How about a Cabinet meeting with one member in the throes of DTs? Having worked decades in hospitals, I can tell you it’s always a surprise to friends and family, and it’s not pretty.
They appear sober to most people.....but they never are far away from their next drink....often HIDDEN or STASHED somewhere.......Justice Brett Kavanaugh is one of them.
Can relate. Slept many nights with a pint of whiskey under my pillow. I made it to work every day for a month and didn't remember any of it. I could trust myself to work but anything outside of that? functional relationships? no way. chronic drunks are a hard sell for me
Married to a guy who drank a full fifth of Old Grandad every day after he got off work in the early afternoon...paid for it at the local saloon....abusive, violent, unpredictable....still he went to work everyday.
Well some function pretty well.....THEY APPEAR to function well in their jobs and personal life....but each situation is different...blackouts....we have a US Supreme Court justice who is a blackout alcoholic...'Mr. I like beer'....Kavanaugh. Wonder where he keeps his 'stash'...
not because I look down on them. morseo I've been the worst of the worst and the effect on cognition is grossly understated. opinions and beliefs I held while drinking seem so ridiculous and juvenile now. sorry...I rant sometimes.
Years ago, I was a state licensed Addictions Counselor with degrees and extensive training and experience working in this field. It is amazing how well some of the individuals can 'function' in their jobs....at all....but they have an extremely high tolerance to the drug or alcohol in this case.
He was actually pretty great in his military service. Not gonna agree with him on his career as a governor, but I'd have been happy if Biden picked him and ecstatic if he'd take the role should Trump pick him.
Ironically, Trump doesn't drink alcohol!! It's obvious, Trump is trying to get a reaction. Americans know who this POS ; they can smell it a mile away. Ask his 6 Fox colleagues who witnessed & smelled him on live news!!
When I was in the Navy stationed on Guam, early 1970’s is a clue, there was a beer vending machine next to the coke vending machine. Both were a quarter, take your pick.
DT will show off the plans to some reporter who will later be granted retroactive security clearance, but not until after he shares the plans with The Times and the scandal begins.
I'd love to see a video compilation of all these colleagues of trump who have called him out in the past. Bet It'd be a long video @meidastouch.com @briantylercohen.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I think it isn’t going to work that way anymore. I think we will approach the enemy with cowboy hat on and our guns on our hips snd say; “Hi, I’m your American Enemy, Trump told you I’d be coming for a shoo tout, well, here I am. Now shoo.”
Maybe he is drowning his miserable life with booze. The way he treats women and wants to kill all the muslims. He’s using booze as excuse because next day he will say. I don’t remember because I was so hammered.
The answer lies in the alcohol choice, and I would strongly recommend a high-end vodka as someone who has worked as a paramedic. I can tell you it makes a difference in whether or not we can smell it.
Do you think Putin’s direction to Trump was … “ hire the worst possible people, then it will destroy the infrastructure and institutions and then I will invade..” Lord… save us from Trump
Call me crazy, but I don’t want a Secretary of Defense who needs to sober up before advising the President on how to respond to an incoming nuclear missile attack.
I agree, except... As my Annapolis-graduate, WW2 combat veteran, career Navy grandfather pointed out, plenty of the best fighting captains and colonels drank. A lot. (He wasn't approvong, just realistic.)
While this may be true you can bet that became an acquired skill set they didn’t walk in that way. They wouldn’t make it far as my USAF retired spouse responded back. 😉
Grandad was born in 1901, so maybe things were different then. I do tend to agree with you that nowadays commands wouldn't tolerate someone with a severe alcohol addiction who wouldn't/couldn't stay sober on the job.
Maybe, Trump can renominate Hegseth for the head of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
He has a lot of experience. On second thought Rudy would be a good choice!
To have better friends, you need to be a better friend and a better person. If you’re a crappy person, only crappy people are going to want to hang around with you. Oh, they may fawn over you, but they won’t be your friends.
Exactly. Trump said he'll order one day of vicious violence to stop crime. And to Trump, talking against him is a crime and journalists against him are the enemy of the people. He'll take care of enemies.
America's enemies don't have to worry about America..we are destroying this country from within. All the enemies have to do is wait..in 4 years, we will be ripe for the pickin...that's how cultists...MAGA.
The enemy smells of booze too. They'll think we're "one of them." At least, that's probably SOMEONE'S take on this. Although I'd rather not wait until the Russians start looting OUR liquor stores to bring the fight to "the enemy within."
It's not just that he's not sober, it's that he has diminished capacity from drinking for decades and it has affected his brain; cognitive ability, impulse control, and judgement. Also, the man obviously isn't a grown up. He's avoided it for 30 years.
Who are our enemies? And why? Is it because their countries are sitting on oil? Our widely militaristic nation is imploding. We spend our lives talking about the idiots who are juggling the plates instead of focusing on the entire system, which is hopelessly broken. (Not a parody)
Let’s face it, most of us have had a few too many drinks before. Usually it ends in surprise Amazon orders or really bad calls to an ex. It doesn’t end in nuclear war.
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So... What would change? They lose more quickly than before?
I cannot hate based on recognized mental health issue if addiction….
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They aren’t expecting it.
That sentence should be fiction.
2. Circle round the back??
*defies Geneva Conventions
Horrible as nominee!!
He has a lot of experience. On second thought Rudy would be a good choice!
There! Problem solved!
Step 2 is finding the correct continent of those "enemies." 💀
Imagine the brilliant ideas that the head-drunk will come up with & the head-idiot will approve!!
the kind of folks I want on my feed😉
Drunk Every Instant
They’re all Russian Assets!