Marks of the Grifter

07 Wednesday Jun 2023

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This afternoon in west central Missouri:

Laughter

21 Sunday May 2023

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Three stars, maybe less.

This evening:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Manhood keeps going strong – and the libs are having crying fits. Order your copy here
[….]
5:57 PM · May 21, 2023

A few of the reviews:

A seditous conspiratorial chicken

Josh Hawley should be writing about his current life as a seditious conspirator supporting the insurrection against our electoral form of governmentand, making him an enemy of our democracy, not attempting to preach about manhood, a topic that is beyond his scope of understanding. Watch Josh Hawley running through the corridors of our Capital after encouraging the seditious terrorists who violently attacked that building on Jan. 6, 2021, brutally assaulting police officers and causing the death of one, breaking doors and windows, defecating in halls and offices, carrying a Confederate flag through the hallowed chambers, and explicitly threatening and seeking to hang elected politicians including Mike Pence, our Vice President at the time, and setting up a gallows outside the building. Mr. Hawley has no business preaching about manhood, religious ideology or societal values.
47 people found this helpful

Will put hair on your chest hair.

This book is so manly that it’s hard to hold. Strangely, as soon as I opened it up I started craving nuts. Beer nuts, truck nuts, lug nuts, every kind of nut except zagnuts. Almost right away it got easier to suppress my emotions and grunt. I starting eating Manwiches for lunch every day. By chapter 4 my chest hair was growing it’s own hair. Speaking of hair, reading this book made me throw out all my hair care products and start buying aftershave at Rite-Aid. Thanks to Josh Hawley’s ghostwriter I’ve been freed from trying to out-groom my ex-wife’s lawyer. He’s such a Beta. Why is he always at our house?
Anyway by the middle of this amazing book you’ll be so manly you won’t even need to read the rest, you’ll just KNOW what it says. Of course I’m no quitter so I’m still planning on finishing it. In my new larger truck I Flex-taped a small gunrack to my dash bored to hold this book open while I drive. I’m on my way to pick up a George Foreman grill right now. Read this boo
59 people found this helpful

Hubris

Once again Josh Hawley demonstrates his unique brand of narcissism, opportunism, hubris, sexism, misogyny…and the list goes on. He is playing a substantial role in the continuing demise of the Republican Party, and of so-called Christian values.
48 people found this helpful

Life Altering Book!

A tree died for this. Sad.
24 people found this helpful

Ran Good

Josh don’t know much about manhood, but he sure run good.
46 people found this helpful

Come on

I don’t need a manhood lecture from the guy who’s claim to game is running like a girl from a crowd he just tried to act tough for
58 people found this helpful

Oh the Irony!

Next Up: Hawley’s book on quantum mechanics. This book is best compared to the adage “we teach what we need to learn most.”
265 people found this helpful

Bestseller?

Methinks some wealthy fan must have bought a few truckloads to elevate Master Hawley’s book to such a status. Not his Dad, who gets nary a mention.
279 people found this helpful

Awful

Don’t waste your money. Pure drivel.
314 people found this helpful

Masculinity Sponge

Somehow – and I can’t explain it scientifically – this book actually removed testosterone from me, gradually at first, but then at an increased pace until I had to stop reading it. Once I put the book down – all my testosterone seemed to return, though, so all is well, I suppose.

My warning – be careful – the man and his words seem to come from a place where there is an actual masculinity black hole, a vortex, if you will, so lacking in manliness that will remove it from the reader.
339 people found this helpful

Don’t bother

Even for a free copy it is overpriced. Hawley’s sanctimonious instruction of how to beat the most dangerous risk to America—not being manly like him—would be sad if it wasn’t so comical. Arrogance isn’t pretty at the best of times; some times it’s just cringe-worthy.
345 people found this helpful

This book gave me Diphtheria

Can we rate negative stats? Two minutes in not only did I feel like less of a man by being told by a lesser man what being a man is all about. It made want to look up caves on Zillow where I could store my wife-beating clubs and deer carcuses as I return to the neanderthalic hunter-gatherer the Running Man thinks we should be. He should have to pay us for the medical bills we, as males, are going to have to pay when women universally kick our asses for listening to this fake misogynistic coward tell us who we should be.
Zero stars, would burn in the fire pit again.
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And, some of the responses to Josh Hawley’s (r) post:

No thanks. I only read 5 star books like the bible!

Run away and get a copy right now.
[….]

Sales are that bad eh?

We’re not crying, we’re just rolling our eyes.

Decided to explore a career in fiction, Josh?

I’m not having a crying fit. I’m just not going to buy it.

No one is giving it any thought. We don’t care.

Hard pass, Scooter…

That’s your marketing ploy?..buy my book to make the libs mad?
[….]

Easy marks.

Nobody wants this. Nobody. Not even as a gag gift, although I thought about it.

Oh please. Nobody cares.

Actually, liberals don’t care

Fleecing the Trumpers once again

Lots of laughter and ridicule. No crying that I can see.

It will be in the bargain bin next week.

Why do I care if you are selling books?

Josh Hawley’s primary motivation is to upset liberals.

that’s all he has to offer America.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Bookseller

19 Friday May 2023

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Grifters gotta grift.

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Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
“America needs strong men, it needs good men, and we should call men to be those things.”
[….]
10:16 AM · May 19, 2023

Say what?

Some of the responses to Josh Hawley (r):

Less moisturizer, hairspray and makeup might make your message slightly more credible.

How bout starting with making truth telling great again

Sen. Karen McRunnypants has needs.
[….]

Run Josh Run

Well, it sure as hell not you.

It’s hard to think of anything weaker than a man declaring that he’s strong, writing a book about how strong he is, and then tweeting incessantly about how strong he is and begging other men to join him.
[….]

What a clown you are

Still hawking that book, huh traitor. “We need manly men. Strong men. Big men. Not wienies like me.”

How would you know??

Honestly, bro, the fixation is concerning. Why don’t you just do your fucking job which is represent your constituents. Shut up about masculinity and all this other bullshit. You’re a public servant get to f’ing Work it’s on our dime

JFC. WTF is wrong with you? You’re a member of Congress act like it. Stop the childish bullshit.

Yeah but you’re a pussy, and everyone is making fun of you.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Their Cult – building the myth of the great lost cause

28 Wednesday Dec 2022

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This morning in southwestern Wisconsin.

Marks flying their flags:

Did not get the recent memos about Mike Pence (r):

There were a few more of these, but we couldn’t get the camera set in time.

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

Friday is Tax Return Release Day. Pass the popcorn.

“…The answer is no…”

01 Thursday Dec 2022

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The prohibition of the theft and hoarding of classified documents (along with other publically owned materials) in the law applies to everyone.

TrumpvUnitedStates11thCircuitCourtAppeals202213005

…This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no.

Former President Donald J. Trump brought a civil action seeking an injunction against the government after it executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He argues that a court-mandated special master review process is necessary because the government’s Privilege Review Team protocols were inadequate, because various seized documents are protected by executive or attorney-client privilege, because he could have declassified documents or designated them as personal rather than presidential records, and—if all that fails—because the government’s appeal was procedurally deficient. The overnment disagrees with each contention.

[….]

In considering these arguments, we are faced with a choice: apply our usual test; drastically expand the availability of equitable jurisdiction for every subject of a search warrant; or carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents. We choose the first option. So the case must be dismissed…

[….]

…Indeed, Plaintiff does not press the district court’s theory on appeal. Instead, he argues that the Presidential Records Act gives him a possessory interest in the seized documents. This argument is unresponsive. Even if Plaintiff’s statutory interpretation were correct (a proposition that we neither consider nor endorse), personal interest in or ownership of a seized document is not synonymous with the need for its return.3 In most search warrants, the government seizes property that unambiguously belongs to the subject of a search. That cannot be enough to support equitable jurisdiction….

(footnote) 3 During discussion of this factor at oral argument, Plaintiff’s counsel noted that the seized items included “golf shirts” and “pictures of Celine Dion.” The government concedes that Plaintiff “may have a property interest in his personal effects.” While Plaintiff may have an interest in these items and others like them, we do not see the need for their immediate return after seizure under a presumptively lawful search warrant.

….Having failed to show his own need, Plaintiff attempts—as he did in the district court—to reverse the standard, arguing that the government does not need the non-classified documents for its investigation. This is not self-evident, but it would be irrelevant in any event. Plaintiff’s task was to show why he needed the documents, not why the government did not. He has failed to meet his burden under this factor….

….Plaintiff’s alternative framing of his grievance is that he needs a special master and an injunction to protect documents that he designated as personal under the Presidential Records Act. But as we have said, the status of a document as personal or presidential does not alter the authority of the government to seize it under a warrant supported by probable cause; search warrants authorize the seizure of personal records as a matter of course. The Department of Justice has the documents because they were seized with a search warrant, not because of their status under the Presidential Records Act. So Plaintiff’s suggestion that “whether the Government is entitled to retain some or all the seized documents has not been determined by any court” is incorrect. The magistrate judge decided that issue when approving the warrant. To the extent that the categorization of these documents has legal relevance in future proceedings, the issue can be raised at that time….

….The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations. Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required.

The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case. For that reason, we VACATE the September 5 order on appeal and REMAND with instructions for the district court to DISMISS the underlying civil action.

Dayam.

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

No one is above the law. No one.

Previously:

Schadenfreude-a-Lago (August 8, 2022)

Barking out approved talking points with the rest of the MAGA seals (August 9, 2022)

Tell us you don’t know how search warrants actually work without telling us you don’t know how they work (August 9, 2022)

Former County Sheriff Publicly Denounces “No one is above the law” (August 10, 2022)

He was framed! (August 11, 2022)

And your point is? (August 11, 2022)

Proliferation (August 12, 2022)

Now what, Josh (r)? (August 12, 2022)

Lock him up (August 31, 2022)

“He went to Jared…” (September 2, 2022)

The Special Counsel always rings twice (November 18, 2022)

That’s it

16 Wednesday Nov 2022

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This morning, on National Public Radio:

POLITICS
Donald Trump is officially running for president in 2024
November 16, 20225:01 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the 2020 presidential election results and inspired a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, announced Tuesday night that he has launched a 2024 presidential bid.

Yep.