Liberal privilege

In the Ace of Spades blog today, Oregon Muse tells us that he has just started reading Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden And The Democrats' Defense Of The Indefensible by Donald Trump Jr. Trump Jr. writes in part,

You may not even know that over thirty years ago, Joe Biden had not one but two aneurysms. Why don’t people know? Because the liberal press doesn’t want us to talk about it. From everything I’ve learned about aneurysms, he’s very lucky to be alive at all.3There wasn’t even a single event—they were two separate events: one on the right side of his brain, the other on his left side. Folks, we call that a history of aneurysms.

In February 1988, Biden had emergency surgery for an intracranial berry aneurysm that had begun to leak. He wrote in his autobiography, Promises to Keep, the pain that sent him to the hospital was so great, he curled up in a fetal position on the floor and then lay unconscious for five hours.

He had to have another surgery on a second cranial aneurysm in May 1988 that knocked him out for months. They literally had to cut his head open and rummage around in there hoping to find and fix these deadly problems in Joe’s brain...It’s crazy how few live through even a single aneurysmal rupture and how many people suffer a serious, lifelong impairment. According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, 66 percent of those who survive an aneurysm experience some permanent neurological deficit.

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