Far Right-Wing Conference Starts This Week

 

The annual gathering of various Christofascists, white nationalists, Q-quackers, misogynists, gun-toting militia types and closet sex abusers, also known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), begins this week outside of Washington, DC. Of course, there's an elephant soiling itself in the room:  CPAC chief Matt "Grabby" Schlapp, who has been credibly accused of "pummeling" the genitals of a male aide to Herschel Walker's campaign last fall in Georgia. He joins a long, long list of lying, hypocritical right-wing predators.

According to The Guardian, CPAC's got quite the rogues gallery of a lineup and message:

"That lineup also includes Trump allies such as former housing secretary Ben Carson, senators Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz, representatives Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ronny Jackson, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Elise Stefanik, former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Truth Social chief executive Devin Nunes.

Then there is Trump’s son, Don Jr, his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle – infamous for hollering 'The best is yet to come!' at the 2020 Republican national convention – and the main event: a speech by Trump himself that will be akin to an indoor campaign rally. [snip]

Border security, crime, culture wars and parents’ rights are likely to feature prominently at the conference. CPAC’s Twitter bio has the hashtags '#AwakeNotWoke' and '#FirePelosiSaveAmerica' - an outdated reference to the retired House speaker. CPAC’s website promotes a documentary entitled The Culture Killers with the warning: 'The woke wars are coming to a neighborhood near you.'

CPAC will also give the biggest platform yet to growing dissent in the nativist wing of the Republican party over US support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, roughly $50bn and rising. Biden is likely to face criticism for having travelled to Kyiv in the same week that Trump headed to the scene of a toxic train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio."  (our emphasis)

Schlapp remains in the good graces of the extreme MAGA cult, which shows in the guest list. The Malignant Loser's VP Mike "Fly Guy" Pence won't be coming to this years poo-fling. Neither apparently will Florida's aspiring Il Duce, Gov. Ron "Meatball Ron" DeSantis. So, the signal from Grabby Schlapp is that the Malignant Loser and his co-conspirators will not be challenged for primacy at this year's CPAC. It will be, as the article says, an indoor campaign rally for the Malignant Loser. It's fitting that two infamous crotch grabbers, the Malignant Loser and Schlapp, are leading this corrupt gathering of seditionists, conspiracy loons, liars and racists. 

BONUS: We appear to have footage of Schlapp at a pre-conference "meet and greet"....

 

Republican Crime Blotter: Grabby Schlapp

We pause from the MAGA clown show in the House to report that the head of the American Conservative Union and organizer of their annual shit fest "Conservative Political Action Conference" Matt "Grabby" Schlapp has been credibly accused by a male campaign worker for Herschel Walker of groping his crotch on October 19 of last year. According to the report:

"...the alleged sexual assault took place after Schapp had bought the staffer drinks at two bars, The Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger reported Thursday night.

'It was a public space, and I was thinking that he got the hint,' the staffer told The Daily Beast. 'But it escalated.' He said that as he drove Schlapp back to the hotel, Schlapp reached over and 'fondled' his crotch for an extended period as he froze in shock, calling the episode 'scarring' and 'humiliating.' He said he declined Schlapp's invitation to come up to his room.

In videos he recorded right after the incident, which he shared with The Daily Beast as well as his wife and another person close to him, the staffer said Schalpp 'put his hands on me in a sustained and unsolicited and unwanted manner,' and 'grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length,' adding that the incident left him feeling 'so f--king dirty.' He said he informed the Walker campaign the next morning, and felt 'nothing but support' from campaign officials."  (our emphasis)

Maybe Matt's right-wing propagandist wife Mercedes hasn't been "pummeling" his junk enough, but we digress. Although Schlapp's attorney has denied the story, the Walker campaign confirmed the staffer had relayed the incident to them at the time. Nothing like having contemporaneous notes of a crime.

You can always count on the most Christofascist, anti-LGBTQ right-wingers to have suppressed, latent urges, as their self-righteous public statements and performances totally contradict their private actions. Grabby Schlapp is the latest to have his mask fall.

(photo: Bye, see you in divorce court. Alex Wong / Getty Images)