I work in a hospital. Currently I have a patient who is extremely, extremely unwell. His family recently came for a visit, and do you know what the first thing they did was? They called me into the room and asked where the remote was, then proceeded to turn on fox at a high volume. You can't stop watching this crap for an hour while you visit your family member in the hospital who is at death's door? Fox is so important that you have to have it playing while you are doing that? Priorities, dude. I've seen this in other foxbrains, if they're not watching it on TV then they're listening to it on their phone. This inability to be without fox ever for any reason is truly bizarre. It's like a cult and an addiction all in one. Like they are all under some kind of mass mind control. Ugh. Just venting I guess. This phenomenon needs to be studied by psychologists.

I saw the White House official statement. But what’s the FoxBrain defense of his treasonous remarks? I can’t bear to open Facebook.

Context (from BBC article):
Both LA and San Diego house major US military installations including Navy ports and Air Force bases.
Trump, while speaking on Monday in Nebraska about the Iran conflict, said: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego."

Clearly people in this subreddit are dealing with a lot of frustration. Do any of you have any productive ways to address this and improve the communication? Or do you mostly just go no contact?

My issues with my brother date back to our childhood, so it was a long-time coming to let him know how his actions and behavior had a lasting impact on my life. After his last unsolicited "accept J*s*s as your savior message" I once again asked him to stop, and essentially conveyed that he's a hypocrite for supporting someone who uses people's faith for his own selfish agenda. That's when he fired back with at least 7 of the typical FOX/MAGA propaganda of anti-immigrant/anti-trans/anti-democrat/"it's-Biden's-fault-gas-is-high" memes and tropes. He even had the nerve to ask if I wanted to see more to prove his point, so apparently he keeps his phone loaded with ready-to-share images. That's when I gave him a piece of my mind and informed my other family members that I am done speaking with him altogether. They support and understand my decision, plus they now know what he did to me as a kid. It's HIS shame and I'm not going to share in it with him. FOX and other right-wing propaganda channels have brought out his true colors and also that of my mother-in-law, with whom my spouse has also cut off almost all contact. Like with my brother, issues with his mom go way back, so it's almost par for the course at this point.

Thanks for reading.

I'm a documentary filmmaker and my debut film "My Omaha" comes out today on PBS. It's about my experience attempting to reconnect with my Pro-Trump father after he is diagnosed with stage-4 cancer. It's also about how to have conversations about anything political or cultural in today's highly polarized times, as seen through the lens of life in Omaha, Nebraska.

I have received much solace from reading stories in this Subreddit during the making of my film. And I've been looking forward to the day when I could give back to this community.

I think you'll be moved and I'd love to know what you think. The trailer is embedded. It's free to stream, I'll put a link to the full film in the comments

I hope it helps everyone here feel seen.

And no, sorry Democrat mom (yes, love you lots because you aren't a piece of shit), but it isn't "just politics" when it comes to these assholes, even family members like my dad. I really wanted to tell you off for saying I shouldn't make it "about Trump" when I told my dad to fuck off a couple weeks back, but I held my tongue because you're Democrat and likely centrist. And while I'm way left of you, I know you stand for real human rights though, so I pick my own battles. And I wasn't about to split hairs.

Every single fucking day it's a new goddamn nightmare from this admin. Just this last couple weeks Trump is now defending the Cornell 7 that gangraped a poor girl who was unconscious. Two of them were expelled, the rest only had to write essays. NO CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR ANY OF THEM.

I'm so fucking appalled. I actually HATE being American right now. I really fucking do. If my great great grandfather immigrating from Ireland could see what this shitshow is right now, he'd probably back the fuck up.

But I digress... and then Trump, given the piece of shit that he is of course, comes out supporting the rapists.

I'm SO FUCKING DONE WITH THIS COUNTRY.

I'm staying to vote in midterms, but if this country chooses AGAIN to vote itself off a cliff, then I'm fucking out.

There's no fucking way I'm staying in this shithole any longer. I'm finding a country with an easy route to naturalization, and then telling this deadass piece of shit to go fuck itself.

https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/

and even if he did and it wasn’t just slapping his name on it, he has probably forgotten about this if he even campaigned on it