0 and thists that i'm doing it my way. my way. meet plenty management aide for adults with a bmi of twenty five to forty when combinedit dietic and exercise plan. and exercise plan. it is not a drug. it's made from naturally derived buildingpl. you'll learn and eat less. it is a prescription only treatment and not for pregnant women or people allergic to coffee or doctor or the in my plan to be time to learn more . good evening and welcome to tucker carlson . time we told you earlier in the week about how the left is very mad in fact trying to shut down a site libs of tiktok. why are they so mad at libs of tic-tac? well, here's one of the reasons over the past half year or so video after video has appeared on social media showing schoolteacher's bragging enthusiastically about how they push their personal politics often weird and gruesome politics on the small children they're supposed to be teaching. now the students in question are not teenagers. they're kindergartners, first graders, kids who have no perspective on life and no power to fight back . so many parents saw these videos in some cases on lives of tick-tock and they were shocked. they had no idea that anything like this was happening in the classroom having some purple haired loser in a nose ring convinced her six year old to get a sex change is not why most people send their children to school. so they complained the parents did. and across the country, republican officeholders responded by promising to do something about this . they made outrageous noises but then in very short order they moved on to talking about ukraine, which is what they really care about, not you. in the end, only one state really did anything about this . that would be the state of florida under rhonda santurce. several weeks ago the florida legislature passed a law banning teachers from bragging about their own lives to small children. now news reporters went crazy. they described this legislation as the don't say bill. but as always, that was a lie. this bill didn't even mention the word , nothing to do with . florida voters seem to know that intuitively. even most democrats in florida supported this law. the polling firm public opinion strategies found out why they do quote fully two thirds of voters believe it is inappropriate for teachers or school personnel to discuss gender identity with children in kindergarten through third grade. well, of course it is. everyone thinks that so there was ever a law that accurately reflected public opinion which should matter in a democracy. this was the law. but across the country in the state of california, bob iger was watching and bob iger didn't like it. bob iger is the seventy one year old former head of disney. he's bundler for hillary clinton. he's got some free time and strong political views. he promptly tweeted the florida law was immoral somehow in an interview later with cnn with chris wallace, iger explained that preventing teachers from promoting gender reassignment surgery to kindergartners was quote harmful to children. i never explained how this was harmful, but it didn't matter. over at disney headquarters, his remarks caused huge problems for the company's new ceo, bob beck. now by all accounts, bob cpac is not especially political . he's not an activist. he's a marketing guy. so his first instinct is not to get involved, not to comment on what was happening in florida and that seemed wise given how much at stake disney has in florida. they own a theme park in orlando. you may have heard that's an enormous physical assets that cannot be loaded on a truck and move. so maybe don't mess with florida as trafic put it in a memo, quote corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or mine. you wrote that on march 7th explaining why disney plans to take a pass on this controversy because they make movies, not laws. but bob, epic's employees had other ideas whipped into a frenzy by their former boss bob iger. disney staffers demanded action immediately and then because he is weak and not especially bright, bob cpac caved to their demands. he agreed to hold a town hall with aggrieved disney employees who wanted him somehow to take control of the florida legislature. here's how that went. i hope you've all read my most recent note in which i pledged to be a better ally for the lgbtq plus community apologize for not being an ally that you needed me to be and committed to ensuring that our company lives up to its values . your words have made a real impact on me. i understand that we've made mistakes and the pain that those mistakes have caused and i know that our silence wasn't just about the bill in florida but about every time an individual or institution that should have stood up for this community did not. i want to thank the lgbtq aa plus advisory council. hey bob, what is lgbtq i.a you stand for? you're no freakin' clue. that's not the interesting part . the interesting part of what you just heard was your words have made a real impact on me. in other words, you now have full control over my entire central nervous system. you own my brain do with me what you will and they did. bob cpac soon reversed his position. disneyesque position completely going forward, not only did the disney corporation fervently disagree with the law, the florida legislature had passed, according to bob chapnick, disney had decided to override the expressed will of florida's voters and overturn that law quote our goal as a company, said bob cpac, is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that . >> what once you thought it was an entertainment company but no . >> from its headquarters in los angeles, the disney corporation has now decided it runs the state of florida. so for people who want to defend democracy, which is a system in which voters get to govern themselves, this was quite a departure. this is oligarchy corporate ceos deciding what the law should be . yeah, that's their new position . but in the meantime, disney employees set about trying to undermine the intent of florida's law if teachers no longer promote transgenderism to kindergartners, disney plan to step into the breach and do it themselves. here's internal footage from disney obtained by journalist chris rufo last summer. >> we removed all of the gendered greetings and relationships to our lifestyle so we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we we've trained we've been provided training for all our cast members and in relationship to that . so now they know it's hello everyone or hello friends. >> oh , so it's no more boys and girls. >> disney world is now nonbinary. okay, that's the diversity and inclusion lady. you're not surprised. what is surprising is that the head of a publicly held company like disney would announce in public that he's in charge of a state that we thought was run by the voters of that state . well, in florida run the census ptosis, he's the elected governor and he decided to find out how does the system work. he decided to test democracy. so during a special session of the florida legislature this week, dissenters led an effort to strip disney of what turned out to be a remarkable set of special perks that company had enjoyed for more than 50 years. you were not treated like disney is in florida. you have never been treated that well. so after the special session, no more will disney world operate as its own independent country within the state of florida? yes, that's how they were governed by themselves and now going for disney is going to have to pay its taxes. oh wow. just like everybody else. now if you've lived in this country for more than say five years, ask yourself what's the political party that has always told you big companies pay their taxes? corporate tax breaks are bad of course, that's always been the democratic party . so you would imagine the democrats in florida would applaud a move like this . when was the last time you heard liberals complain about stripping tax breaks from big business? never before in history it's never happened and yet it just did happen. these are democrats in the florida legislature. notice they are on the verge of tears as they learn that the disney corporation might have to pay taxes. >> the will, the machine and members want to see the vote on the washing machine out the vote 68 years. >> thirty eight days. so the bill passes. you may have sent the democratic party over the last decade or so has been captured by corporate interests . but you never thought that you would hear on the floor of a state legislature. democrats scream with anguish at the idea that a big company might have to pay its taxes. unbelievable. but now very clear what's going on here. well, a lot of things. here's disney spends millions of dollars electing lawmakers in the state of florida, but those lawmakers couldn't do their job in this case. they couldn't act on disney's behalf. the law passed and desanto signed it into law this afternoon and that's going to cost the disney corporation a ton of money which in turn may mean less money for the florida democrats. you just are shrieking in the video. so there was some self-interest involved here. but it wasn't just because it wasn't just democratic officeholders who are upset by the idea that an elected governor might be more powerful than an unelected corporation headquartered across the continent. the media were very upset to very upset. watch this . it was a fantastic 5% anti-muslim bill for the state of florida. he would if he could pass an anti if he could say it's illegal to say you're black, i'm pretty sure the guy would riot. i mean, look dishonest. this is a playbook out of putin and we saw where this goes and it's very soviet and it's weird how republicans they keep tacking back to the old soviet union and they seem to want to mimic the things that the new soviet union meaning vladimir putin is doing. and even in our conversation about the fantasy, it's about how well they're serving him the truth is dehumanization as a tactic for politics is from war dehumanizes is a it's a tactic is being used right now. the russians get their soldiers to children by dehumanizing them, dehumanization as a practice. it's a tactic of war . so just to be clear, there's some kind of inverse iq test going on the hiring department over at msnbc. but here the new rules if you would like a big publicly held corporation to pay its taxes, then you're a child. obviously you're a racist. you're like putin, which means you're a fascist. but you know what else you are according to joy read , you're communist to say this is quote taking us back to the soviet union. you're a communist if you want the company to pay its taxes. don't you ever read went to harvard. so we're going to disagree with her. but we did feel a moral obligation to check the facts. it's a heavy claim. so joining us tonight to confirm or deny these charges is comrade ron desantis who is also the governor of florida. governor, thanks so much for coming on tonight. so i can't tell whether you're a racist communist fascist for wanting a big publicly held corporation to pay its taxes. how would you describe yourself ? >> well, it's interesting, tucker , not only pay taxes, i mean this company had a deal unlike any company or any individual in all of the state of florida and probably anywhere in the united states. they are self-governing. they had extraordinary powers. they could build nuclear power plants. they didn't have to go through permitting process is obviously a lot of tax benefits and so that's just inappropriate and it's certainly in appropriate when you look as you i think did a great job pointing out they pledge themselves to mobilize their considerable corporate resource out of the coffers of this burbank, california based corporation to overturn the rights of parents in the state of florida to effectively commandeer our democratic process. and so that obviously is something that we very much objected to and then you also have those videos that you showed where you have all these higher ups and disney talking about how it was their intent to inject sexuality in the programing that goes to young kids. i got a five year old , the four year old and a two year old at home, tucker . i want them to be able to watch cartoons without having this stuff jammed down their throats. and so it was appropriate to have done this originally the three years ago or whatever , but it's certainly appropriate to make them live under the same laws as everybody else in the state of florida. well, yes. and it's weird coming from people who devote their programing to defending democracy. so you've been elected by the voters of florida. you're standing for election very soon in november and we'll see how you do. but you're a product of democracy. bob cpac and bob iger were elected by nobody. so why wouldn't democracy defenders be on the side of the legislative process over corporate fiat? because i think what the left has come to is all they want to see is power exercised in advance of their leftist agenda. so yes, they used to be hostile to big corporations because i think they perceive us corporations as being a political and that they wouldn't support their agenda. now they figured out that they can try to subcontract out their leftist to some of these big corporations and some of the executives will cave to the local mob and then they'll basically do the less dirty work tucker . they're not going to win elections in florida if they're actually running on injecting transgender ideology into second grade classrooms and i know that . so their hope was getting disney involved in that would somehow get me to back down from signing the bill. well, that was a bad judgment on their part because of course we weren't going to back down an inch. it's a little weird because they're a bunch of republican governors in the country. you're actually a republican governor that sits over one of the most evenly divided states. it's a republican state but just barely overwhelmingly republican states in the west like utah, their governors have done nothing like this . they haven't fought back at all. why is that do you think? >> you know, i don't know, tucker . i mean, i think the way i view it is is you have the media class, you have kind of the twitter class. you have some of these people and that's a distorted view of reality and you actually need to talk to people who aren't always on those outlets and listen to what they have to say. and i can tell you they do not want this garbage in our society. they don't want women to be denied the opportunity to participate in sports. they don't want to see their kids go to kindergarten and have this stuff jammed down their throats. and so i just stand with the people i stand against a lot of media and a lot of big corporations. but at the end of the day i think we have the facts and the strength in numbers on our side. yeah, i think you're exactly right. thank you . it's great to see the chances of florida. >> thank you so the pandemic is over . >> the vaccine didn't work the way they said it was. that's not conspiracy theory. the numbers show it's true . but in rhode island, one lawmaker has decided that you must get the vaccine and if you don't get the facts, you're not really a citizen anymore. amazing story from the country. small state plus food processing plants are burning down when avian flu is killing millions chickens across the country. what is going on here? 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