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Presidential Medical Shenanigans Open Thread: Hip to the HIPAA

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Snark & speculation run rampant!



 
Now, since I’m old-school, I kinda wonder if this related issue may be salient…

… because back in the day, this kind of angry agitation over the handling of a ‘medical emergency’ was the media’s way of signaling a problem with either domestic violence or substance abuse. Which I most sincerely hope is no longer true, but…

In any case, I think it’s safe to assume that Mike Pence, or the people running the Mike Pence persona, are full prepared to undercut anyone on Team “President”. So, if Pence’s people shivved Dr. Jackson, who’s next on their list?

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    and that he may have improperly disclosed Karen Pence’s private patient info

    You mean it turns out that she is actually Mike Pence’s MOTHER?!?

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    If any third tier stooge needs to get the shit beaten outta them, it’s Keith Schiller.

  5. 5.

    MP

    I think of Mike Pence more as a simulation than a persona. It’s what would happen if you cut 90% of the processing power of Deep Blue, and then only let it watch CBN.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    Between Pence pulling a power bottom move to sabotage Trump, and JarJar and Ivana Jr going full bore after Gen J “Ladies Time” Kelly, this WH is looking prime for a meeting about denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula!

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    @MP:

    It’s what would happen if you cut 90% of the processing power of Deep Blue, and then only let it watch CBN.

    Then implanted it into Max Headroom, muted him, and just let him shake his head sadly from side to side in response to all questions.

  9. 9.

    hellslittlestangel

    Drunk doctors, racists, sex workers, extorters and cheats — I’m sorry for wishing that the Deadwood series would be revived.

  10. 10.

    Platonailedit

    One lying shithead vs another lying shithead. Who you gonna believe?

  12. 12.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Of COURSE Trump dictated that letter. Was there ever any doubt?

  14. 14.

    JPL

    @Elizabelle: Truthfully, I just go to bed every night and wonder what the fk is happening, and I wake in the morning with the same thought.
    I don’t know how this ends.

  16. 16.

    p.a.

    So, if Pence’s people shivved Dr. Jackson, who’s next on their list?

    Who cares? Pass the popcorn…
    @Corner Stone: sister? that’s not biblical, right? it would be irresponsible etc etc…

  18. 18.

    different-church-lady

    @JPL:

    I don’t know how this ends.

    With our memories being wiped, I’m hoping.

  19. 19.

    Felony Govt (Formerly Old Broad in California)

    Must be Infrastructure Week again.

  20. 20.

    Ked

    WTFOMGBBQ I don’t even. I just don’t.

    Though I totally called that Trump dictated that letter originally. I mean, what were the odds that the doctor would write like Trump talks?

  21. 21.

    Baud

    WATCH: Sarah Huckabee-Sanders denies that Trump’s personal doctor’s offices were “raided.”

    “As is standard operating procedure for a new president, the White House medical unit took possession of the president’s medical records.” 

    Smokey Eye!

  22. 22.

    different-church-lady

    @p.a.: Popcorn for breakfast! Popcorn for dinner! Popcorn for brunch!! I CAN’T EAT ANY MORE POPCORN!!!

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    @Quaker in a Basement: I know, right? How many benefits-of-the-doubt can one lying con artist GET??

    I’m betting Trumpov pops pseudoephedrine like tic tacs…it would explain the sniffling…

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud: I know. Smokey Eye is the new Slap My Head.

    I heard that she’d said that and wondered if anyone in the press room laughed.

  27. 27.

    Dave

    @MP: Every once in awhile I have a moment of concern that Mike is preparing for his Republic of Gilead moment, and to be fair he probably is, then I remember he’s dumb as a stump and utterly lacks charisma. His timing is wrong.

    Ok stupid shit can obviously happen but Mike he isn’t a winner.

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

    Haha, of course that’s going to be a new catchphrase for “lying”! Brilliant!

  30. 30.

    p.a.

    Can even trumpists be stupid enough to believe anything saying he’s the healthiest person ever to be president?

    The questions, they answer themselves. The segment of our population needing cuecards to know to breathe elected the president.

  31. 31.

    r€nato

    Suddenly, “Trump was dumb enough to order a goon be sent to intimidate Stormy Daniels by threatening harm to her kid” sounds a lot more plausible.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    Reportedly also forced him to remove a photo on the wall picturing him and Dolt 45 together.

  33. 33.

    efgoldman

    @Elizabelle:

    You cannot make this shit up. I mean, really.

    The script has been rejected multiple times by every producer and agent in Hollywood and New York.
    Maybe Vivid will take an option.

  34. 34.

    scott (the other one)

    Does…does Bornstein somehow think this new confession makes him look less awful?

  46. 46.

    TenguPhule

    @Roger Moore:

    We really dodged a bullet when it came to scandals, didn’t we.

    Yes we did. They forgot to mention the carpet bombing which was the alternative.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    @LAO: And I hope he does not.

    Meanwhile, somewhere Ronny Jackson is breathing a sigh of relief.

  48. 48.

    M. Bouffant

    @NotMax: Great flick. I remember that scene from the theater, 37 yrs. ago. (Also the topless long-shot of Julie Andrews.) And the title, S.O.B., means Standard Operating Bullshit. Which is probably what Smoky-Eyes Sarah meant, too.

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    @scott (the other one):

    Does…does Bornstein somehow think this new confession makes him look less awful?

    No, but it will help him resolve his grudge against Trump. Spite, they has it.

  51. 51.

    MP

    @Dave: He was in the process of getting drummed out of Indiana. He may get called up, but he won’t last long.

  52. 52.

    TenguPhule

    @different-church-lady:

    Popcorn for breakfast! Popcorn for dinner! Popcorn for brunch!! I CAN’T EAT ANY MORE POPCORN!!!

    My liver isn’t going to make it through this hostile occupation by Republicans.

  53. 53.

    jonas

    IANAL and all that, but if Trump’s goons were in Bornstein’s office going through patient info looking for their boss’s files, isn’t that all kinds of felony patient privacy violation? Every patient in that practice could potentially sue Trump for violating their privacy protection, I’m guessing.

  54. 54.

    jonas

    @Corner Stone: I forget if it was here or over at TPM someone was speculating that whoever threatened Stormy Daniels was probably some goon in Schiller’s employ.

  55. 55.

    efgoldman

    @jonas:

    isn’t that all kinds of felony patient privacy violation?

    Like seventeen year old boys, they’re sure they’re invulnerable.

  60. 60.

    jonas

    @Baud: Remember when a gang of Nation of Islam guys burst into the practice of Obama’s Chicago-area GP and seized his records? As they left, one of them stood in the doorway, adjusted his bow tie, peeled a couple of 20s off a thick roll of bills, tossed them at the receptionist, and told her “sorry for your trouble, ma’am. Just taking possession of the President’s medical records — which is standard procedure. And you didn’t see nuthin’!”

  61. 61.

    Delia

    I thought Bornstein was being played by Tommy Chong. At least I hoped he was.

  65. 65.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    And what amazes me is how doggedly his asskissing fans cling to this guy’s rectum. I know a few of these people. When the inevitable e-mails between Manbaby and Putin show up in which Spanky swears everlasting fealty to his Russian master, these people aren’t going to care. He’s still pulling in 35-40%. It seems likely to me that roughly a third of that is going to peel away as proof of Manbaby’s further all-around shittiness oozes out into the sight of the public, and that would leave, if you’re counting, with about 27%. That magic 27%. I don’t think these people will ever give up on him. He could plead the Fifth Amendment and then abandon his office and flee to Russia and they’ll still put up shrines to him in their homes.

  68. 68.

    japa21

    So if the WH knew about the Dr. Ronny stuff a year ago, makes the results of the physical and the laudatory explanation all the more understandable. They were blackmailing him to make him say those things.

  69. 69.

    efgoldman

    @p.a.:

    when ‘big budget pR0n’ meant there was actually a pizza in the box?

    And the plumber actually carried real. metal…. umm…… tools?

  70. 70.

    Doug G

    @MP: God, this gets all the upvotes! Brilliantly done, with a combination of technological facility and religion-snark. I may steal this, but with attribution – I have a private FB group that will get a kick out of your excellent explanation.

  71. 71.

    Amir Khalid

    YouTube’s guitar folk are all wee-weed up* today over iconic guitarmaker Gibson Brands filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Nobody is really surprised that CEO and biggest shareholder Henry Juskiewiczs’ bonkers diversification strategy came to this, but everyone haz a sad.

    *Brilliant phrase; a hat tip to the guy who first used it.

  74. 74.

    No Drought No More

    I’m more concerned with Trump’s dental records. At this point they’re more apt to come into play, assuming the man takes the honorable way out and splatters his own brains against the Oval Office walls. Where are those dental records, and how can we be certain they truly are his?

    Wide awake Americans- even those inclined to believe that Ken Lay is really dead- will want to know the answer, too, if only to play it safe..

  75. 75.

    tamiasmin

    @No Drought No More:

    Where are those dental records, and how can we be certain they truly are his?

    ”As the President’s longtime dentist, I can assure the world that he has the finest, strongest teeth any human being has ever possessed. Believe me, his incisors could tear the ass off a rabid raccoon.”—John Henry ”Doc” Holliday

  76. 76.

    prostratedragon

    @japa21: Dr. Bornstein always did look to me like the kind of Louis Cyphre that Trump’s “dark powers” would be able to conjure up.

  77. 77.

    low-tech cyclist

    My favorite tweet to come out of this:

    This is the problem with American healthcare. Every time you want to switch doctors, you have to hire two goons and a lawyer to steal your medical records and threaten to beat up your old doctor if he snitches to the media. It’s a big pain in the ass.

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