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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly fuck I'm sick of working in homes that play Fox News
I should get hazard pay for this bullshit.
FarPoint
(14,333 posts)A few on occasion have Fox Noise, most use Netflix ..Dayton Ohio
FakeNoose
(39,444 posts)Traildogbob
(12,141 posts)Guess those homes have a distinctive scent.
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lame54
(38,863 posts)11 Bravo
(24,244 posts)They have never hesitated to grant my request.
dweller
(27,572 posts)At least youll know when FAUX goes to DEFCON 5 that the motherfucker has died
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Ilsa
(63,605 posts)DEFCON 1. DEFCON 5 is "peacetime normal."
Thanks
Not going to edit , I stand corrected
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DBoon
(24,498 posts)Ilsa
(63,605 posts)that perspective. Earlier I thought you might have been referring to the MAGAts instigating violence with conspiracy theories.
electric_blue68
(24,853 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,291 posts)I see youre watching Rump TV. IS HE DEAD YET?
Katinfl
(556 posts)Every time I saw her she had Fox on the TV. Very low sound, just the constant streaming of that garbage across the screen. Constant. I dont think she even understands half of the BS, but she sees it and she votes. Scary.
twodogsbarking
(16,654 posts)QueerDuck
(595 posts)in the waiting area. I leave and never come back... I'm running out of local barbers. Currently I drive about 12 miles to a "chain" franchise barber that only plays sports TV. The locally owned barbers that do not blast Fox news are harder to find.
hadEnuf
(3,457 posts)Elderly don't get out as often as they like, so Fox is their version of reality.
Initech
(106,872 posts)And I let them know why. Which sucks because that diner had a great patio and is a good place for breakfast. But I don't support fascist restaurants.
ClaudetteCC
(127 posts)so i might go for special events once in a great while. At most other times and places when dining I don't want every direction I might look to have some TV screen polluting the view.
Initech
(106,872 posts)And the entire time it was all "Biden sucks, Trump is great" shit. That was when I decided I was done with that place. If they put the TVs on all sports, that's one thing. But they have to have the most toxic, divisive, hateful bullshit possible. I actually kind of liked the food, but that was the deal breaker.
ClaudetteCC
(127 posts)but in my town the only time I encounter Fox News is one lobby of one bank branch. A tv tuned to CNN is right next to it.
Grim Chieftain
(908 posts)I was on my computer listening to MSNBC online and they aired part of the Trump bobble headed press secretary's comments. I thought I'd stroke out. I immediately turned it off and looked fondly at the bottle of Jack Daniels. Nope, not going there. These evil creeps are not going to take me down.
mn9driver
(4,798 posts)They love the colors, the lies that make them happy, and the vaguely threatening musical undertones.
Wear ear plugs.
DFW
(59,342 posts)Most of the territory that made up the German Democratic Republic was fairly flat or only mildly hilly, and the people there could receive West German TV and radio. The SED regime didnt like it but there wasnt much they could do about it. But there was one corner of the country whose geography and topography made it difficult to impossible to reliably get West German broadcasts. Entering their territory with western newspapers and magazines was already forbidden, and any printed matter was seized at any border crossing. But they couldnt confiscate airwaves.
Guess which part of East Germany had the greatest percentage of loyal, true socialists? The little enclave where the people werent exposed to any other facts or points of view, of course. Heil Honecker, ours is the only truth you need to hear. And so they did. This doesnt mean they were all bloodthirsty sadists celebrating every poor wannabe refugee that their socialist heroes shot down at the Berlin Wall or at the Death Strip. It does mean that they were conditioned to think it was a positive event when it happened.
This part of Germany is the deepest part of southeastern Saxony. The German spoken there has a very distinctive accent that even today makes the skin of most other Germans crawl.
ificandream
(11,545 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(1,083 posts)I would suggest raising prices on the cult members
paxmoki
(10 posts)My better half is remodeling a bathroom and the homeowners have Faux infotainment & OAN on all the time. Last Wednesday he went there and said to them Great night for the democrats. The women replied They elect a communist in NYC.
Yesterday their cable went out and they were frantic because their supply was cut off. The man was sitting in front of the tv which had a blank screen.
MAGA cult members!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,101 posts)And msnbc has a left tilt but doesn't lie
twodogsbarking
(16,654 posts)rubbersole
(10,864 posts)..billionaires starting Fox News then hiring attractive millionaires to convince middle class and working class Americans that all their woes are caused by people picking strawberries. And it's working as planned.
BurnDoubt
(1,234 posts)I was on a jobsite, working for fraudsters. This was back when California was arguing over English-As-the -official-language.
A voice from the next apartment was all about that.
When he passed the apartment I was working in he made a comment, thinking I would agree. My response was to ask him if he knew he was in a place called Sacramento in a State called California, and that his family had certainly moved there from somewhere else
Crickets.
The Trades is a good place to get a good feeling for whats going on under those Red Hats. And it aint perty.
Sadly, some of the best contractors are MAGA. It suits the "Cowboy-as-King" independent crowd, where THEY make the rules and then bitch when they get red-tagged for violating the Code. So
yeah.
I worked for a widowed lady who was an Angel to lots of her acquaintences as she helped guide them through the issues confronting her senior friends. She was on the phone all day helping them. And in the background Rush Limbaugh is droning-on aboutFemiNazis endlessly. Such a sweet lady being poisoned a drop at a time. Incongruous.
Luckily, I didnt have to deal with it too often. I got a license and I made a lot of effort to work in solitary. Not lucrative, but I didnt end up dispensing rough Justice and having to live amongst them in the slammer.
Hang in there
kimbutgar
(26,471 posts)I was supposed to unpack a fox viewer and he was so rude to my co worker who is a gay man that I asked my boss to get someone else for the unpack. I felt so sorry for his wife. She was restraining him because she turned off fox and he was going to have a meltdown. I also suspect he had dementia but he was so far gone in magaloon fox ideology.
GreenWave
(11,984 posts)GW Whom did you ask to play in our house?
Magat: Does it bother you?
GW: Time for you to hit the road, (He lost a $20,000 job.)
MIButterfly
(1,624 posts)doctor's office, auto mechanic, etc., but now, I hardly ever see it anywhere. Now I see GSN; HGTV; ESPN, etc. A very welcomed change.
I'm sorry that you have to go into so many homes with Fox News. I only go into one, my aunt and uncle's, and that's one too many. At least they mute it so I don't have to listen to it and I can ignore it.