That explains a lot.
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Honestly, I think this might be on to something. RFK jr was not always a lunatic - before he went insane he did some truly great things in his career. He then gradually made a turn for the worse, ending up as the mentally insane candidate we know today. It honestly explains his political platform pretty well.
It also reminds me of that great infowars interview with a Sanders supporter (correctly?) observing that they have worms in their brains.
My mother has taken a similar track, and come to find out about a quarter of her brain has died, presumably as a result of her cancer treatment. Today she’s a mind boggingly gullible person who’s fallen down every conspiracy theory hole that she’s come across.
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No wonder it died
It didn't have enough food
Makes me think of that scene from Futurama where Fry's brain slug dies due to lack of food, lol.
I can't remember, was that just a "Fry dumb" thing, or was it related to his incestuous bootstrap lack of delta brainwave?
I don't think they ever said one way or the other. I just remember H̶e̶r̶m̶e̶s̶ Farnsworth says something like, "The poor little guy starved to death."
Edit: made a correction
Fry dumb. You can pretend it's more complicated if you want, but the joke is "Fry dumb".
Especially since the delta wave thing is also a “fry dumb” thing.
He said in a deposition that clinicians believed the parasite “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Well, that's reassuring. I'll be sure to vote for the guy who had his brain eaten by a worm. That's the best qualification you can get.
The jokes write themselves
When this hit Morning Joe on my morning drive into work, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so much.
What. The. Fuck.
it ate a portion of his brain
Seriously. What the fuck is this time-line?
Aww. Poor worm.
The quote is hilarious
Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Just the way he said it makes it sound like eating his brain killed the worm...
Also, this was from a divorce testimony in 2012 about a past event.
It's not a new development, he's been like this over a decade.
The worm’s last words, “the moon landing causes autism”
I thought it was the 5G
Which one?
Won't someone think of the worms?!?
Fun fact, this is exactly the sort of situation that Ivermectin was made for. It's an anti-parasite drug.
“I’d quite like this parasite removed before it kills me” the worm was heard saying.
Amy: ~~Fry~~ Bobby, what happened to your brain slug?
Farnsworth: Tsk, tsk. The poor guy starved to death.
Oh no, they can't remove the only coherent thoughts he has!
The worm died over a decade ago...
And Kennedy seems to think the cause of death was eating his brain
Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
That’s just a sequence of events. “I stood up and then my car alarm went off” doesn’t mean those events are linked. The worm probably just doesn’t live that long or something.
There are myriad things we can point to to mock these people but showing off our poor reading comprehension isn’t going to help.
Of course the worm was dead. Reason of death: starvation.
I thought brainworms were just a colloquial saying, not an actual thing!
There's a reason we have food safety regulations...
And before that religions banned eating pork. A common worm people get from eating undercooked pork spread through your bloodstream and eggs (not commonly, but occasionally) can cross the blood/brain barrier.
People think it's just a saying these days, but that's because we know how to mostly prevent it, so it went from common to super rare.
But every once and a while some idiot doesn't cook pork properly and this happens.
To be fair, health regulations have largely eliminated the risk of parasites in pork. Though that doesn't apply everywhere in the world.
Hold up.
I'm talking about food prep regulations, cooking to an internal temperature.
Which is very easy for idiots to not follow.
You seem to be talking about farm regulations preventing infected meat. That is not happening and not really possible. It takes a single microscopic egg.
We can't count on farm regulations.
But food prep regulations are like vaccines, if everyone does it, people start to think we don't need it and stop following it.
Are you aware of RFK's comments on vaccines?
He's exactly the type of guy that wouldnt care if pork was undercooked
Yes, I understand that. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 165 Fahrenheit will kill parasites. But health regulations on farms have essentially eliminated the risk of parasites to begin with, specifically to mitigate the idiots. RFK admitted to eating in a foreign country that doesn't have the same safety standards. That's the reason he was infected with parasites.
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Trichinosis is all but gone in the USA, you can eat pork chops rare here
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Ok, Alex, I'll take "Headlines That Write Themselves" for $200
What they're not telling is the worm died of starvation. It was likely the preferable alternative.
yeah, that tracks
I've always low-key blamed Trump (and his minions) on lead poisoning - paint, exhaust from leaded gasoline, old pipes & so forth. I suppose there's some portion that's explained by inbreeding. But, I guess some portion of the phenomenon could also be explained by uncooked pork products....
It's that whole generation who grew up when cars were everywhere and so was lead. It was brief window where it was really bad.
Lead exposure has a tiny threshold to cause mental impairment. And back then everyone was getting dosed. I mean, we still are. Just not as much.
Which is another reason it's crazy we're still letting the most lead exposed generation run shit in their 80s.
The effects of aging and lead exposure cause similar effects that stack with each other.
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I hate looking at him. I hate hearing his voice. But this is hilarious.
The phrasing of “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died” implies that just a nibble of his brain was so toxic that it caused the parasitic worm to die. Hopefully RFK Jr. gets proper treatment and any lasting effects are healed. With a presidential race where the candidates’ mental faculties are such a point of contention, it seems like RFK Jr. will avoid much of the armchair doctors’ criticism despite his affliction because he’s not either of the two main candidates.
They need to lobotomize him like they did with Rosemary.
The poor thing starved to death
Called it, ask anyone, the second he opened his mouth I knew it was brain worms....
This dude's lucky he's not a mind flayer
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