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.
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.
Bruh, Harris, Pete, and Klob all consistently polled under Biden as first choices before they dropped out.
And yet they were all worthy candidates, and far superior to Biden. That’s a problem with the system, not the candidates, which is exactly my point.
That’s a problem with the voters, man. That’s my point. GIGO.
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.
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.
Guess again. I want democrats to be better. You want everyone to be happy that they’re getting worse.
“It’s amazing what having a republican in the white house will do”
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 invite everyone reading this to also read the comment that was in reply to.
Here, I’ll paste it for you:
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.
I literally called you out as an accelerationist. Or have you forgotten what that word means already? Perhaps your memory is going the route of Trump’s.
You supported the election of Trump. You are far to the right of me on the ongoing Israeli genocide, not to mention the ongoing Ukrainian genocide.
Very telling that you can’t answer how the Dems were “getting worse”, though, typical of the quality of shit you shovel.