Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

Somehow I don’t think you are joking. 😢

Ugh, first that kid only getting his ear and now THIS?

do better

I don’t disagree that there is a strategy of downplaying not just Biden’s, but every politician’s health conditions.

I used to have this absolutely incredible writing professor, who, at 85, told us on the first day of class that he was dying, and had been for 4 years. He even had a blog about his reflections on mortality that he invited us to read. He had prostate cancer. I don’t remember the details, but they couldn’t operate to remove it or do chemo, but it was the kind that is hormone sensitive. They gave him a drug that destroyed his body’s ability to produce testosterone, so the cancer just stopped growing. He died at 90 - 9 years after his diagnosis. 10% extra life for him.

No two people and prognosis’ are alike but the possibility exists they might be telling the truth about managing it.

Toward what end? I don't think you're thinking this through.

I mean, we know his health report was a sham. The dude reported that Trump only has like 5% body fat. Even the most shredded body builders struggle to hit 5%.

It has already metastasized in his bones, so it's much more aggressive than most prostate cancers. After metastasizing there, three 5-year survival rate is about 33% with a median survival time of 21 months. But it's also very rare for it to have already spread elsewhere before being caught, so I'm assuming that means that this is even more aggressive than normal and that 21 months would be optimistic. But I'm not a medical professional, so I can't say how valid this assumption is.

its slow growing from what ive heard, but biden had a aggressive type, which would be different, since aggressive types usually have different mutations and genetics compared to the "slow growing ones". even with something like melanoma, there are more than one type: nodular, subungul,,,,etc. some cancers can be indentified by the type of gene mutations they have thats specific to that cancer

I know it's possible, but I also get the impression he's going to outlive all of us somehow.

They do, you just have to facilitate the happening.

This here. There is no karma and if there is it's opposite

Typical Liberal Americans.

Isn't Biden an evil person? Is endorsing and contributing to a genocide no longer evil?

Homie is really out here playing devil's advocate on behalf of cancer.

"Put his body in a tank for my parade."

If that's the case he was even more wrong about running than everyone assumed.

So glad he wanted to run for a second term then, especially after promising to be a one term president. /sarcasm

This was exactly my first thought.

And if so, that’s a double “fuck you” to Joe and everyone on his staff trying to keep this shit under wraps.

He should have just resigned the goddamn Presidency when he was first diagnosed JFC

if you're going with "regardless", might as well add that none of us will "make it'. spoiler alert, we all die at the end.

Yeah it seems fundraising is more important to the DNC than improving the country. But then again the people who pay big money to politics aren't happy with a better country. That would mean less wealth for them and more dignity fir everyone else.

Maybe it is downvoted because those weapons were funded long before Joe Biden was the leader?

Oh weird, so it wasn't a constant stream of weapons provided with stamped approval by the admin? It wasn't that the only time they threatened to stop it was only a very specific type of heavy bomb, not any other munitions? It wasn't the Biden admin who initially rejected the terms ceasefire until deep into the conflict? It wasn't the Biden admins ceasefire plans that were accepted and abandoned by Trump, proving that if they had provided full throated support of those plans it could have very reasonably happened a year sooner?

Best thing you can say about this fuck was that he was the white guy they used to get Obama elected, cause they figured no one would vote for him unless he had a token cracker.

Are we even sure he actually knew he was doing that? I wonder if he even knows he has cancer.

As another user pointed out, there's no basis for those claims other than IDF press releases, which is literally the party that's doing the bombing. Not crazy reliable. But let's say they're not lying, or wrong. Let's say that enemy combatants are holed up underneath all schools, all hospitals, all churches and mosques, and 90% of residential buildings in Gaza (writing it out like this makes it sound really fucking stupid and unbelievable, but let's entertain the thought anyway).

In the case that medical facilities are used in acts harmful to you, they become legitimate military targets under international humanitarian law. However, when you do bomb such facilities you have a number of responsibilities, including preparing a contingency plan and getting full medical service (such as cancer wards, maternity wards, and so on) up and running as soon as possible. If you don't, you're right back in war crime territory. And Israel hasn't.

But aside from legal stuff, just ask yourself on a moral level if you're okay with this. If your mother is taken hostage in a bank robbery, would you be okay with the police dealing with this situation by blowing up the entire building? I personally wouldn't, but I guess it's conceivable that you would respond by saying "the robber did the hostage taking, the cops had no other choice, and the only one to blame for my mother's death is the robber".

All of this is all hypothetical of course because there's actually no reason to believe that all hospitals, schools, places of worship, residential buildings, and refugee camps are all valid military targets. Because what moron would believe such a thing based entirely on what the party doing the bombing is saying?

When will the left learn that the president has to be pro genocide and have no plan to ease the upcoming financial suffering of young people. The left simply wants too much

The real problem was the Democratic party making tactically poor move after tactically poor move. They were too obsessed with imperial support of Israel to do the right thing for US interests and the voters. They were too "anti-communist" to consider not banning TikTok and alienating younger voters. They were willing to cede the narrative to the right constantly. They refused to give the left any progressive policy goals to chew on despite us yelling about how much all of this would fuck with turnout.

For the past 2 years, they thought corporate ads and ultraconservative libs would win the election, when that wasn't what helped them in the midterms, hasn't been the playbook in decades, and was just what let them hang out with their "good ole Republican friends" who they really wish they could ally with like in the 90s. It was a load of interpersonal bullshit, purposefully engineered by the ruling class to ensure the Democratic leadership would never sacrifice capitalism for liberal democracy's sake.

I'm tired and disgusted of this "blame the left" narrative, especially since plenty of liberals could tell that this was the Democrat's biggest issue for quite a while. They never did anything to address it because the fix wasn't easy. They went with the easy solution and expected voters to pick up the slack. That's not how electoral politics works; Lazy, irresponsible bastards

The American public is pretty stupid. I'll give you that. But I think we also give too much credit to Russia. All capitalist countries Fuck with elections. But I think it's the politicians that pay Russian elements to do their nefarious operations. The world of computer hacking is a mixture of supposed good guys and criminals. It's a great market and the people that have the most access to this is people with money and who have power. The lines are truly blurred.

Do you think you're blameless? Do you think you're innocent?

“Move?!”

You make it sound like moving houses. Just pack your shit and drive off. Most countries don’t want us, especially if someone wasn’t born lucky enough to be able to go to college, and has some formal education. Even if that was easy, it’s fucking EXPENSIVE. thousands of dollars. A lot of us are barely getting by, and a lot more don’t have the luxury of spending thousands to go to another country. And all that, to move to a place where you won’t have citizenship without lots of work, and hell, If facism takes over that country I’ll get kicked out. Not to mention leaving my entire family behind.

All this assumes I’m moving to an English speaking country, otherwise I’ll have a language barrier at the same time I’m trying to rebuild my entire existence in a new place with unfamiliar culture.

There’s probably so much more. It’s not impossible, but for me it’s not feasible at this time. I desperately wish it was.

Edit: sorry if I came off as a dick here, it’s just frustrating seeing the thing I want so bad (to leave) simplified so much. Especially if you didn’t grow up here.

I am trying to talk my husband into moving. I can probably land the job in the EU I am interviewing for, but he does NOT want to move. He doesn't want to leave the small amount of community we have. He doesn't want to overreact in fear to this administration. He doesn't want to give up our home and our lifestyle (the EU pays substantially less across many industries). Our parents are getting older and sicker; it's hard to move abroad when you know there's probably only a handful of years left with them, especially when you have children.

I think the Internet discounts how difficult it can be to uproot.

The captain of your sinking country is throwing citizens overboard, and you remain in line? Move!?

Hahahahahahaha... you sound like one of our republicans.

I work as a biomed, a sector of repairing medical equipment that is a sought after career field, desperately needed. Been doing it for five years, and I like to think I'm damn good at my job.

I also only have an associates degree.

There are not many countries that will take me with only that associates degree. It's like I tell conservatives who do the "Don't like it, move", being from the US isn't some special wonderful status that gets us open doors into other countries. Other countries don't want us like the Republicans don't want foreigners from other countries, unless they're wealthy.

Tbf it is pretty cool to be against capitalism.

Yeah what's up with that? We now cool with China? What?

Don't buy Tesla, but buy slave made cars from BYD! WHO LITERALLY RUNS SLAVE CAMPS OUTSIDE OF CHINA.

What. The. Fuck. Internet.

China is a capitalist country, Russia is a capitalist country, America is a capitalist country, and right now the United States is committing a genocide in Gaza, because Americans have been conditioned to not care about Muslim people. Yet at the same time, our government is working with arab countries that are oppressive (with kings) and are known to have commited human rights abuses. Also, they played the part in 9/11. If this Jesus ever came back, you would just nail his ass back on the cross again. You smell like new born babe. I like the confidence but you seem confused. The United States uses some of its allies to coordinate and commit terrorist acts. And before you call me a Russian troll or a useful idiot, just know that all these capitalist countries do this. I mean, don't you remember India just killing people in Canada? or the Saudi douche bags that killed that journalist who had his body chopped up into pieces?If you're a serious person, you know this. The world is capitalistic and the wealth is consolidated at the top. There is not much money in the public sector and because the United States affects the world economically, the rest of the world is thrown into turmoil. There is a new economic system called BRICS. It's challenging the petrol dollar. Basically, we're approaching the beginning of the end. And pretty soon, they're going to start using tactical nukes, which are low yield. COVID-19 was a biological weapon. Your government lies to you at every opportunity. You are nothing but cattle. Just to give you some, I don't know, perspective you could read about Edward Bernays. Also, look up imperialism. Also, you could learn about hegemony. Oh child, you have so much to learn. Oh yeah, maybe you should learn about Alan Dulles. ....During World War II, we financed the Nazis. Then, towards the end of the war, we used the Catholic Church, who was complicit and also had fascist elements inside of it and still does, to traffic, German scientist, to Argentina, and South America, and the United States, in which they worked on our rocket program to compete against the Soviet Union. these human trafficking pathways were called rat lines. The Book of History never closes and it's just constant war. That's all we do is war. And if there's any innovation out there, most likely it's going to be turned into a weapon or it came from the research from the military industrial complex because we don't invest any real meaningful capital in anything other than learning how to kill women and children more efficiently. People like you just live in denial. But I mean, if we were friends in real life, I'd be busting out books, articles, all trusted sources. This isn't some QAnon nonsense. This is real fucking life. I mean, if communism is a good idea or a bad idea, it's still understandable that the kids of today are just kind of sick and tired of this bullshit exponential madness of capitalism. Populism is on the rise because this is what happens with capitalism in crisis. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire and America is an imperialist empire. I mean, you could say, oh, this is some kind of byproduct, oooooor it's by design. And if you watch the cash flow and the money markets, you understand why things are the way they are. This is clearly intentional. And then why don't you look into BlackRock? It's just a labyrinth and we're all walking into the trap as we argue with each other and it's just generation after generation of just lazy thinking. Each generation in this country live less meaningful lives. It just gets worse. Those homeless people that you drive by and look at like animals in the zoo, just realize one day that could be you. There is no war but the class war and capitalism is global. There is no communism. Today is a world of capitalism. Also dig through some of the CIA files in the reading room on their website. You'll find a lot of stuff that's kind of revealing and insightful. America isn't really locked down. It's just people are lazy and they just don't learn about how things work. Also, people will go out and share their opinions even though they did no work to have those opinions. If I knew you would actually listen, I would give you the links. But I mean, now anything goes and everybody's a liar, I guess. It's like Plato's allegory of the cave. And all the people that do the bidding of this disinformation campaign are the ones that are going to suffer for it. I mean, things are not improving in this country. And eventually, you know, even you or... Some successful person will eventually fall victim to unemployment. Your currency is devaluing every single day. And now they have come up with crypto in which they can completely control everything you do with your money. But they kind of already could have done that with your bank account. Your money's not baked backed by anything that's real. It's really just monopoly money with faith. And the only reason it has value is because the United States enforces that value with its violence and the world's getting sick of it. But yet the world doesn't have a better system. So it's almost guaranteed that the world probably go up in flames. I don't know, we'll see, stay tuned.

also in Israel the settlers, the apocalyptic accelerationist are being listened to more and more. And there are certain elements in Israel's government that are even more extreme than Netanyahu. Before the war and even now Israel is on the brink of a civil war. Israels leaders have intentions of going beyond just Iran and Palestine. America using it as a puppet but yet struggles to keep it from going outside the lines of acceptable behavior. The world now outside of the little hug box of America dumb fuckery views Israel as a unprofessional army. I mean, give it some time, baby, if we're still around. You know, I've lived long enough to see it shift. Have you heard of the Dead Man Switch? That's linked to Russia's nuclear weapons? That was during the Cold War. I wonder what they have now. And then the tech bros in the United States are talking about having AI run our nuclear weapons. I mean you need to try harder. I know you probably got a job and hobbies and you don't want to spend time on this but I just think you just probably shouldn't share your opinions. Everything that I've talked about is actually true. If you look hard enough you will find all these accusations to Be True oh yeah, one more thing. They're using open source intelligence with Peter Thiel's Palantir to pick targets by scraping Twitter. So some snot-nose kid pretending to be an intelligence officer is making post online and then they're shooting rockets at those locations and just recently they were accused of killing innocent civilians and that person shut down their account and I guess donated some money to charity and they felt awful for what they did. Oh child, oh child you know nothing. I mean shit. I'd rather have communism than what we have today. When you are sheltered, possibly wealthy, you really don't feel the effects of these things. But the spectrum is shifting, and so as you get older, you will become poorer. And it will be eventually noticeable. Justice will be served. Thank God all men die. No war but the class war. (Already down voted hahahah)

Get these Democrats off this fucking platform. The libturds have taken over everything. I don't expect you to be a tanky or some kind of vegan anarchist, but it's just... This is a place for smart people, okay... You don't deserve your down votes.

You don’t have to be insane to not be happy about this. I believe in ‘harm reduction’, which is to say: If joe biden were still president, i would probably not be upset if some medical condition removed him from the presidency, because then he could no longer actively do harm from his position of power.

But now? He has almost no active power or influence over anything. His suffering doesn’t benefit me or reverse any previous harms he’s caused.

Isn't every American presidents legacy genocide? Why is it so much more front and center for biden?