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#CPAC2017: Witches vs. Trump

Posted on | February 25, 2017 | 1 Comment

“[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
— Pat Robertson, 1992

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
While thousands of Conservative Political Action Conference attendees were celebrating their movement’s success here — the Breitbart luau was among the many parties Saturday night — witches gathered at midnight at Trump Tower in New York to cast a “binding spell” against our president.

Liberals are convinced the powers of darkness are their friends:

The mass ritual will allegedly be repeated again March 26, April 24, May 23, June 21 (the summer solstice), July 21, and August 19.
The spell also invokes evil on “those who abet” Trump, which would seem to appear to cover his staff and political nominees, and perhaps the millions who voted for him as well. . . .
In reaction, a number of Christian groups and individuals have promised to pray for Mr. Trump, asking God’s blessings on his work and on the nation. . . .
The witches’ spell involves a lengthy incantation, calling on spirits and “demons of the infernal realms” to bind Donald J. Trump so that “he may fail utterly, that he may do no harm.”

The Political Hat has pointed out that using witchcraft against Trump was very popular among feminist witches with Tumblr blogs.

https://rabbit-witch.tumblr.com/post/157620782257/saw-this-on-facebook-tomorrow-is-the-day-all

https://teacupsandcauldrons.tumblr.com/post/157679730332

http://thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie.tumblr.com/post/157680042475/tonights-mass-binding-spell-against-trump

http://stynalane.tumblr.com/post/153102894935

The famous 1992 quote by Pat Robertson was absolutely true, as I have documented the reality of feminist involvement in witchcraft:

Since the 1970s, feminists have celebrated witches as an “archetype” of empowered women, and have cited the witch hunts as part of a narrative of oppression, grossly exaggerating the numbers of victims and distorting the history to create a mythology of martyred victims. This is actually taught as fact in Women’s Studies classes. The influential textbook Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions by Oregon State University professors Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee includes this:

In the “burning times” (between the 11th and 14th centuries), millions of women in Europe were murdered as witches. for many of these women, “witchcraft” was simply the practice of traditional healing and spirtuality and the refusal to profess Christianity. For other women, the charge of witchcraft had nothing to do with religious practices and everything to do with accusations rooted in jealousy, greed, and fear of female sexuality. But in the frenzy of the times, defending oneself against an accusation of witchcraft was practically impossible, and an accusation alone generally meant death. (p. 598)

In the early twenty-first century, many women participate in revivals of ancient women-centered religions and have become empowered through the revaluing of the feminine implicit in this spirituality. Wicca, or witchcraft (although not the witches we popularly think of at Halloween), is a Goddess- and nature-oriented religion whose origins predate both Judaism and Christianity. Current Wiccan practice involves the celebration of the feminine, connection with nature, and the practice of healing. As Wiccan practitioner Starhawk suggests, witchcraft encourages women to be strong, confident, and independent and to love the Goddess, the earth, and other human beings. This notion of witchcraft is very different from the cultural norms associated with witches that are propagated in society. (p. 602)

High priestesses of feminist witchcraft Starhawk (left) and Z Budapest (right).

Starhawk (neé Miriam Simos) is high priestess of a neo-pagan feminist witchcraft cult known as the “Reclaiming” tradition. Starhawk was one of the earliest disciples of Z. Budapest (neé Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsa), high priestess of the Dianic Wicca cult of feminist witchcraft. Feminists actually believe in this stuff, which is promoted in university Women’s Studies programs. At the University of Pennsylvania, for example, the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies offers a class in “Witchcraft and Possession” (GSWS 119), Academic feminists produce articles like “Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe,” “Witchcraft Studies from the Perspective of Women’s and Gender History,” and “Witchcraft and Women: A Historiography of Witchcraft as Gender History.” Parents can now send their daughters to a state university to study witchcraft at taxpayer expense.

This is what feminists call “progress,” you see.

Christians need to pray for the President’s protection:

Pray therefore the God of Peace to crush Satan beneath our feet, that he may no longer retain men captive and do injury to the Church.

There’s no point praying for Democrats, of course. They’ve sold their souls to the Devil and are helpless slaves serving their satanic master.



 

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Category: Fear and Loathing at CPAC 2017, Sex Trouble

Second Amendment and @LogCabinGOP: Because Survival Is the First Natural Right

Posted on | February 25, 2017 | 1 Comment

Gregory Angelo of Log Cabin Republicans at CPAC.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
An armed society is a polite society, as Robert Heinlein observed, and no right is more important your right to defend your own life. All other rights are meaningless to a dead man, and last year’s terrorist attack in Orlando, where a radical Muslim killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at a gay nightclub, was an overdue wake-up call.

“The Second Amendment offers the LGBT community the constitutional right to defend ourselves and our families. And that’s something I don’t think we should take lightly, nor seek to erode,” Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo said last year in an interview with Lifezette. “Without the ability to defend yourself, there are no gay rights.”

At the group’s booth at CPAC where the “Gays for Guns” sign was prominently displayed, Angelo said that the concept of equal protection expressed in the landmark Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage could also be used to strike down local anti-gun laws that limit the right to self-defense. Concealed-carry licenses issued in one state should be recognized in all other states, Angelo said. He noted that Log Cabin Republicans are the only LGBT advocacy group that consistently defends the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Robert Heinlein would totally understand.

 

 

Category: Fear and Loathing at CPAC 2017

In The Mailbox: 02.24.17

Posted on | February 24, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.24.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: #RepealObamacare
Twitchy: CNN Whines About Being Excluded From White House Media Gaggle
Louder With Crowder: Chris Cuomo Says Dads Protecting Their Daughters From Trannies Are Bigots
According To Hoyt: Of Plate Tectonics And Unknown Carbon Reservoirs
Vox Popoli: Black Bloc Cries


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #37 – The Truth Episode, also, Never Say You’re Sorry And Never Offer Your Resignation
American Power: Jill Lepore, The Name Of War
American Thinker: Leftist Jews Should Quit Lecturing Trump About Anti-Semitism
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Balkanization Friday
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – The Not Quite Fake But Rather Manipulated News
Don Surber: Best Bacon News Of The Day , also, Noonan Advises Democrats – Be RINOS
Dustbury: 55 Horses, No Waiting
The Geller Report: Sweden – Another Muslim Migrant Gang Rape Livestreamed On Facebook
Hogewash: An Evening At CPAC
Jammie Wearing Fools: How Convenient – Senate Democrats Avoiding Staged Town Hall Tantrums
Joe For America: The Indivisible Movement – The Left Astroturfs Its Own “Tea Party” To Resist Trump
JustOneMinute: I Feel A Song Coming On
Power Line: Democrats Make Fools Of Themselves At Cotton Town Hall, also, Democrats Turn To Witchcraft To “Banish” Trump
Shark Tank: Florida Begins Issuing Medical Marijuana Cards
Shot In The Dark: Shame In? Shame Out!
STUMP: Around The Pension Web – Actuarial Outpost, MEPs, Assets
The Political Hat: Scientists Laying The Groundwork For Cyborg Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Veteran Killed During “Welfare Check”
War Is Boring: China’s Second Aircraft Carrier Almost Complete
Weasel Zippers: Nestle Leaves California Due To Oppressive State Laws, Taxes, also, Illegal Fundraiser For Clintons Made Tell-All Video Because He Feared Assassination
Megan McArdle: “Authentic” Food Is Not What You Think It Is


Instant Gratification – Today’s Digital Deals

Category: Linkagery

#CPAC2017 Donald Trump Redefines Rhetoric; George Will Hardest Hit

Posted on | February 24, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Hinderaker offers the video and a slightly more favorable take.

Category: CPAC

#CPAC: The Trump-Haters Arrive

Posted on | February 24, 2017 | 2 Comments

A policeman instructs protesters not to block the sidewalk.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
“So much security,” the young well-dressed woman remarked to her similarly dressed friend as they crossed the road to enter the Gaylord Hotel. “It’s almost as if there’s somebody important here.”

Indeed, President Trump is speaking this morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference and it’s easy to tell the difference between the pro-Trump CPAC attendees and the anti-Trump protesters, a cluster gathered on the street corner across from the hotel. The protesters are angry and dressed like slobs, while the CPAC attendees are cheerful and dressed like winners. The CPAC women wear dresses and heels, and the CPAC men wear coats and ties. Welcome to Trump Nation.

 

 

 

As of 9:45 a.m., maybe 20 or 25 members of the soi-disant “resistance” were standing across the road from the hotel entrance. Scarcely the kind of ferocious mob you might expect just outside the nation’s capital, where just five weeks ago, swarms hordes of anarchists wreaked havoc on the D.C. streets in protests of Trump’s inauguration. And now our president is speaking on the CPAC stage.

 

Category: Fear and Loathing at CPAC 2017

#CPAC2017 Undeserved Victory Lap

Posted on | February 24, 2017 | Comments Off on #CPAC2017 Undeserved Victory Lap

by Smitty

Lukas and I swung by so that I could check in at CPAC. This is the bumper on the truck made famous by Stacy in an earlier post.
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We were at CPAC seven years ago  (Feb 19, 2010) when I got to ask now-VP Pence a question on Paul Ryan’s Roadmap Plan.

What didn’t happen in the intervening seven years? A year in Afghanistan, two healthy young lads, a couple of job shifts. . .
Interestingly enough, Pence’s Feb 23, 2017 address hits about every drum in the conservative kit except finances. Just an excellent pile of read meat:

One feels a certain satisfaction in having been in the choir for some key events. Others have done orders of magnitude more than I, but there’s still an echo of St. Crispin’s Day in all of it:

He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day.

Truly, there is massive struggle ahead to climb out of the pit of Progress. ObamaCare is probably going to hurt worse on exit than it did on entry. Then there is the pension crisis.

But savor this CPAC, as Pence clearly did. One month into a contested landing on the North bank of the Potomac River, Trump is at a critical point. The Progressive establishment wants to give Trump the Full Nixon. And if conservatives leave him hanging out to dry, that establishment could succeed.

And this is a lesson of politics: you never ‘arrive’.

Savor this CPAC, because the fact that it is a happy, energetic occasion (not a necropolis full of wound-licking) is a result of the energy put into the activism, the blogging, the protesting, the keeping hope alive during the last eight years. Refusal to bow is key to restoration.

Each piece, regaining the House of Representatives in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and the White House last year, was a step that kept hope alive and allowed the next step. The inability to unseat #OccupyResoluteDesk in 2012 was a setback that shows why complacency is so dangerous: learn from your foe’s success as well as your own failures.

Trump, of course, was nowhere in all of this. Donald of Orange, like the earlier William of Orange, seems a Donny-come-lately to the whole conservative scene. A vast swath of CPAC supported Ted Cruz, not Tribble-head, who blew CPAC 2016 right off.

But this is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who.

No, we need to support Trump; he’s what you’ve got, and he flogs the pantsuit off of the alternative. Even if we totally blew him off at his previous CPAC appearances (he did?). Furthermore, the possibility of eight years of Trump and a segue into a Pence Administration is worth working very hard for–or did the Wilderness of Obama teach nothing?

So when Pence asks for our prayers, I say we give them. And enjoy a tiny, yet satisfying, victory lap.

Category: CPAC, Donald Trump

#CPAC2017: Seen on the Scene

Posted on | February 23, 2017 | 2 Comments

‘The Official Trump Truck’ is, as the president would say, yuuuge.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
CPAC is like family reunion for bloggers. When I went down to breakfast Thursday morning, the first person I saw was Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.

 

After breakfast, I went outside for a post-meal smoke, which was where I ran into “Joe the Plumber” Wertzelbacher.

 

Of course, CPAC is not all about guys with gray beards hanging out together. Thousands of college students as well as glamorous television personalities also like to hang out with guys with gray beards.

 

Jesse Waters of Fox News doesn’t have a gray beard yet. He’s only 38, which was how old I was when I left Georgia in 1997 and moved to D.C. to work as an assistant editor for The Washington Times. Considering that this is my 12th consecutive CPAC, I keep running into people who were College Republicans when I first met them at CPAC, but who are now doing serious work in the world of politics and government.



 

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Category: Fear and Loathing at CPAC 2017

#CPAC 2017: ‘The Deconstruction of the Administrative State’ — Steve Bannon

Posted on | February 23, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
President Trump is “maniacally focused” on keeping the promises he made to America during his campaign, White House strategist Steve Bannon said Thursday during a panel with chief of staff Reince Priebus. That includes enforcing immigration law — “protecting the sovereignty of the United States,” as Priebus said — and an agenda of deregulation that Bannon called the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”

Bannon warned the audience in the Potomac Ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference to expect intensifying attacks on Trump the “corporatist, globalist media” that is opposed to the president’s agenda of economic nationalism. “If you think you are getting your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken,” said Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. “We want you to have our backs . . . to hold us accountable for what we promised.”

Priebus attributed Trump’s victory last November to the New York real estate mogul’s authenticity. “What the American people were starving for was somebody real, somebody genuine,” said Priebus, former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Priebus credited Trump for uniting the disparate factions of the GOP after a hard-fought primary campaign that began with 16 candidates seeking the nomination. Keeping the conservative movement connected to the Republican Party is the key to success in moving forward Trump’s agenda, Priebus said. “If the party and the movement are together, we can’t be stopped.”

 

Category: Fear and Loathing at CPAC 2017
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