Victory Girls Blog "Resident Joe Biden will arrive in Belfast, Ireland late this Tuesday. He is there to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement that officially ended the “Troubles” in Ireland. Ninety year old former Senator George Mitchell, who negotiated the agreement will be on the trip, despite ongoing cancer treatments. Because we Victory Girls are patriots and love this country, and because Joe Biden is guaranteed to say and do stupid things, we have provided a list of things, he should not say or do in Ireland.
"It would be pleasant to get through Biden’s visit to the “auld sod” without him causing a new outbreak of old troubles, so here we go.". . .
1. Do limit mentions of John F. Kennedy, Jr.. Biden will want too try to cloak himself in the “Kennedy Mystique”. By all means, speak of our first Irish President, but don’t beat everyone over the head with a shillelagh.
2. Don’t say “I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid”. Who can forget this one in December of 2022:
I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid. I married Dominic Giacoppa’s daughter. So, you know, I got a little Italian in me now, you know?”-Joe Biden
3. Don’t mention the Irish and drinking or being sober, or being in jail. Another one of Biden’s favorite shibboleths, this is as funny to me as jokes about my Appalachian family, you know what I mean. Here’s Joe from the Washington Examiner:
“I’ve been to Ireland many times, but not to actually look up, to find my actual family members. And there are so many — and they actually weren’t in jail,” Biden joked.
He then moved on to perhaps the most well-known Irish stereotype: their penchant for drinking alcohol.
“There’s still a place called Finnegan’s pub … that’s related to my family,” he continued. “I’m the only Irishman you ever met, though, that’s never had a drink, so I’m OK. I’m really not Irish.”
4. Don’t repeat the story about your Irish Aunt saying there was nothing wrong with your Dad except he was English. Like many Americans Joe’s heritage is mixed. That’s why it’s not a good idea do drag anyone’s ancestry. Biden is Irish but he is also English. From Politico:
Left out of the fanfare was most of Biden’s paternal lineage, which is about three-quarters English. While he has made a habit of name-checking his father’s Irish Hanafee ancestors, Biden’s non-Irish ancestry has not played a prominent role in his public image.
According to Biden, it has also played a limited role in his own self-image, on account of the early influence of his mother’s family. When the future president was a young boy, he recalled his great-aunt Gertie telling him, “Your father’s not a bad man. He’s just English.”
“There is an ongoing debate as to whether Biden is an Irish, English or German name,” Biden told Irish America in 1987, but his Scranton relatives preferred not to dwell on the likelihood that they were living under the same roof as an Englishman. “My grandfather and my mother were never crazy about it being English and used to say, ‘Tell him it’s Dutch,’” he recalled. (Later, Biden began describing his surname, accurately, as an English name).
5. For the love of Mike, don’t touch or sniff anyone else’s wife or daughter. Here is a compilation of Creepy Joe touching girls:
