Tom Cotton worries China could harvest DNA from elite athletes at Olympics under ruse of COVID/other testing. Wants Olympics moved and, if athletes can't be protected, boycotted.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 15, 2021
Going after the filthy ChiComs for their pandemic-causing ‘lab leak’ is sooo last week. Tom Cotton will lurk around the locker rooms at the Winter Games, searching for DNA harvesting!!!!…
Cotton says China reportedly sees DNA collection as a vital way to boost its biotech companies and has eyed bio-enhanced soldiers too…
"The DNA of thousands of world class athletes could prove to be an irresistible target"
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 15, 2021
Here’s a clip:
If the safety, security, and privacy of our athletes cannot be guaranteed, the United States must adopt a total and complete boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. pic.twitter.com/G6mmTLutmQ
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) June 15, 2021
we’re just going to treat this party like a functioning political organization bereft of complete lunatics aren’t we https://t.co/LDt8D5ezzX
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 15, 2021
Given the number of condoms the IOC hands out at every event, the jokes kinda write themselves…
*tom cotton kicking in doors, gun drawn, in olympic village* I AM LOOKING FOR THE DNA HARVEST
— kilgore trout, dna harvester (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 15, 2021
Major Major Major Major
Haha, I saw that, glad the media recently decided to rehabilitate his image.
Unrelated, but reposting this great Samwise moment from below
RandomMonster
Whenever I hear about Tom Cotton I imagine Cotton Hill in King of the Hill.
West of the Rockies
I wonder if he has any friends, real friends he’s just ever human with. He seems to be nothing so much as arrogance and hunger for power personified.
Pete Downunder
The framers of the Constitution really blew it when setting the requirements for elective office – they left out a sanity clause.
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I guess they didn’t believe in sanity clause
I’ll see myself out
patrick II
In one week I have heard doctor Sheri Tenpenny say the covid vaccine turns people into magnets, congressman Louie Gohmert ask a Forest Service employee to change the orbits of the earth and moon to fight climate change, and Senator Tom Cotton worry about Chinese supersoldiers created from American Olympic athlete’s DNA. The utter avalanche of stupidity and exploitation is suffocating.
Redshift
So I guess the only kind of scientists conservatives now believe are mad scientists…
Sure Lurkalot
@West of the Rockies: I don’t know, I do know I don’t want to live in a country where more than 10 people per million actually make sense out of this drivel from a supposedly very well educated person.
JoyceH
@patrick II:
 
Has anyone ever tried to explain to them that the ‘fi’ part of ‘sci-fi movie’ stands for FICTION?
Kent
I’ve been off the inner-tubes most of the day for real life. So I don’t know what you guys have talked about. But I came across this ad for Lucas Kunce for the open MO Senate Seat and I loved it. I know nothing about the MO Senate race, maybe someone from there can chime in. Apparently that crazy gun guy McCloskey to threatened BLM protestors is one of the GOP candidates:
https://youtu.be/QlTMw4SpuwQ
NotMax
Isn’t Cotton aware we’ve got an eighty year jump on the Chinese, what with having developed the super soldier serum during the 1940s?
RaflW
These people have gone completely bugfk nuts. A senator who sounds like a Weekly World News writer.
MattF
And here I’d thought Sen. Cotton was the (relatively) sane one. Nooope.
RaflW
To call Republicans fundamentally unserious is far too kind.
sab
@RaflW: I feel sorry for the Clintons for where they grew up. I hope Ohio stays slightly sane. I was born in NC (nutz) and grew up in Florida ( nutz). I would like to have someplace east of the Mississippi where I have lived that hasn’t lost its collective mind.
NotMax
@RaflW
To which the Dolt 45 DoJ’s response was, “Pure insanity.”
Kent
@sab: You cannot possibly imagine (or maybe you can) how much my sanity has improved after we moved from Waco Texas back to the Vancouver WA area.
Just living in a state and city where government functions and actually strives to work well and efficiently is such a sanity producer. Where they actually work hard to make it easier to vote and access government services. And where things are done reasonably smartly and well.
I no longer have to rage against the machine when I drive around town and see the stupidity. There is still plenty of it out here too, but at least is it usually outvoted
The problem with places like TX or AR is that there are still thousands or even millions of sane liberal people. They are just constantly outvoted. So you meet lots of nice interesting people in your normal life but you never have any collective say in your government. After a while it makes you insane.
Citizen Alan
@RandomMonster:
That’s really unfair to Cotton Hill. The vibe I always got from Tom Cotton was Doug Neidermeyer from Animal House.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@patrick II: Look at the various stupid things wingnuts have been saying listed like this makes me wonder; is the Right’s problem they think Marvel super hero movies are documentaries?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@RaflW: “Italian vote control lasers” …. damn.
Anotherlurker
@Kent: I tried living in Fl. for 3 years. I thought it would be a perfect fit for me. Good fishing and diving, fascinating wildlife and ecology.
I didn’t count on the “colorful” citizens.
When I moved to The Bay Area, I felt a great weight lifted from my psyche.
mrmoshpotato
The stupid just keeps on coming, doesn’t it?
What fresh idiocy awaits us in the morning?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
ChineseRussianNorth KoreanIranian spy cicadas.//
NotMax
DNA music.
HumboldtBlue
Is it me? Am I the crazy fuck, the addled, brain-fogged doofus or is this shit not only batshit insane incredibly fucking alarming?
opiejeanne
@HumboldtBlue: It’s distressing that there are so many of these idiots out there. Their lack of sense or sanity is detrimental to the collective mental health of the rest of us.
J R in WV
@HumboldtBlue:
While shit is certainly incredibly fucking alarming, extremely so!!!
I’m not sure that really speaks to whether you are also the crazy fuck, addled, brain-fogged dufus or not.
HumboldtBlue
@J R in WV:
Good point.
Here’s a very interesting article on the modern football/soccer pitches.
Here is another look at the advertising world and what happens when an international personality publicly dismisses your product.
Paul Pogba (Muslim), of the French national team removed a bottle of Heineken before his press briefing as well.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: It is batshit insane, and also alarming that this garbage is coming out of the word holes of adults.
Martin
@HumboldtBlue: This stuff isn’t. Stay focused on the continued calls from the right for violent uprising. That’s the alarming stuff.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
There’s a reason giving the inmates the keys to the asylum is not a widely practiced prescription.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Italian satellites = Pizza Satellite Gate
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: You don’t say!
John Revolta
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Republicans are yearning for a simpler time, back when the only furriners we had to hate were Italians, and maybe some Asians in California.
I imagine they’ll be coming for the Irish next. Got me shillelagh under me pillow, I have.
HumboldtBlue
@Martin:
Sure, but this is all part of it and not a small part.
Brachiator
I almost wish that someone would call Cotton’s bluff and suggest Moscow as an alternative site.
JoyceH
Good grief. I just realized that Cotton is talking about rehoming this upcoming Winter Olympics – scheduled for February of 2022. Is he so ignorant that he thinks the whole Winter Olympics can be moved in six months? It takes years to get a site ready!
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
Tom Cotton might want to remember that many outside the US don’t consider it, or Americans like him, a force for good.
Amir Khalid
@JoyceH:
Tom Cotton is too (self-)righteous, and his crusade too important, for him to bother with mere practicalities.
satby
I doubt that Tom Cotton actually believes most of what he says. He’s as craven and amoral as they come; it’s all in furtherance of power by stirring up the base.
Geminid
@JoyceH: Cotton knows the Winter Olympics won’t be moved. He’s just scoring pointless points among Republicans. China is now the conservative’s big bogeyman. We will be hearing a lot from them about the Yellow Peril, although there will be pro forma distinctions that it’s the Chinese Communist Party that threatens us, not the the Chinese people. And of course, whatever the Biden administation does regarding China will not be enough.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Cotton is a bore. He’ll never get anywhere.
The reason Dump won the nomination wasn’t only because of his unvarnished racism, but also because everyone else was so boring. It was one stiff after another.
NotMax
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The vital difference between 2016 and 2024 being no one of a fraction of brain can say “Oh, that’s campaign hyperbole. He’ll tone it down if he gets into office.”
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Putin not lookin too cocky (photo)
YY_Sima Qian
I think Tom Cotton was the first US politician to bring the lab leak theory into the mainstream.
Not at all surprised that the GOPers seem to be jumping the shark, remember the CTs around Whitewater? Only now they source their material from the Falungong and Miles Guo.
Chris T.
@Kent: Yeah, I moved from Calif to UT for family reasons. The low cost of living was nice and the outdoor opportunities were great, but the politics, hoo boy.
I’m now in WA (almost to Canada): tried returning to Calif but climate change is making it unlivable there (droughts, fires).
JML
I assume that Tom Cotton has a relative or connection on the IOC since he wants the site rebid and the bidding process is the most corrupt bunch of BS in sports, because grifters gonna grift?
But he’s a soulless loon, a creepy automaton who should go away forever.
Ksmiami
We really are going to have to get rid of ALL Republicans in government aren’t we…?
Mike in NC
Yeah, I can totally see Tom Cotton hanging around locker rooms. Especially ones used by children under age 18.
grandpa john
@sab: well you can forget about SC and Looney Lindsey
Ruckus
@patrick II:
It can’t be, they are still alive…..
Old phrase – There’s no accounting for stupidity.
The republican party power people wants, likes stupidity. Because stupidity can be used to control and profit from.
Ruckus
@RaflW:
They haven’t gone bugfuck, they have always been bugfuck, they are now just being open about it.
Ruckus
@HumboldtBlue:
Correct. It isn’t a small part at all, this is how they gain and keep control, actually make the narrative. Make it up out of thin air, make it what people talk about, rather than the crap they are actually doing. We used to call it misdirection. Because whatever they are trying to misdirect everyone from is the real danger. We had a large insurrection in our country, and who was actually leading it, calling for it, and almost getting it accomplished?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Kent: patriots pride call it quits or something?
methville, wa, ain’t a nice place off your face…
RaflW
@NotMax: So you’re saying that Chuck Todd has his minimization sentence right there at the ready?
Chris Johnson
@Ruckus:
They’ve gone more bugfuck. It’s not just being obvious about it. They’ve gone more bugfuck, with help from an active Russian campaign feeding them the bugs to fuck.