Cotton Compares Portland BLM Protesters To Confederate Secessionists

Two things that are the same to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon protesting against racist police brutality, and pro-slavery insurgents in the South breaking from the Union to preserve slavery.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1321524
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Someone put up statues of these people, quick!

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That’s funny as hell. Go tell the Lost Cause revanchists that their honored ancestors are the forebears of Black Lives Matter. I love it.

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Did the Confederates have Naked Yoga Athena? Or a Wall of Moms? I don’t think so…

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Oh, how rich indeed! Right wing Arkansan Tom Cotton the fascist calling Oregon protesters confederate secessionists. What a hypocrite!

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Cotton is upset everyone won’t just get with the pogrom.

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The comparison is inapt, you buzzard-necked yutz.

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I’m confused. Isn’t he supposed to be pro-Confederacy? He needs to be, to get re-elected.

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Actually. . . .

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All the President’s little toadstools.

Things getting HEATED at House GOP conference meeting right now.

Matt Gaetz & Thomas Massie both got on the mics and went after Liz Cheney for backing Massie’s primary opponent, per source in the room.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) July 21, 2020

Now Rep. Chip Roy is attacking Cheney for her support of Dr. Fauci, per source in the room.

He lamented that his liberal primary opponent retweeted Cheney’s tweet about Fauci.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) July 21, 2020

Reps. Louie Gohmert & Andy Biggs also got on the mics to defend Massie & express their concerns.

Biggs even accused Cheney of undermining their ability to win back the House & said if you don’t have something nice to say about Trump, then don’t say it at all, per source.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) July 21, 2020

Now Jim Jordan is laying into Cheney for all the times she has broke with Trump and started listing them off.

He said it'd be better if their conference chair helped Trump instead of going after him.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) July 21, 2020

Cheney did not back down from confrontation:

She defended Fauci.

She told Gaetz I look forward to seeing ur HBO doc.

She told Massie his issue is w/ Trump, not her.

She told Jordan I look forward to hearing ur comments about being a team player when we’re back in the majority

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) July 21, 2020
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Cotton Compares Portland BLM Protesters To Confederate Secessionists

Have they attacked a Federal Military facility yet? Has any state legislature passed an Ordinance of Secession?

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Huh? Confederate-loving AR senator compares confederates with supposedly violent communist antifa libruls?

Bubba ain’t gonna like that.

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I was thinking last night about some heist movie from the 70s where the crooks enter an impound lot and a Rottweiler starts chasing them and they throw out a piece of meat to distract the dog while they steal a car to use as the get away.

Hey RepubliCON voters. While you’re chewing on that red meat tRump and the rest of that party are quickly enacting martial law.

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Tom Cotton is a troll. TPM is feeding the troll.

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Cotton Compares Portland BLM Protesters To Confederate Secessionists

So, then, he supports them?

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Oh I get it. in the Southern White Christian mind there was no “Civil War”, there was the “War of Northern Aggresion”, so Cotton may be saying that the protesters are the good guys fighting for state rights and the big ugly Federal Government is waging a war of aggression to suppress their freedoms.

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That’s “Bobble-Throated Slapdick” to you. (h/t Charles Pierce.) Absolutely laughable that this U.S. Senator equates graffiti and peaceful demonstrations with firing shells on Fort Sumter.

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So, wait, I’m confused - Tom Cotton thinks Portland activists are exactly the same as his supporters?

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“First Publication Anywhere”

Nice touch.

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“And now, under false pretenses, we will visit it upon you the false narrative of what we believe you visited upon our granddaddies and what we’ve been taught all our lives to hate you for doing…and falsely accusing you of doing what our forefathers did is our way of making it taste sweet. You shall be violently subjugated and your dissent and refusal to complacently succumb will be treated as treason.”

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