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Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« on: May 19, 2025, 10:11:44 am »
May 19, 2025
Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
By M. Walter

I can’t feel sorry for Joe Biden in the way my childhood faith taught me.  Having been raised Catholic, though I am now lapsed, I know I should, but pity is an affirmative act.  Pity requires some corresponding action, like prayer.  Faith seems to require that one must actively feel pity, do something about it, and I just… can’t. It would feel false.  Because whether or not one thinks, intellectually, that the recipient of your prayer is deserving, surely impacts the act of prayer, and that’s where I seem to find myself: at a crossroads.  The pity crossroads.  The intersection of cool intellect and sincere, heartfelt emotion.

The best I can manage is to hope he doesn’t suffer.  That comes from a very real place within my heart and my head.  It’s a hard and fast rule to me for reasons which are both intellectually sound and heartfelt that one should never wish ill on another;  it’s the whole pointing the finger rule, dontcha know.  When you point a finger, three are curled back in your direction and sensible people wish to avoid that kind of karma, right?  That’s the rational part.  That’s reasonable.  “I don’t want to suffer the same or a worse fate, so I shan’t wish it on anyone else.”  Duh.

Normal people don’t enjoy the suffering of others.  It’s abnormal; not in harmony with the human condition nor with the noble soul of man.  Hoping Joe Biden doesn’t suffer also doesn’t require anything on my part.  Hoping someone — anyone — doesn’t suffer is such a natural part of my own, personal human existence that it just flows out of me, with no affirmative act, well, affirming it, necessary.  I needn’t pray nor make any public or private declaration (though I suppose I am doing it here).

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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2025, 10:17:10 am »
Everything about Biden is fraudulent - except for his mortality. Like the author, I can’t feel pity or sympathy for him.  He has blatantly taken from so many. I can’t give him anything of me.
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2025, 10:34:58 am »
They've continously lied about Biden's condition for years. Who is dumb enough to think this cycle will end?   Considering the negative news cycles he's facing?  I'd say with 95% certainty that this is a lie or a partial truth
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2025, 10:50:41 am »
Honesty ... after the fact, by collaborators in the Dem conspiracy of silence about Biden's fitness to remain President.
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2025, 11:05:04 am »
Jill's already spending the Life Ins. money.
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2025, 11:05:23 am »
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2025, 11:27:43 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on May 19, 2025, 10:17:10 am
Everything about Biden is fraudulent - except for his mortality. Like the author, I can’t feel pity or sympathy for him.  He has blatantly taken from so many. I can’t give him anything of me.

Agreed.  And it irks me that members feel the need to feign sympathy with "thoughts and prayers"  for him.
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Re: Honesty about Joe’s diagnosis
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2025, 04:22:23 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 19, 2025, 11:05:04 am
Jill's already spending the Life Ins. money.
I wonder what Jill's share of the presidential/vice presidential/Senate pension will be, once he's gone.
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Joe Biden in Line for a $413,000 Dual Pension Payout upon Departing the Presidency
by Demian Brady July 18, 2024
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While serving in office, Presidents are paid an annual salary of $400,000. Due to the two separate federal pension programs that President Joe Biden is eligible for, he stands to collect taxpayer-funded retirement benefits worth $413,000 following the end of his tenure.

Upon leaving the White House, presidents have generally been financially well-off and are afforded numerous opportunities for lucrative book deals, speeches, or other money-making endeavors. Regardless of the net worth of former presidents, they are entitled to an annual pension equivalent to the salary of a cabinet secretary, currently $246,400 in 2024 and often adjusted annually.

There is also a completely separate pension program available for members of Congress. President Joe Biden previously served in the Senate for 36 years and another eight years as Vice President, a role which serves as presiding officer in the Senate, making him eligible for a starting pension worth $166,374.

Biden is eligible to collect both pensions, for a combined payout that could start at $412,774, before any 2025 adjustment of the presidential pension (which won’t be known until late December). ...

There is also a formula reserving a portion of the benefit for a spouse.  ...
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