Not that the Iowa State Fair doesn’t sound like a good time, but all of us here at Twitchy are awfully glad it’s not our job to follow Kamala Harris around and report when she eats a pork chop on a stick. But if you are a reporter stuck following one of the Democratic candidates around, you’ve got to come up with something.
And HuffPost has come up with something: They’ve asked each of the 2020 hopefuls how he or she performs “self-care” on the campaign trail.
Kamala Harris works out daily, and Cory Booker meditates. https://t.co/JsVByQZsIq
— Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (@sarah_grossman) August 14, 2019
With the 2020 presidential general election still more than a year away, and more than two dozen Democrats in the race, the candidates have a long road ahead of them. Given the notoriously grueling, high-pressure environment of a campaign trail, HuffPost asked them all how they’ve been practicing self-care along the way.
While the term “self-care” has become popularized in recent years ― often as a kind of “wellness trend” promoted on social media by celebrities or companies trying to sell women their products ― the concept dates much further back, with roots in the medical industry and as a political act in the women’s and civil rights movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
We can’t be the only people thinking, “Who cares?”
Remember the fuss about President Trump getting two scoops of ice cream? Of course, you do; it was on cable news for a week. Just wait until the public finds out about Joe Biden’s ice cream habit:
Biden’s ice cream habit “appeared to [an unnamed comms aide] to be a form of self-care” https://t.co/gRQBnDOiJY pic.twitter.com/463wQDXdgO
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 14, 2019
The HuffPo with that hard-hitting journalism we have come to expect from them.
— Dr. Mantis Toboggan, MD (@JayMack3301) August 14, 2019
Did I miss the “news part”?
— kathee McCright (@katheemcc) August 14, 2019
How is this even a story??
— Dan Poyourow (@DanPoyourow) August 14, 2019
Need to borrow a point? because I don't see one
— Where the Wild Things Were (@hillbillysevant) August 14, 2019
Dear Biden's unnamed comms aide…maybe he just likes ice cream.
— preising (@preising) August 14, 2019
Maybe he just really really really likes ice cream.
— MicalMacal (@mpmacal) August 14, 2019
I seriously wish I cared. Try harder.
— Insight Law Firm (@InsightTaxLaw) August 14, 2019
Self medicating with ice cream, the horror!
— Unreptentent Liberal (@60slib1) August 14, 2019
Is that supposed to be a relevant news item?
— grmyluny (@JudithT11464317) August 14, 2019
Hard hitting journalism there.
— Randy Ping(⧖) (@randarchist) August 14, 2019
Wow, this is so fascinating! You really get to the important matters.
— Rebel Lucy ???? (@LucyMadAsHeck) August 14, 2019
"Enjoying shit" is now called "self-care?"
Why do we have to make everything so pussified? https://t.co/0mg8I5XUGN
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 14, 2019
Dude can't enjoy some god damned ice cream?
It has to be analyzed into being "self-care?"
WTF?
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 14, 2019
I hate this "self-care" movement because everything becomes self-care.
— Alyssa Canobbio Hackbarth (@AlyssaEinDC) August 14, 2019
"Eating when you're hungry is a form of self-care."
"When you breathe, it's actually a form of self-care." https://t.co/JvwUqbunPX
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 14, 2019
Is this supposed to make him seem relatable or make vegans despise him and the lactose intolerant resent him? Just kidding. I literally could not give less of a damn if I tried.
— InternationalMookie (@mookiemueller) August 14, 2019
Some of the entries are funny, just for the insane amount of pandering that goes into them. Check out Kirsten Gillibrand’s aide’s answer: “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) starts her days with an early morning workout, aiming to support local, women-owned studios while on the campaign trail.”
Barf.
Related:
'LOL she's clueless': Watch Elizabeth Warren struggle to interact with an Iowa farmer https://t.co/EGhC52SvMI
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 8, 2019
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