Reid Smirks as Leftist Rep-Elect Says DeSantis Wants Drag Show Bans Over Guns

During the first show of the new year, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid brought on radical leftist Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost to let him smear Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis for daring to protect children from degenerate drag shows. During his rant, he went on to make the outrageously false claim that DeSantis “is more concerned with children going to drag shows than he is with children getting shot in their classrooms.” Reid’s only response to that smear was to smirk, make goofy faces, and nod along as he spewed more bile.  

After appeasing Frost’s entitled whining that he’s somehow too poor to afford an apartment despite being less than 24 hours away from starting his $174,000-a-year job, Reid asked him about DeSantis cracking down on delinquent parents who bring their children to sexually explicit drag shows. 

“He is now using the resources of the state when he could be fixing the insurance crisis in that state, and the affordability crisis in that state, he’s investigating a holiday drag show in my former county,” Reid cried. 

Reid added that DeSantis is “threatening the people who take children to a drag show with them can have the kids — have intervention from child protective services.” She never explained why child protective services shouldn’t be called on parents who bring their children to drag shows.

Maxwell began melting down: “Our governor is more concerned with children going to drag shows than he is with children getting shot in their classrooms, than people getting shot on the street.” 

He proceeded to accuse DeSantis of scapegoating “vulnerable communities,” which is a leftist buzzword for any demographic the left favors: 

Due to his failures to provide for working-class people, he’s scapegoating vulnerable communities. You can’t afford your rent, it’s the problem of drag queens. You can’t afford this, it’s the problem of our LGBTQ+ community, or immigrants, or black people, or poor people. And I think Floridians are going to see through it.

Reid jumped back in to cheer on Frost: “tell him about it before he bans history and information in that state. Because he’s on something with his supposed free state of Florida,” Reid said in reference to the leftist media myth that DeSantis has banned history in schools. 

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To read the relevant transcript click “expand”: 

MSNBC’s The ReidOut
1/2/2023
7:40:11 p.m. Eastern

JOY REID: I would be remiss if I had you on from Florida and didn’t ask you about your governor. He is now using the resources of the state when he could be fixing the insurance crisis in that state, and the affordability crisis in that state, he’s investigating a holiday drag show in my former county, in Broward County. That’s what he’s doing with his resources, and threatening the people who take children to a drag show with them can have the kids — have intervention from child protective services. What in the world is going on in your state? 

MAXWELL ALEJANDRO FROST: That’s a big question, Joy. If you have a few hours. I’ll tell you this, our governor is more concerned with children going to drag shows than he is with children getting shot in their classrooms, than people getting shot on the street. And it shows the hypocrisy, I mean look. Due to his failures to provide for working-class people, he’s scapegoating vulnerable communities. You can’t afford your rent, it’s the problem of drag queens. You can’t afford this, it’s the problem of our LGBTQ+ community, or immigrants, or black people, or poor people. And I think Floridians are going to see through it. 

And look, part of what I see my job as obviously the work of legislating here in D.C., the work of power building at home in Orlando, but also communicating every time this governor does something that’s dangerous and we have seen him do this all the time, he acts like a dictator and we have to be honest and blunt about it. We have to tell people how that’s going to harm folks. And so he’s using these resources that our state has to criminalize drag shows. But not criminalize and insuring that you know, folks can live in their cities without the fear of gun violence. And we see right through it. 

REID: Well, thank you, and tell him about it before he bans history and information in that state. Because he’s on something with his supposed free state of Florida. It’s something to behold. Congressman-elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost, come back any time. Thank you and good luck finding an apartment in D.C.