As I was listening to the radio on my way home from running errands....

[Laffy Kat]

The music was paused for the "Pledge of Allegiance." It was a rock station and that's the first time I've heard that. WTF?

[Irish_Dem]

1. We must pull off the road to pledge our allegiance to Dear Leader?

[regnaD kciN]

2. Which station was it...?

[Laffy Kat]

7. I knew someone was going to ask me that and I don't know.

I have pre-set stations, all rock and oldies and I just switch around. I never really pay any attention which station I'm on. As soon as I understood what they were doing I switched off. Of course, now I wish I knew. I will pay closer attention in case it happens again.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. I bet it is one of the corporate stations.

Right wing nuts are buying up tons of local stations.

[elleng]

4. WETA

[Laffy Kat]

11. I Googled WETA. That's a classic station, right?

This was a rock station and I wasn't paying attention, but I will from now on.

[elleng]

14. Right, MY Classical station.

[brush]

10. The magats are grooming citizens to be good German...er ah...good Nazis...er ah...good Americans.

[Meowmee]

5. Ugh which station?

I have never heard that on any station.

[Laffy Kat]

8. First time for me, too. nt

[rsdsharp]

6. Never seen that before. I worked for a radio station

that signed off at midnight, and I had to cue up a record of The Star Spangled Banner to play just before the legal ID and sign off, but the Pledge?

[Laffy Kat]

9. I know. nt

[John1956PA]

12. Country music stations with RW listeners have done that for decades here in Western PA.

Recordings of children reciting the pledge are played by those RW stations. That practice became popular after September 11, 2001.

[SheltieLover]

13. Never heard of such a thing!

[GulfofMexico]

15. Hitler would be proud. And Putin is.

But when you have the government kidnapping people and deporting them with impunity, pledging allegiance to the Grand Tyrant is SOP. In a little over two months Trump/Musk/Putin have turned the USA from the leader of the free world to a tinhorn dicatatorship that is the envy of places like Venezuela. And I know. I lived there under Hugo Chavez. But never ever did I think I'd live under such a tyrant in my own country.

[Laffy Kat]

16. Welcome to DU, GulfofMexico!