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Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: lyckh ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:07PM

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Biden outed his own wife. That's classic.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/jill-biden-doctorate-garbage-because-212259558.html

Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage

Kyle Smith
Wed, December 16, 2020, 4:22 PM EST

You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician. Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.” The only reason you ever hear the phrase “Dr. Henry Kissinger” is that Kissy grew up in title-mad, airs-and-graces Germany, where people are awed rather than dismissive even if you insist on a triple-serving title (“Herr Professor Doktor”).

Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip. Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, “I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.” That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,’” Joe Biden has said.

Mrs. Biden wanted the credential for its own sake. As for its quality, well. She got it from the University of Delaware, whose ties to her husband, its most illustrious alumnus if you don’t count Joe Flacco, run so deep that it has a school of public policy named after him. That the University of Delaware would have rejected her 2006 dissertation as sloppy, poorly written, non-academic, and barely fit for a middle-school Social Studies classroom (all of which it is) when her husband had been representing its state in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades was about as likely as Tom Hagen telling Vito Corleone that his wife is a fat sow on payday. The only risk to the University of Delaware was that it might strain its collective wrist in its rush to rubber-stamp her doctoral paper. Mrs. Biden could have turned in a quarter-a**ed excuse for a magazine article written at the level of Simple English Wikipedia and been heartily congratulated by the university for her towering mastery. Which is exactly what happened.

Jill Biden’s dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge. It is not a demonstration of expertise in its specific topic or its broad field. It is a gasping, wheezing, frail little Disney forest creature that begs you to notice the effort it makes to be the thing it is imitating while failing so pathetically that any witnesses to its ineptitude must feel compelled, out of manners alone, to drag it to the nearest podium and give it a participation trophy. Which is more or less what an Ed.D. is. It’s a degree that only deeply unimpressive people feel confers the honorific of “Doctor.” People who are actually smart understand that being in possession of a credential is no proof of intelligence.

My friends, I have read this document in its entirety and it is so equally lacking in rhetorical force, boldness of conception, and original research that it amounts to a triple null set, a vacuum inside a blank inside an abyss. If Ingmar Bergman were alive and hired to make a film about this paper, he would say, “I can’t do it, there’s so much emptiness even I cannot grasp it,” and it would sound so much worse in Swedish that suicide hotlines would have to hire extra staff. Gene Simmons has a better claim to be a Doctor of Love than Jill Biden to be a Doctor of Education; after all, Simmons has spent a lifetime demonstrating mastery of his field. As for Biden, she has spent a lot of time teaching remedial English to slow learners in community colleges. Which is like being a rock musician who’s in a bar band. That plays covers. At mixers. Held in assisted-living facilities. Mrs. Biden’s dissertation emits so much noxious methane the EPA should regulate it, Greta Thunberg should denounce it, and Hollywood celebrities should hold a telethon to draw awareness to its dangers.

As Joe Biden has frankly noted, Mrs. Biden sought the Dr. honorific to rebuild her amour propre. Much of the press plays along, addressing Jill Biden as “Dr. Biden” even when actual medical doctors are referred to without the honorific if they are not currently practicing. Eminent pediatric neurosurgeon and HUD secretary Ben Carson is now “Mr. Carson” to the New York Times, but the same paper refers to Mrs. Biden as “Dr. Biden.” This practice appears to contradict the Times’ style guide, which explains that the “Dr.” title is used for non-physicians “only if it is germane to the holder’s primary current occupation (academic, for example, or laboratory research).”

Mrs. Biden until recently taught English composition at NoVa, a small community college in Northern Virginia. To justify addressing her as “Dr.” would require a generous view of what constitutes an “academic,” and judging by the writing skills evinced by her students (“She very bad teacher and it is hard to pass class. I RECOMMEND NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR”), they emerged from her tutelage lacking mastery of even very basic grammar. As for the contents of the dissertation, which she cobbled together from a few secondary sources and some vapid interviews and questionnaires she sent around at the campus where she worked before her husband became vice president, Delaware Technical Community College, I’ll go over them in detail in my next column.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Sounds great ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:13PM

President Biden

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Jones ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:21PM

In her defense, it's been said she does give good head.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: D'OHctor Trump ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:38PM

A PhD was from Trump University would be garbage, unless you were part of the $25 Million pay out Trump was forced to pay out for fraud.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: kn9md ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:50PM

D'OHctor Trump Wrote:
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> A PhD was from Trump University would be garbage,
> unless you were part of the $25 Million pay out
> Trump was forced to pay out for fraud.


Who said ANYTHING about Trump. Prick.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: More important question ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:51PM

Jones Wrote:
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> In her defense, it's been said she does give good
> head.


Has Jill Biden done lesbian porn?

Melania has made a new gold standard for first ladies to live up to.
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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: 3h4mh ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:55PM

More important question Wrote:
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> Jones Wrote:
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> > In her defense, it's been said she does give
> good
> > head.
>
>
> Has Jill Biden done lesbian porn?
>
> Melania has made a new gold standard for first
> ladies to live up to.


Don't be angry just because you had gay sex as a confused teenager. You'll get over it. Melania certainly has gotten over her past.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: No one is angry ()
Date: December 16, 2020 07:57PM

3h4mh Wrote:
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> More important question Wrote:
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> > Jones Wrote:
> >
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> > > In her defense, it's been said she does give
> > good
> > > head.
> >
> >
> > Has Jill Biden done lesbian porn?
> >
> > Melania has made a new gold standard for first
> > ladies to live up to.
>
>
> Don't be angry just because you had gay sex as a
> confused teenager. You'll get over it. Melania
> certainly has gotten over her past.

It's going to be more fun when she gets over her present.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Mirror Mirror On The Wall ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:27PM

Mexico ain't paying a fucking dime for that wall.

Pretty sure her PhD is in in Education, but it doesn't appear she has defrauded anyone out of $25 Million running a fraudulent university.

Any person who would do that is lower than garbage,

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Dr Doctor ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:28PM

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Just askn ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:38PM

More important question Wrote:
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> Jones Wrote:
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> > In her defense, it's been said she does give
> good
> > head.
>
>
> Has Jill Biden done lesbian porn?
>
> Melania has made a new gold standard for first
> ladies to live up to.


I thought Ivanka was the real first lady
Isn't that why Barron is retarded

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Just do it ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:42PM

kn9md Wrote:
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> D'OHctor Trump Wrote:
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> > A PhD was from Trump University would be
> garbage,
> > unless you were part of the $25 Million pay out
> > Trump was forced to pay out for fraud.
>
>
> Who said ANYTHING about Trump. Prick.


We can see you are triggered
Maybe look outside and say I am a snowflake too
After that go rub one out with your boyfriend

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Dr. Bill Cosby ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:49PM

All Doctorates in Education are garbage. Everyone knows that. They are sold to teachers because school districts pay higher salaries to anyone holding a doctoral degree. It is common knowledge. Nothing to see here.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: So funny ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:51PM

Libtards are mad!

U see what libtards be sayin n shit!

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Uncle Ralph ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:52PM

^^^^This checks out.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: WTH ! Not A MD I Thought ()
Date: December 16, 2020 08:53PM

She was a MD who did sex change surgery on gays and lesbians or preformed abortions , anything creepy to be with JOE

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Teachers Union Con Man ()
Date: December 16, 2020 09:03PM

>All Doctorates in Education are garbage. Everyone knows that. They are sold to teachers because school districts pay higher salaries to anyone holding a doctoral degree. It is common knowledge. Nothing to see here.

Teachers get pay raises as they gain hours toward a masters then toward a doctorate , there are several steps in between each advanced degree as they get the hours in and they get raises because they get the degree without any extra responsibilities or putting in for a promotion which anyone else who works must do

This is in addition to steps for time on the job ,then they are paid for the number of months they work each year only a few are 12 month teachers

Now so what as its a done deal with a (D) and you know it and its not going to change so why bitch, we have far worse things to worry about with a senile old bum becoming president named JOE

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: So what ()
Date: December 17, 2020 12:02AM

She wants to be addressed as doctor, so what! I'm sure it's only media pricks who care. More education, more money. Works like that in a lot of occupations, as it should. Helps to weed out some of the chaff. Not everyone can get cushy jobs working for their father, or through nepotism.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: OP does not have a PhD ()
Date: December 17, 2020 12:12AM

LOL!

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: pnnp9 ()
Date: December 17, 2020 12:15AM

OP does not have a PhD Wrote:
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> LOL!


Nope, I do not. But I guarantee you I earn more the Jill Biden does....well, at least her legal earnings.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: rnb4etr nb ()
Date: December 17, 2020 01:03AM

> Jill Biden’s dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.

90% of UK's awarded medical/chemistry Doctorates are awarded to CUT AND PASTE papers which gerrymander a COMPLEX PROTIENT - claiming it could exist - but has not yet successfully been produced in a lab

it works great for them because no labs have th cappability of producing such things

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Bob bitchin ()
Date: December 17, 2020 05:57AM

Stop saying Jill Biden...That’s Dr Jill Biden and don’t you forget that

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Doctor Sheldon Cooper ()
Date: December 17, 2020 09:05AM

I have a doctoral degree, legitimately earned through hard work and significant financial cost. I don't advertise this and don't have people in my profession refer to me as doctor. I attended undergrad at a school with a tradition of militantly opposing the use of the term "doctor" when referring to our educators. Professor was as good as they could hope for. Where I object to the OP is the notion that Jill Biden is less entitled to use to term "doctor" than others holding doctoral degree.

MD's have no greater entitlement to be called doctor than anyone else holding a doctoral degree. Universities began handing out doctoral degrees in a wide range of subjects during the Middle Ages. The tradition of referring to people who held those degrees as doctor also dates back to that era. It was not until the late 1800s that the typical physician or surgeon in the United States got a doctoral degree. Before then physicians and surgeons were simply tradesmen who learned through apprenticeships. The AMA pushed for calling physicians and surgeons "doctor" as a way to distinguish themselves from mere tradesmen. If those in the medical field want me to refer to them as doctor then I insist they refer to me by the same title.

If a person obtained a doctoral degree through the traditional process I don't look behind the title. There have always been claims that the scholarship of certain people didn't merit the title. Those who are conferred honorary degrees certainly don't merit the use of the honorific. Hear that DOCTOR Bill Cosby. I feel the same way with those who essentially buy doctoral degrees through steamlined programs that even some prestigious universities offer.

Jill Biden earned her doctoral degree in the traditional manner. That she has chosen to use it to teach underperforming kids at second or lower tier educational institutions does not mean she is less entitled to be referred to as doctor than anyone else. Of course I will continue to refer to her as Ms. Biden (and yes I have met here and referred to her as such).

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: TDSD ()
Date: December 17, 2020 09:24AM

Sounds great Wrote:
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> President Biden


Your hatred turned you into a retard.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: jxdep ()
Date: December 17, 2020 09:29AM

Love watching these rich, super-privileged douchbags search for stuff to be offended about. Tucker had a hilarious take on it last night.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Manners are good ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:27AM

All my professors Were called "Doctor." They earned it.

When we sent out wedding invitations, we had to use "Doctor" on the envelope for all those who had PhDs or medical degrees. We also had to use "Esq." for lawyers, and the The term "The Honoarable" for judges and elected officials.

Tips, If both husband and wife have PhDs, you address the envelope with "Doctor and Doctor" and last name, not "Doctors." If the wife has a law degree but the husband doesn't, you address the envelope "Mr" full name and wife's name, Esq. you Omit Mr.or Ms. if there is an Esq. after the name. You also don't write "Dr." name, "PhD," use one or the other, never both. If the wife has a PhD but the husband doesn't, you address the envelope "Mr." Husband Full name "and "Doctor" wife's full name.


Rule, Unless the doctor requests you refer to him or her by their first name, you call them "Doctor," Not "Mr" or "Ms." it It is the same rule in the Christian hierarchy; you use "Reverend," "Sister," "Brother" or "Father" (Padre) unless they tell you to call them by their first name. You never refer to a them as "Mr." Or "Ms." You may also use their Order initials after their name when addressing on written communication. Example "Sister Mary Guthrie, CBA.p

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: pedxj ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:29AM

I find it funny that you can use the phrase "rich, super-privileged douchbags" in the same sentence that mentions Tucker Carlson.

Its almost as funny as reading about these middle class kids who got into elite institutions that wouldn't accept someone like them a generation or even a decade earlier turning around and complaining about affirmative action.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: xxpkp ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:40AM

Manners are good Wrote:
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> All my professors Were called "Doctor." They
> earned it.
>
> When we sent out wedding invitations, we had to
> use


You did not "have" to do anything. You "chose" to do something.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: 6jcwn ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:41AM

Bob bitchin Wrote:
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> Stop saying Jill Biden...That’s Dr Jill Biden
> and don’t you forget that


Make me, Robert.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Too much ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:48AM

Her using the title "Doctor" is no big deal. But I am reminded of the Conservative Republican who insisted he be called " The Right Honorable and Good Reverend."

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Manners are good ()
Date: December 17, 2020 10:53AM

xxpkp Wrote:
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> Manners are good Wrote:
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> > All my professors Were called "Doctor." They
> > earned it.
> >
> > When we sent out wedding invitations, we had to
> > use
>
>
> You did not "have" to do anything. You "chose" to
> do something.
Correct, we "had" to do it so it didn't appear we "chose" to be lazy, disrespecting dumbasses.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: I Would Fuck Dr. Jill,Joe's Wife ()
Date: December 17, 2020 12:20PM

It would be fun to follow Hunter in that squishy hole of Jill's!

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Ian flemming ()
Date: December 17, 2020 01:01PM

The Doctors
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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: December 17, 2020 02:13PM

Be Best. Be chicken head pussy with a price work visa overstay illegal immigrant whore with anchor baby and online nudes like current Republican first lady.

And they wanna talk about Dr. Jill Biden. Hahaha.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Kudlow's non degree ()
Date: December 17, 2020 02:35PM

Larry Kudlow calls himself an "economist" even though he has no degree in Economics and has not written an economic thesis paper.

We don't see Tucker Carlson bitching about Kudlow's "fake" moniker.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: uhndp ()
Date: December 17, 2020 03:14PM

Kudlow's non degree Wrote:
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> Larry Kudlow calls himself an "economist" even
> though he has no degree in Economics and has not
> written an economic thesis paper.
>
> We don't see Tucker Carlson bitching about
> Kudlow's "fake" moniker.

And 95% of people who have ever worked in Congress call themselves "Politicians" and not one of them has a Political Science degree. What's your point. Wouldn't it be nice for our elected officials knew a little something about how the Government was founded and how it works; or is supposed to work?

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Doctor Sheldon Cooper ()
Date: December 17, 2020 03:17PM

Manners are good Wrote:
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Ms. Manners and others would have you believe there is one correct set of rules in the United States for manners. In reality those rules vary and are evolving. This applies to honorifics as it does to other manners.

I already mentioned the rules at my undergraduate school. You mention lawyers. The tradition in many legal circles until recently was that only male lawyers were referred to as John Lawyer, Esq. If the lawyer was female the proper designation was Joan Lawyer, Attorney at Law. It is because the honorific "esquire" which originally had a broader connotation than just lawyers was a male honorific. The rules for how to refer to a person who is or was in the military also vary, as do the rules when referring to or addressing certain office holders.

The ultimate rule though is that we live in a democracy. There is no shame or degradation in referring to someone as Mr. or Ms. In fact one way Southerners would degrade blacks in the past was by refusing to refer to them as Mr. or Ms. A black lawyer would be referred to as Lawyer Jones rather than Mr. Jones. If however a person insists outside the strict context of her employment that she be referred to as "doctor" because she had a doctoral degree, then she has the burden of determining the honorifics of those with whom she is dealing with, and referring to them by the appropriate honorific as well.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: Spacy ()
Date: December 17, 2020 04:25PM

Since she made an issue of it, now Dr. Jill has to defend her credential. Ironically, her quest for respect has earned her, and her institutions and affiliations, derision, dishonor, disrespect, and even a whiff of political influence from Joe. Inviting the world to investigate her credentials has revealed that they are not merely unimpressive and affectatious, but entirely worthless. Critique her thesis, that's what it's for. Add context and it's even worse.

A smart person would have understood that this would happen but ROFLPM....



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2020 04:28PM by Spacy.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: What's Up Doc? ()
Date: December 17, 2020 05:25PM

I know medical doctors who believe that only those who hold M.D.s should be entitled to be referred to as doctors. They do not even extend the title doctor to dentists, psychiatrists and other healing arts practitioners.

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: cheesus man ()
Date: December 17, 2020 05:32PM

one would think it would be hard to be a bigger idiot than joe, but just like the two idiots on the morning joke, these two are a match made in heaven

https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/educational-quackery-doctor-jill-biden/


which begs the question, how many languages does Melania speak fluently? 4 or 5??

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Re: Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage
Posted by: jus sayin ()
Date: December 17, 2020 05:34PM

Spacy Wrote:
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> Since she made an issue of it, now Dr. Jill has to
> defend her credential. Ironically, her quest for
> respect has earned her, and her institutions and
> affiliations, derision, dishonor, disrespect, and
> even a whiff of political influence from Joe.
> Inviting the world to investigate her credentials
> has revealed that they are not merely unimpressive
> and affectatious, but entirely worthless. Critique
> her thesis, that's what it's for. Add context and
> it's even worse.
>
> A smart person would have understood that this
> would happen but ROFLPM....


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this checks out

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