Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. texted a photograph to a friend. In the photo RFK Jr. was posing, alongside an unidentified woman, with the barbecued remains of what appears to be a dog. Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog. The photo was taken in 2010, according to the digital file’s metadata—the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. (A veterinarian who examined the photograph says the carcass is a canine, pointing to the 13 pairs of ribs, which include the tell-tale “floating rib” found in dogs.)
The picture’s intent seems to have been comedic—Kennedy and his companion are pantomiming—but for the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family.
When Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, he was known to text other damning images to friends as well—of nude women. Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn’t know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images.
I’ll say it - fine. It’s perfectly fine if he ate a dog and photographed a bbq’ed dog if people regularly eat cows and pigs which are just as smart and also photograph themselves at hog roasts and whatnot.
The same people who whine about people eating dogs and horses, also get mad at people who dont eat pork, or people that eat terrestrial invertebrates (because when they come from the sea its fine i guess)
Theyre then going to sit there and explain canine teeth to us
yes, change the post title to cw: meat instead of cw: bbq dog
if you can look at a grilled chicken but you can’t handle this then take some time to have a good think
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every white man of his approximate age loves making jokes or references to Asians eating dogs, ask me how I know
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if you eat other types of meat but get mad about the concept of eating dogs you are just not packing a lot of intellectual horsepower, I’m sorry
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The dead worm in his brain sounds more normal than he is.
No wonder the worm died
Someone on twitter was speculating that that’s where he got the worm from. Cooking dog has become stigmatized in Korea, so only really shady farms do it.
Dog meat is still consumed in DPRK. Almost every year since at least 2009, KCNA (official DPRK news) has reported a tangogi cooking contest in Pyongyang around the end of July. Tangogi is the korean word for dog meat. I would suspect that they are hosting the same again this year around July 22.
I like the DPRK. I read the DPRK state media pretty frequently and it doesn’t seem like they intend to slow down dog meat consumption.
Rfk is in the juche gang??
A big day for RFK, Jr. news. What a repulsive person he is.
Because he ate a dog? Who cares?
Yeah, I don’t understand what’s especially “repulsive” about this. This is just carnism, something I (sadly) expect out of most people. It’s the “norm” for society.
Any “this person is disgusting because they ate x animal” comment that doesn’t come from a vegan just goes in one ear and out the other
WTF is wrong with the worm?
RFK Jr is claiming that the photo is of a barbecued goat.
When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images.
Why did this friend keep the nude images of random women RFK had sent him, and why are we supposed to think the friend losing the phone holding the nude pictures after he chose to save them is somehow RFK’s fault?
Dammit, RFK! I can’t believe you made me save those titties to my phone again, you absolute dick!
The photo in question…
@Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net how could you?
You ate BARBEQUED meat, that happens to come from dog?
It’s just my sense of humor. You wouldn’t get it.
But the bbq, you hypocrite, it wasn’t RAW…
Kennedy Buttigieg 2024 - I’ll eat it after he takes his anger out on it
I thought liberals hated leaking private content from people’s devices