Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still running for president, with a platform of “I hate vaccines” and “I’m anti-science.” It feels like his platform is leaning into Republican ratf–king too, since Republican political operatives and conservative media are propping up this loser, all while the Kennedy family has made it perfectly clear that they have zero support for him. For years, there have been questions about Kennedy’s health and his “forgetfulness,” shall we say. The man has always been weird and he’s been involved in fringe-politics and anti-vaccine activism for a while, but when did this really start? Well, the New York Times revealed something which makes a lot of sense in retrospect: Robert Kennedy Jr. had a brain-eating worm which died IN HIS HEAD after partially eating his motherf–king brain. The dead worm is still there.
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.
Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.
While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head.
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.
About the same time he learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious neurological issues. “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. Asked last week if any of Mr. Kennedy’s health issues could compromise his fitness for the presidency, Stefanie Spear, a spokeswoman for the Kennedy campaign, told The Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”
I forwarded this story to CB yesterday and she said “I mean, that explains a lot.” I cannot stop laughing. Dude is literally missing part of his brain because it got eaten by a worm, a worm which then died and the brain-eating worm carcass is still in his head. Something else I guess I didn’t realize is that Brain-Eating Worm Guy is 70 years old? And his big pitch to “voters” is that he’s healthier and more mentally sound than Donald Trump and Joe Biden? A 70-year-old missing part of his brain because a worm ate it and died. Come on.
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- Press conference by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, founder of Children’s Health Defense, before the demonstration against the Green Pass . Milan, Italy 13 November 2021,Image: 643007662, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Nicola Marfisi / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Press conference by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, founder of Children’s Health Defense, before the demonstration against the Green Pass . Milan, Italy 13 November 2021,Image: 643007674, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Nicola Marfisi / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Press conference by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, founder of Children’s Health Defense, before the demonstration against the Green Pass . Milan, Italy 13 November 2021,Image: 643007695, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Nicola Marfisi / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out in Noho one day after testifying in Congress over racist and Antisemitic comments on Covid-19. Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Where: New York, New York, United States When: 21 Jul 2023 Credit: Janet Mayer/startraksphoto.com
Sometimes there are just no words.
Ding ding ding! This is the perfect response.
Sometimes there is a word: bullshit. He was trying to avoid paying alimony by claiming his earning potential was damaged by a worm that ate his brain. Pretty sure it was the heroin that ate his brain.
Ah, hence the references to a deposition.
Huh. I find there are just so, so many words … the jokes are just writing themselves in my head.
Wow. Nightmare food, right there. Can the Conservatives really do no better?
Yes, for the worm.
LOL!!!!!!
The problem is it isn’t just the conservatives’ problem. He could take votes from Biden. Hard to imagine but polling seems to bear that out.
People hear the name “Kennedy” and don’t look into what he actually stands for.
Is this supposed to be a selling point? He basically told us what’s wrong with him. Aaron Rodgers = CTE. RFK, Jr = Worm Brain.
It unbelievable that this is not absolutely disqualifying to be POTUs but here we are 🤷♀️ Every time when I’ve resolved to stop subscribing and supporting the New York Times for their misogyny and bothsides-isms, they pull out something like this justifying their continued existence.
Well, if criminal behavior doesn’t disqualify someone, why should this? There need to be some more restrictions placed on who can run.
Plus Wordle.
Well that explains a lot
Exactly. He used to be a respected environmental advocate, and now he’s a crazy conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer. My late father in law had a brain tumor and it really affected parts of his personality. Imagine what a parasite could do. JFC.
My thoughts exactly
This brain eating parasite, that is stuck in RFK Jr’s brain and is DEAD has made my day.
I’m having strange sympathy pains for the dead worm.
Sure the “brain eating” parasite didn’t die of starvation?
(can’t be too many nutrients in that brain).
@RENAE Your comment made every spit out my morning protein shake! Hysterical.
The dead worm would be a better president than the orange turd.
Crazy but it tracks! I didn’t know worm brain was a thing before now.
Thank gawd he’s a male in the twenty first century, otherwise his family would have him institutionalized.
The jokes just write themselves.
“A parasite found itself in RFK Jr.’s brain, where it realized, to it’s horror, that no brains were actually available to be eaten.”
“The parasite started munching on the anti-vax and conspiracy theory neurons. A postmortem now indicates that the parasite didn’t die of hunger, it died of shame.”
“RFK Jr. has caused so much societal harm that recent polling found that 70% of respondents reported they felt sorry for the worm.”
“After learning that the worm died after consuming only a small portion of RFK Jr.’s brain, the most frequent lament was that the parasite had not lived long enough to fulfill his life’s purpose.”
“After digesting RFK Jr.’s brain/thoughts, the worm died and, also, spontaneously combusted.”. Thus, please, vote for worm brained RFK, Jr. Yikes.
LOL
The poor worm died of malnutrition due to sub par diet.
This is the way.
I’m a big admirer of the original RFK. This is all so disappointing. The gap between who RFK jr. thinks he is and who RFK jr. actually is is so vast, that the man is obviously delusional. What a strange turn of events.
Crazy as he is, I actually kind of hope RFK Jr stays in the race because he’s getting most of his support from Trump’s potential base and could actually be a real spoiler by splitting the vote for the orange Nazi, making a Biden victory easier (a reverse Nader, if you will).
The things he says are so insane, he has more appeal to Trump’s base than Biden’s. Also, I think the Kennedys have aged out as magnets for Democratic voters. Young people today know little about them.
I really hope that’s true…I was disappointed to hear from my college student son that lots of pretty liberal people on campus were looking seriously at him. I pray they come to their senses!!
His dad and uncle would be so embarrassed of him. But after learning that a parasite ate part of his brain then they would feel sorry for him. And yes, his medical condition explains a lot. Where did he get that bug? The horror.
Apparently, when he was working as an environmental lawyer, he traveled to places where such parasites are common. But how one got in his 🧠 remains a mystery.
He could have ingested it, it could have entered his body through his feet or any orifice. There’s something called a rat lungworm in Hawaii; if you eat lettuce with one of these things on it (i.e., didn’t wash the lettuce thoroughly), it could end up in your brain.
Ugghh. I’m trying to figure out a way to have a fresh lettuce salad now without boiling the sh*t out of it first. Is there a number of times you can put lettuce through a salad spinner and it’s good to go? Need this number.
Can we vote for the worm?
I’m no neurologist or parasite doctor, but I do have a lot of experience with these anti-vax/vaccines cause autism folks and they have a big thing about parasites and heavy metal poisoning and are always treating themselves for both (cod liver oil packs, anyone?). It’s a fringe part of the “healthy living” group.
True enough. I wonder if he had all his metal fillings taken out & replaced?
This is a wild story AND can we please have more nuanced perspectives on vaccines please?
It’s so sad to me that this incredibly important topic is reduced to such binaries- vaccines good/anti-vax loony toons.
The celebitchy commentariat is smart and has critical thinking skills. I for one fully vaccinated my kid until at age 5 she became feverish and then suicidal after a routine Hep B vaccine. I’m neither all in nor anti vax but think the topic has become so polarized that it’s hard to find good data and clinical opinions.
Continuing to include only one black and white perspective as correct perpetuates the binary and does a disservice to all of us still living with the after effects of vaccine injury.
Let’s do better.
RFK needs to do better. He’s all-in on no vaccines AT ALL. He doesn’t have a nuanced opinion and doesn’t seem to care that children all over the world are dying due to anti-vaxxers spewing one-sided nonsense. Yes there are people who have bad reactions to certain vaccines but he is adamant that nobody should EVER have vaccines.
I understand your perspective.
I am absolutely pro vaccine. They work, and save millions of lives. I gave my kids all the shots and would do it again.
That said, of course I think they need to be tested thoroughly and administered safely. Yes, sometimes people DO have bad vaccine reactions. At our old house, a neighbor’s son had a bad reaction to the MMR Vaccine. He had a seizure and was set back developmentally. It took years of intense therapy to get him back on track.
Yes, they know the vaccine caused the seizure. It was a tainted batch, and several other children who received shots from the same batch had similar reactions. They got a settlement from the federal government, which has a fund set up to pay out these amounts when things do go wrong.
You can be in favor of life saving medicine and still recognize that it needs to be properly managed, with oversight and testing and accountability.
So one physician had a different opinion than another physician.
What was the further evidence to prove either theory?
Also, what evidence was there to prove the parasite was actually dead?
The story isn’t as contained as he presented it.
That’s what I was wondering–these are two very different diagnoses, did he not seek a third just to be sure? Or tell Doctor A what Doctor B thinks, ask what Doc A thinks about that?
On hearing this story, my 13yo said: “It starved to death”
I was done with RFK Jr when I went down a rabbit hole after I saw where Taylor Swift attended the funeral of the mother of RFK Jr’s son she was dating. What Kennedy wife died? RFK Jr was in a messy divorce with his 2nd wife Mary Kennedy, claiming she was an unfit mother and crazy and parading around with Cheryl Hines (soon to be 3rd wife.) So while Heinz was going around flaunting her new Ken-boyfriend with children at the former couples favorite cape haunts Mary Kennedy with great precision because she was known to be very smart, hung herself at their new Green-envirn house she and RFK Jr had renovated. I was done with Mr RFK Jr then and have side-eyed the Kennedys (Katherine/Pratt duo) since then.
What a political trifecta. Geez Louise. Biden, Trump and Kennedy, is this the best the country can come up with?
Biden doesn’t deserve to be in the same sentence with the other two. He’s old, but he’s not a hateful criminal and he’s not crazy.
Biden is actually a grown-up person doing his job. It’s so rare it looks weird, especially for a famous person.
Kelly, it’s always interesting when people think Biden should be named in the same sentence as the other two. I, personally, think that if there is any way to get a 2 state solution with Israel and Palestine, he will be in the middle of it. I think that he’s doing a lot of talking to Netanyahu. There’s not much wiggle room at this point. I also think he’s been talking to countries in the middle east to help keep the lid on and let Netanyahu sink–I think the people of Israel are going to get him ousted probably with help from the International Court and Biden.
As IF we need another memory impaired person running for government. 🙄
Biden’s memory works just fine.
I assume you’re talking about Trump and Reagan.
I hope Hillary Clinton is laying on a beach somewhere with a hot, young pool guy, sipping a margarita and laughing her ass off.
Trump, Biden, Kennedy — THIS is the best this country has to offer?
Honestly, Hillary is too old to be president now too. This situation is a by product of poor leadership on both sides for decades. They have failed to bring anyone up to replace them.
CherieG, who do you think could have done better than Biden to get NATO and other nations back to reasonable relationships with the US when Trump did everything in his power to torpedo relationships worldwide. Well, except for Putin and Netanyahu?
Having had the misfortune of having to deal with him in the past, I think the worm ate the part of his brain that controls being polite. He’s an utter arrogant a-hole to work with.
There’s no brain for the worm to eat so I assume it died of starvation.
Do we have actual proof that the worm is truly dead and has not been controlling that guy’s brain for years ? That would also explain a lot.
How much fish is he eating to get mercury poisoning?! Is he eating shark every day?
Jeremy Piven had mercury poisoning as well. I think he was eating sushi pretty much every day.
How did he get the parasite in his brain? There was a guy a couple of month ago who got a tapeworm in his brain because he undercooked his pork, got worm eggs developing in his digestive system, and then washed his hands poorly after using the restroom. All he needed was medication.
RFK Jr said he was eating tuna sandwiches all the time. I like the taste of canned tuna but I only eat that probably five times a year, max. I don’t eat sushi and avoid even vegetarian sushi from non-veg places because of cross contamination. Call me paranoid but the idea of parasites freak me out even more than mercury poisoning, and I haven eaten pork since my teens (ethical reasons; look up factory pig farming and how smart pigs are).
According to experts (our local news outlet asked University of Queensland experts), RFK probably had a pork tapeworm just like the guy I mentioned above.
Hahahahahaha Hahahahahaha Hahahahahaha Hahahahahaha
He has a brain????