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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I want to know who's so special they deserved controlled substances as a parting gift when they left the White House. Most of the people who worked for Trump just got a mean tweet informing them they'd been fired.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

Hey, if you worked with or were in the vicinity of TFG, you'd need Ambien just to sleep at night after all the ass kissing and conscience erasing you'd have to do. Most people leaving the WH probably earned the controlled substances in one way or another.

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

Look, Secret Service agents are required to be wooden, it's part of the job. It really isn't nice to refer to them as furniture.

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Secret Agent Super Dragon's avatar

So is anything going to come of this or will it be forgotten by next week?

(Don’t tell me, I already know the answer)

It sure would be nice to see someone FO after a lifetime of FA but maybe that’s too much to hope for.

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JCfromNC's avatar

The FO line has gotten so damned long by now that some people in it will probably die before it gets to be their turn.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. None of this is the least bit surprising. I remember well the pharmacist routine from Fridays; Mark Blankenship saying through tightly clenched teeth, "I can handle it. I can handle it!"

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Boojum's avatar

Someone should do a FOIA request for records showing how much Adderal was dispensed.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

He probably made Dr. Ronny lie and spread the costs around to hide the real amount.

Like he did with everything else in his life.

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Goonemeritus's avatar

Well Trump did promise to replace Obama-Care with something better, and what could be better than a pharmacy that was run like Horn and Hardart's Automat?

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bluePNWcats's avatar

We're talking about the same damn people who have no problem advocating extrajudicial death penalties to drug dealers. I know and you know and they know that they're only talking about brown drug dealers. They just don't always say that part out loud.

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Phried Ω's avatar

<overheard yesterday in the Rolling Stone news desk offices> "Hey! The DoD Inspector General just released a report on the White House pharmacy. Get Hunter Thompson on that story...oh, wait"

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

Hmm. I’m guessing William Bennett does not have a comment.

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Maybe's avatar

Those two steps away from being a bad stoner movie...

Which side of being a bad stoner movie were the steps on?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

They usually cast bad stoner movies with attractive people, so...

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John Norris's avatar

Will the DoJ be investigating?

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Chuck Dickens's avatar

Give them a couple years to pick a “special counsel “

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

Yeah, but Trump probably never asked for them by name. Instead, he called the uppers “go-boys” and the downers “sleepy bees” and the benzos “calmlykazies” and….

That gives the pharmacists plausible deniability: “We didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about. It took us three weeks to figure out “we-wees” referred to prostate medications. The fucking thing must be the size of a softball.”

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mr_snarky's avatar

In PABworld incompetence is a feature not a bug.

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SurlyAF's avatar

As a former pharmacy tech I am cringing. I worked retail and IP hospital and cannot imagine any of my co-workers participating in this nonsense.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Don Jr.: "Wait! There were drugs?!"

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Tiffany in Houston's avatar

Oh, I would bet a lot of money that there were plenty of drugs that managed to be diverted to Don Jr, Kimberly, and God knows who else. Vanky and Jared were actual WH employees so that right there could be a very easy source.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

If Ivanka got drugs for Jr. and Kimmy, it'd probably be cheaper to just buy them on the street.

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Wondering Woman's avatar

And any side effects (aside from cost savings) would be a bonus.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Don Jr: "Yeah, I need <sniff> to pick up Dad's <sniff> Adderall prescription. He's really busy presidenting right now, so I just <sniff> swung by to get it for him <sniff>"

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

Probably not his preferred ones.

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