Ted Cruz Is Beefing with Big Bird

The Texas Senator has picked a fight that he can't win, and the worst part is he doesn't even know it.

When Sen. Ted Cruz isnโ€™t busy using a fake Texas accent or running from his latin heritage, heโ€™s busy picking fights with...wait, let me make sure Iโ€™m reading this correctly, Big Bird.

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Yes, OG triple OG Big Bird from the famous Sesame Street.

Apparently Big Bird ruffled Cruzโ€™s feathers after he urged kids to get inoculated against the Thanos of viruses, COVID-19.

See, when Big Bird isnโ€™t chilling on Sesame, he often takes to the Twitter streets to push kids in the right direction because thatโ€™s what triple OGs do. Earlier this week, Big Bird shared that heโ€™d gotten the vaccine because he believes in things like, the history of evolution, a womanโ€™s right to choose and actual scientists and not podcasters positions on the coronavirus vaccine.

https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1456971880666046465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

President Biden was one of the first to thank Big Bird for being responsible and taking his health seriously.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1457525774530097152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Cruz, however, was quick to take issue with the tweet because he has nothing better to do now that heโ€™s done being the zodiac killer (I kid, or do I?):

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1457108504498642953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Now might be a good time to point out that Ted Cruz is vaccinated. Heโ€™s been vaccinated. Heโ€™s always been vaccinated. But that doesnโ€™t stop him from virtue signaling to his constituents.

Because the Texas senator canโ€™t walk away from a fight even when heโ€™s losing, he kept Twitter-feuding with Big Bird mocking a photo of Hillary Clinton and the moral compass of Sesame Street.

โ€œCaptured in the wild, rare image of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,โ€ the senator tweeted.

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1458145053243809802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

From the New York Daily News:

That photo showed Clinton, an unpopular figure among conservatives, wearing all green. The Sesame Street character Cruz referenced has green fur and lives in trash can. Big Bird, as always, wore yellow feathers in the picture.

Clinton had posted the photo on her Twitter feed following right-wing outrage over the PBS childrenโ€™s showโ€™s efforts to help kids understand that vaccinations keep people safe.

โ€œItโ€™s a bird that teaches children things. Like how to stay healthy,โ€ Clinton wrote. โ€œThatโ€™s it.โ€

Cruz, who opposes vaccine mandates, had lashed out against โ€œSesame Streetโ€™sโ€ efforts as โ€œgovernment propagandaโ€ after a Twitter feed credited to Big Bird tweeted Saturday that the character had gotten the jab.

The Daily News points out that โ€œBig Bird has always advocated for vaccines, Sesame Street posted a vintage video Monday showing the iconic character championing measles shots in 1972.

You have to be a pretty petty bird to beef with Big Bird. But, Ted Cruz has proven time and again that heโ€™s willing to go a Texas-mile to be the biggest bird even if that means talking out of both sides of his beak.

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