Doing an 8 hour job in a Trump house today

[Orrex]

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Fox News on three TVs, and I’ll be here all day.

Give me strength.

Edited to add: Plot twist! Prominently displayed in their basement living room is a certificate commemorating their attendance at Obama’s 2009 inauguration.

[Historic NY]

1. I thought you had the ketchup cleanig contract

[SamKnause]

2. Ear plugs or headphones or I couldn't cope with 8 hours of constant lies.

Damn, I feel for you.

Good luck.

[Xavier Breath]

32. Lies and endless commercials about Ozempic, reverse mortgages and Trumpy Trout.

[malaise]

3. All the best

😀

[Hugin]

4. Add a tariff surcharge to the bill?

They should be okay with that.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Bless you, my child. I'd be taking a hammer to those TVs.

[Meowmee]

6. My sympathies 🤗

[tavernier]

7. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

Once you leave that house, you will be a Superhero!

[Maru Kitteh]

8. I work in a care home and 20% of the residents NEVER turn it off.

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No cooincidence at all, those are the ones most likely to have behavioral disturbances. It is useful in the sense that it becomes obvious exactly how and why those people become obsessed with outsized, frankly unhinged and irrational “threats” and burning, venemous, murderous hate for Democrats and liberal Americans.

At least I can leave the room when I’m done. I’m grateful for that. Best of luck to you.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. As I heard someone say

FAUX news did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.

[Tadpole Raisin]

30. Oh now that's good!! nt

[Orrex]

17. This mirrors my experience

If a house has CNN or MSN on, it’s background noise while the residents live their lives. If the house has Fox on? At least one resident is sitting motionless and slack-jawed in front of the tv, sucking down the lies and hate as fast as they can.

When I’ve described this on DU before, I’ve been scolded because statistics or whatever don’t bear this out, that Fox doesn’t have the viewership to match such stories, yet I see it in at least three or four homes a week, every week.

Current customer hasn’t moved from his chair in two hours.


And before anyone wags their finger at me for being on DU while on the job, it’s a flat-rate job that involves multiple system updates during which I can do nothing but wait.

[Sky Jewels]

23. I'm going to wag my finger at you anyway,

just because there is an emoji handy.

[Orrex]

24. LOL

[spooky3]

26. I believe you. I don't know how a study could show that

Unless TVs have a hidden camera that focuses on the viewer.

If someone surveyed Fox and other viewers about whether they concentrated on the tv vs lived their lives, who would admit they sat idly in front of the tv all day?

(Proudly admitting to being glued sometimes but also multitasking at other times)

[Orrex]

36. Moments like today's job are quite useful for me, in fact

Both because they remind me how thoroughly brainwashed theses people are, and also how relentlessly poisonous the Fox rhetoric is. They’re in nonstop panic mode at all times, urgently reporting on things that Biden did four years ago, or on the latest horror some trans kid committed simply by existing.

I don’t know what it’ll take to free these people from their cultish programming, but I’m pretty sure that it can’t be done by force. They need to see the grotesque ugliness of their thinking for themselves before they can be freed from it.

[Norrrm]

34. "sitting motionless and slack-jawed" --- That describes a friend who is getting/gotten dementia.

98% of her tv time is Fox.

She was a Fox junkie even before the dementia.

[Orrex]

35. I truly wish I were exaggerating.

My customer was entirely pleasant and polite, but after he greeted me at the door, he returned to his chair and did nothing but watch Fox until about 20 minutes ago when I had to show him how part of the new system works. Then right back to his chair.

To be fair, I must acknowledge that he stood up to let the dog out/in at least once.

[justaprogressive]

9. set up child control one TV at a time

4-digit PIN needed to watch Faux Nuz

[Ilsa]

10. Temporarily sabotage their cable or satellite? nt

[Wicked Blue]

28. Easter Bunny chews through their power line

[58Sunliner]

11. So tempting to charge extra. I know you probably won't.

[Clouds Passing]

12. Ask politely to turn off tvs.

[Orrex]

14. That would probably get me fired, I'm sorry to say

[Clouds Passing]

15. I hope you have noise cancelling headphones then. Good luck 🍀

I would be frazzled by the end of the day

[Mr.Bee]

18. Proof

FoxNews is responsible for the deterioration of this country
The Divided States of Trumpmerica

[homegirl]

16. BE SURE TO

get paid in advance-in cash!

[IronLionZion]

19. Try to avoid being brainwashed

[IbogaProject]

20. Maybe you will finally answer your daily question affirmatively?

You would get the news quick that way.

[GreenWave]

21. My thoughts exactly.

[Orrex]

37. If only...

In case anyone is wondering, I never talk politics with trumper customers. Not once, not ever.

But if they’re unmistakably left or are outside my white cis male demographic, I’ll make an effort to show where I stand, if only so that they don’t worry that a Trump cultist is working in their basement for a few hours.

[kimbutgar]

22. In my senior move manager job we've had clients who had fox in all day and they were jerks

But very few books. Usually seniors have 3-4 boxes of books to move but the fox viewers none barely and they’re unread right wing books.One senior community used to have fox on in the communal room and the residents used to scrabble with each other. Someone took off fox and a couple months later the resident manager said she noticed there were few if any scrabbles among the residents.

[Seinan Sensei]

25. TV-B-Gone universal remote control

You can’t change channels.
But you can turn off ANY television remotely
Waiting rooms, bars, break-rooms, fitness center

[tanyev]

27. Wow, that is a plot twist!

Weird that anyone who framed a certificate commemorating attendance at Obama’s 2009 inauguration and still has it hanging on a wall would be a nonstop
Fox News viewer.

[Bluestocking]

29. Not unusual

I know a hardcore Trumper that voted for Obama.

[mucifer]

31. As a hospice nurse I turn off the loud maga tvs when I go into a home. But, then I'm there to

assess my patients.

Weirdly enough some of the magas are so nice and sweet I would have never guessed they could be brainwashed like this.
One elderly couple adopted black children who are now adults and doing well and love their adopted white maga parents. I'm thinking maybe a lot of the racist things trump says and does doesn't make it to fox news?

They will probably blame President Biden when they lose their social security.

The brainwashing is insane. Just makes me want to cry. I cannot hate these people.

[Initech]

33. Someone definitely went down the propaganda wormhole in 2020.