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#never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #corporate greed #gun control #republican party #Republican political violence #Tom cotton #Kari lake

[workersolidarity]

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UNITED STATES SENATOR DOESNT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHINA AND SINGAPORE

📹 U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) questions the CEO of TikTok U.S., Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporian national, about his nationality and affiliations with the "Chinese Communist Party," an entity that does not actually exist.

Chew repeatedly states his nationality and history as a Singaporian, having served in the military, and mentions his loyalty to his home country before Senator Cotton begins ranting about the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

#united states #us senator #us news #us ignorance #us imperialism #us colonialism #singapore #singaporian #tiktok #tiktok us #us wars #us war with china #tom cotton #republicans #us obsession with china #politics #news #geopolitics #world news #global news #international news #china #communist party of china #breaking news #current events

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#talkin #tik tok #singapore #china #tom cotton #tonystatovci

[mysharona1987]

#Joe biden #gop #weed #democrats #republicans #tom cotton #politics

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dartagnan at Daily Kos:

As anti-Israel protests have spread across many of the country’s most prestigious college campuses this week, several Republicans in Congress have sought to burnish their pro-Israel credentials by calling for the U.S. military to respond.  Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton exhorted President Joe Biden to send in National Guard units, while obliquely encouraging motorists to run over protestors. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley similarly demanded a militarized federal response “to protect Jewish Americans,” while Mitch McConnell and John Thune penned a letter, signed by 25 of their fellow GOP senators, calling the demonstrators “anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist mobs” and demanding that “federal law enforcement” respond.

Meanwhile, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson paid a visit to Columbia University’s campus on Wednesday where he was greeted by catcalls and boos. Upon leaving, Johnson also declared he would be demanding that Biden deploy the National Guard to quell the protests if they continued.  As Adam Serwer, writing for the Atlantic, observes, these reflexive calls by Republicans for a military response to protests seem to be less rooted in genuine concern that the protests pose a serious danger to the public or Jewish people than “because these powerful figures find the protesters and their demands offensive.” Serwer points out that school administrators have, when necessary, called in local police to address potential violence, harassment, and property damage, and thus far, the protests do not evince the kind of “mass violence and unrest” that would normally suggest the need for federal involvement. He also notes that such a deployment of federal troops would likely escalate the protests. 

Without debating the relative merits or lack thereof of the protests themselves, then, it’s important to note that these demands for a federal militarized response are coming almost entirely from one side of the political aisle. As Serwer points out, they echo the same sentiments Republicans expressed in 2020 in response to the protests by Black Lives Matter over the police murder of George Floyd. 

In other words, thus far we have seen a markedly asymmetrical, political response by Republicans to  campus protests this week. But we are also witnessing something else: an explicit acceptance of a militarized solution to protests where Republicans find it politically advantageous. Notably, another well-known Republican has also proposed sending the U.S. military and National Guard units to quell anticipated public protests, albeit of a far different nature, should he be afforded another term in office. That person is Donald Trump, and the people he proposes to target are those Americans he suspects would turn out in the hundreds of thousands to protest the policies he intends to implement.

Prominent Republicans such as Tom Cotton, Donald Trump, and Mike Johnson are demanding a militaristic response to end the pro-Palestinian protests across the nation's campuses as a way of burnishing their pro-Israel Apartheid bona fides.

Such a response would further escalate protests instead of quell them.

See Also:

Vox: Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

The Nation: The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere

#Ceasefire NOW Protests #Colleges #Ceasefire #Ceasefire NOW #Israel/Hamas War Protests #Israel #Israel Apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #Tom Cotton #Donald Trump #Mike Johnson #John Thune #Mitch McConnell #Josh Hawley #National Guard #Project 2025 #Protests

[gwydionmisha]

#Tom Cotton #US Military #Abortion #Gender-affirming Care #News

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

MAGARepublicans always take the low road in pandering to their racist, bigoted uninformed base (which MAGA Republicans prefer)

#ted cruz #islamophobia #josh hawley #tom cotton #adeel mangi

[ent-maiden]

"He felt the cool mud about his toes as he paddled in the Pool at Bywater with Jolly Cotton and Tom and Nibs, and their sister Rosie." (Lotr pg. 939)

Sam has a beautiful, tormenting memory

I really wanted to draw this and only watercolor could do, even though I had never painted a background before. Interesting how he has paddled but clearly never learned to swim. Anyway I put a lot of effort into representing their comparative ages with Sam being in the front next to Rosie. (I found out she is slightly older than him!) Only once I started painting them did I realize Hobbits age differently but whatever.

#cute children #hobbits #the lord of the rings #sam gamgee #rosie cotton #tom cotton #jolly cotton #nibs cotton #mordor #poor water deprived sam #lotr fanart #watercolor #traditional art #hobbit children #and they were kids once!

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#this is so cringe #I think he is Singaporean #not all Asians are Chinese #not all Asians are members of the Chinese communist party #shou chew #much respect for the calm way he answers these stupid questions #the straits times #tom cotton #tiktok #racism #February 2024 #mine

[frodothefair]

He's just so... Tom.

Tom Cotton, Rosie’s brother, had been one of Marigold’s most tenacious suitors, and returned to renew his affections every time his courtship with someone else fell apart. And indeed, her and Tom, unlike her and Frodo, would have made sense. They were of an age, from similar families, they even acted and looked similar – but therein lay the rub. Being with Tom was like being with her own brother, not to mention the fact that Tom was just so… Tom. He was energetic, kind, hardworking, and generally without a flaw, but the truth was, he was boring. After knowing each other for many years, she could predict what he would say on any subject, and how he would react in any situation. Mostly out of an obligation to Rosie, she searched her heart many times for any shred of love for poor old Tom – searched with all her might – but could find none. 

--Excerpt that may or may not make it into "Yule," Chapter 16 of Flowers of Mordor. Canonically, as I'm sure many of you know, Tom is Marigold's husband. This is my nod to canon. @konartiste

#flowers of mordor au #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr fanfiction #lotr au #marigold gamgee #tom cotton

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Ballum-related spoilers from Digital Spy

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#Digital Spy #EastEnders #Spoilers #EastEnders Spoilers #Soap Spoilers #Ben Mitchell #Ballum #LGBT #Callum Highway #July #2023 #Anna Knight #Rocky #Tom Cotton #Kathy Beale #Harvey Monroe #Mitch Baker #Elaine Peacock

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Conservative Christian US Senator Tom Cotton giving his approval for war crime atrocities against the people of Gaza.

#israel #palestine #tom cotton #conservatives in the news

[nodynasty4us]

From the April 24, 2024 opinion piece:

“The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.”—a Monday tweet from Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton

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The recent rise in American antisemitism, on campus and off, is very real. But Cotton and his ilk are much less interested in addressing that than they are in demonizing protesters (many of whom are themselves Jewish) angered by Israel’s brutal ravaging of Gaza and pushing Columbia University to divest its endowment, and any other investments, from Israeli-linked businesses and institutions.

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Just a scanning of Cotton’s words outside newsprint should be more than enough to dispel any notion that the far-right senator is interested solely in law and order. Last week, after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked highways in major cities, Cotton tweeted out a lie that these dissenters were “pro-Hamas” and “encouraged” those stuck in the ensuing traffic to “take matters into your own hands”—before editing the tweet to add that people should “take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.” Back in 2020, the country saw a rash of vigilante drivers purposefully ramming into peaceful anti–police brutality protesters. So there’s not really much ambiguity as to what Cotton wants vigilantes—or the troops—to do, especially as cops clad in riot gear have begun to descend on other universities.

#tom cotton #vigilantism #fascism #antisemitism

[mitchipedia]

Kevin Drum: Congress got to yell at social media CEOs today.

… research really doesn’t support the notion that social media is harmful to teenagers. It seems to have both negative and positive effects, but they’re small and the positive effects overwhelm the negative ones.

Also: As Congress Grandstands Nonsense ‘Kid Safety’ Bills, Senator Wyden Reintroduces Legislation That Would Actually Help Deal With Kid Exploitation Online (Techdirt)

Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton doesn’t know Singaporeans and Chinese are different people. Or he pretends to be unaware of that fact to pander to his ignorant racist base. CrooksAndLiars

#MAGA #politics #social media #tech #Tom Cotton

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alex Griffing at Mediaite:

As pro-Palestinian protesters blocked major U.S. transportation infrastructure on Monday, from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the entrance to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, one Republican senator joined Fox News to call for Americans “to take matters into their own hands.” Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) joined Fox’s midday news programming and was asked for his thoughts. “Well, I feel very deeply for all those people who are trying to get to work or trying to pick up a kid. Very worried about the diversion of police resources where it needs to be stopping crime and cities like San Francisco, where firefighters are having to go there when they might have calls for fires out,” Cotton began, adding:

[I have to say, Sandra, I agree with you that you have to get to these are these, criminals early? If something like this happened in Arkansas on a bridge there. Let’s just say I think there’d be a lot of very wet criminals that have been tossed overboard, not by law enforcement, but by the people whose, road they’re blocking. If they glued their hands to a car or the pavement. Well, probably pretty painful to have their skin ripped off, but I think that’s the way we’d handle it in Arkansas. And I would encourage most people anywhere that get stuck behind criminals like this, who are trying to block traffic to take matters in their own hands. There’s only usually a few of them, and there’s a lot of people being inconvenienced. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense.]

Anchor Sandra Smith replied, “Clearly, Senator, as we watch this together, and to your point about the way different cities and states can react to this, you’re obviously saying that in your state you would deal with this much differently. As you heard from Paul Mauro, speaking from a law enforcement perspective, they know that there’s cameras on them. They know, that they can’t obviously hurt somebody. And the removal of these protesters, there’s obviously a very delicate balance to dealing with this. And the longer it goes on. It would appear the longer it’s going to take to resolve it.”

Sen. Cotton posted on X, doubling down on the call to violently remove pro-Palestinian protesters:

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urging vigilante action to stop pro-Palestinian protesters (who he wrongly labeled "pro-Hamas") from blocking roadways is part of his call to violently remove protesters by any means possible.

From the 04.05.2024 edition of FNC's America Reports:

#Tom Cotton #Sandra Smith #America Reports #FNC #Ceasefire NOW Protests #Palestinians #Protests #Israel/Hamas War