I carry your book with me to and from work. I've REALLY enjoyed the stories therein, and had previously followed many of them during the covid era.
I *STILL* get a kick out of the tinfoil-hat-wearing cat. (and there's a cat looking like that who craps in my garden bed often, so LIKING the picture is overcoming some serious trauma! - And yes, I did have it out with my neighbor about his cat. His daughter even came over to threaten me! (a non-attractive, red-head, psychology major working in a day-care facility - yeah, it's always them, right?)
I admit to leaving the book cover exposed for others to enjoy.
Great selection of stories! I've wanted to write to a few of them and thank them for sharing them.
Need to get into genealogy* and trace your $#!+ back to some scottish clan. And if you still can't do it, go visit a scottish fair and they'll wean you over to their clan without so much as a jedi wave.
Personally, while I wear shorts often, I just don't see myself in a kilt. It's not because of the plaids - heck, most of my shirts I wear are IDGAF plaid. Drive's me wife crazy. (Oh, crap, where did that 1st person pronoun sneak in from?)
It's a 1-world tree model, living (or presumed living) people born within the last 110 years are private. Once you get to deceased people, you can get to rockin and rollin and likely find yourself related to a McCarthy - by hook, by crook (they're dead), or by _________ (fill in the blank).
I participated in a "pop-up" fair at a mall where we showed this family tree and people were jazzed!
Thanks for the tip Justin, but wrong country - the McCarthys are Irish. We may have our quirks, but our men dressing up in skirts is *not* one of them :)
They're close enough to have intermingled. My wife's family had to leave their area and change their name. Had something to do with slaughtering cattle in the middle of the night. (Hey, a man's gotta eat, right?)
Thanks Laura! If you can stomach living within spitting distance of Governor Phil Murphy's private abode (I'm not joking...he's my neighbor and I used to get the secret service in my garden every time Sleepy Joe came over for one of his $100k per seat fundraisers), feel free to come and join the party down in Red Bank NJ!
You should get together with Mark Oshinskei who writes Dispatches from a Scamdemic on Substack. He lives in Jersey too and is always inviting readers to stop by if they are in the area.
I share your perspective on so many things, like how the pandemic resulted in dividing families and communities (an intended consequence). However I think your "30%" estimate for those who have "opened their eyes" is low. Where I live on the Texas coast, it's likely more than 50% and growing. I'm a former-Liberal who joined Team Trump in 2024 after RFKJR endorsed him. So things are especially interesting from this perspective, because I can clearly remember how it was to be a CNN True Believer. Luckily, I now see how the world's "monied interests" are used to pulling the strings of power, which is why they (via MSM) spend so much effort villainizing anyone who doesn't buy into their planned demise of the nuclear family and traditional American culture.
Thank you for sharing, but locale matters! Maybe 30% here. Any suggestions on what to say to the permanent believers? They’ll fall for the next scam if we’re not prepared.
I'm sure in CA the numbers are higher, but they've got vote manipulation down as an art form. So... it's anybody's guess. I don't visit a hospital clinic much, due to my well-earned distrust of the system, but at my last visit late last year, there were still people lining up for boosters. Maybe that will change with being charged, but Kaiser is a well-aligned hospital network with the globalists. And it sickens me that my health dollars pay into it. (I'd be gone if my wife didn't suddenly get a fast-growing tumor in her breast, and wants to ensure continuity of care. But once that's over. We're gone.)
Thanks for the Malone link. Just read it. (I subscribe to his emails but he can be a bit long-winded so I skip some.) This particular post of his is important because it's easy to feel like MAHA supporters have been left hanging in the wind as we wait for the new administration to DO something re: the shots. So Malone's insight into the internal strategy of MAHA (and the reaction of the 3 lobbyists) is heartening and hopeful. Every now and then I step back and allow myself to be grateful for how far we've come since Bobby joined Trump. The rest is history.
I normally pride myself on being quick to comment on this stack, so isn't it just typical that the day the stack is *about me*, I'm slow off the mark. Thank you Jenna - such an honor to be featured, especially when all of your other spotlighted subscribers have actually had a body of work to refer to, whereas my cannon is bereft of material. Thank you also to all the kind commenters - it is communities like this that keep me going and remind me that I am not alone. Maybe I will start posting and see where it goes...oh and Jenna you and your family are hereby *officially and cordially* invited to Red Bank, New Jersey for Thanksgiving!
Dan - you may not know that it was Jenna who encouraged me to write a stack. I kept talking about the clots in comments and people wanted to see them. Jenna said, it will only take you 15 minutes to write one. Four hours later, I published my first post. 😂
Jenna’s husband, Joe came up with the name. Jenna said what you name your stack is important. Joe is very creative and witty too to say the least!
I admire Dan’s ability to challenge Sheeple and see it as an Olympic sport. 95% of People I know are Sheeple. The times I have challenged them with Covid Vax warnings have not gone well. I take their response ( aggressive or arrogantly dismissive), way too personally. So, I stopped challenging or warning them. I just roll my eyes and pray.
PS Dan, my 24 year old son has a degree in computer something (He’s 3rd born. I can’t keep up), from GA State and is currently pursuing his master’s in AI at GA Tech. He’s interning at a Children’s Cancer Center but would love a paying job. He’s tired of asking Mom if he can wash my car just so he can take his gf to Taco Bell, you know? He’s pretty disgusted that he “did all the right things”, (unlike HUNTER), yet he can’t manage to get a paying gig.
If you ever need a smart, fully conservative, (He went to a Trump rally at GA TECH, too!) NON-poisoned, totally snarky, yet politely southern, (Ok, sometime slightly Eddie Haskell), hard worker, please yell.
Not meant to intrude into your girly bro-mance, but one of these days, Jenna's gonna devote part of one of her family vacations to do a "meet-and-greet" for subscribers in Ottumwa, IA.
I know all this because I am sci-chick. Unfortunately, I can't quite make out the year, or month, and it might be Oconomowoc, WI.
Ha! I don’t know what my 3rd kid is studying either. I mean it’s called Engineering Physics, which I kind of understand, but anytime he explains anything to me I have to remind him that I merely have a business degree and don’t speak his language. Also, I have zero ideas what classes he’s taking or what his schedule is. We’re both fine with that.
😝 We could be friends. You don’t live in the south by chance, do you? Here’s a funny: I kept harassing my son abt graduation from GA State, on & on—thinking I’d plan a family party at least, if not a whole shindig but he was not 100% certain he’d pass ONE class— so he didn’t want to commit. I dropped it and deleted the whole thing from my feeble brain.
He sauntered down stairs last May practically shouting, “It is HOT as HELL and let me tell you what I will NOT be doing tonight! Fighting Friday rush traffic in ATL to sit on 102° concrete at GSU stadium to graduate! Nor will I be paying $175 to wear BLACK robes in this weather!”
Uh, son, I’d have happily paid that— and would probably have sprung for a weekend at a downtown hotel or Air B? 🎓🎓🎓
THAT was the first I heard that he’d gotten a B in the class he thought he may fail— which turned out to be a revisionist history class taught by an angry woman, bitter toward all things conservative, which explained his complete lack of vested interest.
Sounds like an English 1A teacher I once had, who required that any submitted papers be typed or written in ink.
So I turned in a paper printed on a dot-matrix printer (takes too long to explain kiddies - look it up) and she hit the roof. I insisted it was TYPED.
She didn't like it. Maybe the lack of ink on my fingers or something...
I finally appealed to time, and summoned my best Darth Vader voice - THIS IS *THE FUTURE*!!!
I can correct an error on the fly - no whiteout. (THANK YOU ELECTRIC PENCIL!! - That was the name of the program. I didn't dare mention the name with the Pen/Typing paradigm firmly stuck in her mind)
He sounds like a great kid! I am focused on the senior end of the market, but with an AI Masters he should be hot property upon graduation, I would think. Let us know how he gets on!
Thank you. I’m sure I’ll provide updates here and there as the writing 2 theme allows. All I know is, I adore the kid but at 24, after
moving out and in and out and in, (Thanks, Fauci and your stupid medical mandates, for closing universities on baseless “science”!) I am a little weary of coming up with tasks for him to do between major projects, just so he and his gf can have a date.
Vee - now that I have a direct message from you, I have indeed arrived! I look forward to you yourself being featured soon ;)
As for a DNA test...I was waiting until after my father's death until I go down that road, in case the rumors of my conception in a cheap hotel room in Benidorm at the hands of a Spanish waiter on a bachelorette party prove to be well founded. My mother did have something of a reputation, I won't lie.
lol talk about an epic conception story. You'll have to keep us all posted!
For personal reasons (mostly security and privacy), I decided not to submit myself to be featured. I'm still running around in my hamster wheel so I'd be putting my career and the livelihood of my family at risk for speaking out. I'm still waiting for Jenna to accept cryptocurrencies so I can send her some dough!
Yes. Give us some money re Dan McCarthy! Your writing style reminds me a lot of Jeff Childers with Coffee and Covid who is also on Substack. I’ve read his stuff for years. Check him out!
Great to "meet" you Dan! Isn't life exciting when we risk our entire personal financial foundation just to try and claw back a bit of freedom and perhaps save a few people from killing themselves?
You’ve got to be somehow related to Jenna! Both of you are smart, witty, irreverent, and unabashedly unafraid to speak your truth. My vote is to start a Substack. I’d subscribe!
Jenna, I love your stack. I suspect that I might be a little bit more McCarthy than I previously thought. As a descendent from the Emerald Isle, I heartily agree with the hill that We would die upon. I too refused their poison and am proud of my pure unjabbed blood.
Dan - I wish we were neighbors!
Perhaps you could start a stack. Write about your experiences with people who, “lose their shit in an argument.”
Those would be quite enjoyable to read!
Well said old boy! I am also now a virulent supporter of multiple McCarthys, a McCarthyist I guess. McCarthyism forever!
Bahahahaha we're both addictive and irresistible, I guess. ;)
I carry your book with me to and from work. I've REALLY enjoyed the stories therein, and had previously followed many of them during the covid era.
I *STILL* get a kick out of the tinfoil-hat-wearing cat. (and there's a cat looking like that who craps in my garden bed often, so LIKING the picture is overcoming some serious trauma! - And yes, I did have it out with my neighbor about his cat. His daughter even came over to threaten me! (a non-attractive, red-head, psychology major working in a day-care facility - yeah, it's always them, right?)
I admit to leaving the book cover exposed for others to enjoy.
Great selection of stories! I've wanted to write to a few of them and thank them for sharing them.
Agree! Jenna and Dan almost make me wish that I was a McCarthy!
ALMOST? Hahahaha!
Need to get into genealogy* and trace your $#!+ back to some scottish clan. And if you still can't do it, go visit a scottish fair and they'll wean you over to their clan without so much as a jedi wave.
Personally, while I wear shorts often, I just don't see myself in a kilt. It's not because of the plaids - heck, most of my shirts I wear are IDGAF plaid. Drive's me wife crazy. (Oh, crap, where did that 1st person pronoun sneak in from?)
* - climb your family tree for free at https://familysearch.org
It's a 1-world tree model, living (or presumed living) people born within the last 110 years are private. Once you get to deceased people, you can get to rockin and rollin and likely find yourself related to a McCarthy - by hook, by crook (they're dead), or by _________ (fill in the blank).
I participated in a "pop-up" fair at a mall where we showed this family tree and people were jazzed!
Thanks for the tip Justin, but wrong country - the McCarthys are Irish. We may have our quirks, but our men dressing up in skirts is *not* one of them :)
They're close enough to have intermingled. My wife's family had to leave their area and change their name. Had something to do with slaughtering cattle in the middle of the night. (Hey, a man's gotta eat, right?)
Thanks Laura! If you can stomach living within spitting distance of Governor Phil Murphy's private abode (I'm not joking...he's my neighbor and I used to get the secret service in my garden every time Sleepy Joe came over for one of his $100k per seat fundraisers), feel free to come and join the party down in Red Bank NJ!
You should get together with Mark Oshinskei who writes Dispatches from a Scamdemic on Substack. He lives in Jersey too and is always inviting readers to stop by if they are in the area.
Too bad you couldn't call the police about creepers in the back yard. Or maybe HE was sleeping in your back yard too.
Dan - lucky you! 😩
Agree. You are a super fun writer Dan, I’d read your substack 😊
Dan, perhaps teach a masterclass on your superpowers!
Dan, loved your post.
I share your perspective on so many things, like how the pandemic resulted in dividing families and communities (an intended consequence). However I think your "30%" estimate for those who have "opened their eyes" is low. Where I live on the Texas coast, it's likely more than 50% and growing. I'm a former-Liberal who joined Team Trump in 2024 after RFKJR endorsed him. So things are especially interesting from this perspective, because I can clearly remember how it was to be a CNN True Believer. Luckily, I now see how the world's "monied interests" are used to pulling the strings of power, which is why they (via MSM) spend so much effort villainizing anyone who doesn't buy into their planned demise of the nuclear family and traditional American culture.
Thank you for sharing, but locale matters! Maybe 30% here. Any suggestions on what to say to the permanent believers? They’ll fall for the next scam if we’re not prepared.
An opening line could be:
"Are you still getting all the Covid boosters?"
If they haven't, the door is cracked open enough to swap stories and point out the lies.
Fred - ask the believers if you can show them some pics. My stack has plenty. The two videos are quite compelling too.
Excellent suggestion! Can add that thrombectomy for a major stroke had never been considered pre jabs.
I'm sure in CA the numbers are higher, but they've got vote manipulation down as an art form. So... it's anybody's guess. I don't visit a hospital clinic much, due to my well-earned distrust of the system, but at my last visit late last year, there were still people lining up for boosters. Maybe that will change with being charged, but Kaiser is a well-aligned hospital network with the globalists. And it sickens me that my health dollars pay into it. (I'd be gone if my wife didn't suddenly get a fast-growing tumor in her breast, and wants to ensure continuity of care. But once that's over. We're gone.)
locale matters - 💯
Ouch... the idea of a "CNN True Believer" is painful and scary! Hopefully that species will go extinct soon!
CNN's numbers are dropping, which indicates that more and more are escaping that bubble.
Yes, I've heard that. It's one of the great signs that we are actually making progess.
Carrie - I agree that it’s more than 30%. Rasmussen polls seem to confirm that.
Malone wrote a stack on this poll last week:
https://www.malone.news/p/covid-19-51-suspect-heart-damage
Note what he says about what he witnessed while seated behind some lobbyists at Ron Johnson’s hearing in DC on May 21st.
Thanks for the Malone link. Just read it. (I subscribe to his emails but he can be a bit long-winded so I skip some.) This particular post of his is important because it's easy to feel like MAHA supporters have been left hanging in the wind as we wait for the new administration to DO something re: the shots. So Malone's insight into the internal strategy of MAHA (and the reaction of the 3 lobbyists) is heartening and hopeful. Every now and then I step back and allow myself to be grateful for how far we've come since Bobby joined Trump. The rest is history.
Well said Carrie.
I normally pride myself on being quick to comment on this stack, so isn't it just typical that the day the stack is *about me*, I'm slow off the mark. Thank you Jenna - such an honor to be featured, especially when all of your other spotlighted subscribers have actually had a body of work to refer to, whereas my cannon is bereft of material. Thank you also to all the kind commenters - it is communities like this that keep me going and remind me that I am not alone. Maybe I will start posting and see where it goes...oh and Jenna you and your family are hereby *officially and cordially* invited to Red Bank, New Jersey for Thanksgiving!
Don't threaten ME with a good time, pal! :)
Dan - you may not know that it was Jenna who encouraged me to write a stack. I kept talking about the clots in comments and people wanted to see them. Jenna said, it will only take you 15 minutes to write one. Four hours later, I published my first post. 😂
Jenna’s husband, Joe came up with the name. Jenna said what you name your stack is important. Joe is very creative and witty too to say the least!
I admire Dan’s ability to challenge Sheeple and see it as an Olympic sport. 95% of People I know are Sheeple. The times I have challenged them with Covid Vax warnings have not gone well. I take their response ( aggressive or arrogantly dismissive), way too personally. So, I stopped challenging or warning them. I just roll my eyes and pray.
Me, too. Wish I could be the cool one in a discussion.
It's gotta be the socks.... j/k
And how do you bring up the bioweapon (and turbo cancers) to people who are quite proud of being sheeple? I'm still too stupid to keep my mouth shut.
Somehow the topic came up, and my co-worker said she had gotten the shot and two boosters. Maybe the shots were less potent in liberal states.
There seems to be evidence that a group of tainted vaccines were sent to red states for the first round.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least. I had heard rumors to that effect as well, but hadn't seen any evidence.
I haven’t seen the evidence either.
PS Dan, my 24 year old son has a degree in computer something (He’s 3rd born. I can’t keep up), from GA State and is currently pursuing his master’s in AI at GA Tech. He’s interning at a Children’s Cancer Center but would love a paying job. He’s tired of asking Mom if he can wash my car just so he can take his gf to Taco Bell, you know? He’s pretty disgusted that he “did all the right things”, (unlike HUNTER), yet he can’t manage to get a paying gig.
If you ever need a smart, fully conservative, (He went to a Trump rally at GA TECH, too!) NON-poisoned, totally snarky, yet politely southern, (Ok, sometime slightly Eddie Haskell), hard worker, please yell.
I have a young acquaintance just like your son. Did all the same things. No one is hiring him. So sad.
Why did that make me laugh out loud? And yes, I’m in the south but Houston, not Atlanta. But if I make it up that way we’re having coffee.
Valerieeeeee, count on meee! 🎶 Come and seeee meee! 🎶
This could be how bad Lifetime movies start or we could have a ball.
It’s a meet cute in Jenna’s comment section! 😂
Not meant to intrude into your girly bro-mance, but one of these days, Jenna's gonna devote part of one of her family vacations to do a "meet-and-greet" for subscribers in Ottumwa, IA.
I know all this because I am sci-chick. Unfortunately, I can't quite make out the year, or month, and it might be Oconomowoc, WI.
Oh man... that reminded me of this 80's? video version of the song that's supposed to amp up any young man's hormones....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4
Wait... I just dated myself.
Ha! I don’t know what my 3rd kid is studying either. I mean it’s called Engineering Physics, which I kind of understand, but anytime he explains anything to me I have to remind him that I merely have a business degree and don’t speak his language. Also, I have zero ideas what classes he’s taking or what his schedule is. We’re both fine with that.
😝 We could be friends. You don’t live in the south by chance, do you? Here’s a funny: I kept harassing my son abt graduation from GA State, on & on—thinking I’d plan a family party at least, if not a whole shindig but he was not 100% certain he’d pass ONE class— so he didn’t want to commit. I dropped it and deleted the whole thing from my feeble brain.
He sauntered down stairs last May practically shouting, “It is HOT as HELL and let me tell you what I will NOT be doing tonight! Fighting Friday rush traffic in ATL to sit on 102° concrete at GSU stadium to graduate! Nor will I be paying $175 to wear BLACK robes in this weather!”
Uh, son, I’d have happily paid that— and would probably have sprung for a weekend at a downtown hotel or Air B? 🎓🎓🎓
THAT was the first I heard that he’d gotten a B in the class he thought he may fail— which turned out to be a revisionist history class taught by an angry woman, bitter toward all things conservative, which explained his complete lack of vested interest.
Sounds like an English 1A teacher I once had, who required that any submitted papers be typed or written in ink.
So I turned in a paper printed on a dot-matrix printer (takes too long to explain kiddies - look it up) and she hit the roof. I insisted it was TYPED.
She didn't like it. Maybe the lack of ink on my fingers or something...
I finally appealed to time, and summoned my best Darth Vader voice - THIS IS *THE FUTURE*!!!
I can correct an error on the fly - no whiteout. (THANK YOU ELECTRIC PENCIL!! - That was the name of the program. I didn't dare mention the name with the Pen/Typing paradigm firmly stuck in her mind)
He sounds like a great kid! I am focused on the senior end of the market, but with an AI Masters he should be hot property upon graduation, I would think. Let us know how he gets on!
Thank you. I’m sure I’ll provide updates here and there as the writing 2 theme allows. All I know is, I adore the kid but at 24, after
moving out and in and out and in, (Thanks, Fauci and your stupid medical mandates, for closing universities on baseless “science”!) I am a little weary of coming up with tasks for him to do between major projects, just so he and his gf can have a date.
Dan, Jenna, I’d say your mama has some explaining to do. This hilarious snark is too similar not to be rooted in mutual DNA.
Perhaps some "naughty cousins" somewhere along the way?
I’m so glad there are like-minded people out there!!! And… I enjoy the humorous spin! 🥰
Dude, start a stack. I’d follow….even tho my personal description literally says, “loathe to follow a crowd”. 😂
Oh hi Dan, it's great to see your climb from subscriber and daily commentator to subscriber spotlight! You've made it!
I hope Jenna's substack from yesterday has opened your eyes a bit more about what Trump truly represents.
When will you and Jenna be comparing your DNA tests to verify your familiarity?
Vee - now that I have a direct message from you, I have indeed arrived! I look forward to you yourself being featured soon ;)
As for a DNA test...I was waiting until after my father's death until I go down that road, in case the rumors of my conception in a cheap hotel room in Benidorm at the hands of a Spanish waiter on a bachelorette party prove to be well founded. My mother did have something of a reputation, I won't lie.
lol talk about an epic conception story. You'll have to keep us all posted!
For personal reasons (mostly security and privacy), I decided not to submit myself to be featured. I'm still running around in my hamster wheel so I'd be putting my career and the livelihood of my family at risk for speaking out. I'm still waiting for Jenna to accept cryptocurrencies so I can send her some dough!
Damn, Vee, now we all REALLY want to hear your story! ;)
"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
Yes. Give us some money re Dan McCarthy! Your writing style reminds me a lot of Jeff Childers with Coffee and Covid who is also on Substack. I’ve read his stuff for years. Check him out!
More nit money! lol
Great to "meet" you Dan! Isn't life exciting when we risk our entire personal financial foundation just to try and claw back a bit of freedom and perhaps save a few people from killing themselves?
Enjoyed this tremendously. If you should decide to start writing, I want to be readingvyour product.
You are too kind - thank you!
You’ve got to be somehow related to Jenna! Both of you are smart, witty, irreverent, and unabashedly unafraid to speak your truth. My vote is to start a Substack. I’d subscribe!
Jenna,
Don't tell your free subscribers that I love you (almost) more than my Dallas. On second hand, totally tell them!!!!!!!!!
I’M TELLING EVERYONE 🤣💕🤣
Nice! I'm too shy.
Jenna, I love your stack. I suspect that I might be a little bit more McCarthy than I previously thought. As a descendent from the Emerald Isle, I heartily agree with the hill that We would die upon. I too refused their poison and am proud of my pure unjabbed blood.
Dan, start a stack, please.
😊💕😊
Now I know who not to argue with, although we won't have any disagreement over the COVID vaccine.
🤣💕