{"id":1850019,"date":"2023-02-16T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850019"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:54:23","slug":"climate-heckler-crashes-josh-hawley-speech-immediately-gets-laughed-off-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-heckler-crashes-josh-hawley-speech-immediately-gets-laughed-off-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Heckler Crashes Josh Hawley Speech \u2014 Immediately Gets Laughed Off The Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-heckler-crashes-josh-hawley-speech-immediately-gets-laughed-off-the-stage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A heckler got laughed off the stage on Thursday while attempting to interrupt Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) \u2014 who was giving a speech at The Heritage Foundation at the time \u2014 after she shouted that China was not the United States\u2019 true enemy.<\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/16\/hawley-slams-unipartys-blank-check-foreign-policy-and-ukraine-proxy-war-urges-focus-on-no-1-threat-red-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The speech<\/a>, Hawley addressed what he believed to be the greatest threat to American national security \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-general-predicts-war-with-china-by-2025-i-hope-i-am-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communist China<\/a> \u2014 and argued that the nation\u2019s top foreign policy priority should be \u201cdeterring China from seizing Taiwan.\u201d He also argued that stopping sending assets blindly from Ukraine was the best way to achieve that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not in favor of blank checks to anybody. So I\u2019m not here to tell you that I don\u2019t favor blank checks to Ukraine, but I do favor them to Taiwan. No, quite the contrary,\u201d Hawley explained. \u201cMy view is we have got to help the Taiwanese defend themselves. We should be arming and supporting the Taiwanese but on the condition that they spend on their own defense, that they embrace an asymmetric defense strategy, and that they go all in on the defense of their island and prepare to defend it from any potential Chinese invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman, however, walked onto the stage right next to Senator Missouri. A large poster with the words &#8220;Senator Missouri&#8221; was unfolded. \u201cPeople &#038; Planet, not War &#038; Aggression,\u201d she began to shout over him \u2014 and she argued that China was not so dangerous an enemy as climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone ran onto the stage and interrupted Josh Hawley\u2019s speech on Heritage Foundation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China is not our enemy! The climate crisis is!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The crowd laughs at her, and she&#8217;s removed from the stage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X7J1bl2LpY\">pic.twitter.com\/X7J1bl2LpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1626272978307522561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spend over $1 trillion every year, and the state \u2014 your state of Missouri \u2014 over half the people are in poverty,\u201d she said as security approached her, took her by the arm, and began to escort her off the stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is not our enemy,\u201d she insisted. \u201cThe climate crisis is! We need to be this serious about the climate crisis!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audience laughed as she was removed from the room, shouting over her shoulder the entire time about military spending and how she believed that money should be used to address climate change instead.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley quickly picked up where he had left off, piggy-backing off the lone protester\u2019s complaints to double down on his position \u2014 and take a swing at the Biden administration in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A climate protester interrupts Sen. Josh Hawley\u2019s (R-MO) Heritage Foundation speech on China and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley: \u201cThis administration wants to use the climate crisis as a justification for its agenda in Ukraine and elsewhere. Maybe they oughta visit with that gal.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QcL3dTCzqn\">pic.twitter.com\/QcL3dTCzqn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1626297960270110723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration wants to use the climate crisis as a justification for its agenda in Ukraine and elsewhere. Maybe they oughta visit with that gal,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heckler got laughed off the stage on Thursday while attempting to interrupt Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) \u2014 who was giving a speech at The Heritage Foundation at the time \u2014 after she shouted that China was not the United States\u2019 true enemy. During the speech, Hawley addressed what he believed to be the greatest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1850022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4321,9641,3690,15788,5659,16365,3618,4554,10001],"class_list":["post-1850019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-climate","tag-crashes","tag-hawley","tag-heckler","tag-josh","tag-laughed","tag-riot","tag-speech","tag-stage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}