Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), just tweeted that people inconvenienced by demonstrators should "take matters into your own hands."

[riversedge]

A United States senator, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), just tweeted that people inconvenienced by demonstrators should “take matters into your own hands.”

A few minutes later the tweet was edited.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https:/twitter..com/DonnaEdwards5/status/1780056246038516137

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

1. "Throwing them off the bridge into the water" would be murder/homicide, FYI.

[Marcus IM]

2. He seems to have very broad support all around. n/t

[BannonsLiver]

22. This isn't Cuba under Castro.

These protesters won’t have hoods placed over their heads and shot for their political opposition to Dear Leader like Fidel and Co. did back in the day.

[Marcus IM]

24. Please provide these facts of protestors.

Otherwise I'll take your comment for what it's worth, like many other uninformed and preposterous claims you've made about Cuba.

[BannonsLiver]

25. "These facts of protestors"

I’m not sure what that is supposed to mean, but are you saying they have been kidnapped and machined gun and buried in mass graves like Castro did in the utopia of Cuba? I don’t think that happened.

It did happen in Cuba though. Here’s the noted western imperialist organization Human Rights Watch outlining it all.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression

[Marcus IM]

32. Nope. No mention of machined gunned protestors buried in mass graves

As per usual, your over the top fabulation like "western imperialist organization" is useless.

But, thanks for the link.

[BannonsLiver]

33. So you don't believe Human Rights Watch either?

Plenty more where that came from!

[BannonsLiver]

34. I'll avoid the sarcasm since it appears to be lost in the language differences

But as you can see your hero does not have a great track record:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/27/fidel-castro-dictator-legacy-abuses

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/opinion/in-cuba-9240-victims-and-counting.html

https://hrf.org/cuba-60-years-of-revolution-60-years-of-oppression/

[Marcus IM]

35. My hero? Oh please. Stop attacking and trolling me. You know nothing about me. Please stop.

Plus, you know nothing about Cuba.

Now, please leave me alone.

[yardwork]

29. Certainly, the Republican Party has the support of the protesters.

The more they encourage people not to vote for Joe Biden, the more likely they make it that Republicans will have complete control.

And then all protests will stop.

[lastlib]

3. What d'ya s'pose people inconvenienced by Tom Cotton should do?

If we're inconvenienced by demonstrators, could we just throw Tom Cotton into the river and scare the demonstrators?
(I know, that's a terrible thing to do to fish........)

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Not very lawyerly of Tom Cotton.

A graduate of Harvard Law.

[Takket]

5. Uh. Yeah. Look.

Regardless of how you feel about this type of protest I think we can all agree that we shouldn’t murder people for blocking traffic.

[jmowreader]

6. Tom Cotton seems to not understand one thing...

Too much "taking matters into your own hands" will cause the protesters to start taking matters into THEIR own hands...which will, eventually, start the civil war the GOP seems to dream of.

[gopiscrap]

7. what a total worthless piece of shit

he has no redeeming value, but then again neither does any other conservative or republican

[sakabatou]

8. I wouldn't be surprised if someone intentionally run over the protestors

with the perpetrator saying, "Tom Cotton said I should take it into my own hands."

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I believe that the ACLU calls them "hit and kill bills" - now legal in some states after the death of Heather Heyer

During the protest of neo-nazis marching in Charlottesville.

[LeftInTX]

13. I didn't know that

[Rhiannon12866]

14. I learned about that in Mary Trump's second book

Unbelievable.

[bdamomma]

23. hmm....

inciting violence are you, Tom Cotton???

[LeftInTX]

10. Are they a problem in Arkansas?

[gembaby1]

15. He is a coward who wouldn't do squat. I wish US laws were stronger on inciting violence.

[ActRaiser]

18. Right

Vicarious violence is the hallmark of a coward.

[bottomofthehill]

16. What is the difference between these asshats blocking the bridge

And that enormous asshat Governor Christy and his team blocking traffic at the GW. Hint, nothing. They are both assholes.

[Voltaire2]

30. Christy was engaged in political corruption.

He used government resources to block the bridge for his political gain. That was a corrupt act. Hint: political protests and government corruption are not the same.

[Blue Idaho]

17. Cotton is one miserable old SOB

I wish he’d do something useful for once, like jump off a bridge.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. A cry for traction.

The NAZI Tom Cotton wants to be veep for Putin's Puppet.

[Takket]

20. You know the really sick this about this

If you kill someone and say Tom Cotton told you to, he will suffer NO repercussions. You will bear the full repercussions of that killing yourself.

[mnmoderatedem]

21. you see where this is leading

someone will take it literally, severely injure or perhaps kill someone, go to prison for their crime, and Cotton will suffer no repercussion.

A la trump and Jan 6.

[Voltaire2]

28. wait are you saying that Cotton meant this 'metaphorically'?

I thought we reserved that level of bullshit for explaining away biblical horrors.

[WarGamer]

26. Just yesterday read someone here suggesting cutting arms or legs and not chains.

[Voltaire2]

27. They desperately want a civil war.

[brewens]

31. I'll keep that in mind if I'm dying of cancer and am held up by a Nazi protest.