KomikKon. Fuck it was right there.
— Franklin Stove Expropriator (@agraybee) March 4, 2023
Why is CPAC empty?
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 3, 2023
Warm-up for the Big Yuuuuge Event:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but the winners get to scream the N-word while the crowd applauds wildly. https://t.co/J3bfqHPiwS
— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) March 3, 2023
Tonight:
Fat Thanos has entered the chat. https://t.co/yswnG04qcX
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 5, 2023
Ex-Republican:
There is a Civil War brewing in America, but it’s all within one party https://t.co/45O36gKnB9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 4, 2023
Newsmax is using a high optical zoom lens for its coverage of Trump’s CPAC speech in order to not show the back 90% of the room – which is empty ?? pic.twitter.com/F0pzzMvB5S
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 4, 2023
I have never doubted that the man is deeply emotionally disturbed, but we really have to stop focusing on that and think more about the fact that there are people pumping their fists and believing every bit of this bullshit https://t.co/QKcRVyiheZ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 4, 2023
Elsewhere in the arena:
Guilfoyle is now at CPAC selling gold and silver. She says to stop doing business with woke companies that hate you, and to go to ‘KimsMetals’ to invest for your retirement. pic.twitter.com/NPG6naVy3Z
— Ron Filipkowski ???? (@RonFilipkowski) March 2, 2023
person: you will speak to a room that is almost empty but you will get an incredible amount of money
me: sounds great, don’t care if anybody shows up
— world famous art thief (@CalmSporting) March 3, 2023
Her marketing was never that impressive. https://t.co/PlA6FP1sOj
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) March 3, 2023
Mike Lindell went long at CPAC. pic.twitter.com/kYlaxNzSmO
— Zach D Roberts – Photojournalist (@zdroberts) March 4, 2023
Kari Lake and Sarah Palin have been some of the biggest hits at CPAC so far & were swarmed by attendees everywhere they went pic.twitter.com/ddrddN3KHu
— Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) March 3, 2023
Elon Musk said this week he wants to create an anti-woke AI chatbot.
No need: This Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) rant at CPAC is basically that bot. pic.twitter.com/7CbwIqXzH3
— The Recount (@therecount) March 2, 2023
Gaggle of groyper losers just got kicked out of CPAC, and left chanting “We want Nick!” – referring to their white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes pic.twitter.com/wPSvZXXZDX
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) March 4, 2023
Speeches by our regularly scheduled racists and antisemites will continue as planned. https://t.co/6QzciHyXeE
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) March 3, 2023
Real step down from Orban, if you ask me:
Former Brexit Leader Nigel Farage says Western governments “took away liberties and freedoms” during the COVID pandemic, stating Australia has become “one of the wokest places on Earth” during his CPAC 2023 address.https://t.co/HTqZC6Ldil
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) March 5, 2023
New grift drops!
Steve Bannon’s daughter announces at CPAC that they now have Bannon fan merch for sale. pic.twitter.com/3GpeVBBMmC
— Ron Filipkowski ???? (@RonFilipkowski) March 3, 2023
… cuz last grift, not doing so well…
Personally? As an investor? I am buying the dip here. https://t.co/vGZOy8o5RJ
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) February 23, 2023
Speaking of grifts:
Got some sad news for Ben. Guess what chocolate bar is under the MAGA wrapper they are handing out at CPAC? https://t.co/ZommX08tWU pic.twitter.com/DMDL27j4Xe
— Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) March 3, 2023
Welcome to our very normal and cool politics conference where we talk about which groups of people we would like to eradicate from society https://t.co/V3VQa4Mu0G
— Kitara Revanchist (@canderaid) March 4, 2023
you seem happy. how do we ruin that.
— world famous art thief (@CalmSporting) March 3, 2023
Kameraderie!
It’s funny because this is just about *all* they have. https://t.co/EXLPDaW1tQ
— Panda Bernstein (@J4Years) March 4, 2023
And yet, it can always get more pathetic…
It turns out that Wohl and Burkman are holding this "party" at Burkman's home because both are currently under a court-imposed 8 pm curfew after pleading guilty to a felony offense stemming from their racist robocall scheme. "I am indoors following my curfew," Burkman argues.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 4, 2023
MattF
It’s a reality show, produced and directed by TFG. They are all trying to avoid becoming the Designated Loser.
NotMax
Rough estimate:
10,000 times more coverage than deserved.
Shalimar
My mom has dementia, but you wouldn’t know it from a normal conversation with her. She fixates on weird things, can’t focus on a conversation or remember what she said a few minutes ago, and does strange, totally inexplicable things like buy a giant bag of refrigerated dog food that weighs more than her chihuahua. You have to know her to realize these things aren’t how she has always been.
Trump isn’t weird and obsessed because of the dementia. He’s weird and obsessed because he’s a narcissistic sociopath.
Brachiator
Jesus Freaking Christ.
Trump attacking DeWitless and others is to be expected. But the GOP has given Trump a gift which lets him pretend to pivot towards the center right. Unlike DeMoron or Nikki Haley, Trump has promised to defend Social Security and Medicare. This is, of course, a lie, but Trump may be able to ride this home to a primary victory.
DeSantis is All the Anger with Half the Crazy. But right now this is not enough to move the needle with the MAGA crowd.
eclare
Senator Foghorn Leghorn never disappoints. Glad he is playing the greatest hits including kale. Yuck yuckity yuck.
Amir Khalid
CPAC’s failure this year should be big political news, especially over there in the US. Is it in the normie news much.
eclare
@Brachiator: I was raised in a “normal” church. This is scary, old testament, “vengeance is mine” writ large. And I guarandamntee that is how everyone heard it. And how TFG meant it.
He is the golden calf.
Frankensteinbeck
@Shalimar:
No, but he does have dementia. He has suffered visible, massive cognitive decline over the last 20 years. He was always weird, racist, obsessed, mean as fuck, racist, stupid, corrupt, petty, racist, and narcissistic. He used to be way, way more coherent about it. Even over his presidency you can see his vocabulary drop, his rambling get less controlled and more bizarre, and his ability to adjust quickly drop. He has continued to decline since. He has days when he’s almost back to 2016 levels is the best you can say.
Shalimar
How does Steve Bannon have an adult daughter who still speaks to him? That makes no sense to me. Does she have amnesia and forget what he’s like?
eclare
@Shalimar: $$$
Amir Khalid
@eclare:
Given how much her Dad owes in financial judgements, that should surely be ¢¢¢. (ETA: If that.)
NotMax
@eclare
Ironic thing is that the affected cadence and character of Foghorn Leghorn derived directly from the persona of Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a regular presence on Fred Allen’s radio show (example).
lgerard
Hilarious that Matt Schlapp felt it necessary to define antisemitism in his statement just to make sure attendees knew it was wrong
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
₽₽₽.
(ref.) //
Aussie Sheila
Thank you Nick Farage for the shout out to Australia. ‘Most woke country in the world.’ Woo Hoo!
I look forward to his next visit where he is even more ignored than when he last came here. What a tosser, or as we say here what a ‘cooker’.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Real rough. I believe you left out a decimal place. Or two.
NotMax
@Aussie Sheila
Wanker gone out of fashion? Say it ain’t so.
;)
John Revolta
@Aussie Sheila: That’s “wokest” thank you very much!
Ruckus
@Shalimar:
Sorry about your mom.
Everyone with dementia goes through it differently. Best of luck
And while SFB may have dementia, he is exactly as you say. Dementia may be the least of his issues.
NotMax
@>Ruckus
Yuppers. Absence of attention is a potent toxin in that crabbed, fetid universe.
We need to practice it more often.
Baud
Interesting. Reddit is focused on Trump’s call for a new baby boom, but didn’t even make the cut here.
Ruckus
@eclare:
Not to be rude but…
He is that which the golden calf left behind.
He is golden calf shit.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
I heard a story that ‘wanker’ was unknown in the US until Phil Collins, who was guest-starting in Miami Vice, introduced it during a scene re-write.
Hopefully this is true and not another urban myth like Jennifer Garner’s contested parentage.
ION – Guarantee Farage’s spot at ExterminationNation Fest doesn’t get a moments attention back in the UK. Can’t have people thinking the Right are a bunch of racist loons, not when that’s the hat being assigned to the Left in our national discourse.
Aussie Sheila
@NotMax: ‘Wanker’ is so pre Covid ! ‘Cooker’ is the new wanker, if you know what I mean. ‘Cooker’ is better too because it doesn’t get you into trouble with sensitive platforms or on TV. It actually refers to Meth manufacturers, which came into general popular parlance during Covid lockdowns when F wits staged demos against lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations.
Since 95.9% of Australians have had vaccinations against Covid, meth addicts seems a good way to describe people who don’t want to live.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
You have to buy a ticket to attend CPAC. It’s not free, like a campaign rally. That’s why no one showed up. They only show up when the hate is free.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Gosharoonie, isn’t that a stroke of luck. It’s got its own Wikipedia page.
;)
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
God Bless the Interwebs, they always come through for us in the end.
Brachiator
@Baud:
I almost forgot about that. Problem is, even Trump will have a hard time explaining how he only wants white people to have more kids.
I also forget which European goon he lifted this idea from.
Trump is going further than any approved GOP platform. And he is two steps away from declaring himself Libertarian Jesus.
Also, the sad fact is that MAGA idiots will vote for him even if he is imprisoned or goes completely mental.
NotMax
@Aussie Sheila
Aware that in England, anyway, cooker can refer to a stove. “We bought a new electric cooker.”
Let confusion reign! ;)
Chetan Murthy
@Tony Jay: dunno, the Ngram viewer seems to differ: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wanker&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3
(american english, and I’m assuming that the line is measuring occurrences in that year’s books, or publications). It looks like the word was in use in the 70s in American English.
But I don’t actually know what the thing is measuring.
Tony Jay
This is like Hitler ragging Mussolini for being a shouty bully with a fetish for uniforms.
Chetan Murthy
@Tony Jay: We have missed your long-form wit, Tony. Even short-form, it’s delicious.
Tony Jay
@Chetan Murthy:
Looks like the word was around, maybe in a very different context, was briefly mentioned more in the context of Spinal Tap (maybe) then we hit the 80s and Mr Collins’ potty mouth.
It’s a great word. So useful in any social situation.
Frankensteinbeck
@Brachiator:
‘White people need to have more babies’ is a long-standing and common white supremacist (and especially evangelicals) cry. Very common. Trump has made more than a few nods towards a Nazi-esque belief in master race genetics, so this seems on-brand. What I’m saying is, I don’t think he needed to lift it from Europe.
Tony Jay
@Chetan Murthy:
I’ll almost certainly be driven to post some kind of rant about UK politics soon, what with the calamitous turd-bucket Flobalob has chucked himself into, and the Nor-Kor style non-personality cult being imposed on The Corporate Franchise Opportunity Formerly Known As The Labour Party.
I apologise in advance.
Tony Jay
@Frankensteinbeck:
Awwwww, who doesn’t love babies?
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Seem to very hazily recall a foofaraw over David Frost uttering the term on the 60s program That Was the Week That Was.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
So much more punchy than would be, say, “What a Rees-Mogg!”
//
Baud
@Brachiator:
@Frankensteinbeck:
I suppose this will push DeSantis to support mandatory impregnation, just to keep up.
Baud
@Aussie Sheila:
No wonder you’re so woke.
Brachiator
@Frankensteinbeck:
RE: I also forget which European goon he lifted this idea from.
This is not that common among evangelicals. And even though he encourages racists, Trump clearly believes that the white masses are a bunch of dopes.
Here’s what I was looking for. From The Guardian, February 2019
Trump is very strange. He’s a racist, but he wants non-white people to like him. He’s playing with fire here. I don’t know how hard he will push this noxious nonsense. Or how the cowardly media will deal with this.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
“Whaaat ahhhh Fwahhhn-Kehhhh”
Damn, Frostie is hard to do Funetikly.
I think Jakobivs Reek-Mohotep has generally entered slang more along the lines of “Ye Gads! One appears to have set foot in a pile of Mogg!”
Cameron
@Baud: Weren’t the Nazis big on that baby boom thing, too?
Cameron
@Tony Jay: Oh, yeah! I remember Ian Fleming using it, “The name is Wanker. James Wanker.” OK, maybe I remembered it wrong.
Leslie
@Brachiator:
Common enough that entire shows have been dedicated to Quiverfull families. It may not be one of the five pillars of fundamentalism, but it’s not exactly obscure.
Cameron
Just looking over the collection of CPAC attendees and their quoted words of wisdom, I thought: “Isn’t this what Geoffrey Chaucer would write if he lived in the 21st century and had dropped a couple thousand mics of acid?”
Leslie
The latest in Florida fuckery and anti-trans hatred:
Not remotely legal, that last bit, not that that ever seems to stop them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-anti-trans-bill-court-custody-kids-gender-affirming-care-2023-3
Tony Jay
@Cameron:
No, you remember right. That’s from the Uncensored Ian Fleming Omnibus, Bantam Press, 1955. Before the Woke busybodies got their hands on it.
Pretty accurate description of the odious 007 too.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Cameron: So was Dr. Strangelove:
Anne Laurie
As others have said, it’s a common Euro-racist trope (which is why I didn’t bother looking for a specific tweet).
But specifically, Orban got bigly applause for touting Hungary’s shiny new ‘Hero Mother of Patriots’ child-support laws at the last CPAC rantfest, and I’m pretty sure somebody on the CPAC board was careful to remind TFG about that.
Brachiator
@Cameron:
Which brings us back to the US and other Western nations and the early 20th century eugenics movement.
Baud
@Brachiator:
I wish they’d make up their minds.
ColoradoGuy
TFG is a straight-up cult, and his followers truly worship him. His bizarreness, combined with the oversized Las Vegas showbiz personality, is the attraction. Craziness on the big screen is what they crave.
different-church-lady
Rather woke statement from Mr. Schlapp there, no?
different-church-lady
@MattF:
Don’t tell Trump, buuuuuuut….
Ken
I think “world famous art thief”‘s tweet thread makes more sense if you reverse the order:
different-church-lady
@Brachiator:
Once again: it’s futile to seek coherence in this cult of personality.
different-church-lady
@Tony Jay:
-cough.-
Tony Jay
@different-church-lady:
Couldn’t eat a whole one, eh?
Jinchi
Every unconstrained AI chat bot has turned racist within 24 hours of being exposed to the internet, but sure, why not create one explicitly from the get-go.
BC in Illinois
@NotMax:
I think we should all adopt the honest descriptor: refer to all stoves as “burners.” “Put it on the burner.”
@Brachiator:
I can say, from a perspective of a conservative Lutheran denomination, that this approach is extremely common among the leadership, if not the laity. If the denomination is losing members, then the members need to be having more children. Duh.
Raoul Paste
@NotMax: fascinating
RedDirtGirl
I like how in Matt Schlapp’s statement about Nick Fuentes he had to dumb down “anti-semitic rhetoric” to “jew hatred” for his audience.
RedDirtGirl
@Tony Jay: What’s that about Jennifer Garner’s contested parentage? My gossip hound nose is twitching?
J R in WV
@BC in Illinois:
Or perhaps the leadership of the denomination is deranged and scaring membership away on a weekly basis, and making it quite difficult to recruit new members from the community at large.
I’m not sure what the actual difference is between the Southern Baptist Pro-Slavery Church and the Lutheran deranged Synod of Bigots, personally. Both seem to have lots of illegal sexual perversion among the youth leadership, for example.
Christo-Fascism seems to never go out of style, does it?
Wapiti
@Frankensteinbeck: Yup. About 40 years ago I met a guy from Idaho who had 10 kids and a visibly pregnant spouse. His explanation was that if whites don’t have kids they’ll slip into a minority.
And I think the “quiverful” idea has expanded since then.
Manyakitty
@eclare: golden calf or pyrite pig? The absolute fakest of them all
Cheez Whiz
There’s a power struggle going on in the Republican Party, and CPAC is one of the few places where it comes out in public. All of Trump’s opponents (other than Nikki, who absolutely must be running for VP) were at a Club For Growth fundraiser instead, meaning Trump owns CPAC, whatever that’s worth. But it’s a pretty good example of what a 2nd Trump administration would look like. About the only thing Trump learned is that the adults in the room were full of shit and no use to him at all, so he won’t make that mistake again.
VOR
The venue for CPAC is the Gaylord National Harbor. While often described as being in DC, in reality it is WELL outside DC. I haven’t attended a conference there in years, but there used to be no public transit to it. Back when I visited, it was part of a little cluster of shops, hotels, and restaurants off on their own and not really connected to any residential areas. So no wonder these clowns holding an afterparty at their house wouldn’t attract anyone – it’s simply too far to travel.
A Man for All Seaonings (formerly Geeno)
@NotMax:
That sounds like a Klingon insult
AlaskaReader
Don’t like property taxes?
Just have 10 kids.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/texas-10-kids-property-tax-bill
Tony Jay
@RedDirtGirl:
Nothing that interesting, I’m afraid. A few weeks ago it turned out that my decades long belief that Jennifer Garner was James Garner’s daughter (I’m sure I read it somewhere and just look at her, FFS, they have a real family resemblance) was totally 100% wrong.
Boy, did I feel stoopid.
brantl
So, what do the WINNERS get?
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: My mother was/is British (born in Warrington), but a well brought up lady and I never heard ‘wanker’ until I was an adult. In a movie, I guess.
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: Touché, Tony. Touché.
Paul in KY
@RedDirtGirl: There are Semitics who are not Jews. Perfectly OK to hate them, says Slappy.