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(4,175 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 08:58 PM Feb 2021

Donald 'Traitor Tot' Trump Jr. Loses It And Claims The Left Banned The Muppets

Donald Trump Jr. blamed the Republican Party for all of his father’s defeats and then topped it off by claiming that the “radical left” banned the Muppets and got the Mr. taken off of Mr. Potato Head.

The Muppets are not banned.

The son of Trump has been increasingly more deranged, as he attacked teachers in an online video while posing with guns, and claimed that the Texas winter storm disaster was the fault of Democratic governors.

Mental illness can be hereditary.

There is something clearly wrong with Donald Trump that goes beyond being mad that his daddy is a one-term presidential loser. CPAC has always been the gathering place for conservative extremists, but it has now added a heavy dose of mob mentality and Trump cultism to its mix.

CPAC has been a very special trip to Trump crazy town so far.

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/02/26/donald-trump-jr-muppets.html




Cocaine is a helluva drug..

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soldierant

(6,857 posts)
10. If you think Jim Henson would ever have created him
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:52 PM
Feb 2021

and not immediattely destroyed him -I can't agree. Jim was better than that. statler and Hilton were as far as he would go.
But I agree about the forehead - or lack thereof.

patphil

(6,173 posts)
5. The muppets are still around; just went through a mid-life change at 40 years of age.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:30 PM
Feb 2021

And Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head are still alive and well.

Don Jr. may be alive, but I'm not sure he is all that well.

George II

(67,782 posts)
7. He's upset because, if they did ban the Muppets (they didn't) to him it was a loss of several....
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 11:43 PM
Feb 2021

....sexual partners, so he's stuck with Gargoyle. Speaking of Gargoyle, here was her triumphant strut onto the CPAC stage tonight (I'm so embarrassed for her):


thesquanderer

(11,986 posts)
11. There are a small number of Muppets episodes...
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:00 AM
Feb 2021

...that are not being rebroadcast, or are being shown with a warning/disclaimer.

See https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/feb/22/the-muppet-show-episodes-given-a-content-warning-on-disney which is the main issue in the news. I read that one episode has been pulled because the guest host ended up being accused of being a child abuser, or something like that. The only other things I've read that have been cut are things involving lack of rights for rebroadcasting the original musical performance.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
12. Ya really gotta buy a program if ya wanna keep up widda latest wingnut outrage
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:07 AM
Feb 2021
Tucker Carlson launched an unprecedented attack on .. Elmo on Tuesday night, after Elmo and his father, Louie, discussed racism in a one-off town hall episode on .. CNN. Carlson, who has described white supremacy in America as a “hoax”, was upset by the children’s show, which addressed the anti-racism protests that are taking place across the US ...
Adam Gabbatt
Wed 10 Jun 2020 12.03 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/10/fox-news-sesame-street-elmo-tucker-carlson

... On one side are the makers of Sesame Street, who want to introduce an HIV-positive Muppet to the show, partly to connect with audiences in AIDS-ravaged southern Africa. And now, on the other side, a group of right-wing politicians, speaking in the name of "family values", has warned the show's producers in no uncertain terms that they had better think twice before bringing the character to the US.

"We look forward to working with you to ensure that only age and culturally appropriate programs air on PBS [the Public Broadcasting System, which has put out Sesame Street since 1969]", the politicians wrote in a clearly threatening letter over the weekend.

The five signatories are all Republican members of the House Commerce Committee, which has budgetary oversight over PBS's parent company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ...

By Andrew Gumbel
Tuesday 31 December 2013

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/right-wing-threat-over-hiv-positive-muppet-184427.html

... Fox Business commentator Eric Bolling ... calls the Muppets agents of liberal brainwashing ...

This is the culture wars! The Fox News commentators proclaimed. This is brainwashing! These Muppets are communists! They must give us back the kids, and quickly, before the kids start crying and saying they don’t want to be oil executives any more, like they did after we saw “There Will Be Blood” ...

By Alexandra Petri
December 5, 2011

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/liberal-communist-muppet-brainwashing-needs-to-stop/2011/12/05/gIQAUrRLXO_blog.html
 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
13. I thought the only muppet approved by the right is The Count (who's probably a banker in real life)
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:51 AM
Feb 2021

TheBlackAdder

(28,190 posts)
16. That's because the entire Conservative Party are nothing but Muppets.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:39 PM
Feb 2021

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8. Muppet

When a British Goldman Sacs employee resigned last year in an open letter and said that some colleagues in London had called their clients “muppets”, Americans at the firm were left wondering what he meant. Brits have borrowed Jim Henson’s name for furry, be-stringed critters and tweaked it to mean someone who’s stupid, gullible and incapable of independent thought. Let’s not mention this to Miss Piggy.

https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/10-british-insults-americans-wont-understand--49105


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