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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I read the report, and was surprised to be reminded that Ronny [what grown man still wants to be called Ronny?] Jackson began his term under Obama.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Yeah, I would have thought, naive fool that I am, that "White House doctor" would call for one of the best doctors in the country? Like maybe they have a contest or something? But nah, just send some mook over from the Navy, most likely a guy the Navy wants off its hands.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"Good people. The best people."

Periodic reminder that Trump was mad that Obama administration staffers resigned en masse before he had the pleasure of firing them.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I think my favorite was the White House photographer, who said he could never photograph someone who clearly had so little respect for the office.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"TRUMP: Bullshit. You think I don’t know what crack smells like?"

I think he doesn't know what crack smells like.

Many people, many fine people, claim he cannot even smell the overflow from his Depends. (God help us fro Roy doing a sketch around that.)

"[To the AGENT:] Don’t get that on me."

Clear at least that agent smells it. BTW: I'm sure fake-Tubby's cologne or perfume and/or body paint smells worse than Glade Mist.

Meanwhile, loathe as I am to quote my own environmental toxin* of a Bluesky feed**, this:

https://bsky.app/profile/manqueman.bsky.social/post/3kjqzb7gmbc25

(*H/t Eric Adams.

(**Got a couple of invite codes for the needy. It's like Xitter but much more pleasant and no algorith forcing shit in one's face.)

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You should follow him, guys. Also yeah, Bluesky is like a fallout shelter for social media.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Absolutely loving BlueSky. It may go to shit given time, but now it's an oasis. If and when it finally opens up I expect an influx of rightwing goons, as they seem to relish annoying normal people more than they enjoy talking to each other. As befits the current strain of sadism running through the Right.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

They seem to be cultivating a good culture of "block, don't engage" over there, though, so it's possible the fashy crowd will show up and STILL have nobody to abuse but each other.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"they seem to relish annoying normal people more than they enjoy talking to each other."

Well, the "talking to each other" thing, that's what Nazis on Substack is for. Who do we kill first, how many kids fit in a boxcar, that kinda stuff.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Perlstein? Absolutely. Really, really knows his shit and has a great, light writing style. (Ganz, too, is pretty good too.)

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I hope Roy got a nice chunk of change from the people at Glade Mist for the product placement.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I was wondering if kickbacks for plugs was a thing on Substack.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Now that I think of it, I'm not sure Glade Mist would be thrilled to be appearing in this context.

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"Lingering crack smoke and flop sweat odors? Try Glade Mist!"

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Maybe a little more downmarket than they were looking for.

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But a huge untapped market!

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“Overfilled Depends? Not a problem! Hindenberg of shit? Well, that might be one☹️”

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Load Zeppelin

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Roy’s context is okay -- even brand expansion.

Now, my reference to overflowing Depends would be something else -- an environmental toxin as Eric Adams (most corrupt NYC mayor in almost a century) said in a different context.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25

"Smell like shit? Try Glade Mist!"

See, this is why I could never get a job in advertising.

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Now I'm thinking about that Wodehouse thing where the company has ads like "Try [product] - it's quite okay" or the such. "Overpowering stench of rotting flesh from the crawlspace? Some Glade Mist couldn't hurt."

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Glade Mist < Canadian Mist

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What's more, no bizarro right-wing ads for tactical condoms or Epoch Times University.

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The problem with tactical condems is they LOOK cool, with all their zippers and pouches, but according to women they feel like getting fucked by a Rob Liefeld character's upper thigh.

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Hearted trepidatiously...

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Always a wise policy with my comments.

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My favorites are the Wipie-wipes for MENZ! What's the manliest smell opn earth? BALLS! So now a Real Man can clean his balls with our ball-scented "Manly Wipes."

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You see that trepidatiousness up there^^? It ain't gettin' any trepidatious-less, is all I'm sayin'...

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Gurl, I need moar trepidatious-less-ness outta you...

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Dude Wipes. There was a Major League Rugby team that had them as a sponsor last year. Where did they put their logo on the uniform? That's right right across the ass on their shorts.

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Having played in rock bands, I find none of this shocking or offensive. It's kinda re-assuring to know that "normal" people like to get fucked up sometimes, too

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Marx wrote that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Today, opiates are the religion of the masses.

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And you can stay at home!

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Three-handed Mother of God!!

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Also, Six-fingered Father of God!

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God's always lookin' for a place to stick that extra finger.

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Three-fisted hot-buttered Bob!

--Joel Robinson, Gamera vs. Zigra

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And fentanyl is the megachurch.

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Narcan is the new tithe.

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What's that line that has to be in every rock-biopic? "Man... it useta be about the MUSIC."

"Man... it useta be about the RACISM" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

One little touch with these sketches that I love is how Trump, like any good mob boss, knows where all the stash houses and safe houses are, and holds the keys to all of them. He may be an addled fuck-up, but he remembers where all the bodies are buried and he doesn’t let any of his capos slip the leash without yanking them back.

That Trump’s staffers were popping pills as if they were breath mints is one of the least surprising reveals about his administration. The only surprise is there wasn’t a more flourishing market for anti-anxiety meds such as benzos. It has to be pretty stressful to know you’ve been sucked into a rolling criminal enterprise, and neither reporting it or extricating yourself from it are viable escape routes in the immediate future.

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I think that report is just the tip of the iceberg

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Or in Trump's case, the tip of the mushroom.

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Every time I read 'iceberg' I think 'lettuce' which reminds me of The Decline And Fall Of The Romaine Empire.

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Alberto, make him stop!

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For ze woman, ze kiss!

For ze man, ze SWORD!

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This comment gave me 100% of my daily requirement of dietary fiber, plus my choice of dressing! I picked the balsamic vinegrette, so it was like win-win-win!

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Romaine, runnin' all around your brain.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I remember a quote from Colin Powell about how everybody in the Bush admin was on Ambien. Which makes sense, all that travel, multiple time zones, the ghosts of dead Iraqi children interfering with your sleep.

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Yeah, that nagging question, “Are we the baddies?” often requires pharmaceuticals to tamp it down.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Demons sitting on your chest, reminding you of the pact you signed

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(I'm better now, but Ambien made me want to drive into a lake. *Never* again.)

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("like" = 1st and 3rd thoughts)

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Every time I encounter this story I'm reminded of Blitzed (which I haven't read), and the author's documentation that the Nazis were on speed all the time.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

As his trials proceed, Trump does give off a druggy "Hitler 1945" vibe.

(He leaves his bunkers, but the fresh air doesn't seem to do any good.)

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

On second thought, no. Hitler wouldn't try to be funny. A different type of performer.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"And then the Russians, at Stalingrad, they're like 'bing, bing bing!' and down go our soldiers, very low-energy Generals we had there."

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I take it you saw Trump's recent riff on the nuclear launch sequence.

I'll be really disappointed if that doesn't become a Biden-Harris ad.

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I've given up on asking why he does these things. "He enjoys it" is the only answer that matters.

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I'd like Biden-Harris to campaign on something other than "I'm Not With Him" but hey what do I know about campaign strategeries

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I had to request that General Paulus kill himself

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"Big, strong General, tears in his eyes..."

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

IIRC, it might have been late in the war when motivation was in decline.

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Oh. Well, then. Who can blame them?

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I think it started with the drive across France, which required der truppen to stay awake for 24-48 hours without rest.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Every army, from time to time...

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Runnin' for the shelter of the soldiers little helper

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There's a Melania joke somewhere in those lyrics too.

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Coffee and adrenaline can keep you up that long.

(Drug crank here, don't mind me.)

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Caffeine/nicotine/benzedrine...'n wish me luck.

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Hitler's drug use grew to epic levels, but like Steve said, the blitz of France was days without sleep.

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More like "Blitzed in France"...

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Very much worth the read. It's documented in great detail and completely bonkers.

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Nice! Nice undercurrent of dread.

Dr. Ronnie " Kid Charlemagne" Jackson knows he has no choice. His Master calls.

"Could you see the day?

Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?

Get along -"

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I started taking Provigil this month to alleviate daytime drowsiness related to having sleep apnea for a couple of decades.

Thanks to Roy, I now feel very fashionable 🤣

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Hey, it's not classy if it doesn't come in a White House Medical Office bottle

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaa I stand corrected. My sleep doc will get a kick out of this conversation when I tell her about it, though. She's Irish and I don't know how she ended up in America but I wonder what she thinks of our healthcare system vs the UK's. Maybe that's why she's here. 😆

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Dropping favorite beer name here: Mama's Little Pils.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Move over Adderall, there's a new kid on campus.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

The UK seems to be determined to either fire or massively underpay their doctors so they can switch to a system where an AI phone app does your diagnosis and sends your escript to the pharmacy automatically.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

What could possibly go wrong?

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Pops is not joshing, you know...

The push to universalize AI (an AI in every hovel!) is on, requiring translations to every language – written and spoken – and dialed in to localized conditions.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

why can't the AI just speak English like real AIs do?

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Jan 26Liked by Roy Edroso

Josh? Me? Unpossible!

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Do you suppose those little ziplocs of five of this, five of that have the White House insignia on em?

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Might help you get through airport security.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Hippocrats All!

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Jan 26Liked by Roy Edroso

Okay, you get a reprieve for that one.

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Ronny (?) Jackson is in Congress now.

What an absolutely fucked up country we have.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

True, although to be fair, the fucked-upness isn't evenly distributed.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

He represents the 13th District of Texas. This is in the Panhandle and includes Amarillo and Wichita Falls. I think they may have put Denton into it to make this very red district a little more blue, but it is still R+26

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"Don’t worry. When we get back in it’ll be happy days."

In the same spirit as Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo, spinning a tale of how things will be when they get prohibition back.

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Jan 26Liked by Roy Edroso

See also: Cuban expatriates on the eve of the Bay of Pigs.

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Jan 26Liked by Roy Edroso

"We'll get our slaves back!"

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Have to admit when I saw this story going around my first thought was to wonder where trump was gonna get his formula now

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

I had to check because I'd lost track of him, but RIP Dr. Bornstein:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/harold-bornstein-donald-trump/index.html

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

".....he thought it was a snowcone."

Greatness.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

As a pharmacy tech, I'm not so much worried about the Benzos For Bozos program as the fentanyl and morphine. Who the fuck were they handing out THOSE to? Oh, and the ketamine. Was that for a visit? "Hey, guys, I seem to have left my 'vitamin K' in my other pants, lemme get a bit to tide me over..." "Sure thing, Mr. Musk!"

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Any key ta Musk is a ketamine!

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Fentanyl is available in pill form? I thought it was just used in IV form as a surgical anesthetic.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

When we handled it at the pharmacy in SC it was in transdermal patches. At one point there was a lollipop form for kids but I don't know if they're continuing that.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

P.S. I don't think it matters for drug form, but one of the favorite ways pharma companies extend their patents is to slightly tweak the formula (not The Formula), say, to make an extended-release version, and then go to the FDA and yell "HEY LOOK NEW DRUG NEEDS TO BE PATENTED" and the FDA hands them a seven year extension or whatever.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

At first I thought you were kidding about the lollipop, but I DDG'd and it's true, an "oral lozenge" for severe cancer pain.

I was wondering because the one time I got it for some minor surgery, the dosage was in the MICROgram range, and I thought, "Man, that's got to be some powerful drug!" Like if you've got a big vat of sugar syrup that your lollipops are going to be made from, you just wave the bottle with the fentanyl in it over the vat.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

You think I'd make up something like that?

And it's indeed powerful - that's why a) the cops are always like "OUR FENTANYL SEIZURE COULD KILL MILLIONS" and b) it's probably heavily stepped on with lactose or corn starch or Comet or something.

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Jan 26Liked by Roy Edroso

I stepped on myself with corn starch today...missed the snow...

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

The ketamine was for the Easter egg roll.

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Jan 25·edited Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

Sorry, OT I know, but is anyone else enjoying The Nikki Show as much as I am? They had some clips of her in South Carolina, she's clearly relishing her role, needling Trump and watching him respond like a cranky toddler.

God forbid she should ever be President, but she's perfect for this part, and you know that even if she would never identify as a woman of color, that's how Donald Trump is going to see her, which just makes her continued existence even more of an irritant to him.

Sure, all the smart ex-Republican strategists on MSNBC explain that the smart strategy here is for him to just ignore her, but Trump didn't get where he is by listening to strategists, so we get "Give money to her and you're banned from MAGA world forever" which just provides more material for her standup act, while highlighting his pomposity and impotence.

How long can she keep this up? If she becomes the standard-bearer for Women Who Hate Trump, the small-donor money will never dry up. And why stay in when she's got no chance? Well, if anyone could persuade her to keep going just out of pure spite, it's Donald J, Trump.

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She's running for a talk show gig now.

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Jan 29Liked by Roy Edroso

Never seen someone work so hard for a seat on The View.

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

A well known side effect of Ambien is short term memory loss. Sometimes I wish I had started taking it in November of 2017 and detoxed in February of 2021. “Hey, I’ve been out of it for a while guys, anything happen the last few years?”

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Jan 25Liked by Roy Edroso

"Don't worry about missing anything, we're getting ready to play the whole season over in reruns."

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