 So, if you've tuned in to right wing media lately, which I hope you haven't been, you'll notice that it is nonstop coverage of Sesame Street and Big Bird. And I wish I were kidding, but this is truly the dumbest timeline that we're living in, but this is American politics in 2021. So Eric Boling of Newsmax in particular has been very, very obsessed with Big Bird. So for example, he covered the very important story that Sesame Street is introducing an Asian character because, I mean, I guess that's a bad question mark. I mean, do you not want there to be Asian characters? I don't know what the concern is here. Also, there's Cromit the Frog possibly weighing in on this from the Newsmax desk, I'm assuming, possibly sharing how he feels about an Asian character being on Sesame Street. Boling also claimed that socialists are hiding behind puppets, very interesting. And Miss Piggy and Cromit the Frog made it onto, made it onto Boling's biggest loser list along with Joy-Ann Reed from Amazon. Why? That's not even the worst one. So he also challenged Miss Piggy to a debate and if you see in the background the CNN headline reads, Muppets fire back at Fox News. This is the dumbest fucking country on the planet. Now Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire, who I'm told looks like me, which I absolutely disagree with, fuck the person who said this, he's going to be a little bit late to the party, but he's still going to share the collective outrage that his colleagues are sharing when it comes to Big Bird telling kids that they should get vaccinated. All right, so today we cancel Sesame Street. We could have canceled Sesame Street a week ago when Big Bird tweeted, Big Bird has a Twitter account now, by the way, he tweeted that he'd just gotten the vaccine despite having natural immunity from respiratory viruses due to the fact that puppets don't have respiratory systems. But I suppose if we're giving the vaccine to kids who are almost completely immune to severe COVID illness, then we might as well give it to fictional birds also. To make matters creepier, Big Bird then appeared on a CNN town hall to further push pharmaceuticals on to kids. Big Bird seems to have really settled into his new role as drug dealer. Okay, this raises a number of questions. Questions like, what the hell happened to Big Bird's voice? Why does he sound like a child molester now? He sounds distinctly creepy all of a sudden. And also, what kind of six-year-old is watching a CNN special about vaccinations in the first place? Who is the audience for this? Yeah, so if I took the time to spotlight every single example of Big Bird or Sesame Street induced rage from a conservative, this segment would be about four, possibly five, maybe even six hours long. That's how much they've been fixated on this absolutely nonsensical issue. And again, we shouldn't be surprised that they are worried about what a cartoon character says because in this year alone, they have focused on the cancellation of Cat in the Hat and Mr. Potato Head. And now I guess they're on the cancel culture bandwagon because they want to cancel Big Bird. In fact, Matt Walsh explicitly said we should cancel Big Bird. So cancel culture good, I guess, if it comes to cartoon characters we don't like. They also freaked out about Blue's Clues celebrating gay pride. I mean, every single cartoon character has been drugged through the mud by conservative media and I've just got to say, one isn't going to be enough. Who's next? Are we going to fucking target Dora the Explorer? Are we going to target, what other cartoon controls are there, Peppa the Pig? Is that, I think my nephew likes Peppa Pig. Is it just Peppa Pig or Peppa the Pig? Are they going to target Peppa Pig? Are they going to target fucking, I'm out of touch, I don't know. The Ninja Turtle? That's not on. Look, you have to understand that this is deeply stupid, but the problem is that most people who tune into that, they're not reasonable like you or I. They see that and they think, wow, this is really compelling. This is definitely real news and this is an issue. They are, they meaning Democrats and elites are using Big Bird to, you know, brainwash. We're not brainwashing. We're not doing that with PragerU for kids. We're not doing that by changing the curriculum in Texas and other red states. We're not doing that. They're doing that. And what they're doing is bad because we don't want kids to get a life saving vaccine. It's just, it's all stupid and manipulative and it's a distraction, right? None of this matters, but the reason why conservatives have to fix it so heavily on the culture war nonsense that they keep emphasizing is because they don't actually have a real concise agenda. Their agenda in essence, like when they, if they were forced to tell you would be tax cuts for the rich and more deregulation, that's essentially it. But that's not popular. You can't win people over by saying, I want to, you know, lower taxes for wealthy people. That isn't going to win over even conservatives. So you have to lie to them. And if you do talk about taxes to the extent that that occurs, you lie to them and making some of their taxes are going to go up if you vote for Democrats. And it's just it's all manipulation. But in actuality, they don't have an economic agenda. They have a social agenda and it's ass backwards. And most reasonable people aren't offended by LGBTQ plus issues anymore. They're not offended by the things that they're offended by. They're losing the culture where they've always been on the losing side of the culture war. So their attempt to win in that regard and, you know, become culturally hegemonic again is, I guess, to just talk about a nonstop and pump lots and lots of money from right wing billionaires into these programs. I see through it. I know that you see through it. And I just hope that more people see through it because, honestly, no cap. This is making Americans extremely stupid. Any boomer who, you know, or anyone for that matter, who listens to Newsmax and has a consistent diet exclusively of right wing media, they sound like cavemen. Like they don't even sound like normal human beings. These are drones. These are NPCs. These are people who are lost and they're lost for, you know, a reason that I think is understandable, right? They feel like everything's gone to shit. The economy sucks for them anyways. And, you know, they're looking for answers. So they tune into Newsmax and maybe Big Bird gives them some relief. But it's not actually informing anyone. This is quite literally making people dumber. In fact, a study from, I think, 2013 to 2014 found that people who watch Fox News are actually less informed than people who consume no news at all. So imagine now if we conducted that study today and we factored in Newsmax and One America News Network and Facebook and, you know, these right wing YouTube channels, it would probably be even more disastrous of a result. But that's the reality. And in whatever minimal way that we can push back, even if it's just making fun of them as I'm doing, I think that there's some value in that because this is stupid. And if people don't see that this is stupid, this Big Bird fearmongering, then we are in really bad fucking shape as a country.