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Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr said he also suffered mercury poisoning from eating too much fish: ‘I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time’

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How did the brain-eating worm in RFK Jr.'s head die?

Starvation.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You'd die too if you were thrown into a vat if toxic sludge.

[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Jail 😂😂😂

[–] protist@mander.xyz 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said at the time. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”

Wow

[–] clif@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

O, and also short term memory loss.

; )

[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why would he tell anyone this? Like, what can be gained by letting this info out? If it ever got leaked, he could just say "wtf? Why you tripping an saying all that?" What good did he think could come of telling people about this?

[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if the Trump campaign is asking him to self-destruct because of the recent polling that his candidacy hurts Trump more than Biden.

A long shot theory but my only explanation as to why he’d say this.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was in a divorce deposition from 2012.

Some media source got ahead of it, so he kind of had to acknowledge it.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Probably because it was going to leak either way, and they're trying to get in front of the story. Most healthcare info is protected by HIPAA, but that usually doesn't keep it out of the tabloids. And then the story is he was hiding the brain-worm.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

Well, it seems to me that “cognitive problems” explains a lot about this guy, including him not the sense not to reveal that.

[–] justdoitlater@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Well, I say we put worm-brain and the dog killer on a platform. Between the two, they should provide much higher quality governing than the orange impeached cheater criminal.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did it die from lack of nutrition?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Actually, it turns out RFK's brain is made of poison.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It caught the brain rot.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago

That's a pretty normal thing to say.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

He named it 8ball.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago