before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
weekend. there s still time for some notes before you get the time to grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. ron desantis has officially entered the 2024 right house race, as we said the live stream events on twitter got off to a rocky start. crashing several times. with the announcement delayed by more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here that i think we are affecting the service. let s say, so yeah. make sense. just to simplify this. so let s say. does it keep crashing? i think rebecca online now. i think we are back online now. well, it s an honor to have governor desantis make this stuck announcement. the technical troubles your mockery on social media. president well then posted a link to his donation page. writing simply this link works. and former president donald trump has a series of posts on truth social calling the announcement, fatal and a disaster. he also had one str
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
like hawley and people like bannon. there is a massive crisis among young men. you look at the numbers. it seems to be growing by the year. what are some effective ways for people other than these far-right political profiteers, what are some of the ways to help young men? i think the first thing you have to do is not ignore the issue. address young men and say, we understand the issue. we understand what you re facing. we understand the crisis you re facing. and we have to deal with that as we fight for rights for women against misogyny and homophobia and the rest. i think that a lot of what they ve been able to do, the bannons of the world, hawley and others, is the fact that they even addressed them. it attracts them because they re feeling ignored.
the left wanted to define traditional masculinity as toxic. they want to define masculine virtues, courage, independence and assertiveness, as a danger to society. this is an effort that the left has been at for years now, and they have had alarming success. that s republican senator josh hawley discussing the left s so-called attacks on masculinity during a speech back in 2021. that fight over manhood has become a key focus for hawley, as he and other republicans seem to be courting the support of disillusioned men. joining us now, editor at the washington monthly, will norris. will, you take a look at senator hawley s version of masculinity in a piece titled what josh hawley and the right get wrong about manhood. you say, republicans like hawley are confronting a genuine social problem, but they re using it to promote their careers, to bring disillusioned, young men into the party s fold in