On Valentine’s Day in 2009, Biden jogged 2 1/2 miles from the vice president’s residence to the White House. While the vice president was in a meeting, she snuck into his office with the help of his assistant and painted “big multicolored hearts all over his windows for Valentine’s Day.
Not gonna lie, that’s really sweet.
Not gonna lie, that’s not a prank.
YouTube prank videos would be more enjoyable if it was.
Agreed. Or, likewise, if they were actual pranks and not excuses to commit various felonies.
The real pranks were the first ladies we made along the way.
I also choose this guys First Lady.
Good thing she isn’t married to Bill Clinton. Imagine the awkwardness
Not sure why the downvotes, I thought it was a pretty good joke.
What could go wrong if I, First Lady Hillary, just go into the Oval Office unannounced?
IYKYK.
She was doing this in her 60’s. Gives me hope that I can still get away with ridiculous stuff when I’m that age.
Only if you’re rich enough to have the best doctors, dieticians, trainers, etc in America.
Or if you live somewhere with universal healthcare.
Need a husband, I could use some of that free health care, my teeth hurt
*Good universal healthcare
I said what I meant and I don’t need you correcting it, thanks.
There are countries with underfunded, and ineffective universal healthcare systems. Ofc this doesn’t mean private healthcare would be better.
Please, tell me how great South Africa’s public healthcare is
Lol take your pick. Even Burkina Faso has universal health care, although I doubt you know how to find it on a map.
I hope you realise though that Americans pay more out of pocket even with insurance than you would pay in taxes for UH, primarily because of the price gouging pharmaceutical industry you guys set up there.
Bruh I support UBI and Universal Healthcare. I’m just pointing out how shit the idea that trash public healthcare is a good thing. The progressivists and Britain are fighting tooth and nail to kept the NHS from being gutted, and similarly we should fight for all healthcare systems to be as good as possible. Not settle for a useless and shitty “In theory this works” public healthcare system
I actually had a chance to talk to someone who is part of the flight crew who flies her (And other dignitaries) for the US as first lady and they said Jill Biden is the real deal. Extremely nice, even singing happy birthday to one of the crew when she found out it is their birthday.
Kind of one of those things I’m glad to hear about.
Though I kind of thought there was something off, but this was back when Biden was VP. (She would almost never fly on Air Force 2 now since that’s the VP’s designation)
Off how?
I meant with the story/reporting. Mentally, I forgot Biden was VP first, and didn’t think the story would be about her ten years ago, but well… clearly it was. Nothing to really worry about.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard about a first lady.
Wow, these famous people sure have a weird sense of humor to do something like this just for fun.
She could be doing something worthwhile with her time instead, like shitposting on a niche forum of 30 something years old tech workers about a movie for little girls.
Hey Margot Robbie, I love that new film you’re in about the atomic bomb
That’s Academy Award nominated esteemed character actress Margot Robbie to you!
And I know “Babylon” bombed, OK? You can stop reminding me now.
I muat say, Academy Award nominated esteemed character actress Margot Robbie to you, I admire your commitment to the bit lol
It’s almost like I do this for a living or something.
I know this is almost certainly parody but a small part of me can’t help but go “okay but what if”.
No one will ever believe you.
Wow I didn’t know posting on Lemmy was your job, cool
Someone wanna repost this to !HarmlessPranks ?
Haha crazy bitch
uwu what are you doing step president?
So, I’ve got legs behind head in my mental image…
Stop humanizing politicians.
To bad she didn’t stay in there
Lemmy is so reddit 2.0 lol, fucking astroturfing for Biden.
How am I astroturfing? I just thought this was some funny shit for a grown ass woman to do.
“Anybody who likes things I don’t like most be brainwashed or paid to lie!” - that asshole, probably
Honestly, any First Lady doing this would’ve been funny AF. Only thing funnier would’ve been one of the more formal / stuffier first ladies. Imagine if Barbara Bush did that. She would be a legend. 
Apparently famous grown ass women are just not allowed to be funny on the internet now.
You are in the wrong place for that talk. You are looking for truth social or that kind of things for that type of talk
Nah I’ll stick around :)
Why tho?
Nah he’s just popular among this group, most of us are techies
Or people just find humanizing moments in leaders and their spouses very endearing.
Here, I’ll give you an example with Trump (probably the only example I have). There was one interview where he was asked about his youngest son, Barron, and his response was talking about how great he was with computers and technology, but in the typical boomer way of saying all the wrong terms with the wrong grammar. That’s stayed with me all this time, he seemed very genuinely proud of him.
Biden has had plenty of these over his career. I like how he defends Hunter and doesn’t see him as worse for having gone through a drug addiction. Leaked phone calls show it wasn’t an act either – he genuinely still loved and cared about his son.
And then you’ve got Obama, who was chock full of them. It’s a big reason why he’s so well-liked. He was very in tune with jokes about him and he played off of them. Remember the White House Correspondents Dinner where he said he was releasing his birth video to prove he was American, and then showed the beginning of Lion King?
Even Bush. He was listening to schoolchildren when he got the news about 9/11. He first finished what he was doing with the kids so they wouldn’t be alarmed, and then he addressed the situation from an adjacent classroom. He made it a point to give those kids at least another hour or two of being able to be carefree kids, and I respect that.
That pretty much covers all of the ones in my lifetime that I’ve been old enough to pay attention to.
While I don’t think your premise is correct, I appreciate the lengthy write up and the stories, it is possible the OP felt it was just an endearing story. I consume a lot of politcal media/news and not many people that are active politically (and not just vomiting left/right wing talking points from cnn/fox) think positively of this administration to the point it has become really doubtful for me that anyone can truly share positive info on Biden’s family or the Biden admin unless it is to promote a politically motivated agenda. I think most people that still promote his admin fall into a few catagories: either they are very poorly informed/misinformed through watching bias media (cnn/msnbc, not to say right right wing media isn’t bias just doesn’t apply here) with little to zero personal investigation or research, not politically involved/echo chamber because orange man bad and all conservatives are racist/bigots and want to strip women’s rights, or attention seekers, the kind that only wish to be a victim or virtue signal. Sadly because people are so determined to form sides and be either team red or team blue, most people (especially young college age/indoctrinated youth) are very binary.
I think it’s important to look at what causes the “conservatives evil” viewpoint. Consider the political exposure for someone under 30. In my lifetime, the only conservative administrations I’ve been able to observe are Bush and Trump. I saw McConnell apply a new standard to deny a Democrat president a SCOTUS pick, and then 4 years later watched him ignore that standard in an even more egregious situation. In just the last few years I’ve seen LGBT people be increasingly demonized solely by the right. I’ve seen conservatives outraged at trans healthcare that’s recommended by medical/psychiatric experts. I’ve seen them outraged about basic vaccine science and wearing masks to stop the spread of disease. I’ve seen Trump baselessly claim his election loss was rigged, and incite an insurrection at our capital. I’ve seen abortion rights stripped away with absolutely no recourse. I’ve seen conservatives constantly harp on the national debt and deficit while a democrat was president, yet voted for tax cuts projected to add 1-2 trillion to the debt.
And perhaps the worst part, I’ve seen barely, if any, criticism of these actions by other conservatives – especially conservative leadership. They tacitly approve of all this because it strengthens their power politically. How could I look at all this and not come out with a visceral distaste for Republican politicians?
Note that I said politicians though, and not voters. I grew up in a mid Missouri college town, which was a rich blend of conservative and liberal thinking in general, not just politically. I know there’s value in conservative thinking – in just the abstract, it provides a necessary balance to liberal thinking, and questions if changes are actually needed. Often times I believe they are needed, but it’s an important mindset to consider.
All of this is why millennials and Zoomers have so heavily soured on the right. And the GOP still doesn’t see it. They’d rather suppress the young vote and wonder why we don’t see the brilliance in their ideas, instead of actually trying to understand the dislike.
How do you that it’s astroturfing and not that you’re actually in the minority?
