# 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:** 2
**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, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/21 "2024-08-28T22:18:12Z")
More on the whale beheading: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nmLD5GYFQm8/maxresdefault.jpg "RFK Jr. may face federal probe over alleged chainsaw beheading of a whale") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLD5GYFQm8) So…RFK, Jr. drives around all the time with a chainsaw with a long enough bar to decapitate a whale? I’m guessing he once ran across a dead hippopotamus and realized that the he normally carries in a back scabbard just wasn’t up to the task. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/22 "2024-08-28T22:25:12Z")
Issues? He’s nuts. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/23 "2024-08-29T00:03:57Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > More on the whale beheading: > > [https://youtu.be/nmLD5GYFQm8?si=TlhraCDBYE-R4aH9](https://youtu.be/nmLD5GYFQm8?si=TlhraCDBYE-R4aH9) > > So…RFK, Jr. drives around all the time with a chainsaw with a long enough bar to decapitate a whale? I’m guessing he once ran across a dead hippopotamus and realized that the he normally carries in a back scabbard just wasn’t up to the task. > > Stranger Any word on what kind of whale it was? Sorry my morbid curiosity is kicking in. With everything that happened in her life it’s a wonder his daughter didn’t grow up to be a serial killer. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/24 "2024-08-29T00:24:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > With everything that happened in her life it’s a wonder his daughter didn’t grow up to be a serial killer. Well, according to the gossip rags, she may or may not be dating Ben Affleck. So… Stranger ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/25 "2024-08-29T00:31:20Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > it’s a wonder his daughter didn’t grow up to be a serial killer. Assuming facts not in evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/26 "2024-08-29T00:32:01Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > So…RFK, Jr. drives around all the time with a chainsaw with a long enough bar to decapitate a whale? According to the video, the whale washed up close to home in Hyannisport. Did you think he hit the whale with his car? If anyone could do it, he sounds like the guy. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/27 "2024-08-29T00:34:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Did you think he hit the whale with his car? If anyone could do it, he sounds like the guy. Well, he wouldn’t be the first Kennedy to kill a sentient being in an aquatic car accident, so there is precedent. Stranger ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/28 "2024-08-29T00:43:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Issues? RFK Jr has more issues than Time Magazine ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/29 "2024-08-29T02:11:22Z")
How big was this whale head anyway? It couldn’t have been too big if he lifted it to the roof of his van. He must’ve been a bloody mess after chainsawing a whale, if this story is even true. ---
**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 29, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/30 "2024-08-29T03:31:42Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > He must’ve been a bloody mess after chainsawing a whale, if this story is even true. Clearly he wore the hazmat bodysuit and used the plastic webbing _he just happened to have in the car_ to wrap up and secure the whale head, just like a normal person would do in such a scenario. > [@Moriarty](#): > > RFK Jr has more issues than Time Magazine “That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/31 "2024-08-29T04:22:00Z")
North Atlantic Right whale? (See, this how I know he is a repub. nutbag) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/32 "2024-08-29T08:08:44Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > . But instead he is just collecting roadkill and pimping for Donald Trump, Are we sure he’s not from the Appalachian branch of the Kennedy family? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/33 "2024-08-29T08:49:39Z")
Don’t these guys with dead animal fetishes also own side of the road Motels and kill their guests in showers with knives? 😳 ---
**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 29, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/34 "2024-08-29T20:14:51Z")
[“R.F.K. Jr.’s Brain Worm Speaks Out”](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/opinion/rfk-kennedy-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk4.IuEE.f0kaMED2NTOb&smid=url-share) Stranger ---
**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 29, 2024, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/35 "2024-08-29T22:18:45Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > [@Moriarty](#): > > > > RFK Jr has more issues than Time Magazine > > “That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?” Fuck you. I’ll converse with who the fuck I want. If you don’t like this board, then fucking leave, asshole. ---
**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 29, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/36 "2024-08-29T23:03:57Z")
Did you intend to direct this toward me, and if so, why? 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 29, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/37 "2024-08-29T23:09:57Z")
Moderating: > [@Moriarty](#): > > Fuck you. I’ll converse with who the fuck I want. If you don’t like this board, then fucking leave, asshole. Irrespective of your intent, @Moriarty, this is never an acceptable response in P&E. Your response is Pit-level stuff, and I think you know that. In discussion currently with other mods as to whether this rises to the level of requiring a warning. ETA: It does. This is a formal warning for a completely inappropriate response to someone in P&E. ETA ETA on August 31, 2024: After discussion in the mod loop and considering the explanation offered in this thread: > [@My apologies to Stranger and the rest of the Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apologies-to-stranger-and-the-rest-of-the-board/1006515): > > I began to compose this as a private message, but instead chose here. As always, the Mods should move as deemed appropriate. I wish to extend my sincere apologies to @Stranger_On_A_Train , and to the rest of the board. Stranger, I am sorry for my dumb, ignorant, and frankly embarrassing comment, directed towards you in a thread about RFK, Jr., for which a warning was well deserved. By way of explanation (but certainly not excuse), I must confess some personal information, despite a pervasive… the above Warning is reversed. We’ll leave it at a mod note. ---
**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 29, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/38 "2024-08-29T23:37:29Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > “That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of gut, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?” Given the subject of the thread topic, I should have thought a more appropriate Shakespeare quote would be: “He has not so much brain as ear-wax," from Troilus and Cressidas. But I suspect the worm got most of the ear wax, too. ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/39 "2024-08-30T00:31:55Z")
I think that poor parasitic worm is really getting the short shrift in being assigned so much culpability in RFK, Jr’s bizarre behavior and deeply unsettling statements. Even if you buy into Kennedy’s claims about the worm and mercury toxicity—which are uncorroborated by medical records make available to the public—it still doesn’t explain his borderline predatory behavior in the ‘Nineties or the sexual assault allegation toward a former babysttter of his children that has received little coverage in the press other than the _Vanity Fair_ article and a mention on a _Last Week Tonight_ piece. If RFK, Jr. was just using ear-wax for cognition, he wouldn’t be nearly as dangerous or repugnant as he actually is, and while I’d otherwise by inclined to credit his behavior to some extent rooted in deep trauma, I think he has aptly demonstrated himself to be a dangerous conspiranoiast, a self-aggrandizing jerk, and quite possibly a verifiable psychopath straight out of a rejected Thomas Harris novel. That he is also up for a potential Cabient-level position in a hypothetical second Trump Administration is, well, kind of par for the course, really. I mean, what non-crazy person is going to climb into that clown car? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317/40 "2024-08-30T00:53:39Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > 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. To be specific, he realized _he was running late for a dinner reservation at Peter Luger_ and wouldn’t have time to butcher the animal before a flight he had to catch afterward. It takes a special kind of lunatic to be en route to one of the finest steakhouses in the world, then see a dead bear on the roadside and say “Hey, free meat!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-this-insult-rfk-jr-jeffrey-dahmer-of-the-animal-kingdom/1006317.md?page=3)