President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

Do you believe that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and members of his administration were disgusting as well? And Eleanor too? Because they sure did go to some extreme lengths to conceal FDR's polio-related paralysis.


... and FDR was the President of the United States for 12 years. Some posters on here are acting like this would be unprecedented. It's not. Most Americans in 1945 did not know that FDR was partially paralyzed. His administration would not allow his picture to be taken while he was seated in a wheelchair.
His paralysis didn't affect his ability to carry out the duties of POTUS.
 
Do you know her? Because you would pretty much have to, in order to have a good read on her personality. She doesn't do many interviews and for the most part, she kept a low profile during her husband's presidency. You are being judgmental as hell.
I've known several like her. Her words and actions as reported give insight into her personality, just like DJT's words and actions give insight into his. Based on those words and actions, my opinion is that she's a narcissistic gold digging manipulative social climber. Otherwise she seems like a nice lady.
 
Donald Trump Jr. is wrong, because he strongly suggested that Dr. Jill Biden is a medical doctor, who would be qualified to either examine the physical health of her husband, or to make assessments of his physical health.

Dr. Jill Biden is not an MD. Jill Biden has a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware. Why would she be any more qualified to examine someone than the average person off the street?
I think he was poking fun at her insistence on being called doctor. It has been a running joke for some years now.

It was a poor joke at best given the underlying subject, but a joke nonetheless.
 
True. The President of the United States has no business giving demands to the CEO of a corporation concerning where they can and can't manufacture their products.
While I agree with the premise, happens all the time. For example, S&W didn't move to Alcoa because MA didn't ultimately want them shutdown.
 
Do you believe that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and members of his administration were disgusting as well? And Eleanor too?

The guy who kept Asians in concentration camps, whose administration was known for their admiration of fascism, and paid farmers to burn food during the depression because he thought it was too cheap?

Yes.
 
I've known several like her. Her words and actions as reported give insight into her personality, just like DJT's words and actions give insight into his. Based on those words and actions, my opinion is that she's a narcissistic gold digging manipulative social climber. Otherwise she seems like a nice lady.
Lololol
I mean seriously. I laughed.
“But other than that….”
 
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Would hypocrisy be "we are going to be the most transparent administration". Then not reveal the fact the leader of the admin is in cognitive decline?
 
For men over 70, PSA screening usually isn’t recommended based on USPSTF guidelines. It’s not a hard rule, but more of a general recommendation based on the risks and benefits. If anyone wants to know why, I’m happy to explain.

It’s very likely that President Biden didn’t get a PSA test—which is completely normal for someone his age. He probably started having symptoms from the cancer spreading to his bones, which led doctors to investigate and eventually discover the metastatic prostate cancer.

It doesn’t really make sense to think he knew he had prostate cancer and chose not to treat it, letting it spread. If he had ever had an elevated PSA, it would’ve been worked up and likely treated long before it got to this point.
 
For men over 70, PSA screening usually isn’t recommended based on USPSTF guidelines. It’s not a hard rule, but more of a general recommendation based on the risks and benefits. If anyone wants to know why, I’m happy to explain.

It’s very likely that President Biden didn’t get a PSA test—which is completely normal for someone his age. He probably started having symptoms from the cancer spreading to his bones, which led doctors to investigate and eventually discover the metastatic prostate cancer.

It doesn’t really make sense to think he knew he had prostate cancer and chose not to treat it, letting it spread. If he had ever had an elevated PSA, it would’ve been worked up and likely treated long before it got to this point.

I believe your explanation is plausible. But why would you not preform the test? It seems like a no brainer to me. With his level of importance and availability of healthcare, why not test everything imaginable?
 
I believe your explanation is plausible. But why would you not preform the test? It seems like a no brainer to me. With his level of importance and availability of healthcare, why not test everything imaginable?

Great questions... Sounds like it takes so long to metasize the USPSTF thinks it is not worth it?

Benefits of Early Detection and Treatment

The goal of screening for prostate cancer is to identify high-risk, localized prostate cancer that can be successfully treated, thereby preventing the morbidity and mortality associated with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.

Adequate evidence from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) shows that PSA-based screening programs in men aged 55 to 69 years may prevent approximately 1.3 deaths from prostate cancer over approximately 13 years per 1000 men screened.3, 4 Screening programs may also prevent approximately 3 cases of metastatic prostate cancer per 1000 men screened.3 Current results from screening trials show no reductions in all-cause mortality from screening. There is inadequate evidence to assess whether the benefits for African American men and men with a family history of prostate cancer aged 55 to 69 years are different than the benefits for the average-risk population. There is also inadequate evidence to assess whether there are benefits to starting screening in these high-risk groups before age 55 years.

Adequate evidence from RCTs is consistent with no benefit of PSA-based screening for prostate cancer on prostate cancer mortality in men 70 years and older.

Harms of Early Detection and Treatment

The harms of screening for prostate cancer include harms from the PSA screening test and subsequent harms from diagnosis and treatment. Potential harms of screening include frequent false-positive results and psychological harms. One major trial in men screened every 2 to 4 years concluded that, over 10 years, more than 15% of men experienced at least 1 false-positive test result.5 Harms of diagnostic procedures include complications of prostate biopsy, such as pain, hematospermia (blood in semen or ejaculate), and infection. Approximately 1% of prostate biopsies result in complications requiring hospitalization. The false-positive and complication rates from biopsy are higher in older men.3 Adequate evidence suggests that the harms of screening and diagnostic procedures are at least small.

PSA-based screening for prostate cancer leads to the diagnosis of prostate cancer in some men whose cancer would never have become symptomatic during their lifetime. Treatment of these men results in harms and provides them with no benefit. This is known as overdiagnosis, and follow-up of large randomized trials suggests that 20% to 50% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer through screening may be overdiagnosed.3 Overdiagnosis rates would be expected to increase with age and to be highest in men 70 years and older because older men have high risk of death from competing causes.

Harms of prostate cancer treatment include erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and bothersome bowel symptoms. About 1 in 5 men who undergo radical prostatectomy develop long-term urinary incontinence requiring use of pads, and 2 in 3 men will experience long-term erectile dysfunction. More than half of men who receive radiation therapy experience long-term sexual erectile dysfunction and up to 1 in 6 men experience long-term bothersome bowel symptoms, including bowel urgency and fecal incontinence.3 Adequate evidence suggests that the harms of overdiagnosis and treatment are at least moderate.

Adequate evidence shows that the harms of screening in men older than 70 years are at least moderate and greater than in younger men because of increased risk of false-positive results, harms from diagnostic biopsy, and harms from treatment.

USPSTF Assessment

PSA-based screening for prostate cancer has both potential benefits and harms. The USPSTF does not recommend screening for prostate cancer unless men express a preference for screening after being informed of and understanding the benefits and risks. The decision about whether to be screened for prostate cancer requires that each man incorporate his own values about the potential benefits and harms. The potential harms of screening, diagnostic procedures, and treatment occur soon after screening takes place. Although the potential benefits may occur any time after screening, they generally occur years after treatment, because progression from asymptomatic, screen-detected cancer to symptomatic, metastasized cancer or death (if it occurs at all) may take years or decades to occur.

The USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the net benefit of PSA-based screening for prostate cancer in men aged 55 to 69 years is small for some men. How each man weighs specific benefits and harms will determine whether the overall net benefit is small.

The USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the potential benefits of PSA-based screening for prostate cancer in men 70 years and older do not outweigh the expected harms.
 
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I believe your explanation is plausible. But why would you not preform the test? It seems like a no brainer to me. With his level of importance and availability of healthcare, why not test everything imaginable?

Prostate cancer tends to grow really slowly. Someone could develop it at 77 and not show any symptoms until they’re 90. That’s why you often hear the saying, “Most people die with prostate cancer, not from it.”

The thing is, treating prostate cancer isn’t always harmless. The biopsy and treatments like surgery or radiation can lead to side effects—especially urinary issues like incontinence. For men over 70, the thinking is that even if you do have prostate cancer, you’re more likely to die of something else before the cancer ever becomes a problem. So why put someone through all the tests and possible side effects if it’s not going to help them live longer with a greater quality of life. The risks often outweigh the benefits as you get older.
 
I've known several like her. Her words and actions as reported give insight into her personality, just like DJT's words and actions give insight into his. Based on those words and actions, my opinion is that she's a narcissistic gold digging manipulative social climber. Otherwise she seems like a nice lady.
Like I said before, she has maintained too low a profile, for you to have such insight. You are surmising a great deal from precious little information.
 
For men over 70, PSA screening usually isn’t recommended based on USPSTF guidelines. It’s not a hard rule, but more of a general recommendation based on the risks and benefits. If anyone wants to know why, I’m happy to explain.

It’s very likely that President Biden didn’t get a PSA test—which is completely normal for someone his age. He probably started having symptoms from the cancer spreading to his bones, which led doctors to investigate and eventually discover the metastatic prostate cancer.

It doesn’t really make sense to think he knew he had prostate cancer and chose not to treat it, letting it spread. If he had ever had an elevated PSA, it would’ve been worked up and likely treated long before it got to this point.
Well, in 2022 he did say he had cancer like many others in Delaware. Don't know if that was a Bidenism or if he accidently let it slip out. I think they have known for some time about the prostate cancer but don't think they had planned on it spreading like it has. There was nothing transparent with that administration at all.
 
Yeah .... let's make jokes about a cancer diagnosis. That will be so funny.
Lighten up, Francis.

It was a joke in poor taste to which it seems everyone agrees. WTH else do you think should happen? Stone him? Maybe we can get NY State to make up some crime and fine the Trumps a half-billion dollars for Jokes In Poor Taste.

Geez.
 
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Lighten up, Francis.

It was a joke in poor taste to which it seems everyone agrees. WTH else do you think should happen? Stone him? Maybe we can get NY State to make up some crime and fine the Trumps a half-billion dollars for Jokes In Poor Taste.

Geez.
LOL.

What did I say that was melodramatic? You need to lighten up your damn self there, Psycho.
 
Like I said before, she has maintained too low a profile, for you to have such insight. You are surmising a great deal from precious little information.

How do you know how much information he has? He may be on their Christmas guest list for all you know (doubtful, but you have no clue).
 
Prostate cancer tends to grow really slowly. Someone could develop it at 77 and not show any symptoms until they’re 90. That’s why you often hear the saying, “Most people die with prostate cancer, not from it.”

The thing is, treating prostate cancer isn’t always harmless. The biopsy and treatments like surgery or radiation can lead to side effects—especially urinary issues like incontinence. For men over 70, the thinking is that even if you do have prostate cancer, you’re more likely to die of something else before the cancer ever becomes a problem. So why put someone through all the tests and possible side effects if it’s not going to help them live longer with a greater quality of life. The risks often outweigh the benefits as you get older.

My FIL is 81 or 82 and was just diagnosed, I don't know how bad his score was (I'm pretty sure it was fairly low) but since he has Parkinson's they decided it wasn't worth the pain of treating it.
 

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