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Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Freedom!

Bonus Tracks
  • CPAC kicked off today with a four-plus minute video(link is external) full of debunked claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, which provided a pretty good sense of what is to come from the rest of the conference this year.
  • Kimberly Guilfoyle confidently told(link is external) CPAC that former President Donald Trump "from his desk at Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next four years than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could ever dream of."
  • Sen. Ted Cruz got extremely worked up(link is external) while finishing his speech at CPAC and then closed things out by screaming(link is external), "Freedom!"
  • Jeff Brain, the founder of the fringe social media platform CloutHub, made an active effort to recruit QAnon conspiracy theorists like Dave Hayes(link is external) and Ann Vandersteel(link is external) to his platform, so we're a bit skeptical of his claim(link is external) that he hired "neuroscience consultants to make sure our platform is healthy to use" because he puts user's "mental health above profit."
  • Finally, Shane Vaughn claims(link is external) that if the Equality Act passes, it will become illegal for him to "preach against the dumbness and the dumb-foolery of transgenderism."