This is a funny distraction and prelude to the inevitable gutting of clean water regulations that he plans to do. Reminds me of the stunt pulled by the inventor of leaded gasoline and real-life Captain Planet villain Thomas Midgley (seriously, look him up) when he tried, unsuccessfully, to assure the public that TEL was safe by huffing it for a minute and pouring it over himself:
“On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.” [Wikipedia link]
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.
walk without rhythm…
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.
when your young though, not as an adult.
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.
cons are only known for punching down, they actually do take things seriously when its not referring to bigotry and hate.
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”.
I hope he gets the brain eating amoeba
there has to be a brain for the amoeba to eat, its mostly worms.
ah damn it and there I was getting my hopes up
Poor amoeba are going to starve
It’s merely the worm wanting to return to its ecosystem.
Doesn’t the rest of the Kennedy clan fucking hate him? Whose kids did he steal?
The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.
the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch
This has the makings of a great Gwar song.
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.
Idiocracy
How is this not child endangerment?
Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn’t apply to them and never has.
He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.
