Willkommen in der Sesamstraße!
This is what happens when you give muppets Twitter accounts.
Can someone please explain to me why Elmo, the Sesame Street Muppet, has a Twitter account?
Sesame Street targets preschool and elementary school children. There are no little children on Twitter. Besides, there is no way Elmo's big muppet fingers could work the keypad of a smartphone. Oh, and one last thing: Elmo isn't real.
Okay. That last point isn’t as effective as it should be since it could probably be said of half the accounts on Twitter.
The other day, Elmo's Twitter account was hacked. Not that it would be hard. His password is probably "TICKLEME."
Elmo went full-on foul-mouthed Nazi.
Ach du liebe zeit!
The tweets were eventually deleted, but not before they spread like wildfire.
You should see some of the memes people created to commemorate the event. My word! They are delightfully fun.
Even I couldn't resist.
(Did AI give the Ayatollah a muppet hand?)
[You’ll forgive the use of AI-generated images. It’s a cheat, I know, but I had to cancel my subscription to Photoshop to save money on my monthly bills.]
I just checked the Twitter accounts of both Elmo and Sesame Street to see if anyone bothered to offer an apology or explanation for why Elmo transformed into Candace Owens. Nothing. They're just going to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it never happened. You know. Like the time Grover played "Hide and Seek" with a couple of Sesame Street kids, and he thought the way to hide was to put his hands over his eyes.
Are we sure Elmo was hacked? We don't know anything about the human being responsible for maintaining that stupid account. For all we know, Sesame Street hired a Columbia grad.
This is what happens when you give muppets Twitter accounts.
How long before Karine Jean Pierre starts dropping F-bombs and posting anti-Semitic bile?
[Okay, that one’s a Photoshop.]
Anyroad.
The shocking thing about Twitter isn't that the "blame the Jews" rhetoric is coming from accounts that were hacked -- or even accounts pretending to be children's television characters. It is far more shocking that this rhetoric is coming from people claiming to be "conservatives" and even "Christians." Dipshits like Benny Johnson, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Charlie Kirk toss around blood libel like Mardi Gras beads.
I have blocked more accounts since October 7, 2023, than I had in the first ten years I was on Twitter put together. The Jew hate on that site comes at you from all quarters like a hail of bullets. So I'm not surprised that Elmo joined in. He always struck me as gullible and easily manipulated.
I think Twitter should have temporarily suspended Elmo's account, if for no other reason than having the pleasure of seeing the message, "This account was suspended for hate speech" under Elmo's stupid face.
It's difficult not to become a cynic when the key to earning money on social media (or victory in the NYC mayoral race) is to out-Hitler Hitler.
Eight years ago, MAGA "influencers" were quick to distance themselves from the tiki torch-wielding dopes who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia. If that march were held tomorrow, many of those same "influencers" would be standing in the front row chanting, "Jews will not replace us." It's gross and pathetic.
Hatred is like drinking poison and waiting for the other guy to die. There's no coming back from it. And when the Jew Hate stops being lucrative, these dipshits will have nothing to show for their years in the spotlight.
Ah, well. They can always join the cast of Sesame Street.