So Sesame street in coordination with the centers for disease control and prevention
put out a clip this week where Elmo got the COVID vaccine and Elmo of course is, uh, only
three years old in the Sesame street world.
Even though he is been around since 1984, he's only three.
So he was getting the new COVID vaccine.
That of course was recently approved for children under the age of five.
And in the clip Elmo's dad, is there you, the Puppet's puppet father and the dad had
this to say, I had a lot of questions about Elmo getting the COVID vaccine.
Was it safe?
Was it the right decision?
I talked to our pediatrician so I could make the right choice.
I learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep himself our friends,
neighbors, and everyone else healthy and enjoying the things they love.
Simple enough, right?
Harmless enough.
Well, not a few Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz, who has apparently had a long standing feud with Sesame
street after he accused them last year of being government propaganda.
Because big bird who was over the age of five, got the COVID vaccine back then.
Well, Ted Cruz took to Twitter to pick a fight with Elmo and his father two puppets.
The Ted Cruz is a little mad at, so here's what Ted Cruz had to say on Twitter.
Thanks Sesame street for saying, parents are allowed to have questions.
You then have Elmo aggressively advocate for vaccinating children under five, but you cite
zero scientific evidence for this I'm I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's right.
We needed, we needed the science puppet.
We needed Elmo to really come out and start going over the charts and graphs and the data
about how the vaccine actually works about the efficacy of it, about the safety of it.
Maybe have Elmo go through the adverse event reports, uh, and talk about those two, right?
Ted Cruz, right?
Isn't that what you want a frigging puppet to do?
You know, growing up, my mother always told me, pick your battles.
Not everything needs to be a fight.
Focus on what's important.
Don't let the little things bother you.
And I think Ted Cruz, I think in his upbringing, he, he should have been taught that lesson.
Maybe he was, maybe it didn't sink in, or maybe he's just the result of bad parents.
I honestly don't know, but here's the thing, Ted, you just cannot get enough of things
to be outraged by like that is apparently what you just live for to just get off at
every single thing.
Ted Cruz is vaccinated.
Ted Cruz's family is vaccinated.
This guy clearly has no problem whatsoever with the vaccines, but he is out there pretending
that he does because he knows that it plays well with the idiotic anti-vax movement here
in the United States.
That for some reason, continues to grow.
Like we're just getting more and more stupid people in this country with each
Passing day, just dumber and dumber.
And Ted Cruz understands that, Hey, I need dumb people to, to vote for me.
That's how I stay in power.
Getting the stupidest of the stupid to support what I have to say.
So I'm gonna pick a fight with a couple of puppets, cuz I'm a big, tough man, right?
Taking on a little red puppet named Elmo.
I hope that makes you feel like a big man, Ted Cruz.
I really truly hope you feel good about yourself going to bed every night saying, oh man, honey,
I really stuck into that puppet.
You should have seen it.
you're an idiot.
You're a coward.
You're weak.
You're a liar.
You're everything in the book that I could possibly call you.
Sesame street, of course has never been shy, uh, about getting into politics.
Um, they have had Jesse Jackson on the program in the seventies, they had Barbara Bush on,
she was the first first lady to ever come on, followed by every subsequent first lady
with the exception of course of Melania.
Um, they have had, uh, uh, uh, who was secretary general of the United nations.
They've tackled health issues.
They've talked about, you know, pandemics and endemics and homelessness and, and autism
and all kinds of things to help kids understand it.
And that apparently off Republicans who don't want kids to understand anything other than
America's great.
And Democrats are evil.
That's what Republicans want to teach our kids.
And they're doing it by attacking a puppet for getting a
pretend shot.