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Summary

Fox News host Jesse Watters, a vocal supporter of Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts, expressed frustration after his sister’s job at Johns Hopkins University was affected.

The university is laying off over 2,000 employees due to cuts in federally funded research, particularly from USAID, which Trump and Musk have sought to eliminate.

Watters previously defended DOGE but has softened his stance after seeing personal consequences, including a veteran friend losing a Pentagon job.

Critics argue DOGE disproportionately harms education and research institutions.

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

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Sucks to suck.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 hours ago

This fucker gets to talk on the news a out his personal problems?

US News outlets are soso weird

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

All of them can get fucked.

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 85 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Watters is a creep

Watters, 43, shared the memory about his wife Emma DiGiovine, 29, during an episode of his panel series The Five last week, where he told his colleagues that he had relied on the tactic to get close to his then-colleague.

“When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tyres,” Watters claimed. “She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car.”

[–] resin85@lemmy.ca 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Because of the implication

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

potato, perverto

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

“When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tyres,” Watters claimed. “She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car.”

Ms. DiGiovine, how do you feel now that you've learned your whole married was born on a lie intentionally meant to make you feel unsafe so your now husband would be an attractive option to you in that moment?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 93 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

“I just saw some news that Trump took some grants away from Johns Hopkins where my sister works and now my mom is upset,” Watters told guest Ned Ryun, the founder of conservative nonprofit American Majority.

“She’s texting me. It’s going to be a whole family thing, so we’re going to have to deal with that over the weekend,” Watters said.

I can't tell if he's upset about his sister's job or that his mom is going to be bothering the whole family about it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

He's not upset about anything because he's not capable of feeling those emotions.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago

I love how it only is a problem when it affects someone he knows. That's SUCH a conservative cliche.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 77 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Haven't verified it for myself so grain of salt:

But apparently watters's family are pretty openly liberal and his mother regularly, publicly, criticizes him for the hatemonger he is.

So it is 500% him annoyed that his family is going to yell at him

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 26 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

He's such a sociopath. The whole thing about him admitting he tricked his ~~assistant~~producer into dating him by deflating her tires is another example of that.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

He also somehow manages to embody every shitty thing about fratbros. Dude looks like he walked right out of one of some 80s college comedy.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yet she's somehow still married to him.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

conservative women are incredible gymnasts

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Stop trying to get me to date a conservative woman, you need a "mental" in there. And possibly to delete gymnast.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

ha i thought we'd all be familiar enough with the concept to let my recipients do the work

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If memory serves, at one point his mom called into his show to basically chew him out on-air, live.

Yep, here's a clip of it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XP2__DVZQOo

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 15 hours ago

The latter.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

That's because you're giving him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

I wish, but the article says he still supports it and wants more cuts. He only doesn't like that his family is going to argue with him.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Life imitating art.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 17 points 15 hours ago

tl;dr: "he's only supposed to be hurting them, not me too".

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 12 points 15 hours ago

He’s an oversized polyp

[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

He’s a super moron.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

MAGAts can all starve to death.

[–] kaerypheur@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I thought DOGE is a memecoin 🤔

[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I try to take to heart that somebody is always learning about something basic for the first time and that that's okay BUT where the hell have you been the last couple of months that you haven't heard of DOGE the agency?!?!

[–] AlbinoPython@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

There's an XKCD reference here in too lazy to link.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Department of Government Efficiency

And by efficiency, they mean efficiently padding Elon’s pockets and stealing data.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

You are the archetypal uninformed voter, aren't you?