#cpac 2025

[saywhat-politics]

Displayed throughout CPAC...

[i-can-kazoo]

Not even kidding I'm about to start entering people's inboxes and demanding that they start to care about jews.

Steve Bannon did a seig heil at cpac 2025 and almost nobody is saying a goddamned thing.

I get it; he isn't as popular or as fun to hate as elon musk. You might not recognize his name. But he performed a fucking seig heil at a conservative political conference and nobody mentioned shit. Do you actually care about us? Or do you only care when you get to dunk on someone with the rest of your in-group?

Im not kidding; the more we normalize this, the less we care, the less we say, the bolder they will get.

[nando161mando]

Two Nazi salutes at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Smith at The Guardian:

“I am your retribution.”

When Donald Trump made this solemn promise to his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) two years ago, millions of Americans felt comfortable looking the other way. After all, opinion polls suggested that Trump was a spent force in the wake of the January 6 insurrection, disappointing midterm elections and a lacklustre start to his US presidential election campaign. He was the closing act of a CPAC that critics dismissed as a fringe freak show with obscure speakers addressing a half-empty ballroom.

It won’t feel like that this time. CPAC 2025 kicks off at the National Harbor in Maryland on Wednesday with Trump set to return in triumph after regaining the White House and with Republican allies in control of Congress. The conference will be a vivid demonstration of how his “Make America great again” (Maga) movement has gone from the margins to the mainstream. “CPAC always been the the ideological north star for the conservative grassroots movement,” said Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill who used to regularly attend the conference. “Unless you weren’t paying attention, CPAC was the roadmap for what Maga becoming mainstream would look like and what they wanted to accomplish.” The history of CPAC mirrors the recent history of the Republican party. It began in 1974 in the throes of the Watergate scandal and the birth of a new conservative movement. The first CPAC was addressed by Ronald Reagan, then governor of California and destined for the White House. An annual dinner is still held in Reagan’s honour.

The event spent years in the wilderness during Barack Obama’s presidency: the further its voices were from power, the louder they shouted. Among the speakers in 2011 was a businessman, TV celebrity and former Democrat from New York named Donald Trump, airing a grievance that America was being ripped off by China. In 2015, CPAC heard from nearly all the major Republican presidential candidates, including Trump and Jeb Bush, but a year later Trump cancelled his planned appearance amid fears that he would be booed by protesters. It did not prevent his hostile takeover of the Republican party by winning both the nomination and the presidency. CPAC impresario Matt Schlapp, a veteran of the George W Bush White House, then made a big bet on Trump as the future. The conference went all-in for Maga, casting Trump as a messianic figure saving America from illegal immigration and woke culture. His 2020 election defeat and the January 6 riot made no difference. A dedicated marketplace inside the event continued to sell Maga merchandise.

At last year’s event, as he closed in on the Republican nomination again, Trump described himself as a “proud political dissident” and his myriad legal troubles as “Stalinist show trials” orchestrated by then president Joe Biden. He promised the election would be “liberation day” for his supporters but “judgment day” for perceived enemies who had weaponised the government against him. The old Republican party, meanwhile, was left far behind. Trump has used CPAC to attack its establishment figures as “freaks, neocons, globalists, open border zealots, and fools”. Out are Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence; in are far-right nationalists such as Steve Bannon from the US, Viktor Orbán from Hungary and Nigel Farage from Britain. The lineup of speakers announced so far this year includes both Bannon and Farage along with the border czar, Tom Homan; the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, the US ambassador-designate to the United Nations, Elise Stefanik; senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida; the rightwing media personality Megyn Kelly; Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder; the Argentinian president, Javier Milei; and the British ex-prime minister Liz Truss.

CPAC did not respond to an email asking whether this year’s conference will also include Elon Musk, the tech oligarch appointed by Trump to shrink the federal government, or individuals recently pardoned by the president for taking part in the January 6 insurrection. But nothing will top the expected appearance by Trump himself after what has been billed as the greatest political comeback in history. His early efforts to crush illegal immigration, transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes are sure to receive ecstatic cheers. His claim that, in surviving an assassination attempt, he was “saved by God to make America great again” will be embraced with religious fervour. [...] One potential measure of CPAC’s devotion to Trump will be its annual straw poll, which asks attendees to state their preference for the next Republican presidential nominee. Senator Rand Paul topped the poll in 2013, 2014 and 2015 while Ted Cruz prevailed in 2016 with 40% of the vote, ahead of Marco Rubio at 30% and Trump at 15%. Trump has dominated ever since. He is constitutionally barred from running for a third term but has repeatedly hinted that he might try. Congressman Andy Ogles has even introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump to run again. Setmayer believes that next week’s CPAC straw poll will include him – and he will win it again. “They absolutely will do it again and Trump will overwhelmingly win at North Korea-style numbers and he will continue to talk about a third term,” she said. “This is not a joke. He has been talking about this since his first term. He talked about it during the election in ‘jest’ and he’s been talking about it already three weeks into his new term. We need to pay attention to what they are doing concerning our elections.”

This year’s CPAC will complete the Trumpist turn that has culminated over the last several years. #CPAC2025

[not-that-i-should-have-a-say]

Everyone needs to channel their inner Blues Brothers and drive Nazis off a bridge. Give them a dunk in the water to reflect on their worldview.

We switch to channelling G.I. Robot if they don't get the message.

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

In Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir, Night, the foresight and wisdom of Moishe the Beadle hearkens back to the desperate yet ignored premonitions of Cassandra. There is no ultimate safety for anyone when Nazis take over - they will come for you eventually. Please open your eyes.

[partasah]

If there is civil war

If there is civil war here in the United States of America, if I am forced to flee my home with my family and seek shelter in camps. If I am forced to go days, weeks without my medicines, I will die. Like many Americans I suffer from diabetes. Like too many people I have a bad heart. Unlike most people, my bad heart is from a birth defect. Without access to my medications I will likely rapidly decline. I will perish, leaving my children fatherless, living my wife a widow.

Yet still, I cannot stand by and bow to the regime of 47. This is madness. We have literal Nazis in the White House. We have men at CPAC doing the Seig Heil. I'm disgusted. My forefathers fought in WWII against the Nazis, and yet here they are, voted into office by red-blooded Americans who, frankly, can't tell the difference between a fascist and a communist. *sigh*

I love my country and want to make it better. But I'm worried I won't make it out alive. I'm honestly worried that in ten years there will be labor camps for people who stand up to the Federal Government.

[naecobain]

Hey. Wasn't kidding about going into people's inboxes in that post you liked. You can block if you don't want me doing this but people see your blog. They too can become aware that Steve Bannon performed a seig heil at cpac 2025.

i think its important people see this. steve bannon preformed a seig geil at cpac 2025, and nobody is talking about it. i dont post about politics on either of my blogs but i think were past politics when its peoples LIVES that were talking about. the saftey of people, especially jews, isnt political, its not controversial. thank you for taking the time to spread this further.

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Cringe Fan-boy question from interviewer:

"I've been fascinated by you for a long time. I've never seen anybody that can do so many things at the same time. I mean, you've got the rockets, you've got the cars...I've always wanted to ask you...what is it like inside your mind...like, is it just a thousand miles an hour?"

They're really setting this guy up on a god-like pedestal. And, the answer is just as cringe as the question.

It's literally the Cult of Elon!

Elon is so full of shit. I can't even grasp how he was able to dupe so many people. He and Trump are really paving the road to Hell with good intentions, and I'm saying that as an irreligious person.

[sawbeentheblog]

Elon Musk Says Left's Cancel Culture and Freedom of Speech Infringement Made Him Go MAGA: 'There Was No Choice'

After witnessing what he described as the left’s efforts to suppress free speech and personal freedoms, Elon Musk said he had no choice but to embrace the MAGA movement. Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), discussed the public shift in his political views at CPAC 2025 on Thursday. Elon Musk: I wasn’t really interested in politics, but at a…

[saywhat-politics]

Bannon is the second Trump ally who, in recent weeks, has drawn criticism for making a similar hand gesture.

Feb. 21, 2025, 12:21 PM MST

By Matt Dixon and Ben Goggin

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — French far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Friday canceled his planned remarks here at the Conservative Political Action Conference after Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump who is now popular conservative podcast host, made a hand gesture that some said appeared to be a Nazi salute.

"Yesterday, while I was not present in the room, one of the speakers out of provocation allowed himself a gesture alluding to Nazi ideology. I therefore took the immediate decision to cancel my speech that had been scheduled this afternoon," Bardella said in a statement to French media outlets.

[nando161mando]

Nice back-to-back for the history books

[justinspoliticalcorner]

This man is a threat to America. Military coup now!

[alaturkaamerika]

Elon Musk: "ABD Merkez Bankası’nı (Fed) Denetleyebiliriz!"

💰 Elon Musk, ABD Merkez Bankası’nın (Fed) denetlenebileceğini söyledi! CPAC 2025 konferansında konuşan Musk, Trump yönetiminin merkez bankası üzerinde daha fazla kontrol kurma ihtimalini gündeme getirdi. Peki, bu açıklamalar ne anlama geliyor? Elon Musk: “Fed’i de Denetleyebiliriz” ABD Başkanı Donald Trump’ın kıdemli danışmanı Elon Musk, Muhafazakar Siyasi Eylem Konferansı (CPAC) 2025’te yaptığı…