Howard Dean just suggested Trump may have been on cocaine during the debate.

[pnwmom]

http://jezebel.com/howard-dean-just-accused-donald-trump-of-being-on-cocai-1787117523?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Jezebel_facebook

Howard Dean ✔@GovHowardDean
Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?
7:02 PM - 26 Sep 2016

[Beartracks]

1. WTF? That's kind of like disparaging Hillary's cough.

As a longtime allergy-nose-blower, I can relate to having an inopportunely runny shnozz.

Edited to add: But I just remembered Trump didn't really sound sniffly. He just sounded like he was inhaling deeply, quickly... and closely to the mic.

=====================

[pnwmom]

3. It was the sniffles IN COMBINATION with his hyped-up, zig-zagging style of speaking. n/t

[Beartracks]

5. Okay, NOW I see it! n/t

[cynzke]

37. MAYBE TRUMP'S HIPPY DIPPY DR. WACKY PRESCRIBED SOME SPECIAL PILLS.

Peppy pills?

[erronis]

46. Not saying anything, but Hitler also had a small drug problem...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview

Seems that people that are addicted to power have other "crosses" to bear (again not to say anything bad about xians or others.)

Watch out for those that proclaim themselves better than the rest - Huger, Smarter, Purer, Whatever. They're probably all liars and psychopaths. Not me, of course!!!

[anneboleyn]

9. That plus his crazy, hyped up speaking style looks very much like a coke problem

[yardwork]

31. This morning Trump insisted that he doesn't have a cold or allergies.

He denied that he was sniffing! Claimed it was a "bad mic."

That leaves an obvious suspicion....

[kerry-is-my-prez]

51. That was my thought. I work in the area of substance abuse. Reminds me of some of clients.

I have allergies too - his nose would have been running.

[Sunny05]

54. He did not sound stopped up ... nt

[Beartracks]

55. Nope. He was breathing very sharply, deeply... and loudly. n/t

[woolldog]

2. And I see nothing wrong with him being high on coke for the debate.

Let him do the next debate on coke as well. This is America after all. Freedom of choice and all that.

[Coyotl]

48. Trump's coke habit shouldn't necessarily be disqualifying as long as he goes to rehab by January.

Elliott Lusztig ?@ezlusztig
#ManyPeopleAreSaying Trump's coke habit shouldn't necessarily be disqualifying as long as he goes to rehab by January.

At least the #TrumpSniffles is giving people some post-debate fun after having to endure him for 90 minutes. You can well imagine how many people missed work today for psychological reasons after their first long exposure to Trump's Tea Party mind. They'll recover, especially if they laugh hard enough to snort at Trump jokes (pun intended).
If you had to skip work today just to recover then don't watch the next debate, it may save your paycheck. [center]

Elaine Replogle ?@ElaineReplogle 5 hours ago
Best post-debate meme I've seen. Good summary. #ClintonWon #Debates2016

[mercuryblues]

49. that is fantastic

[Sunny05]

57. Funny!

[uponit7771]

4. Is that REALLY a symptom of too much coke? thx in advance

[pnwmom]

6. It's also a sign of allergies, colds, etc. But yes, to answer your question.

Physical Warning Signs of Cocaine Use
Nosebleeds
Chapped lips
Dry mouth
Dilated pupils
Racing heart
Runny nose
Weight loss
Post nasal drip
Dehydration

http://www.new-hope-recovery.com/center/2013/12/16/warning-signs-for-cocaine-addiction/

[bettyellen]

24. He told Dr Oz he was going to work on losing fifteen pounds, lol....

[radical noodle]

7. Many on twitter are saying that

Something was sure wrong.

[Generic Brad]

8. The Trump Bump?

[LeftRant]

10. Trump's famed stamina, like most things Trump, is all artificial.

I'd bet there's boner pills in his cabinet too.

[Sunny05]

58. Oh, that's bad. But lmao anyway!

[kevink077]

11. Leave it alone

And if he passes he comes out better than ever. Trump looks like an ass for attacking Clintons health now. Let's not ruin it.

[Beartracks]

56. +1

[anneboleyn]

12. For comparison: Bowie on coke during Dick Cavett's show. Compare to Trump

I adore Bowie, and ugh I still can't accept his death. What a beautiful and talented man! Bowie talked in his later years about his problems with drugs, especially in the early 1970s, when he was certain he would die from heroin and cocaine abuse.

Compare Bowie's sniffling, nose rubbing, speaking style, nervousness, quick changes in emotion, etc to Trump. Bowie is worse here than Trump but there are many similarities. Plus Trump always acts holier than thou about drugs, claiming he's never touched a drug or even a drink. I find that VERY hard to believe.

https://m.

[Yavin4]

19. Agree about Bowie. You don't get many unique talents like him and Prince.

Esp. in the music biz today. No one takes chances any more.

[Gothmog]

13. Trump needs to take a drug test

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Some medications dry the sinuses

Older antidepressants most bigly

[reflection]

15. I knew something was up

When Steven Tyler ran up on stage and yelled "don't hide it, divide it!"

[JRLeft]

16. WTF happened to this place? Are we becoming the left's version

of infowars.com?

Come on people this crazy talk. Loco!

[RonniePudding]

18. Yes, how dare we mock and criticize the racist monster known as Drumpf

The horror of it all has given me the vapors.

[JRLeft]

20. There's been a lot of conspiracies including polling.

[RonniePudding]

21. You'll be alright.

[JRLeft]

35. You're right, I'm a black man in America. I can survive anyone as President even one who says he

wants to be terrorists.

[RonniePudding]

36. And how exactly does that to relate to you being upset people were being mean to Trump?

[JRLeft]

40. Who said I was upset?

😂😂😂😂😂

[pnwmom]

23. Trump said very clearly today that he doesn't have a cold or allergies.

He blames the sniffing on the mic.

Does that make sense to you??

[Sunny05]

61. No, does not make sense.

Good Q.

[Andy823]

34. Interesting

So during the primaries you weren't happy with all of the "crazy talk" being post here about Hillary? You must have come out with the same kind of rebuke to those who were doing that, right?

[Frank Cannon]

62. I'm sure it's just hay fever.

It's 12-Hour Claritin that's responsible for his manic incoherence.

[ancianita]

17. He should be media stalked to undergo a drug test. No candidate should get away with this.

We Democrats should raise hell about this. The utter gall. The utter arrogant viciousness and disrespect toward the office!

The gutter morality of it all.

[Osakagreg]

22. He's not on cocaine

Hopefully, that was meant just to be comical.

The last thing I would want to see among Democrats is chasing conspiracy theories as those on the right do so well.

If there is one thing we should learn from the Republicans, it is that leaving facts behind, in order to attract a louder audience is not the kind of fuel we want. Look what it got them. They have Trump now.

I know this was probably posted in a comical sense. But I wanted to chime in about that.

[Loki Liesmith]

26. Dude's been doing lines since the early 80s man

[womanofthehills]

32. He's on something and has been for a while

He's either aggressive or he looks like he on downers. So many drugs to choose from.

[UCmeNdc]

25. K&R

Trump high?

[WheelWalker]

27. I've always said, "Cocaine is the gods' way of telling you that you have too much money".

[DFW]

28. Not worth getting too riled up

If Trump had all the classic symptoms of a man doing cocaine, then it's everyone's right (especially an MD) to notice it. If Trump wants to refute it, fine, if not, that's fine, too.

It'll blow over eventually. Pun intended.

[BadDog40]

29. This morning on Fox and Friends he denied having a cold or allergies

and yet his nose was completely stuffed up. If you've ever done coke you know how your nose is the next morning, I have no doubt he was on cocaine last night.

[MineralMan]

30. This:

or

[LAS14]

33. That's sure the first thing that came to my mind!

[Laser102]

38. I have seen this type of behavior before. It was fueled by a chemical. Inability to focus, rambling,

sniffing. He was like a kid with ADHD off Ritalin. There is something very wrong with him. Of course saying he's on something is making an excuse for a narcissist, misogynist, bigot, bloated tick. I can't fathom anyone more vile.

[treestar]

39. Since some people are saying that

that ought to be enough for the media to obsess about it for a few days. They would if it was Hillary.

[riversedge]

41. Dean was just on msnbc and said he would not take the tweet down. I think it

was msnbc. Could have been Cnn. The host dig at him several times. Dean stood by his tweet.

[bettyellen]

42. He stood by it an enumerated the four "symptoms" he exhibited....

Loved it!

[Dalziel3979]

43. Powder cocaine has always been the quintessential idle rich idiot's junk of choice.

So naturally you'll never see a 'war on drugs' declared against that particular substance. That's always been strictly reserved for the peasantry and their far worse society eroding low grade narcs like crack, heroin, meth, and ganja.

[KingCharlemagne]

44. Give me Librium or give me Meth! :) - nt

[judesedit]

45. I read somewhere that Trump always makes snorting noises. They have just edited it out on his taped

appearances. The debate was live and up close.

[pnwmom]

47. Why doesn't he simply acknowledge chronic sinus or allergy problems, if that's what this is?

[Beartracks]

50. WTF is THIS rumor about Hillary's health re. the debate?

So there I am today in a two-patient recovery room, waiting for a relative to get wheeled back from an outpatient procedure. On the other side of the curtain is a mom and daughter, and I overhear the daughter saying something like this to her mom, in hushed tones:

"If you watch Hillary closely in the debate, her eyes sometimes point in two different directions. And there was one time where she suddenly started talking really loud, I mean really obvious. Both of these things are signs of Parkinson's disease."

WTF? Is this, like, the current theory going around the wacky conserva-web?

======================

[bettyellen]

52. Yeah there are photo shopped pics of her and bullshit rumors.....

[happynewyear]

53. Little piggies *snort* *snort* *snort* that way

or maybe he was practicing for AFTER the debate?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

59. Was thinking that too. I work in substance abuse too.....

Seen it before. With allergies, your nose runs, you're not just sniffing with no nasal discharge.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

60. Colbert pretty much said the same thing.....