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Robert F Kennedy Jr says health issue caused by dead worm in his brain (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the third-party candidate for US president, said a health problem he experienced in 2010 “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 61 points 6 months ago

The paper also said Kennedy’s spokesperson, Stefanie Spear, responded to a question about whether the candidate’s health problems could compromise his fitness to be president by saying: “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”

yeah, this 70 year old is just soooo far removed age-wise from the 2 candidates for it to be 'hilarious'....

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 58 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Poor lil guy starved to death.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

I was wondering when these little guys would make an appearance lmao

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Explains so much.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

My heart goes out to the poor brain worm.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I know, right? Frankly, I'd rather the worm lived. It would make a better candidate.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Just imagine finding yourself in this miasma of toxic sludge. The poor thing!

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

It ate his brain and died.

Kennedy/Shanahan 2024, I guess.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 16 points 6 months ago

Why is this world the way that it is? I feel like the world used to make some kind of sense. Now everything just feels like poorly written fanfic. I know it's absolute bunk but the LHC transporting us to an alternate timeline is the only thing that even attempts to explain how weird everything is now.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

This helped me start to understand:

"HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex "real world" and instead established a simplified "fake world" for the benefit of corporations and kept stable by neoliberal governments around the world. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

I had not heard of this, but it sounds fascinating, and now I want to check it out. Thanks for posting about it!

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I've watched nearly all of his documentaries, I can't recommend them enough.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Was it dead because it starved to death?

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

This guy…

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

This is just absolutely wild in so many ways

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the third-party candidate for US president, said a health problem he experienced in 2010 “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”, the New York Times reported.

Two years before the deposition, the paper said, Kennedy experienced “memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumour”.

The paper also said Kennedy’s spokesperson, Stefanie Spear, responded to a question about whether the candidate’s health problems could compromise his fitness to be president by saying: “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”

Now 70, Kennedy has suffered other issues including a heart problem for which he has been repeatedly hospitalised and spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological condition that affects his voice.

Nonetheless, the scion of a famous political clan – his father was the US attorney general and New York senator Robert F Kennedy, his uncle John F Kennedy, the 35th president – has focused on showing off his physical fitness in contrast to that of Joe Biden, the oldest president ever elected, now 81, and Donald Trump, the 77-year-old Republican challenger.

Observers on the left and right of US politics fear Kennedy’s campaign, which leans into his prominence as a Covid vaccine conspiracy theorist and other outsider positions, could siphon key votes from both Biden and Trump – candidates with whom the public is largely dissatisfied.

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[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

https://gifs.cackhanded.net/invader-zim/walk-of-doom/have-you-the-brainworms.gif

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but what happened to his voice?

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

"The causes aren’t clear, but one study found that 65% of people with the condition previously had measles or mumps – compared with the US national average of 15%.

A separate study found the measles and mumps vaccines helped protect against developing the condition. An interesting finding, if confirmed, given that RFK Jr. is a noted vaccine sceptic."

https://theconversation.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-reveals-why-he-has-a-raspy-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia-explained-227500#:~:text=Anyone%20following%20the%20US%20presidential,neurological%20condition%20called%20spasmodic%20dysphonia

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Isn't a vaccine given at birth for exactly that?

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Sorry, you already used up your "one google search per poster" credit.

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