46 and 47

Here is a picture of the failing and faltering 46th President of the United States, taken March 23, 2025.  Notice the lack of a cane, walker or wheel chair.  Yes, the man is old, yes his stutter is a little more apparent than it used to be.  However, go out to Youtube and play this video, or this one.  The second video was made on the 100th day of 47's horrible administration.  I haven't read it, but I don't believe Jake Tapper's book.  I do believe he had it in for Hunter Biden, and by extension, Joe, because Hunter would not agree to call Tapper immediately upon Beau's death so he could scoop the other networks.  There's history there.

As to the cancer diagnosis.  "Aggressive cancer" has a specific meaning.  It's not like normal prostate cancer that's slow growing, and can take a decade to kill you.  The Gleason score of 9 tells you it's a poorly differentiated cancer.  That type of tumor does does not secrete prostate specific antigens like a non-aggressive tumor.  There are less.  So, the last PSA Biden did in 2014, in accordance with guidelines for older men, would not have shown this cancer.  I don't know, because some of  the literature is opaque to me, if it would have shown the tumor before he left office.  Here's the thing.  He's a private citizen now, and I am sick and fucking tired of people trying to make this a scandal and throw shit on what was a very successful administration.  

Biden was not perfect, I believe his premature declaration that Covid was over bordered on criminal negligence.  Currently one person dies of Covid every 11 minutes, so no, not over.  Likewise, I think Obama's failure to stop Putin in Crimea was a terrible, wrong headed decision.   Democrats are not perfect, but they are way better than what we have now.

So, that is what I have to say about that.

In other news, the Big Bad Bill will increase the deficit to the point that there is likely to be 500 BILLION dollars cut from Medicare over the next ten years.  Medicad will suffer more cuts.   All this while adding $4 trillion to our current $37 trillion debt.

Today 47 hosted the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.  He spent the press time talking over Mr. Ramaphosa and accusing him of committing genocide on the Afrikaners. This is not true.  It's a lie pushed by Elon Musk.  South Africa does have a high crime rate, but white people are not victims of genocide.  They still own just about everything.  There is an NPR article that did fact checking.  47 made a complete ass of himself.  He told Peter Alexander he was not smart enough to be a reporter when asked about the gift 747 from Qatar.  Once again, I am embarrassed to be a citizen of the US.