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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:26 PM Jun 2020

We've wondered who could follow Trump in the GOP? If anyone could be worse...?

...well, we have the answer. Tom Cotton. Trump is simply a moron with fascist tendencies, too stupid to avoid tripping over his dick. Cotton is the genuine article, and much more dangerous...

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We've wondered who could follow Trump in the GOP? If anyone could be worse...? (Original Post) First Speaker Jun 2020 OP

Yea he is a Eric Prince pro fascist Putin type. pwb Jun 2020 #1

Worse than Tom Cotton? NotAPuppet Jun 2020 #2

Cotten is far more dangerous that that clown. Big Blue Marble Jun 2020 #4

Gaetz has no actual power. He's a drunk-driving, loud-mouthed, back bench nobody. 11 Bravo Jun 2020 #7

Many have the stupidity. Many have the hate. CaptYossarian Jun 2020 #3

But Cotten has the smarts. Big Blue Marble Jun 2020 #8

That's why he didn't make the cut. CaptYossarian Jun 2020 #9

I have been warning about him for years Celerity Jun 2020 #5

Absolutely right there. There will always be threats waiting in the wings. yonder Jun 2020 #6

pwb

(11,261 posts)

1. Yea he is a Eric Prince pro fascist Putin type.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:31 PM

Jun 2020

Caligula in the present.

NotAPuppet

(326 posts)

2. Worse than Tom Cotton?

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:42 PM

Jun 2020

Don’t forget about Matt Gaetz.

Big Blue Marble

(5,074 posts)

4. Cotten is far more dangerous that that clown.

Reply to NotAPuppet (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:51 PM

Jun 2020

He is jones to be president and take over where Trump leaves off.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)

7. Gaetz has no actual power. He's a drunk-driving, loud-mouthed, back bench nobody.

Reply to NotAPuppet (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:55 PM

Jun 2020

A curiosity.
Cotton, on the other hand, is a United States Senator, and a seriously warped individual.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

3. Many have the stupidity. Many have the hate.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:49 PM

Jun 2020

To combine the two on a Venn diagram would get you:

Steve King
Louie Gohmert
Joni Ernst
Glenn Grothman
Roy Moore
Joe Arpaio
Brian Kemp
Scott Walker
Michele Bachmann
Anyone named Palin (except Michael)
Anyone named Trump (except Tiffany)
Sheriff David Clarke

Big Blue Marble

(5,074 posts)

8. But Cotten has the smarts.

Reply to CaptYossarian (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:56 PM

Jun 2020

A Harvard law graduate with aspirations for the Whitehouse none of those clowns will ever have.
Do not make the mistake of putting Cotten in the clown category, he is far more calculating and dangerous.
It is not accident that he is speaking today to a certain audience.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

9. That's why he didn't make the cut.

Reply to Big Blue Marble (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 05:14 PM

Jun 2020

The next Trump (to me) would combine stupidity and hate. I knew Cotton was a Harvard grad.

Cotton is more of a Nixon replacement: politically savvy and educated, but pure evil (what other Quaker would escalate the hell out of a war but Richard Nixon?). The OP was asking about the next Trump. A Repub like Dubya ia stupid, but didn't hate anyone but Saddam (He tried to kill my daddy). Cotton and Dubya would be in the outer circles of my Venn.

Celerity

(43,339 posts)

5. I have been warning about him for years

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:51 PM

Jun 2020

yonder

(9,664 posts)

6. Absolutely right there. There will always be threats waiting in the wings.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 04:52 PM

Jun 2020

And the threat he poses cannot be underestimated. He's got a secure senate seat and all the time to collect power. When he does decide to collect his chits, he will be a force to reckon with. Eventually, if not already, he will be the most dangerous of them all while he just waits to pounce.

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