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angrychair

(12,013 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2026, 11:56 PM 22 hrs ago

Brenden Carr wants you to praise America

Well, at least your TV.

One example they give: "Starting each broadcast day with the 'Star Spangled Banner' or Pledge of Allegiance."

Brenden Carr wants broadcasters to "volunteer" to take the pledge America pledge and from Memorial Day of this year until July 4th of next year, play all kinds of whitewashed versions of history that "only promote America's greatness".

Nothing says "celebration" like tens of thousands of people being held in warehouses and federal agents gunning people down in the streets while the country is run by a bunch of billionaire pedophiles that are openly stealing billions of dollars and laugh at poor people.

These people are truly the dumbest assholes I've ever heard of in my life.

Reference:

Trump's FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces the "Pledge America" campaign â€” urging broadcasters to air "patriotic, pro-American programming" for America's 250th birthday.

One example they give: "Starting each broadcast day with the 'Star Spangled Banner' or Pledge of Allegiance."
— Prem Thakker ãƒ„ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T18:50:38.027Z

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Brenden Carr wants you to praise America (Original Post) angrychair 22 hrs ago OP

Good grief 😠 it's voluntary now but soon it'll be state run tv, radio. Will we have public loud speakers Deuxcents 22 hrs ago #1

All Hail Glorious Dear Leader dalton99a 22 hrs ago #2

Does anyone in this administration live in the present day? jls4561 21 hrs ago #3

This isn't 1960 When the channels signed off at midnight and back on at 5-6 am Historic NY 21 hrs ago #4

when hell freezes over vapor2 21 hrs ago #5

Maybe Brendan should begin all of his announcements and press conferences struggle4progress 20 hrs ago #6

What's the alternative for refusal? EarthFirst 19 hrs ago #7

Deuxcents

(26,275 posts)

1. Good grief 😠 it's voluntary now but soon it'll be state run tv, radio. Will we have public loud speakers

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 12:03 AM

22 hrs ago

Like North Korea running patriotic programs or praises all day and night?

dalton99a

(93,185 posts)

2. All Hail Glorious Dear Leader

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 12:08 AM

22 hrs ago

jls4561

(2,991 posts)

3. Does anyone in this administration live in the present day?

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 12:20 AM

21 hrs ago

We know that Drumph ricochets between the 1980’s, when greed was good and everything was tacky, and the gilded age, when women were property and the lower classes knew their place.

Hegseth is stuck back in the time of the Crusades, where rape and pillage were manly activities and killing infidels got you into heaven.

And we all know Stephen Miller is nostalgic for post Weimar Germany, where Darwin’ theories were perverted to “purify” the race,
I.e.YOUR race.

A great many are bringing America back to the days before Chester A. Arthur passed civil service reform, when the spoils system dictated who got government jobs and grift was rampant. Sure, Noem, that plane is for deportation.

Patriotic Americans are sick of the corruption, incompetence and greed, Carr. Flag humping does not love of country make.

Historic NY

(39,875 posts)

4. This isn't 1960 When the channels signed off at midnight and back on at 5-6 am

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 12:25 AM

21 hrs ago

National Anthem at night variety of ones in the AM

vapor2

(4,215 posts)

5. when hell freezes over

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 01:06 AM

21 hrs ago

struggle4progress

(125,843 posts)

6. Maybe Brendan should begin all of his announcements and press conferences

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 01:58 AM

20 hrs ago

with the pledge of allegiance and end them all by singing the star-spangled banner?

EarthFirst

(4,034 posts)

7. What's the alternative for refusal?

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 02:55 AM

19 hrs ago

What retaliatory plot do they have in mind when broadcasters refuse?

What retaliatory tactic do they have in mind when I/we refuse to participate in their Two Mintues Hate project?

Is a trip to one of their warehouses for reeducation next?

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