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I'm thinking you may be the only one here eligible to vote there.
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I'm thinking you may be the only one here eligible to vote there.
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Wait - didn’t she step down? Or can one still vote for a POTUS candidate who isn’t running to be a party’s leader?
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You can write in Mickey Mouse or Ronald Reagan down there if you wanted to.
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Yeah you can write in anyone, they aren’t tallied unless eligible to be President.
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Pretty FUBAR but that’s politics for ya.
Looks like the other case will be much more difficult to post bond.
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Shifty Adam Schiff. The guy could give Biden a run as the biggest liar.
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I find it odd that states have anything to do with the selection of candidates by the parties. I can see having runoffs as part of the general election, but California's "top 2" primary system is by my standard f*cked up.
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Wouldn't be a first. JFK was on a cocktail of drugs including painkillers while in office and the debate on whether Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's while President never ends.
The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr. Feelgood’
He's the one who made him feel all right.
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Media personality Joe Rogan reportedly had this to say to his fans,
Joe Rogan calls Trump a 'man baby' and sas he was on ADDERALL
Comedian Joe Rogan speculated that former president Donald Trump boosted his attention span and his energy level with Adderall and called him a 'man baby' for his inability to handle bad news
So, on the prescription drugs thing, if I can step away from innuendo and hypotheticals for a minute to something with a strong evidentiary basis, are we at all concerned with what appears to have been rampant malfeasance around prescription drug dispensation by the White House Medical Unit during the previous administration? They had a serious problem there. Certainly much bigger than any single administration figure.
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Yup, let's forget about biden, the subject of the convo. Being the Trump bashing thread we have to pull out the whataboutisms, rumours, innuendo and attempted smears on him. Let's make it about Trump so biden isn't caught in the light.
Joe Rogan 'speculated' he was on Adderol. Zero proof.
The WH pharmacy is not under the POTUS direct control, that is other people's fault.
There is zero evidence of Trump taking narcotics or being a frequent flyer of the pharmacy.
"Certainly much bigger than any single administration figure." You know this as fact right?
You wanted to step away from hypotheticals and innuendo, but jumped right to it. C'mon, you're better than this.
Of course we won't mention cocaine laying around in secure areas of the Biden WH, that disappeared along with the investigation.
Your link is paywalled.
Joe Rogan 'speculated' he was on Adderol. Zero proof.
The WH pharmacy is not under the POTUS direct control, that is other people's fault.
There is zero evidence of Trump taking narcotics or being a frequent flyer of the pharmacy.
"Certainly much bigger than any single administration figure." You know this as fact right?
You wanted to step away from hypotheticals and innuendo, but jumped right to it. C'mon, you're better than this.
Of course we won't mention cocaine laying around in secure areas of the Biden WH, that disappeared along with the investigation.
Your link is paywalled.
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Wouldn't be a first. JFK was on a cocktail of drugs including painkillers while in office and the debate on whether Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's while President never ends.
The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr. Feelgood’
He's the one who made him feel all right.
So, it's OK if Biden is deficient as long as he keeps taking drugs like other Presidents.
Got it. I have no idea why we're even discussing it then, if past practice absolved him of fault.
It's topical. I asked to confirm earlier that prescribed drugs would at least be a concern, and you did in fact confirm that in at least some context. Now, there is of course no actual evidence anyone has presented in this thread that Biden is on any medication for his faculties or any other mental thing; it's utterly speculative however much you may want it to be true. I'm not qualified to speak to the clinical significance of Trump's constant rambling, his frequent significant sweating while giving speeches, the way he's all over the place and unfocused during some of his public speaking. It's certainly as reasonable to suppose he is suffering from cognitive decline as it is to guess Biden might be. As they're both contenders for president, speaking of both is fair game.
Since you and others were keen to suggest Biden may be on drugs, I thought it worth pointing out that there was a pretty significant prescription drug problem in the White House during the last presidency. It seems prudent to worry that might become an issue again in a second Trump administration. And yes, it's VERY clearly an issue larger than just one individual. IF the article is paywalled for you and you don't care to look it up from any of the many other sources that have covered the story since, that's fine- but then you may have to take my word for it that the reporting on the internal investigations showed a very widespread problem there with many people involved. If you care enough to comment further I'm sure you can find other coverage of it or circumvent the paywall like we all regularly do.
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It's paywalled. What were people getting? Stuff to stay awake? Stuff to focus concentration? Stuff to help them sleep? Stuff to help them party?
The president, as a "single administration figure" who also happens to be exactly the centre of executive authority of the most militarily and economically powerful nation, is a bigger deal than any number of staffers getting freebies to which they're not entitled.
[Add: So a guy named Ronny Jackson was running the show, and there were basically 3 main issues. 1, people receiving freebies who were not entitled to them (money). 2, wildly overpaying for name brand instead of generics (money). 3, almost no controls (abuse and safety). And what they were using a lot of was stuff to help with sleep, and stuff to help with staying awake. A scandal, sure. Not within a couple of orders of magnitude of worrying whether the mental state of the president might be deficient because of age-related decline, or deficient because of drugs being used to offset age-related decline.]
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All kinds of stuff, it appears. Uppers, downers, opiates… Pretty much a laundry list of what not to do when storing and dispensing scheduled prescription drugs. It was prolonged and widespread.
I consider it mostly an internal governance issue within the White House Medical Unit, and an oversight failure by DOD, but that’s supply side. The corresponding demand seems to have been considerable, and of necessity confined to those within or closely linked to the White House.
White House clinic improperly distributed controlled substances during previous administrations, new report says
The investigation by the Pentagon's internal watchdog was prompted by complaints during the Trump administration.
White House clinic handed out medications with little oversight during past administrations, new investigation shows | CNN
During previous presidential administrations, the White House Medical Unit operated a pharmacy where staff members freely distributed prescription and non-prescription drugs – including controlled substances – without adequate record-keeping and sometimes to people who weren’t legally eligible...
amp.cnn.com
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Here's the WngO for the report.
The Executive Branch for sure knew about it through briefings, but they weren't copied on it.
So, we had a post, citing an internet influencer, as Trump, maybe, could be, acts like it, I'm a dummy and don't know shit, taking Adderol. No proof, no fact checking, just a cheap gotcha moment.
Yet somehow we ended up talking about something that had nothing to do with Trump. Malfeasance in a government entity. Like when did that ever happen before?
This is a dead end. Why don't we let it go and move on?
The Executive Branch for sure knew about it through briefings, but they weren't copied on it.
So, we had a post, citing an internet influencer, as Trump, maybe, could be, acts like it, I'm a dummy and don't know shit, taking Adderol. No proof, no fact checking, just a cheap gotcha moment.
Yet somehow we ended up talking about something that had nothing to do with Trump. Malfeasance in a government entity. Like when did that ever happen before?
This is a dead end. Why don't we let it go and move on?
