The Truth™ About the Karen Meme!

It’s time to blow the whistle of Truth™ on the Karen meme!

A big old Texas howdy, readers! As always, I’m Alex Jonestown, friend of freedom, light of liberty, torch of Truth™, and Five Star General of the Truth Troopers, an army of brave information warriors fighting on the front lines against the tyranny of The Powers That Be!

When you’re in the business of Truth™, you’re always on the lookout for lies. My eyes were opened a long long time ago, and I’ll be damned if they’re gonna close again! The Powers That Be are a bunch of devious bastards, and they’ve infested every corner of God’s green Earth with their lies. Those conniving sons of bitches are like cockroaches! Luckily for you, Troopers, ol’ Jonesy’s an exterminator, here to shine the light of Truth™ on their infestation and send them scurrying away!

But, by God, seeing the Truth™ can burden a man. It’s not easy seeing the Truth™ everywhere. Even an honest trip to Wally World can lead to startling revelations that shake a Truth Trooper to their very core.

Such was the case for Helen, a longtime listener of Truth Troopers Radio and devoted seeker of Truth™. Helen wrote in to me recently to share a story from her recent trip to Walmart:

Hey Jonesy, I had an experience at Walmart today that I thought you might find interesting.

I just finished checking out and was walking towards the exit when I was grabbed by an employee and told I had to stand in line to show her my receipt. Guilty until proven innocent? That’s not the America I grew up in! I offered to show her my receipt but she told me I had to wait my turn. I just waited in line for 20 minutes to check out and now you want me to wait in line to leave the damn store too?

I know my rights. I asked the employee if she was a police officer and if I was under arrest. The employee told me to stop being difficult and just get in the line. Like good little sheep, the customers in line started yelling at me and insulting me. They kept calling me “Karen” and telling me to stop acting like I’m special. So exercising my right to not be unlawfully detained and accused of theft makes me special now? What are they teaching these people? I planted my feet firmly and asserted my God-given right as an American citizen and told the employee no, I would not be treated like a common criminal just for shopping at Walmart. I demanded to speak to her manager, and after a short conversation I was “allowed” to leave the store with the items that I paid for. Gee, thanks!

After the ordeal was over, I asked my niece why they kept calling me Karen. My niece said a Karen is someone who gets mad at people who are just doing their job. The Walmart employee was “just doing her job” so I’m supposed to let them treat me, a paying customer, like a common criminal? I seem to remember some people in Germany who were “just doing their job” too. It didn’t work at Nuremberg and it shouldn’t work now!

If standing up for the rights given to us as American citizens by the United States Constitution means I’m a “Karen”, then I’m goddamn proud to be a Karen!

Just thought you might appreciate that little story.

Now Troopers, I may be old but I’m no dinosaur. I’m hip to the slang these kids today use. Ol’ Jonesy is no stranger to those internet memes. I’ve seen the InstaToks and the TikGrams. You bet your ass I know exactly what a Karen is.

In fact, I know what a Karen is better than you do!

Now I know what you’re probably saying. You’re sitting there saying to yourself, “Aw hell Jonesy, of course I know what a Karen is. It’s a middle aged woman who complains all the damn time and wants to see the manager!”

And that’s exactly what The Powers That Be want you to think! And just like everything The Powers That Be want you to think, it’s the furthest damn thing from the Truth™!

Ask yourself just one question Troopers: Who would benefit if people didn’t complain?

I’ll tell you who would benefit. It’s those goddamned greedy corporate bastards and their political puppets!

This whole Karen meme doesn’t pass the smell test. In fact, it smells like outright bullshit. Complaining about lousy customer service and low quality products is wrong? Poor dear Helen should just let her rights be trampled all over because a Walmart employee is “just doing her job”? That sounds like a heaping helping of horse shit.

“Oh Jonesy, will you just cut the crap already and give us the Truth™ about the Karen meme?”

The Karen meme is psychological warfare designed to turn us into obedient and complacent consumers!

It’s obvious what’s going on here. Those damn corporations and The Powers That Be created this Karen meme to shame us into being good obedient slaves. Good obedient slaves don’t question anything, they keep their mouths shut and their heads down while the master abuses them and reaps the rewards. These companies want to cash in on cutting corners and providing subpar products and services, and they sure as shit don’t want anyone calling them out on any of it! What better way to discourage dissent than by shaming dissenters? Don’t think, don’t question, don’t complain. Obey obey obey! They’re shaming us into silence!

What’s more, those sons of bitches are rubbing our noses in it too! They chose the name “Karen” for their cute little meme for a very specific reason. “Karen” sounds an awful lot like CARING doesn’t it?

The homophone is ringing, Troopers! The Truth™ is calling, and it wants to talk to you!

Caring makes you a Karen! Just shut up and accept the price hikes, the rude service, and the overpriced crap that breaks! That fast food worker spit in your food and gave you the wrong change? They’re just doing their job and their job doesn’t pay them enough, so suck it up and deal with it! You’re not a Karen, are you? Because if you are, we’re gonna make a video of you and we’re gonna share it so the whole wide world can shame you for daring to speak up!

I don’t know about you, readers, but I made a promise to myself. That promise was to always tell the Truth™, the whole Truth™, and nothing but the Truth™, so help me God! And that’s just what I’m gonna do. They don’t want us to speak up and rock the boat? Well I say let’s get louder! Let’s rock the shit outta that boat like a giant angry wave of Truth™! We’re not going to get back in line like good obedient slaves, we’re not going to let you rip us off anymore! We won’t be shamed into submission! This is America, damnit. We have every goddamned right to expect quality goods, world class service, and a five star experience wherever we go, and no internet memes are going to make us give up that right!

We’re all Karen now, Troopers. Now get angry and start complaining!

Alex Jonestown

Alex Jonestown is a proud Texan and former host of Truth Troopers Radio, a show dedicated to delivering the REAL news before it was shut down by The Powers That Be. Now writing for AJnet Magazine, he continues his mission to expose conspiracies, reveal hidden connections, and deliver Truth™ to the public.

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