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mpreorder

(51 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2021, 09:28 AM Jan 2021

True story...

My wife and I didn't talk politics much. I knew she's right leaning, liked Bush 2, fiscally conservative, etc. She has been a court reporter (stenographer) who transitioned to closed captioning a few years ago. During this time she captioned the news in real time for multiple stations including Fox, CNN, MSNBC, you name it. After she started getting her news from other sources she, you guessed it, is now a pretty solid democrat. She saw how fox news lies and really really grew to hate Trump.
She's still fiscally conservative, as am I. (Personally I believe we can solve lots of problems by cutting the military budget by a good fraction).
But what a great transition to witness!

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True story... (Original Post) mpreorder Jan 2021 OP
Good for her. I hope there are many more out there like your wife who finally saw the light! FM123 Jan 2021 #1
Thank your wife for her captioning service shelshaw Jan 2021 #2
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