"Trump Keeps Doing Sh*t Nobody Voted For, Like Eliminating 'PBS Kids'"

[orangecrush]

From Wonkette -

"Donald Trump’s war on everything halfway good and decent continues apace, with the gratuitous cancellation of an Education Department grant that funds children’s educational programming on PBS. That’ll save $23 million that can now go to about a minute and a half of tax cuts for billionaires, or a month or so of Donald Trump’s golfing trips. (Haha, stupid libs! Complaining about the millions of dollars his golfing costs is so 2017! Everyone’s fine with it now, get some new material!)

Did anyone really vote for this? We don’t remember Trump promising during the campaign that he’d gut children’s programming on public TV; maybe it slipped in there somewhere between the shark-or-electric-boat musings and the weird dancing. Still, it’ll probably win some support from the Usual Gang of Shitheads who think trolling is the entire purpose of government, i.e., the entire Republican Party.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said yesterday that it was informed of the cancellation of the “Ready to Learn” grant Friday. The grant has funded PBS Kids programming for preschool and early elementary kids, including “Lyla in the Loop,” “Work It Out Wombats!” and “Molly of Denali.” The main characters in the two non-wombat shows are little girls of color, which may have had something to do with the defunding. For all we know, somebody at Education may have thought “Molly of Denali” was a sneaky attempt to violate Trump’s renaming of that Alaskan mountain to “Mt. McKinley,” although the show debuted in 2019."

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-keeps-doing-sht-nobody-voted

[CountAllVotes]

1. Indian killer McKinley

Make America's Genocide Great Again! MAGGA

[Deuxcents]

2. My local PBS station has an informative ad asking for donations and why..

It’s not beg week anymore..it’s gotta be a monthly contribution from viewers to keep the programming and it’s so worth keeping. The budget’s allocated for PBS n NPR is so minuscule, it makes no sense to cut it for the value it brings.

[progressoid]

3. It's to appease the base that has been fed a steady diet of the horrors of PBS and government funding

It doesn't matter if it only equates to a half a round of Trump golf. They get to own us libs!

[underpants]

4. Great as always. Link - Sesame Street caused Benghazi

Well, it killed our ambassador in Libya. Wait, what? Sure, take it away, noted sane person Mark Steyn.

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum and it’s no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their “safe house” in Benghazi. Or as J. Scott Gration, the president’s special envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: “We’ve got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes . . . ” The butchers of Darfur aren’t blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven’t given enough cookies. I’m not saying there’s a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary . . . well, actually I am.

Okeydokey!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-year-in-sesame-street-evil

[orangecrush]

6. These are the nutcases

We are facing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The important thing to remember is "Republicans in Congress keep allowing Trump to do Shit",

because they need to get re-elected. Tie Trump to them like an anchor round their neck. Make it a Democratic House and Senate in 2026.

[Grim Chieftain]

7. Seriously, how much is he going to get away with?

Every damn day it is something that would have been thought unimaginable just a year ago. Hate to put on a tin foil hat here, but I fear for what he may do to celebrate his birthday - carry out that quip about shooting someone on 5th Avenue?