DOGE goes after NPR

[The Sage of Main Street]

Yawns. When Trump flies to Florida it costs a mint. Nonetheless, like I said, doesn't cost either us a penny and won't save either of us a penny if he doesn't. They take what they take and spend more. As for USAID money, same as NPR money--really doesn't matter to me one way or the other. If you want to pretend you have a victory, then pretend away. Your taxes will be exactly the same.

Never Mind, and You Will Never Matter

Whatever you may postify, my reply is, "If they can take, we can take back."

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Perhaps. But I think we need to keep trying to give them an alternative viewpoint.

Talk Hard and Carry a Soft Dick

The Voice of America never achieved anything. It was a Chickenhawk fraud to make Americans and Iron Curtain nations think we were trying.

Look what the Communists did for their side, import revolutionaries and train them to overthrow the non-Communists governments.

And even when it looked like we were doing something, it was intentionally inadequate. such as JFK's Profile in Cowardice in letting Cuban patriots get slaughtered on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs.

 

[Dekster]

So what? He's the President of the ENTIRE country...not just D.C.

Yet he isn't the Congress and the congress will decide as it decides since the courts are bitch slapping Trump around already

 

[fncceo]

I do not have any cats.

That means someone else has 12.

 

[Pappadave1]

Yet he isn't the Congress and the congress will decide as it decides since the courts are bitch slapping Trump around already

He's in charge of the EXECUTIVE branch of our government. Not Congress and not the courts. That's who he's after.

 

[Scoutster]

Good. We've known for decades that Medicare and especially Medicaid are rife with corruption...especially via the pharmaceutical industry. I just paid $560 for a 90-day supply of a heart medication and that's after my insurance paid the BULK of the cost. That was my co-pay! A few months ago, I was prescribed what's called a "life-vest"...an external defibrillator...that's extremely uncomfortable, needing laundering every other day and going off for no apparent reason, even while I'm asleep. They're charging me $550 PER MONTH and that too is after my insurance pays over $3,500 per month! Just the battery pack for the thing I have to haul around and sleep with weighs 5 pounds!

Here is a thought you’re not gonna like it, if you have to have all these meds and are sleeping with a battery pack defibrillator to keep you alive you probably lived past your correct expected lifespan. I get it you’re holding on with your fingernails trying to put off death. We are all born and we all die, fighting that reality is sad in my opinion. Seriously look in a mirror today and ask yourself is this the quality of life I wanted at the end? I will never do what you have done to hold on with fingernails to stay alive at the end.

 

[Pappadave1]

Here is a thought you’re not gonna like it, if you have to have all these meds and are sleeping with a battery pack defibrillator to keep you alive you probably lived past your correct expected lifespan. I get it you’re holding on with your fingernails trying to put off death. We are all born and we all die, fighting that reality is sad in my opinion. Seriously look in a mirror today and ask yourself is this the quality of life I wanted at the end? I will never do what you have done to hold on with fingernails to stay alive at the end.

I refuse to wear that defibrillator and I often skip some of my meds because one of them makes me piss every 10 minutes for a couple of hours after taking it. I'm not fighting death at all. When God wants me he'll take me and I'm OK with that.

 

[kyzr]

Yet he isn't the Congress and the congress will decide as it decides since the courts are bitch slapping Trump around already

What court case has Trump/DOGE lost?

Congress does not run the Executive Branch, duh.

 

[Dekster]

What court case has Trump/DOGE lost?

Congress does not run the Executive Branch, duh.

So far he is behind in all the ones that are getting injunctions issued on them which include spending freezes, worker buyouts, ending birthright citizenship, sending transgender women to men's prisons, DOGE access to the federal payments, and terminating USAID.

 

[Pappadave1]

So far he is behind in all the ones that are getting injunctions issued on them which include spending freezes, worker buyouts, ending birthright citizenship, sending transgender women to men's prisons, DOGE access to the federal payments, and terminating USAID.

Nope.

 

[LeftofLeft]

It would be hard enough continued justified funding for NPR even if they were 50-50 split on liberal and conservative content. The fact that NOR is so slanted to the Left in its content and they expect the taxpayer to fund it is beyond sickening.

$528M could help assist homeless missions nationwide. It’s a better use of taxpayer funds.

 

[Dekster]

Nope.

LOL denial just isn't a river in egypt.

 

[Pappadave1]

LOL denial just isn't a river in egypt.

You should know.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Doge is now going after your healthcare Boomers.

The fraud in Medicare and Medicaid? Yes. My healthcare is through the VA. I add Medicare next month. Why should I care if they take away fraudulent care?

Back to the sink, worrior!

 

[Foxfyre]

PBS, parent company of NPR gets $525 million a year from the US Government. In the past three or so years, NPR which has always had a leftwing bent has become unlistenable. Just for the fun of it, I'll tune in when I get into the car, I hear one of four themes:

1. War on Gaza (always anti-Israel)
2. War in Ukraine
3 Some story involving climate change
4 Some story involving gays or trans.

And now add to that apoplectic stories about the evil of Trump. The other day they had a "journalist" on who is just so depressed and on edge about Trump, talking about how everything was so calm for the past four years. No effort at all to be even-handed. NPR has lost the small amount of credibility it ever had, and it's just gone full-bore leftwing all the time. No way in the hell the government should be funding it.

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

www.thefp.com

Most NPR listeners are leftwingers who fancy themselves as more educated and cultured than others. They often work for universities or other government subsidized enterprises. They attend wine-tastings and watch TCM movies. They eat out at vegan restaurants and hang out at shops in the historic section of town. They attend poetry readings and gush over unintelligible nonsense. They visit art museums and fuss over abstract sculptures and paintings a toddler might produce. They think they are better than red-state rubes. In reality, they are unintelligent gullible wannabes who buy Marxist lies.

Let's remove government funding and see if NPR is truly "listener-supported".

NPR and PBS are no longer the objective non partisan credible news organizations they were created to be. They are both mostly leftwing propaganda organizations anti most things GOP, rightwing, MAGA, Trump.

When taxpayers write a check to the IRS or their state government, they should expect the government to spend that money carefully, wisely, competently, fairly, and usefully in ways that are in the interest of the common good of all Americans. They should not be forced to fund propaganda.

 

[Foxfyre]

Doge is now going after your healthcare Boomers.

I certainly hope so. There isn't any place in government that needs a good audit more.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I certainly hope so. There isn't any place in government that needs a good audit more.

This...is fair.

 

[xyz]

I hear classical music when I turn it on just like when I worked at KUAF, NPR in Fayetteville, Arkansass.

I thought White Power types love that stuff.

 

[Moonglow]

I thought White Power types love that stuff.

College radio?

 

[Moonglow]

I certainly hope so. There isn't any place in government that needs a good audit more.

They gonna make you work a job.