The White House is planning to ask Congress to claw back more than $1 billion slated for public broadcasting in the United States, according to two people briefed on the plan, a move that could ultimately eliminate almost all federal support for NPR and PBS.

https://archive.ph/Ygvtg

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    With the news of younger generations (around the world even) aligning themselves with right wing thinking, I wouldn’t be surprised if these icons aren’t all labeled as some kind of wimps. To be dunked on all day without really knowing what they’re talking about let alone a solution for the things these programs tackled. And, they’re letting the worst people destroy it all (some of them are literal rapists)!

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      That’s exactly what’s happened. Right Wing grifters on YouTube, like Shapiro, Walsh, Crowder, Rogan, etc., aren’t a coincidence, and didn’t happen naturally. They were all corrupted by billionaire funded “Think Tanks.”

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      Wasn’t Mr. Roger’s a green beret in Vietnam though? Wouldn’t these people idolize that aspect of him?

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        Apparently that’s a debunked myth. Besides, he was born in 1928 which would have made him old for that war.

        None of these things would matter though. A common thread simply seems to be a hatred toward empathy and those who espouse it. These were kind people and worthy causes. Primed to be destroy by these goons.

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          Oh gotcha! Your comment made me realize I had Mr. Roger’s confused with Bob Ross anyway, and was still wrong 😅. Thanks for clearing it up!

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        He registered for the draft just after WW2, then after a physical was deemed unqualified for service. He graduated college a few years later.

        From the start of Vietnam to the end, he was working on a children’s show in Pittsburgh, making a show up in Canada that was the precursor to mister Rogers neighborhood, then from 1968 for the next 33 years he was in/running mists Rogers neighborhood.