I’m sure you recall RFK Jr.’s weird obsession with messing with dead wild animals. I’ve seen pictures of him with dogs. You know, normal people and animal pictures. I’ve also seen (and been in) pictures of hunters posing with game after a hunt. RFK Jr is a different breed. He likes doing stuff and taking pictures with dead and or rotting wild animals. Alas, he tried his schtick with a couple of snakes, maybe thinking he was the infamous Steve Irwin and got himself snakebit. Multiple times.
Yep, as reported by numerous outlets including Raw Story the wannabe ‘Crocodile Hunter’ decided to mess around with some wild snakes. Fortunately for him they weren’t poisonous. I got a kick out of the fact they were engaged in mating so it’s no wonder they were supremely pissed and bit him. However being the douchebag he is he posted video online and found himself for the most part being mocked (check out the link for comments):
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is once again going viral for an animal encounter — this time getting bitten repeatedly by snakes at the home of his subordinate, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, as his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, pleaded with him to stop.
Kennedy posted the video to his X account Monday morning with a casual caption: “Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr. Oz’s patio.”
Despite my lifelong fear and loathing of snakes for once I actually enjoyed watching them do their thing in defending themselves. And for damned sure what RFK Jr. called “cheerleading” from his wife was anything but. She wasn’t quite hysterical but she BEGGED him to stop. See for yourself (worth it even if like me snakes make your stomach turn and give you nightmares:
If you pay attention Oz’s patio seemed to be elevated with brush and grass between it and the water. Even some asshat dumb enough to mess with a couple of snake he believed to be attempting to mate would have taken the few steps to the fence and tossed them over back into habitat. Especially after they started biting him! Not this dumbass. Of course, in the end Steve Irwin’s antics caught up to him and in a particularly painful and fatal way. At least the things weren’t poisonous but bites can still get infected. I wonder of “Dr.” Oz keeps more than the supplements he’s sold to get rich around? Some antiseptic to treat puncture wounds and antibiotics too would have been in order!
If like me you don’t like snakes and don’t want to watch the video here’s the dialogue of Kennedy picking up the two snakes which appear to have been mating and walks around displaying them while being repeatedly bitten – as his wife pleads with him to stop:
“Moccasins. Those are dangerous!” Hines shouts in the video.
“No, they’re not moccasins,” Kennedy calmly replies — correctly, as Black Racers are non-venomous — even as the snakes clamp down on him.
“Are they biting?” Oz asks.
“Yeah,” Kennedy says.
The exchange only escalates from there.
“Jesus, their mouths are huge,” Kennedy remarks as Hines dissolves into panic.
“Bobby! Bobby! Please!” she cries.
No, she wasn’t cheerleading. Why she stays with this idiot is a mystery. She had a good enough career as an actress and made plenty of money on her own. She doesn’t need RFK Jr.’s money or the chaos he creates around himself. For decades it’s been clear he’s an oddball. Weird. NOT his father’s son in the way that counts. You can make all the brainworm jokes you want but this dude was abnormal before that particular episode in his life. He had a beloved, wicked smart and formidable father and somewhere he gave up trying to measure up to dear old dad.
Most of the rest of the Kennedy family wants nothing to do with him and it’s easy to see why. He makes a point of being strange and weird. George W. Bush never measured up to his father either but he at least tried to blend in and not go off on crazy tangents the way RFK Jr. has done for so long. Maybe someone will point out to him Steve Irwin played with fire screwing with wild animals and his luck ran out. If RFK Jr. has become bored with stunts with DEAD animals (the bear cub in the title pic was dead – he just thought a photo of it biting him would be cool/funny) and has decided to screw around with live, wild animals. If he does, I think as with Irwin it won’t end well for him.
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The stupid nunce came face to face with his ‘fuckning!’ … ‘fu*k around and find out’ is a reality, not some flakey idiom … it has real fangs!
He’s insane. Those snakes didn’t need to be dominated – they should have been left alone. But hey…..this is RFK Jr. He’s insane.