NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — As the Beatles’ lyric goes: “Everybody had a hard year. Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a wet dream. Everybody saw the sunshine.” The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference held this week just outside of Washington, D.C., was exactly like that, if you’re someone who …
Read More »Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, …
Read More »CPAC Panel Singles Out Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris … for Some Reason
The Conservative Political Action Committee has returned to D.C. this week for its annual conference, and it’s serving up heaping platters of lazy, hateful political commentary to conservative voters. On Thursday, the conference hosted a panel titled “Cat Fight? Michelle vs. Kamala.” The event featured white conservative commentators teeing off …
Read More »Apparently Matt Schlapp Tried To Banish Satanic Spirits From CPAC Office
A foul presence was haunting the CPAC office — and it wasn’t the organization’s chairman, Matt Schlapp.Schlapp believed Satan himself had to be driven from the premises, according to a new report from The Daily Beast. Per the Beast, Schlapp called in a Catholic priest to conduct an exorcism of …
Read More »The Right Is Big Mad at Big Tech But Can't Quite Figure Out Why
The MAGA movement still had Big Tech in its sights at CPAC 2023 — but they aren’t sure how or when to pull the trigger, or if the gun is even loaded. The ultra-conservative conference has long been captured by Donald Trump, serving as a perennial opportunity for the president’s …
Read More »CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of 'Transgenderism' — and Somehow Claims He's Not Calling for Elimination of Transgender People
The right’s war on queer and trans people took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference as Daily Wire host Michael Knowles on Saturday called for the eradication of “transgenderism.” During his speech on Saturday, Knowles told the crowd, “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated …
Read More »Trump Promises to Continue Presidential Campaign if Indicted, Then Delivers a Snoozy CPAC Speech
At a press conference ahead of Donald Trump‘s speech to the Conservative Political Action Coalition’s annual event, Newsmax’s James Rosen asked whether he would drop out of the presidential race if he is indicted on criminal charges. “I wouldn’t even think of leaving [the race],” Trump responded. “Probably it will …
Read More »SNL Goes After Fox News, CPAC, and the MyPillow Guy in Cold Open
Mere minutes after Chris Rock’s live Netflix stand-up special Selective Outrage ended, Saturday Night Live kicked off with its cold open — a parody of Fox & Friends featuring Mikey Day as Steve Doocy, Heidi Gardner as Ainsley Earhardt, and Bowen Yang as Brian Kilmeade. After ripping into New York …
Read More »Young Republicans Are Begging Party Elders To Stop Saying 'Woke'
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — To attend the Conservative Political Action Conference is to find oneself on the front lines of the war against woke. During her speech on Friday, 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley deemed “wokeness” a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic.” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) argued Americans ought not …
Read More »CPAC 2023 Is Low Energy
As it entered its third day near Washington on Friday, CPAC 23 wasn’t exactly a ghost town — but it had the feel of one where uneasy residents are starting to question why the railroad isn’t passing through anymore. Who wouldn’t be interested in panels like “The Biden Crime Family” …
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