Executive Orders do not have the force of Federal legislation.
With this EO - as with most of his other EOs - famously incontinent Trump is only gassing *opinions*.
This distinction means nothing. It only devalues and minimizes the danger. All that matters is implementation whether it comes from the courts, Congress or his stupid EOs.
FatFuck has no authority to do this. NPR and PBS are authorized and funded by Congress and he just can't wave his tiny teen-molesting hands and say 'make it so'.
Interviewing these idiots is likely the smartest thing they can do. A lot of people who watch PBS and NPR are pretty insulated by the factual sort of reporting they normally provide. Putting these radicals side by side with real academics and experts only helps to expose them for the liars they are.
Nope. Case in point I never even heard of Rufo until I saw their interview with him tonight. Yes, it sent my blood boiling and my take away was that he's a lying manipulative fake being funded by one of those propaganda schools. It shed a lot of insight on what they're trying to pull ->
That's not how authoritarianism works though. Authoritarians and fascists go onto these shows knowing that a percentage of people who have never heard of them will hate them. They go in order to pollinate their ideas to people receptive to them and to normalize their ideas.
with the real universities in regards to the lawsuits and funding cuts. It didn't take long to come to the conclusion that he and his kind are apparently trying to mainstream the fake alternate reality type of fascist crap they teach at those places.
Trump must have grown up in a strange time dimension. The destruction (or attempt) of NPR/PBS is an anathema to anyone born before 1965. Trump lies and under careful mentorship of Roy Cohn,learned to use lies to craft new realities. Add alittle Newt G., Russ V., top w/foxnews. Here we are.
It doesn't really matter because the administration is carrying them out and acting like they're law. There is no point in reminding people about this. All it does is MINIMIZE the danger. That's the opposite of what we need.
Anyone else noticing a pattern? It seems that when Trump starts to publicly unravel and make a fool of himself, his bootlicking team throws an EO in front of him to sign so he can feel powerful again. It’s like handing a cranky toddler an iPhone.
If I wrote such a superficial, evidence lacking document in my professional career I would have immediately been put on a performance improvement plan. What passes for acceptable work product in Trump 2.0 is a bar so low as to require a shovel.
Through PBS millions of American Children learned their alphabet and kindness and history produced by people who produce the highest standard truth and fairness. Of Course Trump is threatened by anyone or anything that he knows nothing about. @pbs.org @pbsnews.org #SavePBS #SaveNPR #SaveUSA
Honestly, executive orders need to be limited to extreme emergencies and then like 1 a year, not used as dementia dream enablement, thousands of times a day. WTF is it with this gnome? TAKE HIS CRAYON away.
He and his minions are deathly afraid that the batshit crazy republicans might actually learn something by listening to NPR and PBS. Now, can someone please take away this toddler's Executive Order crayon?
He has never watched an educational show in his LIFE. No need for it. Irony is—much of what i have learned about history came from PBS/NPR—a method of delivery that, for me, was more successful than the public school model (he also wants to destroy). No to education—Yes to indoctrination.
Trump thinks executive orders are like kingly decrees. News flash, they are not law and will be reversed the second he's out of office in under 4 years.
Free speech has been challenged. Defund NPR? No federal funding for Harvard? Please call (or email) Republican Senators and ask them to support the constitution.
Markwayne Mullin 202-224-4721
Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315
Jerry Moran 202-224-6251
Ashley Moody 202-224-3041
Mike Rounds 202-224-5842
This 💩 really just keeps signing memos with "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:" then trotting out a line of bullshit that our laws and constitution decidedly DO NOT give him the authority to order.
It is a decades old zombie lie that NPR is funded by taxpayers. Only 1% of NPR revenue is from direct federal funding. Federally funded CPB grants to public radio stations account for only 8% of their total revenue and applied to capital expenditures. NONE of it used to purchase NPR programming.
remember when mitt romney threatened to do it and "mitt romney hates big bird" was all that was said for months, and somehow trump can do it overnight and worse and it's not even breaking the main news
How the ever loving Frell does that Frelling 🍊🫏🤡get to just make shit up? CONGRESS HELLO 1-202-224-3121 I'm calling and I'm asking them how is this POSSIBLE A FRELLING 🍊🫏🤡is doing this? What would have happened if BIDEN DID THAT?
How many people in this country know that several cable providers across the country have as a continuing line item cost for FOX NEWS? We pay between $2$3 (3X mkt rate) each and every month for this station whether we want it or not. I tried to get it taken off my COMCAST/XFINITY Bill. NOPE.
PBS is how most preschoolers in this country learned to count and their letters. Im first generation #SesameStreet and #MrRogers, #Zoom and #ElectricCompany. All wonderful shows that taught children about themselves and the world around them. Defunding #PBS is shameful.
Thanks for your "aimed" framing. I'm tired of media reporting on EOs like this that give the headline "Trump slashes NPR and PBS funding". No he didn't. He wrote an EO that *purports* to do so, but it's blatantly an impoundment problem. Framing it as an action with constitutional force cedes ground.
And @npr.org promptly had on the ex-con Bannon and @pbs.org had on... an equally odious critter. No self-awareness on the part of NPR or PBS producers.
But they will shill for donations. Not funding those creeps.
“Oh ouchie. Take 15 cents off my dollar. I’m going to be sooooo much poorer!” Said every fucking public media outlet never. These people already run their networks on a shoestring; tiny staffs; second-hand equipment.
It’s giving Millennium Falcon. These are not the droids you’re looking for.
More lawsuits to be filed. At what point does the judiciary get so clogged with lawsuits against these bogus executive orders that justice grinds to a halt?
whatever they say about news bias, there is SO much more offered by PBS and NPR -- education, science, arts, history, like there is something for every interest area. BUT the audio and video public affairs offerings are also hugely important.
He is so ashamed of his legacy, that he is attempting to eliminate any remaining sources of truth. Luckily, he doesn’t understand that most changes he makes will only last 3 years.
98% of Trump's idiotic Fascist executive orders is illegal, unconstitutional or both yet the courts, the media & the Democrats all treat them as royal decrees. Trump simply signs a document and everything our taxes pay for disappears.
I listen to all things considered frequently. Its content is informative and educational. Trump cutting its funding bc it’s somehow “woke” or left leaning is ridiculous and petty 😡
"If federal funding goes away, the NPR network is absolutely at risk, the quality of service, the ability to cover everyone, people who live in what would otherwise be news deserts."
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org
There is no freedom of the press and freedom of speech when the President is sending attacks on mergers. law firms, stripping funding, controlling narrative, banning news outlets for not bowing to absurd self gratification declarations.
This is extortion in the name of the United States- our name.
It's just Trump's projection game, every accusation is a confession. The media & press have been by his side from The Apprentice, through all of his campaigns, and both his presidencies!
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With this EO - as with most of his other EOs - famously incontinent Trump is only gassing *opinions*.
@pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.: https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000056932-getting-started-with-pbs-passport
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/how-many-of-trumps-executive-orders-are-being-challenged
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kash-patel-fbi-aircraft-democrats-gao-inquiry/
https://brian.carnell.com/articles/2020/playskool-my-first-presidency-playset/
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They haven’t learned from the universities.
Kowtowing to 47 gets you nothing, except the loss of dignity and everyday Americans on your side.
And hate only scratches the surface.
@pbs.org libraries?
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Sometimes I scare even myself.
Healthy? No.
Necessary? Seems so.
#SavePBS #DefendNPR
Can we seriously just be done with his OBVIOUS ATTEMPT AT DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY.
@pbs.org libraries?
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Markwayne Mullin 202-224-4721
Bernie Moreno 202-224-2315
Jerry Moran 202-224-6251
Ashley Moody 202-224-3041
Mike Rounds 202-224-5842
Write it down. Be polite. Hopefully we can unite for our support of the CONSTITUTION.
There was a reason that literal Nazis promoted him, and now he's delivering on their promises.
He just doesn't have an administration to warn him about the PR backlash he's going to receive for it the time around.
@pbs.org libraries?
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and SUE
any "network" who will not comply
with MAGA rules...
Free Speech must be QUESTIONED !!
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3lo5vdtxiik2x
#DonnyTwoDolls #TrumpsTariffs #TrumpTariffs #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpsTradeWar #Trumpcession #Trumpflation
Protect My Public Media‼️
https://protectmypublicmedia.org/.
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
But they will shill for donations. Not funding those creeps.
It’s giving Millennium Falcon. These are not the droids you’re looking for.
You make it sound way too official.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7315816854977937409/
It's self- inflicted.
Tell me we have standing @gtconway.bsky.social
"If federal funding goes away, the NPR network is absolutely at risk, the quality of service, the ability to cover everyone, people who live in what would otherwise be news deserts."
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
@pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.: https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000056932-getting-started-with-pbs-passport
This is extortion in the name of the United States- our name.
Republicans
get their information
from FOX News
yet want to
cancel
Public Broadcasting
because it is
too biased.
Good grief.
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Kamala unprepared & unavailable
Joe: old & senile
Hillary: but her emails
Donald: masculine, strong, immune, media savvy, he didn't mean what he said, etc…
They did it to themselves, kissing Trump's a*s every step of the way for decades
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