Joe Biden, Obama Duo Charm Internet One Last Time Before Leaving White House
Joe Biden is, in popular imagination, America’s favorite uncle—or perhaps uncle-through-marriage. He isn’t the fat, orange racist who annually disgraces the Thanksgiving table. He isn’t the weird one who got super into Jesus after Desert Storm. He’s the laidback, pot-smoking, air-headed and occasionally bumbling sort. The kind of person who’s always looking to get a rise out of the right people.
The real Joe Biden has done little to propagate this image—but then again, it is the utter lack of pandering which endears us Millennial swine to politicians, from Joe and Obama to Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson. We’re free to fill in the gaps with joints and shades and plumbuses of all sorts. And somewhere over the course of these eight years, Mr. Biden was certified Dank.
So while the world enters its greatest period of international uncertainty since World War II, let’s temporarily suspend our existential dread and enjoy these dank-ass Joe Biden memes. I’m not sure how things are going in D.C. right about now—but I’d sure like to believe the following memes capture the spirit.
Joe: Okay so we sneak in one night around February, steal his shoes
Obama: Joe
Joe: And then dump legos all over the floor.— jacqueline (@jacquelinehey) November 13, 2016
Biden: Ok here’s the plan: have you seen Home Alone
Obama: Joe, no
Biden: Just one booby trap
Obama: Joe.— Male Thoughts (@SteveStfler) November 13, 2016
A personal favorite:
Obama: “Joe, why are you still holding my hand?”
Biden: “I wanna freak Mike Pence out”
Obama: “But why?”
Biden: “Just roll with it”— thomas moore (@Thomas_A_Moore) November 12, 2016
Obama: Didn’t think he’d be late
Biden: I gave him the wrong address
Obama: Joe he’s the president-elect
Biden: idgaf what they call him.
— Mr Sam (@Sammart123) November 12, 2016
Biden: Trump better not get in my face… cos I’ll drop that motherfucker
Obama: Joe.
Biden.— memes (@DailyMemeSuppIy) November 12, 2016
Joe: I’m going to ask Donald if he wants something to eat
Barack: That’s nice, Joe
Joe: And then I’m going to offer him knuckle sandwiches— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) November 13, 2016
Another favorite:
Barack: Sign here, and here
Joe: And then the adoption is final & you and Michelle are my parents?
Barack: No, Joe.— Jill Biden (@JillBidenVeep) November 13, 2016
Biden: what if I just played it from my phone real quick
Hillary: We’re not playing The Imperial March when he gets here, Joe.
— Barack & Joe (@bidenandobama) November 13, 2016
You’ve seen this one already, but it’s worth including the masterful pun by George Takei:
Obama: Did you replace all the toiletries with travel size bottles?
Biden: He’s got tiny hands Barack, I want him to feel welcome here.— Joebama (@ObamaAndBiden) November 12, 2016
In conclusion, I’ll leave you with a few choice quotes from the real Joe Biden, an accomplished statesman and deceptively eloquent orator.
We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.
