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SmCaudata

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Should he be expelled? Yes. He is by all appearances a sociopathic, power-hungry, organism. Government work should be service, not self-serving. These types are extremely dangerous and damaging for the country.

Will he be expelled? No. It requires 2/3 vote and people like Lyndsey and Mitch see the future of the GOP when they state lovingly into Hawley's eyes.
 
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ecogen said:
Not gonna happen.
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Could happen.. Either way, his world is crashing.

www.nytimes.com

Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book (Published 2021)

The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican’s upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election.
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Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book
The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican’s upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election.

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Simon & Schuster said on Thursday that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Senator Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election.
Mr. Hawley, a Missouri Republican and Trump ally, has been criticized for challenging the results and accused of helping incite the mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. His book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” was scheduled to be published in June.
“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Simon & Schuster said in a statement. “As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: At the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat.”
In a statement posted to Twitter, Mr. Hawley said that the cancellation of his book was an affront to the First Amendment.

“This could not be more Orwellian,” he said. “Simon & Schuster is canceling my contract because I was representing my constituents, leading a debate on the Senate floor on voter integrity, which they have now decided to redefine as sedition.”

Mr. Hawley added: “We’ll see you in court.” In a subsequent statement, Simon & Schuster said it was confident it was acting within its contractual rights.

The cancellation signaled the pitfalls that mainstream publishers face as they attempt to straddle the partisan divide in a hyper-polarized and volatile political environment. The biggest commercial publishers have long released works by both Democrats and Republicans, and most have dedicated imprints for works by politicians and pundits on the right. But some publishing professionals wondered if the violence at the Capitol would make it untenable for them to work with conservative authors who have questioned the legitimacy of the election or taken other incendiary positions.

In the past four years, a number of people from Mr. Trump’s inner circle have gotten book deals. Macmillan published a memoir by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, released a book with Hachette and self-published another.

Simon & Schuster, one of the “Big Five” book publishers in the United States, which Penguin Random House agreed to buy in November, has released several major political books in recent years, including “Too Much and Never Enough,” by Mary L. Trump, a niece of the president; “Rage,” by Bob Woodward; and “The Room Where It Happened,” by John Bolton, a former national security adviser in the Trump administration. It has also published conservative firebrands like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

The Capitol rampage further complicated the already fraught question of whether or not publishers would release a memoir by President Trump.
 
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darkswordsman17

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ecogen said:
The guy lost a book deal and he's still a senator, let's lay off the hyperbole. I'm sure he's gonna pretend that his world is crashing but that doesn't make it true. Unfortunately, he'll be just fine.
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Yeah he lost a book deal that was gonna cost him money in order to buy the books to claim its a best seller. He's not losing jack shit by having that canned, and most likely he'll make it up by selling e-books to the Turd Patriots.
 
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fskimospy

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I’m enjoying the fact that he clearly viewed this stunt as a vehicle to launch a presidential campaign in 2024 and now it’s blown up in his face so badly he’s reduced to whining about how a private company is violating his first amendment rights by not giving him money to write a book. It does raise a question as to why we should believe his interpretation of his constitutional duties when it comes to calculating electoral votes when he can’t even get the first amendment right though.

I wouldn’t support expelling him though, he didn’t encourage the insurrection/violence. Mo Brooks should be expelled though.
 
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fskimospy

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darkswordsman17 said:
Yeah he lost a book deal that was gonna cost him money in order to buy the books to claim its a best seller. He's not losing jack shit by having that canned, and most likely he'll make it up by selling e-books to the Turd Patriots.
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Right, but the point of the book deal was to generate positive publicity, which does not look like it’s happening now.
 
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ecogen said:
The guy lost a book deal and he's still a senator, let's lay off the hyperbole. I'm sure he's gonna pretend that his world is crashing but that doesn't make it true. Unfortunately, he'll be just fine.
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He was posturing to Trumpers for a 2024 run. Now he is done as a presidential candidate. Whether he was ever a viable one is a separate question.
 
Viper1j

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darkswordsman17 said:
Yeah he lost a book deal that was gonna cost him money in order to buy the books to claim its a best seller. He's not losing jack shit by having that canned, and most likely he'll make it up by selling e-books to the Turd Patriots.
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You really don't think his reputation is taking a few hits over that?
 
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fskimospy said:
I’m enjoying the fact that he clearly viewed this stunt as a vehicle to launch a presidential campaign in 2024 and now it’s blown up in his face so badly he’s reduced to whining about how a private company is violating his first amendment rights by not giving him money to write a book. It does raise a question as to why we should believe his interpretation of his constitutional duties when it comes to calculating electoral votes when he can’t even get the first amendment right though.

I wouldn’t support expelling him though, he didn’t encourage the insurrection/violence. Mo Brooks should be expelled though.
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Silence lends ascent.
 
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SmCaudata

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tweaker2 said:
More bad news for Hawley. His mentor former senator John Danforth blames Hawley for riot at the Capitol:



Looks like Hawley's road to the presidency has developed a pothole and it's getting wider and deeper by the minute.
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Yeah. The guy regrets mentoring Hawley. I can't think of the last time I've seen a GOP politician say they regret something like this... How far that party has fallen.
 
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tweaker2 said:
Looks like Hawley's road to the presidency has developed a pothole and it's getting wider and deeper by the minute.
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Good, the c*nt deserves to be strung up by his toes until his head pops, but at least his hopes for the WH are being quashed before his eyes.
 
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fskimospy said:
I think he should be criticized for his irresponsibility and cynicism, but if we are expelling senators for irresponsibility and cynicism that’s going to be an empty building.
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The body could and should censure him though.
 
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Honestly, the GOP is craven. As long as Trump is dead weight, I think all options will be on the table to jettison that weight. The losses in GA and the attempted coup has changed their calculus. I read an article Wed. morning before the coup quoting a Sen. close to McConnel saying they were going to go to war with Trump co. because of the GA loses. I think people are going to start picking a side. Trump really has destroyed the Republican party. If they are smart, they would go to war with Fox News (they push them to the lunatic wings of the Party) and make Romney minority leader.
 
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Sooooo many co-conspirators, so so many. After Adolf Hitler, his co-conspirators fled German, or tried to. And some took their own life (Hint hint). But with Trump’s co-conspirators like Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and so many others, they now claim that they have suddenly SEEN THE LIGHT. That they have experienced a heart felt rebirth of sorts and have come back down to earth. Reminds me of that movie 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY when HAL was being disconnected and when HAL claimed I’M ALRIGHT NOW. I’M ALRIGHT, “I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you”...... despite HAL having already killed the crew of the ship. So Lindsey, Harley, Ted Cruz, YOU’RE ALRIGHT NOW ??????? :rolleyes:
 
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"David Humphreys is president and CEO of Tamko Building Products in Joplin, Missouri, who has donated millions of dollars to Hawley and other Republicans. But Humphreys opposed Trump’s election in 2016, saying he couldn’t justify supporting Trump to his children.

“I need to say the same about Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who has shown his true colors as an anti-democracy populist by supporting Trump’s false claim of a ‘stolen election,’” Humphreys said in a statement provided to The Associated Press Friday. “Hawley’s irresponsible, inflammatory, and dangerous tactics have incited violence and further discord across America. And he has now revealed himself as a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution and the ideals of the nation he swore to uphold.”

A spokeswoman for Humphreys said he was unavailable for an interview.

The pile-on continued. The student bar association at the University of Missouri law school, where Hawley taught, issued a statement calling for his resignation.

The Kansas City Star listed Hawley as second only to Trump as responsible for the attack on the Capitol, and noted Hawley had issued a political fundraising solicitation as the siege was underway."

apnews.com

Republicans recoil from Missouri Sen. Hawley after siege

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Republican colleague rebuked him on the Senate floor. A home-state newspaper editorial board declared he has “blood on his hands.”
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