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.
The hexbear honeypot stikes again lmao
Biden is a Genocidal Nazi who deserves to burn in hell.
No, that’s Netanyahu. You’re mixing the two up.
Biden could end the war with a phone call. Dude’s responsible for genocide, sorry.
How? Short of authorizing military action against Israel, how? We could revoke military aid, we could get allies to potentially do the same, but I highly doubt we could stop Israel without any fight. They have enough of a homegrown defense industry and enough manpower and political will that they would deal with anyone who’ll give them the raw material needed to continue.
Israel cannot survive without US support. I didn’t realize that would be a contentious statement.
And who do you think gave him the weapons of the money to do it?
It’s more like a Swiss banker. Yeah, you’ll help people do a genocide but you don’t get one of the really bad circles in Hell.
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
Is it love for ice cream or just enjoying the power of having more than the others?
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.
There are pills these days that are very good at breaking down lactose for you if you take them before eating
Yeah, but most of the lactose intolerant people I know constantly forget to take them, lol.
Those don’t seem to work for me. I think it’s because they started using an artificial sweetener that gives me equal or worse digestive issues
I pay the price everyday and I will never stop consuming delicious dairy even as it hurts me so much.
So like, I confirm this.
That’s my wife in a nutshell. She’ll eat all the cheese and ice cream she can get…even knowing she’ll end up destroying the washroom afterwards!
I mean 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant.
That just means ice cream is anti-them, not the other way around.
Vegan ice cream can be fantastic, so it’s not just a dairy thing.
I guess, but can is doing a lot of hefty lifting…
Not as much as it used to. There’s some very good vegan ice cream out there. Just expect to pay more and have less selection.
Ben & Jerry make amazing ones. That brand that does Avocado ice cream is surprisingly really good (I was very skeptical). Nada Moo Cookies and Cream is pretty good.
Not ice cream, but a lot of the Talenti sorbets are also vegan and very good.
You can make a pretty good homemade version by blending bananas and avocado together and freezing it.
Frozen fruit and fruit juice makes a great creamy fruity ice cream. Add some coconut milk too
The don’t cry over spilled silk at cold stone is sooo good.
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
views dairy consumption as some kind of high status…
Is that a thing or an exaggeration?
Middle Eastern people have been drink milk longer; I guess we have a new master race?
Seriously, these people never cease to disappoint in their weird metrics to prove themselves better than others.
That’s hilarious, because historically in Europe milk drinking was viewed as something peasants did and calling Europeans butter stinkers is one of my more favorite insults.
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’
Dude I WISH ice cream socials were more popular.
Who are these ice cream hating fools?!
I have a love-hate relationship with ice cream. I love the way it tastes. I hate that even taking lactose pills I still have “issues” with the aftermath. Also, that’s a lot of calories to burn off.
I’d eat an ice cream cone with Joe, any day.
Sorbet is where it’s at. Every ice cream social or whatever should always have a non-dairy option. Fresh sorbet is so fuckin good.
Dairy free ice cream is fire.
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I don’t like ice cream because I’m vegan, but I’m not complaining about this event any more than I would a sausage sizzle or a cheese tasting parlour. I think it’s cute
So much vegan ice cream out there.
If Biden didn’t serve any dairy ice cream at this event, then I applaud him.
It’s ptsd from what your employer is giving you instead of a real bonus or better working conditions.
the last one i attended was in 1988
When I was in undergrad some of the chemistry students would do parties where they would dump ice cream ingredients into a big bowl and then dump liquid nitrogen in and stir vigorously to make instant nerd ice cream and then we would all have some
Idk if it was safe but it was delicious
that sounds amazing
theres a time and place for everything, and its college
The last one I attended was under a week ago.
Sounds like you just need cooler friends.
Pun intended.
Sounds like you could make some homemsde,l with neighbors,outside, with an old-fashioned, hand -cranked maker, recruiting different neighbor kids to sit on top of the towel, to keep the ice in the tub
