The Washington Examiner notes today that President Trump has been invited to attend the annual CPAC convention (Conservative Political Action Conference). However, as long-term CTH readers will note, we hold no positive opinion on CPAC.
I would question if the time has come to conclude CPAC is a gathering of the same institutional political types that got us into this mess. Y’all know my answer to that question has existed for seven years: CPAC is an assembly of fraud and abuse.
In their effort to be politically correct (aka culturally Marxist) the list of people who have been banned from CPAC is long. Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, Milo, and now Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R, GA). Any strong voice who has taken on the leftist movement in the U.S. (without regard for the nonsense rules espoused by the Alinsky community) has been ostracized from the conservative conference.
CPAC has, in essence, become a place where the establishment GOP dictates whose voice is permitted and who is essentially too deplorable to be heard. Yes, there are some strong voices that show up, including President Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Nigel Farage, Michelle Malkin, and other axe swinging wolverines who are deep in the fight. However, the brutally honest point is things have changed…..
There should be new rules and a new confrontational attitude if we are going to save this republic. CPAC and the pinkie raised champagne toasts just ain’t cutting it. We are on the damn precipice, and the CPAC crew act like reaching across the aisle is a possible way to avoid the gallows. This is a cycle of abuse we can no longer tolerate. We will not survive.
I do not forget when we gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives; and when Paul Ryan took over as speaker; and Ryan passed another three trillion omnibus spending bill with full support of Democrats…. and then showed up to a standing ovation at the “conservative conference.” WHAT the HELL was being conserved?
The time is now for CPAC to reform…. OR the time has come for CPAC to be abandoned in favor of a national convention that supports the 75 million+ Donald Trump voters. CPAC is not that convention… not even close.
WASHINGTON – Organizers of the biggest annual gathering of conservatives say they have invited President Donald Trump to speak at their conference in Florida next week.
The Conservative Political Action Conference is due to start next Thursday in Orlando and already features some of the biggest names from the Trump administration, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
Chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp said he had extended an invitation to Trump himself.
“I’d love to see him come to CPAC next,” he told the Washington Examiner. (read more)
CTH is in the fight for our nation regardless of CPAC or not CPAC. CTH will fight beside anyone, any vulgarian patriot, who will fight the progressive left and their intent to destroy our constitutional republic…. but we cannot keep acting like we have time to convince the other side to stop destroying our nation – THEY DON’T CARE.
Those within the club, in this example the DC club, want those outside the club to accept there are two systems of rights and responsibilities. The club members have all powerful rights and no responsibilities for consequences; the non club members have lesser rights and full responsibility for consequences. This is the cornerstone of a tiered or classist society outlook.
“Rules for thee and not for me” is more than a catch phrase; it is an actual worldview with a history in political control. They are not hypocrites, they are living out their creed.
It is critical, actually beyond critical, that people start to accept what they are witnessing is not some misplaced system created by bad actors. Those bad actors are actually aligned political elites who benefit from numbing society to the sheer audacity of their ideology.
The truth doesn’t care about your feelings. Either we fight back using every tool and voice in our arsenal, or we will lose. It really is that simple.
We need lots of trumpets, with soaring sounds that pierce the sky. MAGA Trumpets that play “Reveille” to wake more people up. Trumpets that broadcast victories. Trumpets that play “Taps” (when needed) over losses. MAGA Trumpets that signal which way to run to the battle. Trumpets that provide cadence and courage.
WE NEED TRUMPETS
What is this disconnect, this insanity of continuing to say “they wouldn’t, they couldn’t, they can’t” when they will, they can and they are—in real time–today!
The CPAC assembly pretends to support of what’s left of our Republic and the assembly, bleats dismay at what’s being done to our Constitution in broad daylight. However, their words are always combined with speeches that end with “buy my book about it”… AND THOSE ACTIONS are not changing what’s actually happening.
Those whose hold on power depends on deception are always able to find an audience of those willing to be deceived.
Now, I accept the CPAC audience of those willing to be deceived is a flexible group in terms of numbers and identities; and even those who have been in that audience for some time may one day walk away from it; but why wait to accept your surrounding until your wrists are locked in the guillotine? What is it that makes folks stay in that audience?
It is time for a national MAGA conference and let those who wish to join our assembly petition for their right to participate. Let us, WE THE PEOPLE, define the rules of our support, not beg or appreciate the DC beltway republican cocktail party for an invitation to their back-patting weekend that results in absolutely nothing.
We ain’t got no more time for this Bulls**t!
CPAC IS NOTHING BUT REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT,NO THANKS,
We need to break up DC into departments across the nation
Our current form is like having the valves to your shower in the attic
Back when Rush spoke at CPAC 2009 and those years I made sure to listen to all CPAC and tune in. NO MORE! They proved to me about 5 years ago – just like Heritage Foundation, that they were not the real deal. Not for the ‘every man, We The People’ nor truly for a small, limited Constitutional Republic. More ‘talkie-talkie’ no guts to fight the fight. THEN CAME TRUMP, our man in the arena! Who needs CPAC?!??..
…maybe it is about time, or past time, for a conversion … ?
There is opportunity to inspire virtue, etc. so. embrace the adversity, the challenges… persevere towards greater purpose….there is strength in numbers… there is room to grow along this journey…
Faith and good works…
James 2:22
Attend only if he can bring a guest: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
AMEN!!!! That’s my representative who is being cancelled…and I LOVE HER!!!!
I actually got a text message from Salazar asking me for money after she voted with the Dems to strip MTG of her committees. I fired one nasty ass email back to her, asking how dare she ask me for crap since she essentially silenced my voice in my district.
To hell with these people now. After supporting them for years and getting jack sh*t back for my vote and donations…I’m D.O.N.E
Do they check with the DNC to see if it is ok before they issue an invitation? I want a new party. I am tired of one that has Ryan, Romney, McConnell et al in it.
You can’t play games with the squishy (R)s as if it makes a difference. You can’t reason with those who hate you and the Leader you chose as POTUS. Arguing with them is like playing chess with a pigeon. Not matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon is going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious.
that dovetails nicely with my own theory that pigeons are rats with wings
Well, add CPAC to our growing list of things to boycott.
Yes. Great post Sundance. Time to be bold. American First conference. We must not support these UniParty conglomerations anymore. We have the numbers and everything else will follow. Our Republic is at stake. Establishment is feeling the pressure and we must keep applying that pressure. They cannot indoctrinate 80 million voters. Canceling American First patriots is not acceptable!
Fortune favors the bold.
Time for the new/3rd and clean break from the unreformable rotted stinking gop rino carcass.
Trump should ignore CPAC. It serves only the grifters and cucks of Conservatism, Inc. Criticism of Big Tech and immigration policy are forbidden. No surprise as the ACU is run by the Schlapps – open border supporters who take money from Big Tech. And who supported the stolen election. CPAC is only for naive, brain-dead conservatives and ambitious students looking for internships with Con, Inc.
I saw videos where Matt Schlapp was on the road in the swing States trying to uncover the cheating & corruption of fake votes. I go on his live shows and he was supporting Trump all along. I agree there are a lot of ‘backstabber’ fake Republicans, but we have to stick with the Party and over-run the traitors. All you will do with a 3rd Party is split the vote, the Dems will win 2 parties will have less voice. The Dems are evil & corrupt. Pelosi’s is so evil it is unimaginable. You can only beat them if we are unified. We can work at getting rid of the traitors like the Ryans, Bushes, McCain’s wife & yappy daughter and the 7 reps who voted against Trump. Those Reps should have been gone this time – not sure what their States are thinking. Just ‘hold your nose’ and work at getting rid of the ‘sewer Rats’.
cpac has always been a catch as can catch for me
whatever the event, put it under the MAGA banner and i’m in
Call it the CTrump!
The only way I’d watch this thing would be on my laptop and only if our Real President Trump made an appearance. After that..pffffft.
CK’s philosophical guru and life coach Alex Jones got thrown out of CPAC last year, and while Alex may be insane, really respect the guy’s energy and fight. BTW, it was his reporting last year from CPAC last year saying, “Look how many happy Americans are here! This has got to drive the unpopular and unpleasant Democrats crazy!” that put the plandemic into perspective. That is, how convenient that social distancing became necessary precisely when Trump rallies were beginning? The leftist ANTIFA attacks on Americans simply confirmed it, as if more confirmation were necessary.
“while Alex may be insane, really respect the guy’s energy and fight.”
Things that he was spouting off twenty years ago have come true.
So regardless of the faults of the man, he seems to have had some pretty good sources for the information he has reported.
Besides, who doesn’t have any faults, except our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ?
Totally agree! He did a piece on a Houston temple to evil years ago that turned me on to the dangers of the Bush family and the NWO — he was totally correct!
Recorded in 2012 and exactly true today. Some folks never learn.
President Trump (yeh, he is still the legitimate President) walks into CPAC and says, “Thank you for inviting me. Now, I and my 90+ million followers are going to start a real party called “AMERICAN CONSTITUTION PARTY”. You can sign up but we will verify every F’ing one of you because we know many of you are liars, traitors and basically worst than scat. See you soon after we show how you and your Repukelicans caved to the Left and let the 2020 Presidential Election get STOLEN! We will not go forward until this Moby Pig F*ck of an election has been corrected and I am legally and rightfully placed back in the White House. Thank you, thank you very much. You too, Mitch. How’s Elaine doing?”
“We the People” Party
The Constitutional Liberty Party. The Tree of Liberty its enduring symbol.
Yes Sundance! 100% we do need a MAGA convention. Vulgarians only! spineless compromised phonies not welcome. Invite honey badgers like Raheem Kassan , Katie Hopkins, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon (who I started listening to on Nov. 4th. he has a profound understanding of the heart of this movement & expresses it like nobody else. His power is in coaching people into action with motivational talk that I had never heard before. This is the kind of talk the 75,000,000 of us need right now.
He and Sundance have given me immense clarity regarding this movement, and I am forever grateful for it. They are basically saying the same thing! Bannon’s audience is around 36,000,000, and is also rebroadcasted in Mandarin for the Chinese. He even broached the trans-humanism subject today.
we are certainly are at the precipice and it is “all men on deck”. Pinky raising will bring our demise.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer must be invited too.
Man oh man…I adore Katie Hopkins.
Wow. Those klieg lights are burning hot on the committed Decepticons!
CPAC is the place where country-club republicans go to try and be friends with liberals and collaborate to control and deceive the 80 million MAGA voters.
From Brahttps://youtu.be/GYDs8TpBulozil
Trump courts billionaire backers as he plans conservative-friendly social media platform
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-courts-backers-plans-conservative-friendly-social-media
WOW wouldn’t that be a first a MAGA platform started by President Donald Trump and only for real supporters of America! We can tune out the BS and deprive them of money which is what makes the world go around.
Give God the Glory!
WOW! Australian Media Runs Segment on Joe Biden’s Dementia! — Something the Poisonous US Media Still Lies About
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/wow-australian-media-runs-segment-joe-bidens-dementia-something-poisonous-us-media-still-lies/
Burn it to the ground
Patriot Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Not Invited to CPAC – Will Crash Orlando with Appearance Down the Street from Conference.
MTG is a US modern day Joan of Arc.
Im skeptical of all of them. Ive heard MGT speak a few times.
Shes a baller. Gives it right back to the media scumbags, and then some.
Go!
Take the entourage, Eric, Lara, Jr., Ivanka. Take General Flynn.
Watch 1000s of supporters line the streets to the venue in Orlando.
Go for it President Trump. Make them squirm.
Wouldnt it be KARMA if Trump went to CPAC and absolutely dissed the GOPe, announced the formation of the Patriot Party and asked for donations!
This Benny Johnson facebook video (under 5 minutes) about 1:57 in he extols the virtues of people like Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley going to meet with President Trump, extolling an open umbrella ideology that used to be the standard-bearer of the Democrat party.
This man apparently is working in or near Mar-a-Lago with the Office of the Former President of the United States, which seems he’s pushing for the go-along-get-along-with-GOPe idea.
https://www.facebook.com/170168510099531/videos/251523283129040
ecch !
Benny Johnson is not GOPe, not that I can see. I’ve been watching him for about a week now. I like him.
Thank you Sundance for shining the light on CPAC!! I agree with your assessment and hope our President Trump declines. Yes, we need a MAGA conference and speakers need to be vetted.
Mitch McConnell’s PAC Donates to Rep. Liz Cheney
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/19/mitch-mcconnells-pac-donates-to-rep-liz-cheney/
the so-called conservatives – I think – want to anger and confuse supporters of President Trump, if they could flood the airwaves with “photo opps” of Nikki, Lindsey, Mitch and others standing next to our beloved President –
to me, the CPAC bunch are basically HAZMAT.
The question.
Do we give up our vote?
Without a fight?
No!
Remember that in order to pass legislation in our system, it requires 61 votes in the Senate to close discussion and vote on the issue, which only takes 51 votes to pass. The Republicans haven’t had 61 votes since forever, which means the Democrats control all legislation, whether they are in the majority or not. If they don’t get enough in the “compromise” necessary to get legislation passed, they cause a government shutdown until the media forces the Republicans to concede to the Democrat wishes on any legislation. Democrats avoid this 61 vote requirement by using the “budget reconciliation” move, which needs only 51 votes, to pass disliked bills like Obamacare. Republicans would never stoop to doing this maneuver.
McConnell did use Reid’s rejection of the fillibuster in order to get the judges approved with just 51 votes, hopefully those judges are as conservative as we were led to believe.
This CPAC imagery always reminds me of an old Kia Soul ad:
It’s time for the common man to start these types of foolish little parties so that we can rival there these things.
Espouse true conservative values and have those who will truly stand up to the insane.
I 100% agree Sundance. It’s time to get out of this abusive relationship and divorce the GOP. We have the numbers and it’s time to stop being controlled by McCONnel and the RHINO party.
“but we cannot keep acting like we have time to convince the other side to stop destroying our nation – THEY DON’T CARE”
This is so very true.
It would be so cool if Trump had a MAGA Conservative rally on the same day. That is where the real Conservatives will be.
There needs to be an alternative American Freedom, or America First Convention. At a venue in a solidly red area. It must feature events, speeches, music and presentations reflecting MAGA. It has to give a voice to iconic folks that have been smeared censored, and sidelined amongst others.
The effort to create new CPAC like infrastructure, reach, logistics is enormous. My thought is to take over the CPAC organization to create change. Given it is next week we are behind the curve. Same thing with the republican party, take it over, eliminate the evil doers knowing they are severely compromised. Call to action is to infiltrate both with our MAGA numbers.
maybe he can say, “Ill come if Marjorie can come”.
Received a wonderful donation and membership card renewal from RNC the other day. I returned it all with a note written in red: How dare you ask me for money and renewal for the RNC. You are no longer my party. Trump is the man, you do not back him, I will no longer back you. McConnell’s leadership is blasphemy to the true POTUS Trump.
For the last four years I have never given to the party in general since they send it to whom they wish to. Give to the person that you feel best serves you and your community not the party.
For good reason it’s called the American Revolutionary War.
So, I have this old car, it’s never really been reliable, but in the past few years, it’s increasingly shown its worthlessness. It won’t start until long after I’m late for an appointment. And, breakdowns? There must be one a day. Never really a popular car and every time I had to get in to go somewhere, I loathed the experience (in fact, I had to hold my nose before putting the key in the ignition). Time for a new one, one that I’ll be happy just to have it in the driveway.
But, there are some things about the old car that I do like. I just put a new radio in it, a radio I like. And, a new gas cap. And, there are the 4 new tires I just put on it. Is that a reason to keep that pile of worthless car? NO! So, I’m taking out the radio, gas cap, and 4 new tires. And, it’s bye-bye to that nightmare.
What brand was that car? People call it GOP!
Trump at CPAC makes no sense, unless he uses his appearance to trash the direction CPAC’s taken for many years. He’d appear last, make the closing arguments and establish a new direction for the country.
Trash McConnell and give particulars. Trash the cash flow buying up politicians. Trash the Cromnibus spending bills. Trash open borders. Trash multilateral trade agreements. Trash constant wars. Trash bogus elections, and attack those who enabled them. Trash the Plandemic. Trash the Bill of Rights destruction underway.
CPAC makes sense only if Trump delivers a New Declaration of Independence, in other words. We list our grievances. We declare independence from the Uniparty that’s enslaving us. Then this makes sense.
Then wait for the Uniparty’s response. I expect them to dig in, but they should be given a chance to respond.
Thank you Sundance for the reminder and I ask every CTH person to spread the word lets boycott cpac. Let start taking control of the situation and with hold money from rinos and the Republican Party. After all money talks and bs walks sorry had to throw that out.
Here! Hear! well said Sundance. And the photos chosen to illustrate are picture perfect!
The dc crowd is one team and it ain’t ours.
He’s in!
Trump to Make First Public Speech Since Leaving White House at CPAC
By Allen Zhong
20 Feb 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-to-make-public-appearance-at-cpac-on-feb-28_3704558.html
it more like rpac as in republican pac
CPAC, conservative subreddits, Fox News, Newsmax, Rs in Congress, and other so called conservative outlets have become so lame that they seem to mainly pander to their base for money and ratings, rather than advancing any ideas of their own to support the objectives that they pretend to support. I have been a libertarian leaning conservative my whole life, and have never seen a conservative like me adequately represented through voting or rhetoric, anywhere. I get called fake by other conservatives who are way less conservative than I am for pointing this out. There are a few fringe people who seem to capture it, but then they are immediately taken down because we are all sinners and it’s easy to be character assassinated when you are a movement of one.. What I’m saying is that when you start delving in to Austrian economics you find a lot of great ideas from easily discredited people. CTH, citizen free press, liberty daily, sometimes Gateway Pundit all do the job, but why are there no public figures with stature willing to go to bat with some of these great conservative ideas? Voting Republican these days only means slowing the roll of authoritarian tyranny and not by a lot. I am not famous and don’t have a lot of money but feel 100% ripped off by my donations to conservative causes over 25 years of giving. It hasn’t made me change my mind about the ideas but it just seems like an elaborate waste of time in a losers game. Where are the leaders of the future? Are they just destined to become Tea Party-type sellouts? Trump maybe in 2024 but don’t get your hopes up. If I was 77 or whatever he’ll be by then I’d want to take a break. Someone give me a list of real conservatives like maybe how Hawley “acts” and he might be real but I’m not convinced, yet. For instance is there a conservative version of Tulsi Gabbard? I want to see if there’s a Ben Carson with higher energy and a willingness to discuss and promote real ideas that convince others. We need an alternative to Wokeness which is a disease for every race, persuasion, and economic class. That means you can’t keep doing us vs them. Open the tent, be willing to confront bad ideas, and give us some new ones. Earn your damn money for once. Then get America back in to a moral framework so we don’t need to rule America through intimidating others. This would be equivalent to the difference between peer pressure vs peer attraction, where people want to vote for you because they want to, not because they have to. Trump got that across to us as his base, just not to enough people and he was not good enough to convince enough people because he did the right things and said the wrong things. Perhaps election fraud but he should have had 100 million votes if he got enough people inspired and that wouldn’t have been an issue.
Welcome to the Treehouse Juntin! 😀
(Pro tip….paragraphs are your friends.)
A most excellent missive by the author. I see CPAC as almost worthless and would never under no circumstances support nor accept a membership. This was completely reinforced by the brilliant speech given by Gov. DeSantis. He made at least four mention of the legacy of Rush L. and there was little or no applause in response to his comments. This did not surprise me, as I find all to many of the attendees as Conservatives in name only. The CPAC do not share my 1776 values and thus I am compelled to reject them fully. IMHO, the organization is beyond repair.