As part of its ongoing campaign to flood American cities with federal police all too willing to do the Presidentβs violent bidding, not to mention drag the countryβs institutions of government further into absurdity, the Trump Administration is now decrying the loss of the childrenβs show Paw Patrol as an example of βcancel cultureβ against cops.
The problem with thisβone of many problems, actuallyβis that Paw Patrol hasnβt been cancelled.
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This inconvenient truth didnβt stop White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany from lying to make a ridiculous argument at a press briefing on Friday, reports the NY Post.
βWe saw a few weeks ago Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops was canceled; the show Cops was canceled; Live PD was canceled; LEGO halted the sales of their LEGO police station,β said McEnany to reporters, adding that the President was βappalled by cancel culture.β
If this isnβt proof that the very concept of so-called cancel culture means absolutely nothing, then I donβt know what is.
McEnanyβs idiotic and incorrect statement also shows that the federal governmentβs plans to spread the kind of brutality now taking place against citizens in Portland is being framed as a sort of restoration of reverence for police who have enjoyed lifetimes of impunity, often to the detriment of Black people in this country.
Meanwhile Nickelodeon, the network which airs the animated show about rescue dogs who protect their neighborhood, quickly dismissed the Trump Administrationβs claim about Paw Patrolβs cancellation, tweeting on Friday that no such thing has happened.
Hereβs a video of McEnany at the White House lying about a childrenβs cartoon like itβs her job, because it is:
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