This funding is approved by Congress, so this will lose in court like everything else, but let’s see how this shakes out…
I thought Congress controlled the pursestrings.
Are people just rolling over and taking this?
Yes and yes.
Sure. And when the treasury doesn’t send them more money because Trump said so what then?
Riots in the streets because Wait! Wait! Dont’t Tell Me ran out of funding.
But I need to hear the silky smooth Bill Curtis every week.
Amen to that.
Take any one of Trump’s actions alone 20 years ago and he would have been impeached, now its just Friday.
Heck, being impeached would be just Friday for him, since there’s no teeth in it.
He wants a dumber country
Elmo knows where you live
it’s almost like Trump has no idea what he’s doing
This is project 2025 to the T. They know exactly what they’re doing, and have poured lots of money into this plan.
Yeah but legally Congress allocates funds. This isn’t binding (yeah yeah I know, none of these people care about the law)
This isn’t legally binding, but that won’t stop the DOGE teenagers from walking into their office and start dismantling it.
And the employees will stand by, muttering “this can’t be legal” under their breath.
Then a judge will rule that it wasn’t legal, the ruling will be ignored, and by then 30 other things like this will have happened, too.Yes exactly
It’s Bannon’s flood the zone with shit, only better planned and funded this go around.
Yeah, except defunding public broadcasting, and undermining media is step two in an authoritarian play book. Seems to be accelerating their attacks on democracy from here. Buck up.
No. Just ignore him
“Fuck them kids” - Trump
“Literally and figuratively” - Trump
Hmm, I wonder if there are any historical examples we can turn to to examine the outcomes when a government dismantles publicly funded and managed media…
