal opinion. In the case of the Disney/Desantis cock-up over sex education of K-3 it is clear that the CEO did not have permission to mouth off about it. Fire him.

  8. Polis is gay and would like Disney to come to Colorado. I just don’t believe Disney would only want to do business 6 months out of the year do to weather.

  9. Colorado, the Leftist state where you can deliver amlive baby & have the option to kill it.

  10. Asking Disney to come to Colorado is a joke. Disney would never move to a state where the weather doesn’t support their need to function every day of the year. That’s hilarious that he thinks his offer is even negotiable. And Dems scream about corporations paying their share of taxes, but all of a sudden it’s ok Disney doesn’t … again laughable. Dems are just crying because they support pedos, they think any degenerate should be able to discuss sec with toddlers, they have zero remorse about babies being killed at full term, which is murder of a human life. They love Twitter and FB censoring conservatives but support the degenerates. Truly sick individuals. They applaud corporations who carry the dem agenda, and cry foul when a conservative company doesn’t . Hypocrisy is alive and well.

  11. Colorado may not interfere in companies but does interfere in free elections. Florda holds FB and DIS.in their retirement funds and has a vested interest.
    Disney has been established in Florida long enough that Florida citizens should not be subsidizing the company for the benefit of the shareholders.
    I realize that states give favored tax status to get companies to come but should sunset at some point. I am not sure this is what the self-governing is really about or the just don’t have to follow the same state rules that other companies do.

  12. This “governor” in Colorado is Totally Mind Focked ! DON’T even think about coming to Florida whan you freezing your DIMB AZZ off in the Winter in your focked up State !

  13. “Dad, can we go to mount Disney?”
    “no son because in colorado, Disney is only open for 6 months. The other six, it’s a hockey rink.”

  14. Back when those counties were bare and zero tax base, they also did not have services that could take care of policing and security, so it allowed Disney the privilege at the time for creating their own government. There never was a forever. If Disney wanted to spend $$$billions creating a mountain Disneyland, they would have done so a long time ago. The two coastal Disneylands have the advantage of great weather. The middle U.S. has plenty of Six Flags, Dollywood, Nashville, and other entertainment centers that can only operate when weather is not severly cold or icy. Can you imagine trudging thru a plowed Disneyland and slipping on ice trying to get on a ride? This is only fluff talk by the left.

  15. So Colorado does not interfere with businesses in the state? Does that mean they didn’t impose mask and vaccine mandates? Can a bakery in Colorado refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding?

  16. I am so disgusted with our governor and his “husband!” The good people of Colorado do not want Disney in our beautiful mountains! And we sure don’t want our babies murdered!! Oh, and Jared Polis changed his name to Polis from Schutz. Guess he didn’t like his German daddy’s name.

    1. WELL…THERE is the answer to WHY he/she/it is SO FOCKED UP !! Sounds like he’s been on his knees too long !

    2. They are so possessed they’ll be offering those aborted humans as a delicacy before long. God help us!

    1. Oh, so you think DeSantis will run for POTUS and be placed by a democrat? In Florida! Ha!

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