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Josh Hawley (r): litmus test

26 Sunday Jul 2020

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Stare decisis.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today, from Josh Hawley (r), in yet anther attempt to set up his next rung on the ladder for 2024:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Before I vote for any future Supreme Court nominee I want to see record evidence that they acknowledge Roe v Wade was wrongly decided as a matter of law
[….]
3:49 PM · Jul 26, 2020

Some of the responses:

When you have a uterus, I will give your opinion careful consideration.

Stop trying to control women!! My body is none of your business!

That should not be how we pick judges. Any judge willing to so brazenly prejudice themself in front of the Senate doesnt deserve a seat on the bench even if I agree with their opinion.

so you want to make sure these hypothetical justices are committed to killing women

As if I needed another reason to actively work against you next election.

How about we move the country forward, not backward?

We will not “win” if we overturn Roe v Wade, and we won’t “lose” because we haven’t. Get over it, Senator, it’s time to stop treating us as a one-issue party. We don’t want litmus tests from the left, and we shouldn’t demand them on our side.

Someone is running for President.

Obvious by his disregard for his constituents and constant political stunts.

How much time and energy do you spend fighting for human life after they are born?

Not so much in Missouri.

God damn it, dude. We’re trying to run a nation here, not a bible school for backwards ass white men. Drop the misogyny.

First of all, NO. Secondly, how is this helpful right now. More authoritarianism from the patriarchy is not what we need to unite this country.

Politicians don’t belong in medicine. You take your religiosity and your judgment to church with you. Let us take care of medical decisions.

Whatever, Commander Waterford.

Can’t wait until Hawley is blocking all noms because the only people who fit his criteria are in jail for blowing up abortion clinics.

YASS! We need the Senate to just dictate to the SCOTUS how to rule on all controversial cases, because we all know how much more qualified politicians are to deliver fair justice.

And Republicans wonder why they’re losing suburban women in droves.

These culture wars are waged so elites like Hawley can pick our pockets for his big money donors. And yet people fall for this con again and again.

And as a supposed pro lifer, do you also want to see if they are cool with keeping brown kids in cages or allowing secret fed police to brutalize moms and vets, and if they hate health care?

Resign in shame, you terrible embarrassment to my state

You fill me with enthusiasm! For voting for your opponent! Can’t wait.

Please explain to us why you were afraid of witnesses during impeachment.

Too much truth about the president you worship?

This is just a tactic to get his base fired up. Distraction.

Fuck You, Josh Hawley.

What else do you do aside from being a shitbag of a human?

You will be replaced.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Whatever. You’ll be in the minority soon.

Spouting the same old tired shit

Fascist

In just a few months you will belong to the minority party, at which point you will cease to matter. In 2024 you will be voted out and we will never hear from you again. I look forward to all of this.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

It didn’t mention “ladder climbing”

23 Thursday Jul 2020

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Funny that.

This morning:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Still waiting to hear back from the Smithsonian on this absurd and offensive chart. I want to know who came up with it and who signed off on it. So far, crickets
[….]
6:57 AM · Jul 23, 2020

“…I want to know who came up with it…”

Uh, their name is listed as a source at the bottom.

A few of the comments:

Karen, the manager is busy.

Still waiting to hear back from @HawleyMO on tweets and calls to his office asking for his position on issues that impact Missourians. I want to know why a senator who ignores his constituents thinks he has any room to call others out. So far, crickets

I want Congress to act on Russian bounties on our military men & women. Still waiting on my Senator. So far, crickets.

Still waiting to hear back from you about doing town halls

Ask yourself why is this offensive to you? Why does it make you uncomfortable? Is this information inaccurate? What part of it is untrue?

Hi Josh, I’m a constituent and I still haven’t recieved my first stimulus check. Can you manage things like that instead of this culture warring?

Why do you pick the absolute dumbest fights to fight?

2024? Just asking.

Your reply just validated the purpose of the chart. Well done Senator [Man facepalming]

Russians paying bounties for American soldiers. Still waiting from some sort of response. Crickets.

Are you following any of this Covid stuff, Senator? How about the economy? What about the Russians paying a bounty for the lives of U.S. soldiers? Maybe you should pick up a newspaper….

Josh you gonna be okay? You’re doing so much hard work on all the important things during this trying time.

Crickets.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Pandering sociopath

18 Saturday Jul 2020

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

From the CDC, in May:

High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice — Skagit County, Washington, March 2020

…On March 17, 2020, a member of a Skagit County, Washington, choir informed Skagit County Public Health (SCPH) that several members of the 122-member choir had become ill. Three persons, two from Skagit County and one from another area, had test results positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Another 25 persons had compatible symptoms. SCPH obtained the choir’s member list and began an investigation on March 18. Among 61 persons who attended a March 10 choir practice at which one person was known to be symptomatic, 53 cases were identified, including 33 confirmed and 20 probable cases (secondary attack rates of 53.3% among confirmed cases and 86.7% among all cases). Three of the 53 persons who became ill were hospitalized (5.7%), and two died (3.7%)…

Of course, we can count on Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
From the lawsuit: “Since the initiation of the lockdown, restrictive mandates in the state’s health orders have been applied to houses of worship unfairly and much more aggressively than other(s).” You can say that again
[….]
11:51 AM · Jul 18, 2020

Some of the responses:

You’ll have plenty of time to exercise your right to pray when hooked up on a ventilator. I couldn’t care less of that is your choice to do but the messed up part is your ignorant self will spread it to truly innocent others. Get over your damn self.

Don’t you ever take a break from this performative sniveling, Folksyjeans?

You realize gathering in a big building and spraying respiratory droplets en masse is a BAD thing during a pandemic, right?
If God doesn’t get that, maybe you shouldn’t be worshiping him rn

Please find a new topic to harp on. Here’s one that concerns all of us. How come it takes 10-14 days to get a Covid-19 test result back? It’s unconscionable that 6 months into the pandemic, we’re still this bad at the most basic aspect of controlling it. #GOPFAILEDUS

Singing in California, Confederate statues in the South, the NBA… Is Josh Hawley ever concerned about what is happening in Missouri? Nope, he just likes novelty issues that he can virtue signal over. Easier than governing.

Have you read the statistics on how many people have gotten Covid from indoor services? On no, that’s right, the President removed the statistics from the most knowledgeable source. Are you sending your children back to school? Do you attend services with singing?

My church actually values the safety of its congregation by holding virtual services. We are still able to gather and worship God without putting each other in harm’s way.

Yes because you can’t pray at home in a pandemic- it’s in the Bible somewhere – also I love that verse about not helping others and protecting each other is not allowed.

Stop pandering and do the right thing.

Not gonna happen.

How foolish.

Just stop

Quit Whining

Since I’m from Missouri, flattering words neither impress nor convince me. I’m gonna need you to show me.

So if the parishioners would like to attend in-person services with dozens and hundreds of others, and spray each other with potentially contagious droplets, and then go out in the world and do the same to others, whose freedoms have been violated?

So your god only cares about you if you gather in large groups and sing? Those prayers are somehow more important to your god than they would be if your prayed silently by yourself to keep others safe? Sounds like a pretty crappy god.

Senator, you’re full of crap.

Your lack of common sense is astounding.

We knew that.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Previously:

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): you first, asshole (April 15, 2020)

Harvard beats Yale, like a drum

11 Saturday Jul 2020

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“…Get your shit together, Josh.”

Uh, yep.

Lindsey Simmons (D) [2020 file photo].

Late last night:

Lindsey Simmons @LynzforCongress
I hold my breath each time my phone rings. Hoping it’s my husband. Hoping he’s safe during this deployment.

A deployment where he has a bounty on his head from a country our President offers aid to.

And you’re over here blasting Mickey Mouse.

Get your shit together, Josh.

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO · 14h
My phone has been ringing off the hook with lobbyists from @espn, from @Disney, the works. Let’s make this simple. I’m inviting ESPN CEO Jimmy Pitaro to Washington. My office. Let’s sit down and discuss ESPN, #China, the @NBA. Look forward to his response

11:48 PM · Jul 10, 2020

Priorities.

Not even a close contest, Josh.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

Josh Hawley (r): take one for the team (July 10, 2020)

Josh Hawley (r): take one for the team

10 Friday Jul 2020

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Today, from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
If @NBA is going to put social cause statements on uniforms, why not “Support our Troops” or “Back the Blue”? Or given how much $$ @nba makes in #China, how about “Free Hong Kong”! Today I wrote to Adam Silver to ask for answers
[….]
8:28 AM · Jul 10, 2020

Senator Hawley’s (r) shameful pandering knows no Russian bounty.

Some of the responses:

You have appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show several times in the past year. Are you going to boycott him until he apologizes for questioning the patriotism of a Senator who lost two legs in combat? Or, are you only interested in the NBA?

There’s that, too.

People in Missouri are dying and you are wasting time attacking the NBA, which doesn’t even have a team in the entire state. Do something serious for a change.

Josh buddy, if you supported our troops you would be investigating and pressuring for answers on the Russian bounties. I’m amazed you found time to write this with all your Bible study

You remain horribly bad at your job. On the list of things Missourians care about right now, I can tel you not a single onf of them is, “What are NBA players wearing on their uniforms?” Also, hi:

You suck at your job

MO doesn’t have an NBA team so I’m not sure why you’re virtue signaling instead of working hard for ALL Missourians. Stop licking Trump’s boots for once, thank you

And one more thing…How does this serve your constituents? We have no NBA teams here. Why are you spending your salary hours on this?

In a time of uncertainty Missourians can always count on Josh doing the wrong thing.

Wow. People dying in overstuffed ICUs and you’re shitposting the NBA. If there’s a hell below…..

Missouri doesn’t even have a team…

Shortages of testing supplies. Shortages of PPE. Highest record of new cases since the pandemic began in Missouri this week. Rising hospitalizations. And schools are set to open in month. Definitely what is on the minds of moms and dads in your home state is the NBA.

Can you investigate russian bounties on US troops instead of writing letters to the NBA? But only if you’re really going to investigate it… smh nevermind.

Yes. This is the most pressing issue of our time

That might have been sarcastic.

This is my Senator. I have called his office daily since finding out Russia has placed bounties on US soldiers like my son. I’ve never had a return call, email, or letter. Hawley doesn’t care about our troops but does care about NBA uniforms. @HawleyMO #MOLeg

Don’t you have a real job to do somewhere?

It’s just a step on the ladder.

Same Josh who said that he wouldn’t use the Missouri AG job as a stepping stone to higher profile job.

Stone, ladder, almost the same.

I’ve got more ideas! “Protect Our Troops from Bounties” (too wordy?) “Fully Fund Our Schools,” “Protect Everyone’s Right to Vote,” or even, “Trust Science!”

With all the things wrong in Missouri I would think you could find a better use of your time. But….it’s you.

Based on your words and actions, you are not a good person.

Mr. Hawley,
Your letter (really a complaint) once again shows how insanely hypocritical and petty you are what with all of the real problems & dire situation America is now engulfed.
You are so out of touch with your responsibilities!

Josh Hawley: the benchwarmer of senators.

Since when do junior Senators get to dictate what’s on a jersey? How about you splash the name of some of your lobbyists and corporate hacks on the back of your three dollar suit?

Your state hasn’t had an NBA team in three and a half decades.

We had a team once?

With any luck they write back “Mind your own business “

Or something like that.

I think this backfired on you. Hold on, let me check. Yep, it backfired.

On, and on, and on, and on…

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Josh Hawley (r): on the outrage of Donald Trump’s (r) inaction on Putin’s bounty on American troops in Afghanistan

27 Saturday Jun 2020

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“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

So far, this morning, the reaction to the news from Josh Hawley (r) – on Twitter and Facebook:

So far, this morning, the reaction in a press releases on Josh Hawley’s (r) U.S. Senate web site:

We’ll wait.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Josh Hawley (r): And that’s exactly why there are so many public statues of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, and Rudolf Hess across Germany

24 Wednesday Jun 2020

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You know, ahistorical cancel culture.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Today, from the junior embarrassment from Missouri:

Sen. Hawley Introduces NDAA Amendment to Resist Left-Wing Assault on History
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

[….]

This latest effort to unilaterally rename bases and remove war memorials, all behind closed doors, smacks of the cancel culture the Left wants to impose on the nation. Any discussion about renaming bases should be had in the light of day, out in the open, and it should involve military families, veterans, and state and local stakeholders. That’s what my amendment would do.

[….]

Apparently he claims to have attended elite schools that had high academic standards.

Sure, Josh, let’s hear what you have to say about honoring traitors with statues on public land and naming military bases after them. You know, out in the open.

“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce

Leave it to Josh Hawley (r) to be on the wrong side of compassion, again

18 Thursday Jun 2020

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In support of DACA – Kansas City – September 5, 2017

This morning:

SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog
#SCOTUS rules against Trump administration in challenge to decision to end #DACA program, which allowed noncitizens brought to this country illegally as children to apply for protection from deportation, holding decision was arbitrary and capricious
9:02 AM · Jun 18, 2020

Josh Hawley (r), “constitutional lawyer,” weighs in on the wrong side, again:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
The most disappointing week at #SCOTUS in years
[….]
9:07 AM · Jun 18, 2020

Some of the responses:

1/ Bible verses to help you get through your disappointment.
Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me

2/
Leviticus 24:22
You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.”

What are your favorite verses about how we are to treat the sojourner? Oh…wait….Have you posted any?

Josh, what has America become when the courts are ruling we can’t openly express our hatred for others?

Imagine being this upset that other people have rights.

Awww a great week for equal rights is a bad week for conservatives. Who would have guessed

Cry harder. Your tears are delicious.

Magic Hate Ball says “Most disappointing”

Thoughts and prayers.

I can only imagine how hard it must be for you, a straight white guy, to see others being left alone to live happy lives.

Your tears taste like cotton candy.

Why is so much of ‘conservatism’ predicated on making the lives of non-white, non-straight people miserable?

i guess you’ll just have to find another avenue for being a homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic asshole

It’s hard out there for a right wingnut.

It’s almost as if they are putting their country before their own political beliefs. I see why that would infuriate you.

That’s only because you are a pathetic person with hate in his heart and a warped sense of reality. Have a nice day

Few things feel quite as invigorating as seeing a sad fascist

Sorry you don’t get to oppress as many people as you wanted to.

Thanks for letting us all know how much of a bigot you are!!!

Bud, you can’t just go around violating people’s human rights and not expect countermeasures, thought that they might have explained that at Yale

Well, one of those fancy ones.

Hush and go sit in your hatin’ corner.

Thoughts and prayers

…and on and on.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

In support of DACA – Kansas City – September 5, 2017

Yep.

Josh Hawley (r): “It’s like watching a toddler put a bucket on their head and then run into things.”*

07 Sunday Jun 2020

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* from somewhere on the internets

Josh Hawley (r) took to social media last night in some kind of indignation:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@AbigailShrier⁩ nails it: congregating in public is now a “privilege” extended to political activists but denied religious believers
[….]
9:13 PM · Jun 6, 2020

Some of the responses:

You’re embarrassing Missouri

If people want to pray on the sidewalk, or other traditional public forum, they can. You’ve confused the ability to jam donors into a tax free semi-private club with free exercise of the 1st Amendment. As a former law professor I’d hope you might understand that.

Worship can be done at home, or remotely. Protesting systemic police brutality less so.

Wow tone deaf much?!

So your argument is that it’s OK for churches to have great numbers of people and get them sick? And that’s equivalent to people rightly angry about the overreach of the police? Strange Christian view to take, as I see it.

Read the room Mr. Hawley

He can’t. He’s running around wearing a bucket on his head.

Funny, my church doesn’t think it is wise to open back up yet and pushed their planned reopening. All on their own.

I live in your home state, Senator. Been to mass 7 times in the last 2 weeks. My church was never closed. Mass was done via live feed on FB or YouTube, but the church was open for worship, as were our homes. As far as congregation—did you see the photos from Lake of the Ozarks??

Let’s talk about it at your next town hall. Oh, that’s right, you were social distancing from your constituents before it was cool. Peaceful protests =/= riots and the church isn’t a building.

So much whining. Resign.

Congregations have continued to fellowship, pray, learn, and help during the crisis. They have used new and old methods. Sitting in a pew every Sunday isn’t the only way to #DoChurch. There are many believers in the protests you rail against who are standing up in His Name.

My God doesn’t require I be in a building. He requires that I stand up for & protect other sons & daughters of God for “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me”. Hence why protest is 1 of the MOST Christian things we can do.

Matthew 6:5 kind of sums you up, though, Josh. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.” Quit being a hypocrite.

Being outdoor with masks and social distancing carries relatively low risk.

Sitting and singing indoors in a packed congregation for hours carries much, much higher risk.

It’s not about elite privilege – it’s about scientific reality.

Well, God’s not real. However, racial oppression is very real.

Have church in the streets and pray for justice. I have seen multiple clergy at every march I have attended.

Maybe you don’t understand religion.

No heart in that grifter or Huckster Hawley.

Oh shut up. I attend services regularly. My children go to religious school.

We all know the difference between the right to protest violence against other humans and the right to pray. We pray with our congregation online but take to the streets to protest violence.

Get your head out of your behind, Hawley. I’m tired of the pearl-clutching Christian politics.

Utter bullshit. Who writes this tripe, anyway?

What an asinine statement

Wow, that’s an interesting twist of reality. You supported armed protesters with no masks pushing States to open. Now you bash peaceful protesters with masks and claim it’s the same as church.. closed room, communion, … yup makes sense to… nobody.

are you serious??? We can worship God anywhere but politicians like you have done nothing to combat racism so you drove us to the streets

You are so purposely obtuse. Disingenuous.

[….] overcoming systemic rasicism is beyond your intelligence. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

Not one time have you condemned the murder of George Floyd or ecaressed regret for the racism in America. In your few rare acknowledgements that this is going on, you’ve exclusively presented statements against the protests. Do you just not care about the POC you represent or….

“I’m a Republican Senator; we always quote scripture when we are committing a crime.”

Oh poor you. Loser

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Josh Hawley (r): Fascist toady

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

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Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

After last night’s assault by federal law enforcement on peaceful protesters in Washington, D.C. – so Donald Trump could hold up a bible for a photo-op:

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., stops to talk to cameras, says he has seen “conflicting reports” of what happened at the White House. Says looting and violence is detracting from what should be the focus on George Floyd.
1:11 PM · Jun 2, 2020

As always, some of the responses:

U should of told him it was in Hong Kong. Only then he would of believe you.

There was no looting or violence at Lafayette Park when Trump ordered the peaceful protesters to be gassed.

It was a peaceful demonstration. We watched this live on television. There is plenty of video/audio evidence.

Trumps fake photo op, (look at me) terrorizing peaceful protesters, gassing them, hitting them with shields & moving up curfew by 1/2 hour is a distraction. Trump saying he loves peaceful protesters, is a blatant LIE. He ordered his militia to “dominate” the crowd using force.

I didn’t realize the White House had been looted. What did the looters get? Did the media catch any of it on film?

[….]Republican corruption is only exceeded by cowardice.[….]

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].