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SvennoJ said:

Jaicee said:

Yesterday Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to the bone and is thus considered incurable. I have a couple sentiments about his news:

First, I of course feel sorry for Biden and his loved ones. From navigating the hornet's nest that has been the Israel-Hamas war (which you may have noticed I don't enjoy discussing myself) to becoming the first president in American history to abandon his re-election bid after securing his party's nomination to seeing his replacement go down to defeat and most of his achievements as president rapidly undone by his successor to witnessing the deterioration of his son Hunter's condition in the face of public scrutiny and legal convictions to now being diagnosed with cancer himself, this last year has certainly been among the toughest the former president has ever endured and I don't envy him.

Secondly though...yeah, maybe he was up to remaining president for another four years, right? The man is in his 80s! What did you think was going to happen?! He had no business running for re-election and this news should end that debate forever.

While I don't think anyone deserves to experience cancer in any form, I'm also sad he'll never face the consequences for his role supporting genocide. Not that that was in the cards anyway. the ICC being too scared of the USA to hold Biden, Harris and Blinken to account.

Sure he was dealt a bad hand, but Biden made things so much worse and now we're back to the worst atrocities since WW2 with international law turned meaningless. Biden and Blinken were never really interested in a ceasefire. https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/the-biden-administrations-false-history-of-ceasefire-negotiations/ and supported genocide with 18 billion dollars of tax payer money. https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/biden-netanyahu-bear-hug-disaster/

He should not have been president at all, genocide Joe was/is a disaster for the planet.

And not just for the ME, rather than helping Ukraine repel the Russian invasion he prolonged that war as well with restrictions and indecisive military assistance. Biden didn't solve anything, left Trump with the mess who only knows how to make a bigger mess.

Maybe its karma, there's no justice anyway. Biden belongs in jail in The Hague.

If he had been re-elected, Harris would be taking over. Not great, still better than Trump though. Biden stalled the Ukraine genocide, Trump wants Ukraine to surrender. Biden still managed to get aid into Gaza, Trump is fine watching 2.1 million people starve to death, a repeat of the holodomor, so they leave his planned Riviera of the ME.

Under Biden's term the UN/UNSC/UNGA/ICC/ICJ have all been stripped of meaning. US soft power has been destroyed as well as freedom of speech in the US. We can point at Trump now for Student deportations yet it all started under Biden. Under his term antisemitism has been broadened to include any criticism of Israel and US foreign policies which Trump is now using to deport US citizens.

No, I don't have any empathy for Biden. I do for his kids, but that was long before him getting cancer.

I agree that he wasn't the best president by a long shot, but considering the alternative was Trump...