Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm.

”America’s Public Television Stations are honored and delighted to welcome Ajit Pai to the APTS board,” said APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler.

Fox in the henhouse, again.

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Fuck Ajit Pai and the ridiculously oversized Reese’s mug he rode in on.

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But especially fuck the corporate oligarchy that bankrolls him and the corruption he rode in on.

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They must love that guy. Does all their shitty deeds and takes all of the heat for it.

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I’ll never not pronounce his name as “a shit pie”.

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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.

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Ah yes, the tears of smaller mugs.

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He smiles like a horse.

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I’ve yet to see one, if one in fact exists

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Horse tooth jackass looking like fafafooey jr.

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Someone get the beekeeper’s mask

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WTAF? So he can ruin PBS too?

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Yup. Bye bye sesame street

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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.

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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).

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I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ajit kill sesame street for shits and giggles regardless of the funding.

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Obligatory Fuck Ajit Pai with a rusty tv antenna

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