Wrote The Harvard Crimson, quoted in "Joe Biden drops ice cream and calls Ukraine ‘Iraq’ on secret Harvard visit."A talk by the former president at the university in Donald Trump’s crosshairs was 'marked by gaffes,' a student newspaper said" (London Times).
The former president held a private seminar with 50 politics students that was kept secret until his arrival. When word got out, a group of pro-Palestinian students assembled to protest outside the building....Biden is well-known for his fondness for ice cream and frequently stopped for a cone during campaigning or presidential visits. He remarked in 2023 that, “you know it’s pretty dull when you’ve been in public life as long as I have and you’re known for two things: chocolate chip ice cream and Ray-Ban sunglasses, but what the hell.”
Why did they give him an "ice cream bar"?
He's known for eating ice cream cones. Those are tricky too, but you learn — you learn as a child — to keep licking around the border where the ever-melting cream meets the cone. For all we know, Biden has retained this basic skill. Who decided he should have to tongue-wrangle an ice cream bar?! Pro-Palestinian students bent on humiliating our elder statesman?For the annals of Things I Asked Grok: Give me advice for how to eat a melting ice cream bar without seeming inept.
Here's Grok's advice followed by speculation — prompted by me — about whether Harvard students deliberately set Biden up for failure.
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Prof, can we get you to do a reprise of the egg-salad sandwich incident, this time with ice cream?
JSM
The old, thieving, desiccated prick just won’t go away.
If it is true that Biden is asking for 300k per gig/speech, not only does that say he is stupid/corrupt/out-of-touch, the whole freaking world is messed up.
Step one -- ask for a napkin.
gaffs? Lucky for puppet Joe - no one on SNL -mocked him.
Nope - everyone on the left obeyed while Joe's Soviet media lied to use about COVID and "the border is secure!"
Wars broke out under gaff-man. etc...
Why would any adult need to constantly be eating ice cream when he is speaking and doing meet-and-greet, especially if he is being paid? A diabetic occasionally needing glucose or orange juice for their blood sugar is understandable, or adaptations for another medical condition but this sort of behavior is infantilizing and weird.
Was Biden paid?
What if the pro-Palestinian students tried to kill him? Who are these students?
Grok is a hoot.
Not mentioned and highly relevant to the dynamics is: Was the ice cream bar chocolate coated? That's a whole different ball of wax.
Tina - Biden is like a puppy. He must be lured with ice-cream to get him to come out and attempt any meaningful public conversation. The media will clean up around the edges.
Joe is fine!
"Prof, can we get you to do a reprise of the egg-salad sandwich incident, this time with ice cream?"
You're equating a food I had never eaten and never wanted to eat with my #1 favorite food.
Biden is no statesman. He’s a criminal and the worst President ever. We may never recover from the damage Biden caused to our country. Apparently, we are going to have 20 million habeas cases in federal courts thanks to Joe.
Is there anything or anybody that would NOT draw a protest from pro-Palestinian students? I suppose if you already have the costume and the flags you might as well make use of them.
"Who decided he should have to tongue-wrangle an ice cream bar?! Pro-Palestinian students bent on humiliating our elder statesman?" Biden was inside. They were outside. So no.
Given the facts that both Barack 0bama and Joe Biden have been thoroughly discredited, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hack Jeffries are all eating m00npies, drinking RC Cola and barking at the fucking moon, it’s time for a reckoning and a triple flush.
I reckon.
Why did they give him an "ice cream bar"?
Naturally, I wondered if the answer was because ice cream cones are racist so I searched it. I don't think cones are racist yet, but apparently sprinkles are problematic.
I'm guessing they went with bars because bars are easier to keep on hand at an event like that where you don't know how long it may run exactly or how much time the speaker will have to hang around afterward and you just have to pass them out to anybody who wants one. Scooping and making cones is much more complicated, people standing in a line, etc.
But apparently the smartest, most virtuous, best intentioned people in human history couldn't handle the logistics involved, because the bars were melted. These folks are ready to micro-manage the whole world, though.
From the liver to the knee with the pro-Hamas d-bags.
Grok has never eaten an ice cream bar.
Our dog has mastered the art of the non-messy ice cream cone. She just swallows the whole thing. Well, sometimes it take two bites.
As for Biden, and I hate to say this, but can he just die? Or better yet, someone will find out Biden was secretly anti-semitic and he'll get cancelled. It seems that the only way we can stop reading and hearing about this corrupt anti-American gangster.
Its funny that no matter how immoral, selfish, and horrible the actions of certain politicians are, people just can't dislike them. Biden seems to be one of them. Oh look at the gaffes, haha. Good ol' slow Joe. Yeah, I'm not laughing after seeing his open border policy and his attempt to destroy trump and everyone who opposed him.
thats not a pie, we didn't have a President for four years, we had a cabal, hence Kabul happened, Malley, hence roads and bridges and air planes crashed (Rice) and the Money became monopoly (klain) but people pretended,
We complained that Biden was a professor at UP and never taught a course, and this is what we get. Harvard, naturally.
Ice cream sandwiches are convenient. Minimal mess, minimal labor costs. Harvard can't be expected to know that Joe prefers cones, and Harvard is not an ice cream parlor. Not yet anyway.
WAIT A MINUTE!
people are saying that Joe Biden had dementia?
IF this were true,
SURELY our beloved and trusted MEDIA would have Told us?
I mean, SURE, he stuttered; but mental incompetence?
"I don't think cones are racist yet...."
Cone shape ≈ KKK hat
Scoop of vanilla ≈ white person's head
I learned about cones in geometry. Geometry is mathematics. Mathematics is racist. So no more cones.
Harvard probably has the world's foremost expert on frozen treats, who advised the event organizers to go with bars over cones. But not just any bars. They had to be plant-based, fairly traded, sustainably produced from free-range soy beans on a farm owned by an LGBTQ person of color. They checked all those boxes but forgot to put the bars in a cooler.
What is Grok really describing here?
Act Fast: Start from the top ... stay ahead of the drip.
Protection: Keep the wrapper or stick as a handle to minimize mess
Lick Strategically: Give it a quick, discreet lick around the edges to catch runaway drips before they fall.
Stay Cool: You’ve got this under control. Avoid wild gestures.
Napkin Backup: Have a napkin or tissue ready in your other hand. Dab any drips on your chin or fingers subtly.
Hair: Pull your hair into a ponytail before starting. Show him you mean business.
OK. I might have added that last one.
Elder abuse.
File this under "Meh".
I'm guessing even the ice cream and sunglasses were thought up by some advisor trying to humanize the doddering reptilian.
That gives me an idea. An ice cream cone upside down on a stick. Could call them 'Dunces'. 'Frozen Dunces'. Put a little face on there made out of candy googly eyes and a pink candy tongue sticking out below some candy gap teeth.
At Halloween time there'd be a black cone, green ice cream and a crooked candy nose with a wart. And Santa ones at Xmas.
it's like the meme of the dog in the burning house
Ice cream is Ann’s #1 favorite food?! We need an “Ann is like Biden” tag, stat!
Makes you wonder who, inside Harvard, would want Joe Biden around spouting his demented nonsense, given the present state of affairs within the Democrat world. Seriously.... Joe Biden? 'Secet' sounds more like damage control by 'somebody found out about it'
No doubt Biden drooled to... they just didn't mention it.
look at who is on the Board of Directors at Harvard, and you have your answer,
"Elder abuse."
Country abuse. And this is the man who has set WW3 on a course that it will take a miracle to avert. Wait for it. The EU had the man arrested who would have won the Romanian election, based on an "act of conscience" by several of the judges, France and the UK are already preparing the way for troop deployments in Romania that the many they removed from the race opposed. The EU has removed every candidate who opposes WW3 out of Romanian from the "election" for one reason or another through their puppet judges.
As the Ukrainian army continues its collapse, Ukraine will probably declare a "unilateral cease fire" and France will immediately move troops in to occupy Odessa, which will cause Russia to react to this violently. Trump will be presented with the fact of European troops getting slaughtered by the Russians, and will be under immense pressure to act. Next thing you know? Hot war with Russia, which has thousands of nukes. The Crimean War all over again, but, as the famous poem has it: "Ours is not to reason why," or even get to have a real vote on it, and "into the valley of death" will ride the whole Northern Hemisphere when the nukes start flying.
This is how the neocons run the world, through easily controlled figureheads like Joe Biden. It just occurred to me that "the domino theory" was the same projection propaganda they always use, the plan was to knock over North Viet Nam, then knock over country after country until we took out China. Now we call Russia "nazis" while we use actual, Mein Kampf reading Nazis in a bid to destroy their country in a conflict with Western Europe that has gone on for centuries. Russia is just too big, and has too many resources, and is too tempting a target with its relatively small population defending all of those resources to leave alone.
anthony Blinken Biden's coffee fetcher a neocon, in the Cold War, he opposed Reagan's peace through strength program no he just follows what ever Malley, the son of a PLO operative, the fellow he went to Lycee with tells him
hence letting the Taliban and the Houthis win, giving money to Hamas (he was among the first to excuse Arafat's refusal)
“ Why did they give him an "ice cream bar"?
For the same reason I give my three year old granddaughter one.
Althouse falls for the ongoing press coverup of the dementia of Joe Biden. The way shoown here, to avoid reporting on his total mental collapse, is to share two small items, probably the least horrible, among the actual gaffes during his visit.
This was reported in a student newspaper at Harvard, and the London Times. The no-doubt solidly leftist and pro-Democrat report in the student newspaper mentioned the gaffe of mistaking Ukaine for Iraq. Did the reporter document and report any others? Was this rare post-presidential talk by Biden not recorded? So I'm presuming that was the LEAST BAD of dementia Joe's verbal gaffes. Where else did his dementia-addled mind wander?
Joe was also reported as unable to eat an ice cream bar without a mess. Did any other participants in the seminar have an ice cream bar with good old Joe? Surely the college kids would not refuse free food (I never did at that age) and having an ice cream bar along with the former president is a story to cherish and share forever. I ask because ice cream bars come in packs of many, not just one. Did any of the students spill the supposedly melted ice cream on themselves? If not, why not?
The press still covers for this grifting dementia patient. And by not questioning the narrative presented, so does Althouse.
A critically important subject.
But, no one has addressed yet the primary ice cream bar-eating problem: How to handle the inevitable shattering of the frozen chocolate coating when you bite into the bar? If you wait until it warms and softens, to prevent that, you will have greatly aggravated the melting/dripping/falling off the stick ice cream problem. So you end up eating a lot of crappy vanilla ice cream on a stick - quickly - while you look down at shards of crappy chocolate in your lap or on the floor.
There is no answer to this one, which is why I have generally avoided ice cream bars. No great loss, of course. Ice cream cones are better and much easier to handle anyway - melt licking and all.
The classic comedy album by Firesign Theater, "Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers," tells the story of George Leroy Tirebiter. From teenage movie character and accused enemy of the state to elderly TV addict.
Listen to how Firesign closes the story in the final seconds of the album. Tirebiter as an old man chases an ice cream truck as his voice regress to that of a child completing the arc of the story.
"Just a moment. I have to go get an ice cream cone… Hey, mister, I’ve got a nickel, wait for me!"
Sweet craving and dementia/Alzheimers patients is common.
Duck Duck Go 'dementia sweet tooth' search string and see.
According to ZeroHedge, no one is lining up to pay Biden to talk. He was not paid for the Harvard gig. And Obama use to get $400,000 per talk in 2017. Discount dementia retard Joe is not going to cut it on the lecture circuit.
Bill Clinton got 500k to flak for Russian bank, the sainted Mueller after he left the bureau, got 50 k from a mob connected mexican bank, which had laundered billions of dollars,
Now we know what Biden will do for a Klondike Bar.
Why did they give him an ice cream bar?"
So he wouldn't speak.
Rusty++!
"tongue-wrangle?" The images that come to mind...
Would an ice cream sandwich offer a dignified and satisfying revolution to his dilemma?.....I prefer a slice of apple pie to ice cream. I'm sure the nutritional content is higher and the calorie counter is lower. Beyond that, real Americans like apple pie more than ice cream. I like my Presidents to eat apple pie.
When you look at the way the Obamas and the Clintons hoovered up the money after they left office, you've got to feel sorry for this poor, forked creature going out there with a shoeshine and a smile, trying to pick up a few bucks. No book deal, no library, just an ice cream bar and the kind ministrations of a few snotty Harvard kids.
When you look at the way the Obamas and the Clintons hoovered up the money after they left office, you've got to feel sorry for this poor, forked creature going out there with a shoeshine and a smile, trying to pick up a few bucks. No book deal, no library, just an ice cream bar and the kind ministrations of a few snotty Harvard kids.
Rusty - Nice one there!
“ Cone shape ≈ KKK hat
Scoop of vanilla ≈ white person's head”
Why is an ice cream cone like the kkk.
Frozen cold cold hearted nature.
When it melts the ice cream dribbles out the pointed end like it’s pissing on you.
It has a stark ugly white on top over a beautiful chocolate brown bottom .
All the children in the US are trained to love them.
I think that distributing icream bars is much easier than ice cream cones. All you have to do is reach in the box and grab an ice cream bar and then hand it to the person to eat. Whereas with an ice cream cone, you have to have open tubs of ice cream and someone has to actually scoop the ice cream out and put it on a cone. (Unless you go with the prepackaged Drumsticks that you can buy at the store.) Also, Ice cream bars can be really inexpensive compared to cones.
My biggest problem with ice cream cones (or frozen yogurt cones) is trying to control the dripping when it melts. (It can get pretty hot in SoCal.) I used to walk from my house to the local frozen yogurt place in the Von's shopping plaza and then walk home eating a big waffle cone of it. I used to get chocolate, but if I was really lucky, they had chocolate malt flavor. Alas, they went out of business during the pandemic and there is no ice cream or frozen yogurt place within walking distance anymore. Also, I noticed that there are almost no frozen yogurt shops around here anymore. The big chains folded and Yogurtland (Which is overpriced and has small portions) is the only chain left in my area. I'm not a big fan of all the exotic flavors. I like the basic styles made with vanilla and chocolate, so I can relate to liking chocolate chip.
The whole point of this speaking event was to launder taxpayer dollars back to the DC political class. They don't care how stupid Biden sounds.
Harvard managed to pay the Biden team $300,000 anyways.
Universities in the United States are just corrupt despicable institutions that teach Marxist BS including "feminism."
I don’t have a quarrel with your Ukraine analysis but I thought Trump promised repeatedly to solve the whole problem in 24 hours.
The ice cream bar was probably in his contract like that band that specified a bowl of a certain color M&M in their dressing room.
Corrupt leftists will pay other corrupt leftists - for merely drooling into a microphone.
The grift on the corrupt left must march onward!
Why did they give him an "ice cream bar"?
Because college students only know about ramen and soy. They don’t know anything at all about ice cream.
Ann Althouse said...
["I don't think cones are racist yet...."]
"Cone shape ≈ KKK hat
Scoop of vanilla ≈ white person's head"
Only if you turn it upside down. Then you replicate the Ice cream bar problem.
Earnest Prole said...
"I thought Trump promised repeatedly to solve the whole problem in 24 hours."
links?
i never ONCE heard him say that?
i've heard him say that he COULD solve it in 24 hours..
but not once did i Ever hear him say that he WOULD solve it in 24 hours.
educate me! show me the links
Earnest Prole: "I thought Trump promised repeatedly to solve the whole problem in 24 hours."
Gilbar: "links?
i never ONCE heard him say that?
i've heard him say that he COULD solve it in 24 hours..
but not once did i Ever hear him say that he WOULD solve it in 24 hours.
educate me! show me the links"
Gilbar, what you need to internalize is that Earnest Prole presents himself as the ultimate non-partisan moderate objective observer of the political scene who just happens to jump into every thread that reflects poorly on a democrat or democrat party and attempts to redirect those threads in a negative way against Trump and/or Trump supporters.
You will not see this happen in the reverse. EP is every bit as non-partisan and objective as a typical MSNBC host.
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change evidenced by melting ice cream bars.
“The former president held a private seminar with 50 politics students that was kept secret until his arrival. When word got out, a group of pro-Palestinian students assembled to protest outside the building....”
Would have been so cool if the current president had sent some ICE agents to deport them in the middle of his seminar.
Re ice cream: bars and cones are stupid. Sandwiches are the way to go. And if you learn to eat them properly, you won’t have a problem with dripping. (Properly = fast.)
The reason for Biden’s visit to Harvard involved harvesting his body parts.
He would not die nor exit politics on time, so he arrived at Harvard a bare few years too late for his body-part harvest, according to, “Ex-Harvard Medical School Morgue Chief to Plead Guilty in Sale of Body Parts” (NYT). Harvard Dem political students fund raising scheme from The Matrix - we "Watched them liquefy the dead, so they could be fed intravenously to the living".
Try tongue-wrangling around the smooth, viscous,
creamy edges of the liquified dead oozing down the cone at Harvard’s next ice cream social.
Is it my fault Trump wrote checks he couldn’t cash or just my fault for noticing?
EP, A variant of your badly mangled line was in the film Top Gun, when Stinger (the aircraft carrier commander) tells Maverick, "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash." There are 2 separate parts to the check epigram. First, the writer of the check and then, the one trying to cash the check, as in Stinger's rebuke. Ego and body. Trump made a claim about the past - the start of the Russian re-invasion of Ukraine - that was impossible to test, a check that would have been postdated at best. If you're gonna be mean about Trump, at least get your pithy aphorisms and your Trump stories matching.
It’s mean to notice Trump wrote checks he couldn’t cash?
Why did they give the man an ice cream bar? Wrong question. Why didn't they give him a bib to keep the dripping ice cream off his shirt?
Why did they give him an "ice cream bar"?
I doubt it was a purposeful plan to embarrass the man. Unfortunately, probably the only safe thing to give Biden today is a pacifier. Not a Maggie Simpson style pacifier, but one sized for an adult, of course. The bigger question is why is Biden still being pushed in front of the public and who is facilitating it.
Earnest Prole said...
Is it my fault Trump wrote checks he couldn’t cash or just my fault for noticing?
It is your fault for making a 90 IQ comment about a completely unrelated subject to this post.
Somehow you posted the dumbest possible take on something Trump said about the war in Ukraine in a post about Joe Biden failing to eat an ice cream sandwich.
If you want to be a contrarian just realize you have to have tact and the ability to support your contrarian take with more than just a stupid one line throw away post. If you can't connect subjects or chain together more than one thought you are just an asshole.
Hey, Earnest… look in your heart!
We can always count on Jaq (8:56am) to drag in his ignorant hateful 'thoughts' about Ukraine every chance he can. Are there any "Mein Kampf reading Nazis" in Ukraine? Any at all? There are a few soldiers with nasty Nazi tattoos, but (a) there are ten times more in the Russian army, and (b) I suspect they got them when they were young and foolish and rebellious, like American teenagers with Satanist tattoos who only got them to rebel against their devoutly religious parents.
There are no Nazis or Nazi sympathizers in the Ukrainian legislature, and Ukraine is one of the few countries in Europe where Jews are in no danger of assault from anti-Semites, traditional or Muslim. (Except Jewish soldiers from Muslim Russian soldiers, of course.) In fact tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews come to one small town every year to visit a rabbi's tomb, even in wartime.
Does Jaq know where he can find serious Nazi-sympathizers near Ukraine? Romania! The presidential candidate banned by the constitutional court (Calin Georgescu) is an open admirer of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard government of wartime Romania, and one of his biggest supporters is a 101-year-old retired air force general, who seems to have fought for the Nazis in World War II. Radu Theodoru was 21 when the war ended, and most soldiers who end up as generals start young, especially when there's a war on. English Wikipedia doesn't mention any wartime service, but Romanian Wikipedia seems to say he was training as a pilot in 1943-45. It's hard to believe that he could have spent two years in school without firing a shot when his side was losing and needed every pilot it could get. It's pretty certain he volunteered to wear the uniform of one of Hitler's allies. Theodoru is also a big fan of Stalin and (needless to say) Putin, not because Stalin fought Hitler, but because he was "anti-Zionist".
To sum up, Jaq thinks Ukraine deserves to be brutally conquered, its civilians slaughtered by cluster bombs every night, for having a few soldiers with Nazi tattoos. He also thinks it's perfectly OK for Romania to elect a Nazi president, even if he's only elected with the help of massive subsidies and cheating from Putin.
Earnest Prole: "Is it my fault Trump wrote checks he couldn’t cash or just my fault for noticing?"
Thank you for reinforcing the very point I was making. Not that I required the assistance of course.
So what does Grok (which I choose not to use) think about the speeches given by a demented Ronaldus Magnus and the equally nonsensical running-off-at-the mouth slurring frequently heard from The Don?
To this day, Biden still thinks he is and as Presidient.
jabfly wants others to do his work. Shocker.
Did Pedo Pete hit on the students?
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