Seditionist/ insurrectionist prick Sen. Josh "Haw Haw" Hawley (Traitor-MO) is having a very bad day (but not bad enough) following his self- aggrandizing, democracy sabotaging antics in the past few days:
“Assault on democracy: Sen. Josh Hawley has blood on his hands in Capitol coup attempt,” read the headline of an editorial in the Kansas City Star, the largest newspaper in Hawley’s home state. [snip]
“Hawley plans a maneuver on the Senate floor Wednesday to stomp on democracy and throw millions of American votes into the waste bin just to satisfy his selfish political ambitions,” read the editorial, which excoriated him as a “phony” and a “disgrace.”
“This is a man who will say and do anything to advance his personal political agenda.”
But wait, there's more:
The political mentor of Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) told a local newspaper on Thursday that backing the freshman Republican’s bids for office was “the worst mistake I ever made in my life,” calling Hawley’s attempts to undermine confidence in the election of President-elect Joe Biden “dangerous.”
Jack Danforth, a former senator and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations who is considered the dean of Missouri Republican politics, played a key role in elevating Hawley ahead of the latter man’s race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2018.
“Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life,” Danforth told St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger. “Yesterday was the physical culmination of the long attempt (by Hawley and others) to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn’t work and that voting was fraudulent.”
Simon & Schuster said Thursday it would cancel the publication of Sen. Josh Hawley’s book about big tech, citing what it referred to as his role in Wednesday’s violent mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. [snip]
The publisher was set to release Hawley’s book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” in June. The book “argues that big tech companies — Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple — represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age.”
“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Simon & Schuster said in a statement. “As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints; at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”
Of course, Haw Haw the prick is going to see them in court!
My statement on the woke mob at @simonschuster pic.twitter.com/pDxtZvz5J0
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 7, 2021
A few favorite comments on that:
You went to @YaleLawSch. Surely, you know that a privately-owned publishing company making the morally hygienic decision to drop your book contract in no way represents a “direct assault on the First Amendment.” https://t.co/oSXBqd4WmZ
— James Kirchick (@jkirchick) January 8, 2021
@HawleyMO is more worked up about his book contract getting cancelled than the dead people left in his wake at the Capitol yesterday https://t.co/u3qI50SfMr
— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) January 8, 2021
Hi Josh - Welcome to our free society. It's a system in which overturning legitimate elections is frowned upon, and in which no one is obligated to publish your nuclear horse shit. On the bright side, it is also a system in which you are welcome to whine a lot? https://t.co/lmkgzqrlYJ
— Ed Helms (@edhelms) January 8, 2021
Now, please go fuck yourself. Good night.
(Photo: You know where you can shove that, right, Haw Haw? / Daily Mail)
4 comments:
So he's being singled out for attack by:
- the mainstream media,
- mainstream/establishment Republican politicians,
- a mainstream publisher, for attacking "big tech"
Sounds to me like he's just hugely boosted his chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, unless that party's voting base changes a great deal between now and then.
Infidel -- not so sure about that, but time will tell.
25 years back we moved to MO. Had a wonderful fairly liberal Democratic Governor Carnahan who died in an October 2000 plan crash while running for Senate. Fast forward to Hawley's most run campaign ad. His handsome family playing on the lawn. Hawley saying his son has a pre-existing condition, and nobody will work harder to end this mess with pre-existing conditions than he. At the same time as MO AG he had joined the lawsuit with 17 other R-AGs to kill the ACA. (Still may, Supremes are ruling on it soon.) STL Post Dispatch rated it a mostly true claim as he had a better (secret & hidden) plan. At that moment I really started not caring for this fellow.
I don't know if this fascist stuff helps or hurts him. Lots of folks say MO is dead to Dems. I don't think so. McCaskill's second openent was the one who said what he learned in church, that no rape exceptions for abortion, cause if the woman did not enjoy it, her body would self abort. For Hawley she ran center right, and had no chance against his lying center left ads. Don't think running against his facist streak will work. Running against him as a stuck up rich prick who went to the best prep schools, Harvard and Yale, and is interested only in Josh Hawley and not Missouri might. He scares me.
Both Hawley and Cruz are Federalist Society members. Hawley was President of the student chapter at law school. Leo Leonardo and his FS crew scares me too.
Mart -- as you know, he's up for re-election in 2024, the same year he presumably will run for the Republican presidential nomination. I think in the interceding years, there'll be a lot of churn in politics and in the Republican Party in particular. It's not at all clear that the bet he made to go full Trumpist is going to work for him in the long run. That brand was badly damaged and permanently tarnished by the events of this week (and, no telling what happens to Trump after Jan. 20). There'll always be people with grievances that Hawley and his type will try to harness for their own ambition, but the sacking of the Capitol was a permanent blight and a bridge too far for even some of the more devoted Trumpers. I think he might have more success at the State level than in national politics from now on. Hope you're right about Missouri some day electing a Dem to replace this dangerous charlatan.
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