Many a true word is spoken in jest, an addage that appears in the Prologue to “The Cook’s Tale” (written in 1390) by Geoffrey Chaucer: “Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!”
The phrase is well known from Shakespeare’s MacBeth, “Be n’t angry with this fellow, I protest That many a true word hath been spoke in jest.”
James Joyce combined this sentiment with a similar adage of in vino veritas to coin the phrase in risu veritas (in laughter, truth).
Sometimes you try and make a stupid joke, and the real sentiment just slips out. This happened to Joe Biden as he attempted to address our troops during a speech in Abu Dhabi on March 7, 2016 while he was serving under former President Barack Obama. Team Biden issued a statement this week after the video resurfaced on YouTube, “The comment was made in Jest.”
As a veteran of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson’s fiasco in VEET NAM who came back to this now-sorry country to be spit on and reviled by the liberal and progressive folks who told us we should be responsible for our own medical care after being wounded; it was our own fault for going, afterall, I truly find it hard to find anything at all remotely funny or amusing with what goofy old Joe Biden is reported to have said there, notwithstanding any BULL**** his campaign might have put out, precisely because the types of people goofy old Joe is pandering to for his votes called us then and still do the same kind of things.
Do I think goofy old Joe, who received student draft deferments during the period of the VEET NAM war while other Americans, the less privileged, were bleeding and dying in the mud so goofy old Joe could live the good life back here and after he completed his studies, was classified by the Selective Service System as unavailable for service due to a history of asthma, although that history of asthma didn’t prevent him from being a standout halfback and wide receiver on the Archmere Academy in Claymont high school football team, where he played on the baseball team as well, nor did his asthma keep him from playing halfback for the Fightin’ Blue Hens freshman football team, and defensive back for the varsity at the University of Delaware in Newark, was telling the truth as he sees it and believes it, and as his base believes it, when he called the troops “you stupid bastards?”
Of course I do.
I’ve heard the same thing from too many other Democrats to think otherwise.
“CLAP FOR” JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT …. “you stupid bastards”, for “in risu veritas”‼️
Thank you CCM for your documentation of duplicity.
For those of us who grew up during the viet nam war era
There was a draft
It only included males
If you were classified 1A
You were most likely going to Viet Nam
You had no choice except to try and flee the country
At that time if you fled this government considered you a traitor and should you be caught you faced treason charges and could face life in prison
So for those who say you had a choice
REALLY! You have no idea of what you speak especially if you were not there .
You could have caught a bad case of asthma like goofy old Joe “Corn Pop” Biden did – that was a choice you had that did not require anyone to run off to Canada and be a traitor.
I think Democrat Charley “Chuck” Schumer had a double hang-nail that kept him out, so there were other choices available for those who didn’t want to go to Viet Nam like Bill Clinton didn’t other than being a traitor by running off to Canada.
The asthma dodge “Corn Pop” Biden used is a good one, for sure, but it certainly isn’t the only one, for certain as Charley “Chuck” Schumer proved when he got to stay out too, like Bill Clinton did.
Goofy old Joe Biden, who can’t cut it as a stand-up comedian, is really fixated on this clapping thing as we see from a New York Post article entitled “‘You are a really dull class’: Biden chides Coast Guard grads as jokes fall flat” by Steven Nelson on May 19, 2021, as follows:
Is this thing on?
President Biden’s jokes fell flat at the US Coast Guard Academy’s graduation ceremony Wednesday leading him to call the grads a “dull class” while boasting of his own college exploits including a fire-extinguisher assault on his dorm’s RA.
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Is this guy a moron?
Or is he just naturally stupid?
Doesn’t he know that he is supposed to be the president of the United States of America, not a comedian like Henny Youngman or Don Rickles?
Joe can’t bring dignity to the office because he hasn’t any, which takes us back to that pathetic performance of his as a stand-up comic at the Coast Guard Academy graduation, as follows:
Biden attempted to earn laughs at the expense of the US Navy, and like a bad stand-up whose set is dying, when the cadets didn’t respond, he turned on them.
“I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about how the Coast Guard is quote, ‘the hard nucleus around [which] the Navy forms in times of war,’” Biden said, to crickets, at the outdoor event in New London, Conn.
Biden then jeered his crowd: “You are a — you are a really dull class.”
“I mean, come on, man, is the sun getting to you?”
“I would think you would have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap.”
That jab earned nervous laughter from the cadets and a smattering of applause.
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Nervous laughter, indeed!
They probably thought Joe was about to go postal on them.
Getting back to Joe as a stand-up comic, which the dude failed miserably at, because he just is not funny, we have:
At two other points, Biden actually requested applause from the crowd.
“You can clap, come on, man,” Biden said when he joked about cadets spending “too much time at the Slice,” a local pizza parlor.
He again encouraged the crowd to clap when he praised the academy’s Bravo Company for winning a football game against a rival set of cadets.
“Congratulations the Bravo Company, by the way, on your victory.”
“You can clap.”
“It’s okay.”
“Even if you’re lost, you gotta clap,” Biden said.
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So, everybody, to make Joe feel good about himself, at the count of three, let everyone in America start clapping while screaming, “Oh, Joe, you are so funny, you’re the best ever.”