Joy Reid: DeSantis Will Sic Voter Integrity Police on Black People

On Monday night’s episode of ReidOut Joy Reid, a vile and racist MSNBC host, opened her program by ranting about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ signing of law to create a state election integrity unit. This will help the state ensure that election laws are enforced and prevent voter fraud. 

Reid started off by referring to DeSantis as “Baby MAGA” and wailed that he “signed a bill that allows him to create his own private police force that is tasked with pursuing alleged election law violations.” 

Doubling down on the myth that conservatives who want to uphold the integrity of our elections are promoting “the big lie”, Reid quipped “just lovely, the big lie will now have its own battalion of goons. I wonder who they’ll go after first. I think you can guess.”

 

 

Reid brought in Charlie Crist, a Democrat Gubernatorial Candidat who hopes to defeat DeSantis despite losing two other statewide elections in Florida. Crist was addressed by Reid, who went on a rant about her other DeSantis-related grievances. 

I mean, the other thing that went somewhat under the radar, unfortunately, is that this Governor demanded that his sycophant legislature literally eliminate Val Demings’s district and Al Lawson’s, state Senator Al Lawson’s district, it’s very very particular, it’s the same area, so now this part of Orange County will lose its black congresswoman to be replaced presumably by a Republican who he’ll draw some crazy looking district to force a Republican in there, so he’s taken away black representation.

DeSantis was then accused of passing the law enforcement agency so he can sic the group. She then went back to the voter integrity taskforce. “on black Floridians to intimidate them out of being able to vote.” 

It’s telling that Joy Reid hears the news of DeSantis wanting to crack down on voter fraud and immediately thinks of black people. Are we being told that voter fraud is committed only by blacks? Who’s the real racist? DeSantis is not the only one who seems racist here, but Reid. 

Allstate and Angi enabled Joy Reid to freak out about Governor Ron DeSantis in this unhinged segment. They are linked to allow you to contact them about what kind of programming funding they provide..  

To read the relevant transcript click “expand”: 

MSNBC’s ReidOut
4/25/2022
Eastern at 7:04 p.m.

JOY REID: Representative Charlie Crist, the former Republican Governor, now Democrat, slammed DeSantis’s tactics calling him a threat to the state’s economy and a wannabe king. And if all of that doesn’t scare you enough, buckle up buttercup. Baby MAGA today signed a bill which allows him to set up his own private police force, which is charged with investigating allegations of violations of the election laws. The big lie now has its own battalion full of goons. I wonder who they’ll go after first. You can probably guess. 

(…) 

REID: And let me– you’re a member of Congress now. I mean, the other thing that went somewhat under the radar, unfortunately, is that this Governor demanded that his sycophant legislature literally eliminate Val Demings’s district and Al Lawson’s, state Senator Al Lawson’s district, it’s very very particular, it’s the same area, so now this part of Orange County will lose its black congresswoman to be replaced presumably by a Republican who he’ll draw some crazy looking district to force a Republican in there, so he’s taken away black representation. 

He’s taken away African-Americans’ right to vote, and passed this law force to sicce black Floridians so they can be intimidated out of voting. Do you even recognize Florida at this point given what they’ve done? As you’ve said, attacking LGBT kids, teachers, threatening teachers with $10,000 fines and lawsuits just for teaching. Are you even aware of this? Are you aware of Florida?

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