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NPR Sues the Trump Administration, Alleging They Have a First Amendment Right to Have Their Radical Marxist Agenda Funded by the American Taxpayer

They have the right to live luxe lifestyles on your dime, Benighted Bigot Peons.

You are simply stupid insensate stalks of wheat to be harvested and threshed and consumed by the elites Glittering Mediocrities as they require.

Why won't you understand that?

National Public Radio and three of its affiliates in Colorado sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a sweeping executive order signed earlier this month that would terminate the outlet's federal funding.

In a suit filed in DC federal court, NPR and three stations -- Colorado Public Radio in Centennial, Roaring Fork Public Radio in Aspen and KSUT Public Radio in Ignacio -- alleged that President Trump's order unconstitutionally infringes on First Amendment protections.

"The Order's objectives could not be clearer: the Order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country," attorneys representing the radio stations wrote in the 43-page filing.

"The Order is textbook retaliation and viewpoint-based discrimination in violation of the First Amendment, and it interferes with NPR's and the Local Member Stations' freedom of expressive association and editorial discretion," they said.

"Lastly, by seeking to deny NPR critical funding with no notice or meaningful process, the Order violates the Constitution's Due Process Clause," they added.

...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought the following month asked Congress to claw back $1.1 billion in taxpayer funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides some funding for both NPR and PBS, as part of a rescissions bill that could pass by a simple majority.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been slated to receive $535 million in federal funds in fiscal years 2025 and 2026 to distribute to radio and TV stations -- including NPR and PBS.

Upwards of 70% of CPB's budget goes toward more than 1,500 local public media stations.

NPR takes around 1% of its funding from CPB, while PBS receives up roughly 15% of its revenue from the nonprofit.


Closely related: Noted True Conservative David French says that Harvard has a constitutional right to the taxpayer's money forever, for whatever reason, no matter how poorly it serves the public trust.

Do taxpayers have a constitutional duty to bankroll Harvard University?

On MSNBC, David French argued that the Trump administration's defunding of Harvard is little more than "political retaliation." In the United States, we don't sentence people before hearing the verdict, the New York Times columnist said. Ignoring due process is "directly contrary to our constitutional principles."

David might not be aware that in addition to the joint-government task force's claim that Harvard leadership failed to meaningfully confront pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation of Jewish students, there's also a blistering internal university taskforce report that maintains that Harvard allowed antisemitism to permeate "coursework, social life, the hiring of some faculty members and the worldview of certain academic programs." Harvard concedes, "members of the Jewish and Israeli communities at Harvard reported treatment that was vicious and reprehensible."

The verdict is in.

I'd also say that the government does not have to conduct jury trials to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before defunding an entity.

But David French thinks it does. At least when his leftwing allies' are losing their taxpayer-funded sinecures.


But, I suppose, I'd pose the situation in another way: If a government investigation and internal review both found that white supremacists on Harvard campus were terrorizing black students and engaging in racist marchers and that their violent beliefs had found favor in the school's curriculums and in social life, would anyone on MSNBC argue that the government had an obligation to keep funding this school until a civil lawsuit worked its way through the courts? One suspects not.

Now, I'm not accusing David French of being blind to the struggles of Jewish students. I am accusing him of being blinded by the presence of Donald Trump. Are the president's motivations political? Probably. So what? So are those of Harvard's defenders.

Harvard, a private institution, can do as it likes. There's nothing illegal about coddling extremists or pumping out credentialed pseudointellectuals. If the Trump administration failed to follow a bureaucratic process before freezing funds to the university, fine. Get it done. But what "constitutional principle" dictates that the federal government must provide this specific institution with $3 billion in federal contracts and grants? Giving it to them was a policy decision made by the executive branch. Withdrawing the funding is the same.

...

If your answer is that the school feels a profound obligation to defend free expression, I suggest you speak to some pro-Israeli or pro-capitalist or pro-American or social conservative student on campus and see how comfortable they feel about airing opinions. Harvard finished last for the second year running in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's "College Free Speech Rankings" in 2024, along with Columbia University and New York University. The only speech Harvard values is the extremist variety.

This is in NYC, but this is going on at Harvard, too.

Pay them, Bigots!

Bonus: David French, who has instructed Christians about the True Meaning of Christianity as if he were Jesus Reborn for the past ten years, and who proclaimed God's New Revelation that Drag Queen Story Hours are "a blessing of liberty," thinks that Trump's meme is "dangerous" and "blasphemous."

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Comments

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1 Wut?

They have a first amendment right.
They do not have a right to taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 04:30 PM (4neFu)

2 I called the others

Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (4neFu)

3 They do not listen very well

Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (4neFu)

4 Alright...I'll take the moderate position:

Instead of the government funding preferred viewpoints, the government should fund no media at all. Ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

5 NPR -- for when Sominex fails.

Posted by: zombie at May 30, 2025 04:32 PM (pMi6S)

6 If NPR has a 1st Amendment right to federal funding, do I have a 2nd Amendment right to federal funding?

Posted by: 29Victor at May 30, 2025 04:32 PM (TL7UX)

7 Trump is affecting the life and livelihood of citizens and noncitizens.

That must be stopped.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:32 PM (HcfrK)

8 Give me a break. All those pictures with Obama with a halo effect behind him-Obama "The Chosen one".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 30, 2025 04:33 PM (EJtBU)

9 >>>5 NPR -- for when Sominex fails.

I don't think I could fall asleep listening to NPR. I'd be too agitated.

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 04:33 PM (KRtlO)

10 Does this mean the NRA has a second amendment right to free rifles?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (yvnLa)

11 De-funding NPR and Harvard isn't political retaliation.

The funding was political malfeasance and cronyism in the first place and should have never occurred.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (VofaG)

12 Dammit, Victor!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (yvnLa)

13 I'm not going the be the one to tell Big-Bird I haven't got his money.

Posted by: Scared Vinny at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (FhXTo)

14 Haha! David French thinks he himself is on a mission from God. He thinks God wants him to persuade Christians to go along with the totalitarian marxist takeover of our nation.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (rF2iL)

15 Trump shouldn't just not spend the money, he should give it to AoS or PragerU or some right leaning media.

Make the FNM argue you can't give money to the right because that's biased AND you can't take money from the left because that's also biased.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (t0Rmr)

16 I would pay for tickets to the Stephen Miller show. I love him.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (TCLft)

17 I don't think I could fall asleep listening to NPR. I'd be too agitated.
Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 04:33 PM (KRtlO)

It’s not even the content as much as it is their smug, vaguely New Englandish sing-song diction.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (yd2/I)

18 Ann @ #1
In a nutshell.

Posted by: wth at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

19
No tax money to media, churches, illegals and crooked politicians. Did I miss something?

Posted by: four seasons at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (3ek7K)

20 Remember when Obama had "Prosecutorial Discretion" to refuse to defend the Defense of Marriage act?

That affected a lot of people, and allowed gays to get their foothold into enjoying "rights" that the court then argued could only be stripped by "substantive due process".

Whatever decision is made in this case, the acceleration of corruption will continue.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (HcfrK)

21 Haha! David French thinks he himself is on a mission from God. He thinks God wants him to persuade Christians to go along with the totalitarian marxist takeover of our nation.

TBH I have even higher reasons then that. Ones that only a serious Christian like myself can comprehend.

Namely, lady boys don't come for free

Posted by: David French at May 30, 2025 04:35 PM (t0Rmr)

22 Could DJT simply dissolve the Corporation For Public Broadcasting?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 04:36 PM (P6w8p)

23 Nobody ever seems to wonder why Harvard, Columbia, UCLA and many other universities across the country that take an assload of tax dollars all decided to support Hamas against Israel at the exact same time.

Think of Harvard as just another well paid NGO. Because that's exactly what it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:36 PM (viF8m)

24 PDT needs a thinner black tie and a hat.

Posted by: DaveA at May 30, 2025 04:36 PM (FhXTo)

25 Hold it, hold it. President Trump? What are you talking about? A gig like that, you gotta prepare the proper exploitation.
What is President Trump gonna do? The same act? Is he gonna wear the same verkakte suits?

Posted by: Maury Sline at May 30, 2025 04:37 PM (R/m4+)

26 The Left think precedence is like a non revokable order that can't ever be changed.

Unless of course it's something they want changed.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:37 PM (VofaG)

27
I would pay for tickets to the Stephen Miller show. I love him.
Posted by: CaliGirl

He's a Joker!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 04:37 PM (63Dwl)

28 I had a friend who brought a pretty funny NPR bit to my attention, though. It was a completely serious piece on the history of hip-hop.

So, imagine the classic NPR voiced soy males straight-faced and discussing N—-as With Attitude, but actually saying the word. (Soft A, of course.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:37 PM (yd2/I)

29 Stop funding media and colleges. All of them. If the sue, tell them to piss off, they have no right to taxpayers money. Period. Why is this hard? Oh. That's right. Leftists must have their indoctrination machine or they never win another election. We can't have that, now can we.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 30, 2025 04:37 PM (2J/Lj)

30 They have no right to our money.
But they do have the right to pack up and move to China.
Maybe they can get an audience there.

Posted by: Case at May 30, 2025 04:38 PM (a1g6Z)

31 Imma sue Trump for charging me $300 bucks for Medicare in my SS check. The bastard.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 30, 2025 04:38 PM (n17eQ)

32 Nobody ever seems to wonder why Harvard, Columbia, UCLA and many other universities across the country that take an assload of tax dollars all decided to support Hamas against Israel at the exact same time.

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They've got a Constitutional right to receive more money from the beggar state, even while sitting on 53 billion dollars in "endowment"!

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (HcfrK)

33 Does this mean the NRA has a second amendment right to free rifles?
Posted by: Warai-otoko


WE should. Especially M1 Garands. Since our tax dollars already bought them.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (ipqug)

34 They are using the 1st amendment argument because their low IQ audience will react to that.

It is not about logic or law, it is about the thinking equivalent of "click bait." This penetrates enough that the lefty drones will care and repeat it as if there is substance behind it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (x99pR)

35 French likes other men's jizz, Jew-haters, and drag queens. But he's SoooperChristian y'all!

Posted by: What. A. Cuck. at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (TbWk/)

36 They are doing this to try and wait out the Trump administration and hoping the hawaiin judge will make Trump turn the money spigot back on.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (e5NfL)

37 A Commissar Judge will come along and agree with National Propaganda Radio

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (ypFCm)

38
Namely, lady boys don't come for free
Posted by: David French

You gotta move these refrigerators...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (63Dwl)

39 You know what I would watch NPR for? If they sent a few AWFLs and/or soibois to the most "diverse" parts of South Africa to show us that there is no concern for white people there.

But only if they film it live and without notifying the government there first.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (t0Rmr)

40 The idiots have immunized Trump against legitimate criticism. But they still pretend their "concern" about tyranny is legit.

Posted by: Fen at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (ciYHQ)

41 Listning to NPR is like Perry Coma in The Animaniacs:

Aaaannnn vvviillanniiii
aaaaaa

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)

42 >>>Stop funding media and colleges. All of them.

It's a write-off, Jerry.


(This is my favorite meme that commenters are posting lately.)

Posted by: ace at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (KRtlO)

43 If NPR has a right to have their 1st Amendment paid for by the Gov't, I have a right to have my 1st and 2nd Amendment costs paid for by the Gov't too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

44 What a big girl's blouse.

"Incredibly dangerous". Shaddap and put a fuckin helmet on, ya pasty old lump.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (yvnLa)

45 37 A Commissar Judge will come along and agree with National Propaganda Radio
Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (ypFCm)

======

Defunding NPR is apparently part of the first rescission package that the House is going to vote on Monday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

46 More important news:

Hot Lips has passed away.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 30, 2025 04:40 PM (lb7G2)

47 I had a friend who brought a pretty funny NPR bit to my attention, though. It was a completely serious piece on the history of hip-hop.

So, imagine the classic NPR voiced soy males straight-faced and discussing N—-as With Attitude, but actually saying the word. (Soft A, of course.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director


Back when SNL was still slightly funny, they had a hilarious NOR sketch.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 04:40 PM (ipqug)

48 Imma sue Trump for charging me $300 bucks for Medicare in my SS check. The bastard.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 30, 2025 04:38 PM (n17eQ)

I’m gonna sue Trump for not sending me a SS check.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (yd2/I)

49 Noted True Conservative David French says that Harvard has a constitutional right to the taxpayer's money forever, for whatever reason, no matter how poorly it serves the public trust.

I'm surprised he hasn't put forward the Conservative Case for Gov't Funding of bulls that one's wife can cuck you with...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

50 Is David French suggesting that he's the only true Christian on planet Earth?

Posted by: dantesed at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (qm5Wv)

51 This is a point that the Right has not fully accepted -- the issue is never the issue. The issue is always revolution.

This explains why the Left switches positions so easily -- they are not arguing from a point of logic, they are arguing just to fuck things up and create revolution.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (x99pR)

52 I'm willing to bet that many public radio and TV stations have technical violations of their broadcast license terms, such that the FCC could justify suspending their broadcast licenses. Lawfare the assholes into oblivion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (P6w8p)

53 Is David French suggesting that he's the only true Christian on planet Earth?

Posted by: dantesed at May 30, 2025 04:41 PM (qm5Wv)
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Not conceited at all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:42 PM (HcfrK)

54 I am just utterly baffled by the argument that the government has to keep funding NPR or its a violation of the first amendment. Really? How on earth is that supposed to work?? I have no doubt you can get a Hawaiian judge to go along with you but this is ludicrous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:42 PM (2VST1)

55 The ironically named Kennedy School of Government got funding from USAID and the State Dept. Here's one of their programs.

>>The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) is a research center working across the University and a global network of researchers and practitioners to build an international pool of talent, convene academic and practitioner networks, and deploy breakthrough research to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

Isn't that nice? They have a "global network of researchers".

I'd like to know more about the deployment of breakthrough research. Sounds color revolutiony to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (viF8m)

56 Oh No!!! If we defund Harvard they are going to stop supplying us with the elitists that this country needs

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (oNeeU)

57 55 The ironically named Kennedy School of Government got funding from USAID and the State Dept. Here's one of their programs.

>>The Harvard Center for International Development (CID) is a research center working across the University and a global network of researchers and practitioners to build an international pool of talent, convene academic and practitioner networks, and deploy breakthrough research to address the world’s most pressing challenges.

Isn't that nice? They have a "global network of researchers".

I'd like to know more about the deployment of breakthrough research. Sounds color revolutiony to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (viF8m)

Just colorfully revolutionary...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

58 I am just utterly baffled by the argument that the government has to keep funding NPR or its a violation of the first amendment.

I expect no less from a deplorable such as you.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (s8j++)

59 I can't stop laughing about NPR - If the government is paying for your organization, then the government decides what you get to say. Caroline Levitt is a government spokesman. If she says shit the government (Trump) doesn't agree with, she gets FIRED. She is being paid to speak on behalf of the government. To represent their interests.

NPR is getting paid to provide programming that pleases both political parties - they have no right to free speech.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (gDhA9)

60
This simplifies things.

If you are a Republican congressman or Senator opposed to defending public broadcasting, you are the enemy, worse than a Democrat 'cause you're a traitor, too.

Posted by: Auspex at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (j4U/Z)

61 verkakte suits?

Don't you blasphmeme in here!

Posted by: Dry White Toast at May 30, 2025 04:44 PM (FhXTo)

62 I am just utterly baffled by the argument that the government has to keep funding NPR or its a violation of the first amendment. Really? How on earth is that supposed to work?? I have no doubt you can get a Hawaiian judge to go along with you but this is ludicrous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:42 PM (2VST1)
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It just has to get in front of a progressive judge.

It's why the left venue shops.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:44 PM (HcfrK)

63 60
This simplifies things.

If you are a Republican congressman or Senator opposed to defending public broadcasting, you are the enemy, worse than a Democrat 'cause you're a traitor, too.

Posted by: Auspex at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (j4U/Z)

The answer is simple; fire all the current reporters on NPR and hire only conservative ones. Then you'll see the Left declare Trump can't fund that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:44 PM (ynpvh)

64 David French has a 5th Amendment right to STFD and STFU, but he never exercises it.

Except when his wife is having sex.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (DgGvY)

65 Every time French kisses his wife he tastes what other men had for lunch

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (oaPfe)

66 62 It just has to get in front of a progressive judge.

It's why the left venue shops.
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:44 PM (HcfrK)

=======

Doesn't help when the administration is willing to take everything to SCOTUS.

It only works when the administration is eager to sue and settle. Which Trump's DOJ is not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

67 I've wanted NOR and PBS defunded for years. I want it gone now just to shove it up that woman Maher's fartclam

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (O8bOp)

68 12 Dammit, Victor!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:34 PM (yvnLa)

We're connected.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 30, 2025 04:45 PM (TL7UX)

69 If TV, the Media, and Universities were of great value, they would not need public funding.

Space X runs on Starlink profits.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (u82oZ)

70 The truly amazing thing is that NPR has been lying for DECADES about the extent of their taxpayer funding. It's obvious that if the amount was as small as they claim, they'd say "you know what, screw it, your pocket change isn't worth the hassle".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (s8j++)

71 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (t8CWH)

72 The See Eye Ayy blewed Kennedy’s brains out, then slapped his name on their front organization for coups. The magnificent hubris.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (yd2/I)

73 And you know that you can't watch a lot of programs shown on PBS unless you pay for them.

Square that circle with their arguments.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (VofaG)

74 Is David French suggesting that he's the only true Christian on planet Earth?

Pharisees got nothin on David French.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (2VST1)

75 70 The truly amazing thing is that NPR has been lying for DECADES about the extent of their taxpayer funding. It's obvious that if the amount was as small as they claim, they'd say "you know what, screw it, your pocket change isn't worth the hassle".
Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (s8j++)

=======

"We will die if we don't keep 3% of our funding!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

76 71 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (t8CWH)

I would clear it up for you, but I don't want to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

77 54 I am just utterly baffled by the argument that the government has to keep funding NPR or its a violation of the first amendment. Really? How on earth is that supposed to work?? I have no doubt you can get a Hawaiian judge to go along with you but this is ludicrous.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:42 PM

Well as I've been told that whatever is not forbidden is mandatory and here we are.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (xHmR4)

78 NPR can definitely exercise their right to speak. If what they have to say is so important they will have no problem raising money to support their efforts. Somewhere the Jerry Lewis Telethon playbook is around as a blueprint for their efforts.

Posted by: Piper at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (2N3ca)

79 NPR is getting paid to provide programming that pleases both political parties - they have no right to free speech.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 04:43 PM (gDhA9)
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But NPR is the most slanted coverage out there. It's been proven.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (HcfrK)

80 76 71 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (t8CWH)

I would clear it up for you, but I don't want to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

=====

The accent mark fills me with ennui...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

81 Say I sell ice cream. And I hire an advertiser. And they come up with a slogan "But my Ice Cream or I'll murder your family". I decide to fire them.

Will a court now decide I have infringed on their right to free speech? I mean, they get to SAY whatever they want, right? They do, but I am under no obligation to PAY for it.

The obvious answer is NPR doesn't get a dime and gets to say whatever the fuck they want. OR They get paid by the government and curtail their speech.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (gDhA9)

82 Supposedly Psacki lost her pshow on MSNBC

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (2VST1)

83 >> Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement."

I’m old enough to remember when spelling bees were won by kids, not words. Get off my lawn!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (yd2/I)

84 I've wanted NOR and PBS defunded for years. I want it gone now just to shove it up that woman Maher's fartclam

I think Maher is one of the few libs who is good enough that he can get people to pay for his stuff. Let's find out, shall we.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (s8j++)

85 This is also the Planned Parenthood Ploy

"Only 0.0003% of our operations are abortions."
"Government funding of abortions is necessary for our survival."

NPR:
"Only 1% of our revenue comes from the government"
"Without government spending, Big Bird will have to suck dicks behind the 7-11 to pay for his medicine."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (x99pR)

86 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?
Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (t8CWH)

éclaircissement.

E with a little thingy on top, cee, ell....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (yvnLa)

87 This is the Dems plan to win back young male voters.

Put your drink down before looking....

https://tinyurl.com/y66p8sc7

Posted by: jsg at May 30, 2025 04:48 PM (4V/uj)

88 I was told (by NPR) that they get their money from donations.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 04:48 PM (oNeeU)

89 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?
Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp!

* looks it up *

Heh. A retrospectively ironic comment.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 04:48 PM (DgGvY)

90 Well as I've been told that whatever is not forbidden is mandatory and here we are.

"I'm moving out of California before they make it mandatory"
--Bob Hope

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (2VST1)

91 This is the Dems plan to win back young male voters.

Put your drink down before looking....

https://tinyurl.com/y66p8sc7

Posted by: jsg at May 30, 2025 04:48 PM (4V/uj)
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Greetings, my fellow young American males!

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (HcfrK)

92 I’d sooner buy something worthwhile with my tax money, not snooty people on radio preaching at me.

Posted by: Eromero at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (jgmnb)

93 Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement." May I have a definition please? The state of ecstasy brought about by eating eclairs?
Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 30, 2025 04:46 PM (t8CWH)

I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (P6w8p)

94 Anyone in NPR among the 5.1 million agents India has here infiltrating the U.S.?

https://x.com/amandalouise416/status/1928432075046040018

Posted by: Naqamel at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (72SPe)

95 Prior to working for NPR, Katherine Maher worked at the Atlantic Council and sat on the the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

The people who brought us the Ukraine war.

She's basically CIA.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:50 PM (viF8m)

96 ***David French thinks...
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That's an unproven assertion contrary to any published material or public appearances.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2025 04:50 PM (85azL)

97 39 You know what I would watch NPR for? If they sent a few AWFLs and/or soibois to the most "diverse" parts of South Africa to show us that there is no concern for white people there.

But only if they film it live and without notifying the government there first.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 30, 2025 04:39 PM (t0Rmr)
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I give you Amy Biehl ad her stupid parents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Biehl

Posted by: Ciampino - if you had lived there then .... at May 30, 2025 04:50 PM (sPQoU)

98 Back when SNL was still slightly funny, they had a hilarious NOR sketch.
Posted by: rickb223

Gay Communist Gun Club

Posted by: Miklos did not qualify at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (K6h4I)

99 éclaircissement.

E with a little thingy on top

***

It’s a beret. That’s a French e.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (yd2/I)

100 "Has anyone ever used this word in a sentence?"

"No."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (yvnLa)

101 Take the éclaircissement, leave the gun

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

102 93 I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 04:49 PM (P6w8p)

=====

This exposé I'm reading in a café has really opened my eyes to this feeling of déjà vu. Hold on, the maître d' of the establishment wants to ask me about the soufflé I ordered à la carte with my rosé. Perhaps I'll hit that piñata when I'm done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

103 The job of NPR is to shill for the American government and American society. They are the voice of America, directed AT America.

I had no issues when they TRIED to serve the rest of the country. prairie home companion. McLaughlin report. Car talk. Something at least trying to be slightly conservatish. But they have straight up rejected that role, so fuck them.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (gDhA9)

104 I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.

That would be my reaction as well: exactly how many times has that been used in English literature and media, and use one hand to count it. That is not valid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

105 I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

MERDE!

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (K6h4I)

106 I'm not going the be the one to tell Big-Bird I haven't got his money.
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I bet its moved Bert & Ernie to tears.

Posted by: Crusader at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (TN0g+)

107 70 The truly amazing thing is that NPR has been lying for DECADES about the extent of their taxpayer funding. It's obvious that if the amount was as small as they claim, they'd say "you know what, screw it, your pocket change isn't worth the hassle".
Posted by: Archimedes

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They actually changed their fee structures to allow this. It used to be that the main corporations (NPR, PBS) were mostly gov. funded and their programming was very low cost to the stations. But to deny that they were "government funded," they started charging very high fees to the stations (which are government funded) for what was essentially free programming mostly produced with government grants. So all the funding comes from special grants for a specific program (say arts grant for a history program) and local stations.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (x99pR)

108 Posted by: Ann at May 30, 2025 04:30 PM (4neFu)

Hello Ann. Are the Ann of LGF fame?

Posted by: easy the elder at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (GZ5ZB)

109
*speaking calmly and quietly*

Focus on the lines on the road passing you by, as you listen to my voice. The lines are slowing down... they're getting slower... your T levels are falling... you find yourself slipping into a calm and submissive state. You are now receptive to truth. You love this truth.

You enjoy the music of Philip Glass. Experts say Trump is a 21st century Torquemada. You want to hear about a woke controversy surrounding three time Tony Award winner Patti LuPine after this newsbreak. You're considering exploring sodomy tonight. Place your trust in the will of the collective. Fungi are a powerful and overlooked climate ally. Turn your lawn into mushrooms. You are having erotic feelings about Michelle Obama. When I count down from three and snap my fingers, you will go to the nearest gender affirming care center.

Posted by: NPR on any given day at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

110 Prior to working for NPR, Katherine Maher worked at the Atlantic Council and sat on the the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

The people who brought us the Ukraine war.

She's basically CIA.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 04:50 PM (viF8m)

And Wikipedia, which is the most powerful reference resource on Earth.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (yd2/I)

111 >>>I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Exactly. Hang the judges and the committee that allowed that word to be introduced.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2025 04:53 PM (85azL)

112 NPR:
"Only 1% of our revenue comes from the government"
"Without government spending, Big Bird will have to suck dicks behind the 7-11 to pay for his medicine."

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at May 30, 2025 04:53 PM (oaPfe)

113
I give you Amy Biehl ad her stupid parents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Biehl
Posted by: Ciampino - if you had lived there then .... at May 30, 2025 04:50 PM (sPQoU)

Talk about being mugged by reality.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025 04:53 PM (xHmR4)

114 threshed and consumed by the elites Glittering Mediocrities as they require.
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Oh my!

Posted by: Pete Buttiguig at May 30, 2025 04:53 PM (2bFN5)

115 This exposé I'm reading in a café has really opened my eyes to this feeling of déjà vu. Hold on, the maître d' of the establishment wants to ask me about the soufflé I ordered à la carte with my rosé. Perhaps I'll hit that piñata when I'm done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at May 30, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

Real English speakers can write all those foreign loan* words without the faggy accent marks.

*actually not loaned. English stole 'em, fair and square.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (P6w8p)

116 ". . . I suggest you speak to some pro-Israeli or pro-capitalist or pro-American or social conservative student on campus and see how comfortable they feel about airing opinions."

Exactly. Several years running my boss asked us in our university institute for suggestions for that year's prestige speaker. Several times I suggested Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell. Neither was ever considered or discussed. One of my co-workers actually said aloud in one of our meetings, "Naomi Klein, yes; Naomi Wolf, never."

When I put my printout of the "Fight! Fight!" Trump pic (with no commentary, mind you) up over my desk, within two weeks somebody complained anonymously to my boss, who dragged the personnel people into it. They insisted I take it down. I pointed out that a faculty member in our office had had anti-conservative cartoons and slogans up on his door for several years. Yes, they made him take those down too. But mine, even though I explained carefully that it was a testament to courage and not really a political statement, was considered verboten.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)

117 Awww. David French has his pantries in a twist.

Trump IS on a mission from God. I believe his life was spared because Trump has a job to do. And he’s doing it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (W2Pud)

118 And I can't quote. Apologies.

Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (oaPfe)

119
You should be happy to be forced to give money to people who hate you and think they're entitled to the fruits of their robbery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (QnmlO)

120 having erotic feelings about Michelle Obama. When I count down from three and snap my fingers, you will go to the nearest gender affirming care center.
Posted by: NPR on any given day at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

Liberalism is a social contagion because all the cool kids are into it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (xHmR4)

121 I give you Amy Biehl ad her stupid parents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Biehl

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Biehl Zebub.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (HcfrK)

122 Those commies better watch out. They don't perceive how fed up normal Americans are with their golden phallacious bull.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 30, 2025 04:55 PM (85azL)

123 The truly amazing thing is that NPR has been lying for DECADES about the extent of their taxpayer funding. It's obvious that if the amount was as small as they claim, they'd say "you know what, screw it, your pocket change isn't worth the hassle".
Posted by: Archimedes

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They actually changed their fee structures to allow this. It used to be that the main corporations (NPR, PBS) were mostly gov. funded and their programming was very low cost to the stations. But to deny that they were "government funded," they started charging very high fees to the stations (which are government funded) for what was essentially free programming mostly produced with government grants. So all the funding comes from special grants for a specific program (say arts grant for a history program) and local stations.

Assuming you trust The Hill, which, you know, I don't, here's their explanation of the funding.

https://is.gd/P3tg2w

Posted by: Archimedes at May 30, 2025 04:55 PM (s8j++)

124 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 04:52 PM (x99pR)

I would have expected a Bob to have used Bob Ross as an example😀

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:55 PM (VofaG)

125 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (kTd/k)

126 NPR on any given day

Heh

Posted by: Le Mikleuse, amusée at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (K6h4I)

127
Wait, wait, I've got it!

"it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly a thousand glittering mediocrities."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (n7rxJ)

128 I saw The Ennui open for The Eloi and the Morlocks at The Music Farm in ‘94.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

129 David French has never seen the Blues Brothers. Says a lot about that putz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (O8bOp)

130 The truth is most Americans simply don't care about NPR, and the ones who do are inflexibly hard left Democrat donors, so there is no cost to cutting them off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (2VST1)

131 They actually changed their fee structures to allow this. It used to be that the main corporations (NPR, PBS) were mostly gov. funded and their programming was very low cost to the stations. But to deny that they were "government funded," they started charging very high fees to the stations (which are government funded) for what was essentially free programming mostly produced with government grants. So all the funding comes from special grants for a specific program (say arts grant for a history program) and local stations.

Assuming you trust The Hill, which, you know, I don't, here's their explanation of the funding.

https://is.gd/P3tg2w
Posted by: Archimedes



Doesn't PBS have a membership pledge drive 40 out of 52 weeks?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (ipqug)

132 "it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly a thousand glittering mediocrities."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (n7rxJ)

Brava!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (yd2/I)

133 Government funding is our First Amendment Right so we can charge the taxpayers again if they want to watch a repeat of our programming.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (VofaG)

134 I would regard that as a foreign word, not commonly used in English-speaking countries. English does not have an acute accent. Word is void for a U.S. spelling bee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Could they have spelling bees in Japan? Every word's pronunciation is its spelling.

"Spell 'tsunami'."

The answer is either "つなみ" (tsu na mi) in hiragana, or "津波" (tsu nami, "harbor wave") in kanji.

They'd have to be written tests. And basically just kanji-memorization tests, then.

Posted by: mikeski at May 30, 2025 04:57 PM (DgGvY)

135 Listen, I want NPR defunded as much as anyone, if their funding is explicitly appropriated by congress then there is not much wiggle room to yank it.

But since we don't actually do budgets anymore, who the f**k knows what's explicitly funded any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 30, 2025 04:58 PM (XV/Pl)

136 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (kTd/k)

My Roku Live TV has the Red Green Show. No idea about Riverdance.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 04:58 PM (0aYVJ)

137 it was a testament to courage and not really a political statement, was considered verboten.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 04:54 PM (omVj0)

I liked it better when men were allowed to hang a snap on tools calendar and if a chick didn't like it she can stay away and ignore it. Sticks and stones.

Whatever this is sounds like a terrible way to spend your time. Tattling on people for their art.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025 04:58 PM (xHmR4)

138 To Democrats the tears of citizens are just water.

Posted by: Vivi at May 30, 2025 04:58 PM (1Mmnv)

139 Why would anybody take the contention "I'm on a mission from God" as blasphemy.

Or "borderline blasphemy"?

I think it's more a figure of speech for commitment.

So why do I have to take it as blasphemy?

It's French's hair. He can light it on fire over this if he wants to. But it is an idiom as well.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (HcfrK)

140 But mine, even though I explained carefully that it was a testament to courage and not really a political statement, was considered verboten.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

HR got even worse when they hired that Freisler guy.

Posted by: Miklos on Gumbo Fraday at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (K6h4I)

141 The truth is most Americans simply don't care about NPR, and the ones who do are inflexibly hard left Democrat donors, so there is no cost to cutting them off.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


I don't know about NPR, but EVERY PBS program always state that the funding for that prycame from the Bob And Barbara XXX foundation along with a half dozen other foundations.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (ipqug)

142
Can't say I've watched anything on PBS in decades. I contributed to the radio station in Cincinnati after they shoved all the dreary NPR stuff onto the Xavier University station and went to all classical music.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (QnmlO)

143 PBS also carried Fawlty Towers

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (kTd/k)

144 They have the right to live luxe lifestyles on your dime, Benighted Bigot Peons.
You are simply stupid insensate stalks of wheat to be harvested and threshed and consumed by the elites Glittering Mediocrities as they require


Now that right there is some first rate snark and bile-inducing commentary! I like it!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (W/lyH)

145 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?

Hey back in the day PBS had some great stuff on it. They had Red Green yeah and Monty Python and Blackadder and Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes and Robin of Sherwood and stuff like Are You Being Served? They had a purpose back in the 80s and even early 90s. No more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (2VST1)

146 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:56 PM (kTd/k)

Well, if you chug a bottle of Yukon Jack, you could experience Liverdance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (P6w8p)

147 It's French's hair. He can light it on fire over this if he wants to. But it is an idiom as well.
Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (HcfrK)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HIS SCALP FOLICLES ALL SUCCUMBED TO TESTOSTERONE STARVATION AND WITHERED AWAY YEARS AGO

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (yvnLa)

148 To Democrats the tears of citizens are just water.
Posted by: Vivi


To me, the tears of Democrats are like an elixir from Heaven.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (ipqug)

149 There is also a Bob Ross channel on Roku.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:00 PM (VofaG)

150 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?
Posted by: Northernlurker


YouTube.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:01 PM (ipqug)

151 I am certain my First Amendment right to freedom of religion mandates that NPR lawyers spend the rest of their natural lives in servitude to my church.... maybe they can have every other weekend off.

This is how this works, right?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (/lPRQ)

152 Noted True Conservative David French says that Harvard has a constitutional right to the taxpayer's money forever, for whatever reason, no matter how poorly it serves the public trust.

Mister French was always an idiot. And an asshole.

Posted by: Buffy at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (D0HYP)

153 Assuming you trust The Hill, which, you know, I don't, here's their explanation of the funding.

https://is.gd/P3tg2w
Posted by: Archimedes

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It is basically what I said, (Only more accurate because I am just a moron), but my point was that they changed to this form of accounting after taking heat (I think under Reagan) for being government funded.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (x99pR)

154 Listen, I want NPR defunded as much as anyone, if their funding is explicitly appropriated by congress then there is not much wiggle room to yank it.

But since we don't actually do budgets anymore, who the f**k knows what's explicitly funded any longer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 30, 2025 04:58 PM (XV/Pl)

We’re well past norms, now. SCOTUS just created a Federal Obamacare marketplace, even though it didn’t exist in the statute, because communism.

So I don’t give a single f*ck what was or was not appropriated. Just cut them off, shut off their access, suspend their bank accounts. Whatever must be done.

If you’re waiting for the GOP Congress to save us, you’ll be waiting forever. Only we can save ourselves, and Trump is the primary person fighting with us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (yd2/I)

155 The NPR station around here will not show The Red Green Show. So I bought eight years of episodes.

Keep your stick on the ice!

Posted by: Case at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (a1g6Z)

156 Where could I watch The Red Green Show or Riverdance if there was no NPR?
Posted by: Northernlurker


And the thing that SUCKS about PBS?
You can't always get Red Green on the channel. You just have to get lucky and pray they are showing it.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (ipqug)

157 R. I. P. Hot Lips Houlihan.

Loretta Swit, the actress best known for her role as Major Margaret Houlihan on the acclaimed television series "M*A*S*H," died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist said. She was 87.
Posted by: rickb223

===

How do we know she wasn't 86'd?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (/lPRQ)

158 PBS also carried Fawlty Towers

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (kTd/k)
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But it's also been on Netflix.

Posted by: Axeman at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (HcfrK)

159 As hard as it is to believe I learned that if you watch 10 Bob Ross episodes in a row he can become unlikable .

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (VofaG)

160 >>I don't know about NPR, but EVERY PBS program always state that the funding for that prycame from the Bob And Barbara XXX foundation along with a half dozen other foundations.

Guess where a lot of those foundations got their money?

The Tides Foundation was a big funder of the BLM terrorists. They got 10s of millions from USAID. Classic money laundering. Lots of government money gets laundered through foundations and other cut outs.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (viF8m)

161 We’re well past norms, now. SCOTUS just created a Federal Obamacare marketplace, even though it didn’t exist in the statute, because communism.

So I don’t give a single f*ck what was or was not appropriated. Just cut them off, shut off their access, suspend their bank accounts. Whatever must be done.

If you’re waiting for the GOP Congress to save us, you’ll be waiting forever. Only we can save ourselves, and Trump is the primary person fighting with us.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director


This X1000!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (ipqug)

162 But, but, if they cut NPR's government funding where are smug co-workers are going to get their DNC talking points to show how you how much better they are than you?

Posted by: Beartooth at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (dLmtu)

163 How do we know she wasn't 86'd?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 30, 2025 05:02 PM (/lPRQ)

It's a real catch 22.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 05:04 PM (yvnLa)

164 Mission from god often meant kicking ass and taking names.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 05:04 PM (gDhA9)

165 Mission from god often meant kicking ass and taking names.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 05:04 PM (gDhA9)

Jake and Elroy can attest

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:05 PM (VofaG)

166 Maybe cutting their funding is literally denying their very existence, like for transsexual people. In other words, it is murder.

Posted by: PG at May 30, 2025 05:05 PM (afPT4)

167 Schwetty Balls was the only program I ever liked.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (cYBz/)

168 How do we know she wasn't 86'd?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


Probably because she hadn't done anything since 1998 except for one appearance in 2019. Her career wasn't threatening anyone.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (ipqug)

169 don't take éclaircissement if you are allergic to éclaircissement or if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant or even if you are a dude who can't get pregnant

éclaircissement may cause drowsiness, loss of appetite, insatiable hunger, headache, itching, burning, diarrhea, hair loss, nausea, blindness, homicidal thoughts, suicidal thoughts and death

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (oNeeU)

170 I picked up a full set of Farty Towels on DVD for pretty cheap, most of that stuff isn't bad to get your own copy of right now. The expensive stuff is the old audio dramas like the BBC's Lord of the Rings

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (2VST1)

171 David French leans slightly to being useless.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (kTd/k)

172 "... The Democrat Party's philosophy right now is for foreigners, everything — for Americans, nothing."

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Not to mention for at least the past 60 years ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (op3Dq)

173 >> Winning word in the 2025 national spelling bee: "éclaircissement."

I’m old enough to remember when spelling bees were won by kids, not words. Get off my lawn!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 04:47 PM (yd2/I)

I'm still mad that no actual bees participate in the spelling bees.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

174 Don't just cut their funding.

Charge them to access their piece of the spectrum. Like everyone else.

Retroactively.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (yvnLa)

175 David French has the perfect last name.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (VofaG)

176 Maybe cutting their funding is literally denying their very existence, like for transsexual people. In other words, it is murder.
Posted by: PG at May 30, 2025 05:05 PM (afPT4)

Trannies who get the surgery are murderers. Some male child gets his dick and balls cut off, and fake vagina installed? He has murdered his parents' son.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (P6w8p)

177 English pursues other languages down dark alleys, beats them unconscious, then rifles their pockets for loose vocabulary.

Posted by: 'Murica at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/)

178 As hard as it is to believe I learned that if you watch 10 Bob Ross episodes in a row he can become unlikable .
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:03 PM (VofaG)

There is really only so much “Pretty little clouds” and “Peaceful little trees” anybody over the age of 6 can take, no matter how sweet & calming the delivery,

He’s like the Mister Rogers of art teachers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

179 Blackadder and Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes and Robin of Sherwood and stuff like Are You Being Served? They had a purpose back in the 80s and even early 90s. No more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


You can see all that on BritBox.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (ipqug)

180 re 158; probably also free on youtube. they have 'yes, minister'. which is sometimes pretty brilliant

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (CWTWj)

181 I'm still mad that no actual bees participate in the spelling bees.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+

What kind of bees give milk?

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (VofaG)

182 I'm still mad that no actual bees participate in the spelling bees.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (8avO+)

"Can you use that in a sentence?"

*wiggling butt, dancing in a figure 8* "bzz zzzzz BZZZzzz ZZzzzz."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (yvnLa)

183 I listened to KSUT when I lived in Farmington, NM. It had good music programming during the day. When a biggish musical act came to Durango for a concert, they would often go out to the Ignacio studio and do an interview and play a few songs live on air. It was nice. It's also linked to the Southern Ute tribe, who make plenty of money from oil and gas exploration and production and their casino if they want to pay for it.

Posted by: huerfano at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (n2swS)

184 What kind of bees give milk?
Posted by: polynikes

That's easy - Boo Bees.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 30, 2025 05:08 PM (cYBz/)

185 OH NO!!!

NOT THE BEEEEEEES!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 05:09 PM (W2Pud)

186 What kind of bees give milk?
Posted by: polynikes


Boobies!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 30, 2025 05:09 PM (ipqug)

187 OH NO!!!

NOT THE BEEEEEEES!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 30, 2025 05:09 PM (W2Pud)

Not the Bs. It's an attack of the DEEEEEES!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 30, 2025 05:09 PM (VNX3d)

188 NPR, you will get nothing and like it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (u82oZ)

189 When I go to YouTube I get preoccupied with big breasted Korean women putting up luxury tents

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (kTd/k)

190 "We don’t rely on the government — only 1%!”

“Cutting this funding could devastate public radio!”

They seem contradictory, but NPR actually is both a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (2ap+5)

191 "would anyone on MSNBC argue that the government had an obligation to keep funding this school until a civil lawsuit worked its way through the courts?"

It's worse than that - a CIVIL LAWSUIT DID GO THROUGH THE COURTS AND HARVARD LOST. Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard. The United States Supreme Court ruling that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

They were then ordered, by the supreme court, to comply. They instead spent the last year scheming to find ways not to comply with the supreme court ruling. They literally had recorded teleconferences where they tried to find ways around fair admissions policies.

The attacks on Jewish students were the tip of the iceberg here.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (gDhA9)

192 I picked up a full set of Farty Towels on DVD for pretty cheap, most of that stuff isn't bad to get your own copy of right now. The expensive stuff is the old audio dramas like the BBC's Lord of the Rings
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:06 PM (2VST1)

And I’m left wondering if that was one of the best autocucumbers of all time or Fawlty Towers is actually referred to that way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

193 Cuckboy French and the plaintiffs in the NPR case are really arguing the Ratchet Action of The Progressive Destruction of America Machine. The ratchet allows movement in only one direction. Once a progressive entity gets its ratchet hook into the US Treasury, it argues it is the end of the World to release the ratchet. Attempting to do so for any reason, is a violation of every Amendment and law, as well as un-American political interference! F 'em.

Posted by: Gref at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (aBgBM)

194 Ace calls us all stupid insensate stalks of wheat, and all I have in response is "Dum dum poopy pants."

It pays to enrich your word power.

Posted by: Orson at May 30, 2025 05:11 PM (dIske)

195 R. I. P. Hot Lips Houlihan.

Loretta Swit, the actress best known for her role as Major Margaret Houlihan on the acclaimed television series "M*A*S*H," died Friday at her home in New York City, her publicist said. She was 87.

Posted by: rickb223

-----------------

[One of my favorite lines -- which I still use to this day:]

* Frank Burns gives her a gift that she really wanted for some occasion *

* Hot Lips gives him a big hug while saying: *

"Oh Frank ... you're SO above average!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028 -- Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 05:11 PM (op3Dq)

196 Can't say I've watched anything on PBS in decades. I contributed to the radio station in Cincinnati after they shoved all the dreary NPR stuff onto the Xavier University station and went to all classical music.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 30, 2025 04:59 PM (QnmlO)

typical even there going to music that only a few would like. Why not play old country music, old rock too?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:11 PM (8avO+)

197 And I’m left wondering if that was one of the best autocucumbers of all time or Fawlty Towers is actually referred to that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (6ydKt

I wonder the same thing.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (kTd/k)

198 Men without chests.

Posted by: El Borak at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (BSNnK)

199 You can see all that on BritBox.

Right, that's where we are now, we don't need PBS or NPR any more to fill in gaps in entertainment and information. I can buy Connections 1 and watch them at home. I can see Yes, Minister on Britbox. ALL the things the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set up to accomplish has long ago been fulfilled. Shut it down.

I mean, I wrote about this in 2010 for crying out loud. Its only gotten more true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

200 And of course the Biden Administration was suing the biggest Christian university in the country on made up charges.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (VofaG)

201 Well, lunch break is over. Back to the salt mines. Another barn pigeon bit the dust today. Woot!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (P6w8p)

202 "Nothing can stop what is coming"

Sounds like a Q(anon) quote.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (vbXSk)

203 And I’m left wondering if that was one of the best autocucumbers of all time or Fawlty Towers is actually referred to that way.

It was one of the gags on the show, the sign out front was vandalized every episode until it finally read FARTY TOWELS

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

204
I had no issues when they TRIED to serve the rest of the country. prairie home companion. McLaughlin report. Car talk. Something at least trying to be slightly conservatish. But they have straight up rejected that role, so fuck them.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

I miss Louis Rukeyser.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 30, 2025 05:13 PM (63Dwl)

205 And I’m left wondering if that was one of the best autocucumbers of all time or Fawlty Towers is actually referred to that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (6ydKt)

It was a running thing that a message board in front of the hotel had variants of Faulty Towers on it each episode.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:13 PM (8avO+)

206 When I go to YouTube I get preoccupied with big breasted Korean women putting up luxury tents
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (kTd/k)

There are so many fetishes these days I can’t even keep up anymore.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

207 well, pbs still lets you see a cartoon bird with gilbert gottfried's voice

Posted by: gnats local 675 at May 30, 2025 05:13 PM (CWTWj)

208 "Harvard has engaged in decades of illegal race-based discrimination against American citizens ... The Democrat Party's philosophy right now is for foreigners, everything — for Americans, nothing."

The Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard showed Harvard violated the law for decades.

Also - 25% of your student body is foreign born. But they never increased the total number of students from about 1,600. So as the number of foreign students incased, the number of American students decreased. So... why am I giving them money? And, oh yeah, their admin costs have shot through the roof. For what exactly?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 05:14 PM (gDhA9)

209 Car Talk was worth tuning in to listen to, it really was great. I listened to the radio adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the early 80s, washing dishes each night. But its been so long since it mattered or was important.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:14 PM (2VST1)

210 Well, if you chug a bottle of Yukon Jack, you could experience Liverdance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

I have NO First Nations blood at all.

Posted by: Heap Big Paleface at May 30, 2025 05:15 PM (G5+As)

211 It was one of the gags on the show, the sign out front was vandalized every episode until it finally read FARTY TOWELS
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

Ahhh.
I think I’ve only ever seen clips of that show.
I know it had John Cleese so it has to be good on that level.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

212 English pursues other languages down dark alleys, beats them unconscious, then rifles their pockets for loose vocabulary.
Posted by: 'Murica at May 30, 2025 05:07 PM (TbWk/)


Colonization is Colonization

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:16 PM (8avO+)

213 Is it just me, or does Harvard increasingly resemble Hogwarts, where everything is magic? Hogvard or Harvwarts.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at May 30, 2025 05:16 PM (gDhA9)

214 Hey back in the day PBS had some great stuff on it. They had Red Green yeah and Monty Python and Blackadder and Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes and Robin of Sherwood and stuff like Are You Being Served? They had a purpose back in the 80s and even early 90s. No more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025

***
Only a few years ago, my local PBS TV outlet used to run classic B & W movies like Bringing Up Baby, The Whole Town's Talking (both w/ Cary Grant), and The Woman in the Window (w/ Edward G. Robinson) on Sat. night at 8 pm, and then show it again the next morning at 10. Wonderful, high quality programming. No more.

The only good program I've seen from them lately was the 2020s version of All Creatures Great and Small, the dramatization of James Herriott's memoir of being a Yorkshire country and town vet in the 1930s and 1940s. Charming, funny, touching, well-cast, and quite enjoyable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:16 PM (omVj0)

215 Where can one find full episodes of Letterkenny?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

216 Blackadder 4k is coming out if not out already, Blackadder goes forth the greatest ending of a series ever.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (FCrpy)

217 It was one of the gags on the show, the sign out front was vandalized every episode until it finally read FARTY TOWELS
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

Ahhh.
I think I’ve only ever seen clips of that show.
I know it had John Cleese so it has to be good on that level.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

The one with the Germans is hilarious. As are the rest.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (8avO+)

218 We got the best of British TV. Most was crap, just like ours, only with more left wing propaganda.

Posted by: easy the elder at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (GZ5ZB)

219 NPR Sues the Trump Administration, Alleging They Have a First Amendment Right to Have Their Radical Marxist Agenda Funded by the American Taxpayer
___________________

The temerity of NPR & Co. to demand funding as a First Amendment right is breath-taking. Same thing with Harvard. You have no right to funding. You can hope for it, you whine, you can wheedle, but you're in the same position as any panhandler: you rely on charity. Period.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:18 PM (YqDXo)

220 Wasn't the percentage of Jewish students at Harvard more than 20% 40 years ago and down to 5% now? Did Jews get dumber, or is it something else?

Posted by: Mortarboard Mike at May 30, 2025 05:18 PM (G5+As)

221
I liked it better when men were allowed to hang a snap on tools calendar and if a chick didn't like it she can stay away and ignore it. Sticks and stones.

Whatever this is sounds like a terrible way to spend your time. Tattling on people for their art.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025

***
One of the many reasons why I'd long ago lost my respect for my employer and most of my co-workers, who even with their supposed high education (all Ph.D.s), bought into the Sniffle Scare, Face Diaper, and Clot Shot hoaxes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)

222 Blackadder 4k is coming out if not out already, Blackadder goes forth the greatest ending of a series ever.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (FCrpy)

Blake's 7 ending is similar for similar reasons.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:18 PM (8avO+)

223 Letterkenny makes me laugh out loud and then leaves me slightly ashamed.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (kTd/k)

224 Hard to type. Large black cat on my desk bumping me with his head. Send lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (omVj0)

225 We got the best of British TV. Most was crap, just like ours, only with more left wing propaganda.

And its only gotten worse. But I used to watch stuff like UXB with the parents at home, some neat stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (2VST1)

226 When I go to YouTube I get preoccupied with big breasted Korean women putting up luxury tents
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (kTd/k)

There are so many fetishes these days I can’t even keep up anymore.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

I think the pr0n genre of busty Koreans putting up tents is called K-Pup.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (yd2/I)

227 "The Order's objectives could not be clearer: the Order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country," attorneys representing the radio stations wrote in the 43-page filing.
______________

Now what if the Feds funded a religious or conservative radio station? Would the Reds be up in arms about that? You bet they would be.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

228 Is "David French" his real name, or is that just what they call him down at the bathhouse?

Posted by: Curious Minds Want to Know at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (g4ZOv)

229 215 Where can one find full episodes of Letterkenny?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

Hulu maybe?

Posted by: There's such a thing as too much NPR talk and a man oughta know it at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (TbWk/)

230
You know, I've got a few things to say. Can I get taxpayers to support me as I celebrate my bias on Facebook?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (n7rxJ)

231 Cuckboy French and the plaintiffs in the NPR case are really arguing the Ratchet Action of The Progressive Destruction of America Machine. The ratchet allows movement in only one direction. Once a progressive entity gets its ratchet hook into the US Treasury, it argues it is the end of the World to release the ratchet. Attempting to do so for any reason, is a violation of every Amendment and law, as well as un-American political interference! F 'em.

Posted by: Gref at May 30, 2025 05:10 PM (aBgBM)

----------------

It's "immoral" to fight against, allay, arrest, or otherwise rid yourself -- or by analogy, your "body politic" -- of parasites and/or cancerd (MURDERER!) You have an obligation to accept (nay, encourage and cheer along!) your diseases and slow death.

Death Cults gotta Death Cult ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (op3Dq)

232 Hard to type. Large black cat on my desk bumping me with his head. Send lawyers, guns, and money.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (omVj0)

TREATS NEEDED FOR CAT.

MUST GIVE TREATS

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)

233 Did Jews get dumber, or is it something else?

"Mmmmmm could beeee"
--Muhammad Muhammod, Dean of Admissions

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (2VST1)

234 "Flowery Twats" was the best Fawlty sign.

Posted by: Manuel From Barcelona at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (G5+As)

235 And I’m left wondering if that was one of the best autocucumbers of all time or Fawlty Towers is actually referred to that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


One of their running gags was that at the beginning, the sign out front would be rearranged as if kids had done it - flowery twats, farty towels,.....

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (x99pR)

236 223 Letterkenny makes me laugh out loud and then leaves me slightly ashamed.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (kTd/k)

Can confirm.

Posted by: Have ya seen a Dyck or two around these parts? at May 30, 2025 05:21 PM (TbWk/)

237 Hard to type. Large black cat on my desk bumping me with his head. Send lawyers, guns, and money.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025
*
TREATS NEEDED FOR CAT.

MUST GIVE TREATS
Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025

***
To be fair, it is almost his dinnertime.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:21 PM (omVj0)

238 215 Where can one find full episodes of Letterkenny?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

----

I used to watch them on HULU

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 05:21 PM (oNeeU)

239 The only good program I've seen from them lately was the 2020s version of All Creatures Great and Small, the dramatization of James Herriott's memoir of being a Yorkshire country and town vet in the 1930s and 1940s. Charming, funny, touching, well-cast, and quite enjoyable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:16 PM (omVj0)

They ran Downton Abbey for years.
Somebody recommended that to me because they know I like historical type dramas and a bit of an Anglophile.

I actually enjoyed it, which surprised me more than anybody.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

240 Wasn't the percentage of Jewish students at Harvard more than 20% 40 years ago and down to 5% now? Did Jews get dumber, or is it something else?

Posted by: Mortarboard Mike at May 30, 2025 05:18 PM (G5+As)
_______________

Meanwhile, the present President of Harvard is himself Jewish, although many of the current students were probably admitted during the reign of the strong black female plagiarizer, with her three paper publication list.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (YqDXo)

241 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him. And he acts like such a groveling puppet that I have to figure somebody's lording something over him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

242 David French dreams of the day actual Nazis gain power so he can be a Soros to the Christians.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 30, 2025 05:23 PM (P9rYY)

243 Did Jews get dumber, or is it something else?

"Mmmmmm could beeee"
--Muhammad Muhammod, Dean of Admissions

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (2VST1)
_______________

Or Demetrius Shabazz, Dean of Admissions

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:23 PM (YqDXo)

244 Is "David French" his real name, or is that just what they call him down at the bathhouse?

Posted by: Curious Minds Want to Know at May 30, 2025 05:19 PM (g4ZOv)

---------------

The judges would have also accepted "Pierre Delecto and Barry Soetoro's Throuple Cum Dumpster."

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 05:24 PM (op3Dq)

245 I saw a Letterkenny clip the gang was talking about Mrs Hutchinson mother of 17 and whether a breeze blowing up her skirt produced a whistling sound.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:24 PM (kTd/k)

246 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him.

Yeah eventually, there's always something hidden with guys like that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (2VST1)

247 You know, I've got a few things to say. Can I get taxpayers to support me as I celebrate my bias on Facebook?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (n7rxJ)
________________

We need the Feds to support the HQ. I'm tired of them suppressing our First Amendment rights.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (YqDXo)

248 213 Is it just me, or does Harvard increasingly resemble Hogwarts, where everything is magic? Hogvard or Harvwarts.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

Harvard's incidence of hog-warts has increased dramatically among its male and bepenised women students.

Posted by: Ginny was a beard at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (g4ZOv)

249 241 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him. And he acts like such a groveling puppet that I have to figure somebody's lording something over him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

---


You don't think he is secretly British do you?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (oNeeU)

250 They ran Downton Abbey for years.
Somebody recommended that to me because they know I like historical type dramas and a bit of an Anglophile.

I actually enjoyed it, which surprised me more than anybody.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025

***
It was very well done. The creator and writer, Julian Fellowes, did tend to make things a little easy for his characters. They had crises, but there were never any true catastrophes (aside from a major character's death early in the series). Everything always worked out well for them. Which was a relief after all the grim dark stuff we've been subjected to on TV and in movies in the last twenty years, I'll admit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:26 PM (omVj0)

251 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him. And he acts like such a groveling puppet that I have to figure somebody's lording something over him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

He's not important enough to be driven by anyone. He's just been orbiting the GOPe trying to sell columns to demonstrate how superior he is to actual right wingers.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)

252 I liked it better when men were allowed to hang a snap on tools calendar and if a chick didn't like it she can stay away and ignore it. Sticks and stones.

Whatever this is sounds like a terrible way to spend your time. Tattling on people for their art.
Posted by: CaliGirl at May 30, 2025
_______________

No prizes for guessing that the tattletales looked like a cross between Lena Dunham and Rosa deLauro.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:26 PM (YqDXo)

253 David French may not be the devil's spawn, but he is sort of like the devil's icky cousin by marriage. He's like Judas, if Judas had possessed no conscience or sense of guilt at all, had gotten a grip on himself after the great betrayal, had set up his own bogus ministry, and had ratted all the other apostles out to Rome.

A very scaly individual.

Posted by: Paco at May 30, 2025 05:26 PM (mADJX)

254 241 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him. And he acts like such a groveling puppet that I have to figure somebody's lording something over him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

---


You don't think he is secretly British do you?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (oNeeU)

its right there in his last name. hiding in plain sight.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:27 PM (8avO+)

255 God works through his servants every day. People miraculously avoid death by Gods grace to serve his purpose all the time. Does French believe that only applies to people he deems Christians?

What’s blasphemous is that French believes only in his personal version of divinity. That doesn’t serve God, it contravenes His law and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Only the Son of Man can divine such things.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 30, 2025 05:27 PM (fR05s)

256 Harvard's incidence of hog-warts has increased dramatically among its male and bepenised women students.

"We don't call it any more, its H-Pox!"
--IHS, WHO

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:27 PM (2VST1)

257 You know, I've got a few things to say. Can I get taxpayers to support me as I celebrate my bias on Facebook?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 30, 2025 05:20 PM (n7rxJ)

—

No.
But if you join X on the paid plan and if you get enough views Elon will pay you every month.

That sound like a good way for NPR to make some more money but I don’t think their principles will allow them to do anything as degrading and humiliating as working for payment instead of depending on subsidies and charity,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

258 "Don't mention the war!"

Posted by: Basil at May 30, 2025 05:28 PM (g4ZOv)

259
No prizes for guessing that the tattletales looked like a cross between Lena Dunham and Rosa deLauro.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025

***
The woman my employer called our "HR Representative" looked like the creature from Ace's post yesterday about how the Dems are turning to feminists (still) for advice on men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:28 PM (omVj0)

260 213 Is it just me, or does Harvard increasingly resemble Hogwarts, where everything is magic? Hogvard or Harvwarts.
Posted by: El Mariachi


We have gone from: Meritocracy -> credential-ocracy -> connection-ocracy -> corrupt-ocracy -> crap-ocracy


One leads to the next. They are in the final phase.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 30, 2025 05:28 PM (x99pR)

261 245 I saw a Letterkenny clip the gang was talking about Mrs Hutchinson mother of 17 and whether a breeze blowing up her skirt produced a whistling sound.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 30, 2025 05:24 PM (kTd/k)

Almost not worth thinking aboot.

Posted by: Wouldn't there also be a rustling sound? at May 30, 2025 05:29 PM (TbWk/)

262 I’m not a fan of British TV at all. Never got The Doctor Who love. Never thought Benny Hill was funny though I liked the big boobed women he had on .

There are a few British based movies I like though.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

263 They ran Downton Abbey for years.
Somebody recommended that to me because they know I like historical type dramas and a bit of an Anglophile.

I actually enjoyed it, which surprised me more than anybody.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

and also Upstairs Downstairs another manor house and the help kind of show. It was much of the BBC's allure.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:30 PM (8avO+)

264 Seriously folks. David French is nobody. Do not validate his existence by talking about him.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 30, 2025 05:30 PM (kzHlT)

265 Oh c’mon. Fawlty Towers is probably one of the best sitcoms ever made. That got me through so much shit because it’s hilarious.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 30, 2025 05:31 PM (fR05s)

266 Men without chests.

Posted by: El Borak at May 30, 2025 05:12 PM (BSNnK)
______________

Dylan Mulvaney or David Hogg?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:32 PM (YqDXo)

267 Isn't this basically the whole ball of wax? The purpose of the Trump revolution?

To determine who exactly, is in charge here. The people or the government. Are we citizens or subjects.

We can bicker and argue about so much else, after that basic question is answered.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 30, 2025 05:32 PM (dGCAG)

268 259
The woman my employer called our "HR Representative" looked like the creature from Ace's post yesterday about how the Dems are turning to feminists (still) for advice on men.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

You, Sir, are the problem!

Posted by: Burlie Dykerson HR Specialist at May 30, 2025 05:33 PM (g4ZOv)

269 Never thought Benny Hill was funny though I liked the big boobed women he had on

Blasphemy!!!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 30, 2025 05:33 PM (kzHlT)

270 Why is Katherine Maher zooming from her boodwar?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 30, 2025 05:33 PM (wzAuc)

271 So, surviving MASH cast-members: Jamie Farr, Alan Alda, Mike Farrel, Gary Burghoff, and probably a few secondary cast.

A sure sign I am well into being 29.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 05:34 PM (0aYVJ)

272 God works through his servants every day. People miraculously avoid death by Gods grace to serve his purpose all the time. Does French believe that only applies to people he deems Christians?

What’s blasphemous is that French believes only in his personal version of divinity. That doesn’t serve God, it contravenes His law and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Only the Son of Man can divine such things.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 30, 2025 05:27 PM (fR05s)

Just like the Left have no self awareness about them following 1984 almost word for word , French has no self awareness that he is the Pharisees described in the Bible.

Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:34 PM (VofaG)

273 New thread.

Posted by: PG at May 30, 2025 05:35 PM (afPT4)

274 My second favorite British TV show is The IT Crowd.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 30, 2025 05:35 PM (0aYVJ)

275 Which was a relief after all the grim dark stuff we've been subjected to on TV and in movies in the last twenty years, I'll admit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:26 PM (omVj0)

Yes, it has a certain quaint charm of the old British ways of the stiff upper lip during the hard times, and true joy in the good times.

You could root for even the most vile characters on that show as it progressed.


Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

276 I’m not a fan of British TV at all. Never got The Doctor Who love. Never thought Benny Hill was funny though I liked the big boobed women he had on .

There are a few British based movies I like though.
Posted by: polynikes at May 30, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

Dr Who in the 70s-80s was a decent family friendly SF-Fantasy show. No violence, decent writing and times when shows had a long term plot line to keep you wanting more. The kind of thing to all sit down to on Sunday night or something. Don't look at anything this century to evaluate it. Plus 2 generations had been able to share this lineage their entire lives.

Benny Hill is also not my kind of humor, but that sort of show is centuries old in England.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)

277 They ran Downton Abbey for years.
Somebody recommended that to me because they know I like historical type dramas and a bit of an Anglophile.

I actually enjoyed it, which surprised me more than anybody.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 30, 2025
*
and also Upstairs Downstairs another manor house and the help kind of show. It was much of the BBC's allure.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025

***
"PBS Anything British Theatre"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 30, 2025 05:36 PM (omVj0)

278 I hope Ace covers FJB's disgusting speech at a Delaware Memorial Day event. Held TODAY. No doubt because it is the 10th anniversary of Beau's Death.

FJB spoke for less than six minutes. He spent a minute and a half talking about Beau. Wait, what? Was Beau killed in action? Died of battle wounds? Nope. But that doesn't stop FJB from playing the Beau Card. Every damn time he speaks in public. Disgusting.

Posted by: Gref at May 30, 2025 05:36 PM (aBgBM)

279 I think at some point, maybe after he's dead, the truth will come out about David French. There is definitely something really unseemly about him.
---------
Yeah eventually, there's always something hidden with guys like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 30, 2025 05:25 PM (2VST1)

At some point though, nobody cares. The fact there are SO many people in the media, in government, in entertainment, academia, etc who are compromised... it's not like this is new. Maybe it's worse because CIA is worse than whatever came before it, but there have always been vile worms, doing the bidding of someone who has something on them.

Then they die, and nobody cares. The end.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 30, 2025 05:37 PM (dGCAG)

280 Katherine Maher ...
She's basically CIA.


SPY! - banging drum

Posted by: Animal at May 30, 2025 05:39 PM (FhXTo)

281 Could they have spelling bees in Japan? Every word's pronunciation is its spelling.
_______________

I wonder if they have them in Germany, as German is essentially perfectly phonetic. If you can say it, you can spell it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 30, 2025 05:39 PM (YqDXo)

282 I listen to NPR when I am driving on long trips.

It angries up the blood and keeps me attentive.

Posted by: toby928 at May 30, 2025 05:40 PM (jc0TO)

283 At some point though, nobody cares. The fact there are SO many people in the media, in government, in entertainment, academia, etc who are compromised... it's not like this is new. Maybe it's worse because CIA is worse than whatever came before it, but there have always been vile worms, doing the bidding of someone who has something on them.

Then they die, and nobody cares. The end.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 30, 2025 05:37 PM (dGCAG)

French is so little I don't think anyone corrupted him, he just hangs around hoping someone will.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 30, 2025 05:41 PM (8avO+)

284 "Soros to the Christians" sounds like a book from the New Testament Apocrypha.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Keep America Hot! at May 30, 2025 05:42 PM (op3Dq)

285 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxDS65RjLU

Rita

Posted by: Animal at May 30, 2025 05:42 PM (FhXTo)

286 The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private, nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, to promote and help support public broadcasting. Its "founder" was President Lyndon B. Johnson (and his Great Society).

>WPSU, How Federal Funding for WPSU Works—and Why It’s Essential

Wonder why Comcast, Verizon, etc. aren't providing some of that Infrastructure assistance and if they derive any benefits from it across the nation?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 30, 2025 05:47 PM (NFX2v)

287 FWP, attic fan got very loud, had to crawl length of house in attic and disconnect it. Was working just got unbeatable loud

Posted by: Skip at May 30, 2025 05:55 PM (ypFCm)

288 Trump IS on a mission from God. I believe his life was spared because Trump has a job to do. And he’s doing it.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sing it sister.

God’s ways are not our ways or for us to understand. So it seemed unfair that Trump had the 2020 election stolen, but the last four years has shown us what the evil left had in store, and woke up enough people to hopefully set things right.

That is exactly how God works sometimes.

Posted by: The MewTwix at May 30, 2025 07:30 PM (l5yVc)

289 Excellent post. I am facing some of these issues as well..

Posted by: Get money at May 30, 2025 09:13 PM (t9aZu)

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