May 8, 2019

You're not helping Joe Biden by yelling "You can hug and kiss me anytime, Joe."



This woman sounds like she's genuinely a Joe Biden fan and she's offering fun-loving, enthusiastic support.

NBC news reports:
Biden laughed nervously as the crowd roared in approval, before making the sign of the cross to suggest a prayer of forgiveness. "That's very nice, thank you," Biden eventually responded....

Biden’s wife, Jill, discussed that episode Tuesday in an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. "There used to be a time when it was acceptable for people to, I don't know, connect with one another with a touch on the arm. But now things have changed, you know?" 
The message from Joe and Jill is: Please, don't try to help us like that. And they are right. It's not helpful. He doesn't and shouldn't want to be branded as the handsy, boundary-challenged man. He's adjusted and updated himself, and he doesn't need people saying they actually like the old approach he's moved beyond.

That woman is calling attention to the old Joe that new Joe has left behind. Even if she thinks she's saying old Joe was just fine, it's blurring the message.

In fact, it's so bad that people who don't support Joe could mess with him by yelling things like "You can hug and kiss me anytime." It completely works as heckling, and I don't know why Joe antagonists wouldn't yell hold-me-thrill-me-kiss-me things from the crowd wherever he goes. It does not work as crowd participation, and the way it doesn't work is so bad that he's entirely vulnerable to dirty tricksters. And I mean "dirty" metaphorically and literally. I'm imagining scuzzy-looking men calling out "Smell my hair!"

51 comments:

J. Farmer said...

When you're a star, they let you do it.

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...

No further comment needed. J. Farmer nailed it.

wendybar said...

I agree. J. Farmer nailed it. Trump was right again.

rehajm said...

OMG that's funny. What a mess he will be. Biden snowplowing the other two dozen losers then declaring a change of heart and stepping aside for Hillary! still has a positive integers chance.

Kevin said...

There is one candidate who stands the most to lose in the coming FBI/CIA/dossier investigations.

One candidate who can't argue, "You've been ignored, but now I'm here to help!"

One candidate who supported the war in Iraq, TPP, NAFTA and the Iran nuclear deal.

One candidate who already changed your healthcare plan for the worse.

That candidate is Joe Biden.

And he seems to be their best hope.

rhhardin said...

You can't count on it. She'll change her mind. #RetroactiveRape.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

ho s fo' Joe

Chuck said...

LMFAO. If it were Trump, and an adoring fan had something as a variation of, "You can grab my pussy anytime, Donald!", Althouse would have written 450 words explaining how it was a genuine expression of admiration for a figure who was truly adored by ordinary Americans who aren't wrapped up in p.c. conventions; and oh by the way what happened to humor...?"


Kudos, J. Farmer. "First."

stevew said...

Given his position in the Democrat candidate polls I'd say she's far from alone in feeling that way. This won't hurt him at all.

Limited blogger said...

The guy should step aside gracefully. This is embarrassing for all of us.

tcrosse said...

Joe can kiss my ass anytime.

Limited blogger said...

I believe Ann is a big Biden fan. The 'moderate' she's looking for.

Infinite Monkeys said...

"There used to be a time when it was acceptable for people to, I don't know, connect with one another with a touch on the arm."

As if that were all he had been doing - a touch on the arm.

Nonapod said...

Honestly, this doesn't seem like much of an issue to mainstream Dems. The candidacy is Joe's to lose. Given his current position at this point all he has to do is not say or do anything too far outside of the party orthodoxy and he should coast to an easy win of it. Of course after that, it's a whole other ball game.

But then again, this is Joe Biden we're talking about. Given his history there's a high probability he'll end up sabotaging himself.

AlbertAnonymous said...

Joe’s “adjusted himself”? C’mon Professor....

AllenS said...

"That's very nice, thank you," Biden eventually responded....

Give that man a cigar. No wait!

walter said...

One instance where it's being put forth as "star" behavior, the other where multiple videos show a guy engaging in it.
Yeah...Joe is moving forward..with the same ole tired Dem schtick.
Tax the rich! The other guys are raaaaaacist.
Fresh stuff!!!

Not Sure said...

Sources in the Kremlin say the Russians have flooded the US market with a hair spray that causes anyone who inhales it to babble incoherently for up to four hours.

walter said...

James Comey: "It could be true."

Darrell said...

Fucking pedo dead talker.

Wince said...

"You're not helping Joe Biden by yelling "You can hug and kiss me anytime, Joe.""

"I'm looking for Amanda Hugginkiss. Why can't I find Amanda Hugginkiss?"

Curious George said...

They are trying to normalize this. He didn't someone's arm. He sniffed little girls, brushed their chests with his hand, and sniffed them. He's a fucking Pedo.

I see Chuck hasn't taken the "Don't be a dick" request to heart.

robother said...

Hypergamy, thy name is Woman.

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...

Yep George, Chuck is in full-dick form today.

Chuck said...
LMFAO. If it were Trump, and an adoring fan had something as a variation of, "You can grab my pussy anytime, Donald!", Althouse would have written 450 words explaining how it was a genuine expression of admiration for a figure who was truly adored by ordinary Americans who aren't wrapped up in p.c. conventions; and oh by the way what happened to humor...?"

jaydub said...

"He doesn't and shouldn't want to be branded as the handsy, boundary-challenged man."

Isn't it a little late for that? He's already earned that brand, and hoping that everyone forgets the events that caused the branding is wishful thinking.

jaydub said...

Biden's obnoxious, repulsive performance during the second VP debate in 2012 precludes me from ever giving him an ounce of respect, and Ryan's failure to walk across the stage and pound the shit out of him was unforgivable, too.

Krumhorn said...

Another post to give Ritmo, the pearl clutcher, a foam-flecked fit. But I see that Chuck is doing the warm-up act.

At least Obummer had the theatricality to strategically place reliable loud fainters squarely in the camera frame so that he could stop the show for 5 minutes and feign concern while EMS tended to the fallen. That was good stuff.

- Krumhorn

TrespassersW said...

Beginning to think that, in addition to TDS, Chuck is developing ADS.

walter said...

Biden would be a "hands on" president.

Automatic_Wing said...

I'm just going through my annual (Anti) Sexual Harassment training course and the stuff they're firing people over in the video is a lot tamer than what Biden has been captured doing on camera.

Amexpat said...

If Biden were politically savvy and agile he could triangulate this. Plenty of blue collar, traditional dems are tired of PC politicians on the left. Some of them voted for Trump in the last election and could go to Biden in 2020. Progressives may not vote for Biden in the primary, but most would in the general election.

traditionalguy said...

So what will the Dems have. They can pick between a child molester in the White House or a Gay male First Lady, or a Several Communists. Not that there is anything wrong with that. We already had some of all of that for 8 years. But Trump has destroyed them by exposing them and exposing the Enemy of the People Media that covered it all up for 30 years.

readering said...

Please let him not be the nominee. I can't take a a general election campaign of smell my hair Joe, grab me Donald.

walter said...

Amexpat,
Are blue collar, traditional dems all in on the Raaaccciiist! pander?
They might be able to put 2 and 2 together re the economy shift immediately post Obama.

Yancey Ward said...

I liked this from Mrs. Biden:

"There used to be a time when it was acceptable for people to, I don't know, connect with one another with a touch on the arm. But now things have changed, you know"

Sure, that is all that Joe was doing.

Yancey Ward said...

"Joe Biden can kiss my ass any time"

I think I have to DQ J. Farmer for jostling. Tcrosse for the win.

DavidD said...

Wow, Chuck seems really obsessed with Trump, doesn’t he?

Let it go, Chuck; let it go.

That can’t be healthy.

Seriously.

Sincerely,
David

Anthony said...

I'm reading Emily Post's Etiquette and I swear she had a sentence or two indicating that touching someone else in public was a serious no-no, but can't find the text at the moment.

Yancey Ward said...

I don't know, Chuck, I have been trying to find actual videos of Trump grabbing a pussy, but have come up short. Do you have CCTV footage of your meeting with Trump we haven't seen?

Yancey Ward said...

At least Biden doesn't do the intercourse hello.

Darkisland said...

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/04/29/goodbye-handshakes-some-companies-considering-banning-all-physical-contact-in-workplace/

John Henry

narciso said...

Hes much worse:

https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/05/08/joe-bidens-despicable-lie-about-a-tragedy-reveals-a-man-lacking-character-and-moral-fiber/

Drago said...

"You're not helping Joe Biden by yelling "You can hug and kiss me anytime, Joe."'

I am quite sure LLR Chuck hadnt meant to blurt that out, but he got caught up in the moment.

I will say this, LLR Friar Chuck's Durbin Blowup Doll has got to be feeling like a 3rd wheel right now..

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

"Look, Ma! No hands!!"

Francisco D said...

Chuckles,

I suspect Trump publicly laughed at your pencil dick, sort of like the boys in 5th grade.

That is why the hatred goes so deep.

elkh1 said...

A touch on the arm, a smell of the hair, and a breath at the neck.

Yancey Ward said...

A touch on the arm, a smell of the hair, and a breath at the neck......introducing "Biden", by Calvin Klein.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

A touch on the arm,
a smell of the hair,
and a breath at the neck.

and I give a little peck
Oooh, Baby, that's a what I liiike!!

Nichevo said...


Curious George said...
He's a fucking Pedo.

He does it to girls, boys, women, he's an omnivore.

I see Chuck hasn't taken the "Don't be a dick" request to heart.

Yeah, and he took a pass on the "shut your whore mouth. Stop running your cocksucker" advice, too. Sad!

n.n said...

Then she lost consciousness, and everyone had a good laugh.

n.n said...

The first rule of social liberalism is that you don't speak of social liberalism. Trump broke the cardinal rule when he exposed, in private, the twilight fringe of this elite class. They have been on a witch hunt, dreaming of a warlock trial, for this sacrilege and other secular causes that harm their pursuit of wealth, pleasure, leisure, cats without hats, planned babies, and democratic leverage.