Forever and a day
Disney and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, have been spitting and calling each other poopyhead
, ever since Mouse House tried to undermine Florida House (Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Act). This has culminated in DeSantis pulling the plug on Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District, which had previously given the company carte blanche to do pretty much whatever the hell it wanted with its Walt Disney World resort.
But those frisky little buggers at Disney pulled a fast one. In the dying days of its tenure, the company passed a declaration allowing it to claim keepsies, through a special clause:
The declaration is valid until "21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England", according to the document. Such so-called royal lives clauses have been inserted into legal documentation since the late 17th Century, and they are still found in some contracts in the UK, though rarely in the US.
Max Matza, BBC News
Wowzers! 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England
; that sounds like a long time. If I read it right, it means not only the death of Old King Cock himself, but also Bill and Harry, and their children, and their children's children…should they have any. The fall of the House of Windsor, no less. (shock)
What Max doesn't explain, however, is how such a clause could ever be relevant in the USA, since the declaration of independence; i.e. the last two and a half freakin' centuries. Unless it's just a general mark of perpetuity; like The Twelfth of Never, and that's a long, long time.
Ne'ermind, I expect that DeSantis' lawyers will square up to Disney's, and spank the mouse's sorry arse all the way back to Commiefornia. I certainly hope so. It's not that I feel any favour towards DeSantis, but anyone who squares up to Disney is okay by me. (okay)
In the meantime, I feel an urge to dance…
[ dances the DIE DISMAL DISNEY dance ]