I am sitting having breakfast in a motel in OH

[wasupaloopa]

In a few hours I will get on a flight back to my home state of CA.

Fox snooze is on bitching about our govenor removing troops from the border.

People sitting around are agreeing with the dolts on Fox.

I want to yell out “fuck you” like the MAGA guy who had a melt down. I won’t, but fuck them anyway.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. All that would happen if you did thatis that the whole

place would go completely quiet and everyone would act like you weren't there.

Midwesterners are extremely polite.

[wasupaloopa]

2. I grew up in Dayton OH. I moved to CA in 1982 to get

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away from polite Mid westerners.

I call them fascist conformists

They are sitting in front of the tv criticizing my adopted state out loud. I am criticizing them in silence.

On edit:

I was attending a funeral this week. One of the other attendees who lives here asked me my opinion on trump’s wall.

She knows I live in CA. I told her it would not work. I told her there were new and more effective ways to have border security.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I eat at Perkins every morning.

The Trumpers pretty much ignore me. But both the regular waitresses are staunch Democrats. And you just don't know about the folks at the next table.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion but if one of the regular guys gives me a bad time I just quietly tell them to leave me alone.

I am from the Northwest so I don't talk country. People just assume that I am a liberal.

I don't let anyone walk over me.

[wasupaloopa]

5. Where is the Perkins? If it is in Dayton most likely

my cousin’s husband owned it.

He was a staunch conservative. He tried to convert me but he never pressured me. We got along well.

The IRS cought up with him and he owed about a million in back taxes. He committed suicide.

We went to his house every Christmas for awhile.
One year he showed my two sawed off shotguns be bought for his wife (my cousin) and himself for Christmas.

I asked him why and he said it was for when they come. He meant people were going to come and take his wealth.

I did like him very much. He was freindly to me.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. I am in KCMO. There are lots if Dems here. nt

[Hekate]

35. How terribly sad...

I guess "when they came for him" it was his own demons who came for him.

[FarPoint]

13. You must be hanging out in an Englewood motel....

I'm just down the road.

[wasupaloopa]

14. Marriott Springhill Suites

[FarPoint]

21. Ahhhh yes....

Vandalia....I just didn't realize a Perkins was near there.... Lot's to choose from along that road.

[True Blue American]

22. South of Dayton.

I drive through to get to the other Side.

[True Blue American]

18. Woah there! Which Motel in Englewood?

Only 3 off I 70 and 48!

[Kitchari]

3. You can vent here

It's one of the perks of DU

[SallyHemmings]

6. Breakfast in a Hilton Property in St. Michaels

Last October the hubby and I went to St. Michael’s MD for a long weekend. Faux news was on all the TVs. The staff and I were the only brown folks in the place. The hubby is used to me. “Just remember Babe we are outnumbered” Eventually, I went to the manager and asked them to switch half the TVs to ESPN.

There was no response from my fellow travelers. However, several members of the staff casually made their way to my table and quietly thanked me.

[wasupaloopa]

7. I would hate to work in a place with Fox on all around me.

[yaesu]

33. I consider that worker abuse, forcing them to work in a caustic enviroment

they should at least be paid double time in that case.

[yardwork]

8. Where in Ohio?

[wasupaloopa]

17. Dayton

[yardwork]

19. Ah!

[xmas74]

26. My kid goes to.Dayton every year

For WGI national.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

9. Politely ask the management to switch off Fox News.

Are your sensibilities any less important than the other paying customers? There is tremendous value in letting people know there is diversity of opinion all around-even sitting at the next table. It's why juries work. You never know who is getting in that jury box with you until the deliberations start. Fox stays on the TV-they're all comfy and cozy. Next thing you know they're bad-mouthing old liberal California. It's a short trip down the slippery slope until the racial and ethnic epithets start. Tell the management to turn this crap off or do it yourself. Put on the Weather Channel if you must, but don't let anyone think Fox News is acceptable fare for the general population of constituents.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

11. +1

[wasupaloopa]

15. The majority of the staff is African American.

I wonder what they think of a bunch white guys sitting around the tv watching Fox and making right wing statements?

[yardwork]

16. +1

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. My Perkins used to be on CNN.

Then they changed to a really inoffensive home decorating channel.

[RhodeIslandOne]

30. HGTV and Food Network are popular at doctor's offices too

Why anyone would put "news" on unless something actually important is happening is beyond me.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

10. Yes! Ask them to turn off Fox.

If someone engages you, politely ask “Do you know who owns Fox? Do you know what Rupert Murdoch wants? He lies to you to get you to vote for tax cuts for billionaires. And then he laughs at the suckers that watch Fox.”

It’s very very important for Democrats to talk about Fox’s lies- if you do that you can make a big impact.

[wasupaloopa]

34. When I checked out I asked them to change the channel

Somebody had already changed to the Today show.

[cwydro]

12. I travel a lot.

I do see Fox News on more than I care for.

But I never hear people discussing it.

Oddly, my first anecdote of this type happened in Wales, where I am now.

[bdamomma]

20. sad I wish

we could do something about the right wing swill they have on the TV and radio, it's pure propaganda and brainwashing.

[magicarpet]

23. Fascism runs wide and deep in America...

... we can thank the Racist Fascist for installing the Orange White Trash in the People's White House.

[Roland99]

27. Pack your umbrella. Rain setting in around lunch

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Anaheim. About to head to work.

[Ohiogal]

28. I'm sorry you're getting a bad impression of Ohio

Maybe those people at the hotel are passing through from somewhere else?

Although I admit we have our share of nitwit Trumpanzees here. But many of us are not!

I hate when you’re in a public place that shows that vile propaganda on the teevee.

[wasupaloopa]

36. I was born on Wright Patterson AFB and grew up in Dayton

I moved to CA when I was 35.

Growing up a factory worker’s son, most everyone was a Democrat.

[yuiyoshida]

29. just 2 weeks or so ago I was in the hospital

Stuck in the ER for over 24 hours before I was moved up to a better room. While there, all they had to do was the TV. I could access a computer for a few hours but I couldn't remember my passwords, except it seemed for Twitter.. It allowed me to inform JuJu that I was there. Glad to be out, and it wasn't like staying in a hotel, obviously but I hear you about Cable TV...even with 100 channels, I was pretty bored and was in discomfort. (IV's suck!) Bad place to spend a birthday also!

[Vogon_Glory]

31. Thank You For Keeping Your Cool

It’s so bloody hard with Newscorp’s liars.

if meditation and self-calming excercises don’t work, imagine those gas-lighting Faux Noise press-titutes trying to cross miles of arid, waterless Sonoran or Chihuahuan desert in the heat of brutally-hot day’s and lacking adequate water supplies.

[Botany]

32. Fox News is a cancer on America's soul.

I so hope that the links between Russian/Saudi misinformation given to the
American People by Fox News is exposed.

[maxrandb]

37. I think remaining silent is a mistake we make too often

I mean, you don't need to rant and rave and curse, but you can speak up. If we don't speak up, these MAGAt's end up with the impression that everybody agrees with them and that they are right as rain.

I used to keep my mouth shut, and I was in the Navy for 30 years. Some people think the military is overwhelmingly Retrumplican, but it's more nuanced than that...BUT it was always the wingnuts that were the loudest.

I started pushing back and voicing my opinions when the Limbaugh saturated brain crew would pontificate about shit that I knew was complete bullshit.

Before you knew it, I had Sailors coming up to me and saying; "thanks, we really didn't know there were folks that felt the same way the we do".

That's the thing. It's not so much for you, or for them (most are so full of rightwing propaganda shit that they are beyond hope), but it is for those who see their opinions getting buried under an onslaught of Faux News misinformation.

Consider it kind of like a vaccine to help inoculate folks and let them know that their opinions can also be reaffirmed.

Push back in ANY setting and you will let folks know that they are not alone in a sea of rightwing bullshit and talking points.

[Vogon_Glory]

39. Most of us are flummoxed at trying to get through

to these people, but assuming that there’s still a universal remote, some guerilla action could work.

[maxrandb]

40. Again, I don't think it's for the folks that have already had their brains turned to mush

they believe in a fantasy invisible wall that is "already being built" for Christ's Sake.

Speaking up is for the people that may be reluctant to. It's important that they know they have an ally, and that not everyone is a flaming asspickle.

I saw it happen at a PTA meeting. Some asshat started pontificating using one of the 3RD Grade Level debate arguments that you know he heard on the "drug-addled, thrice-divorced, buying drugs out of the trunk of a car, paragon of virtues" show.

Every just groaned. I pushed back thoughtfully, but firmly, and the next thing you know, another person pushed back, then another and another.

They really are nothing but vocal bullies. They are used to hearing no alternative facts. They are used to only having their opinions echoed and their egos stroked.

Push back, and they don't know what to do. Especially if you help bring out the other folks in the room and have them engage.

[Hotler]

38. Just for fun ask them to change the channel.

When they ask to which channel tell them any channel but fox.

[wasupaloopa]

45. Someone changed it to a morning show

[kairos12]

41. If you are coming to NOCAL it is pouring rain. Beware.

[lambchopp59]

42. With no break in sight till Sunday, then here comes the sun. Remember Mr Sun?

At least here in Mendo/Lake it's turning the black mountains white with a green spring coming.
The fox noise folks back east could at least buy us all rakes so we can get busy
But all they want to do is build a

[kairos12]

43. I bring the weather, apparently.

Three weeks ago I was in Manhattan passing through Times Square with a temp of 12 degrees and a 30 MPH blowing. Even the photo scamming figures had taken refuge. Except, for a magnificently dressed figure garbed in a blowing garments resembling the Statue of Liberty.

I'm up in the Palo Alto area. Rain coming down all night.

[wasupaloopa]

44. Going to Santa Barbara

[kairos12]

46. Beautiful place!

[MiniMe]

47. Border people, border

A boarder is somebody who pays for room and board. The border is something that divides 2 points.

I'm sorry, that just drives me crazy, we are better at spelling than that.

[wasupaloopa]

48. No we are not. Especially on my iPhone.

It doesn’t drive you crazy. You choose to get driven crazy. You don’t have to.

We are all better at taking responcibility for our feelings then that.

[roamer65]

49. Makes u feel more Californian than American, doesn't it?