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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(112,790 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2024, 01:33 PM Jun 25

Panicking Trump Tries Yet Another Get-Out-of-Debate-Free Card

Donald Trump’s campaign is hard at work manufacturing a reason for him to skip Thursday’s presidential debate, and his latest tactic is the most ridiculous one yet.

Trump and his former White House doctor Representative Ronny Jackson, who reportedly kept the former president’s administration “awash in speed,” have repeatedly suggested that President Joe Biden will take performance-enhancing drugs before the debate, as part of their crusade to undermine the event and give Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Now they’ve elevated their own bonkers conspiracy theory even further: Trump posted a letter to Truth Social on Monday that Jackson supposedly sent to the White House demanding Biden submit to a drug test before the debate.

“I demand that you submit to a clinically validated drug test in order to reassure the American people that you are mentally fit to serve as President and not relying on performance enhancing drugs to help you with your debate performance,” Jackson wrote. The pill-pushing Texas Republican demanded that the results of the president’s drug test be made public.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/panicking-trump-tries-yet-another-134945473.html

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Panicking Trump Tries Yet Another Get-Out-of-Debate-Free Card (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 OP
Back at YOU: elleng Jun 25 #1
Biden needs to send northern light Jun 25 #2
Some random nitwit thinks he can demand Biden do anything? Irish_Dem Jun 25 #3
Tell Ronny Nikossitti Jun 25 #4
Historical fact- most Nazis were high on speed RAB910 Jun 25 #5
Heck, most people in Nazi Germany, members of the party or not, were high on speed. Aristus Jun 25 #6
A fellow history buff RAB910 Jun 25 #7
Definitely. Aristus Jun 25 #8

elleng

(134,768 posts)
1. Back at YOU:
Tue Jun 25, 2024, 01:36 PM
Jun 25

'I demand that you submit to a clinically validated drug test in order to reassure the American people that you are mentally fit.'

 

northern light

(29 posts)
2. Biden needs to send
Tue Jun 25, 2024, 01:39 PM
Jun 25

a letter back to Dr. Feelgood telling him to pound sand. Include the results of the investigation of the White House pharmacy.

Aristus

(67,622 posts)
6. Heck, most people in Nazi Germany, members of the party or not, were high on speed.
Tue Jun 25, 2024, 03:28 PM
Jun 25

For a while in the late 30's, Pervitin, an amphetamine-based pharmaceutical, was available over the counter everywhere in Germany. Eventually, a prescription was required, so everyone who got addicted to the stuff during the OTC years flocked to their doctors for prescriptions. A lot of the fevered adoration Hitler got during his frenzied public speeches was due as much, if not more, to speed-crazed spectators as to cultish worship.

German soldiers invading France in 1940 were hopped to the eyeballs on Pervitin, and the tanker's variant, Panzerschokolat. Troops could go for days without sleep, but when the crash came, it was hard. And when the Army's supply of Pervitin ran low, soldiers wrote home begging their family members to send them some.

For decades, German soldiers and officers writing their memoirs of the war boasted that the Wehrmacht's relentless pace of marching, long periods of guard duty, and endless combat were made possible by discipline, training, and morale.

We finally know the truth: They were high as kites.

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