I am avoiding linking to the Fox article so as to not send them traffic. Can’t make this stuff up.
It’s because of the report that came out recently that showed trumps doctor was called “the candy man”, who handed out uppers and downers by the handfuls to White House staff.
I’m pretty sure this is fairly common for folks working in the White House, but apparently under Trump the drug usage was especially egregious
Is this a real report from a reputable source? I hear a lot of accusations about his alleged drug abuse but I’ve never seen proof.
Trust me I have a long list of critiques of that garbage human being. But I don’t want to be parroting unproven things.
Edit: found some interesting stuff but to be clear this seems to be a WH problem that got worse under Trump but existed under Obama. Of course a now-GOP Congressman likely started it because…well, that’s the republicans for you. Anyway that’s not evidence trump was popping pills all the time, but it’s still bad overall that this was happening.
You obviously didn’t read what you are responding to
But the report is from the pentagon
I did read it and I actually went and found stuff, there’s no need to be an ass about it - it’s clearly true about “Dr. Candy.” The issue is there’s nothing here saying “Trump was popping uppers/downers.” Surely we can agree those are 2 different claims? Obviously it would probably take the first one to be true for the second one to be true, but the first being true doesn’t mean that’s proof of the second.
Trump is pretty well known for being sober
What? He shits himself because his bowel control is destroyed from all the coke he used to do.
It was sarcasm.
I’m not certain it was. He is indeed well known for abstaining from alcohol because of his brother, Fred Jr.
Tell that to his ketamine prescription.
There’s a Cinco de mayo (2016?) photo of trump in his home office where in the background is a drawer open containing a British allergy medication. A med that is illegal in the USA because it contains amphetamines. Suspicious at best
I did watch the state of the union address, and Biden did a wonderful job overall.
There were a few word stumbles, and his stutter came out at a point; but I know I couldn’t give an hour long plus speech, and not stumble several times. There was one spot he stopped mid-sentence to respond to a heckle, which will probably be clipped, but I cant remember the exact words.
Republicans need to learn to just shut up during his speeches and not heckle. He is on the ball, and at his best when responding to their heckling, it makes him look good, and he gets concessions out of them every time.
Gaza was probably the toughest segment he tackled in the SOTU; primarily that he repeated several things I’ve heard to be false, but may well be stuff that either stuck in his memory hard, or the US intelligence community has more information than the media I’ve seen, and could be accurate.
Overall, he did look energetic, intelligent, and delivered on a lot of the messaging for what his office had helped accomplish, that people generally don’t hear about.
If your issue with Biden is his age, or you think his office hasn’t done much of anything, I suggest you watch. If your issue with him is Gaza… likely nothing he does is going to placate you, and this address won’t change that. He clearly is for a two state system, and not anti-Palestinian, but also is anti-Hamas, and is well aware of Hamas tactics of blending in with civilians, and using them as a shield (which isn’t new, it has been how they operate for a long time prior to the current conflict).
I absolutely loathe Biden, but not because of his age (at least, not for any biological reasons; I do think he is stuck in the politics of the 80s and 90s). It annoys me when I see Democrats who echo the b.s. about him being infirm. Attack him for the right reasons (pro-policing, pro-incarceration, anti-immigrant, anti-Palestine, pro-imperialism, etc)
When he was the senator, he pushed forward a lot of bad policies we are stuck with to this day. Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act and Anti-Drug Abuse Act are only a couple of bad laws he’s helped advance while in the Senate.
His age is not of concern for me either. I’ll vote for him, because the alternative is Trump. But if the country weren’t under the threat of MAGA, Fascism, Nazis, and white/Christian Nationalists, and there were other reasonable options, I probably would vote for someone else.
