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Josh Hawley Is Slippery And Smarter Than JD Vance And He’s Got A Plan.

The Indestructible Missouri Cockroach Is Making His Move

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Joshua Powell
Aug 03, 2025
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Good Sunday Morning ya’ll. I did not sleep well last night. Why? I was worried. And what I was worried about might seem strange, but nonetheless it is what it is. I am concerned about Josh Hawley’s testicular health. How so? Well we know their big and I am sure that they are going to be damaged as he straddles this big fence he climbing.

There's something absolutely mesmerizing about watching his great escape unfold in real time. The Missouri senator who once pumped his fist at January 6th insurrectionists—before famously scampering away from the very mob he'd encouraged like a prep schoolboy fleeing the public-school bully at the bus stop—is now performing the most magnificent political pirouette since Hillary Clinton discovered she was suddenly a Yankee again.

Hawley is many things—ambitious, calculating, handsome in that Stanford-meets-Yale sort of way that makes progressive women simultaneously swoon and seethe—but stupid isn't one of them. Which is why his recent ideological contor…

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