Biden spoke about his uncle, 2nd Lt Ambrose J Finnegan Jr, while campaigning in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, describing how “Uncle Bosie” had flown single engine planes as reconnaissance flights during the war. Biden said he “got shot down in New Guinea”, adding “they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”
Link to video of demented Joe half mumbling his deranged story on the campaign trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhvUKrBziqI&t=91
Link to The Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/joe-biden-uncle-bosie-cannibals-eaten-papua-new-guinea
Press Secretary, and professional liar, Karine Jean-Pierre squirms and attempts to shame journalists asking questions about Biden's latest episode of senile dementia:
He's not wrong about the cannibals - that's where we discovered kuru - but that doesn't mean the rest of it is true.
I think it’s more a question of timing. As in, were there still cannibals in New Guinea by then..?
Almost certainly not, given that’s where the Battle of Kokoda was fought, and I don’t recall any mention whatsoever of cannibals in that context.
Could be wrong, though.
My dad visited New Guinea in the 1970s. There were still cannibals in the highlands then. Heck, there were costal cannibals, who raided villages in boats.
There are probably still people who consume human flesh in the mountain highlands now, but only as part of funeral rituals or similar.
According to Jared Diamond those people still run through their family trees to find a reason to NOT kill a stranger they happen to meet in the jungle.
I remember reading an article on the matter not that many years ago, and the tribals were lamenting that the missionaries didn't let them eat people any more (beyond possibly the "cultural and beautiful funerary rites" that involve eating a bit of Mom or Dad when they die), with the usual "but it tastes so GOOD" moan.
My morbid curiosity has made me wonder if human meat tastes really good lmao. Guess I'll never know because of those pesky white colonizers and their prohibitions against cannibalism.
It tastes something like pork. Cannibals keep diaries and recorded the taste. Sailors used to call it Long Pig.