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Disney is making RECORD profits from fewer visitors: Magic Kingdom has introduced new charges and ramped up costs with visitors forced to spend17%more last year as price of hotels, passes and even Mickey ears rocket
August 28, 2022
Since reopening in April of last year, the company has made a host of changes to its preeminent parks in Florida and California, nixing perks and raising prices
Those efforts, recent earnings reports reveal, have seen the parks' bottom lines swell - but has also alienated visitors been priced out by the increased costs
Implementing changes such as a $15 a day pass on top of admission and a $32 charge for its airport shuttles, customers are complaining of Disney's practices
The unrest comes weeks after company brass explained that recent ticket-price increases were offset by an 'unfavorable attendance mix' at Disneyland
Recent price hikes at Disney's theme parks have seen the company's profits surge despite a slump in visitors - leading many to accuse the parks of ripping off loyal customers in order to bolster their bottom line.
Since reopening in April of last year, the company has made a host of changes to its preeminent parks in Florida and California, nixing free perks and ramping up prices, causing the cost of a visit to a Disney resort to rise dramatically.
Visitor numbers at the park have plunged by 17 per cent - but the profit Disney makes on each guest has increased by 17 per cent in a year, helping turbocharge the firm's profits.
The firm's share price has plunged by more than a third in the last 12 months, due in large part to controversies over Disney opposing Florida's so-called Don't Say Gay bill, and woke movies such as Lightyear that have turned-off viewers.
But takings at its theme parks - traditionally the most profitable part of Disney's business - remain in very rude health.
Disney made a whopping $7.4 billion from its parks for the most recent quarter of the 2022 financial year - up 70 per cent from a year earlier, when it was recovering from COVID shutdowns.
Profits also surged to an impressive $2.2 billion for that quarter - a huge leap from the $356 million recorded for the same quarter 12 months previously, the Wall Street Journal reported.
One of the most profitable changes is the implementation of a $15-a-day Genie+ pass, which was previously free. It serves as an app on guests' phones, and lets them skip some lines on rides.
Genie+ also flags up promotions on merchandise, helping shift the parks' famously pricey souvenirs. It is used by half of all guests - with 70 per cent who downloaded it saying they'd do the same on a future visit.
But the Genie+ pass does not grant all guest's rude wishes, with visitors required to fork over an extra $10 to $17 to get access to some of the parks' most popular attractions - despite having already paid around $100 per admission ticket.
The surcharge is applied to rides in Disneyland and Disney World's popular Star Wars Galaxy Kingdom Area and Guardians of the Galaxy rides.
Annual passes have shot up 14 per cent in a year, from $1,399 to $1,599 per pass. Disney has also increased the number of days that passholders are banned from using their season tickets, sparking further claims it is looking to ax the passes by stealth.
Fans have since started posting pictures of themselves at the both Disneyland - dubbed 'the happiest place on earth' by the company - and Disney World, donning T-shirts that read 'Unfavorable' on social media in protest.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11153655/Soaring-prices-helped-Disneys-theme-park-profits-jump-five-fold-2-2-billion.html
FBI agent provocateurs provoke in Modesto, CA (I see khacki people):
Cops pull guns and fire pepper balls as California 'straight pride' march outside abortion clinic clashes with pro-LGBT protestors
Self-admitted 'racist group' the National Straight Pride Coalition organized a march in front of the Modesto Planned Parenthood
Caravans of LGBTQ supporters and pro-choice advocates came to protest the march
Both sides clashed, bottles were thrown, protest signs were used as clubs
A flashbang grenade or firecracker ignited a shrubbery outside the abortion clinic
Modesto police in riot gear pushed back against a wall of LGBTQ counter-protesters and fired pepper balls into the crowd
August 28, 2022
A 'straight pride' march held in front of a California abortion clinic descended into violence as attendees clashed with counter-protesters and police.
The National Straight Pride Coalition touted the event as a celebration of 'heterosexuality, masculinity, femininity, babies - born and unborn and Western straight civilization, our wonderful country and Christianity.'
Founder Don Grundmann promised a calm organized march, telling the Modesto City council in early August: 'We're a peaceful group, we wanted to have a meeting. We're attacked as racist. We're a totally peaceful racist group.'
But it quickly descended into violence, as angry pro-LGBT rights groups clashed with officers deployed to maintain calm at the event.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11153669/California-straight-pride-march-hit-violent-clashes-pro-LGBT-counter-protesters.html
GAY protest at abortion clinic? Seems unnecessary…
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Personally served promptly is much much better
>The decision of one man to launch a brutal and unjustified attack on Iran.
Bush was inadvertently honest? Or still just a retard?
Bizarre Florida Woman Pulled Over for Alleged Drunken Driving Performed an Irish Folk Dance for Cops
August 27, 2022
Florida woman tries to beat DUI test by Irish folk dancing — and fails
Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/florida-woman-tries-to-beat-dui-test-with-irish-dance/
video, classic move to not get a DUI /sarc
She got a lil Captain in her…
4 across, 5 down, missed a spot
5 across, 2 down, all day every bread
3 across 4 down - mark it
(no more hints, anon wants to Bingo! first) kek
"Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take no fast train
Oh, the lonely days are gone
I'm coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter
I don't care how much I've got to spend
I'm gonna find my way back home again
Oh the lonely days are gone
I'm coming home
My baby, she wrote me a letter"
Notes and reactions, Karen Pence approx 2 min 40 sec
Ravens mascot carted off field with serious injury
August 28, 2022
Poe, the Ravens’ mascot, was carted off the field during amascot versus youth football team gameat halftime of Baltimore’s 17-15 preseason-finale win over the visiting Washington Commanders on Saturday night at M&T Bank Stadium.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/ravens-mascot-carted-off-field-with-serious-injury/
KEK!
ThreeDutch soldierswere shot and wounded outside the Indianapolis hotel where they were staying early Saturday, police said.
August 27, 2022
Cops found the three men with gunshot wounds around3:30 amin downtown Indianapolis’ entertainment district and took them to local hospitals, the Indianapolis Star reported.
Dutch officials told the Associated Press that one soldier was in critical condition and the two others were conscious. They said the three were from the Commando Corps, a special defense unit of the Royal Netherlands Army, and were in Indiana for training, when the shooting occurred during their leisure time outside their hotel.
Indianapolis cops said they think some sort of dispute occurred between the three victims and another person or people, which led to the shooting.
No arrests have been made yet.
Sauce: https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/three-dutch-soldiers-shot-and-wounded-outside-indianapolis-hotel/
Dutch Waffen?
Good morning fren!
Have a good one!
Federal Judge in Florida just took over the Presidential Records Act case, including the unprecedented, unnecessary, and unannounced FBI/DOJ Raid (Break-In!) of my home, Mar-a-Lago. This assault was done for political purposes just prior to the Midterm Elections (and 2024, of course!). It is a disgrace to our now Third World Nation!
5:24 CST
https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/15096
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My Saga superyacht sinks off the coast of Italy
8-27-2022
Who owns My Saga? An unnamed Oligarch, since 2022
https://factboyz.com/who-owns-the-superyacht-my-saga-that-sank-in-italy/
pics: https://yachtharbour.com/yacht/my-saga-1444
Want to See What $7.8 Million Sinking to the Bottom of the Ocean Looks Like?
August 27, 2022
A superyacht has found a new home at the bottom of the Ionian Sea.
The yacht, valued at $7.8 million, capsized last weekend off the southeastern coast of Italy, according to Bloomberg. All those aboard were rescued.
The 129-foot ship, called My Saga, was 9 nautical miles from shore last Saturday when its stern began filling up with water.
The Italian coast guard responded to the yacht’s distress call.
Four passengers and a crew member were taken to safety on a Romanian patrol boat while the captain and three crew members tried to save the vessel, The Washington Post reported.
The coast guard returned the next morning along with a tugboat in hopes of getting the yacht to shore.
At that point, the caption and crew members who had remained with the yacht were transferred to the tugboat.
However, the sea was getting rougher amid bad weather, and the yacht was taking on too much water to be towed.
Efforts to save the yacht were abandoned, and it sank in the early afternoon.
The coast guard shared footage of the ship sinking beneath the waves on Twitter.
It was not clear who owned the yacht, which sailed under the flag of the Cayman Islands
Sauce: https://www.westernjournal.com/want-see-7-8-million-sinking-bottom-ocean-looks-like/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_campaign=telegramfeed&utm_content=2022-08-27
picrel/formerly Yuko