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.
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.