Trump Signs Order Slashing Funding to NPR, PBS

Good.

NPR is a joke.

As I've recounted, fascinatingly, before, I walked to campus for a couple of years. When we moved a little ways farther away, walking wasn't practical anymore, so I started driving again, and tuning in to NPR. This was probably around 2015 or so. (?)  Anyway, it was absolutely appalling. Saturated with woke bullshit. I actually started listening to...and I want to stress that I'm not making this up...Rush Limbaugh instead. He was pretty awful--as I already knew. He got his start in broadcasting where I did my undergrad work, in Cape Girardeau, MO. I'd listened to him from time to time over the years on the theory that I should know the opposition--and at the time I was resolutely opposed to conservatism. As I've said before, Rush's method of reasoning, if you can call it that, is very much like that of the PC/woketards: basically free-association. Barely reasoning at all. But, as the tide of woketarianism crept higher and crazier, and every institution began to fall to it, I was happy just to hear a voice of opposition--desperate to find somebody who wasn't succumbing to the mind virus. The pod people were taking over, and I was grateful just to hear a human voice...loony though it was. And every now and then he'd hit on a decent point--though his "arguments" rarely supported it. Of course it wasn't sustainable. Me listening to him, that is. A little Rush goes a long way. He was probably less crazy than NPR--conservatism doesn't typically succumb to the kinds of wild flights of fancy that progressivism...well...not just succumbs to, but thrives on. Rush used to make up all sorts of wild, convoluted stories about how Hillary controls the UN or whatever...but he never came close to, e.g., women have penises. Which--and here I must regretfully add 'thus far'--remains the progressive left's flagship delusion.

   Anyhoo...the real point is that I lasted maybe a couple of weeks (months?) trying to listen to NPR after starting up again. Boy. Just insane. As is typical of the blues, e.g. at universities, they would just state--or presuppose--utterly loony shit, stating it in that breathy, matter-of-fact way they have, peppering their stories with trendy lefty terms--"code-switching," "identity," "gender," "systemic," blah blah blah.

   Perhaps NPR was good for me when I was younger. I don't know. I expect it was always biased. But I'm pretty sure it wasn't always that biased. At any rate, there's just too much leftist propaganda in it now. I don't want my money to go toward it. In fact, I think I've suggested in the past that, if funding isn't cut, we all do what the lefties used to do with the tax on their phone bills that went to paying off the Vietnam war: refuse to pay it. That's convoluted and ungrammatical, but I'm too lazy to change it. To be clear: we figure out how much of our taxes goes to funding NPR, and just all subtract that amount from our taxes.

   But three cheers for Trump: if this sticks that'd be unnecessary.

   NPR could, of course, be given a choice: adopt a commitment to institutional neutrality with respect to political issues, or lose funding. Obviously, though, there's no way they'd do the former thing.

   What the hell are the Pubs in Congress doing, anyway? A lot of the things Trump's doing are questionable or temporary. Congressional Pubs need to get to work--getting him in line and passing actual laws to make the good things he's done more permanent.