PAW Patrol is an innocent enough looking television show for children, but if you read between the lines you can see it instills improper values on our children with reckless abandon.

The premise of the show is that in some city, a ten-year-old boy named Ryder runs a team of elite K9 units who, using sophisticated equipment, perform daring rescues and go on dangerous missions to save their town. While this may seem harmless, there is something far more insidious at work here:

Blatant fiscal irresponsibility and corruption.

First, the budget of the PAW Patrol is seemingly inexhaustible. Every single episode they reveal new cutting-edge equipment, including but not limited to helicopters, speedboats, hovercraft, and jetpacks. This is hundreds of millions–possibly billions–of taxpayer dollars in research and development, with no actual oversight. The mayor could be making millions of dollars a year in kickbacks and they would only be an unnoticeable blip on the annual budget reports.

Now we get to the missions they go on. Having a well-funded rescue crew in a town may seem fine, but the overwhelming majority of these missions are entirely pointless and are only made to justify its existence. “Oh no guys! A cat is stuck on a raft 10 feet from the coast! We have to go on a multi-million dollar mission to save her! PAW Patrol!” Who approved this? Who signed off on this mission? Economically speaking, that’s a college education for hundreds of young men and women down the drain.

Worst of all, all of this funding is going to a fucking ten-year-old boy and a team of dogs. There is nothing even more incomprehensible and moronic than overfunding a boy who should be in the 4th grade learning long division and a bunch of dogs who
completely lack higher-order thinking skills.

With all of this going on, nobody in the town seems to care. Everyone is fine with it. There isn’t even a single episode involving picketers demanding they defund the PAW Patrol. That’s when it hits you. Income tax must be set at a hard 80% with the town’s people eating nothing but rice and beans every night to fund this shit, and nobody says a thing. Make no mistake: this town is an authoritarian hellhole with its people at risk of getting thrown in a gulag for raising a fuss about the PAW Patrol.

Watch it some time. Really watch it and you’ll see that it is a show that encourages children to look past excessive spending and clear corruption. It normalizes overfunding with a very clear message: your tax dollars are going to unbelievably stupid shit, and there’s nothing you can do about it.