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posted ago by cyberpede ago by cyberpede +875 / -0

I have a coworker who used to make snide comments about Trump when politics came up in the office. Nothing specific, just whatever he could regurgitate from that day's media talking points. I knew where he stood, and vice versa. We never argued, just mostly fun jabs at each other.

Covid BS happened and 80% of the company started working from home. I hadn't seen him in months. A few days back he came into the office to grab something and it was just us two there. What started off as normal catching up turned into pretty heart warming conversation.

He said that while he was home all day he would have CNN on in the background. After a while it just started gnawing at him that everything was attack after attack. He decided to start researching the context of what CNN and others were reporting and discovered the gross misrepresentations and outright lies being perpetrated by the media.

While performing this research on his own, he stumbled upon The Hodge Twins and the Drinkin' Bros and is now a huge fan of both.

I was floored. I didn't know what to say. I think I just kept nodding and saying 'Yep...Yep". I ended up staying an hour late to talk with him more.

I've talked to him briefly a couple times since then. Not only is he definitely voting for Trump, he's voting red down the line now. Best part is, CNN and Democrat forced lock downs were the red pill.

I referred him here as good pede should.

Friend, if you just read about yourself then welcome aboard. We've got a coat waiting for you.

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Supertots 43 points ago +43 / -0

I’m starting to think the lockdown was a blessing in disguise . As much as I hate everything going on, a lot of people are beginning to wake up just because they don’t have their coworkers around so there is less of an influence of the hive mind and the need to fit in with others views. I hope my coworkers get to experience this one day but they are knee deep in happy hour trash talking men after work instead of trying to figure out what’s going on in the world

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CitizenPlain 9 points ago +9 / -0

Good point and enjoyable OP.

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