How can you tell that you’ve landed on a woke website where facts don’t matter? Here’s one way: the site features a story that tries to explain the declining attendance at the Disney theme parks without mentioning the headlong, suicidal rush of the Disney organization to embrace radical progressivism and all that entails. Here’s another big clue: the propaganda site defaults to climate change, the Left’s all-purpose explanation for anything people don’t like, because that’s how fear-mongering and indoctrination works.
It has been reported by many news outlets that Disney’s theme parks are experiencing a summer of light attendance. There are two likely reasons for this, the obvious one being the ridiculous price of passes to the parks. Disney’s website shows a four-day ticket for all four of Disney World’s parks starting at $396. Single-day tickets cost $109. That doesn’t include meals and other incidental expenses, which are equally inflated. As a Disney park veteran, I can say emphatically that staying at a hotel on the premises infinitely improves one’s Disney experience, and I can also state with equal certitude that lodging there is now for the wealthy or profligate only. Disney got to where it was by attracting, and being accessible to, the American middle class. No wonder it has degenerated into a hard-left shill: almost the only people who can afford a Disney vacation are the elite, wine-and cheese social justice warrior set. For those who aren’t members of this smug clique and who could afford a few days at The Magic Kingdom, why would they shell out large amounts to have their teeth set on edge by leftist pandering?
And while we’re on that topic: Disney has been ramming its politics down the throats of families seeking an innocent, fun, escape from politics by doing things like having a cross-dressing “princess” greet little girls seeking some wholesome fantasy on Main Street. I wrote about that guy above in a post earlier this year; you simply can’t trust an entertainment company that would try such a polarizing stunt. Meanwhile, almost all of Disney’s movies have seemingly been devised to annoy or offend at least half the public. This is not a promising business model.
Despite the evidence, here is the headline on the theme part news site ITM (“Inside the Magic”): “Climate Change Severely Impacting Disney Theme Park Attendance.” “Climate change impacts Disney, without a doubt, and the impacts extend from Disneyland Paris to any Walt Disney Parks location across the globe,” the hack author informs us. There is no evidence at all that the summer’s weather is due to climate change, but when you say it is “without a doubt,” that’s enough for the gullible and scientifically ignorant.
Another quote, “Who wants to go to the theme park when it’s rained out?” made me laugh. First of all, the parks are almost never “rained out,” and second, arguably the best time to be at Disney World is when it’s raining. The park is cleverly constructed so as to allow visitors to move all around the park from attraction to attraction without being exposed to the elements. When it’s raining, there are no lines, and no wait times. When I was there during a storm I rode the “Haunted Mansion” ride four times in a row: it was great. OK, the fireworks and parades get cancelled, but the former are gratuitous, and the latter are only enjoyable if you’re eight. But the 8-year-olds also love not having to wait for 45 minutes to ride “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Disney has image and popularity problems all right, with increasing competition because the Disney parks are being successfully imitated adding to the predictable results of bad management, declining creativity and reckless public relations. The declining attendance at the parks is 100% the company’s own fault, but its defenders—who also think the transvestite princess was just wonderful—want to turn Disney’s failures into more climate change propaganda.
Because an increasing number of Americans will believe anything.
Ethics Alarms 
It’s such a laughable and pathetic attempt—blaming the all encompassing “climate change”—since other theme parks in very same areas (especially Orlando) experienced no such effects (and many are having record attendance).
What’s worse is that the worse the a-holes destroyed Disney will suffer is a dismissal with golden parachutes (millions of dollars in severance packages) and then they’ll move on to other corporates. Pretty pathetic
This really is faux-religion stuff. Instead of attributing every human failure, mistake, botch or misfortune to “God’s will,” these crazies want to blame climate change. How did they get this way?
As a person who was there last week, it is not climate change. It was ridiculous prices paid and then using the pay-to-play product of Genie Plus. This lovely product cost my family $27 per person per day to get the Lightening Lanes. This cost is on top of the ticket prices. Another big issue was how many rides would break down during the day. Walt would would never allow the current conditions to exist. It isn’t weather keeping people away.
“Climate Change: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?”
Apparently not; to wit:
Warmalista Alarmacist Lefties Are Getting People Killed
MONEY QUOTE: Hawaiian Electric knew for years that the combination of unsecured power lines and invasive dry brush was causing a huge spike in wildfires, but INSTEAD OF INVESTING RESOURCES IN SECURING POWERLINES AND CLEARING BRUSH, THE COMPANY SPENT MILLIONS TRYING TO MEET democrat PARTY-CREATED RENEWABLE ENERGY MANDATES INSTEAD (bolds/caps/italics mine)
To answer the question, it appears climate change can cause a mustache to grow on that woman’s upper lip.
Here are a couple of my favorites from the “Inside the Magic” article:
The hubris and/or ignorance is strong with this one.
p.s. The fourth quote was from the Obama speech at the end of the 2008 primaries. Just checking to see if you were paying attention. Same level of hubris, though.
Yup. Mock mock mock.
Last fall, we were at Disney in Orlando for a specific event involving family and we couldn’t believe the prices. We were in Orlando three days, but only spent a single day in the park, completely due to the cost of everything and the obvious left-wing pandering. We’ll never go back.
Oh, climate change is affecting Disney’s attendance numbers all right, but it’s not the climate external to the park.
The ever-irreverent Babylon Bee:
Hilary Makes Landfall, DESTROYS OVER 30,000 EMAILS
It’s definitely part woke part pricing that is Disney’s demise.
Covid wrecked their revenue, and to make up for it, whether they openly spoke this or not, Disney bunkered itself into a “raise prices to make up for lost revenue, we may lose casual visitors, but there is a *large* and solid core of Cradle-to-Grave ‘Disney-ites’ who will keep up their annual pilgrimages and pay what we tell them to pay to make up for lost Covid revenue”.
The problem is, even some hard-core cult followers of the Disney brand (and I know some), can’t keep up with the pricing and are changing their traditional vacation plans.
And yeah, pretending like women are men and men are women keeps away people who have been peeling away from Disney for a decade now.