It is beyond embarrassing how incompetent our deep state is. I went through the anger phase in Covid, and in the intervening years skipped quickly through bargaining, depression and now acceptance, having never been troubled by the denial phase at all. But now I find myself in the elusive sixth stage of grief; embarrassment. I'm embarrassed at how bad these chumps are, even at burying files. They can't even stick to a lie. Where do they find these people? The good people of Russia Russia Russia must be laughing their heads off at us. These nitwits make the Keystone Cops look like Cagney & Lacey.
SAME. The funny (not funny) thing is literally if you ask AI who killed JFK it says "the conclusion of the Warren Commission was Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy, however multiple alternative theories exist including possible involvement by the CIA, the Mafia, the Soviet Union, or elements within the US government." Like, IT KNOWS. And PEOPLE KNOW. It's nuts.
When I was in high school (Kennedy was assassinated when I was in middle school) my family drove right by the Texas Book Depository and “grassy knoll”—you know the one Life magazine’s double page photo made look the size of a football field. It’s smaller than my back yard! The people on the bridge and standing by the street were pointing to the small fence. They knew where the shots came from! There was not enough room for an echo. We stopped and walked around a bit. I stood in the conveniently marked spot where Kennedy was shot and looked up at the also conveniently marked window Oswald supposedly fired from. There’s a tree growing directly through the line of sight! And don’t forget, Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. AND the place chosen to transfer Oswald from the jail to a transport was changed last minute to the underground tunnel without any security setup. No, nothing to see here!
I don’t get what’s all the hubbub now, I mean everyone knows the intelligence agencies played a part. Do they really think there will be an uprising 60 years later?
With a little more time and luck the Keystone Surveillance Service(s) would have developed into a Stasi-NKVD hybrid with Lavrenty Beria II at the helm. Can easily still happen.
Ah, dear Jenna, don't waste your time with editing in Wikipedia. It's always been this way, that when you try to edit it, bingo, it goes back to whatever nonsense and junk and photo was put there— if someone with the wherewithal wants it to be so.
The more important point, I think, is to NOT use Wikipedia whenever at all possible. I'd also love to see the libel and defamation laws be made more effective. Meanwhile, it is what it is. Sadly.
It actually gave me some message that basically said "the subject of a page cannot edit that page." Um, who knows me better than me? What sort of tomfookery is this?
Out of curiosity’s sake, I went to your Wikipedia profile and clicked on edit. I got a message saying “there are multiple blocks on your account” (what account?) and that the block would expire in 2 years. (I’ve never edited anything on Wikipedia.) 🤔
Kristen, likely you posted something that has been flagged as truthful, or smacking of truthfulness, somewhere else in the omniverse. Or someone else named Kristen did. Or someone who looks a lot like you.
Dear Jenna, you ask, what sort of tomfookery is this? Why, it's wikipedia tomfookery, as it has been tomfookin' about controversial individuals & subjects for many, many years now. My own unfortunate dealings with wikipedia transpired over a decade before the covidian curtain came down, and I have thoroughly and totally disdained wikipedia ever since. That isn't to say that I never use it or have never found it useful; but I am, and would urge others to be, distrustful in the extreme of any information on wikipedia about courageous truth-telling and freedom-defending individuals such as yourself.
Someone is clearly being paid to write disinfo onto a free 🆓 platform page, wherein “anybody” except the person /subject can write— for free— info abt the person.
Janet— in answer to your question, "What's wikipedia?" It's a free online encyclopedia for which anyone can create an account and start editing— including yourself— but not when it comes to certain controversial pages, such as Jenna's. So it's full of crap, it's got some good stuff, too, and mixed in, plenty of malicious politcally-motivated lies as well. Big Tech made sure to get wikipedia in front of eyeballs. It's useful sometimes, but it's not what it pretends to be.
I know what it is but never use it. Maybe to see the population of a city or such. It used to hijack the return arrow to the previous page and you were stuck there on wiki. That really annoyed me so I just don’t engage. I know the editing goes on. Cheers%!
Once when one of my Covid posts was removed from FB (for what turned out to be a phrase that had zero to do with the subject of the article) I took the time to follow the bouncing ball to see who could be a Wikipedia writer. It turns out ANYONE can submit writings to be posted on Wikipedia without them even being, you know, “fact checked”!
But WHO ARE THE OVERLORDS deciding that only SOME "anyones" are legit? It can't be a person making the reversions; my TED talk has 7M views, but when I changed it to that, it automatically bounced back to 4. Like instantly. That's not controversial or debatable; it's a verifiable fact. It's bad enough they can label and name-call with impunity, but at LEAST get your numbers right!
Donna O— Exactly. It's a wiki. Anyone can get in there are start mucking around. That has its advantages, lots of good info that might otherwise never appear, but plenty of junk and crap. But it isn't all so simple— there's much more to say about it, and pointedly, there's some gaming going on at the behest of the Deep State (and others). That's why people such as Jenna are going to find smears on their wikipedia page and they can't do anything about it. So when someone tells me, "wikipedia says—" I just think, well, that person might just as well have said, "random mysterious person says—"
Watching the US is like watching a surreal absurdist movie. It's got to the point that if I read Jenna without having heard the latest piece of news, I can't tell what is satire and what is actual stuff that has happened - it ALL sounds like surely-must-be-satire!!
Waaayyy back in high school I did a research paper on the JFK assassination. That was when I realized our government was, um, to put it nicely, not honest. Oswald was not a skilled shooter - his rank was above average, but well below highly skilled. If I remember correctly, he earned the "marksman" badge which means he hit somewhere between 55% and 80% of his shots. And the rifle supposedly used was a bolt action. It is VERY difficult to fire three shots in six seconds and be accurate at distance with a bolt action.
You should make something like that to display on your Wikipedia page, that is almost all redacted except for “conspiracy” xxxx “theorist” xxxxx “denier” xxxxx “tin foil” xxxxx “fun” …. Lol
And you gave me something I was earnestly looking for a few weeks back but my age-addled brain was stymied. I was trying to be sarcastic about how unreliable something was and couldn’t come up with the humor in a timely manner. You nailed it with “as reliable as a chocolate teapot”. Lol. LOVE that one. Your Substack is a literal treasure trove of snarky figures of speech and similes.
Reminds me of the FDA asking a judge to hold the records on COVID19 vaccines (or, as I call them, the dead baby poison death shots) for 75 years. Because Science, I guess. Also, you know you've made it when Wiki says you're a conspiracy theorist. Congratulations!
It’s not even embarrassing incompetence. It’s rank Idiocracy. They didn’t just “discover” thousands of pages of “new” evidence.
Think back to the idiocy of WuFlu “policies”, diktats, mandates: NONE of it - masking, 6’ distancing, arrow store isles, the untested poison jabs, plexiglass, lockdowns, keeping big box & liquor stores open while shutting down churches & playgrounds, banning cheap therapeutics…I could go on & on. But the point is, they knew a majority were actually stupid enough to obey unquestioningly. Fortunately there’s been a sea change in awareness & although they are trying the ruse again, it isn’t going to work. No one but the most partisan ass hats will believe that after decades & intense public clamor & scrutiny, that out of thin air there is anything new under the sun about any of these assassinations. Unless it is a newly created narrative to absolve the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.
Im a lot more interested in release of the Epstein files
There's something in Physics called "the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle."
"I'm no physicist", but as I recall, Dr. Heisenberg theorized--about a certain property I've long forgot--that, basically, "it's soooooooo sensitive, that when you try to measure it, you inevitably change it, so the best you can do is find out what it _used_ to be..."
The pandemic-emonium was at least in part an effort to 'measure' just how much guff a gullible populace could be induced to ingest, and now by having made the attempt, the answer is "Not nearly as much as before we decided to measure it."
I agree, but I would contend that there were several events that 'tested the waters'. Jan 6th for example was seeing what they could get away with. 9/11 was another event that proved that they could stage an attack on America and attack 7 other countries that had nothing to do with it and not have any repercussions. Each event became bolder and bolder and now we have a world that is so outraged at each other or each others leader, no one is paying attention to the WEF members robbing us blind.
Yes. We could go back to the Lincoln Assassination for banking laws or the Titanic sinking for the Federal reserve. The 9/11 was what in my mind started all of the current psyops and they are now coming faster and faster because they understand how people will react.
and all future crisis-level epidemics in the ...ahem...pipeline. The monkeypox debut was a bit of a disaster, from what I've been able to gather, solely because of its unfortunate nomenclature. Now it's the chickens-only-flu. The future still looks positive for Pfizer, Moderna, etc. Best leave those plexiglas audio-stoppers right where they're at, folks.
"I’m no longer a speaker and author; I’m a “conspiracy theorist and disinformation enthusiast.” *blushes furiously*" Coulda been SO MUCH WORSE! They might have called you a journalist.
(And for no reason I'm thinking of trying to slip "dominatrix" in there, but only if neither you nor your husband will feel compelled to kick my ***.)
I can assure you, with the exception of married life, I have a mere passing acquaintance with the entire concept.
The episode(s) do(es) have me wondering however if NEGATIVE submittals would be allowed to stand... NOT recommending testing it; only curious.
Years ago (everything happened years ago with me), a student employee came up to me to say goodbye after graduating, and working with our academic group for three years. She said, "I'll never forget what you said to me when we first met..." I had no recollection and apologetically said so. She said, "I can't believe that!" I said again, I was sorry but I simply could not recall. She reminded me that new students were required to introduce themselves to all staff members and as an ice-breaker to ask them to tell one interesting thing about themselves. "You said," she went on, "that nothing interesting had ever happened to you, but that you did know something interesting about Louie, so I asked what that was. You said, 'Well, it was not well known that Louie was living here under an assumed named because he had killed a man in Louisiana and to never ask him about grits.'"
I fell on the floor laughing, and she joined in. I still couldn't remember it, but I _did_ remember her laughing the first time, and I recognized it as the sort of outrageous stuff I used to say back then. You know. Years ago. At staff meetings.
I strongly recommend against testing the hypothesis about whether negative information would be accepted because it's really too dangerous, like running with scissors in front of a celebration of [look it up] polar bears. Negative information, even false, maybe especially false, semmingly cannot be taken down it seems. Yes, one can sue, one can always sue one's self into the poor house. Prevention: that's the ticket. (But if you must, test it on a real slimeball--A. Hitler would be a good one. They'll accept everything about him. Say that wasn't his real name because he moved to Germany from Louisiana...)
My all-time favorite Big Lots story (although I only shopped there when they were open): I had bought a long-sleeve Oxford-cloth shirt, one of their favorite subjects. When I got it home, it did fit, but I quickly realized I was having trouble getting the right sleeve buttoned. Turned out it had two left sleeves. I never took it back, but saluted the dissident who slipped his 'FU' out past the CCP overseers.
I had to take a time-out when I heard they had declared bankruptcy; all those years, I naturally assumed they already WERE bankrupt... I bought a FORTUNE's worth of swag in their stores, all across the Midwest, and was out, maybe, what?, eighty-eight dollars? I may just re-open my home as a Big Lots museum.
David, I got a similar shirt an "XL, Long Sleeved". It was a perfect XL but the long sleeves were for an immature kangaroo (maybe a wallaby). It went into the Black Hole as my long-suffering cellmate calls my closet . Must be still in there, somewhere, another overstuffed time-capsule.
A snake on roller skates! A chocolate teapot! Buried deeper than a mob snitch! You are the queen of aptly hilarious metaphor, Jenna. Thanks for this. 👏
I remember sitting in the den watching the coverage of the assassination as a 10 year old in 1963. I saw Jack Ruby walk in and shoot Oswald. My Dad said, oops coverup. It was a setup. I always thought it was “the mob” who killed JFK. And also the CIA. Will we ever really know? I hope so. And I fear for President Trump.
Holy hell, your dad was one exception among so many who didn't get it. My family was just gob smacked, but since my folks were pretty politically savvy and I was only in 5th grade, perhaps they kept their theories from me.
So many quotes come to mind that could be shared and would be apropos, but I’ll just say I admire you for many reasons, am grateful you are on the side of truth, and you have a platform to share your gifts with the broader world.
It is beyond embarrassing how incompetent our deep state is. I went through the anger phase in Covid, and in the intervening years skipped quickly through bargaining, depression and now acceptance, having never been troubled by the denial phase at all. But now I find myself in the elusive sixth stage of grief; embarrassment. I'm embarrassed at how bad these chumps are, even at burying files. They can't even stick to a lie. Where do they find these people? The good people of Russia Russia Russia must be laughing their heads off at us. These nitwits make the Keystone Cops look like Cagney & Lacey.
SAME. The funny (not funny) thing is literally if you ask AI who killed JFK it says "the conclusion of the Warren Commission was Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy, however multiple alternative theories exist including possible involvement by the CIA, the Mafia, the Soviet Union, or elements within the US government." Like, IT KNOWS. And PEOPLE KNOW. It's nuts.
A friend went to The Texas Book Depository to that exact room and told me there was no way in hell that Oswald story could be true.
When I was in high school (Kennedy was assassinated when I was in middle school) my family drove right by the Texas Book Depository and “grassy knoll”—you know the one Life magazine’s double page photo made look the size of a football field. It’s smaller than my back yard! The people on the bridge and standing by the street were pointing to the small fence. They knew where the shots came from! There was not enough room for an echo. We stopped and walked around a bit. I stood in the conveniently marked spot where Kennedy was shot and looked up at the also conveniently marked window Oswald supposedly fired from. There’s a tree growing directly through the line of sight! And don’t forget, Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. AND the place chosen to transfer Oswald from the jail to a transport was changed last minute to the underground tunnel without any security setup. No, nothing to see here!
I don’t get what’s all the hubbub now, I mean everyone knows the intelligence agencies played a part. Do they really think there will be an uprising 60 years later?
That’s an insult to Cagney and Lacy lol.
I was stuck in the anger stage for awhile. Now retribution.
I’m stuck alternating between fury and depression. The swamp is indeed pervasive and I fear we may never awaken the masses.
With a little more time and luck the Keystone Surveillance Service(s) would have developed into a Stasi-NKVD hybrid with Lavrenty Beria II at the helm. Can easily still happen.
Ah, dear Jenna, don't waste your time with editing in Wikipedia. It's always been this way, that when you try to edit it, bingo, it goes back to whatever nonsense and junk and photo was put there— if someone with the wherewithal wants it to be so.
The more important point, I think, is to NOT use Wikipedia whenever at all possible. I'd also love to see the libel and defamation laws be made more effective. Meanwhile, it is what it is. Sadly.
It actually gave me some message that basically said "the subject of a page cannot edit that page." Um, who knows me better than me? What sort of tomfookery is this?
Sincerely,
your favorite truth enthusiast
Out of curiosity’s sake, I went to your Wikipedia profile and clicked on edit. I got a message saying “there are multiple blocks on your account” (what account?) and that the block would expire in 2 years. (I’ve never edited anything on Wikipedia.) 🤔
Maybe there are blocks on MY account? 😂🤷♀️🤦♀️
IDTS. I was able to edit; just didn’t “take.” I just put “ “ around conspiracy theorist and disinformation, and changed enthusiast to expert. It’s
Kristen, likely you posted something that has been flagged as truthful, or smacking of truthfulness, somewhere else in the omniverse. Or someone else named Kristen did. Or someone who looks a lot like you.
likely?
posolutely!
Or someone who thinks a lot like you.
I’m sure I‘LL be next. First edit ever, and didn’t last a second.
Dear Jenna, you ask, what sort of tomfookery is this? Why, it's wikipedia tomfookery, as it has been tomfookin' about controversial individuals & subjects for many, many years now. My own unfortunate dealings with wikipedia transpired over a decade before the covidian curtain came down, and I have thoroughly and totally disdained wikipedia ever since. That isn't to say that I never use it or have never found it useful; but I am, and would urge others to be, distrustful in the extreme of any information on wikipedia about courageous truth-telling and freedom-defending individuals such as yourself.
Jimmy Dore has the same issue.
At least they picked a nice photo of you! 😂
Wikileaks Wikipedia are both wiki propaganda just like encyclopedias were back in the day.
Notice how none of them will ever tell the truth about 911 or COVID?
Is that not one of the very definitions of conspiracy theorists— that you can’t get info from the
actual subject, so you fill in the blanks some other way?
Oh, the irony…
Someone is clearly being paid to write disinfo onto a free 🆓 platform page, wherein “anybody” except the person /subject can write— for free— info abt the person.
“Tomfookery”! “Reliable as a chocolate teapot”!
Definitely stealing these - awesome!!!
Oh no, go with “conspiracy enthusiast.” Even the craziest seem to be batting 1000 right about now.
What’s Wikipedia? 🤔 😏
It's like the McDonalds of information, with appropriate apologies to the Kroc estate.
😂 😂 😂
Janet— in answer to your question, "What's wikipedia?" It's a free online encyclopedia for which anyone can create an account and start editing— including yourself— but not when it comes to certain controversial pages, such as Jenna's. So it's full of crap, it's got some good stuff, too, and mixed in, plenty of malicious politcally-motivated lies as well. Big Tech made sure to get wikipedia in front of eyeballs. It's useful sometimes, but it's not what it pretends to be.
I know what it is but never use it. Maybe to see the population of a city or such. It used to hijack the return arrow to the previous page and you were stuck there on wiki. That really annoyed me so I just don’t engage. I know the editing goes on. Cheers%!
Once when one of my Covid posts was removed from FB (for what turned out to be a phrase that had zero to do with the subject of the article) I took the time to follow the bouncing ball to see who could be a Wikipedia writer. It turns out ANYONE can submit writings to be posted on Wikipedia without them even being, you know, “fact checked”!
But WHO ARE THE OVERLORDS deciding that only SOME "anyones" are legit? It can't be a person making the reversions; my TED talk has 7M views, but when I changed it to that, it automatically bounced back to 4. Like instantly. That's not controversial or debatable; it's a verifiable fact. It's bad enough they can label and name-call with impunity, but at LEAST get your numbers right!
Donna O— Exactly. It's a wiki. Anyone can get in there are start mucking around. That has its advantages, lots of good info that might otherwise never appear, but plenty of junk and crap. But it isn't all so simple— there's much more to say about it, and pointedly, there's some gaming going on at the behest of the Deep State (and others). That's why people such as Jenna are going to find smears on their wikipedia page and they can't do anything about it. So when someone tells me, "wikipedia says—" I just think, well, that person might just as well have said, "random mysterious person says—"
Watching the US is like watching a surreal absurdist movie. It's got to the point that if I read Jenna without having heard the latest piece of news, I can't tell what is satire and what is actual stuff that has happened - it ALL sounds like surely-must-be-satire!!
Oh, dear that's not good (but it IS hilarious, if I do say so). :)
Your first sentence deserves a Pulitzer! Oh; and the JFK "Rick Roll," brilliant as well!
*begins scribbling acceptance speech just in case* ;)
For a second I thought I was on el gato malo's substack.
Jenna! Congrats that you’ve joined the ranks of those whose Wikipedia page has been scrubbed of the truth.
What an honor! 😂
Anyone see Mike Benz read the CIA’s instructions on how to murder people and make it look like an accident?
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1889507503395713238
That is INSANE (but not even a little shocking)
Waaayyy back in high school I did a research paper on the JFK assassination. That was when I realized our government was, um, to put it nicely, not honest. Oswald was not a skilled shooter - his rank was above average, but well below highly skilled. If I remember correctly, he earned the "marksman" badge which means he hit somewhere between 55% and 80% of his shots. And the rifle supposedly used was a bolt action. It is VERY difficult to fire three shots in six seconds and be accurate at distance with a bolt action.
Loved the redacted FBI file 🤣🤣
You should make something like that to display on your Wikipedia page, that is almost all redacted except for “conspiracy” xxxx “theorist” xxxxx “denier” xxxxx “tin foil” xxxxx “fun” …. Lol
And you gave me something I was earnestly looking for a few weeks back but my age-addled brain was stymied. I was trying to be sarcastic about how unreliable something was and couldn’t come up with the humor in a timely manner. You nailed it with “as reliable as a chocolate teapot”. Lol. LOVE that one. Your Substack is a literal treasure trove of snarky figures of speech and similes.
Reminds me of the FDA asking a judge to hold the records on COVID19 vaccines (or, as I call them, the dead baby poison death shots) for 75 years. Because Science, I guess. Also, you know you've made it when Wiki says you're a conspiracy theorist. Congratulations!
Kind of reminds me of Bayer's relationship to the Spanish Flu during the period that ended WWI.
It’s not even embarrassing incompetence. It’s rank Idiocracy. They didn’t just “discover” thousands of pages of “new” evidence.
Think back to the idiocy of WuFlu “policies”, diktats, mandates: NONE of it - masking, 6’ distancing, arrow store isles, the untested poison jabs, plexiglass, lockdowns, keeping big box & liquor stores open while shutting down churches & playgrounds, banning cheap therapeutics…I could go on & on. But the point is, they knew a majority were actually stupid enough to obey unquestioningly. Fortunately there’s been a sea change in awareness & although they are trying the ruse again, it isn’t going to work. No one but the most partisan ass hats will believe that after decades & intense public clamor & scrutiny, that out of thin air there is anything new under the sun about any of these assassinations. Unless it is a newly created narrative to absolve the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.
Im a lot more interested in release of the Epstein files
There's something in Physics called "the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle."
"I'm no physicist", but as I recall, Dr. Heisenberg theorized--about a certain property I've long forgot--that, basically, "it's soooooooo sensitive, that when you try to measure it, you inevitably change it, so the best you can do is find out what it _used_ to be..."
The pandemic-emonium was at least in part an effort to 'measure' just how much guff a gullible populace could be induced to ingest, and now by having made the attempt, the answer is "Not nearly as much as before we decided to measure it."
I love your brain.
If you really did, you'd send it back.
Hahaha!
I agree, but I would contend that there were several events that 'tested the waters'. Jan 6th for example was seeing what they could get away with. 9/11 was another event that proved that they could stage an attack on America and attack 7 other countries that had nothing to do with it and not have any repercussions. Each event became bolder and bolder and now we have a world that is so outraged at each other or each others leader, no one is paying attention to the WEF members robbing us blind.
Don’t forget Ruby Ridge. And Waco Branch Davidian cult, definitely carried out to see if they could get away with persecuting Christians.
Yes. We could go back to the Lincoln Assassination for banking laws or the Titanic sinking for the Federal reserve. The 9/11 was what in my mind started all of the current psyops and they are now coming faster and faster because they understand how people will react.
My credit union still has the plexiglass up at the teller stations.
oh my gosh. Yes, I think there are a few other places that still have that bullshit up.
You know. the flu, coughing, talking and breathing
and all future crisis-level epidemics in the ...ahem...pipeline. The monkeypox debut was a bit of a disaster, from what I've been able to gather, solely because of its unfortunate nomenclature. Now it's the chickens-only-flu. The future still looks positive for Pfizer, Moderna, etc. Best leave those plexiglas audio-stoppers right where they're at, folks.
... the HEARING. "Whaaaaaatttt????"
I call them "the cones of silence."
which is a nice alternative for those that are not wearing their protective masks. Yes, they are still wearing those stupid shitty masks
We already know the answer there too. :(
"I’m no longer a speaker and author; I’m a “conspiracy theorist and disinformation enthusiast.” *blushes furiously*" Coulda been SO MUCH WORSE! They might have called you a journalist.
(And for no reason I'm thinking of trying to slip "dominatrix" in there, but only if neither you nor your husband will feel compelled to kick my ***.)
LOL DO IT! ;)
Dominatrix? Feel compelled to kicks someone's ***? My mere textbook understanding is that that is a key part of the terms of service.
Sure. “Textbook.”
I can assure you, with the exception of married life, I have a mere passing acquaintance with the entire concept.
The episode(s) do(es) have me wondering however if NEGATIVE submittals would be allowed to stand... NOT recommending testing it; only curious.
Years ago (everything happened years ago with me), a student employee came up to me to say goodbye after graduating, and working with our academic group for three years. She said, "I'll never forget what you said to me when we first met..." I had no recollection and apologetically said so. She said, "I can't believe that!" I said again, I was sorry but I simply could not recall. She reminded me that new students were required to introduce themselves to all staff members and as an ice-breaker to ask them to tell one interesting thing about themselves. "You said," she went on, "that nothing interesting had ever happened to you, but that you did know something interesting about Louie, so I asked what that was. You said, 'Well, it was not well known that Louie was living here under an assumed named because he had killed a man in Louisiana and to never ask him about grits.'"
I fell on the floor laughing, and she joined in. I still couldn't remember it, but I _did_ remember her laughing the first time, and I recognized it as the sort of outrageous stuff I used to say back then. You know. Years ago. At staff meetings.
I strongly recommend against testing the hypothesis about whether negative information would be accepted because it's really too dangerous, like running with scissors in front of a celebration of [look it up] polar bears. Negative information, even false, maybe especially false, semmingly cannot be taken down it seems. Yes, one can sue, one can always sue one's self into the poor house. Prevention: that's the ticket. (But if you must, test it on a real slimeball--A. Hitler would be a good one. They'll accept everything about him. Say that wasn't his real name because he moved to Germany from Louisiana...)
big lots omg lmao
My all-time favorite Big Lots story (although I only shopped there when they were open): I had bought a long-sleeve Oxford-cloth shirt, one of their favorite subjects. When I got it home, it did fit, but I quickly realized I was having trouble getting the right sleeve buttoned. Turned out it had two left sleeves. I never took it back, but saluted the dissident who slipped his 'FU' out past the CCP overseers.
I had to take a time-out when I heard they had declared bankruptcy; all those years, I naturally assumed they already WERE bankrupt... I bought a FORTUNE's worth of swag in their stores, all across the Midwest, and was out, maybe, what?, eighty-eight dollars? I may just re-open my home as a Big Lots museum.
David, I got a similar shirt an "XL, Long Sleeved". It was a perfect XL but the long sleeves were for an immature kangaroo (maybe a wallaby). It went into the Black Hole as my long-suffering cellmate calls my closet . Must be still in there, somewhere, another overstuffed time-capsule.
A snake on roller skates! A chocolate teapot! Buried deeper than a mob snitch! You are the queen of aptly hilarious metaphor, Jenna. Thanks for this. 👏
High praise coming from YOU! :)
Aww...😘
I remember sitting in the den watching the coverage of the assassination as a 10 year old in 1963. I saw Jack Ruby walk in and shoot Oswald. My Dad said, oops coverup. It was a setup. I always thought it was “the mob” who killed JFK. And also the CIA. Will we ever really know? I hope so. And I fear for President Trump.
Holy hell, your dad was one exception among so many who didn't get it. My family was just gob smacked, but since my folks were pretty politically savvy and I was only in 5th grade, perhaps they kept their theories from me.
Thank you for all you do Jenna…
So many quotes come to mind that could be shared and would be apropos, but I’ll just say I admire you for many reasons, am grateful you are on the side of truth, and you have a platform to share your gifts with the broader world.
It’s a badge of honor. Wear the crown proudly.
Just started reading “Yankee Doodle Soup.” Loving it!
Aweeee, I'm so glad! :)
OMFG Jenna.... you are hilarious and wicked smart! Love reading your substack and just wanted to say HI:)
OMFG BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!! Did you create a profile just to comment? ILYSM! ;)