Y’all. I just found out about this. I’m sitting here with tears running down my face, and I can hardly see to type. He doesn’t deserve this. TRUMP deserves this because I’m mean and petty and can’t STAND that excuse for a man. Joe doesn’t. I don’t know if they’ll be able to treat it at all, or if he’s going into hospice right away. I just got kicked in the gut and the head and my HEART. Let’s see what the article has to say once my browser unlocks. It’s not doing a damn thing right now. Ahhh, there we go. From CNN:
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
It continued, “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management.”
Biden, 82, and his family “are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” the statement said.
Biden is at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, this weekend, according to a source familiar. CNN has inquired about where the former president is being treated.
The news comes days after a spokesperson for Biden said the former president was recently evaluated for a “small nodule” discovered on his prostate.”
By the way, a Gleason score is a grading system for prostate cancer. If you have prostate cancer, your Gleason score is based on what pathologists know about your situation after viewing tissue samples under a microscope. It’s one of the ways healthcare providers classify prostate cancer as they develop treatment plans or set prognoses (what you can expect after treatment). Grades 1 to 5: Pathologists assign grades from 1 to 5 to individual biopsy samples, with 1 indicating tissue that closely resembles normal prostate tissue and 5 indicating highly abnormal, aggressive cancer cells.
Well, that’s a little better than I was afraid of. I didn’t think it could be treated if it had gone into his bones. But it can. Thank whoever you can. But don’t send thoughts and prayers because they don’t do a damn thing and it’s wimping out. Thoughts and prayers are nice, but useless. Heh, I’ve been wanting to scream about *that* for a long time now. Somehow it just seems to fit in here. You can say something like “I’m sorry I can’t do anything” rather than “thoughts and prayers”. Heh, I just figured out the word I wanted. “Thoughts and prayers” is a copout. Ganked from Reddit:
First off, I want to say I am not religious. I also don’t condemn anyone who is. But I hate it when people tell me this. To me, it just says, “I don’t want to do anything to actually help you through this difficult time you’re going through, but I still want you to think I’m a good person.”
From Americans United:
But there are signs that growing numbers of Americans are getting fed up with the “thoughts and prayers” line spouted by some political leaders because it has become an excuse to not do anything about gun violence or some other major problem.
How about the frightening, horrible wildfires in California? They needed actual physical help with the problem. Who responded? Not many from the US. *Canada* responded.
So, there are some better explanations for my ranting. But back to Joe, because I’m really upset. He might like thoughts and prayers because he is deeply religious, but doesn’t feel the need to broadcast it, like so many others do.
I’m just so shell-shocked and hurting for him. There’s nothing I *can* do, at least not right now. He might like cards and letters at some point, but I’m going to follow his lead. I’ll keep up with the news and see what happens next. I know many other people get cancer, and it’s not at all in the news. It’s just that it’s *Joe Biden*.
He means a lot to me, no matter what. The past is the past. Let’s look forward. And if you want to send thoughts and prayers, then by all means do so if you take comfort from that. I’m not going to do anything for the next few days or until we find out more. But I have hope. Thanks for sticking with me!
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I’m agnostic. It’s stuff like this that makes me question some god our monotheistic religions worship, one who is wise and just. If there was a wise and just god, then TRUMP would be the one with Prostate cancer that had migrated not just to his bones but his shortish mushroom shaped dick. AND he’d be riddled with nasty, festering cancer lumps from his asshole up all the way through his colon!
Joe Biden isn’t perfect and never has been. Nor has he professed to be. But he’s lived a life of service to his family and his country and if karma is real then I hope a ton of good karma flows his way. When I think of him I’m reminded of what Ted Kennedy said when eulogizing his brother Bobby, calling him “A good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”
It wasn’t that long ago we buried a similar man, former President Jimmy Carter. I can’t bear the thought of us having to in the foreseeable future bury Joe Biden. Especially not with Trump sitting in the WH. I’d say if that’s how things unfold that war between God and Satan has already been fought and that Satan won.
Only a few sentences in for both the (lousy) author and Denis to wish cancer on another human being.
You fucking hateful lefty pieces of shit!
There you have it folks, the party of tolerance. What a joke you & this site are.
I notice that YOU don’t offer any sympathy for former President Biden.
Go fuck yourself, Mark. And if you’re so upset, you can always take your fucking ass elsewhere, you Drumpf-ass-kissing-dung-eating piece of garbage.
Oh you noticed that I didn’t offer sympathy, we’ll aren’t you the astute one. Also notice that I didn’t wish cancer on someone you stupid son of a bitch. Joe biden was the worst president in history but I don’t have the need to wish illness on him when he’s out of office. I prefer he simply go away quietly.
Yes, I know that I can always go elsewhere but this is entertainment for me. The writing is god awful, the positions are somehow even worse but the banter is fun.
You appear to be a sick bastard yourself, Mark.
My parents both died of lung cancer. Mom almost fifty years ago and dad 45 years ago. That ghastly smell, from the rotted lung tissue is something I know all too well. And they suffered. Trump deserves to one day die a far worse death but for him it wouldn’t be cancer. A just death for him would be him having been convicted which won’t happen now, and him being isolated in some distant wing of a prison. Alone in his orange jumpsuit with simple white cotton skivvies underneath. No one to talk to as family wouldn’t bother to visit. And there’s no way in hell he’d want journalists to see him in his cell. So finally being where he’s long belonged he just gives up one night as his BALD head (I’m bald and don’t give a shit so yes, I’ll mock him for his vanity!) and die in his sleep under a scratchy wool blanket. It’s the humiliation that would kill him. I’ve seen a lot of death in my life, people who’ve died horribly but this is the worth thing Trump can imagine. So it would be a fitting end for him. THAT would hurt him more than anything so that’s what I wish for him.
My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer level 7 in 2010. Fortunately we caught it early enough, mostly due to my nagging about his stop start peeing, that it hadn’t spread to his bones. He got 42 rounds of radiation and then 3 monthly hormone injections. He died in 2024 from another unrelated type of cancer. The point is the treatment was a relative stroll in the park and he got almost 14 years (until the new one caught up with him) of good, happy living. No need to panic just yet.
To the MAGA’s out there, how can you be so cruel when someone is ill. I am Pagan and I will pray that ALL of you NEVER have to suffer this. Those of you who are celebrating this are just EVIL!!!
The only people celebrating this are liberals/so called progressives, only they wish it was President Trump
My father had aggressive metastatic prostate cancer of this type, but more advanced than President Biden’s. His was very effectively treated with a hormone-blocking drug and lived for twelve years after diagnosis, golfing almost every day. So, stay fit and enjoy a well-earned retirement, Joe. Your best days are ahead of you.