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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Tom Cotton ... did he just threaten to invade Mexico?
It will be a national tragedy when we have to dismantle Trump's border wall to begin the new Mexican-American war
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Did Tom Cotton ... did he just threaten to invade Mexico? (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2019
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Anon-C
(3,430 posts)1. Feature of Putinism, delivered right on time.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)2. This guy is a walking nightmare...
You decide:
Tom Cotton?
or
"Beaker" from "The Muppets"
UTUSN
(70,674 posts)3. Wingnuts are just odious. & there is always another one like whack-a-mole.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)8. Wingnuts dominate the Republican caucus. The fringe became mainstream.
Those who think there are still many decent or reasonable Republicans are living in an alternate reality.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)4. Cotton is willing to invade or bomb any country. I guess Mexico has
the same right to invade the US to protect their citizens from being separated from their children or being caged.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)5. This is just like when Mexico threatened to invade the US after El Paso
in2herbs
(2,945 posts)6. He's just talking to the camera. It'll never happen cuz there's no oil to protect, unlike Syria
and the ME.
Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)7. Besides, I don't see the American Taliban supporting a war over Mormons...
herding cats
(19,559 posts)10. Mexico is sitting on around 10 billion barrels of oil reserves.
Way more than Syria.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)9. Cotton has been a warmonger as long as I've heard of him.
The thought of war has always given him a throbbing woody.
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)11. That's my Senator.
Makes me proud.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)12. Because we've had such success with fighting the cartels...