Josh Hawley - Scared Little Bitch

[Olsonist]

When was the last time that happened?

1941?

June 5, 1942. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Still, I'm not going to defend our post-WWII military conflicts. Most have been stupid. However, Article 5 is not a Declaration of War. Also, Congress passed the War Powers Act. We now have Authorizations for the Use of Force and even that was too much paperwork. So they passed the Forever Stamp. Tom's boy Rand's daddy Ron even voted for it. You can ask Tom for the deets.

 

[Steam Flyer]

June 5, 1942. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Still, I'm not going to defend our post-WWII military conflicts. Most have been stupid. However, Article 5 is not a Declaration of War. Also, Congress passed the War Powers Act. We now have Authorizations for the Use of Force and even that was too much paperwork. So they passed the Forever Stamp. Tom's boy Rand's daddy Ron even voted for it. You can ask Tom for the deets.

Scrape the paint off a Libertarian, underneath is a fascist fuck-head. Every single time.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

June 5, 1942. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Still, I'm not going to defend our post-WWII military conflicts. Most have been stupid. However, Article 5 is not a Declaration of War. Also, Congress passed the War Powers Act. We now have Authorizations for the Use of Force and even that was too much paperwork. So they passed the Forever Stamp. Tom's boy Rand's daddy Ron even voted for it. You can ask Tom for the deets.

A forever war on Tara? Fiddledee dee.

 

[hobie1616]

More than half of Americans between ages 16 and 74 read below the sixth-grade level.

... (Hawley's) absurd vote against NATO expansion — spoon clenched in infant fist, banging the highchair tray to say: “Pay attention to me!”

Josh Hawley, senator-as-symptom of a broken news business

Like an infant feeling ignored and seeking attention by banging his spoon on his highchair tray, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) last week castthe only vote against admitting Finland and Sweden to NATO. He said adding the two militarily proficient Russian neighbors to NATO would somehow weaken U.S. deterrence of China.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who is an adult and hence not invariably collegial, said: “It would be strange indeed for any senator who voted to allow Montenegro or North Macedonia into NATO to turn around and deny membership to Finland and Sweden.” That evening, Hawley appeared on Fox News to receive Tucker Carlson’s benediction.

This umpteenth episode of a senator using the Senate as a stepping stone to a cable television green room illustrates what Chris Stirewalt deplores in his new book, “Broken News.” He was washed out of Fox News by a tsunami of viewer rage because on election night 2020 he correctly said Donald Trump had lost Arizona. Now he says today’s journalism has a supply-side problem — that is, supplying synthetic controversies:

“What did Trump say? What did Nancy Pelosi say about what Trump said? What did Kevin McCarthy say about what Pelosi said about what Trump said? What did Sean Hannity say about what Rachel Maddow said about what McCarthy said about what Pelosi said about what Trump said?”

But journalism also has a demand-side problem: Time was, journalists assumed that news consumers demanded “more information, faster and better.” Now, instantaneous communication via passive media — video and television — supplies what indolent consumers demand.

More than half of Americans between ages 16 and 74 read below the sixth-grade level. Video, however, requires only eyes on screens. But such passive media cannot communicate a civilization defined by ideas. Our creedal nation, Stirewalt says, “requires written words and a common culture in which to understand them.”

In the 1830s, new printing methods radically reduced the cost of producing a culture of literate news readers. In the 1930s, however, radio — which was more transformative than what it paved the way for: television — became, Stirewalt says, a passively absorbed alternative to the comparative arduousness of literacy.

Technology — radio, television, the internet — turned journalism from reporting what had happened to reporting what was happening, and now to giving passive news consumers the emotional experience of having their political beliefs ratified. “By 1983,” Stirewalt reports, “the percentage of Americans who got their news from television alonepulled ahead of all newspaper use” by offering “a passive, more emotionally engaged product”: “Television news can be far more emotionally compelling than the written version, and does not come with the need for nearly as much cultural literacy or the challenge of … internalizing ideas.”

Between 2004 and 2020, a quarter of U.S. newspapers disappeared. Today it is much easier to get national rather than local news; this encourages the belief that the national government is all-important. Into this context came, Stirewalt says, national journalists’ embrace of the moral imperative “to go to war” with a president: “Bigtime news dove in the mud with Trump, where he had home field advantage.”

The moment was ripe for Twitter. Stirewalt calls it a platform “that both depletes the value of journalism by dribbling out coverage in an endless gurgle but also enhances reporters’ sense of their own importance by creating a large echo chamber into which they can holler affirmations of self-worth.”

Technology has produced a melding of journalism and politics, to the degradation of both, as illustrated by the seamlessness of Hawley’s Senate floor grandstanding and his cable news self-congratulation. Small wonder, says Stirewalt, that “the news business treats politics like sports” — entertaining but with no meaning deeper than the score.

The fans, consumers of emotional-impact journalism, wear, figuratively speaking, their teams’ colors — red shirts against blue shirts. This journalism’s constant attention to politics instead of government — to gaining power instead of its exercise — makes the players on the field, Stirewalt says, “want to show off to the fans in the stands instead of trying to win the game.”

Hence Hawley, the quintessential example of the politics that the new journalism encourages. And hence his absurd vote against NATO expansion — spoon clenched in infant fist, banging the highchair tray to say: “Pay attention to me!” Hawley, a.k.a. The Sprinter (savor the videoof him fleeing through the Capitol, escaping the Jan. 6 mob he had exhorted), is the senator-as-symptom: Define news down, and this is the kind of newsmaker you get.

 

[hobie1616]

Josh Hawley Says You Can Own The Libs By Quitting Porn And Starting A Family

The Republican Missouri senator hammered home his WTF message to Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

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He told Carlson that the liberal message is that the most one can aspire to is to be a consumer and sit in front of a computer all day. He urged men to aim to be “something more than a consumer of pornography” and create a family.
“That is the single greatest act of rebellion, if you like, against the liberal culture that is suppressing peoples’ desires and that is suppressing their potential,” he said.

Hawley later reinforced his message by sharing the interview on Twitter with the caption: “Rebel against liberal culture: Quit porn. Start a real relationship. Start a family. Have your own ideas — and stand up for them.”

 

[hobie1616]

Josh Hawley called ‘fraud and coward’ over response to Nashville shooting

Far-right Missouri senator accused of selectively invoking hate crime laws after characterizing shooting as attack on Christians

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Hawley addressed the Nashville attack on the Senate floor, in a resolution and in a letter to the FBI director, Christopher Wray, and the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

Condemning the “murderous rampage at a Christian school known as the Covenant School”, Hawley wrote: “It is commonplace to call such horror senseless violence. But properly speaking, that is false. Police report the attack here was targeted … against Christians.

“… I urge you to immediately open an investigation into this shooting as a federal hate crime. The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear … Hate that leads to violence must be condemned and hate crimes must be prosecuted.”

 

[Danceswithoctopus]

Josh Hawley called ‘fraud and coward’ over response to Nashville shooting

Far-right Missouri senator accused of selectively invoking hate crime laws after characterizing shooting as attack on Christians

www.theguardian.com

Hawley addressed the Nashville attack on the Senate floor, in a resolution and in a letter to the FBI director, Christopher Wray, and the secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

Condemning the “murderous rampage at a Christian school known as the Covenant School”, Hawley wrote: “It is commonplace to call such horror senseless violence. But properly speaking, that is false. Police report the attack here was targeted … against Christians.

“… I urge you to immediately open an investigation into this shooting as a federal hate crime. The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear … Hate that leads to violence must be condemned and hate crimes must be prosecuted.”

Exactly who is Hawley expecting to be prosecuted here?

 

[Cal20sailor]

Exactly who is Hawley expecting to be prosecuted here?

I think he wants the Nashville shooter to be given the death penalty...again!

 

[Mrleft8]

It's just more Christian on Christian violence. These people are thugs. They have no moral values. They beget children with several different women, and expect others to raise them w/o any support from the father, or the father's govt.
They are the darkest of people...... They call themselves "Christian", but truly they are the children of Sodom, and Gonorrhea.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

 

[Olsonist]

Someone (Rainbow Randy?) has to do Lord Ha-Hawley doing the Wednesday dance. Or Thriller or The Creep.

 

[hobie1616]

Josh Hawley Needs to Learn a Thing or Two About ‘Manhood’

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersIn America today, there is no man more obsessed with “manhood” than Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).And while he’s never been to war, he spends most of his waking hours cosplaying on the battlefields of a culture war. This includes...

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Josh Hawley Explains How the Bible Can Solve Our Country's Masculinity Crisis

“All is not well with men in this country,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote in an op-ed for Fox News on Tuesday. Had he simply left it at that, I’d give him a high five and shout “Amen, brother.” But alas, he carried on in a vague and overblown piece on how to fix the masculinity crisis facing our...

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[hobie1616]

America’s Leading Republican Pipsqueak Has a New Book on How to Fix Men. It’s a Hoot.

Actual passage: “Are you going out every night? Stop. Are you sleeping in every morning? Get up.”

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And like almost everything Hawley does, the book is an epic disaster. Why did a man who is probably our leading national pipsqueak decide that promoting manliness was his ticket to political power? Maybe he saw one of Jordan Peterson’s crying videos and thought, “If he can do it, why not me?” Manhood is full of Peterson-esque “clean your room” prescriptions: ”You can be a provider and a protector, and you can start by producing something. Get a job. Keep it. Then pay your bills. Then save some money. These small steps go long distances toward making you the kind of man who can be a husband,” goes one such passage. Later on: “Are you going out every night? Stop. Are you sleeping in every morning? Get up.” And so on.

 

[Steam Flyer]

His audience is apparently a bunch of skinheads living in Mom's basement.

 

[billy backstay]

Josh Hawley Needs to Learn a Thing or Two About ‘Manhood’​

TOUGH GUY ACT
The Missouri senator’s got a new book about all things “manly,” but he’s no friend of working-class American males.

Jake Auchincloss Lucas Kunce
Published May. 16, 2023 4:29AM ET

In America today, there is no man more obsessed with “manhood” than Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

And while he’s never been to war, he spends most of his waking hours cosplaying on the battlefields of a culture war. This includes accusing men like us, two Marine veterans, of wanting to redefine things “like courage, and independence, and assertiveness—as a danger to society.”

Thankfully for those of us who have been poorly instructed, Josh’s book, Manhood, can show us the light. For just $29.99 we can learn the path to achieving Hawley-level masculinity by recreating ourselves in his own image.
While we haven’t read the book, we certainly hope there’s a chapter on the manliness of skittering away from mobs you’ve incited outside the U.S. Capitol.


But however cringe-worthy Hawley’s solutions might be, the problem is real. The data is clear: Working-class men in America are disconnected from the economy, and it hurts.

As two male Democrats, we have not just the opportunity but the responsibility to go on the offensive here and actually engage with the issues Hawley is misrepresenting. The senator is not here to work on the issues in good faith, he’s here to advance a culture war that serves his own ambition.

He wants men to think that by subscribing to his politics, or quitting video games, or buying his book, their problems will suddenly go away. But a culture war isn’t going to help these men who have fallen behind regain their footing in the economy, in education, in their local community. Instead, it’s just going to divide us further.

Real family values are about providing a healthy alternative to the toxic masculinity Hawley is offering. The disconnect between men and the economy or society isn’t happening because men are failing to achieve some weird idea of what it means to be a man. The core of this crisis is the fact that men without a college degree have seen their relative earnings fall by 30 percent since 1980.

Why? Because Josh Hawley and others like him have blocked advancements for working class Americans at every turn.
In his time as attorney general of Missouri, Hawley opposed workers receiving overtime pay—we’re talking about laborers, manufacturers, and other working-class jobs, many of which are filled by men. Thanks to Hawley’s efforts, over 230,000 working Missourians lost overtime protections. As if pay weren’t enough, he also went after benefits, using his position to try and strip away health care from working-class Missourians through his lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.

When the opportunity to make a historic investment in American manufacturing and jobs came—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—Hawley said no. When the opportunity came, again, to make a historic investment in American manufacturing and jobs, this time oriented to out-competing China, Hawley again said no. This is despite his tough-on-China talk, which so far has manifested as a petulant lone “no” vote against admitting Finland and Sweden to NATO (he thinks the war in Ukraine is a distraction), because apparently Hawley can’t comprehend that standing strong with Europe against Vladimir Putin is part and parcel of beating out Putin’s no-limits friend, Xi Jinping.
You can’t be serious about the challenges confronting America’s men while kneecapping them every chance you get. Barking orders at men at the latest manhood summit isn’t a serious solution. Real leaders don’t tell people what to do, anyway.

Marine Corps leadership—as we were taught—is about empowering others through example, tools, and training. In this case, giving everyday Americans what they need to accomplish their mission.

Here’s how: Increase union workforce and strengthen federal collective bargaining laws. Republicans like Hawley are focused on destroying unions and championing right-to-work schemes. But the reality is unions remain one of the most important tools for upward mobility for America’s working class families. Solidarity. Teamwork. Caring for one another. Standing up for the little guy. All hallmarks of union culture, and by extension, American culture.



“The Missouri senator’s got a new book about all things ‘manly,’ but he’s no friend of working class American males. ”
Support alternatives to four-year colleges. Workforce training programs, technical training initiatives, apprenticeships, pathways to in-demand jobs (like health care), and a retooling of job postings to remove degree requirements where they are not necessary. After all, jobs require skills; it’s employers who require degrees.

Hold the painkiller complex accountable. It’s not just opioids, it’s the entire industry that profits from numbing people to reality: online gaming; gambling; recreational drugs.

While giving young men the tools to succeed, we can also set the expectation that they engage with reality, and uphold their responsibilities to family and society.

Build things in America. Center the American worker as they focus on unleashing the dynamism of the U.S. economy, which too often is stymied by veto points and red tape embedded across our decision-making institutions.

These are all tangible things we can do that would boost working class men across this country.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-just-proved-right-wing-populism-is-a-con-job​

Meanwhile, we shouldn’t flinch from the attacks being lobbed by Sen. Hawley and his allies.​

There’s nothing manly about going on Fox News and lying directly to the very people you’re claiming to fight for. There’s nothing manly about opposing good jobs and health care for working families. And there’s certainly nothing manly about running away from a mob you helped incite.

Opportunity. A living wage. Service and responsibility. Family. Empowerment. This is what we strive for. Ideals real leaders can and should be aggressive about. Real leaders live real values, they don’t write fantasy books about them.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran ,currently representing Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District in the House.

Lucas Kunce is a 13-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran, national security expert, and antitrust advocate running for U.S. Senate in Missouri.

Josh Hawley Needs to Learn a Thing or Two About ‘Manhood’

The Missouri senator’s got a new book about all things “manly,” but he’s no friend of working-class American males.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[hobie1616]

His audience is apparently a bunch of skinheads living in Mom's basement.

VVV?

 

[P_Wop]

The book won't make one scintilla of difference to anyone. His followers either don't or can't read.

 

[tybee]

VVV?

and doggie deaux

 

[Voyageur]

he has a new website

www.cuckold.cum

 

[another 505 sailor]

Books by politicians are money laundering excercises.