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.
Why couldn’t this be Don instead.
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
“Israeli attacks forced the European Hospital, the last hospital in Gaza for cancer treatment, to cease operations, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
Back to .ml now bud
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?
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
