Thursday, January 7, 2021

Josh Hawley's Bad Day



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:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) strode into the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon with his lips pursed and his fist raised in solidarity with the Trump supporters amassing outside. Three hours later, when the dust had settled on the group’s acts of insurrection, Hawley’s critics saw his proud fist pump as evidence of unclean hands.

“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.”

We're not done yet -- 

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!


 

A few favorite comments on that:

 

 

 

 

Now, please go fuck yourself.  Good night.

(Photo:  You know where you can shove that, right, Haw Haw? / Daily Mail)

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