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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf"
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DeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......"
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They should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely"
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Pretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church."
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Jesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\""
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DeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party."
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Nothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?"
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He is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage"
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FFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄"
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If I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.
I'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors.
You can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show.
Same goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like.
To me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.
Which is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech"
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But why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?
Or is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk."
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The politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?"
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Yes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser."
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I wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄"
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It’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want.."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic."
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Just make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money"
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Soooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers."
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Why?
What an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time
Doing something legal I disagree with.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”"
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He should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida."
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This guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?"
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Comon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it."
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Oh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!"
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“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis."
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Does DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”"
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Maybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare"
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To be fair, if there are any women among the "investigators", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?"
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The murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens."
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He’s a piece of shit all of the time.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!"
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It’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly."
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So, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda."
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This trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president."
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Isn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?"
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Drag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week"
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Florida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan"
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“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.
Wow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited"
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If anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy"
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Why is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”."
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Drag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing."
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“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”
-these puritanical fucks probably
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably"
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Morals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why.
Earlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?
As a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\""
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards."
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month",
">\n\nno, Santa is an OG drag queen"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month",
">\n\nno, Santa is an OG drag queen",
">\n\nProtect the innocence of children"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month",
">\n\nno, Santa is an OG drag queen",
">\n\nProtect the innocence of children",
">\n\nCorrect kids must be shielded from bigots like DeSantis…"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month",
">\n\nno, Santa is an OG drag queen",
">\n\nProtect the innocence of children",
">\n\nCorrect kids must be shielded from bigots like DeSantis…",
">\n\nBring some $5 and $10 bills for your 3 year old to put in the men's g strings"
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"Culture wars and virtue signaling are all Cons have.",
">\n\nUsed to be african americans, then it was gays, then gay marriage, now it's trans people and drag shows (I'm sure I'm missing many steps in there). They always need some kind of marginalized out-group they don't like to vilify and blame.",
">\n\nYou missed \"immigrants\" and now it's \"illegal immigrants\".",
">\n\nYou missed (in no particular order) Chinese immigrants, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Japanese immigrants, Chinese immigrants again...",
">\n\nForgetting “new immigrants”/ Eastern European immigrants",
">\n\nTrue, though I don't think I could write a truly exhaustive list if I tried.",
">\n\nDefinitely not;\nI’ve seen conservatives yell at Native Americans telling them to “go back to where they came from”",
">\n\nWhat a waste of money. Why are republicans so obsessed over drag shows?",
">\n\ni think we all know at this point. Projection. They cant pull it off and find that insensitive and unfair.",
">\n\nPlease don't do the \"all phobes are secret members of the community\" thing. It's dumb and queerphobic, and was only true in some cases before about 2012. When it happened back then, it was because of old-timey misconceptions about gayness, when they thought it was a fetish and not an immutable personality trait.\nDeSantis' breed just have weird ideas about hierarchy and moral purity that makes them think we're evil incarnate.",
">\n\ndid you know that not all drag queens are gay? some are just guys who enjoy the second life of being a beautifully buxom woman every now and again. Thats what makes them a drag queen, and not transgendered. only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans.",
">\n\nWhat is your source for “only a small part of the drag community is actually gay and or trans”? It’s mostly gay men and trans people. Some performers are straight cis men, such as Maddy Morphosis, but they’re certainly in the minority of drag performers.",
">\n\nBruh, I'm trans. I think I know what is and isn't going on in and adjacent to our community.",
">\n\nMy dawg, I'm bi and have no personal preference. You are trying to accuse me of being some kinda phobic when i was on your side till you actively started targeting me because 'you know more than I do'.",
">\n\nHow many families are accidentally finding themselves at drag shows with content they weren’t expecting to see?\nFrom the sound of things, you’d think they’re popping up in every city across the nation. I live in a huge progressive urban city and I’ve never accidentally wound up at a drag show.\nMaybe republicans are just vilifying outgroups like they always do.",
">\n\nI live in Portland I have accidentally ended up at a drag brunch at a bar. But your point is correct, you don’t just wind up at a drag show and then stay through the entire thing by force lol",
">\n\nI picked a random bar in a casino in Vegas to wait for my friend’s flight to come in and they went around to everybody at a certain point and warned everybody a drag show was going to start soon. I was like “ah that’ll be fun cool” and the people at the table next to me paid for their drinks and left immediately. It was kinda weird.",
">\n\nNot everyone likes show tunes.",
">\n\nThey get stuck in your head, it’s true",
">\n\nTrying so hard to win Maga support, meanwhile turning off independent and moderates. I guess he could do 180 after he wins primary I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.",
">\n\nFlorida has slowly been purged of Moderates and independents. It is steadily turning redder. He doesn’t want nor care about mods and independents.",
">\n\nThe Dem/Republican split in Florida is 48/52 with a healthy amount of NPA.\nFlorida being blood red is a DeSantis propaganda taking point.",
">\n\nRon took 59.4% of the vote, up from 49.6% 4 years ago…\nFlorida USED to be 48/52.",
">\n\nBy redistricting! We are deep red now because of Gerrymandering.",
">\n\nYeah but that doesn’t explain a 10% increase in Ron’s vote in a race where districts are irrelevant",
">\n\nI think a former Republican being his opponent didn’t help turn out on the Dem side. But who knows, Covid changed a lot of stuff in that state.",
">\n\nThis investigation is just an excuse for them to legally ban all drag shows. Florida is a dystopian nightmare where conservatives’ culture war is more important than personal freedoms",
">\n\nTheir actual goal is to ban trans and gay people from public life. they are trying to conflate crossdressing with sexualization of children, so they can go and use anti crossdressing laws to harass trans people in public. It's a twisted logic, but it's very clear what their end game with all this is",
">\n\nI suppose they'll include in their investigation bars and strip clubs and other venues that also might have admitted children, but minus the drag queens, right?\nHave they finished going after 8 year old who want to use the bathroom of their choice?\nAnd can teachers in FL teach current events like this without saying \"gay\" or explaining what \"drag\" means? maybe the kids didn't know, and wandered in because they thought it was a show about race cars, since they cannot be educated in that state about sexuality or gender.",
">\n\nIf they want to actually protect children they need to start investigating church’s and Christian schools.",
">\n\nSmall government. Christian fascism.\nFuck Ron.",
">\n\nYou're right. These yahoos hide behind a flimsy veil of Christianity while failing to live by any of the principles found in the New Testament. And it's not just DeSantis - it's all of the other politicians doing the same thing - and just as important, all of the phony Christians voting for him/them. It reminds me of a verse in Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction (1965):\nAnd think of all the hate there is in Red China\nThen take a look around to Selma, Alabama\nAh, you may leave here for four days in space\nBut when you return, it's the same old place\nThe poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace\nYou can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace\nHate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace",
">\n\nThese aren’t fake Christians. These are real Christians. When religious people can admit that Christianity is incredibly harmful to marginalized groups because it was created to uphold oppressive systems is when there will actually be progress. Sticking your head in the sand and saying “they aren’t with us!” Or just being silent is siding with those who want to uphold oppressive systems.",
">\n\nGOP obsession with Drag Shows is insane. These people are out of their minds. This is not normal.",
">\n\nAlmost as if Republicans can't win on policy so they need to whip up culture wars and identity politics to get the fringes.",
">\n\nThis is exactly what they’re doing. Look at the GOP in the house. Absolutely nothing has been said or done to solve the “problems” the Dems have done. Their wins this past election are from this nonsense. Completely useless.",
">\n\nAnd the sad thing is the anti trans stuff hasn't worked at all - it's only caused their party to be a shell of itself, clinging to the MAGA caucus in the House.",
">\n\nWorked for DeSantis. Look at his re-election numbers",
">\n\nGreat use of money /s",
">\n\nWell they already arrested people who voted legally. Time to do more culture war noise",
">\n\nah, the pressing matters. ....",
">\n\nGlitter is a big issue! Stuff gets everywhere!",
">\n\nCraft herpes",
">\n\nCan someone please explain to me how an event advertised as 18+, where minors could only attend with explicit parental consent, where the venue sent out an email to ticketholders telling them exactly what the performance entails as a further confirmation that attendees are informed about what they're going to see ahead of time, is falling afoul of some sort of law?",
">\n\nFalse reports.\nWe have drag shows every week where I live, if they don't know you then you get carded and if you're not 18 you're out, period. No exceptions. The idea that people are smuggling their kids into alcohol-serving establishments just to show them drag queens' private parts is a fevered conservative fantasy that they claim is happening all of the time without any actual evidence or proof (as is their custom).",
">\n\nAssuming all of that is also true of the drag show here, are there any actual criminal charges that would stick? DeSantis doesn’t want to go to his base after however much time he’s spent demonizing the LGBT agenda and say there are no grounds to arrest anyone, but he just had people arrested for the crime of voting without knowing they weren’t eligible and all their charges are being dropped. If the people working at the drag show were as strict about age limits as you described, what happens?",
">\n\nI'll say this again. Not once in my life has a gay person, or a drag queen knocked on my door in the middle of the weekend to preach at me.\nI've been at my current place about 2 and half years and I've had 3 people knock on my door asking me if I wanna join a church.\nI lived in Hialeah Florida. One of the most conservative places in the country. And you'd see church people dressed in suits, ties and Sunday best going around the neighborhood in packs going around every house in foot. They'd knock on doors for whole damn blocks.\nAnd the thing is, it's not just the weekends you'd see these mofos roaming around at 11 am on a Thursday. And all ages too kids, teens, middle age and older people. Like i don't know if these people even had jobs",
">\n\ndoor to door preaching is their job.",
">\n\nBut who pays them? The pastor?",
">\n\nSome churches take tithe money and use it to fund their missionaries.",
">\n\nFascists believe that their opponents will never inflict upon them one one-hundredth of the violence that they regularly inflict upon the marginalized.\nThat needs to change.",
">\n\nAgreed. If a man in a dress reading Green Eggs and Ham to kids gets these people all ruffled I imagine they'd be pretty upset about the literal grooming/rape going on in the churches...\nIf they really were worried about kids they'd be more worried about the people singing Amazing Grace than the people singing Cher.",
">\n\nThis from the free speech / don’t tread on me crowd.. too bad irony is dead.",
">\n\nFree speech as long as you worship Jesus the right way. F everyone else according to them.",
">\n\nWhen will conservatives end their war on Christmas?",
">\n\nThis will definitely improve the situation in Florida with home owners insurance crisis.",
">\n\nWhy the hell are people not allowed to wear what they want and put on shows? If they obey the public decency laws they should be able to wear whatever the hell they want to. More big government bullshit from the party of small government.",
">\n\nThis is the same bunch of hypocrites that cry about “cancel culture”",
">\n\nI remember when I was a kid watching Bugs Bunny dressed as a sexy woman flirting with Elmer Fudd. That shit was on tv in the '40's. \nWhat an incredible waste of money.",
">\n\nHow many of us used to watch Jessie and James crossdressing all the time?",
">\n\nWow. DeSantis sure has a hard on for drag queens.",
">\n\n\"It should be up to the parents when they allow their children to learn about sexual orientation and identity!\"\n\"No, not like that\"",
">\n\nIt’s a good thing everything else in Florida is well taken care of so they can focus on stuff like this.",
">\n\ncan I get a round of applause again for my state’s Governor? Look at him go, he’s out there fighting the things that are really going to help me and my family… affordable housing, accessible/affordable health insurance, affordable childcare, quality education… oh… my bad… he’s not doing any of that… he’s out daydreaming about drag queens.",
">\n\nOh no the man in the dress read a book to some kids, better get the FBI over here. Fucking lunatic, right-wing, shoe-sized IQ motherfuckers.",
">\n\nWhat a literal dumbass",
">\n\nWhat a waste of time this ass hat has for culture",
">\n\nWaste money, patience and people to \"own the libs\" and how all the dumb ass conservatives cheer it on until they go: \"Wait, why are people dying?\"",
">\n\nMaybe the State should investigate the results of DeathSantis's malicious Covid policies instead?",
">\n\nCan this man focus on actual issues like the excessive amount of money I’m paying just to have my house and property insured….",
">\n\nThe only time \"drag show\" goes through my mind is when I see posts from right wing media. If right wing media could stop shoving the 'woke agenda' in my face that would be great thanks",
">\n\nif they're going after drag they should deff investigate ol' rudy and trumpy",
">\n\nI have to live in this disgusting state\nTrying my best to get back up north.",
">\n\nI left in April, and will never go back.",
">\n\nHalf of the elderly in his state are about to get kicked off medicare. He has problems and drag queens aren't one of them.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi.\nThey need to investigate Evangelical priests not drag shows.",
">\n\nRidiculous. Makes me want to visit Florida in a dress and heals and a big wig just to rile folks up.",
">\n\nNot anything to help working middle class families, all the gop care about is culture war bs. Fucking pathetic, even more pathetic are the dumbasses that voted for this twat.",
">\n\nSomething something small government",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work……",
">\n\nDoes his admin do anything remotely beneficial for the state? Like are there examples of funding bills or like...I dunno...changes that benefit people? Honestly curious.",
">\n\nThere are easier ways to find out what goes on in drag shows, like actually going to one and seeing for yourself.",
">\n\nIf they were just a tad less hateful, they'd be rejected by their churches and would be seen as having let the devil take over their minds. That's how these people think.",
">\n\nI live in Floriduh and just saw a Floriduh state flag with Ron's head on it and it said Keep Florida Free. I find that contradictory to what he is doing. I guess it is a free state if you share conservative ideals. Otherwise, forget it.",
">\n\nMaybe he should start with his wife",
">\n\nRight? Like not to be an ass, but when I saw the headline and pic I legitimately thought he was standing next to a drag queen.",
">\n\nThe FL GOP Qanon is at it again. Wasting taxpsyers' dollars.",
">\n\nTake the limited budget away from investigators with a specific ask (that is, by its nature, not illegal) to ensure those same resources can’t investigate you. I would take a bet that DeSantis and his grifting cronies have been getting some sweet kickback money into their pockets while fruitless endeavors like this are pursued. It’s classic legerdemain.",
">\n\n\"Small\" government",
">\n\nRon DeSantis is Roman Catholic. The Pope in full garb would win most Drag Queen events.",
">\n\nRepublicans rely on wedge issues to win because they can’t win in policy issues. Their constituents are primarily fear- and hate-based, so they cater to those fears and hatred.",
">\n\n“We want to get government out of regulating your lives and we want to control your children down to what kind of shows they watch .”\nYou can’t have Republicans anymore without massive hypocrisy.",
">\n\nI think they may find that some drag queens are safer to leave around children than most Republicans.",
">\n\nWhy does Desantis look like the stereotypical Hallmark movie villain that wants to bulldoze a block of apartments and old times stores to build some massive penis statue or something. (Idk haven’t watched one of those in years)",
">\n\nI’m actually becoming less and less afraid of him being able to win 2024. Midterms showed suburbia is sick of culture wars bullshit and that is all DeSantis has.",
">\n\nIsn't it great that the state of Florida has no actual problems, is not sinking underwater, has virtually no crime or poverty, and the governor can focus on other people's entertainment choices?",
">\n\nThis guy is so full of shit. He claims to want’s to “protect the parents right to choose” what their kids are exposed to. As a parent, if I choose to take my child to a drag show then it’s my choice. People like this just want to force their value system on others.",
">\n\nI lived in Florida during COVID. Half the people there can’t pay their bills because COL rising so rapidly but this moron is dicking around trying to appeal to jackasses while he’s got the least affordable state and some of the worst education in the country.",
">\n\nAgain, that’s fine if they also investigate Hooters and Pro Sports games where people dress and dance suggestively. Which, btw, Drag story hour doesn’t do - but that’s not the point. Stirring the pot against LGBTQ people is the point.",
">\n\nDeSantis is using the power of the Florida government to investigate a group of people for WHO THEY ARE. Not for any suspected crime, criminal conspiracy or any real threat to public safety. \nApply this to Blacks or Jews or any minority and suddenly you see where this path can lead.",
">\n\nI bet no word on investigations of gun shows to see if they adhere to the law.",
">\n\nYeah, you know, something constructive. Nope. It’s Death Santis.",
">\n\nDeSantis - putting the F(ascist) in Florida Man.",
">\n\nDeSantis just opened himself up to a major lawsuit.\nRepublicans enjoy deflecting attention from themselves by inventing a fictitious Boogeyman to hate.\nWhen this investigation yields nothing of substance the floodgates of lawsuits will open up.\nBut what does he care, it’s the Florida taxpayers who will flip the bill, not him.",
">\n\nIf they are looking for adults showing sexualized content to children, they are much more likely to find it at Hooters.",
">\n\nPlease tell me there’s a Drag Queen named Rhonda Santis.",
">\n\nReally important stuff here. All while we could be addressing healthcare costs, student loan costs, housing costs…\nBut yeah, let’s focus on spreading more dangerous hatred towards a marginalized community.",
">\n\nComplete waste of taxpayer money A political witch hunt. It’s a shame we actually have domestic terrorists holding public office",
">\n\nFriggin stop already. Stop pandering to a bunch of folks that have 0 interest in anything but self. \n Drag Queens, LGBT people aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone. It matters not whether you agree with them. It is their life to live.",
">\n\nTo put this in perspective - if Florida was using the same standard for “explicitness” on heterosexuals then maternity stores would be considered lewd and in appropriate.",
">\n\nHell any NFL or NBA game would be illegal for children to attend. The cheerleaders and dancers wear more provocative clothing and have more sexual choreography than any drag show I’ve ever been to.",
">\n\nThis same drag show has been touring across the US every Christmas for 8 years. Never been any complaints about it until this toadstool oozed up from the Florida swamps.",
">\n\nMe thinks DeSantis protests too much",
">\n\nStandard wedge issue tactic:\n- Pick a powerless minority\n- Blame them for something they are not doing\n- Feature it in your fundraisers.",
">\n\nFascist and Minority Hater, Ron DeSantis… FIFY",
">\n\nThis guy has no real policy. It's all reactionary white boy shit.",
">\n\nI hear Covid is surging in Florida.",
">\n\nIs that a drag queen behind him? Guess he's doing his own field work.",
">\n\nAs a Floridian, Ron can choke on a turd. I am a heterosexual male and I LOVE RuPaul’s Drag Race and would love to go watch a show with my wife and daughter!",
">\n\nI would be so pissed my tax dollars were paying for this.",
">\n\nWhat a clown…",
">\n\nWGAS! DeathSantis is a total jerk!",
">\n\nHow does this benefit taxpayers?",
">\n\nNazi DeSantis.",
">\n\nFucking Nazi loser.",
">\n\nThe biggest threat to children at a drag show is that a religious fanatic might show up armed to “save the children.”",
">\n\nFuckers will do anything to waste tax payers money.",
">\n\nHe's threatening to investigate parents via Child Protective Services if they allow their children into the show (children = 17 1/2 yr olds). Thought Florida was The Freedom State. PARENTS, in the Freedom State, don't have to worry about the Government telling them how to raise their children! Can't tell them to mask the kids in a public school, can't tell parents to vax the kids in order to attend public school, but Government CAN say a parent CANNOT decide what their children can attend at Christmas!\nDeSantis has his eye on the White House.",
">\n\nThey have inflation under such good control that they have time to focus on low hanging fruit like drag shows. /s",
">\n\nWhat, like the one going on right behind him?",
">\n\nCame here to ensure someone had mentioned this in the comments…faith in Reddit restored!",
">\n\nKeeping Americans safe from drag queens. What a brave man. /s",
">\n\nTrump is so drag…this guy wants to be him so bad",
">\n\nIf any state power were trying to tell Christian parents how they can raise their children, what would DeSantis have to say about that?",
">\n\nWhere was the outrage when Corporal Klinger did it on MASH?",
">\n\nGreat point!",
">\n\nHe lives in Florida, governs it in fact, and is just now becoming aware of Fantasy Fest in Key West?",
">\n\nI remember when Jeb Bush stated that he was going to “clean up Key West and make it more family friendly”. He got conched on the head for that.",
">\n\nWhat is his goal here? Turn the whole state into Branson Missouri?",
">\n\nHe thinks he’s going to be president. Charlie Crist made him look like a 6-year-old on the debate stage. I can’t wait until the whole nation sees what a foolish little boy he is.",
">\n\nMeanwhile 78 verified cases of child sex trafficking under DeSantis run care homes in Florida.",
">\n\nStreisand Effect...Drag shows are getting so much publicity...people that never would have even thought to attend one are now going to consider it. Even if 1% of the general public decides to check one out, that's probably going to triple their demand.\nWay to go, DeSantis!",
">\n\nWe have had Christmas drag entertainment made for families in the UK for decades. Decades. They’re called pantomimes and having someone perform in drag is seen as being absolutely integral; for reasons I’ve never been able to fathom. I have never heard any complaints.",
">\n\nI watched Monty Python growing up and I came out OK",
">\n\nGuess there are no other pressing issues in Florida? Must be nice.",
">\n\nI guess he really hates competition.",
">\n\nIt's likely the drag performances will be entirely illegal in some parts of this country by the end of this decade with the way things are looking now. Baptist snowflakes simply can't handle it.",
">\n\nYeah but we will still be able to have them in the camps, right? /s",
">\n\nCan someone explain what law was broken that is forcing the governor to start an investigation?",
">\n\nThey are concerned for the children! /s",
">\n\nNo children have ever been. Harmed from a drag show.",
">\n\nBut school shootings are OK?",
">\n\nTo the typical Republican, being gay is in fact worse than being a school shooter.",
">\n\nde santis is a secret cross dresser named rhonda santis",
">\n\nWhy are these people so stupid?",
">\n\nMurica and Jebus!!!",
">\n\nWhy don’t you fucking do something to help your constituents you goddamn moron",
">\n\nI like that people are trying to protect children.",
">\n\nCulture warts",
">\n\nWhy is he looking physically more and more like daddy Drumpf",
">\n\nAh yes, fiscal responsibility at its finest.",
">\n\nDeSantis sure loves violating the constitution.",
">\n\nLet’s all focus on the impotant things! Wait, I mean important.",
">\n\nSounds like the volunteers for genitsl investigation ......",
">\n\nHe’s looking at each show closely",
">\n\nThey should the number of drag shows. Have them spring up all over and see how many resources he is willing to waste on all of these optics.",
">\n\nPretty disgusting that people keep voting for this monster.",
">\n\nDon't they have real crimes to investigate?",
">\n\nTo a Republican, the biggest crime of all is to disobey the Southern Baptist Church.",
">\n\n\"The lady doth protest too much, methinks\"",
">\n\nJesus fucking Christ. Leave drag queens alone. What the fuck, man? Just out there performing and having fun. I really hate the Republican Party.",
">\n\nDeSantos has found another way to waste Florida taxpayer money?",
">\n\nNothing trumps religious extremist's bigotry and homophobia. This is just a witchhunt.",
">\n\nHe is just upset his brother got kicked off the stage",
">\n\nJesus H….These people.",
">\n\nFFS. Don't tell them about pantos in the UK this time of year.",
">\n\nThe important issues…🙄",
">\n\nimagine the government investigating and shutting down peoples free speech",
">\n\nIf I were a lawyer and I was in court, this would be an easy win.\nI'm too lazy to look up the citations, but repeatedly the courts have allowed mature video games and films to be available in and around minors. \nYou can go see R-rated films with your kids. And they have far worse sexual situations and nudity than a drag show. \nSame goes for video games. Parents can buy those games for their kids if they like. \nTo me, this would be an easy challenge. Even if these drag shows were sexual (which they aren't, but I would still entertain the debate), if parental consent is given? Well, when it comes to the 1st Amendment, over and over again the courts have sided with the judgement of the parents.\nWhich is, really, the libertarian/conservative thing to do. Even in front of conservative judges, it's a slam dunk.",
">\n\nBut why? What illegal activity do they assume occurred during the performances?\nOr is this just more intimidation by Trump Lite?",
">\n\nThe politicians who harbor the most passion against a certain group of individuals, is usually closet whatever group they are targeting. Desantis is a poser.",
">\n\nYes, drag queen Christmas shows are America's most pressing problem. 🙄",
">\n\nI wish these Asshats focused on issues that improved our lives instead of waging a culture war only 30ish percent of Americans want..",
">\n\nIt’s great that this is the worst issue Florida is facing. The god damned GOP does nothing but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.",
">\n\nTaxpayer money",
">\n\nJust make Florida become Gilead and someone film it.",
">\n\nSoooo....Desantis has lost it in the name of running culture wars? There's so many more things he could do, with less political baggage, that would make him look good. Say, deregulating cannabis, massive boost and popularity. He could also enforce the existing restrictions on gun ownership, and maybe prove their effectiveness while also appealing to both the left and the right. So that begs the question, why the trans stuff? The answer is Republicans still rely heavily on phone polling to direct their policy. What they seem to not have realized is that phone or internet polling is INCREDIBLY vulnerable to manipulation or outright deceiving results. No one under 40 right now answers phone polls. So their results are skewed towards the few remaining people with land lines and foreign influencers that buy land line numbers and redirect them to call centers.",
">\n\nHe just wants to peek under their skirts",
">\n\nWhy?\nWhat an egregious waste of resources and tax payer money. At what point should this ludicrous waste of tax money be considered criminal when there are much more pressing issues to lean into? failing infrastructure? Crime? Education? Nah- gotta make sure no one willingly wanted to spend their free time\nDoing something legal I disagree with.",
">\n\nWant a complete douche bag-",
">\n\nNot available in my country so no idea what this story is about, but given past encounters, I’m guessing he’s a bit of a cockwomble?",
">\n\n“We gotta figure who these ladies are and why they make my pp so hard.”",
">\n\nYour tax dollars at work, Florida.",
">\n\nHe should investigate the one standing behind him in that photo.",
">\n\nThis guy is wasting so much money, and do the taxpayers of Florida care?",
">\n\nNo way to say Drag Queen Christmas fast without saying Draw Qween Qwistmas, try it.",
">\n\nComon Ronnie, You can tell us why you really want to know where all of the drag queens shows are lol",
">\n\nOh but he can share a stage with a drag queen? Who is that hussy next to him? I can see her weave from here. Honestly.",
">\n\nInvestigate what?",
">\n\nDesatan strikes again !!!",
">\n\nHe didn’t like that one dancer was Ronda Santis.",
">\n\n“And I want to know where these shows are! These disgusting shows! Tell me the exact time, and date, and I will go there myself and I will kiss them all on the mouth! I mean… have them arrested…”",
">\n\nDoes DeSantis and his idiot cronies have nothing better to do with their time and taxpayers money????!!!!",
">\n\nMaybe he’s just looking for a date for New Years.",
">\n\nWhy don’t these assholes worry about real problems? You know hunger, housing, healthcare",
">\n\nYo dog there’s a drag queen standing next to him in that photo yo",
">\n\nTo be fair, if there are any women among the \"investigators\", maybe they can pick up some pointers on hair and makeup.",
">\n\nAnother attack on Christmas.",
">\n\nYou would think a governor would have better things to do…?",
">\n\nSuch important issues ol’ go go boots is working on!",
">\n\nThe murder rate in Tallahassee has gone up as with violent crimes. None of which have been perpetrated by drag queens.",
">\n\nPissed He wasn’t the Headliner!!!!",
">\n\nHe’s a piece of shit all of the time.\nEdit: took out the word “just”",
">\n\nIt’s not exaggerating to say these statements are literally going to get someone killed for no reason. These events are highly advertised and generally the places that take place in don’t allow anyone under 18 from the start. Someone’s going to see these statements and will probably start shootings or fights relentlessly.",
">\n\nGood job, Rhonda.",
">\n\nSo, the actual persecution that the right wing nuts have fever dreams about.",
">\n\nThis trumphumping piece of trash has got to have the most politically motivativated agendas and ulterior motives in DC. Nothing he says or does is at face value. A snake in the grass. And he could become our next president.",
">\n\nWhat’s that about small government, and freedom?",
">\n\nIsn’t drag basically just a costume? Is he investigating Halloween too? Maybe he can investigate a furry convention while he’s at it.",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas shows are the most harmless thing. My god. But #1 on the fascist playbook is use a powerless minority to stir up fear and hate. Blah. This time I wonder if fear and hate aren't the end goal. That is what they want to see. Like addicts. They want to see suffering. Cruelty as a political goal. USA!",
">\n\nFindings and possibly criminal charges will be revealed next week",
">\n\nWhat a weirdo. Almost as if he is over-compensating",
">\n\nFlorida is not sending their brightest or best! They’re all funded by Betsy DeVos! She’s written off Michigan",
">\n\nDeSantis wants to investigate it so he can figure out how to get invited",
">\n\n\n“To avoid action being taken against your license, it is your obligation to ensure that minors are prohibited from attending the Drag Fans drag show,” Melanie S. Griffin, the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation, said in the letter.\n\nWow, they blatantly threatened to take away their alcohol license over this. I'm not sure that would hold up in court, but it's wild seeing all this state-level gangster shit from the DeSantis admin.",
">\n\nIf anyone thinks he won't be accepted by the right wings at a state-level are deluded fools. Desantis is a threat to america.",
">\n\nHe is such a grandstanding pos. Fuck this guy",
">\n\nDoes this man have nothing better to do?",
">\n\nWhy is he hanging out with a drag queen in the picture if he has such a problem?",
">\n\nUntil republicans clean up their churches and hordes of pedophiles, this is just noise. “Look over hear, no not at that!”.",
">\n\nYou have? What show did you attend?",
">\n\nDrag queens are not stripping in front of children. Some republican drank expired eggnog before going to bed and dreamt that whole thing.",
">\n\nI think maybe one performer took off their jacket.",
">\n\n“They showed their shoulders, how sexual!”\n-these puritanical fucks probably",
">\n\n\"Look at that hussy with her ankle showing!\"",
">\n\nMorals and family values…curious as to which marginalized groups he picks and chooses to scapegoat & why. \nEarlier I was walking down the street when someone driving by, window rolled down, rap music blasting about shooting women if they don’t give him his money and killing the cops etc…so…why is it okay to go after gay men and drag (one largely associated with the other) but not go after black men and rap (one largely associated with the other)? Is it because DeSantis isn’t afraid to confront gay men but is scared to death to do the same to straight black men? Aren’t lyrics about harming women and others in the community offensive to our communities also?\nAs a gay person, if you’re going for pure moral values then either you confront both the drag queens AND the offensive rappers or you leave both of us the fuck alone. You don’t just go after us because we’re the group you don’t think will shoot you afterwards.",
">\n\nYou make zero sense",
">\n\nDrag queen Christmas show? It’s that about like the KKK celebrating black history month",
">\n\nno, Santa is an OG drag queen",
">\n\nProtect the innocence of children",
">\n\nCorrect kids must be shielded from bigots like DeSantis…",
">\n\nBring some $5 and $10 bills for your 3 year old to put in the men's g strings",
">\n\nTell it to your boy gym Jordan"
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Seems the "pendulum of caution" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?
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So UK and France is basically saying, "Bring it on!"
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"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?"
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Already too late.
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"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\""
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Why not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late."
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And were there restrictions specific to the US?
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic."
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I could've sworn there were.
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?"
] |
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They want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.
If they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were."
] |
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So anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money."
] |
>
Realistically they have always dismissed China's numbers how do we not truly know this has been the norm the last few years over there, but as they want to start opening up soley for Economic reasons..idk just a thought.
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.",
">\n\nSo anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?"
] |
>
Haven’t seen anything in this is the US taking suck precautions?
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.",
">\n\nSo anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?",
">\n\nRealistically they have always dismissed China's numbers how do we not truly know this has been the norm the last few years over there, but as they want to start opening up soley for Economic reasons..idk just a thought."
] |
>
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)
LONDON - The U.K. and France said Thursday morning they currently had no plans to reintroduce mandatory Covid-19 tests or additional requirements for travelers arriving into the country.
All arrivals from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau must supply a negative Covid test taken within two days of departure.
While the U.K. government said there were no plans to reintroduce Covid tests or additional requirements for arrivals into the country, it said it would monitor the situation through Thursday.
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: test^#1 China^#2 country^#3 arrival^#4 Thursday^#5
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.",
">\n\nSo anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?",
">\n\nRealistically they have always dismissed China's numbers how do we not truly know this has been the norm the last few years over there, but as they want to start opening up soley for Economic reasons..idk just a thought.",
">\n\nHaven’t seen anything in this is the US taking suck precautions?"
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They just don’t want to hurt daddy china’s feelings that’s all. China has them by the balls!
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.",
">\n\nSo anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?",
">\n\nRealistically they have always dismissed China's numbers how do we not truly know this has been the norm the last few years over there, but as they want to start opening up soley for Economic reasons..idk just a thought.",
">\n\nHaven’t seen anything in this is the US taking suck precautions?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nLONDON - The U.K. and France said Thursday morning they currently had no plans to reintroduce mandatory Covid-19 tests or additional requirements for travelers arriving into the country.\nAll arrivals from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau must supply a negative Covid test taken within two days of departure.\nWhile the U.K. government said there were no plans to reintroduce Covid tests or additional requirements for arrivals into the country, it said it would monitor the situation through Thursday.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: test^#1 China^#2 country^#3 arrival^#4 Thursday^#5"
] |
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[
"Seems the \"pendulum of caution\" has swung all the way over in the last couple of years. What could go wrong?",
">\n\nSo UK and France is basically saying, \"Bring it on!\"",
">\n\nAlready too late.",
">\n\nWhy not? Their outbreak is basically like the US outbreak earlier in the pandemic.",
">\n\nAnd were there restrictions specific to the US?",
">\n\nI could've sworn there were.",
">\n\nThey want tourism money they don't care that over half the passengers testing positive for covid are going to end up killing people.\nIf they find out they have covid they can't run around and spend their money.",
">\n\nSo anti-science (makes my blood run cold just typing that) refugees from the trump admin found jobs shoveling shite in the UK and French governments?",
">\n\nRealistically they have always dismissed China's numbers how do we not truly know this has been the norm the last few years over there, but as they want to start opening up soley for Economic reasons..idk just a thought.",
">\n\nHaven’t seen anything in this is the US taking suck precautions?",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nLONDON - The U.K. and France said Thursday morning they currently had no plans to reintroduce mandatory Covid-19 tests or additional requirements for travelers arriving into the country.\nAll arrivals from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau must supply a negative Covid test taken within two days of departure.\nWhile the U.K. government said there were no plans to reintroduce Covid tests or additional requirements for arrivals into the country, it said it would monitor the situation through Thursday.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: test^#1 China^#2 country^#3 arrival^#4 Thursday^#5",
">\n\nThey just don’t want to hurt daddy china’s feelings that’s all. China has them by the balls!"
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