Hey, you know where there are no cuts to PBS? In the full Epstein files.
RELEASE THE FILES.
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See also: rural electrification.
The invisible hand of the free market in the 1920s basically refused to run wires out into the country. The electrical companies “knew” that their customers were in the cities, and those illiterate hicks out in the sticks would probably pay for like one light bulb or two, so there was absolutely no profit to be gained by extending service out there.
Well, as anyone who has been in a plane flying across the middle of the country at night knows, there are bright lights dotted across from one farm to the other, and inside those farms there are all kinds of modern machines and implements running on electricity. Farmhouses wanted to have automatic washing machines and radios and refrigeration and other things just as much as any city dweller, and that’s not even mentioning all the improvements in agricultural work that freezers and incubation lamps and conveyor belts for grain and all the rest brought.
But the magic of the free market didn’t do that. The Rural Electrification Agency (and the TVA and other agencies) did.
Same damn thing applies to radio coverage.
Oh, and Internet service, too.
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That evil socialism!
(Loved the rest of your post, too)
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Republican voters and conservative people are thinking that pedos are being treated very unfairly. Innocent children are brainwashed into fearing them, law enforcement hunts them down, judges give them harsh prison sentences, they are put in adult jails where they are treated horribly and their lives are at risk. Changing the woke liberal Kennedy Center into the Pedo Hall of Fame would be a unprecedented alpha male power move that would own and pwn the liberals.
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At his own resorts.
So we’re not only paying for it, part of our money is going straight into that sumbitch’s pocket.
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Perhaps he could commandeer the Watergate complex, transforming it into a pedophile colony / theme park? They wouldn’t have far to go for the world-famous Pedo Awards! (Of course, need to make sure their +1 gets a discount.) Youth ticket.
And yes, it actually would be a presidented move. So proud? 
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Already with the nomination of the JD Vance simulacrum and the installation of Margo Martin, it was clear that Peter Thiel was going to be a bigger problem for the country than Elon Musk. Now we’re supposed to be surprised?
“Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a ‘revolution’ led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend.”
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And before that, Rural free delivery.
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“Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) publicly opposed the CPB funding cut and were the only two Republican senators who did not vote for the recissions package, which also rescinded funding for foreign aid.,”
Let’s not reward these two for performative bullshit. If their votes made a difference they’d fall in line behind TSF, they were the authorized dissent for this vote.
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Every single small business owner I know who voted for trump still thinks their onerous paperwork burden will be lifted. It wasn’t the first time, and it hasn’t been yet - but they still cling to the belief that they won’t have to fill out forms and file paperwork and their lives will be ever so much simpler.
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Been going on since the mid-90s as far as I can see.
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They do, but it ain’t right. What if we ran ads that showed white kids bowing and muttering phrases from the Koran and had ominous VO: “This is what allowing your tax dollars to fund religious education will do.”
effective, but not really in keeping with fairness and decency
And when they eliminate Social Security, you can bet we’re not going to get the money we’ve been paying into it all these years back. It will go to govt. ‘contracts’ for useless things like GOP crony-led consulting firms and sketchy armaments.
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I’d still hammer home Musk’s scraping of private data.
Also how many jobs he and the Republicans eliminated.
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Dad used to whine constantly about SS.
Until his low-income MIL turned 65, in 1980, got into Senior housing (an hour down the road) where they took 1/4 of her SS for rent and she had enough to live on.
He realized she wouldn’t have to come live with us. Never bitched about it again.
Ironically, he was 57 and was disabled from lupus, but too proud to apply for benefits. Mom finally convinced him to do it and he got 2 checks before he died at 60 in 1991.
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Appeal after appeal is made for individual donors to step up and fund PBS. We still need that federal funding. Both Los Angeles PBS and a tiny rural PBS station have to come up with $800,000 a year in donations in order to receive a matching grant from the CPB. Los Angeles can raise that in a night. For poor rural populations, it’s year-round asks that everyone gets tired of.
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But if Trump is defunding CPB, will there be funds for matching grants?
Well, it is true that a corrupt regime might have less regulatory paperwork.
On the other hand, it is sure to have a lot more of this kind of “paper” work.
Why they think that, in an environment where all the rules are for sale, it’s the little guy who 's gonna benefit, is a complete mystery to me.
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of course not, but my point is that like churches supposedly shouldering the costs of medical care for one of their deserving-but-cancer-stricken flock, they don’t
so private donations aren’t going to pick up the slack, they just can’t, especially in rural areas
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I live in a rural area and know what you’re talking about.
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