Firefighters confronted DeSantis' governing board on Wednesday. “The removal of this benefit takes away, for some, their entire reason for working here."

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[–] 276 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Make no mistake this is a case of ‘the guy we voted for to Fuck with the people we don’t like is going after us instead’. Needle dick Ron laid waste to the state of Florida so he could play politics and the people of Florida got exactly what they wanted.

Well now the state is worse than it’s ever been and ol meatball is getting absolutely clowned on in the national spotlight. Eat shit dickhead, you thought you were the natural next choice but that’s all over.

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  • [–] 127 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46. Don't blame them for the malignant human tumor their state foisted on them.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But Disney themselves donated plenty to R candidates for years. The state and its inhabitants are finding out what that gets you.

    I’ve spent far more time in the sunshine state than i ever would wish on anyone, Im not saying everyone in the state is brainwashed but there are plenty of people who cheer on as their state is imploding.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    We have to acknowledge that Republicans have lots to offer if you're a mega corp.

    1. They pick up the phone for you and your lobbyists - day or night
    2. They lower your tax burden
    3. They functionally killed unionization - allowing you to pay your executives enormous sums of money while the majority of your workforce struggles financially.
    4. If you're somehow unable to outright buy their legislative agenda with bribes campaign donations, they can instead be forced to comply with subtle threats to leak details of their various homosexual escapades to the media.
    5. They tend to have absolutely no morals - which is great for your shareholders.
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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46.

    This might explain DeSantis' actions. He has also suspended two Democratic state attorneys over the past year, for no good reason.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Orlando and Tampa are both fairly liberal cities. Miami has a big Cuban population which leans conservative, Jacksonville is basically southern Georgia. Tallahassee is a weird one because you've got a bunch of government workers and it's a college town. I think DeSantis would like to fuck with Tallahassee but doesn't want to shit where he eats.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, Disney world is also in a county called Orange? That's pretty funny, I never knew that

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, Orlando is Orange county. Florida was the largest producer in the U.S. California is recently passing them up due to issues. Between the two it something like 95% of all the citrus grown in the U.S.

    That said, if you want a sweeter, juicier orange, get an orange from Florida. If you want a longer shelf life orange, go with California.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We don’t know who this person voted for. They could be totally against Desantis and never voted for him like millions of other people did as well. I certainly didn’t vote for the premiere of my province who is corrupt and screwing us all over constantly.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I know a guy in the Reedy Creek fire department. He is a hard core Republican. When Desantis took over the board he didn’t think it would be a bad thing.

    I like the guy and have known him for years so it’s sad to see it go this way but you get the government you votes for.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago

    Will they have to purchase tickets in the future if there is a fire in the Disney Resort? /s

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    My wife’s grandparents lived literally down the road from a theme park (not in Florida) and during the summers especially both vehicle and foot traffic on their street could be nuts. The theme park would give out a number of free passes to all the residents that lived within a certain distance as a way to apologize for having to put up with all the traffic. My wife and I used those free passes a couple times before her grandparents passed.

    DeSantis and his cronies are major a**holes for taking a perk like this away from the very people who risk their own lives to keep others safe.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're spending 6.4 million taxpayer dollars on suing and countersuing Disney between this year and the next. While taking away a popular , family friendly benefit costing 2;5 million per year.

    DeSantis is a legit Disney villain. They could make an animated film featuring him as a comically stupid bad guy.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Meanwhile, he passed a bill to strip schools of funding by giving new vouchers to parents for their kids 'education', including homeschool. The money can be spent on a number of things outside school... one if which is Florida theme park admission!

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Great opportunity for Disney to offer free park passes to the Firefighters.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “Oh my god quick come help there’s a fire at DisneyWorld!”
    “Jeeeeez sure wish I could, but…”

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    It looks like this is a $1,400 per year perk. That's really expensive if you're considering buying it out of pocket, but not a huge amount in terms of salary. This should never be a make it or break it kind of benefit. Negotiate to make an extra $1,400 next year and buy it out of your own pocket.

    Edit: just adding that I am incredibly anti-DeSantis, but this is a nothing burger.

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    No I don't think their perk is $1400. If it is a Cast Member Silver Pass, they can get three people plus themselves in to any park every day of the year for free. If you have family come over it's more than $100 per person per day. These tickets always include a Park Hopper option, adding another $40-50 in cost. If you use this perk 20 times per year for 3+1 people (which is definitely within reason), that would be more than $8000 and up to $12000 if you include the Park Hopper option. Maybe you could get that cheaper with season passes, but those are tied to an individual. $1400 is way, way off .

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago*

    Considering this quote from the article; 'Firefighter Aaron Clark, whose father was also a district firefighter, choked up as he recounted how growing up his dad took him to the parks using the passes and how he now does the same thing with his three daughters.' I think you're spot on. They also mention discounts in the park which was a part of a cast member badge. When I worked in the parks I could have sworn they also had the blue ID (as opposed to green for 3rd party vendor), but that was a while ago.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    They also bought 400 passes for all of the RCID employees, so they probably got a significant discount. Also considering Disney pays 86% of the taxes that fund RCID, it might have been cheaper to give away the passes and keep the tax money. Even at $10k a person (an absurdly high estimate), $4 million is a drop in the Disney bucket.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    In addition to the other person who replied to you, I also wanted to point out that the firefighters did not say they were only firefighters for that Disney pass perk, just that it was the main reason they worked in that specific location. If they didn't get that perk, I'm sure some of them have other stations closer to their home or would prefer to move somewhere less crowded or with better traffic on their daily commute. The Disney to I Drive area of Orlando is traffic/tourist hell. I sure as hell wouldn't want to work there without some special benefits.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Dipshit DeSantis doing dipshit things again.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I kind of agree with this. The state was paying for these passes, not Disney. Thats an inscestuous relationship between the state and private enterprise. It should never have been that way in the firstplace.

    The offset of 1400 in wage increases seems a bit low to compensate, but if its enough to buy a season pass then no harm no foul.

    Disney can supply the free passes if they want to; let them foot the bill

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought the ole meatball wanted to call a truce?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It’s callled blowing you was too soon. There was a path that he was on. Took a bad turn and fucked his future in politics. You hate love to see it.

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