Trump supporters are calling to defund PBS after it reported that Elon Musk's post-inauguration gesture resembled a Nazi salute.
PBS described it as "similar to the 'Sieg Heil' used by Nazis," sparking conservative backlash, with figures like Tomi Lahren and Rep. Andy Biggs accusing PBS of propaganda.
Musk denied the claim and criticized "legacy media" and Wikipedia for bias.
Calls to defund PBS align with longstanding conservative goals and plans like Project 2025, which includes eliminating public media funding under a new Trump administration.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Orwell thought The Party would be directing it all, but this is all sufficiently self-directing, much more akin to what Huxley/Bradbury predicted. People are paying for the privilege of being lied to and running interference for The Party without needing to be coerced with fear of The Party. They only fear The Other.
Oh but they'll still take direction from the party and alter their reality again. "That wasn't a Nazi Salute! The left are all morons and liars!" "Oh Trump says we're taking it back from the Nazis... so it was a Nazi Salute, but in a patriotic way!" "Oh, Trump says Hitler was a historical hero... SEIG HEIL!"
How do you defund something that runs on charity from the people who watch it (and also a large contribution from the Koch brothers)? Do these dumbfucks think PBS is paid for by tax money? Every single program I've ever seen on PBS explicitly states it's paid for by viewers (and again, the Koch brothers).
I remember a street interview while (least 10 years) back where elderly people said pbs was 5 to 25% of federal government budget. Like wtf you confuse question with military?
Even if you think it wasn't I'm going to keep saying it was. Know why?
If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do
As in: "We want pure propaganda! We don't want any media whatsoever to ever say anything that we don't like or already agree with! You say Trump is God or you get defunded!!"
yeah nothing new. they don't like the post office, libraries, public media, public schools, public healthcare, public fire departments, pretty much anything public
Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's
literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob
and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob
has it for you. Poob has it for you.
And yet, it's not whatsoever difficult to imagine the dictator in chief pulling their funding for this, and I won't be surprised if it happens. I hope there's something left of the country I grew up in four years from now. I think we're at the start of a long, rough road.
Conservatives have had a hard on for shutting down PBS for years. It's one of the really mainstream liberal talking points to be like "why do you hate big bird?!"
Alleged is the right word, especially because he keeps saying he has Asperger's, which hasn't been a medical diagnosis in years, and there's no evidence he was ever evaluated.
I understand awkwardness and if that was the only thing he did i might sympathize, but does your autism also make you financially support far right candidates like the AfD and repost neo nazi talking points?
You probably won't believe me... but yes, I have accidently done a nazi type salute... unintentionally. I dare say it has happened more than once... I just don't know what to do with my arms sometimes...
I have ADHD, Autism and god damn OCD.
People are akward with me and I am with them.
Never in my fucking life did I need to stim using a Sieg Heil.
Never in my life felt I that my body, as motorically challenged as it is, that the thing it should be doing that motion bang on perfect. Twice.
On TV.
If it walks like a duck,
and talks like a duck,
Sieg Heils as a duck
it is a nazi.