Sorry Desantis, but I think Disney may have gotten the last laugh

Opinion | President Gavin Newsom Strikes at Walgreens

 

Always fun to see 715, formerly a self-proclaimed libertarian, now claim that authoritarianism is good because Dems did it first! Just gotta give them a taste of their own medicine. Very principled position. You can justify doing just about anything with mental gymnastics like that. Sad.

 

Strike at Chick-Fil-A, glamorized by TIME magazine.

Strike at Walgreens for adhering to abortion law in other states, you’re defending a woman’s right to choose.

Strike at Disney just so they can be treated like every other business in Florida… FASCIST!!!

 

Except for the fact that he struck at Disney for criticizing the Don't Say Gay Law. You conveniently left that part out.

And Newsom is a d-bag and an empty suit. His "strike" at Walgreens was a whole lot of nothing.
Newsom’s threat to Walgreens fizzles

Another poster already pointed out that the "strike" at Chick-Fil-A was also a whole lot of nothing. DeSantis seems to be the only one who is actually following through on authoritarianism. Doesn't that just make you elated, pal?

 

And you never claimed libertarianism was good so shouldn’t you be welcoming me to the club?

Shouldn’t you not have a problem with what DeSantis is doing? You might disageee politically, but its not anything Democrats wouldn’t do under the right justification.

Yours just happens to be “equality” which really means “equity.” Ours happens to be “traditional values,” which yes, are better preserved by a pornstar screwing adulterer than any Democratic President in the last 30 years at least.

 

A difference being that Walgreens is licensed by the state to dispense pharmaceuticals. One can argue that at least implicitly it has a duty to dispense drugs approved by the FDA and legal in the state of California and that refusal to do so violates an implicit obligation.

 

"One can argue."

Newsom punished Walgreens for adhering to abortion law in other states.

You mock DeSantis for punishing Disney, and you bend over backwards to defend Newsom for punishing Walgreens.

As usual, awfully quick to throw the labels on the (Rs), will put in that extra work to defend the (Ds).

 

And DeSantis's war with Disney might "fizzle."

All of a sudden, you're not holding authoritarianism against somebody just because the attempt at authoritarianism was unsuccessful. If that's true, a whole lot of your "authoritarian" critiques on DeSantis (and Trump) magically disappear if it's true that he just keeps losing in court.

 

What a total headcase this puss-in-white-boots has turned out to be.

 

Swing and a miss. DeSantis already passed legislation specifically aimed at punishing them. And I'm laughing at the idea that DeSantis losing in court would disprove that he's engaging in authoritarian behavior.

I think libertarianism sucks. But it's a whole lot better than authoritarianism.

LOL.

Bigger LOL.

 

Sooooo…..you are against politicians who try to “intimidate businesses into silence” and “targeting and punishing” businesses? Welcome to the crapping on DeSantis thread, then…

 

Ideally yes, but Democrats AND Republicans doing it is a Hell of a lot better than Democrats doing it and Republicans fighting with one hand tied behind their back.

 

Probably not coincidence.

 

It's really pathetic you can't see the difference between those 2 situations. There is a huge difference between declining to do business with a corporation and trying to legislate your way into control of it, especially when that corporation is your state's largest employer and annually pumps billions of dollars into your state's economy.

 

Oops….

 

And you are like… let’s take this guy that is doing something I’m opposed to and make him president!!!

 

Newsom's problem with Walgreens wasn't its refusal to dispense the abortion meds in states in which they are illegal, it was the chain's apparent refusal to dispense them in California a state in which they are as legal as Viagra or penicillin.

 

Newsom was pressuring Walgreens so he can control them, and he wasn’t speaking on his own behalf, he was speaking on behalf of the state of California.

 

But you do understand the difference political pressure on a company verse literally taking their property and taking over their board, though, right?

 

Maybe… just maybe, they didn’t want to go through the work of adopting a different policy while blind as to the consequences for all 50 states considering the Dobbs decision.

And Newsom punished them for that, but that’s defended on Too Hot. Because if there’s one thing Too Hot’s about, it’s taking authoritarianism seriously. Just kidding, it’s just a Republican hate session.