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I am (unreasonably often) subjected to MSNBC as my wife is a diehard Democrat. The hagiography of Biden as the most selfless hero to ever walk the planet is absolutely mind-boggling. Normally I try my damnedest to keep my mouth shut but I was cooking dinner and I couldn't help myself. Usually, I can rationalize where people are coming from, but the sheer effrontery to claim that he was somehow a great president with a great career is so counter to reality that my brain just shut down for a minute. I'm going to have to crank up the music in my home office even louder than usual for the next 4+ months.
It’s honestly a pretty easy case to describe him as a great or at least above average president if you’re a general democrat ideologically.
For example Noah Smith here:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-positive-case-for-joe-biden
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Protip: Closed door + white noise machine + earbuds + music completely drowns out all other noise.
A boring dystopia.
It’s distressing how, even while confined to a corner of his own home, that he still can’t have quiet enjoyment and/or a peaceful working environment, and might possibly need 4+ layers of sound-barriers to manage MSNBC/wife noises.
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Yes, I am usually either listening to music with headphones or playing guitar. The wife asked if I would prefer CNN and I of course said yes. So I sat for an hour or so and tried to read a book while it was on. On the plus side, they did have a few people in touch with reality which was mildly heartening. But I can't take four months of this.
Have you asked your wife to simply not watch the news on the TV (eg watch with a screen that can have ear buds)? Seems like a reasonable request (as I’m sure she wouldn’t like it if you watched 4 hours a day of some political show that she didn’t like).
Eh, this is one of those things that I will just deal with as part of married life. Otherwise she's honestly great. And I'm exaggerating my discomfort a bit - I will simply retreat to my office (where I prefer to be 90% of the time anyway) and we'll deal. Yesterday was an outlier with all of the news and Harris hype.
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4 months? you wish. It'll 4 years of this if Trump wins.
I pretty much lost my mind after 5 years of incessant anti-trump deranged news.
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