THE MORNING RANT: DeSantis and Red State Governors Should Intentionally Be Repelling Woke California Invaders

The media has been gloating about Disney punishing Ron DeSantis by canceling its Lake Nona development, which would have brought 2,000 colonizers from California to Florida.

The storyline the media is pushing isn’t true, but I wish it were.

It is past time for leaders of red states to assertively push back against woke corporations who seek to relocate operations from blue states into red states, especially if it means bringing their woke workforces with them.

We cannot afford to have any more Arizonas or Colorados, which were once conservative, but have now politically surrendered to the left-wing politics of their California invaders.

Would Florida want to import all of California’s sewage if doing so meant more sewage treatment jobs in Florida? Of course not. So why would Florida want to import 2,000 Californians who work in the entertainment industry?

Here is one of the many stories pumped out by the media, this one from CNBC:

Disney Scraps Plans For New Florida Campus, Mass Employee Relocation Amid DeSantis Feud

Disney has abandoned plans to open up a new employee campus in Lake Nona, Florida, amid rising tensions with the state’s governor.

“…amid rising tensions with [DeSantis].” Heh. “Amid,” perhaps, but not actually related.

Citing “changing business conditions” and the return of CEO Bob Iger, Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney’s parks, experiences and products division, penned a memo to employees Thursday, announcing that the company will not move forward with construction of the campus and will no longer be asking more than 2,000 California-based employees to relocate to Florida.

Disney was going to compel California employees who do not want to leave the Golden State to move to the Sunshine State.

Many Disney employees balked at the company’s relocation plans when they were first announced in July 2021 by former CEO Bob Chapek. While some left the company, or transitioned to other posts within Disney that would not require a move to Florida, others held out hope that the plan would fizzle out after a postponement.

There is such a huge difference between “refugees” fleeing blue states and “colonizers” whose jobs relocate them to red states. My Tennessee suburb is experiencing an influx of Illinois and West Coast refugees. As I talk with them, overwhelmingly they are conservatives who have fled the left-wing mismanagement of their former states. They fled of their own volition - not because they were relocated – and they are making Tennessee redder. Colonizers are the opposite – they seek to remake their new home in the image of California. That is what happened to Austin and Dallas.

Christina Pushaw of Team DeSantis gets it, while also pointing out that the 2,000 new jobs wouldn’t even be filled by Floridians.

Oilfield Rando speaks for all us normies who don’t want to see Florida lost to California invaders.

Repelling woke invaders needs to be a priority in red states. I was only half-joking when I wrote that red states should ban organic food as being a poll tax on groceries.

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has done a great deal of harm to the state by aggressively bringing in Left Coast tech companies and their woke employees, and seeding Texas to become a blue state. The sustainable organic tech bros to whom Abbott is ceding control of the state are hostile to cattle ranching and petroleum production. Free America cannot afford to lose Texas or those industries.

But there is hopeful news in Texas (and many other states), with the transgender industrial complex having being barred from damaging any more children. Some people on the left just can’t live in a state where children are denied puberty blockers and all the other horrors being inflicted on them.

Good riddance to them. Laws that repel woke invaders are an excellent line of defense.

Circling back to the Disney / Lake Nona story. It was never about DeSantis. The Mouse has a lot of serious financial problems.

Lake Nona has been on the chopping block for quite some time, with new-again CEO Bob Iger clearly opposed to it all along. This is from November 2022:

Also, despite the Lake Nona project being canceled, Disney still plans to spend $17 billion in Florida, creating thousands more jobs for Floridians, and best of all, Disney may help move some colonizers out of Florida and back to California. Below is the letter from Disney’s Josh D’Amaro to employees in Disney’s amusement parks division.

Ron DeSantis might not have had anything to do with Disney scrapping Lake Nona, but I wish he would do a touchdown dance about it anyway. Every woke Californian that is repelled from moving to a red state is a victory.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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