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Fox News' Thanksgiving Combat Relatives Guide

from The Chinese D’Amelios | The Tim Dillon Show #371 · #371

10 min

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Tim reads and mocks a Fox News article giving advice on how to handle disagreeable relatives at Thanksgiving, riffing on the QAnon boutique in Florida, the article's absurd tips, and framing it as turning your house into a personal dictatorship.

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  • Tim describes a friend who opened a QAnon boutique in a Florida motel—a hoarder's house filled with '90s games and Trump merchandise.
  • Fox News runs articles telling readers how to handle relatives who don't agree with them during Thanksgiving.
  • Tim argues that news networks like Fox and MSNBC aren't designed to inform; their job is to wind you up and send you out into the world as a dervish.
  • Fox News tells readers that relatives who don't understand QAnon or underground tunnels need to be banned from speaking or have strict boundaries set in your house.
  • Tim mocks the credibility of 'mental health experts'—the article quotes Jonathan Alpert, a psychotherapist and executive performance coach, author of 'Be Fearless, Change Your Life in 28 Days.'
  • Fox News plugs books by the experts weighing in on the article, including Amy Morin's '13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do.'
  • Tim jokes that hint number 13 is that mentally strong people don't look at the poor.
  • The article suggests you don't have to invite family members who've raped everyone, but Tim notes it gets complicated if the rapist agrees with you politically.
  • Tim asks who this article is actually for—what person is sitting at home unsure how to manage Thanksgiving dinner?
  • The entire article boils down to turning your Thanksgiving table into a fascist dictatorship where you're the dictator and anyone who might defend Guatemalans or question Gaza is shut down.
  • Tim describes Fox's audience as wanting to yell about Guatemalans at dinner, but worried someone will ruin it by suggesting they're people or questioning killing 12,000 in Gaza.
  • Tim illustrates the fear Fox is addressing: someone mildly suggests killing 12,000 people in Gaza seems like a lot, and everyone yells the person is out of line and ruining the holiday.
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Fox NewsAmy MorinJonathan AlpertWu Long

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