Disney faced backlash online Wednesday after news broke that it is trying to get its lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to begin on the same day that the Republican National Convention is set to kickoff next summer.

The left-wing company wants legal proceedings to begin on July 15, 2024, which is the day that the convention begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“Sounds like election interference,” said political strategist Giancarlo Sopo.

Sounds like election interference…🤔 https://t.co/byCgJuHqNd

— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) June 28, 2023

“Disney, the bud light of children’s entertainment, interfering in US elections,” another Twitter user said.

Disney, the bud light of children's entertainment, interfering in US elections. https://t.co/itKTXiKOwd

— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) June 28, 2023

“Disney is attempting to interfere in a US Election,” remarked another.

Disney is attempting to interfere in a US Election https://t.co/gB3oExA6Hu

— Just Mindy 🐊 (@just_mindy) June 28, 2023

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit this week, arguing that the federal court has no jurisdiction over the governor and the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity and that both are protected under Florida’s legislative immunity, according to Yahoo News. Moody also said that the U.S. Constitution’s 11th Amendment shields both from the lawsuit.

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If the lawsuit is not dismissed, the governor and presidential candidate’s attorneys are pushing for proceedings to begin on August 4, 2025, a date well after the presidential contest is over, according to a report from the Tallahassee Democrat.

Disney has struggled in recent years and has sought to cast blame on DeSantis.

For example, in May, the company announced that it was not going to build a billion dollar office complex because of “changing business conditions,” leading many in the media to say that Disney was punishing the state of Florida.

Josh D’Amaro, Disney’s theme park and consumer products chairman, announced that the company was pulling the plug on the $1.3 billion Lake Nona Town Center, for which the company was going to relocate approximately 2,000 jobs from liberal Southern California to Orlando, Florida.

“Given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project, including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with construction of the campus,” D’Amaro wrote in an email to employees. “This was not an easy decision to make, but I believe it is the right one.”

DeSantis press secretary Jeremy Redfern slammed Disney in a statement, saying: “Disney announced the possibility of a Lake Nona campus nearly two years ago. Nothing ever came of the project, and the state was unsure whether it would come to fruition. Given the company’s financial straits, falling market cap and declining stock price, it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations and cancel unsuccessful ventures.”

Disney has already laid off 4,000 employees in recent months and has plans to lay off thousands more in the coming months due to the company’s financial struggles.

(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids’ entertainment content.)

Hollywood groupthink is even more pervasive than we think.

Sure, the industry has plenty of libertarian and conservative denizens, but the vast majority stay whisper-silent lest those views damage their careers.

Most stars happily toe the progressive party line, thinking it may help their job prospects or because they’re true believers.

A sprinkling of stars has been slowly, but surely tip-toeing off the progressive plantation.

The following artists won’t be pulling the lever for former President Donald Trump or even Governor Ron DeSantis anytime soon. Still, they are speaking out, betraying the unofficial talking points of their ideological peers.

More, please. We need independent artists sharing independent thoughts. And it might start with Ice Cube.

The rapper-turned-actor/director is reliably left of center, including his support for reparations for black Americans historically mistreated by Hollywood. He doesn’t align with any firm progressive playbook, though. We learned that when he exchanged visions with the Trump team on his plans for black America.

Now, Ice Cube is targeting the culture’s “gatekeepers.” He promised a tour, of sorts, of podcasters from all walks of life to work around existing roadblocks that limit debate.

People “know who [the gatekeepers] are,” the artist said. Left unsaid? We also know they’re religiously left of center, and that’s an understatement.

‘So what am I going to do to deal with those motherf***ing gatekeepers? Well, what I’m going to do is go on a f*** the gatekeepers podcast tour … and I’m going to talk to everybody. And get a chance to get my message out to the people. Be able to let people hear from me, you know.’”

Podcast giant Adam Carolla shared on Twitter that he’s already made contact with Camp Cube.

Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Mark Rylance bucked the Hollywood system, which followed every last letter of the Lockdown Playbook™, by questioning pandemic overreach.

Robbins opened up last year about his mixed feelings on COVID, admitting he fell for the media and government lines that we all had to stay home and accept mandatory doses of a newly-developed vaccine.

“I bought into it,” the “Bull Durham” star told podcaster Russell Brand. Then, he started to do his own investigating on the subject. He came to radically different conclusions that didn’t involve silencing speech or shuttering small businesses by default.

I noticed a lot of people were not adhering again to these requests made by their government. I thought, well, they’re going to have a hard day coming up, that there will be some serious death here …. When I saw that there wasn’t a huge death rate, after I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not.

“Bridge of Spies” star Rylance came to a similar realization. The 63-year-old actor, known for his progressive activism, said he took a “distilled garlic solution” daily, along with Vitamin C, until he was forced to get the jab to visit family stateside. What drove his hesitation?

Science started to sound like a religion. And really science is no different than religion, just an attempt by men to describe reality.

Critics can say, and they have a point, that both Robbins and Rylance spoke up long after the problem impacted Americans. It’s still bold of them to speak now for two reasons. 

First, the COVID regulations were embraced like a religion among the Hollywood Left, with radical players like Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern suggesting that unvaccinated Americans should be denied health care. 

Second, a new wave of COVID or a similar virus would likely trigger many of the same draconian measures that didn’t work the first-time around. The more public figures tarnish those measures, the more likely big government would back down next time.

Woody Harrelson took a more confrontational approach to pandemic mania. He used his monologue time on “Saturday Night Live” earlier this year to question the vaccine mandates with humor and a sense of mischief.

He brought up an alleged movie plot he turned down for one big reason. It was too crazy to be true.

So the movie goes like this: The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.

It might be the most rebellious “SNL” moment since a 2017 sketch dubbed “Woke Jeans.”

Another core tenant of woke Hollywood is the war on comedy. You’re not allowed to criticize the Thought Police’s impact on humor lest you be canceled (or forced to give a mewling, hostage-style apology). Jennifer Lawrence poked the woke bear anyway.

The Oscar winner, while promoting her quasi-raunchy film “No Hard Feelings,” defended both the film and the hunger for R-rated comedies, the kind Hollywood abandoned over the risk of bruised feelings.

I think it’s time for a good old-fashioned laugh and it really is hard to make a comedy where you’re not offending people … everybody in some sense will be offended by this film — you’re welcome.

The film over-performed box office predictions by $5 million in its opening frame.

It’s a sad state of affairs when we must celebrate stars thinking for themselves, ever so slightly, and for sharing their thoughts with the public. It’s the new, unhealthy normal, and bold thinkers deserve some sort of praise.

Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of HollywoodInToto.com. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at @HollywoodInToto. 

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.