🚨BREAKING: Internal docs reveal a MASSIVE gov't corruption scandal between Disney🐭 & Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID). Disney effectively controlled local gov't through bribes💰, including Disney World passes not available to the public. 🧵 1/16 dailysignal.com/2023/12/03/mou…
RCID bought employees “Complimentary Tickets”🎟️ that worked for EVERY SINGLE DISNEY PARK except 1. Spouses got 1 similar ticket and staff got at least 3 transferable tickets, more if they had 4+ kids. Nothing like this is available on the open market & staff knew it. 2/16
How much💰 did these cost?
RCID paid only $725 for each complimentary ticket in 2019. A Magic Key pass that year cost $1,399 & only got you into 2 Disney CA parks. The second-highest pass ($1,219) got you into Florida's 4 parks.
In 2021, RCID paid Disney $1.5M for 🎟️s. 3/16
These are TAXPAYER funds💰 going to subsidize GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES' access to amusement parks🎢. To make matters worse, the cost went up over time. In 2013, RCID paid $714K for these tickets. By 2021, the cost had risen to $2.15M. 4/16
RCID appears to have hidden😲 these payments on its tax forms. The forms appear in a section titled "Transactions with Principal Landowners" & are marked as "financial and other administrative services." 5/16
RCID staff also got a 50% discount on Disney🐭 cruises🚢. They had to specially contact the cruise line for the discount. A cruise director explained that RCID didn’t appear on the list for online discounts “due to the sunshine state laws” of Florida.😲 6/16
While the local gov't used TAXPAYER DOLLARS💰 to reimburse Disney🐭 for this benefit, gov't officials didn't know that. One RCID employee wrote, "please extend my appreciation to the [Disney] World Corporation for this benefit." 7/16
RCID reimbursed Disney🐭 for other discounts: RCID staff got discounts at Disney merch stores, including stores not available to the general public. Taxpayers paid between $52K & $74K for this. RCID staff also got food discounts, costing taxpayers north of $20K annually. 8/16
RCID staff also enjoyed lavish parties at Disney🐭 venues. Taxpayers footed the bill for a retirement party at Disney's Yacht Club Resort with cookies & cream mousse and a premium beer & wine package. It cost $14,842. 9/16
When an RCID employee unexpectedly passed away in 2022, the local gov’t hosted a “Celebration of Life” party at Disney Coronado Springs resort. That party cost $33,600 10/16
As the FL gov't report notes, these benefits "cultivated the view" that RCID employees were "a valued part of the Disney🐭 corporation." They called themselves the "Magic Behind the Magic." These employees even got "perners," a personnel number in Disney's tracking system. 11/16
RCID employees—who, again, are government officials—sometimes said they were "very worried about being subject to the whims of Disney."🐭 When one staffer said that to his colleague, the colleague replied, "What else is new?"😲 12/16
In one case, RCID staff noted that Disney's🐭 goals conflicted with the DOD-owned Shades of Green resort🫡. An email shows employees noting that Disney "likes" or "doesn't want" certain outcomes. The outcome that Disney "liked" prevailed... 13/16
When @GovRonDeSantis started to consider dissolving RCID, the district started working WITH DISNEY🐭, the company it was supposed to be regulating, to create an "incentive" program to keep RCID staff on board. 14/16
@GovRonDeSantis "RCID’s entanglement with Disney🐭 made it difficult for RCID employees to know where RCID responsibilities ended and Disney responsibilities began," Florida's report notes. Disney had "captured" the gov't agency tasked with overseeing it. 15/16
@GovRonDeSantis Whatever you think of DeSantis’ reasons for dissolving RCID, this report shows that returning the district to the state government and, ultimately, the voters is a key reform away from horrific local corruption. 16/16 dailysignal.com/2023/12/03/mou…
🚨DEEP STATE GEARING UP President-elect Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats staffing the federal government.
The massive left-wing influence campaign I call The Woketopus🐙 won't go away on Jan. 20. Far from it.
Instead, the left-wing ideologues in the administrative state have a three-part strategy to hamstring Trump, undermine his admin from within, and prepare for the next liberal administration.
Some of the bureaucrats, knowing Trump will fire them, have already found their next jobs—in the left-wing nonprofits that form the arms of the Woketopus.
Tracy Stone-Manning, for example, will leave the Bureau of Land Management for The Wilderness Society, a woke environmentalist group.
All the woke nonprofits that staffed and advised the Biden administration will welcome back their old colleagues and their ideological allies. Bureaucrats will flock to the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.
From there, they will influence the political discourse and bide their time⏱️ for another liberal administration.
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2⃣TRUMP-PROOFING
Various federal agencies are trying to head off Trump's attempts to drain the swamp.
1⃣OPM finalized a rule attempting to block Trump from reinstating his "Schedule F" executive order, which would make it easier to fire certain bureaucrats.
2⃣EPA signed a collective bargaining agreement with its employees' union creating mechanisms for employees to report any coworker who had "improper influence" on a scientific study.
3⃣NIH designated an official to identify supposed political meddling in the agency's work.
Stay tuned—I'm sure there are far more attempts to hamstring Trump.
The pro-union outlet PayDay Report covered the strike, but very few others have👀
"Given the high-profile media attention on UAW President Shawn Fain and the fact that the strike is occurring in the media hub of New York City, you would think every labor reporter in the country would be covering this. However, outside of Payday Report, no other labor reporter or labor publication has covered the strike."
Advocates of "gender-affirming care" made at least 6 false and dubious claims in the Supreme Court oral arguments for U.S. v. Skrmetti today.
Transgender medical interventions are so grotesque, advocates use euphemistic terms like "gender-affirming care" to hide their true nature. The arguments today illustrated once again that gender ideology considers natural puberty to be unhealthy for some minors and prefers the artificial facsimile of puberty created by Big Pharma products...💉
2⃣ACLU's Chase Strangio claimed it's “clearly established in the science” that "gender-affirming care" reduces "depression, anxiety, & su*cidality." Yet a pro-trans FDA official admitted a study showed "puberty blockers" increased su*cidal thoughts. 3/9
The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken aim at Not the Bee, the real-news partner of The Babylon Bee. The SPLC is threatening to doxx the people who write for Not the Bee, to reveal their identities to expose them to ridicule and ostracization.
The SPLC is trying to silence Not the Bee because it publishes news that contradicts the SPLC's woke narrative. But I also suspect there's a secondary motive at play.
As the name suggests, the group was founded to provide legal representation to poor people in the South. Yet, as I wrote in my book, "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," Morris Dees used the SPLC to sue Klan groups into bankruptcy, a noble mission but one that SPLC lawyers described as "shooting fish in a barrel" in the 1980s. When he ran out of Klan groups, Dees turned to ever more mainstream conservative and Christian groups.
Today, the SPLC releases a "hate map" that plots mainstream groups like the Center for Immigration Studies, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Moms for Liberty alongside chapters of the Klan. Their crimes? Disagreeing with the SPLC's woke agenda. The SPLC has become the Left's cancel culture enforcer.
This makes the SPLC quite useful to the Left, which is why companies like Eventbrite and NextDoor still use the SPLC despite its many scandals.
🚨'ROTTEN TO A CORE': 5-year FEMA veteran reveals woke bias at the disaster agency.
FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington infamously told agents to avoid houses with signs supporting Donald Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell condemned this, suggesting that Washington acted alone.
Washington said she didn't act alone, and FEMA sources told me that Washington's probably right. A former employee who worked at FEMA for 5 years said Criswell's statement is a "complete lie."😲
'COMPLETE LIE': The former FEMA employee told me that he also witnessed FEMA leaders encouraging staff to avoid whites and conservatives on the supposition that they would be hostile.
"They were told to avoid Trump, avoid any house that has a Trump sign, in a verbal meeting," he said. "I've seen that happen."😲
"We were told, 'Don't go into any house that looks suspicious,'" the former employee recalled. "They would use words like, 'hick,' 'cowboys,' 'rednecks.' You can change that over to 'Trump supporters,' 'MAGA.'"
Referring to Washington, the fired supervisor, the former employee said: "She's saying, 'I didn't make this up on my own.' I believe her because I've totally seen it."
"I believe she did exactly what she was told to do," he said. "I read Deanne's statement—it's a lie, it's a complete lie."
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'WE WILL HEAR MORE':
A current employee who spoke to me on condition of anonymity agreed regarding Criswell.
"The good people at FEMA deserve stronger leadership," he said. "I believe the FEMA administrator to be premature, shortsighted, and misleading in her assessment of this incident."
"While public responder safety is a paramount objective, responders are given the necessary latitude to determine whether unsafe conditions exist," the FEMA employee added. "The extreme liberal ideology behind DEI that this Biden-Harris administration has prioritized, with support from the mainstream media and their sympathetic sycophants, convinced humanitarian responders that Trump signs imply a risk to their personal safety."
"I do not believe Ms. Washington is alone and I believe we will hear more instances of how DEI has improperly influenced the delivery of lifesaving aid to Americans in need," the staffer said.
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🚨Why is the Biden-Harris administration so woke? Didn't Biden campaign as a moderate?🤔
This chart explains what happened. Bear with me: I know it looks like a conspiracy theory, but I have the receipts.
In short: The Left's dark money network funds a system of woke nonprofits that staff and advise the administrative state, getting their far-left policy agenda implemented in the federal government.
My book, "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government," outlines exactly how this works and zeroes in on a few key issues.
One of the biggest issues for me has been the weaponization of federal law enforcement against conservatives.
At the center of this is the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory that puts mainstream conservative and Christian groups on a "hate map" with the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC targets organizations that oppose its far-left agenda on critical race theory, immigration, transgender issues, and more.
SPLC President Margaret Huang has bragged that federal law enforcement reached out to the SPLC for advice on combatting the "domestic terror threat," and FOIA documents reveal the extent of the SPLC's influence in government. SPLC leaders and staff have visited the White House at least 18 times, according to visitor logs.
The SPLC has also received funding💰 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Proteus Fund, the New Venture Fund, and the Tides Foundation.
The vast influence campaign I call the Woketopus has also monkeyed with election rules. The leftist group Demos has extensive ties to the Biden-Harris administration.
When the Senate failed to advance the Democrats' H.R. 1 bill that would have amounted to a federal takeover of elections, Biden instead signed an executive order that echoed a Demos paper nearly word-for-word.
This executive order enlisted federal agencies in registering voters, and early in the administration's implementation of the order, the government convened a host of Woketopus groups — including SPLC, the Tides Foundation, and many others — to a "listening session." Conspicuously absent was any conservative group or any group warning about election integrity.😲