Stephen A's Take: Stephen talks about how Cancer has taken a toll on his family when discussing Biden.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Now, let's talk about former President Joe Biden for a
quick second, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of
prostate cancer. The news came from his personal office on Sunday,
and the cancer has spread to his bones. He's a
portion of the statement from Biden's office. Quote. Last week,
President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of
a prostate nodule after its experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday,

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he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleasing
score of nine with metastasis to the bone. While this
represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer
appears to be hormone sensitive, which allows for effective management.
End quote. And here's a photo and statement from Biden
himself that he posted this morning on x It says, quote,

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cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill
and I have learned that we are strongest in the
broken places. Thank you for lifting us up up with
love and support. End quote. The first order of business
is to say best wishes and good luck to our

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former president, a forty six president of the United States,
Joe Biden. For me personally, it always hits home because
we all know my mother passed away in twenty seventeen
of cancer. It is an issue that is highly sensitive

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to me and to millions upon millions of Americans and
people worldwide. Cancer has ravaged so many lives in this world,
and regardless of what people say about us beating cancer,
I never feel like we've beaten cancer, and the likelihood

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is that I'll never will because it took away from
me the greatest human being I have ever known, my father,
who suffered from Parkinson's and ultimately departed because cancer had
sifted through it, to his spind my uncle Frankie, my

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aunt Norma, all cancer victims. So that's the human personal
side of me that is sitting here wishing the very
very best for Joe Biden, yet with a palpable fear

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of the worst. So I'm really wishing and praying for
the best for him. Having said that, any interest of
full disclosure, I think it's important to point out that
hearing of his diagnosis doesn't come with its own suspicions him.

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Once again, it's about the Democratic Party, at least for
a second, until we read that the news was just
given to him by his doctor. As it pertains to
the severity of his condition, you did find yourself thinking, well,
how well was he before the other day, how much

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or how bad off was he before we learned this news?
How long was that portion of all of this going on?
And what did the Democrats know? Because once again we
get to a point where, whether it's Trump, or it's
other members of the GOP, or it's even Independence with

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heightened suspicions, the bottom line is the Democratic Party has
shown itself to be, at least to some degree, some
of the things they've accused the GOP of being disingenuous,
not forthcoming, a bit scandalous there, I say, if not

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flat out liars. See all the news coming out about
what they knew about Joe Biden. See these reports sifting
and circulating everywhere where was all of that? Do y'all
know who the Democratic Party could easily be compared to?
Right now? Not right now, in this second, I'm talking

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about how they were conducting themselves leading up to the
twenty twenty four election. Do you know who they could
be compared to? Lance Armstrong? Remember the cyclist extraordinary seven
times towards de France. Want to remember that, dude? I
think it's seven all eleven I think it's seven. That's

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that same Lance Armstrong who once said towards the Francis
was the dude that was accused of performance enhancement use
fears and what did he do? He terrorized the accusers
knowing he was lying. What did the Democratic Party do

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when people brought up Joe Biden and his debilitation? They
didn't just deny it. They attacked and attempted to ostracize
those who would dare question it. And come to find
out as the days and the weeks and the months
go by, how so many knew all along. And not

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only did they not admit it, they condemned those who
said so. That's how I'm comparing them to Lance Armstrong,
think about it,