Staff Reports
You can always count on liberals to doomcast every time their taxpayer-funded favorites are on the chopping block. They cried wolf when federal funding for NPR and PBS faced the axe, predicting nothing short of disaster. Yet, here we are, and the sky hasn’t fallen. Instead, private donations have surged to fill the gap. Contrary to the fearmongering, our society didn’t crumble without government handouts to public broadcasting.
Liberal leaders, like New York’s own Chuck Schumer, pulled the classic scare tactics. He insanely tied federal funding cuts to matters of life and death. Really? In his overblown narrative, without government support, Americans were supposedly left in the dark, unable to handle emergencies. Oh, please. It turns out Americans can think for themselves without Uncle Sam’s wallet paving the way.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced closing of operations due to cancelled government funding. A quick look shows the organization serves as a big pass through to smaller NGOs.
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— The Questionable Gardner (@T_Q_Gardner) August 2, 2025
After the defunding, an outpouring of support rolled in from private citizens and philanthropic giants. There’s a robust move toward individual responsibility and community support stepping up where government overreach should’ve never existed. Organizations like Knight and Ford Foundations leaped at the chance to show that, unlike government bureaucracies, they support meaningful community media endeavors. This is free-market capitalism in action!
It’s laughable how liberals jump to the government’s rescue every time things change. The reality is this: public broadcasting never needed to feast off taxpayer dollars in the first place. The myth of their dependency on federal aid has been shattered by citizens who prefer choice over obligation, and philanthropy over taxation.
So, if liberals want to whine about funding cuts to their pet projects again, they should stop acting like the end of the world is near. Instead, maybe ask themselves: how did we survive before the taxpayer funded our every want? Could it be that private ingenuity and generosity are more powerful than their clumsy government interventions?
