Josh Hawley has found a new hill to die on & it’s even dumber than the last five
Josh Hawley appears to be moving on from his agenda of safeguarding toxic masculinity in America to instead focus on leftist bloggers who are allegedly being paid by the government to write nasty things about conservatives online.The conspiracy theory-loving, gay-hating senator just introduced a new bill to fight “liberal propaganda” that he says the Department of Homeland Security is spreading all across the internet at the direction of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Biden.The senator from Missouri kept questioning Baker about trans athletes changing in locker rooms.
Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Here’s what Hawley says the barely two-page bill, titled the Ending DHS Funding for Liberal Propaganda Act, aims to do:This all comes one week after Hawley sent a bitchy note to Mayorkas, accusing him of “weaponizing” the DHS by funding leftist content on blogs hardly anyone reads.In his letter, Hawley cited an article published, ironically, by the far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda site The Daily Wire that accuses the agency of using a grant intended to counter terrorism to pay bloggers to publish posts criticizing Donald Trump and other insurrectionists conservatives.“This is an outrageous use of federal funds and abuse of power,” Hawley wrote. “All these funds should be clawed back by the federal government immediately, and anyone involved in making this grant should be fired.”OK, Karen.New polls out of Missouri show Hawley only leading Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce by less than 5 points.
This week, the quick-footed senator upped the ante by drafting the Ending DHS Funding for Liberal Propaganda Act, which he says “bars Secretary Mayorkas from funneling taxpayer dollars to programs dedicated to targeting [The Biden Administration’s] political opponents.”The whole thing reeks of a fragile, thin-skinned,.
