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The Resurgent Gathering
A year ago, friends suggested I put together a conference of ideas for the conservative movement — something where actual conservatives get on stage and discuss ideas, not where people pay money to claim their ideas are conservative. I took up the challenge and the Resurgent Gathering comes to fruition on August 2-5, 2018, in Austin, TX.
Don’t take my word on it. The agenda is below. I’d love to see you there.
You’ll see one open slot. That was where EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was speaking until, umm, he could not come anymore.
Breakfast and lunch are included in the registration cost on the 3rd and 4th. The Sheraton Hotel in Austin, TX where we are having the event, is offering a hotel discount as well.
Resurgent Gathering, August 2-5, 2018, Austin, TX
August 2
6:00pm Welcome Reception
August 3
8:00 – 8:45 am BREAKFAST
8:15 – 8:45 am Susan Molanari of Google in conversation with Erick
9:00 – 9:30 Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas
9:30 – 10:00 Carly Fiorina, Chair of Unlocking Potential
10:00 – 10:30 OPEN
10:30 – 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 11:30 Breakout Session
Using Facebook For Grassroots Organization=
11:45 – 12:45 pm LUNCH
12:00 – 12:30 1789 Alliance and Erick Erickson
1:00 – 1:30 Congressman Dave Brat of Virginia*
1:30 – 2:00 Warren Davidson, Congressman from Ohio
2:00 – 2:15 Ajit Pai, Chairman of the FCC
2:15 – 3:15 Ajit Pai and the Koch Institute
3:15 -3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 Facebook in Discussion with Erick Erickson
4:00 – 4:30 Chip Roy, Candidate for TX21
4:30 – 5:00 Wrap Up
August 4
8:30 – 9:15 am BREAKFAST
9:15: – 9:30 Welcome
9:30 – 10:00 State/Local Initiative Panel
10:00 – 10:45 Senator David Perdue of Georgia
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:45 Breakout Session
Google Grassroots
11:50 – 12:20pm Senator Ted Cruz
12:20 – 1:15 pm LUNCH
12:30 – 1:00 Koch Representative in conversation with Erick
1:15 – 1:45 Matt Krause, Texas State Representative
1:45 – 2:15 Mark Walker, Congressman from North Carolina
2:15 – 2:45 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry*
2:45 – 3:00 BREAK
3:00 – 4:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
TPPF
4:00 – 4:30 Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona
4:30 – 5:00 Host conversation (to be revealed)
5:00 – 5:30 Resurgent Presentation and wrap up
August 5
9:00 – 10:00 am Fellowship Message and Breakfast
*final confirmation forthcoming
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So, there were no unvarnished insults and innuendo towards to OP?
One thing this place is not, right now, is a “bubble”. As illustrated by the divergent voices in this conversation.
Because there are no ideas one can glean from the OP. People are assuming what will go on at the conference and then attacking.
What defines a bubble is the treatment of ideas different from your own.
If the OP was exactly the same but the contributor who posted it was Dave Carter all those currently attacking it would be clamoring for tickets. #sad
Right. And the two different perspectives/ideas being presented in the thread are both being treated similarly.
There is no bubble … for now.
I never claimed that. However, you were singling out one group: clearly not consistent with the evidence. I was using a rhetorical device to make that point.* Also, I linked to the offending examples.
*That device being to purposely misinterpreting your comment. Seems I have to explain these things.
Please point to the ideas/perspective in the OP that you are so adamantly opposed to.
Either there are “ideas being promoted” or “there are no ideas one can glean from the OP.” Guys, get your story straight.
I’m not a fan of unvarnished insults or bullying from either side.
So, why do you think it is ok for your side to use unvarnished insults towards the OP? What is so horrible about discussing ideas that the very idea of a conference dedicated to discussing ideas needs to be mocked by you?
Please link to where I defended insults. If you cannot, please desist from attributing opinions to me that I do not hold. In short, don’t Cathy-Newman me.
The conference is one about promoting ideas, those ideas aren’t spelled out in the OP. I assume one has to attend the conference to know what ideas are being discussed. Did you read the OP?
Did you read my comment?
Yes and the juxtaposition you present is nonsensical.
Of course. Leadership of a conference sets the tone of a conference. If Dave posted that conference schedule, I’d expect a good dose of humor in those agenda items and one heck of a party.
Maybe Ricochet’s next big event should be led by @davecarter. { Pretty please! }
Did you not write this
If you didn’t write that, then I apologize
Apparently, we have different definitions of the word insult. Both @franco and I were using a rhetorical device called satire. In this instance critique indirectly addresses the previously-expressed opinions and attitudes of the author of the OP. Pretty mild stuff.
Compare with insults such as calling fellow members “bullying jerks,” which your unapologetic comrade used. There is zero intellectual content in this remark; it is pure ad hominem.
As an aside, Mr. Erickson himself is no stranger to using insults involving unnatural sexual acts. The specific remarks cannot be posted because they are in gross violation of the CoC but (warning for language) you can read them here. Perhaps such a person is less entitled to be offended (or have others be offended for him as proxies) to the rather milder treatment he’s getting here.
Ah so your broadsides are then entirely ad hominem and based on who posted and not the content of the post itself. Thank you for clearing that up.
Wow. This guy’s the argument the Nevers make about not alienating your enemies with insults. I thought he was a morality guy… Well, I guess in the same vein as the self-righteous left.
But let’s talk about ideas.
I hear Steve Bannon is having a conference with diverse speakers. I bet Jamie is going to wait until the ideas are discussed before anticipating what the Bannon Resurgent America is all about.
Obviously we do.
I will bow out. I’ve made my complaint, you obviously disagree. I’m not going to change your mind and you clearly are not going to change my mind.
OK, Phil, I have to admit you’ve a helluva good idea there.
So…this thing has Ted Cruz, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott on the invitation list. But some folks on the thread seem to feel this is, what? A bunch of RINOs? Is that the objection?
I’ve read Erickson. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s one of us.
Nope. He criticized the President. He must be shunned and hounded from the site.
@ewerickson pick up the white courtesy phone and get in this thread! I’m too busy with my canapés and G&Ts to tear into this, but the OP needs to clarify what he means with this conference of his and where he stands.
You left out Ajit Pai, Dave Brat, Matt Krause, and Mark Walker.
It’s really quite something.
Oh, please.
You liked my first comment, so it can’t have escaped your notice that this member of the Happy Warriors welcomed him to the site. I wouldn’t have made him a contributor, but considering the podcast is already in the family, it’s not illogical. But it’s the contributor status that riled up the currently pro-Trump members.
The point of this argument is what tone should this site be setting for conservatism in general and for Trump in particular. Contributor status gives the impression of endorsing, if not formally, Erick’s past anti-Trump rhetoric. I’m not convinced that is wise. For Ricochet.
Erickson is a well know pundit and public conservative. He has more claim to contributor status than most. One would think having all kinds of voices from the right would be desrirable.
I often disagree with @davecarter and @michaelstopa but I’m pretty glad they’re contributors here.
Here’s what I love about Ricochet: No matter who comes on as a contributor, as @BlueYeti said, EE is not, members have the ability to contribute to the site the perspective they feel is lacking. If you find someone (ahem: me perhaps) to be insufficiently supportive of the POTUS, you have the opportunity to write about what you think he is doing well, and right. And those perspectives are valuable and that dialogue is so important. Your perspectives help me see things differently. This is a great recent example of that: http://ricochet.com/534234/vdh-explains-the-trump-doctrine/
Sike!What I actually had, LMFAO:
#manofthepeople
So you were only joking about the gin and tonics? Well, I sure feel let down. I thought that, like me, you were waiting for that coveted invitation to Arianna Huffington’s Treason Cocktail Party. Ari has all the furniture removed so she can put in fainting couches. Every “swag bag” contains at least one stand of clutchable pearls. I hear they’re serving brioche.
Ooh, better yet–they’re serving Juliette Binoche! Damn, when is that postman getting here?