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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Rep. Lauren Boebert calls Biden's door-to-door vaccinators 'needle Nazis'
GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert on Thursday called medical professionals conducting door-to-door vaccination efforts "needle Nazis," marking the second time in one week that a Republican member of Congress has likened the Biden administration's COVID-19 mitigation strategy to Nazism, the ideology that led to the Holocaust.
"Biden has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County," Boebert tweeted. "The people of my district are more than smart enough to make their own decisions about the experimental vaccine and don't need coercion by federal agents. Did I wake up in Communist China?"
Only 42% of all residents aged 12 and above in Mesa County, located in Boebert's western Colorado congressional district, have been fully vaccinated. The COVID-19 vaccines are not "experimental," and have all received emergency-use authorization from the Food & Drug Administration.
In a Tuesday speech on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US's vaccine efforts, President Joe Biden said that "we need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors" to reach individuals who haven't yet been vaccinated and offer a vaccine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-lauren-boebert-calls-130015902.html
Boebert is a citizen of Dumbfuckistan.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)sincere.
George II
(67,782 posts)I can see getting them mixed up.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)My bad.
Lovie777
(12,342 posts)PortTack
(32,803 posts)That seems thats all they know how to do.
The ppl of CO are so embarrassed by her, shes got some good challengers..I look for her to be gone in the midterms
patphil
(6,225 posts)We could use a break, and she needs to see a real authoritarian government in action; up close and personal.
I don't believe the Chinese government would make taking the vaccine voluntary.
DBoon
(22,401 posts)She deserves the very best
ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts)...in the same thought. (Using the term, thought, loosely.)
On a daily basis, she proves that she didn't learn anything in HS, & she likely cheated on the GDE.
She's oblivious to the differences between Nazis and party communists.
Not that I'm surprised
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)More right-wing performance art that's only going to hurt themselves in the end.
This is a truly stupid country.
ruet
(10,039 posts)There, I said it.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 8, 2021, 09:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Hey! It's got guns.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)tanyev
(42,629 posts)At the very least its going to make people (understandably) reluctant to sign up to help.
Vinca
(50,313 posts)Boebert gives scum a bad name.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)If it weren't for the fact that each state gets two senators no matter their population, voter suppression laws, filibuster rules in the senate, dirty campaign money, etc., they would have long since fallen into the dustbin of history.
They have no popular core values so they have to pander to the extreme fringe elements of our country in order to get any political support.