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Some of us really despise ourselves and will watch some of this live on C-SPAN, so we usually put up a gameday/TVIV-style thread to contain all the chatter, eye-rolling, and other reactions. This is that thread. A stream can be found at c-span.org Speakers: Marsha Blackburn - Congresswoman (TN) John Bolton - Yosemite Sam impersonator, former UN Ambassador Brent Bozell III - Media critic, noted plagiarist Sam Brownback - Governor (KS), Laffer Curve cautionary tale Ann Marie Buerkle - former one-term Congresswoman (NY), commissioner at Consumer Product Safety Commission Jeb! Bush - Former governor (FL), has no relatives of note Dr. Ben Carson - director of pediatric neurosurgey (Johns Hopkins), everyone's black friend Rafael Edward Cruz - Senator (TX), children's literature enthusiast Nigel Farage - leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party Carly Fiorina - failed executive (Hewlett Packard), failed Senate candidate (CA, 2010), foe of demonic sheep Newt Gingrich - former Speaker of the House, zoo enthusiast Sean Hannity - Fox News/radio personality, trained MMA fighter Laura Ingraham - talk radio host, author of "Of Thee I Zing: America’s Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots" Piyush "Bobby" Jindal - Governor (LA), mocker of volcanic activity studies Wayne LaPierre - National Rifle Association, gun fetishist Mark Levin - talk radio host, author, Master Shake impersonator K T McFarland - token brunette, Fox News Cathy McMorris Rodgers - Congresswoman (WA) Sarah Palin - former half-term governor (AK), reality TV star Rand Paul - Senator (KY), self-certified ophthamologist Rick Perry - Governor (TX), "smart-guy" glasses model, reciter of incomplete lists Reince Priebus - chairman of Republican National Committee Marco Rubio - Senator (FL), bottled water enthusiast Rick Santorum - former Senator (PA), sartorial trailblazer, unfortunate Google search term Tim Scott - Senator (SC), former insurance salesman Donald Trump - birth certificate authenticity expert, reality TV star Scott Walker - Governor (WI), prank call victim Highlighted agenda items (full list here) Reclaiming the American Dream: Millennials Look Toward Their Future The Conservative Replacement to Obamacare (scheduled for <40 minutes) When Should America Go to War? Two Bits and 64 Bytes: Digital Currency and the Democratization of Money Vote Early, Vote Often: How to Combat Election (Voter) Fraud The Politics of Cool: How Important Ideas Get Trivialized America the Military Superpower: What is the Right Size for our Military? Baby Steps: the Pro-Life Success Story Frack That! What Is Fracking and How Will it Change America? Reining in a Lawless President: Obamnesty and Other Pen and Phone Affronts Supply-side Strategy: Exposing and Confronting the Abortion Industry as Big Business How Capitalism Empowers the Poor Prosecutors Gone Wild Can Islam and Democracy Co-Exist? The Red Pill or the Blue Pill? A Debate on Marijuana Legalization Sponsors include: Breitbart Leadership Institute National Rifle Association One America News Network The Washington Times The Heritage Foundation Poker Players Alliance Regnery Publishing ... and many more! And of course, don't forget the always informative straw poll! skaboomizzy fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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skaboomizzy posted:Can Islam and Democracy Co-Exist? Nope!
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Feb 25, 2015 02:31
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Wait Nigel loving Farage is showing up?  
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Feb 25, 2015 02:37
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I guess UKIP is looking to see what they can learn from their even more insane across the pond counterparts.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:44
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Anytime you hear a Republican at CPAC claim that Obama isn't doing anything about ISIL take #1:  :This photo and the gif that goes with it. #2: The Syrian Kurds are literally naming children Obama in gratitude for all of our airstrikes: quote:Suruc (Turkey) (AFP) - Sultan Muslim, a Syrian Kurd, had no doubt what to name her seventh child when he was born, safely in Turkey, after a harrowing month-long flight from her home in Kobane: Obama.  The kid is super cute, I'd love to see the reaction to his name/picture/story at CPAC. 
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Feb 25, 2015 02:46
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skaboomizzy posted:Two Bits and 64 Bytes: Digital Currency and the Democratization of Money Ahahaha holy poo poo bitcoins as a force for democratization 
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Feb 25, 2015 04:42
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Well these people hate Democracy so I genuinely wonder if they come down on the side of bitcoins or not.
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Feb 25, 2015 04:50
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Is there a schedule posted yet? Also, that Kurdish Obama is adorable.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:06
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Full agenda is here, I posted the ones I found to be particularly interesting.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:08
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Personally I always look forward to reading a few of the craigslist hookup ads. Though it's probably all moving to tinder/grindr these days.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:13
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Is CSPAN actually broadcasting this? I can't seem to find it on the schedule.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:14
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Rand Paul is gonna be hanging out at the US-Israel panel. That's hilarious. He's not even running yet, and he's already having to spend a significant portion of his time running defense and atoning for the sin of questioning the aid we give to Israel.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:27
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ReidRansom posted:Personally I always look forward to reading a few of the craigslist hookup ads. Though it's probably all moving to tinder/grindr these days. PLEASE tell me you saved some good ones
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skaboomizzy posted:Nigel Farage - leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party No loving way. This may be the speech of the event.
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Feb 25, 2015 07:38
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I doubt it but it's going to be hilarious to hear how British perception of him plummets when footage of him with the absolute worst America has to offer is all over sky and bbc.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I doubt it but it's going to be hilarious to hear how British perception of him plummets when footage of him with the absolute worst America has to offer is all over sky and bbc. He has a positive perception? I was under the impression he was widely regarded as a bit of a nutter and a racist. Has UKIP revamped their image? I thought they were a punch-line for anyone who wasn't a supporter.
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Here's a fun thing about Nigel Farage: a vast majority of the speakers I listed are from the featured speakers section of the site, where they provide a bio and such. Farage and a couple of others aren't included there and I had to read through the entire agenda to find them.
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Also worth noting that Scott Walker is the current frontrunner. Surely he will use his speech to make a clear case for why he should win the nomination, including specific policy initiatives that he would enact as president.
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baw posted:Also worth noting that Scott Walker is the current frontrunner. I predict that Scott Walker will die a painful death once a rival with money (Jeb!) decides to aim the artillery against him. It will be hilarious.
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I thought Walker had the Kochs and the trust behind CATO institute and all that money backing him (telling him what to do).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vz1TVpwme0 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/once-conservative-child-star-jonathan-krohn-faces-past-155547484--politics.html quote:“One of the first things that changed was that I stopped being a social conservative,” said Krohn. “It just didn’t seem right to me anymore. From there, it branched into other issues, everything from health care to economic issues.… I think I’ve changed a lot, and it’s not because I’ve become a liberal from being a conservative — it’s just that I thought about it more. The issues are so complex, you can’t just go with some ideological mantra for each substantive issue.” Go go cpac go. Pohl fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Feb 25, 2015 11:13
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The best thing about Walker's potential Presidential run is that one way or another it should get him out of the Governor's seat in Wisconsin. The only question is how fast, and how much damage can he do first.
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Rexicon1 posted:I thought Walker had the Kochs and the trust behind CATO institute and all that money backing him (telling him what to do). Walker has the support of the Kochs against Wisconsin unions and Democrats, but he hasn't had to compete with other potential presidential candidates yet. If they do back a candidate before the primaries are over, it's entirely possible that the Kochs will just go with whomever they think has the best shot at winning the general election.
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Walker has the support of the Kochs against Wisconsin unions and Democrats, but he hasn't had to compete with other potential presidential candidates yet. If they do back a candidate before the primaries are over, it's entirely possible that the Kochs will just go with whomever they think has the best shot at winning the general election. I've said before that he reminds me of Reagan. That is what scares me, he is a horrible person that shouldn't win an election yet he keeps winning. I understand how politically he should be easily dismissed, but until he loses I'm not going to count him out. The funding and pac money just makes him more scarey.
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He keeps winning in a state that's 85% white and essentially a political time capsule to 25 years in the past, where the Reagan coalition bedrock of angry white suburbanite tax revolters still forms the core of the electorate, and also whose Democratic party is particularly incompetent and whose liberal voting base is spread out and divided between poor Milwaukee blacks and rich Madison whites. He will be in for a nasty surprise when he finds that the Reagan voting base has more or less dried up in the rest of the country because it's no longer 1988 outside of the range of the time freeze superweapon in the basement of Koch Manor Even if he were as competent as Reagan, which he's not, the conditions that let Reagan come to power no longer apply. Like I've said before, Hillary would rip Walker's head off in a general election icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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icantfindaname posted:He keeps winning in a state that's 85% white and essentially a political time capsule to 20 years in the past, where the Reagan coalition bedrock of angry white suburbanite tax revolters still forms the core of the electorate, and also whose Democratic party is particularly incompetent and whose liberal voting base is spread out and divided between poor Milwaukee blacks and rich Madison whites. He will be in for a nasty surprise when he finds that the Reagan voting base has more or less dried up in the rest of the country because it's no longer 1988 outside of the range of the time freeze superweapon in the basement of Koch Manor He certainly doesn't have Reagan's charisma, which I never really understood. The guy was boring and phony as hell. People still bought into it, and with a hundred million in his pocket I'm not going to count Walker out until he loses. icantfindaname posted:Even if he were as competent as Reagan, which he's not, the conditions that let Reagan come to power no longer apply. Like I've said before, Hillary would rip Walker's head off in a general election You have a lot more faith than I do then.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I doubt it but it's going to be hilarious to hear how British perception of him plummets when footage of him with the absolute worst America has to offer is all over sky and bbc. "And here straight from the UK is Mr Nigel Farage, who is going to tell us more about the Muslim no go areas that make up 75% of his country"
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Feb 25, 2015 12:38
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Stoat posted:PLEASE tell me you saved some good ones Alas, no. I personally save very little. Probably a few here and there in previous years' threads though.
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Feb 25, 2015 13:56
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This is the problem when you invite more than one token black conservative to CPAC: people start confusing them. "Whoops... Looks like the CPAC mobile app has confused @SenatorTimScott for @RealBenCarson"
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Feb 25, 2015 14:56
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Good start to the conference.
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Should have done one more review of the site That is Tim Scott
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2 posts up pimp.
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CPAC spokesman now saying that's a 'shop. Off to a hilarious start!
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Feb 25, 2015 19:14
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This is not the first time CPAC has used Tim Scott's photo incorrectly.
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Feb 25, 2015 21:33
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So what do we think is going to be the most racist thing said? Going 50/50 on someone dropping wetback.
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Feb 25, 2015 21:58
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1stGear posted:So what do we think is going to be the most racist thing said? Going 50/50 on someone dropping wetback. It's going to be tough to beat the 2013 panel about "How to tell everyone we aren't racist"
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Feb 25, 2015 22:28
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1stGear posted:So what do we think is going to be the most racist thing said? Going 50/50 on someone dropping wetback.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:36
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skaboomizzy posted:It's going to be tough to beat the 2013 panel about "How to tell everyone we aren't racist" That was the worst thing to come out of last time. I can't imagine something more cringeworthy coming out of this.
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Feb 25, 2015 23:06
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1stGear posted:So what do we think is going to be the most racist thing said? Going 50/50 on someone dropping wetback. Some California politician said it last year and brushed it off by saying he was raised to say it and shouldn't be held accountable since he didn't know better. I not sure flag is going to top throwing peanuts at the black camera woman. Honestly I think they could set up a burning cross and get away with it. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:Probably somebody saying slavery was better for blacks (again) Yeah, it'll be hard to top that one.
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