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Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
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So this guy had cancer his whole presidency and wanted to go for a second term? Imagine he had won and then dies at the first 2 months.
Jesus Christ that’s insane. It’s like he hated the country or something
Would have been an easy way to get our first black woman as president, if he’d won.
There’s a video of Gerald Ford talking to a class of middle-schoolers, and one asks if a women will ever become president, and he says that will absolutely happen, but he doesn’t think the first woman president will be elected. He felt she would be the VP, and the president would die, and she’d succeed him. After that, he didn’t think it would be a problem electing a woman president.
I thought that was a pretty insightful take on the subject, and probably true.
Why couldn’t this be Don instead.
Trump wouldn’t ever release that information publicly and even has a personal doctor insist that he’s the healthiest person ever despite being almost 80, only eating fast food, never exercising, and a well known stimulant addiction.
Trump could be on deaths door and we’d never know.
If he does die of natural causes in office though you know the reds will claim the “libs” did it.If trump knew he was going to die he’d probably claim that he was poisoned by the democrats to at least see some more violence committed for him.
I’m convinced at this point that Trump will live forever in a cyborg body just to spite me
Only the good die young.
82 is young?
He wasn’t that good lol
Well he was a genocide supporter.
Good point. I guess that is pretty young for a genocide supporter.
/s
Coming soon
Not soon enough.
Cancer has the right to protect itself
Bruh. You made me chuckle one of the most unethical chuckles of my life. God damn your sense of humor
“Israeli attacks forced the European Hospital, the last hospital in Gaza for cancer treatment, to cease operations, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.”
And now we enter that awkward period where we’re supposed to show only kindness to someone who’s dying, because they’re dying, even if they’re a horrible fucking person.
Biden’s support for genocide handed the presidency to Trump, and between those two things, he’s enabled some of the greatest evil I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
Fuck you, Biden. You made this world a worse place. The cancer in your ass doesn’t make you worthy of respect or undo the giant middle finger you gave to humanity. Your only value was that you weren’t Trump; take away that contrast and you’re just another evil sack of shit.
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The man had one foot in the grave his whole presidency.
And yet we keep electing old people
The parties do, not the people.
The people just voted for the old racist guy instead of the younger woman.
No they didn’t, he cheated, and we ALL know it.
If the Dems would have had a proper primary and campaigned on defined goals instead of nebulous feelings and orange man bad, they could have won.
The weak and poorly defined platform cost them 6 swing states. They pissed off the Amish and the Arabs, which really hurt them in Pennsylvania and Michigan. They didn’t campaign for the Latino voters very well, which should have been a slam dunk given the deportation platform Trump had, which impacted the swing states considerably.
The Dems need to seriously rethink their strategy for 2028 or they are going to lose again. 2026 at this point is looking shaky in both directions, so the Dems need to get their shit together immediately if they are going to stop Rep issues progressing into a 2028 victory.
Boy you moved that goalpost real quick.
The goalpost was always win the elections. It hasn’t moved since 2000, Dems just keep trying to redefine how far the endzone is while they field the B team that the franchise owners like instead of solid players the fans want to see.
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The people just voted for the old racist guy instead of the younger woman.
Boy you’re just going in circles now moving goalposts. Ciao.
The people kept electing the parties, so they must be okay with it or else they wouldn’t.
Dont look at me man, I voted uncommitted in the primary.
The two party system is so entrenched that voting 3rd party is a vote for the other guy that is bad. You wouldn’t want to vote for the bad guy, so vote for our good guy instead of throwing away your vote on the 3rd party.
It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it’s certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
It also usually causes the party they broke off from to lose higher offices a few times because the two sides of the schism don’t have enough power individually to win the bigger contests. Until one of them swallows the other.
The right avoided this by doing their “reform” from within, aka the Tea Party.
No, she won’t. She will take with her a third of the party while the rest don’t want Republicans to win and then the Republicans win.
Whats wrong with AOC that the centrists wouldnt back her?
If democrats don’t want to split the vote, they don’t have to field a candidate.
It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it’s possible.
- Note: NZ greens definitely are not the same as the US Russian plants.
The parties do, not the people.
Would you like to remind me what a party primary is, and what effect it has on the nomination process for candidates?
Would you like to remind me what a party primary is
Ever since democrats successfully argued in court that they are under no obligation to follow their own bylaws, a primary is kabuki theater. When we have them at all.
Whatever excuses you can muster for why inaction is praxis, huh?
I’m just not going to pretend that the party doesn’t pull every dirty trick in the book to shut out everyone but the rightmost candidates they think they can get away with.
No, no, go on, maybe you can rehash some “2016 rigged!!!” theories about how every poll was wrong (paid off by the SHADOW CABAL of the DNC, of course) and the election was stolen from Bernie.
I mean, you already outright admitted you think primary elections are meaningless and participating in them means nothing.
Not the kind of “aggressive pro-state” we needed, but the “pro-state” we deserved.
Fuck, that’s as dark as it is clever
Oof. Metastasis to the bone. Hope Biden holds out to fuck up his parade. Give him one last parting “Would you shut up, man?”
If he really wants to fuck up Trump’s parade, he’ll die the day before it happens. The news cycle will be on Biden for the next few days and Trump’s ego show will be a pathetic side note.
Trump will just do something outrageous and Biden’s funeral will be about as memorable as his presidency.
luckily the cancer is still hormone receptor positive, meaning it response to anti-hormone therapy, which usually has more favorable outcomes(just like with breast cancer that is susceptible hormone therapy), if it was hormone negative, it implies a more aggressive type of cancer that is harder to treat. but metastasize already lowers your chances(in general prostate cancer is somewhat slow growing) but bidens mustve had a aggressive version that is still susceptible to antihormone therapy.
Once it’s out that he is getting some kind of hormone-related therapy, the MAGAs will start calling him Trans, saying he was the first Trans president, and the Dems hid it from the world.
They’ll insist on talking about it, forcing it to eat up media time and resources that should be investigating HitlerPig’s crimes.
Has Trump already tweeted something disrespectful about this?
The first-person statement (Melania and I) I saw was surprisingly typical of what you’d expect of someone in Washington.
I give it 48 hours before we see something from him and not one of his handlers pretending to be him.
Edit: I’ll take a likely-coke-fueled tweet from Don Jr. on Xitter
What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???
Well, I hope the doctors have a very sterm and frank phone call with the
invadercancer.Call Schumer. He’s always got a weak message of strength in the chamber. He’ll show that cancer who’s boss (it’s cancer).
It’ll be great it this took away attention from that stupid parade.
I wonder how many people his support of genocide killed. But we’re supposed to care about him or wish him well? No. I dont think I will.
I wish I had well-wishes to give. But Biden losing the republic because of his own hubris makes it difficult to care what trials and suffering lay in his future.
Conservatives: fuck everything up
You: How could Democrats do this?
Zoo animals: *escape and start attacking people*
Him: How could the zookeepers do this?
You expect the zoo animals to follow their nature, but you also expect the zookeepers to do their job and keep them in their cages. The Democrats have consistently failed to do anything meaningful to fight the Republicans and are more interested in keeping the Democratic party establishment in power than actually beating the Republicans.
Man, I’m usually one of the people on Lemmy who is, at least, defending that the Dems are not the core problem. I’m very vocal that the failure of the 2024 election was fundamentally a failure of the American people, wherein 1/3 of the country voted for fascism and 1/3 said they didn’t fucking care.
But we lost by a small margin, and Biden choosing to stay in until it was clear that he could not command the confidence of the party - which was past the point when a primary could have been reasonably held - contributed no small amount to fucking us.
I’m not sure lack of a primary was a problem. The last time we had a primary, there were several worthy candidates, including Harris, Warren, Mayor Pete, Klobuchar, and others. Yet, we still ended up with EVERYBODY’S last choice.
I’ll generally agree with that, but attributing it to hubris is a bit much.
I dunno man, at the point where internal polling is showing you losing in a total massacre and your response is to double down and insist that you’re the best candidate, that’s some Greek tragedy level hubris.
And unfortunately, we’re the ones who’re going to be mourning the consequences.
Never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.
Hubris isn’t malice, though.
Man, I know I’m being naive but I truly want to believe that Biden honestly thought he had the best chance to beat Trump. Obviously he was wrong. But I just feel like he really believed that he had the best shot and trusted his gut until it was too late. It doesn’t make a difference ultimately. I just want to believe he cared genuinely about the nation and felt that the person most likely to beat Trump was the one who had already done it once before.
I shared your opinion early on, but when it came out that internal polling was showing Biden a massacre long before calls for him to drop out had become mainstream, it becomes clearer that it is at the very least immense hubris which led him forward rather than a rational-if-misguided estimation of his chances of victory.
I believe he was trusting his gut at a point where his gut was no longer worth trusting, and everyone around him could see it but he could not. A very harsh example of why there should be age maximums as well as minimums for elected office.
Edit: and I know this is dumb to bring up but I didn’t downvote your original comment. I see there’s a few downvotes there. I really value respectful conversations and try not to downvote people who I disagree with, who aren’t being harmful or hurtful.
Nah, no worries, I figured by your tone you weren’t downvoting the original comment. It’s fine anyway, my comment has several reasons for people to legitimately object to it.
People want more, and the problem is that they don’t let them until it’s too late. All that’s left is to wait until 2026 for the congressional elections, and then 2028 for the presidential elections.
But seeing that tariffs are political suicide in the elections, it is likely that in the next elections the Democrats will regain control of Congress and even better if they manage to get a supermajority in the House.
In another vein of Biden miraculously winning the election, apart from this news, the media is also reportedly discussing the possible first female president in case Biden’s cancer becomes complicated.
All he had to do for you to stop carrying water for him was to get cancer.
Oh, look, it’s our local fascist supporter.
Yes, everyone to your left and only your left is a fascist.
Bruh, you spend all your time carrying water for literal fucking fascists, apologizing for them, and licking their boots. You just made a comment about how it’s better now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
Accelerationists like you are fascists, no matter how much you swear up and down that you totally vote Dem while peddling every right-wing talking point you can get your hands on.
You just made a comment about how it’s better now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn’t call that better.
Accelerationists like you
Guess again. I want democrats to be better. You want everyone to be happy that they’re getting worse.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn’t call that better.
“It’s amazing what having a republican in the white house will do”
Guess again. I want democrats to be better. You want everyone to be happy that they’re getting worse.
Tell me more about how Dems in 2024 were worse than they were in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. Please. Go ahead. Say something that isn’t a regurgitation of alt-right talking points fed to gullible performative leftists like you who don’t give a single solitary fuck about the lives of marginalized groups.
That is, of course, assuming you are genuine in this, and just don’t give a fuck that you’re helping fascists if it helps you feel good, rather than being a believer in fascist ideology yourself.
I made a comment about how the press is willing to admit that netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza now that a republican is in the white house. I wouldn’t call that better.
“It’s amazing what having a republican in the white house will do”
I invite everyone reading this to also read the comment that was in reply to.
Here, I’ll paste it for you:
Spreading awareness is key. The overton window is shifting massively. Even MSM is starting to cover the genocide without prefacing every sentence with October 7.
I was saying that the press is admitting that it’s a genocide now that the president is a republican. Of course you know this, but you’re dishonest.
After all, you’re calling me a fascist for being to your left on genocide. And cancer, evidently.
