WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Lauren Boebert compared federal COVID-19 vaccination efforts to Nazism, tweeting that Joe Biden “has deployed his Needle Nazis” to her Colorado district.
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Boebert, a first-term Republican, posted the tweet above a video of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki discussing the administration’s efforts to raise vaccination rates through targeted outreach around the country. Psaki mentioned Mesa County, which is in Boebert’s district.
Biden has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County.
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? pic.twitter.com/gKXzogwM2C
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 8, 2021
In addition to Nazism, Boebert also compared the outreach to communism in China.
“Biden has deployed his Needle Nazis to Mesa County,” she wrote on Thursday. “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?”
Boebert’s tweet comes two days after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, another first-term Republican, tweeted that canvassers doing vaccine outreach are “medical brown shirts,” a reference to a Nazi Party militia.
Boebert has also previously used the term “brown shirts” to refer to the enforcement of public health measures by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who is Jewish.
“Here in Garfield County where my restaurant is, restaurants are closing once again because Governor Polis has sent his Brown Shirts in to make sure everyone shuts down,” she told a local radio station in January.
Both Boebert and Greene have praised QAnon, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory with antisemitic roots, before they both distanced themselves from it. Greene has repeatedly compared policies she opposes to Nazi actions, which she apologized for after touring the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last month. Her “brown shirts” comment came three weeks after that visit.
Trump, Majorie and Lauren the future of the GOPQ!
Crazy GOP minimalization of the legacy of nazism. This is a crime that throws dirt on the victims of Churban…
My biggest problem with them, “they make the squad seem normal”
Seems like Holocaust references are like the “N-word”. Blacks are free to use it, but oy vey if anyone else uses it.
Amongst us Jews we use terms like Grammar Nazi, Chometz Nazi, etc. and we’re okay with that (at least in my circles). But oy vey if a goy uses it!
Jittery Jews going nuts again. But if the SQUAT and prog demo-rats blab Jew hatred, it’s ok.