Today is Friday, April 28, 2023. The country’s worst nightmare was realized when a twice-impeached, indicted president appeared at a campaign stop in New Hampshire yesterday where he physically embraced (with his fear of germs notwithstanding) a loony January 6th rioter by the name of Micki Larson-Olson, a QAnon supporter who was convicted last year of unlawful entry for her role in the siege of the Capitol. This bizarre scenario involving a delusional candidate for president appeared in an online article for Raw Story by Tom Boggioni entitled “Trump put the GOP’s ‘worst nightmare’ on display during latest campaign visit: NY Times reporter.”

The Times’ reporter who commented on the behavior of the former president in the battleground state is Jeremy Peters who spoke with host Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC about Dumpf’s antics and comments during the campaign stop in New Hampshire. Here the ringleader of the January 6 insurrection warmly embraced this woman who has called for the execution of former Vice President Mike Pence for treason, calling her “terrific.”

Peters lashed Dumpf for not moving beyond 2020 and for not moving beyond making the presidency all about himself. Then he said this about how Republicans truly feel about this aging candidate for office in 2024: “What you are hearing is a lot of the worst nightmare of Republicans who wish that Trump would move beyond 2020 and stop making his third bid for the presidency all about himself.” He said that “Polling has shown time and time again that when he sticks to his message about the economic strength and prosperity that the nation experienced when he was president, when he sticks to his messaging on the peace that, you know, we are not at war, Russia wasn’t at war with Ukraine, the world was a more stable place. I mean these are all arguable points.” Peters noted that these messages were much more effective with voters rather than utilizing backward-looking messages about what happened three years ago.

Speaking about another Dumpf Mini-Me, Ron “DeSant-ASS,” I direct your attention to the newest development in the latest spat between the Florida fascistic governor and his war with the largest employer in the state, the Walt Disney Company, that has now filed a lawsuit against the Fred Flintstone governor. An article that appears in the late edition of the Daily News by Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times entitled “Disney lawsuit shows DeSantis at his bullying, bumbling worst.”

As of Wednesday, the huge conglomerate filed a federal lawsuit to quash the efforts of the Florida governor to punish it for speaking out against his “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The 77-page legal complaint was filed in federal court in Gainesville, Florida, and it aims to halt “a targeted campaign of government retaliation – orchestrated at every step by Gov. DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech.”

Before the repugnant governor’s legislation was adopted last year, the governor definitely didn’t complain about the global entertainment company in any way, shape, or form earlier. DeSantis didn’t refuse Disney’s $107,000 in contributions to his political campaigns, as the article notes. Florida Republicans also did not refuse any of the $7.6 million in contributions they’re received from the company over the last 20 years or so. They only started “copping an attitude” about Disney only when they figured it would be a high-profile foil in their campaign against “wokeness.”

As political pundits analyze this situation of a bumbling, bullying governor taking on a corporation that is arguably one of Central Florida’s largest taxpayers, with more than $1.1 billion paid in state and local taxes last year, they will bet on the Mouse rather than Fred Flintstone. Disney also employs more than 75,000 Floridians, so why would DeMented meddle with that. He has to have his head examined.

What has spurred the conflict between DeMented and Disney is the 43-square-mile site of Disney World and its related theme parks and resorts outside Orlando that has been governed by Disney for 56 years and which DeSant-ASS moved to revoke the company’s control over the district.

The Florida governor’s efforts to take control of the district did run into a roadblock, however. DeSant-ASS was outmaneuvered by the Mouse just days before he signed a law turning the district over to a handpicked board of political hacks, where Disney, in response, signed long-term development contracts with the district’s preexisting board (comprising handpicked Disney’s hacks) that preserved the company’s development’s rights for decades to come, long after DeSant-ASS is just a bad memory for Florida and the country.

This action by Disney had the Neanderthal governor just fuming and bellyaching to no end. He has claimed that the development contracts aren’t legal and threatened to take actions – like the true bully he really is -in the district that Disney won’t like.

Quite surprisingly, DeSant-ASS has even raised the prospect of building a state prison on unused land within the tract, which would go down extremely well with tourists who desire to visit the hallowed entertainment complex. Not!

So on Wednesday, the Florida governor’s board (they truly are pawns of the governor) did vote to declare the development contracts “void and unenforceable.” Thus the Disney lawsuit was born.

This war of words between the governor and the sprawling company known as Disney just shows how out of touch this “risibly maladroit politician” has ventured out of his comfort zone and is antagonizing a whole lot of people. The writer of this article rightfully states that DeMented has “got all the charisma of a linoleum floor.” I might have said earlier that he has all the “charisma of a dead doornail” or whatever. It’s all the same. This deficit in DeSant-ASS’s character is definitely not good when you are trying to supplant Donald Dumpf, “who can attract wall-to-wall media coverage while taking a midafternoon siesta.”

Again, whom would you vote for in this contest between two Goliaths, if you will? I will stake my Disney streaming service (that I don’t have, really) on the Mouse anytime.

Well, that’s it for tonight. As you might recall, I’m going on a cross-country motor trip starting tomorrow, so you have a respite from me in the next two weeks or so.

So have a great two weeks.

Stay safe and be well.

Don’t you just love this cartoon depicting Fred Flintstone of Florida as the real cartoon character, not Mickey Mouse? DeSant-ASS will lose his fight and will fail miserably. And be considered a cartoon character himself.