Biden’s office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

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    17 hours ago

    Maybe I’m cynical but I feel like this is suspicious timing to release this information a day after videos of his memory issues in 2023 surfaced. Feels like a cynical attempt by his PR team to change the narrative.

    In all honesty, an 82 year old man having prostate cancer is not very surprising. It is a personal issue and I have sympathy but it’s frankly not important to the world. A US president with memory issues concealed from voters and his own party in 2023 when it could have seriously changed decisions about the Democratic party nominations is surprising. That is an issue for everyone and very important to the world.

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      15 hours ago

      Biden’s PR team trying to change the topic about his health and his track record? Unheard of!

      But yeah it’s not a shock an old man has a form of cancer that affects men more as they age.

      Shame Trump hasn’t had something similar.

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        It’s not just Biden s team. Its the entire media consent apparatus build around the DNC that was responsible for Biden being around as long as he was.

        They’re all culpable.

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          11 hours ago

          And then people were mad about “why are they talking about Biden when Trump is unhealthy?!”

          Maybe we don’t want either unhealthy presidents, and only one side would listen to public outcry, and the other wouldn’t listen.

          God damn, America is just fucked. Actual criticism was called unfair, and actual evidence of documented crimes of domestic and abroad was considered things paid for by $BAD_NATION.

          I am a bit salty that one of my favorite people on .world was banned from this community due to a mod getting mad at them refusing to support genocide and proving they voted for Harris.