Joe Biden's Cancer

Emperor has no closed situation is the emperor's in full view of everybody with no clothes on. Everyone can see it. But everyone is too intimidated by the emperor, or I don't know, wanting the emperor to remain in power or something, to actually have the guts to stand there and say, hey, the emperor has no clothes. Only in this context, sixty percent of the country was acknowledging that the emperor had

no clothes. You have to reinforce this point. Before the CNN debate, sixty percent of the country said Joe Biden is too old to be president. Sixty percent of the country had seen the video, the videos, multiple multiple videos. Seen the guy talk where he kind of talks like this and then he would kind of whisper for some stupid reason, like he It was obvious. It was obvious

to anyone with eyes. And the only people who for whom it was not obvious were Democrat partisans who had to willfully blind themselves to this reality because the reality was really politically disastrous for them. You have a senile old man in the White House and he's trying to run for president again. Well, now we've got on top of it all this cancer diagnosis, and the media is rushing to recreate all of the exact same, the exact

same sort of timetable of denials, giving way to be grudging. Okay, yeah it was true. So what happened with Biden's sanility? First it was the media saying anyone who thinks Biden is senile is a conspiracy theorist engaging in an unfounded speculation. Then Biden has the disastrous June debate and it's clear he's more of a political liability than he is an asset, and the media say, well, recent events have resulted in

calling into question whether President Biden's mental acuity. And then finally we get the Jake Tapper book and there's like, okay, well a re updated reporting has revealed as long as there's reporting about it, you know, the reporting that they the media failed to do initially that they the media very easily could have done, should have done for years. Well,

updated reporting as indicated. But basically, the media tries to take this attitude of you were Republicans, you conservatives who thought he was senile, then you didn't have enough basis to do it. Then you were still wrong for thinking that, rather than saying, oh, well, you Republicans were right all along, and you know, believing your lying eyes was actually the right thing to do, believing your eyes when you would

watch Biden, you know, try to walk. I mean the Biden's greatest enemy seemingly was having to depart from any stage where he was talking, because it feels like fifty percent of the time he would just walk. He's just walking in any rate direction to get off of a stage where he's talking, and God knows which direction he's going in and whether it's the right one. So that

was the cycle. It was. Republicans are engaged in unfounded speculation to updated reporting because maybe in light of recent events, updated reporting is indicated that perhaps President Biden is blah blah blah blah blah to begrudging acceptance. It seems like the same thing is happening right now with this cancer diagnosis. Biden is diagnosed over the weekend with horrible stage four

prostate cancer. It's really bad. Over the weekend, pretty much all the talking points from elected Republicans from the president down were just sympathy, sympathy directed to the Bidens themselves, which is the right thing to do. As we come out of the weekend into Monday Tuesday, the question then arises, Hey, you know, he's only been out of office for I don't know, less than one hundred and fifty days. Did

he have cancer while he was president? Like and I from what I have read and seen, it seems like it's only a very small percentage of prostate cancer cases can go from you know, zero to stage four within that short of a timeframe. The overwhelming majority of cases would indicate that actually, yeah, Biden probably had this while he was president. And you've got people like you know.

There was a good piece in National Review about this, written by Noah Rothman, who's one of their big writers, And the title of it is simply, how dare they? And it's basically all about this topic. Basically, he's saying, how dare the media act like we are wild eyed conspiracy theorists for asking the question about an administration that the media themselves is admitting that the administration engaged in

a massive cover up of Biden's sinility. And now the media is going to have the temerity to say of conservatives asking did he have cancer while he was president, they're going to say that we are wild conspiracy theorists. There's an NBC News story about the Biden diagnosis and Republicans speculating. Here's the quote from this NBC News story about it, which which seems to be the going This seems to be the line that the media is using across a lot. Many media outlets are using this line.

This is an NBC News piece by Peter Nicholas and the correci They write, the alarming news of Biden's illness, coupled with the damage to biden world's credibility when it comes to his fitness, are the tender for unfounded speculation that Biden knew he was sick. And concealed it until he left office. Unfounded speculation. I'd say it's pretty well founded. I didn't just come up with the idea on my own.

They just announced he's got stage four cancer. I would like to know when it was stage one and call me crazy. I feel like that could very well have been over a year ago, while he was still the leading Democrat candidate for the presidency. I don't how is that crazy? There are a million scenarios where that could

have been the case. In fact, there was a video of Biden giving a speech back in twenty twenty two where he made some We just chalked it up to Biden being senile and doing one of his usual verbal slips where he seemed to indicate that were where that he and all of his family members have cancer or a lot of family members have had cancer, and at the time it was brushed off with, oh, well, you

know he's had skin cancer before. So they they're they're redoing this whole same this, this whole same circus where they start by saying, oh, this is just wild, unfounded speculation.

Then they will do any reporting, any investigation into it at all, and they're going to come up with more data that yeah, Biden knew about this for you know, years and was getting treatment for it the whole time, and lied to the American public, including like Biden was getting regular checkups and was having the results of those checkups be announced. Were we just being lied to? Because

that's the thing. If this is Vinnie Schmucatelli getting diagnosed with stage four cancer, Joe Schmoe, who you know maybe goes to the doctor once a year, you know, not doing a full battery tests whatever. If it's if it's my wife's Minnesotan relatives who lived in rural Minnesota, like her grandpa and that that sort of generation who you know, never wanted to go to a doctor ever for anything, only go to the doctor like when you know, their

legs falling off after a you know, a combine accident. Okay, I could believe that we only just learned that Grandpa Kleisky has you know, stage four cancer, and that nobody knew about it before. This is the President of the United States. Nobody's health is being more closely and carefully monitored than his nobody. And again, stage four colon cancer usually just does not materialize that quickly. That oh yeah, Yeah, he was totally healthy when he was in office, and

now he's Oh, now he's about to die. And even liberals have admitted this. Z Commanuel, who the guy who wrote Obamacare, who was a prominent advisor to the Obama and Biden administrations on healthcare issues. Rama Manuel's brother wrote, he did not develop it in the last one hundred two hundred days, said doctor z Commanuel, a former advisor to the Obama administration. He had it while he was president, probably had it at the start of his presidency. In

twenty twenty one. Urologist doctor David Schusterman agrees. This is from Noah Rothman's piece in National Review. Doctor David Schusterman eurologists agrees the fact that we just find it at a Gleason nine level. So the Gleason scale, I guess, is the scale which you use to determine, I guess the severity of at least colon cancer. I'm not sure if it's for other kinds of cancers. So it's a scale one to nine. Excuse me, one to ten. Nine

is like almost the worst. That's where Biden is. Eurologist doctor David Schustman agrees the fact that we just find it at a Gleason nine is just pretty much unheard of in this day and age of medicine, he said, of the curious extent of Biden's cancer. Of Biden's cancer's metastasis. Rather, the president's condition is what a physician might encounter when treating a patient who hasn't had medical attention in ten year. See,

that's what I'm talking about. This. This is like Grandpa Kleisky living out in rural Minnesota who still has like a rural like distrust of doctors. But he feels so bad that finally his wife convinces him to go to the doctor, and he hasn't been to the doctor in you know, seven years. Yeah, you have stage four cancer. Like, Okay, that's an outcome. We could that that that is understandable, not you know, the president of the United States, who's

getting the best healthcare humanly possible. So unfounded speculation, bul bleep. It is not unfounded. It is heavily founded, just on the nature of what he had, of what he they're telling us he has. It's one percent reasonable. And furthermore, it's even more reasonable given that they lied to us. They lied to us. We know that they lied to us about his mental acuity. They lied to us while

we could see it. I mean, there's something particularly galling about being lied to while you can see it in front of your face, the telling you to not believe your lying eyes aspect of it. And I think it's this horrific danger to the whole structure of Republican governance that we have the executive power vested in one person, the executive He's the lynchpin for the whole executive branch. This, by the way, is a quote from the Jake Tapper book.

And as much as I dislike Jake Tapper cynically like cashing in on this after denying for years that Biden had anything wrong with him, I mean this is a telling quote because it's exactly what every Republican was saying, what every conservative who was pretty sure that Biden was seen al was saying. He has this quote from quote a person familiar with the internal dynamic of the Biden

White House. And although I must say I hate the cowardice of all these Biden people who are leaking these anonymous quotes to Jake Tapper in this obvious c ya. Now when it doesn't matter, when it doesn't actually when you know, the country already went through the risk of having basically an incompetent person at the head of the executive branch. Anyway, this quote from a person familiar with the internal dynamic of the Biden White House that is

in Tapper's book. This person said, quote, five people were running the country and Joe Oh Biden was at best a senior member of the board. Who were those five people? That's what we all suspected all along. We suspected all along that there was a couple of people, a shadowy group of people, really pulling the strings, and that Biden was sort of with it, maybe with it, maybe part of the decision making, but ultimately there were there were power brokers pulling the strings. Who were they? I want

to know their five names? When we return. I ask the question kui bono? Who benefits from all this? Next? On the John Girardi Show. There's a Latin phrase, kui bono? Who benefits? And it's a good question to answer to ask yourself in politics, especially with the release when certain information gets released, Why certain information it's released? Who benefits? Who benefits from all these different revelations we've had in the last two weeks about Biden's mental health, now, Biden's

physical health, et cetera. So why do we learn now about Biden's cancer? I mean, they covered it up this, you know, assuming that they covered it up this whole time, which frankly it seems implausible to think that they didn't cover it up. Again, you don't. It's basically exceedingly rare to go from no cancer while you're president to stage four cancer you're going to die within I don't know how how far out we are from January twentieth, about you know, less than one hundred and fifty days. It's

just not plausible. This is the diagnosis you would find in someone who hasn't been to the doctor in seven years. Even hardcore left wing docs like Exekiel Emmanuel are saying he probably had it the whole time he was president

and he didn't tell anybody, So why reveal it now. Well, it may be that the Biden family thinks he's gonna die this summer, so maybe they feel like they kind of have to say something that they're you're not gonna see Joe around it, or he's about to go into super heavier treatment, or he's not going to be making any more public appearances for the foreseeable future or something. So the Biden family kind of feels like they have to give some kind of public explanation for that. Maybe

that's it. I could see though, this being a ham fisted given you know, the brain trust running this at this point, which is presumably now reduced to you know, Jill and Joe and Hunter, and you know, they probably don't have the the bevy of Democrat advisor and political advisors and pr advisors around them. They assuredly they have some, but they certainly don't have as many as he did when he was still president. So maybe this was a ham fisted attempt to deflect from the Jake Tapper book.

Here's the Jake Tapper book coming out. I'm going to say President Biden was seen ale this whole time, and there was this big cover up. So maybe the Biden family thinks, why don't we release that he's got this cancer diagnosis. Maybe that will stem the tide a little bit and people will have sympathy for Joe and it'll just make that story kind of it'll sort of deflate the book, deflate that story and kind of make it

go away. Maybe they didn't account for the fact that really all that revelation is going to do is make people ask more questions that maybe they covered up more stuff, specifically his cancer did Oh so, now not only were you lying to the American public about the state of his mental health, you are also lying to the American

public about the state of his physical health. That you know, and what are we to think of all of these releases from his doctors saying, Oh, he's in the greatest health ever, He's super clean, Bill hillth Oh, this Joe Biden, he's just an amazing guy. What are we supposed to think of that? It seems kind of I mean, those statements seem pretty implausible at this point. Now, let's go to Jake Tapper's book Koi Bono. Who benefits well? Tapper benefits.

Tapper and Alex Thompson, the writers of the book, they benefit because now they've got a number one New York Times bestseller on their hands. They got the hottest book in Washington, they got the book that's going to be driving news coverage for the next month. They're going to

make out like bandits financially. It also provides them and maybe the media as a whole with cover, this cover that they desperately need, and Tapper certainly feels himself a member of this tribe and wanting to defend this tribe of media hacks that we were deceived. They want to create this landscape of it's not our fault that we didn't investigate this, that we didn't report on it, and that we called everyone who said it was happening conspiracy theorists.

They want to say that it's not their fault. It's not their fault, even though again they didn't report on it, they didn't investigate it, and they called all the Republicans who were saying itnspiracy theorists. They want to have this book out so that the party line is we were deceived with an elaborate ruse, even though all you had to do was look at the guy and you could figure out that, yeah, probably everything's not quite right upstairs. Like and that's the most galling part about this that

they dare call it a cover up. It's not a cover up. It was happening right in front of everybody, for all the world to see, on all the television cameras that you guys were watching, just as well as everyone else, and they didn't want to believe it because if they accepted the reality that was in front of them Joe Biden is senile, then it's a disaster for

their preferred politics. Their preferred politics was for Joe Biden to win the twenty twenty four election so that Donald Trump wouldn't And really that's the end goal of everything. They just didn't want Donald Trump to win in twenty twenty four, so they had to keep pretending like Joe Biden was okay, and he wasn't okay, And so they didn't investigate it, they didn't report on it, and they called everyone who was a Republican who was saying that

there was a problem here conspiracy theorists. So now they have to have some kind of way to cover their butts. So the Jake Tapper book comes out saying what an elaborate ruse was played on us, the poor innocent media. All right, when we return, we'll talk about a couple of different California things. Poor old Gavin Newsom, He's made everybody angry and he still hasn't really fixed the budget.

That's next on the John Girardi Show. Poor Gavin Newsom, I'm willing to say, poor Gavin Newsom, because I think his whole political house of cards, his ambitions of running for president, I think they're all kind of falling apart right now. The high speed rail continues to be a disaster. He's facing another huge hole with the state's budget, and just basically this assessment that we're going to just chronically chronically face billions of dollars in deficits, tens of billions

of dollars in deficits year over year over year. He's trying to do some cuts as best he can, and it's really ticking off his own allies. Planned parenthood of all people is furious at him. He you know, one of the centerpieces of his campaigning for governor in twenty eighteen was single healthcare for all, single payer healthcare for all, and he's had to roll that. Well, he never actually pursued single payer health care. That was, you know, one of the big sleazy lies of his or I guess

baiton switches whatever. Instead of going for single payer healthcare, which he realized would have required enormous tax increases and you know, politically was not feasible for him, he instead just massively increased medical eligibility and capped it off by offering medical eligibility to illegal aliens. And he now has to roll that back because it costs billions and billions of dollars more than he anticipated it would, So he has to retreat even from that one of his signature

policy quote achievements, and he's left with nothing. He said he would try to do stuff to fix wildfires all throughout, and then we had the worst wildfires ever in January of twenty twenty five. He said he would do stuff to fix almostness. Holmelessness is still a terrible problem. He said he do stuff to help fix, help build more housing and housing affordability. Nothing has happened to improve that situation.

An issue after issue after issue he has failed. He has no real successes to hang his hat on other than a couple of pot shots at Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump and suing Donald Trump a lot. That's his only success that he can claim. And so as a result, I sort of look at him like a wounded I mean, maybe he doesn't see how wounded he is, and maybe he's still mister confident or something, but I just don't

feel like he's got a shot. I feel like on any debate stage, if there's any Democrat ambitious enough to really go at him for his record, he has nothing. He has nothing to hang his hat on. He has no real accomplishments to hang his hat on, other than expanding medical eligibility I guess which he's now had to roll back in shameful embarrassment. So Dan Walters is always a good read, writes for Calmutters dot org. He's writing about how basically news and this often is a dynamic

and sacramento. The governor has to be the adult in the room. Sometimes the members of the state legislator legislature, the Democrat state legislators and the Assembly and the state Senate, they're able to act like unaccountable left wing babies and pass wild bills that are totally unaccountable, that aren't really responsible, that refuse to look at the big picture, and that look at the narrow picture of this pet cause that they have without acknowledging that, hey, we have a whole

budget that we have to take care of. If we spend a lot of money on every single thing in the budget, the budget's going to be too bloated. We have to cut things, we have to reduce spending on certain things. A state budget like California's cannot permanently spend in the red the way that the federal government can. The federal government can just keep printing money. State government

can't do that. So as a result, the governor and I don't care how liberal your governor is, Newsom has had to do this multiple multiple times over the course of his term. Governor Jerry Brown had to do it over his eight years as governor. They have to be the adult in the room and they have to say we're gonna cut this, we're gonna cut that, and we're not going to pass this bill because it spends too much money or that bill, and it's always kind of

angry Democrats. But this year, boy, there, I feel like maybe the liberals in California are just like, look, he's a lame duck. After this year, we don't have to listen to him anymore. We don't care about alienating him anymore, we don't have to work for him. You know, We've got one more year with this guy and then we're done with him. They just don't care as much about

alienating him again. Like I read the Planned Parenthood Federation of California press release about some of Newsom's budget cuts, which they say are going to result in a one third cut of all California state funding that goes to Planned parenthood. And their attitude was outrage. We are outraged at Governor Newsom. At Governor Newsom, they're not even talking about like, oh, well, we look for you know, we're concerned about this and we want to work with the

governor in order to help see if we can fix this. No, they're like, we are outraged. We look forward to working with the legislature to see if we can fix it. Not working with Newsom anyway. Here's Dan Walter's writing about this. When Governor Newsom unveiled a revised state budget last week, he irritated and perhaps alienated major interest groups allied with

his Democratic Party. They flooded reporters email inboxes with critical reaction statements, demanding that spending reductions he said were necessary to cover a substantial deficit in other aspects of the budget be blocked. The loudest reactions came from advocates for

the poor and elderly. They decried Newsom's planned to scale back an expansion of medical health care to undocumented immigrants that he had championed last year, as well as his imposition of one hundred dollars monthly premiums, elimination of some benefits, limits on at home care, and tighter qualifications for benefits. The twenty twenty five budget proposal fails tomorrow marshall the resources needed to help vulnerable Californians meet basic needs like

health care, housing, and food assistants. The left leaning California Budget and Policy Center said it also falls short in delivering the bold response needed from California's leaders amid unprecedented federal threats and economic uncertainty. However, there were also adverse reactions from public employee unions over Newsom's intention to hold down state worker raises, from city and county officials over a lack of grants for homelessness. Newsom intends to crack

down on local governments. He deems to be negligent. Boy, if he's upsetting the public sector unions, that is big me jumping in here. Look the one group. If you keep public sector unions happy in California, teachers' unions, other public employees, you've got it pretty good as a Democrat. All right, they're the most important power brokers in Democrat politics,

in California politics. So and here's Newsom saying, hey, I Newsom is facing a bigger problem, which is that he authorized gazillions of dollars to be spent statewide on homelessness and it's not doing jack. So he's trying to shift the blame somehow. He's trying to shift the blame to these local governments. And that's the line that the pro Newsom side has been pushing out. It's not Newsom's fault. It's not Newsom's fault. Homelessness is a local government problem.

He can't help it if these local well maybe he's going to try to help it now, he's going to try to have greater accountability for local governments if they don't spend the money. Right, So, here's Newsom trying to fix trying to shift the blame away from himself on the homelessness problem to local governments. And local governments are staffed by member of public sector employee unions, so they're

not happy about that. Medicare provider. Medical care providers dislike both Newsom's medical restrictions and his diversion of fund uns from a special tax on healthcare approved by voters last year, meant to increase payments for treatment. Environmentalists are angered by Newsom's declared intent to fast track a tunnel beneath the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta to increase water deliveries to southern California. So the environmentalists are. Environmentalists are mad at anything. You

can do anything. If you move a muscle in California, there's going to be an environmentalist wacko who is gonna just flip out because somehow it's harming something environmental. So he's ticking off the environmentalist And the thing is, nobody actually cares about ticking off the environmentalist groups. What they care about is ticking off the billionaires who give to

environmentalist groups. That's what they're concerned about. Advocates of Proposition thirty six, a voter approved measure to crack down on some crimes that Newsom opposed, decried his failure to include funds for its implementation. Oh so we all voted for Prop thirty six and now we have no funds to implement it. Great. The wave of criticism and opposition puts

the legislature on the spot. Those who dislike the budget are demanding that legislators compel Newsom to scale back his proposals as they negotiate a semi final version of the spending plan over the next four weeks to meet a June fifteenth deadline. Many legislators owe their careers to the budget critics, particularly unions and environmentalists, and they don't want

to alienate them. See this is what I say. This is why you get the Dan Walters is saying, and you're getting the best political commentary in all California on this show. Unions and environmental groups they run the state. The state lawmakers, a lot of them owe their careers to unions and environmentalist groups. So if the unions are unhappy with this budget and the environmental groups are unhappy with this budget, Newsom's alienated them all. I don't know

who's whom he's got left. Newsom, on the other hand, is approaching lame duck's status with his gubernatorial career, having just nineteen months remaining. We're counting down. We're counting down bad nineteen months. That's like when parents say that their kid is like, oh, he's twenty seven months old, Just just say he's two. But boy, the countdown is bad when people really want to get rid of this guy. If they're starting to countdown at like twenty months nineteen months, politically,

Newsom can afford to. Politically, Newsom can afford to irritate those groups. However, his relatively brief remaining tenure also means he is beginning to lose his sway over legislators, particularly those who will still be in office after Newsom is gone. Yeah, so they're not as eager to listen to him now. Maybe Newsom thinks will to run for present. I don't actually care about whether I tick off California state public

workers unions. Okay, fair environmental groups though I don't know environmental groups that can be dicey because a lot of their big time donors can also be big time donors for national Democrat politics too. Newsom is obviously hoping that by making budget cuts now to narrow the state's chronic gap between income and outgo, he can avoid joining the list of ex governors who left the state's finances in

disarray for their successors. Newsom inherited a state budget from predecessor Jerry Brown that was in pretty good condition, but over the last six plus years which included a pandemic. Spending growth has outpaced revenue increases. The legislature's budget analyst recently cited an average nine percent annual increase in outlays since Newsom became governor, but just six percent in average

revenue growth. So our revenue has grown by an average of six percent every year, and we've been spending an average of nine percent more per year. That's not going to work. That has left the state with what budget maven's call a substantial structural deficit that the analyst gave PETEC and Newsom's own budget staff estimate to be fifteen billion to twenty billion dollars annually. If it went unaddressed, it would total forty two billion through twenty twenty eight

twenty twenty nine. Even with the reductions Newsom proposes projected twenty twenty five twenty twenty six general revenue General fund revenues of two hundred and seven billion dollars are still nineteen billion dollars short of the two hundred and twenty six billion dollars in spending that he proposes. The gap will be covered by loans and transfers from special funds, shifting spending to the other pots of money and various bookkeeping gimmicks when we return, how can Newsom really run

for president? With this? Next on The John Drurdy Show, Poor Gavin Newsom, I really I got to ask this question, how does he think he can win the presidency? I really can't understand it because the failures that Newsom has racked up over his you know, almost six and a half years now in office. It's been in office six and a half years. The failures he've racked up a lot of them are not necessarily partisan coded failures. We've

continued to have tons of wildfires. That's bad. Whether you're a liberal or a conservative, you haven't fixed the problem. That's not a liberal or a conservative critique. It's not like Newsome, you know, introduce single payer health care and some people like it, some people don't, and Republicans say, oh, liberal Newsome introduce single payer health care. Well, like a Republican might criticize that, But on a Democrat primary debate stage,

Newsom having done. If he had done something like that, Newsom would look like a million bucks on a Democrat debate stage. Other Democrats would have to acknowledge he accomplished

a big liberal priority. But the problem is Newsom's failures are all not really partis encoded wildfires, having to roll back his own policies because it costs too much, massive budget deficits, structural budget deficits year over year, homelessness, spending gazillions of dollars in homelessness and the homeless levels aren't changing. This is all stuff where he's open to criticism from

other Democrats. I don't understand how he's gonna get on a debate stage with other Democrats and with his record not have them tear him limb from limb. The high speed rail is still not operational. Democrat is going to be on that debate stage and be the Tulsa Gabbard to his Kamala Harris and just rip him apart because his failures are not necessarily partisan, They're just failures that'll do it. John Girardi Show, See you next time on Power Talk