RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day
RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day
The National Park Service bans swimming in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria.”
This is how you get Ninja Turtles
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
walk without rhythm...
Maybe Animorphs was onto something with the Yeerk's requirements.
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
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.
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".
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 in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷
That's why he brought his children.
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.
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.
I still check if there have been any recent discharges before swimming and I live by the sea where there is a lot more water to dilute it. Must be a lot more concentrated in a river.
the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch
The worm in his brain goes round and round
Round and round
Round and round
The worm in RFK's brain goes round and round
Alll through the FDAThis 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.
He fucking hates his grandkids
He literally doesn't believe in germs.
How is this not child endangerment?
Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn't apply to them and never has.
Idiocracy
"Hmm. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock!"
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.
literally everything this man does can be explained by the brain worm
“Mr President, do we really need to drain the swamp? Me and some buddies and our families still enjoying a regular paddle in there.”
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
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
Survival of the fittest.
Definitely the fittest brain worms.
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.
Very emblematic.
This should be considered some kind of neglect or abuse.
This is a reverse eaten onion for me, wtf.
I propose a new term - "malscurrocracy" - government by evil clowns.
I didn't realize Rock Creek was considered so polluted.
At least it isn't as bad as the Anacostia River
I hope he enjoys the full experience.
did they cool off with a nice refreshing glass of rancid raw milk?