24 Saturday Aug 2019
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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
A reply to Senator Josh Hawley’s (r) social media pearl clutching:
Rob Crudités @MeteorPen
Replying to @HawleyMO
Hey some state made you a Senator. The bar is pretty low to most jobs these days.
1:55 PM · Aug 23, 2019
That’s some serious Internets shade.
Oh, my.
20 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
The Senator (r) doth protest too much, methinks.
Josh Hawley [2016 file photo].
This morning:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Anti-Semitic “dog whistle”? Delivered at a conference organized by an Israeli Jew, to an audience of many Jewish-Americans, and from a guy who has been an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people? Nice try.
[….]
6:36 AM · Jul 20, 2019
“…Delivered at a conference organized by a[n] [far right wingnut] Israeli Jew…” Fixed it for you.
When the Dog Whistle Is Silver-Plated & Hand-Chased: Conservative Thinking At Its “Best”
It goes deeper than just an anti semitic dog whistle. The founders that crafted the political theory of the new nation, as seen in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, revered such Roman Stoic philosophers such as Seneca and Cicero and Marcus Aurelius. Ideas such as “All men are created equal” and appealing to “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind” and “let Facts be submitted to a candid world” are deeply Roman Stoic cosmopolitanism. The idea that human dignity is grounded in reason is deeply cosmopolitan. The idea that humans, all humans, by the mere fact of being human, are endowed with unalienable rights is deeply cosmopolitan. These are some of the aspirational ideals and principles of the European and American Enlightenments. These aspirational ideals are the legacy of the founding and our inheritance, first as human beings and then as citizens.
Hawley’s declaration that “It’s time we ended this cosmopolitan experiment” comes eerily close to “It’s time we ended this American experiment.” As Franklin said when announcing a new Republic, “if you can keep it.”
“…from a guy who has been an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people…”
Until it’s no longer convenient, right?
Previously:
Senator Hawley (r) gives a speech (July 19, 2019)
19 Friday Jul 2019
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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
Senator Josh Hawley gave a speech at the National Conservatism Conference. There were some interesting excerpts and turns of phrase:
…For years the politics of both Left and Right have been informed by a political consensus that reflects the interests not of the American middle, but of a powerful upper class and their cosmopolitan priorities.
This class lives in the United States, but they identify as “citizens of the world.” They run businesses or oversee universities here, but their primary loyalty is to the global community.
And they subscribe to a set of values held by similar elites in other places: things like the importance of global integration and the danger of national loyalties; the priority of social change over tradition, career over community, and achievement and merit and progress.
Call it the cosmopolitan consensus…
Universities, eh?
Merit, eh?
…According to the cosmopolitan consensus, globalization is a moral imperative. That’s because our elites distrust patriotism and dislike the common culture left to us by our forbearers…
They hate us for our freedoms?
…The nation’s leading academics…
You think they got there on merit? Just asking.
You mean like Yale, or Harvard, one of those fancy ones?
…The cosmopolitan elite look down on the common affections that once bound this nation together: things like place and national feeling and religious faith…
You think this was translated from the original German? Just asking.
…They regard our inherited traditions as oppressive and our shared institutions—like family and neighborhood and church—as backwards…
Interesting. You think people who attend Mosques or Synagogues don’t revere their families and value their neighbors and neighborhoods? Just asking for clarification.
…For the cosmopolitan class…
Is it just me, or do you hear “JEWS!” every time he uses that phrase?
…Because the truth is, the cosmopolitan economy has made the cosmopolitan class an aristocracy…
There it is again.
…financial instruments that benefit the cosmopolitan elite…
Like a freakin’ air horn.
…not the kinds of things a normal person without a fancy degree…
Dude, you attended a private school, Stanford, and Yale.
…The cosmopolitan agenda…
The dog whistle is strong with this one.
…They built a new republic governed not by a select elite, as in the days of old, but by the common man and woman…
Three fifths, dude, three fifths. The Seventeenth Amendment? The Nineteenth Amendment? Folks, that there is a real constitutional scholar’s writin’.
…an economy driven by money changing on Wall Street…
How biblical. We’ll give this one a “DOUBLE JEW!”
…not just in San Francisco and New York…
Uh, you do know there are a lot more people in those places? And “JEWS!”
…the cosmopolitan agenda…
There it is again.
In the back of their mind every Jewish person in America has the a sketch of an escape plan.
05 Friday Jul 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
This morning, via Twitter:
Tony Messenger @tonymess
Is there anything more peak 2019 politics than @HawleyMO going on anti-Nike and anti-Big Tech rants and then posting a picture of his kid on @Twitter wearing @Nike shoes?
11:38 AM – 5 Jul 2019
Some of the responses:
Not until next week, when he goes all in on Steak-n-Shake for some offense with a mouth full of skinny fries and a (vanilla) milkshake mustache.
@HawleyMO is a fool, and a tool of dark money.
@HawleyMO is still here? He’s been on the job for 6 months. Isn’t it time for him to start looking for a new job?
Something, something, ladder.
Yep, and the tough-talking Arizona governor was photographed wearing Nikes yesterday. Their favorite shoe is Nike Hypocrisy.
It is because is fake outrage. Just something to give the base something to be mad about. Without outrage the base doesn’t pay attention.
Our Junior Senator has nothing to say.
He is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Typical Hawley!
Now this is funny.
02 Tuesday Jul 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
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Josh Hawley, Nike, pearl clutching, shoes, social media, Twitter, wrap yourself in the flag, Wrapped in the Flag
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
This afternoon’s pearl clutching from Josh Hawley(r):
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Nike should apologize to Americans for denigrating the flag. They should apologize to Missourians who lost loved ones defending the flag. And they should restart production of the Betsy Ross shoe at their facility in St Charles, MO
12:42 PM – 2 Jul 2019
What a self righteous schmuck.
Some of the responses:
Start with your potus first.
#FakeOutrage
Literally zero Missourians died to defend the Betsy Ross 13-star flag. True historical fact.
Wish you would care more about the kids that are being treated cruelly at the border than what flag Nike decides to put on its products.
One question, how many Missourians died defending the Betsy Ross flag?
You should tell us who the dark money donors were who bought you that Senate seat
Heh.
Zero Missourians died defending a flag with thirteen stars, as it was the 24th state.
Which Missourians died defending that flag?
Which one of those 13 stars represents Missouri?
Lotta Missourians died defending that flag did they?
Should your focus really be on shoes? Your concerned about shoe design, but cool with kids in cages? Asking for a friend… and myself…and a bunch of other people. Ashamed to have you representing the state I love.
I remember in April when GOP m members of Congress reached out to big pharma companies and told them not to cooperate with a Democratic investigation on price gouging.
Odd, the things they publicly ‘clutch their pearls’ about.
Are you going to go after the huge displays of American Flag adorned clothing at Target, Kohls, Walmart etc that violate US Flag Code too? Or just the Nikes?
Fun fact: Missourians never defended a 13 star flag.
Which Missourians died defending the 13-star flag?
“I pledge allegiance to these sneakers…”
it’s a shoe, bro
Poor Miserians. Died for a flag that wasn’t even theirs.
You think Donald Trump (r) offered to let Josh play with one of the tanks on Thursday?
Previously:
Sen. Josh Hawley (r): offered without further comment (July 1, 2019)
01 Monday Jul 2019
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flag, flag etiquette, Hypocrisy, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate, wrap yourself in the flag, Wrapped in the Flag
Josh Hawley [2016 file photo].
Today, from Senator Josh Hawley (r) via Twitter:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s birthday, it’s time we focused on the workers and families who built our country. The elite have had their day. The great American middle deserves theirs
[….]
9:59 AM – 1 Jul 2019
4 U.S. Code § 8.Respect for flag
[….]
…(d)The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free….
24 Monday Jun 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, Resist, social media, US Senate
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#resist, Donald Trump, Iran, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, Twitter, U.S. Senate
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
From Missouri’s junior right wingnut sycophant in the U.S. Senate:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@realDonaldTrump slapped new sanctions on Iran today. Showing toughness and strategic judgment, which is more than you can say for his DC critics. Keep up the pressure but on our terms. POTUS also right that other countries need to step up & help protect the Strait
12:02 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Somebody wins the Internets today. One of the responses:
American Carnage @Cynfulfan
Replying to @HawleyMO @realDonaldTrump
Is it Strait or Straight? You can’t both be right.
1:38 PM – 24 Jun 2019
Alrighty then.
09 Thursday May 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
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Donald Trump, gaslighting, Iran, John Bolton, Josh Hawley, missouri, social media, sycophant, Twitter, U.S.Senate
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
From Josh Hawley (r), yesterday evening, via Twitter:
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
One year since the U.S. withdrew from the terrible Iran nuclear deal and Iran is already threatening to stockpile & resume uranium enrichment unless we prop up their failing economy. Our partners and allies should not give in to nuclear blackmail
[….]
6:35 PM – 8 May 2019
WTF? Uh, Donald Trump (r) withdrew the United States from the deal.
Some of the responses:
Yes, Josh. When one side fails honor their end of a deal, the other side tends to not keep their end up either. One year of Trump’s policy and what do we have? Iran back to enriching uranium. Americans still in jail or missing. More chaos in the region.
Call me a skeptic but I doubt any man who negotiated his way to losing $1 billion over a decade is going to how the hell to negotiate a complex nuclear deal.
So maybe the “terrible deal” was actually a pretty good deal?
What partners?
Ironic or sarcastic? Your guess is as good as mine.
Don’t you have some kid’s video game to ruin?
That’s definitely sarcastic.
The 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council+Germany+Iran were signatories.The only country to break the treaty & exit the deal is the US.
Deal was verifiable.
The US is pushing Iran into a corner.
Mortifying but true: our country is the one destabilizing this situation.
We abandoned the deal unilaterally, and somehow the Iranians are supposed to be the bad guys for adhering to the deal we abandoned for an additional year?
Does anyone in your office have _any_ respect for your constituents? Your contempt for us and reality is pathetic.
This is perhaps the most dumb tweet you’ve made. And that is an impressive accomplishment.
I’m sad that I have to wait so long to vote against you.
Josh, I’m no foreign policy expert, but it might have something to do with the #BillionDollarLoser withdrawing from the deal for no good reason and against advice from both his Sec. of Defense and National Security Adviser. Also, you are an embarrassment to Missouri.
Well, compared to Donald Trump (r) you certainly are a foreign policy expert.
Hey genius, they weren’t threatening to stockpile & resume uranium enrichment when the “terrible” deal was in force. You sure you went to an elite law school? [….]
One of those fancy ones.
What did we expect to happen? I don’t get “already.” We walked out on the agreement. This had to have been expected, no?
Expect Kim Jong-un to be thinking that it would be stupid to make any deal with Trump.
Your complicity to this failed white house is putting our country in danger.
Thanks to orange Nixon’s tax cut the deficit is higher than ever, you and your cronies are trying to get rid of what little healthcare we have, and now you’re advocating for another war?
Utter bullshit.
Sign up for your own damn war and take the 1% with you.
Whatever trump says the puppet repeats. You are a dangerous sycophant.
We noticed that, too.
What would you expect them to do-we pulled out of the deal. Spare us your fake outrage. It’s similar to how you ran your Senate race running commercials about health care-straight up lying -you were part of the lawsuit. We’re on to you #Gaslighting
You realize you’re owning yourself in this tweet, right?
No. But he did attend one of those fancy law schools.
What allies? We ditched them all when we unilaterally backed out of the agreement.
Senator, I’m not really hearing a solution here. What’s the GOP’s plan here? So far Trump broke America’s word, removing all incentive to slow down Iran’s enrichment program, all while making incendiary comments increasing tensions. What are you doing as my senator to solve this?
Nothing.
Dumbest fucking thing I’ve read today. Good job.
I can’t believe you’re actually whining about Iran not holding up their end of a deal your boss walked away from. You are an empty shirt, and a syncophant of the highest order. A soulless automaton that cannot think for itself.
You and your idiot ignorant party will drag us into a huge war. The republican party has zero clue with regards to common sense, let alone geo-political affairs.
You effing morons.
03 Friday May 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, social media, US Senate
Tags
ACA, health care, Josh Hawley, missouri, Obamacare, social media, Twitter
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
This:
Pamela Merritt @SharkFu
The only questions anyone should have for Josh @HawleyMO should be about his plan to maintain healthcare access if his lawsuit guts ACA. He placed healthcare in peril for thousands of Missourians. Where’s the policy? What’s the plan? Hello? How do you sleep at night?
7:40 PM – 2 May 2019
“…How do you sleep at night?”
Probably doesn’t. Working out? Shopping for wine? Oh, wait, that’s during the day…
01 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in Josh Hawley, US Senate
What a hack. He’s all in, but, then, we already knew that.
“Make America Great Again”
Via Twitter from Josh Hawley (r):
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
You want to know why the FBI spied on @realDonaldTrump & launched multi-year investigations? It’s about @realDonaldTrump VOTERS. Unelected progressive elites in our govt have nothing but contempt for them. Total, complete contempt
[….]
1:34 PM – 1 May 2019
He hasn’t figured out yet that he has over six million constituents. What a hack.
Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].
Useful idiot.
Previously:
Go ahead, hitch your little red wagon to that runaway freight train (May 1. 2019)
