Joe Conason: Josh Hawley's Disgusting QAnon Slur

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.creators.com/read/joe-conason/03/22/josh-hawleys-disgusting-qanon-slur


Of all the Senate Republicans who regularly engage in gutter politics, none is more likely to scrape bottom than Josh Hawley. The junior senator from Missouri was best known, at least until now, for his pseudo-macho fist-pumping display outside the besieged Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — and his seditious attempt to deny Electoral College certification to President Joe Biden on that same day.

But Hawley has found a new way to drag our politics into the partisan sewer with a false, grotesque and inflammatory attack on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, just days before her Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin. Seizing upon a handful of cases and a comment she made in law school, he has smeared her as "soft on child pornographers."

At the outset of his Twitter thread, Hawley lied: "Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She's been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond 'soft on crime.' I'm concerned that this (is) a record that endangers our children."

With that foul smear, Hawley joins an undeniably psychotic element of his party — the growing cohort affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy cult, which proclaims constantly that prominent Democrats and Hollywood stars are sexually exploiting and even murdering children. There is no evidence for these sick accusations, but that hasn't stopped the fascist-leaning wing of the GOP — including no less a figure than Trump's disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn — from endorsing them.

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[Kittycatkat]

1. The habit of repugs always projecting onto others their own sins

makes me think that Hawley more of a sick twist than I thought.

[Hoyt]

2. Fortunately, it won't stop her approval. Sadly, SC confirmation seem to go

like this.

[Deuxcents]

3. Seems to me Hawley and a few others are scared of women...

Especially women who are are educated, accomplished, confident and well qualified. “Well qualified” was her rating just yesterday. Plus..being a Black woman who outshines these losers makes them even more resentful. Jmo.

[BootinUp]

4. Makes me sick. nt

[area51]

5. "soft on child pornographers"

Ironic how they're soft on pedo Matt Gaetz.

[ZonkerHarris]

6. Hawley is obviously a sex obsessed pedophile.

[Samrob]

7. By now, everyone should realize that 99.9% of what comes out of the mouths of GQP MAGAs is

basically PROJECTION! Either projecting something they did or something they want to do.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Twitter followup:

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[czarjak]

9. Haw-Hawish?

[Aviation Pro]

10. Senator Fist

Just fucked himself.