CPAC speaker sparks alarm with call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’

Honestly, this is the sort of thinking that brings the Church Lady to mind:

Now CPAC, well, I guess PBS cared enough to do this short film about them:

One of the most amusing things about Ben Meiselas' hatchet job on CPAC is the point at 5:45 of his video where he shows the half-empty CPAC convention room. Practically nobody attends CPAC -- maybe it's that the mass public doesn't really want to look all that closely at who these people really are.

I suppose it's obvious though. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to "protect children." But what from? Malnutrition? No. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to protect children from "transgender ideology."

And let's turn Michael Knowles' argument around a bit. Knowles argues that transgenderism isn't real. From the Independent article at the top:

Mr Knowles has said in the past that his rhetoric isn’t genocidal because he doesn’t believe trans people exist, Jezebel noted.

“There can’t be a genocide,” he said on his programme last week, adding that “it’s not a legitimate category of being. They’re labouring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion”.

It seems more valid, however, to argue that Republicans don't exist, that being a Republican isn't a legitimate category of being, and that they are -- indeed -- laboring under a delusion. Should we eradicate Republicans? No, because then we would become like Knowles.

After all, it's quite clear why the Republicans are doing what they do. They don't really want what the CPAC people want, at least not all of it, but they invariably end up coddling them and putting them in power in places like the Supreme Court.

Here are a couple of historical afterthoughts for reflection. One wonders what Hitler's place in history might have been had there not been nice conservatives like Franz von Papen or Paul von Hindenburg in power in Germany at the beginning of 1933. All they wanted to do was to bring the monarchy back, and Hitler seemed the easiest route, as indeed he was. And then, on a lesser note, I suppose, there was John B. Floyd, secretary of war under nice Pennsylvania conservative James Buchanan, who appears to have sent immense quantities of arms just before the Civil War to places where Confederates would later seize them. (Floyd later became a Confederate general.) It's the slippery slope, you see. Elect a conservative, get something worse.

As for trans people, it's also quite clear that they're not doing it so they can enjoy those dreadful suicide statistics. Dear Republicans: has it crossed your minds that the trans people might possibly be sincere in their intentions?

Okay? Okay.