Joke 3
1. ....the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have condemned violence. On the contrary, nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes....
The pace of looting and disorder may fluctuate from night to night, but it’s past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military “or any other means” in “cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.”
This venerable law, nearly as old as our republic itself, doesn’t amount to “martial law” or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested. In fact, the federal government has a constitutional duty to the states to “protect each of them from domestic violence.” Throughout our history, presidents have exercised this authority on dozens of occasions to protect law-abiding citizens from disorder. Nor does it violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which constrains the military’s role in law enforcement but expressly except statutes such as the Insurrection Act...
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html
2. Renowned Trump critic Jack Holmes has pointed out that Tom Cotton, the Republican Senator from Arkansas, is "one of the most brazenly irresponsible people in elected office today".
Source: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a31468352/fox-news-coronavirus-misinformation-elderly-viewers/
I coin an idiom "Let a cotton brain wield an iron fist" which means "Let a brazenly irresponsible politician exercise total authority." That is certainly a recipe for disaster as it could put all his fellow countrymen in mortal danger.
