>Tomorrow marks the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. If new reports are accurate, it could also mark the beginning of the end of federally funded arts programs.
>According to The Hill (via SPIN), Trump’s transition team has been discussing ways to reduce federal bureaucracy and cut the national budget. As such, many agencies could be on the chopping block, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports the likes of PBS, NPR, and other public TV and radio outlets. While Trump’s plan is to privatize the CPB, he’s looking to kill the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their entirety.
>Without the NEA and NEH, artists and educators could be left with struggling to find grants for their projects, which include exhibitions, research, productions, and public programs. Conservatives have long targeted the arts agencies, from Ronald Reagan to Newt Gingrich. While they’ve occasionally succeeded in cutting the NEA’s budget, Trump is seeking to completely end it. Perhaps he’s ticked off that Sylvester Stallone turned down his offer to chair the NEA’s board?
Good. Privatize PBS and NPR. They'll sink or swim.
Blake Cook
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd thank you!
Samuel Taylor
Fuck Trump. I loves me some Masterpiece Theater and This Old House.
John Myers
>consequenceofsound.net
Logan Mitchell
It was founded by Lyndon B Johnson.
Same guy who said they would enslave blacks to the democratic party forever. Good riddance.
Ayden Anderson
They do all those telethons and thank viewers like (You), do they even need public funding?
Elijah Morales
Fuck NPR. They're a bunch of bleeding hearts.
Lucas Price
They'll sink. Good fucking riddance.
Grayson Martin
Hey, I like PBS. Nova, Nature, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, etc. are great.
Jacob Thompson
Good
Hunter Lopez
Federal government has no authority to do this anyway good for him.
Now hopefully he'll nominatie Andrew Napolitano to the Supreme Court for maximum butthurt to neocons and leftist
David Harris
If those shows are good enough to pay the bills, then PBS won't get canceled.
Kevin Ward
FUCK YES. There is a god in heaven. If Golden Don kills funding to these malevolent organization, I will do anything he wants. Anything.
Dylan Thompson
Good.
Adam Sanders
can't forget that Frontline, mange!
Cameron Morris
>Country with no history >Antiques
Jason Garcia
>National Public Radio >Public Broadcasting Service >privatize
I guess now they'll be just NR and BS.
Tyler Phillips
The 'humanities' are the centre of the SJW cancer killing education. The solution would be forcing all SJW 'professors' out of their jobs and creating a national curriculum for universities. That unfortunately would not be possible. Starving the NGO's and pseudocommunist institutions of their cash is the only option going forward. Exposing the education system to true capitalist competition would mean new courses free of SJW bullshit would thrive.
Go Trump!
Brody Taylor
>Antebellum >Civil War >1950s "Americana" >No History
>Mongol rape babies >Vassal of Russia until formation of USSR >History
Ayden Price
Awesome. Fuck PBS and NPR and grants.
Ryder Murphy
Have you ever watched Antiques roadshow? They play both the American and British shows, and the Burger Roadshow is leagues better.
It's everyday people who happen to have some cool antiques and Americana. On the other hand, British Roadshow is literally nothing but rich families showing off their family treasures on the front lawns of their family mansions.
Xavier Rogers
>kids no longer can watch shit like Sesame Street and Arthur >cereal and nerf commercials during episodes of Wishbone This is the future Trump voters chose.
Ryder Wilson
gov should not support biased media
Charles Peterson
He should give them a chance to be fair and balanced and then mercilessly destroy them when they go back on that promise Just to show that he is better than them
Caleb Green
They'll go to shit just like TLC, which was started by NASA
Julian Diaz
We should make the arts great again like during the Renaissance, not abolish them like some Communist shithole.
Aiden Ramirez
there hasn't been decent art since the 1930s. cut it. fucking hippies can go hug a tree or get pozzed or something.
Josiah Reed
>Taxation is at best forced consumption of services necessary to the public good >People should be forced to buy media and art
Why? Is the average tax payer too plebeian to have control over what art they consume?
Dominic Howard
>During Iraq war NPR/PBS Mainstream media had 89% pro-war presenters IIRC, counting presenters that were clearly one way or another on the war >NEA was found to be asked to be making pro-obama propaganda. >Government controls media by restricting funding, threatening broadcast licenses, and limiting white house access which is great for ratings. >Trump dramatically expands white house press gallery, thus reducing government control of media as it empowers media that do not require broadcast licenses, and makes it more costly for the white house to whip the entire press into shape >Trump kills NPR/PBS funding, further reducing government control of media >Trump kills NEA funding which has been used for partisan purposes
Wow whatever will we do without the democratic/republican establishments utter stranglehold over public discourse?
The left keeps trying to spin this as a great tragedy when it's a lasting blow to government brainwashing of the public. They are so brainwashed they are angry at Trump getting rid of the brainwashing in lasting ways that will likely exist long after he's out of office.
Liam Ross
all nonessential things
no point going into debt for them
Robert Miller
Thats what we voted him in to do. No taxpayer money for menstual-blood paintings or liberal propaganda. Let these fuckers see if anybody will pay to support them.
Easton Bailey
That's because the common man and woman dictates what's on television. More so the common woman considering they're like 80% of the consumer market. T.V. is shit for a reason.
Jeremiah Barnes
Good. It's government funded propaganda.
Gavin Brown
>Finnish >bragging about history
Samuel Bennett
> shitposting political "journalism" from a shitty hipster m"music" website that is in turn shitposting shit they read in "spin" magazine, a slightly more popular hipster "music" website (and formerly a shitty hipster "music" magazine printed on paper and everything...) who in turn are shitposting crap they read in "the hill" a lefty hipster blog about laft wing politics and how superior lefties are to normal people, who are in turn citing anonymous sources, and declaring "its being reported"
yeah, NOW "its being reported" now that you "reported that bullshit.
fuck you OP, your an even bigger faggot than usual.
Lucas Cruz
Well it has no constitutional basis for existing so it's called honoring his oath.
Kevin Edwards
No more mister Rogers, I'm perturbed.
Chase Robinson
NPR is a hive of smug liberal faggots
Robert Richardson
>privatize why do republicans want to privatize everything?
Nolan Jones
I hope he doesn't I still like to watch old british sitcoms on there sometimes
Angel Adams
That stupid Drumpf!
He should have done what every republican and democrat would have done and simply abused the NEA, PBS/NPR, and leverage over the media for partisan purposes that advances their agenda!
How DARE he try to reduce government and cooperate control of media? I read all about how terrible this was in cooperate media! Stupid Drumpf!
Luis Long
NPR is the most boring radio station around. Christ it's fucking dull. And of course Portlanders love it so whenever I'm not driving I have to listen to some stuffy white dude tell me about bespoke cattle farming.
David Hill
Arts are for Fags
Carson Walker
Good riddance. NPR is trash
John Morgan
> USA has no history your constitution was written in 1999, your country is fucking 18 years old.
ours was written in 1789. suck it faggot.
Ryan Scott
based BASED BAAAAAAAASED TRUMP
Fuck these kike artists and swindlers at PBS and NPR, the shit they put out is like war propaganda and the USA is the enemy.
Fuck these nose pricks.
Kayden Foster
i watched a documentary on Freud on Nova and it was all about how he was a misogynist. Fucking shut all the "public" intellectual programs the fuck down. That or fire the directors and put classicists in charge, even better.
Gavin Torres
Nova is usually good and sciency. Sorry you saw a bad episode.
Aiden Rivera
Oh no what will we do without our hourly dose of white guilt and some smug jew telling us how bad the USA is??
Alexander Anderson
if you let your kids watch sesame street or arthur, youre a shitty parent.
"arthur" is lefty indoctrination, with ZERO educational value
sesame street used to be good, now it's all pozzed faggots getting gay married and whining about their position on the victimization pyramid.
fuck a duck, i wouldnt let a kid watch that faggotry for a minute.
Gabriel Sullivan
>"Arts are for Fags"
>posts art
Ryan Kelly
Good. It is foolish to spend money on that shit given our current circumstances.
Ryder Green
The only thing that comes from "federally funded arts programs" is propaganda to the nth degree. At least when it's privately funded, I can try to guess the narrative the proprietor is pushing.
Blake Jones
>privatize PBS
That would seriously piss me off. NatGeo and Discovery all became garbage commercialised reality nonsense. We need a few public educational channels so we don't become a nation of ignorant idiots
Joseph Lewis
$$$
Aaron Perez
Lrn to internets.
Christopher Anderson
This, I listen to NPR for their classical music, and i remember one day they had a panel of guests who ended on the conclusion that the republican party as a whole was regressive and propped up by racist white males, and we should look up to young african americans for leadership. Keep in mind this was Tucson but it was also pre-primaries.
Angel Foster
off to a rough start.
the greatest civilizations thrived in art.
killing expression is killing the soul.
Eli Anderson
fuck u bitch nigga
Anthony Brooks
muh free market will fix this xD
Asher Davis
I'm fine with him shutting down funding for overtly-leftist organizations that somehow get federal funding.
Hunter Turner
Good!
Most artists and art depts are leftist hives, NPR/PBS stopped being even a bit fair over a decade ago!
Goodbye faggots
Christian Russell
>don't become a nation of ignorant idiots We already have been since Bush was president
Luis Lewis
Why is Sup Forums against Arts & Culture?
If it is because you believe it's "full of liberals", then why is there such a lack of conservatives in these fields? Why are conservatives afraid to get involved in Arts & Culture?
Aiden Wood
>so we don't become a nation of ignorant idiots You're a little late for that now
Christian Lewis
i was like wtf did i just hear on the fucking radio in my car? Wrote them a letter too but they never responded.
Gavin Perry
>I have to listen to some stuffy white dude tell me about bespoke cattle farming sounds comfy af
hopefully in his case privatise doesn't mean that he's gonna buy it himself
Jaxon Wood
LMAO YOU JUST KNOW WHEN PBS GETS CUT EVERY FUCKING SIGNALING LIBERAL WILL BE PROFESSING THEIR OUTRAGE ON TWITTER AND CELEBRITIES WILL TALK ABOUT FUNDING IT
"MUH POOR PEOPLE CAN GET EDUCATED FROM IT" "MUH SESAME STREET AS A KID" "MUH REPUBLICANS HATE EDUCATION"
BAHAHAHA THEYLL TRY AND SPIN IT LIKE THEYRE CUTTING IT BECAUSE NEGROES NEED IT THE MOST OR SOMETHING LMAO
GOOD RIDDANCE, HOPEFULLY THESE HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS WASTE THEIR MONEY PRIVATELY FUNDING THAT SHIT LMAO
Brandon Williams
They seem alright. It's certainly better news than mainstream television, even if it's a bit biased.
Easton Rodriguez
>killing expression No one is killing expression, you just have to finance it another way.
Nathaniel Peterson
>removing the shitposter of TV networks
good
Eli Lopez
Yeah but PBS makes great documentaries. People are much more likely to learn that way. Also I'm talking about a societal effect not a personal one
Brody Young
>NPR is forced to be privatized >no one listens anymore
HAHAHAHAHAH THIS IS THE BEST TIMELINE
Dylan Gutierrez
Right. Bush became presidents and previously smart people just turned retarded overnight. /facepalm
Parker Rogers
>then why is there such a lack of conservatives in these fields? because it makes shit money, UNLESS you suck govt/university/rich-liberal cocks
Nathan Cox
The problem with NPR is the buzzfeed tier bull shit like what you're describing. The answer isn't getting rid of the while network
Robert Powell
NPR/PBS during the Iraq war outperformed EVERY mainstream media network at having its viewers be better informed of the actual facts of the Iraq war, and had among the most anti-war presenters.
I would be hesitant to get rid of them just on this basis, but based trump is also dramatically expanding the white house press gallery which should give the white house less leverage over the press, so he's really thinking out this issue in a complete way.
Trump is fixing the problems that have existed in the US media for a long time that the democratic and republican establishment never wanted to disrupt. Because the republican establishment know that government controlled media might help the democrats more, but they also helped reinforce the message that your two choices were the democratic vs republican establishment.
Trump is creating a situation in which it's going to be hard for ANYBODY to control the media as much. He's really fixing the media, and after what happened with the Iraq war, and the coverage of the 2016 election, it's obviously a problem that needed to be fixed in a lasting way.
If Trump merely continued allowing these programs to exist and got them to kiss his ring, I would be much less impressed, as that would at best only solve the problem up until he was out of office.
This kind of shit is why I think Trump needed to, for better or for worse, take office. From building a wall, to privatizing this shit, to making a new press gallery, he's changing the government in ways that will blow the establishment the fuck out long after he leaves office.
Isaiah Roberts
For stuff like this?
Parker Bell
because they're plebs
Dominic Gonzalez
Then PAY FOR THEM.
Wyatt Thompson
>The answer isn't getting rid of the while network he isnt forcing NPR to disband, he is just cutting the umbilical cord.
Austin Rogers
>No one is killing expression, you just have to finance it another way.
I am sure pbs is not the sole provider of quality documentaries. They are not worth taxpayer funding in an age where information is easy and cheap to come by.
Levi Ramirez
Yeah but we'll become president KaMacho tier
Dominic Myers
Please let this be real!
Lincoln James
Good. NPR and PBS are partisan as hell. My tax money should not fund democrat propaganda kek.
Luke Richardson
Good. Fuck modern "art"
Wyatt Perry
not trying to draw the hitler comparison, but he had a similar idea of over involvement in the arts and it didn't rly pay off for him
So that's why we are in debt, all that funding for actual news and entertainment
Liam Green
More people live in NJ then Finland. Fake country.
Bentley Nelson
came here to say this, fuck NPR, used to like them in the past but they became a bunch of libcucks
Brandon Russell
>Next 8 years spent dismantling all leftist programs nationwide >entire generation of kids grow up logical and conservative
Nathaniel James
>"arthur" is lefty indoctrination, with ZERO educational value Damn you're fucking stupid. Just because it doesn't teach kids the alphabet doesn't mean it's not educational. And lefty indoctrination? What?
God you people have a fucked ideology.
Aiden Taylor
These things probably get like 500 million in funding max. If they want to cut the budget why don't they start with military spending and welfare instead of reasonably successful and popular national programs.
Juan Clark
Gosh, all those artists like the Rockettes who decided to be disrespectful about the chance to participate in the presidential inauguration, or the dipshits that made Hamilton and disrespected Mike Pence... might take a hit in their pocket books? Oh, darn. Just, darn.
