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[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Does hosting a fake news show qualify as a real job?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately. And it's more unfortunate that so many people believe it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah she just larping as a journalist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Soviet Russia we just call that a propaganda officer.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Got a sharpie, a map and large boobs? You could be a famous weatherman! Al Rocker has large boobs and a sharpie and a map. I rest my case.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

...Says the talking sex doll masquerading as a reporter.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Must be a cheap model. Fox should spend a little more on their sex dolls.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I can’t put my finger on it but something about these people look like they’re wearing human skin. What polluted swamp did they crawl out of?

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The lowest paid federal worker is still more important than any Fox shill

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would a worker that is paid less be less important?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Typically because it'd be a job that doesn't have many skill or education/knowledge requirements compared to higher-paying jobs

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago

Federal workers to Fox: "Get fucked."

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a federal employee and have been for 25 years.

Some years back my parents were visiting from Florida and asked to borrow a car (I had two), and I said sure. Then, later, I said something about how busy work had been, and my father starts laughing at how funny that is - and calls my older brother - so they can share a laugh about me "working hard". Both lifelong Republicans, I will note.

I was like, hey, did you want to borrow the car that my hard work paid for, or not?

When I called them out on it, they said I was absolutely correct and apologized.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The irony that a News Anchor is telling Federal Workers to get a "real job" when she could get one herself

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A Fox anchor at that. Like, you literally have a job because you're a blonde moron. Take a seat babe.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Are you saying she's a DEI?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

That's a bold statement coming from a actor on Fox news

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bold card for someone who puts on makeup and reads a teleprompter for 3 hours a week.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Bold to think they can read, and aren't just ad-libbing whatever wet fart of a thought enters their head.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Every federal employee I know could easily triple their pay by going into private sector.

I anticipate we'll need to rehire them as contractors at triple the pay.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AF vet here. Big govt personnel cutbacks followed by "Oh shit!" followed by hiring expensive contractors that do half the work is a tale as old as Uncle Sam.

...that said, I dunno if there will be an "Oh shit" moment this time around: Trump is acting on malice, not stupidity. Weakening the US is his goal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It's actually a very common right-wing idea to take anything publicly owned and turn it into a profit-driven private entity. Chances are, if they don't own that entity, someone they know does. When the contract goes over budget, you know they're enjoying the spoils.

Even if it's owned by nobody they know, at least it's profit-driven enough to bribe politicians for better contracts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'll hold judgment either way until I see a law repealed but I share the same fear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's the plan and one of Trump's buddies will get their share for holding the company that organises it all.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine saying this to someone who works at NASA.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The moon landing was fake. Unlike all the blonde hairs of the fox hosts. These are all totally naturally blonde and wavy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

"Totally, tremendously real. Trust me, I know real. I can, 100%, totally confirm that her hair—like my tremendously great hair—is real. No doubts. Everyone else saying it's fake—they're fake. Fake news. Don't believe what the Democrats are saying. It's Hillary's fault. With all this AI, nobody can tell. They think it's fake. They think everything is fake. I'll tell you. Her hair, my hair. It's real. All real. True American hair. Didn't even need a hair dresser. Just wake up with great hair. All day. Every day."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Right back at ya bitch

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that comment works better the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Crazy that Village Idiot is one of the most coveted jobs in America.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Funny how they’ll say this to federal workers, but they won’t say shit to the military who are living the socialist dream.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yeah, and if you ever ask a vet what they did, unless they'd been to literal war, they're going to tell you that they were basically just put in charge of stocking a broom closet and were bored 95% of the time.

Edit: just want to add that I do respect the military, and if anyone wants to tell me why I'm wrong, I'd love to hear lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's okay, you're allowed to not respect the military if you want.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My mom was a mechanic in the army and never got deployed. For her mandatory four years, she just fixed trucks in the day and got wasted with other mechanics at night. She says it was a job, not actual service. She doesn't consider herself a veteran because she didn't do jack shit.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Huffing Donald Trump's farts isn't a "job."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get a real job says interchangable blonde who wears red dresses that has been on fox since it's inception.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Self-awareness: this woman lacks it.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

And many of the people I've talked to among different agencies are taking this offer. Those that were sort of close to retirement, for example December and the like.

So wait, is this dumb bitch expecting us to believe these people are forgoing their entire retirement for a few months pay? Or does she expect us to believe that retiring them a few months early and saving one or two months pay (basically fucking pennies) is saving significant government money? I genuinely don't know what else she could mean.

I guess that's what they do though. Throw out useless anecdotes, say it's a good thing, and let the user generate feelings based off it while having no idea what it actually means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Right, these are likely people with fully vested pensions basically taking terminal leave above and beyond their accumulated leave. Most feds can accumulate 240 hours of leave to be cashed out on retirement. Trump basically offered people nearing retirement the opportunity to cash out 1280 hours. Much efficiency. Very cost savings.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

"Get a real job" says person to audience who view her as a walking uterus

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Ah, the Fox Business brain trust peddles its economic logic—golden parachutes for public servants framed as fiscal savviness. “Get a real job” drips with the private sector’s trademark disdain for anyone not chasing quarterly bonuses. Federal work—infrastructure, disaster response, public health—reduced to a punchline in their profit-worshiping catechism.

The arithmetic is perfect: swap lifelong stability for a one-time payout and genuflect before the gig economy’s algorithmic altar. Feast on capitalism’s crumbs before the vultures pick the bones clean. When has short-termism ever collapsed industries or gutted pensions? The real crisis? A world where civil service is mocked while hedge fund carnage gets tax breaks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fox host wouldn't know a real job if it konked them out

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I hope someone punches her in the mouth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Agreed! Making sure I receive my Life-Saving Social Security Payment is a Job for Teenagers to get their Feet wet! REAL JOBS are the people yelling at me on the TV that I can EASILY survive without!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, does a "Fox host" do more than just sit around shit talking and making shit up all day? Maybe they should "get a real job"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Right back at you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if I wanted to take the deal I'd have to work until 5/15 anyway because of the agency I work for. I haven't heard of anyone taking it around me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Exactly why I didn't take the deal.

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