You might not know that Kevin Sorbo — TV’s Hercules in the back half of the ‘90s; star of Kull the Conqueror — found a second life as a star of the far right. He played a mean atheist professor in the first God’s Not Dead. He played a mean atheist in a faith-based movie he directed himself. Sorbo has range! You might not have seen those, but you may have seen him getting dragged online for opinions ranging from the efficacy of masks to him mocking Hunter Biden’s drug addiction.
Now Sorbo is back making dunkable tweets. On Monday, he tried to make an obscure point about vaccines and, of course, only succeeded in accidentally singing the praises of free universal healthcare.
If the shots were given away for free because they’re life-saving, why isn’t insulin free? Chemotherapy? Epipens?
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) February 7, 2022
“If the shots were given away for free because they’re life-saving, why isn’t insulin free? Chemotherapy? Epipens?” Sorbo tweeted.
It’s a fair question, Kull: Why are people who are born with or catch deadly diseases forced to pay through the nose just to stay alive? Assuming he was genuinely concerned for people with diabetes or cancer — a big if — it sure would make sense to extend the same care the government is bequeathing so that people don’t die from a highly transmissible disease. (Then again, diseases like diabetes and cancer aren’t contagious like COVID, which fellow winger Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t seem to understand either. But the larger point he almost certainly didn’t mean to make remains.)
In any case, a lot of people who don’t normally agree with Kevin Sorbo — perhaps even his sometime co-star Lucy Lawless, who dragged him over a year ago about a separate matter on which he was emphatically wrong — found themselves agreeing with him on the subject of socialized medicine.
based bernie bro kevin sorbo is absolutely right: https://t.co/8R0DZS8oO8
— ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) February 7, 2022
People replying My buddy walking
to Kevin Sorbo’s in on me as I’m
tweets about to bust
“Dude you’re so close” https://t.co/4AiPR6WdWj— ben “darth normal” flores (@limitlessjest) February 7, 2022
THAT TIME KEVIN SORBO TRIED AN OWN BUT ENDED UP MAKING SENSE https://t.co/OdtkALazUc
— Mr. Warren Hayes (@MrWarrenHayes) February 7, 2022
I did not have Kevin Sorbo coming out in favor of universal healthcare on my bingo card but way to go buddy.
— Elizabeth.Ann.tifa (@iamelizabethadd) February 7, 2022
Kevin Sorbo over here making a pretty good argument for socialized healthcare in America. https://t.co/K3mopwGIl0
— Occam’s Rusty Spoon (@OccamRustySpoon) February 7, 2022
I apologize. I had no idea that Kevin Sorbo is a raging progressive! pic.twitter.com/qqzfBrM6rT
— Rick Havoc (@RikHavic) February 7, 2022
Welcome to universal healthcare, Kevin Sorbo.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) February 7, 2022
These are good questions to ask, Kevin Sorbo. https://t.co/gvtGQPXen2
— Jo Kaur (@SikhFeminist) February 7, 2022
I agree with Kevin Sorbo: healthcare should be free https://t.co/SyvxIL7IEt
— Hell Or Bywater (@HellOrBywater) February 7, 2022
Kevin Sorbo accidentally endorses Universal Healthcare.
What a socialist.
For once we agree on something. Might be the only thing but hey it’s a start. https://t.co/zodkAGnxpp
— Russell Foster for Texas (@RussellFosterTX) February 7, 2022
Without knowing it, thick-headed dumbass Kevin Sorbo has come out in favor of Universal Healthcare. https://t.co/fYWwqpf8BK
— Casey Adkins KD0LBZ KRDK (@ForeverRanger91) February 7, 2022
Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo comes out in favor of universal healthcare
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) February 7, 2022
Kevin Sorbo, #socialist for #socialism. Next, he’s going to want public school, public roads, 40-hour workweeks and investment in power grids, etc. pic.twitter.com/tJkCENXLko
— Andy Fox for Success! (@factandrumor) February 7, 2022
Some thought he was simply on the verge of a major epiphany.
Kevin Sorbo is so close to getting it… pic.twitter.com/wUl3f0TPtw
— Gabe Sanchez (@iamgabesanchez) February 7, 2022
In any case, welcome to the resistance, the villain from God’s Not Dead 1.