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.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
    132·
    3 months ago

    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…

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    125·
    3 months ago

    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.

        • Moneo@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          Biden could end the war with a phone call. Dude’s responsible for genocide, sorry.

          • Mirshe@lemmy.world
            5·
            3 months ago

            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.

            • Moneo@lemmy.world
              4·
              3 months ago

              Israel cannot survive without US support. I didn’t realize that would be a contentious statement.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        21·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    80·
    3 months ago

    It’s funny that “enjoys ice cream” became a defining political trait for Biden. Like, yes he does, but basically everyone does.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      3 months ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Trump is indifferent about ice cream.

      I might wonder if he is anti-ice-cream.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      24·
      3 months ago

      I mean 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant. And the far right, weirdly views dairy consumption as some kind of high status…

      • Starayo@lemm.eeEnglish
        36·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • Natanael@slrpnk.net
          7·
          3 months ago

          There are pills these days that are very good at breaking down lactose for you if you take them before eating

          • Starayo@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Yeah, but most of the lactose intolerant people I know constantly forget to take them, lol.

          • gac11@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            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

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          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.

        • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          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!

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        I mean 36% of Americans are lactose intolerant.

        That just means ice cream is anti-them, not the other way around.

          • pingveno@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            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.

          • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
            4·
            3 months ago

            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.

            • Telorand@reddthat.com
              1·
              3 months ago

              You can make a pretty good homemade version by blending bananas and avocado together and freezing it.

              • rekorse@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 months ago

                Frozen fruit and fruit juice makes a great creamy fruity ice cream. Add some coconut milk too

      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          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.

        • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          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

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
          25·
          3 months ago

          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

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          7·
          3 months ago

          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

    • redisdead@lemmy.world
      36·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      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

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      6·
      3 months ago

      A bunch of friends and I all got the ice cream cone skin in Fortnite and partied in the lobby.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Nothing says ageist like making it as if being old is bad. As if you won’t be one day. It’s weird.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 months ago

    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?

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Do you… think they have a gun to his head? Or that he’d care if they did?

      He believed in Harris when he campaigned with her as his Vice Presidental Nominee. He believes in her now for POTUS. But more importantly, he believes in stopping Trump, Project 2025, and fascist rule in the US. (And he’s still popular with older voters in certain swing states.) Let him do what he wants!

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Where… what is coming from? I’m not attacking you but you said we should let him go. In fact you said it twice. If one of the most powerful people in the world wants to do something, I’m sure it’s their preference. Right…??

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              I’m a right-wing conspiracy theorist!? You must be out of your mind! Maybe you saw like one sarcastic comment??

              I invite anyone else to prove me “right”…

              Anyway, my only point is that he can do what he wants. And is.

                • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  Lol, no. We’re not going to continue discussing anything until you defend your comment:

                  checked your post history and turns out you’re a right wing conspiracy theorist.

                  So please. Out of my 3,000 posts in the past year please link any right-wing conspiracies at all! I’ll wait…

  • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
    7·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Xanis@lemmy.world
      33·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
        3·
        3 months ago

        If you think that that old ass man that kept falling down, making up fair stories, and usually didn’t know where he was was actually making these decisions then you are absolutely dreaming.

        Dude was so obviously a puppet. I promise you that he didn’t make this decision.

          • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Excellent answer.

            Whether it was planned or just fell out this way, this is probably the best outcome we could hope for. Trump and Putin and their assortment of flying monkeys were lining up the ‘he’s just OLD’ attacks, hoping to ride that into the White House in January. Then Biden withdrew and now the ‘he’s just OLD’ points right back at Trump.

            Shitheads like abracaDavid above keep harping on Biden’s age when Biden’s not even in the race again really makes me question how much the attacks against Biden were astroturfed by Trump and Putin (but I repeat myself).

            • EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              It’s getting so bad for Trump that he’s out there fanning conspiracy theories during his monthly rally (singular) that Biden is going to put himself back on the ballot at the DNC. This all just sounds like a bunch of wishful thinking from a loser who wishes he were still competing against another old guy. Trump can’t even keep up with Harris and Walz, which is why he has Peter Thiel’s blood boy out there doing most of the campaigning. Sad and weird.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • Chapelgentry@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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?