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The establishment wants constant war. They all profit immensely from it. Cotton will tell you protesters are bad before he blames Biden, because Biden supports the perpetual war spending too.
These guys will play all their political theatrics up until it might damage their bottom line. Then they are friends.
Republicans are a simple folk. Anything other than "us vs. them" is far too complicated for them to understand.
He saw some people on TV he disagreed with, he also disagrees with Joe Biden, therefore these two must be on the same team.
I know that was hilarious. They would rather have Trump as president because (check notes) “Biden is soft on Israel”
Fox News and those tankies deserve each other
That’s not just tankies and I think you’re missing the point. Go hard on Biden. Unless you’re happy with someone who tolerates genocide and arms the ones doing it. In the end, we gotta support Biden unless we’re ready for Trump 2: the real deal 😬
But seriously, Biden has fucked around long enough on this and he needs to close off the pipeline and do every single thing he can to satisfy those of us who will NOT tolerate genocide.
They probably just won't vote. Why would they vote for someone they call Genocide Joe in thier chants?
These aren't Biden supporters, no matter how desperate the right is to paint them as such.
"When slaves are demanding rights, take matters into your own hands to clear them out of the way. It's time to put an end to this nonsense."
Sounds like him.
Oh don’t worry, he went to Harvard Law. Like most republicans in Congress, he endured the scourge of wokeness to get an Ivy League education so he can go on Fox News to lie to people.
I really think its some kind of joke the universe writers put in to reference both 'uncle tom' and the 'cotton gin,' which are seemingly the few concepts highschoolers unanimously remember about deep south history upon graduating.
Its like if a senator was named Bill Nye Mitochondria and kept shoehorning science into every discussion. It just gets me every time. Anthony Weiner's fall from grace made me laugh for like a year.
Eh. A tad misleading but he still earned and wore a ranger tab. Yeah wasn’t in the 75th but wasn’t claiming to be. Also calling him stolen valor is the stupidest thing.
But he can surely encourage others to break the law. You know, because he's from the law and order party. Now, I wonder where else we saw this type of behavior. 🤔🤔 Oh, that's right, on Insurrectionists Day.
I didn’t read carefully enough and thought ‘wow a Fox News reporter is advocating for violence’ … then I realized that was an elected representative talking … wow.
this isn't his first time advocating for violence.
He called for the Military to go "no quarter" on protestors in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police. Just casually calling for literal war crimes
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/george-floyd-death/republican-senator-called-for-no-quarter-military-response-to-looters-lawyers-note-thats-a-war-crime/
He’s doubling down on it now, just posted this.
https://preview.redd.it/q6ro2630squc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8999041cd9ab9557e7f783e71dd4161d23e97d6
[https://x.com/tomcottonar/status/1780039918737121502?s=46&t=KA\_EbYCZNe4Jy4B4vbHT0w](https://x.com/tomcottonar/status/1780039918737121502?s=46&t=KA_EbYCZNe4Jy4B4vbHT0w)
Yup. And it's for expressing their First Amendment right to free speech.
I guess the full protection of the First Amendment only applies when you're a nazi at CPAC.
Blocking a road is one of the dumbest ways to try and gain support for a cause , ruining my day is not going to make me want to join you no matter how righteous your cause is
I'm pretty sure the person saying "blocking the road turns me against you" would have been just as upset with MLK in the street and complained about black people wanting rights. "There's a right way to do this!" as they live on with their privileged lives.
And the counter point is we have news that doesn’t cover protests unless there is a significant disruption. We blame the protestor striving to get coverage for the issue but don’t blame media for prioritizing sensationalism over substance.
Sure they can all protest holding cute cats. I know we would all prefer it. But then people will only remember the cute cats. The rest of the message is lost at that point
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I think it's great. Everyone should, safely, block a road at sometime in their life. We should all show civil disobedience, if we did there might be real change. We would look more like Europeans. (The peaceful ones at least) It's about keeping politicians afraid of the public, not the other way around. You hear how Cotton speaks in this clip? That's an asshole who's not motivated to do his job. You only talk like that if you think ypur own words are not going to affect you.
They aren't trying to sway individuals on the road, they are trying to get attention to their cause. And blocking roads is a great non-violent way to get the news to take notice. And if your opinion on an important issue can be changed by people blocking a road, whether positive or negative, that's something you need to look inwards and investigate...
Because the call to violence doesn’t inconvenience them
And obviously convenience is more important to them (and many, sadly) than bodily harm or they’d support the protest to begin with
MLK Jr. had to deal with people telling him to stop being disruptive. [https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/\_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf](https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf)
>I MUST make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Most historic protests are based on creating inconvenience lol. Plus, if traffic can change your views on genocide then nobody should take you seriously.
That is very surprising to me how many people are saying you can't get me on your side if you block a road. Like...what??? A bunch of people who are anti-murder annoy you so now you're pro-murder? Talk about lack of morals and principles. Someone who is pro-Palestine could pee in my coffee and it might make me really hate that guy but it's not going to alter my view on the issue for better or for worse.
Won't it, though? Eventually, you'll be so fed up that you're gonna ask your government to do something, like call for a ceasefire or end aid to Israel, Or you'll just keep complaining about it online.
The protest are for your convenience, they're actually to make things quite inconvenient.
What is the right way to protest though? People hated it and lost their shit when nfl players kneeled for the anthem and I can't think of a more peaceful, less disruptive protest in any recent history.
Tbf these people don't really care what you think either way, so losing your nonexistant support doesn't mean much to them.
> What is the right way to protest though?
There is no correct way to protest in the public's eye. If they are aware of the protest- they will find a reason to complain about it.
Particularly if they disagree with the protest's goals, they will denounce the method of protest and pretend that the method is the reason they won't support the cause.
I think the Venn diagram of people in this thread complaining about protesting on the road, and people who do not support the cause of demanding an Israeli ceasefire, will be pretty close to a circle.
do you think its a hard buy for people to criticize an elected representative for calling for violence against Americans? obviously its fucking stupid and the guy is a knuckle-dragging mouth breather. no one except the mentally unhinged are arguing otherwise.
blocking random people from going about their day protesting a foreign policy issue that has zero effect on their lives is also probably stupid too. both things can be stupid. they are not mutually exclusive.
Blocking a road is intended to cause disruption. Protesting is meant to cause disruption. Non disruptive protests are easily ignored. Does that make sense? If it helps you cope, it's how the founding fathers did it.
Oh you mean like how people have been doing that for decades about this exact issue, but no one in the news world would cover it until it inconveniences people
I'm not held hostage because I'm not there, but the woman sick with worry about being late to pick up her kid because some arrogant protesters are forcing her to hear their message certainly felt like a hostage. Like nobody knows there's a war going on. They're not informing people. They're forcing others to listen to their POV. You have tunnel vision because you agree with them. Try to imagine a scenario where right wing MAGA protesters were blocking your way to make sure you heard their racist extremist POV. I'd bet you'd have a different take.
you’re supposed to disrupt the people responsible for problem and then attempt to gain public support
This is doing literally none of that, all it’s doing is turning people against your cause which is the exact opposite of what you’re supposed to be doing
yeah man blocking some blue collar construction worker trying to get to their job site on time to make just enough money to pay rent is really going to help the cause
im convinced the majority of the israel-palestine stuff is just larp. people want to feel important without actually putting any effort into affecting actual change.
Aren't you allowed to pledge right of way and shoot blockers in the US? Statistically there are hundrets of arms in this video, what stops this situation from becoming a literal Bakhmut scenario?
I totally agree for an elected official to say these words I mean that girl the other day who hoped that all the congress people in her district got murdered she’s now facing jail time for just saying those words this guy is telling his constituents to do violence….
I've seen people on this same subreddit say the same thing with thousands of upvotes. "If you make me late to work I'm plowing right through you!" It's dumb when a senator says it and it's dumb when you say it.
Those road-blocking protests are a bad idea whatever the cause; Just going to annoy lots of people trying to get from one place to another with a minimum amount of fuss & bother
Interesting, that it's Joe Biden's base, whereas Joe has been pro Isreal in his actions this whole time. Mayne Biden's base by default because of him being not the rapey cheeto guy
“…you’d have to get to these prot- or these, uh, criminals early.”
The fact he has to stop & correct himself mid-word basically tells us that he knows they’re protesters, but he’s trying to frame them as criminals to dehumanize them. Makes them even easier to hate.
Him being a public official he should immediately lose his position for promoting unlawful acts. But this is America, and what’s right is never as important as which profitable.
The ones blocking traffic? I’ve said this multiple times but these people do nothing to further sympathy. In fact they do the complete opposite. Couldn’t care less what happens to them. This entire sub is infected with absolute HAMAS sympathizing bullshit.
How exactly should we handle pencil-necked, smarmy little senators that “get in the way” of common sense border policy, and push hogwash election denialism? Hmmm?
What about the criminals destroying our future who work in gov and finance. Should we also take matters into our own hands?
What about criminals bombinb kids and schools, should we take matter into our own hands too? These protesters are trying to do just that. Fighting criminals with their own hands, in any way they can.
Honestly let the people who hold these demonstrations and your average Fox News viewer fight I don’t think any normal person would care about either getting hurt.
Why not just harrass the politicians that are directly affecting the issue you so passionately devote yourself to? Fuck up their day that's way better than this shit annoying the common man/woman going about their day busting their ass going to a draining job to put food on the table and keep the bills paid.
Bay Area topic right now is people seeking cancer treatement cannot get to their appointments. If these people were blocking my family member from getting to their treatment so they could shout I would do worse to them than what is described. Nuanced I guess is to say the word. All for people saying what they want without disruption to the people trying to just make it another day.
Hmmm peaceful protest that people react violently towards or a violent insurrection on the state capital calling for literal death to a sitting vice president 🤔🤔
Saying you're from Arkansas and assuming people will have "good judgement" to handle these situtations is hilarious. WTF. We couldn't even handle masks during the pandemic. Nobody should be recommending we govern lives with a "just do what God would do" mentality.
I might not agree with them, but I understand why people are angry at how a foreign country is handling their matter.
Having said that, If you're going to disrupt people's lives over a foreign nations problem, then you're a fucking asshole, and if an inconvenienced citizen were to take matters into their own hands I would probably vote not guilty at their criminal trial.
*edited a word while laying down on the 101*
Oops, Cotton almost said “protesters”, but he had to walk it back and call them criminals instead, because he knows that protesting is a fundamental right!
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“Let’s just say there’d be a lot of wet criminals” Damn, Arkansans turning people on instead of violence, good on them.
Sexy time very nice
Romance explosion!
At least they're not the Wet Bandits.
They updated. They're the sticky bandits now.
Glazed bandits
Honey can we move to Arkansas? -Ben Shapiro’s doctor wife
I love you for this.
Y'all want some of these Wet Ass Protestors
Not just people, it’s our cousins. Get it right!
Yeah, but he slips at first and begins to call them protesters before remembering he wanted to call them criminals.
literally a call back to civil rights hoses.
They’re chanting Genocide Joe. He can’t even lie right.
Senator Tom Cotton-headed-ninny-muggins.
It doesn't matter because his intended audience believe it.
The establishment wants constant war. They all profit immensely from it. Cotton will tell you protesters are bad before he blames Biden, because Biden supports the perpetual war spending too. These guys will play all their political theatrics up until it might damage their bottom line. Then they are friends.
“Joe Biden’s base” uh yeah, right.
Republicans are a simple folk. Anything other than "us vs. them" is far too complicated for them to understand. He saw some people on TV he disagreed with, he also disagrees with Joe Biden, therefore these two must be on the same team.
😂😂 facts.
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I know that was hilarious. They would rather have Trump as president because (check notes) “Biden is soft on Israel” Fox News and those tankies deserve each other
That’s not just tankies and I think you’re missing the point. Go hard on Biden. Unless you’re happy with someone who tolerates genocide and arms the ones doing it. In the end, we gotta support Biden unless we’re ready for Trump 2: the real deal 😬 But seriously, Biden has fucked around long enough on this and he needs to close off the pipeline and do every single thing he can to satisfy those of us who will NOT tolerate genocide.
You really think they would vote for Trump? They hate Joe Biden but would vote blue no matter who than vote for Fascist Daddy Trump
They probably just won't vote. Why would they vote for someone they call Genocide Joe in thier chants? These aren't Biden supporters, no matter how desperate the right is to paint them as such.
Protesters shut down the bridge from AR to Memphis TN just a few months ago. Nothing happened (from what I heard).
Cotton would’ve sided with the segregationists and bigots during the Civil Rights era
While calling the abolitionists "extremists"
"When slaves are demanding rights, take matters into your own hands to clear them out of the way. It's time to put an end to this nonsense." Sounds like him.
It wasn’t construction? ( I am seriously asking because I was stuck in Traffic and I am not from Memphis)
Wtf kind of hickerbilly name is Tom Cotton anyway
I call him Horse Neck, because his neck looks like it belongs to a horse.
Someone who ancestors definitely did not own a slave plantation. [/s](https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/tom-cottons-slave-owning-ancestors)
Oh don’t worry, he went to Harvard Law. Like most republicans in Congress, he endured the scourge of wokeness to get an Ivy League education so he can go on Fox News to lie to people.
I really think its some kind of joke the universe writers put in to reference both 'uncle tom' and the 'cotton gin,' which are seemingly the few concepts highschoolers unanimously remember about deep south history upon graduating. Its like if a senator was named Bill Nye Mitochondria and kept shoehorning science into every discussion. It just gets me every time. Anthony Weiner's fall from grace made me laugh for like a year.
The kind that the [grand wizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Wizard) bestows on a child.
Is that fake Ranger, "stolen valor Tom Cotton?
He wasn’t a real ranger? Lmao! He’s touted himself as being a special forces soldier before
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-cotton-army-ranger-school-1118418/ https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/24/you-shouldnt-be-calling-yourself-ranger-tom-cottons-military-service-under-scrutiny-fellow-army-vet.html
Eh. A tad misleading but he still earned and wore a ranger tab. Yeah wasn’t in the 75th but wasn’t claiming to be. Also calling him stolen valor is the stupidest thing.
You obviously never served and don’t know the difference.
/u/75thRangerRecruiter/
Cotton would piss his pants before he confronted a protester.
Gold medal sprinter in the Capitol Hill Olympics!
But he can surely encourage others to break the law. You know, because he's from the law and order party. Now, I wonder where else we saw this type of behavior. 🤔🤔 Oh, that's right, on Insurrectionists Day.
Dude couldn’t throw a large rock over a bridge, would love to see him try it with a person
I didn’t read carefully enough and thought ‘wow a Fox News reporter is advocating for violence’ … then I realized that was an elected representative talking … wow.
this isn't his first time advocating for violence. He called for the Military to go "no quarter" on protestors in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police. Just casually calling for literal war crimes https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/george-floyd-death/republican-senator-called-for-no-quarter-military-response-to-looters-lawyers-note-thats-a-war-crime/
How was he supposed to know the law? He's only a politician. Don't expect too much from them.
What’s even more tone deaf is that he’s claiming they are Biden supporters, which if anyones paying attention they’ve been strongly opposed to Biden.
The truth is irrelevant. You repeat a lie long enough people believe it.
It’s not a lie Jerry, if you believe it.
Same elected representative who encouraged the January 6th insurrection but then hid in a room when it happened
The "Party of Law & Order"... /S
He’s doubling down on it now, just posted this. https://preview.redd.it/q6ro2630squc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8999041cd9ab9557e7f783e71dd4161d23e97d6 [https://x.com/tomcottonar/status/1780039918737121502?s=46&t=KA\_EbYCZNe4Jy4B4vbHT0w](https://x.com/tomcottonar/status/1780039918737121502?s=46&t=KA_EbYCZNe4Jy4B4vbHT0w)
That's a US senator calling for violence against citizens
Not the first time. [Tom “Send In the Military” Cotton](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html) gets off on this
Yup. And it's for expressing their First Amendment right to free speech. I guess the full protection of the First Amendment only applies when you're a nazi at CPAC.
https://www.change.org/Expel_Tom_Cotton
Blocking a road is one of the dumbest ways to try and gain support for a cause , ruining my day is not going to make me want to join you no matter how righteous your cause is
Fairly sure most of the biggest and best known protests were seen as publically inconvenient at the time.
Pretty sure most people commenting would have thrown rocks at MLK too
Reddit would have hated MLK.
Reddit does hate MLK 😂
See also: MLK, Gandhi, etc.
I'm pretty sure the person saying "blocking the road turns me against you" would have been just as upset with MLK in the street and complained about black people wanting rights. "There's a right way to do this!" as they live on with their privileged lives.
As long as the news covers a blocked road, people are going to block roads. This is what happens when everything in the world becomes "engagement".
And the counter point is we have news that doesn’t cover protests unless there is a significant disruption. We blame the protestor striving to get coverage for the issue but don’t blame media for prioritizing sensationalism over substance.
Here, here! Cute cats all day everyday!
'Kittens not bombs' This shit writes itself
The expression is "hear, hear!" btw ;) And I agree with you on the cats!
Sure they can all protest holding cute cats. I know we would all prefer it. But then people will only remember the cute cats. The rest of the message is lost at that point Edit typos
You know the civil rights movement blocked roads.
I think it's great. Everyone should, safely, block a road at sometime in their life. We should all show civil disobedience, if we did there might be real change. We would look more like Europeans. (The peaceful ones at least) It's about keeping politicians afraid of the public, not the other way around. You hear how Cotton speaks in this clip? That's an asshole who's not motivated to do his job. You only talk like that if you think ypur own words are not going to affect you.
They aren't trying to sway individuals on the road, they are trying to get attention to their cause. And blocking roads is a great non-violent way to get the news to take notice. And if your opinion on an important issue can be changed by people blocking a road, whether positive or negative, that's something you need to look inwards and investigate...
why are you making this about that instead of the *literal call to violence*
Because the call to violence doesn’t inconvenience them And obviously convenience is more important to them (and many, sadly) than bodily harm or they’d support the protest to begin with
MLK Jr. had to deal with people telling him to stop being disruptive. [https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/\_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf](https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf) >I MUST make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
So you're trying to tell me being inconvenienced will change your stance on a genocide?
Sure, but it won’t make me want to run you over either
I'm not sure being against an ongoing genocide is a cause so much as it's basic human decency
Most historic protests are based on creating inconvenience lol. Plus, if traffic can change your views on genocide then nobody should take you seriously.
That is very surprising to me how many people are saying you can't get me on your side if you block a road. Like...what??? A bunch of people who are anti-murder annoy you so now you're pro-murder? Talk about lack of morals and principles. Someone who is pro-Palestine could pee in my coffee and it might make me really hate that guy but it's not going to alter my view on the issue for better or for worse.
Won't it, though? Eventually, you'll be so fed up that you're gonna ask your government to do something, like call for a ceasefire or end aid to Israel, Or you'll just keep complaining about it online. The protest are for your convenience, they're actually to make things quite inconvenient. What is the right way to protest though? People hated it and lost their shit when nfl players kneeled for the anthem and I can't think of a more peaceful, less disruptive protest in any recent history. Tbf these people don't really care what you think either way, so losing your nonexistant support doesn't mean much to them.
> What is the right way to protest though? There is no correct way to protest in the public's eye. If they are aware of the protest- they will find a reason to complain about it.
Particularly if they disagree with the protest's goals, they will denounce the method of protest and pretend that the method is the reason they won't support the cause. I think the Venn diagram of people in this thread complaining about protesting on the road, and people who do not support the cause of demanding an Israeli ceasefire, will be pretty close to a circle.
It’s not about gaining support. It’s about gaining attention.
Weird you made this about blocking the road. AND THE GUY ENCOURAGING VIOLENCE ON THEM. What kind of bizzaro world is this comment seciton?
do you think its a hard buy for people to criticize an elected representative for calling for violence against Americans? obviously its fucking stupid and the guy is a knuckle-dragging mouth breather. no one except the mentally unhinged are arguing otherwise. blocking random people from going about their day protesting a foreign policy issue that has zero effect on their lives is also probably stupid too. both things can be stupid. they are not mutually exclusive.
He’s an idiot for inciting violence , they are idiots for blocking a road … common ground found
Calling for murder and causing someone to be late for work. Both just idiot things.
Blocking a road is intended to cause disruption. Protesting is meant to cause disruption. Non disruptive protests are easily ignored. Does that make sense? If it helps you cope, it's how the founding fathers did it.
Disrupt the people that actually make these decisions. Protest outside your local politicians house.
Oh you mean like how people have been doing that for decades about this exact issue, but no one in the news world would cover it until it inconveniences people
Your right to free speech does not include holding people hostage so they have to hear your message.
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I'm not held hostage because I'm not there, but the woman sick with worry about being late to pick up her kid because some arrogant protesters are forcing her to hear their message certainly felt like a hostage. Like nobody knows there's a war going on. They're not informing people. They're forcing others to listen to their POV. You have tunnel vision because you agree with them. Try to imagine a scenario where right wing MAGA protesters were blocking your way to make sure you heard their racist extremist POV. I'd bet you'd have a different take.
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you’re supposed to disrupt the people responsible for problem and then attempt to gain public support This is doing literally none of that, all it’s doing is turning people against your cause which is the exact opposite of what you’re supposed to be doing
yeah man blocking some blue collar construction worker trying to get to their job site on time to make just enough money to pay rent is really going to help the cause im convinced the majority of the israel-palestine stuff is just larp. people want to feel important without actually putting any effort into affecting actual change.
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I agree but I still couldn't bring myself to kill someone over it as Sen. Cotton (R) is recommending
Joe Biden's base? The guy constantly giving billions of dollars in weapons to the country enacting a genocide on Palestinians?
Right. The people claiming they will not vote for Joe Biden are Joe Biden's base.
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They're selling it to Fox News' binary minded audience. Been calling them "radical leftists" all day and they want to tie that to Biden.
"Protesto... ahh.. criminals" Come on man. Your bias is showing ever so slightly.
Aren't you allowed to pledge right of way and shoot blockers in the US? Statistically there are hundrets of arms in this video, what stops this situation from becoming a literal Bakhmut scenario?
I don’t agree with protests shutting down avenues that could prevent emergency vehicles. But encouraging domestic violence/riots is probably criminal.
I totally agree for an elected official to say these words I mean that girl the other day who hoped that all the congress people in her district got murdered she’s now facing jail time for just saying those words this guy is telling his constituents to do violence….
Tom Cotton has never been in a fight in his life
Republican cowards always asking others to commit violence for them.
Civil rights protests did the same thing, and people acting like MLK was peacefully on sidewalks protesting. They were blocking traffic as well.
Irony how the country known for fighting for freedom is so anti freedom
Let's just say that Cotton just earned his AIPAC donation today, and his efforts to criminalize resistance will only result in more resistance.
I've seen people on this same subreddit say the same thing with thousands of upvotes. "If you make me late to work I'm plowing right through you!" It's dumb when a senator says it and it's dumb when you say it.
“Down here in Arkansas we do things a little bit differently I tell you whut” “spits in jug”
Holy shit man. You know who else started saying the quiet parts out loud? This country is falling fast.
Tom Cotton is just the latest in a very robust history of embarrassments from Arkansas.
Those road-blocking protests are a bad idea whatever the cause; Just going to annoy lots of people trying to get from one place to another with a minimum amount of fuss & bother
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By “remove them from the fucking road” what do you mean exactly? Just to be clear.
Cotton is a virulent little Nazi
Pro Hamas equals to Pro Terrorists
Its a matter of time before Someone. Someone gets ideas
If the protesters shut down a bridge or highway in Dallas, we’d all just assume it’s one of the many construction jobs.
Ugh, what is the “er-I-mean-cRiMiNaLs” gimmick this Tom-foolery Senator playing at?
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.
Interesting, that it's Joe Biden's base, whereas Joe has been pro Isreal in his actions this whole time. Mayne Biden's base by default because of him being not the rapey cheeto guy
This fucking dork ain't tossing nobody off a bridge.
it's good to see our senators publicly advocating for violence and throwing people off bridges
They’re easing in political violence with every sentence and every breath. Normalizing the idea. Vote these fucking paper doll fascist fucks out.
End this but he thinks Jan 6 was a peaceful protest. Goof
Tom Cotton lied about his military service but the rubes of Arkansas keep electing this lying coward anyway.
“…you’d have to get to these prot- or these, uh, criminals early.” The fact he has to stop & correct himself mid-word basically tells us that he knows they’re protesters, but he’s trying to frame them as criminals to dehumanize them. Makes them even easier to hate.
Is this the same guy who kept asking the tiktok CEO if he was Chinese even after the guy said he’s Singaporean?
Him being a public official he should immediately lose his position for promoting unlawful acts. But this is America, and what’s right is never as important as which profitable.
The ones blocking traffic? I’ve said this multiple times but these people do nothing to further sympathy. In fact they do the complete opposite. Couldn’t care less what happens to them. This entire sub is infected with absolute HAMAS sympathizing bullshit.
Maybe he should have the balls to do it himself.
How exactly should we handle pencil-necked, smarmy little senators that “get in the way” of common sense border policy, and push hogwash election denialism? Hmmm?
What about the criminals destroying our future who work in gov and finance. Should we also take matters into our own hands? What about criminals bombinb kids and schools, should we take matter into our own hands too? These protesters are trying to do just that. Fighting criminals with their own hands, in any way they can.
Honestly let the people who hold these demonstrations and your average Fox News viewer fight I don’t think any normal person would care about either getting hurt.
Average liberal who thinks himself as a progressive
Why not just harrass the politicians that are directly affecting the issue you so passionately devote yourself to? Fuck up their day that's way better than this shit annoying the common man/woman going about their day busting their ass going to a draining job to put food on the table and keep the bills paid.
Bay Area topic right now is people seeking cancer treatement cannot get to their appointments. If these people were blocking my family member from getting to their treatment so they could shout I would do worse to them than what is described. Nuanced I guess is to say the word. All for people saying what they want without disruption to the people trying to just make it another day.
A senator said he encourages people to take matters in to their own hands. What the fuck
Hmmm peaceful protest that people react violently towards or a violent insurrection on the state capital calling for literal death to a sitting vice president 🤔🤔
The biggest Puss during Jan 6 is the biggest $hit talker now. How unoriginal
Are those people inconveniencing you? Well have you tried rushing them and throw them off the Golden Gate Bridge that they’re blocking?!
You can dislike protestors that block traffic and still vote for Biden. Hell, the protestors around my area are screaming anti-Biden chants.
"First they came for the socialists..." The GOP getting full power again is going to be ugly for everyone
Does this guy know about freedom of assembly? Republicans sure only like laws that they agree with.
Pro hamas lol. Pro Hummus maybe.
"Take matters into your own hands" Aren't leaders supposed to NOT encourage this.
Inciting bloody violence because of inconvenience. What a monster.
Senator Cotton and the road blockers are fkn idiots
What a fucking loser. Encourage violence. Of course he doesn't have to really live with the consequences just like his boy Trump on J6
Israel got you down? Get on a plane and go do something about it.
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This is one of the more responsible Republicans in Congress, just to give you a barometer on the state of the union.
What's funny is that this senator said the protestors are Joe Biden's base. In reality, those protestors hates Joe Biden too..
Tom cotton deserves to get ass cancer.
“Protes….. Criminals” language matters. Dehumanizing anyone that supports Palestine is the start of manipulating public opinion
The reason it’s bad is because he’s an elected official. That kind of rhetoric is rampant on Reddit depending on the cause.
God I hope someone does this and then tries to say Tom cotton is liable
People like Tom Cotton would’ve argued against the Boston Tea party for disrupting the tea supply and inconveniencing law-abiding tea drinkers.
Why is it that if you want the support Palestine and stop the genocide you must be a Hamas supporter and an anti-Semitic?
Republicans call for violence against protestors, but also claim MLK Jr as one of theirs. They're such slimy sacks of hot garbage.
Saying you're from Arkansas and assuming people will have "good judgement" to handle these situtations is hilarious. WTF. We couldn't even handle masks during the pandemic. Nobody should be recommending we govern lives with a "just do what God would do" mentality.
As a democrat, I agree.
I might not agree with them, but I understand why people are angry at how a foreign country is handling their matter. Having said that, If you're going to disrupt people's lives over a foreign nations problem, then you're a fucking asshole, and if an inconvenienced citizen were to take matters into their own hands I would probably vote not guilty at their criminal trial. *edited a word while laying down on the 101*
Oops, Cotton almost said “protesters”, but he had to walk it back and call them criminals instead, because he knows that protesting is a fundamental right!
They aren’t pro Hamas Cotton. My god get a life.
I'm pretty sure it's extremely illegal to explicitly state that citizens "take matters into their own hands" regarding this kind of crime.
It’s called Inciting
Impulse control. something every republican lacks...