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https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1934245361239110011

Iran and Israel should make a deal, and will make a deal, just like I got India and Pakistan to make, in that case by using TRADE with the United States to bring reason, cohesion, and sanity into the talks with two excellent leaders who were able to quickly make a decision and STOP! Also, during my first term, Serbia and Kosovo were going at it hot and heavy, as they have for many decades, and this long time conflict was ready to break out into WAR. I stopped it (Biden has hurt the longer term prospects with some very stupid decisions, but I will fix it, again!). Another case is Egypt and Ethiopia, and their fight over a massive dam that is having an effect on the magnificent Nile River. There is peace, at least for now, because of my intervention, and it will stay that way! Likewise, we will have PEACE, soon, between Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings now taking place. I do a lot, and never get credit for anything, but that's OK, the PEOPLE understand. MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!

I wonder who types all this up for Trump.

And whether he reads his own account.

I'm disappointed that he didn't thank me for my attention on this matter.

Offensively stupid meme from a US Senator:

https://x.com/senwhitehouse/status/1933997162683089392

Really? As far as political cartoons go it is rather tame. It is also rather apt.

I'm sure the sensitive souls in MAGA can handle it.

Surely having an actual king should give Trump less power though ?
Or are they coming from the angle that having a king even though it in theory reduces the power of the top elected official in the country can often increase it because essentially the remnants of the presidency and the Speaker of the House position are held by one individual in a constitutional monarchy. Perhaps that's the concern.

Trump would be an absolute monarch, not a constitutional monarch

He’s certainly an absolute something.

If Cyclefree reads here, just to say I don't really believe in any cancer being incurable. I have no doubt that people in your position have been fully and completely cured and their health restored, and I suspect their stories and protocols are online if one goes searching.

Doctors aren't there to restore your health, they are there to recommend whatever the conventional drugs or surgeries are for your condition, and allocate it according to a formula. Your health is in your hands.

I applaud your approach to life though - that's what we should all be doing.

I 100% disagree with this post. It’s unscientific nonsense and a slur on the medical profession. Sadly some cancers are incurable with what we have now. Anyone promoting non medical approaches is generally a charlatan, and there will be zero evidence to back up the claims.

Thanks. Actually it isn't at all unscientific. We intervene medically on our bodies every single day. We eat three square meals, we drink, we are exposed to mental stresses of various types, we take or lack sleep, we take or lack exercise. All these are things that happen with far higher frequency than any medical protocol and are just as potent. It would be utterly unscientific - it would be quasi-religious even - to assume that only medically diagnosed therapies have a profound impact on the body.

Nor have I advised Cyclefree to ignore her doctors or shun medical treatment - merely that she should inform herself widely about a whole body approach to regaining her health.

As I said, I would be extremely surprised if some people with Cyclefree's exact condition had not been fully restored, and I think the lady herself is quite savvy enough to know when someone is genuine and when someone is selling snake oil, without your pathetic, and under the circumstances rather revolting intervention.

I suspect Cyclefree is rather less gullible than you. Of course the impacts of eating well, exercise etc have an impact on your health and I would never claim otherwise. But perhaps you will give me the mechanisms by which metastatic cancer can be reversed by eating the right food. Because if you can, the next Nobel is coming your way. Without going all expert on you I do lecture on Oncology. You?

I have removed the @ tags, because unlike you, I am not a loathsome insensitive point-scoring little turd who thinks it's OK to launch into an fierce debate about a serious illness whilst tagging in a sufferer.

One mechanism by which food could help reverse cancer which I'm puzzled you're not aware of, is the Warburg effect, wherein cancer cells have an increased need for glucose vs. the body's own cells. Given that the body can happily run on ketones (burning fat) and cancer cells cannot efficiently use ketones, a ketogenic diet, or at the very least a far smaller allowance for carbohydrates and sugars and a far larger one for fats, would seem to be an advisable complement to cancer treatment.

Perhaps you can do some research on it before your next lecture.

Calm down. I’m sorry if you think I shouldn’t have tagged Cyclefree - I did it almost automatically and you may think it was wrong. I wasn’t trying to score points, and you know, she is a tough old bird who can look out for herself.

Now, on to your magic cure. I’m going to thank you for this, because I am going to include it in next years lectures. It’s a brilliant example of how social media can drive some people to think that one facet of cancer behaviour holds the secret to treatment that bizarrely the medical profession is somehow ignoring.

There Warburg effect is well known. Cancer cells arise following a series of events, typically are hungry for energy and nutrients to allow for unchecked growth. We know this. Lots of treatments interfere with DNA biosynthesis to prevent cells replicating.

Sadly many cancer types are able to mutate to become resistant to treatment. I strongly suspect this to be true of depriving them of glucose. Evidence suggests that cancer cells can survive without glucose, but prefer not to.

I will also say this. No one w old be more grateful than me if suddenly there was a diet treatment available, with evidence, trials etc that worked. I lost my mum to cancer last year and have had leukemia myself. It touches all of us. But there isn’t a grand conspiracy out there. There are thousands of papers and you know - it doesn’t work. Most cancer treatments are combination therapies. Multiple drug regimes to avoid resistance. There is a possibility that diet can be an adjunct. But you are not eradicating cancer cells by depriving them of glucose alone.

There, nice and polite, even though you choose not to be.

I have an update from Cyclefree.

I am fine. Treatment plan started. Bemused at how despite all the screenings saying nothing was wrong I have managed to get to Stage 4 cancer without anyone noticing. It is not curable so I am living with it largely ignoring it & hoping that the treatment stops it getting worse.

Just doing things I enjoy really.

I hadn't seen that Ms Free was that ill. Best wishes and thoughts to her.

https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2025/05/25/ars-longa-vita-brevis/

I had been too busy with work to follow PB much recently so I missed that posting entirely.

And now I am immensly sad.