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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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Starvation.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

Jail 😂😂😂

[–] protist@mander.xyz 21 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

O, and also short term memory loss.

; )

[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Did it die from lack of nutrition?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It caught the brain rot.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty normal thing to say.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He named it 8ball.

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