Republicans are furious Seame Street's Big Bird (and now Elmo) got vaccinated.

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https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1457118316032663560


(This isn't remotely new for Sesame Street . The only thing that's changed is Republicans have become an ignorance-worshiping death cult that should be destroyed.)

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Sesame Street is produced, in part, by our tax dollars, and aired through public television.  Parents are the arbiters of their children's best interest, and this includes medical decisions.  It is not the role of the government to fund money to produce propaganda in the name of "educational television" to cause children in elementary school to believe that they should be vaccinated, and (implicitly) that their parents are "wrong" in not having them vaccinated.  That is not the role of government.  I know that the Soviet government and Nazi Germany lionized children who snitched on their parents for thoughtcrime, but this is still America, and our tax monies should not be used to undermine the status of parents as the arbiters of their children's best medical interest.

This isn't an advocacy for parents being the final arbiters in things such as genital mutilation or not providing medical treatment for inoperable cancer, but the COVID-19 vaccine being administered to a 5-11 year old is not that kind of decision.  Nor is a 5-11 year old child capable of making that sort of decision.  These sort of things are propaganda aimed at children.  That's not OK on the taxpayer's dime.  The idea that vaccinating 5-11 year old children against COVID-19 is the best course of action for such children is far from settled science at this point.

Utter, unmitigated BS, and a direct assault on the children of our country. (I.e. exactly what I've come to expect from all so-called "Republicans".)

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/children.html

The "Republican Party" ought to be destroyed utterly.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Sesame Street is produced, in part, by our tax dollars, and aired through public television.  Parents are the arbiters of their children's best interest, and this includes medical decisions.  It is not the role of the government to fund money to produce propaganda in the name of "educational television" to cause children in elementary school to believe that they should be vaccinated, and (implicitly) that their parents are "wrong" in not having them vaccinated.  That is not the role of government.  I know that the Soviet government and Nazi Germany lionized children who snitched on their parents for thoughtcrime, but this is still America, and our tax monies should not be used to undermine the status of parents as the arbiters of their children's best medical interest.

This isn't an advocacy for parents being the final arbiters in things such as genital mutilation or not providing medical treatment for inoperable cancer, but the COVID-19 vaccine being administered to a 5-11 year old is not that kind of decision.  Nor is a 5-11 year old child capable of making that sort of decision.  These sort of things are propaganda aimed at children.  That's not OK on the taxpayer's dime.  The idea that vaccinating 5-11 year old children against COVID-19 is the best course of action for such children is far from settled science at this point.

Utter, unmitigated BS, and a direct assault on the children of our country. (I.e. exactly what I've come to expect from all so-called "Republicans".)

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/children.html

The "Republican Party" ought to be destroyed utterly.

The CDC is thoroughly politicized.

Ranting for paragraphs doesn't change reality. Your position on vaccinations for eligible children is nothing but dangerous BS. And Republican know that - you just don't care.

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I think the whole pro/anti-vax movement is beyond ridiculous. People should make their own decision and not force people to either get it or not. If you want to get vaccinated, that's fine. If not it's your choice, just like anything in life along with the rewards/consequences that come with them. I disagree with mandates/mandate bans as well as people getting fired for not getting vaccinated, especially considering our economy was already suffering economically/medically and the healthcare workers fired were heroes during the peak of the pandemic. However don't confuse that with spreading misinformation, that is something that should at least be investigated if not reprimanded but there should be a way to tell where the information is coming from. What Biden did in Florida when he refused to give DeSantis antibodies was politically charged and unacceptable.

Refusing vaccines (save for conditions where they're contraindicated) is like playing Russian Roulette. Except that you're not only pointing the gun at your own head, you're also taking turns pointing it randomly at other people, or other people's homes. If someone wandered around town taking random potshots at buildings (and occasionally spinning the chamber on their mostly-empty revolver before pointing it at themselves and pulling the trigger) we would consider them dangerous and insane. I don't see any reason to consider anti-vaxxers differently,  saving that finding them all mentally incompetent simply isn't practical due to problems of scale.

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The very idea that it causes a political controversy when an anthropomorphic animal character from a kid's show is pretending to get inoculated against a deadly disease in the midst of pandemic - something the national public health agencies in almost 200 countries have been advocated for for the past year - is utterly insane and completely preposterous. At this point, American politics are meant to be taken as satire. During his four years as president, Donald Trump had often bemoaned that "the world is laughing at us". Well, if the goal ist that the world isn't laughing at the United States then I must say that the Republican Party is actually doing a sh**tty job.

"Utterly insane and completely preposterous" is an objectively good description of the modern GOP. What's just as bad (if not worse) is how much the country has normalized them, and pretends a Senator arguing with Big Bird about vaccines is remotely acceptable.

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https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1462898838029619206

Truly, there is no bottom. I dare not speculate to what level of hell Republicans will charge next, because they will doubtless go lower than I am capable of imagining. Republicans are dangerous psychopaths, and the enablers of dangerous psychopaths.

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Ted Cruz still picking fights with muppets.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1541823544325246977

Still, I guess credit where credit is due - he's not punching down.

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Elmo fires back (courtesy of Stephen Colbert and the Late Show):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFBRqqOc0pk



(Today, thanks to muppets from Sesame Street, I learned that United States Senator Ted Cruz's Twitter account once liked a MILF porn video. Something, something, post-cyberpunk dystopia. /headdesk)