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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Everyone needs to vote for JENNA for Substacks first 40 over 40 award! (NOT sponsored by Substack). Do it today. Do it now. Goodness knows she’s more than worthy!

Things to know:

Substack Handle: @jennamccarthy

Age: 56

Choose one her BESTEST EVER posts to link to 💕💕

https://open.substack.com/pub/menopauseprofessor/p/i-asked-google-to-show-me-powerful?r=19oj26&utm_medium=ios

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

YOU ARE THE SWEETESTTTTTTTTTTT! I'm pinning this! ;)

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Yay!

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David Nelson's avatar

[TL;DR: Looks like voting is LIMITED to WOMEN, and ONLY over-40s (because EVERYONE knows no WOMAN will EVER inspire a MAN or a woman UNDER-40?)! oooo kkkkk... Remind me: what year is this?]

I don't know her age (also required), and I'm not sure she's published it. And anyway, I think Jenna looks and sounds (a very young-ish) 36, so may not qualify.

It should be said: "There's a schedule." NOMINATE, VOTE, CELEBRATE.

NOMINATE (Now through–Nov 10) Any woman over 40 on Substack.

VOTE (Nov 15–Dec 1): Everyone votes for their top 10. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟬 can vote.

CELEBRATE (Dec 8): Top 40 announced. Every nominee gets featured. [Can't make it; I'll feel like a fifth-wheel at 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 party.] <mock upset>

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I'm 56 (I think; true story) and I guess my handle is @jennamccarthy, if Nard says so! ;)

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

You'll always be '30'something.

56? Nope. '30-26'

Sounds better already.

PS: Keep up the CK reading/writing.

Encouraging to see all sides getting air-time.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

@jennamccarthy

You don’t need her exact age…just “ish”. She’s close to mine, and I’m 59 ;).

I’ll add this info to my comment!

P.s. she’s gonna love you for the “36” comment ☺️.

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David Nelson's avatar

(I probably accused her of starting her family at age 14 or something like that...)

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

‼️‼️

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Valerie's avatar

She’s talked about her age before, she’s in the 55-56 range.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I edited my comment to include :). Hopefully this will make things easier for folks. Thanks, David, for pointing it out!

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David Nelson's avatar

"She's in the 55-56 [or 59] range."

(She should do a column on "beauty secrets.") (...and "How I've kept my 36-year-old outlook!")

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John Wright's avatar

Well, I don't know about Jenna's beauty secrets but she has some excellent photos.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Thank you! Jenna is definitely my #1.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

❤️😘💋

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llaw555's avatar

So many to choose from! I love today’s, so I’ll choose it!

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Nard - I seconded your nomination of Jenna.

Jenna - did you get any new subs from this effort?

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Guess I better quit saying in a southern accent ‘I’m 30-damn-9’ when asked my age. Otherwise I can’t vote!

Ps I won’t ever cop to how many decades I am over that! Oh, I got the accent from an old neighbor of mine who was from Georgia I think. She was 7-8 years older than her husband and had a complex about it I guess 😉

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Claudia's avatar

Voted!! 💯🤩

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Karen Bandy's avatar

The vote link was missing I think…

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

It should be in the article :)

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I've looked twice!!! What the heck am I missing?

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

You nominate in the comment section of the article ;).

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Penny North's avatar

“….free speech isn’t the same thing as consequence-free speech. “

I want the t shirt.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I like: "Freedom of Reach" is just as important as "freedom of speech."

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

“Professors denounce the list as harassment and intimidation.”

But I bet they didn’t denounce the unvaxxed lists.

I bet they didn’t denounce the pro-Israel lists.

I bet they didn’t denounce the ICE lists.

So many “nice” lists, but only “one” naughty lists. These people are SOOOOO UNSELF-AWARE🤦‍♀️.

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YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

They didn't denounce the intimidating classroom environments they created whenever a student dared to question their indoctrination lecture points.

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MaryAnn's avatar

I am pretty sure my kids had access to an online entity where students would post reviews of professors, courses, etc. Back then, 2002-2008, the info was about grading, pet peeves, unfair tactics and not so much political ideology. It helped make the first couple of years of undergrad easier knowing which gen studies profs to avoid. Wish I had had one like it.

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llaw555's avatar

Yes. Most definitely it existed. I remember reading it.

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Meddling Kid's avatar

We definitely need this for every grade, not just college-level. We need to eliminate all tutu-wearing, fake-rainbow flag waiving, love-is-love-except-that-I-hate-everything-good-and-decent spewing indoctrinators from schools, including the admins that tolerate or support them.

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The Great Santini's avatar

Especially the Admins. Those are the ones making all of this possible and enforcing thieve idiocies.

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Jpeach's avatar

Committed Leftists, especially college professors, believe they own the intellectual and moral high ground. They live in a self imposed bubble where they are safe from reality. Making Charlie’s list, burst their safe bubble.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

The day after Trump’s win in 2015, the Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh notified the entire faculty that we owed our students “space to grieve” and class time that day should be dedicated to that.

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The Great Santini's avatar

Same happened at my Alma Mater. All contributions stopped that day.

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David Nelson's avatar

"All contributions stopped that day."

They should memorialize that event with a big hole in the ground where something nice could've been.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Are you freaking kidding me?!!!

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Oh don’t you remember that? It happened all over America. Even one of my local “esteemed universities” that gets LOTS of federal grant money, for the Feds and State of Commifornia, University of California San Diego did it!

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Tonee norman's avatar

Yep! Pretty pathetic,for sure…

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I don’t remember that at all. I

must’ve slept through it. 😝 I went to a little Christian college and I’m sure they get nada from Uncle Sam.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I wish I were kidding. Most of my colleagues followed orders.

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Occam's avatar

These people have been consequence-free for a looooong time.

Something, something, entitled children.

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Tim Pallies's avatar

"believe they own the intellectual and moral high ground" I'm not sure which of those two is the most absurd.

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David Nelson's avatar

I've got them neck-and-neck.

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David Nelson's avatar

[Reminder: LIKE the article (if you do) before you comment (even if you don't). It helps the--dumb--algorithm figure out Jenna McCarthy's column is popular.]

I have two reactions. Firstly, "No, Professor Mitchum, the goal is to get you to START TALKING SENSE!", and secondly, leftists in fear of losing their jobs for saying something 'unpopular' with people who are right, should BEAR IN MIND how they themselves RIG the system to PREVENT people who are right from EVER GETTING one of "THEIR" jobs in the FIRST PLACE!

The problem communist professors have is the same one that pedophiles have: light being shown where they've come to feel entitled to darkness. For over 50 years, communist "teachers" have taken advantage of their 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴 status to "deconstruct" mores parents "thought" they had safely instilled and replaced them with their own programming. Not "instructing": "imprinting."

I've watched a raft of nieces and nephews "go off to college" and come back little Maos.

Charlie didn't call for their expulsion. But I do. "Tenure covereth a multitude of evils."

"You're not 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 hated because of your speech; 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 you're hated simply because you're hateful."

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Richard schoenenberger's avatar

Too much hate floating around there

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

These days I often go a month without getting a single new paid subscriber and, on a net basis, I'm losing at least four paid subscribers every month. In the last two or three weeks, I LOSE three Free subscribers with every new article I post. The only thing that makes me think some people might still be reading my articles is the "like" metric ... so I appreciate everyone who "hits me with a like."

I think a fair number of my "subscribers" are now bots, but that's just a hypothesis or my "Spider Sense."

By the same token, the "Lunatic Left" newsletter authors are adding thousands of subscribers every month. I can't figure it out. Something has changed IMO.

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Kaycee's avatar

Will they succeed in destroying Charlie Kirk's work? Does anyone have numbers on declining enrollment in colleges, woke classes being canceled due to lack of enrollment, or hell, even professors being fired due to the list? Because I don't think the sway that professors have is over by a long shot.

Also, I still think I shouldn't be surprised by anything the Left does but I am. I am appalled and saddened they are blaming Kirk's death on him creating the environment that killed him! How messed up is that? 😢

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SH's avatar

>>Will they succeed in destroying Charlie Kirk's work? <<

I don't believe so, as TPUSA has sent out over 100,000 TPUSA Student starter packs to interested students at both high schools and universities since his death. They wanted to shut him up, instead they created a martyr.

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Kaycee's avatar

Indeed they did! I pray that his movement continues and those with a voice and a platform get out there and do what he did at TP events.

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Richard schoenenberger's avatar

“a crisis hotline that helps professors cope with the scandal of being quoted publicly “. You simply cannot make this stuff up.

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Romgrp's avatar

That is tax payer money well spent….plus tuition. 😂

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Occam's avatar

Only in Progressive Clown World can people be quoted their exact words while they deny and blame it on sane people.

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The Great Santini's avatar

We need to start a “Woke or Not” list, kind of the opposite of Hot or Not, as a public service. It would cover everyone, not just college professors. Honestly, if I hear someone is an academic I just assume they’re woke.

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KatWarrior's avatar

Sadly, I do as well. I may take it a bit further though 🤯🙄😂

Useless as tits on a bull 🔥😎👊

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Perfection, Jenna.

A couple of people dear to me swear CK was a racist. I spent the better part of a week watching every single video I could dig up, from start to finish. I came away with the sense that CK was even more non-racist, thought provoking and compelling than I had already known.

Clearly the evil somebody—- (Idk who. Satan’s minions?) are clipping videos right and left, with the skill of the 60 MINUTES editors in charge of Kamala’s interview, taking her word salad and somehow making it appear to be a concise, meaningful, thoughtful exchange. They clip each video until they portray a racist— or whatever their hateful hearts dredge up to spew.

The root here has GOT to be to somehow convince the left to, at least on occasion, venture OUT of their echo chamber, become for a few moments, intellectually curious and ask themselves what it is about CK (or DJT, or RFK, or anti-vaxxers, or…) that makes them feel the polar opposite of how they, themselves feel about that person or idea.

HOW do we do that?

Jenna, ideas? Humor helps.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

But did those “people dear to you” watch any of those videos as well to come to their conclusions? That would likely be a NO!

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

One watched a few and softened her view a bit. The other steadfastly argues, and refuses to watch. He’s an elitist, voted for Kamala, and I feel I am casting my pearls before swine.

I just keep hoping that someone will get through to him or at least get him to listen to 1-2 things. I don’t mind people being stubborn after having listened to all sides. I just hate it when they refuse to budge OR consider all

sides.

He adores his echo chamber.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That’s the thing…they spout all this utter baseless BS, but refuse to even consider a view or opinion other than their own. Now who is prejudice and judge mental? Your elitist friend! And if you call them out on how prejudiced and judgement they are, they flip out!

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linda e's avatar

I could have added to the watchlist myself, back in the day. As far as my own observations went, faculty are largely incapable of critical thinking, and they are very comfortable snuggling into and protecting their own elitist culture.

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llaw555's avatar

I’ll read this between clients but I need to own that mug! Hahaha! I know a few people who could do with some reminding! And Anne LaMott’s quote…perfect.

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KatWarrior's avatar

Agreed! Love the quote and the mug is a MUST have accoutrement!

I am using that quote to remind someone today of their bad behaviour.

Thanks, Jenna! 🙏💯🔥❤️

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llaw555's avatar

I ordered it this morning 😂

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SeeingTruth's avatar

"Charlie Kirk called out bias". Yes, he did, and TPUSA members at a small liberal arts college in northern Ohio also called out bias against the "bias" reporting system of said university and got nowhere. Whenever the TPUSA kids reported bias, they either got no response, or were handwaved. When other students who held different beliefs, gender orientation etc utilized the bias system, they got attention. The TP students noticed the different treatment they received in comparison to others and the university did nothing, except in these students minds to continue proliferating bias. It was a tough place for these kids to be, to witness abject failure of a system, and a great, albiet painful, learning experience as well. Zero doubt in my mind "diversity" was involved in this mess.

Some faculty/staff at this university also posted inappropriate social media messaging regarding Kirk's assination. An internal communication, not from the administration but from a representative of a faculty group, wrote: "I am deeply troubled by the ugly responses to which our colleagues have been subjected following their posts", and then proceeded to remind everyone that privacy settings don't ensure something won't get out on the public domain, be sure to state that your views are not the views of the university, etc type things.

As an alumn of this university, I am deeply troubled that this faculty member and apparently others are clueless that it's inappropriate to celebrate someone's murder.

Has there been disciplinary action against these faculty/staff who inappropriately posted and received "ugly responses"? Don't know as the campus directory, faculty listings in departments are no longer available. The university put out an email that because they've been working on their website, certain things are down. Hmmmm....🤔

I also believe that the covid propoganda of making it ok to mistreat those who made the non-narrative choice and who faced a lot of bias (to put it mildly) in work settings, social media, relationships, etc, emboldened those to think they can write anything on social media and it's perfectly acceptable.

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Michelle Herman's avatar

I actually love this idea! .. good to know it exists. Students and parents often forget that THEY are the customer, and they have a right to complain when the service is sub par.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Like most experts, lib professors continue to be baffled.

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