Just like he’s a follower of Pinochet.
Demonstrators shut down the iconic bridge Monday to protest Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, and Cotton suggested that his fellow Arkansans would have tossed them into the water and glue their hands to the pavement, forcing them to rip off their skin to escape, and the "Morning Joe" host was disgusted by his comments.
This is really some “Try that in a small town” vigilantism bullshit. Someone falling from the Golden Gate Bridge — would likely die. Period. This isn’t funny.
Guess which side Cotton would be on at the Edmond Pettus bridge?
So yeah, this really got Morning Joe going off on a rant.
"Police officers would be the first to say, don't do that," Scarborough said. "Cops would say, please don't do that, please don't say that. Please don't take matters into your own hands. I'll put it this way. I doubt Sen. Cotton is any more exasperated than I am when I see people doing this, blocking people who are going to work or trying to take their kids to a doctor's appointment or trying to make an airplane at O'Hare [International Airport], so they can get home in time to see a kid's ball game or a recital, or just to get home to the people they love."
"There are ways to protest, and there's ways, I think, not to protest," he added. "This is extraordinarily counterproductive to any cause you're pushing, but here we have a guy, Tom Cotton, that went to Harvard, undergrad and law school, served in the military, who is talking about throwing people off the Golden Gate Bridge, ripping their skin off. We had a United States senator go on a network, national network, suggesting that Americans rip skin off of people's hands because they're aggravated and take matters into their own hands."
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"This is just beyond stupid on his part, beyond dangerous on his part, to say this, and I must say, this goes -- Tom Cotton that used to be on this show, pre-Trump, would never have said something like that," Scarborough said. "Tom Cotton that we interviewed time and again on this show would have never said anything like this. This shows how violence and violent rhetoric has become normal practice in the Republican Party. These are the people who are preparing for a guy who has promised to be a dictator from Day One."
And oh by the way — Cotton has a habit of suggesting totalitarian and authoritarian actions.
Cotton infamously called for the U.S. military to be deployed in June 2020, as protests raged across the nation over the police murder of George Floyd, and Scarborough drew a throughline between the senator's violent rhetoric and Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions.
So he’s always been a little jack boot dictator scumbag.
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And we have more from Kari Lake saying MAGAs should “Strap on a Glock.”
Senate candidate Kari Lake became the latest Republican to invoke the specter of political violence, and the co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed their disgust toward this alarming trend.
The failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate urged supporters to "put on the armor of God" and "strap on a Glock" ahead of the 2024 election, and host Joe Scarborough placed those comments into the same context as numerous calls for violence from Donald Trump and recent remarks by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggesting that protesters should be tossed from the Golden Gate Bridge for blocking traffic.
"You just ask yourself, why does a politician think that's the road to popularity?" Scarborough said. "Kari Lake talks about the armor of God and carrying a Glock, and for some reason with that audience, the Glock gets a bigger cheer than the armor of God. Back when I was running, at least for people in most audiences, armor of God would probably do better than strapping on a Glock."
Scarborough noted that Trump draws laughs and cheers during his rallies by mocking Paul Pelosi, who was brutally attacked in his home by a hammer-wielding right-wing conspiracy theorist.
"They still celebrate, and I say they, not just Donald Trump, you can all say, how sick Donald Trump is," Scarborough said. "Look at the audience, the audience is cheering. They're laughing that a man in his 80s got bludgeoned almost to the point of death by a guy that went in, I don't know, screaming, you know, MAGA chant, 'Where's Nancy, where's Nancy?' So this is, again, this is just the glorification of violence and the big question is why does this glorification of violence sell so well in Donald Trump's Republican Party? It's sick, it's sad, it's un-American."
The former president's gleeful embrace of political violence, which erupted into plain view during the Jan. 6 insurrection, has infected the entire Republican Party, agreed co-host Mika Brzezinski.
"It's scary, and once again we have to look at this for what it is or what it appears to be like," Brzezinski said, "and it's almost cult-like behavior, mimicking him, taking on his positions, even if some of them are evil and cruel and violent."
And it’s not just Kari Lake and Tom Cotton, Florida Candidate for the 24th District Lavern Spicer has some shit to say too.
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