I think what the left is doing is
attacking America.
They're saying that America
is systemically oppressive and
men are systemically responsible.
>> That was a conservative
Republican Senator, Josh Hawley,
the faux populist who pretended
to care about the economic
anxieties of Americans.
When in reality he's just another
repackaged conservative who is
worried about porn and video games.
That was the message that you would
hear from his interview with Axios.
In fact, it was pretty embarrassing
to be quite honest with you and
give you a little look into what he
thinks about men today,
in particular, men who might vote
for him, let's listen.
>> As conservatives, we got to call
men back to responsibility.
We've got to say that spending your
time not working and we have more
and more men who are not working.
Spending your time on video games,
spending your time watching porn
online while doing nothing is not
good for you, your family or
in this country.
>> So viewers watching this and
they're thinking really what
the liberals are doing are going to
push me to watch porn hub more or
play donkey kong more,
do you mean that literally.
>> Well, what I mean, literally is
that I think the liberal attack,
the left wing attack on manhood
says two men,
you're part of the problem.
It says that your your masculinity
is inherently problematic,
it's inherently oppressed.
>> Now, look, I would venture to
say that someone who's genuine in
wanting to respond to the economic
anxieties of Americans would not
manufacture the next culture war.
But of course that's exactly
what Josh Hawley is doing here.
And I also just want to note that,
he talks about people who need men
who need to get back to work,
right?
This was a message that was also
uttered by Elaine child,
former Transportation Secretary
under the trump administration.
And what they're really talking
about is the labor shortage,
we're seeing it in various sectors
of the economy.
It's leading to supply
chain shortages, they just want you
guys to go back to the mines.
And it made me think
about the John Deere workers
who are currently on strike and
about 40% of those strikers
identify as Republican voters.
And so when
it comes to these economic issues,
when it comes to accumulating power
as workers in the workplace,
that is not a partisan issue.
You've got Democrats, Republicans,
conservatives, liberals,
progressives they see how broken
our economic system is,
they want change.
But what you'll get from
politicians like Josh Hawley,
who pretends to be a populist is
more and more of this manufactured
nonsense culture war.
I would love to know what Josh
Hawley does during his free time
because while he's passing judgment
on men who like to let loose and
enjoy themselves by a playing video
games, for instance.
I would venture to say that he
probably engages in activities that
we would find pretty unsavory as
well, including fundraising among
corporate donors who allow for
politicians like Hawley to rig the
economic system against us, Junk.
>> Okay, so
let's analyze the critique of men
from the two different camps.
Okay, so now does discriminating as
men overall make any sense?
Of course not, I'm a man,
I don't want to be discriminated,
yes, is their legitimate
critique of men that you can make,
of course there is, right.
So, for example, the great
majority of crimes are committed
by young men, that's a fact, so
now let's look at the two sides.
One side says historically,
men have been in charge and
have used that and by the way,
logically, so if you have power,
you want to keep power.
You don't want to share that power
and they didn't want to
share it with women.
So they would say, for example,
you're not allowed to work,
you have to stay at home and
just serve me.
Your whole point of existence is to
serve me and you have no freedom,
you have no independence,
these are from the freedom guys,
right, but not for women.
Historically, that's what happened,
now, we're halfway past that, but
there's still a lot of that hanging
around.
And so is that a legitimate
critique, of course,
have men aggregated power in this
country historically?
Well, I mean, we didn't have women
weren't even allowed to vote until
100 years ago, all 46 presidents
have been men, we can go on and on,
these are based, in fact, right?
And you want to get past that and
very slowly we're getting past
that, now, the right wing critique
is presented by Josh Hawley.
There of men is you guys watch too
much porn and
you play too many video games and
my corporate bosses are telling me
you guys are bumps.
I think men are lazy bums who like
to play video games and you know,
do what the porn, so how's that for
a critique of man?
>> No, it's amazing, it's amazing
because I mean, I would love to see
the data, right, like what is he
referring to specifically?
Like what data set is he pointing
to reference that men
are just spending all day spanking
the salami to porn hub,
like I want to know.
And the thing is he just made it
up, he just made it up.
And by the way you want to look at
porn consumption in the country and
where it's more prevalent,
it tends to be in the bible belt.
And I'm not passing judgment here,
whatever you do on your free time
is your own business.
But what he's doing in this
interview is
passing judgment on men in general,
including his own voters, his own
supporters, conservative voters and
painting them,
defaming them as as lazy bums.
And it's just fascinating to
see how these politicians really
view men in society,
in an effort to try to defend them,
he's really insulting them and
it's pretty gross.
>> Yeah, so look the porn and
video games debate,
I'm very happy to have any day.
But the part that is should be
offensive to men is holly and other
right wingers saying that's why you
guys aren't working your bums,
your bums, you're not doing
anything productive in society.
All you're doing is masturbating
all day, it's a really sick
way of looking at men and so
don't let that slide by now.
But before I reach a conclusion,
[LAUGH] l like to say that on
the issue of porn,
look if holly Shapiro's want to
take the position of we are against
all men who watch porn online.
And we take the position of we'll
take all the voters who actually do
watch porn online, we would win
elections among men, what, 99- one,
so how about it, horse?
Okay [LAUGH] I think it's
a political strategy of all time.
>> No, I love it, I love it,
keep going Hawley, keep going.
In fact, if you thought that was
bad, it's about to get worse and
even more embarrassing for Hawley,
let's watch.
>> That based on data or
based on a hunch?
>> Well, it's policy over many
years, I mean if you look at
the policy of deindustrialization.
Those are policy choices might
pursued over many years.
>> Wait, how does that connect
to porn?
>> Well, if you've got men 16
million men Mike who are idle
who don't have anything to
do now partly that's
their own responsibility.
But also partly because jobs
have dried up in many cities across
America and rural areas too.
I think you put together
a lack of jobs,
you put together fatherlessness,
you put together the social
messages that we teach our kids in
school, I think we've got to
confront that and its effects.
>> I love it because at one moment
during this interview while he's
like wait hold on,
hold on I forgot I was engaging in
that pseudo populist grift.
I'm supposed to talk about
globalization, deindustrialization
and but look bro your US Senator,
okay your US Senator.
And politicians like Josh Hawley
have been in favor of protecting
multinational corporations,
protecting companies that have
shipped jobs abroad to exploit
cheap labor in places like China,
India, Vietnam, Bangladesh.
He loves it,
he can't get enough of it,
he loves it.
So I just love how in the end,
I mean he doesn't overtly take
blame but if you listen to what
he's saying, it's the policies
that people like him have
championed throughout the years.
That have led to the economic
situation and frustration that
Americans are experiencing today,
which is why guys don't take the
bait for the manufactured culture
wars don't take it, they love it.
That's all the right wing has,
they don't have solutions they
don't have policy proposals that
would better your life.
All they have is mr potato head,
all they have is Dr Seuss,
all they have is tut tut porn.
We don't like it, tut tut your
spanking the salami too often
garbage, just garbage nonsense,
don't take the bait, don't take it,
throw it away.
>> Yeah, so credit where credit is
due, I thought mike Allen did
a good job there.
Sometimes we critique accidents
when they do a bad job, but
in that case he did a great job of
following up, which policy has of
of democrats has led to men
masturbating more online,
[LAUGH] I mean, come on, really.
Everything's made
these points with a straight face.
So it was a great follow up
question and I like the donkey kong
reference, [LAUGH] In a video game.
I want to bring something a little
bit more recent, but
hey, he's old school.
Now, when it comes to Hawley.
>> Donkey kong is actually perfect,
especially if you're trying to
tie porn and video, but
nonetheless going.
>> Yes, indeed, indeed, donkey is a
symbol for democrats, I don't know
if there's something there anyways.
[LAUGH] So when it comes to holly
look at there is a theme, they're
working on here and you will see
this from other politicians and
other right wing media hosts
like Joe Rogan and others.
Okay, it's all about republicans
are more masculine, bad and
you know what?
>> You're the picture of
Josh Hawley,
just to show you how masculine they
are as Jake is making his point.
So that's Josh Hawley kissing
his wife like a real man would,
Jake continue.
>> Yeah, I kissed my wife with
a closed mouth and
she doesn't see for me because real
men don't touch lips, okay.
[LAUGH] And we, I definitely am not
going to porn hub after this,
Josh Hawley says.
And I'll be watching strain port
anyway, so all right, but
all the fault,
tough guys on the right wing.
They're like, man, if you're mainly
you don't need to that scene.
Yeah, man,
you don't need to accuse your man,
we're man.
And I think the reason they're
doing the weirdo anti porn thing,
even though all of their, every one
of their followers watches porn
online is because they probably
feel deep shame about that.
And they know that their own
followers feel shame about it
because that's what they
taught them.
Like, I mean, you want to talk
about where it comes from.
They went to church,
they went all the political things
the republicans said,
if you actually, do things that
are free with your body, right?
Like if you actually exercise
freedom, you're a terrible person,
you should be filled with shame and
disgust and guilt and that works.
And then people like, yeah,
the liberals made me do it,
I didn't want to go out poured up.
But the liberals made me do it and
that's why what holy say there,
then they become dried up.
>> Yeah, look, anyone who's
feeling guilty about masturbation,
just don't, don't let your church
make you feel bad about it.
Don't let the proud boys make you
feel bad about it, you've got to
release the poison, okay.
We've seen what happens to men
when they're not getting any love
from the ladies or when they're not
showing themselves some self love.
So you're actually doing your duty,
your service to America,
it's the most patriotic thing you
can do, do it, let it go, don't
feel bad about it, let's move on.
>> Yeah. >> That's all
I've got to say.
>> And I can't imagine anything
worse than a bunch of pent up right
wingers, who got energy to release
going around like crazy nuts, so
don't buy into the fact smear,
okay.