The Military’s COVID Vaccine Mandate Is Sending Tucker Carlson Into Overdrive

Fox Information host Tucker Carlson has been spouting conspiracy theories in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine—and COVID typically—for the reason that matter first graced the nightly information greater than a yr in the past. However now that Joe Biden has issued a compulsory vaccination order for federal staff, he’s kicking issues into excessive gear. This week, Carlson educated his eyes on the U.S. navy—which previously he has accused of promoting feminist ideology and significant race idea—suggesting that the mandate is a White Home energy seize. “The military is crucial for political management,” he stated, including that Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin has manufactured “a brand new political purity take a look at. One designed to separate the obedient from the free.” 

In that vein, he continued: “The purpose of obligatory vaccination is to establish the honest Christians within the ranks, the free thinkers, the lads with excessive testosterone ranges, and anybody else who doesn’t love Joe Biden and make them go away instantly.” He didn’t point out that the Division of Protection has had vaccine necessities in place for years, or that there is no such thing as a scientific proof to counsel that the vaccine reduces testosterone ranges.

He then proposed a pink herring, pointing to veteran suicide charges as extra worthy of consideration than COVID. “Solely 46 members of all the U.S. navy have died from the coronavirus during the last yr and a half. Suicides, against this, kill many, many instances extra,” he said. “So, navy suicide is an precise disaster that the Pentagon may wish to handle. Lloyd Austin may wish to look into that. However, no, that will get the Democratic Occasion nothing.” (As just lately as July, Austin addressed the veteran suicide epidemic throughout a press convention at Eielson Air Power Base. “I’m deeply involved in regards to the suicide charges, not solely right here however throughout the power,” he said. “One loss by suicide is simply too many. Whereas we’re working arduous on this downside, we now have much more to do.”)

Carlson went as far as to say that the U.S. Military’s behind-the-scenes speaking factors on the COVID-19 vaccine function “the so-called tenets of Satanism that are taken from the Temple of Satanism web site. So right here you’ve america Military doing P.R. for Satanists.” In an announcement responding to Fox Information, a U.S. Navy spokesperson stated, “Necessary vaccination for our service members is a lawful order that maximizes our operational effectiveness. To be worldwide deployable, Naval personnel should be medically certified which incorporates being updated on required vaccinations. Service members are entitled to hunt spiritual exemptions and people requests shall be thought-about consistent with present Navy coverage.”

Carlson’s line of considering has unfold to different corners of his community, the place on Wednesday evening, former GOP lawmaker and retired Navy SEAL Scott Taylor spoke in opposition to the mandate, describing the “devastating” affect it is going to have on the nation’s nationwide safety if “a whole bunch of Navy SEALS” resign due to it. “If it’s simply tens of parents [who] are leaving that’s an issue, if it’s a whole bunch––that is devastating to our power,” he informed Fox host Shannon Bream. “I’ve gotten a whole lot of textual content messages from my former colleagues, after all, who will get out, and also you’re speaking about senior leaders with huge quantities of data…. So this can be a probably harmful affect on our readiness if these numbers are true.”

Not less than one high-ranking member of the navy has confirmed out Taylor’s considerations. “I’m incapable of subjecting myself to the illegal, unethical, immoral and tyrannical order to sit down nonetheless and permit a serum to be injected into my flesh in opposition to my will and higher judgment,” wrote Lt. Col. Paul Douglas Hague, who resigned in response to the vaccine mandate. Naturally, Hague appeared on Fox Information to be praised for his anti-vax martyrdom; Sean Hannity referred to him as a person of precept and a hero who was “pushed right into a nook” by DOD insurance policies. Hague did notice that he has gotten “all the different Military vaccines,” earlier than including that his resignation is within the identify of “the liberty of the American folks” and their “proper to determine what’s gonna be injected into your physique and what’s not…. I swore an oath to guard and defend the Structure, which affords these rights to the Individuals.”

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