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"Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller," the googly-eyed, furry blue muppet declared on X on Monday, tapping into an economic trend of the day. "Guess me going to have to eat double da cookies!"

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[-] [email protected] 215 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Count is going to start teaching kids about corporate profits. "One billion extra dollars untaxed! Ha ha hah! 2 billion..."

Oscar the Grouch is going to be a working homeless who is forced to move his can every week by police.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oscar the Grouch's living situation is basically aspirational now. "You can afford to live in a trash can all by yourself? Like, no roommates or anything? Wow!"

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

Oh man, a lid? I don't think I can afford this place.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you never seen the inside of Oscar's trash can? That place is a palace. He's got an olympic size swimming pool in it. He also has an ice skating rink and a bowling alley.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A veritable Snoopy house

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

considering his trashcan is basically a TARDIS.... I'd take it.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I think he has a few roommates actually 😂

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Crabs no count!

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

Count explaining tax brackets would actually be kinda funny

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I don’t think he’d explain. What, ah, do you think he’s talking about here, huh?

(FYI it’s an unnecessary censorship, so possibly NSFW.)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He's clearly explaining his love of perusing and discussing classified documents.

[-] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago

Between this and Elmo asking if everyone is OK, it makes me happy to see these characters in the current zeitgeist!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah I just wish it wasn't because we need them to get a message to the white house

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Work with the media they'll pay attention to, I guess?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The Media has been bought and paid for. The real shock is that Elmo and Cookie Monster haven't.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They'll never control the Street.

[-] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago

Cookie Monster is onto something: OREO Double Stuf Chocolate Sandwich Cookies shrank by 6% in size by weight from January 2019 to October 2023, according to a report based on Labor Department numbers.

Double Stuffed Oreos are the new regular Oreos and regular Oreos are now 'go fuck yourself' sized.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I like that honest branding. "Go fuck yourself Oreos", "Eat a dick Craft Mac and Cheese", "Piss-off sized Tide Detergent"...

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Nah, the Piss Tide detergent variant is BIGGER for extra effectiveness when you've pissed yourself.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It contains no extra detergents, just more water in the package.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Regular oreos are the new single-ply toilet paper equivalent

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago

The cookie monster receives better representation than most of us do.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

He's a celebrity. They usually do. Even if they're puppets.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

And you'd think, with the democratization of fame, everyone would be famous, now. I mean, used to be if you wanted fame, you had to pack up and move from bumfuck nowhere and go to Hollywood, work as a waiter/waitress/whatever, and attend casting calls in your free time. Now, with the Internet and cameras that fit in our pockets we don't even need to leave our houses.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Except that isn't how fame works. Fame is actually a transactional process. The famous person does something in exchange for attention but they do not get attention unless they offer something the average person can't- they're prettier or funnier or a better actor or whatever. If you can't offer that, it doesn't matter if everyone has their own TV show. It only matters if your TV show is the one people want to watch.

Unfortunately, in general, their actual morals and ethics are not taken under consideration by a large number of those who give them the attention they want.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Technically, he's a government employee.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I n c o r r e c t

PBS is a nonprofit private corporation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Too bad he moved to HBO

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He vicariously represents US/us

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago

The Cookie Monster is Joe Biden's new economic advisor.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I'm not complaining.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Me think rich people not taxed enough. Me also think wages too low.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The right: "Stick to your lane! You're a cookie expert not an economist! Trump says keep celebrities out of politics!"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha no Biden wouldn’t care about that part.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Could be an improvement compared to whichever corporate plants are currently on that side of the revolving door 🤷

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

You know the economy is in trouble when goddamn Cookie monster is speaking up about it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. Biden was prattling on about shrinkflation a few weeks ago when he was trying to pretend he was looking out for the common person suffering from capitalism eating all their economic growth for decades.

It’s such an easy target to look like you care, without doing shit. Oh this cookie is 13% smaller? I’ll get right on that, ignore the 1300% corporate profit increase, the stagnant wage growth for 63 years, the CEO wages growing 9300% compared to workers, etc, etc.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What is it with sesame street starting mass hysteria lately?

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