Great Substack! I live in sea of high IQ liberals who consider themselves highly informed because they read The NY Times and Washington Post, cover to cover, everyday. As a result, they are the most brainwashed human beings on Earth. They are “High Disinformation Voters”.
“Mid Disinformation Voters”. Worship “High Disinformation Voters” and primarily get their news from the Mainstream Media. Very brainwashed people but, slightly less arrogant. Their brainwashing is reinforced by Group Think and feeling superior to “Deplorables”.
You’re intro into your article left me laughing out loud. Pure gold. “…his name would be Earl … he’s a die-hard fan of football, freedom, and firearms…owns a TV only to watch NASCAR … washes his pork ribs and Cheeto pie down with some homemade moonshine, he wipes his mouth on the sleeve of his “Don't Tread on Me” hoodie, throws his dog Cooter into the bed of his pickup” 🤣🤣🤣
The whole point to a New Yorker article like that is to strengthen their base by convincing them they are the intellects and therefore the only sane solution for our country. But I find when talking to ANY Democrat they can only parrot what they read or heard by the MSM. They are unaware of how they are captured and a propaganda arm for the left, not unbiased journalism.
I get my news from those whose balls aren’t in someone’s vice, who have zero conflicts of interest, and had a LOT to lose if they told the truth. I listen to X of course, and my favs on Substack, but also Dan Bongino, Tucker, Vigilant News, Alex Jones, Mike Benz, and heck I’m even finding that Joe Rogan does his homework! I like long form interviews and find they give better facts and details. Gutfeld is a fun watch for left bashing humor.
I also prefer independent news sources. And I read the Epoch Times, New York Post, Blaze News, Briebart, OAN, Daily Mail, and others. I’d say I’m pretty well read and do as much research as time allows. I don’t blindly follow, I verify. I’m college educated with a masters degree too, and I have all my teeth. 🤣
You are SO RIGHT with this: The whole point to a New Yorker article like that is to strengthen their base by convincing them they are the intellects and therefore the only sane solution for our country.
The New Yorker writes articles like that so the people that read them feel so good about themselves that they will continue to subscribe to a ridiculous publication like the New Yorker! It’s totally self-serving. “If we continue to write stories that make them feel so good about themselves that they’ll keep coming back to read more stories that make them feel good about themselves then maybe our magazine will survive for another year or two.”
So reminds of Taleb’s ‘’The Intellectual Yet Idiot”, some excerpts...
‘’The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are ‘red necks’ …
More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker...
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for. … https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/
I'm right there with you Juju! I'm pretty much exactly the profile they use to describe the educated suburban woman but I have chosen to think and research for myself. I'm often appalled by the tripe and misinformation I hear parroted by a portion of my 'friends'. I try to provide correct information but find lately that I've given up on most of them.
They are increasingly difficult to talk to. And my knowledge of the facts comes from so many sources that when all combined the truth emerged, but then I sometimes find it hard to cite a specific fact or source that revealed the truth. I don’t want to sound like I too just parrot what the right wants me to believe. I didn’t get my facts from “the right”. I started out pretty dead center. Lol I got them from independent reliable sources but I can’t remember what to say on the fly. 🤣 I just know now.
The other day some woman spewed lie after lie about Trump and J6 and the 2020 election, and his felonies. Things that were always overly repeated on MSM. And I found I couldn’t respond with the very facts that opened my own eyes because I didn’t have them handy and ready. I wish someone would create a site a list of evidence for all these different topics that we can quickly access when needed. I saw them all myself before and that’s what woke me up but I really am fumbling when trying to recall the “sources” on the fly. It’s exhausting.
I am the same way!! I am the ONLY Trump Voting, Non-vaxed, Christian in my family so you can imagine how the last 4-5 years has been! TOUGH..but we get thru! I have learned SO much and often have the info on the tip of my tongue..and have “saved” things to different “files” on my phone and email and actually have “sub files” of info for my husband, my daughter, Covid, Politics, etc. BUT..the majority of my information gathering is from all the many wise deplorables on Telegram! (I was on Parler way back when) and enjoy X, and Truth Social, and Rumble also. Interviews with Dr Jan Halper Hayes have been very informative…an anon by the name SGAnon on Telegram and QNewsPatriot on Rumble…has profound, deep and very done posts. He calls them “Files” and he just completed File 82!! He does lots of interviews and “Chats” as well…have trusted and learned so much from him. I hope that helps and encourages anyone who just desires another place to get amazing, supportive information. And Jenny…I LOVE what you do!!! Thank you, and God bless!!
My M.D. brother still goes to Wikipedia and a fact-checking site to “debunk” anything I send! 🤡🙄 I also get my info from many different places and get tongue-tied, especially with a hostile audience.
It has finally occurred to me that perhaps he really doesn’t WANT to know! So I’m pretty much done trying to open his eyes and mind until he’s ready.
I pray for him every day because I know God will succeed where I cannot. And I intend to welcome my brother (and other, similarly afflicted family and friends) back with open arms when that day comes. 🙏🏼🩷
Sorry, also meant to say “I have things I’ve learned on the tip of my tongue but can’t say exactly where I got the info from which frustrates my “not yet awake” husband SO MUCH…he just needs PROOF! 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Start forwarding convincing, well-researched and well-cited articles to him when you read them (before you can forget where you saw it), for him to read in his free time. If/when he argues with you on a certain topic, tell him not to take your word for it but just READ THE ARTICLE! That’s what I did with my husband during the pandemic. He’s now fully red-pilled.
My son and I practice our "elevator pitches" so when someone says something we have a response that's short and succinct. The problem as you say is you sometimes know too much so you forget the exact number or the source. My son who is definitely outside the Overton window and knows all the facts, names, reasons, etc. keeps me on my toes so I don't preface my statements (I'm not racist, redneck, anti-vax), don't try to convince them (at best you might help someone start to think about leaving the cult of certainty) and just make one or two statements that challenges their thinking.
At a minimum…you can always call them out on the ‘source’ of this illustrious information that they are spewing out. Ask them for specifics, like “who said what and when”. Their ‘recall’ likely isn’t any better than yours!
I am right there with you, Juju. 100%. It's pure and simple projection. I read pretty much everything you read, and I would add Megyn Kelly to the people I regularly listen to because she has come around to sanity. When Megyn was pushing the vaccines I stopped listening. She admitted to a vaccine injury and got "religion." It was courageous and brave to admit she was wrong. Thanks for lining it up for me.
Jenna, The descriptions are beyond hilarious! These people are insane, brainwashed morons. The fact that we can all laugh at this mess is a blessing. God bless you, my friend. You keep me laughing and sane, if that is even possible these days.
Juju, Valerie, KatWarrior, and so many others, THANK YOU! Love the resources! I probably don’t need to mention Coffee & Covid since we’re on Substack already… 😂
It’s rarely mentioned but I’m 99.9% certain we’re in a spiritual battle for this country, so in case you feel the evil as well, I find it illuminating to listen to Julie Green, teacher/prophet on His Glory.me with Pastor Dave Scarlett, pastor & Marine(ret), who still has military contacts around the world. Pastor Dave does many interviews with a wide variety of folks.
I feel like a giant sponge trying to soak up all the truth LOL having realized how deprived I’ve been! It’s a wild ride, but so GREAT!! Why does anyone not want actual truth? I just am stunned by the hostility…is it cognitive dissonance?
YES! So many greats. I just got hip to PBD, too. But, I love all you guys too for consistently commenting because I don't feel like I am alone in a sea of insanity.
Ruthless is a political podcast with 4 guys who work on Republican campaigns. They’re very Republican but they’re also funny and have some very clever ways of making fun of the MSM. They have game called ‘Dem or Journo’ where the guys have to guess if a tweet came from a Dem operative or a journalist. In the spring they have ‘hack madness’ where they rate the worst journalists from the last year, anyone can vote on Twitter.
They also have lots of interviews with political candidates and I learn something about the races in other states. In fact, they went fishing with JD Vance the day after the VP debate and then did an interview with him. That’s how I learned he wasn’t actually giving the camera a side-eye, the timer was next to the camera and he was keeping an eye on it so he would be ready when it was his turn to speak. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They’re on with Megyn Kelly every month or so and they all laugh the whole time.
I've been advising younger people to limit their contact with "higher" education, because it is overall detrimental to the brain. One must carefully evaluate the benefits of technical courses with the liabilities of the minimum possible general requirements.
You left out the most important news source of all, better than all of the others combined: Steven Bannon's War Room (on the Real America's Voice network). There are many ways to watch it: just type "Real America's Voice" into your search field. No other show drills down so deeply on what is happening, here and abroad. And no other network - anywhere - has anyone more knowledgeable and articulate (and entertainingly sarcastic) than Natalie Winters, the beautiful wunderkind from California. And, as far as I know, no other network has ever featured the brilliant Noor Bin Laden, who knows more about the globalist totalitarians' hydra-headed schemes to enslave us (yes, Noor is part of that infamous clan, but she was never on the dark side; she was raised in Switzerland and loves the US and freedom with every fibre of her being).
I proudly get my news from C&C and other substack posts like yours. I don't think I could stand to read it all without a good dose of humor to help soften the blows. Much obliged, Jenna.
I'm an independent and never really gave politics much thought because it wasn't really effecting my life...then covid came and turned me inside out. I've never learned as much as I have in the past 4 years. And none of it came from MSM. It came from podcasts, substacks and yes, social media.
Me too. I was always conservative. I thought Barack Obama was a silver-tongued, says a bunch of lies and bullshit guy and Big Mike was just plan weird. I couldn't understand why people believed anything that came out of his empty suit pie hole. After Barack was elected in 2008 I would watch people literally swoon over both of them, and I was literally astounded at the stupidity. Just saying...
This! It’s so key. Those places allowed long discussions and that makes it far easier to see when someone was lying vs telling the truth. We found the truth outside of MSM, by firsthand accounts. And reliable sources does not mean those ordained by the government/experts/or media. Those AREN’T reliable at all. It means by those who have nothing to lose by the truth. Those who aren’t on the payroll of higher powers that can destroy their careers if they don’t toe the line. Why does ANYONE trust news from THAT?
I'm actually only half-joking. It's fun sometimes to read the MSM sources - especially on political or otherwise controversial topics (seemingly almost everything these days) - to see what narrative the regime "mockingbird media" is trying to peddle. Similarly, and even more telling, what is NOT being covered and things that are verboten to say. You can learn so much from those ("the dog that didn't bark") in terms of what conspiracies might be true. E.g. nobody censors/silences the flat-earthers. But try asking questions about covid or 9/11, etc, etc.
I look at NYTimes, AP and Yahoo News as sadly I know that is what my sweet deluded husband, eldest daughter her husband and ALL of my husbands family get the REAL News. It sickens me to read it. So I weep, then I pray..and we move on. A day is coming where this whole crazy 💩 show is going to “flip on its head”, and then ALL will the evil and corrupt shenanigans that have been transpiring for years upon years. Stay strong…and keep laughing at Jenna’s posts! We NEED that “change in frequency!” ♥️🇺🇸🙏
Was at a fundraiser last night. They were raffling a TV. I thought, why would anyone want a piece of crap like a TV. I’m embarrassed to say how many we have in our home. The only time I turn it on to watch something newsworthy is to cast something from my phone to the TV. Realizing that I had been asleep for the overwhelming majority of my adult life has been a rough road. MSM is what indoctrinated me.
My “educated” brother who told me I was uneducated and in a cult when I tried to awaken him gets his news from The NY Times. God only knows if he continues to get the shots 😢
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Jenna - thank you kindly for the shout out for my Substack. Anyone here who doesn’t know, Jenna’s husband Joe came up with the brilliant name “Clotastrophe”.
I'm right there with you. All those "experts" are the main reasons why our country is where it is today, going to hell. Doing your own research opens your eyes. You can tell when the government is lying by them talking. They only know how to lie. They forgot if they ever knew telling the truth..." in the latter days, the wise will be made foolish and the foolish, wise" and here we are.
On polling: If you’re a Trump supporter, you likely think the Dems will try to fix the elections. If you let the Dems know how many votes they need to win ahead of time, you’re just making it easier for them to cheat. That’s why Trump supporters don’t respond to polls or even give misleading answers. They want to surprise Team Blue with the overwhelming majority coming…so much so that manufacturing offsetting votes will be difficult/impossible.
I love when I'm told I should "do my research," when I'm the one *actually* doing the research. My news comes from ACTUAL journalists on Substack, podcasts like Victor Davis Hanson/The President's Daily Brief, etc. and any other non mainstream source I can dig up.
Love it!!! Initially I listened to Noor Bin Laden on Parler..amazing, Trump supporting niece of Bin Laden…she has stories to share about all of that for sure! She was so cancelled, mocked and ridiculed during Covid…she stopped her Parler, then Parler shut down. Now she has a podcast that I have listened to as well. She does great interviews!
So let me get this straight: listening to and reading Sharyl Atkinson, Tucker Carlson and Jeff Childers makes you a “low information” voter , but watching the CBS interview with Kackala makes you an intellectual. Got it.
40 years ago I was introduced to CNN and was fascinated by 24 hour, somewhat in-depth coverage. Two decades later I would watch with frustration how they could air one report after another on similar subjects that wouldn’t take the facts of the first into consideration for the second and vice versa. I would often find myself standing in front of the tv screaming “Can you not at least compare your news stories?”
Though I swore off tv news, including FOX, when Biden got the election (just to keep from staying angry), Hubs keeps a couple of conservative news channels running in his home office ALL DAY LONG for background noise. So I occasionally hear that, but sometimes FB, el gato, Alex Berenson, C&C and you, Jenna, are my main sources. Plus the links provided and links from the incredible commenters.
My husband will occasionally flip to CNN now to “try to understand the other side.” (My blood pressure starts to climb.) On one segment with guest speakers, I watched them literally make things up about Trump on air. Seriously, like look up to the ceiling and start their outrageous sentences with “Like maybe” and “What if” before continuing the thought as if it were actual fact.
Oh, once, after having one of my FB posts “fact checked”, I actually followed their instructions to see what was wrong with the post. EVERYTHING was right except some tiny phrase that had nothing to do with the meat of the post. Then I followed the fact check site to find how to become a fact checker. There were NO qualifications other than wanting to be one! So anyone, no matter their education, understanding, ideology, intention or objective can just become a fact checker.
It was exactly the same for me after the election of 2020. I was sure the courts would do something with all of the cheat documentation that people gathered, including the synchronized cut off of vote counting in multiple locations when DJT was way ahead and then “finding” all the Biden votes. When it became clear that absolutely nothing was going to be done, I had to stop watching any news to save my peace of mind and my blood pressure because the constant lying was just so infuriating. I quit pretty much cold turkey (I didn’t even know anything about J6 until long afterward).
Fast forward to about six months ago I found Substack, the first “social media” site I have ever used, and stumbled across C&C, Jenna’s Side, Elizabeth Nixon and a few others. I must say though, that if the current Joke who is the Dem “nominee”, manages to “win”, I may just have to bury my head in the sand like my husband has. Even the thought sends cold chills of terror down my spine. Sometimes it is true that “ignorance is bliss”.
I worked with the so-called “intellectual” class for over three decades at a University and experienced their disdain for those who they considered to be intellectually inferior on a regular basis. In addition to many being intellectual snobs, many of the academics I worked with were also ethically challenged (my job was in finance and enforcing grant regulations), and while they may very well be book smart, many have absolutely zero common sense. Sorry if I offend any Professors, and this was not the case for all Professors, but that was my experience with a good many of them. If I had to be stranded on a desert island and my choice of companion was either an “intellectual” or a redneck “Jack of all trades”, I wouldn’t even have to pause to consider.🙂
I know I'm out of the running, but my experience with the "Academic Elite" was the same.
People who worked the system for financial gain.
In one department I'm fully aware of the title of "department chair" rotated and, as it included a salary bump for the extra administrative duties, was somewhat prized. Because, in execution, NO ONE EVER surrendered their "bump" after they stepped down, the faculty made sure that everyone "rotated" through the perk over time. UW-Madison
I banned MSM from our TV after Obama won reelection. But during the covid insanity, my husband used his laptop to go to MSM sites to “see what they’re saying” because “they can’t all be wrong.” I should have blocked all of them in our Wi-Fi router settings because he fell for the masks and social distancing BS. He refuses to listen to alternative sources but finally listened to me and didn’t get the poison shots. I honestly lost respect for him. This is a man who was forced by our government to join the military due to the Vietnam draft, who bragged that they could take his body and force him to do that, but couldn’t take his mind. But the media fear mongering overrode that.
Tell your husband to dial up Joe Rogan on YouTube, PBD Podcast on YouTube (Patrick Bet-David), Alex Jones on X, Dan Bongino on Rumble (most TVs allow a rumble and X app now), and Tucker Carlson on Tuckercarlson.com OR via the TCN app on a Fire TV or Roku. EDIT: I forgot Megyn Kelly. She’s awesome too!
I have these long form interviews and news shows running in the background all day because I rarely have time to sit down and watch every 1-3 hour show each day. My husband and I watch one or two together when he gets off work but the rest I play in the background. Much more informative!!
He can also listen to Vigilant News in the background, and there are others that give daily reports like MSM does but my mind is glazing over at the moment. 🤣 You can find them! They are out there!!! At the very least if he must do MSM choose Fox. Not the best but at least it’s not infecting his brain subconsciously. It’s the difference between him snacking on sugar all day vs eating a solid steak with flavor. Same thing - how news impacts our brains is like what those two things do to our bodies! The sugar and chemicals are the MSM, the steak is Tucker. 😉
It’s all so frustrating! On Telegram…and other social media sites…the REAL TRUSTWORTHY NEWS is coming out! Yes..you need to have discernment about who’s “chats” you follow, like with anything.
So many people I know, they seem to have no clue that they're being outrageously gaslit. The gaslighting hooks right into their pride and their sloth, like keys in a lock. It is quite something to behold.
I know this to be factual. Every single argument I have ever had with a liberal their response is that I'm some backward hillbilly. Every single one of them tries to paint themselves as some enlightened, educated Elitist without fail. Heck my parents even voted for Joe Biden, they watch MSM day and night and are convinced Trump is the devil reincarnated. Anymore I don't bother with these people as most of them are angry, hate their country and drink MSM koolaid. Meanwhile the Trump supporters I meet are kind, genuine, mostly God fearing people who would give you the shirt off their back and they love our country. Those are the people we need running this country, not the godless sellouts that support the Democrat party. Signed a proud educated and employed American Deplorable, although I do occasionally wipe my mouth on my Don't Tread on Me T-Shirt :)
You’re SO spot on! It’s like something evil comes out when they hear DJT’s name! They have ZERO nice things to say, and repeat every.single.lie the talking heads on MSM put out there. My brother in-law in both 2016 and 2020 sent me emails begging, pleading etc etc me NOT to vote for “Satan incarnate Trump”…and included “don’t do it for me…but do I for your GRANDSONS!!! Two different letters, pleading with me as if I don’t have a brain in my skull or I am drinking that “Trump Train Kool-aid!” And boy oh boy you should have seen the looks and heard the things said when I chose NOT to get the vax (which, like every other unvaxed person I know…has never regretted it!)…lots of parties cut me off the invite list, that’s for sure and was I ever happy NOT to be standing masked and 6 ft apart at parties with a bunch of fearful liberals. Sorry…not sure where that all came from, no offense is meant at all. ♥️
Good on you. Your grandchildren will be proud that their grandma stood her ground and fought for truth and country. They (and your children) just don’t know it yet.
I get my news from anywhere BUT the msm. I read Revolver News, The Stream, Gateway Pundit, Eric Metaxas, Naomi Wolf, and Citizen Free Press, and I watch Tucker Carlson.
We hillbillys are way ahead of the libturd brainwashed sheep. We think for ourselves, discern, use logic and reason, and work our asses off. We love God, family, Trump, and guns and we will die defending the constitution and the USA. You’re welcome 😎
My beautiful soul, I don't even own a TV due to garbage propaganda and programming. I get my news from reputable sources like yourself. Thank you Jenna. Love your humor 😄
Great Substack! I live in sea of high IQ liberals who consider themselves highly informed because they read The NY Times and Washington Post, cover to cover, everyday. As a result, they are the most brainwashed human beings on Earth. They are “High Disinformation Voters”.
“Mid Disinformation Voters”. Worship “High Disinformation Voters” and primarily get their news from the Mainstream Media. Very brainwashed people but, slightly less arrogant. Their brainwashing is reinforced by Group Think and feeling superior to “Deplorables”.
Based on their choices of where they choose to get their news,
I have serious doubts about their high IQ’s!
"HIgh Disinformation Voters."
+1000
I used “High Disinformation Voters” in my substack post today - https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/they-are-actually-serious?r=7yrqz
It really fits
You’re intro into your article left me laughing out loud. Pure gold. “…his name would be Earl … he’s a die-hard fan of football, freedom, and firearms…owns a TV only to watch NASCAR … washes his pork ribs and Cheeto pie down with some homemade moonshine, he wipes his mouth on the sleeve of his “Don't Tread on Me” hoodie, throws his dog Cooter into the bed of his pickup” 🤣🤣🤣
The whole point to a New Yorker article like that is to strengthen their base by convincing them they are the intellects and therefore the only sane solution for our country. But I find when talking to ANY Democrat they can only parrot what they read or heard by the MSM. They are unaware of how they are captured and a propaganda arm for the left, not unbiased journalism.
I get my news from those whose balls aren’t in someone’s vice, who have zero conflicts of interest, and had a LOT to lose if they told the truth. I listen to X of course, and my favs on Substack, but also Dan Bongino, Tucker, Vigilant News, Alex Jones, Mike Benz, and heck I’m even finding that Joe Rogan does his homework! I like long form interviews and find they give better facts and details. Gutfeld is a fun watch for left bashing humor.
I also prefer independent news sources. And I read the Epoch Times, New York Post, Blaze News, Briebart, OAN, Daily Mail, and others. I’d say I’m pretty well read and do as much research as time allows. I don’t blindly follow, I verify. I’m college educated with a masters degree too, and I have all my teeth. 🤣
You are SO RIGHT with this: The whole point to a New Yorker article like that is to strengthen their base by convincing them they are the intellects and therefore the only sane solution for our country.
And glad you enjoyed! :)
The New Yorker writes articles like that so the people that read them feel so good about themselves that they will continue to subscribe to a ridiculous publication like the New Yorker! It’s totally self-serving. “If we continue to write stories that make them feel so good about themselves that they’ll keep coming back to read more stories that make them feel good about themselves then maybe our magazine will survive for another year or two.”
Terrific post Jenna! Attended a one room grade school; still chuckle about my older cousin asking the teacher how to spell “pert-i-near.”
Fred, I am sooo sorry the "technology" limits me to "liking" your comment only once.
Before you go to bed tonight, convince yourself that I would have clicked an extra 999 times.
lol, me too!
too good, over in my hollow we thot pertnear was only two syllbles,darn...
Don’t forget, it makes the MSM look like the only source of truth.
So reminds of Taleb’s ‘’The Intellectual Yet Idiot”, some excerpts...
‘’The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are ‘red necks’ …
More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker...
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for. … https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/
I'm right there with you Juju! I'm pretty much exactly the profile they use to describe the educated suburban woman but I have chosen to think and research for myself. I'm often appalled by the tripe and misinformation I hear parroted by a portion of my 'friends'. I try to provide correct information but find lately that I've given up on most of them.
They are increasingly difficult to talk to. And my knowledge of the facts comes from so many sources that when all combined the truth emerged, but then I sometimes find it hard to cite a specific fact or source that revealed the truth. I don’t want to sound like I too just parrot what the right wants me to believe. I didn’t get my facts from “the right”. I started out pretty dead center. Lol I got them from independent reliable sources but I can’t remember what to say on the fly. 🤣 I just know now.
The other day some woman spewed lie after lie about Trump and J6 and the 2020 election, and his felonies. Things that were always overly repeated on MSM. And I found I couldn’t respond with the very facts that opened my own eyes because I didn’t have them handy and ready. I wish someone would create a site a list of evidence for all these different topics that we can quickly access when needed. I saw them all myself before and that’s what woke me up but I really am fumbling when trying to recall the “sources” on the fly. It’s exhausting.
I am the same way!! I am the ONLY Trump Voting, Non-vaxed, Christian in my family so you can imagine how the last 4-5 years has been! TOUGH..but we get thru! I have learned SO much and often have the info on the tip of my tongue..and have “saved” things to different “files” on my phone and email and actually have “sub files” of info for my husband, my daughter, Covid, Politics, etc. BUT..the majority of my information gathering is from all the many wise deplorables on Telegram! (I was on Parler way back when) and enjoy X, and Truth Social, and Rumble also. Interviews with Dr Jan Halper Hayes have been very informative…an anon by the name SGAnon on Telegram and QNewsPatriot on Rumble…has profound, deep and very done posts. He calls them “Files” and he just completed File 82!! He does lots of interviews and “Chats” as well…have trusted and learned so much from him. I hope that helps and encourages anyone who just desires another place to get amazing, supportive information. And Jenny…I LOVE what you do!!! Thank you, and God bless!!
My M.D. brother still goes to Wikipedia and a fact-checking site to “debunk” anything I send! 🤡🙄 I also get my info from many different places and get tongue-tied, especially with a hostile audience.
It has finally occurred to me that perhaps he really doesn’t WANT to know! So I’m pretty much done trying to open his eyes and mind until he’s ready.
I pray for him every day because I know God will succeed where I cannot. And I intend to welcome my brother (and other, similarly afflicted family and friends) back with open arms when that day comes. 🙏🏼🩷
Sorry, also meant to say “I have things I’ve learned on the tip of my tongue but can’t say exactly where I got the info from which frustrates my “not yet awake” husband SO MUCH…he just needs PROOF! 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Start forwarding convincing, well-researched and well-cited articles to him when you read them (before you can forget where you saw it), for him to read in his free time. If/when he argues with you on a certain topic, tell him not to take your word for it but just READ THE ARTICLE! That’s what I did with my husband during the pandemic. He’s now fully red-pilled.
My son and I practice our "elevator pitches" so when someone says something we have a response that's short and succinct. The problem as you say is you sometimes know too much so you forget the exact number or the source. My son who is definitely outside the Overton window and knows all the facts, names, reasons, etc. keeps me on my toes so I don't preface my statements (I'm not racist, redneck, anti-vax), don't try to convince them (at best you might help someone start to think about leaving the cult of certainty) and just make one or two statements that challenges their thinking.
At a minimum…you can always call them out on the ‘source’ of this illustrious information that they are spewing out. Ask them for specifics, like “who said what and when”. Their ‘recall’ likely isn’t any better than yours!
Second!
Same!
Me too
I am right there with you, Juju. 100%. It's pure and simple projection. I read pretty much everything you read, and I would add Megyn Kelly to the people I regularly listen to because she has come around to sanity. When Megyn was pushing the vaccines I stopped listening. She admitted to a vaccine injury and got "religion." It was courageous and brave to admit she was wrong. Thanks for lining it up for me.
Jenna, The descriptions are beyond hilarious! These people are insane, brainwashed morons. The fact that we can all laugh at this mess is a blessing. God bless you, my friend. You keep me laughing and sane, if that is even possible these days.
Yes!!! Megyn Kelly. I forgot. I watch her too. She’s awesome. And the PBD podcast. (Patrick Bet-David). I love his voice. Lol.
So many more. We are over blessed with talent compared to the MSM, aren’t we??
Juju, Valerie, KatWarrior, and so many others, THANK YOU! Love the resources! I probably don’t need to mention Coffee & Covid since we’re on Substack already… 😂
It’s rarely mentioned but I’m 99.9% certain we’re in a spiritual battle for this country, so in case you feel the evil as well, I find it illuminating to listen to Julie Green, teacher/prophet on His Glory.me with Pastor Dave Scarlett, pastor & Marine(ret), who still has military contacts around the world. Pastor Dave does many interviews with a wide variety of folks.
I feel like a giant sponge trying to soak up all the truth LOL having realized how deprived I’ve been! It’s a wild ride, but so GREAT!! Why does anyone not want actual truth? I just am stunned by the hostility…is it cognitive dissonance?
All the best ❤️
YES! So many greats. I just got hip to PBD, too. But, I love all you guys too for consistently commenting because I don't feel like I am alone in a sea of insanity.
Megyn kelly and PBD are two of my favorites too. Also Ruthless.
Ooh who is Ruthless? I love being turned on to new people
Ruthless is a political podcast with 4 guys who work on Republican campaigns. They’re very Republican but they’re also funny and have some very clever ways of making fun of the MSM. They have game called ‘Dem or Journo’ where the guys have to guess if a tweet came from a Dem operative or a journalist. In the spring they have ‘hack madness’ where they rate the worst journalists from the last year, anyone can vote on Twitter.
They also have lots of interviews with political candidates and I learn something about the races in other states. In fact, they went fishing with JD Vance the day after the VP debate and then did an interview with him. That’s how I learned he wasn’t actually giving the camera a side-eye, the timer was next to the camera and he was keeping an eye on it so he would be ready when it was his turn to speak. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They’re on with Megyn Kelly every month or so and they all laugh the whole time.
Which platform are they on? Or is it their own website??
You survived academia too! 😎 Cool.
I've been advising younger people to limit their contact with "higher" education, because it is overall detrimental to the brain. One must carefully evaluate the benefits of technical courses with the liabilities of the minimum possible general requirements.
You left out the most important news source of all, better than all of the others combined: Steven Bannon's War Room (on the Real America's Voice network). There are many ways to watch it: just type "Real America's Voice" into your search field. No other show drills down so deeply on what is happening, here and abroad. And no other network - anywhere - has anyone more knowledgeable and articulate (and entertainingly sarcastic) than Natalie Winters, the beautiful wunderkind from California. And, as far as I know, no other network has ever featured the brilliant Noor Bin Laden, who knows more about the globalist totalitarians' hydra-headed schemes to enslave us (yes, Noor is part of that infamous clan, but she was never on the dark side; she was raised in Switzerland and loves the US and freedom with every fibre of her being).
I agree 100 percent
I proudly get my news from C&C and other substack posts like yours. I don't think I could stand to read it all without a good dose of humor to help soften the blows. Much obliged, Jenna.
Same. 🥰
Same! Thanks Jenna and Jeff!!
I'm an independent and never really gave politics much thought because it wasn't really effecting my life...then covid came and turned me inside out. I've never learned as much as I have in the past 4 years. And none of it came from MSM. It came from podcasts, substacks and yes, social media.
Me too. I was always conservative. I thought Barack Obama was a silver-tongued, says a bunch of lies and bullshit guy and Big Mike was just plan weird. I couldn't understand why people believed anything that came out of his empty suit pie hole. After Barack was elected in 2008 I would watch people literally swoon over both of them, and I was literally astounded at the stupidity. Just saying...
Agree 100 percent. Thank God our eyes are opening
Diane, you have touched it. "Sight" is a gift. Pray for others as Bartimaeus prayed: "Lord, that [they] may see."
This! It’s so key. Those places allowed long discussions and that makes it far easier to see when someone was lying vs telling the truth. We found the truth outside of MSM, by firsthand accounts. And reliable sources does not mean those ordained by the government/experts/or media. Those AREN’T reliable at all. It means by those who have nothing to lose by the truth. Those who aren’t on the payroll of higher powers that can destroy their careers if they don’t toe the line. Why does ANYONE trust news from THAT?
Well said!!
Same.
Same here 🤗
(I _liked_ your comment because I _love_ your handle. I am shallow that way. If there was an 'auto-like' feature, I would use it.)
Time to change it soon with the changing of the guard
I hope you get your PREFFERED moniker.
Yes. Same for me. Just love Jenna.
Same for me
I sometimes get my news from the mainstream media - I just believe the exact opposite and am right 99% of the time.
👏👏👏
I'm actually only half-joking. It's fun sometimes to read the MSM sources - especially on political or otherwise controversial topics (seemingly almost everything these days) - to see what narrative the regime "mockingbird media" is trying to peddle. Similarly, and even more telling, what is NOT being covered and things that are verboten to say. You can learn so much from those ("the dog that didn't bark") in terms of what conspiracies might be true. E.g. nobody censors/silences the flat-earthers. But try asking questions about covid or 9/11, etc, etc.
Love it: "Mockingbird-Stream Media."
See Operation Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
I look at NYTimes, AP and Yahoo News as sadly I know that is what my sweet deluded husband, eldest daughter her husband and ALL of my husbands family get the REAL News. It sickens me to read it. So I weep, then I pray..and we move on. A day is coming where this whole crazy 💩 show is going to “flip on its head”, and then ALL will the evil and corrupt shenanigans that have been transpiring for years upon years. Stay strong…and keep laughing at Jenna’s posts! We NEED that “change in frequency!” ♥️🇺🇸🙏
Yes! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
😂😂😂
Was at a fundraiser last night. They were raffling a TV. I thought, why would anyone want a piece of crap like a TV. I’m embarrassed to say how many we have in our home. The only time I turn it on to watch something newsworthy is to cast something from my phone to the TV. Realizing that I had been asleep for the overwhelming majority of my adult life has been a rough road. MSM is what indoctrinated me.
My “educated” brother who told me I was uneducated and in a cult when I tried to awaken him gets his news from The NY Times. God only knows if he continues to get the shots 😢
Trump 2024
Make America Godly Again
Jenna - thank you kindly for the shout out for my Substack. Anyone here who doesn’t know, Jenna’s husband Joe came up with the brilliant name “Clotastrophe”.
That’s ok we are all in the same cult … 🥰
"They were raffling a TV. I thought, why would anyone want a piece of crap like a TV. "
Another Finalist for Observation of the Year Award.
[Jenna, you're tallying right? The Prize to be a 15-minute tete-a-tete, at a neutral site, over coffee.]
I thought that was YOUR job! ;)
Who wants a 15-minute tete-a-tete with ME?
(startalist)
I'm right there with you. All those "experts" are the main reasons why our country is where it is today, going to hell. Doing your own research opens your eyes. You can tell when the government is lying by them talking. They only know how to lie. They forgot if they ever knew telling the truth..." in the latter days, the wise will be made foolish and the foolish, wise" and here we are.
we say "cootah" here, just south of Boston, to reference our lady bits
I just died. HAHAHAHAHA.
Yes, and I’ve heard it used for a large turtle.
On polling: If you’re a Trump supporter, you likely think the Dems will try to fix the elections. If you let the Dems know how many votes they need to win ahead of time, you’re just making it easier for them to cheat. That’s why Trump supporters don’t respond to polls or even give misleading answers. They want to surprise Team Blue with the overwhelming majority coming…so much so that manufacturing offsetting votes will be difficult/impossible.
Excellent point! :)
Ummm, _I've_ done that...
I love when I'm told I should "do my research," when I'm the one *actually* doing the research. My news comes from ACTUAL journalists on Substack, podcasts like Victor Davis Hanson/The President's Daily Brief, etc. and any other non mainstream source I can dig up.
Thanks for giving me continual chuckles.
"I love when I'm told I should "do my research," when I'm the one *actually* doing the research."
Another Finalist for Observation of the Year Award.
Love it!!! Initially I listened to Noor Bin Laden on Parler..amazing, Trump supporting niece of Bin Laden…she has stories to share about all of that for sure! She was so cancelled, mocked and ridiculed during Covid…she stopped her Parler, then Parler shut down. Now she has a podcast that I have listened to as well. She does great interviews!
So let me get this straight: listening to and reading Sharyl Atkinson, Tucker Carlson and Jeff Childers makes you a “low information” voter , but watching the CBS interview with Kackala makes you an intellectual. Got it.
I love Sharyl too.
40 years ago I was introduced to CNN and was fascinated by 24 hour, somewhat in-depth coverage. Two decades later I would watch with frustration how they could air one report after another on similar subjects that wouldn’t take the facts of the first into consideration for the second and vice versa. I would often find myself standing in front of the tv screaming “Can you not at least compare your news stories?”
Though I swore off tv news, including FOX, when Biden got the election (just to keep from staying angry), Hubs keeps a couple of conservative news channels running in his home office ALL DAY LONG for background noise. So I occasionally hear that, but sometimes FB, el gato, Alex Berenson, C&C and you, Jenna, are my main sources. Plus the links provided and links from the incredible commenters.
My husband will occasionally flip to CNN now to “try to understand the other side.” (My blood pressure starts to climb.) On one segment with guest speakers, I watched them literally make things up about Trump on air. Seriously, like look up to the ceiling and start their outrageous sentences with “Like maybe” and “What if” before continuing the thought as if it were actual fact.
Oh, once, after having one of my FB posts “fact checked”, I actually followed their instructions to see what was wrong with the post. EVERYTHING was right except some tiny phrase that had nothing to do with the meat of the post. Then I followed the fact check site to find how to become a fact checker. There were NO qualifications other than wanting to be one! So anyone, no matter their education, understanding, ideology, intention or objective can just become a fact checker.
I’m done!
It was exactly the same for me after the election of 2020. I was sure the courts would do something with all of the cheat documentation that people gathered, including the synchronized cut off of vote counting in multiple locations when DJT was way ahead and then “finding” all the Biden votes. When it became clear that absolutely nothing was going to be done, I had to stop watching any news to save my peace of mind and my blood pressure because the constant lying was just so infuriating. I quit pretty much cold turkey (I didn’t even know anything about J6 until long afterward).
Fast forward to about six months ago I found Substack, the first “social media” site I have ever used, and stumbled across C&C, Jenna’s Side, Elizabeth Nixon and a few others. I must say though, that if the current Joke who is the Dem “nominee”, manages to “win”, I may just have to bury my head in the sand like my husband has. Even the thought sends cold chills of terror down my spine. Sometimes it is true that “ignorance is bliss”.
I worked with the so-called “intellectual” class for over three decades at a University and experienced their disdain for those who they considered to be intellectually inferior on a regular basis. In addition to many being intellectual snobs, many of the academics I worked with were also ethically challenged (my job was in finance and enforcing grant regulations), and while they may very well be book smart, many have absolutely zero common sense. Sorry if I offend any Professors, and this was not the case for all Professors, but that was my experience with a good many of them. If I had to be stranded on a desert island and my choice of companion was either an “intellectual” or a redneck “Jack of all trades”, I wouldn’t even have to pause to consider.🙂
I know I'm out of the running, but my experience with the "Academic Elite" was the same.
People who worked the system for financial gain.
In one department I'm fully aware of the title of "department chair" rotated and, as it included a salary bump for the extra administrative duties, was somewhat prized. Because, in execution, NO ONE EVER surrendered their "bump" after they stepped down, the faculty made sure that everyone "rotated" through the perk over time. UW-Madison
I banned MSM from our TV after Obama won reelection. But during the covid insanity, my husband used his laptop to go to MSM sites to “see what they’re saying” because “they can’t all be wrong.” I should have blocked all of them in our Wi-Fi router settings because he fell for the masks and social distancing BS. He refuses to listen to alternative sources but finally listened to me and didn’t get the poison shots. I honestly lost respect for him. This is a man who was forced by our government to join the military due to the Vietnam draft, who bragged that they could take his body and force him to do that, but couldn’t take his mind. But the media fear mongering overrode that.
Tell your husband to dial up Joe Rogan on YouTube, PBD Podcast on YouTube (Patrick Bet-David), Alex Jones on X, Dan Bongino on Rumble (most TVs allow a rumble and X app now), and Tucker Carlson on Tuckercarlson.com OR via the TCN app on a Fire TV or Roku. EDIT: I forgot Megyn Kelly. She’s awesome too!
I have these long form interviews and news shows running in the background all day because I rarely have time to sit down and watch every 1-3 hour show each day. My husband and I watch one or two together when he gets off work but the rest I play in the background. Much more informative!!
He can also listen to Vigilant News in the background, and there are others that give daily reports like MSM does but my mind is glazing over at the moment. 🤣 You can find them! They are out there!!! At the very least if he must do MSM choose Fox. Not the best but at least it’s not infecting his brain subconsciously. It’s the difference between him snacking on sugar all day vs eating a solid steak with flavor. Same thing - how news impacts our brains is like what those two things do to our bodies! The sugar and chemicals are the MSM, the steak is Tucker. 😉
It’s all so frustrating! On Telegram…and other social media sites…the REAL TRUSTWORTHY NEWS is coming out! Yes..you need to have discernment about who’s “chats” you follow, like with anything.
Well said, dear Jenna.
So many people I know, they seem to have no clue that they're being outrageously gaslit. The gaslighting hooks right into their pride and their sloth, like keys in a lock. It is quite something to behold.
(Ha, I can mix 3 metaphors before breakfast.)
lol, like
I know this to be factual. Every single argument I have ever had with a liberal their response is that I'm some backward hillbilly. Every single one of them tries to paint themselves as some enlightened, educated Elitist without fail. Heck my parents even voted for Joe Biden, they watch MSM day and night and are convinced Trump is the devil reincarnated. Anymore I don't bother with these people as most of them are angry, hate their country and drink MSM koolaid. Meanwhile the Trump supporters I meet are kind, genuine, mostly God fearing people who would give you the shirt off their back and they love our country. Those are the people we need running this country, not the godless sellouts that support the Democrat party. Signed a proud educated and employed American Deplorable, although I do occasionally wipe my mouth on my Don't Tread on Me T-Shirt :)
LOL! :)
You’re SO spot on! It’s like something evil comes out when they hear DJT’s name! They have ZERO nice things to say, and repeat every.single.lie the talking heads on MSM put out there. My brother in-law in both 2016 and 2020 sent me emails begging, pleading etc etc me NOT to vote for “Satan incarnate Trump”…and included “don’t do it for me…but do I for your GRANDSONS!!! Two different letters, pleading with me as if I don’t have a brain in my skull or I am drinking that “Trump Train Kool-aid!” And boy oh boy you should have seen the looks and heard the things said when I chose NOT to get the vax (which, like every other unvaxed person I know…has never regretted it!)…lots of parties cut me off the invite list, that’s for sure and was I ever happy NOT to be standing masked and 6 ft apart at parties with a bunch of fearful liberals. Sorry…not sure where that all came from, no offense is meant at all. ♥️
Good on you. Your grandchildren will be proud that their grandma stood her ground and fought for truth and country. They (and your children) just don’t know it yet.
I get my news from anywhere BUT the msm. I read Revolver News, The Stream, Gateway Pundit, Eric Metaxas, Naomi Wolf, and Citizen Free Press, and I watch Tucker Carlson.
Agreed, Naomi Wolf and Eric Metaxes are amazing!
We hillbillys are way ahead of the libturd brainwashed sheep. We think for ourselves, discern, use logic and reason, and work our asses off. We love God, family, Trump, and guns and we will die defending the constitution and the USA. You’re welcome 😎
My beautiful soul, I don't even own a TV due to garbage propaganda and programming. I get my news from reputable sources like yourself. Thank you Jenna. Love your humor 😄