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rubbersole

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23. News Corp business model...

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:51 PM

15 hrs ago

..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.

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Holy fuck I'm sick of working in homes that play Fox News [View all] Orrex 17 hrs ago OP

I do home infusion IV's FarPoint 17 hrs ago #1

Wear headphones and listen to music all day FakeNoose 17 hrs ago #2

😱🤮🤮😵😵‍💫 Traildogbob 17 hrs ago #3

Do they all live in Jiffy-Lubes? lame54 17 hrs ago #4

If FOX"news" is being aired when I viait my local Jiffy Lube, I simply ask for a channel change. 11 Bravo 15 hrs ago #16

Look on the bright side dweller 17 hrs ago #5

I think you mean Ilsa 15 hrs ago #15

well duh dweller 15 hrs ago #18

When TSF dies, it WILL finally be peacetime normal DBoon 14 hrs ago #28

I see what you mean now! Thanks for Ilsa 7 hrs ago #34

BAAAHAHAHAHAAAA! Indeed! electric_blue68 13 hrs ago #30

You could respond thusly EYESORE 9001 16 hrs ago #6

I have been visiting a friend in a rehabilitation center. Katinfl 16 hrs ago #7

Making dumb people dumber; FOX News. twodogsbarking 16 hrs ago #8

Yuck! --- Over the years, I've switched barber shops quite a few times when I walk in and hear Fox on the TV... QueerDuck 16 hrs ago #9

It's not hard to figure out why some people are the way they are after listening to that stream of BS all day and night. hadEnuf 16 hrs ago #10

I quit going to a local diner because they started playing Fox News on 1/2 the TVs. Initech 16 hrs ago #11

I get that a 'sports bar' might have TVs ClaudetteCC 15 hrs ago #19

The last time I went there, they had Sean Hannity on one of the TVs. Initech 14 hrs ago #29

maybe i don't get out much :) ClaudetteCC 12 hrs ago #31

I feel for you Grim Chieftain 16 hrs ago #12

FoxNews addicts are beyond help. mn9driver 16 hrs ago #13

There was a corner of the old East Germany like that DFW 16 hrs ago #14

So turn the TV off. :) ificandream 15 hrs ago #17

I don't know what you do but - Nigrum Cattus 15 hrs ago #20

MAGA cult members paxmoki 15 hrs ago #21

Liberals and progressives dont suck in msnbc all day. Weird behavior BlueWaveNeverEnd 15 hrs ago #24

Headphones. twodogsbarking 15 hrs ago #22

News Corp business model... rubbersole 15 hrs ago #23

First time I heard Rush Limbaugh... BurnDoubt 14 hrs ago #25

In my senior move job the few times I have packed up some seniors who have fox on turn out to be big jerks kimbutgar 14 hrs ago #26

I had a contractor play his religious bs station in my house. GreenWave 14 hrs ago #27

Several years ago, Fox News was on everywhere I went, MIButterfly 12 hrs ago #32

Thank you, all, for your replies! Orrex 7 hrs ago #33

Pour cement in their toilet. Hassin Bin Sober 7 hrs ago #35

I turn it off when I arrive. But, as a visit nurse I'm there less than an hour. I feel for you. mucifer 13 min ago #36