# The Biden Administration: a puppy-hug in the making **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886 "2021-01-19T15:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/42 "2021-04-16T12:10:33Z")
Based on how the Constitution was originally written, I imagine it would only be worth $12. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/43 "2021-04-16T16:48:07Z")
Eh, I’ll chance it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/44 "2021-04-30T17:39:23Z")
Now that asshole has been caught _giving a flower to his wife_! Is there no depth of depravity to which he will not sink? > **[Newsmax host attacks Biden for giving his wife a dandelion -- and suggests it...](https://www.rawstory.com/grant-stinchfield/)** > > Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield lobbed a scientifically illiterate attack against President Joe Biden this week after the president was filmed giving a dandelion to first lady Jill Biden.While walking to Marine One on Thursday, Biden bent down to the... ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/45 "2021-04-30T17:49:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Now that asshole has been caught _giving a flower to his wife_! Is there no depth of depravity to which he will not sink? - > > [Newsmax host attacks Biden for giving his wife a dandelion -- and suggests it will 'give everybody asthma' - Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/grant-stinchfield/) I’m surprised he didn’t claim the White House is deteriorating from lack of maintenance and lawn care as evidenced by a dandelion growing in the grass. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/46 "2021-04-30T17:51:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I say it was a planted dandelion there, who knows. Because dandelions are hard to find in nature. And if you are going to fake a romantic gesture, a dandelion is the first flower that comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/47 "2021-04-30T18:31:19Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Because dandelions are hard to find in nature. And if you are going to fake a romantic gesture, a dandelion is the first flower that comes to mind. DandelionGate is going to be the scandal that brings down this administration, mark my words!! ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/48 "2021-04-30T18:32:27Z")
It’s really so nice having a normal human as president again. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/49 "2021-05-01T00:56:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m surprised he didn’t claim the White House is deteriorating from lack of maintenance and lawn care as evidenced by a dandelion growing in the grass.   The photo showed a bunch of dandy lions in the grass. The one Joe gave to Jill was a puffy seed head. The NewsMax guy, who couldn’t resist showing off his knowledge of the dandelion life cycle, jumped all over Joe for giving Jill a dandelion that hadn’t even reached its flower stage yet. He also said it would give everyone asthma. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/50 "2021-05-01T01:04:11Z")
ETA: Cite for the above claims (one of any number you can find): [https://www.politicalflare.com/2021/04/newsmax-host-criticizes-biden-for-giving-jill-a-dandelion-because-it-will-give-everyone-asthma/](https://www.politicalflare.com/2021/04/newsmax-host-criticizes-biden-for-giving-jill-a-dandelion-because-it-will-give-everyone-asthma/) > [@](#): > > Stinchfield is not just a terribly stupid political hack, either. His stupidity is the best kind – pure. He must never have been a kid, either (which would explain a lot) because when we were kids we would blow on dandelion heads, sending their seeds into the wind, and learned that no one died, or went into an asthma attack. **Stinchfield would also have failed Second Grade Botony because he said that the dandelion hadn’t even “flowered yet.”** ETA: Breaking news! Pfizer, Moderna and a few others are already competing to be the first out with a preventive Dandelionitis vaccine! Would you take this jab? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/51 "2021-05-01T02:20:56Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > ETA: Breaking news! Pfizer, Moderna and a few others are already competing to be the first out with a preventive Dandelionitis vaccine! Would you take this jab? Do the few others include Ortho and Roundup? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/52 "2021-05-01T06:43:41Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > Do the few others include Ortho and Roundup? It could, I think there is room for more vaccine producers since Trump’s deal with Clorox fell through. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/53 "2021-05-01T13:41:45Z")
Ha ha so funny how conservative commentators in the US think they still have credibility any more. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/54 "2021-05-01T16:15:24Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Ha ha so funny how conservative commentators in the US think they stilI have credibility any more. What’s _really_ funny is how everybody lets these radicals get away with calling themselves “conservative.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/55 "2021-05-01T16:48:47Z")
…and taking their word. This will be society’s downfall, if I may be so dramatic. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/56 "2021-05-01T22:34:32Z")
Good point ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/57 "2021-05-01T22:40:13Z")
Then where is the push-back from the “true conservatives”. IMHO they don’t exist. They where more about the racism and other bigotry than “fiscal conservative” and other bullshit all along. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/58 "2021-05-01T22:42:37Z")
Joe is doing a great job. Republican here, voted for him. Think he’s doing wonderful! First 100 days are great. But Goddammit! If _MY FUCKING_ dog bit 2 people, it would be hauled off and put down! That is some Old Bullshit unacceptable crap right there! Lock those fuckers back up in Delaware, dammit! In My Humble Opinion, being the President does not excuse you from being a responsible pet owner. In fact, it should be a disqualifying event (yes, yes, I know where this is gonna go…). ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/59 "2021-05-02T01:43:30Z")
I, uh, agree with you. It seems one of them (the younger one, iirc?) is not dealing well with the transition to the hustle and bustle of the White House. It’s not fair to literally ANYONE to keep him there. Sorry, Joe. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/60 "2021-05-02T02:10:29Z")
IIRC, neither time was any skin broken. Little harsh to banish forever over that, especially a rescue shelter dog. He was immediately taken away for intensive retraining. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886/61 "2021-05-02T02:38:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > being a responsible pet owner. Oh my God, the irony (or whatever). I just got my dog probably killed my a rattlesnake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-a-puppy-hug-in-the-making/930886.md?page=4)