Ayahuasca, Abortion And Brain Worms At An RFK Jr. Rally In Colorado
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Where the conspiratorial right and left meet in the middle.
AURORA, Colo. — RFK Jr.’s supporters have no concern whatsoever about a worm that (allegedly) ate a chunk of their presidential hopeful’s brain a dozen or so years ago.
At an overflowing rally Sunday in a refurbished warehouse in the Denver suburbs, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain worm didn’t make much of an appearance, despite dominating the headlines after the revelation about the long-shot candidate just a few weeks prior. Instead, the rally highlighted the same issues that have helped Kennedy turn heads among Trump’s more conspiratorial supporters.
A sprinkle of T-shirts throughout the almost entirely white crowd implored others to “Buy Bitcoin.” People wearing septum rings and hats with the slogan “Make Earth Great Again” mingled while a band played “Fortunate Son” onstage without a hint of irony.
In conversations with HuffPost, enthusiastic attendees readily employed buzzwords from the activist lawyer’s books to explain their support. Phrases like “big pharma,” “forever wars” and “the chronic disease epidemic” were interspersed with jabs at Anthony Fauci and gripes about “toxins” in our food and water causing a litany of problems.
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