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Authoritarians like Sen. Josh Hawley don\\u2019t have much to defend these days. Their little insurrection failed, their Dear Leader is gone, and his stewardship helped kill more Americans than World War II. 

But they\\u2019ve still got the politics of aggrievement. Of victimhood. Of straight-up whining. 

Take this past weekend, when Hawley mewled about being silenced\\u2014on the cover of a major national newspaper. \\u201cIt was the absolute pinnacle of the very white, Downy white, snowy top of Mount Snowflake,\\u201d Rick Wilson laughs on the latest edition of The New Abnormal.  

\\u201cOh, I can\'t, I can\'t say a word\\u2014except on the Senate floor, where I was elected by the people of Missouri. I can\'t say a word\\u2014except on Fox, the largest cable network in the country. I can\'t say a word\\u2014except the New York post, which is millions of people every day. I can\'t say a word except on Facebook and Twitter and TikTok and every other platform in America,\\u2019\\u201d Rick adds, channeling Hawley.

\\u201cBut what you should be saying, Josh Hawley, you fucking snake is this: \\u2018I apologize to the family of officer Brian Sicnick for having incited the crowd which murdered him.\' So Josh is not muzzled. He just lacks a moral compass to speak the truth about what he is,\\u201d Rick says.

Speaking of the Senate, Adam Jentleson\\u2014author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy\\u2014joins the show to talk about how the Democrats can free themselves from Mitch McConnell\\u2019s grasp.

And speaking of problems with the truth, a number of MAGA men could be in a world of trouble for airing a bunch of nonsensical conspiracy theories about Dominion, the election technology firm.  The company has sued a bunch of folks in greater Trumplandia for defamation. The latest: Rudy Giuliani, for a cool $1.3 billion.  

\\u201cIf you haven\'t read this filing, it is quite something,\\u201d says Molly Jong-Fast. \\u201cIt includes such things as: \\u2018also during that defamatory podcast, Rudy claimed supplements would cure his viewers\\u2019 achy joints and muscles and implored them to stop wasting money and switch. He instructed them to use his name when ordering and said they could get a second bottle free if they ordered now.\\u2019\\u201d

But what\\u2019s really \\u201cinteresting about this lawsuit is that they use Tucker Carlson\'s statements that there\'s no there there to then attack Sean Hannity\\u2014and to ask why Fox news gave Giuliani a platform on Sean Hannity\'s show, even though Tucker Carlson had said it was a scam,\\u201d she adds. 

Rudy and the rest are talking tough. But their lies\\u2014that Dominion \\u201creally is a Venezuelan company\\u201d (it\\u2019s Canadian) and helped steal the election (no)\\u2014are too big. They are going to have to back down, Rick predicts, or pay up. \\u201cThe fact of the matter is, Molly, Dominion has them all by the balls.\\u201d

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