The biggest open secret in Washington—and a huge explainer of executive dysfunction—is that since 9/11 every President (including Obama) and a significant chunk of the executive branch have been taking uppers/downers prescribed by White House doctors 24/7https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/ronny-jackson-nomination-withdrawn.amp.html …
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Nobody remembers this because of the 11 trillion other scandals that have happened since but this is one that went on for decades before Trump was stupid enough to expose it by nominating a pill-pusher for a Cabinet position.
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The replies here are great because it’s a mix of people saying “The article doesn’t say that at all, this is irresponsible and unfounded speculation” and other going “You bumpkin, everybody knows that all members of the political and economic elite does this, it’s totally normal”
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when I was at Princeton it was an open secret that like half of the undergraduate population was on uppers
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