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Trump's White House Was 'Awash in Speed' -- and Xanax
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Alprazolam(Xanax) is one of the strongest anxiolytics made. Times one hundred with alcohol. You are trying to downplay the seriousness of this revelation
No it's not, and I don't need to downplay it because it's not that fucking serious.
Seriously, if you're worried about modafanil and alprazolam, of all the godawful shit that the Trump administration did in their official capacity, then IDK what to tell you. That's not even a fucking blip on my radar for the garbage that he and his administration did, and I don't see why people want to treat this like it's some huge revelation that is going to affect who they vote for. Because if this is your tipping point, and all the other stuff wasn't enough, then your moral compass needs to be recalibrated.
Xanax is very serious, if it is so unimportant why did you take the time to type out your comment and reply downplaying it. You are defending Trumps White House drug use, perhaps it is you who needs to recalibrate their moral compass
On the scale of drug abuse in general, and on the scale of maliciousness engaged in by Trump and his administration, alprazoplam is not serious. It's right up there with huffing nitrous.
Oh no! They did bars of Xanax! Oh, and Trump tried to get Pence killed when he certified the election, tried to strong-arm Brad Raffensperger into commiting election fraud, sucked Putin's dick for four years, and on, and on, and on. There's so much really, really bad stuff that worrying about the illegal use of safe and effective prescription drugs with fairly low rates of habituation used by tens of millions of people daily in the US is dumb. For fuck sake, when you compare this against stealing and storing highly classified documents about the US nuclear arsenal in his fucking bathroom, a bathroom that could have been accessed by hundreds of people, it's not even on the chart.
Shit, I don't even think that what someone does or doesn't use is any of my goddamn business, in much the same way that I don't think Bill's affair with Ms. Lewinsky was any of my business (...as long as she wasn't coerced), especially since it's very unlikely that either of those drugs would significantly alter Trump's chimp-throwing-shit-at-the-walls decision making "process".
Whole bunch of whataboutisms I will not even read