While not writing, we did a lot of prep that we never used (writing headlines, finding or making memes, and even starting articles). Our motto is “if you think of something, type it in!”. It would be a shame if it went to waste, even if slightly dated. So one such topic is being merged with something that just happened.

Julius Erving, who just a year ago had his number officially retired across the entire NBA, recently released his all-time top 10 players list. Then he took a heap of grief for it, despite everyone being entitled to their own opinion, unless that opinion is communism (and then they are entitled to your opinion too, along with everything else you own).

“I have five guys who are untouchable – Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Elgin Baylor. That’s my all-time best team. …I made this decision when I was 15 years old. I’m sticking with it now all these years later.”, Erving said.

More than you would think were offended that he left current players off the list. ‘Dr. J’ explained that he only chose people whose careers were over. Cue more complaints.

Make your own list folks! THIS is the result of the monolithic thought being forced on us by leftists. If you don’t agree with what they believe (most often, wrongly), you are evil. We are surprised they haven’t called Julius a ‘white nationalist’ for leaving Lebron and Steph off of his list.

He also left probably the two most dangerous players at the end of a game off of his list: Michael Jordan and Larry Bird. If you are the opposing team, you definitely don’t want the ball in their hands with seconds left.

Personally, we don’t follow sports like we used to. We do check how our favorite teams are doing from time to time, but we never watch games anymore. We read a lot instead. We’ve also grown partial to rugby, which we tried watching because we missed sports.

We missed sports, and gave it a…’try’…LOL…and find it superior to American football, which actually developed out of…rugby. They play both ways (offense and defense) and the action seldom stops.

That is a lot of ellipsis…ellipses…periods.

So far, we’ve just watched national teams play full 15 on 15 games, except for one 7 on 7 game which we found ridiculous. The USA team is currently ranked 18th in the world.

The sheer amount of teamwork surpasses anything we’ve seen in the NBA, NFL or MLB. Our one gripe is everyone ‘hook kicking’. Most of the time, they would make those just lining up straight on, even at an angle (for conversion kicks, after a ‘try’ they line up down the field from where they enter the ‘in-goal area’, which makes the kicks a lot more difficult than an ‘extra point’ in football).

We also haven’t seen anything woke in rugby except for ONE ad running on the digital signs during one game from a few years ago.

Now back to the racist drug-addict commies.

The only thing the NBA (or NFL or MLB) players and owners want is your time and money. They do NOT care about you at all! So why care about them, and why feed that obviously left-wing behemoth?

The recent NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (or CBA, not to be confused with the NBA’s old feeder system, the Continental Basketball Association, which Detroit Pistons legend Isiah Thomas killed off), now allows marijuana use by players. So if you still watch that sport, just know that every fucking player on that court is high.

We are not 420 friendly, we are 420 hostile.

We probably lost a few of you there, and that is okay. We have our reasons. Our philosophy is that if you are going through life high or drunk (or both), then you are living wrong.

It is still a drug, and we were right when we said that those pushing it to be legalized and accepted would ultimately push it on kids, which they ended up doing with so-called edibles.

The alt-far-left has proven that all they need is a foot in the door (see gay ‘marriage’) and pretty soon they are chopping off dicks and tits, and pumping ‘the drugs’ into our kids.

But that is a future article, and this one is about the most fragile men in the NBA. This current crop is incredibly soft (just like a MyPillow, or their Giza Dreams sheets; use promo code RealityShed or Reality Shed for a nice discount), and is likely the softest group to EVER play the game. Until then there was no such phrase as ‘load management’.

What should happen is paycheck management, as in if you don’t play you get paid less. Especially the bullshit Ben Simmons pulled. He is just one of several ‘Mr. Glass’ level players shamed, uhm, we mean named below.

Wow, this started off as such a simple writing idea. Zion and Dr. J. Oh well.

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 (finally, this is the slightly older part…), Zion Williamson (aka ‘Mr. Glass’, like the villain character that the racist communist Samuel LEROY Jackson played in the super-hero trilogy [‘Unbreakable’ (2000), Split (2016), and Glass (2019)] by M. Night Shama Lama Ding Dong aka M. Night Shyamalan), announced he and his girlfriend were having a baby together.

Do you know what a child born out of wedlock is called? Illegitimate, or a bastard child. In fact, to promote promiscuity, the left now insists that that last term is offensive now. The bastards!

This is another example of the left changing our language to change society in the direction of their communism.

This is also similar to, what do you call someone who can speak a language but can’t read and write it? Illiterate. Equally true, although most people don’t feign offense at that.

Preparing for this, we saw a meme that started off with “The Zion Williamson Fanbase Is Dying”. Not entirely true, he is actually eating them off.

Anyway, porn star Moriah Mills followed Zion’s announcement with one of her own. She says that they have been having sex since 2021, and that he has promised to dump his girlfriend and be with Moriah. Mills even claimed that…gasp…she might also be pregnant.

Who cares, right? We only mention their ‘drama’ to point out that Zion’s many injuries haven’t prevented him from being a male slut.

His punishment for his actions (whoring and missing games) was…a 5-year rookie max extension worth at least $193 million, and possibly up to $231 million if he achieves certain incentives.

Zion has spent 4 seasons in the NBA, all with the New Orleans Pelicans. Entering the league in 2019-20 at 19 years of age. He has never played 82 regular season games in any season. He missed his entire 3rd season in 2021-22 with a foot injury. He has averaged 38.0 games a year (114 / 3) or 0.46342 of the games his team played. Pathetic!

He isn’t alone though, and since we haven’t used this analogy in a few days, here is the rest of our NBA Fab Four of slack:

Kawhi Leonard has spent 12 seasons in the NBA, entering the league in 2011-12 at 20 years old: 7 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs, 407 games (the last season there he played just 9 games), one season with the Toronto Raptors 60 games, and 4 seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers (although he missed the entire 2021-22 season with an ACL injury). He has never played 82 regular season games in any season. He has averaged 57.091 games a year (628 / 11) or 0.6962 of the games his team played. Very not good!

Anthony Davis has spent 11 seasons in the NBA, entering the league in 2012-13 at 19 years old: 7 seasons with the New Orleans Hornets / Pelicans and 466 games played, and 4 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and 194 games played. He has never played 82 regular season games in any season. He has averaged 60.0 (660 / 11) or 0.732 of the games his team played. Fragile!

Ben Simmons has spent 7 seasons in the NBA, entering the league in 2016-17 at 20 years old. His first 5.5 seasons were spent with the Philadelphia 76ers, but he missed his entire first season with a foot injury, and also his last half season there claiming mental health issues, for 275 games played. He was then traded to the Brooklyn Nets and didn’t play his first half season there (claiming a back injury), before playing 42 games last season. He has never played 82 regular season games in any season (he just missed it in his second season, when he played 81). He has averaged 63.40 (317 / 5 played out of 7 in the league), or 0.7732 of the games his team played. Weak sauce!

Ben also thinks he is being paid to play “defense-ball” instead of basketball. Scoring is implied in the name of the game, dude!

And what of the fans who pay to attend these games thinking star players will be there and discover they overpaid for an incomplete product? Fraud!

We had already picked the antithesis of the current crop of players before seeing Dr. J’s actual list. And that player was…Wilt Chamberlain.

Unfair comparison? Hey, each of these guys all think they are the best player ever, so we will compare them to ONE of the best players ever. Or as piece of shit JJ Redick claimed, a guy who played against “firemen and plumbers”.

Wilt entered the NBA in the 1959-60 season at the age of 23. This was after 3 years of college and one year with the Harlem Globetrotters. Why? Back then, the NBA was sensical enough to not hire children. You couldn’t be drafted unless your college class had graduated, hence Wilt’s Globetrotters year.

He is listed as being active for 15 seasons, but he sat out his last season, 1973-74, in a contract dispute (see below).

His first 5.5 seasons were spent with the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors (they moved to SF before his 4th season). He was then traded to the new Philadelphia 76ers (the relocated and renamed Syracuse Nationals) in the middle of the season and remained there for 3.5 seasons.

He then spent the next 5 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, and when he didn’t sign his option year contract they insisted he was still required to play for them, but he had already signed with the ABA (American Basketball Association) San Diego Conquistadors as head coach and player for 2 seasons. A judge later ruled that he could coach but not play, siding with the Lakers.

Wilt ‘coached’ one season (with assistant Stan Albeck, who had also been an interim head coach before and would be a head coach again, actually doing most of the coaching, as it bored Chamberlain), then he retired.

This one really got away from us. Home stretch now though.

The number of games varied back then. It was 75 for the first season, 79 for the second, 80 each of the next 5 seasons, then 81 for one, and finally the current 82 for his last 6 seasons. That totals 1127 possible games his team played.

Wilt played 1045 regular season games (or .927241%) over 14 seasons for 74.643 games per season when the average played over those seasons was exactly 80.5 games.

He missed games in 5 seasons (3, 7, 1, 1 and 70). In his 11th season (1969-70) he played the first 9 games, rupturing his patellar tendon of his right knee in that last game, then came back for the last 3 games of the season AND the playoffs! They lost in the Finals in 7 games to the New York Knicks.

Over his career, Wilt averaged 30.1 points per game, including averaging 50.4 and 44.8 in back-to-back seasons, and including 7 other seasons over 30 points per game and 5 other seasons over 20 points per game. His last two seasons were his worst (14.8 and then 13.2).

He also averaged 22.9 rebounds per game over his career, 45.8 minutes per game (out of 48!), 4.4 assists and just 2.0 fouls per game (he never fouled out of a game). AND he claims to have slept with over 20,000 women, yet had no children (and thus no ‘baby-mommas’).

His one weakness was caused by embarrassment. He could only shoot free throws accurately underhanded, like Rick Barry (89.3% career) did. He stopped doing that and fell into Shaq territory afterwards.

One coach suggested shooting them as jump shots, which is allowed, but he felt that would only call even more attention to his deficiency, and he ended his career at 51.1% FT made (he was 28 of 32 on FT in his 100 point game).

Wilt was also a Republican who denounced black nationalists, including the Black Panthers, and he even attended MLK Jr’s funeral with Richard Nixon, who he supported for President in 1968 and 1972.

Lastly, in Wilt’s last season, at 36, he set a FG% record (.727) that stood from 1972-73 until 2019-20, and is still #2 all-time for a single season. He actually still holds 3 spots in the top 23 for that category.

This could be done with any number of good quality players, not just with Wilt. The entire point is that modern guys can play, they just can’t stay on the court BUT they want to be paid as if they did.

They just don’t make them like they used to! The NBA is now a league of soft racist (that is what BLM is) potheads pushing cultural marxism.

EDIT: 08/18/2023, We don’t normally come back to add to an article, but we just discovered this short video and wish we had seen it before publishing so it could have been added to the article then.

‘Might be the best thing all year. #Rays’, by MLB Memes @MLBMeme on twitter.com (and reddit.com). They might have gone to the concession stand… The team will always be the ‘Devil Rays’ (their original name) to us. Ditto Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians. The difference is that Tampa is racist against manta’s, probably because they are black…and killed Steve Irwin. RIP Steve.

We have prior discussed Marxist League Baseball (MLB) concerning their new rules (HERE), how they import foreigners to take American jobs (HERE), how they collude with the globalist left to ‘the trans’ our kids (not enough to set up a hospital to do so, as the Bush family did, but they are trying; HERE), and what MLB was like when Patriots were still allowed to play the game (HERE).

Our standard disclaimer: we don’t hate anyone…except communists. Our favorite basketball player growing up was black, as was one of our 2 favorite football players, and our favorite baseball team had a deep mix of white, black and hispanic players, and while we would imitate several of their batting styles and other mannerisms while playing (even learning to hit from both sides of the plate) our favorite baseball player was white.

The point is, this is not about race, it is about accuracy. MLB is pushing racial propaganda, and doing so while replacing black AND white American players with foreigners. They are also pushing for American kids to be sterilized. Do you really want to support all of that with your time and money? If you said yes, please leave and never come back.

No, we are not kidding. Get to stepping. That ‘back’ button is at the top of your screen, and on the left (just as you are).

MLB now refer to their new video series claiming to feature little known facts about Negro League Baseball as “undeniable”, but that isn’t what they really are.

The three cartoons released so far (we fully expect MLB to churn out more lies later) are:

• “Women of The Negro Leagues”
• “The International Impact of the Negro Leagues”
• “Jackie and Monte”

The first was put up on February 1, 2023, then the others followed on February 8 and 15. In that time they have a decent amount of page views, but an embarrassing amount of up votes and comments. Kind of like our articles here.

We still appreciate all 42 of you regulars!

The totals as we prepare this are (views, up votes, comments):

• 669,076, 906, and 76
• 480,232, 842, and 43
• 559,996, 609, and 31

Wow! The up votes are a fraction of 1% of the views, and the comments are less than 10% of the up votes (the 2nd and 3rd videos are actually barely above 5%)! It is almost as if a bot is ‘viewing’ the videos but can’t vote or comment on them…

Maybe we should try that!

Anyway, we have endured watching this garbage so you don’t have to do so. But please, feel free, especially if you enjoy mental pain. We won’t link directly to them, but you can find them via a quick search. They also play very abbreviated versions as commercials (at least on streaming services).

Going through the videos in order, hosted by chief propagandist Bob Kendrick (President, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum), we noticed the following (likely intentional) inaccuracies and omissions:

“Women of The Negro Leagues”:
The three women in question were Toni Stone, Constance ‘Connie’ Enola Morgan, and Mamie Lee Johnson.

Toni Stone first joined in 1953 (which was a mere SEVEN years before the Negro Leagues vanished; see below for the actual timeline), playing for the Indianapolis Clowns, and played primarily at 2nd base but also a few other positions.

Toni was traded the next year and replaced by Connie Morgan, who also played 2nd base.

Mamie Johnson joined next as a pitcher and posted a 33-8 record over 3 seasons, which is impressive (not that the other ladies were not).

Their myth makes it out to be some kind of Utopia, with the female players being vital to the leagues and everyone being one big happy family when they joined. The reality is very different.

1) they played near the end of the run and were used as a stunt (just as the 3 feet 7 inches tall and 60 pound Edward Carl ‘Eddie’ Gaedel was during his August 19, 1951 when he was walked on 4 straight pitches in his only MLB at bat, before being replaced by a pinch runner), and 2) some (not all) male players resented them because they took jobs away from men AND were also paid more(!!), and 3) some (not all) male players treated them like pieces of meat (instantly sexuallizing them) OR simply ridiculed them.

But this video saves its biggest lie for the end, with Bob insinuating that “…it strikes me that a league born out of segregation would become the driving force for social[IST] change. You see they didn’t care what color you were and they didn’t care what gender you were.”

When the left say the word “social”, always hear “socialIST” because that is what they really mean.

“The International Impact of the Negro Leagues”:
It turns out that blacks have nobody but themselves to blame for hispanics coming here now to take away their (and white too) baseball jobs.

Bob brags that “…the Negro League helped make our game the global[IST] game that it is today. You see Negro League players were often times the first Americans to play in many Spanish-speaking countries, and of course when we went there we were treated as heroes…”

When the left say the word “global”, always hear “globalIST” because that is what they really mean.

Bob also later points out that the Negro Leagues sent a team to Japan in 1927 and 1934, leading to the Japanese embracing the game and some of them playing in MLB (such as Ichiro Suzuki did, and Shohei Ohtani now does).

As always, actions have consequences. Thanks to those efforts back then, Bob, many black Americans will never get the chance to play MLB today. Congratulations!

“Jackie and Monte”:
Bob now claims that Jackie Robinson was the start of the ‘civil rights movement’, a movement that ended when it was later co-opted by Marxists (and now including BLACK Marxists, such as BLM) and which has shown no traction and has in fact gone backwards, as now they see racism everywhere but in the mirror, which is the only place it exists.

The actual racists today are globalist alt-far-leftists, including so-called minorities (whites are still just 16% of the global population, or 1 out of every 7 people on Earth). Oh wait, they claim math is ‘muh racist’ too…despite being invented in Sumer (ancient Mesopotamia, where Iraq is now) around 7000 years ago by non-whites.

The grandchildren of those who called for an end to segregation in 1947 when Jackie started playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers, today call for their own safe spaces away from ‘whitey’. What frail little snowflakes they are, screaming that a world with whites in it is unfair, and all because they are too chickenshit to compete…as Jackie Robinson did!

Math isn’t racist, you are! Tests only discriminate against those who do not study for them! You get a job by being impressive during interviews, and you keep a job by performing!

Then Bob said, “If there is a bittersweet aspect to the overall story of the Negro Leagues it lies in the fact that you can directly parallel the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues with the rise and fall of black economy.”

Huh? There is ONE economy, sir, and Joke Bitem is intentionally fucking it up for all of us. We had a neighbor years ago who was VERY loud when using their phone and we came home to hear this person, an older black male, yelling at someone he was speaking with about how blacks should only deal with black-owned businesses.

And if all other groups did the same, how do you think that would work out for you? democRATs tricked you into thinking killing your own babies was freedom and it dropped you from #2 population in the USA to #3 while hispanic (and other) illegal aliens out breed you.

Bob concludes with “To a large extent, black economy never recovered from losing the Negro Leagues. What was good morally, what was good social[IST]ly, was devastating economically.”

Tell that to all of the millionaire players today. The average NFL salary in 2022 was $2.7 MILLION, the average MLB salary in 2022 was $4.41 MILLION, and the average NBA salary was $9.7 MILLION.

Marxism pays when non-Marxists fail to recognize what they are funding, and make no mistake, all three leagues are pushing the same brand of alt-far-left-communism (aka Marxism).

Now some real facts about the Negro Leagues. First, usually when people refer to ‘Negro League Baseball’, it is as if it were one league, but it was not.

In fact, there were several, including the Negro National League (NNL), Negro American League (NAL) and the Eastern Colored League (ECL; shortened from the Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs).

There was even a Negro Southern League (NSL), but it was considered to be more of a minor league level.

There were also ‘barnstorming’ black baseball teams, as depicted in the 1976 movie ‘The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings’, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. Of course, all three would later go on to be in ‘Star Wars’.

By 1931 the NNL and ECL (actually in 1928) were gone, with two NNL teams joining the NSL in 1932 (which didn’t magically raise the overall level of the league). That was the same year that a new league, the East-West League (EWL), also emerged, but it lasted just one season.

In 1933 a new NNL was formed, with teams in the midwest and east. Then, in 1937, the NAL was created out of the Midwest teams and the NNL became just an eastern league.

The NNL folded again in 1948, just under 3 years after Jackie Robinson was signed by the Dodgers and 1 year after he made his major league debut.

After Jackie’s signing, players like Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron followed him and, with the talent pool shrinking, black teams had to resort to gimmicks, including signing black women, and even a few white men.

NAL disbanded in 1960, and the last barnstorming team (Indianapolis Clowns, who Aaron had played for) lasted until 1973, although by then they had also added white players).

We have already detailed the lies surrounding Jackie Robinson, who was a good and decent man, just not the guy who broke the so-called ‘color barrier’ in professional baseball.

That honor goes to Moses Fleetwood Walker, and you can click that second link in the opening paragraph of this article to learn about the actual first black professional baseball player.

MLB isn’t rushing to retire Walker’s uniform number, and not just because we can’t find any proof that he had one. They are also busy ignoring him, pretending he didn’t exist, and ‘hey, look over there…ing’ while pointing at Jackie. We suggest retiring #1 as his official number, and making the players all wear THAT patch!

Another myth is that the Negro Leagues were started because of white racism, but the fact is that despite wanting to integrate the American League (AL) and National League (NL) of MLB, the Negro Leagues themselves didn’t have any asian, hispanic or other so-called minorities, and only even had a few white players.

One was (Richard) Dick ‘Lefty’ O’Neal, who pitched for two different Negro League teams. How was he treated? Black children wanted to touch his skin and hair, curious if it felt the same as theirs, and his wife had to be protected by local police when she watched him play. Sounds welcoming, doesn’t it?

We need to stop allowing others to attempt to create a fantasy world in our minds where only whites are capable of certain behavior, and blacks are always ‘soulful saints’ or victims. Stop infantilizing them!

There was even a recent article on a lamestream site, by a black writer(!!) who should know better, claiming black over-representation in MLB isn’t high enough. But no, he has been blinded by Marxism and claims that the 7.2% of MLB players who are black isn’t high enough despite blacks being just 13% of the U.S. population and MALE blacks being just 6% of the population.

Then we come to the giant travesty of MLB declaring the Negro Leagues as major leagues and incorporating their statistics into the record books.

There is precedence for retroactively making statistics ‘major league’.

In 1890, the “Players’ National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs”, known commonly as “the Players’ League” (PL), played their only season, having been created after a dispute over pay with the two professional leagues of that day, the National League (NL) and American Association (AA).

In 1914 to 1915, ‘the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs’, also known as ‘the Federal League’ or FL, played two seasons.

For decades, those were ignored, then in 1968 the ‘Special Baseball Records Committee’ of MLB made those PL and FL statistics ‘major league’.

But the GIANT difference between the PL and FL, and the Negro Leagues is that, during their existence, the Player’s League and Federal League considered themselves major leagues and contained major league players signed from the pre-existing major leagues, while the Negro Leagues did not. EVER!

MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. is a jackass of the highest order and failed to consider that when making his inane and frankly racist decision in December, 2020. He is known to hate baseball AND baseball history, and has undermined both since taking power. His new rules (see first link in first paragraph of this article) prove that. It is NOT baseball any more!

Even sites like BaseballReference.com, while pushing the agenda of MLB in recognizing the Negro Leagues as major leagues, still acknowledge that the records are incomplete and that the teams played far fewer regular season games and instead played “an extensive amount of exhibitions and barnstorming games”.

That translates as ‘accurate stats are not important, but money coming in is very important’. We have no issue with that, but please stop pretending it isn’t the case!

BaseballReference also admits that despite Negro League hitting legend Josh Gibson being credited with “almost 800 home runs” on his Hall of Fame plaque, their own carefully compiled data shows that he only hit a total of 166.

There is no denying the guy could hit, and for power, but his HR stat has been inflated by just under a factor of 5!

Meanwhile, dishing out our normal healthy dose of reality, we still say that non-steroid-enhanced Hank Aaron is the current MLB home run king with 755 lifetime. Fuck you, Barry Bonds, you cheating piece of shit.

And for the single season mark, that also goes for Bonds (again), Mark McGwire, and Sammy Sosa. All three of those guys (along with others) cheated, and we hope their nuts shrivel up and fall off.

While there were certainly standout players in the Negro Leagues, including those deserving of MLB attention, the overall level of the group was more like a AA or possibly AAA minor league team. And the same can be said for today’s Japanese and Korean professional leagues. For each player from those leagues who makes it to MLB, there are dozens and dozens of players who never did or could.

The blatant dishonesty by MLB regarding Negro League history was 100% intentional. If we could find the truth, then so could they…if they didn’t have a leftist agenda to push.

Yes, we’ve been working on this one, off and on, for several weeks now (we actually stopped to write the Tucker article) and it got away from us a bit (in fact it is about the same length as the Milo ‘getting revenge’ on Trump article (HERE). You can find more startling math facts on race HERE, and don’t forget to stick it to leftists and ‘be more racist‘.

[NOTE: For whatever reason, the caption for the main image would not show up the normal way, so we had to add it as an italicized paragraph at the top of the article instead.]

Before we get into the topic at hand, we will quickly discuss a related topic; President Donald Trump began mentioning and nicknaming Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (U.S. House member from January 3, 2013 – September 10, 2018) AFTER Trump learned that Paul RINO Ryan (U.S. House member from January 3, 1999 to January 3, 2019, and Speaker from October 29, 2015 – January 3, 2019) and Ron were spending a lot of time talking strategy.

Our normal disclaimer here: we already expressed our preference long ago for a Trump / DeSantis ticket in 2024. This doesn’t change anything. We will reevaluate if the situation requires it. Among other times, we also discussed Ron DeSantis HERE and HERE.

We prior discussed Ryan HERE and just detailed some of his actions since leaving the House HERE. He sorta kinda still controls it in a way as his former ‘right hand man’ Kevin ‘54% conservative rating’ McCarthy is now Speaker, which we detailed HERE (as part 4 of 4 straight days on the Speaker vote, with the other three conveniently linked there). Shameless self-promotion, because if we don’t do it nobody will. Phil Hellmuth would be SO proud of us!

Seriously, that guy never stops talking about himself or promoting himself. Great poker player, possibly a nice guy, but shut the fuck up about yourself (and who you know) already and stop jumping into other people’s interviews on TV. It isn’t all about you guy! And we realize that nobody is going to go read all 4 of those speaker vote articles now, but you could just look at the memes. Those were top notch too!

Since 1967 Disney has had a ‘special tax district’ (STD) status for their theme park and surrounding undeveloped area in Florida. Walt Disney himself pushed for it during early development of the area. He died in 1966. There is a longstanding rumor that he was frozen upon death. A more recent rumor is that the ‘Frozen’ movie was named that so that when people searched for “disney frozen” that would come up instead of the original rumor. We’ll but stock in that!

To this day, it is a mystery as to who actually gave Disney the STD, and it really doesn’t matter now. Rumor is it was a group effort. Possibly on a train…or Monorail. And you can’t get more selfish than Disney, having an STD and not wanting anyone else to have an STD too!

Within it’s STD, Disney has been grooming kids almost since the beginning (the animators used to hide things in the images, and also are known to have made porn cartoons), but it had become painfully obvious they were doing it lately, and luckily DeSantis decided to confront them. Part of that is ending Disney’s STD status.

The new Law changes the “Reedy Creek Improvement District”, which Disney self-governed (aka STD), into the “Central Florida Tourism Oversight District”, and gives DeSantis the authority to appoint the 5 members of the oversight board, which for some reason Disney was allowed to do before for their STD.

Can you say ‘bribes’? The Florida politicians who gave that STD to Disney can.

Under the STD, Disney was basically a state within a state. Now Disney also has to follow all Florida regulations, which effectively ends the district. Is it still a district when it has no ‘near autonomous’ abilities after decades? This STD is now an STDINO. Plus, Disney retains all prior debt from the old STD structure. Ha! The DNA deniers are now nut-less.

Losing the STD really hurts Disney, which just laid off 7,000 people as part of a larger cost-savings plan. Under the STD, Disney had the ability to act just as a local government would (taxes, bonds, police and fire), with the added option to build a nuclear power plant if they wanted one.

“Disney’s going to pay its fair share of taxes and Disney’s going to honor the debt and that’s exactly what this proposed piece of legislation will do. There’s a new sheriff in town, and accountability will be the order of the day.”, DeSantis said.

Recently, Disney (while still in their STD) and their child-like adult followers had gone after DeSantis for opposing their grooming and support of teachers who groom in government schools (AKA gubmint skewls). Even getting rid of fairly new CEO Bob Chapek and bringing back Bob Iger in November, 2022, to retake the position he had just given up on February 25, 2020, after 14 years on the job.

The only thing DeSantis and other elected Republicans didn’t get that they originally wanted was the dissolution of the district entirely. Baby steps. They can get that after the next election, OR after the next misstep by Disney.

As of late July, 2022, the NEW “happiest place on Earth” is Reality Shed. Unless you are a communist, or are ‘communist adjacent’.