| CURRENT EVENTS How does this happen? The Sec of Defense disappears.

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Assuming this is all true… Maybe the better question is not how, but why?

 

[TerryP]

Part of this makes perfect sense. They are saying it was elective surgery. So, I can assume it was the insertion of a gastric balloon. It wouldn't be the first balloon they tried to hide.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Hard to believe any cabinet member wouldn't notify up the line if they were going to be unavailable in any fashion due to a procedure, elective or otherwise. The complications from the procedure just magnified his poor judgement.

 

[TerryP]

Hard to believe any cabinet member wouldn't notify up the line if they were going to be unavailable in any fashion due to a procedure, elective or otherwise. The complications from the procedure just magnified his poor judgement.

I've seen some weird stories in my lifetime: this one 'trumps' them all...at least I'm starting to think that.

It makes no sense other than coverup. This is some of the stupidest shit I've seen. Don't show up at Arby's? Fired. Don't show up at the Army? (I've got a bit of a rant here.)

In Covid, "Mayor Pete" disappears with supply chain's going nuts. (He's back, see the airplane thread.)

Back to the topic, sort of...

He's AWOL. Seriously. AWOL.

 

[TerryP]

I love the way this is framed today.

Is surgery for prostate cancer considered an elective procedure?​

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The Defense Department has described Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surgery to treat his prostate cancer on Dec. 22 as an “elective medical procedure.” Austin, who went home the day after the procedure, later developed complications from the operation and was hospitalized on Jan. 1, Walter Reed National Military Center officials said in a statement Tuesday.​

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Austin underwent a procedure called a prostatectomy, Walter Reed officials said, in which surgeons remove some or all of the prostate gland.​

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Aside from skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. The cancer is more likely to develop in older men, and the risk is higher in Black men, the ACS says.​

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While “elective” can make it sound like the operation wasn’t necessary, the word instead refers to the timing of the surgery.​

Lloyd Austin's prostate procedure: When is surgery considered 'elective'?

The defense secretary underwent an "elective medical procedure" for prostate cancer in December. What makes an operation an elective one?

www.nbcnews.com

 

[alabama mike]

The bottom line is the dude still needs to let his boss, the president know. Maybe he did???