“I’m the mom who told Beto HELL NO you’re not taking our guns!”
How Lauren Boebert became the laughing stock of the internet
Colorado is known for its gorgeous wildlife and scenic landscapes, yet today is being indirectly recognized for why “Tylenol” is trending on Twitter.
Lauren Boebert’s Twitter bio is “I’m the mom who told Beto HELL NO you’re not taking our guns!”. Today at 9:54 AM, she tweeted out:
“I woke up with a headache this morning. I took some Tylenol. Now if everyone else could take some Tylenol too so mine would start working. that would be great.
Tell me you don’t understand how vaccines work without telling me you don’t understand how vaccines work.
It’s quite unbelievable to many that a United States representative would compare headaches to a global pandemic that has killed over 4.7 million people. Not only are headaches not contagious, but Boebert’s main argument on why she is against the vaccinations is due to a “religious immunity” based on the vaccines being created from fetal cell lines– laboratory grown cells that descend from fetal cells taken from elective abortions in the 70s and 80s; fetal cell lines and fetal tissue are not the same. Yet what was also created from fetal cell lines? Tylenol.
Since the tweet was sent out, Boebert has been under fire on the platform, even causing the word “Tylenol” to trend across the app. Many also think she tweeted it knowing exactly how it sounded, just for a hot take of hers to finally trend and go viral.
Another underlying irony in the pro-gun representative’s statement was also recognized more than once. Bringing up Tylenol with her avid no-gun control politics becomes more problematic when one recalls that the packaging this drug primarily came in was not tamper proof and caused 7 people to die in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982 from capsules laced with potassium cyanide. Within just a couple of months, the entire medicine packaging industry underwent major changes and regulations in order to prevent more deaths. This took but 7 deaths, whereas 316 people on average in America are shot every day in murders, assaults, unintentional shootings, suicides and attempts, and police intervention, and 106 people die everyday from gun violence.
Following the insensitive and baseless statement, Boebert simply tweets:
“The Milgram Experiment.
That’s all.”
I guess that is all one can expect from someone with such an immense and important platform being so clueless.
-From Not A Critic
