As President Trump issues conflicting pleas for ballot-counting to both be halted in some states and recounted in others, Biden voters and former Vice President Biden himself have continued to say the same thing: Votes have to be counted to make the election results matter. Even if it takes a little longer than usual.
Amid this chaos, people on various social media platforms have turned to the only true hero who can see us through this counting kerfuffle: Count von Count, the purple-skinned numbers-obsessed muppet from Sesame Street. As the 2020 election vote-counting became tenser and tenser, several memes have hit Twitter and other social media reminding everyone that it’s time to listen to the Count.
Perhaps the best of these memes is the one in which Donald Trump appears to insist on stopping ballot counting and the Count stares back as if to say, no, I will continue to count.
* ahem * pic.twitter.com/oaFBAGdo1z
– burnicus (@burnicus) November 5, 2020
Elsewhere, people are just reminding us that the Count is the best and he should be the hero of all elections.
My late uncle was the director of Sesame Street. He passed away earlier this year, but I think he would have LOVED seeing this use of the Count. https://t.co/JNjiDRXJxv
– Virginia Byrne (@VirginiaLByrne) November 5, 2020
And then, of course, there’s this homage to the famous Shepherd Fairy Obama-Hope poster, but this time the Count is flipping the bird and urging those who would like to stop the counting, that it is, in fact, time to count.
Extra cartoon: Count Every Vote! With apologies to Sesame Street and thanks to @sohmer for the idea 🙂 Enjoy! Share! Comment as you see fit 🙂 pic.twitter.com/xWHmMp4OBN
– Lar (@lartist) November 5, 2020
The election seems far from over, but if you wanted to watch some great Count segments on Sesame Street with your kids right now, it’s not the worst idea. After all, Math and patience are a part of how democracy works.