... has my sympathy and best wishes.

I hope he gets better.

Oh! The scandal of it!

Out of his own mouth- '"The best form of government you could have would be an authoritarian strong man, which turns out to be Trump.'

... As Hillary Clinton once did, I supported Barry Goldwater - did we deserve a death by cancer, too????

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillary-worked-for-goldwater/

Hillary Clinton ("Living History," page 21): I was also an active Young Republican and, later, a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit and straw cowboy hat emblazoned with the slogan "AuH20." … I liked Senator Goldwater because he was a rugged individualist who swam against the political tide.

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... liberty is no vice." The ends justify the means?

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." Pretty much TACO, only coherent.

So now we're gonna defend Goldwater to dump on another RWer, Scott Adams, eh?

Me, personally, I won't shed a tear for them

I’d wish for all the best — for the cancer. I’d be thinking very positive thoughts.

Adams is irrelevant. He’s a has been hack with a “boomer” comic. If he died he’d be one of somewhere on an average of 150,000 that die on that day worldwide. He’d be missed by some family and friends .

But I’ll be honest. I wouldn’t miss a beat. The same goes with whatever disease he’s diagnosed with. I just don’t give a fuck about these people.

... about you personally. Pretty much what they say is our attitude.

I’m not one to be lectured to, so if you’re going down that path, we can stop wasting time. These are the ass holes that cut funding for cancer research for example.

I’m not wishing anyone ill, but I’m not feigning sympathy and sending fake “get well soon” vibes out there either.

Cancer is just another disease like thousands of other maladies.

If Trump got a serious illness, I would not be rooting for him to get better. Scott Adams is an irrelevant pissant. Not even worth a moment's thought. Meanwhile, Trump is a clear and present danger to everyone here.

Suffering under Trump are not mere "disagreements." "Citizens United" was not a mere "disagreement." The dissolution of Roe v. Wade was not.....

I think of the illegally deported by ICE. The Border Patrol's literal kidnapping of children from their Central American parents. The men and women fired from their Federal jobs. The losers of the ACA. The re-payers of usurious student loans. The murdered Venezuelans (yes, Virginia, there actually IS a "death penalty" for "disagreeing with us" ). The mocked, the demonized, the threatened, the trafficked.....

I REALLY DO NOT CARE WHAT HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SAID ABOUT BARRY GOLDWATER. I'm 76, and while she is experienced in politics and I am but an observer, nonetheless I've observed and read enough to regard my own take on Republicans as quite valid.

I, at least, never was one.

I threw them all away at what I felt was Adams's betrayal, of making me a dupe, a gull.

So while this news does not make me happy (unlike if it were about, say, DJT), I wouldn't mind if suddenly Adams found himself bereft of health insurance.

You know, like millions on the ACA will.

With one possible exception, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. Constipation does not cause paralysis; it’s the cancer. Radiation may superficially eliminate his spinal tumors, but it is not a cure. Unlike some other cancers, stage 4 prostate cancer is treatable but it Is not curable.

Presumably, Adams has undergone standard drug treatment for stage 4 PC - heavy duty testosterone suppression (castration) drugs and possibly chemotherapy. Last I knew, Adams was trying to arrange to get treatment with Pluvicto, a last ditch effort at extending his life. Pluvicto is horrendously expensive (although somewhat less expensive overseas), can have significant side effects, and it generally extends life by less than one year - if successful, which it often is not.

I always loved Scott Adams satirical cartoons, until I found out that he’s a Trump supporter. But no one deserves the hell that he is going to go through.

... that.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

Adams refused conventional medical treatment & used Ivermectin. Unfortunately it looks like he has been hastening his death by doing that.

I commend and thank all those on DU and elsewhere who diligently call out all misinformation, and move for the speedy removal of it (even-or especially, if I am a culprit).

...According to biographer Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined".[179] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He was also influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[180][181] He underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure&quot that appeared to remove the tumor successfully.[182][183] Jobs did not receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy. (wiki)

Adams is not the only person to have let desperation about cancer interfere with proven medical treatments. Even some medically approved treatments, like using BCG to fight bladder cancer ( I underwent this and can tell you a lot about it) or "fecal transplants" seem a little woooish even though these both have a place and work well (BCG didn't work for me and it took radical surgery to finally beat cancer now for six and half years).

There's a lot of woooo out there. And desperation causes a lot of flim-flamery to kill people (right wingers and lefities, too) and steal their money. It's nothing new: DSMO, Laetrile, were huge in the 70s until the damage became unignorable.

I've laid in a bed and wondered if I was doing the right thing and if I had enough time to accept an end. I don't like Adams, but I sure do feel for him and his situation. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Besides, I don't grave dance anyone and certainly not while they breathe. Not even TACO.

Scott Adams gave us Dilbert and my childhood and entire life perspective would have been fundamentally different (worse) without it.

I think a minister said how you die does not redeem how you lived.