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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Don't know why the media keeps using words like "allegedly" and "reportedly" when there's plenty of photographic evidence to eliminate the doubt. It's no secret this moron is a junkie.

[–] midori_matcha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

"Allegedly" and "reportedly" are magic words that keeps the lawyers away, since no media company actually wants the liability of being an authoritative source of information.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't there also photographic evidence of cocaine use by world leaders? The very idea in an age of cheap-as-dirt fake AI "photographs" is hilarious to me.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Macron recently got caught. Don't Jr got caught at a SpaceX launch numbing his gums. It's annoyingly obvious that there are different rules.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

No, only people I disagree with get caught with drugs. Other people simply have tissue papers or medical conditions.

[–] Kekkels@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I see on the google, it's either cocaine or just crumpled up tissue paper. It's likely the latter but you decide for yourself.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes I always guiltily cover my tissue papers when people enter the room.

[–] GiraffeNeckInKnot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might want to if you are world leader, you don't want people to see you're a slouch.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Good point. I thought they'd all have bedazzled Gucci coke pouches, no?

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think this is what they're referring to: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/factcheck-was-cocaine-on-the-table-in-macron-video-with-starmer-merz

Alex Jones believes it was cocaine, Al Jazeera doesn't. I'm inclined to go with the latter.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it's standard

None of this shit is new, Biden had them ignore it, and so did trump the first time.

Biden should have yanked every single contract, instead he made multiple and constant exceptions for Musk's companies.

The CEO of a company with government contracts blatantly spiraling into drug induced psychosis did nothing but normalize it.

Like, why do people honestly expect trump to be better than Biden? Why would you ever think trump might possibly do the right thing after Biden wouldn't?

trump and Biden might both be bad in the same areas, but Trump's admin will always be worse.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

I hope you are using "you" in the general sense. I never for a second believed the Donvict would ever do the right thing even from when he was a coke head in 80's. He always has and always will do the wrong thing and keep landing ass backwards in cash doing it.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and..... Is he going to face drug charges.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 1 day ago

Source: we could see it.

[–] Therobohour@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

In other news,sky continues to be blue

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish Trump would take some shrooms. It might make him more human.

I'd rather he develop a fentanyl habit.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does help with empathy and unresolved trauma, but Trump seems to be so broken that there's no fix to it

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

This because he's the trauma. Inflicting it on everyone around him from the moment he was born.

If his mother took shrooms she woulda aborted him by blowing up both Fred and herself.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The sad thing is, I think his sentences are a little more complete and coherent than Trumps' even in his drugged out state.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

That's not a high (heh) bar to beat

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

in other news, the sun is hot

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

"Allegedly"

Dude was caught grinding on camera. Nothing alleged about it.

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

so suprised.... not. billionaires arent people.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago

When people do stupid things you might ask them "are you on drugs?" Sarcastically. In this case it was a serious question. At the highest level.

Has anyone else noticed that we don't have many dystopian/apocalyptic movies but way more documentaries these days?

[–] Bisonico@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope he has bladder cysts...big ones

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What's the opposite of "news"? Because "news" implies things/stories/topics that are new.

Would "olds" be an acceptable term?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Can you overdose and die from ketamine? Can he...? Please??

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you could tell. This isn't really news, just a confirmation.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

no waaaaay! really? wow.... positively shocked

[–] Jericho_One@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago
[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 170 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 148 points 3 days ago (15 children)

You know, this is the libertarian argument for drugs and hookers for me. This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you're rich enough. I just want it to be legal for everyone regardless of whether they're billionaires.

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cannabis is the stupidest example imo, it's criminalisation causes more harm than good, it's the kingpins and people profiting off of prisoners, pushing and advocating for continued criminalisation.

Private prisons are one of the worse outcomes of austerity, it encourages laws like this just to send as many poor people to prison as possible just so they can line their pockets, the most braindead one being the conjoined enterprise laws in the UK, which is a perfect case study as to why austerity which is musks entire strategy for economic prosperity, is a grift which is only ever capable of working for your government if there's a scapegoat which you can blame your economic strategy failing on.

The only real issue I have with smoking weed is the lung cancer bit, but cigs apparently are perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️

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