Fuck Ajit Pai and the ridiculously oversized Reese's mug he rode in on.
But especially fuck the corporate oligarchy that bankrolls him and the corruption he rode in on.
They must love that guy. Does all their shitty deeds and takes all of the heat for it.
I'll never not pronounce his name as "a shit pie".
The bizarre thing, whenever you write it out like that on Reddit, good chance you'll get downvoted to hell.
But count me as one of the club that does persistently sound his name out like that.
The guy is the walking definition of corporate weasel.
WTAF? So he can ruin PBS too?
Yup. Bye bye sesame street
Sesame Street isn't actually owned by PBS, it's a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop. And it was like 8 years ago that SW was running into funding trouble due to declining DVD sales, and ended up licensing the show to HBO so that they could continue producing episodes at the rate they wanted. PBS now gets episodes several months behind.
TIL, I did not know that. Since I have young kids, I've started watching it with them the last couple of years and it's such an amazing, wholesome TV show. I can't believe they were running into funding problems, I feel like they should do national fundraising drives and they'd get their funding in a heartbeat (or at least, I sure as hell would donate every year).
Obligatory Fuck Ajit Pai with a rusty tv antenna
Wait so he’s not burning in hell with Epstein, Hitler, and Kissinger?
Not yet, be the change you want to see! (Dont take me seriously murder is bad mmmkay?)
Just when I thought this dipshit was out of my life for good.
He looks like he shits his pants on purpose.
Fuck Ajit Pai.
I can’t actually figure out what APTS does. I think it’s only a lobbying nonprofit. It’s not mentioned on the public television Wikipedia article and I’m struggling to find a good Google query that turns up something it’s done. Putting all of that together, it’s just a continuation of his regulatory capture.
Edit: I should have looked at the 501(c)3 stuff first. This org collects money from public stations and spends it on its staff. It lobbies but doesn’t present much in the way of returns.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521170071/202223429349300807/full
They help fund some public stations around the country, and lobby to support them, allegedly.
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) is a nonprofit membership organization ensuring a strong and financially sound public television system and helping member stations provide essential public services in education, public safety and civic leadership to the American people.
Its affiliate APTS Action, Inc. promotes the legislative and regulatory interests of noncommercial television stations at the national level through direct advocacy and through grasstops and grassroots campaigns designed to garner bipartisan political support. The public television system is comprised of 158 licensees operating 356 public television stations across America and serving more than 97 percent of the American people. About half of these licensees are nonprofit community foundations. The rest are State, university and local school district licensees. All are locally owned, locally operated and locally oriented in their programming and community services, and all share a mission of serving everyone, everywhere, every day for free – including in places where no model for commercial success exists.
APTS is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all forms to reflect the society that public television serves.
Additionally, APTS is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually working to improve the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
He's gonna fuck with my antenna TV ain't he?
Do you have a valid subscription for that antenna?
Ugggh, I thought I was done hearing about Shit Pie.
Oh man he should be what comes up when you google 'punchable face'
How does this guy have any place doing anything? Who's in control?
This is the way you bribe politicians now. Somewhere along the line dinners are had and promises of future jobs are made, then you do your work like a good little greedypieceofshitjackass, leave government, and end up on some board of directors or what have you in the industry you helped make money through your actions in government.
Bribery is illegal, employing ex-government officials and giving them gigantic salaries isn't... :(
No one is in control. That's why dumb decisions get made. He's an Ivy Leaguer who was head of the FCC. On paper, this is a no-brainer hire. Obviously, smart people would disagree with that.
There to turn public television into the propaganda mouthpiece of the right.
Get ready for such public programming as Assisstant Nurse Karen's Holistic Medicine Hour where it's a half hour straight of anti-vax talk. Real Flat Earth Talk with Hosts Brayden and Jayden. And Patriots and Patriotism in a Socialist Hellscape where all hosts and guests are in all camo, armed with an Ar-15, weigh at least 3 bills, and have trouble walking, breathing, or both.
Imagine what they will turn pbs kids into.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that guy can eat a bag o dicks
All the dicks. And the bag, to be certain that if he weasels his way out of eating the dicks, at least he’ll have to find a way to carry them around for a while.
What is Patrick Butler's deal? Because no one is honored and delighted to welcome this douche nozzle into any organization with a shred of integrity.
Fuck this scumbag.
This is what happens when Koch money goes to public media like PBS and NPR- they start hiring corporatist toadies
 This country has always had the best politicians money can buy.
Fuck Ajit Pai
God I thought we were done with this asshole...
This can't be good for public television.
Welp public television is fucked with this asshole a part of it...
Ashit Pie in the public TV world can't be a good thing. Maybe they were running low on punchable faces?
What happened to him leaving the FCC and joining Verizon, or whatever cellphone company that he was benefiting?
What the mother fuck! We’d have no Mr Roger’s had this shitbag been there back in the day. Fuck him!
A Shit Pie is still around? 🤦♂️
Fuck that Reesecupshithole.
This would be a great onion headline
He looks like a cartoon villain, or the manifestation of the movie Office Space into reality, but not in a good way.
Don't know how he made his face even more punchable
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