CPAC speaker sparks alarm with call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’ ‘If [transgenderism] is false, then for the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,’ Michael Knowles says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rism-daily-wire-michael-knowles-b2294252.html Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire sparked alarm on Saturday with his anti-trans rhetoric during his speech at CPAC. “If [transgenderism] is false, then for the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,” he said. John Knefel of Media Matters called it “eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric”. Christopher Mathias of HuffPost said it was “a straight-up eliminationist anti-trans tirade”. Adam Vary of Variety urged people to “pay attention. This is genocidal. That is not hyperbole or alarmist; this rhetoric is calling for the eradication of a group of people for who they are”. “‘Transgenderism’ is people. He’s talking about eradicating people. When newspapers print scare stories about kids transitioning too early, when podcast hosts whine about girls’ sports, when politicians snark about the definition of ‘woman,’ this is what they’re talking around,” Raphael Bob-Waksberg said. “It would be great if non-trans people would start paying attention to this, because the quiet part is getting shouted at this point,” Jaclyn Moore added. “If only there was a word for when they want to ‘eradicate’ a kind of people. A word trans people have said these people were talking about but people called us hyperbolic. Hmmm I guess my vocabulary just isn’t good enough.” Writer Parker Molloy said, “hey, this is really scary s***, and I wish that the a***holes who keep insisting that there aren’t major legislative attacks on trans people of all ages happening right now ... would stop lying about that. Things are getting very bad”. “The GOP could not be more clear about their intentions: they want to eradicate trans people. They are saying this out loud,” Charlotte Clymer said. Mr Knowles has said in the past that his rhetoric isn’t genocidal because he doesn’t believe trans people exist, Jezebel noted. “There can’t be a genocide,” he said on his programme last week, adding that “it’s not a legitimate category of being. They’re labouring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion”. Mr Knowles was far from alone in his remarks about trans people at CPAC, during which many speakers and panellists have used the issue to whip up their base. Florida GOP Representative Matt Gaetz joked that President Joe Biden spent “four or five days asking the Chinese spy balloon what pronouns it uses before we shot it down”. Former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka ranted about “mutilating boys and girls” and “sacrificing them on the altar of their transgender insanity”. Outside of CPAC, former Vice President Mike Pence baselessly claimed that Iowa school nurses have to get permission from parents to provide aspirin but can simply hand out “gender transition plans” to students without any checks, according to Heartland Signal. Right-wing activist Candace Owens said on 2 March that “there is no middle ground on transgenderism” and that “if you don’t have the courage to say what needs to be said, we truly don’t need you”. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene told CPAC attendees that she’s planning putting forward a bill called the Protect Children’s Innocence Act that would criminalise doing “anything to do with gender-affirming care” for minors.
Just take it private, not something to mainstream by force. It's concerning to Obama's "wife", so Dems misuse the gov't.
GOP Strategist Tears Donald Trump Jr., CPAC To Shreds In Scathing Takedown https://news.yahoo.com/gop-strategist-tears-donald-trump-053428146.html GOP strategist Mike Murphy slammed the Conservative Political Action Conference for being “a scam, pure and simple, top to bottom” in a fiery message during an MSNBC appearance on Friday. Murphy, who has advised such Republicans as the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney, weighed in on the state of CPAC after a clip aired of Donald Trump Jr. calling on the crowd at its annual conference this week to use the Christian conservative cellphone service Patriot Mobile. MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner noted that the company has rented excess capacity from other cell providers, including AT&T, a company that Trump Jr. criticized at the conference for “weaponizing” consumers’ money. On Friday, Murphy took his own jab at Trump Jr. along with the CPAC gathering he admitted he used to attend. “First of all, I join fellow patriot Donald Jr. in urging our listeners, the true patriots out there, to make a check today out to ‘Christians Against Secular Humanism,’ or ‘CASH,’ because this is a grift pure and simple,” Murphy said. “They ought to put a fence around CPAC and put a bunco charge on all of ’em, it’s unbelievable. I didn’t know God had an opinion about cellphone companies.” Murphy continued by noting that former President Donald Trump and CPAC are both “shrinking” in popularity in the Republican Party, “but it is kind of the professional, grassroots, huckster wing of the GOP. The good news it’s an outlier, it’s not the sampling it used to be.” Murphy added that CPAC today represents just a “sliver” of the GOP. “This thing now is a scam, pure and simple, top to bottom.”
What a circus.... these CPAC clowns would even vote for a convicted felon. Trump will stay in 2024 presidential race even if indicted, tells CPAC crowd: 'I am your retribution' Trump withheld his attacks on Ron DeSantis and said, "The more, the merrier." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...al-race-indicted-tells-cpac/story?id=97628469
As expected... just about everything spouted by the MAGA crowd is a lie. Fact check: Republicans at CPAC make false claims about Biden, Zelensky, the FBI and children https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/04/politics/fact-check-cpac-2023
'It's sad': Conservatives lament the collapse of CPAC since Trump came along https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cpac-2659502544/ As the 2023 CPAC gathering wraps up in Maryland, Republican activists are expressing their dismay with the turn the conservative gathering has taken and wonder if it will survive now that it has been taken over by the MAGA crowd. With attendance down, likely due in equal parts to the sexual assault allegations levied at founder Matt Schlapp and key Republicans staying away, ABC reports that this year's convention was more Trump-centric than any in recent memory. However, according to one attendee, CPAC needs more Trump and fewer alternatives. "It is a broad cross section, but that's kind of a bad thing, you almost don't want that," explained Joe Walters from Westchester County, N.Y., before adding, "I wish it were more Trumpian in some sense." "Ten years ago, it was an opportunity to test your messages to conservative leaders and influencers all over the country and to have a big audience get to know you from the podium and everything else that was included. And I don't think that's where it is today. I think it's a narrow, small tent," lamented one aide to a GOP lawmaker. "I think last time I was there, it almost felt like a college crowd than it did a serious thinker crowd." "As somebody that's been involved in the movement for 20-plus years, it's sad, because it was at one time the premier event for conservatives to come together," they continued before adding, "I think there's a lot of people that hope so. But there's gonna have to be a wholesale change over there, and I don't see that coming anytime soon," the source said. "Sometimes you just have to have a hard reset." The ABC report adds, "With Trump's sway at CPAC, even attendees looking for alternatives to the former president in the next election sounded doubtful." "I haven't talked to anyone that's a DeSantis supporter. I've only really seen Trump people," said Ben Kelley who supports the Florida governor. "Maybe if I ask around, more will be for DeSantis." You can read more here.
CPAC's empty seats should worry Trump: former administration official "I couldn't help but notice he did not pack the house at CPAC," Griffin said. "So a lot of big names didn't go because it's kind of the Trump show. It was not full." "Donald Trump Jr. at one point did some giveaway where they put, like, chocolate bars under seats or whatever, and people were scrambling to empty seats -- it was like a poor man's Willie Wonka or something," she added. "So for me, I'm thinking maybe Trump's hitting his high-water mark. It's going to be funny.
I have to say, Griffin is a seriously good-looking woman. I'm still trying to forgive her for working in the Trump administration. It's a battle, but I'll get there.