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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 12:55 pm
A little less alarming, Vance is bad at math. At a recent photo op, Vance claimed that a dozen eggs was $4.00. Behind him was a sign proclaiming the price of eggs was 2.99 dollars for a dozen. He was holding a carton of 24 eggs.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/09...-news.html
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 12:57 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A little less alarming, Vance is bad at math. At a recent photo op, Vance claimed that a dozen eggs was $4.00. Behind him was a sign proclaiming the price of eggs was 2.99 dollars for a dozen. He was holding a carton of 24 eggs.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/09...-news.html
I think that points to him being blatant liar rather than bad at math.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 1:03 pm
Why not both?
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 1:05 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 1:03 pm)Fireball Wrote: Why not both?
I guess that's an option too.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 1:30 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 12:57 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: (September 24, 2024 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A little less alarming, Vance is bad at math. At a recent photo op, Vance claimed that a dozen eggs was $4.00. Behind him was a sign proclaiming the price of eggs was 2.99 dollars for a dozen. He was holding a carton of 24 eggs.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/09...-news.html
I think that points to him being blatant liar rather than bad at math.
I think it points to him being so wealthy that he has people who buy eggs for him.
If people wanna know what groceries cost, they should ask Tim Walz.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 8:57 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A little less alarming, Vance is bad at math. At a recent photo op, Vance claimed that a dozen eggs was $4.00. Behind him was a sign proclaiming the price of eggs was 2.99 dollars for a dozen. He was holding a carton of 24 eggs.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/09...-news.html
He's a former jarhead. Counting to 24 is a big ask.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 9:26 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 8:57 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (September 24, 2024 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A little less alarming, Vance is bad at math. At a recent photo op, Vance claimed that a dozen eggs was $4.00. Behind him was a sign proclaiming the price of eggs was 2.99 dollars for a dozen. He was holding a carton of 24 eggs.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/09...-news.html
He's a former jarhead. Counting to 24 is a big ask.
Eh. Once a Marine, always a Marine. A cautionary tale of being in the Navy and telling jokes about Marines in a bar:
I told this joke, "In the early days of the space program, a chimp was trained to operate systems on the space capsule. It was during the Cold War, and NASA, fearing that the chimp might fall into Russian hands if the capsule went off course during re-entry, decided that it needed some protection. So, a Marine was detailed to provide protection, complete with a .45 auto side-arm. <Marines are grinning> During countdown, launch and assent, the chimp is pushing buttons, turning knobs and stepping on pedals. Every once in awhile, the chimp reaches into a pocket in its overalls, pulls out a small card, and stuffs it back in. Once they are in orbit, things are getting dull, and the Marine gets curious about what the card says. He reaches over and pulls the card out. It says, 'Feed the Marine at 5:00'" The Marines are no longer grinning. I was in top shape in those days and could run like a deer, even while laughing.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 24, 2024 at 9:46 pm
(September 24, 2024 at 9:26 pm)Fireball Wrote: (September 24, 2024 at 8:57 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He's a former jarhead. Counting to 24 is a big ask.
Eh. Once a Marine, always a Marine. A cautionary tale of being in the Navy and telling jokes about Marines in a bar:
I told this joke, "In the early days of the space program, a chimp was trained to operate systems on the space capsule. It was during the Cold War, and NASA, fearing that the chimp might fall into Russian hands if the capsule went off course during re-entry, decided that it needed some protection. So, a Marine was detailed to provide protection, complete with a .45 auto side-arm. <Marines are grinning> During countdown, launch and assent, the chimp is pushing buttons, turning knobs and stepping on pedals. Every once in awhile, the chimp reaches into a pocket in its overalls, pulls out a small card, and stuffs it back in. Once they are in orbit, things are getting dull, and the Marine gets curious about what the card says. He reaches over and pulls the card out. It says, 'Feed the Marine at 5:00'" The Marines are no longer grinning. I was in top shape in those days and could run like a deer, even while laughing.
I used to tease my step=dad, a Marine veteran of Vietnam. I came back from MEPS and he was giving me shit about joining the "Chair Force". So -- spur of the moment -- I told him I found out why they call Marines "jarheads".
"Why's that, Darrell?"
"Well, Bob, we're standing in line for medical assessment, who's got flat feet and shit."
"Yeah ..."
"And so there was an orderly pulling Marines out of the line at about the third or fourth checkpoint. I got curious and looked into the room those recruits went into."
Bob pours another brandy. "Yeah, right."
"And so I see these docs cutting a head open and pulling out a brain. They pop it into a mason jar and tell the recruit he can have it back in four years." Gazing at him over my glass of brandy, "But it seems that some of y'all never got 'em back."
I didn't have to run away, Bob was a great guy with much humor, and I dearly miss him.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 25, 2024 at 12:52 pm
One of my brothers was career in the Royal Navy, and his favorite Marine Commando joke was:
How can you tell that a Marine has one more brain cell than a horse?
Because the Marine doesn’t shit on parade.
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RE: That J.D. Vance Thread
September 25, 2024 at 12:59 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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