Tom Cotton finds CEO mysterious, inscrutable

I still can’t believe that the neoconfederate senator from Arkansas is named “Tom Cotton”:

Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"

Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"

Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!" pic.twitter.com/5Wa72aJIr9— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 31, 2024

A few years ago, Cotton and Ben Sasse were supposed to be the brains of the Republican Senate conference. Now Sasse is a colonel in Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo’s war on higher education, and Cotton is doing “Joe McCarthy was great, but could have used more racism.”