Sen. Patty Murray: GOP Is Afraid If Kids Watch PBS They'll Learn To Count

Posted • July 13, 2025: Sen. Patty Murray is an idiot. She's up there on the list of dumbest senators. For some reason, on Friday, she was on the Senate floor talking about cuts to PBS. Her zinger at the end is quite a stretch … if Republicans leave children no option but brainrot TV, they'll never learn to count, and thus never question that trillions in tax cuts are free? At least she didn't do the old "killing Big Bird routine." Sesame Workshop signed a lucrative deal with HBO several years ago which it didn't renew, and as of now, the production company is homeless. This editor doesn't miss Sesame Street, which encourages pre-kindergarteners to celebrate Pride Month, not to mention "Latinx" Heritage Month. —— She’s really bad at this. Don't we have public schools and programs like Head Start to teach children how to count? Most of our kids grow up in families. We teach them to count.

If they learn to count by watching TV, then public schools can focus on their real job, grooming children for pedophile predators. If PBS is so great, it should be able to thrive in the marketplace without taxpayer funding. As always, PBS assures us that only a tiny percentage of its operating budget comes from the government, but then they freak out when the government threatens to cut funding, saying it's essential. No, we need Sesame Street telling our young kids in the inner cities about sex. This post is brought to you today by the letter "B" and the letter "S". PBS is brain rot. (…)

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