Lockdown Lover Ruben Gallego Told A Marine To 'Shut The Fuck Up' And Get the Vaccine

[Domingo the Avenger]

From business lockdowns to mask and vaccine mandates, Democrats had
no problem pushing controversial coronavirus policies. But few were
as gung-ho about restrictive measures as Rep. Ruben Gallego.

The Arizona Democrat, who is running to unseat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
(I., Ariz.), in 2022 told a Marine officer who opposed the vaccine
to "shut the fuck up" and get the jab.

"It’s called being a Marine suck it up and deal with it," Gallego, a
former Marine infantryman, said on Twitter.

But Gallego did more than just talk tough on social media. He
introduced a bill in October 2021 to permit insurance companies to
hike insurance premiums up to 50 percent for policyholders who
"elected not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine." And early in the
pandemic, Gallego pushed fines for businesses that opposed mask
mandates. "That gets you to about 90% of the problem and will turn
the infection rate around," Gallego said in June 2020.

Gallego’s support for those increasingly unpopular positions could
hurt him in Arizona. Though support for mandates was initially high,
by October 2022, 63 percent of Americans opposed them for the
workplace, according to a Monmouth poll. And even some Democrats
have expressed disenchantment with the party over policies to slow
the pandemic.

A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which
is spending heavily against Gallego, said his remarks were
"appalling, but unsurprising."

"Ruben Gallego cussed out a service member and threatened to hike
premiums if they don’t comply with his COVID extremism," said NRSC
spokesman Tate Mitchell. "Gallego has been beholden to the radical
fringes for years, and it’s never going to change."

Gallego’s foul-mouthed advice for a fellow Marine came in response
to a tweet from Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio), who relayed a
conversation he had with the father of a Marine officer who
reluctantly got the vaccine.

"Sounds like the officer should shut the fuck up," Gallego wrote in
the Jan. 1, 2022, post. "Now you know how it is to be enlisted we
had to lots of shit that we didn’t like. It’s called being a Marine
suck it up and deal with it."

The military vaccine mandate has proved wildly controversial. More
than 8,400 service members were kicked out of the military for
refusing the vaccine, at a time of historically low recruitment
numbers. Some military officials have said vaccine mandates hurt
recruitment efforts, a theory the Pentagon has denied.

Gallego introduced his bill to hike insurance premiums, the Vaccine
Accountability and Premium Protection Act, when inflation was at 6.2
percent, a historically high rate. The bill, which permitted the
higher insurance premiums for the "duration" of the government’s
public health emergency, was submitted to a House subcommittee but
never received a vote.

Gallego has not always abided by the strict mandates he publicly
supports. In 2021, he was photographed without a mask—and without a
shirt—during an all-expenses paid junket to Qatar, the oil-rich Gulf
nation that funds Hamas and other terrorist groups.

Gallego’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Gallego was a Marine in name only. He is a leftist cunt.

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