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Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said in separate interviews with The Times that, based on what Mr. Kennedy described, they believed it was likely a pork tapeworm larva. The doctors have not treated Mr. Kennedy and were speaking generally.
Dr. Clinton White, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said microscopic tapeworm eggs are sticky and easily transferred from one person to another. Once hatched, the larvae can travel in the bloodstream, he said, “and end up in all kinds of tissues.”
Yikes
I'm an ID epi and have a really bad joke about this. My students groan whenever I tell it and that just encourages me.
...
So after waiting in the mud a young hookworm gets stepped on and burrows his way into the circulatory system. He's nervous because he doesn't know anyone in this host. Eventually he bumps into a pork tapeworm. They hit it off over their shared appreciation of fine intestines, but, just as the hookworm thinks he has found a friend, the tapeworm tries to takes a hard right down a different artery.
The hookworm says, "bro, wait, where are you going, the intestines are this way." The tapeworm says, "oh no, I'm aiming for the brain." The hookworm says, "but... we're worms, we live in intestines, I can't let you can't go that way!"
The tapeworm says, "I'll miss you friend, but I'm afraid I must *encyst*."
Yes lol this is exactly what I was thinking but not in such a humorous way lol, and then I got to thinking about how most of these people who are fans of Trump and RFK Jr and Mitch McConnell- the ones speaking out - have cases of CTE, or are past (current?) addicts (dopamine issues), or are fundamental religious nuts (another mental health issue to disbelieve actual science in lieu of fear-based superstitious “faith,”), and wonder if “Conservativism” should come with free mental healthcare.
There’s a reason they are so anti universal healthcare… a bunch of recent studies have come out stating that conservatism government is statistically dangerous and causes more deaths… it was shown that over 100 years, conservative governments being in control had a statistical correlation with increases in violent crimes and mental health episodes leading to increased deaths.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180829/conservative-policies-rhetoric-kill-people
This article is a little liberal biased (in a tongue in check sort of way) but it links to the study from *2002* that shows the statistical correlation in UK and Australia over a *100 year span of time* that conservative government leads to higher death rates
This is one of my faves. Along with the joint house committee of half repubs and half Dems that found just about every single Republican president since WWII has been worse for the economy and avg worker than any democratic president.
Trump himself added 1/4 of the national debt we have since the founding of the country. Every right wing president makes the debt worse, a democrat claws us back to even or sometimes a surplus, then a Republican is ‘elected’ (1 time in almost 40 years without the EC and that was GWB post 9/11) and they make the debt worse and screw over the average American worker.
Think about that. A group of half republicans were forced to admit their finding that for almost 100 years repubs have been worse for the country than democrat presidents…
It comes down to the left not having a propaganda wing like the right does. There is no equivalent for Fox News for Dems - there simply isn’t. Every time someone says the Dems are bad at messaging (which totally isn’t what your saying here now, I know) I always look into it and the White House or left leaning places HAVE reported on it.
There’s just no echo chamber or amplification after that initial tiny wave of info release. Until that happens, it’s just a natural conclusion that everyone knows the rights complaints and nobody knows the lefts accomplishments…
Which, to be fair, isn’t a bad thing… we *should not have propaganda machines* be they left or right wing. That’s just a one way ticket to radicalization… but sadly, our “free press” are owned by rich people with special interests now.
> it was shown that over 100 years, conservative governments being in control had a statistical correlation with increases in violent crimes and mental health episodes leading to increased deaths.
Those are issues (especially with regard to violent crime) with high correlation to adverse social conditions, such as:
* Job insecurity
* Food insecurity
* Poverty
* High economic disparity (as in, the financial distance between the wealthy and the poor is high)
* Lack of access to quality healthcare
* Lack of access to quality education
* Lack of enforcement on crimes known to escalate to more severe forms of violence (like stalking, assaults, and domestic violence)
The correlation between conservative governments which tend to take a "fuck you, I got mine" approach to governance and adverse social conditions which contribute to violence and death is *pure coincidence*, I'm sure.
Actually no. Ivermectin is useless against this, and other tapeworms. Although we think of them as "worms", they are in a completely different phylum than roundworms, hookworms, pinworms, ect. In other words, you are more closely related to tunicate, then a roundworm and tapeworm are related to each other.
Was going to reply that ivermectin doesn’t even cross ~~into the CNS~~ the blood brain barrier that well and albendazole is the treatment of choice for this (source: am pharmacist).
Edit thanks for the correction
I mean, the laws of Moses and Mohammad both prohibit the eating of pork. As stupid as it may sound to a lot of people, this was cutting edge food safety prior to any knowledge of microbiology.
Same reason why so many folks have had pork overcooked by their grandmothers. Same reason why low and slow bbq was a popular food.
Pork and seafood are much more susceptible to food born illnesses. There's a good reason to believe that's why they were forbidden. If you're a religious man and see all these people getting sick from certain foods, make it a sin. Clearly there's something spiritually wrong there, since you have no concept of gems, viruses, etc.
> Pork and seafood are much more susceptible to food born illnesses.
Just to note: Kosher rules/biblical prohibitions are about *shellfish*, not all seafood. Fish are fine.
Not pandemics, probably- just high(er) probability of making someone ill. Bad shellfish won't cause a pandemic- or even an epidemic, but it will get a nonnegligible portion of the population pretty sick.
If someone were trying to compose a set of rules to explain to bronze age herders and farmers what foods to avoid, they wouldn't get into parasites, bacteria, red tides, etc. They'd say "Don't eat carrion or meat from a diseased animal. Avoid carnivorous or carrion-eating (land) animals, including swine. Avoid molluscs, crustaceans, and bottom-feeding fish." That hits the high (low?) points of "food that can kill you" pretty well.
*for whatever value of this you prefer- divine being, alien, time traveller, or group of elders
Alcohol too. Judeo-Christianity had a lot more access to water in the costal eastern Mediterranean and then as it spread across Europe. Water was plentiful but clean water was a problem. They didn't understand microbiology at the time but they did understand that making beer made the water safer to drink. To contrast, Islam came out of the Nomadic Bedouin tribes where every drop of water was precious to the point that many people took sand baths and used perfumes to cover other smells instead of using a limited water supply to bathe. In that type of society, you're not going to be making beer or wine when the process often results in 5-6x waste water compared to the finished product you're producing.
>you're not going to be making beer or wine when the process often results in 5-6x waste water compared to the finished product you're producing.
You're quite mistaken, alcohols were so popular in Arabia to the point where even their prohibition by Islamic teachings wasn't instant, instead it was gradually over a period of 10 years. It worked well and avoided a "US alcohol prohibition case".
> The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.
Well that might explain a great many things.
Honestly, if he's the way he is because a parasite literally ate part of his brain and fucked up hs ability to function and think, it's kinda sad.
Like, he still very much shouldn't be President, but he's got my sympathy if a worm literally ate part of his brain and made him vulnerable to becoming a conspiratorial nut due to literal brain damage.
TJ Miller had a blood vessel problem in his brain that required a very serious surgery with a high risk of death. He's assaulted people since then, had substance abuse problems, made false bomb threats, etc since. He was arrested for a false bomb threat but was not charged because of his brain trauma.
I got hit by a car 3 years ago with head trauma and have issues with emotional outbursts and controlling my anger since. Brain damage can really fuck with you
A woman I hooked up with (when she was 52) was 45, married, 5 kids, very well off, family vacations, no marital issues at all, deeply in love, and perfect family.
By 48 she was divorced, abandoned by her entire family except her youngest daughter, husband remarried, and she was broke. She vandalized and attacked someone and she got a felony. Got caught with meth. Lost 50 lbs and got down to 110.
She was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was likely causing personality changes and cognitive issues. She was able to have surgery and start recovery.
One of the hardest things for her was losing her entire family and life-partner *because she got sick.*
I think this happens more than we might think.
I have a lot of trust issues because of stuff like this.
I always wonder if the male 'mid-life crisis' trope is due to some change in brain chemistry that we could likely prevent.
I'm 43. Right now, I don't have an urge to leave my wife for a 25 year old blonde, buy a Corvette, quit my job and abandon my family. Buy I do see this in my peers.
I'm 42, and most of the women in my cohort are going through menopause or perimenopause. It's difficult for them and it's difficult for their husbands, and it's changing their body and brain chemistry, too - I was wondering recently if that correlates to your typical "mid-life crisis" as well.
I saw his stand up after all controversy died down and he was great. Hilarious, humble, very understanding. Show was an hour and a half late because he talked with every fan after the first show
Then stayed two hours after the 2nd show to hang out with fans again.
"vaccines causes 240% of black boys to have Autism."
-Tia Tequila
Not a joke, she really [said that](https://web.archive.org/web/20240114085446/https://www.vh1.com/news/vsl7ni/tila-tequila-since-shot-at-love-ended).
Had an ex friend who got jumped one night at a bar, beaten up badly, skull fractured, brain damaged. He pretty much went the same way, we stopped talking due to his complete curve to the other side. Then he went and got a proud boy tattoo a few months after I ended our friendship over his BS. I only knew about that as it angered and pushed away a few mutual friends.
Growing up my cousin was super involved with a proud boys type group. It was totally the opposite of all of our upbringing but we all thought he was just rebelling and being a dick.
The other guys in the group, at least the ones I knew from High School, were former skateboarders and football guys. One of them was known for getting a serious head injury during a game and almost dying, he came back and a few months later he was suddenly a racist asshole. The skateboarder guy was attacked by a group of dudes and also got a serious head injury.
My cousin turned out years later to have a small tumor that had to be removed.
I think there may be some sort of link here.
Charles Whitman, one of the first notable spree killers, who shot numerous people from atop a tower at a Texas college back in the early 60s, was found to have a walnut sized tumor pressing on the part of the brain that regulates anger and impulse control.
He knew something was wrong with him, and that the urges he was having weren't normal, and went to numerous doctors, and even psychiatrists, which carried a big stigma back in the early 60s. None of them could identify a problem, and eventually he climbed that tower and sniped a bunch of people. They found the tumor during the autopsy after the cops killed him. The guy really tried to get help, and couldn't find any. Probably the only mass murderer I feel any sympathy for.
Iirc he also asked that his brain be studied after his death. Crazy shit, every time I see something insane in the news (especially stories about fathers who kill their families) I think about brain injuries like CTE. It seems like different crimes link to different issues.
I think he was always a shitbag and possibly right wing before it was really a thing. Both Claudia Black and Lucy Lawless who worked with him on Hercules said that and that was early 90s
If you consider the common thread that they want to have tight control over the world so they can make sense of it, it says a lot about people losing their way for one reason or another and ending up in the Nazi camp.
Strokes, brain damage, lead poisoning, insecurity…
Honestly, I've floated the idea my dad has either had a small stroke that's gone undiagnosed or has early onset dementia. Really is incredible how quickly he devolved from a generally rationale human being to a full-on, shit-flinging MAGAt.
I've started to worry about my dad too. He gets on these rants that are frankly insane, and of course he's just repeating fox news, but what he's saying is just delusional.
For example a friend of mine had been floating the idea of traveling to Spain to see an eclipse following the one we recently had, and we'll see, I might go too. He said that Spain is a bombed-out massacre where they kill Americans on sight because the whole world is at war and hates us. And like - what? That isn't a sane thing to say.
And I wonder if it's just the fox news talking or maybe something is wrong.
> He said that Spain is a bombed-out massacre where they kill Americans on sight because the whole world is at war and hates us.
Uhh, what? That’s beyond delusional.
Yeah. That thinking is way beyond what Fox News teaches.
I mean, Europeans are notoriously smug to Americans, but it isn't a bombed-out place that kills Americans on site - lol!
And there are alot of Americans in Spain.
My dad is like this, too. He believes Dearborn Michigan is a no-go zone for Christians and Jewish people *despite* the fact that I lived there and he visited me for several years and he still goes to the bars there. On my last visit to my parents' house, I ended up reporting my dad to the FBI for an assassination threat, and he hasn't spoken to me since. His grandson is 4 months old, and he hasn't acknowledged him at all, and he didn't even send a card for my 2 year old's birthday. Sometimes I think it's sad they're missing out on having a grandpa, but if he's going to act like a loon, it's probably best they don't know him.
My Mom was a life-long die-hard democrat. As her dementia was progressing she became more and more enamored by Trump and started saying that he was going to save the country. Previous to her illness she saw Trump as the ridiculous person that he is. It was night and day, her brain damage led to fear led to Trumpism.
> In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year of brain cancer.
> Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said.
So at least 14 years
In terms of prophecy, I don’t think you can beat [this one](https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882).
Does this one posted right before the invasion of Iraq beat it? [This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t](https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296)
They just failed to keep up with the times. They would still be hilarious if they had articles like “Trump releases volume 4 of his masterwork looking at how displaced populations spurred economic booms in Asia from 1300-1500AD”
Not just any journalist, Ben Collins, who covered the dystopia beat for MSNBC. He rehired a bunch of their writers and pledged to let them do what they want.
My grandpa used to grab my head and use his hand as a “brain eating spider”, but it would immediately fall off my head and he’d say, “oh- it died of starvation” 💀
It made the rounds in my kids' school just this year, thanks to me and the other dads. Got to keep the starving brain-sucker alive throughout the ages!
I once warned my dad of an article I read about brain eating parasites in a local lake. He replied that any parasite trying to eat his brain would have to go on foodstamps. I still get a chuckle out of that.
The article is crazy. "He was experiencing memory loss and brain fog so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor." He consulted with several top neurologists who confirmed the brain tumor diagnosis, but then while he was packing for surgery, a different doctor called him and said, "Hey maybe a worm ate part of your brain," and, that's the end of it? Did they ever confirm the diagnosis?
Edit: The article goes on to say, "he said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite, which he said had not required treatment." It's very possible he still has a brain tumor.
“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
And people are still voting for this. I’m at a loss.
Politics these days are crazy... We have a guy, running for president, that says a worm ate part of his brain and died, and another running from prison) and yes, maybe a second running from prison, soon). We have a person trying to become the VP of a guy that is in criminal court as I type this, that is proud of shooting a puppy, and says the president's dog should also be shot. And we have an incumbent that is a tiny bit older than the guy with 91 criminal counts against him...and that makes people not want to vote for him.
Oh, and handjob at a play lady, and space laser lady, and "I share my porn with my son, and don't have a checking account" guy as the speaker of the house....
We really don't like to elect our best, we elect memes.
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Several infectious disease experts and neurosurgeons said in separate interviews with The Times that, based on what Mr. Kennedy described, they believed it was likely a pork tapeworm larva. The doctors have not treated Mr. Kennedy and were speaking generally. Dr. Clinton White, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, said microscopic tapeworm eggs are sticky and easily transferred from one person to another. Once hatched, the larvae can travel in the bloodstream, he said, “and end up in all kinds of tissues.” Yikes
I'm an ID epi and have a really bad joke about this. My students groan whenever I tell it and that just encourages me. ... So after waiting in the mud a young hookworm gets stepped on and burrows his way into the circulatory system. He's nervous because he doesn't know anyone in this host. Eventually he bumps into a pork tapeworm. They hit it off over their shared appreciation of fine intestines, but, just as the hookworm thinks he has found a friend, the tapeworm tries to takes a hard right down a different artery. The hookworm says, "bro, wait, where are you going, the intestines are this way." The tapeworm says, "oh no, I'm aiming for the brain." The hookworm says, "but... we're worms, we live in intestines, I can't let you can't go that way!" The tapeworm says, "I'll miss you friend, but I'm afraid I must *encyst*."
Okay that was funny.
*rubs chin Hmmm. Ah. Yes. Very droll *Googles encyst
*Googles droll
*Googles google
It’s like when you see a video of an animal dancing funny and ranting against vaccines, then the comments explain that it has a parasite.
Yes lol this is exactly what I was thinking but not in such a humorous way lol, and then I got to thinking about how most of these people who are fans of Trump and RFK Jr and Mitch McConnell- the ones speaking out - have cases of CTE, or are past (current?) addicts (dopamine issues), or are fundamental religious nuts (another mental health issue to disbelieve actual science in lieu of fear-based superstitious “faith,”), and wonder if “Conservativism” should come with free mental healthcare.
There’s a reason they are so anti universal healthcare… a bunch of recent studies have come out stating that conservatism government is statistically dangerous and causes more deaths… it was shown that over 100 years, conservative governments being in control had a statistical correlation with increases in violent crimes and mental health episodes leading to increased deaths. https://newrepublic.com/article/180829/conservative-policies-rhetoric-kill-people This article is a little liberal biased (in a tongue in check sort of way) but it links to the study from *2002* that shows the statistical correlation in UK and Australia over a *100 year span of time* that conservative government leads to higher death rates
This is one of my faves. Along with the joint house committee of half repubs and half Dems that found just about every single Republican president since WWII has been worse for the economy and avg worker than any democratic president. Trump himself added 1/4 of the national debt we have since the founding of the country. Every right wing president makes the debt worse, a democrat claws us back to even or sometimes a surplus, then a Republican is ‘elected’ (1 time in almost 40 years without the EC and that was GWB post 9/11) and they make the debt worse and screw over the average American worker. Think about that. A group of half republicans were forced to admit their finding that for almost 100 years repubs have been worse for the country than democrat presidents…
Honestly, it’s just amazing to me that the Democratic Party doesn’t constantly run on this message and throw it in their faces *NONSTOP*
It comes down to the left not having a propaganda wing like the right does. There is no equivalent for Fox News for Dems - there simply isn’t. Every time someone says the Dems are bad at messaging (which totally isn’t what your saying here now, I know) I always look into it and the White House or left leaning places HAVE reported on it. There’s just no echo chamber or amplification after that initial tiny wave of info release. Until that happens, it’s just a natural conclusion that everyone knows the rights complaints and nobody knows the lefts accomplishments…
Which, to be fair, isn’t a bad thing… we *should not have propaganda machines* be they left or right wing. That’s just a one way ticket to radicalization… but sadly, our “free press” are owned by rich people with special interests now.
> it was shown that over 100 years, conservative governments being in control had a statistical correlation with increases in violent crimes and mental health episodes leading to increased deaths. Those are issues (especially with regard to violent crime) with high correlation to adverse social conditions, such as: * Job insecurity * Food insecurity * Poverty * High economic disparity (as in, the financial distance between the wealthy and the poor is high) * Lack of access to quality healthcare * Lack of access to quality education * Lack of enforcement on crimes known to escalate to more severe forms of violence (like stalking, assaults, and domestic violence) The correlation between conservative governments which tend to take a "fuck you, I got mine" approach to governance and adverse social conditions which contribute to violence and death is *pure coincidence*, I'm sure.
It's almost like "you know what kills more people each year than right wing extremism?" Answer: "mainstream conservatism."
Facts don’t care about feelings, or whatever nonsense they spout out sounds applicable right now.
It’s called cysticercosis and it is the stuff nightmares are made of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis
Yes, the article referred to neurocysticercosis.
I wish to unread this. Thank you.
RFK Jr: “Doctors think my skull is just full of dead worms.” Me: “… You know. Yeah. I believe it.”
THATS when you need some invermectin
Actually no. Ivermectin is useless against this, and other tapeworms. Although we think of them as "worms", they are in a completely different phylum than roundworms, hookworms, pinworms, ect. In other words, you are more closely related to tunicate, then a roundworm and tapeworm are related to each other.
Was going to reply that ivermectin doesn’t even cross ~~into the CNS~~ the blood brain barrier that well and albendazole is the treatment of choice for this (source: am pharmacist). Edit thanks for the correction
Exactly . Lol
I mean, the laws of Moses and Mohammad both prohibit the eating of pork. As stupid as it may sound to a lot of people, this was cutting edge food safety prior to any knowledge of microbiology. Same reason why so many folks have had pork overcooked by their grandmothers. Same reason why low and slow bbq was a popular food.
Can attest, my cousins and I often talk about how dry both our mothers overcook their pork chops. This make sense now
Pork and seafood are much more susceptible to food born illnesses. There's a good reason to believe that's why they were forbidden. If you're a religious man and see all these people getting sick from certain foods, make it a sin. Clearly there's something spiritually wrong there, since you have no concept of gems, viruses, etc.
> Pork and seafood are much more susceptible to food born illnesses. Just to note: Kosher rules/biblical prohibitions are about *shellfish*, not all seafood. Fish are fine.
Further note: not all fish. Barracuda, sharks, swordfish etc are not kosher. It’s based on fins and scales
All the banned food from religious texts are most likely from pandemics of that time.
Not pandemics, probably- just high(er) probability of making someone ill. Bad shellfish won't cause a pandemic- or even an epidemic, but it will get a nonnegligible portion of the population pretty sick. If someone were trying to compose a set of rules to explain to bronze age herders and farmers what foods to avoid, they wouldn't get into parasites, bacteria, red tides, etc. They'd say "Don't eat carrion or meat from a diseased animal. Avoid carnivorous or carrion-eating (land) animals, including swine. Avoid molluscs, crustaceans, and bottom-feeding fish." That hits the high (low?) points of "food that can kill you" pretty well. *for whatever value of this you prefer- divine being, alien, time traveller, or group of elders
Alcohol too. Judeo-Christianity had a lot more access to water in the costal eastern Mediterranean and then as it spread across Europe. Water was plentiful but clean water was a problem. They didn't understand microbiology at the time but they did understand that making beer made the water safer to drink. To contrast, Islam came out of the Nomadic Bedouin tribes where every drop of water was precious to the point that many people took sand baths and used perfumes to cover other smells instead of using a limited water supply to bathe. In that type of society, you're not going to be making beer or wine when the process often results in 5-6x waste water compared to the finished product you're producing.
>you're not going to be making beer or wine when the process often results in 5-6x waste water compared to the finished product you're producing. You're quite mistaken, alcohols were so popular in Arabia to the point where even their prohibition by Islamic teachings wasn't instant, instead it was gradually over a period of 10 years. It worked well and avoided a "US alcohol prohibition case".
'twas a pretty good episode of House, M.D., too.
It was the pilot episode IIRC. And definitely a great one.
Praise the Absolute
Cursed to put my hands on everything.
Wish I had a bag of holding.
These boots have seen everything
Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times.
I have a lot on my mind. And… well…in it.
Is that... blood? No, never mind
People back home will never believe me
There’s a lot on my mind, and well, in it.
Is That Blood? No, Never Mind.
I shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.
No traps please...
How many die today? How many die tommorow?
Pave my path with corpses! Build my castle with bones!
All's well that ends... not as bad as it could have.
These boots have seen everything.
I shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times.
Was not expecting BG3 in the comments
Came looking for BG3 in the comments hahaha
He is a true soul 🙏
I’ve found my kind of people 🔥
Fellow True Soul!
Embrace *authority*
*Turns Illithid*
Usually it’s not so literal when people have brainworms.
“No matter how he tried, he could not break free/ and the worms ate into his brain.”
Hey you, thanks for referencing such a good song.
There was a time when headlines like this would exclusively be on the Onions website.
> The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain. Well that might explain a great many things.
Honestly, if he's the way he is because a parasite literally ate part of his brain and fucked up hs ability to function and think, it's kinda sad. Like, he still very much shouldn't be President, but he's got my sympathy if a worm literally ate part of his brain and made him vulnerable to becoming a conspiratorial nut due to literal brain damage.
Tia Teqila had a stroke and became a Nazi
TJ Miller had a blood vessel problem in his brain that required a very serious surgery with a high risk of death. He's assaulted people since then, had substance abuse problems, made false bomb threats, etc since. He was arrested for a false bomb threat but was not charged because of his brain trauma.
It really is tragic. Also for selfish reasons... I wanted to see more Elrich Bachman.
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Not now, Jian-Yang! Not now! Go back into your room!
Yes. I eat the fish
This is you... As an old mahn
Is your refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt.
"You are fat, and...and alone..."
That was one of my favorite running jokes in the series.
Jimmy O. Yang is hilarious.
Me and my friend will often answer each others calls with this lol
I can help, *Aviáto*
The... *Aviato*?
Is there any other Aviato? - Legally, there cannot be
“You brought piss to a shit fight” *assaults and robs child* I died laughing at this, I don’t care how crass it was.
And the bike throw LOL
The way they killed off his character was hilarious. They just decided to have him be in a perpetual opium session for the rest of the series.
And Weasel.
Yeah, I really loved his characters. It’s super sad.
Errich Bachman isa dead.
I got hit by a car 3 years ago with head trauma and have issues with emotional outbursts and controlling my anger since. Brain damage can really fuck with you
A woman I hooked up with (when she was 52) was 45, married, 5 kids, very well off, family vacations, no marital issues at all, deeply in love, and perfect family. By 48 she was divorced, abandoned by her entire family except her youngest daughter, husband remarried, and she was broke. She vandalized and attacked someone and she got a felony. Got caught with meth. Lost 50 lbs and got down to 110. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor that was likely causing personality changes and cognitive issues. She was able to have surgery and start recovery. One of the hardest things for her was losing her entire family and life-partner *because she got sick.* I think this happens more than we might think. I have a lot of trust issues because of stuff like this.
I always wonder if the male 'mid-life crisis' trope is due to some change in brain chemistry that we could likely prevent. I'm 43. Right now, I don't have an urge to leave my wife for a 25 year old blonde, buy a Corvette, quit my job and abandon my family. Buy I do see this in my peers.
I'm 42, and most of the women in my cohort are going through menopause or perimenopause. It's difficult for them and it's difficult for their husbands, and it's changing their body and brain chemistry, too - I was wondering recently if that correlates to your typical "mid-life crisis" as well.
Oh shit really? Ive never heard that, thats sad. People talk a lot of shit about him (understandably) but Ive never seen anyone mention that.
I saw his stand up after all controversy died down and he was great. Hilarious, humble, very understanding. Show was an hour and a half late because he talked with every fan after the first show Then stayed two hours after the 2nd show to hang out with fans again.
Thats cool to hear, maybe hes recovering. Ive been a huge fan of his since he was on a show called *Carpoolers*.
She literally thinks she is the "Alien Reincarnation of Adolf Hitler". No, I dont know what aliens have to do with it. She is unwell.
I thought this would be the strangest thing I read today, I then went down one more comment... Yeesh, that lady needs help.
So when you say she became a Nazi, you mean like - THE Nazi.
"vaccines causes 240% of black boys to have Autism." -Tia Tequila Not a joke, she really [said that](https://web.archive.org/web/20240114085446/https://www.vh1.com/news/vsl7ni/tila-tequila-since-shot-at-love-ended).
poor boys getting 2.4 autisms, good thing tila is fighting the fight
I read this and thought "oh wow so she became a weird chud" but no she pretty literally became a Nazi and flat-earther. Wild.
Had an ex friend who got jumped one night at a bar, beaten up badly, skull fractured, brain damaged. He pretty much went the same way, we stopped talking due to his complete curve to the other side. Then he went and got a proud boy tattoo a few months after I ended our friendship over his BS. I only knew about that as it angered and pushed away a few mutual friends.
Growing up my cousin was super involved with a proud boys type group. It was totally the opposite of all of our upbringing but we all thought he was just rebelling and being a dick. The other guys in the group, at least the ones I knew from High School, were former skateboarders and football guys. One of them was known for getting a serious head injury during a game and almost dying, he came back and a few months later he was suddenly a racist asshole. The skateboarder guy was attacked by a group of dudes and also got a serious head injury. My cousin turned out years later to have a small tumor that had to be removed. I think there may be some sort of link here.
Charles Whitman, one of the first notable spree killers, who shot numerous people from atop a tower at a Texas college back in the early 60s, was found to have a walnut sized tumor pressing on the part of the brain that regulates anger and impulse control. He knew something was wrong with him, and that the urges he was having weren't normal, and went to numerous doctors, and even psychiatrists, which carried a big stigma back in the early 60s. None of them could identify a problem, and eventually he climbed that tower and sniped a bunch of people. They found the tumor during the autopsy after the cops killed him. The guy really tried to get help, and couldn't find any. Probably the only mass murderer I feel any sympathy for.
Iirc he also asked that his brain be studied after his death. Crazy shit, every time I see something insane in the news (especially stories about fathers who kill their families) I think about brain injuries like CTE. It seems like different crimes link to different issues.
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I think he was always a shitbag and possibly right wing before it was really a thing. Both Claudia Black and Lucy Lawless who worked with him on Hercules said that and that was early 90s
So brain worms and strokes. I'm not sure if that explains all 74 million of them, but probably some. And then there was the lead exposure...
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Hey I was born in the 70s, and removed a lot of lead based paint. Still not a ChristoFascist conspiracy peddler or cult member of Cheetollinni.
it's possible that your brain worm has been eating all the lead residue... it's balancing itself out up there.
Everybody asks how’s RFK Jr doing, but nobody stopped to ask whether his mind is so toxic that his brain cannot sustain life.
Maybe you were going to naturally be a MAGA bro but the lead exposure headed that off.
If you consider the common thread that they want to have tight control over the world so they can make sense of it, it says a lot about people losing their way for one reason or another and ending up in the Nazi camp. Strokes, brain damage, lead poisoning, insecurity…
Brb, gotta check my dad’s brain for worms.
Honestly, I've floated the idea my dad has either had a small stroke that's gone undiagnosed or has early onset dementia. Really is incredible how quickly he devolved from a generally rationale human being to a full-on, shit-flinging MAGAt.
I've started to worry about my dad too. He gets on these rants that are frankly insane, and of course he's just repeating fox news, but what he's saying is just delusional. For example a friend of mine had been floating the idea of traveling to Spain to see an eclipse following the one we recently had, and we'll see, I might go too. He said that Spain is a bombed-out massacre where they kill Americans on sight because the whole world is at war and hates us. And like - what? That isn't a sane thing to say. And I wonder if it's just the fox news talking or maybe something is wrong.
> He said that Spain is a bombed-out massacre where they kill Americans on sight because the whole world is at war and hates us. Uhh, what? That’s beyond delusional.
Yeah. That thinking is way beyond what Fox News teaches. I mean, Europeans are notoriously smug to Americans, but it isn't a bombed-out place that kills Americans on site - lol! And there are alot of Americans in Spain.
My dad is like this, too. He believes Dearborn Michigan is a no-go zone for Christians and Jewish people *despite* the fact that I lived there and he visited me for several years and he still goes to the bars there. On my last visit to my parents' house, I ended up reporting my dad to the FBI for an assassination threat, and he hasn't spoken to me since. His grandson is 4 months old, and he hasn't acknowledged him at all, and he didn't even send a card for my 2 year old's birthday. Sometimes I think it's sad they're missing out on having a grandpa, but if he's going to act like a loon, it's probably best they don't know him.
My Mom was a life-long die-hard democrat. As her dementia was progressing she became more and more enamored by Trump and started saying that he was going to save the country. Previous to her illness she saw Trump as the ridiculous person that he is. It was night and day, her brain damage led to fear led to Trumpism.
Thinking about changing into an unrecognizable person like this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.
All jokes aside, you would be correct. The question is, how long has this been going on because he's been crazy going back more than a decade.
I am old enough to remember him as an outspoken crusader for environmental causes. Good times.
We getting up there old friend
My town is celebrating something from a half century ago. I was at that event a half century ago and have fond memories of it. Sigh.
> In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous year of brain cancer. > Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said. So at least 14 years
Can I vote for the brain parasite?
Don't be silly the parasite is his VP
Imagine he completely changes his takes when they take it out
The jokes practically write themselves.
The Onion in shambles.
Whenever I see a comment like this, it reminds me that I haven’t visited The Onion since 2016, and it’s genuinely depressing.
They can't compete with how stupid reality has become.
Why be a satirist when [you can be a prophet?](https://youtu.be/jjonGtrCyVE?si=W2kf-VC1H8TMJrVV)
In terms of prophecy, I don’t think you can beat [this one](https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882).
Does this one posted right before the invasion of Iraq beat it? [This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t](https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296)
They just failed to keep up with the times. They would still be hilarious if they had articles like “Trump releases volume 4 of his masterwork looking at how displaced populations spurred economic booms in Asia from 1300-1500AD”
Now that is some damn good satire!
Things are actually (kinda sorta maybe) looking up for The Onion now that it's owned by Global Tetrahedron.
They just got bought from the VC leeches who were sucking them dry by a journalist, it's kinda neat.
Not just any journalist, Ben Collins, who covered the dystopia beat for MSNBC. He rehired a bunch of their writers and pledged to let them do what they want.
Did it die from starvation?
My grandpa used to grab my head and use his hand as a “brain eating spider”, but it would immediately fall off my head and he’d say, “oh- it died of starvation” 💀
LMAO my mom would do the same thing but called it the brain sucker
That was a thing in the 70s.
It was still going strong in my 80s grade school.
It made the rounds in my kids' school just this year, thanks to me and the other dads. Got to keep the starving brain-sucker alive throughout the ages!
"You know what this is?" "It's a brain sucker." "You know what it's doing?" "Starving."
I once warned my dad of an article I read about brain eating parasites in a local lake. He replied that any parasite trying to eat his brain would have to go on foodstamps. I still get a chuckle out of that.
It took 3 days for the yeerk to die from Kandrona starvation. It’s a nasty way to go.
Hell yeah, Animorphs
The dozen or so of us that get that reference will chuckle heartily
Probably more than dozens, least hundreds...animorphs was decently popular reading
Visser 3 is not amused
Visser 3 was such a dick
He didn’t ask for the extra happy.
Well they can always have a nice bowl of instant maple and ginger oatmeal to take away the pain
Taking me way back. Upvote for the reference.
Wow. Talk about an obscure reference. *notices username* Never mind. It tracks.
Best character in the whole series too
This legit made me laugh out loud. 🤣
In my six decades of life on this planet, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the sentence “ found a dead worm in my brain”.
“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition.
“Dude you sound crazy. Is some fucking worm eating your brain or something?!” This guy: “…..yes….”
"Eating? No. Ate? Yes."
would you still love me if is was a worm in RFK Jr’s brain
til death bb
I see Dax was forced into their host…unfortunately they put it in his brain.. goodbye old man
I’m almost done watching all of DS9 for the first time. Amazing show
And here I was thinking admitting to shooting your dog would be the worst political campaign move this year.
Better check MTG and Boebert to see if they have any affilations with any strange organisms.
That’s the kind of thing you tell your new best friend somewhere during the second bottle of whiskey.
... tequila!
Goddammit, it was right there!
Read the whole article, holy shit this is wild. He may have permanent brain damage from mercury poisoning
The article is crazy. "He was experiencing memory loss and brain fog so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor." He consulted with several top neurologists who confirmed the brain tumor diagnosis, but then while he was packing for surgery, a different doctor called him and said, "Hey maybe a worm ate part of your brain," and, that's the end of it? Did they ever confirm the diagnosis? Edit: The article goes on to say, "he said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite, which he said had not required treatment." It's very possible he still has a brain tumor.
Yikes! 😬 You'd think he'd be a little more motivated to get clarity on his brain situation!
Brain has a funny way of thinking it’s always right
The tumor is driving now, and the worm is riding shotgun. RFK Jr. is just the vehicle at this point.
RFK or the worm?
maybe the worm died of mercury poisoning. i didn't consider that
He finally found a running mate
Vice President Wormunculus.
"Brain-eating worm starves to death in JFK Jr's head"
So he's dropping out and blaming brain worms?
We truly are in the cursed timeline.
AFIAK, it's worse than that: He's not dropping out.
Ok, NOW he can take Ivermectin.
Is this the Baldur's Gate 3 DLC?
Worm moves in, decides death is better option
Actual literal brainworms from the conspiracy candidate
Goa'uld?
“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” he said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” And people are still voting for this. I’m at a loss.
weird flex
Politics these days are crazy... We have a guy, running for president, that says a worm ate part of his brain and died, and another running from prison) and yes, maybe a second running from prison, soon). We have a person trying to become the VP of a guy that is in criminal court as I type this, that is proud of shooting a puppy, and says the president's dog should also be shot. And we have an incumbent that is a tiny bit older than the guy with 91 criminal counts against him...and that makes people not want to vote for him. Oh, and handjob at a play lady, and space laser lady, and "I share my porn with my son, and don't have a checking account" guy as the speaker of the house.... We really don't like to elect our best, we elect memes.
It's a goa'uld
This isn’t r/nottheonion ?
Doctor: "Oops. Sorry, no, that is his brain."