My father changed his politics radically when his health declined and he had to stay home watching tv because of mobility issues. Fuck FOX. Assholes. One of the most harmful entities in the USA. I wish every one of them would drop dead.
I feel extremely lucky that my parents somehow avoided going down that rabbit hole. I'm sorry the hate-media got to your dad, that really sucks.
My dad used to watch it to laugh at it, but I think my mom took a lot of it seriously.
That shit is a cognitive hazard.
Everybody thinks they're immune to propaganda themselves, that it only influences other dumber people.
It happened to my dad after a TBI in like 2015. Went full ancient aliens too.
Hey now. If it weren’t for Ancient Aliens I would probably never sleep. Have a little respect for my insomnia cure!
So fortunate that my parents got more liberal as they got older.
That really sucks. What's weird with my parents is that they never watch Fox News ever, only NBC, and still they remain conservative AF. They actively reject any negative information about Republicans. Totally don't care whatsoever, anything and everything is justified by "both sides, but abortion!!".
How much facebook are they on?
mom: constantly, but this attitude pre-dates FB. my dad has never had a FB account to my knowledge.
Tim Walz is the dad and grandpa that Rush and Rupert stole from us. He's the family we lost when their personalities changed seemingly overnight.
If the right wing funded rage machine never existed, we would have had millions like him. They've broken so many families.
This is exactly it. Fake news should have a regulatory body.
It should be illegal to present entertainment as news and opinion as fact to a global audience. There should be real life jail time (not fines that are only for the poor) for the business owners
When a society in the future figures this out, the world will be a better place.
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!!!
Fox giving “news” while legally not being news has led to crimes, that’s a fact. Maybe prosecutor Kamala could go for a bite but damn it’d be nice to have the news be true again
My grandpa was an Army mook from 50s-70s, dude spent literally his entire time working on vehicles to fight the USSR while we had a third party fight in Korea and Vietnam.
Hearing this man suddenly defend Trump and the red caps hurts my heart. They say don’t meet your heroes but goddamn watching one turn into a cult member is worse.
Tim Walz is the Free Dad Hugs guy at Pride Marches
Yoo what? Neat
Ye it's a whole thing, there's free mom hugs and free sib hugs now too
What a wonderful description! That's exactly what he is.
I’m an old man and I feel this way as well. My parents are a lost cause
Full populations of our society are a lost cause. There is a lot of work to do to undo the damage.
We need to hold media responsible for blatantly and intentionally deceiving viewers.
News ought to be a regulated word, if you put it on your show or paper or anything, anywhere, it means you can’t knowingly lie.
Politicians ought to be held to that same requirement, you aren’t allowed to knowingly lie.
You want your full first amendment rights (to lie and deceive) back? Stop being a politician or a “news” person.
They were, before Reagan intentionally fucked it all up in his crusade of feces
Tim Walz is the masculine role model that we need.
Tim Walz is what a real patriot looks like. He loves his state, he loves his country, and he does everything he can to make life in both of them better for everyone.
It's almost weird how not-creepy he is, in this day and age
I was just talking to a coworker about how Walz being a daughter father is a great look for the campaign trail. No nonsense campaign dad who calls out creeps is going to play well with a lot of people especially women.
And Kamala appeals to all the dudes who had shitty weirdo mothers.
Yeah so, I did not expect to have this reaction to a powerful woman running, and I certainly didn't experience anything like it with Hillary, and honestly it is probably toxic at base, but, uh...
Ka-mommy.
Shows that America didn't reject women presidents in 2016 so much as it rejected Hillary. The next step on a carefully laid out career path does not a great president make.
If she had divorced Bill in the 00s, she might have had a chance. Staying with her blatantly cheating former president husband just looked like an old school "divorce is bad optics" decision rather than a more feminist "I don't need a husband that doesn't treat me well". Which didn't work well when she was trying to run as the latter.
Her entitlement didn't help, neither did the Democrat establishment working to prevent the progressive option but being willing to back her. Neither did empowering Trump as an opponent she thought she'd get an easy win for when in reality she was the perfect candidate for him to run against.
Even if she made every right choice, the Republicans had been smearing her name for 24 years before she ran for president. Her attempt to simultaneously be elected most entitled person certainly didn't help. But I think that's why we nominated Biden in 2020. The watch word was electability because we all saw what decades of FUD did to Hillary.
It's not that. I have good parents. For me it's the humanity on display. We're so used to these stoic leaders putting out a highly polished inhuman image and Kamala and her husband are out here making faces at each other on the campaign trail. Doug actively tries to crack her up when they're in front of the cameras but not doing speeches or something.
This is absolutely it. She's so much more human than any of the old croaks that trump hangs out with.
And Donold is so mentally broken that he is unable to genuinely belly laugh at anything. That's really creepy once you notice it.
Men too
Can someone explain why exactly?
Last night's Daily Show had a good segment on him.
He's basically just a normal "dad". Was a teacher and a highschool football coach, genuinely enjoys spending time with his family, sometimes is wrong but listens to others and is open to changing his mind.
It's an incredibly low bar, but dude seems to be a decent human being.
It's not any deeper than that.
I recently heard the phrase "the bar for men is in hell". At first I thought they were talking about a drinking establishment for men with the devil. No, it's saying that the bar for men to get over to be a comparably decent person is so low, it's in the depths of the earth in hell.
Like, there are so many absolutely terrible men that someone who doesn't inappropriately touch and does listen most of the time by comparison is like an Olympic gymnast
And yet I catch motherfuckers every day absolutely killing the devil himself in a limbo competition in his own home.
Eh...
Kamala is also benefitting from where Biden and Trump have set the bar.
So in this scenario it'd be more accurate to substitute politicians for men in that saying.
Because he shows what our parents could be like.
He's the parent we wish we had.
Waltz gives big dad energy.
He's not weird.
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