Love your comment here as a 2nd generation Python fan, & glad you're covering Biden-Burisma. But at this point I'm not sure the DOJ & its FBI has any more credibility than Smirnov, so to arrest him at this point just makes Biden look guilty. No one cares what the case actually says because no one knows who to even believe anymore. The Steele Dossier already showed us how they manufacture "proof" of anything by info-laundering it into existence, so how is anyone to rely on anything the government produces uncritically? No, folks will be going with their feels & the Biden Crime Family has been doing REAL dirt (unlike the all the fake dirt that falls apart on the slightest closer inspection) for so damn long that most actual humans can just sense the evil.
Btw, investigative journalist George Webb has been doing amazing work getting to the bottom of all these corrupt dealings for more than a decade (although much has been scrubbed from the interwebs as he was cancelled everywhere before it was a thing). Anyway, he often holds charette meetings for investigators to put their heads together to unravel all manner of tangled webs of corruption. He's also right here on Substack & has covered Burisma & all the other energy, weapons, etc, corruption in the Ukraine for at least a decade now. The layers run very deep & have been in place for a loooooong time.
I tried to find any stoning in the US and couldn't find one. Now if the girl went back to Afghanistan or another Arab country, I can see that happening, but Jeannette is talking out her rear end. She is trying to scare her friend with a fake story!
What is this "you'll never take me alive, copper" Groucho Marx thing Jazz had going on? This poor kid, smh. And those poor kids who are being forced to deal with issues was above their current pay grade
Thanks for the work you do Ex, your compassion for this devastated man's life trapped behind a woman who could not be trusted to settle for 3 sons , 1 daughter--- hence I believe, she carved out Jazz.
His tale is beyond horrendous . How on earth is he going to find his path through life-- my hope is he finds ❤ LOVE
This poor, sweet little boy. This poor abused baby. I am crying, my heart sorrows for this cute little boy who just wanted to wear the sparkly swimsuit as a toddler. Justice for Jazz!
This kid just said it helps him think & self regulate to practice nothing in particular, alone, and Greg IMMEDIATELY intrudes & ups the stakes "what are you working on." What a monstrous father.
OK now that’s going a bit far. Let’s remember that in “reality” shows they organize certain scenes to talk about topics they have on the agenda in order to create their storyline. I’ve seen Jeanette say/do numerous things that are wildly inappropriate in regards to Jazz, but Greg always seems like a good father just trying to do what his wife is telling him is “best” for their child.
(Let’s keep our criticism well grounded, in the off chance that anyone from this family stumbles across this thread they may start to consider what was done to Jazz, how catastrophically damaging it was, and the other options he had— like you know, grow up and go through natural puberty before being made into a Frankensteinian experiment for doctors trying to promote their paraphiliac interests 🤷♀️)
Have you seen Ex's breakdown of what he did to pit his children against one another, his targeted humiliation of Ari, his deliberate interruptions of Jazz whenever he tries to read or do homework? The man smiles like a shark. Check out Ex's IAJWN video's from last summer and fall, they really go into detail on this. I had a similar opinion to yours re: Greg until I saw them.
Oh, it was very disappointing to go back and really take a hard look at Greg. I still don’t know that I agree that he is a “monster“, but that just comes down to semantics and choice of vocabulary. You were 100% correct— Greg is, without a doubt, a selfish and weak father whose prejudice and fear of possibly having an effeminate gay son overrode all of his decisions about what was truly best FOR his son. And the way he treats Ari (?spelling) definitely gives off those 80s-90s frat dad vibes. He concentrates primarily on his twin boys, and wants them to grow up to be “alpha male, ape-like chest beaters”, while all but completely ignoring his hard-working, and wonderful eldest daughter. And then he just doesn’t know what to do with Jazz at all, because he and Jeanette made decisions that put Jazz into a “neither here nor there” category, so he placates himself by staying as removed as possible and leaving all the parenting of Jazz up to Jeanette to “figure out“. Sadly, we know where that awesome decision led.
Bottom line: Greg is absolutely a very poor parent. Poor Jazz was just doomed from the start. Who did he have really looking out for him? 😔
No one talks about how most transexuals end up dead because they do risky stuff like prostitute and rob johns or sell drugs and that is often how they end up dead. Then blame society when we have done nothing but kiss their a55, they can get jobs, the laws has made that a mandate, but they continue to do very risky, dangerous often very male like crimes.
Jeanette is a sicko and so badly wanted to be the only woman a man would ever love so she created that in this poor kid because she couldn't with her husband and her other sons. I suspect that is what a lot of these moms with sons in this situation do. They hate men but desperately need their attention. She knows she has this kid right where she wants him.
I know more than a few transexuals, I have for years now, I have noticed how lonely they are as the enter middle age. No one really wants them. I know men who hook up with them but that is it, they never make it a relationship or go public with it that I have seen, they have a million excuses for why, then attempt to date biological women which is even worse. No one wants them for anything other than sex and a guilty pleasure or secret. Probably why they run around demanding people date them when they don't want to. Both the guys who sneak around with them and the transexuals themselves are lonely and lying to themselves, I avoid them anymore because I don't have much to relate to them about. They have a lot of other problems as well, holding down jobs, housing or friendships. They keep blaming everyone else but at this point it is their problem and they know it and don't want to do anything about it.
I feel bad for this kid who has been handed a life of permanent disability and loneliness without knowing this is what happens to feed his mother's bank account and ego.
There are a lot of people who are feeding into this, I wish we gave them more attention and responsibility for this, from the closet case men who refuse to be honest with their sexuality who have sex with them creating a straight LARPing situation that is just a lie for everyone involved, to the creepy parents who are living out their own fantasies, looking for fame, money and ego boosts to the entire DEI industrial complex who has forced governments and corporations to go along, to the medical establishment who has profited like crazy off of this. None of this stuff happens in a vacuum and so many people from gray suited, faceless bureaucrats to executives in a boardroom growing it.
His joke about his friends "having to watch out", made me shiver. I blame Jeannette for having no boundaries. He's just emulating her. The various accents he was using were really weird, too.
Same! In Jazz’s case, I don’t think there’s any actual predation behind it, for the same reason he doesn’t know anything about his own attraction, but I think you’re right. That had Jeanette all over it.
Especially in later seasons, she and the twins don’t so much ignore or miss boundaries as actively, intentionally transgress them. They go out of their way to inject inappropriate sexual content into conversations with family.
I’m sure the existence of the show and the crew’s reactions amplify it to some extent—clearly the producers/editors keep including it in episodes for some reason—but that in itself is telling.
It’s so disturbing, especially to anyone who’s seen that behavior from predators. It reminds me of a particular teacher in high school. I’m not convinced Greg doesn’t enjoy it, either, as he has allowed it to continue, even when he makes occasional weak protests.
With all the press about DebbieDavid Hayton's book coming out, and Stephanie Hayton continuing to advertise their celibate lives "as a couple," I suggest that Jazz Jennings and Stephanie Hayton have their own special category---The Denial At Your Own Expense Club. Unfortunately, Jazz was groomed into this as a child. Stephanie has no excuse.
Agreed! And the Haytons’ book will groom still more trans widows and their children who’ve been traumatized by the revelation that their husband and father now wants to exercise his paraphilia in public, with their participation.
Six years ago, while training to guide Holocaust education tours as a volunteer docent, I met another trainee whose husband had just announced he was a transwoman. She was nearing sixty, retired after a fulfilling career, still fit and attractive, educated and opinionated, engaging and friendly—and she was smiling and claiming she was adjusting to this radical new reality. At the time, there was no accessible voice to say, no, you don’t have to accept this, you don’t have to believe him, you don’t have to play the hand maid.
The topic came up at lunch because another trainee had a daughter who first came out as a lesbian and upon entering college declared “himself” a transman. They were accepting. Ignorant as I was about all this, I was accepting. But even then it occurred to me I’d heard both stories several times before.
Maybe I'm off-base, but it seemed like the girls were just being honest with Jazz, and finally felt like they had a moment where they didn't have to sugar coat things. Any boy who would date him indeed would most likely be gay, and a boy who's actually straight wouldn't have interest knowing Jazz is a male. I didn't feel like it was especially hurtful. I'm surprised it was a conversation that was allowed and made the cutting room floor, although I think at the time this was filmed it was just "good drama" instead of forbidden no-no talk.
My take on the kicking the ball against the wall for hours a day is that I used to do something similar (pace and bounce a ball for hours a day) and I recently discovered that what I was doing is called maladaptive daydreaming, and is something kids start doing when they are experiencing too much stress and can’t cope.
I also find it odd that Jazz has to announce he wants to focus on dating instead of soccer. Why can’t he do both? And he’s so young here. I’m 38 and have been married since I was 25 and I never focused on dating. I just found someone I liked and we tried a relationship and it worked out (or sometimes it didn’t and that relationship ended). “Dating” was never a focus like going to school, or martial arts, or painting. In fact, the only people I’ve ever known who had a focus on that were religious people who expected to be married when they were 18/19.
I don’t know what I expected; I’ve known for years the family is screwed up.
"Stoned to death" Of all the Jeanette Jennings anecdotes that never happened, I bet this one never happened the most.
I must have misheard that or I would have put in a Monty Python edit.
"Look. I-I’d had a lovely supper, and all I said to my transgender wife was, 'That piece of halibut skin was good enough for Jehovah.'"
Love your comment here as a 2nd generation Python fan, & glad you're covering Biden-Burisma. But at this point I'm not sure the DOJ & its FBI has any more credibility than Smirnov, so to arrest him at this point just makes Biden look guilty. No one cares what the case actually says because no one knows who to even believe anymore. The Steele Dossier already showed us how they manufacture "proof" of anything by info-laundering it into existence, so how is anyone to rely on anything the government produces uncritically? No, folks will be going with their feels & the Biden Crime Family has been doing REAL dirt (unlike the all the fake dirt that falls apart on the slightest closer inspection) for so damn long that most actual humans can just sense the evil.
Btw, investigative journalist George Webb has been doing amazing work getting to the bottom of all these corrupt dealings for more than a decade (although much has been scrubbed from the interwebs as he was cancelled everywhere before it was a thing). Anyway, he often holds charette meetings for investigators to put their heads together to unravel all manner of tangled webs of corruption. He's also right here on Substack & has covered Burisma & all the other energy, weapons, etc, corruption in the Ukraine for at least a decade now. The layers run very deep & have been in place for a loooooong time.
I tried to find any stoning in the US and couldn't find one. Now if the girl went back to Afghanistan or another Arab country, I can see that happening, but Jeannette is talking out her rear end. She is trying to scare her friend with a fake story!
Ex you're looking particularly stunning in this video... Is it the weight lifting? Skincare? <3
Don't worry, Pepperidge Farm remembers, too
You'd think they should have considered the effect on his future love & sex life before the medication & surgeries.
What is this "you'll never take me alive, copper" Groucho Marx thing Jazz had going on? This poor kid, smh. And those poor kids who are being forced to deal with issues was above their current pay grade
Thanks for the work you do Ex, your compassion for this devastated man's life trapped behind a woman who could not be trusted to settle for 3 sons , 1 daughter--- hence I believe, she carved out Jazz.
His tale is beyond horrendous . How on earth is he going to find his path through life-- my hope is he finds ❤ LOVE
This poor, sweet little boy. This poor abused baby. I am crying, my heart sorrows for this cute little boy who just wanted to wear the sparkly swimsuit as a toddler. Justice for Jazz!
Jazz: I like being alone to kick the ball.
Greg: Let me ruin that for you.
This kid just said it helps him think & self regulate to practice nothing in particular, alone, and Greg IMMEDIATELY intrudes & ups the stakes "what are you working on." What a monstrous father.
OK now that’s going a bit far. Let’s remember that in “reality” shows they organize certain scenes to talk about topics they have on the agenda in order to create their storyline. I’ve seen Jeanette say/do numerous things that are wildly inappropriate in regards to Jazz, but Greg always seems like a good father just trying to do what his wife is telling him is “best” for their child.
(Let’s keep our criticism well grounded, in the off chance that anyone from this family stumbles across this thread they may start to consider what was done to Jazz, how catastrophically damaging it was, and the other options he had— like you know, grow up and go through natural puberty before being made into a Frankensteinian experiment for doctors trying to promote their paraphiliac interests 🤷♀️)
Have you seen Ex's breakdown of what he did to pit his children against one another, his targeted humiliation of Ari, his deliberate interruptions of Jazz whenever he tries to read or do homework? The man smiles like a shark. Check out Ex's IAJWN video's from last summer and fall, they really go into detail on this. I had a similar opinion to yours re: Greg until I saw them.
I’ll go watch it before I respond further. There’s always new information to be gathered. 👍
Oh, it was very disappointing to go back and really take a hard look at Greg. I still don’t know that I agree that he is a “monster“, but that just comes down to semantics and choice of vocabulary. You were 100% correct— Greg is, without a doubt, a selfish and weak father whose prejudice and fear of possibly having an effeminate gay son overrode all of his decisions about what was truly best FOR his son. And the way he treats Ari (?spelling) definitely gives off those 80s-90s frat dad vibes. He concentrates primarily on his twin boys, and wants them to grow up to be “alpha male, ape-like chest beaters”, while all but completely ignoring his hard-working, and wonderful eldest daughter. And then he just doesn’t know what to do with Jazz at all, because he and Jeanette made decisions that put Jazz into a “neither here nor there” category, so he placates himself by staying as removed as possible and leaving all the parenting of Jazz up to Jeanette to “figure out“. Sadly, we know where that awesome decision led.
Bottom line: Greg is absolutely a very poor parent. Poor Jazz was just doomed from the start. Who did he have really looking out for him? 😔
You've been drinking more water! You're looking hydrated ;) x
"I remember you" is my favorite episode, too. Another quality installment in Jazz's waking nightmare.
No one talks about how most transexuals end up dead because they do risky stuff like prostitute and rob johns or sell drugs and that is often how they end up dead. Then blame society when we have done nothing but kiss their a55, they can get jobs, the laws has made that a mandate, but they continue to do very risky, dangerous often very male like crimes.
Jeanette is a sicko and so badly wanted to be the only woman a man would ever love so she created that in this poor kid because she couldn't with her husband and her other sons. I suspect that is what a lot of these moms with sons in this situation do. They hate men but desperately need their attention. She knows she has this kid right where she wants him.
I know more than a few transexuals, I have for years now, I have noticed how lonely they are as the enter middle age. No one really wants them. I know men who hook up with them but that is it, they never make it a relationship or go public with it that I have seen, they have a million excuses for why, then attempt to date biological women which is even worse. No one wants them for anything other than sex and a guilty pleasure or secret. Probably why they run around demanding people date them when they don't want to. Both the guys who sneak around with them and the transexuals themselves are lonely and lying to themselves, I avoid them anymore because I don't have much to relate to them about. They have a lot of other problems as well, holding down jobs, housing or friendships. They keep blaming everyone else but at this point it is their problem and they know it and don't want to do anything about it.
I feel bad for this kid who has been handed a life of permanent disability and loneliness without knowing this is what happens to feed his mother's bank account and ego.
You're so right, and think about the fact, as well, that companies, govts. schools are all going out of their way to HIRE people like this...
And then they infect their little pockets of Society with their discontents and misery.. these people are truly sick.
There are a lot of people who are feeding into this, I wish we gave them more attention and responsibility for this, from the closet case men who refuse to be honest with their sexuality who have sex with them creating a straight LARPing situation that is just a lie for everyone involved, to the creepy parents who are living out their own fantasies, looking for fame, money and ego boosts to the entire DEI industrial complex who has forced governments and corporations to go along, to the medical establishment who has profited like crazy off of this. None of this stuff happens in a vacuum and so many people from gray suited, faceless bureaucrats to executives in a boardroom growing it.
His joke about his friends "having to watch out", made me shiver. I blame Jeannette for having no boundaries. He's just emulating her. The various accents he was using were really weird, too.
Same! In Jazz’s case, I don’t think there’s any actual predation behind it, for the same reason he doesn’t know anything about his own attraction, but I think you’re right. That had Jeanette all over it.
Especially in later seasons, she and the twins don’t so much ignore or miss boundaries as actively, intentionally transgress them. They go out of their way to inject inappropriate sexual content into conversations with family.
I’m sure the existence of the show and the crew’s reactions amplify it to some extent—clearly the producers/editors keep including it in episodes for some reason—but that in itself is telling.
It’s so disturbing, especially to anyone who’s seen that behavior from predators. It reminds me of a particular teacher in high school. I’m not convinced Greg doesn’t enjoy it, either, as he has allowed it to continue, even when he makes occasional weak protests.
Not since Caligula has one family been so ick.
100%
With all the press about DebbieDavid Hayton's book coming out, and Stephanie Hayton continuing to advertise their celibate lives "as a couple," I suggest that Jazz Jennings and Stephanie Hayton have their own special category---The Denial At Your Own Expense Club. Unfortunately, Jazz was groomed into this as a child. Stephanie has no excuse.
Agreed! And the Haytons’ book will groom still more trans widows and their children who’ve been traumatized by the revelation that their husband and father now wants to exercise his paraphilia in public, with their participation.
Six years ago, while training to guide Holocaust education tours as a volunteer docent, I met another trainee whose husband had just announced he was a transwoman. She was nearing sixty, retired after a fulfilling career, still fit and attractive, educated and opinionated, engaging and friendly—and she was smiling and claiming she was adjusting to this radical new reality. At the time, there was no accessible voice to say, no, you don’t have to accept this, you don’t have to believe him, you don’t have to play the hand maid.
The topic came up at lunch because another trainee had a daughter who first came out as a lesbian and upon entering college declared “himself” a transman. They were accepting. Ignorant as I was about all this, I was accepting. But even then it occurred to me I’d heard both stories several times before.
Maybe I'm off-base, but it seemed like the girls were just being honest with Jazz, and finally felt like they had a moment where they didn't have to sugar coat things. Any boy who would date him indeed would most likely be gay, and a boy who's actually straight wouldn't have interest knowing Jazz is a male. I didn't feel like it was especially hurtful. I'm surprised it was a conversation that was allowed and made the cutting room floor, although I think at the time this was filmed it was just "good drama" instead of forbidden no-no talk.
I took it the same way you did. I thought the girls were just being honest.
My take on the kicking the ball against the wall for hours a day is that I used to do something similar (pace and bounce a ball for hours a day) and I recently discovered that what I was doing is called maladaptive daydreaming, and is something kids start doing when they are experiencing too much stress and can’t cope.
I also find it odd that Jazz has to announce he wants to focus on dating instead of soccer. Why can’t he do both? And he’s so young here. I’m 38 and have been married since I was 25 and I never focused on dating. I just found someone I liked and we tried a relationship and it worked out (or sometimes it didn’t and that relationship ended). “Dating” was never a focus like going to school, or martial arts, or painting. In fact, the only people I’ve ever known who had a focus on that were religious people who expected to be married when they were 18/19.
I don’t know what I expected; I’ve known for years the family is screwed up.