The Secretary of Defense was hospitalized for 3 days and no one in the White House knew

[Silver Surfer]

Damned if you do....damned if you dont

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

It’s bad optics no matter how you try and spin it whether you think he was obligated to tell him or not.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Unethical. He should’ve, as an important public official, announced his seeking of medical treatment to address his prostate cancer.

Banana Republic moves

 

[re'up]

yeah, but his team controlled those optics. They made a calculated risk. If they revealed back in December you get this drumbeat of stories and moral outrage from Republican senators and who knows who else.

 

[Gloxina]

That explains it

They wanted to take control of the narrative after he was better, because it could have gone a different way. If the operation had not be successful, he would have been stepping down.

If they revealed a cancer diagnosis, and it leaked, which is would have, his enemies in and out of the party would have been running with that.

AUSTIN HAS CANCER NEEDS TO STEP DOWN

now the narrative is, there was an issue, it's corrected, we are moving forward, we will take our slap on the wrist.

Yea. Luckily prostate cancer is one of those you can handle quickly when caught in time. Seeing a few older men in my family, etc deal with it, I understand why he carried it this way, but…given his position of course it would be a problem.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

yeah, but his team controlled those optics. They made a calculated risk. If they revealed back in December you get this drumbeat of stories and moral outrage from Republican senators and who knows who else.

Don’t matter the optics because delaying the news has only made things worse and put even more criticism on them about it.

 

[re'up]

The thing to consider is this

it's not like Austin or his team thought they could get away with this

They just made a calculated risk/decision

and that's the thing to figure out. My guess is there's a lot of tension with the WH staff, but not Biden directly. There could be calls from within for Austin to step down to try and beat back the narrative of being soft on Israel. There's always a scheme in politics.

 

[re'up]

Don’t matter of the optics because delaying the news has only made things worse.

Maybe. But, all I am saying is this was their call. They wanted to play it like this. There must be a reason. They didn't forget, or think no one would notice. Or Austin didn't really believe it was a private matter and no one would care.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Maybe. But, all I am saying is this was their call. They wanted to play it like this. There must be a reason. They didn't forget, or think no one would notice. Or Austin didn't really believe it was a private matter and no one would care.

It’s totally obvious what they did. Everyone was scared of losing their job including the person involved, so they made a dumbass decision that’s only made matters worse.

Transparency matters in those type of positions.

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Pretty wild. Maybe I'm overreacting, but seems like a potentially fireable offense to do this as SoD...especially considering ALL that's going on in the world.

Dudes get fired for less in normal corporate jobs.

The higher you are the more fukkery you can get away with

 

[Dipsey Doo]

The Sec of Defense obviously has some medical issue that most people would be on an indefinite FMLA leave for.

Who is running the Biden admin? Does anyone in Washington know?

 

[Silver Surfer]

This administration is over

Congratulations Trump

 

[Swirv]

Dam, hope the cancer hasn’t spread. This man is holding on tight to his job though. Might be better off for his recovery to resign. But I wonder if he’s holding on because he knows the next person will try to get the US in a major conflict.