@johnconner2046 is basically the JD Vance of The Gutter. In his honor, a Little Johnny joke and some MORE JD Vance memes!
Little Johnny was a lazy student and was failing Math badly. His parents had enough of this, so they pulled him out of regular school and enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, he came home and not a word, and headed up to his bedroom to do his Math homework. He was up there four hours until it was all done. The same thing happened the next day, and so on. Several days later, his parents came up to his room and asked, "Johnny, what brought this on? Your working your tail off!"
Johnny replied, "When I got to my Math class on Monday, and saw that guy above the blackboard nailed to a plus sign, I knew they weren't messing around!"
Congratulations to @MrsS and @wilbner. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists.
MrsS: Name a guilty pleasure of yours.
Wilbner: What motivated you to get into your chosen profession?
Congratulations to @steve-allen. Two of three of your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists. This is a first!
Whats the most regrettable purchase do you ever remember making ?
What movie scene in what movie shocked you the most?
From: America 250 OTD ·
June 22, 1776 — Self-Evident Truths
As the Declaration of Independence took shape in June 1776, Thomas Jefferson penned some of the most enduring words in American history. But Benjamin Franklin, with a quiet edit, helped sharpen the philosophical foundation of the American cause.
Jefferson’s original draft declared:
“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal…”
When Jefferson shared the draft with Franklin and John Adams, Franklin crossed out “sacred and undeniable” and wrote “self-evident.”
The change mattered.
Franklin did not remove the Declaration’s grounding in a Creator. The final text still declared that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” In this view, the existence of both natural rights and their source—the Creator—were self-evident, discoverable through reason as well as affirmed by faith.
Rights were not gifts from Parliament, the King, or any government. They ...
