Senator Cotton Suggests Protesters Should Be Thrown Off Bridges

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Republican Suggests Protesters Would Be Thrown Off Bridge in Home State

On Monday morning, activists protesting the war and calling for a ceasefire shut down Highway 101 on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, halting the commute into the city and resulting in multiple arrests.

Dozens of protesters had stopped their vehicles and blocked all southbound lanes of the span, demanding the U.S. stop arming and funding Israel in the war in Gaza as part of an economic blockade, organizers say according to local ABC News.

In an interview with Fox News, Cotton discussed the protests, stating he feels for those people who are trying to get to work and is concerned about the diversion of police resources, but adds that if the protests were to happen in his home state, the protesters would be "wet criminals" due to other people tossing them overboard.

"If something like this happened in Arkansas on a bridge there, let's just say that there would be a lot of wet criminals that would have been tossed overboard, not by law enforcement, but by the people whose road they are blocking," Cotton said.

Cotton continues to stress that there needs to be an end to the protesters as he encourages others to "take matters into their own hands."

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Again, you and Trump would both be fine with political civil service workers if they were pushing your ideology.

Yes I would be fine with a political civil service if they were pushing my ideology . They serve at the whim of the president and are not a separate branch of government.

That’s better than what we have Now which is a progressive one regardless of whose president

Yeah, because the Spoils System was famously staffed by incorruptible men.

What we have now is an ideological civil service whose goal is to push the progressive agenda regardless of whose president and regardless of what the president wants to do .

So yes there is nothing wrong with conservatives wanting to have a conservative civil service when a Republican is president. If you think this is a problem then you can always agree to pass the reins act and kneecap their powers but until then it’s only fair that the civil service under a Republican president pushes a conservative agenda .

What if I happen to think that the Republican Party in its current form is a dangerous threat to life and democracy in the US?

Then you should support efforts to kneecap the powers of the civil service

Kid, no, just no. The civil service is how a country is run, vs your goal of gutting it to make it fail and going “see, it’s terrible, we need to eliminate it”. It doesn’t work on people with critical thinking skills.

Ok then we get to run it to implement the conservative agenda as well .

Nobody buys the transparent bovine excrement "both sides" garbage anymore. The Republican position is just Whihoit's Law in a threadbare white sheet.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

That's it. That's all there is.

If "law exists solely to benefit the ruling party" were a remotely valid proposition (which it is not), then Biden should have GOP leadership nationwide executed tomorrow, and the Republican party banned, with its partisans shipped off to gulags. Which he's not going to do, no matter how much Republicans fantasize, because he's fundamentally a decent human being.

That's what American politics has come down to. An all-too-small majority of decent people who disagree on plenty of things but value their country and their humanity, and an all-too-large minority of volunteer orcs who think they're clever about hiding how much they want to be terrible human beings.