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That explains a lot.
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.
The article says 2012, I don't know much about parasites and how long they live, first, and second, if somebody had somewhat conspiracy-related views, but not too extreme, then got a parasite in their brain and things got bad, then those views would be retroactively interpreted as him having went mad earlier. So - if the worm lived for like 7 years, this makes sense, even if it didn't, still possible.
Anyway, most of his activity of the anti-vaccine kind seems indeed to have started around 2012 or after that.
Which is a shame.
I would add his previous habit of eating a lot of tuna. Mercury poisoning was likely why "mad as a hatter" came to be. Hatters would brighten their pins and needles with dips in quicksilver, to see them better. Holding some pins in the mouth caused ingestion in small amounts that slowly poison. It isn't a far reach for a person to see their neurologic symptoms of mercury poisoning to be from another mercury source, like the mercury in one particular vaccine.
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?
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.
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
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.
Is it possible the worm starved to death?
Poor little guy
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.
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.
The jokes write themselves
“I’d quite like this parasite removed before it kills me” the worm was heard saying.
Amy: Bobby, what happened to your brain slug?
Farnsworth: Tsk, tsk. The poor guy starved to death.
Poor lil fella must have starved to death.
I'm guessing this is supposed to be a brainslug gif, but all I see is blank.
Oh no, they can't remove the only coherent thoughts he has!
Definitely presidential material.
If you compare him to Trump, which one would you choose?
Neither, because he is not a serious candidate.
Would you prefer me or Trump? Trump is a worthless pile of crap and I'm not on enough ballots to get elected, plus my whole platform is about getting public transportation going everywhere so that everyone who wants to can get drunk at work and still be safe getting home.
I'm in.
I thought brainworms were just a colloquial saying, not an actual thing!
Ok, Alex, I'll take "Headlines That Write Themselves" for $200
yeah, that tracks
What they're not telling is the worm died of starvation. It was likely the preferable alternative.
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.
Of course the worm was dead. Reason of death: starvation.
They need to lobotomize him like they did with Rosemary.
The space worm realized he picked a bad host and committed suicide
Darn Goa'uld need to learn their lesson. One way or another, we Tau'ri will get them.
The poor thing starved to death
Called it, ask anyone, the second he opened his mouth I knew it was brain worms....
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....
This dude's lucky he's not a mind flayer
FTFY: RFK Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm as His Brain: Report
Lol
Let's hope they soon discover and rid him of all the lives ones which continue to devour his grey matter
His head just did that.
That family is plagued by fate. Ts ts. One could think it's karma.
Maybe they all had brainworms. Maybe they burst out of JFK and in fact there was no second shooter?
Presidential candidates looking good this year:
Old guy who bicycles
Old guy who golfs
Guy with literal brain worms
Uhhh what?
He isn't a bad person seemingly, but thoroughly crazy, so this makes sense.
I mean, I have more friends like this than enemies, so I'm biased and consider this to be better than a bad person who isn't.