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Donald Trump Jr. and MAGAworld pounced on the news of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis with wild speculation about a long term “cover-up” of the former president’s disease.

Hours after Biden’s office announced Sunday that he had been diagnosed with a “more aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, Trump Jr. boosted a conspiracy that was already circulating among MAGA influencers and pundits.

“What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???” he wrote on X.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Anything to amuse the mob.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I read this as projection. Therefore using magat logic they gave Biden cancer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe humanity deserves to go extinct

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Don't bundle the rest of us in with the americans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Since there is a hormonal component to this cancer, I'm expecting them to start claiming that he's Trans.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

GODDAMN IT. Every fucking thing that happens in this world has to be some kind of fucking conspiracy to these people. Nothing can just be what it is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

"Woke Seatbelts" was unironically a thing back in the 1980s. I remember AM Radio heads and far-right libertarians kicking and screaming about it, people proudly insisting they wouldn't wear a seat belt and yelling at patrol officers who ticketed them, and lots of folks stories about people being "thrown clear of the wreck" or "trapped in their car burning to death" which made seatbelts more dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Literally go watch video interviews with the Boomers’ parents in the 1980s when seatbelt laws actually went into effect…

They react almost identically as depicted in the meme.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

To me, the play here is to cock-block any possibility of their base exercising empathy for others. The fact that they have escalated beyond cries of "fake news" to straight up lies, is chilling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm surprised that they're wasting time caring. I mean I know these kinds of people have nothing better to do but have conspiracy theories and believe bullshit, but even with that, this is such a minor thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

RFK has a carrot and kale smoothy recipe that will clear that cancer right up in 48 hours.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My conspiracy theory is Trump somehow gave Biden cancer

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When was the last time JD Vance spoke to Biden?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He killed the pope, he's out to kill all influential catholics

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

He went to Leo's inaugural mass, but Leo refused to meet with him. Leo was close friends with Frances, he knows Vance murdered him, so he's not getting close enough for Vance to hex him with his Hillbilly Voodoo. .

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Trump gets cancer regularly but the cancer ends up committing suicide every time

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The cancer is a nanobot sent by CHYNA's DEEPSEEK SPYWARE made with STOLEN IP to HIJACK our COUNTRY and to make an ILLEGAL PARDON using a STOLEN AUTOPEN to pardon HUNTER BIDEN, so he can use his LAPTOP to fund the UKRAINE ILLEGAL NATO EXPANSION.

-trump tweet, probably

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