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CPAC 2026 was an absolute nightmare for everyone involved.
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All right, the CPAC convention was in Dallas and these guys are complete freaks.
There's no other way to put it. It's not deep. These are poultice.
And this is the base of not only Trump's party, but the conservative movement, the Republican party.
This is what it is morphed into. Here is just a classic white woman Trump voter play the clip.
The president of peace. So this is to bring peace in the area.
When this when this gets taken care of, it's going to be peace.
And it's what I believe. I'm on true social. That's the only social media I do.
And I believe that he's going to have, you know, bring peace and it's going to be very short.
And he's got a plan. He's a genius.
And we trust President Trump. All of us trust President Trump.
He's going to bring peace and it's going to be very short.
Is what she said. This is, it's stunning.
How many people have fallen prey to the lie that Donald Trump is smart or he's some sort of
40 chess foreign policy maker. And I guarantee you this woman, about 90 days ago,
would say, you know, President Trump, what I like about my president is he says no more wars
in the Middle East. Right. Now it's a complete 180.
You know, I just find it so fascinating that she trusts President Trump.
When objectively, he lies about everything, every word out of his mouth since he came down the
escalator and has been in public life as a lie. But that just tells me she's willfully denial.
And I bet she is a handraising tongue-talking evangelical all day every day.
There's a lot of women just like that in Oklahoma. Yeah, a lot. That is not unfamiliar
to Pumps or me in the least bit. Okay, moving along. Speaking of tongue-talking handraising
evangelicals, let's listen to what super-Christian Franklin Graham has to say at CPAC.
Secular socialists in our country were wanting to take Christ out of Christmas.
He made a big deal and corporate America was on board with it, taking Christ out of Christmas.
Happy holidays. Mary X Miss, but in the ex-were Christ's name was.
Trump comes to office and he starts saying, Mary Christmas.
And okay, you say, well, thank you. That's such a little thing. No, it's not a little thing.
It was huge because it put the woke world on notice that we're not going to take it anymore.
Thank God for me. Okay, they're not going to take it anymore. This is one of the biggest,
most stale, tired, boring lies that the Republican Party slash Maga Party leans into.
The manufactured, complete fall story that there is a war on Christmas. I am an atheist. I put
up two Christmas trees in my house. When Pumps was a full-blown hand-waving evangelical Christian,
I celebrated Christmas with more intensity than my most religious friend. If you walk out
anywhere in the United States of America, Amal, Fifth Avenue in New York, anywhere in any state,
the Christmas decor and the vomiting of the celebration, corporate America gobbles up because they
make more money. And just the victimhood that we're not going to take it anymore, these people
use their faith for two things as a weapon and a shield. And they vacillate back and forth between
the two, whether they're a victim or a perpetrator. And Franklin Graham, I cannot believe, I was
kind of surprised he was still alive, but that's neither here nor there. These are their thought leaders
in the Republican Party. These are the thought leaders. That's kind of what I thought. My thoughts
were twofold. Number one, you have a situation where you're talking about the war on Christmas.
You have a thousand real problems going on in his church and churches in the country. I mean,
pick one. There's millions to choose from. And then he's like, people say, happy holidays
like it's evil. And it just struck me the Christian narcissism that everybody has to say Christmas
regardless of your faith. And to me, it's just another example of these evangelical Christians wanting
to impose what they think and what they say on everybody else with zero respect to anybody else's
beliefs. And it's also the mountain out of the Mulhill stuff. These are not major issues. Now
if somebody says happy holidays, whatever, if somebody says, Mary Axmas, who gives a shit,
pick your battle. Franklin Graham is more upset about that than he is the United States of America
giving blank checks to countries that kill children. He is more upset about that than the fact that
there are children starving in the United States of America, the homeless problem.
Sick people not able to afford health care. This guy is a stage five hypocrite grifter.
Let's see what else he has to say. Play the clip.
I love Donald Trump. Is he perfect? No.
But I love that guy. I love him. And we'll only have one chance at this. We'll never get
another president like Donald Trump. Never.
That's why it's important that we do everything that we can to try to get him reelected.
Okay. So they say the quiet part out loud. We're going to do everything we can do to get him
reelected. They know they'll never get somebody as stupid as they are to govern the United States of
America. This is such an indictment on the religious right, the whole CPAC movement. And it's
to me and my political ethos it has always been a cancer living in a Bible belt state and seeing
the moral duplicity. And there are some people that I kind of let off the hook a little bit more
than others. The people who live in rural America and the only culture they have as a church
and the only identity they have is America because there's just nothing else to do in large swathes
of America. So this becomes major identifying forces for them and senses of community. My problem
is with a lot of people that live in urban or suburban America that know better. That enjoy the fruits
of multiculturalism that enjoy the fruits of having gay or queer friends, enjoy the fruits of
black culture of eating in Mexican restaurants. And when there are certain parties say, oh, we're
moderate politically. And then behind they are intentionally lying because they know how uncool
and depraved and cruel the Christianity, this form of Christianity is. Those are the most insidious
and that makes up millions upon millions of voters. I agree with that, but I look at that comment
and I'm like, number one, that is illegal. That is against the Constitution. I mean, that is a
intellectual argument to that. But in reality, Donald Trump cannot stay awake during cabinet meetings.
He is 80 years old. He does not know the difference between an island and Ireland in saying a certain
this man will never make it another term. It's not possible. He is already cognitively diminished
to the point he makes no sense that it's not getting better. This is just stupid.
All right. And then Mike Lindell is somebody. This is the My Pillow guy. And this was something that
always fascinated me at the end of Trump 1.0. He hung out every day with Mike Lindell.
Mike Lindell would show up to the side door to the oval knock and he would come in with all
of these conspiracy theories about how the ballots were rigged and he had really won. And just
like in a complete state of Maga psychosis. And what is very important to understand about Trump
is he doesn't surround himself with people that are tethered to reality. He surrounds himself
with people that confirm what he wants to be true. And what he wants to be true are buffers
to keep his narcissism intact so he doesn't have to face his inner profound seeping and security.
So Mike Lindell is at CPAC. His career is still not over. He's a celebrity, a star in the
Maga. Right. Here he is getting served a lawsuit on a CPAC interview. Play the clip.
Country. Most of them break a law within the first three months. Most of them around TV
here, please. Brand TV, please. Brand TV, please. Brand TV, please. Brand TV, please.
Brand TV, please. What are you, what are you, what are you, what are you, what are you, what are you,
what your
man.
Brand TV.
Yeah.
It's okay. Um,
He addresses that with a striking familiarity, is that he's experienced being served
lawsuit papers, uh, multiple times. But again, you guys, this is a major serious political party in
in the United States.
They are treated by the press,
by a large portion of the American public
as a serious force.
And the left's error oftentimes is to say,
oh, all of this stuff is French.
Nobody will ever take them seriously.
And it is time to start doing brand damage
to the Republican brand.
Their stats are unbelievably bad.
What happens when they get power,
what happens to the economy, public safety,
well-being, international affairs,
national security, domestic stability,
it all plummets.
And yet, they still are funded and funded enough
to have these insane conventions.
And they're still a major political party.
When I saw this, I honestly was like,
I can't believe they would let him even in the door.
He's such a laughing stock.
He's bankrupted his company.
He's a net.
And then I thought, that's who they are.
That's who this group is.
So I think your point that he's a star,
that tells you the story right there.
Okay, and then here is Pastor Mike Burns,
the fire and brimstone and the Christian cruelty
is escalating.
Like a lot of addicts, they get a tolerance level.
And in order to maintain a high,
they have to increase their dosage.
I long have the premise that these people
are religious addicts.
And their religious addiction,
traffic and cruelty.
And they have to keep raising the stakes
to be meaner and meaner
in order to get the hit that they want.
Play the clip.
I'm talking to you.
You can't be quiet about it.
The moment they try to put gay books
inside your public school,
you should open up your mouth
and save the devil is a liar.
I won't let this pornographic show up in my school.
You're not talking back to me.
Pay the fine.
Okay, so that's fucking crazy.
I mean, it's crazy.
I mean, I was putting gay porn in schools.
What they're talking about is there's literature
coming of age literature for people
who discover or exploring their sexuality.
And it's a very difficult thing to do
in Bible Belt America.
I had so many friends that had conservative families,
conservative churches.
And the most difficult thing these people do in their lives
is go to the people with whom they should be safest.
They're family.
The people who are supposed to love them unconditionally,
their parents,
and tell them that the child that they gave birth to,
the child that they made, is in fact gay.
And you can ask any gay person in anywhere.
This is a mammoth event and they're like,
what's so sad about it?
Is people like Pastor Mike Burns
are feeding this cruelty narrative
that's when so many gay and queer people,
I love this conversation with their parents.
They get attacked and rejected.
And that's a real mind-fuck
because we're taught your parents and your family
that's unconditional love.
In this world of mega Christianity,
it is conditional love.
It is conditional.
They love you only if you are a certain way
per their script,
per the Bible script of whom you are supposed to be.
So this is so dangerous
or so many marginalized groups.
And speaking of gay,
let's hear this clip from Benny Johnson.
I'm going to state it clearly
and profoundly at this moment
that we must find the clarity of what
and who we are actually fighting,
the violent, radical, demonic left is our enemy.
Okay.
This is really pathetic and dangerous.
Their whole ethos is attacking over half the country.
That is who their enemy is
because on the left, people critically think
we're not in a cult.
We can criticize our own politicians.
Listen to this, Benny Johnson.
Chuck Schumer is out of touch
with the United States of America.
I think he needs to step aside
and let a true fighter be the Senate minority leader
and the same goes with Hawking Jefferies.
I think a lot of the Democrats
in the Democratic Party right now
take too much money from corporations
and that taking has called it caused a breakage
in their ability to oppose fascism to the fullest extent
and oftentimes it appears as though they are fascist collaborators.
This neglects the suffering and the income inequality
of the American public.
I'm a Democrat.
I always vote for Democrats
but I do not sit here and take a party line
but here's the fundamental difference
between Benny Johnson, the raging evangelical Christian
and Jennifer Welch, the raging unapologetic atheist.
I do not see maggot individuals as my enemy.
I see them as members of a cult
that have been deeply, deeply brainwashed.
Now listen, I don't want to go to lunch.
I don't want to go to brunch.
I don't want to hang out with these people.
I want them to have fucking healthcare.
I want to create a system that doesn't create a vacuum
for these people to believe lying grifters.
That's the fundamental difference
between the left and the right.
I think that's very well said
and I just, when Benny Johnson talks,
it pops into my head.
He's this big Christian talking about Democrats
or demonic and the picture that flashes in my head
if Benny Johnson is him and his alligator alcatraz merch
and the smile he had on his face at the prospect
of people being eaten by alligators in Florida
and I think you are the biggest fucking hypocrite.
He has no empathy and unfortunately,
there are people in my family that are the exact same way
and they are super Christians.
So here's what I think.
If you tell me you're an evangelical Christian,
I immediately assume you have no empathy
because that is what my experience has told me.
So it's easy for them to dehumanize everybody
that's not them and it's disgusting.
I think we have to leave it there.
What very well said pumps, please like and subscribe
and we really need to do brand damage
to this diabolical anti-life pro-death cult
CPAC movement.
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