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Rhiannon12866

(234,942 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:31 PM May 18

BREAKING: Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer - MSNBC Reports



President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The cancer has metastasized to the bone, according to the former president's personal office. - 05/18/2025.
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buzzycrumbhunger

(1,152 posts)
3. Hey Karma... You missed!
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:40 PM
May 18

I’d much rather see a White House-centered outbreak of, say, something horrific and fatal that RFK Jr brought back from his sewer dive.

Paladin

(30,530 posts)
4. trump to say something unspeakably awful in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,......
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:42 PM
May 18

P.S.:

Fuck you, mainstream media, for all the shit talk you've been spewing about one of the best presidents of my lifetime.

anamnua

(1,489 posts)
14. Against my better judgement I dipped into Freeperville
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:25 PM
May 18

Even more nauseating than I expected and I thought that place could not sink any lower in my estimation. I should have copped on after seeing how they figuratively danced on Jimmy Carter's grave.
From now on I will only visit for a bit of schadenfreude after Repub reverses.

Warpy

(113,447 posts)
6. When you get into your 70s and 80s, you realize something is going to kill you
Sun May 18, 2025, 06:18 PM
May 18

and beyond some tired speculation over how much pain it will involve, you become a little less interested in the kind of heroics pushed by doctors who are still young enough to be terrified by the prospect of their own inevitable deaths.

I hope he and his family are strong enough to insist on palliative care, something proven to have better outcomes in older folks for many forms of cancer than heroics like aggressive surgeries and chemotherapy. It certainly makes the time left a lot more comfortable.

Whatever he chooses, I hope he is kept comfortable and is able to enjoy the time he's got left.

Wild blueberry

(7,665 posts)
7. Hey Joe, we love you!
Sun May 18, 2025, 06:23 PM
May 18

Be well with the time you have, with your family, with every day granted to you.
Thank you for being the best president of my lifetime.

J_William_Ryan

(2,762 posts)
8. "...there is no such thing as karma or god.'
Sun May 18, 2025, 06:26 PM
May 18

Correct.

When the good suffer and evil is allowed to flourish.

Baitball Blogger

(50,061 posts)
10. Someone want to explain to me how it was possible for cancer to get into the president's bones
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:23 PM
May 18

when he had a doctor giving him physical examinations every year?

anamnua

(1,489 posts)
12. Prostate cancer is a treacherous and unpredictable bugger that can slip through unnoticed
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:08 PM
May 18

even when you are among the best of medical hands.
-- from a medical doctor.

Baitball Blogger

(50,061 posts)
13. We should spend money on finding a reliable early test.
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:24 PM
May 18

But we'll have to wait for a Democratic president to turn Trump's policies around.

FakeNoose

(37,471 posts)
15. Oh no! this is terrible, awful, horrible news
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:27 PM
May 18

If Joe goes while Chump is in the White House, Chump will diss him terribly just like he did for Jimmy Carter.
Please hang in there Joe, for as long as you can.



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