MAGA mendacity

An Underwhelming First Day at CPAC

Thursday saw no side panels, or activism boot camps. Likely GOP presidential candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are skipping the event. Senate and House GOP leadership are noticeably absent, save Rep. Elise Stefanik.

Of course, CPAC still has a few big names in GOP politics who, in taking the stage Thursday, showed just how far to the right the party has gone. The day started with Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary committee, discussing how he’s going to use the power of the committee to possibly impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Freedom Caucus Reps. Scott Perry and Ralph Norman bragged about their caucus’ ability to wreak havoc on Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership. Sens. Ted Cruz and J.D. Vance trashed Merrick Garland as the most “partisan” and “politicized” attorney general in United States history—a laughable claim that is par for the course here, along with the trans-bashing and Fauci booing. But what is most noticeable is what is missing.

Even with various prominent Republican politicians in attendance, the back half of the main ballroom is empty, and the front’s enthusiasm is muted. Gone are the hundreds of libertarian-inclined college students traditionally known for filling CPAC’s hallways. Ticket sales have lagged and premium package holders from past years remain unregistered, according to The Washington Post.

Daily Wire Host Says He Wasn’t Calling for ‘Genocide’ of Trans People – Claims They’re Not ‘Real’

Embattled far-right wing Daily Wire host Michael Knowles insists when he called for a complete ban on America’s 1.6 million transgender people he was not calling for genocide – and says it would be impossible to do so because transgender people aren’t “real.” (...)

“It has to be the whole thing because if men have the right to behave as women and identify as women for the purposes of public life, then women can’t have their own spaces and we as a society cannot have our own standards and norms and we’re not allowed to live according to reality,” he claimed, falsely suggesting that transgender people don’t exist in reality. Later in the segment he calls being transgender “fraud.”

“We have to live according to the delusions of these troubled people. And I think we, the people, have a right to reality. And I think women have a right to their own spaces. And so, that means you’ve got to ban the thing entirely.”

After inaccurately claiming that “genocide refers to genes, it refers to genetics, it refers to biology,” Knowles said, “transgender people is not a real ontological category. It’s not a legitimate category of being. There are people who think that they’re the wrong sex, but they’re mistaken. They’re laboring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion.”

They never seem to talk about transgender men.

 kcar wrote:
Uh-oh, cancelled. Another free speech martyr!

Racism and Climate Denial: Like Peas and Carrots

 R_P wrote:

WaPo is reporting that Adams is now pretty much radioactive:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The Washington Post, the USA Today network of hundreds of newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the San Antonio Express-News and other publications announced they would stop publishing “Dilbert” after Adams’s racist rant on YouTube Wednesday. Asked on Saturday how many newspapers still carried the strip — a workplace satire he created in 1989 — Adams told The Post: “By Monday, around zero.”

OG Dilbertarian
‘Dilbert’s’ Scott Adams: ‘White people should get the hell away from Black people’
During his online program, the controversial East Bay cartoonist offered up his latest provocation, arguing that Black people constitute a ‘hate group’

CPD, ADL Urge Jewish, Other Religious Communities to be Vigilant After Neo-Nazi Group Declares ‘Day of Hate'

 Beaker wrote:
It's project veritas - another distinct possibility is that no one is telling the truth.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Video: James O'Keefe addresses PV staff today, prior to departure from PV.

PV: the board of director's statement in response

There's very little overlap here.   One side is not telling the truth.

Meanwhile, Project Veritas is hemorrhaging followers on Twitter bigtime.  Earlier today they had 1,480,000 +.  Currently 1,324,800 and falling.
Watch the real-time stats

The question remains: why now?  Why is this happening after PV's biggest blockbuster exposé, EVER?

Too big an asshole for the assholes...

Ok Proclivities...We'll do it your way.

The Real Elitists Are at Fox News

Republicans and their media enablers despise ordinary Americans.

https://archive.is/nwaop

 BlueHeronDruid wrote:

He's young...

 rgio wrote:

Surprised DeSantis hasn't called yet for women to be excluded from higher education entirely.  Because we're pesky.

 Proclivities wrote:
They have a nice browser addon too, which offers two extra menu options (Search for a page in archive & archive a page).

 Red_Dragon wrote:
If you use https://archive.md/ and enter the paywalled URL in the Search area you can get a link to an archived version of the article.  It seems to work for most sites - NYT, WaPo, etc..
https://archive.is/W3nIQ

 Red_Dragon wrote:

 rgio wrote:

Paywalled - thanks for sharing.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
Paul Krugman - NYTimes Op Ed