Oh no they’ve learned the word grift. Expect to hear this a lot more now
The fucking balls of Donald Trump calling NPR and PBS grifters… and you just know he’s reveling in people’s anger about this.
you make a great point, and i don’t think most people understand quite how satisfying it is to the soulless to hear cries from souls. these people are beyond evil as we define it. i’ve been trying to put my finger on it for almost a decade now, but i think you’ve nailed it down.
Every accusation is a confession.
Black has always been white.
Orange is the new black
Donold is an expert on grifts.
without doubt a clear and present danger to the established government.
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"Germany spends $142.42 per person on its public media. Norway spends $110.73, Finland $101.29, Denmark $93.16. Leave Scandinavia for Western Europe and you see the U.K. at $81.30, France at $75.89, and Spain at $58.25. Heading a bit east? The Czech Republic’s at $60.08, Estonia $55.70, and Lithuania $32.71.
Only trust the Anglosphere? Try Australia $35.78, New Zealand $26.86, or Canada $26.51. How about Asia? Japan spends $53.15, South Korea $14.93. Africa? Botswana’s at $18.38, Cabo Verde $15.22.
And then there’s the United States — which spends $3.16, per person, per year, on public broadcasting. Ten quarters, four dimes, five nickels, and a penny."
Clearly this is another great money saving budget cut. It is apparent everything is just an excuse to do what they want and facts be damned.
Why is it that every accusation they throw is direct projection? Tell me one thing the Trumpy Bois have accused someone of doing that they haven’t done themselves
Because they know “I don’t do that, YOU do that” sounds like a weak, unconvincing response and that most people are dumb.
It’s this exactly. It muddies the legitimate criticism.
Good news is that the vast majority of NPR’s funding is not from the government.
That said, now is the time to set up reoccurring donations.
Depending where you live, your local station may take a bigger hit percentagewise. Not mine, because both Pasadena and Santa Monica have lots of people who listen and can give. But it’s the NPR stations in red states that may need most help and be an important source of sanity. If you give to your station, they can chip in their bit to NPR at large.
Check if your employer will match as well.
There’s an actual silver lining here: “will ask Congress”.
Holy shit, they’re admitting there are other branches of the government, and that they have to be asked for something, instead of simply ordered or ignored.
Speaking of radio. They used doge to kill VOA and Radio Free Europe funding (perhaps that’s where the “ask the congress” comes from). As I understand a judge reinstated the funding, so the next thing trump did was shuttinh down the satellite that was responsible for broadcasting to Russia.
Shows who his real masters are.
Thank god our Canadian political leaders would never do…wait, lil’ PP said what?!
“For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.” -Lenin
Are they trying to get boomers to become Maoist Third Worldist? Because if more of these boomers start going to town halls and calling Republicans threatening to kill them for fucking with Medicare (and now NPR) I think we might be heading there.
I saw the post on Whitehouse website in my feed, it’s written so hostile and misleading. They clearly want public broadcasts to be propaganda, though if their own site is an example, their bias is so blatant and their writing so amateur that it won’t fool any regular NPR or PBS follower any time soon.
Too bad there’s already plenty of privately owned propaganda…
says the guy who regularly sends emails to his citizens urgently asking them to send him money for his court cases.
but yeah, NPR is the grift. just insane levels of delusion. and people believe him.
And signed golden gym shoes, cheap guitars, medallions with his face on them, BIBLES…!! Grift?
Sez the guy hawking golden gym shoes and self-signed junk guitars.
If that’s not the deepest black hole in space with a bucket of vantablack calling the kettle black, I dunno what is.
In these modern times, whether it news, day to day, or on here, I’m realising many American throw around terms with no idea of their fundamental meaning, just because they heard someone else using them.
It is so fucking confusing. And of course these are the kind of people that don’t like being told that they are making little sense, l failing to understand what a word means and the context in which to use it.
For example, both sides regularly call each other “the libs”. Then when you ask them what that is, you get two completely opposite concepts (obviously) of which both fundamentally oppose liberal thought, bar one or two specific of the many ideas.
It can only start from either a single misunderstanding or deliberate misinformation and then spreads like wildfire via types of media, because apparently many Americans hate taking a few seconds reading up on something prior to adopting it into their everyday outlook. The indoctrination is so easy and has been wildly successful.
So, watch more people adapt “grit” as a word, using it so out of context and so frequently, it may as well he “squanch.”
“Grift” not grit. Trump is bad-faith arguing that these public broadcasters offer no value and are just stealing from the public.
In reality this administration just doesn’t like them because journalism and facts fly in the face of their misinformation, disinformation, and political propaganda/spin.
That’s my point. Grift isn’t the correct term to use for that argument. But he’s heard it, he’ll use it, then we’ll have a bunch more people roaming around saying anything is grifting.
And they do the news. How does one grift the news without immediately being fact checked and called out? I can’t fathom a possible scam or swindle scenario.
“Another exclusive, Tom. We learn chickens are telepathic so we’re going live to get the opinions on the egg crisis with resident telepath, Kim Donovan. But only if Congress approves more funding, so write in those letters.”
I think it could be more tactical than simply not using the correct word. Trump has been a grifter his whole life; selling people things and not delivering on them…entering into contracts and not honoring his side of the agreement.
Being a grifter is a pervasive and consistent theme in his life, so when he accuses others of grifting, it indirectly softens those same accusations when levied at him.
Yeah, so he’s heard the term, got upset by it, and sent it back out on others to upset them. Like when a tankie calls a tankie a tankie but neither of them are tankies, they just know from personal experience people don’t like being called a tankie so tankies are now anyone but them. Next thing you know, a mindless mob are calling things like public new media channels
tankiesgrifters.
