# Just like Dumbo, Wyoming GOP declares that Liz Cheney is No Longer an Elephant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467 "2021-11-16T20:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/41 "2021-11-18T09:45:34Z")
Since she is a member of the Republican party in 2021 – LOL: What goes around comes around. If this were 2017 or sooner I might have a modicum of sympathy. Now it is a very funny case of “Leopards ate my face! - whines senior face eating leopard of the face eating leopard party”. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/42 "2021-11-18T17:30:10Z")
Is this that cancel culture I’ve heard so much about? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/43 "2021-11-18T20:27:28Z")
The Republicans who voted Cheney out are no doubt part of some woke mob. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/44 "2021-11-18T20:41:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Is this that cancel culture I’ve heard so much about? OIADDT ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/45 "2021-11-18T20:51:14Z")
That is correct, I am afraid. I read a quote from Hemingway today that fits: “Being against evil doesn’t make you good.” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/46 "2021-11-18T20:58:08Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > OIADDT ???que ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/47 "2021-11-18T21:18:31Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > ???que Lemme guess: Only If A Democrat Does That? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/48 "2021-11-18T23:17:33Z")
Only moderately insane. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/49 "2021-11-19T13:52:13Z")
Now they’re banning Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird from the CPAC Conference: > [@](#): > > On Thursday, CPAC tweeted that Elmo, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie would not be welcome at its 2022 conference. > > [Elmo](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/elmo) will be tickled at this absurd news: An annual conference of the [Republican Party](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/republican-party)’s most extreme members is banning him and his [“Sesame Street”](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/sesame-street) from attending in February. > > On Thursday, the [Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/cpac) posted two tweets that told Elmo, [Big Bird,](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/big-bird) Bert and Ernie in no uncertain terms that they would not be welcome at next year’s conference. > > Seriously … They tweeted about puppets. > > The reason? The Twitter account for Big Bird recently shared that the character got the [COVID-19 vaccine](https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1456971880666046465) — which [ruffled the feathers](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-bird-ted-cruz-covid-vaccine-flap_n_618728ffe4b0c8666bdda473) of some right-wing Republicans, like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who called the fictional character’s vaccination “propaganda.” > **[Republicans Ban Elmo From Attending Conservative Conference](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-bans-elmo-twitter_n_6196ce1de4b07fe20108f653)** > > On Thursday, CPAC tweeted that Elmo, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie would not be welcome at its 2022 conference. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/50 "2021-11-19T14:13:16Z")
I mean…had they been planning to attend? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/51 "2021-11-19T14:22:49Z")
I mean … would they have been welcome even before this? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/52 "2021-11-19T14:26:21Z")
Alls I know is that, as someone more liberal, I feel totally pwned by this move by CPAC. I will now go hang my head in shame. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/53 "2021-11-19T14:37:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Now they’re banning Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird from the CPAC Conference: They’re too young for the hookers and blow, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/54 "2021-11-19T15:08:16Z")
Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird are all over 50, having debuted in 1969 and clearly not being newborns at that time. Elmo is over 30. While it would be scandalous were they to indulge in hookers and blow in light of them all supposedly being role models for young children, their age shouldn’t factor into it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/55 "2021-11-19T16:14:56Z")
I think of them like Peter Pan, perpetually young. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/56 "2021-11-19T16:21:00Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Now they’re banning Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird from the CPAC Conference: Right Wing Cancel Culture. IOKWARDI ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/57 "2021-11-19T16:23:57Z")
It’s just payback for Dr. Seuss. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/58 "2021-11-19T18:12:25Z")
Big Bird always takes his vaccines. Part of his goal is to help kids not be afraid of them. > **[Latest Big Bird Controversy Is Basically Fake News](https://www.fatherly.com/news/big-bird-gets-vaccinated-history-reveals-sesame-streets-long-support-of-vaccines)** > > The eight-foot-tall, feathery Muppet got vaccinated to help show kids that getting the shots doesn’t have to be scary. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/59 "2021-11-19T18:15:33Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Part of his goal is to help kids not be afraid of them. Republicans do not share this goal. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467/60 "2021-11-19T18:19:12Z")
Do they actually show Big Bird getting a vax, or does Big Bird just talk about it? I tried searching for some pics of BB getting the jab and I couldn’t find any. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-like-dumbo-wyoming-gop-declares-that-liz-cheney-is-no-longer-an-elephant/954467.md?page=4)