We really are fucked. Welcome to being part of history everyone
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.
Nah not in their sleep while on TV I want to see them choked out and dead. It would be a beautiful day in the neighborhood. _
Don't threaten those perverts with a good time
vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers
Be the vengeful ghost you want to see in the world
BRB, dying with unfinished business
I'd be impressed if I didn't tbh
"Hello, neighbor. Normally, I tie my shoes. Today is a special episode. Today, I'm going to tie my laces to two sticks and make the knots very tight. That's right, today we're making a garrote. To help me demonstrate how to properly use this tool, we've enlisted a very special guest, Donald Trump. To commemorate this very special occasion, I've asked my good friend, Bob Ross, to paint a happy little picture. Are you ready, Robert?"
And while he's strangling them, the ghost of Bob Ross comes up behind and stabs them with a paintbrush.
The happiest of accidents!
Blame Roy Cohn for hatching the idea of putting those motherfuckers into power in the first place.
What a stain on history.
I didn't want to be part of history. I just wanted to live a simple NPC life...
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Funny. So did America
So does this mean NPR and PBS are going to shutter? Or significantly reduce their operations? Or have they still got enough private benefactors to carry on?
Side note: I wonder if they still have any of that Ray Croc money left in some random fund?
The CPB exists to allocate government funding to nonprofit public stations (the individual broadcasters in each city) and networks (NPR and PBS). Without government funding, the CPB has no reason to exist.
The public stations and NPR and PBS still exist. They are the ones that actually produce and distribute content. And they've always relied some on donations.
PBS and its stations have been roughly 15% funded through the CPB. The rest relies on donations and other income.
NPR doesn't receive much money directly from the CPB (less than 1% of its budget), but its member stations do, around 13% on average.
So it's not the end of the world for these stations, but it does represent a reduction in funding that is pretty serious.
Yeah okay, those hit with a 13% reduction have a large hole to fill. Hopefully other donors will come to the party, but in a cost of living crisis, well theres a lot of other pressures.
In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire's end when it stops building public architecture, whether it's art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it's over.
Separate and complex discussion defining "empire" in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.
Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.
Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it's a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.
Trump, a moron and huckster, continues to employ the old mob tactic of attempting to profit from everything, oblivious to even the simplest things.
He believes he’ll be remembered fondly like Reagan by his cult, but history has proven otherwise. He’ll be remembered as the biggest fool for attempting to accomplish something seemingly insurmountable by listening to today’s trust fund kids.
The only thing he’ll be remembered for is being one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There’s a reason kings and queens these days position themselves in a Mickey Mouse like position, less heat. Rocking the boat tends to end with your ass in the waters.
But also remember
This can all be reversed just as quickly so don’t forget to vote
Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that. Best we can do so far is people that want to pretend it's the 90s and that they need compromise and approval from Republicans.
Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that.
Well, we've had that for quite some time really... the sad thing is, that's not really a winning strategy.
We have g had candidates like that, Bernie and Warren come to mind right away. But the last time they ran, they couldn't even win a primary, let alone the general election.
I agree that actual progressive policies could solve a lot, but much of the country does not seem to agree with that, so here we are.
For better or worse, you need the approval of more than one group of people to win an election.
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Yes, fuck the kids in particular, sort of a theme with Trump
In so many ways.
Put everything up on official torrents, what we may lack in money we can save and distribute with our bandwidth.
That would be great for the stuff that has been digitized. A lot of the historic content they’re referring to could very well still be on film or obsolete tape formats that require specialized equipment to play back. With the dwindling funding they’ve had, it’s anyone’s guess how much they’ve been able to transfer to digital formats by now.
The article's comments section is disheartening, but predictable. It's the same "Don't use my tax dollars for your liberal agenda" bullshit. No critical thinking. Just parroting propaganda.
knowing stuff is liberal
Oh, I thought you meant these comments
Dude, like.. I'm going to fuckin cry ..
Now the only media is state media (aka propaganda). Good luck everybody!
This is such a sad day.
What a beta imperial slave colony.... A turd sandwich of a country. We ain't up to nothing... really just watching the top 10% pass around money until this imperial fart dissipates. We will start over again in the nucular waste of just a few mens ambition to once again rediscover and build simple things such as the wheel. Capitalism is exponential like the gas that builds in my colon only to be released as a foul odor of yeasterday when "things were great." One generation builds, another pigs out then the next scrambles just to find something to eat as the planet winces in pain, sick and tired of all "gods children". It is the survival of the fittest as justice is always served...YOLO netflix and chill drinking from a poisonous well.... Brutes Morons and the tech bros. Welcome to the worlds casino aka dum dum yankeeland. Remember the democrats will not save you! The USA is not a democracy and if you want to see change it will have to be uproot the system via kentic means. Nothing new under the sun.
I go to civil rights rallies And I put down the old D.A.R. I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy I hope every colored boy becomes a star But don't talk about revolution That's going a little bit too far So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal - Phil Ochs
We all knew this was coming unfortunately.
RIP
:(
Look on the bright side. Chilling events like this are not boring. I am definitely not bored right now.
I feel energized. I could reset and release multiple watermelon chopping type devices over and over with this stored energy.
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