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[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 274 points 2 years ago

What timeline is this again? Psychics are on news channels now? Not mention one with an extremely large user base that would have this go against their theology? I can’t even.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 140 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As proven long ago, Fox News is not news, it's all editorials. Every last person on the air is a pundit, there are no reporters. They don't report the news, they report their opinions on the news. That's why they have a "psychic" on one of their shows, to provide an opinion on what's going to happen. It's all just for show...

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago

Those of us who remember Reaganomics also remember he used a psychic his entire EIGHT year presidency. SMH.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Ugh that’s a gross reminder but a good point as well.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago

Are you thinking of his astrologer Joan Quigley? Not really any better, but not a psychic.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You say Grenada, I say Grenada. Let's call the whole thing off.

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[-] Icalasari@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago

Mysticism such as using psychics is also something oddly embedded with Nazis. Like, even back during their rise they were oddly into mysticism

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago

The Nazis had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler was a nut on the subject. He was crazy. He was obsessed with the occult.

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[-] weew@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago

is fox news considered a news channel now?

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

It shouldn't be, but I do see it on TVs in public more often than any other news I think which is concerning

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[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

News used to be 60 minutes just after prime time. Now they have whole channels with news 24/7/365. Have to fill all that air time with something

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

24 hour news is a blight. TBH 24 hours everything except for emergencies and medical services is a blight.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You should watch the movie “Network” from the 1970s sometime. It predicted the trash that is news programming these days.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_network

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[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 23 points 2 years ago

Isn't it technically 'light entertainment' or some shit so legally it's not obliged to report any facts?

[-] SayJess 16 points 2 years ago

They defended a slander lawsuit that was against Tucker Carlson. They suggested that no reasonable viewer would take what he said as fact. Seems pretty damning.

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[-] sergih123@eslemmy.es 120 points 2 years ago

The news here is that they are putting psychics on the fucking news, wtf

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They were on Fox, they weren't on the news.

Fox don't report the news, they report things that they feel should have happened if the world was just according to their values. You'd get more accurate reporting out of a 6-year-old when they're telling you who ate all the chocolate.

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[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

News

Fox news

One of these is not like the other

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[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 years ago

I read this headline yesterday and it made me think of a time when California Psychics had commercials all over the place. A few hours later, I saw a California Psychics commercial on prime time NBC. The world is getting dumberer by the minute.

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[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is on the Jesse Waters show which is on the channel called Fox News. It should be noted that a majority of Fox News shows are actually talk shows and opinion segments, not straight news.

Rupie has done an excellent job convincing people on both sides that the entirety of Fox News' airtime is to be considered news because it's the name of the channel and it has a news ticker on the bottom

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago

“But it’s very specific. Let me move on. It’s a sense of loss,” she added. “It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”

This is because Trump is A LOSER.

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[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago

This is actually really smart on her part. She's banking on the most gullible portion of society to believe everything she says, on Fox News, no less, so they think she's automatically legit. And even if they boo or even hate her at this point, if things go south for Trump, you can bet they'll be looking her up to see what else she has to say because she "simply said what she saw". And thats when she'll start raking in the big bucks with personal consultations.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

Damn. She scammed the scammers to scam the dummies.

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago

It's weird to me that they wouldn't just arrange the cards to create the narrative they want to sell. Psychics know it's a con, otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to spin the results.

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

I don't know. Some believe the con so much that they end believing it more than their customers (source: my mother who does it for free for her friends)

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

Iirc on fox news they control the narrative and the presentation, but they never control the guests. Usually the guests just go along with it (because why else would you go on fox news). But they already had some earlier instances where they tried to cut off interviewees because they had polar opposite opinions.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I mean...

If you're suggesting the psychic herself should have done that...she doesn't owe them anything, and this gets WAY more people talking about her.

[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago

"It's true! I'm not making it up!" said the fucking psychic.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

It's insane that people not only watch this channel, but actually believe they're more informed for doing so.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 64 points 2 years ago

And their Christofascist fans don't even realize it's a sin to consult a psychic.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 years ago

It's only a sin when they disagree with the results.

[-] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

Its only a sin when they think it is

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[-] elxeno@lemm.ee 57 points 2 years ago
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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I'm at a loss as to what this may be.

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They deserve this 100% for having a fucking psychic on what they call a news channel. Meanwhile, that psychic is awesome for trolling everyone.

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[-] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 years ago

Why does this woman look exactly like Sigourney Weaver in a comically large wig?

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[-] Maddie@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago
[-] CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Let's make it happen

[-] LaterRedditor@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Nah. Psychic is just woke

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

The 5 of cups is literally the sorrow card lmao

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 23 points 2 years ago

World's first real psychic.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

"Backfired" insofar as no one cares at all, yet people are trying to dunk on Republicans over this absolutely boring piece of nothing?

Yes. The right feels so ashamed that this two-bit psychic implied sadness by Trump on Fox News. We won!!!

I promise you, more Democrats than Republicans have seen and cared about this. We're winning! A psychic said so! They're the crazy ones, not us!!

For fucks sake, yall.

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

I’m sure the tsunami of copium that followed was only matched by the waves of ketchup and smashed dinner plates running down the walls at Mar-A-Lago.

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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

They really should've seen this coming.

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