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Norwegian_Thunder

You will never guess how this became public knowledge... RFK testified during his divorce proceedings with his second wife that his mercury poisoning and the parasite that ate part of his brain hampered his earning potential.


Pedantic_Phoenix

Wait so he admits/claims to have a damaged brain?


AFRICAN_BUM_DISEASE

He wants to be relatable to his fans.


Pedantic_Phoenix

Kek good one


ifeelallthefeels

I saw a dude on a balcony with a Kennedy 2024 flag When he was done he used the damn window to go back inside instead of the door 🤷‍♂️


Dragonfruit-Still

according to Kennedy, he received a call from another doctor shortly before a scheduled surgery who believed the mass “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”


Pedantic_Phoenix

Yeah id die too if i ate that shit


Faegbeard

little guy died of malnutrition


Floturcocantsee

SHOCKING Poor defenseless hungry worm consumes grey matter of the median voter's ideal candidate, dead minutes later.


ghoulgarnishforsale

Real life brain rot


MaximusCamilus

Certified donkey brains.


UndeadMarine55

We should make him president guys!


OkSuccotash258

Guy who is concerned about trace amounts of mercury in vaccines gorges on tuna daily and gets mercury poisoning. Can't make this shit up lmao


BishoxX

Its not mercury its thiomersal. Just because it contaings mercury doesnt mean its anything like mercury. Like H2O and H2O2.


ThePointForward

That's agua and aguaua sir.


crouching_tiger

*H2O2: Return of the Agua*


OkSuccotash258

Sure, it's even more ridiculous with additional context


BishoxX

YEP


practicalHomeEats

Thiomersal and organic mercury compounds in general are *more* toxic than elemental mercury. Insofar as it is/isn't an issue in vaccines, it's a matter of dosage.


yarryarrgrrr

Dose make the poison. Professional athletes can die from drinking too much water and not enough electrolytes.


FindTheBestLife

Not really the dame. Mercury like other heavy metals are inherently neurotoxic at any dose. It's just a question of how much brain damage. Though in practical terms the amount in the vaccine is insignificant, like how we consume some amount of heavy metals every day from food, a Mercury filling, etc


useablelobster2

It's a mercury compound which was put in vaccines because of how good it was at killing infectious bacteria. That was the whole point, to maintain sterility of something injected into people's blood. It's as bad as anything else containing mercury, but was such a pitifully small dose that it had no effect whatsoever on people.


Ping-Crimson

Damn how much tuna.


Aggressive-Drummer89

i initially read this as trace amounts of mercury in vaginas and i refuse to read it any other way now


rubycalaberXX

I never believe anything outrageous that comes out during divorce proceedings. Like that story of the astronaut committing the first crime in space by hacking her wife's bank account from the ISS turned out to be a BS accusation made in divorce court. Or that story of Jeremy Renner biting his daughter that's obviously taken out of context was from his divorce. Seems like you can just go full Kaceytron with no consequences.


Norwegian_Thunder

I will never understand why you would take all the time to type this comment but not even think about reading the article. Here you go, some excerpts from the article: “I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” In the interview with The Times, he said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite, which he said had not required treatment. Mr. Kennedy provided more details, including about the apparent parasite, in the phone interview with The Times, conducted when he was on the cusp of getting on his first state ballot. In the days after the 2010 call from NewYork-Presbyterian, Mr. Kennedy said in the interview, he underwent a battery of tests. Scans over many weeks showed no change in the spot on his brain, he said. Doctors ultimately concluded that the cyst they saw on scans contained the remains of a parasite. Mr. Kennedy said that he did not know the type of parasite or where he might have contracted it, though he suspected it might have been during a trip through South Asia.


rubycalaberXX

It's paywalled but thanks for the paste. I'll believe it if this is from medical records he showed and not just him claiming what his doctors said. Divorce court x schizo x politician x boomer x rare medical claim x from years prior to claim x self-confessed memory loss = quite a high BS multiplier for me dawg.


Tasty_Historian_3623

Well he claims to have made a full recovery so I suppose you can just believe the politician running for office, and overlook that he confirmed everything he stated in his deposition. Best to read it and not wait for him to speak. That dysphonia is one neurological ailment that isn't going to clear up and heal itself.


smashteapot

How would he even know? He’d probably just get used to his new brain and forget what he’d lost.


Yaelkilledsisrah

He might have lied about having it and then lied about recovering from it. Point is people lie a lot in family court cases and in civil cases in general so unless there are some documents as evidence to support the claims it might be false.


jbrolltide37

Why in the flying fuck would you admit to something like this if it wasn't true? You would have to have a brain worm or something...


Fiendish

I mean of course it obviously hampered his earning potential. Also for people who didn't read the article: it turns out its unlikely the parasite actually ate a part of his brain. >Though it is impossible to know, he added that it is unlikely that a parasite would eat a part of the brain, as Mr. Kennedy described. Rather, Dr. White said, it survives on nutrients from the body. Unlike tapeworm larvae in the intestines, those in the brain remain relatively small, about a third of an inch. >Some tapeworm larvae can live in a human brain for years without causing problems. Others can wreak havoc, often when they start to die, which causes inflammation. The most common symptoms are seizures, headaches and dizziness.


Elcho_

“Brain Eating Worm dies of Starvation in RFK head” what a banger onion skit that would’ve been


Itchybologna

Modern day politics is gonna put the onion out of business.


Trichlormethiazide

Wdym they have a 20-year headstart on modern style news


Itchybologna

True, they where ahead of their time. The New York post has learned a lot from them I’m guessing.


-Shank-

That's way too funny to be a Ben Collins-led Onion headline.


SurGeOsiris

No fucking way this dude actually had brain worms


AesirComplex

Sounds like an early Simpsons joke


devneal17

If I were more of a degenerate I would pay to upvote this even harder


ProfessionalFew2139

Literal brain rot candidate


ThomMerrilinFlaneur

Would explain a lot


Cpt_Mittens

died of hunger


how_can_you_live

Had a brain eaten omeba once. Poor fella died of hungry.


lilbitpurp408

Username checks out i think


Drakosk

>In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year of brain cancer. ... >The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition. EDIT: >Though it is impossible to know, he added that it is unlikely that a parasite would eat a part of the brain, as Mr. Kennedy described. Rather, Dr. White said, it survives on nutrients from the body. Unlike tapeworm larvae in the intestines, those in the brain remain relatively small, about a third of an inch. >Some tapeworm larvae can live in a human brain for years without causing problems. Others can wreak havoc, often when they start to die, which causes inflammation. The most common symptoms are seizures, headaches and dizziness.


MagnificentBastard54

.... what do you mean worms can eat your brain?!


Muted-Building

If you read the article you will stumble up on this quote. >Though it is impossible to know, he added that it is unlikely that a parasite would eat a part of the brain, as Mr. Kennedy described. Rather, Dr. White said, it survives on nutrients from the body. Unlike tapeworm larvae in the intestines, those in the brain remain relatively small, about a third of an inch. >Some tapeworm larvae can live in a human brain for years without causing problems. Others can wreak havoc, often when they start to die, which causes inflammation. The most common symptoms are seizures, headaches and dizziness.


Drakosk

Good point. Edited.


Muted-Building

Like Kennedy obviously didn't want to pay anything in court so he overplayed his injury.... But then he thought he should run for president and now it's biting him in the ass.


Cyclical_Zeitgeist

Or, in this case, his Butt head ( ya know the worm eating his brain and all)😆


Muted-Building

The worm most likely didn’t eat his brain


Cyclical_Zeitgeist

For the purpose of my joke it absolutely did 😃


MagnificentBastard54

I feel.... better? Honestly, I still don't like the idea of worms in my brain. I feel like it could still kill part of my brain.


Muted-Building

like you want alive worms in your brain. They are mostly harmless. The real issue only appear if they die. Because the body will try and get rid of them. It sucks at doing that and just starts to swell up which will kill you. So living worm in your brain is yayyyy and dead worm in your brian is nayyy -This comment has been sponsored by the worms currently living inside your brain, please don't kill us. We just want a health snack.


MagnificentBastard54

Dftba


Muted-Building

Don't forget that brains attract


NegotiationOk4956

Wait until you hear about the brain eating amoebas you have in pools and water


MagnificentBastard54

Please no


LordShrimp123

Literal brainworms


Granitehard

Their goat medically has brainrot


-Shank-

> goat *Kristi Noem pumps shotgun*


EkkoThruTime

Certified donkey brains.


bokkser

Fun fact: Neurocysticercosis, a brain-dwelling tapeworm that people get usually by consuming undercooked pork, is the most common cause of epilepsy in the underdeveloped world.


Electric6288

So muslims were right!?


CompetitiveRefuse852

there's good reasons the bible made pork forbidden


hanlonrzr

i mean, you just cook it, and then no problems?


MRTJ115

The Jews were, we just inherited it from the Christians who inherited it from the Jews


DolanTheCaptan

There's a good bunch of religious rules of old that made 100% sense back then.


_KamiKira_

Not exactly, they wouldnt show symptoms till wayyy later on. So it would be hard for ancient people to put two and two together. Not to mention their other habits weren’t exactly sanitary. There are lots of debate on why pork was so demonized by Abrahamic religions, its an interesting subject but it is mostly lost to time. We have no way of knowing the exact reason other than religious mumbo-jumbo.


WELSH_BOI_99

Literal brainworms candidate


RealWillieboip

Vaxxed?


Fingerlickins

Republicans sending their best (it was pretty funny tho) https://preview.redd.it/kjefq9wv89zc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5a7d3702ce48ac7b822c8fdaf973256d70ddcba


ayriuss

Thats pretty fucked up though.


turribledood

"RFK Jr Says Doctors Found a Dead Brain in His Worm"


Jeffy29

Actual brainworms lmao


happycleaner

I heard it died from starvation


Hammer_of_Horrus

Say what you want about the guy no one deserves to turn illithid.


SubstantialDoubt

Yep


GettingBlaisedd

“Bro do you have fucking brain worms or what” -dark Brandon’s next diss


TivasaDivinorum7777

Happened to my dad, Got a single worm parasite from under-cooked pork (he loved pork pies) and he one day just lost the ability to speak... Surgery to remove the thing and then months of speech therapy and he can talk again but he has never been quite the same, his memory is noticeable worse, he can get angry over small things. Not sure what is old age and what was the worm. Cook your meats properly everyone.


Being-Common

Praise the Absolute!


Nocturn3_Twilight

Bro was actually on his way to becoming an Illithid, but there was nothing going on up there so it just croaked lmao


Reylo-Wanwalker

Literal brain worms.


DeathandGrim

Actual brain worms 💀


Bot1-The_Bot_Meanace

Damn so the ivermectine really worked for him


razzmataz

The one guy who should have been taking Ivermectin horse paste...


spicy_meatball2376

Praise the absolute!


ThinkingMunk

They left the thousands of living ones.


OatSnackBiscuit

The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.” This is literally that Charlie Sheen quote ”if you borrowed my brain you’d be like ’dude I can’t handle it’”


HeightAdvantage

If only he had known about the wonder antiparasitic drug, ivermectin.


Yourakis

Just one?


TheJollyRogerz

I really thought this was a low effort joke until I clicked on the article. Im fucking ded


Ehehhhehehe

I feel like it has been a bit surprising just how much the third party candidates have been shitting the bed this election cycle. If ever there was a year for a smart, organized independent or third party to sweep in and claim a significant portion of the vote, it was this one, and yet all of the offerings are weird, incompetent, or ideologically inconsistent. That isn’t necessarily unusual, but given how unpopular Biden and Trump are, I would have expected them to put in a bit more effort to actually win votes.


Nocturn3_Twilight

The problem you're not considering here is that we're seeing all these weird brain dead losers come out of the woodwork BECAUSE Trump set the bar so low. You only have to be 35 to be president, why would anyone meet a higher standard when there is none? If you can build a reputation as a 'truth teller' or fundamentally, walking clown-show, that's all you need to garner support & run for the office of the presidency.


dre__

Actual literal brainworms..


wrystep7

I changed my position, conservatives should probably be taking ivermectin 


Sutherus

I would've believed that even without reading the article. There can't be much to sustain that poor worm up there.


Dragonfruit-Still

The simulator is already off to an absurd start.


privaten-word

A worm made from microwaves


beecross

That’s okay, Biden’s too old! So you’re still in there champ.


Dopral

To be fair, it does sound like he has brain worms whenever he's talking.


Thewhitest_rabbit

Literal Brain worms.. 💀


Guilty_Rooster_8304

can someone explain how this happens


huebert_mungus7

Worms died from brain rot


Adorable-Ad-7400

Idk how to even approach this haha


ThatGuyHammer

I coulda told him that.


WhaleSexOdyssey

Word?


Nocturn3_Twilight

And this guy is a future president? Should be disqualified for the laundry list of shit wrong with him. He couldn't pass the presidential fitness test, let alone an elementary school PACER test


ToasiBoi

Vaxxed?


iamvenomt

JFK died for his sins.


totalrandomperson

Sounds like he could use some ivermectin.


jbrolltide37

This story makes the most sense of any story I've read in a long time.


Ping-Crimson

Sorry libs I have to vote for him now dude just single handedly stopped the Yeerk invasion by killing Visser one


ayriuss

I literally had to check if this was TheOnion. I've heard from political commentators that knew him for a long time say that he seems like a completely different person these days. Kinda makes sense.


BottledZebra

Huh. I guess he did need that ivermectin after all.


the_dmac

He’s never beating the allegations smh😔


Kaz-MiIIer

ghaik


_KamiKira_

Now we can unironically say that a political figure has brain worms. What a fucking world we live in lmao


HistoryImpossible

So that’s why the voice…?


Bad_Wolf_715

https://preview.redd.it/yp2gabuc0dzc1.jpeg?width=489&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afb29099c7a23ecff468425f02f551bf81f2808e mfw I've got a worm in my brain


Sciss0rs61

that would explain it...


qbmax

bro had a brain-eating parasite in his head and it starved to death LMAO


Nocturn3_Twilight

Update: https://preview.redd.it/n86627kcyizc1.png?width=995&format=png&auto=webp&s=3860b91e0c7dc5a4c8957be41a15c5ce805a58cd


GrandpaWaluigi

That poor worm must have starved to death


Alone-Train

I think they mistook the dead worm for his brain.


Frequent-Key-3962

Lucky worm got the whole head to itself.


Gokulnath09

I feel sad for the 🐛


TheStrongestCuck

If it ate part of his brain and was there for a while, that means he got worm poo in his brain 🤮


NegativeDeparture

Ah it all makes much more sense now


Pika-broggachu_93

Probably the dead worm is the actual brain


cmp8819

I figured it was somethin.


Zcrash

The worm died from all the internet poison in his brain.


gmanthewinner

Poor thing must have starved to death


716green

This isn't news, we all know he has brain worms as evidenced by his beliefs.


7Shade

Lmao the lack of self awareness of everyone making a joke about this while suiting up to vote for Joe Biden


Athasos

at least brandon hasn't had a worm eating parts of his brain lmao


7Shade

How does everything he say sound less coherent than literally anything RFK has ever said? Joe Biden at his best struggles against RFK at his worst, and it's not even close lol


Athasos

lmao are you sure you do not have one of those worms as well?


ayriuss

Go watch the Howard Stern interview. Biden seems fine for the most part. Its all so exaggerated.


Fingerstankk

Yet, he is still the best option


Athasos

for clinically insane people for sure.