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Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report
(www.theguardian.com)
Yes and..... Is he going to face drug charges.
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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.
"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.
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.
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.
No, only people I disagree with get caught with drugs. Other people simply have tissue papers or medical conditions.
Source for Macron?
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.
Yes I always guiltily cover my tissue papers when people enter the room.
You might want to if you are world leader, you don't want people to see you're a slouch.
Good point. I thought they'd all have bedazzled Gucci coke pouches, no?
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.
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.
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.
Source: we could see it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
In other news,sky continues to be blue
I hope he has bladder cysts...big ones
We know.
What's the opposite of "news"? Because "news" implies things/stories/topics that are new.
Would "olds" be an acceptable term?
I hate that ketamine has to take the brunt of this...
This is not how ketamine makes people behave.
This is not how ketamine makes people behave.
A shot of tequila won't make me shit on your doorstep, but 5-6 bottles in an hour who knows what's gonna happen.
There's a difference between use and abuse.
Musk has not been using it medically, even if he paid a doc to write a prescription.
Depends on the dosage. More than a little but less than too much and your body becomes that of a drunk toddler. But yea most people using ket are chiller than him lol
It doesn't turn you into a psychopath. This dude is just a piece of shit who happens to like ketamine (and has the resources for basically infinite supply)
That is going to one hell of a hangover.
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.
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 🤷♂️
This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough
YES! However, EVERYTHING is legal in the US, if you’re rich enough or have some sort of connection to the rich - see Jan 6 folks.
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Hey, can't a guy dance around the room with a fucking chainsaw without people making allegations anymore?
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Give all of them legal access to any drugs they want in copious quantities. Encourage them to take more. Let problems solve themselves.
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