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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It was just a stutter...............

This has been the most despicable scandal in the last 150 years. The deep irony here is that they are revealing that they likely covered up Biden's cancer diagnosis in order to distract from news that they covered up Biden's cognitive decline. Truly unbelievable that the party of "country over party" and "nobody is above the law" could do such a thing....oh wait.

I'm not even sure if Lady Macbeth could've brought herself to sign off on something like this

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Ken Kunda's avatar

Jill Biden is truly an evil person. I think she would and tried to do anything to keep herself in the powerful and regal trappings of the presidency.

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LJinTX's avatar

She is the worst wife ever. I do believe she was the one that pushed and didn’t relent on 2nd run.

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Alan's avatar

Probably the same reason she dumped a previous husband to be with Joe. She wanted the power.

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A.'s avatar
5hEdited

Reminds me of what's-her-name -- that M. Markle woman.

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baker charlie's avatar

Speaking of Meghan and cover-ups, its circulating now that Ms. Markle was a yacht girl on Epstien's yacht and was possibly involved with Andrew before Harry...

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4hEdited

How interesting. I think that Andrew is the common denominator in many nasty secrets.

But then again the entire royal family and monarchy are lead globalists. They just play at being on the side of the people. It has been that way for centuries.

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Dave S's avatar

Wow! Not that I care about the British royal family, but THAT is interesting, if true.

She's kinda cute, but she seems like an f'ing b-i-t-c-h.

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LJinTX's avatar

Bingo!

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Pacific Observer's avatar

QUOTE: I do believe [Jill] was the one that pushed and didn’t relent on 2nd run.

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If one assumes that "Biden" could have been seen by DNC insiders as LESS likely to prevail in the 2024 election than another Democrat (Kamala, Gavin Gruesome, etc.) given enough time to campaign, one could posit a tacit understanding between Jill and the Trump campaign: Jill ensures that Joe does NOT drop out early, so no other candidate can start campaigning in a timely fashion.

In return, Trump would promise to go easy on Jill, Jill's daughter Ashley (!), Hunter, etc. on their various corruption cases (Ukraine, China, ...). We are probably talking about amounts in the hundreds of millions.

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A.'s avatar

I suspect that Jill had as much lust for the power and trappings of the Presidency as Obama and the missus had.

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gettinolder's avatar

Lady MacBiden right out of Lady McBeth.

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

I'm telling you, it's frighteningly wild how similar the DNC and the Liberal Party of Canada are. They have the exact same MO. It's like they read the same colouring book.

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A.'s avatar

It is what I have said for many years -- both of these organizations represent a behavioural type, and they act in lockstep patterns. Just like the lockstep behaviour across Western nations we saw during COVID mania.

These are deeply rooted human behavioural patterns. They appear under particular circumstances.

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

It's crazy how the Liberals copy the DNC. I know we can argue all four are the same but it's less pronounced with the GOP/CPC.

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A.'s avatar

These are degrees of leftwing totalitarianism. Under the same types of leaders.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

You mean that coloring book designed and illustrated by Fidel Castro?

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Henrybowman's avatar

"Fun with Karl and Vlad."

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JPC's avatar

I think you are understating the enormity of scandal.

The Ukrainian situation being the most important.

The Biden regency kept this butchery running to destroy Russia.

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dg76gt37hhg's avatar

I didn't follow Biden like a hawk, but the first time I heard he had a 'stutter' was when I pointed out his cognitive decline on my Facebook page. My lefty friends excused him thus. What a joke; a stutter, even if real, wouldn't account for his senile behavior.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

Last I heard stuttering didn't make people go wandering off into the jungle, or say they had "finally beat Medicare."

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BJ's avatar

Ryan not news at all. It was Bob Woodward who famously wrote: You know one percent of what goes on in Washington.

People do what they do because they can. Bernie Madoff did what he did because he could. How people were not out in the streets in 2018 demanding Biden be removed because of his mental decline, solidifies just how truly ignorant the American are.

The real question people should be asking is why HRC didn't come forward? Getting passed over not once but twice, first by Obama and then by Biden as well. If they could fix the books for Biden why not just have inserted HRC instead?

People don't realize there are so many factions within both these parties all vying for power.

The same can be said about Trump and hiding his profound ignorance. How are people not out in the streets demanding his removal when the man can't even pronounce the word industry? There are dozens of insiders who've all stated and confirmed the man is learning disabled. How could anyone in their right mind not see just how stupid he is but instead, believe the press - just like they did about Biden and everyone else.

People do what they did because they can!!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Definitely not news. Anyone with eyes, ears and non-cultist could easily see he was brain dead

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A.'s avatar

I agree. I thought this was exceedingly obvious, myself. Even as a casual observer. To have missed this would have been to deny reality.

How could anyone not have seen it?

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

The media did not want to see it, deliberately. It did not fit with their biases. "Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not." Jeremiah 5:20

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Mitch's avatar

When you see Jill Biden in action, Lady MacBeth seems pretty reasonable

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Warmek's avatar

> This has been the most despicable scandal in the last 150 years.

Nah, the Wilson Regency was only what, 110 years ago?

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Corey's avatar

How many mRNA jabs did he take? Perhaps the jabs caused his turbo cancer?

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Mrs.Ellen Doer's avatar

6 boosters, according to Coffee&Covid/ Jeff Childers

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Mrs.Ellen Doer's avatar

Ouch: I erred. C&C by Jeff Childers reports 4 jabs for Biden. I either misread, or he revised it. Apologies.

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Mrs.Ellen Doer's avatar

Ouch: I erred. C&C by Jeff Childers reports 4 jabs for Biden. I either misread, or he revised it. Apologies.

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Mitch's avatar

yes, but if he hadn't had the first two shots and the next six boosters think of how bad his three cases of Covid would have been!!

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jacqueline young's avatar

A friend of mine had something very similar, discovery of stage 4 prostate cancer with little warning. He was well jabbed too. Quite a few oncologists said how many aggressive cancers they were seeing post covid jabs. So it might not be a big cover-up.

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Frances Jefferson's avatar

Since our father died from prostrate cancer, my then 61 yr old brother, was vigilant about his health. He took a test to identify markers for prostrate cancer and was told by his urologist that based on the test his prostrate cancer risk was very low. A routine prostrate exam one year later showed a significant increase in his PSA. Biopsy revealed very aggressive cancer requiring a prostatectomy, 26 rounds of radiation and Lupron injections to ensure his body was testosterone free. What changed in a year? Covid shots. He and I both believe the shots caused his prostrate cancer. He’s doing well and is cancer free right now but we keep our fingers crossed every three months while we wait for his blood test results.

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Paul v Nguyen's avatar

As a MD, I ve found more aggressive tumors (prostate & al) in the last 2 years than in my 30-year career🫣

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Mitch's avatar

there was a study, I believe out of Japan, that showed aggressive prostate cancers up like 30% in the two years following the Covid jab.

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Bryan Williams's avatar

Do you happen to know if your friend was getting his PSA numbers checked regularly? It's done with a blood test, and for me, ordered with my annual physical.

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Jeff McRockets's avatar

No doubt his gaslighting about a long winter of death for us Pure Bloods is now richly both karmic and ironic: that piece of shit got cancer from the jabs.

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New Considerist's avatar

Maybe he pardoned Fauci because he wanted to forgive him.

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Tamenund's avatar

Autopen pardoned Fauci.

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Kurt's avatar

He didn’t know what he was doing

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Alicia's avatar

Huh?

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A.'s avatar

The insiders were probably jabbed with a saline solution only.

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Mike B's avatar

Obviously, Sleepy Joe wasn’t an insider of his own regime.

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A.'s avatar

Well, it seems that Joe was a predator of the people, but a puppet of the higher globalists.

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Mike B's avatar

It’s practically impossible nowadays to find a western nation whose political leadership, executive branch, educational institutions and mass media haven’t been thoroughly penetrated by the globalist oligarchy.

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A.'s avatar

I think they have all been infiltrated to date. As have most or all Western institutions.

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Alicia's avatar

Thank you! That was my first thought. He only had about 18 boosters. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Greg Spung's avatar

You are an extremely self-aware, well informed, and discerning individual.

I think it’s important to keep in perspective how this administration came to power.

The fundamental landscape was completely altered by layered psychological warfare, constituting, social engineering , engineered riots all over the country by paid activists, unprecedented and illegal changes to electoral policy under the guise of public health, Censorship of not only crucial information, but also political dissent, created a landscape in which no informed consent was possible in the run up to the 2020 election.

When teams of representatives and senators stated their intention to challenge slates of electors on January 6, 2021 , and engineered riot ensued, which not only coerced political opponents by labeling them terrorists, but also effectively ended those challenges as well. The potential had existed for the decision to be sent back to the House of Representatives.

What we ended up with was an international crime syndicate posing as a legitimate administration for four long years. While committing myriad crimes and unprecedented theft against people of the United States. This was acknowledged in the pardoning of 10 key staff members and legislative allies on their way out of office.

This we know. The case will be made that a coup was perpetrated against the American people in plain sight.

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Tardigrade's avatar

I am of the opinion that *every* administration is an international crime syndicate. Some are worse than others.

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KHP's avatar

If you're wrong about that, it's only slightly wrong.

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Greg Spung's avatar

You’re not wrong because it’s the nature of the job running an empire. However, the normal process in which their legitimacy is derived from the people was deliberately and systematically bypassed, which is the issue of concern I raised.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

Agenda 2030 just gets rebranded. We're on the MAGA brand colors now.

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Ben Roberts's avatar

MAGA. There's always one reference to MAGA in these comment sections.

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A.'s avatar

Severe crime syndicates are a form of totalitarianism. As was this.

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Energy Diplomat's avatar

He was also subject to continuous injections of adrenaline and other concoctions before every public engagement. I wonder if the sustained doses he received had any impact on his cancer development?

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

What's truly amazing is 70 million Americans would've voted for him, without questioning, if they knew he was non compos mentis AND had terminal cancer.

The whole problem with these people is they are more willing to blindly trust each other in the tribe than to judge themselves.

If you can not judge your SELF, you can not judge FOR yourself because the tribe itself is the "judge" of "self"; it IS self.

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Tardigrade's avatar

It's religion. Faith based.

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Jen Koenig's avatar

With a heaping dose of narcissism. Most religions at least call for a certain degree of humility.

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5hEdited

I think of authentic religion as being within the centre of the spectrum.

Far leftwing religion becomes WOKE and radical atheism. Far rightwing religion becomes 17th century Puritanism or radical Islam or extremist religious cults.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

And HATE

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A.'s avatar

These hugely dysfunctional tribes operate under a Cluster-B leader, and a group narrative from the leader. They have been conditioned to believe that their survival depends upon following both, to the letter. And punishing anyone else who does not.

They don't really have active independent thought any longer. Too scary.

Remember those crazed Vaxxed types of COVID-mania, and how they would have sold their own mothers to the Stasi for being un-vaxxed?

You're right -- the tribe/herd becomes Self. And the authentic Self regresses.

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baker charlie's avatar

I cannot help but feel we dodged that proverbial bullet multiple times now. If he had ran he might have won. If he had died in office we would be stuck with Kamala for at least a few years.

So glad they tripped over their own coverup.

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Mitch's avatar

of course, that 70 million includes a lot of dead people who would have a natural sympathy for the situation. Cemetaries are full of Dem voters.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

lots of Trumpians have that problem too, sadly. Betrayal blindness is a thing. We need to stop believing Bilderberg Groupies "red" or "blue" are ever going to be on the side of humans.

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David Rinker's avatar

Identity fusion: One's individual Identity becomes fused with group Identity.

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Ming the Merciless's avatar

Science has come a long way, but nevertheless there’s only so much that adrenochrome harvested from innocent children in a Satanic ritual can do. 😃

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Just adrenaline?

Or a more potent upper?

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StellaMaris's avatar

Orrr...... I shared this comment with another substack... What if this is just a way for the public to feel sympathy for him and forget his legacy of murder and lies? Might be like the Trump ear/assassination. They might want you to forget that they knew he was senile and they all pretended that he wasn't.... same people, folks! 🤡

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Susiejoy Barry's avatar

StellaMaris I think you are dead right!!!

“NO TEARS FOR THE ARCHITECT”

No prayers for him, no solemn grace,

No mourning etched upon my face.

This isn’t grief—it’s clarity,

A reckoning for tyranny.

He lived five decades at the helm,

A liar crowned within the realm.

With smiling teeth and weathered skin,

He signed the laws that caged us in.

He sold us out with velvet charm,

Then shook our hands and did us harm.

He built his throne on shattered bones,

Then played the saint in solemn tones.

He penned the crime bills, waved the flag,

Watched mothers weep, then let them lag.

He posed as friend, but bled the streets—

A Judas cloaked in Wall Street’s sheets.

He blessed the wars he never fought,

Let bodies rot for what he bought.

Then washed his hands in public praise,

While drones turned cities into graves.

He left our weapons in the dust,

Betrayed our allies, breached their trust.

He called defeat a bold success—

A fraud wrapped up in righteousness.

He let the banks devour the land,

While feigning care with trembling hand.

He fed the beast, ignored the cries,

Then wept on cue with practiced lies.

His son, a symbol of decay,

Should rot in jail another day!

But bloodlines buy immunity—

The price of state impunity.

He ruled with pens and quiet dread,

His touch unseen, but widely spread.

He let the people starve and fall,

Then auto-signed the final call.

He smiled as virtue turned to dust,

Made moral rot a sacred trust.

And every time we sought the light,

He snuffed it out and called it right.

So no—I will not bow my head,

Or grieve a man whose touch has bled.

His body now begins to pay

What courts and cowards kept at bay.

Not by the law, but by decay,

Not ballots, but his DNA.

The judgment that he always ducked

Now blooms within—corrupted, plucked.

This isn’t hate—it’s honest weight.

A man must own the world he shaped.

And cancer, cold and void of spin,

May be the first to hold him in.

No monsters stalked with blade or mask,

He wore the crown, performed the task.

He ruled in daylight, clean and proud,

And strangled justice in a crowd.

So mourn him if you must pretend.

I’ll mark this moment as the end.

Not cruel, but true—and there I stand:

No tears for him. Just reprimand.

©️Susiejoy Barry

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smokegetsinyoureyes's avatar

They also want to amplify cancer. “Everyone is getting it! Even the former president! Gasp!” Because, well everyone IS getting it. And hey didn’t you know there’s a vaccine in the works for that??? That everyone should get! Did anyone see the AstraZeneca sponsored cancer screening commercial starred in by a hockey player and his mom recently btw? 🤡

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kathy dimov's avatar

And the sheeple will line up. False positives and a referral to a “really good oncologist” from their list…

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Tardigrade's avatar

True or not, I'm sure they will use it as a distraction and play the sympathy card to the hilt.

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SamizBOT's avatar

Who's they

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StellaMaris's avatar

The people in charge....

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Ralph's avatar

It seems to me there are two steps in the justice process that are often confused.

First, the police detectives gather evidence of harm. This often happens before the perpetrator is known. For example, before the Yorkshire Ripper was identified there were bodies of dead women killed in a similar way.

Second, the police prosecutor identifies and accuses perpetrators and then presents evidence in court.

You can see that during step one it is not necessary to know who the perpetrator is in order to deduce that there is one. It would be absurd to claim during step one that because a perpetrator has not yet been named, in some way the evidence that women have been killed is undermined.

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Rikard's avatar
7hEdited

I'm still hung up on a question without an answer.

If he was in fact not fit for at least a period of his presidency, does that not void all decisions made by him during that period?

The tidal wave of pardons comes to mind.

Another question is what caused the cancer. Was it - as would be the most probable reason for any normal octogenarian man - simply age, or was it something else?

The KGB/FSB once put a chunk of a highly radioactive isotope/mineral inside the back of an office chair, the high-backed executive kind. Inside six months, the man occupying that chair for hours on end died from cancer in pretty much his entire abdomen. The material wasn't found until much later, when the chair was taken apart at a dump.

Just speculating, of course.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

If any of these edicts were actually real and not theater for the masses while the globalists do whatever they want to do, they would've been subject to exactly these lawsuits / challenges by now. "non compos mentis" should have serious policy ramifications.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/who-was-true-executive-of-biden-admin

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baker charlie's avatar

There are a few interviews with a former dem supporter/insider named Lindy Li who offers up a few names of people involved. I'm sorry I have no links, but a search at You Tube will find a few.

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taxpayer's avatar

Your story about the chair would be more credible if a source was cited.

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Rikard's avatar

If I had a definite source, I would have included it.

Best I can do is tell you the information was broadcast in the mid-1990s by Swedish state radio in an interview with a senior intelligence officer from the Swedish military, on how the KGB operated/operates.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

The evil machinations of those ‘regents’ - it almost beggars belief.

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Gail Finke's avatar

I very much doubt medical neglect had anything to do with this--he was obviously highly monitored in order to maintain the facade of being "with it." Even if, as many have said, he didn't receive the care for Parkinson's that he should have in order to avoid some of the side effects that would make him look bad in public, there's a difference between not diagnosing and monitoring something and ignoring what you're told to do when you are diagnosed and monitored. He had frequent checkups. His family's prioritizing "looking like the president" over health has nothing to do with that.

That said, his saying he had cancer in 2022 means nothing. This is a pathological liar who has claimed all sorts of things over the years, and one with dementia on top of that. He might have meant it. But his saying it means nothing.

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eugyppius's avatar

we don’t know very much about the specifics of biden’s medical care at all. the annual physicals are the best-covered, and even those are discussed in summary.

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Gail Finke's avatar

That's true, as far as what is said publicly. But the president and congress have the best healthcare in the country, I very much doubt he could have functioned this long without availing himself of it. Is it possible that he got no care? I suppose. But I really doubt it.

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eugyppius's avatar

by hersh’s account, biden‘s family and advisers kept him isolated even from friends and acquaintances. they were a small group of 7-10 people, who were managing biden and basically ruling on his behalf. they needed to prevent any kind of dementia diagnosis becoming known, which in itself would require careful management and likely limitation of Biden’s medical care. and now imagine there’s blood work suggesting Biden has cancer - they’re done for if they don’t make it go away. Biden himself is totally in their control and confused half the time, remember.

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Gail Finke's avatar

I don't agree. But unless someone talks, we won't know.

Here's what "Lu in Alaska," a nurse, wrote about it on Twitter:

"Yes the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES with a code to nuke the entire planet following him around 24/7 typically does get PRETTY THOROUGH MEDICAL CARE. I’ve only seen 8 million PSA screenings in the last 16 years of trench work in healthcare. Usually advanced cancer doesn’t spring up and surprise the most powerful man on the damn planet? Why? Omg let me spell this out. His health is a global security concern. His health determines his ability to NOT ACCIDENTALLY GET US ALL KILLED. These sheep want us to believe the sitting president who was considering running again (with a dire family history of cancer) was sitting in his underpants on the crinkly paper at his Dr’s office and they said you know what let’s just do minimal testing and see what happens. GTFO."

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Rikard's avatar

Sadly, after Covid and how they acted en masse, what anyone in the medical professions say is routine, science, a matter of integrity and so on, cannot be trusted in the slightest.

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KHP's avatar
7hEdited

> a small group of 7-10 people, who were managing biden

> and basically ruling on his behalf

Ample cause for a widespread campaign of lawsuits etc. against every autopen-signed executive order. Make them *prove* to the satisfaction of a jury that Biden had any knowledge and assent to the things being signed on his behalf.

That includes bills pass by Congress, too, if there were any signed by autopen.

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Henrybowman's avatar

The showstopper is that the burden of proof is not on Biden to show he was sane, but on the complainants to show he was not. And worse, you have to show it for each individual day he did one of things you object to.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'the best healthcare'

Considering that some credible estimates of iatrogenic deaths stand at 30%, 'best healthcare' could be as meaningless a phrase as 'healthy diet'.

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MR's avatar

Alex Berenson did report that a neurologist made multiple—maybe around 10–visits to the White House. The public was never told what was going on.

Also, just think about how many men and trans Admirals were unable to get their prostates checked for the years medical “care” was reserved for Covid. Biden didn’t have that excuse.

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SCA's avatar

Co-regents are frequently adversaries too. Jill and Hunter despise one another and she was only able to provide her husband with a daughter (who she may have allowed to be molested) and not a son to dethrone another woman's preferred offspring. Others within the inner circle were likely partisans of Jill or of Hunter but not so much of both. No one could trust anyone else with the secret. The doctor was of course compromised by his business deals with the Biden family so keeping his mouth shut was not a problem.

I myself in such situations (and all others too) always just hope for justice and it's not up to me how that may eventually manifest. I'd rather get to see it of course. Not as much fun when the Cosmos handles it privately.

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Alex Berenson's money quote on this: "As with Covid, the propaganda is not so much Orwellian in its ferocity and effort to intimidae as late-Soviet in its contempt for the intelligence of its audience. We have gone from kids will be fine without in-person schooling and mRNA is a miracle cure to a man with unlimited access to the world’s best medical care wound up with cancer in his bones before anyone noticed."

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

Take the jab they said.

It's perfectly safe they said.

You won't get covid they said.

It does not change your DNA they said.

It doesn't affect your immune system they said.

We're all in this together they said.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

It stays at the injection site, does its 'magic,' and somehow disappears, they said.

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Handsome Pristine Patriot's avatar

Yes, and the spike protein is harmless.

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Charlotte's avatar

I personally think he had it before he ran for 2020. It progresses slowly, so when he “won”, he rejected PSA tests from Walter Reed. That alone was a huge red flag. You can reject to test for PSA after you turn 70 (the former assumption was it would progress so slowly you would outlive this type of cancer, surprise, that has changed now). Of course, I can only presume that every former President has gotten a PSA test every year since the development of the test- it beggars belief to think anyone said no to that test. Then he went to Delaware for treatment, it explains his heavy presence there, he might have even undergone chemo and other taxing treatments which would have, of course, had even greater effects on his declining cognitive state. It sure explains a lot. Little did he know that every further jab he got of mRNA was a further p53 suppressor, making it advance further and more quickly.

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kara's avatar

News segment yesterday Dr. Siegal confirmed that medical reports from WH doctors showed Obama and GWB both took PSA tests. Highlighting your point about Biden being an outlier.

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baker charlie's avatar

Yep, chemo brain is a thing and it makes sense.

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thomas buckley's avatar

I wonder how Kamala feels about this?

Actually, I don't think we need to wonder...

Scenario a - Joe doesn't drop out and somehow (very very doubtfully but anything is posssible) wins last november..., she would be president now (or very very soon.)

Scenario b - Joe announces he has cancer last late spring (it seems he definitely had it then) and announces hee cannot do a second term because of cancer...and not because he has dementia. That plays very very different - he can go out head held high ('tragically prevented from serving a second term', etc. as opposed ot getting ditched by his own party because he was mental) and then a mini primary thingy can happen, a procccess Kamala would be definitely the front runner (i don't think Joe would have annointed her.) she proves her campiagn-ish metal, there are no quesitons about how sordid the process was and - while still would still probably lose - it would have been much much more competitve (sympathy vote, she how she iss stepping up, etc.) and could even have kept the 2028 door open a crack.

Scenario c - even well before the debate, joe announces the cancer and the party puts together an internal primary vote system (tehncially they could) and/or combined with declaring free any biden delegates already elected - again, kamala has the advantage and again is doesn't look like the skeeviest political move since, well, either yesterday or forever.

for the democrats, joe biden is the gift that keeps on taking.

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eugyppius's avatar

I actually think that Harris's late candidacy was a huge benefit to her. She's so terrible, the more exposure people have, the worse they think of her. Had she been in the race for longer, she would have done much worse.

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SamizBOT's avatar

One quasi conspiracy theory that I'll never stop believing is that Kamala was a sacrificial lamb, a back bencher who lucked into enough name recognition that she was plausible as a real life candidate but that the DNC gave her the nomination because they knew there was no chance that any Dem could win in 24 and they didn't want to saddle one of their A listers with a humiliating defeat. To put it bluntly, no sane person could have thought that Kamala and waltz ever had a chance

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Tardigrade's avatar

That's very plausible.

Also plausible is that the Democrats were so into their own Kool-Aid that they actually thought that pair had a chance.

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thomas buckley's avatar

Also a serious possibility, though exactly whom the "A Listers" were then and/or are now seems nebulous. There's gavin and then there's, um, pete with a beard, and, um, aox (typo intended,) wretching gritmer, staff clobberchar, and, um...

of course there is always oprah and michelle...

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Do the Dems HAVE any bona fide A-listers?

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KHP's avatar

no

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SamizBOT's avatar

Eh they have some governors that can string together a sentence

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Peter Hönig's avatar

This doesn‘t have to be and probably wasn’t a conspiracy. Sharks like Newsome or Shapiro got to where they are by having a keen sense of political opportunity. They likely made the decision not to burn their powder where it could not achieve anything and wait at least until 2028 for their bid for the White House.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Tangential comment: I remember being totally shocked at how thoroughly and suddenly my progressive friends at our weekly croquet match were singing the praises of Kamala, who previously had been pretty much ignored by all. It was a breathtaking example of propaganda effectiveness.

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thomas buckley's avatar

in the media your friends consume, she went from ticketdragging wine mom dolt to goddess in about 3.7 seconds

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Tardigrade's avatar

Yep.

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Margaret H. Brazda's avatar

Intellectual blindness! But millions like this! Unfortunately

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Josh Rosenfeld's avatar

One must understand that she had many Democratic critics the day before she was anointed, but as soon as she was anointed, it became an article of faith amongst Democrats that she was an outstanding candidate. It was bizarre to see from within the US. I can only imagine how it appeared abroad.

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Rocío Matamoros's avatar

With the exception of Obama, who withheld his endorsement for long enough to cause the DNC much embarrassment.

It's generally assumed that he was the head what we might call Biden's regency committee, but his dissent here seems to indicate that he was out of the loop when Biden's candidacy was replaced by Harris's.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'She's so terrible, the more exposure people have, the worse they think of her.'

And, just like them keeping Joe under wraps (for which Covid was a huge gift, allowing him to hide in his basement), Kamala's public appearances and interviews were severely limited because she usually came across as a total idiot.

What I wouldn't have given to have seen her for two hours with Joe Rogan.

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thomas buckley's avatar

there is definitely more than an element of truth to that so maybe she doesn't end up with it...but it still must gall her to no end, the what might have beens

i think we will see exactly what people think of her if she runs for cal gov - shee got fewer votes than either biden or hilary in her home state and she came within a smiddgen/foot in mouth gaffe by her opponent in her AG's race of losng that bid

in other words, those who know her work are less likely to vote for her which does not bode terribly well

i don't see the point of her running for anything beyond ego - take the board of director seaats, the speaking gigs (well, maybe not those) and live off your awful husbands cash - from now on. as a former elected (local) i completely understand the siren song pull of running, but i don't think she has a "glide path" to cal gov and that loss would be even worse than nixon's

true, the state votes 53.7% for the worst dem candidates, 57% for the less egregious, but with more recent trends showing a statwide backing away from the progressive stuff harris stands for so it could be close

and if she does run and pulls it off with 51%, the sharks will be out...

ps - sorry about the typospsypooss

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baker charlie's avatar

I lived in CA ~20 years ago and remember even then she was considered to be pretty crap as a politician. Even though I wasn't voting for awhile, I remember groaning when they put her as VP next to Biden. Unless there is shennanigans (possible, it is the D's) I don't think she will make it past a primary process. The the CA dems have too many fresh faces that haven't been observed performing drunken rants on national TV to put 'wine box auntie' out in front of the public again.

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Henrybowman's avatar

"Alternatively, it’s possible that signs of cancer were discovered at some point, but that Biden’s inner circle avoided confirming the diagnosis or pursuing treatment."

A White House version of the Tuskegee Experiment. Equity at last, I guess.

Or maybe it's just that a five-day metastasis period is so typical of those pesky "oil cancers." I've heard that stuff multiplies faster than new genders.

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TRM's avatar

I won't feel any sympathy for these war criminals. Those who coerced others into a medical experiment get no sympathy. If they come clean, apologize and make amends then I'll cut them some slack. To be honest I think the punishment fits the crime. They did it to others and now it gets done to them.

https://i.postimg.cc/P5SB6nPq/Not-Important-Enough-Brett-Wilson.png

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KHP's avatar
7hEdited

How about:

If they come clean, apologize *in a nationally-televised press conference* and then commit seppuku at the end of it by way of atonement...

In all seriousness, those highest up are guilty of multiple crimes against humanity; they richly deserve the death penalty.

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Terry T's avatar

An “Opaque Politburo” was governing the Joe Biden™️ White House according to James Howard Kunstler. It has an ominous sound to it that I thought was quite appropriate

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