Donald Trump has changed America.\u00a0 Mr. Trump didn\u2019t shift the Overton Window.\u00a0 He put a brick through it.\u00a0 His take on what\u2019s wrong with America isn\u2019t shocking anymore because his view has become the mainstream opinion.<\/p>\n
So, all of that is true.\u00a0 But has he changed America?\u00a0 Well, yes.\u00a0 On this and that he\u2019s made changes and they are changes for the better.\u00a0 His immigration policy and the results he\u2019s getting on deportation are important.\u00a0 His birthright citizenship fight is historic and if it succeeds it will change the dynamics of immigration into this country.<\/p>\n
But how will I gauge whether Donald Trump\u2019s second term is a success or failure?\u00a0 For me success is permanently defunding PBS and NPR.\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole thing in a nutshell.\u00a0 That is the litmus test.\u00a0 I want David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart laid off by PBS due to lack of funding.\u00a0 I want to see them on YouTube or Patreon making silly noises whenever someone pledges ten dollars for a super chat or whatever it\u2019s called.\u00a0 I want Big Bird and Elmo forced to go back to being waiters in the NYC theater district and I want that woman who runs NPR and testified before Congress that there was no bias on her watch, fired and forced to start an Only Fans channel.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 As long as all of us are still paying for these people to insult and slander us on the public airwaves, we are not winning anything.\u00a0 We\u2019re just losing less.<\/p>\n
Now don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need NPR or PBS to cease to exist.\u00a0 I absolutely want leftists to have their own echo chambers.\u00a0 This is a free country (theoretically) and if they want to buy tote bags and overpriced wine from their favorite fake journalists at \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d or the \u201cPBS New Hour\u201d then let them go ahead and knock themselves out.\u00a0 By all means do so.\u00a0 But let them pay for the damn thing themselves.\u00a0 They\u2019re always saying how public funding is only like 15% of their total funding.\u00a0 If that\u2019s the case then they won\u2019t miss our money at all.<\/p>\n
But everyone knows that\u2019s not the case.\u00a0 If they suddenly had to get along without the federal government they would be broke.\u00a0 Brooks and Capehart wouldn\u2019t be able to afford their bow ties and spats.\u00a0 And there wouldn\u2019t be any money to fund their hard-hitting exposes on the health benefits of attending drag queen story hour in the Tenderloin.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Trump can announce that he\u2019s winning so much that people are getting tired of winning but as long as NPR still has journalism hacks in hushed tones declaring the body count from the break up of USAID then I won\u2019t declare him the winner.\u00a0 He\u2019s just losing slightly less hard.<\/p>\n
But I haven\u2019t given up hope.\u00a0 There\u2019s still a window of opportunity for the bill that defunds these stations to be passed in the Senate.\u00a0 Sometime in August that bill will expire and our last best chance to kill Sesame Street and fake news will end.\u00a0 So come on Donald from one kid from the Outer Boroughs to another put your shoulder behind this thing and make us both winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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