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Sen. Josh Hawley is a winner! 🏆 (Original Post) underpants May 24 OP
Hey josh, go talk with the gov of N. Carolina, trmp nixed their pleas too. spanone May 24 #1
"...thought this was only going to happen to Blue states." markodochartaigh May 24 #5
FAFO will prefer red states since they are most of taker states, a term they use erroneously to deride blue states. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 24 #31
Our governor is a Democrat. barbtries May 24 #14
Or the Huckabeast Deep State Witch May 24 #33
You mean the guy JustAnotherGen May 24 #2
Yep. That guy. underpants May 24 #7
(I gotta steal that!) lastlib May 24 #35
Would love to see him do that mad dash out the door, once again. Paladin May 24 #17
😳 underpants May 24 #19
This is on you, you punk. Joinfortmill May 24 #3
Life sucks, and then you vote to make shit worse... Wounded Bear May 24 #4
Don't act, you cowardly shithead, like you care about people in distress in your State. Never have, never will. NNadir May 24 #6
Bootstraps. nt Hotler May 24 #8
He's been out against cutting Medicare and leftyladyfrommo May 24 #9
Big phony mvd May 24 #28
The idiotic voters of Missouri had a chance to get rid of him last November FakeNoose May 24 #10
Well this Rebl2 May 24 #27
MAGAs want to screw everyone else, not themselves. Irish_Dem May 24 #11
Elect Democrats. They'll make sure FEMA is ready to help you. MineralMan May 24 #12
Gee Josh, maybe start a Go Fuck Me account for your state. miyazaki May 24 #13
"Ha ha. Suckers." - Krasnov (R - Flon/Rapist) and G.O.P. Billionaire Bros BoRaGard May 24 #15
Aw, just be glad you're not in a coastal state. milestogo May 24 #16
he's just another lying MAGAt. Genevra May 24 #18
You know, if these states that had surpluses and gave such a big tax cut to the wealthiest had not done that.... LiberalArkie May 24 #20
Um, your party dismantled it. It 's a state problem now, and going forward. Sucks, huh? Evolve Dammit May 24 #21
The Show Me State czarjak May 24 #22
He ought to run as fast to help his constiuents as he ran from the J6ers! Rhiagel May 24 #23
Oh? Take it up with fucking DOGE, you craven piece of shit. Karasu May 24 #24
WWKD Danascot May 24 #25
fuck you Hawley Skittles May 24 #26
How are these tax brakes for the wealthy republianmushroom May 24 #29
Some one with skills Traildogbob May 24 #30
A typical rEpug Idiot Iamscrewed May 24 #32
This will do for now... justaprogressive May 24 #34
Even his mouthpiece got nothing. rickyhall May 24 #36
The running man Godot51 May 24 #37
Forgot what a monster tRump is? Maybe this will jog his memory.... Blue Owl May 24 #39
I just love that clip! "When the going gets tough... CTyankee May 24 #44
Hope Democrats are approaching him on FEMA and Medicaid cuts, rather than just calling him a POS. Silent Type May 24 #38
I don't feel bad for Hawley, I feel bad for Missourians BlueHurricane May 24 #40
I don't feel bad for either one. flashman13 May 24 #41
I refer to him as scooty nt Javaman May 24 #42
Trump's FEMA thumbs nose at state that backed him 3 times: 'Gonna cost a lot' LetMyPeopleVote May 24 #43
YOU TOO JOSH YoshidaYui May 24 #45
Maga's are being dissed by Trump in Arkansas and North Carolina also. patphil May 24 #46
I sleep so well Just Jerome May 24 #47
The situation for a lot of Missourians is dire due to the floodingand tornadoes. HeartsCanHope May 24 #48
Jump and Run Josh UpInArms May 25 #49
Award Weiner is more like it. mdbl May 25 #50
We do know that Trump approved FEMA Tickle May 25 #51
Yes he finally signed it Friday. underpants May 25 #53
A greatly neutered FEMA that has been utterly gutted by DOGE. Karasu May 25 #56
And Running Chicken thought he'd be Reichsmarshal. Kid Berwyn May 25 #52
Ha! BradBo May 25 #54
Oh, damn it! Where did I put those thoughts and prayers? BobTheSubgenius May 25 #55
Again? "Crazy Legs" already won a maga trophy for the Jan. 6 congressional 100-yard-dash! nt Buns_of_Fire May 25 #57
😆 underpants May 25 #58

spanone

(139,718 posts)
1. Hey josh, go talk with the gov of N. Carolina, trmp nixed their pleas too.
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:03 PM
May 24

You probably thought this was only going to happen to Blue states...

markodochartaigh

(3,443 posts)
5. "...thought this was only going to happen to Blue states."
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:31 PM
May 24

I don't think so. He doesn't have to really care whether his state gets any federal aid. He DOES have to please the ones for whom he works, his wealthy donors. And they want more tax cuts for themselves and less government aid for the 99%. Fortunately for sprinting senators like Josh, he knows that his electorate is easily misdirected and has a shorter memory than most one-celled lifeforms.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,269 posts)
31. FAFO will prefer red states since they are most of taker states, a term they use erroneously to deride blue states. nt
Sat May 24, 2025, 04:33 PM
May 24

barbtries

(30,613 posts)
14. Our governor is a Democrat.
Sat May 24, 2025, 03:17 PM
May 24

When I saw the headline today I couldn't help but wonder if that's why FEMA is refusing to help the victims of Helene.

JustAnotherGen

(35,932 posts)
2. You mean the guy
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:08 PM
May 24

Who put up his fist in solidarity on January 6 then scurried like a rat after the breach?

lastlib

(26,375 posts)
35. (I gotta steal that!)
Sat May 24, 2025, 05:34 PM
May 24

Runnin' Josh is the Senator from my state. (Note I didn't say he was *my* senator--I don't claim the litle runt-coward, and he doesn't speak for me; I don't have enough zeroes in my bank balance.)

Paladin

(31,122 posts)
17. Would love to see him do that mad dash out the door, once again.
Sat May 24, 2025, 03:23 PM
May 24

But only if he's simultaneously (1.) pounding sand up his ass, and (2.) fucking himself.

NNadir

(36,209 posts)
6. Don't act, you cowardly shithead, like you care about people in distress in your State. Never have, never will.
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:31 PM
May 24

leftyladyfrommo

(19,902 posts)
9. He's been out against cutting Medicare and
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:45 PM
May 24

Medicade.

I think he's trying to come across as the big fighter for the people.

That's his new shtick. He is such a phony.

FakeNoose

(38,021 posts)
10. The idiotic voters of Missouri had a chance to get rid of him last November
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:47 PM
May 24

... but instead, he's in for another term.

Rebl2

(16,732 posts)
27. Well this
Sat May 24, 2025, 04:20 PM
May 24

idiot in MO didn’t vote for him. Trump refused Arkansas any help as well after the state was hit with tornados and flooding. Doesn’t seem to matter if it’s a red or blue state.

MineralMan

(149,555 posts)
12. Elect Democrats. They'll make sure FEMA is ready to help you.
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:49 PM
May 24

Elect Trump and, well, Find Out.

miyazaki

(2,478 posts)
13. Gee Josh, maybe start a Go Fuck Me account for your state.
Sat May 24, 2025, 02:53 PM
May 24

I'm sure you can get away with pocketing half the proceeds too.

Genevra

(57 posts)
18. he's just another lying MAGAt.
Sat May 24, 2025, 03:27 PM
May 24

Hawley is getting pressure from his wealthy Missouri donors to get the feds to take care of the idiots in my state so that none of the catastrophes directly impact them through potential increased state taxes.

He's a diaperstain.

LiberalArkie

(18,650 posts)
20. You know, if these states that had surpluses and gave such a big tax cut to the wealthiest had not done that....
Sat May 24, 2025, 03:42 PM
May 24

Karasu

(1,697 posts)
24. Oh? Take it up with fucking DOGE, you craven piece of shit.
Sat May 24, 2025, 04:16 PM
May 24

Thanks to them, people are going to be lucky to get a worthless $750 when their entire fucking house goes down.

Danascot

(5,087 posts)
25. WWKD
Sat May 24, 2025, 04:19 PM
May 24

Hey Josh, If we'd have elected Kamala president would she be denying FEMA and other assistance to any state with a legitimate need? You know the answer to that, don't you?

Traildogbob

(11,565 posts)
30. Some one with skills
Sat May 24, 2025, 04:31 PM
May 24

Post a meme of him running away from his constituents, demanding a Town Hall, while pumping his fist in the air.

Silent Type

(10,552 posts)
38. Hope Democrats are approaching him on FEMA and Medicaid cuts, rather than just calling him a POS.
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:07 PM
May 24

He is, but he’s also vocally opposed to this and Medicaid cuts.

BlueHurricane

(53 posts)
40. I don't feel bad for Hawley, I feel bad for Missourians
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:22 PM
May 24

Hawley voted last year to cut FEMA funding so I call BS he wants FEMA. This reminds me he keeps saying they shouldn’t cut Medicaid.

The voters expanded Medicaid a few years ago in Missouri via a constitutional amendment and that means if federal funds are cut to Medicaid then the state will be on the hook to make up the difference.

Repubs in Missouri recently got rid of the Capital Gains state tax which obviously helps wealthier folks. Repub’s next goal is to remove the state income tax. They don’t seem to care about their people, they care about being able to push through their regressive tax cuts.

I watch how Repubs vote not what they say since those things don’t always agree.

flashman13

(1,421 posts)
41. I don't feel bad for either one.
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:05 PM
May 24

Missouri voted for Trump by a wide margin.

Hawley has voted for all of Trump's idiot appointees.

No sympathy whatever.

FAFO!

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,923 posts)
43. Trump's FEMA thumbs nose at state that backed him 3 times: 'Gonna cost a lot'
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:34 PM
May 24

trump is denying FEMA assistance to a number of red states.

Under President Donald Trump, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has turned down a request from a storm-ravaged state that narrowly voted for him three times.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-05-24T04:00:07Z

https://www.rawstory.com/fema-north-carolina

Under President Donald Trump, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has turned down a request from a storm-ravaged state that narrowly voted for him three times.

Western North Carolina saw massive devastation last year from Hurricane Helene, which killed over 100 people and left the city of Asheville, along with a number of small communities in the Appalachian Mountains, struggling to pick up the pieces after flooding in areas that had hardly ever seen floods before. At the time, Trump supporters spread baseless conspiracy theories that the federal government was ignoring communities there, or only giving aid to Democratic areas, and Trump himself vowed to improve emergency management.

According to Rolling Stone, however, Trump's administration is now denying an extension of a commitment to pay the full amount for a vital portion of the recovery process.....

With Trump rejecting the state's request, he continued, "It will cost North Carolina taxpayers a lot more to clean up west through North Carolina, and debris removal is just one of the many categories of relief we need."

Since taking unified control of government, Republicans have increasingly toyed with the idea of making political demands of areas that require disaster relief. After wildfires destroyed several neighborhoods in Los Angeles months ago, for instance, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) repeatedly suggested Congress should impose new policy changes in California as a condition of receiving aid to rebuild.


HeartsCanHope

(1,163 posts)
48. The situation for a lot of Missourians is dire due to the floodingand tornadoes.
Sat May 24, 2025, 10:21 PM
May 24

Hawley betrayed us his entire first term, and yet so many of my fellow Missourians voted him back in. He's our Senator until 2030!

UpInArms

(53,186 posts)
49. Jump and Run Josh
Sun May 25, 2025, 07:22 AM
May 25

What a pice of lying shit you are … I have been misrepresented by you for far too long.

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
51. We do know that Trump approved FEMA
Sun May 25, 2025, 08:07 AM
May 25


for 8 states, right?
Let’s be honest — the real headline here is the bribe!

HHS Secretary Noemi is suddenly expediting FEMA aid to Missouri. Why, you ask? Because they need Senator Hawley’s vote on the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Before Trump approved FEMA relief, Hawley was a firm no. Who wants to bet that’s about to change?

(Source: Associated Press, 5/23 — can’t link, I’m on my phone. Headline: Trump approves FEMA disaster relief for 8 states








underpants

(191,705 posts)
53. Yes he finally signed it Friday.
Sun May 25, 2025, 09:02 AM
May 25
https://apnews.com/article/fema-disaster-relief-trump-ddf3af914821c020b3a7762f41f5d58c

The major disaster declaration approvals allow Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas access to financial support through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Earlier this week Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to expedite Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s request for disaster assistance, after being pressed on the issue by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican.

BobTheSubgenius

(12,056 posts)
55. Oh, damn it! Where did I put those thoughts and prayers?
Sun May 25, 2025, 01:12 PM
May 25

I never seem to find a use for them, so there should be a whole pile of them lying around here somewhere.

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