This is a funny prelude and distraction 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 hope he gets the brain eating amoeba

I think RFK thinks that swimming in contaminated water somehow helps build immunity.

Poor amoeba are going to starve

It's merely the worm wanting to return to its ecosystem.

Idiocracy

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

Oh, but when Master Splinter does it, it's somehow fine!?

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?

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

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

the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch

"Hmm. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock!"

How is this not child endangerment?

He fucking hates his grandkids

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

Survival of the fittest.

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

Very emblematic.

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

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