2y ago

US Secret Service investigating as cocaine reportedly found in White House

www.theguardian.com

A preliminary field test on a white substance found in the White House has reportedly come up positive for cocaine, law enforcement authorities said.

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Right-wing social media is already screaming about Hunter Biden at the tops of their lungs, because of course they are.
No one in Biden's family is even at the White House right now. They're at Camp David.
- I guess they forgot about the Republican cocaine orgies that Madison Cawthorn told us about:
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/madison-cawthorn-washington-orgies-cocaine-claims
  Maybe we can an investigation into that shit too?
- There’s no way they genuinely care about cocaine, there had to be just as much flowing through there in the Trump years.
- Doesn't he do crack, tho? 🤔
  
  Crack is just cocaine with baking soda added, so that you can freebase it

Has there ever been an era when there has not been cocaine in the West Wing?
Ike? Truman?
- Well, Refined Cocaine didn't exist prior to 1860, and was mostly a sort of curiosity in the medical world for the next two or so decades. After that, it was marketed as an anesthetic for a few years.
  Freud wrote a paper about the joys of recreational use of cocaine in 1884 (he was 24), and then struggled with addiction for the next 12 years.
  Then Coca-Cola was created in 1886, and bottled for mass consumption shortly afterward. They removed the cocaine from the recipe in 1903...
  Then the Harrison Narcotics act was passed in 1914, effectively banning cocaine and opium. Mostly based on racist fears that black people liked cocaine.
  So, it's possible that some cocaine was in the White House as early as the 1880s, especially in some Coca-Cola, but the drink was considered low class, and cocaine was also a bit of a low class drug...
  So yeah, It's very hard to say.
  As to WW2 and beyond. Well, Meth was invented about that time frame. 1940s Germany, and the entire Nazi military were all addicted to meth in the form of Pervitin, the brand name that it was sold under. Pervitin was literally issued to infantry to let them march for days at a time, and was a huge part of the initial Blitz.
  The Allied forces had their own versions of speed to issue to soldiers.
  I kind of wandered into the weeds there...
  
  See, it’s just this very type of strangely believable deep-dive, semi-spectrumy response that gives me a sense of cautious optimism regarding this new forum that we have here (apologies to the true pioneers).
  I am both chagrined and encouraged by this thorough, inadvertently solicited response.
  God bless you, friend.
  
  Wandered into the weed there?
  The gold is always in the comments.

It's most likely from a tourist or staffer, but nonetheless: lol
- It's probably from a secret service agent.
- old man is too old for devil's powder. no doubt
  i highly doubt tourists brought it in tho
  whoever did it, is high enough to not be punished but young enough not to die from it.

later on Tuesday reported that the white powder was found “in an area accessible to tour groups, not in any particular West Wing office”.
So, probably a tourist
- Or Project Veritas doing their bullshit.

Should...Should I ask for that back?
- I was gonna say, I'd be pissed that I lost it. 😂

Damn, Secret Service have no chill. You'd think they'd be bros, living together all the time. Instant snitch mode.
- I would assume that the issue is that white powder can be some other unpleasant things.
  Like, "someone had drugs in the White House and shouldn't have" is probably not national news unless maybe it was Biden or something like that.
  But "someone scattered anthrax in the White House" is kinda serious.