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Sen. Josh Hawley (r): missing another opportunity to hold open public town halls in Missouri

07 Tuesday Jan 2020

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Instead, he appears on the GOP propaganda network. Late last night:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@seanhannity had me on to discuss tonight: Nancy Pelosi & the Dems are afraid to try their phony impeachment case. They want to stop Senate trial. Maybe forever. Senate has to fight back!
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9:27 PM · Jan 6, 2020

He doth protest too much, methinks.

Tool.

Some of the responses:

Because it is phony, you have no problem in having Bolton testify before the entire Senate, right?

Wow the insanity of the right can’t get worse – or can it. John Bolton will testify – so let him and if he proves President Trump innocent that is better than pretending he wasn’t impeached – he was!!!!

“They don’t have any evidence.”?
They have plenty of testimony in the House Intelligence committee that shows Trump soliciting a bribe (a favor) from Ukraine and using military aid as leverage.

Trump’s escalating panic and McConnell’s struggling to prevent Republican defections as new witnesses and information keep appearing would suggest otherwise.

Seriously, your smug smile, I dare you to have a real trial. No one misunderstands your eagerness to dismiss…May history treat you with brutal honesty…

You are a total stooge for the party. Do you stand for anything?

Thank God Twitter doesn’t play sound automatically so my ears aren’t abused by your fake man of the people act.

It wasn’t a flatbed.

This is NOT partisan! A fair trial with witnesses is not an unreasonable request. Aren’t you fighting the wrong fight?

I didn’t want you in office either. I don’t know why you’re trashing Pelosi when the Senate rules haven’t been agreed on. Why don’t you get to work on that?

It’s a sad day when a California representative is looking out for me and my country more than my own Senator.

Well, it is her job.

You have got to be kidding. Vote to call @AmbJohnBolton to testify, then we’ll see the dog and pony show you have for us.

Fox and Friends in the morning and Hannity at night. You have plenty of time Basic Cable Pravda but no will to host Town Halls in your *ahem* home state.

You just don’t get it. Remarkable. How did you get through Yale on your own?

“Afraid” and “Nancy Pelosi” do not belong in the same sentence, unless you’re admitting you’re afraid of her.

@HawleyMO a disgrace to his State & his Country. His words & actions will find him out. Signed His Constituent.

Go on a real news network youngster.

I truly believe he is going to be President one day

Now that the bar is so low.

Again… Reminder: You are a public servant not a Fox News contributor. You have been in the Senate a year now, would be nice if you hosted your first town hall.

I like senators I can respect….and Josh isn’t a person I can respect.

It makes my stomach hurt that he supposedly represents our state to the rest of the country & the world.

You disgrace our state. Shameful. I’d ask you to come to Kansas City to discuss, bit that would interfere with all of your Fox News airtime. Would never want to do that….

Is it so hard to come up with Senate rules for a trial, and to call relevant witnesses? Are you so desperate to get the articles because your guy just keeps criming?

Your first problem is associating yourself with Hannity. Seriously, Josh, your decision to go on his show just screams partisanship.
Oh, and by the way, could you talk Trump off the ledge, please?

Did not know who you were before tonight. I saw a few minutes of your interview w/Hannity. Dear lord! Is every single US Senator as dimwitted as you. Clueless re decency, patriotism, facts, the Constitution….we need leaders in the Senate who give a damn re the truth and Anerica

Hawley, you are a fool. You have fallen into the trap of narcissism. Get some witnesses. Let Bolton, and the others testify. American people want the truth. You are stopping it.

You’re an embarrassment to MO and worse than that, you’re spreading false information. Wanting to call witnesses doesn’t sound like a “phony case,” it sounds like an honest one.

Thanks for clearly stating you support a corrupt asshat over your country

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Previously:

Koch Money: because Josh Hawley (r) will never need to hold over fifty open public town halls across Missouri (October 7, 2018)

Whereupon Josh Hawley (r) suddenly discovers that he has over 6,000,000 constituents (January 10, 2019)

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): see no evil, hear no evil, speak gibberish

02 Thursday Jan 2020

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

This afternoon:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Dems said impeachment was URGENT. Now they don’t want to have a trial, because they have no evidence. In real world, if prosecution doesn’t proceed with case, it gets dismissed. So on Monday, I will introduce measure to dismiss this bogus impeachment for lack of prosecution
2:07 PM · Jan 2, 2020

Some of the responses:

Does this mean you support have a real trial with witnesses? If so, tell McConnell. If not, you’re a hypocrite with this tweet.

lol bruh I went to law school with you – you know this is trash please stop

You are such a bootlicking hack. Happy New Year.

Hawley is such an elitist with no respect for his voters. Per @KagroX “The articles of impeachment were adopted on December 18th.vOn December 19th, the Senate went into recess, and @HawleyMO and his colleagues left Washington, and haven’t been back in session since.”

Congratulations! You’re a big fat liar because you know this isn’t true.

Lack of evidence?! That’s laughable. Why is the president refusing to allow witnesses and refusing to release any documents? Because as today’s document dump proves, Trump is guilty and everyone knew it.

The fact that you claim to be a Constitutional lawyer in your bio & you would put out this bullshit is absolutely pathetic. You have absolutely no clue what serving your Country & upholding your oath to the US Constitution really is.

Sad little man.

pretty brazen tweets given today’s revelations, sir. if you are so excited about it, come have a town hall. i live in the kansas city area. would love to hear your thoughts in person. i would call and ask for one, but no one answers the phone in DC.

Hawley is not really the Senator from Missouri. He represents the (unknown) political interests that own him and he will do what he is told even when it’s downright embarrassing like today.

The articles of impeachment were adopted on December 18th.

On December 19th, the Senate went into recess, and @HawleyMO and his colleagues left Washington, and haven’t been back in session since.

Or, and I’m just spitballing here – you could support a real trial with witnesses.

If you want a trial, go ahead and call witnesses. Call the Pentagon officials who were told to block Ukraine funding even after they questioned the legality of it.

Sir, this is Trump University Law School

Hey man, did you see the emails that were released today?

Probably NOT. It’s hard for them to keep up.

They’re pretty slow readers. And they skip the parts that make them feel icky.

It wouldn’t have been taken up in Senate until next week regardless. Stop the gaslighting!

Have you ever told the truth in your life?

Finally a republican willing to be Trump’s lackey and help him obstruct justice.

It looks like the KoolAid is strong in the Show Me state. So strong you don’t want to hear witnesses testify. It must be the “please DON’T show me because I put party over country” KoolAid.

Dude, the news drops are just killing you.
Plan on more and more coming out, because the Orange Chaos Mobster has a history of this kind of thing.

Disgusting. Everything stated in the whistleblower complaint has been confirmed by witness after witness. Hawley part of conspiracy to prevent further documents and testimony Trump is hiding.

Cracker Jack called. They want that law degree back.

Ah, elitist.

Lol there’s “no evidence” because your boy is obstructing us from getting it.

Hawley is an embarrassment to Missouri. Don’t expect honor, integrity, sense of duty, decency, honesty or putting country first. He is all about his own ambition.

If permitting witnesses would exonerate Trump, you’d vote to do so. Instead, you’re violating your oath and helping Trump rig his trial.

Spin it however you want, sycophant, but no one is going to trust you unless you allow a fair trial to happen.

Good Lord. You are a Senator?

And on and on.

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

The junior senator from Missouri speaks (sort of)

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

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Yesterday evening, from Josh Hawley (r):

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Joining @IngrahamAngle tonight to discuss the Dems’ latest stunts in the impeachment circus. Now Senate Dems want to call ONLY their own witnesses. Hunter Biden should be first on the witness list
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6:02 PM – 16 Dec 2019

Again, there was much hilarity in the responses:

You’re a stooge dude.

Yep, but Hawley does not even qualify to be a real good stooge. He’s more like Curly Joe.

Oh, bullsh*t. Schumer proposed #MoscowMitch s own rules for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Republicans never ever want to follow their own rules! They think the rules don’t apply to them. Kinda elitist that way.

What do you expect from an empty suit like #entitledJoshHawley?

Did Hunter Biden withhold aid to allies?

Actually @realDonaldTrump should be first.

Shouldn’t Trump’s key witnesses in his defense (provided he has one) be himself and his admin? How the heck is Hunter Biden going to show he didn’t withhold aid in exchange for personal gain?

Resign now. Fox News gave up all pretense of objectivity years ago.Have fun spewing state propaganda. I miss Claire.

“Whataboutism” pure & simple, Senator. I think u should call him & his father. You’ll likely find out that there’s no “there” there. Then call Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani and Bolton. That would be interesting.

Remind me again. What office does Hunter Biden hold or is running for?

Why aren’t you nearly as suspicious of the current nepotism running rampant in the WH?

also, will you be announcing when you will be holding a town hall meeting with your constituents?!

We were wondering about that.

He never shows up in my city

trump’s puppet

I don’t think he’s ever held a town hall meeting.

You mean like Claire?

In other words, you’ll be discussing how you’ll be violating your pledge to uphold the Constitution.

It is very sad to see a supposed “constitutional lawyer” contributing to the shredding of our founding document.

Ladder climbing again, playing the faux news circuit as usual. Other than that are you doing in real work in DC? At least you can do shout outs for the local wine stores and gyms just like you did in MO.

Awesome!!! Please let us know why it’s ok for the President used tax payers dollars to shake down the leader of another country for his personal political gain. Why is it ok for other countries to participate on n our elections?

We’re pretty sure that was sarcasm.

Josh, I know you are busy with the Fox News entertainers so I am dropping you a link here to the Impeachment Report. Hope you read it before making anymore asinine comments.

You’re asking him to read?

this man was an AG. seriously.

Not for very long. The ladder called to him.

I thought you taught at a law school. Shouldn’t you know better?

Hunter Biden is not a fact witness. #HorseShitHawley

So you admit you’re not going to be a fair and impartial juror? You know, I’m your constituent, and I’d appreciate it if you actually took this process seriously.

Following the Constitution is no stunt. We’re going to impeach that fascist…and tell Laura Seig Heil.

So it’s ok for the President or you to use American treasure as a bargaining chip with foreign governments? For your personal gain? Are you serious?

This. Is. Not. About. Hunter. Biden. It is about trump. Biden is a private citizen. He has been investigated and cleared. trump confessed. trump has a Constitutional obligation. You say it’s OK trump did it. Rudy is still criming. You are obstructing.[….]

Oh, FFS. What is wrong with you?! Why are you the way you are?

Distract and deflect. Have a town hall to hear what your constituents think. You represent THEM not the R party.

You mean like Claire?

Defense of the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES is not a stunt. You’re a disgrace to the state of Missouri, the legal profession, and your country. #ImpeachTrump

No sir, the impeachment is not a joke. There is ample evidence to prove otherwise. The joke is the enabling you people do.

Democrats are using the Constitution to hold Trump accountable for his misconduct. The president pressured a foreign country, with American tax dollars, into attacking America’s elections and citizens.

America won’t have fair elections when Republicans are bribing countries.

You’re a one man circus act. You don’t even give a shit about your constituents.

You’re a Constitutional lawyer? You sound like a toady. Your new lord and savior proclaimed the emolument clause of the US constitution is phony. Who and what will stop him if he proclaims the 1st amendment or bill of rights is phony? Not his toadies.

Josh,

I am a MO resident. I vote. You are spineless turd.

Thank you

You’re a joke.

Grow some balls Hawley do the right thing for once!!!!

History will not remember you kindly for your role in the destruction of our government by Trump. How will you be able to look your children in the eyes? You are despicable.

Hey, Dipshit. You’re a lawyer. You know damn well a crime isn’t needed for impeachment. You think everyone is stupid? They’re not. They see right through your bullshit. Honor your oath. Protect and defend the Constitution, not a man. Get your shit together.

Are you an idiot or do you think we are? Was he present for the phone call?

So are you going to refuse to be sworn or just commit perjury, Josh?

Choices, choices.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

You know, we would be able use newer file photos if he’d only schedule some open public town halls somewhere in Missouri some time.

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים

16 Monday Dec 2019

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The irony of Goyim Jewsplaining Jews.

Last week, via Twitter:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
.@realDonaldTrump is doing the right thing here, taking bold action to confront the rising tide of anti-Semitism on campuses. Title VI absolutely should protect Jewish students, and now will
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4:27 PM · Dec 11, 2019

Citing a Jared Kushner op-ed? Really? Kushner is an embarrassment in front of the world.

Some of the responses:

I live in Missouri (unlike you). Show me.

What about Muslim students?

Good question.

What a joke

This is a lie. Making Judaism a nationality has a genocidal history. Such moves by a fascist authoritarian like Trump are deeply menacing.
Yale philosophy/rhetoric professor Jason Stanley is a leading expert on fascist rhetoric. This is what he has to say.

Trump’s new executive order is the most explicit challenge to the First Amendment in my lifetime.

What’s next? The Republican Kristallnacht?

But trump seems to think Seoul can just be moved. Who can take him seriously?

Holy crap! *nudges WW2 history book at a clearly ignorant man*

The President indicated that this was written to limit free speech. How can a conservative see this as acceptable?

Calling “Jewish” a nationality is not protecting Jewish students. It’s a despicable act designed to separate Jewish citizens from other citizens. It’s as anti-Semitic as it come. Shame on you, Senator for condoning this despicable act.

cringe

This is shameful and you should be embarrassed to be a cheerleader for fascism.

How does that boot taste, you disgrace?

Sure, let’s declare that all American Jews are actually Israeli.

What could go wrong?

Are you ok with the President’s dehumanizing speech towards immigrants, Muslims, and calling FBI agents “scum”?

No a religion is not a nationality, kushner can claim this bullshit but it’s offensive and pandering and the Jewish Community rejects it

Right wing extremists are emboldened because of Trump. Let’s at least be honest about that.

Bullshit. This is not constitutional.

Fuck you…you don’t get to decide my nationality. They do that shit in Soviet Russia which is why I’m sure this treasonous snake likes that.

You are nuts and you have bad judgment. To consider Judaism as a nationality makes them the ‘other’. Are Republicans really so gullible you are still believing Trump’s cons? Jewish-Americans’ nationality is American, moron.

אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Only there for the convenient Eschatology

20 Saturday Jul 2019

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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?

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Senator Hawley (r) gives a speech (July 19, 2019)

Senator Hawley (r) gives a speech

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.

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): ain’t the brightest elitist on campus

05 Friday Jul 2019

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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.

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): Wrap yourself in the flag – part the infinity

02 Tuesday Jul 2019

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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)

Sen. Josh Hawley (r): offered without further comment

01 Monday Jul 2019

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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
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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….