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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 313 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

literally had brainworms

which literally starved in his head

good grief you couldn't pay me to admit that shit

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the mercury poisoning!

[-] Linuturk@lemmy.world 163 points 1 year ago

Poor guy starved to death.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 99 points 1 year ago

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,” Kennedy said in the deposition.

Or fatal food poisoning.

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

"this one, unpalatable, even with chianti and flava beans." - Hannibal Lecter

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

*Flava Flav beans

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[-] mundane@feddit.nu 129 points 1 year ago

the 70-year-old Kennedy has portrayed his athleticism and relative youth as an advantage over the two oldest people to ever seek the White House

A 70 year old is the young guy? That's nuts

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 59 points 1 year ago

Well he does have Junior in his name

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

Poor thing probably starved to death.

[-] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago

Top tier roast

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I switched to a garlic shampoo.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 107 points 1 year ago

Asked last week if any of Kennedy’s health issues could compromise his fitness for the presidency, Stefanie Spear, a spokesperson for the Kennedy campaign, told the Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”

That's hard to argue with tbh.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 year ago

Dead Worm for a brain Kennedy, shitting himself Traitor-Trump and I can't see anything wrong with Netanjahu Biden, what a party.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

A senile traitor, an ethically-dubious dinosaur, and a man with a hole in his brain walk into a bar—sorry, did I say bar? I meant poll.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

The weird thing was it wasn't even a parasitic worm, it was just a regular earth worm.

[-] Kandorr@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

He's got a lot on his mind..and, well, in it.

[-] solo@kbin.earth 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His brain is so toxic that the unfortunate worm died of poisoning.

[-] jmiller@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Maybe that was literally the case, he apparently had mercury poisoning at around the same time.

It's starting to sound like a retelling of the old lady who swallowed the fly.

Someone needs to invite /u/Poem_for_your_sprog to Lemmy.

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The worm was dead. He's an idiot that thinks ivermectin cures covid. Fucker got lucky and accidentally treated his at the time undiagnosed brainworms.

The worm was found a decade before COVID. It’s just being disclosed now.

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Oh interesting.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The whole comment still flourishes as satire

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[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 31 points 1 year ago

Well, that explains some things.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Not even mind flayers want RFK Jr.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago
[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
[-] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

"If that had been a properly FDA-inspected brain, that worm may not have died." - someone's youtube comment

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Believable.

[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago

That wasn't a worm in his brain. That WAS his brain.

[-] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Reasons not to eat meat omg.

"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. ADVERTISEMENT

There are roughly 2,000 hospitalizations for the condition, known as neurocysticercosis, each year in the United States, according to the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Scott Gardner, curator of the Manter Laboratory for Parasitology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said once any worm is in a brain, cells calcify around it. “And you’re going to basically have almost like a tumor that’s there forever. It’s not going to go anywhere.”"

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Did you shout ADVERTISEMENT in the middle of your comment?

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah I’m not so sure about BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE this brain worm stuff.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Oh my god brainworms are real

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

More like the found a parasitic RFK on a tapeworm.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That makes so much sense.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] CarCdrCons@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said in separate interviews with the Times that, based on what Kennedy described, they believed it was likely a pork tapeworm larva.

You can only get a tapeworm eating pork

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

He is the Mezcal of candidates.

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That explains a lot.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That explains SOME of the things.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A very strange place for one.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Anyone seen Kahn lurking around?

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