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RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I don't see the problem, he's been swimming in that creek his entire life and he's fine. /s
Maybe Animorphs was onto something with the Yeerk's requirements.
I hope he gets the brain eating amoeba
Poor amoeba are going to starve
It's merely the worm wanting to return to its ecosystem.
I think RFK thinks that swimming in contaminated water somehow helps build immunity.
It is good to be exposed to dirt to build the immune system; not by doing so on literal shit.
George Carlin has a bit about swimming in polluted water as a child and his immune system being tempered in raw shit. I wonder if this nut job did not understand that was a joke?
Conservatives don't understand humor. George Carlin fucking HATED conservatives and anti-abortion people. He also supported the death penalty (as a joke) ONLY for the upper crust and not for common criminals or people with poor financial background. His logic was quite sound... poor criminal gangsters who live in high crime neighborhoods face death on a regular basis (if 90s gangsta rap taught me anything, it is that the main thing they are concerned about is living to see their next birthday) and ultimately accept that they might face a violent early death.
The wealthy? Fuck no. they are spoiled rotten. They commit crimes with a stroke of a pen that ruin the lives of thousands at a time and enrich themselves. Even if they are caught, they will usually just pay a fine or even if they get a jail sentence, it will be very light and in a comfortable penitentiary, and they can go right back to their old jobs right after (look up the story of Nick Mead, a rogue trader who destroyed the oldest merchant bank in England in the late 90s and was sentenced to 4 years (of which he only served 2 or 3) for his fraud, and went on to be a sports team manager and speaker and is quite a comfortably wealthy person.
Meanwhile shoplift a big enough item and you can serve a multi-decade sentence...
So George's logic that sentencing wealthy assholes to death for their white collar crimes while giving common murderers lesser life sentences (murder is still bad and the type of person who murders another is not someone you want walking around, generally speaking) makes sense. If the wealthy had to deal with watching their fellow fraudsters being executed on the regular, or at least receiving extremely long and harsh sentences, then we will see a reduction in those crimes. Most low-level crime is done impulsively while most high-level crime is planned heavily, so that makes sense.
That Carlin clip has been circulated in various alternative medicine quackery communities for a long time, I doubt RFK Jr. has any media literacy. The similar notion has somewhat entered in mainstream discourse with the concept of "immunity debt".
Idiocracy
Doesn’t the rest of the Kennedy clan fucking hate him? Whose kids did he steal?
Oh, but when Master Splinter does it, it's somehow fine!?
Master Splinter and the Turtles are mutants with super mutant immune systems AND other systems that give them a neutral smell no matter what. We mere mortals cannot compare to the glory of TMNT.
"Hmm. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock!"
just looked it up. the place he went to was literally 2 miles from the white house, in the middle of a fucking 6 million metropolis. honestly, regardless of what the national park said, who chooses a place like that for a swim and expects it not to be polluted?
Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?
Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.
Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.
I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.
Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.
Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.
He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.
He certainly didn't do it out of concern for the environment.
He did like trains though! But I think that's moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.
It's sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don't know why it hasn't been fixed yet, that's wild.
idunno people swim here in city center rivers pretty often in nicer parts of europe.
I mean water quality was a huge problem for the Paris olynpics.
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The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.
The worm in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷
That's why he brought his children.
How is this not child endangerment?
Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn't apply to them and never has.
When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!
Love Carlin, but this bit didn't exactly age well. lol
Carlin was telling a joke, not enacting government policy.
Why'd I think it was a RFK quote
Because we live in the stupid timeline, the one where this absolutely 100% could be real. I thought it was too lol
Satire is dead, it's no longer possible to top the absurdity of real life.
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Well I mean later on in the bit he also talks about only needing to wash: armpits, asshole, crotch and teeth and you'd save time by using the same brush.
I'm certain if he was alive today he'd rip these morons apart.
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the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch
This has the makings of a great Gwar song.
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Survival of the fittest.
Definitely the fittest brain worms.
Very emblematic.
He fucking hates his grandkids
He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.
I say this every thread he is in. Like how is all the news with him nurgle cultist playback. Dude even sounds possessed by a warp demon.
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Honestly these old folks had the luxury of swimming in many creeks and rivers with low pollution, maybe them going there today and seeing how bad it is will make them realize how we're destroying the planet for shareholder value
lol
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deep breath for this one) has speculated that he may have been exposed to the parasitic worm that ate part of his brain when he stuck his hand in the bloody mouth of a dead bear before driving with the carcass to Manhattan and abandoning it in Central Park (exhale).
That's where the brainworms comments are from.
literally everything this man does can be explained by the brain worm
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