tom cotton - spreading fringe conspiracy theories:

[IcyPeas]

Speaking on Fox News, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, raised the possibility that the virus had originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.

“We don’t have evidence that this disease originated there,” the senator said, “but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. oh dear dog ..

[LiberalFighter]

8. I use that word instead of god in the pledge. :)

[C_U_L8R]

2. We don't have evidence that Tom Cotton is a nose picker but....

[jaxexpat]

4. There are some who say they've seen him....

[Walleye]

3. So, if we kill some Chinese people, we'll feel much better?

[mercuryblues]

5. That conspiracy would be semi-plausible

If China hadn't infected its own population 1st. If I were going to be that duplicitous, I would infect a dozen or so people then put them on a plane immediately. Give them lots of money to go to places with large crowds, cough, sneeze, and let the virus do the rest.

[Hav]

6. I wonder whether this is a result of a Ted talk Bill Gates had

a few years ago when he named some details about a possible pandemic that are close to what we see now and some details that we normally see with the flu. The nutjobs went crazy believing Gates had a bio weapons lab in Wuhan and unleashed this.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. That's been going around for a long time.

They said it got loose somehow.

[pampango]

9. The classic CT rationale: "We don't have any evidence ... but ..."

And the RW base eats it up.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Cmon Tommy! We know it was created in the

nonexistent basement of the sex ring piazza parlor that HRC was involved in.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Tom Cotton is a danger to our Country.

Mark my words. He is an intelligent, manipulative psychopath loose in the halls of power.