Biden’s office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

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    With all the best doctors the presidents have, they discover it only at the fourth stage?

    I’m a lowly peasant and my work let me do a yearly blood+pee test, I assumed that for presidents it would be something like a weekly checkup

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      It’s likely that they knew a long time ago but they are just now announcing it. This would probably also explain why he was so mentally foggy or, seeming like he had dementia. Many cancer drug drugs can do that toyou.

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        If that’s the case he was even more wrong about running than everyone assumed.

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            I mean, Biden is quoted as calling it a campaign promise.

            Which is is less binding than a pinky promise, but in 2024, he at least saw that he had made the commitment in 2020. Plenty of people in 2024 then were also incorrectly saying that Biden didn’t make that promise.

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            Compared to Trump winning? Which was the only viable other option during that term.

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              Viable!?! Given Biden only really won because of Covid, I think Bernie would’ve actually had a shot in the general, especially in energizing the base and working class. Warren could’ve also stood a better chance, even if she might not have done as great of a job in office.

              Biden was the worst choice, I thought Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and especially Harris in 2020 were far better, but the capitalist elites wanted a weak old man, so we got Biden, dooming us for 2024 because there was no way he’d be selfless enough to step aside. He might’ve said he’d be one term, but he was lying and that’s why no one took him seriously.

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        This was exactly my first thought.

        And if so, that’s a double “fuck you” to Joe and everyone on his staff trying to keep this shit under wraps.

        He should have just resigned the goddamn Presidency when he was first diagnosed JFC

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      cancers can grow very quickly in the short amount of time, only takes weeks for a tumor to grow large suddenly if its an aggressive type. also many cancers, like melanoma can spread with a small tumor extremely fast. the staging depends on how much its spread, and also by the biopsy how much it infilitrated the layers of tissues.