Tom Cotton Accidentally Gives The Washington Monument An Awesome New Name

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) accidentally gave the Washington Monument a sarcastic new nickname ― and some people are hoping it’ll stick.

Cotton, who made headlines last week with a call to send the U.S. military into American cities, decried the cancellation of the TV show “Cops” and other elements of “cancel culture.” He warned that the “woke mob” could be “coming for any one of you.”

Then he predicted that cancel culture would come to Washington.

“Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down?” Cotton asked. “Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?”

On Twitter, the answer was a resounding yes:

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tom-cotton-washington-monument-094118070.html

[ms liberty]

1. Well personally, I really like The Obelisk of Wokeness

So yea, let's make it so!

[yellowcanine]

2. Me too. It has a panache the current name does not. Thanks Tom !

[MurrayDelph]

6. How about him?

[csziggy]

10. Is he truly woke?

Or has he just always been oblivious to the issues of the day? After all he keeps saying, "Ils sont fous ces romains" ("These Romans are crazy!&quot .

Hmmm - that has a ring to it - Oblivious Obelix!

[Harker]

18. That would take a lot of Gaul.

And you'd need an *.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. No Tom, they're just coming for you. Oh, and that Fucker Carlson too!

[leftieNanner]

15. Wish Arkansas could vote him out this year

But there isn't a Dem running against him. One person filed to run right before the deadline, and then decided to quit right after the deadline. We will have another 6 years of Tom Cotton.

[Lucinda]

27. We should watch him like a hawk

and make him explain in detail every move her makes....Maybe he'll fold and go back home.

[leftieNanner]

28. Yes we should

And I'm quite sure that he has designs on the White House as well.

[Lucinda]

29. no doubt!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. No way in hell the Washington Monument should be allowed to stand under that slave-owner's name...

It should be renamed, perhaps, to evoke a symbol that stands for the premise that black lives TRULY matter.

[lunatica]

11. Well he did win the war of Independence

We don’t have to condone everything people did but throwing everything out? Are you sure that if you had been a wealthy land owner back then you wouldn’t have had slaves?

[Mr.Bill]

12. He did the same thing Robert E. Lee did.

He fought a war against the army he used to belong too. With one difference.

He won.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Good thing, too. Otherwise we'd call it the George the Third Monument.

Or the Obelisk of Cornwallis.

[lunatica]

21. He fought for the independence of his country

for very good reasons. Taxation to fill the king’s coffers being one of them. He, as well as ALL the founding fathers fought for a whole new idea for a country for the times. A Democratic Republic.

Being a colony of the British Crown wasn’t all that popular.

Lee fought to break up a country. To destroy it.

[Mr.Bill]

24. Lee was fighting for the creation of a new country also.

The Confederate States of America. But he lost. If Washington lost he and many others would have been hanged. Lee should have been hanged along with many others.

[lunatica]

25. Why are we talking about something that never happened?

Perhaps we’d be better off if the South was a completely different country. We’ll never know. History happens.

[Mr.Bill]

26. It would be okay with me if

they left now, I can tell you that.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. No, I would not have owned slaves... those who did should rightfully be shamed.

[lunatica]

22. My point, since you missed it

was that George Washington was much more than a slave owner, and though that is shameful, there is much more to the man which we, as a country benefitted greatly.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

30. Since YOU obviously missed it, you asked if I wudve owned slaves & I answered your question, NO!!

And in response to your other comment, a NON-slave owner could have accomplished everything racist George Washington did... so fuck him!!

[lunatica]

31. Sorry for being snarky

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. That was very kind of you to apologize... no worries.

All the best!!

[customerserviceguy]

20. Be careful

Going after Confederate generals is probably rather safe, but going after Founding Fathers, no matter how flawed they are is dangerous in an election year.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

33. This is no time to be careful...we need to rid the country of all memorials&statues for racist pigs!

[customerserviceguy]

35. Yeah, that'll sell really well.

I'm just glad that Joe Biden has not expressed extreme views.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

36. Thankfully it's already started by renaming 2 elementary schools bearing the names of racists

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Statues, monuments, streets, buildings, and state/district names are next!!

[customerserviceguy]

37. So, what are they going to rename

Washington State to? I guess "Columbia" (an early suggested name for the state, because of the river) is completely out.

In another twenty years, when it's politically incorrect to feel anything but extreme comfort about equal marriage, I guess they'll have to tear down a lot more statues of 20th Century leaders who expressed reservations about being gay or lesbian.

Ah, what fun it is to judge 18th Century people by 21st Century standards.

[maxsolomon]

5. Jefferson was a Slave Owner, yet he did much that I admire.

His Bible redaction, the Declaration of Independence, the UV Campus, Monticello.

I cannot resolve these contradictions, but I'm not ready to dismantle the Jefferson Monument. We have to find a way through the contradictions.

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Jefferson was not just a slave owner, he was unusually racist for his time and place

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/10/thomas-jefferson-radical-and-racist/376685/

[maxsolomon]

8. Yep, all true.

He was a racist slave owner AND a founding father who contributed intellectual rigor to our nation's ideals and my understanding of Jesus of Nazareth.

It's a contradiction.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

34. Don't see why we couldn't replace Jefferson's statue with MLK's & call it his memorial...

seems like a simple solution!!

[spanone]

9. he must have brain damage from overseas deployment

[backtoblue]

14. His hometown has a big confederate statue

(Dardanelle, AR)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanelle_Confederate_Monument

Fuck Cotton.

[Major Nikon]

16. Maybe he should call the Dixie Chicks and beg forgiveness

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Come on - lighten up on the guy............

After all, he's working his way up to win the "Brightest Dim Bulb" title, in HEAVY competition with Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert - and you KNOW that's heavy competition!

[lunatica]

23. LOL!

I’m glad I’m not one of the judges in that beauty contest!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

38. I'm for renaming Trump Tower the Tower of Death.....

on the suggestion of thousands of immigrants, migrants, people of color, Americans without healthcare, Syrians and Iraqis.

KY.................