Joe Biden just elbow-bumped Mike Pence's mother

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Link to tweet

[Bev54]

1. Oh, disappointing, I thought maybe in the eye! n/t

[TruckFump]

2. Biden is so cool.

He just has such charm and is so for real.

What a welcome breath of fresh political air!

[BComplex]

3. That's not "the mother of Mike Pence". That's Mike Pence's "mother"....what he calls his wife.

[DesertRat]

5. I was gonna say she looks very young to be Pence's mother

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9. losing a bit in the explaining, a little obscure

...he calls his wife 'mother.'

from 2017 Rolling Stone, about a 2013 story:

While Mike Pence was governor, his relationship with the Democratic minority in the legislature was crap. Someone on his staff suggested having the Democratic leaders over to the governor’s mansion for dinner. The table was set for 20, but there were only around seven in attendance. One unlucky legislator stuck next to Pence tried to make conversation, but found even at dinner she couldn’t shift Pence off his talking points. Gov. Pence shouted to his wife, Karen, his closest adviser, at the other end of the table.

“Mother, Mother, who prepared our meal this evening?”

The legislators looked at one another, speaking with their eyes: He just called his wife “Mother.”

Maybe it was a joke, the legislator reasoned. But a few minutes later, Pence shouted again.

“Mother, Mother, whose china are we eating on?”

Mother Pence went on a long discourse about where the china was from. A little later, the legislators stumbled out, wondering what was weirder: Pence’s inability to make conversation, or calling his wife “Mother” in the second decade of the 21st century.

[DirkLerxst]

4. I can't imagine Trump exchanging pleasantries with Kamala and her husband.

Joe Biden is simply a very decent man.

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8. just thinking of the protocol

...or just the decency of the moment, it's sad Joe had to tap Pence on the shoulder to get him to acknowledge him.

Just the bigger man in every way.

[Poiuyt]

11. Welcome to DU!

[DirkLerxst]

13. thanks

[KansasKali]

6. Which one? Biological or spiritual?

[SidDithers]

7. Matrimonial...nt

Sid

[BComplex]

10. Ha Ha!

[Poiuyt]

12. Notice how Pence is clenching his fist?

[moonscape]

14. Good catch! n/t

[ecstatic]

15. Eww. I hate that he was that close to typhoid pence

Everyone around pence gets covid.

[Blue_true]

16. Honestly. I am just glad to see a crowd of people ALL wearing masks.

Imagine where we would be today if Trump embraced science?