Joe sticks one of his left feet in his mouth again.

You get inured to it after a while–sort of.

It seemed harmless enough, people laughed, but embarrassing just the same. The senile leader of the free world confused the name of the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, with the military force created by the British Government’s Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920, during the Irish Civil War. They had a brutal reputation.

The Black and Tans gained a reputation for brutality and became notorious for reprisal attacks on civilians and civilian property, including extrajudicial killings, arson and looting. Their actions further swayed Irish public opinion against British rule and drew condemnation in Britain.

Wikipedia.

When people laugh at the President of the United States, it should be because he made a humorous remark, not a blundering error of the kind Biden makes daily. While the laughing by the Irish audience at Biden’s gaffe was friendly, it still exposes the fact he is not playing with a full deck, with not only the jokers missing but also most of the face cards too.

And note this from the Guardian, a little bit of historical revision:

The White House has corrected a gaffe by Joe Biden that confused New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the British military force known as the Black and Tans that terrorised Ireland.

Are the President’s handlers aware the damage to America’s image caused by sending this idiot abroad? Earlier I would not have thought so but the fact they are still doing so suggests they just don’t care or worse.

Thanks to WJT.

Update: Biden to Irish, “Let’s go lick the world.”