# Help me understand this insult (RFK Jr "Jeffrey Dahmer of the animal kingdom") **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317 "2024-08-27T16:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/1 "2024-08-27T16:43:06Z")
Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell (on his show on MSNBC) called RFK Jr the “Jeffrey Dahmer of the animal kingdom.” It was a hilarious insult but I’m wondering whether I really get it. Dahmer was fascinated by the insides of people and animals and ate his human victims. Did RFK Jr do something similar (beyond being a weirdo)? Is this a reference to the bear cub he dumped in Central Park? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/2 "2024-08-27T16:44:50Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Is this a reference to the bear cub he dumped in Central Park? Yes. I think O’Donnell was referring to the fact that RFK Jr. kept the dead bear cub in a freezer for 10 years before dumping it in Central Park. Dahmer kept parts of his victims in storage, too. Not sure if he used a freezer, but he did use a fridge. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/3 "2024-08-27T16:46:34Z")
It’s not just the bear cub story. This should tell you everything you need to know. > **[RFK Jr. Whale-Beheading Story Gives RFK Jr. Bear-Murder Story a Run for Its...](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rfk-jr-whale-beheading-story)** > > We’re one week away from learning Kennedy shot a donkey and wore its skin to breakfast, right? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/4 "2024-08-27T16:49:18Z")
He also ate a dog. (Allegedly) > **[RFK Jr. denies eating a dog following bombshell Vanity Fair report](https://wgntv.com/politics-3/rfk-jr-denies-eating-a-dog-following-bombshell-vanity-fair-report/amp/)** > > Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is denying a Vanity Fair report that claimed he barbequed and ate what appears to be a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/5 "2024-08-27T17:12:41Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > It’s not just the bear cub story. This should tell you everything you need to know. > > [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rfk-jr-whale-beheading-story](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rfk-jr-whale-beheading-story) I didn’t think it could happen but “whale juice” is taking the place of “brain worm” in my thoughts when I hear about RFK Jr. Whale juice. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/6 "2024-08-27T17:27:19Z")
Check out the _Behind the Bastards_ podcast, they did a four-part series on RFK Jr… He had a thing for eating random dead animals, not necessarily killed for that purpose… ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/7 "2024-08-27T17:30:00Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > He had a thing for eating random dead animals, not necessarily killed for that purpose… Is that where the brain worm came from? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/8 "2024-08-27T17:33:22Z")
I can only suspect, not confirm! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/9 "2024-08-27T18:30:27Z")
He’s clearly trying to acquire these animal’s powers and/or be able to shape-shift into their form. The brain-eating worm larvae was clearly mistaken for a [Babel fish](https://youtu.be/iuumnjJWFO4?si=oJCiGM3F1bckLc3p) hatchling. He was obviously going to harvest critical genetic information which codes for cephalopod proteins which allow them to open interstellar wormholes and navigate the hypergravitational topologies of compactified jumpspace so he can meet face to face with the Zeta Reticulans who actually run the US government. It all makes perfect sense…from a certain point of view. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/10 "2024-08-28T18:18:09Z")
Either that or become a future mind flayer. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/11 "2024-08-28T18:24:13Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > He’s clearly trying to acquire these animal’s powers and/or be able to shape-shift into their form. Oh my God. I want to play a superhero one-shot where I play RFK Jr. with this power. And by “this power,” I mean “trying to acquire these animal’s powers,” not successfully acquiring them. Everyone else is a superhero, I’m drinking dead-whale juice and thinking I can echolocate. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/12 "2024-08-28T18:35:00Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I think O’Donnell was referring to the fact that RFK Jr. kept the dead bear cub in a freezer for 10 years before dumping it in Central Park. I don’t think he kept the bear cub - my understanding of the story is that he dumped the bear cub corpse the same day he picked it up from the side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/13 "2024-08-28T18:44:34Z")
Ahh, ok. Somehow I thought a freezer entered into it. I’m actually slightly relieved to be wrong on this point. Thanks for fighting my ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/14 "2024-08-28T18:47:45Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Either that or become a future mind flayer. You’re thinking of a brain _tadpole_. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/15 "2024-08-28T18:48:55Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Ahh, ok. Somehow I thought a freezer entered into it. I’m actually slightly relieved to be wrong on this point. Well, I can’t put your mind completely at ease. > **[Asked about bear carcass prank, RFK Jr. says he once had a freezer full of...](https://apnews.com/article/rfk-new-york-ballot-access-lawsuit-e522e2348e54125420fffe8ca25a0d9f)** > > Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to picking up a bear carcass off the side of the road and placing it in Central Park as a prank a decade ago, he says he has been picking up roadkill his “whole life” and once had a ”freezer full of it” at... ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/16 "2024-08-28T18:49:59Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Check out the _Behind the Bastards_ podcast, they did a four-part series on RFK Jr… He had a thing for eating random dead animals, not necessarily killed for that purpose… I’ve seen this recommended every time I’ve seen something posted about RFJ Jr. Finally got around to checking it out and it was indeed interesting. I would venture to guess that his family is not surprised about where he’s at right now, and also very right to not endorse him. Four 1-hour episodes seems daunting but if you play the episodes on 1.5x speed it’s still very listenable, and if you skip through the commercials it really doesn’t take too long. It is indeed a good listen. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/17 "2024-08-28T18:51:04Z")
Ack! I knew a freezer was part of the equation somehow! Just not related to the bear cub. The man Has Issues, that much is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/18 "2024-08-28T19:06:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > The man Has Issues, Yeah… Like running out of freezer space! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/19 "2024-08-28T19:48:43Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > The man Has Issues, that much is obvious. He does seem like an insane cultist of Yog-Sothoth trying to assemble random body parts into a _man-bagari_ in an vain effort to bring that horrible deity to Earth and align the stars for the awakening of the monstrous and immortal Cthulhu. But instead he is just collecting roadkill and pimping for Donald Trump, who is really kind of a cut rate Deep One hybrid who wasn’t smart enough to make his way to the ocean. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/20 "2024-08-28T20:04:22Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > But instead he is just collecting roadkill and pimping for Donald Trump, who is really kind of a cut rate Deep One hybrid who wasn’t smart enough to make his way to the ocean. LOL, I think we can safely conclude they belong on the same team. * * * I thought it was a particularly adept quip by O’Donnell, in any case. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317.md?page=2)