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Josh Hawley’s Really Trying to Push His Latest Right Wing Distraction.
Anything for relevance, right?
Someway, somehow, you can count on a Senator like Missouri’s Josh Hawley to find a way to cling to whatever relevance they might be able to find. I’m actually genuinely embarrassed to admit that at one point in time, I thought if he played his cards right he might become a force within the Republican Party in the future. But of course, I neglected to really take into account that all the faux populism in the world won’t make up for the fact that he has the charisma of an old boot.
Still, that’s not stopping him from trying.
So, what’s the latest shtick Josh Hawley’s adopting as his cause? Getting men to stop watching porn.
Ron Dicker with Huffpost writes:
“…After Fox News host Tucker Carlson played a recording of Hawley’s recent speech at a Turning Point USA conference, the far-right lawmaker doubled down on his wacky assertions.
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…
