GOP Senator vows revenge on "those who inflicted (coronavirus) on the world."

[Dennis Donovan]

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Marty Kady ✔@mkady

Sen. Tom Cotton release this morning: "We will emerge stronger from this challenge, we will hold accountable those who inflicted it on the world." What does that mean?

9:45 AM - Mar 12, 2020

Just... wow. Absolutely bonkers!

[Renew Deal]

1. More China baiting

I have no idea what the purpose it.

[Claustrum]

6. They have to find a scapegoat

They have to find a scapegoat or else people would put the blame (rightfully) on them.

[edhopper]

2. War on bats!

[EndlessWire]

67. Yeah!

Or some other little creature. Let's bomb China and get rid of our debt to them!

[Newest Reality]

81. Yup!

We have a new token enemy: terrorist bats!

However, I am also very concerned about the duck sleeper cells and a pig jihad.

We must fight them on every front, those treacherous fiends! USA! USA! USA!

[ooky]

3. Don't know, but sounds like he's changed his mind about it being a hoax.

[lagomorph777]

44. ...and he wants us to take revenge on the GOP, who are inflicting it on us?

Well, OK - we will take our revenge in November.

[Mike 03]

4. Does he mean bats, snakes or pangolins? nt

[JCMach1]

7. Apparently all those mofos better watch out... Unless

They live on a Trump resort

[USALiberal]

5. I blame GOD!!! Nt

[JaneQPublic]

18. For GOPers, it's God's doing only when...

he is punishing America for lgbt rights -- with hurricanes and floods and the like.

Then they see it as divine retribution.

[demosincebirth]

61. Italy?

[Wounded Bear]

19. Yeah, doesn't He have jurisdiction over plagues and shit?

Not the Goddess, she's pretty benevolent.

[USALiberal]

26. Lol! Nt

[ScratchCat]

8. Looks like they were given their marching orders yesterday

Every GOPer is now supposed to make statements putting the "blame" for the virus in American on anyone and everyone other than Donald Trump, no matter how ridiculous they sound.

[Dennis Donovan]

20. Yep! They're using variants of Wuhan and Chinese to describe the virus

It's clearly a concerted effort.

[dweller]

32. as long as it's a furiner

n/t

✌🏼

[scarletlib]

9. It means he is an ignorant asshole.

[dmr]

10. Oh, he's so brave!

What'd that goofball call it last night?

"Foreign Virus"

So, I guess Cotton's gonna go kick some "Foreign" ass.

[JaneQPublic]

11. GOPers sure are a paranoid bunch.

They're convinced everything bad that happens is a conspiracy.

[DBoon]

12. George Soros and Bill Gates funded a bio-warfare lab in Wuhan

The virus is an escaped bioweapon.

No, i am NOT making this up.

Loony right wing conspiracy nuts have been spreading this. Tom Cotton is among them

[louis-t]

45. It's a 'patented' virus, doncha know.

Invented in U.K., I hear.

[DBoon]

52. so everyone who is infected will have to pay royalties?

That's a scheme worthy of Doctor Evil himself.

[Midnightwalk]

59. Is that why uk isn't in travel ban?

We have to bribe them to provide us the cure?

Or is it we need to allow travel there so they can ship us the cure?

Nah. They are just idiots.

[ramapo]

13. Insanity

What else can you say

[SWBTATTReg]

14. They're trying to sidestep responsibility for this virus landing on US shores to another fall guy,

China vs. rump.

Won't work.

rump is a clear and present danger to us all. RESIGN!

[brush]

15. Is there a "damn fool" requirement to be in the GOP?

[Laelth]

30. I think they take both fools and damn fools.

But, perhaps they upped their membership requirements lately?



-Laelth

[brush]

37. Heeheehee! I stand corrected.

[dchill]

51. It's DANGEROUS damn fools.

[brush]

58. Yep.

[duforsure]

16. Even if they had proof Putin did this

The GOP and trump would say nothing. Everyone knows if a person staying or playing golf at one of his properties has it, he'll hide it, and lie saying it didn't happen. Trump is not to be trusted with this, and destroying anyone in the GOP's chances come Nov. of getting elected after this. Trumps done for this.

[Aristus]

17. Typical "I'm-so-tough" bully talk.

Picking on something a lot smaller than he is, although the target of his laughable, Hollywood tough-guy act can kill him instead. That's a fight I want to see...

[CanonRay]

21. Look in the fucking mirror asshole.

[Laelth]

34. I could be wrong, but I don't think he's actually visible in a mirror. n/t

-Laelth

[CanonRay]

49. ROFL

[Laelth]

73. Make sure to tip the wait staff.

I’ll be here all week.



-Laelth

[Goodheart]

22. It means he's an idiot.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. He's bat....shit bonkers

[Sanity Claws]

24. I hope the rest of the world reminds Cotton about who inflicted the 2007-08 financial problems on

the world.
It was the fucking deregulated U.S. financial industry.

[Squinch]

25. Can't they do one day without being so public with their stupidity?

[dewsgirl]

27. I knew it would be this nutter.

[Bettie]

28. Tom Cotton is now at war

with snakes, bats, and pangolins?

FFS. Who votes for these idiots?

[Turbineguy]

29. GOP

Circular firing squad?

[Hobo]

31. Who cares

Cotton is an idiot ....


Hobo

[Brainfodder]

33. Come on you already knew Senator Cotton is not a brain trust member?

He is an installed controlled dope like so many.

They get told how to vote and obey, been pretty obvious.

Same thing in SCOTUS ffs.

The system is corrupted .

[bronxiteforever]

35. Tom Cotton is a turd dressed in a suit.

[Thomas Hurt]

36. I saw a comment from a nutjob on youtube saying Bill Gates has a patent on it...go figure

[Caliman73]

38. So he vows revenge on unregulated animal markets?

That is the most likely cause of the current COVID-19 virus. There are several articles about how China's unregulated market place where wild animals are caught and brought to market with no regulations, is the reason many of the disease outbreaks are starting in China.

So the GOP is going to go after unregulated markets? Sounds like a plan.

[hatrack]

39. "NUKE THE PANGOLINS!"

New GOP slogan for 2020.

[EndlessWire]

68. LOL! n/t

[lpbk2713]

40. And it's OK for Putin to ravage our entire system of government?

I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

[underpants]

41. Oh God man, enough with the Hunter Biden stuff

[procon]

42. Ignorant ass.

People like him shouldn't be in any position of authority precisely because of this disgusting level of deliberate ignorance.

Rather than searching for some mythical Patient One to hold accountable (and what the hell does that even mean?) Why doesn't he hold the people accountable who botch the tests, or the person who disbanded the agency that delt with epidemic diseases?

[grantcart]

43. Somehow they will blame Iran

[Buns_of_Fire]

46. Go get 'em, Rambo.

I'll hold your beer.

[Baked Potato]

47. Demonizing the "others".

[BigDemVoter]

48. Look at where he's from.

I spent enough time down there to know what it's like, and it isn't nice. . . .

[sinkingfeeling]

50. The SOB's brain was eaten by slugs down in Dardanelle.

[BeyondGeography]

53. Revenge is pointless

Boring good-government stuff like strengthening food safety will do.

[sinkingfeeling]

54. Sadly, the moron doesn't have a challenger for re-election.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

55. How about finding a cure first?

The fucking idiot.

[DBoon]

56. Are we now in the 14th century?

When Black Death was blamed on the Jews, resulting in thousands killed during resulting pogroms?

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

57. OMG!...hope that doesn't go viral...

[matt819]

60. War on bats and pangolins

If I were a bat or a pangolin in China, I'd keep my head down.

[Sancho]

62. Send Eric bat hunting in China????

[gademocrat7]

63. Cotton mouth spewing his special kind of venom, again.

[demosincebirth]

64. Some fit better in the Middle Ages

[PufPuf23]

65. Someone else said Cotton is an ignorant asshole and I concur.

There are parties that look to the cascading disaster as opportunity to expand their own interests, same as it ever was but the scale now is hard to comprehend. This is worrisome.

The impact may be on scale that can be compared to WWIII or the crisis could easily turn into WWIII.

Surely there are "utopians" among the powerful and wealthy that carry the idea that a massive reduction in global population centered on the poor and elderly is opportunity and solution to many global human problems.

[louis-t]

66. USA!USA!USA!

What, we have to declare war on a virus?

[SiliconValley_Dem]

69. Denial and now anger

Next comes bargaining

[rockfordfile]

70. He should be voted out

Who do we have running against him?

[sinkingfeeling]

72. No one.

[Patterson]

74. The Democrat withdrew 2 hours after the filing deadline.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

71. GOPer goofus sez: "Don't blame me; blame that Chinaman across the sea!"

Deflection, distraction, projection, corruption -- these are the defining characteristics of a GOPer.

[ck4829]

75. Oh, OK... I'll remember how we went from a shining beacon to a govt based on "owning the libs"

[Tucker08087]

76. He can start at CPAC

and Maralogo. They both seem to be hot spots.

[DarthDem]

78. Oh, What a Foolish Man

We're facing a global crisis, and this is the best he can come up with?

[beachbumbob]

79. start with trump

[vlyons]

80. Just more Us versus Them thinking

or rather "Me me me me me" thinking. Hatred is a mental habit. A long time cultivated mental habit. It can be overcome, but someone has to actually want to stop hating and then practice thinking different thoughts.

May the dark delusions of all sentient beings be dispelled.
May all beings be liberated from suffering, and from the causes and conditions of suffering.
May all beings rest in the equanimity of no more bias, attachment, or aversion.

[Newest Reality]

82. Maybe...

Maybe Cotton is a paranoid conspiracy theorist? It is going around like the flu. Really.

Let's see, so far COVID-19 is a US bio-weapon AND a Chinese bio-weapon AND caused by 5G AND on and on. I mean, even if they are contradictory, you can walk down the isle and fill your basic with a bunch of them.

So, out in whack-a-doodle land where your paranoia has to be directed at someone, (the vaguer the better) it would make sense to resort to boogie men because, IT HAS TO BE SOMEBODY'S FAULT.

He should just look at the virus-like Trump disease instead. It has infected many prior to this crises and it isn't easy to contain it.

[gibraltar72]

83. Pure unadulterated Bullshit.