Will this week be remembered as the time where NPR and PBS disappeared?

[alang1216]

What "effects" are you referring to? Do you mean things will go back to the way they were under Biden? The 9.1% inflation rate, high gas prices, supply line disruptions and shortages

Do you need a reminder of what it was like living in Joe Biden's America?

During the Biden/Harris presidency...

• Promised on several occasions that he would "end fossil fuels"

• Later stated “We’re going to need oil for at least another decade”

• Gasoline that rose over two times the price it was in 2018

• Ended Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2

• Suspected US involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

• The price of oil jumped up to $130 per barrel

• Drained US Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Begged Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• Dumped billions of dollars down the black hole of "Global Warming"

• U.S. household wealth down $13.5 trillion in 2022 - Second fastest decline on record

• Average middle-class family came up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropped 6,700 points in only a year

• Stock market lost $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rose by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.75%

• Home prices soared 43% in only two years and housing sales slumped

• Median asking rent prices rose 79.7% in only two years

• Bankrupted landlords by excusing rent payments

• US homelessness jumped 12% in 2023 to record high of 653,000 individuals

• Commercial Chapter 11 filings increased 68% in first half of 2023

• Grocery prices increased by 13.5% in only two years

• The price of electricity rose by 15.8% in only two years

• Americans paid $2,250 more in increased energy costs since Biden was elected

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• Raised the tax burden on Americans making as little as $20,000/year.

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• A broken election system corrupt with fraud, sometimes taking months to count

• Wholesale mailing of ballots, ballot drop boxes, and illegal ballot harvesting

• Used a complicit media to lie, distort facts, and disseminate disinformation

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Massive backlog of cargo ships at US ports in 2022

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Air transportation disrupted, thousands of flight cancellations in 2022

• FAA system outages that disrupted thousands of flights in 2023

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burning down

• Record prices for eggs and poultry

• Record number of ecological disasters, train derailments, chemical spills, and fires

• Thousands of small businesses destroyed in order to benefit mega-corporations

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• Allowed Communist China to operate "Police Stations" in American cities

• Allowed Chinese spy balloon to cross entire country, spying on military sites

• Used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a $12 hobbyist balloon over Alaska

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Vaccine mandates which caused deaths and debilitating health conditions

• Vaccine mandates which caused massive job losses for those who refused compliance

• Continued government funding for Planned Parenthood

• Eliminated Medicaid work requirements

• Increased food stamp giveaways by more than $1 billion a month, without Congress

• A whole generation of kids physically and psychologically damaged by prison-style lockdowns

• Subjecting young girls to creepy boys posing as "transgenders" in girl's locker rooms

• Stealing women's ability to fairly compete by allowing transgender males in women's sports

• Subjecting children to pornographic "Drag shows" and grooming them to be sex objects

• The promotion of transgenderism in schools, resulting in the genital and fertility mutilation
of children and adolescents by unethical medical practices and Big Pharma.

• Mass shootings occurring sometimes three times a week

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Shutting down private prisons and turning inmates loose

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 100,000 fentanyl deaths during Biden's first year of presidency

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• Encouraged illegals to "surge" across the border without reason for amnesty

• A neutered Immigration and Customs Enforcement, virtually stopping arrests and deportations

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• Added non-citizens to the census

• Immigration policies that dispersed COVID, crime, and potential terrorism throughout the US

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arresting 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A President who wouldn't visit the border and said he had "More important things going on."

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• Authorized drone strike killing 10 civilians, including 7 children, instead of ISIS-K operative

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• A weakened US military via destructive anti-white racism and transgender-promoting policies

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Traded an America-hating lesbian doper basketball player for a terrorist Russian arms dealer,
while leaving an American Marine in a Russian prison

• North Korea continuing to expand their nuclear enrichment and missile programs

• A stronger Iran increasing their funding for Hamas and Hezbollah

• China became more energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who fell off of a bicycle, fell up stairs, insulted
half the people in America, labeled people as "terrorists", divided the country, and tried to incite
a civil war.

I was thinking more like:

• children suffering health issues because of Medicaid cut
• people drowning due to staff shortages at the National Weather Service and FEMA
• increasing income disparity due to tax cuts
• radicalization of the justice system as judges, prosecutors, and FBI personnel are replaced
• increasing corruption now that Inspector Generals are gone
• America being considered an unreliable partner due to its erratic policies

You know, stuff like that.

 

[Moonglow]

I'd be very pleased if it were the end NPR in its current form. I'd be OK with it if it were objective and got no taxpayer dollars.

Be sure to pray to God, he'll donate.

 

[Moonglow]

1) I said America, did I not?

2) And most Americans DID vote to reverse the Democrat#’ harmful policies, with a clean sweep in all the swing states.

Are you STILL refusing to recognize that most Americans don’t want the leftist agenda - ESPECIALLY that of protecting illegals. Keep covering your ears as to what most people want, and keep losing elections.

Maybe most but not all. Trump learned to lie better than the Democrats.

 

[Mashmont]

Be sure to pray to God, he'll donate.

Drug-inducted comment.

 

[Foxfyre]

Congress is having a procedural vote today to cancel $9.4 billion in funds from international aid, PBS, and NPR. If the vote is passed, the wailing and gnashing of teeth will echo forever.

Senate to move on Trump's request to cancel billions in foreign aid, NPR and PBS funding​

"Washington — The Senate could move forward as soon as Tuesday on a request from the White House to claw back $9.4 billion in funds for international aid and public broadcasting as Congress faces a Friday deadline to act.

In what's known as a rescissions package, the White House in June requested that Congress cancel billions in funding that had previously been approved for spending, starting the clock on a process that gives lawmakers 45 days to act.

The move seeks to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency's spending cuts, with the package's primary focus being slashing foreign aid. But it would also effectively cut off federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said he hoped to hold the first procedural votes Tuesday, though he was still having conversations with some members who are resistant to pulling back all of the funding.

Last month, the House approved the request, overcoming opposition from all Democrats and four Republicans."

Senate to move on Trump's request to cancel billions in foreign aid, NPR and PBS funding

So NPR and PBS have been doing fund raisers and have said over and over how little government funding they receive and they need YOUR contributions to continue their 'great' programming. So not gettng that government money would force them to close up shop?

Something isn't computing there yes?

I don't listen to/watch either since they became so woke and so much of their programming is sociopolitical leftist propaganda. Seriously the American people should not be forced to fund that. Those who like that sort of stuff can use their tax savings courtesy of Congress and President Trump to up their contributions to make up for the presumed small shortfall due to the defunding.

We used to donate to PBS every year when they were still a non political information media source. They are no longer that and no longer merit out money.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Instead of defunding NPR, we should ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information in an ess

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) July 19, 2025 According to the political ideology that I subscribe to (libertarian), I’m supposed to be in favor of ending government funding of N…

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Instead of defunding NPR, we should ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information in an essay that was published by The Free Press.​

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

July 19, 2025

According to the political ideology that I subscribe to (libertarian), I’m supposed to be in favor of ending government funding of NPR. And from a theoretical point of view, I agree with that position.

But for me, the real world always supersedes any theory. NPR, along with its government funding, is a long standing tradition in this country, just like the national parks, the national museums, and the Post Office. So even though it goes against libertarian theory, I support a continuation of all of those things.

I like to call myself a “bad” libertarian because I am always happy and willing to disagree with libertarian theory whenever there is real world evidence against it.

Anyway, a lot of people who subscribe to libertarian (and conservative) ideology want to end government funding of NPR.

But I have a much better idea.

We should continue with government funding of NPR, but we should also ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information in an essay that was published by The Free Press.

On April 9, 2024, the Free Press published this opinion column by NPR senior editor Uri Berliner:

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

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2024040....com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

In that opinion column, Berliner wrote the following:

I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.

Seven days later, on April 16, 2024, NPR published the following:

Original: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2024042...62042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay

NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had “lost America’s trust” by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner’s five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner’s essay for the online news site The Free Press. It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network’s coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump.

Instead of defunding NPR, we should ask them to please explain why their editorial board consists of 87 registered Democrats and 0 registered Republicans, and why they suspended senior editor Uri Berliner after he mentioned that information in an essay that was published by The Free Press.

 

[skye]

Well done!

 

[Carl in Michigan]

 

[Moonglow]

PBS will change its name to TrumpSOB.

 

[Dekster]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.

www.cbsnews.com

Now that the Congressionally created Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down, I encourage you folks to check in on your local PBS stations and see how it affects them. Ours relied heavily on them so we will be making an additional donation toward their million dollar shortfall this week.

 

[JWBooth]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.

www.cbsnews.com

Now that the Congressionally created Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down, I encourage you folks to check in on your local PBS stations and see how it affects them. Ours relied heavily on them so we will be making an additional donation toward their million dollar shortfall this week.

As it should be, you donate, I ignore, nobody's pocket is picked.

 

[Dekster]

As it should be, you donate, I ignore, nobody's pocket is picked.

Nobody's pocket was picked to begin with. It isn't like we ever pay the national debt or either of our tax rates are based on what the government actually spends.

 

[JWBooth]

Nobody's pocket was picked to begin with. It isn't like we ever pay the national debt or either of our tax rates are based on what the government actually spends.