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David James

‘This is what you can end up looking like’: ‘Alien’ appears in Congress in truly bizarre Kennedy speech

The United States Congress is a strange and wonderful place populated by some powerfully odd people. How weird are we talking? Well, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy set out yesterday to enlighten us all about the dangers of eating radioactive shrimp.

Okay, cool. Not the top of my priority list, but I guess people probably shouldn’t do that. So, how did Kennedy choose to make this argument? Well, he put up a giant image of the Chestburster Alien from 1979’s Alien and said, “This is what you can end up looking like if you eat some of the raw, frozen shrimp”:

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