France maneuvers to keep Macron's DNA out of Russian hands

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Originally published at: France maneuvers to keep Macron's DNA out of Russian hands | Boing Boing

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After reading that, all I can say is encapsulated in this gif:

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Sounds like a double-win for Macron.

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I wonder what he thinks they’ll do with his DNA? Make an army of Macron clones? I mean, I live here, and I kind of like the guy, but one of him is more than enough. I’m not sure what use Putin would have for a whole bunch of Macrons?

And of course that’s all beside the fact that the Russian-made PCR tests are shit compared to the commercial RT-PCR tests that the rest of the world uses.

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that would seem a more reasonable fear. an accidental false positive, or a deliberate false positive. dna seems pretty easy to harvest if you really wanted to

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Plant Macron DNA on the next 5 polonium poisonings of Putin’s opponents?

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Not sure that would be an issue. I know the dude has already had COVID at least once and maybe twice. He did the “disappear from public view for a couple of weeks” a few months ago like your governors Newsom and DeSantis did. Our Presidential elections are coming up in a few months but he sure doesn’t seem to be doing much campaigning.

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Macron should have thought of that before he was with the Russian hookers.

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Lots of that going around. I have no personal experience, but they must have some high-quality hookers with all the politicians they manage to entrap.

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Or used the Russian toilets.

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There are a lot of ways a determined agency could get a sample of an individual’s DNA.

I recently read about declassified cold war-era espionage programs that involved American intelligence agents covertly intercepting poo from Russian ambassadors for analysis by routing the plumbing in government buildings through secretly accessible traps. I don’t know what they were hoping to learn (what kind of drugs they were using maybe?) but if the CIA can get your poop it’s a good bet that Russian intelligence could get a used tissue or some skin flakes or something.

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Macron is not being paranoid. This is Russia we are talking about!

Putin/Russia could possibly glean a great deal about Macron from his DNA. His life expectancy, his possible genetic predispositions, etc. There are a lot of unknown unknowns.

What I would like to know is: If visiting France, would Putin himself submit to the same tests that he tried to run on Macron. If he wouldn’t, then we know he is (even more) full of shit.

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I’ve heard that wherever the President goes his poop is recovered rather than flushed.

Sounds kinda far-fetched but then again so does most of the things our intelligence services do.

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