'Toxic agenda': Chris Hayes on the Republican 'Sesame Street problem' - All In - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Chris Hayes: Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE power grab has so far allowed Republicans to solve their “Sesame Street problem”—but will it last? - Aired on 05/02/2025.

[orangecrush]

1. ..

Fred Rogers

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I know. He will always be the best and a powerful symbol.

[orangecrush]

3. Thanks for posting this

I posted the clip of Fred Rogers by itself as an op.

Hope you don't mind.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Of course not, fine with me. The more exposure of this ridiculous effort against essential programming, the better

And it's not just impressionable young kids that need Sesame Street, my mother watched PBS and NPR programming all the time!

[orangecrush]

7. I grew up watching Mr. Rogers

In Pittsburgh.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I guess I missed out, when we moved up north we lived on the side of a mountain, but the result was we only got 1 channel

Any others were blocked by the mountain. I know now that the one we got was the NBC affiliate and there was a kids' show that I really liked, Satellite 6, I guess it was supposed to be a space ship - and I ended up winning a doll from that show. We moved there when I was six, moved back to where we had more channels right after I turned nine. It really was beautiful country, the view looked straight down the lake.

[orangecrush]

10. Sounds beautiful

Thanks for sharing the memory!

[Rhiannon12866]

11. It was beautiful country, but it was also isolated

We moved from Albany, the state capital where my father grew up, and my mother had to learn to drive, since in Albany there was public transportation!

[orangecrush]

12. Stopped in Albany once on Amtrak

On way to NYC.

Very nice station

[love_katz]

5. The regime doesn't want any kind of real truth being available to anybody.

Getting rid of publicly funded broadcasting makes it easier to dumb down the populace and clears the way to force feed their toxic propaganda without pushback.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Exactly! Another name for PBS and NPR has been "educational programming"

It says a lot about TFG and his agenda that he wants to eliminate it! And he's trying to do the same thing by his attempts to control schools and universities!

[love_katz]

9. Yes.

Banning books, removing information about the accomplishments of women and minorities from government websites, attacking law firms who might otherwise defend DEIA guidelines. The endless efforts to suppress and attack any viewpoint except White Christfascist Nationalism.
Every move they make shows how they are really just a bunch of whiny needle dicked whimps.