Flores (right), Eva Longoria (left) in 2014 with pathetic senile groping weirdo (middle)

I saw that Eva Longoria was at the White House again now, in 2023, to promote her film, and got her breasts groped by Joe. Serves her right. And her left.

An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden

The Cut | Lucy Flores | March 29, 2019

I found my way to the holding room for the speakers, where everyone was chatting, taking photos, and getting ready to speak to the hundreds of voters in the audience. Just before the speeches, we were ushered to the side of the stage where we were lined up by order of introduction. As I was taking deep breaths and preparing myself to make my case to the crowd, I felt two hands on my shoulders. I froze. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?”

I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, “earth, swallow me whole.” I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me. My name was called and I was never happier to get on stage in front of an audience.

By then, as a young Latina in politics, I had gotten used to feeling like an outsider in rooms dominated by white men. But I had never experienced anything so blatantly inappropriate and unnerving before. Biden was the second-most powerful man in the country and, arguably, one of the most powerful men in the world. He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job. Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused. The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners — and I felt powerless to do anything about it.

Our strange interaction happened during a pivotal moment in my political career. I’d spent months raising money, talking to voters, and securing endorsements. Biden came to Nevada to speak to my leadership and my potential to be second-in-command — an important role he knew firsthand. But he stopped treating me like a peer the moment he touched me. Even if his behavior wasn’t violent or sexual, it was demeaning and disrespectful. I wasn’t attending the rally as his mentee or even his friend; I was there as the most qualified person for the job.

Imagine you’re at work and a male colleague who you have no personal relationship with approaches you from behind, smells your hair, and kisses you on the head. Now imagine it’s the CEO of the company. If Biden and I worked together in a traditional office, I would have complained to the HR department, but on the campaign trail, there’s no clear path for what to do when a powerful man crosses the line. In politics, you shrug it off, smile for the cameras, and get back to the task of trying to win your race.

After the event, I told a few of my staff what happened. We all talked about the inexplicable weirdness of what he did, but I didn’t plan on telling anyone else. I didn’t have the language or the outlet to talk about what happened. Who do you tell? What do you say? Is it enough of a transgression if a man touches and kisses you without consent, but doesn’t rise to the level of what most people consider sexual assault? I did what most women do, and moved on with my life and my work.

Time passed and pictures started to surface of Vice-President Biden getting uncomfortably close with women and young girls. Biden nuzzling the neck of the Defense secretary’s wife; Biden kissing a senator’s wife on the lips; Biden whispering in women’s ears; Biden snuggling female constituents. I saw obvious discomfort in the women’s faces, and Biden, I’m sure, never thought twice about how it made them feel. I knew I couldn’t say anything publicly about what those pictures surfaced for me; my anger and my resentment grew.

Had I never seen those pictures, I may have been able to give Biden the benefit of the doubt. Had there not been multiple articles written over the years about the exact same thing — calling his creepy behavior an “open secret” — perhaps it would feel less offensive. And yet despite the steady stream of pictures and the occasional article, Biden retained his title of America’s Favorite Uncle. On occasion that title was downgraded to America’s Creepy Uncle but that in and of itself implied a certain level of acceptance. After all, how many families just tolerate or keep their young children away from the creepy uncle without ever acknowledging that there should be zero tolerance for a man who persistently invades others’ personal space and makes people feel uneasy and gross? In this case, it shows a lack of empathy for the women and young girls whose space he is invading, and ignores the power imbalance that exists between Biden and the women he chooses to get cozy with.

For years I feared my experience would be dismissed. Biden will be Biden. Boys will be boys. I worried about the doubts, the threats, the insults, and the minimization. “It’s not that big of a deal. He touched her, so what?” The immediate passing of judgement and the questioning of motives. “Why now? Why so long after? She just wants attention.” Or: “It’s politically motivated.” I would be lying if I said I didn’t carefully consider all of this before deciding to speak. But hearing Biden’s potential candidacy for president discussed without much talk about his troubling past as it relates to women became too much to keep bottled up any longer.

When I spoke to a male friend who is also a political operative in Biden’s orbit — the first man who had heard the story outside of my staff and close friends years ago — he did what no one else had and made me question myself and wonder if I was doing the right thing. He reminded me that Biden has significant resources and argued points that made me question my memory, even though I’ve replayed that scene in my mind a thousand times. He reminded me that my credibility would be attacked and that I should be prepared for the type of “back and forth” that could occur. (When reached by New York Magazine, a representative for Vice-President Joe Biden declined to comment.)

I’m not suggesting that Biden broke any laws, but the transgressions that society deems minor (or doesn’t even see as transgressions) often feel considerable to the person on the receiving end. That imbalance of power and attention is the whole point — and the whole problem.

and…

Mika Defends Biden: Accuser Misconstrued Him, He Only Meant to be ‘Kind’
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein | 4/1/2019

In the wake of Lucy Flores’ accusation of inappropriate touching by Joe Biden, Morning Joe has wrapped Biden in a warm embrace, metaphorically nuzzling his neck and planting a big warm kiss on the top of his head.

On Monday’s show, Joe Scarborough and former Hillary campaign aide Adrienne Elrod rose first to support good old Uncle Joe. Then came Mika Brzezinski with a more explicit defense of Biden’s creepy behavior. Yes, Brzezinski acknowledged, Biden is “extremely affectionate and flirtatious.” But it’s in a “completely safe way.” She suggested that Flores had misconstrued Biden’s behavior, and ended by claiming that Biden never “meant anything from it except to be nice, to be kind.”

Thank your lucky stars that someone else has to sit through these gab sessions so you don’t have to!

BIDEN: And now, I’d like to turn to today’s announcement and begin by asking a question: Did you lay all that cable? [Sexual innuendo?] (Laughter.)  She’s a Wonder Woman.  I was watching in the other room.  But I didn’t realize — I didn’t bring along all the cable — I — you know, the empty spools.  (Laughter.)  You’re incredible.  Thank you.     
 
Look, I want to thank you, Jeff, for taking the time, and thank you for the introduction.  There you are.   
 
And I want to thank Kamala, who is there for every single important thing we do, and I’m not sure how we do it without her. [Laying cable?]
 
Two years ago, I asked her to lead an effort into high-speed Internet, and she’s been doing an incredible job since then.

As we started down, I turned to Jeff, and I said, “You know, this may be — I wonder if President Roosevelt felt a little like this as he talked about the electrification of our farmland.”  I mean, think about it.  This is — it’s almost similar.

I’ll bet that made the Corn Pop.

Baud dude.

All that is a result of a failed economic policy I call trickle-down economics — it was called “trickle-down economics” as well — a belief that we should give tax cuts to the very wealthy and big corporations and expect it to trickle down to everyone else, benefit across the board.

For folks looking for an affordable Internet ban [sic] — plan, just go to GetInternet.gov.  GetInternet.gov. 

A woman named Beth wrote me from Iowa.  She lives in a valley that’s a dead zone to cell — to cell reception.  She’s also gotten Internet via satellite, which goes out when it rains or snows.  She can’t get emergency alerts.  Even in good weather, it’s spotty.
 
Then, last year, a local telecom company with just 13 employees sent Beth a postcard.  They had received funding from the American Rescue Plan.  Now they were installing fiber optic cable for homes like hers in the valley.
 
And here’s what she wrote to me, and I quote, “You can imagine my joy.”  She called them right away.  And the next day, they sent someone out to survey her yard.  [!] [87,000 IRS agents?] As Beth wrote, “This is the best thing that has happened to rural America since the Rural Electrification Act brought electricity to farms in the ‘30s and ‘40s.”  End of quote.

And the cable will be made in America.  Let me say that again: The cable is going to be made in America. 

Or not.

More people are starting small businesses than ever.  And everyone who applies for bal- [Belial? Baal? Balances with 10% for the Big Guy?] — a small-business line is a sign of hope. 

No mention of the Queen:

May God bless you all.  And may God protect our troops.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming. 
 
Q    Mr. President, did you — did you lie about never speaking with Hunter about his business deals?  Did you lie about never speaking with Hunter about his business deals, sir?
 
THE PRESIDENT:  No. 

— Remarks by President Biden on Broadband Investments, June 26, 2023

Not laughter. Cackles:

HARRIS: So I will begin with a brief story.  Last year, I visited a small town in Louisiana called Sunset — Mitch — (laughter) — a rural community of about 3,000 people outside of Lafayette, a region where some of my extended family live.

Sunset is like many other small towns in America.  It has a Main Street with a bank, a church, and a donut shop.  (Laughter.) 

Not laughter. Cackles.

— Remarks by Vice President Harris on Broadband Investments, June 26, 2023

Sometimes, I read news in a half-awake state.

Occasionally, when I’m done reading them, I say:

“Wait. What?”

This is one of those.

Iowa Weatherman Quits, Citing PTSD From Threats Over ‘Liberal’ Climate Coverage
NY POST | June 22, 2023 | Ariel Zilber

A longtime meteorologist is quitting his job at an Iowa TV station and plans to change careers after viewer backlash over his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” led him to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Chris Gloninger announced Wednesday that he will depart KCCI-TV in Des Moines in July, according to the Washington Post.

The 18-year TV veteran, who joined the CBS affiliate in 2021, told the newspaper he was inundated with “harassing” emails calling him an “idiot” for his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” which had him “pushing nothing but a Biden hoax.”

“I was not sleeping,” Gloninger said. “I had bags under my eyes.”

Some of the commenters asked for his address while others vowed to give him “an Iowan welcome you will never forget,” according to the Washington Post.

Another troll angrily urged Gloninger to “go east and drown from the ice cap melting.”

The messages took a toll on Gloninger, who started seeing a therapist and sought treatment for PTSD.

When one of the angry messages appeared in his inbox, he rushed home from the hair salon where his wife was waiting alone and suggested to her that they call the police, according to the Washington Post.

Police in Iowa located a man in the town of Lenox, 63-year-old Danny H. Hancock, who was found to have been the one who sent the threatening messages.

Wait. What?