#cpac 2014

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Slate Magazine: Dave Weigel: Sarah Palin vs. Beltway Republicans: Conservatism in America 2014

Source:The New Democrat  If Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin are the faces of Conservatism in America in 2014, then we might as well start planning its funeral and Liberals can declare victory in this ongoing ideological war of some 50 years now. The only two Conservatives at CPAC last weekend were Senator Rand Paul and former U.S. Senator/actor/talk show host/commercial spokesperson, whatever the…

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Zach Radcliff graduated from Liberty U. He led worship at a Michigan church. He performed original music at CPAC. He loves Donald Trump. He and his dad think LGBTQ people are inherently "immoral."

And he was just arrested for sexually abusing children.

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Gay Rep. calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a “traitor” for treating J6 insurrectionists like “heroes”

Out Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her over-the-top support of the people accused of participating, organizing, or leading the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Speaking on the progressive MeidasTouch broadcast with host Ben Meiselas, Garcia called it “sickening” that anyone would suggest that the January 6 insurrection was a peaceful walk through the Capitol. Greene has repeatedly downplayed the attack on the Capitol that left five people dead and 114 police officers injured. Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene prays with gay Trump supporter that was crying inside a fake jail cell Authorities say Brandon Straka snitched on his fellow J6 rioters to get a lighter sentence, but at CPAC he was crying in a fake jail cell, pretending to be one of them. Then Garcia, who shares several committee assignments with Greene, talked about some of his first interactions with Greene when he started his term in Congress earlier this year. Get the Daily Brief The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you: Subscribe to our Newsletter “A lot of folks don’t know about this, when I first got to Congress as a freshman, which was just recently, Marjorie led a group, basically, of mostly Republicans, and two Democrats got invited, so I got sent on behalf of the committee on oversight to go visit all the January 6 insurrectionists that are actually in jail,” he said. “Marjorie Taylor Greene was leading this group and the first thing she does was, when we walk in and meet them, is greets them and hugs them and prays with them and apologizes and is treating them like heroes,” Garcia said. “And I’m sitting there going, ‘This is disgusting, these people attacked our government, they tried to overthrow our government.’” Meiselas expanded on what Garcia said, adding that the GOP sent a delegation to “the D.C. jail to chant ‘Let’s go Brandon’ and play frickin’ games with terrorists, with insurrectionists, and then they release a song, a musical that they play on Apple with the J6 choir which they play instead of the national anthem.” “I mean, when you went from mayor to member of the House of Representatives, you must be looking at this and go, ‘How the hell is this happening in the United States of America?'” Meiselas asked. Garcia was the mayor of Long Beach, California from 2014 to 2022. “One-hundred percent, it’s totally, it’s totally, it’s crazy,” Garcia responded. “She obviously has no business being in Congress and is completely, in my opinion, a traitor to the country.” “Her antics are getting worse and worse and worse. You see she’s trying to impeach just about everybody, from the president to every single Cabinet secretary. She has no clue what she’s actually doing, has no respect amongst any of her colleagues, and is a really destructive force. But that’s the Republican party today,” Garcia added. Robert Garcia says Marjorie Taylor Greene was hugging and apologizing to J6 defendants during the congressional visit to the DC Jail pic.twitter.com/sl2EEDtiC8— Acyn (@Acyn) November 24, 2023 Garcia: Greene has no business being in Congress and is, in my opinion, a traitor to the country… Her antics are getting worse. You see she’s trying to impeach just about everybody.. She has no clue what she’s actually doing. pic.twitter.com/b8yPbcc5GE— Acyn (@Acyn) November 26, 2023 http://dlvr.it/SzNV2S

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As an example of my frustration with this user, he kicked off this discussion with,

okay, but what is up with the cautiously-expressing-skepticism-about-trans-identities-to-flagrantly-racist pipeline/progression/syndrome? is it a psychological reinforcement thing, when you’re getting (justifiably) torn apart by people on your “side” for bigotry, that you eventually flee into the arms of the only people who will have you, i.e., other bigots? is it a minority tendency that just gets amplified because of notable examples? does this progression of person-with-one-fucked-up-idea-fleeing-to-the-far-right replicate itself with other prejudices among theoretically centrist/center-left/left-ish people? am i just forgetting all the center-left homophobes who went full far-right during the gay marriage debate? i am truly perplexed by this, because it looks like empirical vindication of a flattering belief (all transphobes are secretly massive bigots in every other area of their ideology, too), but that makes me suspicious! reality is rarely so tidy.

And well. You'd have to be deliberately ignorant not to notice the massive shift between 2008-2013 and 2014-2023 in the overall distribution of behavior. For instance, in 2008, Microsoft, one of the most well-known corporations in the entire world, that makes the most prevalent desktop operating system in the world, would not have put some crackpot like Ibram Kendi, who proposed giving full veto power over all government policy to an unappointed (and presumably unelected) body of "race experts," on the login screens of Windows.

Conditions have changed. People are responding to the changing conditions. Among the changing conditions are attempts at "corrective" racial medical rationing, and arguments that there are "too many" of specific racial groups working at prestigious corporations, implicitly calling to lay people off purely on the basis of their race.

One way this makes it easier to support racism is that with "individualism" deemed "white supremacist," people may argue descriptive racist positions in order to argue that they are not benefiting unfairly and therefore should not be discriminated against or harmed.

Another way this makes it easier to support racism is that racists are now in a much better position to argue that in a homogeneous ethnostate, this "corrective" racist approach either would not happen, or would be more limited - either there would be fewer racial groups to do this on "behalf" of, or race would not be a power-source for corrupt political operatives to exploit.

Particularly,

God I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people make statements this sweeping and this misleading. No, people on the right don’t cut you off for making racist jokes; they cut you off for being gay or kick you out for being trans, or accuse you of being a pedophile because you do drag. They get up on stage at CPAC and say people like you should be eliminated from public life. Are you seriously going to try to tell me with a straight face that ostracization 1) isn’t a tactic conservatives ever use and 2) that it isn’t equally if not more vicious? This is disingenuous to the point of being actively mendacious.

This happened after 'progressives' put "those who can become white must summon the courage to unbecome white and then to eliminate whiteness, 'the system, the way of life, the philosophy [producing] murderers," in The Lancet, a major medical journal.

"Eradicate transgenderism from public life" is just the same thing as "eliminate whiteness." Conservatives wouldn't normally come up with something like that themselves. (They come up with things like QAnon, which is not the same thing.) They observed 'progressives' put baiting eliminationist language in prestigious publications, saw that these 'progressives' got away with it, and then decided to do it themselves.

Both of them are the same thing, and both of them have the same problem. Aside from the fact that they're obviously intended to be hostile and that's why they choose to use such words, if all other means to remove "transgenderism" and "whiteness" fail, then these things are located in the respective bodies of those involved, are they not?

But the spread of this stuff is new, it was largely confined to obscure departments back in 2008. They said, "it's just a few college kids, what are you getting so bent out of shape over?" But Microsoft is not "just a few college kids." Neither are healthcare systems, nor are 'race conscious' farm aid programs.

Pretending that 'progressives' haven't changed their behavior since 2008 is, one might say, "disingenuous to the point of being actively mendacious."

one of the great and dubious gifts social media has given us is a truly infinite well of awful takes and even worse behavior by all sectors of society at all times

so might i suggest that if the political Other seems to be an endless parade of condescension and hostility and ostracism, and the political ingroup by contrast seems a model of rich diversity of opinion, you are probably pretty deep in confirmation bias.

especially if you don’t think conservatives do boycotts, ostracism, purity politics, or don’t frequently react with unbridled hostility to anyone they see as the outgroup.

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Activists in the “pro-life” cause (James Wolcott of the Village Voice helpfully explained that the unfamiliar term referred to those fighting against abortion) had been thick on the ground at CPAC. A month before that convention, what Christianity Today called “an unexpectedly large turnout” of twenty-five thousand braved the winter chill for the second annual “March for Life,” commemorating the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. The previous year’s march had drawn only what the AP had estimated as “hundreds.” The flagship evangelical magazine, tending toward sympathy with the pro-lifers, indelicately declared, “No longer can they be dismissed as a group of cold-hearted Catholics simply following orders from the Pope.” A Catholic senator, James Buckley, and an evangelical one, Mark Hatfield, introduced a resolution the week of the Roe anniversary to extend “the right of life—to all human beings including their unborn offspring.” Shortly after, Buckley was joined by the very conservative Southern Baptist, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, to propose the same language as part of a constitutional amendment banning abortion.

Another Catholic-evangelical pairing took place in Washington on March 19. Some 2,500 antibusing activists from fourteen states led by Louise Day Hicks, and a massive contingent bused from Kanawha County, West Virginia, marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol. One of the fundamentalist preachers who’d led the West Virginia fight, Avis Hill, said, “This is the first time the two big struggles, against busing and dirty textbooks, have stood side by side. This is the beginning of a political rebellion. . . . If they can break us in our mountain home, they can break us in the farm towns of Jefferson County. If they can break us in the streets of South Boston, they can break us anywhere.” Hicks’s colleague Raymond Flynn said “the premises are the same . . . the intrusion of the federal government into what was ordinarily considered a local responsibility.” Orated Hicks, “We can never be lambs.” The previous day, representatives of both movements met with officials from the White House Domestic Council, who assured them “that President Ford recognizes their protests as an important issue.”

— Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge (2014)

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Trump prepares to bask in the conservative movement he changed David Weigel , The Washington Post Feb. 25, 2021 Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 6:49 p.m.

Trump prepares to bask in the conservative movement he changedDavid Weigel, The Washington PostFeb. 25, 2021Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 6:49 p.m.

"Even though Donald Trump is a one-term president, there's this feeling among Republicans that he was a huge, smashing success," said Matt Schlapp, the president of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which runs CPAC. "That doesn't mean that every moment of every day, of every news cycle, was pleasurable. What it means is that from a policy perspective, he basically ticked through the list of things that he said he would do."

CPAC changed Trump, and Trump changed CPAC. Before Trump's presidency, it was possible to argue that the conference, which had sometimes discussed whether conservatives should bolt the GOP altogether, was a reflection of the movement's agenda or a reflection of who paid to show up.

During George W. Bush's presidency, administration officials came to CPAC to argue for invading Iraq; during Obama's presidency, supporters of the libertarian Republicans Ron and Rand Paul colonized the floor, fueling debates about topics from the gold standard to drug legalization. Mitt Romney won the conference's straw poll four times; the Pauls won it five times.

But something else changed during the Obama years, and Trump was the first politician to take full advantage. The 2009 conference was a flat-out rejection of the Bush presidency, with the ACU's leadership and GOP strivers such as Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., saying Bush had failed to govern as a conservative. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who'd lost to Obama, did not even show up.

"Voters saw an economy in decline, foreclosures rising, retirement savings falling, growing unemployment, huge deficits, earmarked giveaways, and massive government intervention to prop up a mismanaged financial sector," Ryan said. "Voters examined this grim picture and rejected the status quo, punishing the party in power."

Then, like now, Democrats in Washington were using their power to muscle through a massive relief bill. The details of the 2009 stimulus package, particularly the spending that Democrats had tucked in after failing to pass it before Obama took over, energized conservatives; as CPAC unfolded in one part of Washington, one of the first tea party rallies, which helped conservatives rebrand themselves after Bush, unfolded in another.

This post-election CPAC is different. Just one panel, "All Debts Are Off," will focus on government spending, with former Trump administration Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought talking alongside Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La. One panel will tackle the "administrative state," now being rebuilt by the Biden team, and one will discuss "the left's agenda on health care." There's no planned discussion of "earmarks," which Ryan called out by name, both parties got rid of, and Democrats are restoring.

Far more time will be spent on the 2020 election and the rules that conservatives want to change before anybody votes again. That will unfold across seven numbered panels and speeches, four of them on Sunday, before Trump's speech; an eighth panel, "Did your vote count?," will bring Republican attorneys and a Georgia county GOP chair together for a breakout session.

The rest of the CPAC agenda, shaped by the ACU and by sponsors, also is in harmony with Trump. There will be discussion every day of economic and security conflicts with China, an issue that predated Trump's interest in politics, but one he put at the center of his agenda. Several panels will discuss big tech and "wokeness," both from corporate America and in pop culture. The theme of the weekend is "America Uncanceled," not far off the anti-"political correctness" mind-set that has animated conservatives for years.

That was present in 2009, too. As that year's keynoter, the speaker who closed the conference, CPAC chose Rush Limbaugh, whom Democrats at the time were trying to turn into the face of their opposition.

"Republicans had lost, and they weren't especially excited about the candidate they'd lost with," recalled Lisa De Pasquale, the CPAC director that year, who made the speech happen. "The internal mood was, wow, it's going to be depressing this year. And Limbaugh had never been depressing."

The blend of entertainment and policy, both directed at mocking liberalism, was a success. Trump's 2011 visit to CPAC, which confounded conservatives who knew him as a celebrity with socially liberal views, did not quite nail it, as he mostly made news for chastising Ron Paul supporters for supporting someone who could not "win an election." But over time, Trump took control of the party and the conservative movement, replacing some of its issues with his own.

Not everyone stayed on for the ride. Al Cardenas, who led the ACU immediately before Schlapp, said he was not attending this year, and he defended the more raucous, leaderless CPACs that happened on his watch.

"The conference was based on debating peoples' views and where they stood," Cardenas said. "That applied from everything to the sales tax to immigration to war. In my opinion, it was intellectually stimulating to hear different points of view."

Republicans also are in far stronger shape than they were in 2009, both in the numbers of their congressional caucus and the control they've won in states. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will kick off the conference Friday, probably continuing a feud that has been politically effective: contrasting the lack of shutdowns in Florida to the Biden administration's wariness about fully "reopening" until the pandemic is over. Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who has grown her profile in the Republican Party since the pandemic began, will close out the speeches Saturday.The rest of the elected lineup emphasizes how the GOP has refreshed itself, while moving right, since the party's 2009 nadir. 

Of the 47 current or former members of Congress with speaking slots, just a few arrived in Washington before 2010. Both of the party's Black House members, Rep. Burgess Owens of Utah and Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, will be onstage, joined by four of the female House freshmen who made up the party's most diverse class ever.None of them have broken with Trump. 

Just nine of the members of Congress with speaking slots, for example, voted to uphold the election results from every state. None of the Republicans who impeached or voted to convict Trump will be there; one of them, Romney, was disinvited by CPAC in 2020. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will not be there either, having skipped since 2014; Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo, the senators who forced the electoral college challenge on Jan. 6, will be.

While Republicans are still arguing over the rioters who invaded the Capitol that day, the activists who participated in it were not welcomed to CPAC. But Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., who urged protesters that day to start "taking names and kicking" behinds, will be there. Rep. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., an adherent to the QAnon falsities who has embarrassed Republican leaders, will not be. But she'll attend a more right-wing conference in Orlando, and a nearby reception, as CPAC is underway.

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#5yrsago "Persecuted": thriller about poor religious conservatives versus evil liberals

In "Persecuted," a forthcoming theatrical release movie, religious conservatives defend themselves against pluralism, secularism, reproductive rights, and feminism.

The movie had a preview screening at CPAC, where it received a warm reception. As Peter Montgomery writes, the film offers some good insight into the mindset of the American right:

https://boingboing.net/2014/07/16/persecuted-thriller-about.html

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By Joe Iosbaker

Chicago, IL - A crowd of 250 people marched in the bitter cold through Washington Park on Chicago’s South Side today, January 21, to continue the fight for Justice for Laquan McDonald. The march was held in protest of the lenient sentence of only 81 months handed down by Judge Vincent Gaughan on Friday. In October 2014, the racist police officer, Jason Van Dyke, shot Laquan 16 times.

The main demand of the march was the immediate implementation of an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). The march went past the place where Ronald “Ronnieman” Johnson was shot in the back by a cop only days before Laquan was killed. His mother, Dorothy Holmes, spoke and demanded State’s Attorney Kim Foxx reopen the case of the killer cop, George Hernandez.

[thenewdemocratus]

National Review: Jim Geraghty Interviews Ralph Reed at CPAC 2014

Source:The New Democrat  The face of the GOP is really the religious right, the “get big government into our personal lives wing of the Republican Party.” I wonder what the Conservative Libertarian wing of the GOP led by Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Ron Johnson, Representative Justin Amash, and others think about that.  They have been working on getting big government…

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Virginia governor race dominate ad wars

Ron DeSantis, a rising conservative star frequently mentioned as a top alternative to Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential contest. WASHINGTON (AP) - Tuesday's primary elections feature two top Florida Democrats squaring off for the chance to face Republican Gov. Charlie Neibergall/AP Show More Show Less Democrats are uncertain about President Joe Biden's political future and many Republicans avoid taking on former President Donald Trump. But this year, the traffic at the fair was noticeably light. Potential White House hopefuls from both parties often swing by Iowa's legendary state fair during a midterm election year to connect with voters who could sway the nomination process. Frank Franklin II Show More Show Less 9 of9 Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the media during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. Carolyn Maloney which will be held on Tuesday, Aug. Nadler is running in New York's 12th Congressional District Democratic primary against Attorney Suraj Patel and Rep. Jerry Nadler speaks at the NY-12 Candidate Forum Wednesday, Aug. Mary Altaffer/AP Show More Show Less 8 of9 FILE - Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District Democratic primary. Maloney is running against attorney Suraj Patel and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, left, with her daughter Virginia talks to reporters after casting her vote in the Democratic primary election, Aug. Sue Ogrocki/AP Show More Show Less 7 of9 FILE - Rep. Senate seat, in Lawton, Okla., on June 6, 2014. Shannon gestures during a Republican candidate forum for the open U.S. Alex Brandon/AP Show More Show Less 6 of9 FILE - State Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. Lynne Sladky/AP Show More Show Less 5 of9 FILE - Rep. Crist was endorsed by the Florida Education Association (FEA) and teachers unions from across Florida in his campaign for governor of Florida. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., second from right, talks with a supporter outside of the United Teachers of Dade offices, May 31, 2022, in Miami Springs, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP Show More Show Less 4 of9 FILE - Rep. John Raoux/AP Show More Show Less 3 of9 FILE - Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried speaks during an interview, April 21, 2022, at the Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Feb. Lynne Sladky/AP Show More Show Less 2 of9 FILE - Sen. 15, 2022, at the Borinquen Medical Center in Miami. Val Demings, D-Fla., participates in a roundtable discussion about Congress passing the inflation bill and the high cost of prescription drugs, Aug.

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The Economist Explains: Why Is The American Right Obsessed With Viktor Orban? Hungary’s Prime Minister Spoke At CPAC, A Big Conservative Conference

— August 04, 2022

n august 4th the top brass of the American right gathered in Dallas, Texas, for the start of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (cpac) first launched in 1974. Donald Trump will be its keynote speaker. On Tuesday, Mr Trump entertained Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, at his golf course in New Jersey. Mr Orban will not meet President Joe Biden during his trip to America—but he took to the stage in Dallas. In May, cpac gathered in Budapest, the Hungarian capital. Prominent American conservatives have been wined and dined by the Hungarian government. What does the American right see in Hungary?

Mr Orban provides a model of what right-wing populism can achieve. He has been prime minister since 2010, having previously served between 1998 and 2002. During his most recent stint he has championed conservative values, turning Hungary into the “illiberal democracy” he promised voters in 2014. He has wiped gender studies from university curriculums, built a border fence to keep out refugees from war-torn Syria and elsewhere and written Christian values into the constitution. He has gerrymandered electoral laws grossly in his favour. Having packed the courts and the media with his allies, he controls Hungary’s institutions. That has cemented his power and eliminated an effective opposition. He has put swathes of the economy in the hands of cronies; his friends and family have grown rich. Much of that appeals to the American right.

Mr Orban has been able to do this because his party, Fidesz, won the popular vote in 2010, landing his alliance a supermajority in parliament. That allowed his government to pass a gerrymandered election law with impunity. He has since wooed voters with a culture-war narrative that exploited their fears. He makes much of Hungary’s Christian identity (around three quarters of Hungarians say they are Christian, though only 15% attend church on a weekly basis). Mr Orban also paints his country as a perpetual victim, emphasising its loss of territory after the first world war and its decades of suffering under the yoke of the Soviet Union. He now casts the eu (of which Hungary is a member) as an existential threat. But the spectres he conjures are mostly imagined. He rails against “Muslim invaders” and on July 23rd he told crowds that “we do not want to become peoples of mixed race,” even though Hungary’s population is at least 84% white. In 2021 he banned “homosexual and transsexual propaganda” in schools and the media, adding insult to injury in one of the most homophobic countries in the eu. These tactics continue to bear fruit. In elections this year, Fidesz won 53% of the popular vote.

Hungary provides American conservatives with a model of a Christian, ethno-nationalist state with limited checks and balances, where one party always wins, but which still appears to observe the rituals of democratic governance. It also shows how successful populist fear-mongering can prove with voters. In this year’s election Fidesz triumphed against a muddled left-wing alliance of socialists, liberals and nationalists. The Republican Party hopes it can achieve a similar result in mid-term elections in November by harnessing culture-war issues to divide the Democrats. It has already stoked fears about the teaching of critical race theory and gay and trans rights in schools, and made inroads with minority voters, particularly Hispanics. Mr Orban’s speech at cpac, titled “How we fight”, surely provided more inspiration.

Viktor Orbán Turns Texas Conference into Transatlantic Far-right Love-in

The authoritarian Hungarian leader was embraced as a kindred spirit by Trump fans at the CPAC event in Dallas

— David Smith in Washington | Saturday 6 August 2022 | The Guardian USA

An attendee wears a shirt depicting Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, with the label "The Leader of Europe" at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, on Friday. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

“The globalists can all go to hell,” declared Viktor Orbán. “I have come to Texas!”

The crowd roared, whooped and gave a standing ovation as if at a campaign rally for former US president Donald Trump. It was evident they saw in Orbán a kindred spirit – a blunt weapon to wield against liberal foes.

The Hungarian prime minister was the opening speaker at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, and perhaps the most vivid demonstration yet of the mutual and rapidly growing affinity between the far right in America and Europe.

Orbán, who has been prime minister for 12 years, boasted about his hardline stance on illegal immigration, law and order and “gender ideology” in schools. He touted a rise in marriages and fall in abortions. He was unapologetic in his defence of blood-and-soil nationalism and contempt for “leftist media”.

And extraordinarily for a foreign leader, he overtly sided with an opposition party – the Republicans – rather than the incumbent Democrats, paying homage to Trump at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, while ignoring Joe Biden at the White House.

Calling for Christian nationalists to “unite forces”, Orbán told CPAC: “Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance. We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels. We must find friends and allies in one another. We must coordinate the movements of our troops because we face the same challenge.”

He noted that US midterm elections will be later this year followed by the presidential contest and European parliamentary elections in 2024. “These two locations will define the two fronts in the battle being fought for western civilisation. Today, we hold neither of them. Yet we need both.”

Rarely has the alliance between nationalist parties across the Atlantic been so bold, overt and unshackled. CPAC was once the domain of cold warrior Ronald Reagan. But in recent years guest speakers have included the Brexit cheerleader Nigel Farage and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, niece of the far-right French politician Marine Le Pen.

Viktor Orbán basks in the applause at CPAC in Dallas. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

On Friday the lineup included Steve Bannon, who has worked with openly racist far-right leaders across Europe and once leased a medieval monastery outside Rome to run a “populism bootcamp”.

Bannon is former executive chairman of Breitbart News, which he once described as “the platform of the ‘alt-right’”, a movement associated with efforts to preserve “white identity” and defend “western values”. He served as chief strategist in the Trump White House and is now facing prison after being convicted of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the January 6 committee.

CPAC Texas also heard from the Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who railed against the media and told the audience: “When I said that I’m a Christian nationalist, I have nothing to be ashamed of because that’s what most Americans are.” The event will close on Saturday with Trump who, like Orbán, has faced scrutiny over his relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow at the non-profit group Right Wing Watch, said: “Rightwing leaders, and especially the religious right leaders in the US, love Viktor Orbán for the same reasons they love Vladimir Putin. This overt embrace of Christian nationalism, willingness to use strongman tactics and the power of the government to enforce so-called traditional values about family and sexuality.”

Montgomery added: “We’ve actually seen some signs of that illiberalism and authoritarianism on the Trumpist right in their efforts to ban the teaching of racism in schools, in their aggressive attacks against LGBTQ materials and information in schools and libraries, and even their encouragement of harassment and violence that we’ve seen against election officials and school board members.

“All those signs are signs of a disturbing embrace of authoritarianism on the US right and Orbán is a model and a hero for that to them.”

Orbán has few bigger fans than Tucker Carlson, a Fox News host who interviewed him during a week-long broadcast from Hungary last year. Carlson has promoted “great replacement theory” – the baseless claim of a plot to turn white people into a minority through immigration – in 400 of his shows, according to an analysis by the New York Times.

The Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivers a speech via a videolink at a previous CPAC event held in Budapest, Hungary, on 19 May 2022. Photograph: Szilárd Koszticsák/EPA

Orbán’s visit to the US came amid backlash over anti-migrant remarks in which he warned that Europeans must not “become peoples of mixed race” and cited The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 French novel by Jean Raspail that portrays a dystopia in which a flotilla of south Asian people invade France. The novel has also been promoted by Trump allies such as Bannon and Stephen Miller.

Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, said: “Orbán represents a quiet part out loud element of today’s Republican party. That quiet part out loud is the overt appeal to racial politics, the not-bothering-to-hide-it white supremacy element of the global alt-right and authoritarian movement. Donald Trump was the thing that let it loose in the US.

“Orbán has struck a set of blows against the media in Hungary, which is one of their main targets here. He has overtly embraced the sort of white replacement politics that are so popular with the Tucker Carlson set and a lot of the other folks that are members of the American Maga [Make America great again] movement.”

Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, added: “Those things have all added up to giving Orbán a kind of fanboy following in the US of people who were once conservative Republicans and who are now racially driven authoritarian wannabes. He’s the guy who’s pulling it off at a scale that Donald Trump didn’t achieve in the US.”

That appeal includes a stealth attack on democracy. Critics say that Hungary’s judiciary, media and other institutions are suffering death by a thousand cuts as Orbán slowly and surely consolidates power. His rightwing Fidesz party has drawn legislative districts in Hungary in a way that makes it very difficult for opposition parties to win seats – not dissimilar to partisan gerrymandering efforts for state legislative and congressional seats in America. The process currently favors Republicans because they control more of the state legislatures that create those boundaries.

And at CPAC, purveyors of Trump’s “big lie” – the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him – held prominent slots. Mike Lindell, chief executive of MyPillow, pushed preposterous conspiracy theories about voting machines. Several speakers denounced the congressional investigation into the January 6 insurrection as a sham.

Trump merchandise for sale at CPAC. Photograph: Go Nakamura/Reuters

Kurt Bardella, an adviser to the Democratic National Committee, said of Orbán: “They see a blueprint for fascism. They see someone who embodies the Republican party’s values of obstructing free and fair elections, of undermining democratic institutions, of expanding government power and politicising the judicial branch, marginalising minority communities and corrupting the pillars of a free society.

“When you talk about an autocratic regime, that’s what Prime Minister Orbán is in Hungary and it’s exactly the blueprint that Republicans are hoping to follow here in the United States of America. It’s not surprising in the least that, especially in a place like CPAC Texas, these rightwing white nationalists are embracing someone like Orbán.”

Earlier this year, when CPAC held an event in Europe, it naturally chose Hungary. Orbán remains an outlier on the continent – for now. Le Pen lost the French presidential election to Emmanuel Macron, though she gained the far right’s biggest share of the vote yet. In Italy Giorgia Meloni, leader of a party with neofascist origins, is strongly positioned to become prime minister after snap elections this autumn.

Robert P Jones, founder and chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute thinktank in Washington and author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, said: “There is this identifiable movement. The difference in many of the European countries is it is represented in minority parties.

“In the US now, I think it’s safe to say that this ethno-religious vision of the country has taken over one of our two major political parties. Even demographically speaking, nearly seven in 10 Republicans are white and Christian today in a country that’s only 44% white and Christian. You can see that identity taking hold as the animating beating heart of the party. It’s a really dangerous situation.”

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CPAC کے منتظمین یوکرین پر روس کے حملے پر ردعمل کا اظہار کر رہے ہیں۔

نئیاب آپ فاکس نیوز کے مضامین سن سکتے ہیں!

کنزرویٹو پولیٹیکل ایکشن کانفرنس (CPAC) کے چیئرمین میٹ شلپ قدامت پسندوں کا ملک کا سب سے بڑا سالانہ اجتماع چلاتا ہے، لیکن 2022 کے ایڈیشن کے بعد ایک مختلف احساس ہے روس نے یوکرین پر حملہ کر دیا۔ تقریب پر.

“جتنا ہی افسوسناک ہے، یہ اس طرح کی بات ہے جس کو ہم سیاسی صورتحال کو سمجھتے ہیں… ہمارے پاس ایک ایسی انتظامیہ ہے جو تمام سلنڈروں پر ناکام ہو رہی ہے،” شلیپ نے اورلینڈو میں روزن شنگل کریک میں اپنے نجی گرین روم کے بیک اسٹیج سے فاکس نیوز ڈیجیٹل کو بتایا۔ کانفرنس پورے کمرے میں اسکرینوں پر نشر ہوئی۔

“معیشت، اس پوری ثقافت نے بیدار کیا جہاں سب کو منسوخ کیا جا رہا ہے، سوشلزم کو آگے بڑھا رہا ہے، ہماری توانائی کی آزادی کو ختم کر رہا ہے،” شلیپ نے جاری رکھا۔ “اس سب کا سب سے المناک حصہ اس کی پالیسیوں کا بیرون ملک خلل اور کمزوری اور الجھن کو پیش کرنا ہے۔”

وائٹ ہاؤس کا کہنا ہے کہ وہ پیوٹن کو منظوری دے گا؛ KYIV میں شدید دھماکوں کی آوازیں: لائیو اپ ڈیٹس

اوسطا امریکی اکثر بائیڈن کا مذاق اڑاتے ہیں جو اس کے عوامی تقریری پروگراموں کے دوران عام ہو چکے ہیں، لہذا شلپ کو شبہ ہے کہ عالمی رہنماؤں کے ساتھ اس کی بات چیت زیادہ بہتر نہیں ہوتی ہے۔

مرسڈیز اور میٹ شلپ نے اورلینڈو، فلوریڈا میں CPAC میں فاکس نیوز ڈیجیٹل کے بیک اسٹیج سے بات کی۔ (فاکس نیوز ڈیجیٹل)

شلپ نے کہا، “آپ کے خیال میں جب وہ ان عالمی رہنماؤں اور دنیا بھر کے ان ظالموں سے بات کرتا ہے تو کیا ہوتا ہے؟ تو یہ حقیقت میں ایک بہت سنگین چیز ہے،” شلپ نے کہا۔

Schlapp، ایک ہینڈ آن لیڈر جو CPAC کی ہر تفصیل کو درست کرتا ہے اور پروڈیوسرز سے ایونٹ کے مرکزی اسٹیج کی لائٹنگ کو ایڈجسٹ کرنے کو کہا جب اس نے مانیٹر پر کوئی ایسی چیز دیکھی جو اس کی آنکھ کے کونے سے اس کے معیار کے مطابق نہیں تھی۔ نیوز ڈیجیٹل۔ وہ 2014 سے CPAC چلا رہا ہے اور اس سال اسے نئی پریشانی کا احساس ہوا کیونکہ خبروں کے چکر میں روس اور یوکرین کا غلبہ ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا، “جتنا یہاں CPAC میں جوش و خروش ہے، میں یہ بھی سوچتا ہوں کہ تشویش اور فکر ہے کہ یہ کتنا برا ہو سکتا ہے،” انہوں نے کہا۔

روس-یوکرین بحران: توانائی اور خارجہ پالیسی میں بائیڈن کی دوہری ناکامیوں نے پوٹن کو حملہ کرنے کے لیے اوزار فراہم کیے، نوم کا کہنا ہے کہ

میٹ کی اہلیہ، وائٹ ہاؤس کے سابق ڈائریکٹر اسٹریٹجک کمیونیکیشنز مرسڈیز شلیپ مشترکہ انٹرویو کے لیے موجود تھیں اور انہوں نے وضاحت کی کہ کس طرح روس کا حملہ CPAC کے شرکاء پر ذاتی طور پر اثر انداز ہو سکتا ہے۔

“یہ نہ صرف یہ کہ یہ کتنا برا ہو سکتا ہے، لیکن یاد رکھیں کہ روس اور یوکرائن کی جنگ کا امریکیوں پر کیا اثر پڑے گا؟ تو بڑا سوال یہ ہے کہ یہ پہلے سے بڑھتی ہوئی مہنگائی پر کیا اثر ڈالے گی؟ بڑھتی ہوئی، بڑھتی ہوئی توانائی کی قیمتیں اور خوراک کی قیمتیں؟ یہ تمام امریکیوں کو متاثر کر رہا ہے،” مرسڈیز نے فاکس نیوز ڈیجیٹل کو بتایا۔ “لہذا یہ واقعی اس کو بھی تناظر میں ڈال رہا ہے، اور آپ نے ہمارے بہت سے مقررین کو اس مسئلے کے بارے میں بات کرتے دیکھا ہے کیونکہ یہ واقعی یہاں کے لوگوں کے ذہنوں میں کانفرنس میں ہے۔”

زیادہ تر CPAC ایونٹس میں ہزاروں قدامت پسند شامل ہوتے ہیں جو نظریات کی بات کرتے وقت ایک ہی صفحے پر ہوتے ہیں، تاہم جب یوکرین پر روس کے حملے سے نمٹنے کی بات آتی ہے تو بہت سے شرکاء مختلف خیالات رکھتے ہیں۔

“میں بہت سارے لوگوں سے بات کرتا ہوں جو یہاں، دالانوں میں اور ہر جگہ موجود ہیں، اور رائے کا اختلاف ہے۔ میرے خیال میں زیادہ تر لوگ جو سی پی اے سی میں ہیں، ان جگہوں پر مداخلت کرنے کے لیے کیس سننے کے لیے تیار ہیں جیسے کہ اس کے ساتھ کیا ہو رہا ہے۔ جارحیت اور یوکرین پر قبضہ،” میٹ نے کہا۔ “وہ اس کیس کو سننے کے لیے تیار ہیں، لیکن کیس بننا ہے۔ یہ بالکل بھی نہیں بنایا گیا ہے۔ آپ چند کیو کارڈز کے ذریعے ٹھوکر نہیں کھا سکتے اور امریکی عوام سے یہ توقع نہیں کر سکتے کہ وہ کہیں گے، ‘یہ ہمارے قابل ہے۔ خزانہ، یا ہمارے بچوں کا خون۔”

CNN کی کاسی ہنٹ تجویز کرتا ہے کہ ہاؤس ریپبلکن روس-یوکرین کے بحران کے دوران بائیڈن پر تنقید کرنے کے لئے ‘دشمن’ ہیں

مرسڈیز نے ایک چیز کی نشاندہی کی کہ زیادہ تر قدامت پسند امریکی لاک اسٹپ میں ہیں۔

“امریکی کمزور نہیں ہو سکتا۔ یہ CPAC سے نکلنے والا سب سے اہم پیغام ہے،” انہوں نے کہا۔ “ہمیں ایک مضبوط امریکی کی ضرورت ہے جس میں مضبوط قومی سلامتی، اقتصادی تحفظ بھی ہو، اور یہی وہ تشویش ہے جو ہم دیکھ رہے ہیں۔”

میٹ شلپ کے خیال میں روسی صدر ولادیمیر پوتن اگر ٹرمپ کے عہدے پر ہوتے تو یوکرین پر حملہ کر دیتے۔ (یوری کوچیٹکوف/پول)

مرسڈیز کو لگتا ہے کہ امریکیوں کی بائیڈن کے تحت پہلے ہی ایک متزلزل بنیاد ہے، جس کی “تمام غلط ترجیحات ہیں” اور یوکرین پر حملہ لوگوں کو یہ تسلیم کرنے پر مجبور کر رہا ہے کہ وہ جنگ کے وقت قوم کی قیادت کرنے کے قابل نہیں ہے۔

“وہ وہی ہے جو ایک بین الاقوامی بحران کو سنبھالنے والا ہے؟ مجھے لگتا ہے کہ آپ کو ایک بڑھتی ہوئی تشویش نظر آ رہی ہے،” اس نے کہا۔

“یہ دلچسپ بات ہے کہ یہ الزامات کیسے لگائے گئے کہ ٹرمپ پوتن کی جیب میں تھے، کہ وہ پوتن کی کٹھ پتلی تھے، کہ ٹرمپ ایک جنگجو ہو گا، اس کے پاس بالوں کا محرک ہوگا،” میٹ نے کہا جیسا کہ مرسڈیز نے مزید کہا، “یہ وہ ہے دوسری جنگ عظیم شروع کرنا۔

“انہوں نے اس کے خلاف یہ خوفناک الزامات لگائے، دراصل جب وہ صدارت میں آیا تو اس نے بہت کچھ کیا جو رونال ریگن نے کیا تھا۔ اس نے فوج کو اچھی طرح سے مالی امداد فراہم کی، وہ سخت تھا، جب اس نے ایک لکیر کھینچی تو آپ کو معلوم تھا کہ وہ وہاں رہنے والا ہے۔ کسی نے اس حقیقت پر سوال نہیں اٹھایا کہ وہ کچھ جارحانہ قدم اٹھا سکتا ہے، لیکن آخر میں ظالم اپنے خانوں میں ہی رہے،” میٹ نے کہا۔

شلیپس کا خیال ہے کہ اگر ٹرمپ اب بھی کمانڈر انچیف ہوتے تو روسی صدر ولادیمیر پوٹن یوکرین سے باہر رہتے۔

انہوں نے چار سال تک کچھ نہیں کیا اور نہ ہی کیا۔ [China president] Xi، “میٹ نے کہا جیسا کہ مرسڈیز نے نوٹ کیا کہ بائیڈن کے تحت پولرائزڈ قوم بیرون ملک کشیدگی کو کم کرنے میں قطعی مدد نہیں کرتی۔

فاکس نیوز ایپ حاصل کرنے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں۔

“جب آپ ہمارے اپنے ملک میں ایسی تقسیم دیکھتے ہیں جہاں ہم اپنی فوج سے تنقیدی نسل کے نظریہ یا ان تمام چیزوں کے بارے میں بات کرنے پر زیادہ توجہ مرکوز کرتے ہیں�� جب آپ فوجی تیاری اور دفاعی اخراجات میں کمی نہیں کر رہے ہیں، تو یہ ہمیں پریشان کرتا ہے۔ دوبارہ اس کمزور پوزیشن میں،” مرسڈیز نے کہا۔ “میرے خیال میں روسیوں نے یہ واضح طور پر دیکھا… اسی لیے آپ یہ جارحانہ رویہ دیکھ رہے ہیں۔”

توقع ہے کہ یوکرین پر روس کا حملہ ہفتہ کو CPAC کا نمایاں موضوع رہے گا جب ٹرمپ خود اسٹیج لیں گے۔

Fox Nation CPAC 2022 کا نمایاں سپانسر ہے۔ Fox Nation پر CPAC تقریریں لائیو اور آن ڈیمانڈ دیکھیں۔ 30 دن کا مفت ٹرائل حاصل کرنے کے لیے پرومو کوڈ CPAC کا استعمال کرتے ہوئے سائن اپ کریں۔ پیشکش 30 اپریل 2022 کو ختم ہو رہی ہے۔

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It has been a tumultuous few months for the National Rifle Association.

Since the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, which claimed the lives of 17 people in February 2018, the organisation has faced unprecedented opposition to its pro-gun agenda. Survivors of the attack have led a national movement for gun reform in the weeks and months since.

To counteract this, the embattled NRA just appointed a new president to steady the ship.

But their selection is likely to ignite even more controversy.

As companies sever ties with the group, Oliver North is set to take the helm of the NRA. Despite the NRA's high hopes that North will be able to revive its reputation, he brings his own set of baggage.

In a 2014 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the new NRA head compared LGBT+ rights to slavery.

Speaking at the right-wing gathering, he said:

“Some say that we must ignore social issues, like the definition of marriage and the sanctity of life, [and] religious freedoms. I say those are not social issues. They are deeply moral and spiritual issues and they should be a part of America's elections.”

North then linked the fight for these issues to the Republican Party’s historic opposition to slavery.

“If we as conservatives cease to be a place where people of faith and those who believe in strong moral values can come, we will cease to be a political force in America.”

He also denounced the Obama administration for allowing gay and lesbian troops to serve openly in the military with the repeal of “Don't Ask Don't Tell", asserting that soldiers aren’t “laboratory rats in some radical social experiment”.

This is far from the first time that NRA staff have expressed anti-LGBT+ views.

NRA board member Ken Blackwell once blamed the 2014 Isla Vista shooting, in which "men’s rights" activist Elliot Rodger murdered six people, on attacks on “natural marriage”. Blackwell also predicted that legalising same-sex marriage would lead to paedophilia. Fellow board member Ted Nugent once referred to homosexuality as “despicable”.

I’d like to point out that this asshole is the same one who was convicted of 16 felony counts in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which senior Reagan administration officials secretly helped to illegally sell arms to Iran, hoping to use the money from the illegal arms sales to fund anti-Sandinista terrorists, known as Contras, in Nicaragua.

Somehow I don’t think that a 74-year-old retired Marine Corps colonel who helped facilitate illegal arms deals, accepted illegal gratuities, and altered, shredded and destroyed many NSC documents to cover up the crimes of himself, his co-conspirators, and any connection Reagan had with this mess...

...is going to give a shit about the NRA endangering marginalized groups or children. 

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(Philip Giraldi)  Is Israel a U.S. ally?

National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship" on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club. Philip Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Giraldi is a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues. He is a regular contributor to Antiwar.com in a column titled "Smoke and Mirrors" and is a Contributing Editor who writes a column called "Deep Background" on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues for The American Conservative magazine. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on Good Morning America, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television. He has been a keynote speaker at the Petroleum Industry Security Council annual meeting, has spoken twice at the American Conservative Union's annual CPAC convention in Washington, and has addressed several World Affairs Council affiliates. He has been interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Britain's Independent Television Network, FOX News, Polish National Television, Croatian National Television, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, 60 Minutes, and Court TV. He prepares and edits a nationally syndicated subscription service newsletter on September 11th issues for corporate clients. Giraldi is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a group that advocates for more even handed policies by the U.S. government in the Middle East.

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13) Odala (Odal) - runa Starszego Futhark Odal (ᛟ), znana również jako runa Othala, reprezentuje dźwięk o. Jego zrekonstruowana protogermańska nazwa brzmi *ōþalan „dziedzictwo; majątek spadkowy”. Był używany do epigrafii od III do VIII wieku. Nie jest kontynuowany w młodszym futharku, znikając ze skandynawskich zapisów około VI wieku, ale przetrwał w futhorku anglosaskim i wyrażał staroangielski fonem w VII i VIII wieku. Jego nazwa jest poświadczona jako ēðel w tradycji rękopisów anglosaskich. Odal runa z szeryfami (stopami) jest związana z nazizmem i jest zakazana w Niemczech na mocy przepisów ograniczających nazistowską symbolikę i innych podobnych organizacji. Runa jest zakodowana w Unicode w punkcie kodowym U+16DF: ᛟ. Wspólny germański rdzeń þala- lub ��ila- „posiadłość dziedziczona” jest ablaut wariantem rdzenia aþal-. Składa się z rdzenia aþ- i przyrostka -ila- lub -ala-. Wariant sufiksu odpowiada formie umlautowanej ēþel. Germańskie aþal‑ miało znaczenie (w przybliżeniu) „szlachty”, a pochodzenie aþala‑ mogło wyrażać „rodowód, (szlachetną) rasę, pochodzenie, rodzaj”, a zatem „szlachcic, książę” (stąd staroangielski ætheling), ale także „dziedziczenie, majątek spadkowy, majątek, posiadanie”. Jego etymologia nie jest jasna, ale zwykle porównuje się ją do atta „ojciec” (por. imię Attila, ostatecznie dziecko mówi „ojciec”). Istnieje pozorny, ale dyskusyjny, etymologiczny związek Odali z Adel (staro-wysoko-niemiecki adal lub edil), co oznacza szlachtę, szlachecką linię rodową lub ekskluzywną grupę o wyższym statusie społecznym; arystokracja, zwykle związana z dużymi posiadłościami ziemskimi i fortyfikacjami. Termin oþal (staro-wysoko-niemiecki uodal) jest elementem formującym w niektórych imionach germańskich, zwłaszcza Ulrich i wariantach; rdzeń aþal jest częstszy, występujący w nazwach gotyckich, takich jak Athalaric, Ataulf itp. oraz w nazwach staro-wysokoniemieckich, takich jak jako Adalbert i Adel. Niespokrewniony, ale trudny do oddzielenia etymologicznie, jest rdzeń aud- „bogactwo, majątek, posiadanie, dobrobyt”; od tego rdzenia pochodzą imiona takie jak Edmund i inne angielskie imiona z przedrostkiem ed (od staroangielskiego ead), niemieckie Otto i różne imiona germańskie zaczynające się od ed- lub od-. Prawdopodobnie spokrewniony jest euþa, euþu słowo oznaczające „dziecko, potomstwo” (poświadczone w staronordyckim jóð i prawdopodobnie w imieniu Iuthungi). Odala była związana z pojęciem dziedziczenia w starożytnym skandynawskim prawie rzeczowym. Niektóre z tych przepisów obowiązują do dziś i regulują własność w Norwegii. Są to Åsetesrett (prawo domostwa) i Odelsrett (prawo allodialne). Tradycja prawa Udal znaleziona na Szetlandach i Orkadach w Szkocji, a także w prawie Manx na Wyspie Man, wywodzi się z tego samego pochodzenia. O-runa jest poświadczona wcześnie, w inskrypcjach z III wieku, takich jak czapka Thorsberg (DR7) i heblarka z Vimose (Vimose-Høvelen, DR 206). Litera wywodzi się z raetiańskiego wariantu litery O. Odpowiednia litera gotycka to 𐍉 (pochodząca z greckiego Ω), która miała nazwę oþal. Wolfgang Krause (1964) spekuluje, że runa jest używana jako ideogram oznaczający posiadanie w inskrypcji Thorsberg chape. Na inskrypcji jest napis owlþuþewaz, odczytywany przez Krause'a jako O[þila] - W[u]lþu-þewaz "własność odziedziczona - sługa Wulþuza". Runa odalowa występuje w niektórych inskrypcjach przejściowych z VI lub VII wieku, takich jak kamienie runiczne Gummarp, Björketorp i Stentoften, ale znika z zapisów skandynawskich w VIII wieku. Staronordyjski fonem o jest teraz pisany w młodszym futharku tą samą literą co fonem u, runa Ur. Runy anglosaskie zachowują pełny zestaw 24 run z Elder Futhark (oprócz wprowadzania innowacji), ale w niektórych przypadkach runy te otrzymują nowe wartości dźwiękowe ze względu na anglo-fryzyjskie zmiany dźwiękowe. Odal runa jest takim przypadkiem: dźwięk o w systemie anglosaskim jest teraz wyrażany przez ōs ᚩ, pochodną starej runy Ansuz; runa odal jest obecnie znana jako ēðel (z umlautem ze względu na formę þila-) i jest używana do wyrażania dźwięku œ, ale rzadko jest

potwierdzona w epigrafii (poza tym, że pojawia się po prostu w rzędzie futhark). Atesty epigraficzne obejmują:

Frisian Westeremden cis-stick, prawdopodobnie jako część danej nazwy Ƿimod (Ƿimœd)

broszka Harford (Norfolk), datowana na ok. 650, w formie czasownika skończonego: luda:gibœtæsigilæ "Luda ​​naprawił broszkę"

lewy panel trumny Franków, dwukrotnie: tƿœgen gibroþær afœddæ hiæ ƿylif „dwóch braci (scil. Romulus i Remus), karmiła ich wilczyca”.

Odwzorowanie runy Odal ze skrzydłami lub stopami (szeryfami) było odznaką Głównego Urzędu Rasy i Osadnictwa SS, który był odpowiedzialny za utrzymanie czystości rasowej nazistowskiego Schutzstaffel (SS). Był to również emblemat etnicznych Niemców (Volksdeutschów) z 7. Ochotniczej Dywizji Górskiej SS Prinz Eugen, działającej podczas II wojny światowej w sponsorowanym przez nazistowskie Niemcy Niepodległym Państwie Chorwackim. Ta interpretacja została wykorzystana przez neonazistowską Wiking-Jugend w Niemczech, a w Południowej Afryce przez Anglo-Afrikaner Bond, Boeremag, Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging i włoską neofaszystowską grupę National Vanguard. Był używany przez Afrikaner Student Federation i skrajnie prawicowy White Liberation Movement. W listopadzie 2016 r. przywódcy National Socialist Movement ogłosili zamiar zastąpienia swastyki wzoru nazistowskiego, runą Odal na mundurach i regaliach partyjnych, próbując wejść do głównego nurtu polityki. Na Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), która odbyła się w Orlando na Florydzie w dniach 25–28 lutego 2021 r., układ podłogi na głównej scenie przypominał odal runę skrzydłami/stopami, co doprowadziło do spekulacji w mediach społecznościowych, dlaczego ten projekt został wybrany. Przewodniczący CPAC Matt Schlapp powiedział, że porównania były „obraźliwe i oszczercze”. Firma projektowa Design Foundry przejęła później odpowiedzialność za projekt sceny, mówiąc, że „ma ona na celu zapewnienie najlepszego wykorzystania przestrzeni, biorąc pod uwagę ograniczenia sali balowej i wymagania dotyczące dystansu społecznego”. Ian Walters, dyrektor ds. komunikacji ACU i CPAC, powiedział, że przestaną używać Design Foundry. Symbol był używany z Czarnym Słońcem/Sonnenradem/Schwarze Sonne, runą Tyr, Krzyżem Celtyckim, swastyką Kolovrat, neonazistowskim sloganem Czternaście słów i Krzyżem Archanioła Michała rumuńskiej faszystowskiej grupy Żelazna Straż przez strzelca z meczetu Christchurch Brentona Harrisona Tarranta. Odmiana runy Othala zarówno z jak i bez stóp/skrzydeł (szeryfów) jest używana przez Odinistów i Asatruarian. Othala z szeryfami jest często używana przez germańskich neopogan z powiązaniami z narodowym socjalizmem lub ruchem Völkisch. W kwietniu 2014 roku brytyjska firma odzieżowa Topman przeprosiła za użycie runy Odal w jednej ze swoich linii odzieżowych.