Charles Johnson:

Hey, USA, here’s the leader of Health and Human Services, allowing parasitic lampreys to bite his arms, presumably to let the bad humours out and make him healthier than a normal human.

We’ll all soon be issued personal lampreys instead of health care.

Trump’s health chief let it latch onto both his arms. He then upped the ante further, allowing two of the parasitic sea dwellers to chomp at his wrists. He also held a lamprey as it sucked onto another visitor’s arm.

The eyebrow-raising photo shoot with the parasitic fish is all the more jaw-dropping given that RFK Jr. has actually suffered from a parasitic infection in the past. “A worm… got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy admitted in 2012. […]

This is not Bobby Jr’s first weird encounter with the animal kingdom. Perhaps his most famous run-in with Mother Nature came in 2014, when he found a dead six-month-old bear cub on a rural road. He admitted to the story last year, saying that he intended to skin it for meat, then backed out and dumped the animal in Central Park – placing a bicycle on it to create the illusion that a cyclist had hit it.

Kennedy’s daughter, Kick, revealed in a 2012 interview that her dad once beheaded a dead whale and tied its head to the roof of their family minivan before embarking on a five-hour drive. “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” she told Town and Country.

Kennedy also may have dined on a barbecued dog in 2010 while in Korea, according to Vanity Fair. That was the same year that he received his dead brain worm diagnosis.

RFK Jr., a falconer who trains ravens, also “enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks,” according to his cousin Caroline Kennedy. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she said in a letter to senators on the eve of his confirmation hearings to become the country’s next health secretary.

Owing to his perverse relationship with animals, Lawrence O’Donnell last year crowned Kennedy Jr. the “Jeffrey Dahmer of the animal kingdom.”

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