The latest from washed-up chanteuse Bette Midler makes you wonder whether she’s as nutty as a jar of extra-crunchy peanut butter. Specifically, make that Jif, the kind that choosy moms choose.
If parents don’t vaccinate their kids against the China Virus, Midler tweeted, she would take peanut butter to school — or presumably, send it with her child — to cause an allergic reaction in an innocent child.
The septuagenarian singer’s tweet, yet another that violated the Twitter Rules, invited the usual support from the usual Twitter leftists. Others, though — even Branch Covidian leftists — weren’t having it. They didn’t think it was all that funny. Parents with kids allergic to the ubiquitous legume were especially unhappy.
The Tweet
“If my kid can’t bring peanut butter to school then yours can’t bring the deathly plague. Vaccinate or I’m bringing the Jiffy,” the wacky warbler tweeted.
Midler’s “kid” is 34 years old, and she meant to write Jif, but those minor facts aside, the 75-year-old seems to have forgotten, as one follower observed, that vaccines against the Asiatic pathogen are not yet available to anyone under 16 years old.
“Everyone 16 years of age and older is now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination,” the Centers for Disease Control says at its website.
The tweet did not sit well with a woman who observed that fact:
Choosy moms choose Jif and there is no FDA approved pediatric coronavirus vax as of today. I’m not certain where you’re going with this meme but wishing death on children is certainly a call for self reflection.
“Thank you for making a joke about life-threatening food allergies,” another tweeted:
I understand where you are coming from but both situations should be treated with equal regard. As someone who has a deadly peanut allergy it’s frustrating to see a lack of respect from a prominent Broadway figure.
“People that make and like this joke have obviously never had to take care of someone that is allergic to peanuts,” another wrote. “It’s not funny.”
Even a “super liberal” didn’t think so much of Midler’s musings:
I’m super liberal, very pro vax and science but this isn’t funny. My son, like millions of others is severely allergic to peanuts and tree nuts! If he touches it he gets hives. If he eats even the tiniest amount, his throat closes, no amount of CPR would help. Do better!
“You don’t have any children,” another tweeted. “You don’t have any grandchildren either. You’re 75 years old.”
Midler does have one child — a grown woman. One hopes the adult daughter still isn’t in grade school, packing a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.
Not the First
Although the tweet clearly violates the Twitter Rules — wishing harm or death upon someone — the tweet remains front and center on Midler’s account, which boasts two million followers. Nor is the latest the first time Midler trespassed the rules with no punishment.
“Where’s Rand Paul’s neighbor when we need him?” she tweeted in 2018 after the senator from Kentucky voted against a spending bill she supported.
Midler was referring to the deranged neighbor who tackled Paul on his front lawn in 2017. The attack left Paul with six broken ribs and permanent injuries.
“I don’t know what a night without pain is like or what a day without pain is like, so I do suffer from this,” Paul said when the disturbed man was sentenced to prison and a $580,000 judgment. Convulsive coughing after the attack caused a hernia that required surgery, Paul said.
But for Midler, that wasn’t enough. Paul had to be punished for differing with the daffy diva.
But again, Twitter did nothing. The tweet still appears at Midler’s feed.
H/T: Daily Wire
