So, apologies for the Thanksgiving rant I posted last night. I’m trying not to do shit like that here, but it’s been a rough week.

The partner’s parents flip on Fox News or Fox Business between 11AM and 1PM and it literally stays on until 11PM, excepting a dinner break. Mom-in-law is going deaf, so she’s blaring it so loud, there literally is nowhere in the house you can’t hear it.

I’ve only watched Fox in bits and pieces before. I’ve never really been exposed to it for long stretches. This is fucking insane. Literally chyrons on the screen like “The Left wants you to not enjoy Thanksgiving.” Any Democratic policy is referred to as “socialist”. Constant railing about how the “left” hates America. Constant, constant talking, noise and graphics, followed by commercials even louder than the broadcast following the same formula.

It’s fucking straight up brainwashing propaganda.

And they just sit there, all fucking day long, in recliners watching this. 10 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. It’s like the senior citizen version of A Clockwork Orange.

On top of that, my partner is stuck down here for at least two more weeks because Mom is going in for laparoscopic heart surgery and there’s no one else to take care of her folks (both 80+; we’re in NJ and they live in SC).

I have to head home because of both the dog and work, but the amount of guilt I’m feeling right now is suffocating. It’s doesn’t help that her mother is a fucking monster.

I realize other people here are dealing with shit way worse than this, and the losing family members to Fox News is nothing new, but goddamn; to really see it up close is brutal.

So, sorry again. I’m gonna check out for a bit.