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    Fun fact. RFK forced his brother to take cocaine and demerol. His brother would later get addicted, and die of an overdose. Also, he sounds like that from years of heroin abuse.

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      For what it’s worth on the voice thing, assuming that’s what “he sounds like that” refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

      That’s the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

      If you’ve got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I’m all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.

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        He’s been a severe heroin addict for 14 years. It isn’t uncommon for drug addicts to have motor dysfunction (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3966544/). He’s put out himself that it is spasmodic dysphonia, which is a disease in which the cause is not well understood (ironically, it may be associated with measles). Importantly, this information was released when he was running for president. It is probably better to name a ‘disorder’ rather than to say I broke my brain from years for substance abuse.

        There’s a behind the bastard podcast that goes into detail about RFK’s life. It’s truly awful.