Reminder to media: CPAC doesn't represent the now non-existent conservative movement, but rather is a gathering of fringe players, low travelers, white nationalists and knuckle heads. Being kind, actually.
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) February 22, 2018
This is what many conservatives complained to reporters who covered CPAC for the last decade. Then the speakers they were complaining about took over the party and the WH and the critics were relegated to a fringe resistance. https://t.co/odnZLdRXQU https://t.co/dJAISFTAnG
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 22, 2018
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Why I love Twitter, for days like this…
Ted Cruz on Hill reporters: “Their questions are never about substance"
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) February 22, 2018
. @tedcruz "I think the Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson and Republicans are happily the party of Homer and Bart and Maggie and Marge."
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 22, 2018
i don't even find beto o'rourke that appealing but I can't read this and not want to see him give ted cruz an atomic wedgie https://t.co/orzr8B1BY0
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 22, 2018
As a Simpsons animator for many years, I can say with 100% certainty that A) Lisa is officially the conscience of the family so…awesome. B) Neither Marge nor Homer are Republicans.
— Anna Maltese ? (@MalteseAnna) February 22, 2018
I think what this really comes down to is that @tedcruz is simply thirsty for a VO spot on the show and this – in addition to that Simpsons "audition" video he made – is another cry for help in landing that gig.
— Anna Maltese ? (@MalteseAnna) February 22, 2018
Fun fact- Lisa Simpson grows up to be President. Ted Cruz does not. pic.twitter.com/6gekbH27Ay
— Kid Phantasm (@cbbruuno) February 22, 2018
The Republicans are definitely the party of one of the Simpson's characters. pic.twitter.com/bg9Qdud0mk
— Elliott B (@ClawDrains) February 22, 2018
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Off to the parties, boyz!
Shapiro begins by praising Trump's accomplishments, including not letting Clinton be president.
Two separate "lock her up" chants begin, then converge into a room-wide chant.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 22, 2018
Corner Stone
Ah, Ben Shapiro. A leading light in the “Intellectual Conservative Movement”.
debbie
@Corner Stone:
How dare you! “Intellectual” paired with “Conservative”? There oughta be a law against that!
Corner Stone
That is all they have ever represented.
trollhattan
Oh dayumn, Missouri.
craigie
I’m glad I don’t know who Ben Shapiro is. That makes me happy.
Anne Laurie
@debbie:
There already is, IMO – Gresham’s Law.
Bobby Thomson
@Corner Stone: that one is The Ben formerly known as Virgin Ben, right? And Ben Domenech is Plagiarisin’ Ben? I sometimes get my
CoreysBens mixed up.Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Yes, leading them all into the well with no exit.
Roger Moore
Marge leans D, and Homer never bothers to vote*.
*ETA: Except for that one time he voted for Kodos.
trollhattan
@craigie:
Consider yourself lucky, although anybody who thinks Shapiro only lives in the wingnut bubble at Townhall should know he has infested more mainstream resources, including my local paper.
germy
Good Lord, even she’s shocked:
Mike J
@Bobby Thomson: Lisa Simpson had an episode where she ran up a huge phone bill calling the Cory hotline. I’ll bet she could tell you which Ben is which.
Villago Delenda Est
@craigie: For years he was known as “The Virgin Ben” due to his militant insistence that he was as pure as the driven snow, and had never had sex. Of any kind. To include auto eroticism.
@Bobby Thomson: Yeah, Domenech is the plagiarist.
debbie
@Anne Laurie:
Then shouldn’t Conservatives have disappeared by now?
Corner Stone
@germy: That is one deeply stupid and bigoted person.
Steeplejack
Daniel Dale: “The room has filled up for today’s CPAC climax.”
Phrasing, damn it!
germy
Roger Moore
@germy:
She had no idea there was gambling at Rick’s!
Villago Delenda Est
@germy: Seb Gorka is a good example of a naturalized citizen who should be denaturalized and deported. He’s scum.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Claude Rains must be exhausted from all those clips he appears in.
germy
germy
@Roger Moore: I wonder why she thinks she should be over it?
Corner Stone
Looks like Ari Melber is going to go at Bernie again this evening. And I am here for it.
Planetjanet
@Villago Delenda Est: So who is Box Turtle Ben?
Villago Delenda Est
@Planetjanet: That’s Domenech.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: I’ll drink to that! Later, though. It’s still working hours for us Californians.
p.a.
Their universe
bupalos
@germy: I’ve gotten checks (big ones) from the Heritage Foundation, so I’m something of a mole…. the “conservative movement” is intellectually dominated by people who are still focussed on the 1960’s. A whole shitton of this stuff comes as a direct descendant of wholly or partially imagined dystopian scenes that did not occur in Chicago and Ithaca NY c.1962.
MikeEss
@Planetjanet: …apparently Ben Domenech…
trollhattan
@Villago Delenda Est:
I vote a straight trade for Ivett Toth. She probably wants to escape Hungary anyway, given where their government is heading.
smintheus
Reuters: “U.S. gun lobby slams anti-gun ‘elites’ after Florida school massacre”
Wayne LaPierre was wearing a $1000 suit when he
saidsneered that.Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: After you fully become a Californian, don’t you F’ng dare go to Austin and start buying up properties.
Corner Stone
@smintheus: I wish someone had thrown a string of lit Black Cats onto the stage while he was talking.
jl
I don’t know about Maggie and Marge, but happily bragging that your party is the party of Homer and Bart?
I posted in an earlier thread that, what I see now on a regular basis, is the national GOP is starting to replay the noxious and toxic and absurd public antics of the CA GOP right before it cracked up and got rejected by the state’s voters. I also said I didn’t want to get my hopes up.
But now Ted comes out and says the country can expect Homer and Bart from from GOP governance. OK.. I’ll still try to not get my hopes up, and will contribute to and work on upcoming election campaigns.
Corner Stone
Man, this Dana Loesch CPAC clip just gets more creepy every time they show it.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: My brothers Floyd band is playing at the Grove in Anaheim this weekend
Which One’s Pink?
Public · Hosted by Which One’s Pink? – a tribute to Pink Floyd and
clock
Saturday, February 24 at 8 PM – 11 PM PS
Grove of Anaheim
2200 E Katella Ave, Anaheim, California 92806
dmsilev
@germy: The university presidents I’ve met or seen over the last several years are by and large too young to have even graduated high school in time to be a sixties hippy.
Not to mention that they’d have probably been ‘squares’ back then.
trollhattan
I’m beginning to think arming schools may not be an answer after all.
Mike J
@dmsilev: I’d guess a fair number were born in the 60s.
sukabi
@Bobby Thomson: he’s also now Mr. Megan McCain….that happened last summer. I knew she wasn’t a big thinker, and now she’s proven it beyond any question.
Corner Stone
@trollhattan:
Let this be a lesson to all future parents. Never name your child any version of “Scot/t Peterson”.
lgerard
@bupalos:
if you have any good Lee Edwards stories let’s hear them
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
Arming schools was never the answer. It was never intended to be an answer. All it was ever intended to be was a distraction to get people talking about anything other than restricting gun sales.
Jeffro
Meanwhile, I see that WV teachers went on strike STATEWIDE today because they’re tired of working for peanuts:
And they’re pretty savvy about social media and pounding on legislators too…hmm…a trend?
I guess they are all collecting SorosChecks? Or maybe just participating in their democracy…the way it was meant to be…
We
Are
Coming
For You,
Republicans
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
It’s degeneration in action in that that is what it takes these days to rile up the CPAC crowd to open their wallets; in the future, they will have to bring out an immigrant to flog on stage to get people’s attention.
Jeffro
@Roger Moore: Exactly. They’re trying to make us fight and waste time making arguments against something that’s absurd on its face in multiple ways. NEXT!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Citizen Alan
@bupalos:
Five seconds of math informs me that someone who was 21 in 1969 would be 70 today. How many 70-year-old academics do they think are still in the teaching profession?
Baud
@Roger Moore:
@Jeffro:
Agreed!
smintheus
@Corner Stone: I wish someone would offer LaPierre free ammosexual conversion therapy.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
smintheus
@Citizen Alan: Too damn many in my field; they won’t retire and make room for their grad students.
Jeffro
@smintheus: Seconded!
(actually most professors and adjuncts at my college are relatively young…HOWEVER…that’s not ‘data’, that’s an anecdote, and from what I understand it’s pretty far outside the norm)
The Dangerman
@trollhattan:
The bigger problem with arming teachers is this Barney Fife might have blown away a teacher (if one WERE armed) if he had gone into the building. It amazes me that the arriving “good guys” are supposed to know which are the armed “bad guys” in an active shooter scenario.
Dave
@bupalos: Both noted hellholes to this day. So their fixation makes total sense.
chris
Hahaha! Dinesh Derp is cancelled in Texas.
FlipYrWhig
@dmsilev: My college just hired a new president. She was born in, I believe, 1963.
Mnemosyne
@trollhattan:
They’ve been telling cops for years that they should never, ever get into any physical confrontation that they’re not 100 percent sure of winning, and now they’re surprised that their careful training helped this tragedy unfold?
SMDH.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
They’re the party of beer guzzling, TV-addled, slack-jawed yokels? I wonder if he’s ever seen the show. In any case, always interesting when the Cruzes and trumps of the world wittingly or unwittingly express their utter contempt for their own voters.
Corner Stone
Tide Pods: Click until it twists.
If that’s not 2018 I do not know what is.
Jager
I can’t believe Cruz is dragging out the “60’s is where all the trouble started” bullshit again. They’ve been grinding that axe forever. As a guy who was in high school and college in the 60’s, it was nothing like these assholes think it was and I seriously doubt anybody who is running a college today is my age or older. Seems to me they are about the same age as Ted Cruz. In fact, the crack smoking dean who just got bounced from USC’s medical school is in his 60’s, so he must have been a long haired hippie grade schooler.
Viva BrisVegas
@The Dangerman:
The answer to that is that they don’t.
In that case a student helped wrestle away a weapon from crazed gunman in a church, then got shot multiple times by the police for his trouble. He survived.
LaPierre’s CPAC speech was all about rights. Unsurprisingly only those of gun owners. His solution to school massacres is to turn schools into armed and fortified camps.
Apparently locking away the students in a compound and requiring teachers to become part-time security guards has no impact on their rights at all.
Ruviana
@debbie: To paraphrase the late great SEK,”conservative intellectual” two words next to each other.
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
” They’re the party of beer guzzling, TV-addled, slack-jawed yokels? ”
‘mmmm dooonuuuts… and Duff beer!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jager: I believe he was smoking meth with hookers.
jl
@Viva BrisVegas: Clearly, the reactionaries shouldn’t be allowed to watch superhero movies, which fog up their impressionable minds and leads them to confuse reality and fantasy.
Patricia Kayden
@smintheus: Wayne La Pierre earns 5,000,000 per year and lives in Northern Virginia (the bluest part of the state). Isn’t he part of that dreaded East Coast elite? **rolls eyes**
Funny how men like Trump and La Pierre get away with yapping against the elite when they’re more of the elite than the dolts who support them.
Viva BrisVegas
@Jager:
He’s absolutely right. In 1964 to be exact.
That was when the lower orders started to get way too uppity.
woodrowfan
@germy: the 60s hippies (eye roll) have mostly retired by now. I’m a late baby boomer who came of age in the 70s, not the 60s, and I’m the 2d oldest in my department…
sukabi
@Viva BrisVegas: had to look at the date on that, same day as Parkland.
Mnemosyne
@Viva BrisVegas:
American conservatives are big on rights, not so much on responsibilities. And, of course, they project their unwillingness to take responsibility for their actions out onto liberals. Carrying an AR-15 around is the most responsible action ever, libtards!
Jeffro
Meanwhile, the BS meter is stuck at 11: Kushner’s security clearance is being held up because of…Mueller’s investigation?!?
What about the six months or so between the election and the start of Mueller’s investigation???
Give me a fucking break!
Jeffro
@Patricia Kayden: …where in Northern Virginia?
Patricia Kayden
@Viva BrisVegas:
I doubt La Pierre’s children go to such a school though. Ditto Trump’s kid.
Honus
I was driving to a hearing today and both MSNBC and CNN broadcast Dana Loesch and LaPierre’s speeches live, in their entirety, without interruption. WTF? Neither holds any office and both are paid hacks spouting completely partisan propaganda. Where s the news value?
Patricia Kayden
@Jeffro: Roanoke. I stand corrected. Just seeing that Roanoke is in southwest Virginia.
sukabi
@Jeffro: you know, it IS kind of hard to get a security clearance while you’re the target of at least 2 criminal investigations…so it’s technically true….Mueller’s investigation is “holding up” his clearance…of course so is the IRS investigation….and the forthcoming indictments will also slow the process down a bit…????
“2 sources familiar”…. Any bets on who they are? I’m going with Sarah Sanders and Ivanka…
Viva BrisVegas
@Jeffro:
Only in part.
Is the other part that he was forced to revise his clearance application about 16,427 times because he kept getting caught lying?
Patricia Kayden
@Jeffro:
So why doesn’t Trump just step in and issue the waiver? Kushner is already accessing our top secrets so why not just clear him to continue to do so? It’s amazing what you can get away with when you’re a Republican.
Jeffro
@Patricia Kayden: Ah never mind then, that’s too far to drive…
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Corner Stone:
It pisses me off that his stupid podcast is apparently so popular
Jeffro
@sukabi: The reporting on this one does suck. Why not point out first and foremost that he could have been cleared in the 6 months before Mueller’s investigation started?!?
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@p.a.:
Ha! I got that reference.
sukabi
@Jeffro: probably because he left off a huge number of foreign contacts and business deals…the folks clearing the forms probably compared his financial disclosures to Ivanka’s and saw a bunch of discrepancies…and wanted more details.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
There sure are a lot of famous people I’ve never heard of.
Never heard of Bari Weiss, so I googled her.
Still don’t know who she is. Probably just as well.
Iron City
@Jeffro: That was the 6 months that he couldn’t fill out the SF-86 truthfully and completely. After several “do overs” it is supposedly done now.
neldob
@Honus: And they did that for our current oligarch in chief before he hit the big time. Pure profit infotainment. Very amusing.
Mnemosyne
@Iron City:
I suspect that Jared didn’t realize that the FBI actually checks the information on that form and doesn’t just take the person’s word for it.
Chet Murthy
@Honus: Yaknow, I’ll give this to the networks: they understand “newsworthy”. And these two imbeciles, yeah, they’re newsworthy. In a way, maybe it’s good:
(1) the RWNJs aren’t gonna get any more rabid. That Trumpist woman in Florida, with her “Hillary and her bandits” and “I didn’t work with any Russians” shit, she’s not gonna get any -more- Trumpist.
(2) But progressives who didn’t vote, who aren’t -quite- convinced that voting matters, or who think it’s OK to vote for Fucking Traitor Stein, maybe some of them will realize that the GrOPers are coming for their children. And maybe that’ll make some of ’em vote the safety of their kids.
I don’t have cable so I didnt’ watch any of CPAC. Did they televise anybody else’s speeches? B/c honestly, if I were the NRA, at this point, any publicity isn’t exactly good publicity. Sure, it’l make the mouth-breathers buy more guns. But it’s gonna piss off a LOTTA folks. I mean, it’s like “how many new Taliban did we create today” every time our troops bomb an Afghan village. But hey, I hope Shooty McRageyPants LaPierre keeps it up. Really, I do. Maybe he’ll pop a fucking aneurysm and stroke out. I’d love for him to spend 20yr as a boxed-in case.
Uncle Omar
@smintheus: Only a grand? What a cheap piker. That must be the one he wears for the rubes. Four large apiece at least for the ones he wears when he goes calling on the boys at Ruger, Remington, Charter Arms, et al..
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Chet Murthy: Ari Melber seems to be showing some interest in Bernie Sanders and the Russians. I keep waiting for someone to tell him about Tad Devine and Ukraine. I don’t necessarily think there’s a there there, but can you freaking imagine if Clinton/Obama et cetera, et cetera
efgoldman
@Corner Stone:
FUCK WILMER WITH A RUSTY MAPLE SYRUP BUCKET
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
They moved Atlanta 2000 miles West?
What, there aren’t enough unions to break in Dixie?
efgoldman
@Jager:
I wanted to be a hippie, but I was too a’skeert
Honus
@neldob: yes, and I was driving to another hearing in 2016 when they broadcast Ted Cruz’ speech at liberty U, again, complete and uninterrupted. I wasn’t certain who it was for a while; it was fascinating, like those fascist speeches and cheering crowds from WWII.
Honus
@efgoldman: haven’t been here for a while, eh? There ain’t no unions in Dixie. Don’t believe in ‘em.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I suspect (and have suspected for months) that there is a “there” that was coordinated by Tad Devine but perhaps without Sanders’ knowledge.
Though the more Bernie flubs the questions about Russia, the more I start to wonder. ?
Chet Murthy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Funny thing about Bernie. I was always a Hillary partisan, but I kinda thought Bernie was OK. Sure, he had to get -taught- to take BLM seriously. But I thought he was -learning-, and that was OK. Mostly, I didn’t inquire deeply, b/c he wasn’t gonna get my support in any primary anyway. Hillary was my candidate. Then I see these vids of him saying “vermont is different from chicago” and …. yaknow, I’m having a LOT of trouble forgiving that shit. And now we find that the IRA was supporting him? And yeah, Tad Devine. We need to get to the bottom of this. If for no other reason, than this: if he’s dirty, his supporters need to know. If he’s clean, same thing. We need to know. There are too many questions.
JGabriel
@debbie:
Nah. Conservatives were always worthless.
JGabriel
@bupalos:
That’s no entirely fair. Many conservatives are less interested in the 1960’s and, instead, are more focused on re-living the 1860’s.
JGabriel
@Chet Murthy:
The natural peak point for Right-Wing Nazi Jerks is genocide. So, yes, the RWNJ’s could still get more rabid – and probably will.
Miss Bianca
@trollhattan: What, you mean to tell me that even an armed police officer didn’t feel like engaging with a guy wielding an AR-15?!
So, does that mean the NRA is going to revoke his “good guy with a gun” status?
Shana
@Jeffro: Yeah, I live in Northern Virginia too and would LOVE to know where that asshat lives.
Another Scott
@Shana: Great Falls, supposedly.
Cheers,
Scott.
Marcia
@germy: (quoted)
Like the proverbial cuckolded spouse, she was the last to find out?
Thad Phetteplace
Well that was wild… Reading this post and did a double take when I realized a bunch of the featured tweets were from my friend Anna. Very cool. If you are not already following @MalteseAnna, do it… you won’t regret it.