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dantheclamman to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 24 days ago

RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

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RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

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dantheclamman to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 24 days ago
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The National Park Service bans swimming in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria.”
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    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

    • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      Satire is dead, it’s no longer possible to top the absurdity of real life.

      • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        Fuck that. Humor is not dead.

        • wagesj45
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          That’s not what he said.

    • @Zirconium@lemmy.world
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      56•24 days ago

      Why’d I think it was a RFK quote

      • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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        Because we live in the stupid timeline, the one where this absolutely 100% could be real. I thought it was too lol

    • @Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      19•24 days ago

      You know why?

      VACCINES

    • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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      18•24 days ago

      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.

      • @SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        Which one is this?

    • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      Carlin was telling a joke, not enacting government policy.

    • @Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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      It was exactly the line I thought of when I saw the headline.

  • @goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

    • Riskable
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      The worm in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷

      That’s why he brought his children.

  • @expatriado@lemmy.world
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    the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch

    • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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      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 FDA

    • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      This has the makings of a great Gwar song.

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    He fucking hates his grandkids

    • dantheclammanOP
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      He’s just sharing his various worm parasites with them ❤️

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        deleted by creator

        • @cerement@slrpnk.net
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          System Shock 2 was training for the coming helminth apocalypse

      • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        Pretty sure he got that from eating rancid meat in the Amazon

    • @radix@lemmy.world
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      He literally doesn’t believe in germs.

      https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-stance-is-rooted-in-a-disbelief-in-germ-theory/

      • @expatriado@lemmy.world
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        he needs to update those ideas by 160 years

        • The Quuuuuill
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          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

  • @renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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?

    • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

      • @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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        Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.

        • @ebolapie@lemmy.world
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          Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.

          • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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            He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.

            He certainly didn’t do it out of concern for the environment.

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              He did like trains though! But I think that’s moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.

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        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.

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        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.

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      idunno people swim here in city center rivers pretty often in nicer parts of europe.

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        I mean water quality was a huge problem for the Paris olynpics.

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        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.

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    We’re 100% certain there was only one lobotomy?

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    Doesn’t the rest of the Kennedy clan fucking hate him? Whose kids did he steal?

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    literally everything this man does can be explained by the brain worm

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    He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.

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      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.

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    “Mr President, do we really need to drain the swamp? Me and some buddies and our families still enjoying a regular paddle in there.”

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    How is this not child endangerment?

    • @Merva@sh.itjust.works
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      Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn’t apply to them and never has.

  • @MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    I don’t see the problem, he’s been swimming in that creek his entire life and he’s fine. /s

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    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

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      lol

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      Don’t it always seem to go
      That you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone?

  • Drusas
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    This should be considered some kind of neglect or abuse.

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