Side note: one of the MSNBC commentators mentioned that he was on Twitter and Threads and “even Mastodon” and my mom went “Mastodon? What’s that?”

I’ve told and re-told the story of how my mom, who used to be a decent, reasonable, sweet little old lady doing good works in the community, was brainwashed into a paranoid anti-immigrant freak by a steady diet of Fox. She would go on and on about “the caravans” of “criminals” besieging “our borders,” and even bought a MyPillow. I remain amazed that all it took to pull her back from the Dark Side was removing Fox from her remote. She was her old liberal (sigh, but I’ll take what I can get) self again within a couple of months. The whole episode was just astonishing. That channel is truly depraved and dastardly.

I lost 5 years with my mom, for one thing. She was like a postulant in a cult, there was no reasoning with her, no facts would suffice, and she didn’t seem to care that I, her cancer-ridden gay firstborn, was gonna lose healthcare and was under attack by her government. Since the mother had become a MAGA zombie, I had to mostly cut ties. I will never forgive Fox news for that, and I know I’m not alone. There’s a whole documentary about the Fox news brainwashing phenomenon, in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad Everyone in charge of that family-destroying shit should get the guillotine.