For the longest time, it has been either insinuated or outright stated by our supposed intellectual betters on the left about how First Lady Jill Biden is the “wiser” of the two senior Bidens who currently occupy the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But you wouldn’t know it based on some of the really cringe-inducing things she’s said and done since her husband Joe was sworn in, one of which happened Monday in the aftermath of the NCAA women’s basketball championship game, which was played Sunday in Dallas.
In it, the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85, making it the first time in school history that one of their basketball teams (men or women) brought home an NCAA championship.
On Monday during a trip to Denver, Mrs. Biden, who had been at the game the night before, said LSU would be invited to the White House as championship teams at both the college and pro levels often are – but that Iowa also should be invited:
“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” she said. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about whether President Joe Biden would also extend a White House invite to Iowa — and whether it would be a joint visit with LSU or a separate engagement.
One of the stars of the game, LSU’s Angel Reese, responded to the news by using laughing emojis and calling Biden’s invite “A JOKE”:
Honestly, it doesn’t make sense in my opinion to invite the losing team to the White House, considering it’s a “winner’s privilege” to be able to go.
But considering Reese’s response, some are ripping “Dr.” Biden for claiming another kind of so-called “privilege” – “white privilege.”
The rationale behind it appears to stem from the backlash to Reese flashing the “you can’t see me” sign at Iowa star player Caitlin Clark at the end of the game, something Clark herself had done to a Louisville player during Iowa’s game against them in the Elite Eight.
Reese has taken criticism over her version of trash talk, and when asked about it, she’s said in so many words that the reason why she’s taking heat is because she’s black (she says Clark, who is white, was widely praised when she did it).
Anna Horford, who is the sister of NBA legend/former Boston Celtics player Al Horford, summed up the thoughts of a lot of the Very Online Left in reaction to Jill Biden’s invite of both LSU and Iowa:
My thought here is that maybe Jill Biden is trying to “Beer Summit” Clark and Reese by bringing them together in the spirit of sportsmanship or whatever, which would actually be very dumb if so, because to the victors go the spoils, and that includes being able to do some trash talk against the losing team and visit the White House (if that’s your thing).
Unfortunately for us all, Biden expressing her wish for LSU and Iowa to travel to the White House was not the worst of what she said:
In her remarks, Biden also marveled at how far women’s sports in the U.S. have come since Title IX in 1972 gave women equal rights in sports at schools that receive federal funding.
“It was so exciting, wasn’t it?” she said. “It was such a great game. I’m old enough that I remember when we got Title IX. We fought so hard, right? We fought so hard. And look at where women’s sports have come today.”
Right, I mean women’s sports have come so far that your very powerful husband is a proponent of altering Title IX along with allowing men who identify as women to compete in their sporting events and win. Yay, feminism! Right?