Some people have way with words. Other people . . . uh . . . not have way!
– Steve Martin, Let’s Get Small
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It’s more satisfying to be mad than to be nuanced. Anger is a drug as surely as alcohol is. It’s important to take measured sips, even with this administration.
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The explanation isn’t credible. This was/is a health incident. He hasn’t been seen in public in a few days. He’s not writing his tweets. I think there’s a decent basis to speculate.
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In other words, he’s not in good health, there was nothing routine about it, and it had nothing to do with his physical.
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Then let’s please proceed!
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But he’s over 6’. Used to be 6’3" and even accounting for height loss, he’s still probably 6’1".
My browser doesn’t seem to be able to do the heavy lifting and load the pic.
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BREAKING BULLSHIT NEWS BROUGHT TO YOU BY OUR ESTEEMED ASSHOLES ON THE CONSERVATIVE BENT, OR JUST BENT, SUPREME COURT:
Chill. This is routine court procedure pending submission of briefs and SCOTUS decision on whether the take the case.
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I was imagining acute constipation.
We can’t be talking constipation two days in a row! Well, it could be the Trump effect.
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I’m going with him being already in the deep-freeze morgue at Walter Reed, and they swapped in a body double for the movement back to the WH while they figure out how to proceed.
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To quote the buffoonish Peggy Noonan, for the first and probably last time in my life, is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
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Might have been a side effect of viagra. Couldn’t get it down, even after hitting it with a subpeona.
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Taft had a weight problem and died at 73. Sound familiar?
Levine says this article illustrates the long-standing problem of patients’ not sticking with a plan, something that still frustrates doctors, dietitians and nutritionists today, she says.
Taft, who was also the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, continued to struggle with his weight for years and worked with other doctors, Levine says.
In 1913, his 70-pound weight loss under the direction of a different physician got front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. Taft was often interviewed in newspapers about his weight and discouraged people from fad diets, she says.
Taft died in 1930 at age 73 from heart failure. He weighed 280 pounds.
Yorke-Davies’ diet plan for Taft included:
• 8 a.m. A tumbler of hot water with lemon, to be sipped slowly.
• 9 a.m. Breakfast: unsweetened tea or coffee, two or three gluten biscuits, 6 ounces of lean grilled meat.
• 12:30. Lunch: 4 ounces of lean meat, 4 ounces of cooked green vegetables without butter, 3 ounces of baked or stewed unsweetened fruit, 1 gluten biscuit, and 1 of the recommended “sugarless” wines.
• An afternoon cup of tea, coffee, or beef tea (beef broth) without milk or sugar was advised.
• 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dinner. Clear soup, 4 ounces of fish, 5 ounces of meat, 8 ounces of vegetables, 4 ounces of stewed fruit, plain salad. 2 gluten biscuits, if desired.
This plan included a list of vegetables, salads and condiments that could be used for variation.
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I imagine it would require two actors in a pantomime horse type of getup.
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If he dies before prison, his tombstone might read, “Catch me if you can. Hahaha!”
Even that will be fine with me, as long as he’s gone.
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I’m sure all our thoughts and prayers are with the POTUS.
Phantom pain.
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I have ironclad proof it was a bona fide medical emergency:
It took place on a Saturday, commonly known in White(s Only) House parlance as “Golf Day One.” He would never skip a golf outing unless it were either raining (it wasn’t) or he was out of the country (he wasn’t).
Nuff said.
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Naw, Barr just puts some spray-tan on.
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