Podcast host Jack Hopkins has a tweet with 1M views speculating Biden might've been surreptitiously drugged Thursday

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34. That correlation has crossed my mind, too.

The suggestion that he was secretly drugged does sound like a conspiracy theory, so I don't want to endorse it. It reminds me of Medieval kings who had food testers to avoid being poisoned by enemies. Without evidence to prove it, we would sound like the orange maggot himself.

But the suggestion does make me wonder if it would have been possible. Trump had covid at one of his debates in 2020 and he and his entourage tried to infect Biden by arriving late, refusing to be tested and refusing to wear masks. So, yes, the chief maggot is capable of doing such a thing.

Trump lied to create the impression that Biden was on performance enhancing drugs at the SOTU. He was obsessed with discussing drugs and Biden. He pushed very hard the image of Biden as old and feebleminded. Consequently, all of us on DU and everyone in the media were saying that Biden had to prove him wrong by having a good performance at the debate. But then he didn't and some people thought that Trump could have been right. But most of us were shocked because we know that Biden's accomplishments prove his abilities.

So, yes, it seems possible, given how Trump often talks about things that sound ridiculous at the time and later turn out to have been hints at what he was up to. But he'd have to have had someone close enough to Biden's food or drinks to spike them. Security around the president is tight. So, how could it be probable or even possible?

Regarding OTC cold medicines, yes, some are capable of producing lightheadedness, absentmindedness. I've had multiple allergies most of my life. I also have been very prone to colds and viral infections most of my life. I've tried different kinds of medicines so I know the side effects they can produce. Medicines do wear off after a while. Whether a medicine could affect the debate performance and not be so active after 90+ minutes depends on when it was taken.

But, I avoided those medicines if I had an important test coming up in school because of the side effects - except when my cold or allergy symptoms were so bad that they were worse than the med side effects would have been. If Biden had a cold that caused coughing spells he might have calculated that medicine side effects were better than bursts of coughing spells during the debate.

Without proof, we don't know if any drugs played a part. All we do know is that the debate Bidrn was not the typical Biden who is a proven good president that I'm proud to support.