Politics And Current Events

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:36 pm

TIL after reading the article that Josh Hawley was 15 years old at the time. Also, there's no link to the full column, so other than a few quotes, it's impossible to determine what exactly Hawley said.

I'm sure if there was an article, archives would have it. Media could have done their job and got it.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:41 pm

As detestable as Hawley is, I am the sort of person who wouldn’t want to hang someone for something they said when they were <18

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:41 pm

Also, it was the Kansas City Star that originally reported the news, so it wasn't like it was big media to take him down.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:43 pm

I mean it's no Lexington News.

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:44 pm

As detestable as Hawley is, I am the sort of person who wouldn’t want to hang someone for something they said when they were <18

Had he presented no other behavior post-that, it would fall under your guidelines for me. This dude was part of the insurrection though and has been continuing to display these trends.

Postby **Shyster** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:59 pm

I'm sure if there was an article, archives would have it. Media could have done their job and got it.

As an aside, this is a massive pet peeve of mine. A news article will, say, refer to a bill before Congress, or a judicial opinion, or a complaint that someone filed, but it doesn't link to the actual document in question. No, reporter, I'm not going to take your word for it.

Postby **faftorial** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:06 pm

TIL that Josh Hawley wrote a report defending militia members after the OKC Bombing. Guess he's always been an extremist.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 92509.html

"Many of the people populating these movements are not radical, right-wing, pro-assault weapons freaks as they were originally stereotyped," Mr Hawley wrote about militias in the column, The Kansas City Star reported.

"Dismissed by the media and treated with disdain by their elected leaders, these citizens come together and form groups that often draw more media fire as anti-government hate gatherings," mr Hawley wrote.

"Feeling alienated from their government and the rest of society, they often become disenchanted and slip into talks of 'conspiracy theories' about how the federal government is out to get them," he added.
I bet he's gone from 6 to midnight knowing he's now a part of this.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley wrote a column at the age of 15...

...the column published in his hometown paper The Lexington News.

Lexington is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri. The population was 4,726 at the 2010 census.

Sounds like him being a real ****** bag goes back to at least the age of 15.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:07 pm

I said some dumb sht when I was 15

Postby **blackjack68** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:16 pm

I said some dumb sht when I was 15

But how many dumsht papers did you write?

Postby **King Colby** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:24 pm

I said some dumb sht when I was 33

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:26 pm

You’re 31 though...

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:28 pm

The entire "news" piece was just an independent try at presenting character evidence...?

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:31 pm

I said some dumb sht when I was 15
But how many dumsht papers did you write?

I clearly recall writing one in AP government trashing affirmative action or something similar and my teacher calling it juvenile. So at least one

Postby **faftorial** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:34 pm

I clearly recall writing one in AP government trashing affirmative action or something similar and my teacher calling it juvenile. So at least one

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:44 pm

I wrote a paper with the thesis being “safety is much more important than freedom”

...not my greatest moment

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:45 pm

I'd also like to add in that class that we had a mock congress thing and us Republicans got the majority and adopted English as the official language of the USA and then renamed English to American. My teacher might have been onto something

Postby **dodint** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:46 pm

I wrote a school paper article about staying silent for the pledge.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:02 pm

I wrote a school paper article about staying silent for the pledge.

My man

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:13 pm

This should keep the media busy tomorrow

Postby **blackjack68** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:24 pm

Are they working for free?

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:26 pm

He's losing his edge...that should have been called "Office of the Future President"...what a missed opportunity...

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:42 pm

IIRC there was a report today that one of the people were going to work for the trump foundation because they couldn’t find a job. I want to say it was Meadows.

Postby **Kaiser** » Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:37 am

Hawley is plenty enough a human cesspool from the last 3 months to justify a firing squad.

Postby **Kaiser** » Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:38 am

I wrote a paper with the thesis being “safety is much more important than freedom”

...not my greatest moment

There are worse ways to carry that mindset, believe me.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Tue Jan 26, 2021 7:24 am

Reply All is the best.

Well that's embarrassing. And relevant to our email convo from the other day. Win!