" Against vaccinum but all nerveless with Botox ? Make it make sense ! "
In this week’s very important news, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend, Brian Glenn, got Botox on his conservative cable TV show,Sunday in America.The clipcirculatedon social media and quickly sparked backlash.
“For people who’ve done this before are probably going, ‘Dude, it’s not that bad,'” he said in the clip while a nurse requested him to “make a mean face” before inserting a needle into his face.
Well, it’s not the squirmy Botox face that caught people’s attention, but the irony. The “women at home” Glenn spoke of instead called out the hypocrisy of injecting botulinum toxin into his body while previouslydeclaringthat the COVID-19 vaccine “doesn’t work.”
In a now-viral tweet, one personwrote, “Would you look at that! An anti-vaxxer getting an injection of actual neurotoxins. You cannot make this shit up.”
“Against vaccines but totally cool with Botox? Make it make sense!” someone else said.
“Won’t get a vaccine - but will inject his face with literal toxins… lmao,” another wrote.
For context, Botox injections work by delivering botulinum toxin that potently inhibits neurotransmitter release, thus preventing the targeted muscle from moving for a period of time. They’re considered safe and commonly used to target wrinkles, but they can also be used to treat neck spasms, sweating, overactive bladder, lazy eye, and migraines.
Some observers pointed out another layer of irony — Glenn’s Botox injections are, in fact, an example of gender-affirming care.
“People will complain about trans men changing their bodies or ‘butchering them’ and then will get cosmetic surgeries for the fun of it,” someone wrote, calling out the double standard.
Just like her Botox beau, MTG has also quite famously opposed the COVID-19 vaccine. In 2021, her X accountwas suspendedfor violating the app’s COVID-19 misinformation policy after erroneouslytweeting, “vaccines are failing & do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks.”
However, data shows that the COVID-19 vaccinereducesthe spread of the virus, lowers the viral load in infected individuals, and decreases the severity and transmission of the illness. It doesnotalter DNA, contain microchips, nor can it make you magnetic.
And contrary to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.claimingthat the vaccine poses a “profound risk” for children, scientific evidence consistentlyshowsthat serious adverse reactions are rare — myocarditis is extremely uncommon, and there’s no evidence of an increased risk of strokes or neurological problems in vaccinated children. The benefits of vaccination far outweigh the known risks of COVID-19 itself,accordingto the CDC.
So, while Brian Glenn may trust science enough to freeze his forehead, many are curious why that trust doesn’t extend to lifesaving vaccines.
Enjoy your Botox, Brian.
