The Worst Person In The World- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
Another great profile in Republican cowardice and deceit
Early on January 6th, 2020, before things went sideways, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) was crossing a street near the U.S. Capitol on his way to who-knows-or-cares-where. When some protestors recognized him and yelled his name, Sen. Hawley looked to his left and gave the assembled rabble a closed-fist salute. The implication on Hawley’s part seemed to be that he’s manly supporting manly men about to do manly things.
Whether that moment was planned or spontaneous is unknown, but the junior Senator from Missouri has used it to raise beaucoup bucks, so I’ll leave my gentle readers to draw their own conclusions. He’s tried to use that salute and his stern, somber mien to portray himself as a VERY SERIOUS PATRIOT when, in fact, Sen. Hawley is a cheap fraud and an asshole of the first order.
A careerist who desperately wants to be President, Sen. Hawley believes he has the look, resume, and at least the appearance of toughness to become @POTUS. In reality, he’s an opportunist devoid of integrity, honesty, courage, and even the barest shred of humanity and compassion.
He lives in Virginia but somehow represents Missouri. At this time, his ties to the Show-me State are tenuous at best, though he continues to insist that he’s a Missouri resident.
Sure, and I’m Nolan Ryan.
Josh Hawley isn’t stupid, which doesn’t explain why he continues to fall flat on his face and come off as the long-lost brother of the Cowardly Lion. He has a B.A. from Stanford and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before becoming Missouri’s Attorney general, Hawley was a post-graduate intern at St. Paul’s School in London. He then became an associate professor at the University of Missouri Law School and a faculty member at the Conservative Blackstone Legal Fellowship.
As legal minds go, Hawley’s is nimble enough. So why does he, as a friend of mine put it, “keep stepping on his dick?” The video of him running away from insurrectionists (the same ones he helped rile up) is classic Hawley. He couldn’t have known that his “athletic” moment would be captured by Capitol security cameras and eventually broadcast to the world. But the figure he cut- fleeing like a scared rabbit- certainly didn’t mesh well with the image of him somberly flashing a defiant fist salute hours earlier.
Josh Hawley is a bully who’s smart enough to throw some $25 words around in a Senate hearing, but he doesn’t know how to fight back. So when he runs into someone as intellectually capable as he is, we quickly learn he’s not the gifted lawyer and interlocutor some may have thought him to be.
Quelle surprise, non? Lets’ watch Sen. Hawley step on his dick:
Josh Hawley has tried to convince Conservatives and his constituents that he’s a by-the-book Conservative White heterosexual Christian- and he might be all those things. But there’s something about Hawley that seems phony. It’s as if he’s trying too hard to play a role. Nothing matters to him more than keeping his job in the Senate. So I’m not going to make accusations other than to say that I’ve long felt that there’s something about the junior Senator from Missouri that doesn’t fit.
Perhaps it’s the hypocritical votes, like his vote against aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion…and his subsequent criticism that the assistance wasn’t moving fast enough. Hawley's constant onslaught of hypocrisy and douchebaggery never seems to end, but it all seems calculated to make him look tough or at least tough-minded.
And Josh Hawley is anything but tough. Instead, he’s a Republican version of a Potemkin village.
I could go on at length, but the Twitterati have been in fine form, so I think I’ll allow them to speak for me:
