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In reply to the discussion: Trump-Appointed FCC Chairman Calls on TV Networks to Pledge to Air 'Patriotic, Pro-America Content' for U.S.'s 250th Bir [View all]radical noodle
(10,521 posts)46. trump spends all his time tearing down
everything that was ever good about this country and then they expect us to feel patriotic? I remember the bicentennial. No one told us what to feel, or the TV channels what to broadcast.
We were not long out of Vietnam and Watergate, and Civil Rights legislation was only about a decade behind us, so we had a lot of negative feelings, but I doubt they were even half as negative as we feel this year.
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Trump-Appointed FCC Chairman Calls on TV Networks to Pledge to Air 'Patriotic, Pro-America Content' for U.S.'s 250th Bir [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Friday
OP
I remember way back in the olden days when the tv stations went off the air late at night,
Ocelot II
Friday
#4
Love of American History...............what a ass................do you not know dude that you are serving under a
turbinetree
Friday
#6
The Boss and Green Day and Willie and Rage and all Democracy loving musicians should
PuraVidaDreamin
Friday
#12
They could read out a section of the Declaration of Independence or Constitution that the regime has broken
muriel_volestrangler
Friday
#13
Broadcast day? Is that still a thing? Do we have test patterns running after hours too?
0rganism
Friday
#18
Pro American Content? Perhaps we should celebrate our Bill of Rights with particular attention to the following:
NowsTheTime
Friday
#31
How about if we stand-up for the Nordic countries..where they don't fuck over their citizens?
chouchou
16 hrs ago
#59