Dr. Ronny Jackson “would come around Air Force One asking Donald Trump’s senior staff if they needed anything. This included Provigil and [the sleep aid] Ambien, and he would hand them out, typically in the form of packets with two or three pills in them. . . . On a trip to Argentina in March 2016, one of those reports notes, Jackson’s “intoxicated behavior in the middle of the night, pounding on [a female subordinate’s] hotel room door, screaming, yelling, and overall loud behavior in his hotel room exhibited less than exemplary workplace conduct while on official travel to provide medical care for the President.” The Pentagon interviewed 60 of Jackson’s former subordinates; 56 “experienced, saw, or heard about [him] yelling, screaming, cursing, or belittling subordinates.” During a six-week stretch in 2018, a Defense Department hotline received 12 complaints” about Jackson.
That’s current Texas representative Ronny “coked to the gills” Jackson, making those keen decisions for the people of Texas.
While this is 100% true the reason I can say that is because the hill itself is rife with speed and meth and coke and then the downers they need to sleep / not shake apart.
Source: I seent it, it’s wild.
They talk about that. It was much more than that under Trump.
Other admins only do a little meth so it’s fine!
/S
It’s still bad, just because it’s less bad sometimes doesn’t mean it’s good.
Have higher standards than donald trump
It’s not the difference between bad and good, it’s the difference between bad and HOLY FUCK!
The rational solution is to stop letting White House doctors do whatever they want.
But Dems won’t do that, because they abuse it as well. And Republicans sure as shit won’t do it.
Which is why instead of talking about how trump was more insane than normal, we should talk about why ever WH doctor can hand out addictive drugs to anyone in the White House or on Air Force 1 like they’re jelly beans.
It’s just another example of why so much shit in our government shouldn’t operate under the assumption of good faith.
It’s just neither party wants to limit their own power when they’re in charge.
We don’t have a party that’s actually trying to do the right thing.
Just “bad and HOLY FUCK!” as you put it
It seems to me that it is possible to be critical of an administration without turning it into “they do it too and they won’t stop it either!” That’s just whataboutism.
No, it’s pointing out that we shouldn’t just blame one president, we should also blame the current president for not lifting a finger to change the system.
Like, imagine if someone kept talking about how bad the Holocaust was, and anytime people brought up a current genocide, they say we can’t talk about that because the Holocaust was worse.
But also they refuse to take any steps to prevent future or even current genocides.
We shouldn’t ignore the problem was worse. But we definitely shouldn’t refuse to fix the system because it’s not currently as bad as it used to be. Because absolutely nothing is stopping it from being even worse than the current worst time.
Yep.
People keep shitting on trump’s “Dr feel-good”, and they should be shitting on that doc.
But Obama picked his junky ass, and I doubt he was a competent doctor before trump.
The only good thing about trump, was people started calling out some of the bullshit every president does. But it doesn’t really matter because loads of people were fine with it again as soon as Biden took office.
It’s normalized to use drugs to make all those geriatric fucks seem functional on camera, but we end up with the highest up politicians being in their 70s and having decades long stimulant use.
We can do better than 80 year old meth heads. Even if they have a doctor and not a dealer.
I totally agree. Imagine the pharmalogical cornucopia keeping that walking corpse Sleepy Cornpop walking around. I’m sorry you’re getting down voted to hell, it seems we’ve fallen into a shit-lib circle jerk. These assholes are even more brainwashed than MAGA morons.
You’re not agreeing with me at all, why did you add “yep”?
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You said:
While this is 100% true the reason I can say that is because the hill itself is rife with speed and meth and coke and then the downers they need to sleep / not shake apart.
I agreed, and said neither of our two options have shown any interest in making WH medical staff follow the same rules regarding addictive and dangerous prescriptions that every other American doctor needs to follow
If people want to just blame the doctor, why not blame the president that hired him?
You quoted me, you’re right.
You’re still not saying what I am saying and my words weren’t meant to lend credence to your “yeah what about the other team” arguments.
To be frank my comment is specifically about inside the capitol building not inside the White House.
yeah what about the other team” arguments.
Saying “hold everyone accountable and prevent these abuses from continuing” is valid.
It’s not “only get mad at the other team”.…
Which is what you’re accusing me of doing, while doing yourself.
I’m not sure if a simpler way to explain it, and I feel like any second now you’re just going to resort to insults because someone dared to want standards applied to everyone instead of just the ones you don’t like.
So while prescription drugs have long been in the White House — John F. Kennedy reportedly took a cocktail of uppers and downers to fight back pain, and Richard Nixon allegedly took an anti-epileptic drug “when his mood wasn’t too good” — they have rarely been dispensed as widely as they were in the Trump years.
Emphasis added
Yes…
trump has been the worse, but the issue happened before trump, and still happens today.
And it’s legal.
So we should change the exemptions the WH doctor has and make them follow the same standards as every other medical doctor in America.
This shouldn’t be an unpopular opinion…
The Trump administration was well known for its chaotic, often-erratic approach to policymaking — and for its atmosphere of paranoia, where staffers regularly spilled their colleagues’ secrets and bureaucratic factions often spent as much energy attacking one another as addressing matters of state. It’s impossible to know how much of that was fueled by the widespread availability of drugs like Xanax and Provigil.
That reminds me of another government known for paranoia, backstabbing, and drug abuse.
Trump’s second term would bring back Pervitin
They’ve already got the bunker
I’ll say this: Adolf Hitler had his foibles, but at least you know he wouldn’t have needed a YouTube tutorial to blow his own brains out
Could not even write that with a straight face
No bone spurs for him, either, he eagerly served in WWI.
Trump: literally worse than Hitler.