Former President Joe Biden spoke publicly for the first time since completing a round of radiation therapy for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
He addressed an audience in Boston on Sunday after winning the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute. pic.twitter.com/7leJAKrcWk
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 27, 2025
Former President Joe Biden urged Americans to remain hopeful as the nation faces “dark days” in his first public appearance since completing a round of radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
— Politico (@politico.com) October 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
… After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston on Sunday, Biden warned against what he called attacks on free speech and tests on the limits of executive power by President Donald Trump.
“Friends, I can’t sugar coat any of this. These are dark days,” the 82-year-old said, according to the Associated Press.
But, he said, America is “more powerful than any dictator.”…
“America is not a fairy tale,” Biden said Sunday. “For 250 years, it’s been a constant push and pull, an existential struggle between peril and possibility.”
Biden said he still believes in the promise of America. Though it may be easy to “check out,” he said, it is not time to give up.
“We are one of the only countries in the world that time and again has come out of every crisis we faced, stronger than we went into that crisis,” Biden said. “I still believe we will emerge, as we always have, stronger, wiser, more resilient, more just.”…
Instead, Our Very Serious Media, pushing for ‘thoughts’ from a guy rambling about his half-remembered greatest hits:
To be clear, Trump saying "I haven't really thought about it" is literally as close to "no" that you're going to get from him. Reporters know he'll refuse to rule anything out, so they can get a nice little soundbite every time they do this.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Elder abuse:
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett — a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy — a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe … "
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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You can see how differently the media covers Republicans perfectly in just this post alone
No panicked follow up on his health, no pushback on the batshit 3rd term non-sense.— Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky (@purrtah.bsky.social) October 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
ArchTeryx
So, what part of November after SNAP is cut off from all of Rural America do the food riots begin?
Starving the peasants, especially peasants armed to the teeth, has always ended well in history.
Have these Russian-soaked idiots even studied Russian history? What did they think tripped off the Bolshevik Revolution?
no body no name
He’s still on about that test.
trollhattan
We think we have a problem with the gerontocracy, Cameroon just reelected their 92YO president to another six-year term. Been in office since Reagan’s first term. Probably need quote marks around “reelected” because the fix was in.
Fun facts: “Biya, who came to power in 1982, is rarely seen in public and is known for spending time outside Africa in Swiss hotels. These long absences coupled with his advanced age has, in the past, led to rumours he was dead.”
Literally living Donny’s fondest dream.
trollhattan
@ArchTeryx:
The “good” news is those suffering from malnutrition will find the hospitals shut down when they go in for help.
ArchTeryx
From dead thread:
@trollhattan: It’s a much bigger deal in Maine to have family going back generations that’s lived in the state. They hate outsiders with a passion that the South can only be jealous of.
My mother once considered moving to Maine as a nice retirement state. She asked a resident how many years it’d take to be accepted as one of the locals. The resident actually laughed and said, “Dear, try three generations!”
Thus endeth the retirement in Maine. Who wants to go where they are not wanted? That is Collins’ secret sauce, and why she keeps winning.
waspuppet
As multiple people have pointed out, you can see in the Presidenting Harvard While Black scandal and the Great Come On There Has To Be Some Kind Of Limit To How Many Trans People There Can Be Debate that the NYT is capable of getting mad about things, and once you see that you can’t help but see what they don’t get mad about.
Old School
Ummmm… that’s not an IQ test.
ExPatExDem
What do you think would have happened if Biden had been reelected while hiding an advanced cancer diagnosis from the public?
I’m not being flippant. Serious question.
trollhattan
@Old School:
“Name something that will eat you and two things that will stomp you.”
Captain C
@ExPatExDem: Worst case scenario? He resigns and Kamala Harris replaces him.
JoyceH
Best polls he’s ever had? WHO is telling him that?! Is it someone we’ve heard of, or is it people that nobody else can see or hear?
Captain C
@JoyceH:
Some combination of sycophants and the narcissistic voices in his head.
Jeffg166
Old low IQ Florida man speaks on plane. Time for his nap. Sad.
rikyrah
Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦
@cmclymer
“For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap. There’s no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this.”
x.com/cmclymer/status/1982847373606002941
rikyrah
Do you know that 1 in every 4 dollars spent with SNAP benefits goes to Walmart?
It knew it was a lot of money. Didn’t know it was this much.
Old School
@ExPatExDem: To be clear, Biden’s cancer diagnosis happened in May 2025 – six months after the election. (Unless you are a conspiracy theorist.)
mrmoshpotato
Never seen this used to mean abuse from an old man.
mrmoshpotato
A full-body MRI? MRI on his dying a-brain? MRI on his fat, orange, fascist ass?
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato:
“I’m sorry, our MRI just isn’t that big.”
tam1MI
Maybe they were predicting how Jake Tapper, the FTFNYT, and the other members of the crazed jihad against Joe Biden would spin it.
mrmoshpotato
@no body no name: Man, woman, camera, TREAT ME TREMENDOUS BIGLY!
Marc
Woah, Don just threw down on AOC and Jasmine! They should accept the challenge. Schedule a live National online event, and every time Dumbass tried to TACO, just say whaz wrong President Trump, your ass afraid of us women?
West of the Cascades
@Jeffg166: Trump’s daily (hourly?) reminder that he’s a sack of racist dogshit.
Baud
@Old School:
Obviously is. He didn’t say “accused of.” He flat out stated it as truth.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: What about Bigfoot?
Baud
@Marc:
Trump cancelled his second debate against Kamala because she spanked him so hard.
Apparently, that didn’t affect his man cred.
Belafon
@trollhattan: “Name something that will eat you, something that will stomp you, and something that will sacrifice its children.” Trump’s happy it was something other than him for a change.
H.E.Wolf
The current president’s racist insult about low intelligence, directed incessantly at accomplished Black people whose shoe soles he is not fit to lick, really torques my jaw*.
*to borrow one of the milder phrases from the ex-Navy director of Manufacturing at my former workplace.
JCJ
@ArchTeryx: yup. I know someone who moved to Maine for retirement. It did not take long for him to return to Wisconsin. He cited the reasons you mentioned.
Lyrebird
@ExPatExDem: If you’re not being flippant, why say “hiding”?
If you’re actually asking gee where would we be now, I’m confident he would have resigned, confident in his highly qualified Veep. I personally think he was mostly trying to get her past the gauntlet of racists through to Jan. of this year before turning things over.
The only reason I’m responding is that like GoLikeHellMachine, I think we have to get even more vigilant against disinformation and splintering for the next several elections.
opiejeanne
I had the annual checkup with my NP last Monday, and they gave me the same cognitive test. I started laughing and she knew why.
Monkeys could pass that test easily. Chickens can pass that test if it’s geared to their abilities.
Citizen Alan
@ExPatExDem: Before he dropped out of the race in favor of Kamala, I would have been perfectly okay with Biden winning reelection and then resigning “for health reasons” in favor of Kamala in the middle of his acceptance speech.
trollhattan
@JCJ:
Moving from Maine to Wisconsin isn’t exactly escaping the snow.
I probably have the wrong rules book.
trollhattan
@Citizen Alan: Speaking of Kamala, (threadjack) her BBC interview has me thinking she’s running again in ’28. IDK what to think about the possibility other than it means the ’26 CA governor race remains wide open.
tam1MI
Excepting Native Americans, of course.
Tony Jay
It’s literally the job of those, uh, journalists, to respond to “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had” with questions like “What poll numbers are you referring to, Mister President?” and “All of the polls show your popularity dropping faster than an iron-rich turd into a White House toilet, Mister President. Which members of your staff have been telling you otherwise?”
If you think their actual job is to be journalists.
(Reader, it was not)
Baud
@trollhattan:
She already said she’s not running for governor.
rikyrah
President Biden, I miss you.
Then, again, I always knew I would.
Baud
@opiejeanne:
We’re taking Trump’s word that he passed. He could have failed miserably and we wouldn’t know.
dm
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is so low-IQ she only came in 2nd-place in microbiology in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair:
qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-rese…
(She got an asteroid named after her for that.)
rikyrah
NewsNation
@NewsNation
Mobsters ensnared in a federal gambling case involving NBA figures would be wise to take their punishment and not cooperate with prosecutors, ex-mobster @GravnoTheBull tells
@TVAshleigh
.
MORE: newsnationnow.com/crime/nba-stars-mafia-arrested-fbi-gambling-bust/
@MichaelFranzese
x.com/NewsNation/status/1981572889825649136
rikyrah
@Captain C:
Which is why we have Vice Presidents.
trollhattan
@Baud: Yeah, that’s what I meant.
It would have been a retrograde career step in any case.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Gritting teeth while dreaming of President Vance is the weirdest position I’ve ever been in. “Let’s just leave this lava river and jump into that swamp o’ shit.”
prostratedragon
An entertaining resource from letterboxd.com:
Thumbnails of several hundred movies from all over the world that bear reading between the lines. Arranged roughly chronologically.
Matt McIrvin
@JoyceH: A few months ago Mike Johnson told reporters with a straight face that Trump’s approval rating was at 90% and was the highest of any president in history. Now you could squint at it and try to figure out the nugget of truth hiding in there– maybe it was approval among Republicans; but the fact is that Johnson was saying something that was untrue on its face to an obvious, blatant, hallucinatory degree just to flatter Trump. That’s what they do.
lowtechcyclist
@dm:
Too bad she can’t make it land on Mar-A-Lago when Turd 47 is there.
James Filyaw
My perception of Joe Biden will always be colored by his blinkered understanding of what was happening in Gaza.
sab
@Marc: I wish I could have gone thru life with Jasmine Crockett’s or AOC’s IQs.
prostratedragon
@Captain C:
Whole lot of anxieties look small when measured against our current predicament.
Aziz, light!
I think Harris is going to be unpleasantly surprised by a tepid performance in the primary.
trollhattan
Being a parent never ends. Kid texts from upstairs: “Can U get dog? He’s scratching at door and I’m interviewing.” [med school app]
Dog now grumpy, so somebody’s still unhappy with me.
Harrison Wesley
@Old School: Isn’t that the start of a joke? “A tiger,an elephant,and a giraffe walk into a bar….”
terraformer
We have so much work to do, as a country, to ensure someone like the Orange Felon can never gain office again. And to make sure every damn thing that’s a “norm” is codified into Law, with real teeth if violated.
I remember what surely seemed to be a collective sigh of relief amongst all our allies when Biden won. You could see that people were glad to have someone who’s not a narcissist and sociopath in charge.
But we failed them, and we failed ourselves – aided by a complicit media and a cunning adversary in the Kremlin.
Aziz, light!
@James Filyaw: Mine will be his too little, too late, too restrictive approach to Ukraine’s defense. I regard it as a major foreign policy failure.
Hoodie
A cognitive test and an mri? Not out of the question that his staff and advisors suspect his brain is cooked but scared him about some other possible condition to get him to submit to the mri. The cognitive test alone might be ambiguous and they wanted more direct clinical information. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s lying about the results or those particular tests were inconclusive.
catclub
@ArchTeryx:
unemployed soldiers. Not starving peasants
Albatrossity
Probably just trying to figure out how he can be so full of shit and still have all those GOP congresscritters living in his colon…
prostratedragon
@Aziz, light!: I think that is 2 and 1/2 years away.
Baud
@Albatrossity:
Heh.
cain
@ArchTeryx: Hilariously maga will be rebranded as “anti-fa”
Matt McIrvin
All Black women are automatically “low IQ” to Donald Trump and evidently Latina women are too. They are always people who are so obviously smarter than him, it’s not even funny. But he applies the insult like a reflex and it’s not just him– Charlie Kirk used to do a more genteel version of the same thing. Also, remember the whispering campaign years back about how Sonia Sotomayor was just kind of dumb? Automatic thing among conservative white guys.
Princess
@no body no name: What I learned from Trump going on about the test and how the first questions were easy is that he did significantly worse on it this time and he’s a bit scared and is trying to reassure himself he’s okay when he isn’t. . I think MRIs can be used to view the brain tangles and bodies that are a consequence of Alzheimer’s and Lewy body dementias.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Aziz, light!: If she were to run again and were to have a “tepid performance”, that will be far less of a flex against her and more of a damning condemnation of how devolved and corrupted the people voting have become.
prostratedragon
Raoul Paste
Joe speaks for me.
prostratedragon
Important point if SNAP is not paid:
TONYG
The disgraceful behavior of the mainstream media is not a mystery to me. The mainstream media is the corporate media. The policies of Trump and the Republican Party serve the interests of the plutocracy — major corporations and the multi-billionaires who own them. Therefore the mainstream media supports Trump and the Republicans.
Captain C
@Tony Jay:
LIES!!!! FAKE NEWS!!!!! MY TURDS ARE SOLID GOLD!!!@[sic]!
Captain C
@rikyrah:
Another case of do as I say, not as I do, (edit: this time) from one of the most famous mafia snitches.
Old School
Another Scott
@Hoodie: IANA-MD.
I assume, see above, that given that he seemed to suffer a TIA (given that droopy face picture we all saw), and given the acknowledged circulation issues with his legs, that they wanted to see if there was a serious blockage in his noggin that might require a stent or something.
I assume, see above, that it would have been unusual if they didn’t do a CT scan or an MRI given those things and the public position he holds.
FWIW.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Baud
@Old School:
C’mon. Trump doesn’t know what a hexagon is.
He only knows what a pentagon is because that’s was the “War Department” is.
Betty
So Jonathan Karl comes on Nicolle Wallace’s show to promote his new book, Retribution. He shared some interesting information about Mike Pence and January 6th but goes on to discuss Todd Blanche and describes him as a serious lawyer. Nicolle was relentless. She would not let him get away with that in light of what is going on at the DOJ. He was squirming as he tried to defend that statement.
iKropoclast
That doesn’t really mean he knows what a pentagon is, just what the Pentagon is.
trollhattan
@Baud: Round peg instantly becomes “booby.”
mrmoshpotato
@Albatrossity: LOL!
Captain C
@Baud: That doesn’t mean he actually knows what it is.
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
A stent, or send in the brainworm. We have an ambulating example of that as a successful strategy.
Captain C
@Albatrossity: “Sir, I think we’ve found the secret to building a TARDIS! Look at this image!”
ETA: MRI tech to doctor. Note that there are no manly tears and sirs.
iKropoclast
@trollhattan: Trump bragging about his performance in the same open-ended, no real wrong answers, test that they gave me because I abruptly start falling asleep and have trouble staying focused during spoken conversations.
gvg
@catclub: So, that’s why Putin doesn’t want to end the war? In fact even winning the war would be dangerous….if he had to let them come home?
Harrison Wesley
@Baud: “Hexagon? Don’t think I know him – maybe he brought me coffee once.”
bbleh
You can see how differently the media covers Republicans perfectly in just this post alone.
The Senile Orange Guy is ENTERTAINING. Love him or hate him. And that’s what the MSM sell now, even if some of it is in the guise of news.
Biden was competent and level-headed and … boooringggg (except when they could go bananas about his age).
Tony Jay
@Captain C:
AM in NC
@Marc: I am 100,000% behind this idea. The trolling by these two women alone would kill him even if he never got on stage with them!
tam1MI
I think this also.
laura
@ExPatExDem: Biden would have resigned and Vice President Kamala Harris would assume the presidency for the remainder of the term. It ain’t rocket surgery.
Captain C
@gvg:
That, plus if he ends it without the entirety of Ukraine as his prize he’ll look weak and knives will be out for him, especially since he’s trashed the Russian economy for his war of conquest and killed or severely wounded over a million Russians (though not necessarily ethnic Russians) of fighting age. Probably a few other reasons too.
Also remember that a whole lot of psycho criminals got reprieves and pardons to go to the front lines, and any of those who get back will now have serious PTSD to go with their previous awfulness.
ExPatExDem
@Old School: To be clear, given how far advanced his diagnosis was, I find it very unlikely that he didn’t know long before May.
gvg
What boggles my mind is how he has not yet understood that bragging about that childishly simple test should be embarresing to admit to needing to take, let alone acting as if it was hard, and an accomplishment to not fail. people have been making fun of him since he started talking about it by just quoting him and he doesn’t seem to know it. That means he has been far gone since his last term or all of the people around him for years have been morons, and in comparison he is sort of smart. I don’t think that is possible. I think he is surrounded by sharks who are using him. It’s all very scarey.
Also does this mean that most of his voters didn’t realize the implications of his boasting about that test? Are they that stupid also? I can’t get past that.
Betty
@Another Scott: An M. D. on social media (Threads or Blue Sky?) made a convincing argument that Trump has suffered a stroke and is likely suffering from vascular dementia. I see similar behavior in my husband who has been diagnosed with vascular dementia. It can progress differently in different people.
kindness
@James Filyaw: Ah yes…President Trump has been so much better than what Joe Biden did. (/s)
Old School
@ExPatExDem:
So your theory is that he received a diagnosis about advanced cancer and held off getting treatment for a year (two?) to cover it up?
Omnes Omnibus
@James Filyaw: @kindness: We aren’t grading against perfection.
Martin
I’m glad Joe is looking healthy following that diagnosis.
rikyrah
Film Updates
@FilmUpdates
Ayo Edebiri, Laura Harrier, Jeff Goldblum, Damson Idris, Hunter Schafer, Angela Bassett, Regé-Jean Page, LaKeith Stanfield, Jeremy Pope, Teyana Taylor, Elizabeth Debicki, Greta Lee and Danai Gurira at Vogue World Hollywood 📸
x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1982666503947428148
JCJ
@ExPatExDem: I do not know the extent of President Biden’s prostate cancer, but I would definitely say that a man can have widely metastatic disease and not know it. Before PSA blood tests were done it was not unusual for a man to have extensive disease at diagnosis. Bone scans would show dozens of metastatic sites. In my world we have all seen a man present with significant disease with an initial PSA reading in the hundreds. These men can have a good initial response to hormonal ablation. Current medications including androgen receptor blockers have improved results further. If President Biden had not had a PSA checked for several years he absolutely could have significant disease with minimal symptoms. Likewise if a man has a very aggressive cancer it might not produce PSA.
Current imaging with PSMA PET scans are extremely helpful at evaluating the extent of disease.
If anyone is interested there have been many recent studies including STAMPEDE, ORIOLE, and the more general SABR-COMET trials
dexwood
@ExPatExDem: Bullshit. Biden has a rare form of prostate cancer, the same type I have. It came on fast and spread like wildfire despite annual exams and PSAs. I had no obvious symptoms except for a greatly elevated PSA. He’s a bit luckier in that his has not metastasized as much as mine. August 2024, I was given less than a year to live. Fortunately, I have responded significantly to treatment. There is no cure for me, only delay.
Martin
@laura: Yeah, the VP job is principally to be backup for the president – the ‘can’t both travel on the same plane’ rule is reflective of that. And that’s kind of unfortunate because the VP really should have a more significant function above being President of the Senate. I think the original idea was that the VP would be the legislative/judicial liaison and that’s mostly fallen away.
Melancholy Jaques
Amazon is planning to cut 30,000 jobs starting tomorrow. Not sure in what part of the company’s vast empire these layoffs are happening, but that is a lot of people out of work.
sab
@prostratedragon: Thank you for the reminder. There are pet food donation charities. Your locals will need donations for SNAP cut off families
ETA I Googled and my county Humane Society has donation sites at churches all over the county.
Karen Gail
Open thread;
So was in waiting mode and watching reels; saw one where hallway full of masked ICE people started harassing a black man, who was an out of uniform NYPD officer. He did his best to keep things cool and get to where he wanted but they kept pushing and poking trying to provoke him, not sure they even realized he was NYPD just that he was black man.
You could see the simmering violence just under the surface and these masked men tried to intimidate him. 40% of police families experience domestic violence while the average families experience 10%; many of these thugs who are joining ICE are even more violent. Now they have Miller telling them that they have immunity which tells me that whatever frayed leashes people may have had are snapped and we can expect the violence to ramp up even more. Especially since Miller and Trump want to invoke the ‘Insurrection Act’ and remove all restraints.
trollhattan
@Melancholy Jaques:
Weird. Of course “Amazon” covers lots of territory but isn’t right now when they staff up for warehouse and delivery, for Christmas?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Good lord, why didn’t he just say ‘niCLANG!”? Because that racist trope he just uttered is just as awful.
Of course will our Failed Media Corpse bring this utterance up?
That was a rhetorical question.
iKropoclast
Plausible deniability. Never underestimate the amount of willpower Republican voters can pour into obtuse reasoning.
trollhattan
“The hell kinda name is Shira? She’s out!
Baud
@dexwood:
I’m sorry to hear about our situation, and doubly sorry you had to relate it to counter a baseless smear.
Baud
@Karen Gail:
Yes, they’re frustrated that they haven’t created a more violent backlash and will escalate.
trollhattan
Oh no, don’t throw us into that briar patch!
Can you imagine the pain of running a car company without Musk around? What a thought.
Melancholy Jaques
@catclub:
The February Revolution was sparked by the Tsarist regime’s response to a march on International Women’s Day with signs demanding bread & food for children.
The Bolshevik or October Revolution was Lenin leading an uprising against the weak and disorganized Provisional government.
MagdaInBlack
@trollhattan: Automating the warehouses? Robots? Just a couple thoughts.
JCJ
@dexwood: sorry to hear about your situation. I should have been clear. An aggressive prostate cancer, typically Gleason grade 5+4 or 5+5, can absolutely come on and progress rapidly. The rare small cell prostate cancers are even more rapid in progression.
trollhattan
@MagdaInBlack:
Those probably play a role and my SWAG is tariffs are about to fully hit and drive prices northward, bigly. Black Friday becomes Red Friday.
So much winning.
dexwood
@Baud:
@JCJ:
Thank you.
jonas
@JoyceH: That’s the Roy Cohn mentoring coming through: No matter what the reality is, you say everything is the most awesomest it’s ever been and fuck you if you try to challenge me on that I’ll destroy you. It works because the press sucks.
NaijaGal
@Aziz, light!:
I think by 2028 we’ll be dealing with a much different reality than we are today. I still believe that Obama, despite all his talents wouldn’t have won in 2008 if GWB had left behind a booming economy and prevented 9/11 by actually listening to Clinton. Bigoted people were so mad about the economy, they actually told canvassers “we’re voting for the [n-word].”
I think the consequences of Trump’s policies especially on tariffs and healthcare will be worse than the financial crisis of 2008 (unless Dems win the midterms in the House and Senate and somehow neuter him).
If there’s a financial crisis that dwarfs 2008, I think a woman could win the presidency in 2028. I think the Dem candidate, whoever that is, would win, basically. But you’re right in one sense – the advantage in the Democratic primaries might go to the Dem governors who are seen to be taking on this administration.
Wapiti
If Harris doesn’t win the primary, I hope the winning Democrat finds someplace to use her talents – like DOJ.
Wapiti
@trollhattan: It’s a meme stock more than an auto company. Shareholders might want to avoid a share price collapse.
Aziz, light!
@MagdaInBlack: Bezos has been crowing lately about his plan to automate his warehouses; maybe that is well underway.
MagdaInBlack
@Aziz, light!: Wonder who he thinks will buy all his stuff when we are all unemployed and living in old amazon boxes.
jonas
@Aziz, light!: Those warehouses employ a lot of people and cities and counties have scrambled over the years to greenlight Amazon distribution centers because they were billed as big job creators in rural areas in particular. If everyone’s replaced by robots, that’s going to be a problem.
On the other hand, Amazon treats those workers abysmally and it’s horrible work, so maybe it’s for the best. Hard to know how to feel about this one.
MagdaInBlack
@jonas: The repercussions of putting those people out of work are a whole lot bigger than just those amazon employees.
jonas
@Wapiti: They’ve all drunk Musk’s self-driving AI koolaid. They’re not even thinking about EVs any longer. Cybertruck? What’s that?
iKropoclast
@jonas: Anticipating some future moment where Amazon replaces all its workers with AI and HR complaints still don’t recede.
trollhattan
Kilgore on Donny’s stratigery WRT Prop 50.
nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-prop-50-attack-early-mail-in-voting-midterm-elections-power-gr…
Sounds plausible.
mrmoshpotato
@Wapiti:
Maybe investing in a company headed by an apartheid-loving, chainsaw-swinging, Nazi bitchass isn’t a good idea.
Albatrossity
@dexwood: Yeah, I’m not an oncologist, but I did both get grants from and review grants for the American Cancer Society during my time in the academic harness. I also know several folks with prostate cancer, and for some of them, their story was a lot like yours. So my comment is not as personal, eloquent, or heartfelt as yours, but the point is the same. Prostate cancer (like many other cancers) is a very sneaky bugger.
Hang in there, good luck, and thanks again for the education here!
Another Scott
@trollhattan: It’s the usual “heads I win / tails you lose” thing with 47.
We have to keep moving forward no matter how many tantrums he throws.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Citizen Alan
@Aziz, light!: In my more pessimistic moments, it occurs to me that all the seemingly dumb policies our government has been pursuing pretty much since Reagan make perfect sense if you assume the oligarchs now think that AI and automation have rendered most workers redundant and so the sensible thing to do is to cull the human race by 70% or so.
Captain C
@MagdaInBlack: Perhaps he thinks he can charge rent on those boxes.
Karen Gail
@Albatrossity: Not only is cancer sneaky but the way that doctors treat women when they have concerns give some cancers the chance to become ‘make out your will and pray’ time.
I hate with a passion the way that oncologists treat women’s cancers; I had large mass on or in thyroid and first thing out of his mouth was “when was your last mammogram?” I was having trouble breathing (it grew quickly less than 6 weeks from small irritating lump on throat to not being able to breathe lying down.) and the idiot wants me to have mammogram and pap smear?
satby
@trollhattan: yes. Unless forecasts show business will be much lower this year. Which is very likely.
Ohio Mom
@trollhattan: Amazon has a lot of white collar workers — software designers, programmers testers, technical writers, etc.
Maybe they all finished a big project and aren’t needed any more.
planetjanet
@ExPatExDem:
Are you a doctor, expert on oncology. They said he had a very aggressive form. A friend of mine has gone through the same thing. You are continuing to look for deception. That is your bias. L
Baud
Via reddit, AOC deserves props for this.
Karen Gail
Thump’s tests:
Trump Confesses That He Found Elementary School-Level Test ‘Very Hard’
Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for ‘Very Hard’ IQ Test as He Brags About Results
iKropoclast
@planetjanet: Remote amateur online diagnostics are much beloved by bigots looking for a plausibly non-bigoted argument for their bigotry.
HopefullyNotCassandra
@ExPatExDem: Even though President Biden did not hide his condition, no doubt, the only question press would yell at him would be about the “cover up.”
How do we fix this? Not with these “democratic” pundits
bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3m476sny4ds25
As Jamelle Bouie notes democrats have no control how, or if, their message lands. This is what we must fix.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Melancholy Jaques:
@MagdaInBlack:
Apparently, they’re all corporate jobs
Amazon Slashing As Many As 30,000 Corporate Jobs In Its Largest Ever Round Of Layoffs – Report
HopefullyNotCassandra
@mrmoshpotato: on his bone spurs?
martha
@dexwood: My dad delayed one year of PSA monitoring because he was caretaker for my mom. When he finally went to his checkup, they discovered his cancer had metastasized. He lived 10 years longer, thanks to a wonderful oncologist and participation in a couple of clinical trials. She told him that he was her “poster child” for positive outcomes. So, I wish you the very best. He’s been gone 5 years, so I’m sure the protocols have gotten even better.
cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That’s going to really hurt. I’m not sure how this economy is going ot recover with such large job losses.
Gloria DryGarden
@rikyrah: I use both, and I’m not sure how this comparison is made.
But there are definitely things I rarely find at a food bank, but can buy w my snap card. The food bank usually do limit one to take only one, or only two, trying to achieve no more than 3 days of meals per visit. And some only allow once a month visits.
cain
@satby:
You can bet that Trump is going to weaponize his DOJ against these companies for making him look bad.
cain
@dexwood: Really sorry to hear this. I hope that your life expectancy is beyond everyone’s wildest dreams.
Baud
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
That links back to this site.
Here is what they propose.
Trivia Man
I shared the story about the mri with a question of “still think nyt is liberal?”
Response was “they covered up more with fdr and jfk”
cain
@Aziz, light!:
Would be funny if all these robots lead to significant losses that causes Amazon to start circling the drain because there isn’t anybody who can afford to buy products.
HopefullyNotCassandra
@Aziz, light!: and yet in both cases, infinitely preferable to his successor
dexwood
@Albatrossity:
@martha:
Appreciate the kind words. I’m getting great care, feel pretty good, mostly, and will fight as long as I’m able.
Fair Economist
@Karen Gail: At least that MSN article is straightforward about Trump’s recent mental problems. I’m so used to sanewashing it really stands out.
trollhattan
@Trivia Man:
Interesting avoidance of St Ronaldus of the House of Alzheimer.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@cain:
According to the article:
And what do people like Jassy expect those people who’s jobs are eliminated to do? There’s only so many other kinds of alternative jobs to go around (trade jobs, etc). How do they expect the economy to function if tens of millions are permanently unemployed?
JeanneT
@ExPatExDem: Anecdotal response: my husband was diagnosed with high grade prostate cancer that had metastasized before a psa test and biopsy sounded an alarm.
Like breast cancer, prostate cancer comes in differing levels of aggressiveness. Lots of older PC patients have slow growing, lazy cancers with early PSA warning and can get by with watchful waiting for years and years. President Biden’s diagnosis and treatment is mirroring my husbands: start with hormone suppression to slow down and shrink the tumors followed by radiation of the primary site. (My John also moved on to trying three different chemo treatments, none of which slowed down his progression.)
In short, I think the timeline for President Biden’s diagnosis and treatment is very credible, and I hope that his treatment gives him several more years of comfortable living.
geg6
@Hoodie:
When my partner was being diagnosed for his dementia, he first took the word test and failed but not miserably so. We were told to come back in three months and given a prescription that might slow progress. The next appointment, it was a similar word test and they immediately scheduled an MRIas deterioration had continued. The MRI was to try to figure out what kind of dementia it was. Turned out to be vascular dementia, due to age (John is twelve years older than I) and a stroke and related mini strokes. I have been saying for months that Trump’s condition looks a lot like John’s. I suspect it is the same diagnosis.
HopefullyNotCassandra
@Baud: Medicare for all and student loan forgiveness are unpopular? WHO are these people?
It is like these “democratic pundits” watch Fox all day and then regurgitate
Baud
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
I haven’t seen recent polling on Medicare for All. I believe student loan forgiveness was a net negative for us.
iKropoclast
@HopefullyNotCassandra: Accepting right wing framing of left wing issues is useful for certain Democrats who only seem to exist as functionaries for donors
That list was trying to convince us abolishing police and prisons is a D priority. Just deranged fanciful shit.
MagdaInBlack
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): They don’t care. They have rfkjr to kill off the weak, and the rich folk will all be in their fortified bunkers hiding from whats left of society.
(too dark? might be this migraine I’m battling)
Percysowner
Some good news National Guard troops stun with rare vow to defy Trump’s orders: ‘Stand up to the Gestapo’ Right now it’s only a couple of soldiers from the Illinois National Guard and I expect the Feds will come down HARD on them. OTOH, a few, tiny, hairline cracks can eventually widen and bring down a dam. In other words, it’s a start.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Baud: Biden bent over backwards to push that and the response of the people he fought for was to shoo him out.
There are a lot of people whose pet causes are about to wither and die because of their actions.
Baud
@Interesting Name Goes Here:
Fixed to reflect full Trumpism.
mrmoshpotato
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
Probably! I love that Senator Tammy Duckworth calls the orange shitstain Cadet Bone Spurs.
I will enthusiastically vote for her a 3rd time if she runs for a third term.
iKropoclast
@Interesting Name Goes Here: Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that while I personally see the loan cancellations as justified, absent other reforms to how education is funded and accessed, it solves nothing.
mrmoshpotato
@Percysowner: Good on them! On the right side of history!
Deputinize America
@Baud:
So Third Way on steroids.
Baud
@Deputinize America:
If you only look at half their proposals, they might appear lefty. Kind of interesting.
Chief Oshkosh
@ExPatExDem:
You really don’t know much, do you? Welp, here’s hoping you get to find out, up close and personal, good and hard.
HopefullyNotCassandra
@iKropoclast: that is how I saw it. Lots of people in this country believe that crazy framing unfortunately
@Baud: Then we lost that information war again. It makes no sense to turn our kids into indentured servants so we can profit on their misery. That way leads to fewer engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers and physicists too.
zhena gogolia
@dexwood: Thank you for correcting this insidious disinformation. I wish you the very best and many years ahead.
Deputinize America
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
Student loan forgiveness was used to seriously piss people off as a class wedge, and the rhetoric worked to such a point that the problem is a structural hurdle. About the only possible true fix left is eliminating the bankruptcy prohibition, so they can fall in place with every OTHER obligation in terms of being dischargeable like all of Trump’s debts.
Medicare for All is an unserious concept unless proponents float how to do the incentives for institutional buy-in and how to implement it without shocking away 30% of the value of stocks that make up the backbone investments held in 401Ks, 457Bs, mutual funds and public and private pensions.
Mai Naem mobile
Biden looks pretty good. I know I’m only seeing a minute and all he’s doing is speaking but in my eyes tfg looks like shit compared to Biden. Tfg goes from looking swollen to looking somewhat gaunt and it’s from day to day. That’s not normal. Think of the people you know who’ve died, in the last year or two of their lives. The only reason he looks as good as he does is because he has the best medical care available with a whole entourage whose job is to make him look good.
iKropoclast
The effort behind turning lies into conventional wisdom has deep roots and has been in full bloom the last few years.
cain
@geg6: I’m always feel sad when you talk about John.
Highly recommend watching the bollywood movie Saiyaara. It’s about Alzheimer’s and a love story. The title song is just heart breakingly soulful.
HopefullyNotCassandra
@Deputinize America: the cost of college could return to sanity. That would work too. Medicare is the most efficient program in the world for quality insurance for our elderly. Expanding it to allow buy in (especially among the almost there) would significantly improve insurance markets for everybody. That would not be complicated. We almost got that with the ACA in the first place.
Deputinize America
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
More complicated than you think, given the amount of health-related equities that are the blue chip foundations of so many retirement funds.
Its frightening to me that big name proponents of M4A gloss over it. It’s akin to saying “fuck your retirement; we’re on a Green Lantern mission here”.
cain
@HopefullyNotCassandra:
With Trumps immigration policy these universities are not going to get the lucrative money of students coming from other countries. So they kind of have to get from the local population.
To do that though will require lowering prices because nobody wants to take on the student loans with their high interest rates especially in this unstable economy.
iKropoclast
@Deputinize America: I hear you. This is, in fact, a segment of why I refuse to participate in these retirement funds. Just more money in the MotU sandbox for them to play with while creating real disincentives for society to disentangle things essential to life like healthcare and housing from a profit motive.
Matt McIrvin
@HopefullyNotCassandra: Student loan forgiveness makes a remarkable number of people REALLY ANGRY. It was probably one of Biden’s most unpopular actions. “Why should those lazy deadbeat students with a useless major get a handout I didn’t get?” etc. etc. Crabs in the bucket.
Geminid
@Matt McIrvin: That issue did not make me angry, but I did resent how Elizabeth Warren kept pushing it in 2021 when Biden and the other Congressional Democrats had what I thought were bigger fish to fry. And for some reason she picked $50,000 as the figure Biden could forgive at the stroke of a pen. I don’t recall Warren the candidate pushing it the year before, so why then?
HopefullyNotCassandra
@Matt McIrvin: a lot of things make people really angry. A lot of folks were allegedly really angry at Cracker Barrel a few weeks gone now.
it makes me furious that we have turned our children into indentured servants
HopefullyNotCassandra
@Deputinize America: and yet we almost got buy in for 55 and up with the ACA. That change was projected to add years into Medicare. We are not stuck with the sinking horror shows we have unless we do nothing
HopefullyNotCassandra
@cain: I hope you are correct !
dww4
@Melancholy Jaques: why? Is their retail business underperforming?
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: I know a Camaroonian couple. Both work in medicine. They enjoy throwing banger parties. Very nice people.
Paul in KY
@Citizen Alan: Me too. After the debate, it was the ‘winning’ part that I knew was not going to happen (with him in that condition).
Paul in KY
@Baud: Given my theses on him: ‘Everything he says is a lie”. I guess he flunked it. I would give the Nelson Muntz ‘ha ha’, but this dip is our President, for fuck’s sake!!!
Paul in KY
@catclub: who were on their way to being starving peasants.
Paul in KY
@Matt McIrvin: It is sick & racist and gross.
Paul in KY
@kindness: If TACO had been President in 2021, the Gazanians would be lounging at their ocean side pools, sipping their fruited drinks & eating the finest of hummus I tells ya!
Paul in KY
@dexwood: Boy, I hope it is delayed as long as possible!
Kayla Rudbek
@prostratedragon: yeah, if the Patent Office can stay open and run off its operating reserves, I see no legal reason why SNAP can’t be funded (preservation of human life being a higher priority in my opinion)
Kayla Rudbek
@MagdaInBlack: putting money into AI instead of actually keeping IT people and programmers around? And of course with the shutdown, federal grants getting cut, etc. nobody still employed wants to spend money either…
Kayla Rudbek
@Citizen Alan: yep, that sounds like a fair amount of the articles at the Futurist, and some of the discussions at Charlie Stross’ blog too. There are times when I am relieved that I don’t have children (and I have had nightmares about my godson’s descendants being nomadic horse riders going through the ruins of the Metro station)
Gloria DryGarden
@Baud: was that “our”, or “your” but with a typo?