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Laura Kasner's avatar

Is it just me, or does it look to you like she actually presented her “sweet-ass fur boots” to be set on fire?

Juju's avatar

Yes! Clearly staged and they ALL were in on it. And paid to do it. And that dude is no MAGA, he looks too soft and cucky.

This was a case of approaching someone and saying “hey, wanna make a quick $1,000? $500 now to wear this hat and do this and that, and $500 after we bail you out if you hold your tongue. Deal?”

Either that, or they worked hand in hand with Antifa or other extremist organizations to orchestrate this in their desperation to win back control. That’s the most likely scenario.

We recognize our own. It’s not him. LOL

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Agree Laura Kasner ….. staged.

KatWarrior's avatar

YEP! Oh PLEEEASE keep doing this you fake, bought and paid for (by Soros?!) dime store journalists. I beg of you to keep being braindead morons because it's working!!!! Big problem, though. Even the sleepy ones are't buying what you're selling any longer.

Case in point: The REPUBLICANS in the Communist Republic of Cali are out fundraising the Blue Checks by a country mile! Read that and let it sink in for a minute!

Thanks for the memories...

Tonee norman's avatar

Kat,what does that mean? “Fundraising the blue checks”. Sorry for my ignorance. Even though I live in California (as disappointed as I am in its policies,I still have hope) I live in a bit of a bucolic bubble and don’t see any “fundraising “, yet.

Thank you.

KatWarrior's avatar

The Blue Checks are the DemonCrats. They are in real peril leading up to the primary and midterms.

Recommended reading- Covid and Coffee- read March 4th.

Trish's avatar

The “blue checks” are the Dems and the Republicans in CA are raising more $ for GOP candidates than the Dems. I believe Steve Hilton (R) is leading in both fundraising and polling.

Tonee norman's avatar

Ahh,yes! I had heard that. I just never heard it described as “blue checks”.

I appreciate you taking the time to comment:)

Valerie's avatar

Also agree. This whole thing is very stupid.

Ron Canyon's avatar

Perhaps if the ‘alleged’ MAGA hat wearing nincompoop was wielding a sledge hammer instead of a disposable lighter, the victim wouldn’t have been so accommodating?

Trish's avatar

That is EXACTLY what I thought! I’m sure this was staged.

Occam's avatar

NO WAY!!!

I hereby renounce my conservatism and pledge allegiance to child mutilation, unchecked fraud, voting shenanigans and a totalitarian medical industrial complex.

All because of a POS in a red hat.

We don't hate the media enough, do we?

Linda E's avatar

juicy smollet must have started a PR business

Janet's avatar

Good grief. I’ll go back to my bird count on the deck now. 5 juncos so far. Every day the day I shut off ALL msm fake journalism forever was one of my best mental health choices I ever made in my long life. 6 years now but for the painful moments my husband listens to NPR on the car radio. Seething is not good for me.

Donna in MO's avatar

I'll take your 5 juncos and raise it to 5 juncos, a morning dove, 2 squirrels and 2 cats at the window making chirping sounds at them, lol.

Grateful non-censoring substack came along!

Janet's avatar

🤣🤣🤣. I didn’t include the squirrels, Donna . I hardly get cats at the deck door anymore. They get chicken scraps out the back door. 🤔🙄. Agreed, I found Substack at a very low time for me during Covid jab crazeee. Coffee n Covid was my first one. A lifeline to sanity—all of them. Jeff and Jenna—my 2 favs.

Donna in MO's avatar

YES! I followed Jeff on Medium....until he got cancelled for his non-narrative views. Not sure how I found him on Substack, but I was paranoid and copied and pasted every post into a word doc in case Substack pulled a Medium on him for a while until I developed trust that it was truly a free speech platform. Substacks were my salvation in the covid crazy era, as well as in person groups who continued to meet (clandestinely in some cases) despite the 24/7 fear porn. But yes 2020 was a turning point that changed my life - for the better - as I jettisoned friends, family and clients who favored fear over common sense. But it was lonely at first.

Phil Shannon's avatar

Exactly my experience and timeline. 2020 and the disastrous Covid nonsense changed so much for me - my friendships, my politics, my media habits.

But at least I found some terrific Substackers - Jenna and Jeff at the top of the tree.

CraigN's avatar

"Grateful non-censoring substack came along!"

💯

MS's avatar

I'm bidding farewell to the juncos who should be leaving any day now (Northeast) and awaiting the hummingbirds arrival in early April.

Donna in MO's avatar

They generally stick around here until late March. I'm on a MO birders group and they are seeing some hummers in far south MO but I generally don't get my feeders out until late March/early April, about the same time I plant the lettuce seeds.

MS's avatar

Here in NJ the earliest arrival of the hummers I've seen in the last 10 years is early April, but it could take until the third week of Apr. The first spring bird to arrive here is the red-wing blackbird, you can't miss its trill, to me that's the announcement of the end of winter. Sometimes you'll hear them in early February, but usually not until mid-march. Almost as exciting as Oriole week, which is first week of May. Best chance to get Orioles on the feeders is to put out plenty of grapes, and hope the catbirds don't get to them first. I'll stop now because we're boring all the non-birders to death.

Donna in MO's avatar

I have only seen an oriole ONCE - trying to eat from a hummingbird feeder! I put out grape jelly and an orange and all I got was ants. (live in a suburb of KC) My Mother in law lives in rural N MO and she get orioles by the pack. Has a half a dozen feeders with oranges and grape jelly and they come back every year.

MS's avatar

Try clusters of whole grapes, you'll have less ants I think. Depending on which other birds eat from the clusters (here in the Northeast it's typically the catbirds, mockingbirds, and red belly woodpeckers), you'll need to replace them frequently, sometimes multiple times a day. With trial and error, you should be able to identify the best time of year the Orioles migrate through your area, here in NJ they show up like clockwork the first week of May, then they're gone for the rest of the summer. Good luck.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I share your MLS — Married to a Liberal Spouse. For the record, decades ago, when I married him, he was most certainly not a liberal. He’s now completely off the reservation.

He was also holistic and crunchy when crunchy wasn’t cool.

Now he adores Anthony “I AM the Science” Fauci.

Just this morning I told him abt a friend’s daughter 30, a newlywed who was trying to start a family, who died of turbo cancer.

He asked what turbo cancer means.

I don’t think I even know another person who hasn’t heard the term. It took a second to register.

I rarely have to endure NPR but I’m forced to endure CNN and (ugh!) Christianne Amanpour almost nightly.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

OMGGGGGGGGG how do you do it tho????????????????

CraigN's avatar

Don't think I could

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

It’s not easy. I read substacks and tune out. Occasionally I think abt what would happen if these clot shots did finally catch up with him. I think I’d take a gap year from marriage, then head to Montana or TX for a Sam Elliot cowboy type. 😂 It helps pass the time until the news is over.

Kaycee's avatar

I don't think I could do it either.

Janet's avatar
Mar 5Edited

I admire your fortitude. My BP rises if subjected to even a bit. I have solved that because he watches TV in his man cave and i watch it in the family room. We’ve been married 59 yrs so a little evening apartness is fine with both of us. Haven’t seen CNN on lately in the cave. I was the active liberal back in the day. He is more liberal still because he doesn’t know where to find the truth and I can’t talk about it. He didn’t know what turbo cancer was either but he’s with me mostly on Covid. Just had 1 JNJ. I really don’t know how you do it. Respect!

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Hats off to you as well! Fifty nine years!! Amazing and commendable.

SHug's avatar

I'm deeply sorry KC. I hope he treats you wonderfully in other ways since you can't have sincere discussions with him. What happened to take him from crunchy to sitting at the feet of Fauci? The plandemic must have broken his brain? I don't know if I could live with someone so deliberately obtuse, because at this point, that has to be deliberate.

You have my sincere best wishes and deepest sympathies.

Cindi's avatar

IDK KC’s vintage but I’m 67 & a lot of the crunchy tree huggers of the 60s who derided & protested against “The Man” have turned into “The Man” - I.e. look at the decrepit fossils in the House & Senate. And virtually every single one loving Fauxi & all for the jabs. It’s been astonishing to me as a boomer myself how many boomers turned into into intolerant asshat sheep.

Tonee norman's avatar

Yep,I’ve noticed. Yet,I’m “a 60s tree hugger”( in fact,still hug trees,often. I’m so grateful to them) and was pretty darn liberal with a patriotic side. I’ve always been skeptical of vaccines,like my mother taught me to be,but,I’ve turned full on conservative and,, anti vaxx,in the last 6 years. Y’all know why….

Janet's avatar

Same here. I look around and all boomer friends are wallowing in the dark mushroom cave where they are fed a steady diet of (as my sister in Ireland says)—fookin’ shite.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I’m a few years behind you but you’re so right! Several old rockers threatened to remove their music from

Spotify over the response to the “pandemic”. Neil Young? I forget who all had a hissy fit abt masks and so on. I was going, WAIT, YOU??!? 😂

So now I’m over here chugging colloidal silver, curing other people’s cancer using bloodroot salve, putting DMSO on whatever ails me and taking chlorine dioxide, soaking up the sun while hubs goes to the doctor to check all the myriad of things that ail him since clot shot #4. It’s weird, I tell ya.

Cindi's avatar

Just about every damn old rocker & most country singers (Parton, et al) except Clapton & Van Morrison were castigating their fans about masks, distancing & clot shots & all in on proof of “vaccination” to attend their shows. They were & are horrible

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Yep! Couldn’t help but think how a few decades ago, they’d have been writing Do Not Comply songs.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Ohhh, I know all abt the

shedding. I love the Vigilant Fox & Midwestern Doc.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

There are some perks.

Idk what happened to make him go over to the dark side. Elitist? The masters degree? Your guess is as good as mine. It’s downright weird.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Haven't a clue how much you've endured...

Someone else's avatar

Agreed! I shut it off in 1990, and couldn’t be happier about that choice. It’s been an interesting journey turning to other sources. Couldn’t be happier that Jennasside came along.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Gave up on msm 10 years ago.

No radio for me, just my Spotify with 500+ real music when driving.

Mike Lee's avatar

I subscribe to two major fish wrappers. "Know thine enemy".

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

So do I. It's painful to click "renew" but it's essential. (You can't mock the NYT and WaPo if you don't know what they're saying!)

Donna in MO's avatar

In our area, you can read them free via a library card accessing their online subscriptions. Granted the library version excludes infographics but beats paying them for their crap content.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Agree with both of you.

I've never subscribed, but read excerpts from Substacks such as yours.

Yeah, it's a free ride, but I might pull my hair out if I actually read those rags...

Call it sanity.

Janet's avatar

I rely on the copious clips and commentary from the sane side.

Tonee norman's avatar

Yes,I shut it off years ago. Still,every manipulation seems to get to me,anyway, from the Substacks I read. But,not over and over again like mainstream mush…

My husband watches Fox News in evening and it actually gives me a headache if I’m around it…

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

"IDK about you guys(strikeout) people, but if some psychopath who’s been screaming obscenities in my face drops to his feet and fires up a lighter right next to my sweet-ass fur boots, I am not just going to stand there."... I would be fielding offers this morning from the U.S. Soccer Team for the head kick he would get... This was so staged that it should be playing at a theater on 5th Ave...

Question: Has the purported "victim " pressed charges?

Btw... I chose "*combo/unsure/other", because the real crime is the bare-faced bullshit of the media, along with the apparent ignorance and gullibility of the American public.

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

I would have smashed his face with my boot as well and stole his lighter.

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

I like the way you think! ;)

Skenny's avatar

Teresa/Anthony: Get a room. 😂

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

I don't think Teresa's husband would appreciate that... so instead we'll find someone wearing bad-ass furry boots that we can set on fire with a stolen lighter... ;)

Skenny's avatar

That pitch may have gotten by some, Anthony, but you swatted it into the bleachers. 😁

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

And, Skenny, since you started this train of thought, I expect you to accompany us to film-document the entire sordid affair... and post bail! 😂😂😂~

Justin's avatar

For a short time Elon was selling flamethrowers.

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

LingOL

Valerie's avatar

Doesn’t this feel an awful lot like the ilhan Omar attack with vinegar? 😂

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Now that you mention it, it does indeed!... One has to give them credit for the comedy, whether intended or not... 😂 😂 😂~

Valerie's avatar

We should have a new verb to describe it ‘smolletting’, lol

Valerie's avatar

Oh that’s high praise coming from Jenna! Thank you (takes a bow).

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Just in case you haven't seen Dave Chappelle's stand-up skit on "Jucie Smuelé"... I laugh just thinking about it!

https://youtu.be/wZXoErL2124

Valerie's avatar

I’m not a big comedy special person but I’ve seen that and I love it!

Cindi's avatar

Yeah, that raaaaacist story disappeared very quickly!

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I was thinking it was an ideal chance to kick him in his (possibly prosthetic) gonads.

Problem solved. Sweet-ass boots saved.

Cindi's avatar

If one can wear a prosthetic butthole, there are surely prosthetic gonads. I remember the days when rockstars shoved socks down their pants to “enhance the package”. Probably in a lot of cases, that WAS the package 😂

CraigN's avatar

Having worked in surgery years ago, there are prosthetic gonads. Usually reserved for those MEN that had to have theirs removed for medical reasons i.e. cancer. I'm pretty certain nowadays those might be used for the them/they/mentally ill crowd

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Initially, I was kidding— but this has been eye opening!

Valerie's avatar

I saw that video on SM the other day. It was a prosthetic dick n’ balls for women. Don’t look it up, save yourself.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

😂 I have a friend who was an ER nurse.

Ohhhh, the things she has seen..:

MartyB's avatar

Kinda looks like she was putting her best foot forward from the pic.

BTW, my day almost ended at “prosthetic butthole.”

No, I didn’t look it up. And I will likely avoid Amanda Seifried references for the rest of my days (chortle).

Daryce Morris's avatar

God I loved me a good amnesia/evil twin story line as a teenager watching General Hospital

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Or One Life to Live…they jumped the shark EVERY TIME!

Cindi's avatar

Ryan’s Hope & All My Children for me w/ some Dark Shadows thrown in

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

OMG my sister and I were just talking about that... we would RACE home to catch GH. I do not watch TV but a few years ago my daughters got me sucked into Jane the Virgin. Absolutely hilarious spoof! Brought back the good 'ole days... ;)

Daryce Morris's avatar

Me typing “where to watch Jane the Virgin”

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Do it! You won’t regret it! (*results not guaranteed, void where prohibited)

Patti F's avatar

Days of Our Lives here.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Did y’all call it Lays of Our Wives? We did.

Patti F's avatar

Nope. Never even heard that until now!

SHug's avatar

We had 'All My Illegitimate Children', 'As the Stomach Turns', General Horses*it', 'Cryin's Dope' and 'Dives in the Lies'. There may have been one or two more. My oldest sister was hooked on all of them (while feeding/bouncing a baby) and would switch channels during commercials to catch the other one. The other sister & I were generally exposed through her obsession so we at least knew the main characters and story lines.

Justin's avatar

Oh you'll like the interview of Nathan Fillion by Mike Rowe from a year ago on YouTube. I'm a fan of both. Didn't watch the soap star Nathan. Mostly a brown coat from Firefly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCOCbBhHtdM

Heather B's avatar

My boots would have kicked the sh*t out of that idiot. "These boots are made for walking and...one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you." Can't believe anyone believes this was a real incident. Smollett 2.0.

David Baldwin's avatar

I think you nailed it when you said, "(Do Democrats even realize that all they have to do to destroy conservatism is don a MAGA hat and film themselves, well, being themselves? I won’t tell them if you won’t!)" Fortunately, most of us see right through this. Unfortunately, it won't work the other way, i.e. don a radical hat and do something stupid (contrived).

CraigN's avatar

I think someone out there, think the television show 'Jackass', needs to get some blue trucker hats made with perhaps a donkey (you decide) on it and go out and perform really dumb things and post them on social media. Then the 'boot' would be on the other foot. Ideas anyone?

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

“Two bottom-feeding clout goblins…”

I. Can’t. Even.

Pen. Meet paper. Jotting down that perfect piece of perfection to whip out at future conventions, conferences, and cocktail parties.

Justin's avatar

And this is why we pay for this prime comedy! Between Jenna and Jeff Childers' metaphors/alliterations, and exposing me to words like oleaginous, and attributing it to Gavin Newsom.... Oh, and el gato malo's Sunday meme/mean pools (chefs kiss!). Robert Malone has good Friday and Sunday funnies as well.

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Prezactly. Worth every pretty penny. I I don’t think I’ve missed an edition of the Friday or Sunday funnies, either 🤣.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

That 1st picture...

About as stoned as you can be.

Judith's avatar

Yep!

Skenny's avatar

For some reason, I am unwilling to click on the Amanda Seyfried link. And I think I'll be OK, moving on to the future without ever doing so. 😄

FLGenX's avatar

When I read that I yelled WHAT??!! and scared the dog. Yes I clicked 🤦🏻‍♀️ but the site was going to put cookies on my phone and I do not need that in my life. Guess I’ll never know about Amanda Seyfried’s prosthetic butthole.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

I didn't click on link...

Claudia's avatar

It stinks bad. I’m seriously concerned for the lack of discernment or mental clarity/stability where people find this in any way credible.

The noise MEDIA - is the blame

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Too many clowns in clown world. 🤡🤣

Jeff Johnson's avatar

The option of "I don't care" was omitted. Just an oversight I'm sure.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

That's what "other" is for, my friend! Your vote has been recorded. ;)

Marlene Swann's avatar

“(As she stood there patiently while Barney Fife reincarnate filmed the whole thing, strangely.)” Gave the whole game away right there, Jenna! Strangely, my eyeballs!! Wow. They are trolling bottom feeders for sure.

From the Beach...🌞🇧🇷🏖️🌊🐬🌎😎's avatar

" Sometimes an idiot is just an idiot." Masterfully worded.

But, yes, it was staged. And it is NYC.

Quick story. High school 1959. Had attended a summer leadership conference at Syracuse University. Had planned to train home but instead drove with a new friend to the 125th Street Station in NYC. We were to meet two of the young ladies we met at the conference. We missed the meeting time and turned around to head north to Tarrytown NY, my parents home. As we approached 168th Street , we were broadsided from the right side by a red light violation. Loud noise . Neither of us were injured. Bar emptied out. " White boys fault."

Police were there in a flash. All Caucasian.

Put us in a police cruiser for our own protection. We were on Harlem. Drove us to the police station where I was able to call my parents to inform them of the accident. Yes, we were ok. Please come get us. That was 1959. I can only imagine such happening today. And yes, we would have been wearing MAGA hats but no furry boots?

God Bless the USA.🇺🇸

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Zoe Hussein is the author of the article. I’m sure she’s endured truckloads of jokes as to whether she’s related to Saddam or Barak Hussein Obama. That may be why she’s bitter. I’d be bitter, too.

I’m attempting to tag her or somehow send this to her and her boss. She’s likely to become even more bitter.

Wish me luck.