Look, I know that we've all been focused on the open explosion of antisemitism on American college campuses, including the fact that Ilhan Omar's daughter is apparently starving to death on the streets after being kicked out of $90,000/year Barnard College. But I really can't believe the current President of the United States claimed that his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, became lunch after being shot down over Papua New Guinea during World War II ... and people just shrugged and carried on.
He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He had volunteered because someone couldn't make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane. ...
They never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.
Of course, Biden's story contradicts basically everything we know about Finnegan's crash, including the fact that the plane crashed into the ocean due to engine failure, and that there are no records of a subsequent search finding remains of the plane.
We all know that Joe Biden lies, whether it's telling tales of long retired Amtrak conductors, house fires, driving 18-wheelers, or awarding long-dead relatives a Purple Heart.
But what I find stunning is how no one seems to care.
The mainstream media will occasionally report on major screw-ups, sure, including when Biden upsets allies and trade partners by claiming that they chowed down on Uncle Ambrose. But no questions are raised when Biden's propaganda team rushes to defend the indefensible, such as Karine Jean-Pierre arguing that Biden's absurd claim of cannibalism doesn't matter because he "lifts up American veterans" and "U.S. service members."
(Unless the service members die in defense of his moronic foreign policy, of course. Then he's just bored and worried about the time.)
But we, on the Right, are also guilty of dropping the ball. The fact that the leader of the free world (well, supposed leader) is stumbling around and making up tales of cannibalism isn't funny — it's utterly unacceptable.
It's dangerous. It's damaging. It's potentially disastrous.
When Joe Biden's foreign policy includes destroying any alliance that doesn't rely on billions of dollars in blank checks every month, we need all the help we can get. And Joe Biden isn't helping.
This leads me to a higher point I've been trying to make for years: It's time to be serious again. Not so serious that we become humorless scolds, but at least serious enough that serious people behave in a serious manner with a serious respect for their responsibilities.
But until we demand that of our leaders on either side of the aisle, why would they change?
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