"Thanks, Great Baby!": A government Twitter account is promoting baby safety with terrifying memes
Throughout history there are stories of men and women who, when faced with the decision to resign from their posts within a government grown rotten, opted to remain and subversively help where they could from inside the belly of the beast. We haven’t heard many of those stories from within the Trump administration so far (and no, that one time doesn’t count), but perhaps that’s because it’s too soon to learn of these acts of quiet heroism. We were reminded today, however, of one shining beacon of light from within the darkened halls of Washington—the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission’s social media department.
For a few years, the USCPSC’s Twitter page has been a font of bizarro, absurdist PSAs that make one wonder, “Who among this wretched Administration still possesses a sense of humor?” or perhaps,“Is Horse e_books working for a government pension now?” The latest examples come from the USCPSC’s “Baby Safety Month,” which is apparently a thing that just wrapped up.
Oh, it gets weirder. Here’s a bird named “Handsome Ron” wearing a sunbonnet reminding us to “always lay your baby down to sleep on their back.”