Oh Noes! NYT Columnist Warns People All Over the World Will Die Because Trump Wants to 'Break Things'

Before we get started, let's see a show of hands. Raise your hand if you think it's way past time for public (taxpayer-supported) broadcasting (PBS and NPR) to go the way of the dinosaurs.

Just as I thought: all hands, enthusiastically raised.

Is there any doubt? Other than on the left, I mean. As NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham wrote on Thursday in a column titled "NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump":

At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.
Nobody is allowed to question the concept of “systemic racism” on NPR. They’re deeply invested in that ideology. It’s why NPR favors describing race riots against cops as “rebellions.”
Left-wing media outlets wage war on Trump’s takedown of “diversity, equity and inclusion” campaigns, which are horribly named. The left doesn’t want any diversity or inclusion that allows any dissenting space for their opponents, and “equity” is a code word for discrimination in favor of the “marginalized” groups.
The half of the country that voted for Trump shouldn’t have to support this clearly hostile radio network with our tax dollars. Lambda Legal and all the other leftists should pony up for NPR’s supine press releases, since NPR’s “newscasts” aren’t diverse or inclusive enough for conservatives.

In addition, the ever-witty Louisiana Republic Sen. Johny Kennedy put it this way on Thursday (emphasis, mine):

President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking for fat to trim. As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.
I’m all for this, if that’s what these outlets want to do. But, I’m not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CPB) to the exclusion of everybody else. That’s immoral.

The same logic to end taxpayer funding also applies to PBS.

This takes us to the latest example of why U.S. taxpayers should, in effect, stand up en masse and scream: "We're mad as hell! And we're not going to take it anymore!"

New York Times columnist David Brooks is delusionally marketed (lied about) as the conservative half of the "PBS NewsHour" weekly Friday news recap, with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart, clearly a left-winger.

However, as is the case with pretend-conservative Ana Navarro on ABC's ridiculous show, "The View," Brooks proves time and time again that his views are anything but conservative — including his irrational attacks (and lies) against President Donald Trump.

On Friday, Brooks declared — with a straight face, no less — that people of over the world will die because all Trump wants to do is "break things."

Host Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by reading from one of his recent columns.

And you wrote about this [this] past week in a column, where you said that it's ‘the working-class communities that will continue to languish because Trump ignores their main challenges and focuses instead on culture war distractions,’ that people who voted for change want to see that change.

Brooks eagerly jumped on Bennett's comment like a hungry pig jumping on an acorn, demeaning Trump supporters in his usual smug style:

Yes, the people who voted for Trump had a good reason to. Like, high school-educated people die eight years sooner than college-educated people. High school-educated people, their kids, by sixth grade are four grade levels below college-educated people. They're much more likely to say they're lonely. They're much more likely to live in devastated communities without social capital.

The smug arrogance of Brooks was eclipsed only by the ridiculous generalization of Trump supporters as a whole, which is tantamount to conservatives positing that all Harris voters were illiterate people of color, living in urban areas devastated by drugs and violent crimes.

Brooks continued, pushing the notion that well-off conservative elitists use (lie to) uneducated, low-information conservatives to gain support.

So, if you had a populist government, they would have policies to address these serious issues. The Trump administration is not leading with that. They really don't have plans for any of this. And when you look at who's in the administration, it's obvious why. The president and Elon Musk are University of Pennsylvania graduates who are billionaires.
Pete Hegseth went to Princeton and Yale. J.D. Vance went to Yale. Stephen Miller went to Duke. These are the highly educated right-wingers. And I have been around these — all these people all my life. I used to be one. And there are two types. There are, one, people who believe in conservative governance.
And then there's the other type. They're just anti-left. They don't have a positive vision for conservative governance. They want to tear down the institutions that they believe the left controls. And so that's what they're doing. That's what Bush — that's what Trump goes after.

With all due respect, Mr. Brooks, that's a complete crock of crap. For example, when did it become mutually exclusive to be "anti-left" and a proponent of "conservative governance"? On the contrary, they go hand-in-hand.

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As for people dying all over the world because Trump, Brooks waxed ridiculous:

And the problem with that is that the pain is born by the woman in Namibia who's going to die of AIDS, the kid in Ohio who's going to die of cancer because NIH, medical research has been gutted. And so it's — F. Scott Fitzgerald put it well. Rich people are careless. They break things. And I think that's what's happening here.

Genius, huh?

The Bottom Line

Donald Trump has been back in the White House for just two months. The left is laughably whining about his administration not lowering grocery prices — after ignoring the reality for four miserable years that Bidenomics not only led to stubborn inflation; the Biden-Harris administration did zero to try to bring down consumer prices.

As for the rest of the world, Mr. Brooks, two words: "America First."