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A US Senator encouraging, one might say "inciting," violence.

He who lives by the sword... Maybe we should bring back the practice of outlawry. If you call for the killing or harming of your fellow citizens, protection of the law is lifted from you and you may be harmed with impunity. Maybe a system of forehead tattoos to avoid errors?

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Cotton's many incitements to violence seem puny and pathetic because he seems puny and pathetic. To us. But we're not Arkansas, where relaxing child labor laws is the latest cool trend--along with sky-high murder rates and abysmal education (by design).

In Huckleberry Finn, Huck knew that finding himself in Arkansas meant all was lost in terms of saving Jim. Why does the state take that as a badge of honor, Mr. Cotton?

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I take great comfort in knowing that, no matter how tough Mr. Cotton screams at the world, we will all continue to get him mixed up with Josh Hawley and make jogging jokes about him.

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Cowardice is always loud and brazen. True valor is quiet and reserved. Good ol' Tom is of the former variety. Loud mouthed sissy pants kind of guy. Like Trump will start a fight and then run from it.

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Cotton always reminds me of Douglas C. Neidermeyer, who was shot in the back by his own troops in Vietnam. It is a testament to the U.S. Army's body armor that the back plate really does stop a round. Too bad his platoon didn't switch the plate with foam rubber.

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So why didn't he grab a pistol from a Capitol Police officer during the mob violence there on 1/6/2021 and start firing away? Or was he too busy trying to find a place to hide knowing that mob would beat the shit out of anyone in a suit and figure out who it was later. Like his virtual twin Josh Hawley, who was seen scurrying around seeking safety after giving the mob a fist pump encouragement earlier. Real tough guys.

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Ta, Evan. I. Just. Can't.

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It seems that Republicans have had a serious break with reality. They long to return to a fictional America that only ever existed in movies or on TV, and the men strive to behave as though they are characters in an action movie

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What Tom Cotton is? A psychopath. Full stop.

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He disgusts me (he's on my "disgusting" list standing between Josh Hawley & Tommy Tuberville).

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Tom would've fit right in at Edmund Pettus Bridge. Whackin' the darkies for shits and grins.

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God forbid anyone in Arkansas should ever be inconvenienced. If people in Arkansas are ever inconvenienced for more than 5 minutes, tell them to move to St. Louis where they can be inconvenienced on a daily basis during morning and/or evening rush hour whenever a car breaks down or there is an accident on any one of the 4 bridges over the Missouri River and the 4 bridges over the Mississippi River. Whoever decided to build a city in 1764 at the conjunction of the two largest rivers in the USA was not planning ahead.

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Why does he care what happens in California? States rights, dude.

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Remember how on January 6rh manly Senator Cotton took matters into his own hands and started throwing MAGA insurrectionists off the House balcony? Yeah, me neither.

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Utter disgrace to the uniform he once wore.

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I'm guessing that he has a real issue taking his "problems" in both his hands.

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