The period between 10:10 a.m. and 11:35 a.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, will go down in the annals of history as the time the US had its first woman president.
During that time, President Joe Biden had to temporarily transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris because he was sedated for a routine colonoscopy at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Which meant that for 85 minutes, Harris was the president of the United States of America.
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It also meant the 85-minute historic milestone became the butt of internet jokes. Like, yes, it took a camera going up a man's ass for this country to make a woman president.
We got the first woman president because a dude had a colonoscopy https://t.co/DlGUqTzvHm
It's every little girl's dream, really.
Just how I’ve imagined it since I was a little girl. https://t.co/YU63KGOpoX
Well, colorectal me amazed.
this feels like a veep bit https://t.co/bh0x0YXkR8
Our once-broken democracy was hole again.
Having the first female president (and she’s a woman of color!!!) in power if even if temporarily…even under butthole circumstances….still kind of cool https://t.co/FkFbMakFSS
It brought out some A+ headlines.
In the waning days of of democracy I’m glad we still have Gawker
You can't spell POTUS without POT.
I would have gone with "Anal exploration leads to first female POTUS" as the headline, but that's just me. https://t.co/T3l4wfhTIf
A coincidence?
Pretty messed up to do this on international men's day https://t.co/Cv0z8yKrGV
WE DID IT, JOE!
We did it, Joe! https://t.co/YsqKnf0csl
Butt all jokes aside, colorectal health is important. Here are some CDC guidelines on screening.
I hate that I know his business. But I’m glad this was acknowledged. We need more of this to eliminate the public stigma surrounding speaking about colorectal health https://t.co/0ZOTgN5ryN