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?
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.
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.
Oof. Metastasis to the bone. Hope Biden holds out to fuck up his parade. Give him one last parting “Would you shut up, man?”
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???
It’ll be great it this took away attention from that stupid parade.
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 kept electing the parties, so they must be okay with it or else they wouldn’t.
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.
Why couldn’t this be Don instead.
