The tell tale signs of defeat, regardless of how insignificant the disagreement, the other side resorts to diversion and weak attempts to insult.
Tell Andy and Barney I said "Hey".
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Tell Andy and Barney I said "Hey".
No insults. Just calling it like a see it. Go to McDonalds if you need to. It will make it easier for you to grasp at those straws.
It appears to me to be common sense. Young children barely grasp the concept of gender and they don't need adults indoctrinating them with ANY sex education and certainly not the confusion of gay couples and transgenders.
Madison Cawthorne dressed up in lingerie. That's weird for a guy to do that, but it looks like he was with adults and it was a joke.
Your party literally has drag queens reading books to 4 year olds. It also wants to teach my 1st grade son that he can be a girl if he feels like it.
You see the difference?
I see perfectly. Excuse for Cawthorne. Any reason to make him ok because he’s “conservative”. So like I said, double standards.
Not to mention the aftermath of such political grandstanding. These are innocents as well.
Yes, but in a much different way. I'm pretty sure they aren't being harmed by K-3 graders. To be honest, considering all the "false flag" racial attacks over the past several years, I'm not sure I believe the article. You know my position and I'd protect gays or transgenders before I'd allow anyone to harm them. There are radical idiots on both sides of the aisle.
Indoctrinating adults (your term). Once they see his pics, what are innocent children to think about Madison Cawthorn and his stance on two genders and his other GOP Christian values?
These are largely teens and adults being murdered by adults. The far-right has endangered ALL of them.
No I didn't know your position until now. I know where you are on Putin's invasion though. I agree with both.
I don't think smaller children should see them.
Do you think MC is sick? Perverse? Pedophile? Those are the terms that have been thrown around by the right to describe Transgender, etc for years. I haven’t heard anyone from the right condemn or use those same words to describe MC today though. Yet many on the right wonder why people think the right are hypocrites.
I suppose you live in Florida so you do know WFTV is one of the most radical, liberal, crazy news outlets in the state. They have a history of throwing out scare tactics to anything a Republican does in this state.
This will not cost a extra dime to any Florida resident. Taxes are not going up. Universal Studios in Orlando does not have these special privileges. How do they make it and flourish as a tourist attraction.
The bottom line is you are concerned because Florida called Disney out as a peddler and promoter of child grooming, transgenderism of K-3 kids and declared war on our state. These false narratives you post from a left wing news outlet, WFTV are just words blowing in the wind. No one is paying attention to their garbage down here except the far left loonies.
Mamas and daddies pushed for this and they won. Oh did you know CRT is banned in Florida? That should have you yelling and screaming in the streets of Tallahassee.
The left better understand. Keep pushing your junk on the people of this state and more hammers will fall on your head. This man does not play games or run and hide. He acts
Sure it will. Even the local taxing authorities in Orange County have said it will.
The reason Universal did not set one up is it was not needed. Universal is very small compared to Disney. 840 acres for Universal vs 25,000 acres for Disney. Universal was fine with the county providing all the services needed. Water, sewer, roads, fire protection etc. Because the design, procurement, installation and maintenance could be provided on their time line for the development. And the county/provider had the staff, engineers, resources and financial capability to provide such services in a timely manner to suit Universals development plan. But that too has a plus and minus. In the past couple of years a new road was proposed to connect an undeveloped portion of the Universal property to the existing Park. While Universal was willing to pay part of the costs, the county and state will also kick in. The county and county taxpayers would pay up to 125 million and the state will pay a development grant of 16 million for the road.
From the Orlando Business Journal on the Tax:
“Orange County Tax Collector Scott Randolph told Orlando Business Journal an increase in property taxes may need to happen to make up a $163 million annual debt/operations payments that Reedy Creek handles through Disney payments. Terminate Reedy Creek and that bill gets handed to Orange County, which may have to tap into property taxes to make the difference from No. 1 Orange County property tax payer, Walt Disney World.
The county collects over $600 million in general revenue from property taxes, but to take on another $163 million would take a 20% tax increase," he said, noting the increase would be to the general county tax portion, not the entire tax bill. The county would be able to charge Disney for services such as waste collection or utilities, but it's doubtful that would raise enough to cover the total new costs — not to mention the logistical nightmare created, he added.
"You practically dissolved the city of Orlando in 48 hours. That's how big Reedy Creek is."
“A bump in property taxes would be painful for all property owners in the county, but it would be an especially tough pill to swallow for some of the largest property tax payers.
According to Orange County's 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top property taxpayers in the county are Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort, Hilton and Marriott, among others.
County officials were unable to provide an exact amount of property tax paid by companies like Universal Orlando due to the number of parcels those companies own. In addition, executives with the top companies were not available for comment.
However, the Orange County Property Appraiser's site show more than $5.35 million in property taxes were paid last year to the county for just the 108-acre Universal Studios Florida property last year — $1.286 million of which was general county taxes. A 20% increase to that portion could result in an additional $257,000 in taxes for just that piece of Universal property, raising the amount it must pay to $1.54 million.
Another major local property tax payer is Westgate Resorts.
David Siegel, founder of Westgate Resorts, didn't comment on how a property tax increase would affect him, but said he saw fault on both sides of the debate.
"Disney should stay out of politics and the state should honor the deal they made 50 years ago," he told Orlando Business Journal. "When you make a deal with a company 50 or five years ago, you should honor the deal you make."
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The same people defending Disney are the same people who defended the Netflix movie Cuties.
Sick, no. Does he have issues, yes. I don't care for him at all. He's young and immature. While anyone can be a pedophile, being gay or transgender doesn't make one so. I do believe that gender dysphoria is more of a mental illness but I really wouldn't call them sick. I'm usually pretty firm in my convictions regardless of which political party we may be talking about.
Theoretically he is on my side of the aisle but I can't stand him either.
Political statements need to stay out of school. She should have simply been advised to remove them and not put them up again. Only if she refused should she have been fired unless there is more in her history that we are unaware of.
Not sure republicans can make gays disappear from High School no matter how many times they take away their safe spaces.
All part of the right's plan to dismantle public education so they can profit off of it on the private education racket.
Yeah because Home Schooling has always been an option for educating their children all along. Teach them whatever they want in this instance. Unless that was never the goal to begin with.
It's always a grift with them. They won't stop until all education is privately funded so the poors can't get it.
The problem is that showing support for LGBTQ youth isn’t a political statement. It’s basic human decency.
Lol… if you’re going to link an article about the rise in hate crimes against LGBQMNOP’s, can you please do the following:
1) Cite a real news source
2) If one doesn’t exist and you have to get a fake source, at least pick one that uses an example that is actually a hate crime. The source they cite was some homeless guy catching a gay bar on fire. He’s not even being charged with a hate crime.
Give me a real source like realamericanpatriotnews.ru or gtfo
How many more letters can they add to their group? Everything will be a hate crime eventually because they cover every letter of the alphabet.
Kind of where I stand. If a parent is so concerned with what public schools are teaching they should home school their child.
So there are stickers for straight folks too? Treating people correctly is human decency. Putting up symbols is a political statement. Sorry, you're just wrong.
Those stickers aren’t political. Those stickers don’t say other people aren’t safe there as well. They just let LGBT people know that they are safe there too because there is still some questions as to where the LGBT community is safe. That’s the reality they face because they still have to deal with bigotry and violence simply because they are LGBT which is something heterosexuals don’t have to face simply because they are straight.
The stickers are only political to you because you want to make them political. You are the one that is just wrong. If not wrong, then simply ignorant. Quite frankly, I’m not sure which is more sad or worse.
All a pride sticker in a classroom does is tell LGBTQ students, particularly those who are in the closet and scared to come out, is that classroom is a safe place to them. That's extremely important for young people to know.
When straight people are being lynched, beaten, and murdered or kicked out of the house by their parents or bullied for being straight you'll have a point. 1% of sexual orientation/gender identity motivated hate crimes are against straight people. Let's put the victim complex away and stop pretending straight people have it rough because there are pride stickers and flags. Basically every single place is a safe place for straight people.
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