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Republican Senator attacks Big Bird His attacks are fowl, and have ruffled the feathers Of generations of Sesame Street listeners. Supporters of Big Bird have flocked together to Clip the beak of this DODO who’s gone Cuckoo.
Ted Cruz’s War on Big Bird
Ted Cruz aka Raphael Cruz the hated Republicon Senator from Texas is now in a war with Big Bird! Yes…. you read it right…. our beloved Sesame Street Star; Big Bird… is now the target of hate and misinformation and jabs coming from the Texas big mouth.
Cruz attacked the Sesame Street institution as, “Government propaganda… for your five year old!” after Big Bird announced that he had gotten his COVID vaccine shot, the big yellow fellow talked about his experience getting the shot, and assuring his fellow Sesame Street friends and his friends from TV land that his wing was a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.
The decision to inoculate the eight-foot anthropomorphic canary is unlikely to be controversial with the vast majority of the population, considering that 67% of Americans of all ages, and 78% of those 12 and up, have received at least their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccines. Besides that, health experts agree that the vaccines are safe for children (Big Bird is canonically a six-year-old) and inoculating young people is an important step in curtailing the spread of the virus and preventing rare but severe health complications.
Sesame Street had a letter learning day for Senator Cruz. The letters for Senator Cruz was “W”, “T”,“F.”
I am asking, what is the matter with you! How ignorant and stupid can you get Senator? It’s 2021 and a U.S. Senator is spending his time attacking Big Bird. What’s next? Asking the Count von Count to do a recount? Or take away Cookie Monsters cookies because its considered welfare?
Big Birds tweet about getting his shot “it will give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy” is in line with the scientific evidence. Big Bird said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird. I had no idea!” This was to emphasis that if you’ve made it to the ripe old age of five years old, you’ve probably already had a series of different vaccinations against diseases such as the measles, mumps, pertussis, and tetanus. In fact, as former NBA player Rex Chapman pointed out in the following tweet, Big Bird has encouraged vaccination before, such as back in 1972. Chapman added Anti-vaxxers are mad at Big Bird today — when he’s been doing this stuff for some five decades. Don’t wait - vaccinate.”
Did any US Senator go off on Big Bird back then for getting vaccines? The answer is nope! Frankly vaccines has been promoted in our country. George Washington, you know, our famous general of the Revolutionary War, one of our founding fathers and future President of the United States not only promoted small pox vaccines he demanded that all his troops were inoculated for the disease. Even the cold, starving troops at valley Forge got the small pox vaccine. What’s the saying about birds of a feather? One of the tweets off twitter suggested that children are “not at risk from Covid,” followed by the word “twisted.” Yes, saying that children are not a risk from Covid would be twisted. Children can get infected from the virus, and they can suffer bad effects. The risks may not be as high as adults but the risk is there. Plus, vaccinating children is not just for the children. It’s for the entire population. The claim that vaccination is just a “personal choice” is a delusion.
One Tweet responded to science by saying This kind of propaganda is actually evil. Your children are not statistically at risk, and should not be pressured into a brand new treatment. I would say to this Tweet, The major reason to vaccinate kids is to prevent the additional spread of the virus. While younger kids do have a lower risk of worse Covid-19 outcomes, they are still at risk. And kids are more likely to spread the virus because they meet at schools and can stick their hands, noses, all over the place because that’s what kids do.
What has this society come to when people are attacking an educational icon, a big yellow puppet that has loved children since 1969., for a simple tweet about the benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine? This is an icon that over the past decades has supported health initiatives from both Democrats and Republicans. And many Senators have actually appeared on Sesame Street over the years.
One of the saddest things about this Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has been the politicization of the response, which should have been science-based and not politically-based. The politicization of the pandemic has cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of lives and lots of suffering on top of that.
Come on Cruz, why don’t you spend your time, doing constructive things like… hmmm… succeeding Texas from the US, now that’s another good idea you have had. BUT it’s not about Big Bird really, it’s about the Republicons wanting to do away with Public broadcasting. Bird or his Muppet friends over at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have been caught in Republican crosshairs. Republicans have sought to cut funding for public broadcasting almost since its creation.
President Lyndon Johnson, who was from Texas, signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which set up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The federal government provides about $450 million to the corporation each year, which is then distributed to local stations, and to informational and educational program creators. Sesame Workshop, which produces the children’s show Sesame Street with Jim Henson’s Muppet characters, receives some funding from these government grants.
Conservative lawmakers have argued in the past that public broadcasting programming should be funded by private enterprises, not tax dollars used for what some accuse of being “left-wing media” such as National Public Radio. In 2012, Sen. Mitt Romney, then running as the Republican nominee for president, promised during an election debate that he would cut PBS funding if he won, even though he said he “liked Big Bird.”
Former President Donald Trump proposed in his first year of office to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities and to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The highlights of what Ted Cruz has done over the last year: Tried to overturn a free and fair election, fled to Mexico in a time of great disaster for Texas, and hurt constituents and promoted anti-vaccine rhetoric with endangers Texans but up until recently, it really endangered Texas children who didn't have the choice to get vaccinated,” and has threatened to have Texas to succeed from the Union, while taking NASA, the Military and all the oil… Cruz is a smartass fool.
The bad press Cruz got from attacking Big Bird shows just how fowl he is, and the new word of the day brought to you Mr. Cruz by me for attacking Big Bird is F U.
Tammy
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