Public Broadcasting Cuts Are Already Putting Trump’s Supporters in Rural America at Risk

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

May they profit from their experience.

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Also: Pulling FBI agents off their normal duties (which include countering foreign espionage!) to monitor DC Metro turnstiles.

Also(2): Pulling workers from an already understaffed DoD to bolster their ICE goon squads.

Everything about “MAGA” is making American a great target!

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Based on their policies, Republican politicians want their constituents to die sooner rather than later.

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100% agree. I have no doubt that the GOP employ psychologists, sociologists and psychiatrists. Their messaging plays like a psy-op. This is what Democrats need to do as well. They need to learn how to communicate to elicit response…at the polls, I mean. Fear/hatemongering work! They just do. I loathe that they do, but they just do. This is the tenor the messaging has to take.

The challenge? Liberals are generally free thinkers. Hard to embellish on us.

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Loved your last paragraph, Layla.

If there’s any doubt about Heritage Foundation’s agenda for public radio, you need to listen to the interview that On The Media did with them.

He (Heritage Foundation) complained about NPR’s Liberal Bias (aka reporting the facts), and how they did not give more time to conservative claims (aka lies). NPR should just go away, and “the Market” will step in where there’s actual need/demand.

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Instead, the Republican rollback of $1.1 billion in CPB funding that had previously been approved by Congress is hurting communities in red states.

Still, no talk among Republicans of giving us back our taxes.

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Our taxes are paying for a $200M ballroom.
Our taxes are paying for all of Neom’s outfits.
Our taxes are paying for all of the ticky tacky fools gold in the WH.
Our taxes are paying for SS protection while Trump plays his umpteenth round of golf.
And so on and so forth.

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And the racist, homophobic wingnuts love it all.

They’ll eat dirt and give Mango Mussolini their last $.

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I would hope that they’d catch on, but haven’t seen that so far. Maybe someone from the RHW-N side would create a Go-Fund-Me for Donny. That will make him dance.

trump-klan-dance

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Thank you for making that point. It is often conveniently ignored by people who feel doomed and want to share that emotion.

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“That it was a self-inflicted wound makes it no less tragic or deplorable, but also no less self-inflicted.”

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Go easy on yourself! How something is delivered and how it is received and interpreted is a true challenge. And let’s drop the “massive” and “failures” please. Save the self-flagellation for when you really FU.

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well said !

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I understand that right wing Republicans want to convert the Kennedy Center into the Pedo Hall of Fame. Our apex pedo, adjudicated rapist, daughter-dater, and psycho has seized the leadership of the Kennedy Center. He is going to induct himself and his friend Jeffrey into the PHoF. There will be a full wing for pedo procurers, traffickers, and pimps like Ghislaine and the Einstein-level model, dancer, pedo-magnet and anchor baby momma.

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If we help out these irresponsible voters in their far flung locations by protecting them from the consequences of their actions, they will never learn. Wasn’t their hero himself that said the famous words “there must be a consequence.”

I, for one, don’t wish for those people to bear the discomfort of living in “a nanny state.” That’s not fair to them. If I were to interve against their self owned consequences, I am treating them as less than intelligent, and thus I would be preventing them from achieving their own greatness. They must learn from their mistakes and consequences in order to become fully actualized humans or citizens.

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And as a Californian, I am espeicially sensitive to the fact that the surplus (more goes out than what we get back) we send to the federal govenment goes to support Red states and have secret police taking over our cities in response to peaceful protests.

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Is there any chance that a combination of individual donors, foundations and mega donors could step in to save NPR & PBS? MSNBC has deteriorated since the split with NBC. Rather than feature second tier anchors and hire new ones, it would be good if they could pick up some of the CPB’s programs.

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It would be the “Pedo Awards,” they could have a red carpet that all the nominees would walk. It would be pedophilia‘s biggest night! They could hand out buttons that say: Vote for Pedo.

h/t Napoleon Dynamite.

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DJT is going to screw it up so hard in the next few months a hurricane of bullshit will not be able to drown it out.

Never mess with the money.

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