re: John Kennedy on Senate Floor &quot;Radioactive shrimp will turn you into an Alien&quot;

Posted by UptownJoeBrown

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:45 pm to Shexter

Some of y’all really believe he is serious? It’s a joke ding dongs.

Posted by el Gaucho

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:46 pm to TooFyeToFly

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The most embarrassing part is that this is all act. Kennedy is an attorney with degrees from Oxford, Vanderbilt, and UVA. Just another case of an ivy league elite pretending to be a dumbass

If he was smart he’d be a plumber or welder

Posted by Camp Randall

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:46 pm to Shexter

In today’s political environment that statement doesn’t even tweak the needle

Posted by jaytothen

Member since Jan 2020

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:49 pm to Shexter

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The people of this state elected him to represent the state of Louisiana. He's making Louisiana look like a bunch of backwoods coonasses

So he's getting the job done

Posted by oldtrucker

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:53 pm to Shexter

Sometimes you need to know how to communicate with Joe Public, not some Ivy leaguer. The best defense attorneys are great at this.

Posted by facher08

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 12:57 pm to UptownJoeBrown

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Some of y’all really believe he is serious? It’s a joke ding dongs.

Jc, of course no one thinks he's serious. I don't want dorky government officials trying to make jokes. I want bland, boring, borderline autistic government officials who would actually get something done.

Posted by JohnnyKilroy

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:16 pm to TooFyeToFly

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The most embarrassing part is that this is all act. Kennedy is an attorney with degrees from Oxford, Vanderbilt, and UVA.

He's the conservative Jasmine Crockett.

Posted by andwesway

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:18 pm to Shexter

I can't believe we pay these frickers to do this.

Posted by wareaglepete

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:29 pm to Shexter

quote:
"Radioactive shrimp will turn you into an Alien"

Posted by Obtuse1

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 1:58 pm to Clames

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Attention on what? A non-existent radioactive shrimp problem? There's plenty of reasons to avoid imported foods from China and SEA, but this whole thing about radioactivity is contrived bullshite. The amount of radioactivity actually detected in the shrimp was significantly less than a bunch of bananas. 68 Bq/kg is nothing, but once again the uneducated masses are up in arms because they are too dumb to fact check what the TV tells them.

Our opinions don't always align but when something is almost a purely binary choice and almost completely fact based we rarely disagree.

The Cesium decay would have to be 10-15 times that to pique my interest. Sure Cobalt makes more sense but the Cesium would almost make me feel better if I ate foreign shrimp because it is likely from food sterilization in the area so I would rather have the shimp with a little Cesium than have to worry about if there was any sterilization going on.

Posted by DiamondDog

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:06 pm to Shexter

Tell me this is The Bee

Posted by Tmcgin

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:08 pm to soccerfüt

He's an embarrassment

His appearance on New Years day in NOLA was
a hangover rant

Posted by Clames

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:08 pm to Obtuse1

My fiancée was going off about the radioactive shrimp news, I mentioned they would be bio-accumulators and she nodded stating "that's why I don't eat catfish, etc either". Then I mentioned bananas and she got quiet because we know she buys and eats plenty of those...

I've gad a decent geiger counter on my want list for a while now, think I might go ahead and get one just to see what her banana bread reads.

Posted by LSUFanHouston

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:08 pm to TooFyeToFly

Kennedy is one of the smartest guys to ever come from the state.

But sounding dumb gets you elected and gets people to listen to you.

Americans do not want elected officials to be smarter than they are.

Posted by mmmmmbeeer

ATL

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Posted on 9/4/25 at 2:17 pm to Cosmo

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This was a joke to get attention

That was my first thought so I gave it a watch to give me the chance to make fun of people taking him seriously.

Uh, clearly he didn't mean people were going to turn into the alien, but that whole speech was not a joke. He was talking as if these shrimp were glowing green, had two heads, and were tossed frozen into Great Value bags. He's so far off base. More fearmongering.

Worse yet, if it's such a frightful situation, you'd think he'd at least learn how to pronounce cesium (see-Z-um, not fricking sess-e-um).

This post was edited on 9/4/25 at 2:24 pm