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“Years ago now — 15 years ago — I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday and lightning struck at home on a little lake that is outside of our home — not on a lake, a big pond,” Biden said.

“And it hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, air conditioning ducts. And to make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat.”

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[-] [email protected] 109 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh the one hand: "kitchen fire" makes it sound like like an unserious stovetop mishap vs a fire that happened to manifest in the kitchen after a lightning strike. Pretty disingenuous but it's NYPost so not surprised

On the other: Whinging about how you nearly lost your classic sports car in a fire to people whose lives have been at worst destroyed or at best irrevocably altered is not a good look Brandon. Not doing much to beat the "out of touch Dem" allegations

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

As well as lying about almost losing his wife, to a crowd that may well contain people who just lost loved ones

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Me explaining to a shooting survivor who lost friends that my buddy got shot in a COD match right in front of me and it's basically the same thing

[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago

i'm convinced we could be getting Trump-level gems regularly if it weren't for those little fuckin shithead aides.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

If you don't clap, you ain't Hawaiian.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

In high school I had a really shitty week where all of my pets died, my adoptive father almost died, and our house burnt down

My AP bio teacher tried "comforting" me by saying "I'm buying a house right now so I know what you're going through" it was so tone deaf I couldn't even say anything

She also very unfortunately experienced 2 miscarriages that year and I get why she didn't want to share that with me but like why compare being homeless and grieving to...buying a house????

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

She really thought the main problem with your house burning down was having to deal with a realtor lol

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not anywhere on the same level, but after I proposed to my wife, I told some people at work and all the divorced shitheads (there were a lot) were all like "haw haw haw good luck" smuglord

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

And were they right? Or were they just a bunch of losers too emotionally immature to maintain a marriage? I’m guessing the latter. Fucking men.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One is divorced and has a few DV charges, the other I later found out was a horrible, racist sex pest. There were 5 people on the sex offender registry all working at the same time at one point while I was there. There were only like 20 people in the building at any given time.

I know "good luck" usually is said in jest, but I'm having incredible luck being married to her. Best decision I, or we ever made

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

Hey he actually showed up this time!

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

shit, it's Maui. if my work floated the idea of sending me to Maui, I'm not gonna be trying to weasel out of it.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

saul-stare "lets go Brandon? Okay, where is he going?"

i guess we found out

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

no more half measures walter

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Regardless of the content of the article:

"as protesters demand prez leave"? C'mon NY post. Is there a headline character limit that you need to change?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

They like to pretend people still read print media and need to make headlines fit.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Just replace contagion with conflagration and this still works

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Always angers me that Hawaii is a us state

I honestly try not to think about it amerikkka

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Some day it won't be, we all can look forward to that

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The us Military will murder every single one of us before it gives up that strategic position.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

They use it and other islands to justify owning like the entire surface of the earth over oceans

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

"Oh this is just like being comfortably bored in a McMansion with a lot of ice cream!" liberalism

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Street Corn was a bad food. biden-rember

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Glad to see we're getting 2020 campaign-trail Joe back

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

man, Biden could've had a real good statement here if only Maui succumbed to cancer or was in a tragic car accident.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

"Dont worry about it, Jack. Things'll shake out in the end"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Making memes out of fire victims? Ehhh no

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Joe, these fires have killed more than 100 people. Cool year of car though. I hear '67 cars were great

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

whywhywhywhywhy I don't live in a hotel folks

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

trump-drenched Their "big water, ocean water"

biden-alert Our "little lake…not a lake, a big pond"

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

The NYPost doing fact checking of the president is very ironic, very funny

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

lmao. As I read the headline, even though it's Biden, the abstract idea of an old man trying to console people and being told to fuck off still made me feel bad. I imagined some grandfatherly figure bereft of words, feeling helpless, just saying in a quiet voice "ok" as he shuffles away.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Smh so much for being the griever in chief, Christmancels stay losing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I know! I really liked that narrative. I'm starting to suspect he wasn't making "mourning face", I think he was just nodding off.

My cat makes the same face as Joe Biden when he's falling asleep on his loaf form.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

"I had a fire once, fire is hot isn't it? Golly."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He forgot to mention that one time he travelled to the centre of our solar system in a ship carrying a bomb that was designed to kickstart our sun's core before it died and wiped out all life.

That was warm.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Please, please don't compare a domestic incident to a natural disaster... they are both bad but someone tasked with leading a country should know it's a very short-sighted and inconsiderate comparison.

Just visit the place and provide relief aid where it's most needed 🤷‍♂️

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