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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

I hate RFK Jr. with a passion. He is a bad person. But please stop referring to his heroin use as having anything to do with his moral depravity. Addiction is not a moral failing, it is a public health and clinical issue.

may 13, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2,330 364

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social

Lots of people experience addiction and don’t kill children.

may 13, 2025, 1:55 pm • 16 1 • view
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The Other Jared @jljarebear.bsky.social

Or, you know…become a United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

may 13, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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"cold stone" steve austin @adamkingsbury.bsky.social

yeah. and the whole brain worm thing was a lie he told to excuse himself for driving his wife to suicide, it's not as silly as we've made it

may 13, 2025, 1:44 pm • 8 0 • view
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KCVotesBlu @klpc713.bsky.social

I am hoping he took big gulps of that e coli water he splashed around in the other day 😁

may 13, 2025, 7:20 pm • 13 0 • view
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Mary G. @maryguiden.bsky.social

And then came home and kissed Cheryl. 🤮

may 13, 2025, 7:49 pm • 7 0 • view
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Rachel Richmond @saudaderachel.bsky.social

Cheryl Hines is an enabling gunt.

may 13, 2025, 10:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dan D. @xargos32.bsky.social

Using heroin doesn't make someone a bad person, but it can definitely have a long term impact on things like behavior and decision making. It's possible he would be like this anyway, but it's also possible that he wouldn't be this bad if he hadn't used it.

may 13, 2025, 2:17 pm • 4 0 • view
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ELL @elatker.bsky.social

In RFK’s case, it was a lack of morals. IV heroin abuse is CHOSEN, paid for. He can GF himself.

may 14, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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envirochk.bsky.social @envirochk.bsky.social

His moral failing was being a drug dealer

may 13, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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The_truthurts @ohyeahisee.bsky.social

EX GF WAS A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST. BEST FRIEND IS A THERAPIST. ONE BROTHER WORKED IN PRISONER REFORM. EX FIANCE ( DEAD NOW ) TAUGHT DEVIANT SOCIOLOGY. USING PUBLIC HEALTH AS A BLANKET ANSWER OR CLINICAL INFLUENCE IMPLIES ZERO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHOICES.

may 14, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
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The_truthurts @ohyeahisee.bsky.social

NO OFFENSE INTENDED. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE RAISED BY GOOD PARENTS WHO TEACH THEM RIGHT FROM WRONG, AND ONE OF MANY DECISIONS IS TO NOT TAKE DRUGS / BE A BETTER PERSON. SO, YOU ARE NOT CORRECT. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MORALS AFFECT BAD DECISIONS AS MUCH, IF IOT MORE, AS ANY OTHER INFLUENCE.

may 14, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Deb Terry @lacemuse.bsky.social

I it refer to it in conjunction with his defunding Narcn programs as a symbol of the lack of any sort of empathy in the man.

may 13, 2025, 3:58 pm • 19 0 • view
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La tiaThia @latiathia.bsky.social

Seriously. Why????!!!!

may 13, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Deb Terry @lacemuse.bsky.social

I keep saying... cruelty seems to be the point.

may 13, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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La tiaThia @latiathia.bsky.social

Indeed. Plague, death, war, famine. He’s got them all.

may 13, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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Colorowdy @colorowdy.bsky.social

It is an addiction not an illness.

may 14, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social

It has more to do with the negative effects on his brain than the addiction.

may 13, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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truth-is-freedom.bsky.social @truth-is-freedom.bsky.social

he wasn't addicted when he started using. so yes, it is a moral failing.

may 13, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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camps123.bsky.social @camps123.bsky.social

very true, but the effects from that addiction could very well be a contributing factor in his present aberrant behavior

may 13, 2025, 2:51 pm • 4 1 • view
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Kaitlin M. Stella @kaitms.bsky.social

It's all 3... addiction can be family history, a choice to dabble to begin with, a health/mental health issue, amongst everything else. Nothing is mutually exclusive. So instead of putting it in a box of its this or that we should just accept it for what it is - which it can be all of it.

may 14, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

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may 13, 2025, 6:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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Oma (She/Her) @socaloma.bsky.social

Excellent point. On the other hand....what better way to scare people off heroin! ;-)

may 13, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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morgaine-pendragon.bsky.social @morgaine-pendragon.bsky.social

Exactly. Stop attacking people we don't like for things that have nothing to do w/ their politics & power. If you wouldn't attack someone on "your" side for it, don't attack someone else for it just b/c you don't like their political positions.

may 13, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social

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may 13, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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WATT @wearethetruth.bsky.social

I concur

may 13, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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Danielle @daniellemullen.bsky.social

Yes, this is an important distinction. We need to remember the same about intelligence or lack of it. Perpetuating abelism only makes it easier for eugenicists to do their work.

may 13, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Princess Rebecca Frizzle 🏳️‍⚧️💕🦕👸🐱 @rebeccabluestone.bsky.social

RFK Jr is a piece of shit human because he's a piece of shit human. it has nothing to do with his drug use or any other health issues. he just sucks. (and agreed 100%!)

may 13, 2025, 1:57 pm • 10 0 • view
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toastfuker @toastfuker.bsky.social

I hear that, but it's the hypocrisy of he wants to treat other addicts that's galling

may 13, 2025, 2:00 pm • 4 0 • view
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social

Gotta say he does seem to defy the stereotype of the person that’s been through something, and did one of the hardest things a person can do. We regularly see people develop understanding for others, some humility—even wisdom—-from personal challenges. But obviously that doesn’t have to happen!

may 13, 2025, 4:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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Ima Wiser 🧩✡️⚖️ @imawiser.bsky.social

Agree 💯

may 13, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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AngelCakesVA @angelcakes.bsky.social

It doesn’t help, but the poison definitely came from inside.

may 14, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
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peyre.bsky.social @peyre.bsky.social

Right there with you. There's PLENTY to condemn him for without invoking stuff like that, and it's all stuff he's chosen to do - for which he rightly can (and should) be blamed.

may 13, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Real EmersonFan @therealemersonfan.bsky.social

Well said...

may 13, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Leonard Banco @lenbanco.bsky.social

Actually, in his case it’s part of a much broader personality disorder.

may 13, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Aguaman💦 @blubeanie.bsky.social

It can be both. Either/Or fallacies need to be scuttled.

may 14, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Wanda Monroe @wandamocats.bsky.social

Addiction to all and sundry is just another medical scam.

may 14, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Stevie Hate @steveeboy.bsky.social

I get it. But, he doesn't seem to get it. And he retains the skillet he learned as a long time opiate addict. Lies. Manipulation. Etc. He has no business in that job.

may 13, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Vet_Grandma AKA Madam Defarge @madamedefarge2a.bsky.social

His addiction WAS a moral failing as he decided to bring his relatives and friends into the heroin addiction WITH him.

may 13, 2025, 2:28 pm • 7 0 • view
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jonathanmlewis.bsky.social @jonathanmlewis.bsky.social

He made a choice to use heroin.....and the moral failings are his and his alone.

may 13, 2025, 2:25 pm • 4 1 • view
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Alison Wonderland @sistermaryrc.bsky.social

I cannot separate the moral depravity from defunding the Narcan program. That an addict made that choice, of all people, is reprehensible. I don’t think addiction is a moral failing, but an addict sentencing countless other addicts to unnecessary death is.

may 13, 2025, 6:11 pm • 4 0 • view
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Michellemybelle @michellemitch.bsky.social

I agree! It makes me cringe when it’s brought up. Same way I felt about hunter Biden. This is why so many people keep their addictions hidden. Constant ridicule by those who are uneducated follow them.

may 13, 2025, 1:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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thunderchild1898.bsky.social @thunderchild1898.bsky.social

I don’t judge him for his addiction but I do for his dealing.

may 13, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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psychd.bsky.social @psychd.bsky.social

While I agree with your sentiments, it is RFK Jr who keeps bringing this up as he daily morally judges people taking medications for psychiatric treatment, suggesting they need to be sent to “camps” and “detoxed.”

may 13, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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La tiaThia @latiathia.bsky.social

I’d say his dealing said drugs makes him shitty.

may 13, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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AquaRegia @mapchange.bsky.social

still: never trust a junkie.

may 13, 2025, 2:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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David Dubbert @ddubbert.bsky.social

But his hypocrisy is a moral failing and his heroin use highlights that hypocrisy. That said, this is clearly a slippery slope and maybe not one to easily navigate.

may 13, 2025, 2:16 pm • 4 1 • view
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My Only Flag is Black🏴 @spencethemenace.bsky.social

Agreed. But I feel it still needs to be mentioned. Not to disparage people who struggle with substance abuse, but to really emphasize another of many reasons he is hilariously, tragically, and dangerously unqualified he is for any position in general, and his position in particular.

may 13, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Joe Darkmoon @skulduggery-joe.bsky.social

You may be right but I still would not want a 14 year heroin addict to be making calls for me and my families health. Everything RFK jr. does is a moral failing, this may not be true of all people, but it damn sure is true of him.

may 13, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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blowtorch1964.bsky.social @blowtorch1964.bsky.social

Getting addicted to any drug is not a moral failing, but 14 years as a junkie will short-circuit the brains of most people. It's a disolute lifestyle that requires daily lying and scheming.

may 13, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social

Agree 💯 not his heroin use. It’s the fact that he is allegedly in recovery-but he is defunding Narcan programs! For that, I hate him with the power of a million suns & wish him a long life at The Hague. He is a scourge to all people blessed to be in recovery, but especially to those who need it.

may 13, 2025, 5:46 pm • 7 0 • view
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Maud Hart @hartsigns.bsky.social

It's not, but heroin use changes the structure of your brain and creates long term imbalances of your hormones

may 13, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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Professional Void Screamer @caelanaegana.bsky.social

I agree with you. Ironically, RFK Jr doesn't. He believes my SSRIs that treat my neurologic pain condition are an addiction that reflects poor moral character and I should be sent to a "wellness camp" where no doubt my lvl 35 agony will teach me the value of hard work and self-reliance.

may 13, 2025, 2:07 pm • 20 3 • view
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Professional Void Screamer @caelanaegana.bsky.social

Even though I earned a tough college of engineering degree, work full time including overtime, own my own home, and have never taken a dime of disability.

may 13, 2025, 2:28 pm • 5 0 • view
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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social

Big props.

may 13, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Professional Void Screamer @caelanaegana.bsky.social

The strange thing about having a chronic illness is that it's hard to know that everybody's not the same as you. In this society it's easy to take it as a personal failing. Having a diagnosis was so freeing in a weird way.

may 13, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

An addict believes others have an addiction.🙄

may 13, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Trish @thowze.bsky.social

I just saw my doctor to renew my Zoloft...she asked if I needed it doubled the next 4 years...I love her.

may 13, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Signe E. Land @signeland.bsky.social

Yes. Thank you. Sober 13 years. Took me 25 years to get sober tho. I am not ashamed. I am a normal (?) good person with *so* many flaws. Rfk jr is a sociopath/narcissist (or *something*) don’t know don’t care except he is bad and trying to kill us all.

may 14, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view
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Nudsy aka Ian’s doodle @nudsy.bsky.social

But if you can afford the cure but you enjoy it too much.

may 13, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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RubinRubin 🌈 @thetallsister.bsky.social

Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain’s white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations

 Research Report What are the long-term effects of heroin use? Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure 3 and physiology of the brain, creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed. 14.15 Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain's white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations. 16: 18 Heroin also produces profound degrees of tolerance and physical dependence. Tolerance occurs when more and more of the drug is required to achieve the same effects. With physical dependence, the body adapts to the presence of the drug, and withdrawal symptoms occur if use is reduced abruptly. Withdrawal may occur within a few hours after the last time the drug is taken. Symptoms of withdrawal include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps (
may 14, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Nate @nategrier.bsky.social

Yes, it's possible. But we don't judge a person's creds based on "what's possible". There's a lot of "may lead to" in your statements. You have no idea if heroin addiction is causing any of this. OTOH you have hundreds of real world examples to use to dunk on him without dunking on all addicts.

may 14, 2025, 11:13 am • 2 0 • view
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RubinRubin 🌈 @thetallsister.bsky.social

Facts are painful Nate.

may 14, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Nate @nategrier.bsky.social

What facts? Do you have some secret fact your're hiding from us all showing the lab results and cognitive studies that prove he has less brain matter and therefore is unqualified to serve? Cause that's the argument you're trying to make.

may 14, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 0 • view
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DCS @generaldisussion.bsky.social

I agree, and he could do his part to destigmatize addition and bolster public health supports. Instead, he goofs on autism, fluoridation, and vaccines.

may 13, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jen the Bug (she/her) @jenthebug.bsky.social

Sometimes it’s worth mentioning, like when he cuts off funding for narcan programs. That would be like a Type 1 diabetic rolling back insulin caps, or a car accident survivor taking seat belt laws off the books! Addiction is not a moral failing. Neglecting to provide lifesaving care for it is.

may 13, 2025, 6:08 pm • 53 1 • view
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Nate @nategrier.bsky.social

Using your own analogy the people on here defending this argument are saying we should be making fun of someone and calling them unqualified to do their job because they have diabetes. Canceling support for Narcan or diabetes meds is evil regardless of whether you also suffer from those maladies.

may 14, 2025, 11:20 am • 2 0 • view
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Elizabeth Malayter @elizabethrivian.bsky.social

No, the RatFkr, Jr has some real problems with arrogance and judgement!

may 13, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bananadoc @nanadoc.bsky.social

It has nothing to do with the addiction. It has everything to do with the fucking hypocrisy.

may 13, 2025, 1:49 pm • 96 1 • view
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HereForTheScenery @wadesaid.bsky.social

And the psychopathy.

may 13, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Football_fan 💙🌊 @football-fan.bsky.social

This 👆

may 13, 2025, 2:10 pm • 12 0 • view
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James Warren @jameswarren.bsky.social

Was here to say this

may 13, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social

👍🎯💯

may 13, 2025, 1:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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Madt A. Nev @fatmadt.bsky.social

Let's focus on what really matters. The fact that he was diagnosed with mercury poisoning, which was responsible for the cognitive dissonance he was suffering from and that's how they discovered his parasitic brain worm.

may 13, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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🇨🇦 TJ Nugent 🇨🇦 @nugent578.bsky.social

💯

may 13, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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ChrisBJC @christufarr.bsky.social

It's still part of what makes him who he is.

may 14, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Em @eattherich146.bsky.social

Agree. But it sure didn't help his brain.

may 13, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Beef Supreme, Truth Gladiator @chaostosurreal.bsky.social

Use anything you can against this fiend I say

may 13, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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genbryan @genbryan.bsky.social

Yeah, I couldn't give three shits what drugs anybody does. I can't stand dipshit bob kennedy cuz he's a ridiculous tool.

may 13, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social

Ok fine. His swimming in poop water is still fair game though.

may 13, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ida Sent @idasent.bsky.social

Also, Trump is evil, not mentally ill. There’s a difference.

may 13, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Carol madden medina @carol2144.bsky.social

So worm brain is better from eating a dead bear !!

may 13, 2025, 2:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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comet57.bsky.social @comet57.bsky.social

Is not that he was addicted. It’s that he uses it to say he was a better student because of it. That’s a terrible message.

may 13, 2025, 4:04 pm • 25 1 • view
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dwyatt @dee20002.bsky.social

The bear skin incident and brain worm are, however, worthy of note.

may 13, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Danger Mouse @dangermouse911.bsky.social

It was the worm.

may 13, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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My Qwilfish is Amazing @ademainalors.bsky.social

If anything it's being a nepo baby

may 13, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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profradii.bsky.social @profradii.bsky.social

The addiction explains the evident physiological & psychological consequences, which are obvious whenever he opens his mouth.

may 13, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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MsDragonMistress @msdragonmistress.bsky.social

Absolutely true. It's the natural stupidity in his job that is the problem.

may 13, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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That Other Dude @theotherdude.bsky.social

True, but less true if you're an uber rich scion. He did heroin because he was a bored trustafarian kid. I've known many like that. For them, it's a moral failing that led to addiction.

may 14, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Tonda @whyrllwynnd777.bsky.social

He just happens to ALSO have moral failings unrelated to his drug addiction

may 13, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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Tammy Dzw @tdzwilewski.bsky.social

Agree! He is unqualified for the job and a conspiracy wacko!

may 13, 2025, 2:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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wisepitador.bsky.social @wisepitador.bsky.social

His fascination with death is problematic. What normal person collects roadkill and gets a brain worm?

may 13, 2025, 7:11 pm • 6 0 • view
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🇨🇦 Andrew Harris 🇨🇦 @ajharris.bsky.social

The Venn diagram of people with brain worms and people who collect roadkill is a circle.

may 13, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

or puts mice in a blender.

may 13, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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CarolWM💙 @carolwm.bsky.social

And baby chicks, don't forget them

may 14, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
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QueenAntifa @wmadison.bsky.social

But it probably did something to his brain

may 13, 2025, 3:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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mremington.bsky.social @mremington.bsky.social

It’s the hypocrisy

may 13, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Countess of Candy 🍭 @countessofcandy.bsky.social

He is the first son of Ethyl. He learned to do whatever he wants with her family money growing up. Just like she did. He has a rich kid, nihilistic god-complex.

may 13, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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Fabritzio Fabricato (Satire) @produkshun.bsky.social

Assolutamente corretto. RFK Jr era uno stronzo molto prima di essere un eroinomane.

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may 13, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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clink1.bsky.social @clink1.bsky.social

With all the resource RFKjr has it is indeed a moral failing, nothing less.

may 13, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
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banana42boat.bsky.social @banana42boat.bsky.social

While, this is certainly true, I do perceive him as an active addict. He may not be using substances anymore (that we know of) but I certainly see a lot of antisocial, compulsive behavior. This man is not in recovery nor did he ever recover. Recovery is way more than getting off drugs.

may 13, 2025, 2:34 pm • 6 1 • view
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Not KGB @kbgnotkgb.bsky.social

He has a worm in his brain dead or alive it's why he's depraved and psychopathic

may 14, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Megan McCarthy @meganmccarthy1.bsky.social

It's also considered a disability. We don't make fun of people for their disabilities.

may 13, 2025, 1:53 pm • 6 0 • view
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Trish @thowze.bsky.social

He was responsible for other family members getting addicted too...he is NOT a good person.

may 13, 2025, 2:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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Megan McCarthy @meganmccarthy1.bsky.social

I'm not saying he's a good human being. He clearly isn't. But addiction is not something to make fun of.

may 13, 2025, 2:39 pm • 4 0 • view
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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

He is a piece of shit regardless of his use of drugs! There are so many things to legitimately criticize him for! Mental illness isn't one tho. Of course people experiencing addiction sometimes do horrible things, just like schizophrenia or a psychotic break. It completely hijacks your brain.

may 13, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alan Turing's Lovelace Child @actual-intell.bsky.social

Thank you. People constantly assume these drugs contain hate, bigotry & stupidity within the compounds. It's just another way of pissing on those who people think are less than them.

may 13, 2025, 2:46 pm • 4 0 • view
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Larkus @larkus86.bsky.social

That moral tie-in came intentionally from “Christian nationalism” to make it a moral failing. Just like sexual orientation. Like either is a choice or moral failing.

may 14, 2025, 11:53 am • 2 0 • view
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skyla50.bsky.social @skyla50.bsky.social

Yet anyone in recovery will point out that just because you stop using doesn’t mean you are ‘well’- why they have programs to deal with the underlying issues that led to addiction..

may 13, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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A-Ron T White @aarontroyewhite.bsky.social

Agreed. That’s focusing on the wrong thing.

may 14, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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J.B. Lyle @jblyle.bsky.social

"Not a moral failing" = hard sell to anyone who suffered because of someone's alcoholism. I've heard it said fervently of a childhood with a drunken father, for example, that "I remember him well and I say to hell with him." Addiction is a public health and clinical issue, without a doubt.

may 13, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

This this this. Who cares if he did heroin? I don't care if he snorted a kilo of coke a day. He's an ignorant fool who doesn't believe science which makes him dangerous

may 13, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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St Rogers @vangogh61.bsky.social

Not moral, his ignorance on healthcare. Anti vax but pro drug use.

may 13, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Roslyn Reid @the-moonshadow.bsky.social

Yes, & he's doing his best to become a public health issue. 😠

may 14, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Diane @notalwaysladydi.bsky.social

Agree, but 14 years of heroin use has a toll on mind and body and think that’s the point being made. Same for alcohol.

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2547 @bluifyusa.bsky.social

hiring him was the moral failing.

may 14, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dean Ambrosini @dean-ambrosini.bsky.social

Agree 100%. An addict can recover and go on to live a normal, productive life without destroying the public health. Don’t try to excuse his insanity by blaming the drugs.

may 13, 2025, 7:40 pm • 8 1 • view
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Anubian Recluse @anubianchacal.bsky.social

@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social

may 14, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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her ukelele @herukelele.bsky.social

thank you. hate to see the fascism rub off on the liberals like that.

may 13, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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GrisGris @grisgris4me.bsky.social

I don't want someone with all of the money and resources he could ever need who spent 17 years shooting heroin to make laws regarding my health care. Period.

may 13, 2025, 3:54 pm • 15 0 • view
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Noddingviolet47 @noddingviolet47.bsky.social

Interesting view

may 13, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dom Rocco @domrocco.bsky.social

He's a Kennedy for fucks sake. All the money and education in the world and he doesn't know better than to touch that shit? Then talks about how vaccines are unsafe? Fuck him. It was a major failure, especially for him and while he doesn't deserve to be imprisoned for it, he shouldn't run health.

may 13, 2025, 8:17 pm • 4 0 • view
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Zac Thomas✌️FUCK MAGA💪 @zacster911.bsky.social

Fair point... It's his judgmental hypocrisy. He's not qualified to clean bathrooms at rest stops along the fucking interstate. I wouldn't let him in the same room as a child. That pretty much goes for Trump in his whole fucking Entourage. And good morning. 😁

may 13, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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martianmcfly.bsky.social @martianmcfly.bsky.social

I think when battling true villains you use the weapons that will work.

may 13, 2025, 3:05 pm • 3 1 • view
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Wat Tyler Jr @gpthacker.bsky.social

Has he spent his time in recovery? Helped others? His being an unrecovered addict who is trying to destroy as many lives as possible, including others suffering from addiction, is a sign of his massive hypocrisy and lack of any compassion. And he should be called out on it.

may 13, 2025, 1:51 pm • 29 1 • view
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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

When someone is clean (for decades), it's not our business to judge how "recoveried" their recovery is. Keep your criticisms on their Actions, not mental health. Is he doing hypocritical things? Yes 👍. Addiction is a mental illness though, you wouldn't criticize someone for having mental illness

may 13, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

Wat you can absolutely call him out on hypocrisy and his other failings. But you have no idea about his recovery. He used a 12 step program and attributes his recovery to God, and as an atheist I'm telling you that's fine.

may 13, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Trish @thowze.bsky.social

It was a moral failing when he was responsible for getting other family members addicted as well.

may 13, 2025, 2:29 pm • 6 1 • view
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Jackal In Danger @jackalindanger.bsky.social

He is clearly has not fully recovered and still holds his own personal shortcomings about addiction as a universal for everyone else. Every time he threatens to ban psych meds, he's thinking about how ppl must be addicted to them because he, himself, would be.

may 13, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brian Gill @g-ill.bsky.social

Is it OK to talk about his dangerous and destructive mental illness then?

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Brian Gill @g-ill.bsky.social

Clearly RFKjr is evil & a public danger. He shows all 3 ‘Dark Triad’ traits, having used his extreme privilege to indulge in lifelong destructive beliefs & habits. DO talk about his drug abuse, roadkill eating, promiscuity, paranoid superstitions & disordered personality. #RFKjrMinisterOfEugenics

may 13, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Brian Gill @g-ill.bsky.social

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social

Thank you.

may 13, 2025, 1:58 pm • 12 0 • view
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Signe E. Land @signeland.bsky.social

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Sluggish Cheetah @sluggishcheetah.bsky.social

I don’t like his hypocrisy on this as well as other issues.

may 13, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social

What *is* a moral failing is his willingness to deprive others of the same supports he got to kick the addiction.

may 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 22 1 • view
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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social

Not willingness. DESIRE to do so. He gleefully does it. He thinks they don’t deserve it.

may 13, 2025, 7:55 pm • 13 0 • view
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Meg @megrosejoy.bsky.social

I think it’s relevant in a way that Hegseth’s alcoholism is relevant. Those things don’t make these men bad. But they’re bad men that are compromised in some way.

may 13, 2025, 7:58 pm • 10 0 • view
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Pacific Observation Post @carldownunder.bsky.social

That’s way vague. We are all compromised in some way. It’s what they are doing now that’s the issue surely.

may 13, 2025, 11:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

Get of here with take. He prosecuted drug dealers and then did heroin on his lunch breaks

may 13, 2025, 3:10 pm • 24 3 • view
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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

That's just known as hypocrisy. I don't care about his drug use. I care about the fact that he is one of the worst human being I've ever had the misfortune of hearing speak

may 13, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

Hey Siri, can hypocrisy rise to moral depravity?? Let’s see, does it involve sending people to prison??

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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

His moral depravity has nothing to do with his heroin use. His hypocrisy comes with sentencing people on drug charges while he in fact is on drugs. But you'd rather bitch and moan that we're not doing this right. I guess you must be a Democrat

may 13, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

A bigger one than RFk JR??

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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

No but a jerk is a jerk. Part of what you're saying, and that you might not be getting, is that we need to leave the heroin out of it because all it does is denigrate other victims of addiction. it doesn't matter that you are meaning when he was doing it all that matters is that he was doing it

may 13, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

If thinking it’s deplorable that a guy sent drug users to prison while using drugs then I happily accept that

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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

Dude. Of course it's deplorable. And as long as that sentence is completely finished I guess I can't complain. Ok I can because I'm good at it but that doesn't matter. Go with whomst ever you believe in, keep fighting the good fight, there are more people to quibble with than each other. Apologies.

may 13, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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rabidx.bsky.social @rabidx.bsky.social

Hey Siri why are people on our side such jerks?

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social

No, the take is accurate. He wasn't a jerk because of the drugs, he was a jerk AND a substance abuser.

may 13, 2025, 3:55 pm • 10 1 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

if you don’t think it’s morally depraved to send folks to prison for using heroin while also using heroin, then we’re just different people.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social

I never said that. I said merely doing heroin is not evidence in and of itself of moral failure. One can be a moral failure AND an addict, but they're mutually exclusive. Addiction is not a moral issue.

may 13, 2025, 4:10 pm • 6 0 • view
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Cholingo @cholingo.bsky.social

But that’s not what the OP said

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Luanne Platter @luanneplatter.bsky.social

I suspect his heroine addiction and his obsession with carcasses stems from untreated childhood trauma (assassinations) and his extreme wealth alienating him from anything resembling healthy. Like he was grown in a lab to get these exact results.

may 13, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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eric-clarke.bsky.social @eric-clarke.bsky.social

And it definitely had an impact on his brain cells.

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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social

His heroin use fine - but the fact he tried to get his cousins and siblings addicted? That’s moral depravity. He’s a predator. BTW, I’m hoping he had an open cut when he went swimming in Rock Creek.

may 13, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

Thank you! Addiction is also a MENTAL ILLNESS. If you wouldn't use someone's depression against them, don't use past addiction against them.

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

There's so many things to legitimately criticize him for you could literally never run out and still leave the drug use out. Calling him out on hypocrisy is A OK. For every piece of shit ACTION, 👌. But there are people explicitly arguing that his addiction was a moral failing

may 13, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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gedaliah @gedaliah.xyz

A lot of people in here really not understanding OP’s point.

may 13, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jack Cox @jcox.bsky.social

Frankly these people in the administration have zero morality and I decided that only for the people in this administration will I absolutely punch down on them. That also goes for Pete Hegseth’s alcoholism. They are worthy of our contempt.

may 13, 2025, 2:17 pm • 5 0 • view
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The Spike Syndrome @spikesyndrome.bsky.social

Cutting off money for Narcan reveals his immeasurable self-loathing.

may 13, 2025, 1:44 pm • 59 2 • view
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The Other Jared @jljarebear.bsky.social

Fair enough. But, we should also agree that it is disqualifying for anyone in his position and as long as he holds that position, I will continue to bring up his addiction as problematic.

may 13, 2025, 8:03 pm • 6 1 • view
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Earth Gurl in TN @earthgurlintn.bsky.social

RFJJr is a nepo baby.#shameonmaga

may 13, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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"Do Not Obey In Advance" and "Don't give into the Lies" @pamdess.bsky.social

RFK Jr is a predator.

may 13, 2025, 3:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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Caregiving Crank @gt4pete.bsky.social

RFK Jr is very much a public health and clinical issue.

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Caregiving Crank @gt4pete.bsky.social

Not all heroin users inject RFK Jr into their blood but all RFK Jrs inject heroin into their blood.

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social

I think it’s the fact he appears to making everyone else’s problem.

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Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social

It's not the drug abuse. It's the hypocrisy of claiming vaccines are more dangerous than what they protect you from,from an intravenous drug abuser. "Needles are bad..unless they got horse in'em! Pass the listeria milk juice,I'm gonna go swim in sewage." He was cray before the drugs.

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Crashbonasera @crashbonasera.bsky.social

Amen. I'm a counselor in a methadone program, and honestly, it's the only thing I admire about him.

may 13, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Amanda @hellomanders.bsky.social

The man swims in shit on purpose. There’s plenty to be critical of without bringing addiction into it.

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Nate @nategrier.bsky.social

Lots of folks on here missing the moral point. Yes he's a hypocrite. Yes he's shitty. No him being an addict for 14 years does not make him morally depraved any more than having cancer which is the argument many people are making if even inadvertently.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social

I don't think anyone's dealing with his substance abuse issues as evidence of moral depravity. But it is hypocritical: "avoid vaccines, be careful what you put in your body" said by a guy injecting God knows what. Most heroin addicts I've known have been vegan. Overcompensation,

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

"I don't think anyone's dealing with his substance abuse issues as evidence of moral depravity." Well, you'd be wrong about that. See below. Which is exactly why OP made the post

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social

Ah, yes. The same crowd of people who nodded furiously when Rush Limbaugh described drug addicts as moral failures, but when he was nabbed with all that Oxy, "I have an illness". I hate to be wrong on this one - you're right, there are some godawful people on this planet.

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

Np mate, every day I'm waking up thinking "we can't sink any lower today.... Right?" Only to be proven wrong within the first 30 min 😂!

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flower-nymph234.bsky.social @flower-nymph234.bsky.social

I mean you can't deny that years of substance abuse probably cooked his brain. My own brother died of it. So meh... I get to make fun of this eugenics nazi who definitely isn't operating like a normal, healthy person

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

I mean.. Yeah..... That's why it's a mental illness? And considered a disability, just like every other mental illness?! Lmao did y'all just wake up today and realize addiction wreaks havoc on your brain and think "aha! Now I have good reason to go around calling it a moral failing!"

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Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social

He's a complete piece of 💩, if you started naming 💩tty things today you'd only run out after consuming all the oxygen from the Earth. Why call a mental illness a moral failing when there are soooo many legitimate things to fry his ass for.

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social

Between this and the people making fun of his voice because of his spasmodic dysphonia…come on people.

may 13, 2025, 1:58 pm • 5 1 • view
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Trish @thowze.bsky.social

Do you remember the right constantly making fun of Biden's stutter?

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Julie Faenza @juliemfaenza.bsky.social

So because they did something that was awful, we should do the same awful thing instead of pointing out the 500 other things we can criticize RFK for without mocking disability?

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Trish @thowze.bsky.social

I am saying no one seems to think about that. It pissed me off when they did it to Biden. Yeah, we will talk about him disparaging people with autism.

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social

It’s somewhere between and eye for an eye and a race to the bottom.

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Julie Faenza @juliemfaenza.bsky.social

A whole lot of people seem to not realize that literally no one ever thinks they'll end up as an addict, either, and then one day they wake up and are one.

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social

Crucially, "an eye for an eye" doesn't even mean "mutilate the offender"; the offender pays appropriate restitution.

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

don't waste your time on hating him. he also believes lsd is good for trauma which is code for lsd chasers. he is angry arrogant when questioned. the issue is he was an addict for too long with all the advantages in life. he had a diary where he graded women praying to jesus that the sinful women

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

would leave him and his beautiful face and body alone. he has severe sexual issues like that entire camp... it is a moral issue when you palm yourself off as head of health. you are aware heroin is illegal people die b4 it gets to the consumer. we pay govt workers to risk their lives so robert is

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

straight in his prayers to jesus. whose own sexuality is blatant when it comes to boy friends and alcohol. it's outrageous trump went for him. it's going to crumble. do you remember when his defence was he had a worm in his

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

brain. o.k. then you sound intelligent extremely bright you should be in charge of people's health. oh yes and the conspiracy jews and asians will be the only one's allowed to live. i was there when he heard that. it was very obvious it was a play a dumbass line to see

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

who would take the bait. he not only took it he then went public in full belief we'd side with the worm in his brain. no bookworm there. that same character told them he'd made a copy of the earth by walking into another room just like that no hocus no pocus not even an apple

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

just i just made a copy of the earth and i'd like to say the rest but i was so stunned the creator of worlds was that challenged in any brain cell noone would buy it but robert and his little worm went for his lsd chaser and later told the world. and trump said

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

you my friend should be health minister and focus on mental health cos you is smartz. i have other robert stories we all do and they are all the same. he pities himself he believes he is a stunning man looks only narcissism could love. always covert gay sure robert women are evil always

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hearts love love @mzsweetebt.bsky.social

paranoia. this is how vain he is he believed the woman henry cavill was seeing was not only after him but in love with him. what can you say to that. only one thing you can say HEALTH MINISTER FOR USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9O... she is yet to receive an apology.

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Rosemary CG @athenarose.bsky.social

He's also actively working to undermine services for other people who are addicted, which is what I really have an issue with. Not everybody comes from American royalty and has those resources.

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Rosemary CG @athenarose.bsky.social

Also, attempting to cut off public programs that provide Narcan will actively result in more deaths.

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Rosemary CG @athenarose.bsky.social

The real morals failing is his lack of empathy for anybody else who might be in a similar position.

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jlgoldenberg.bsky.social @jlgoldenberg.bsky.social

RFK Jr. is committing #PublicHealthMalpractice

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hamoudjihaj.bsky.social @hamoudjihaj.bsky.social

But it has to do with how he behave today. Drugs take their tolls on his neurons and he is clearly incompetent for the job. The brain worm is an excuse.

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Rachel Richmond @saudaderachel.bsky.social

Bullshit. RFK JR is a monster.

may 13, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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Monica Cassani @monicac.bsky.social

thank you. someone I said that to blocked me on all platforms. she'd been a friend. We live in really sucky times.

may 14, 2025, 1:34 am • 4 0 • view
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flower-nymph234.bsky.social @flower-nymph234.bsky.social

My brother died of a heroine overdose. Even I think heroine cooked RFK Jr's brain and his hypocrisy of judging other sick people as part of his eugenics program is peak hypocrisy. I'll make fun of him all damn day long

may 13, 2025, 4:10 pm • 8 0 • view
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George Ruth @designomatic.bsky.social

“They” would never stfu if this was a dem and destroy his rep

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gedaliah @gedaliah.xyz

We probably shouldn’t try to emulate “them” then.

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Daniel @daniel-crow.bsky.social

Idiot, vaccine denying, herion addict, with a brain worm - is in cabinet If you are offended by the last 2 being not the most relevant, buck up because me and millions say this 20 times a day We are losing our democracy and you are whining that herion addicts can be in the cabinet - big picture?

may 14, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
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Daniel @daniel-crow.bsky.social

Few illnesses disqualify for cabinet service. Many should be considered in choosing the best person on earth for a powerful job. Generals can't cheat on their wife or be alcoholic. All black and female Join Chiefs were fired by an alcoholic. You object to the alcoholic part?

may 14, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
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BAD-Cattitude @mad-catter-chatter.bsky.social

It is also a mental health issue - people in mental/emotional pain use drugs to cope with pain - over and under the counter. Trying to escape pain should be compassionately dealt with - not criminalized. Besides our Govt is being run by mentally ill mofos who would be better on drugs - a deep nod!

may 13, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social

The addiction isn't my issue. I have friends who are recovered addicts whom I trust with my life. My issue is that his wealth and privilege insulated him from the hard work of recovery that most addicts go through. He gained no empathy or perspective and credits his superior genes for his recovery.

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Jade Teesy @vem-osca.bsky.social

THIS

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