You may recall a story from a few weeks ago, when Walmart recalled some Great Value frozen shrimp due to concerns that they might be contaminated with radiation. There’s a minor update on that—one that doesn’t have much to do with the irradiated shrimp themselves as much as it is one, possibly unwell, senator’s got to say on the subject.

In what seems like a mix of seafood safety PSA and the kind of rambling that used to be found exclusively on cable access television, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana hit the Senate floor armed with a giant picture of the freshly born chest-bursting alien from Alien.

He did this to provide an urgent warning: those radioactive frozen Walmart shrimp might give you extra eyes or lead to an alien using your torso as an incubator. Or something.

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