#cpac 2025

[reality-detective]

Border Czar Tom Homan is an absolute savage!

What a way to kick off a speech: 👇

“Look! Let me start off by saying this… If I offend anybody today, I don’t give a shit.” 🤔

[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.

[folsomprisonblue7]

“Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

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

[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.

[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.

[arorea]

Mikaela Reid doing her due diligence because fascism is cringe 🫡

[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.

[lefkosahaberleri]

Elon Musk, CPAC 2025'te Altın Rezervleri ve İsraf Üzerine Konuştu

New Post has been published on https://lefkosa.com.tr/elon-musk-cpac-2025te-altin-rezervleri-ve-israf-uzerine-konustu-45075/

Elon Musk, CPAC 2025'te Altın Rezervleri ve İsraf Üzerine Konuştu

Elon Musk, CPAC 2025’te yaptığı konuşmada altın rezervlerinin önemine ve israf konusuna dikkat çekti. Sürdürülebilirlik ve ekonomik etkiler üzerine düşüncelerini paylaştı. Detaylar için hemen tıklayın!

https://lefkosa.com.tr/elon-musk-cpac-2025te-altin-rezervleri-ve-israf-uzerine-konustu-45075/ --------

[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.

[thoughtlessarse]

The CPAC conference showed how much the Right thinks this is their moment. But lots of people still hate them, and we should use that hatred to organize a resistance. Some of the most insufferable people in the United States convened in Washington, DC, this weekend for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Tech billionaires, Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, Zionists, and all sorts of other dorks and ghouls rubbed shoulders, relishing the fact that for this moment, people are actually lapping up their cringeworthy jokes and doomerist politics. They were joined by far-right figures from around the world, particularly Europe, where reactionary movements are also on the rise. Notably absent were the once powerful establishment conservatives like Mitch McConnell, Chris Christie, or Mitt Romey, who have been run out of CPAC as the Trumpist right advances. The conference comes as polling indicates that just one month into Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the public is already losing faith in his handling of the economy and questioning his moves to concentrate power in the executive branch. Importantly, Elon Musk’s unelected role in the Trump administration is particularly unpopular in the recent polling. It is no wonder, then, that Trump began his one-hour-and-13-minute speech at the conference by insisting that, no, actually, he has a historic mandate and people totally like him and like the Right. While support in the United States for right-wing populism in the absence of a revolutionary left alternative should not be underestimated, Trump’s inflation of his mandate and talk of how red the electoral map was on election night came off like a child sticking their fingers in their ears and going, “Lalala, I can’t hear you.” The fact is that the Far Right doesn’t actually have a plan to meaningfully address the economic crises that workers are facing, so they have to rely on a mix of authoritarian maneuvers and moral panics over immigration, trans rights, and other oppressed communities to maintain a base of political support. Already their most egregious attacks on basic democratic rights and workers’ livelihoods are facing resistance in the streets. They probably know this, which is why they relished in the “safe space” that CPAC provided.

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[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

[dakotafinely]

Hey. Wasn't kidding about entering people's inboxes on that post you liked. You can ignore me, or delete this, or block me, whatever you want. You can also make sure your followers are aware that Steve Bannon and Eduardo Verástegui performed seig heils at cpac 2025. People deserve to know.

This Post I thought I reblogged it but I guess I did not. But yeah, for those who don't know, more conservative heads are doing the seig heils (nazi salute). Also cpac, for those who may not know, stands for Conservative Political Action Conference.

Proof of Steve Bannon doing the Salute here. Proof of Eduardo Verastegui doing the Salute here. (in Spanish, I couldn't find English articles.)

I confess I really only give these links because they have videos of both these people doing the seig heils. I did not actually read the articles so I'm not sure if they're in support of these people or not.

[ourquietman]

When someone wakes up knowing that, when their self-aggrandisement is so monumental, they are like a golfer who believes they will never miss. But as Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine put it, Trump is living inside a disinformation bubble. The iron law of politics is that all bubbles burst.

David Smith in THE GUARDIAN

[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.