CPAC 2021

[Trebuchet]

That Hobbit Trumpf statue is almost certainly not even gold-washed.

Brass? Yeah, probably.

I’m betting just plastic, like a cheap Christmas ornament.

Stainless steel, supposedly. Then chrome plated which doesn't usually make things gold but perhaps there's a surface treatment. It's hilarious regardless.

 

[Shalamar]

It was a dog whistle and it appears the dogs are the only ones who heard it as usual.

And the dogs all went to CPAC.

 

[sackett]

Aw c'mon!

Stainless steel, supposedly. Then chrome plated which doesn't usually make things gold but perhaps there's a surface treatment. It's hilarious regardless.

Supposedly perhaps doesn't usually. Hey, if you were safely down in Mexico filling orders for CrPAC, how much would you promise (paid up front, natch) and how much would you deliver?

 

[shemp]

This is absolutely hilarious.

The National Anthem for CPAC 2021 was sung acapella by someone called Sailor Sabol. She was dreadful.

Pianist Larry Goldings has tried to add a piano accompaniment to her rendition, so you can see how many times she went off key, off tempo, off world. It's painful and funny at the same time

Here's her YouTube channel if anyone wants to get a taste of her "talent":

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP8CG20wb2SZce7igrHI3wA

 

[Matthew Best]

I don't know if I dare. The National Anthem was bad enough.

 

[Darat]

I take it - those two were tick boxes for the organisers?

 

[marting]

I don't know if I dare. The National Anthem was bad enough.

Good Lord! or maybe Good FSM. I don't think I've ever heard it done worse.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Good Lord! or maybe Good FSM. I don't think I've ever heard it done worse.

For the first part I thought "Nah, you guys are being mean, she's not brilliant but I've heard far worse than this, she's obviously just not a professional".

Then she got to "Whose broad stripes and bright stars" ad it just went over a cliff. My god she was awful.

 

[chrispy]

I just played that for a bar full of Guatemalans. They were dying laughing.

 

[Shalamar]

This is absolutely hilarious.

The National Anthem for CPAC 2021 was sung acapella by someone called Sailor Sabol. She was dreadful.

Pianist Larry Goldings has tried to add a piano accompaniment to her rendition, so you can see how many times she went off key, off tempo, off world. It's painful and funny at the same time

It sums up modern conservatism well: Patriotic, enthusiastic, and ultimately failing while claiming 'winning!'

 

[turingtest]

For the first part I thought "Nah, you guys are being mean, she's not brilliant but I've heard far worse than this, she's obviously just not a professional".

Then she got to "Whose broad stripes and bright stars" ad it just went over a cliff. My god she was awful.

Damn, she was really proud of that one off-key "freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" note at the end there too- so proud she held it for like nine seconds, and still wavered off key from that.

 

[shemp]

I just got a chance to listen to it, and while it's not as bad as Roseanne's infamous performance, she's terrible. She's sounds like she's trying to give it her own style, but what that style is seems to change from line to line. The guy on the keyboards isn't much better.

 

[Pacal]

I notice a lot of whataboutism here. I.e., the rather weird symbol at CPAC 2021, that MAY have deliberate Fascistic overtones has pointed out by some. (I think it is a rather unfortunate coincidence.) So what do we get we get whataboutism. i.e., you guys do it also.

We get the usual guys your hurting the feelings of Trump supporters by calling them Nazis! Aside from the fact "we" were not doing so, "we" were simply saying that the symbol seems to have unfortunate implications, again probably not deliberate in my opinion. It is also a fact some of Trump's supporters are Nazis anyway.

And when faced with the fact of the majority of Republicans rushing to submit, abjectly, to the Orange one, in a way that indicates something much to like a cult of personality. We get more whataboutism.

After this absurd election campaign and Trump's utterly cold-blooded attempt to disavowe the results via fraudulent claims of fraud, that were transparently baseless. More than 60 wasted Court efforts based on idiotic claims. (And the indications are that Trump vowed to claim fraud if he lost before the election.) Then we have Trump's efforts to rally his supporters to pressure elected officials to disavowe the results in a truly outrageous fashion. And of course Trump tried to pressure election officials to get the "true" election results! Climaxing in the January 6th insurrection, which Trump did incite and during which he did little to nothing to stop the insurrection.

All of the above is quite disgusting. then we have Trump since Jan. 6th still saying the election was stolen!! All of this should have at the least pushed Trump out of politics. Instead we see Trump still supported by the majority of Republicans. We see media people like Hannity and Carlson gush all over him in interviews, like he is some sort of Saint / Messiah. And of course we have seen Republican politicians come crawling to him. From Graham to Cruz to MacConnell to McCarthy. All beating down the door to submit. And of course Trump will be planning his revenge on those who "betrayed" him.
(After the second Impeachment trial MacConnell said Trump was guilty, but he voted to acquit for technical reasons. Recently MacConell has said that if Trump was the Republican candidate again he would support him. Submission to the Glorious Leader I guess.)

What I see here is a cult of personality and there is no whataboutism about this.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Meanwhile, back at the troll statue, made me wonder: WHY did it have to be made in Mexico? Is there absolutely nowhere in the USA where such a fiberglass-and-chrome-paint item could be made? (It's fiberglass, btw.) Is all US industry at such a standstill that not even one Trump-boat builder has the time and ability to turn their fiberglassing skills to this? The US has actually run out of chrome spray-paint?

PS. Think I'll skip the anthem YT. There will be a plethora of off-key whining with a dreadful finale at CPAC without that.

 

[Matthew Best]

I just got a chance to listen to it, and while it's not as bad as Roseanne's infamous performance, she's terrible. She's sounds like she's trying to give it her own style, but what that style is seems to change from line to line. The guy on the keyboards isn't much better.

The guy on the keyboards is adding them in post-production to her acapella rendition - he's making fun of her.

 

[Matthew Best]

I take it - those two were tick boxes for the organisers?

Which two?

 

[Darat]

Which two?

The youth representative - the singer and the black representative with the introduction.

 

[Garrison]

The other reason I think it was intentional is that all the people discussing this topic are are not discussing the painfully ignorant content of the speakers.

No, Don, Jr. the Muppets have not been banned.

Indeed thanks to Disney the USA will get to see season 5, which was never broadcast there. I suspect Idiot Jnr. doesn't know that the Muppet Show isn't American.

 

[sackett]

Indeed thanks to Disney the USA will get to see season 5, which was never broadcast there. I suspect Idiot Jnr. doesn't know that the Muppet Show isn't American.

To a trumpanzee, that doesn't matter. "B'god, if Mr. Presidunt Trumpt and his boy don' know sumpin', then I dunno it neither 'n I don' WANNA know! Muh!"

You think I'm exaggerating, don't you?

 

[Craig4]

I don't know if I dare. The National Anthem was bad enough.

That's what you get when the audition is a $20 bill on a fishing line pulled through a trailer park.