Morning Briefing: CPAC Hungary Features 'Authoritarian and Bigoted Speakers'
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted a conference in Hungary and featured a 'host of authoritarian and bigoted speakers.'
Morning Briefing: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted a conference in Hungary and featured a “host of authoritarian and bigoted speakers from the United States, Hungary, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Israel, Estonia, Austria, and the Czech Republic.”
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said that CPAC plans to expand the “organization's foothold across other cities around the world,” and that there will be “CPACs in Australia, in Japan, in Argentina, in Colombia, in Mexico, in other places.”
Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, was the keynote speaker, and said during his speech that the “Trump tsunami swept through the entire world. It gave back hope to the world. We are no longer suffocating in the woke sea."
Members of the Ohio chapter of White Lives Matter, the neo-fascist White Nationalist network, staged a protest in North Olmsted, Ohio, holding banners that read “Honk if White Lives Matter” and “Stand Up-For Your Race.”
In response to last week’s rally by Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, hundreds of people gathered at the site of the group’s rally in Kansas City, Missouri, and the event was organized as a “public stand against what organizers called a dangerous and hateful ideology.”
Jesse Diaz Ramos was sentenced to “25 years in state prison for stabbing a 32-year-old transgender woman after calling her an anti-gay slur outside of a homeless shelter,” as Ramos was convicted last month of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime and Assault in the First Degree as a Hate Crime, according to a statement by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Teak Ty Brockbank, who posted online messages claiming that he had the “right to execute then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and made similar threats against Jena Griswold, the Colorado secretary of state,” was sentenced to “more than three years in prison.”
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Thank you for these updates. I hate that evil people here are poisoning the world with their evil messages.