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Texas Rep. Captures Nation’s Divide Over Vaccines
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 7/9/2021 | Phillip Wegemann

Posted on 07/11/2021 9:22:49 AM PDT by rktman

“You know,” Rep. Chip Roy is telling RealClearPolitics after balking at the administration’s latest COVID vaccine push and after all but telling President Biden to pound sand, “my dad had polio.”

It is a surprising start to the interview given that, about an hour earlier, the congressman tweeted a black-and-white image of a syringe. Federal health officials continue to have a hard time getting all Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus, and Biden had promised to send people “door-to-door" to get doses to the vulnerable. For Roy, that is when the president went too far. Hence, the cartoon syringe, a play on the famous “Come and Take It” flag, this time with an updated caption—“Come Inject It.”

Merchandise branded with that slogan will be available soon on his campaign website, but as the second-term Republican explains while driving along Interstate 10 somewhere in south Texas, he knows the importance of inoculation. He saw what can happen without them. “I grew up and I watched him live a life ravaged by that disease,” Roy says of his father. “I'm very pro-vaccine.”

The congressman calls the vaccine that banished polio “a great blessing.” He is “delighted” that children no longer have to worry about that debilitating disease. “Likewise,” Roy adds, “I’m delighted there are millions of people who are able to avail themselves of a [coronavirus] vaccine that they believe, in their calculation, is good for them and their well-being. That is great.”

He’s ticked off all the same. “I’m just sick and God-darn tired of the left, and this government, dictating to me, frankly, anything at all,” he says. “Back the F off. That's my message to the White House.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: coercion; covidvaccines; intimidation; tyranny; vaccine
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Or, is the 'door to door' all part of the plan for someone to go off on the, as I call them, "jabber-walkies" and create a situation that will, gosh darn it, cause the white house and the current cabal to curtail more, as commie-la might say, 'fweedoms'? If a couple volunteers are harmed, well for the betterment of the country, they will have had to "pay the price". Right pedo joe?
1 posted on 07/11/2021 9:22:49 AM PDT by rktman
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People aren’t going to take even a slight risk to avoid something they’re not afraid of. Is this so hard to understand?


2 posted on 07/11/2021 9:26:41 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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Screw Covid and the non-vaccine!

I've got Ivermectin and HCQ.

3 posted on 07/11/2021 9:27:32 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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Screw Covid and the non-vaccine!

I've got Ivermectin and HCQ.

4 posted on 07/11/2021 9:27:32 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the Times. “You know, we’re going to tiptoe around mandates. It’s like, come on. I’m kind of over that. I want to make sure that people I deal with don’t have it so I don’t transmit it to my granddaughter.”

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

So why in the hell, Sebelius, for YOUR vaccine to work (& I’m sure you;re jabbed, right?) do I have to be vaxed?


5 posted on 07/11/2021 9:28:41 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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“I’m just sick and God-darn tired of the left, and this government, dictating to me, frankly, anything at all,” he says. “Back the F off. That's my message to the White House.”

He's exactly right.

6 posted on 07/11/2021 9:29:36 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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7 posted on 07/11/2021 9:30:36 AM PDT by Pollard
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Yeah, I saw that. Kids are, for the most part not getting it, and if she’s been jabbed, does she NOT trust the jab? Fookin’ idjits. They get stoopider and stoopider by the day.


8 posted on 07/11/2021 9:31:37 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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I guess we can all put this sign on our doors, or fly this flag, compliments of TX Rep Roy!

😂

9 posted on 07/11/2021 9:31:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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10 posted on 07/11/2021 9:32:44 AM PDT by caww ( )
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None of which promotions include any possible downsides of taking the “vaccine.” Compare this with the advertisement of a fully authorized pharmaceutical in which a big part of the ad is the list of possible negative side effects. Something really stinks here.


11 posted on 07/11/2021 9:41:00 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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Sounds like he’s got his head screwed on right.


12 posted on 07/11/2021 9:44:50 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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What “divide” over vaccines? When was the last time a mask wearing fight in a public place was reported? Any fights breaking out between the vaxxed and non-vaxxed? The only divide being created is by the government and media.


13 posted on 07/11/2021 9:45:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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THAT is the $64,000,000,000 question isn’t it?

Why, pray tell, do I have to be vaccinated to protect you when you have been vaccinated? What business of anyone or the giverment could my risk based decision possibly be?

These are simple questions really and they should deserve a good answer.

My guess is you should follow the money for the answer. I doubt it has anything at all to do with concern for our well being.


14 posted on 07/11/2021 9:46:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Just provesRepublicans are smarter than democrats,they aren’t going to stick something into their bodies that is experimental,even the inventor of the MNRA vaccine says all this is moving to fast you need years of study before knowing how theses will affect your body


15 posted on 07/11/2021 9:46:25 AM PDT by ballplayer
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This is long, but it will blow your mind:

“there is no variant, not novel, no pandemic”

https://www.brighteon.com/a569c7c9-9572-47ed-ba3c-130b0c13aa55


16 posted on 07/11/2021 9:49:10 AM PDT by Safrguns
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The plan for IS someone to go off on them.

Antifa and BLM have been pushing and pushing to get a reaction that the feds and their media can claim is an act of aggression, justifying the feds to use force against the people who fight back.

Don’t fall for it.


17 posted on 07/11/2021 9:49:39 AM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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LOL!


18 posted on 07/11/2021 9:54:48 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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If they come to my door and ask if I had the injection I will tell them that when Donald J Trump is reinstalled as the president and not the illegitimate despots that are in there now, I will consider taking it.

HA!


19 posted on 07/11/2021 10:07:23 AM PDT by crz
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To: Freee-dame; caww

None of which promotions include any possible downsides of taking the “vaccine.” Compare this with the advertisement of a fully authorized pharmaceutical in which a big part of the ad is the list of possible negative side effects. Something really stinks here.


Stinks to high something, indeed, doesn’t it? Just doesn’t make sense....ANY of it.

Great graphic, caww. Will share.


20 posted on 07/11/2021 10:08:38 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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