- The chairman of the powerful panel — the main investigative committee in the House — sent a letter to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demanding to know why, in an attempt to raise awareness of the Zika virus, “CDC appears poised to make a sole source award to the Jim Henson Company for $806,000 to feature Sid the Science Kid in an educational program about the virus.”
See it for what it is, Chaffetz is desperately looking for a distraction. Doing his job could cost him his job and he's taking a stab at the standard Republican villains in hope of generating some old timey conservative outrage to shift the news cycle. I'm sure he's sweating fucking bullets right now. Not many republicans are putting their bets on the post Trump world, expect Chaffetz to jump on board as soon as he thinks it's a sure thing and not a moment before.
In today's Tinder Snapchat Twitter world, people would probably be calling Mr. Rogers "a cuck" or "an SJW" if he gave that speech to Congress today.
What an interesting way to describe the problem! I think you've found the key - when you pull on reality as hard as the Trump administration is, there will be a snap. And the people that are on your side of the divide, the chasm between you and the opposition only grows wider and wider. You become a Galapagos of partisan selectivity where you cling to every little factoid that besmirches vaccines, every example that global warming is a hoax, every indication that the Bowling Green Massacre happened proves the American carnage. On the other side? Who cares. They're the traitors, the takers, the filthy liberal fascists and their safe spaces. But you're beyond the event horizon. Your numbers are your numbers and as the difference between what is and what you say grows bigger, the harder it becomes to bring new members across the barrier. I'm pretty sure we passed the event horizon of hypocrisy a while ago and are now in a space outside of the laws of reality.
I'ma watch it again. I haven't seen it since it came out in theaters, when I was five, and these cute little robots are the only thing preventing the protagonists from literally ending up in hell.
The video is worth audio and full screening, beginning at 1 minute in, if anyone hasn't seen it. Great little monologue.
Today, this thread taught me about the existence of Sid The Science Kid. Man what an important issue menace this Sid thing is. What's next? An investigation into Arthur memes?