“Sesame Street” (wherever airing) is “wasteful and dangerous”? There aren’t enough rolleyes in the world. What a bunch of snowflakes.
One can not expect folks to value a ‘Hearts and Minds’ effort when they have neither.
My read of the Snopes article would be that we were pledged to fund (but had not yet actually sent most of the money) for an initiative to create Sesame Street themed educational materials for schools teaching Syrian refugees in Iraq, Jordan, etc.
I’m not sure that the difference between that and creating a Sesame Street show for regular broadcast in Iraq would be viewed as a massive distinction to most folk, on a first blush. You’d need someone to step up and explain that the goal is to teach kids that murder and genocide are bad, so they don’t grow up into terrorists that blow up American malls in 20 years and cost us many millions more.
That said, I’d be curious how you get to $20m to produce a puppet show, in Iraq… I’d assume that the cost of labor is pretty small, and the “special effects” are just some fake fur and stuffing.
I’d be curious how long you think those programs are going to air once you make it clear that those programs are not primarily intended to be just educational materials for school children?
I’m stealing it. Might even meme it.
Sesame Street teaches children about things like sharing and compassion and politeness and tolerating people who are different from you, all of which are anathema to the magas.
Many years ago I had sympathy for people like this, then indifference, now I’m kind of glad.
A fired federal worker grapples with her vote for Trump in Michigan - The Washington Post
Trump, at a campaign stop an hour and a half south of her, had promised to make IVF free. She knew that from a video clip she saw on TikTok. And she had believed him.
This is not only about her being stupid, but about her putting herself ahead of others. Fuck her.
Am I a bad person because my first impulse was to comment that it wouldn’t help?
Not sure whether to put this here or in the face-eating thread, but it’s cute when they turn on each other. Also never thought I would approve of something DeSantis said.
Ron DeSantis Announces Andrew Tate Is Not Welcome in the State of Florida.
Been there, joked that.
I work with drug data. We have had problems in the past with Tadalafil (generic Cialis). Was talking with someone and said “F’in Tadalafil. Oh, wait, isn’t that the idea?”
DeFuhrer is term limited, so he doesn’t need Trump for anything anymore. He’s probably done the math and figured that when he runs for president in 2028 Trump will be too far gone mentally to play any part in the campaign.
(Though to be honest I’m surprised he didn’t appoint himself to Rubio’s Senate seat.)
Line not go up. Why line no go up? Line supposed go up!
Eh, he’s gone through that before. I want it to stick this time.
[MAGA] Well, of course they tried to thwart our Dear Leader – just look at them furriner names!
Hold upside down, only problem.
I wonder how much the line has to go down to make Elmo no longer be the richest person.
https://x.com/David_Leavitt/status/1894456813946360017
It seems Tesla investors are asking Musk for a list of five things he did last week.
To paraphrase Nikki Glaser imitating Gronk at the Tom Brady roast:
“Even me know that not real CEO!”
A year ago today the stock price for Tesla was just barely above 200. Now it’s still almost at 300.
The stock price surged at the beginning of November, and shot up from around 250 to over 475 in just a bit over a month. That “drop” is just the price coming down from that surge.
Heck, at the beginning of 2023 it was trading just a bit over 100. The 5 year price chart for the company looks like the world’s scariest roller coaster track.
This warms my heart. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
American business leaders are turning on Trump — fast
The Scene
“A difficult time to invest.”“Everybody’s paralyzed.”
“I’m sorry I can’t be particularly positive.”
“The chaos that is reigning right now is causing everyone to sit on their hands.”
That’s Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, ON Semiconductor CEO Hassane El-Khoury, Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, and Nasdaq Private Market CEO Tom Callahan on the world of Donald Trump right now. Their comments over the past week capture a growing disquiet among business leaders, a month into a presidency that many of them had cheered.