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usregimechange

(18,554 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:24 PM May 18

They made fun of a man for having cancer

I’m guessing that with Gleason 9 prostate cancer with bone metastasis he’s had it for several years. No one including him knew it until recently. That means a lot of people were making fun of an old man for having cancer. Who does that?

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wishstar

(5,711 posts)
1. They made fun of his stutter and belittled him after he fractured his foot in 2020
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:31 PM
May 18

and he got no sympathy whatsoever when he was fatigued and had a couple bouts of sickness last year but despite the difficulties he conducted himself and his term in office with the utmost of ethics and integrity and competency.

liberalla

(10,502 posts)
12. and DIGNITY
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:50 PM
May 18

Great post and I agree completely... and I would just add with dignity.


"conducted himself and his term in office with the utmost of ethics and integrity and competency" -- and DIGNITY!

Dreamer Tatum

(10,961 posts)
2. Sorry, but there is no way a man with Biden's level of medical attention was not diagnosed earlier.
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:36 PM
May 18

That or his "doctors" need to have their licensed sent back to General Mills.

DET

(2,029 posts)
13. Not Necessarily
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:53 PM
May 18

Sadly, the current recommendation is to stop PSA testing at 70 years old. That is a great disservice for men who could live another 20 years or more if the cancer is caught early or treated aggressively (in the later stages). But I’m still surprised that all precautions were not taken with the President.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
14. Aggressive PC can grow and spread rapidly
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:56 PM
May 18

and is often missed if it doesn't raise psa levels.

kelly1mm

(5,738 posts)
6. So if we find out in, say a year, that President Trump has the same exact cancer, would all us
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:58 PM
May 18

here on DU be guilty of making fun of a man for having cancer?

If so, "That means a lot of people were making fun of an old man for having cancer. Who does that?"

jmowreader

(52,333 posts)
17. Cancer is the last thing we'll be making fun of Trump for
Sun May 18, 2025, 10:17 PM
May 18

The field of possible reasons for ridicule is so broad in the case of King Donald, we won't have to stoop to berating him for cancer.

Besides, does a man with an inch-long dick even have a prostate to become cancerous? It doesn't seem like one would fit down there.

Ms. Toad

(36,985 posts)
11. Sorry, but you can't make fun of someone for having cancer,
Sun May 18, 2025, 09:47 PM
May 18

if you don't know they have cancer.

It's like they say of my daughter's disease - most people die **with it**, not **from it**. People were making fun of a man **with** cancer, not **for having** cancer.

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