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I hate that it takes so long for common sense to prevail, when stupidity has no lag.

Will they be able to bounce back? CPB has been in mothballs for months now. How many of those employees / stations will be able to return?

I hope they get back pay and can get back in the swing of things but I fear permanent damage has been done. A lot of rural folks rely on CPB broadcasting and I don’t know if it’ll all come back.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has already been disbanded. I wonder if there even is a straightforward way to restore funding anymore

This was the entire point to all of it. The first term showed that you can sow enough chaos, that even if it’s ruled illegal later, there’s no fixing it. I fear it’s as bad as it could be, the damage is done, there is no fixing this. Especially considering that the corporation for public broadcasting dissolved because of the damage done.

Trying to bring it back is likely years if not decades and only if there is a real commitment to bringing it back in Congress. But no, it’s very likely gone for good never to return. The entire Court ruling was always going to be a Pyrrhic victory. The CPB and public broadcast was based mostly on a Government desire to do public good. Once that notion was gutted there was nothing to hold back it collapsing completely.

This is likely going to be the case with a ton of agencies and programs Trump illegally halted. Once the court case is over, there’s just no way to bring the program or agency back. Once you burn the bridge, not many will willingly come back. The absolute damage Trump’s second term has done thus far is easily a century worth of Legislative work. And given today’s ruling with SCOTUS about Colorado, the High Court may very well begin challenging if medicine and the legal definition of a doctor don’t run afoul of First Amendment protections.

We may not have to fight for healthcare because we’ll have to fight for the entire notion of medicine as a concept should be one in a legal sense. That’s where we’re at with this administration. We may have have multiple centuries worth of work ahead of us just because of this one President. His term has been so destructive to the fundamental tenets of what our nation was built upon, I can’t imagine us ever going back to a pre-Trump United States. We are likely forever altered from this man’s time in office.

Doesn’t matter. Damage is already done.

Metallica: Sad But True.

That is what they’re doing. Fires started at will, first responders always detained in endless quagmire of theatre before they can even leave the department.