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 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 in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷
That’s why he brought his children.
When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know… to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!
Love Carlin, but this bit didn’t exactly age well. lol
Carlin was telling a joke, not enacting government policy.
Satire is dead, it’s no longer possible to top the absurdity of real life.
Fuck that. Humor is not dead.
That’s not what he said.
Why’d I think it was a RFK quote
Because we live in the stupid timeline, the one where this absolutely 100% could be real. I thought it was too lol
Well I mean later on in the bit he also talks about only needing to wash: armpits, asshole, crotch and teeth and you’d save time by using the same brush.
I’m certain if he was alive today he’d rip these morons apart.
Which one is this?
You know why?
VACCINES
It was exactly the line I thought of when I saw the headline.
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.
Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.
Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.
He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.
He certainly didn’t do it out of concern for the environment.
He did like trains though! But I think that’s moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.
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’s just sharing his various worm parasites with them ❤️
They are now part of the collective.
System Shock 2 was training for the coming helminth apocalypse
Pretty sure he got that from eating rancid meat in the Amazon
He literally doesn’t believe in germs.
he needs to update those ideas by 160 years
Counterpoint, the great society party wants to return us to 160 years ago when a man was allowed to own some people. If that means throwing a bunch of other things out, him and his crowd are fine to do it
