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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

My 50 th HS reunion is this fall . The fighting that occurred over the zoom call about the state of out country was toooo much . I honestly shut my mouth and listened, seriously I did . I wished everyone well and hung up. Kudos to all who fight this reverse discrimination… may the light of Our Maker shine brightly on this evil. Per Dr Simone Gold . When truth is replaced with enforced ideology, independent critical thinking disappears.

Skenny's avatar

My 50 year reunion is also this year, for a school that was close-to-rural but transitioning to suburban while I was there. There will not be much wokeness represented in the class of '76.

The difference from 1976 to 2026 can be illustrated as follows:

In 2026, guns brought to school will be involved in "gang-banging" or mass shootings.

In 1976, guns brought to school in pick-up truck gun racks would be involved in squirrel hunting after school.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

My school was more urban, over educated indoctrinated twits ….. in Jersey south of NYC … says it all probably.

Frontera Lupita's avatar

Poor thing. I might pass on your reunion. To have to spend the evening with a bunch of people like your former classmates, is not my idea of a rewarding and uplifting experience, at all.

Lori's avatar

I am from that area too....

Lori's avatar

Don't kill the squirrels:{. I have 2 of them I take care of. Peanut I and Peanut II. They are too darn cute.

Enjoy your 50th!

Skenny's avatar

Squirrels? Diurnal tree rats with bushy tails. Not to be trusted.

They make good dumplings, though. 😁

Lori's avatar

Ugh Skenny. Peanut I and Peanut II would change your mind!

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

They make better gravy! ;)

Crash Pile's avatar

The foxes take out the squirrels and leave their tail and a hindquarter in my backyard. No guns involved.

Lori's avatar

Oy vey, the poor squirrels. Everyone is picking on them:{ Well, my Peanut I and II get the royal treatment at least!

Skenny's avatar

I previously owned a property with some pecan trees, and the squirrels were determined that I should not have any pecans. I worked some distance from home at the time, but did my best to discourage the squirrels that were visible before I left and when I got home from work. Still, never got a single pecan because the mid-day marauders made sure of it. Grrrrrr!

Lori's avatar

Those dastardly squirrels, lol!

Lisa's avatar

I have squirrel-birds. I fill the bird feeders with bird seed, and the squirrels empty them in a flash. They have acres & acres of natural food sources to feed off of, so no…I do not intentionally feed the squirrels. The same could be said for the birds, but they do at least provide beautiful songs & are so lovely to look at. Don’t get me wrong, the squirrels are cute critters, just annoying as heck when it comes to my bird feeders. For the record, I am sad whenever I find a hindquarter w/tail on my patio porch as a gift from my beloved cat.

Dave Wertz's avatar

Funny! I tell people about our trucks with gun racks and no door locks (broken) in the high school parking lot in 1975 and they think I made that up. Grouse instead of Squirrels up here....

Tonee norman's avatar

Did you eat the squirrels?

Skenny's avatar

Absolutely. Although I much prefer quail, frog legs, and rabbit.

Tonee norman's avatar

Did you/ do you actually make dumplings out of them? Just curious.

Personally,I’ve never tasted any game meat that I enjoyed. Frog legs tasted terrible and,quail just so tiny. However,my Italian family made a spaghetti sauce ( they called it “gravy “) with Doves they hunted and it was pretty good..

Skenny's avatar

Yes, Tonee, I have made dumplings with them. The single most common mistake people make in cooking wild game is overcooking.

badnabor's avatar

LOL. My daddy absolutely forbade gun racks. Don't tempt theives!

Teri McGiffert's avatar

I attended my 50th high school class reunion last fall. I remember when my mother-in-law attended hers. I was full of questions about what it was like. She mentioned people using walkers, in wheelchairs, with canes, bald or gray-haired. OLD PEOPLE! So how is it that I have now hit this milestone? Flabbergasting.

Skenny's avatar

I look forward to making fun of classmates for being old, as most are a few months older than me.

Timothy G McKenna's avatar

Well, for one, you girls are still hot (at least to us guys who are still male model material… 🤣)

PEL's avatar

Ours was last year. Rural America but the gals who were teachers and social workers are leftist crazies. Also the guy who spent his entire career at the ABA. I had no idea until recently how biased that organization was so that explains it.

Lori's avatar

Does this mean you are skipping the 50th reunion?

Janet's avatar

Now I know what I was missing yesterday morning. I was in a bit of a mood, writing angry texts in my head to my extremely woke sister—the one in Ireland, as opposed to the trump hating sister here. I came here way too late in the day. Laughter and a dose of solidarity does indeed take the edge off. 👍🏻😁

Lori's avatar

Have the sister in Ireland have Rosie for tea and try to ignore the sister here when she starts babbling about Trump.

PEL's avatar

It is amazing the Europeans are that way but they only get one-sided news. And ignore the damage inflicted on their countries by the globalists.

Really you are wasting your time. My leftists friends can make bizarre anti-Trump comments then say sorry I will not debate this. They also did their best ignore the Biden years and pretend it did not happen. PS. They are also heavily boosted.

AFistFullOfGizzards's avatar

This is when a dyslexic sibling really comes into their own. They don't read much, and they don't read your texts. And only use replies like OK, and Thanks. And maybe even the "Eff you" thumb. So you stop engaging and life becomes peaceful. Leaving you energy to subscribe to a couple of stacks instead.

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

It’s the Sorting Hat…but for grown-ups. Blacks in this bucket, Spanish-speakers in this one, and the Whites get plopped into one of their own, too (yes, I capitalized the W…it would be unfair to the W to leave it lower case while the B and the S got the big-boy (girl?) treatment). The PROBLEM is…not all blacks come the same culture…Haitians are different than Jamaicans are different than black Americans. And don’t get me STARTED on Africa…different cultures in almost every country. And Spanish-speakers? Just try to call a Peruvian or Chilean woman Columbian and see where THAT gets you. And whites? American whites alone can’t be bucketed…think Southern whites compared to native NYC whites and watch their heads explode. Try to bucket them on an international scale…and good luck w that.

Stop bucketing people and start treating them like…people. All uniquely and wondrously made (ok. Not all, but most).

Bridget's avatar

You mean the big-PERSON treatment (two genders? are you nuts?). (ETA: Sarcasm alert!)

clem h fandango's avatar

You are not being inclusive to those that identify as animals or mermaids! 🤣

Graphite's avatar

Genesis 1:27-28 (NKJV) 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Bridget's avatar

that was sarcasm Graphite!

Keith Jajko's avatar

Whoa, is that White Defensiveness?

Gotta be some sort of detogatory mental deficiency. 🤔🤷‍♂️😎

Teri McGiffert's avatar

Yes! And not to mention white South Africans who emigrate here are African Americans. Ha! And could we please consider upbringing, political party, home town or religion to qualify for diversity measurements? Skin color diversity is so shallow and insulting.

Frontera Lupita's avatar

I have white South African friends who emigrated to the USA. I didn’t k own that they are refereed to as “African Americans”!

Lori's avatar

Ugh NYC whites, no thanks.

Skenny's avatar

Now, "white supremacy" means SPLC employee.

Darrin's avatar

I don't like calling it "reverse racism ", it is simply racism. Glad 91% that took part in the survey have common sense.

David Nelson's avatar

Darrin, otoh, I have come to prefer being called a reverse-reverse-racist. By the time that gets parsed, it doesn't sting so much, even though I am only a white black Uncle Tom.

Tara Townsend's avatar

Thank you! Racism is racism.

Jeff Johnson's avatar

This is perfectly stated: "Treating whiteness itself as evidence of 'supremacy' is as racist as installing segregated drinking fountains."

I'm 70 and white, grew up in in the 50s and 60s in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, and believe me, I do know what true racial discrimination looks like. I hate that all that actually happened, and to watch in recent times the woke left (which, sadly, my oldest daughter began to buy into in college 12 years ago and still espouses) spew their own brand of hate in this manner is utter stupidity and ignorance.

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

Same here. I grew up all across the gulf coast, settled in Louisiana and believe you me, racism was alive and not so well! When my kids were teens, that generation was laughing at their older racist parents and friends By the time they were in their 20’s watching all the interracial relationships, I remember thinking, cool, the racial question is taking care of itself! The mingling was there and good!

Then Obama cane along…

Jeff Johnson's avatar

Bingo! We had NO idea exactly what that idiot had in mind when he campaigned on "Change." He (and his racist wife too!) assertively and intentionally brought about this divisiveness, and Trump is doing his best to change it. Can't imagine where we'd be without him in this present time.

Frank's avatar

Obama, the guy that called his own grandmother a "typical white person" at a public interview.

Ginny Moore's avatar

“…their dogs, and probably several brands of mayonnaise…” 🤣🤣🤣

Girl, I start my day with you and your wit and it’s the best!

I hope you get a zillion subscribers, you bad ass. 😘 🤬🍑❤️

John Wright's avatar

"Humans are tribal lunatics and always will be." - this is a very essential concept to grasp! We are "tribal". We automatically sort into "us vs them". This is something humanity should be actively working to reduce. We need less conflict, not more.

Keith Jajko's avatar

Unfortunately, less conflict doesn't sell papers. Or in modern terms, being conflict-deficient fails to gather clicks or "views," or displeases overarching supreme beings at Vanguard, Blackrock, or State Street.

John Wright's avatar

Yes, humans are drawn to conflict. "Good news" doesn't get a lot of "airtime". Informative articles are ignored which controversy is gobbled up and eagerly clicked on.

This is one reason I'd love to see Jenna post more "subscriber spotlights" and less "some bonehead did something awful". Jenna is hilarious and highly entertaining, no doubt about that, but I'd love to see more "Nice News".

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Fair point! I tried to write about what is trending which, to Keith’s point, is typically NOT the feel good news… But I will keep this in mind.😉

John Wright's avatar

Yes, and that makes sense. As a writer, we write about what catches our eye, what is being "talked about". The cute duck being rescued from the sewer just doesn't inspire much to comment about! 😇

Thus I feel like it's up to us to make a conscious effort to seek out something to write about that others might find cheerful, inspiring or helpful. So if I look at my last few articles:

"You're Fired" - inspiration that AI isn't taking all our jobs, some people are actually realizing AI is not cost effective and have hired humans instead.

"Soulmates" - a discussion of relationships and mention that soulmates do occasionally show up!

"Killer Robots" - questioning if we really want robot soldiers (and more war)

"Healthy Scones" - a quick mention of baking

"Bullets in Space" - a discussion of how much garbage we have in orbit now.

"Robot Vacuums" - a tale of finding a robot vacuum to actually be useful.

As I think I mentioned before, your witty commentary on current topics is entertaining and an enjoyable way to stay in touch with what others are talking about (often it's something I've never heard of before). But those negative things I don't really want "five days a week" so I'm begging, pleading, whining that it would be really nice to get a "good news" article once a week!

Keith Jajko's avatar

Fair points. I see many of Jenna's posts as good news. In a glass of water half gone kind of way. The main topic might not be all rainbows and lollipops, but then ... it's about perception.

We've all heard how the pessimist will consider the glass mostly empty, while the optimist sees it as almost full.

Jenna often explains things like, "Look! There's enough water in there to toss in a libtard's face!"

Or, "They think they have all that water. But we just slipped some drops of Liquid Ass in it! LingOL!"

(Liquid Ass btw is a real product available on Amazon. It is not recommended for spraying a crowded bus depot. It works pretty well on fabric bicycle seats of guys who stole your last Popsicle, however).

John Wright's avatar

Yes, Jenna's posts, specifically the humor she injects, provide a cheerful view on current insanity.

Katherine Larson's avatar

Are we drawn to bad news or were we assimilated to it?

Benj's avatar

But then - as we've seen - "actively working to reduce" gets inverted and mission-creeps itself into layers of bureaucracy and NGO grant-seeking.

Perhaps if we made peace with our tribal instincts, it would give us the social coherence to welcome others.

I don't have all the answers! Just guessing at it...

John Wright's avatar

Certainly this should not be a "government" effort. This is a cultural effort. Children start out very open and welcoming, it's our culture that trains us to see others as a threat. Certainly the American culture is biased toward competition and individuality. School should never "grade on a curve".

None of us have "all the answers". That's for sure.

MartyB's avatar

Poll answer: the NY Times is ALWAYS in the wrong. Always.

Keith Jajko's avatar

@NYTimes is akin to being Joe Biden on foreign policy decisions. Wrong. Every. Single. Time.

Bridget's avatar

Jenna: "...men working the third shift at tire factories while their backs slowly disintegrate like drywall in a flood." Oof. That's quite a sentence. You're such a good writer!

Meddling Kid's avatar

Maybe we should be thankful DEI hires want jobs at all? It must be some sort of indicator that they need the money, and therefore probably aren’t in on the take for the Somali daycare, hospice, Medicaid, <insert any gov’t program here> fraud.

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

But do they actually WORK when they get those jobs? In the public school system, the answer is almost always NO. Just look at all the recently fired DEI hires from USAID. Making 200k or more and now can’t get a job at Starbucks…because THAT actually requires WORK.

Darrin's avatar

Good question. I agree. Had a friend of a friend over once that worked for some NGO that received money 💰 from USAID, Latina, she was buying multiple rental properties in Playa del Carmen. No real job, just a ton of money syphoned from US taxpayers and setting this 40 year old Latina up for a great retirement. She couldn't even pretend to explain what she did or what her "job" entailed.

Meddling Kid's avatar

To be accurate, all of USAID was DEI hires. They didn’t care who they hired, and if they did, it was probably to hire the most corrupt who wouldn’t overexpose the grift.

Like Nick Shirley said, the Somali fraud was blatant, but the Russian and far eastern fraud was low key, trying to go unnoticed.

Ballooning a state budget line item by 10,000% in 10 years doesn’t go unnoticed.

The only thing that mattered is that the right people - the dems in office - got their palms greased.

THAT’S the forensic audit I want, by thumbscrews or water boarding or any means necessary.

Heather B's avatar

Before DEI it was affirmative action and both of them are reverse discrimination. I always wondered why racism suddenly became okay when it was racism against whites. *We hated being discriminated against so let's do it to the whites and men to punish them for their privilege. We're the good guys so it's not only okay, this makes us superior to all you racists and mysogenists and if you don't like it, it's proof you're racist/mysogenist.* We are living in upside down world!

David Nelson's avatar

The leftists saw the disconnect almost as soon as you did and threw tax dollars at "social scientists" to write papers "explaining" how it's "impossible" for policies against majorities to be "racist." Spit-spot, narrative saved, problem solved. ...but the worst of it may have been that horrible "alternate reality" all that wordsmithing forced on us.

Heather B's avatar

"alternate reality" sums it up!

Russell Schierling's avatar

Although Conspiracy Sarah puts them out en masse, you, Jenna, are the undisputed meme queen!

Keith Jajko's avatar

Meme queening (or meme kinging) is sooo underrated today.

Russell Schierling's avatar

Spot on brother! If a person is really good, they could almost write an entire post via memes. Did you hear that Jenna? Sounds like a challenge someone might have fun with.

Steven Bradford's avatar

In the real world, not the self flagellating DEI world of the NY Times, I’d argue that race isn’t even the deciding factor for hiring. Rather, it’s one’s cultural background. Most employers will hire people of any race as long as they are intelligent, capable, and have a cultural background that conforms with the corporate identity they’re trying to present to clients. In every job situation there will be people who fit and people who don’t, and it’s typically not related to skin color.

Frank's avatar

In civil service, it's a different situation. Black racists become senior managers, and openly discriminate against whites.

MaryAnn's avatar

The mayor of Chicago is loud and proud about his discriminatory hiring practices, basically daring a confrontation.

reality speaks's avatar

Maybe the government will do something about the discrimination against white males over the age of 50 who suddenly find themselves unemployed as everyone discriminates against them to hire a younger and cheaper black female replacement. You can’t prove it according to the lawyers I talk too when it happened to me two years ago. The lawyer said I talk to you at least once a week. Make the best deal and move on.

Vee's avatar

Other- it's the system that is the problem and it's not going to fix itself. This entire white privilege nonsense is by design to sow more confusion and division amongst the masses while the very real predominantly white male psychopathic ruling class exists to perpetuate this top down system of control.

Normal everyday society in America used to be a meritocracy based system, but in one form or another, the tentacles of the anti-human system slithers through the cracks and finds a way to corrupt it. Literally every single industry. Hollywood, journalism, education, medical, etc. There isn't an industry that hasn't been corrupted by this kakistocracy system that we find ourselves living in and this is be design.