It’s a Tie! The debate heats up as Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson vie for the title of The Most Ridiculous Person on TV

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It’s a close race to the bottom, as the competition heats up. Tucker took the lead, briefly, when he said the vaccine mandate is all about “taking over the military.”

He thinks saving lives has nothing to do with mandating a vaccine to stop a disease that’s already killed 680,000 Americans. Tucker has the inside scoop. He has concluded that the vaccine mandate is really designed to identify “sincere Christians…free thinkers” and “men with high testosterone levels.”

To what end?

According to Tucker, the result of this heinous scheme will be “the takeover of the US military.”

Here’s how it’s going to work. Biden makes the mandate, and those identified above (all of whom, per Tucker’s theory, are not fans of President Biden) will “leave immediately.”

Thousands of military personnel who have sworn to protect their country are just gonna walk away, go AWOL.

This will leave Biden with an entire military subject to his control.

(Side note: Biden is already Commander in Chief. He’s already in charge of the military.)

I was in the Army for four years. I shouldn’t have to tell anybody this, but you don’t get to “leave immediately” when you don’t like something. As for mandating vaccines in the military, I remember getting fifteen shots on the same day in Basic Training. We got vaccinated for every disease in existence, or so it seemed.

They didn’t ask if we wanted them, they marched us to a big stadium, pulled out a huge metal contraption that looked like something an alien might have created and used that to shoot multiple vaccines into each arm via sharp bursts of air. Then they ran us to a field and made us do push-ups. It hurt.

But we sucked it up because we were soldiers. Was Tucker ever a soldier? I think not, because if he thinks a soldier can wander off in a huff when they don’t like an order, or that a single vaccine can “take over the military” he’s delusional.

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Speaking of delusional, that’s where Laura Ingraham comes in, to tie the record for the most ridiculous comment ever made on television.

 “It’s not diversity that makes our country great, it’s freedom.”

It’s not so much the statement that is ridiculous as it is the context.

We have never been less free than we are now and it’s solely due to the actions of the Republican party—her party--the one she defends as if it’s her religion, which I guess it kind of is. 

Laura Ingraham in 2016. Robert Deutsch/USA Today

I just have a few questions for her.

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How are we free when anti-maskers are ripping masks off the faces of people who wish to wear them?

How are we free when doctors and nurses are harassed and threatened for sharing medical information designed to protect us from disease—in other words, when they are punished for doing their job?

How are we free when ignorant Republicans refusing to wear masks or be vaccinated are putting the lives of unvaccinated children and those with pre-existing conditions at risk?

How are we free when our hospitals are so full of Covid patients who refuse to get vaccinated that people dying from heart attacks and car accidents can’t get medical attention?

(What about Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? How do we achieve that when we’re dead?)

How are we free when medical personnel are forced to work through second, third and fourth waves of this pandemic, working 12 or more hours a day to treat anti-vaxxers who wouldn’t need treatment if they weren’t so fucking self-centered?

How are we free when our election officials are being stalked and threatened for maintaining the integrity of our elections?

How are we free when Republicans in Congress block legislation most of the country wants?

How are we free when women are being denied their Constitutional right to make healthcare decisions about their own bodies?

How are we free when the former president and his followers are still trying to overturn a fair election and force their way to power against the wishes of the American people?

How are we free when voter suppression laws are spreading like wildfire throughout the states?

How are we free when her party’s former president and his cronies threaten violence against anyone who refuses to support him?

How are we free when the only way to avoid having a target on our backs is to comply with the ideas held by a small minority of maniacs like her?

Laura Ingraham claims she values freedom. How can that be when every message, tweet, action, and written word spewed by her party seems aimed at taking away our freedom?

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As Iñigo Montoya said in The Princess Bride “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

Somebody needs to get that woman a dictionary.