Biden holds social event with ice cream to thank campaign staff after bowing out of election
Biden holds social event with ice cream to thank campaign staff after bowing out of election
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, has hosted a thank you event for hundreds of staffers who worked on the reelection campaign.
Of course, ice cream was involved.
President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, hosted a thank you event on Thursday for hundreds of staffers who worked on the reelection campaign that he chose to exit nearly three weeks ago.
Judging by the security tents, the location offered a dose of political nostalgia: The staffers met with Biden at The Queen, a music venue that played a critical role in his successful race for presidency in 2020, when he often spoke to the public from the theater’s stage.
After having dropped out of the race, Biden wanted to show his appreciation for the staff’s work over the past year and their continued efforts in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, who succeeded him as the Democratic nominee. That’s according to a person familiar with the president’s plans who shared details of the events but insisted on anonymity to discuss the arrangements.
The event featured food and, naturally for Biden, his beloved ice cream.
I love how the Genital Observation Party can't poke fun at Biden while he does Biden. Combined with the Harris/Walz fervour, the fascists are reeling...
Biden is a good man. I would have voted for him again but he's doing the best thing for everyone, especially his family, by ending it now.
I will always respect him for what he's done.
It's funny that "enjoys ice cream" became a defining political trait for Biden. Like, yes he does, but basically everyone does.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn Trump is indifferent about ice cream.
I might wonder if he is anti-ice-cream.
Actually, as CNN reported 7 years ago, in the Trump White House, the rule was that Trump got two scoops while everyone else only got one.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/trump-time-magazine-ice-cream/index.html
Have you seen the Ali G bit with the ice cream glove?
I mean 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant. And the far right, weirdly views dairy consumption as some kind of high status...
I have never met a lactose intolerant person that didnt, upon mentioning it when they inevitably buy something full of lactose, look me dead in the eye and confirm their terrible intolerance before going into a frightening lactose-consuming frenzy that chilled me to my very core.
They know the price they must pay. They laugh at death and spit in the face of genetics. A grim, dangerous people, the lactose intolerant.
I mean 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant.
That just means ice cream is anti-them, not the other way around.
Politics aside, I've known a few lactose intolerant people who still love ice cream. Willing to put themselves, those they care about and share confined spaces with, through the consequences of their intolerance for a scoop of that sweet salty iced cream with chocolate.
Lactose intolerance will not stop me from my ice cream
I don't like ice cream. It tastes like guilt.
politics aside, nothing says 'im fucking old' quite like 'im throwing an ice cream social'
I'm 40 years old and I can assure you there is no point in my life where I would have scoffed at being invited to an ice cream event.
Ice cream is cool, man.
You clearly haven't enjoyed enough ice cream with friends
I have never not liked an ice cream event at any age.
Why would you dis someone giving out ice cream?
There’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but it is rightful commentary about how old Biden is and how it was just time for him to hang up the hat. Thankfully he was thoughtful enough to do the right thing.
Also, I’m certain the ice cream social is partly in jest and a sign that the President can call a spade a spade, even if at his own expense. The best way to accept criticism is to admit it and lean into it. His competitor cowers at opportunities that Biden regularly seizes. Biden still has many great qualities.
Our college president through one every year at start of term. Thing was... Ice cream, Mac and cheese, and kettle corn are the three foods I always see people break their cliques to have together. People just... Fucking love ice cold dairy carbs, hot gooey dairy carbs, and sugar coated kettle carbs. Doesn't matter if you necessarily know who's serving them, or anyone else who's going, people turn out for that shit. More so than even music or dancing.
Man actually. Now you're making me want to have a potluck / potlatch (depending on your region) art event where everyone just brings Mac and cheese. Not even as a competition. Just come down to the municipal park, bring some Mac and cheese, and participate in a drum circle or a poetry reading or play a banjo. Everyone come have gooey dairy carbs and enjoy each others company
What? Why? Ice cream is awesome.
As opposed to an ice cream antisocial. Which is just Dairy Queen.
This also qualifies as an ice cream antisocial: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/10137657
Beats pizza.
A bunch of friends and I all got the ice cream cone skin in Fortnite and partied in the lobby.
Hmmm. You know those phony "bring the neighborhood together events?"
I think it would be way better with an ice cream bar.
Maybe I'll make a huge ice cream bar social thing. It'll cost way too much, but who the fuck says no to free ice cream?
Did he get one or two scoops
but did he take 2 scoops?
We really do live in the stupidest timeline.
Thanks, Brandon.
Hurry up, ladies. This ain't no ice cream social
Anyone... want to guess... why I gathered you here... today?
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Yup, that famously tank-ready lefty rag, the Associated Press! Garbage bot.
The bot's really teaching us the meaning of the phrase "reality has a left wing bias"
People in here eating up propaganda like it's ice cream.
Apparently I'm the only one that remembers Biden loudly declaring "I'm not going anywhere!" right after he completely choked in that debate.
He was forced out. I really wish people would stop acting like he's some kind of a hero. People would still be trying to convince us that he's not too old if the DNC hadn't straight up forced him out.
A whole lot of short memories for politics.
And here, dear readers, is a wild someone angered by the state of everything today. They no longer can believe good people exist and, even making an exception for the bad, that good choices can be made. So they seek out truths that match their perspective and attempt to mold in reasons that don't quite fit what they're trying to say. Moreover, they forget that at the end of any single day a good choice was made, which is sort of the point.
Hahaha.
The person drinking straight from the propaganda fountain saying that I'm the delusional one.
At least I can identify propaganda.
Oh, and news flash, we are in an exceptionally low point in American history. Everything is actually falling apart. You think that having the oldest president ever who is clearly just a puppet is a sign of political health? And he's supposed to be the good guy?
Get real. There are a number of serious crises looming over the American people and our government is too concerned with lining their own pockets and making corporations more important than voters, and we are doing nothing about it.
He originally said he'd be a one term president. He only changed that stance when he believed staying in the race was necessary to beat Trump. Once it was clear that he wasn't the best candidate to defeat Trump, he stepped aside and immediately and publicly backed Kamala. How hard is this to understand? Not hard at all, which is why I think you're full of shit.
He was lying to the GOP so they'd keep focusing all of their propaganda on him until after the RNC, and then when he dropped out and endorsed Kamala, the Rs had absolutely no idea what to do and she's been wiping the floor with them ever since. It was a mastermind 4D chess move.
Hahaha oh man that's a good one.
The DNC is their own biggest enemy. They've been fumbling elections for decades.
Acting like this was some kind of mastermind plan and not just pure dumb luck requires some intense faith paired with mental gymnastics.
No wonder people have started calling y'all Blue Maga.
What propaganda are you talking about? He's leaving office, so what is left to manipulate here other than his legacy, which doesn't really impact anyone?
