From "Fist Pumper To Fleeing Coward": Josh Hawley's A GOP Metaphor

After raising his fist to incite Jan 6th terrorists, Josh Hawley's pathetic gallop out of the Capitol once his antics incited riot is a perfect GOP metaphor. Whether it's Trump's hiding in a WH bunker from protestors, Ted Cruz running down to Cancun or Republicans freaking at the site of subpoenas, they're overcompensating little children.

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remember that part of forrest gump where he just runs through the alabama football game just like the wind and suddenly those braces in his legs come off and he just is floating and after that he's like if i was going anywhere i was running something like that that's the republican party um if you saw the hearings the other day an audible gasp and then laughing broke out in the uh at the january 6th hearing on thursday evening because they should video and the video showed mr tough guy the guy who's been crying about a loss of masculinity for republicans gee wonder if he's projecting um the always impeccably dressed hawley uh josh hawley oh he's worried about you know that's why he and tucker get together and tucker made that video with the dude i don't know like telling people to get their testes tanned and then had that charger that was attached i think to their nut sack i'm not really sure what was going on there but somehow it was all about getting masculinity back america's just losing masculinity i'm sure that little waspy boys little wealthy boys josh hawley and tucker carlson aren't looking in the mirror and thinking themselves yeah there's a crisis of masculinity um i don't judge these things except for i do judge hypocrites and you know holly was the guy who came in with the clenched fist of fear he was the tough guy he egged on a crowd of people that eventually killed a police officer and attacked and ransacked our capital could have killed many more we're trying to hang mike pence and nancy pelosi he egged them on he went in the front the front door that way funny how he snuck out the back door later and that was the video that was shown on the january 6 testimony as josh hawley nicely ran by once once the regular people who didn't go to yale and don't look like they were born with khakis stapled to them came running in and actually tried to do the damage he incited them to do that's josh hawley ted cruz you know the the greg abbott republicans ignore the power grid it comes crashing down as you can expect they've been paid off to ignore it by their campaign contributors slash bribe um and and what does what does he do we get those pictures with his pot belly out in his his uh suitcase that famous image of him going to cancun the first time any toughness happens the first time ted cruz might get a little bit cold you know mr tough guy stands up talks like a big bad man he's running off to cancun and this of course goes for all sorts of republicans donald trump when the protesters arrive at the white house we now found out he actually asked his uh the head of the joint chiefs millie if they could be shot he was so scared of them these peaceful protesters and then went ahead in the white house bunker that's donald trump i mean again and again these people they're scared to ask questions answer questions from the press they're scared to talk to anybody but fox news and salem radio and crystal fascists and other right-wing nuts they're cowards they're pathetic cowards and it's so easy to see through um you know we've heard stories from the likes of joe walsh you know former republican congress and others how many of these people told him off the record they thought trump was terrible and dangerous and should be removed but they couldn't say it out loud oh no god forbid yet again you you heard these stories during the january 6 commission we hear about the people that did actually speak out some of them did publicly mitch mcconnell blamed trump kevin mccarthy called him and screamed at him and said it was his fault and he should get people down there and call the whole thing off then of course they when it came time to stand up and be strong they they bowed down like the cowards they are they're running men that's what they are and women they run from things and you know in in debbie lesko's case apparently in a 10-year spree with her husband bankrupting going bankrupt and i'm not even sure maybe committing crimes she had an alias so who knows and you can go through any number of republican figures like this there's no courage there's no accountability there's no confidence they use that large hole inside them where most of us have a soul and what they do is they use that to to sort of project nastiness and toughness i've got my fist up i must be tough i'm sure that worked out really well in yale calculus class they all just got freaked jd vance here in ohio talking like mr tough guy even though he