The GOP Is Risking 2022 On Issues They’re Doomed To Lose. Like Fighting Mickey Mouse

This is what happens when a major political party in the United States devolves into demagoguery and sloganism geared for their ever shrinking base. They start risking a major election in which they should win on a series of fights they can’t possibly win, and which aren’t even popular.

Let’s start in Wisconsin, since the laundry list is shorter. The Wisconsin legislature passed a law that made it illegal for anybody but the voter to put their mail in ballot in a mailbox or drop box, or hand it to a poll worker. It also invalidated any ballots that were dropped off in drop boxes that weren’t monitored. One small problem. It’s blatantly unconstitutional.

Their excesses were made possible by a GOP judges opinion that this is how Wisconsin election law read. Not a decision, just an opinion. The Milwaukee elections head has already fought back by ignoring the opinion in collecting ballots for Wisconsin’s recent local elections. But that still misses the point.

Yesterday, MSNBC reporter Shaquille Brewster did a great job in finding a Milwaukee woman who had suffered a fall more than 30 years ago, which snapped her spine and left her paralyzed from the neck down. She is still a Wisconsin resident, registered and eligible to vote, but is physically incapable of placing her ballot in a mailbox, or handing it to an election worker.

The law is already dead federally. This is a clear violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, which guarantees disabled people access to the same goods and services that people not disabled enjoy. The federal courts will strike it down, but Wisconsin’s GOP is dead set to push on, in order to suppress the vote. And look like total assholes.

And now on to the main entree, Florida, and GOP Governor and all purpose dipshit, Ron Deathsantis. He already started with an ill fated anti voting law that was so discriminatory that the federal judge not only struck down the majority of the clauses in the law, he went the exceptional step of personally puttin the Florida legislature under pre clearance rules for the next 10 years on the unconstitutional portions.

But then Deathsantis put the pedal to the metal. He signed a highly discriminatory Don’t Say Gay law that prohibits Florida teachers from making any references to LGBTQ issues in grammer school grades kindergarten-3rd grade. This is clearly unconstitutional under the First Amendment right of free speech, as well as federal law that protects LGBTQ rights. Lawsuits are already piling up in court.

The Disney Corporation, by far and away the largest private employer in Florida, which lives and dies on tourism, has come out on its hind legs to oppose the law. They have made it clear that as an inclusive company, their goal is to see the law overturned either in the legislature, or in federal court.

Which of course meant an immediate Trumper tantrum from Deathsantis. He now wants the Florida legislature to overturn a 65 year old law that gives Disney autonomy over the development zone including and surrounding their resorts. He is claiming that a bunch of California corporate types, where Disney is headquartered, are trying to dictate local Florida law. Problem. 70% of Floridians support LGBTQ rights. And Pissantis is now actually conducting a jihad with Mickey Mouse.

But it gets even worse and weirder, because of course the soulless sycophants at FUX News are answering the call. They are now directly linking Disney with pedophelia, and even going so far as to claim that Disney cartoons and movies are nothing more than grooming tools for pedophiles to use. And they’re talking to themselves.

Let’s just step back for a moment, and look through a slightly wider lens here. Disney is by far the largest private employer in Florida, and they donated $50,000 to Deathsantis in 2018. But how many other restaurants, vars, souvenir shops, and supply companies are dependent on the Disney complex for their daily bread? If Deathsantis is trying to damage Disney, then he is by cause and effect damage them too. Now take all of the Disney employees who will be ill disposed to vote for Pissantis, and add in all of the satellite businesses of the Disney empire that are about to be ill inclined to vote for Pissantis. And they all have friends, relatives, and neighbors that they talk to. This is the kind of a fuck up that can sink a campaign.

This is what happens when a major political party has no ideas, platform, or programs to run on, and instead sinks into demagoguery, grievance, and white rage. I’ll close with the quote from the movie Blade, Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.