Third-party US presidential candidate says 2010 issue ‘caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died’

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”

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    59·
    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’…

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    16·
    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.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      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_deficiencyEnglish
        31·
        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!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    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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