The most weird issues stated to this point at CPAC 2024

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A sleepy and half-empty CPAC convened for its first gathering in 2024 at the Gaylord National Conference Center in National Harbor, Maryland, but there were still plenty of wild and unsubstantiated claims to be had.

Here are some of the most bizarre things said so far:

Byron Donalds goes on Trump-esque wind power rant

Former President Donald Trump, who’s set to talk on Saturday night time, usually rants about windmills and the way they kill whales. No, really.

Florida Rep Byron Donalds appeared on stage in National Harbor on Thursday, saying that “in our economy, we need leadership” to counteract “this … Green New Deal stuff, which by the way, isn’t even that green”.

“It’s not even that green when you go on to read the studies. These solar panels are dirtier than natural gas. These wind turbines, there have been more men and women who have died from wind turbines than nuclear power,” he stated. “That is a fact.”

“More people have died from maintaining wind turbines than have died from nuclear power plants. But you gotta have leadership that’s going to tell the truth and set America on the track going forward. We shouldn’t be chasing green technology just to chase green technology, we should be chasing the cheapest and most readily available form of energy so all of our people can be successful,” he added.

As you possibly can think about, Mr Donalds doesn’t believe recent extreme weather events are connected to the climate crisis.

The authorities has turn into the daddy

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville seemed to be very involved about American fatherhood and the federal government stepping in to take the place of fathers throughout the US.

And there was in fact a point out of the highest Republican boogeywoman for the final 30+ years – Hillary Clinton.

Podcast host Ben Ferguson was interviewing Mr Tuberville, saying: “We are at war right now … to control our children because they believe that our children are part of the United States government. They are not yours. Your kids, your grandkids, these communists and socialists and Marxists … believe when they talk about your kids as property of this country, Hillary Clinton said it takes a village why because she doesn’t like your home – she likes her village and she wants to indoctrinate your children.”

Mr Tuberville was in fact unable to reply with out citing gender or with out bashing lecturers: “I’ve seen all this mess and it starts with what’s going on with our family, with our kids, and with this crazy idea of gender. They want everybody to be the same.”

“Unions at one time were good for this country, but not unions for our teachers in our schools because they have absolutely been the ones that drag our country down because they want to teach this woke socialism agenda that our parents don’t want,” he claimed with out pushback from Mr Ferguson. “And of course, the government have attacked our parents for years. They want to divide the family, they want the dad [gone], they want the mom to get a cheque for every kid … it’s a disaster and it all goes back to Christian and moral values.”

Mr Ferguson added that in his “hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, this year, they think that about 84 to 86 per cent of all African American children born this year will be born into single-parent households … the government has become the father”.

Biden is stealing elections, get Trump again in there

Mr Tuberville appeared satisfied that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from Mr Trump, regardless of that solely one among them, that being the previous president, has been charged in connection to makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 outcomes.

“We have a leader for four years, and they ran him out,” he stated of Mr Trump. “They ran him out and they’re trying to keep him from getting reelected this time.”

“They stuffed the ballot box on him four years ago,” Mr Tuberville claimed, with out proof. “We’ve got to get Donald Trump elected president United States. You have got to do all you can do to get everybody go vote.”

“If you don’t have that White House. I don’t care if you got the Senate. I don’t care if you’ve got the House. If you don’t have that White House,” he stated, noting that the immense “power that the President of the United States now has”.

“If we don’t get him back in that White House, it is going to be tough for any of us to survive in the greatest country ever,” he claimed. “For the next 10 months, it’s gonna be rough, you’re gonna have the groups coming out on the left, that we saw a few years ago, turned down cities, burning buildings.”

‘They hate Christianity’ and ‘they’re gonna come after your church buildings’

Mr Tuberville added that “they want to control everything that we do. They hate Christianity … if you pull the Constitution out on you know, they run like it’s a crucifix. The entire thing here is globalisation, overtaking everything that we do”.

“They’re gonna vilify you, you’re gonna see everything in a world said about Donald Trump or your local conservative politician,” he claimed.

“They are going to come after you. They’re gonna come after your churches, your anything to do with any kind of discipline, your law enforcement, it’s gonna be a tough time because they can’t give up they know a lot of these people are gonna go to jail,” he added with out substantiating his claims.

Democrats ‘are communists and communists always have a plan’

Former United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs within the Trump Administration, Monica Crowley, stated throughout a panel dialogue that “two years ago, from this stage, I was the very first person … to raise the possibility that the Democrats might reach for Michelle Obama, and I’ll never forget, the room fell silent, because there was not a peep … you could hear a pin drop”.

“And then there was a collective gasp across the room … And I remember saying ‘guys don’t shoot the messenger’. It does us no good to live in wishful-thinking fantasy land – that the Democrats don’t have a plan. They are communists, communists always have a plan,” she added.

‘Don’t spoil catfights’

Framing an imagined battle for the nomination between Ms Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris as a “cat fight,” Matt Boyle of Breitbart stated: “Democrats just do whatever they want, and they could make the switch. And if they do that, then they can position Michelle as the reluctant candidate, who really didn’t want to do this, but she needs to save her party and her country, so she’s been reluctantly recruited”.

“If they wait that long, they can run her as a pristine candidate without getting bruised and bloodied up in any kind of her primary. She only would have to run for 10 weeks to November 5. And look, I don’t know if any of this is going to happen. I know it sounds off the wall but what we’ve been through over the last like eight years everything has been off the wall,” he prompt. It’s doable. I don’t understand how doubtless it’s. And I hope to God that I’m fallacious.”

Columnist Kurt Schlichter responded: “So you see things a little differently from what I do and I have a couple of bones to pick, the first is: catfight Kamala versus Michelle, why are you ruining cat fights for us?”

The Obamas are operating the present

Running with the rightwing narrative that Mr Biden is just not really in cost, Ms Crowley stated: “Obviously what we’re living through right now is not the Biden administration, this is Obama 3.0.”

“And they installed Joe Biden in there because they knew he was a senile guy and could be a puppet. And so, they’re the ones pulling the strings, the left has a host group of powerbrokers working in conjunction with the deep state, which is real,” she claimed with out sharing any information to again up her weird claims.

‘Change your gender like you change your shoes’

Barely 90 seconds have been allowed to go at CPAC between criticisms of progressive concepts on gender.

Lara Trump was fast to affix in, saying “When I say it is up to us, the parents, to ensure the safety and the education of our children because whether it’s our kids being forced to attend schools that continue to fail them are kids indoctrinated with critical race theory, or the fabricated notion that you can change your gender like you change your shoes”.

“We must remember it is up to us to protect them because our political leaders have proven they cannot be trusted to do that job,” she added.