It has already spread to his bones. How does this happen without being detected earlier with the best level of care in the world?
mongol•5h ago
Are you referring to US healthcare? Or his care as an ex-president?
Unrelated: It is less than a year since he decided to not stand for election. This time last year he planned to stay in power for four more years. Prostate cancer as is as I understand it slow-growing. Could it have been there already when he planned for re-election, how regular are health checks in that position?
nozzlegear•4h ago
Prostate cancer typically has no symptoms in its early stages. It only starts to show symptoms once it's grown significantly and started to spread. A physical exam (digital rectal exam) may not always detect it either, and (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) I believe they stop giving those once a patient reaches a certain age.
buildsjets•4h ago
My working premise is that it was absolutely detected earlier, that he has been under treatment for some time, and that it is being publicly announced now in order to distract attention from and/or gain sympathy in light of the publicity Jake Tapper’s book has received in the past few days.
bitlax•2h ago
It was detected earlier but it's being released now to cover for a particularly bad news cycle.
bdangubic•2h ago
who is covering for what bad news cycle?!
anonbanker•1h ago
The (Special Council) Robert Hur tapes with Biden leaked.
Jake Tapper's book was released.
Both evidence significant cognitive impairment in a sitting president.
25th Amendment can be applied retroactively.
They needed something to shift that cycle, and distract.
nozzlegear•26m ago
I'm pretty in tune with US politics and I wouldn't describe either of those things as a bad news cycle for Biden, chiefly because he's not the president anymore and hasn't been in the news for what amounts to an eternity in the political world. The only person I've seen mentioning this nothingburger had been Nate Silver, and that's more likely out of his relentless need to show that he was the first, akshually, to talk about Biden being old before everyone else was talking about Biden being old.
Furthermore, I think it's questionable at best to suggest that someone released news as grave as their likely terminal cancer prognosis simply to shift the news cycle. That goes doubly for Biden, given his family history with (albeit brain) cancer.
> 25th Amendment can be applied retroactively
He's not the president anymore. What would be the point? Another bullshit end run to try to invalidate every law or EO he signed?
> They needed something to shift that cycle, and distract.
melling•5h ago
mongol•5h ago
Unrelated: It is less than a year since he decided to not stand for election. This time last year he planned to stay in power for four more years. Prostate cancer as is as I understand it slow-growing. Could it have been there already when he planned for re-election, how regular are health checks in that position?
nozzlegear•4h ago
buildsjets•4h ago
bitlax•2h ago
bdangubic•2h ago
anonbanker•1h ago
They needed something to shift that cycle, and distract.
nozzlegear•26m ago
Furthermore, I think it's questionable at best to suggest that someone released news as grave as their likely terminal cancer prognosis simply to shift the news cycle. That goes doubly for Biden, given his family history with (albeit brain) cancer.
> 25th Amendment can be applied retroactively
He's not the president anymore. What would be the point? Another bullshit end run to try to invalidate every law or EO he signed?
> They needed something to shift that cycle, and distract.
"They" being his family, or what? Who are they?