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(Pew Research)   94% of all US Senators and Congresspersons have at least a Bachelor's Degree. George Santos is the only one with 53 Nobel Prizes, however   (pewresearch.org) divider line
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tintar [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:04:07 PM  
but what about the infamously unobtainable QED
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 3:12:31 PM  
How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 3:15:52 PM  

NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?


Like, as a prostitute?  'Cause, I'm thinking at least two.
 
Officer Barrelroll
2023-02-02 3:21:56 PM  
See, Q*Bert is in the elite 3%!

I knew she was special.
 
TofuTheAlmighty [BareFark]
2023-02-02 3:22:00 PM  
Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-02 3:23:11 PM  
I have a bachelor's degree.  It ain't that hard to get.
 
fiddlehead
2023-02-02 3:24:22 PM  
Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, earned a doctorate in medicine from Duke University Medical School but does not hold a bachelor's.

Wait, what?
 
TheMysteriousStranger
2023-02-02 3:24:24 PM  

TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.


Graduation does not make you well educated.
 
Thoreny
2023-02-02 3:25:26 PM  

TheMysteriousStranger: TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.

Graduation does not make you well educated.


Hell Ben Carson is a brain surgeon.

This is America. Any idiot can get a doctorate here.
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:26:08 PM  
Obviously all those liberal arts colleges suck at teaching Critical Race Theory, and grooming too.
 
jst3p
2023-02-02 3:27:05 PM  
Degrees don't make a person smart:

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jst3p
2023-02-02 3:27:50 PM  

Thoreny: TheMysteriousStranger: TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.

Graduation does not make you well educated.

Hell Ben Carson is was a brain surgeon.

This is America. Any idiot can get a doctorate here.


ftfy
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 3:28:43 PM  
I think most of those congress critters can speak for themselves that having degrees doesn't make you learned.
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 3:30:20 PM  

Thoreny: TheMysteriousStranger: TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.

Graduation does not make you well educated.

Hell Ben Carson is a brain surgeon.

This is America. Any idiot can get a doctorate here.


People often forget: just because you're smart in one way doesn't mean you're smart in others. Like, Ben Carson was a good brain surgeon... But the moment he starts talking about literally anything else, then suddenly the pyramids become grain silos.
 
Officer Barrelroll
2023-02-02 3:31:49 PM  

Officer Barrelroll: See, Q*Bert is in the elite 3%!

I knew she was special.


Errr, I'm special too because I thought the headline said 97%.

/I'm sure she moves up to 3% if you factor in the 3 tries to pass the GED
//still don't believe she is the one who passed it
 
MsStatement
2023-02-02 3:34:05 PM  

NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?


AOC was a bartender, and I only know that because the MAGAts constantly drag her for it while talking out of the other side of their hypocritical faces about how all Democrats are Ivy League elitists who are out of touch with the working class.
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 3:35:03 PM  

MsStatement: NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?

AOC was a bartender, and I only know that because the MAGAts constantly drag her for it while talking out of the other side of their hypocritical faces about how all Democrats are Ivy League elitists who are out of touch with the working class.


They want a politician they can have a beer with! They don't want it to be the one that serves them the beer!
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-02-02 3:35:04 PM  

tintar: but what about the infamously unobtainable QED


Don't blame me I voted for BIE
 
Officer Barrelroll
2023-02-02 3:35:59 PM  

MattytheMouse: I think most of those congress critters can speak for themselves that having degrees doesn't make you learned.


Definitely a difference between the ones that pander and the ones that are actually stupid.

John Kennedy is a prime example. Oxford educated but throws out the most ridiculous southern accent and sayings all day long.

/lived in Louisiana
 
UltimaCS
2023-02-02 3:36:05 PM  
Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, earned a doctorate in medicine from Duke University Medical School but does not hold a bachelor's.

Should've mentioned his self-certified ophthalmology license that he eventually got rid of.
 
baronbloodbath [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 3:36:28 PM  
I'm better educated that Boebert so I've got that going for myself. Which is nice.

/so is 81% of the country
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 3:38:34 PM  

Officer Barrelroll: MattytheMouse: I think most of those congress critters can speak for themselves that having degrees doesn't make you learned.

Definitely a difference between the ones that pander and the ones that are actually stupid.

John Kennedy is a prime example. Oxford educated but throws out the most ridiculous southern accent and sayings all day long.

/lived in Louisiana


And then there's Louie Gohmert. Like, dude has a Juris doctorate, but I'm sure he's still the type of guy to drink lead lined gasoline.
 
Petey4335
2023-02-02 3:39:28 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?

Like, as a prostitute?  'Cause, I'm thinking at least two.


If selling yourself for money = prostitution, that would mean almost all are.  The corporate PAC money isn't free.
 
groppet
2023-02-02 3:39:44 PM  
Hey subby you left out his super bowl rings.
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-02-02 3:43:10 PM  
Which makes it an act rather than natural stupidity for the Republicans.
 
brantgoose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 3:43:41 PM  
My degrees are in language and literature.

Caveat:  Language and literature includes grammar*, rhetoric* and logic*, the Trivium, and smattering of the Quadrium, unlike the pseudo-education you get in Commerce, Rekigious Studies, engineeriing and Criminalogy.

In America there are over 16,000 "universities: almost all of them jumped up high schools, normal schools, seminaries or training programmes, combined with brief apprenticeships to weed ou the people too dumb to be interns or coop students.

This explaiins why I can type a cogent argument or thought, while people who are whiz-kid brain surgeons and MBAs can not.

The sign of a smart engineer is english and history courses to compensate for their woeful lack of education.

Those are the ones who join liberal arts students in middle and upper management and the professions about 15 years later according to Bank of America and Bell.
 
Thoreny
2023-02-02 3:43:55 PM  
Also, why do y'all keep on picking on Rep. Santos?

He survived the Titanic AND the Hindenburg disasters.
 
dracos31
2023-02-02 3:44:58 PM  
Regardless of the degrees they hold, I would put up money that I could best at least half of them on a standardized test.

Holding a degree is not proof of intelligence, it's just proof of a positive bank account balance.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-02 3:46:38 PM  

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?

Like, as a prostitute?  'Cause, I'm thinking at least two.


Boebert was an escort.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but she denies it, despite the evidence.
 
jst3p
2023-02-02 3:47:30 PM  

dracos31: Regardless of the degrees they hold, I would put up money that I could best at least half of them on a standardized test.

Holding a degree is not proof of intelligence, it's just proof of a positive bank account balance.


These days it is more likely proof of 10's of thousands of dollars in debt.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:47:55 PM  
Too bad George's Nobel Prizes are all in Attempted Chemistry.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-02 3:48:24 PM  

brantgoose: My degrees are in language and literature.

Caveat:  Language and literature includes grammar*, rhetoric* and logic*, the Trivium, and smattering of the Quadrium, unlike the pseudo-education you get in Commerce, Rekigious Studies, engineeriing and Criminalogy.

In America there are over 16,000 "universities: almost all of them jumped up high schools, normal schools, seminaries or training programmes, combined with brief apprenticeships to weed ou the people too dumb to be interns or coop students.

This explaiins why I can type a cogent argument or thought, while people who are whiz-kid brain surgeons and MBAs can not.

The sign of a smart engineer is english and history courses to compensate for their woeful lack of education.

Those are the ones who join liberal arts students in middle and upper management and the professions about 15 years later according to Bank of America and Bell.


If you're going to make a post humble-bragging about your education, miiiiiight want to double-check it for typos.
 
ChimpMitten
2023-02-02 3:48:28 PM  

TheMysteriousStranger: TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.

Graduation does not make you well educated.


It does show that you can at least show up for a few years though.
 
ChimpMitten
2023-02-02 3:50:49 PM  

Thoreny: Also, why do y'all keep on picking on Rep. Santos?

He survived the Titanic AND the Hindenburg disasters.


Because he was driving both of them.
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2023-02-02 3:51:25 PM  

fiddlehead: Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, earned a doctorate in medicine from Duke University Medical School but does not hold a bachelor's.

Wait, what?


> Paul attended Baylor University from fall 1981 to summer 1984 and was enrolled in the honors program. During the time he spent at Baylor, he completed his pre-med requirements in two and a half years.[18] Paul left Baylor without completing his baccalaureate degree,[18] when he was accepted into his father's alma mater, the Duke University School of Medicine, which, at the time, did not require an undergraduate degree for admission to its graduate school. He earned an M.D. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993.  He is also a douchenozzle of the highest order.[20]
 
dericwater
2023-02-02 3:51:30 PM  

Officer Barrelroll: MattytheMouse: I think most of those congress critters can speak for themselves that having degrees doesn't make you learned.

Definitely a difference between the ones that pander and the ones that are actually stupid.

John Kennedy is a prime example. Oxford educated but throws out the most ridiculous southern accent and sayings all day long.

/lived in Louisiana


Maybe he got his education at Oxford, Mississippi.
 
tintar [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:53:44 PM  

Thoreny: Also, why do y'all keep on picking on Rep. Santos?

He survivedcaused the Titanic AND the Hindenburg disasters.
 
PerpetualPeristalsis
2023-02-02 3:55:11 PM  
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dsmith42 [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:57:33 PM  

Officer Barrelroll: See, Q*Bert is in the elite 3%!

I knew she was special.


So not just a Qdiot, but a Three Percenter too.

Three Percenterism is not a group, but a sub-ideology or common belief that falls within the larger antigovernment militia movement. Three Percenters (also known as III%ers or Threepers) claim that only 3% of American colonists fought against the British during the American Revolution, a claim that has never been proven.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/three-percenters
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2023-02-02 3:57:59 PM  

PerpetualPeristalsis: [Fark user image 850x566]


GOPie, fully loaded with shiat?
 
BoothbyTCD
2023-02-02 3:58:15 PM  

The All-Powerful Atheismo: fiddlehead: Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, earned a doctorate in medicine from Duke University Medical School but does not hold a bachelor's.

Wait, what?

> Paul attended Baylor University from fall 1981 to summer 1984 and was enrolled in the honors program. During the time he spent at Baylor, he completed his pre-med requirements in two and a half years.[18] Paul left Baylor without completing his baccalaureate degree,[18] when he was accepted into his father's alma mater, the Duke University School of Medicine, which, at the time, did not require an undergraduate degree for admission to its graduate school. He earned an M.D. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993.  He is also a douchenozzle of the highest order.[20]


Just a reminder that they call the person graduating at the bottom of the class in med school 'doctor'.
 
BoothbyTCD
2023-02-02 3:58:46 PM  
You can get a BA with a D in 'MEATS', just saying.
 
TheMysteriousStranger
2023-02-02 3:58:48 PM  

ChimpMitten: TheMysteriousStranger: TofuTheAlmighty: Um, good? I want our elected representatives to be well-educated.

Though, it makes the fascist wing's flagrant idiocy all the more infuriating.

Graduation does not make you well educated.

It does show that you can at least show up for a few years though.


Depends on the school.
 
Mr. carrot
2023-02-02 4:00:07 PM  
While the Santos jokes are funny, I really hope they aren't normalizing the problem. If it becomes normal and funny to always exaggerate his stupid claims, the dumb shiat he actually says could be perceived as benign. Humor is a great way to take power away from something, like jokes about death, but like death just because you can find it funny doesn't mean it's not serious.

I know there's still plenty of people who take the fact that he lied his way into congress seriously, but at the same time the majority of people's 1st and only information about him will probably come from late night jokes diminishing the seriousness of what he represents.

I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it.

/buzzkill
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2023-02-02 4:00:21 PM  

BoothbyTCD: Just a reminder that they call the person graduating at the bottom of the class in med school 'doctor'.


And occasionally they call traitorous, sexist, disgusting, lying, racist, serial sexual assaulters "Mr. President"
 
Officer Barrelroll
2023-02-02 4:02:06 PM  

foo monkey: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: NewportBarGuy: How many of them have actually worked a f*cking day in their lives?

Like, as a prostitute?  'Cause, I'm thinking at least two.

Boebert was an escort.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but she denies it, despite the evidence.


She still hasn't filed a lawsuit for defamation yet.

/Hmmmm
 
Thoreny
2023-02-02 4:02:07 PM  

Mr. carrot: While the Santos jokes are funny, I really hope they aren't normalizing the problem. If it becomes normal and funny to always exaggerate his stupid claims, the dumb shiat he actually says could be perceived as benign. Humor is a great way to take power away from something, like jokes about death, but like death just because you can find it funny doesn't mean it's not serious.

I know there's still plenty of people who take the fact that he lied his way into congress seriously, but at the same time the majority of people's 1st and only information about him will probably come from late night jokes diminishing the seriousness of what he represents.

I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking it.

/buzzkill


Be nice to Rep Santos

He's an Olympic Gold Medalist in wrestling. Did you know that he won the gold with a broken freakin' neck?
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:02:32 PM  
Yeah but how many of them can complete Super Mario Bros in under 5 minutes?
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-02 4:07:13 PM  

Wine Sipping Elitist: Yeah but how many of them can complete Super Mario Bros in under 5 minutes?


Kosmic for president!
 
alltim
2023-02-02 4:14:58 PM  
George Santos was the real real singer for Milli Vanilli
 
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