Originally published at: Ted Cruz is mad that Big Bird got vaccinated | Boing Boing
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Evergreen statement!
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Ted Cruz got vaccinated too, but Big Bird was like “Meh.”
Kids: Be more like Big Bird, not like Cancun Turkey.
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Sesame Street needs to add some MAGA, QAnon and anti-vaxxer puppets…and they should be as batshit crazy as their real-life human equivalents. The rest of the cast should treat them with the utter disdain that they deserve.
Probably not actually a good idea for children’s mental health, but I am dying to see what a Ted Cruz muppet looks and acts like.
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And they claim that the libs are easily triggered.
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Fucking ghouls rooting for this preventable illness to rob children of their health, their intellectual abilities and their future. There is not a deep enough hell for them.
(Apologiesto those affected by the flashing)
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The Surgeon General in that Elmo clip could have answered that last question pretty simply. “Some people have immune systems that don’t work as well and others are allergic to ingredients in the vaccine. It may not be safe for them to get vaccinated, but if you get your vaccine your body will be better prepared to fight off the germs and not spread the germs to them.”
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He pretty much acts like a muppet all the time anyway…
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Alt-right has so much projection, they could poke someone’s eye out with it.
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I’ll give him points for consistency. Going after Sesame Street and Big Bird is right on-brand for this singularly repulsive and unlikeable slimeball.
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This statement, like most of the right-wing political opportunism around the pandemic has strong ulterior motives. Republicans hate public television and any secular morality (of which public health is absolutely a part)
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I hear Murphy Brown got vaccinated too!
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And the thing is, intellectually Cruz knows better. Whatever the opposite of “virtue signaling”* is, that’s what Cruz constantly does - he publicly takes deliberately morally indefensible, knowingly awful positions to try to win over Republican voters.
*Asshole signaling?
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Bad idea.
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Even in its slightly corporatized form, Sesame Street is a spit in the eye to those kind of hateful types. Inclusive, urban, and plugged into popular culture
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The inherently endearing nature of Muppets undermines such intentions. You will end up with the next “Oscar the Grouch”
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Muppet libelz
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I’ve been told repeatedly that dog whistles don’t exist, so this must be the brown note that calls them all to action instead.
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