GOP Senator: IVF Leads To "Animal-Human Chimeras"

[beaglelover]

Mediaite reports:

On Wednesday, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) blocked the Senate bill that would have protected IVF treatment on a federal level, claiming it was an issue that should be left up to the states. But she had another reason: IVF could lead to “human-animal chimeras.”

While it’s not unpredictable for a Republican to believe that some issues are better left to the states, Hyde-Smith’s Island of Dr. Moreau scenario was certainly a wilder take on the issue of IVF. She said on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday that the bill “would legalize the creation of human-animal chimeras.”

Read the full article. For those blissfully unaware, animal-human hybrids have long been a favorite topic of Alex Jones.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/senator-sounds-alarm-on-threat-of-human-animal-chimeras-in-blocking-bill-designed-to-protect-ivf-treatment/

How the hell to people who believe in this shit get elected to the US Senate? America is full of very dumb people............

[hlthe2b]

1. Perhaps she is representative of the phenomenon--given she clearly does not have human intellect.

[maxrandb]

2. Forget it Jake, it's Mississippi

[AverageOldGuy]

31. ROTFLMAO!!!!!

You beat me to it!!!

[Hugin]

3. Already, the auditions for Mitch replacement begin...

The turtle isn't even soup, yet.

[Hekate]

7. Soup of the evening, beautiful soup, beautiful pea-green soup...

[Irish_Dem]

4. Many elected US leaders do not have the intellectual ability or education to deal

with serious issues.

They are an embarrassment.

Shame on the voters who elect them.

[DET]

19. No Argument Here

One of my husband’s responsibilities at one of his earlier jobs was to greet guest speakers at the airport and escort them back to his organization. These were often members of the U.S. House and Senate - usually Republican. He’d come home and say that he couldn’t believe how stupid some of these people were. I didn’t believe him; how stupid can you be if you’re elected to Congress? Now I know.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Education and intelligence used to be valued to some extent.

But I guess in some voting districts it is not held in high esteem.

[cab67]

42. In some places, it's flat-out opposed.

A large proportion of Republicans thinks higher education is harmful to the country.

The more education one gets, the more likely one is to develop progressive points of view. This is seen not as enlightenment, but as indoctrination.

[Irish_Dem]

47. Democracy must have an educated and informed populace.

So the GOP denigrates education. And brainwashes the citizenry.

[llmart]

53. But they can only get there if there are enough stupid people who vote for them.

Let's face it. There are an awfully lot of stupid Americans. It's how we ended up in this predicament.

[WVlaserguy]

5. Home schooled?

I can’t believe she’s that stupid

[DET]

12. Au Contraire

She’s a proud graduate of Copiah–Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. I blame Mississippi.

[House of Roberts]

16. Brett Favre played football for Southern Miss.

Just sayin'...

[Norbert]

24. I just thought Farve had way too many concussions.

I may have to rethink this.

[AverageOldGuy]

33. And, no doubt . . .

. . . she went through her first twelve years of school in one of Mississippi's "segregation academies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academy

Probably this one in her hometown of Brookhaven, MS.
https://www.brookhavenacademy.org/

From her online bio:

Hyde-Smith and her husband Mike have a daughter, Anna-Michael. They reside in Brookhaven and are active members of Macedonia Baptist Church. A fifth-generation farming family, the Senator’s family raises beef cattle and are partners in a local stockyard auction market in Brookhaven.

". . . raises beef cattle . . . " No wonder she spouts bullshit.

[DET]

63. Bingo!

I’d never heard of segregation academies before. Apparently she did indeed go to one, and it sounds like a real winner. Per Wikipedia…

She attended Lawrence County Academy in Monticello, a segregation academy established in response to Supreme Court rulings ordering the desegregation of public schools. The school's team nickname was the Rebels; the mascot was a "Col. Reb" who carried a Confederate flag.

Disturbingly, there were apparently a number of segregation academies in Virginia as well - most in rural areas, but there was even a now defunct one in Fairfax.

[DET]

65. Oh Wow...

Right after I wrote this, I asked my husband if he had ever heard of segregation academies (he grew up in Virginia). His answer was ‘Yes, I went to one.’ He spent one year at Flint Hill - a private school in Oakton in Fairfax County. The school had apparently started out as a segregation academy. His parents just wanted a top notch private school. My husband doesn’t remember any discriminatory behaviors by the school or the students - except some against him, as a Jew. I just looked at the Flint Hill website; tuition is now about 50k/year! You learn something new every day.

[Jack from Charlotte]

35. Mississippi has very stringent entrance exams.....

Someone puts their hand on your back. If it's warm....... you're in.

[cab67]

44. I have friends on the Southern Mississippi faculty.

Based on that, I have to conclude that she avoided learning anything and left just as ignorant as when she arrived. It's not Southern Miss' fault.

[getagrip_already]

6. Furries are people at the moment of conception...

Get over it.

[Hekate]

8. The Stupid -- it burns

[musette_sf]

9. Shades of GWB rambling at the SOTU about

“human-animal hybrids”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Public Hanging Hyde-Smith is worried the chimera will burn the hanging rope.

https://time.com/5461133/cindy-hyde-smith-public-hanging-lynching/

According to Greek mythology, the Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimæra was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia, Asia Minor, composed of different animal parts.
Wikipedia

[HUAJIAO]

11. We need to stop asking how these people get elected.

It's simple. Republicans are stupid, hateful and ignorant.

[Basic LA]

13. He knew the word Chimeras?

Impressive vocabulary for a moron.

[Comfortably_Numb]

14. Mississippi has joined the chat.. You can feel the collective discourse IQ drop by 90%.

[Arthur_Frain]

15. Well one look at empty green

and you can see horse dna somewhere in her family line.

[sakabatou]

17. Shou Tucker would like to know your location

[House of Roberts]

18. OK. She beats out Taterbug for stupidest senator of the day,

but it's almost a tie.

[Johonny]

20. Stop electing stupid people.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

21. Watching these motherfuckers

Seems like watching barbarians walking the streets of Rome.

[keithbvadu2]

23. So she believes that man can create life, not just God.

[sop]

54. These people are nuts. Only someone suffering from a God Complex believes they can confer "personhood."

The first to use the term "god complex" - a belief that one is a god - was Ernest Jones in 'Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis.' God complex is not a clinical term, it does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The recognized diagnostic name for the behaviors associated with a god complex is narcissistic personality disorder associated with mania or a superiority complex.

[orthoclad]

25. The chimeras get elected

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Holy Island of Dr. Moreau, Batman!

[Cheezoholic]

27. Chimera's are only 2 bucks when you order a sub at Subway

[et tu]

28. she watched planet of the apes

and thought it was a documentary, so special~

[flying_wahini]

29. It's easy to make stupid MAGAs believe anything. I do mean ANYhing.

But most people that do IVF have to have deep pockets, (ask me how I know)
so rest assured that Lots of republicans paying for IVF
will hear this crap and immediately know
they are lying about it.

[rockbluff botanist]

30. Maggots "Say what?"

I guarantee that 95% of her constituents cannot pronounce the word, much less know what it means.

I am certain she heard it and is parroting what she heard. She is amazingly ignorant.

[ShazzieB]

50. I'm sure you're right about that.

Furthermore, whatever she heard probably came out of the mouth of someone just as pig ignorant as her who had no more idea what they were talking than she did when she repeated it.

I doubt she really knows what IVF actually is, much less how it works...or how it doesn't work.

[struggle4progress]

32. Associate Degree in Bioterrorism from Trump University?

[VGNonly]

34. He wears a hat and drives a car.

[IcyPeas]

36. She must be talking about stem cells?

Human-animal chimeras
Further information: Xenotransplantation
For hybrids, see Human–animal hybrid.
Human-animal chimeras include humans having undergone non-human to human xenotransplantation, which is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.[16][17]

Patient derived xenografts are created by xenotransplantation of human tumor cells into immunocompromised mice, and is a research technique frequently used in pre-clinical oncology research.[18]

The first stable human-animal chimeras to actually exist were first created by Shanghai Second Medical University scientists in 2003, the result of having fused human cells with rabbit eggs.[17]
In 2017, a human-pig chimera was reported to have been created; the chimera was also reported to have 0.001% human cells, with the balance being pig.[19][20][21] The embryo consisted mostly pig cells and some human cells. Scientists stated that they hope to use this technology to address the shortage of donor organs.[22][23]

In 2021, a human-monkey chimera was created as a joint project between the Salk Institute in the US and Kunming University in China and published in the journal Cell.[24] This involved injecting human stem cells into monkey embryos. The embryos were only allowed to grow for a few days, but the study demonstrated that some of these embryos still had human stem cells surviving at the end of the experiments. Because humans are more closely related to monkeys than other animals, it means there is more chance of the chimeric embryos surviving for longer periods so that organs can develop. The project has opened up possibilities into organ transplantation as well as ethical concerns particularly concerning human brain development in primates.[25]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera#:~:text=Human%2Danimal%20chimeras%20include%20humans,from%20one%20species%20to%20another.

[peppertree]

46. Either that - or Jethro's been playing with the sheep again

[Haggard Celine]

37. She is such an embarrassment!

If you're going to be a stupid person in the Senate, the least you can do is keep your mouth shut. Why does anybody want to vote for someone who's no better than them? We need to have our best in high offices.

[Xavier Breath]

38. She's right!

One of them has already showed up in a network animated show.

[Aviation Pro]

39. Or talking raccoons

…..

[cab67]

40. I totally want to see a centaur.

[Tanuki]

45. Be careful what you wish for....

Link to tweet

[cab67]

48. There's a basic error here.

In any trump-horse hybrid, trump would be at the ass end.

[WestMichRad]

61. Looks to me like there's an ass at both ends.

[PlutosHeart]

41. Takes one to know one.

Although in defense of all animals they (the crazy ones) are most likely made up of parts of the worst nightmares.

[DENVERPOPS]

43. I love it best when

Republican Politicians, commenting on anything scientific, gloriously display that they haven't even had basic High School Biology, much less Middle School Human Science classes,......

And THAT also is most prevalent in the Uber Rich Trust Fund kid's Schools used by parents who don't want to raise their own teenagers.....

[cab67]

49. Even Republicans with MDs show this.

Rand Paul consistently reveals himself to be scientifically illiterate.

Then there's the paint chip consumer DeSantis appointed as Surgeon General in Florida.

It never ends.

[DENVERPOPS]

66. Yes! nc

[bucolic_frolic]

51. Gargoyles? Is she halucinating?

[Mz Pip]

52. IVF has been around for decades

No animal human hybrids running around.

[Easterncedar]

55. Ooh ooh! Can I have one?

What would it be? Birdman? Minotaur? Sphinx? Centaur?

[Beartracks]

56. Wow. The ignorance.

Republicans never seem to care enough to learn about the things they think need regulating.

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[underpants]

57. That Al Abama guy has been showing him ass - Mississippi says hold my beer

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218731730

[marble falls]

58. Not knocking home schooling because she actually had a grasp of what a chimera is, but ...

... I bet she was home or went to a christian school.

Disclosure: I went to Missouri Synod Lutheran parochial schools until sixth grade. We were taught that dinosaurs were built from horse skeletons. Imagine my surprise when I saw my first what was called then a brontosaurus. Evolution was false. Otherwise got a good education.

A Mormon BiL told me the dinosaurs were from other planets that gawd used to build earth. That they were millions of years old but that Earth was around 4,000 years old.

[Permanut]

59. Not so fast here..

There is evidence of a human/mushroom hybrid, so anything is possible.

[barbtries]

60. how do they even put their clothes on in the morning,

let alone win elections? this is a fucking lawmaker. we're are so fucked

[Takket]

62. BTW whenever a rethug says "leave it to the states" they mean "we don't have the ability to ban it nationally"

they would not leave ANYTHING to the states if they had the ability to pass it federally.

[limbicnuminousity]

64. Why not, the entire dungeons and dragons compendium

is represented in Congress. MTG is a banshee, Gaetz is a satyr, Boebert is a succubus, McConnell is a wight, DeSantis is an orc and Trump is a gelatinous cube. And Mrs Hyde-Smith is a grey ooze.

Discussing biology with christofascist theocrats is a waste of time.