I wanted to read the whole thing but it is so unhinged i had to bail. Fuck me but i cannot engage my empathy software for these chuds.

It's partly gotta be my FILs fault. This guy, proudly apolitical ("they're all crooks so i stay out of it"), voted for the first time in 2020. Now that he's become "engaged" (watching MSNBC) he's become absolutely insufferable. It's the absolute worst having the world explained to me by someone like him, who knows i've at least been paying attention for decades. What is MSNBC's secret sauce? How do the talking heads make him and others like him so confident that they know better?

I don't wanna shit on my poor FIL too much tho... Even though he's definitely a dipshit, he's mostly alright, and now that trump won he's on the bottle. He and MIL are killing a bottle a day. Never has that man had a drink outside typical socialization. Wild i tell ya, you'd have to know him to know how wild that is. MSNBC et al are killing him, killing both of them... and it's awful to see. And. AND. What could i even tell them to make it better? That FIL had it closer to correct before he ever cast a ballot?