This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature that highlights a statement from the news that illustrates how extremely normal everything has become.
“The doctor believed that the abnormality found on his scans “was caused by a worm that entered my brain, ate part of it and then died.” ” – The New York Times quotes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from a 2012 statement
Look, it's funny that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – an independent presidential candidate who appeals to the kind of cult vaccine conspiracy theorists and wokeness-obsessed Silicon Valley egomaniacs who are often derisively said to do so , as if they had brain worms – once testified? , during a trial in 2012, that there was a worm in his brain that ate part of it, as The New York Times reported earlier this week?
Yes, it's funny. In the context of our current situation [gestures at everyone gesturing at everything] it is what one must pass as a source of cheerfulness and cheerfulness. A worm in his brain, ha ha! Somehow that makes sense considering the absolutely stupid stuff that comes out of his mouth!
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But no. This isn't all fun and games. (The games are worm games such as Worm Chutes and Ladders and Worm Football.) The backstory is that the court case in question was Kennedy's divorce from his second wife, who later died by suicide. Kennedy made the worm claim while arguing that “his earning potential had been diminished by his cognitive problems.” However, now in 2024, he says he has “recovered from the memory loss and dizziness” and has “no after-effects of the parasite.” His earning power and power to travel non-stop around the country saying that the MMR vaccine causes autism has returned to normal! Everyone breathe a sigh of relief! It's a Kennedy Miracle!
Doctors the Times spoke with said it's possible that parasitic infections (and mercury poisoning, which the candidate said he also suffered in 2012) could cause short-term cognitive problems that later disappear. But Kennedy has not released any medical records to support these claims, and it all sounds like a convenient turn of events for someone already known for manipulating the truth in self-serving ways. (See, for example, Jake Tapper's concern when he discovered that RFK Jr. had told the press that a “documentary” they had worked on together had been removed from television by powerful corporations, even though the “documentary” actually broadcast a regular television segment that was broadcast in a normal way.) The man's relationship to the truth is like the relationship of a hot air balloon to the ground!
But yeah, it's still funny to see headlines like “RFK Jr. Campaign Responds to Brain Worm Story.” Not every day as political communication Expert!
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