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Joe Biden recently changed his social media picture to this one, in which he wears sunglasses and a mask. There has to be a good reason for a candidate who depends on being recognized to use a picture where you can’t see his face. I like the ear being pulled forward. Nice touch.
Whoever wrote his bio did a nice job, as well. He’s husband to Dr. Biden — he respects women! He likes ice cream, sunglasses, and choo-choo trains — he’s harmless! And Mr. Biden’s handlers understand that the less voters see and hear from him, the more popular he’ll be. Vote for him and we’ll keep him under wraps — we promise!
So he’s running for president, and his page does not show his party affiliation, what he believes in, what his plans are, and now doesn’t even show his face. Come on people — get excited! Get out there and vote! For, um, you know…
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I have a JD, which is much more rigorous than Mrs. Biden’s credential. Whenever someone insists I call her “Doctor,” I will require them to address me as doctor as well.
I have no plan to ever call her doctor.
That’s it. A bunch of interviews. I do more research in a season than that, and I’m not in college.
His eyes must be bleeding again.
I regularly work with professors, only M.D.s expect to be called Doctor, and not even all of them. 90% of them go by their first name, even people with lots of honors and leading research.
In my academic career I always identified myself as “Professor X” to my students. Like nearly all my colleagues, I believed that “Doctor” refers to a medical person (MD or equivalent). Calling yourself “Doctor Y” when you don’t have a medical degree is usually a tell that you have a garbage degree.
This reminds me of a meme I saw, which I wish I’d saved, which consisted of a picture of someone wearing a face mask across the back of her head, and the statement that when all this was over we’d all have to wear the masks the other way round for a year or so just to fix our ears . . .
As part of my current project, I’m hosting 37 interviews for around 150 people, spaced over 5 months. We are 83% complete.
Does that mean I can get my doctorate in 17 percentage, um, points…days? Doctor Gazpacho, at yer service!
The (D)/MSM/BigTech/Culture Combine have effectively prepped the Landing Zone for the past four years to where any (D) Presidential candidate should be able to win going away, and then looking straight into the jaws of victory the (D)’s select Joe Biden as their Presidential Candidate ….. Wow.
Trump could still lose, but if Trump wins this will go down in history as the dumbest political decision ever ….
…. Or just one more astonishingly successful diabolical Russian disinformation campaign.
Thankfully my master’s thesis is marked Distribution D–Distribution authorized to the DoD and DoD contractors only. If I ran for an office, I’m sure it would still find a way out.
Some “educator.” Didn’t pass the proofreading test on her doctoral thesis.
As Donald Trump might say, “You’re fired!” Fail!
They forgot to add “likes to slander deceased private citizens for political gain.”
BTW – I live in a fairly split district and massive Trump parties are popping up everywhere. I’ve never seen enthusiasm like this for a candidate. I don’t see anything like this for Biden. I talked to quite a few people that have lived through far more presidencies than I have, and they also say they’ve never seen enthusiasm like this before. Maybe I’m reading into things, but I think there’s a lot of people out there that the polls don’t factor in.
She’s a racist too!
The mask means we are in for “all masks, all the time, as long as you live” if he actually wins.
Back when there was such a thing as etiquette, it was proper in social contexts to use the title of “Doctor” only for a physician/surgeon and maybe a dentist. When my son received his Ph.D in biostatistics, I itched to address correspondence to “Dr. Suspirason” due to maternal pride, but, in the end, bowed to the old-fashioned social convention.
But if, as First Lady, Jill continues to be called “Dr. Biden,” I may throw off the shackles of outmoded modesty and slip that title onto his Christmas card.
Jill Biden isn’t a doctor the same way Joe Biden isn’t the Vice President. We have some weird naming conventions in the United States.
Confucius would disapprove.
That’s First Doctor to you!
Oh I think that as Mom you are quite entitled to refer to your son as “Dr. Suspirason” as much as you want. And he darn well better just smile and take it. :-)
My old organic chemistry teacher had his doctorate and his mother used to say, “You could have been a doctor!” And he would say, “Ma, I am a doctor.” And she would answer, “You know what I mean.”
I agree that a good Democrat candidate could win. Half the country’s voters hate Trump. There is a fair amount 0f analysis of this phenomenon. Why they hate him. The trouble with Democrats is their candidates. Bernie is popular with the young. One of my daughters probably voted for him in 2016. I think he looks like the guy in “Back to the Future” but the kids love free stuff, especially if they have student loans. I have sometimes wondered if Obama nationalized student loans to bring on Socialism. It is a big factor in the agenda of the left.
The (D)/MSM/BigTech/Culture combine have waged a relentless anti-Trump propaganda campaign from the moment Trump shocked the world and was elected President in 2016. And like any effective propaganda campaign there are millions who have come to hate Trump and, many who support Trump but do not feel comfortable making their Trump support very public.
Not even taking into consideration the Obama DOJ/FBI/IC and MSM corrupt Russia collusion ClusterSchtoop, there has been an anti-Trump everything negative, and nothing positive relentlessly blown out of nearly all the News/Culture/Entertainment/Educational blow holes for Four freaking years, and …. no thanks to the Vichey NT …. Trump may still pull this thing off.
An old LA Times article from 2009 had this to say: “Some second ladies, as vice presidents’ wives are called, have been accomplished professionals. Marilyn Quayle is a lawyer, but she did not practice while her husband, Dan, was in office. Lynne Cheney, Jill Biden’s immediate predecessor, is a novelist who earned a doctorate in English with a dissertation titled “Matthew Arnold’s Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold’s Poetry.” She goes by Mrs. Cheney.”
Most Americans will just refer to her as Jill or Mrs. Biden, just as they did with everyone else.
I get the feeling you shouldn’t try that in her presence.
I suspect the Bidens and I move in different circles…as you pointed out in an earlier post, I can keep my thoughts to myself:)
I like the version I saw here on Ricochet, Dr. Jill Biden, PhD.
The media, NPR, and democrats (is that redundant?) has made it clear for a very long time that she is only to be addressed as doctor.
I don’t think she has a PhD. I think it’s an EDD, or whatever the acronym is for a doctorate in education.
Yeah, not only is she not a doctor, she’s not even a PhD.
Wow, that jab doesn’t even fit her.
I have no idea what that means.