That’s what then Vice President Dan Quayle did in 1992, when he tried to correct a New Jersey sixth-grader’s accurate spelling (p-o-t-a-t-o) by adding an “e” on the end. And just that quickly, he went from being the No. 2 guy in the White House to a cocktail-party/lunch-table brunt of everyone’s sarcasm. As if he weren’t already . . . but that’s a whole other story.

So whom can we ridicule today? Let’s see, now . . . maybe for first-grade arithmetic failure, rather than spelling? How about Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu? He’s already been ridiculed enough recently, and should be fairly adept at taking it on the chin. But his earlier problems merely arose from his disastrous management of Russia’s war against Ukraine, and his toxic relationship with the late Yevgeny Prigozhin . . . no bid deal. This time, though, he really screwed up.

He publicly added 6+6, and came up with =11.

No, it’s true; he really did. And he made the further mistake of saying it to a group of journalists following his boss’ — Vladimir Putin’s — press conference in the resort city of Sochi, Russia. As reported on Telegram, he is quoted as having said:

“Yesterday, as a result of a serious attack on the Robotyne front, they lost six tanks. On the other front, in Bakhmut our guys skillfully destroyed six more vehicles with new UAVs. So yesterday just in terms of armoured vehicles [they have lost] eleven tanks.”

I wouldn’t want this guy teaching my kids . . . and I sure as hell wouldn’t want him running my war. He should probably be updating his resume, don’t you agree?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/5/23