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I plan on not watching news programs today... (Original Post) chillfactor Nov 2018 OP
Get in line. lamp_shade Nov 2018 #1
Game shows or the Food Channels malaise Nov 2018 #2
anything other then politics.... chillfactor Nov 2018 #4
Why msnbc? watoos Nov 2018 #12
I can't stay away from politics. zanana1 Nov 2018 #21
Weather Channel get the red out Nov 2018 #3
I received the DVDs for Penny Dreadful Saturday. sarge43 Nov 2018 #5
I went full anti-political rhetoric last Friday. pazzyanne Nov 2018 #6
Right there with you. duforsure Nov 2018 #7
Simpsons The Blue Flower Nov 2018 #8
Me too. Rewatching Fargo and I taped the Watergate doc so I can ff through commercials. Squinch Nov 2018 #9
I can do The Velocity Channel all day. MrScorpio Nov 2018 #10
Agreed Takket Nov 2018 #11
I think I will watch Paw Patrol watoos Nov 2018 #13
Seriously though, watoos Nov 2018 #14
I'm watching the final season of House of Cards is on Netflix DesertRat Nov 2018 #15
Julia Roberts in Homecoming NJCher Nov 2018 #16
My husband teases me for watching those Hallmark movies, but they Luciferous Nov 2018 #17
Today is the reason I have held onto DVDs and BluRay discs Fritz Walter Nov 2018 #18
Same here. Ilsa Nov 2018 #19
Pundit Blackout matelize Nov 2018 #20
We record a lot of regular TV series and TNNurse Nov 2018 #22
Gah, watching tv all day, no matter what is on, sounds like hell to me. cwydro Nov 2018 #23

chillfactor

(7,576 posts)
4. anything other then politics....
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:42 AM
Nov 2018

will turn on cable news......probably MSNBC when the first polls close at 6PM EST at 6pm.....can't handle politics until then. I will probably be up most of the night...so hoping for victories for Beto, Stacy, and Andrew.

zanana1

(6,122 posts)
21. I can't stay away from politics.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:32 AM
Nov 2018

I'll be at my Democratic headquarters making phone calls Monday and Tuesday.

get the red out

(13,467 posts)
3. Weather Channel
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:40 AM
Nov 2018

Watching the weather before work. I can't watch the TV speculators. I had election nightmares all night last night.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
6. I went full anti-political rhetoric last Friday.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:54 AM
Nov 2018

Binged watch Netflix as a "get-a-way". I like your idea of Christmas movies. Think I will do the same. I did read my news feed, and of course DU.

Takket

(21,579 posts)
11. Agreed
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:33 AM
Nov 2018

We’ve all beaten this to death for two years now. Time to just let it happen. Honestly watching too much news is bad for you anyway.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
14. Seriously though,
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:50 AM
Nov 2018

I'm a Catholic and every Sunday we pray for the poor the homeless the jobless for refugees for asylum seekers. Our deacon gave the sermon yesterday and I made it a point to tell him that he gave the best sermon he has ever given. I live in a deep red Republican area in Pa., and his sermon was about how our country has lost obeying our 2nd commandment, we no longer love our neighbor as our self. His sermon was along those lines in conjunction with voting. He thanked me and said that his only wish was that he could have reached out to more people.

I don't know if his sermon will flip one Republican vote in our parish, but I give him credit for trying, at least that's what I got out of his sermon, he never mentioned political parties by name.

NJCher

(35,688 posts)
16. Julia Roberts in Homecoming
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:57 AM
Nov 2018

On Netflix. We have watched three episodes; it’s very mysterious and very good. Sissy Spacek in it, too!

Cher

Luciferous

(6,084 posts)
17. My husband teases me for watching those Hallmark movies, but they
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:00 AM
Nov 2018

are so sweet and sometimes you just need to watch something with a happy ending

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
18. Today is the reason I have held onto DVDs and BluRay discs
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:14 AM
Nov 2018

A few days ago, a young woman selling AT&T fiber optic service came to my door. She was amazed that I still have a collection of discs, and stunned when I told her that I have no use for DVR (certainly not at their monthly rates).

This morning, I tried to catch the weather forecast, but the local channels are so full of attack ads and promises to cover the election results accurately and fairly that I switched the TV off before their weather-on-the-5's, -8's or -whatever. Thankful that forecast.weather.gov doesn't carry pop-up ads! Yet.

Now let's see... when we last left Frodo and Sam, Gollum was leading them up a mountain in Mordor.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
19. Same here.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:16 AM
Nov 2018

Will check on news items to see if something big happens involving or not involving elections.

matelize

(19 posts)
20. Pundit Blackout
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:30 AM
Nov 2018

I too have made the decision to turn off cable news, and I started yesterday with a few slips here and there. It is amazing how the stress is lightened once you shut your ears to the constant poll analyzing. I have a Granddaughter attending FSU so I know just how critical this mid election will be. I've done all I can do, and I only hope that the better angels come out on top Tuesday.

TNNurse

(6,927 posts)
22. We record a lot of regular TV series and
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:37 AM
Nov 2018

zoom through commercials. We have saved up some to watch today and tomorrow. It has been helpful to avoid the relentless political ads.

I cannot watch the speculation and predictions. Oh, yeah, we have "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" recorded. I can watch that again.

There is of course the possibility that Steve Kornacki will actually explode of live TV.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
23. Gah, watching tv all day, no matter what is on, sounds like hell to me.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:38 AM
Nov 2018

I’m sure I’ll catch some news at the gym, but after that I’m sure I can find about a million other things to do.

But sitting is not my strong point.

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