Do we even need immigrants? We are told that we need them to do work that Americans will not do. The immigrants that cross the border from Mexico often do not know English. They have little education. Nevertheless, they find jobs. Those are jobs welfare recipients should be doing. If we eliminate most of the welfare system, and increase the severity of the criminal justice system we will enjoy considerable tax savings and have an easy time policing our borders.

 

Shooter for Senator! He alone can do it!!

 

You mean like how it claims to have emigrated from a planet it calls Xcebia. Which embassy did it apply for entry to the planet, let alone the country?

 

You are fucked up in the head

 

We absolutely need immigrants. We are a country of immigrants, and better for it. We need their ideas, their culture, their food and art and language. Mixing diverse cultures makes America strong and more resiliant.

Its not just about filling jobs, its about work ethic also. Its about new and different and striving for the American dream.

 

We actually agree on this one

 

Look it up, shooter claims he to be from the planet Xcebia.

 

I actually meant to reply to toniter, who said we should shoot border crossers on sight. What an asshole.

 

Well now I just feel like a dumass.

 

No problem, @LilKink.

 

Actually Congress has come up with at least a couple different plans. But the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in the House refuse to even let them come up for a vote. Even when it was a bipartisan effort. And when Democrats controlled the House they passed immigration reforms that Moscow Mitch wold not let come to the floor for a vote because they might have passed.

Treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans don't want to do anything that might help solve the problems they just want to scream about it to their low information racist voters.

 

DeSantis is losing his fight with Disney and he knows it.


Ron DeSantis tells Bob Iger to drop his lawsuit, reminding the CEO, ‘No one has made Disney more money recently than me’
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Behind heavily in the polls, presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has a message for Disney boss Bob Iger: You owe me.

Attempts by the Florida governor to build a run for the White House around a feud with his state’s largest employer backfired when the Mouse House fought back with a lawsuit that threatens to leave neither a winner.

Now DeSantis, who has recently come under fire among free-market Republican donors for his “fatal error” targeting corporations, wants bygones to be bygones and appealed to Iger to drop the case citing their strong relations in the past.

“No one has made Disney more money recently than me, because during COVID they were open in Florida. They were locked shut in California,” he told CNBC in comments aired on Monday.

Like virtually all companies in the entertainment and hospitality industries, the pandemic was a financial disaster for Disney.

According to its fiscal 2020 and 2021 accounts, Disney’s otherwise lucrative parks division alone incurred roughly $8.5 billion in combined losses over the two years. This doesn’t even include the nearly $600 million in total added charges for severance-related layoffs.

Walt Disney World near Orlando, a massive 25,000-acre resort roughly 50 times the size of California’s Disneyland, was however able to reopen in mid-July of 2020—albeit under numerous precautionary measures to safeguard public health and operating well under capacity.

By comparison, Disney openly expressed it was “extremely disappointed” that the state of California would not let it open its smaller theme park in Anaheim, Calif.

Disneyland only began welcoming visitors again on April 30 of the following year, after being closed for more than 13 months straight.

DeSantis urges Iger to drop the lawsuit against Florida
DeSantis, who on Monday was quick to remind Disney’s board they had a friend in him when they needed it most, now needs to call in as many favors as he can.

Donald Trump has opened up an almost unassailable lead in the polls. DeSantis was once the front-runner after the ex-president’s slate of candidates cost the GOP key races in the November midterm elections.

Yet the governor has seen his stock plummet amid criticism he comes across as wooden, inauthentic, and unrelatable. While campaigning at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, he was nearly drowned out by jeers.

In an effort to narrow the lead, DeSantis has shifted his sights onto Anheuser-Busch in hopes the luckless beer brewer proves an easier target.

Whereas he instructed Florida officials to examine a possible lawsuit against the Bud Light parent on behalf of his state’s employee pension fund, he explicitly said he would stop short of doing so when it came to Disney.

“We’ve basically moved on. They’re suing the state of Florida,” he said, speaking of Disney’s board during his CNBC interview on Monday. “They’re going to lose that lawsuit, so what I would say is, drop the lawsuit.”

Disney, which has threatened to pull investment out of the state amid claims of a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power,” could not be immediately reached by Fortune for comment.


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ron-desantis-tells-bob-iger-140533396.html

 

Immigration, and especially high immigration, benefits those who get their income from interest, rent, and dividends. It jeopardized those are dependent on pay checks. By competing for jobs immigrants enable employers to cut wages. By competing for places to live immigrants enable landlords to raise rents.

This is not computer science. It is as simple as the law of supply and demand.

Also, the growing diversity of our population is the ultimate reason for the political polarization that makes it difficult for the government to handle problems that would have been manageable before 1965.Diversity is not a source of strength. It is a source of social discord.

 

Cmon dog.
Don't start preaching racial purity to us.
Going there could get you suspended.
Or worse.

 

How has the lack of racial and ethnic diversity harmed Japan?

 

How did racial and ethnic cleansing serve Germany?

 

Not quite true. Japan was under American occupation after ww2. The US helped Japan get back on its feet and even helped write Japan's new constitution. So japan became linked to the US from then on. So it's no wonder Japan has adopted "western ways." The old Japan was destroyed in 1945.

 

Well DeSantis' campaign firings and reset sure seems to be working out well for him.



‘Defend Donald Trump’: DeSantis Allies Post Internal Memo Laying Out ‘Four Basic Must-Dos’ At Debate
By Alex GriffingAug 17th, 2023, 12:03 pm
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) political operation recently posted a trove of documents laying out his campaign strategy, including how best to handle the field during the upcoming GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The internal memos, “blunt advice,” and polling data were first reported on by the New York Times on Thursday after journalists were tipped off to their existence on a website owned by the chief strategist of the pro-DeSantis Never Back Down super PAC, Jeff Roe.

Times reporters Jonathan Swan, Shane Goldmacher, and Maggie Haberman reported the documents included “four basic must-dos” for DeSantis, who is referred to in the memo as “GRD,” at the debate.


“1. Attack Joe Biden and the media 3-5 times. 2. State GRD’s positive vision 2-3 times. 3. Hammer Vivek Ramaswamy in a response. 4. Defend Donald Trump in absentia in response to a Chris Christie attack,” one of the key memos reads.

The memo even goes so far as to offer DeSantis some specific lines. “Trump isn’t here, so let’s just leave him alone. He’s too weak to defend himself here. We’re all running against him. I don’t think we want to join forces with someone on this stage who’s auditioning for a show on MSNBC,” the memo suggests DeSantis say in response to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie attacking Trump.

Notably, the Never Back Down PAC released an ad on Wednesday taunting Trump as “too weak” to debate, given the president’s refusal to commit to debate.


The memo also encourages DeSantis to viciously attack Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur who has been gaining in the polls in recent weeks with a pro-Trump message. “Take a sledgehammer to Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Fake Vivek’ Or ‘Vivek the Fake,’” reads the memo, suggesting DeSantis offer a Trump-like insult and nickname for Ramaswamy.

The report also adds some details as to how the journalists found the memos, “The New York Times was alerted to the existence of the documents by a person not connected to the DeSantis campaign or the super PAC. After The Times reached out to Never Back Down for comment on Thursday, the group removed from the website a key memo summarizing the suggested strategy for the debate.”

“The memo came down from the website shortly after the Times contacted the super PAC for comment,” added Haberman on Twitter.

Read the full New York Times story here.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/d...emo-laying-out-four-basic-must-dos-at-debate/

 

Disney hits Ron DeSantis board with countersuit, days after he says it's time to 'move on'
Alexandra Canal and Alexis Keenan
Updated Fri, August 18, 2023 at 1:53 PM MDT·4 min read
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Disney (DIS) has countersued Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, marking the latest development in the back-and-forth saga that's plagued the media giant.

Disney's filing, separate from the federal case it launched against DeSantis earlier this year, was filed late Thursday in Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Orange County, the state court where the Oversight District brought its case against the company in May.

Disney filed an answer to the Oversight Board's lawsuit, along with nine new counterclaims that allege the board is in breach of two contracts it secured to develop and maintain control over its 25,000-acre parcel, formerly known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID).

The special tax district has allowed Disney to operate as a self-governing entity since its inception.

Disney, in addition to paying property taxes to Orange and Osceola counties, paid taxes directly to Reedy Creek. In turn, the district used that money to fund Disney's various theme park projects and operations, including infrastructure upkeep.

That meant Disney controlled all of its utilities and infrastructure, set building codes, operated its own police and fire departments, and could expand and grow whenever it wished — all without local or state government interference.

After entering into the contracts, DeSantis removed Disney's hand-picked RCID board members, and Florida lawmakers retroactively invalidated the contracts.

Disney is asking for unspecified monetary damages exceeding $50,000 and for the judge overseeing the case to force the new district board to comply with what Disney says are its duties under the agreements.

"Disney has no adequate legal remedy for the District’s breach of the Contracts, as an award of damages would not fully compensate Disney for the losses caused by the District’s breach of the Contracts," the company wrote in its request for the relief known as "specific performance."

In addition, Disney alleges that the board's actions violate its free speech rights protected under Florida's state constitution.


The countersuit comes after DeSantis, now running for the Republican nomination for president, signaled earlier this week that he wants to end his longtime feud with Disney.

"We've basically moved on. They’re suing the state of Florida. They're going to lose that lawsuit," DeSantis said in an interview with CNBC on Monday.

"So what I would say is, drop the lawsuit," DeSantis added. "Let's move forward. I'm totally fine with that, but I'm not fine with giving extraordinary privileges to one special company at the exclusion of everybody else."

The ongoing political firestorm, which has seen multiple lawsuits and countersuits from both parties, stems from what Disney characterizes as a politically targeted response over Disney's reaction to the so-called "Don't Say Gay" law. The law, the Parental Rights in Education Act, forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade.

In 2022, then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek condemned the law at the company's annual shareholder meeting after initially declining to speak publicly on the matter.

In response, DeSantis signed a bill into law that allowed him to take control of the company's long-standing special tax district.


Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a Fair-Side Chat with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Disney has countersued DeSantis's Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, marking the latest development in the back-and-forth saga that's plagued the media giant. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)
Prior to the countersuit, Florida's attorney general filed a motion to dismiss an April lawsuit from the entertainment giant, arguing immunity for DeSantis.

Disney had alleged in federal court that DeSantis and other officials launched a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" for its stance on the parental rights bill when the state stripped the company of the self-governing power it held for 55 years.

Florida Circuit Court Judge Margaret Schreiber also denied Disney's request to dismiss the state's case against it.

During Monday's interview, DeSantis stressed the benefits of Florida's economy, which remained mostly open throughout the pandemic.

"No one has made Disney more money recently than me because during COVID they were open in Florida," he argued. "[Disney] was locked shut in California, and we said we want you guys to operate because we understand how important it was that their cast members in central Florida had the ability to make ends meet."

"This is a great place to do business," DeSantis added. "Your competitors all do very well here, Universal, SeaWorld. They have not had the same special privileges as you have. All we want to do is treat everybody the same."


https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...er-he-says-its-time-to-move-on-160426034.html

 

Disney is a bunch of pedophile crooks


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Disney accused of withholding hundreds of millions of dollars from ‘Avatar’ sequel financier
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Disney has been accused of withholding profits from TSG Entertainment, a long-time financing partner of its 20th Century Fox studio.
The suit alleges the company withheld profits and cut deals to boost its streaming platforms and stock price.
TSG said this act deprived it of cash to invest in individual films and its efforts to sell its stakes in other movies, according to the suit.
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Hollywood financer TSG Entertainment is suing Disney
for breach of contract.

The suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that Disney and its studio 20th Century Fox committed a number of transgressions, including withholding profits and cutting deals to boost its streaming platforms and stock price. This act deprived TSG of cash to invest in individual films and its efforts to sell its stakes in other movies, the lawsuit says.

Representatives from Disney did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

TSG co-finances the production and marketing costs of films in exchanges for a share of the defined gross receipts after the film’s release. The group has helped co-finance around 140 films produced by 20th Century Fox, which Disney acquired in 2019, including “Avatar: The Way of Water.” In total, the company said it has invested around $3.3 billion in the studio’s content since 2012.

Audiences would also recognize TSG from the opening credits of films like “The Menu,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “The Greatest Showman” and “Gone Girl.” The financier’s logo is a depiction of a man with a bow shooting an arrow through several axe heads.

Noticing a decline in profits, TSG requested an audit of a sampling of three of the films it financed for 20th Century Fox. TSG alleges that it found “rampant self-dealing” and “accounting tricks” within the books and had been underpaid by at least $40 million.

“At its root, it is a chilling example of how two Hollywood behemoths with a long and shameful history of Hollywood Accounting, Defendants Fox and Disney, have tried to use nearly every trick in the Hollywood Accounting playbook to deprive Plaintiff TSG — the financier who, in good faith, invested more than $3.3 billion with them — out of hundreds of millions of dollars,” the suit says.

In one alleged incident, TSG said Fox licensed “The Shape of Water,” which won best picture at the 2018 Academy Awards, to FX, a channel owned by the studio, for $4 million less than it should have under its output agreement.

Additionally, TSG said through its audit that it found it had not been credited with revenue it should have received and was charged millions of dollars for distribution fees that weren’t part of its revenue-participation agreement with the studio.

TSG is represented by John Berlinkski of the law firm Bird Marella, who previously represented Scarlett Johansson when she sued Disney for putting Marvel’s “Black Widow” on Disney+ at the same time it was released in theaters. That suit was eventually settled.

TSG is purporting that Disney’s 2021 deal with Warner Bros. Discovery
, which waived exclusivity to the HBO premium channel and the Max streaming service in exchange for smaller license fees, directly cut into TSG’s potential profits.

Additionally, TSG said when it attempted to exercise its right to sell its stake in other films it had funded back to Disney or a third party, it was denied. As a result, TSG says it did not have the financial resources to invest more in individual films like “Avatar: The Way of Water.”

“The consequence was that TSG’s share of defined gross receipts was dramatically reduced, further eroding TSG’s ability to generate liquidity for future productions, and frustrating TSG’s ability to realize the benefit of its agreement with Fox,” the suit alleged. “Most egregiously, this scheme triggered a provision in the [revenue participation agreement] that entitles Fox to a 50% share of TSG’s profits after the winding-up of TSG’s investment vehicle.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the lawsuit.