Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) aired his grievances over a school curriculum based on the New York Times’ “1619 Project” initiative in an interview published by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Sunday, going so far to argue that slavery was a “necessary evil” in the country’s history.
The stupid motherfucker is doing everything he can to go down with the TrumpTitanic.
I say let’s chain him to an anchor in the engine room.
“As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”
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Dear Sen. Cotton-picker,
Fuck You.
Luvs,
America
He’s got the White Supremacist vote in the bag…
The only “necessary evil” was those who created slavery weren’t willing to do the work themselves.
Cotton gives away the game in thinking our country couldn’t exist without slavery, versus arguing that we could have succeeded greater without it.
Cotton griped that the U.S. has been portrayed as “an irredeemably corrupt, rotten and racist country,” which he views “as an imperfect and flawed land, but the greatest and noblest country in the history of mankind.”
Why on earth would anyone with a brain give a shit about ANYTHING Cotton says… he is
Not necessarily in that order.
For a man harboring Presidential aspirations,he sure is tone deaf. Those quotes will haunt any national campaign. I’m not holding any esteem for Arkansas voters.
Man, weird how all these manfully manful alpha males are always the victims.
How’s that happen?
That’s what gets me about his comments.
Every president (one through sixteen) felt that the Union was more important than abolishing slavery. It required mid 1861 to 1862 for the politicians to catch up to the generals.
He already got that one by having a (-R) after his name.
By Senator Cottons logic 1930’s and 40’s Nazi era Germany was a necessary evil because it led
to a modern prosperous nation and unified Europe.
Slavery was not necessary.
And neither is Tom Cotton in the United States Senate after that remark.
You are too kind.
The truth is they were too fucking lazy to work for a living and it made them feel superior to be able to control someone.
Have to say, I do appreciate it when they stop talking in dog whistles and just say what they mean in a way that everyone can understand.
Hope some reporters took notes and are planning to canvas the rest of the caucus for their opinions. I hear Collins may be concerned.
I guess if you don’t want to pay a man for his honest labor then yes, Cotton Ball is correct it was a necessary evil, of course getting to rape all those black females was just the cherry on the top of that shit sundae.
Cotton is a modern day Republican. He would be a ‘copperhead’ during Sumner’s period.
A necessity…
Wow. The mask is truly off, in more ways than one. Could this put, what are we up to now, a 15th Senate seat in play? Lookin’ pointedly at you, Arkansas. Will it be the 21st Century or the dustbin of history?