Is Sen. Chuck Schumer Responsible For The Tide Pod Challenge Too?!

There’s a reason you’ve been seeing a lot of memes about Tide Pods lately. It’s called the Tide Pod Challenge. We told you about it last week. Kids and teens are challenging each other to put Tide Pods in their mouths because…their parents never taught them not to eat laundry detergent? I don’t know. It’s stupid and dangerous.

Tide is so serious about the dangers of this, it recruited Gronk and got him to put out a PSA.

What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.

Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we asked our friend @robgronkowski to help explain. pic.twitter.com/0JnFdhnsWZ

— Tide (@tide) January 12, 2018

I’ve partnered with @Tide to make sure you know, Tide PODs are for doing laundry. Nothing else! https://t.co/Oo7n7ZZpbG

— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) January 13, 2018

We live in a world where it’s necessary for Gronk to tell us not to eat laundry detergent. Let that sink in.

Moving on.

It wasn’t exactly clear where the challenge originated. That is, UNTIL NOW.

It’s Chuck Schumer’s fault. Yep. He’s responsible for the Schumer Shutdown AND the Tide Pod Challenge. Probably.

Politico’s Seung Min Kim actually uncovered an old article from 2012. In it, Schumer talks about how he was tempted to eat a Tide pod.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission should crack down on detergent companies whose superconcentrated cleanser “pods” look so much like candy that even a sitting senator wanted to gobble one.

“The incidents are skyrocketing,” Schumer said Sunday joined by several medical professionals. “These pods were supposed to make household chores easier, not tempt our children to swallow harmful chemicals. I saw one on my staffer’s desk and I wanted to eat it.”

WOW. Way to give kids the wrong idea, Chuck!

Chuck Schumer on detergent pods: “I saw one on my staffer's desk and I wanted to eat it.” https://t.co/stmprB9haG

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 19, 2018

That explains so much.

— Beverly Twigg (@beverlytwigg) January 20, 2018

Chuck Schumer = new tide pods brand ambassador

— kb (@kmbbryant) January 20, 2018

This is the greatest find since the discovery of Tut's tomb

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 19, 2018

So 2018 is also gonna be another fun killer year.

— Wendy Aguirre Graham (@WendyJoGraham) January 19, 2018

Yes, as a young senate aide, I, too, left laundry detergent on my desk. https://t.co/Yd78Pirt2m

— Jim Swift (@JSwiftTWS) January 19, 2018

Who keeps tide pods on their desk

— Jack G (@Jackg1818) January 19, 2018

Now that I’m thinking about it, that’s really weird.

We are so screwed.

— suzanne zuppello (@suuppello) January 20, 2018

Is this real life?

— Conrad Mackenzie Wilson (@conradmacwilson) January 19, 2018

My takeaway is that we need to elect smarter people into office.

— Michael Dowden (@mrdowden) January 19, 2018

This civilization can't die fast enough. https://t.co/pYq6WhjVkR

— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) January 19, 2018

This is one hell of a quote.

— Conor Shea (@MrHankey8170) January 19, 2018

For those who can’t take a joke, I’m not actually blaming Schumer for the Tide Pod Challenge. I just thought this was hilarious. I am, however, blaming him for the government shutdown. So there.

h/t Twitchy