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#CPACPanels — Where The Right Wing Can Let Its Pants Down

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Every year the conservative movement gathers in Washington D.C. to see which politicians and reality stars it can attract. This year Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) join Donald Trump and Sarah Palin on stage.

But the real action happens in the panels, where last year in a minority outreach panel, someone actually argued that slavery was good — for slaves.

After seeing the actual title of an actual panel below, I decided to offer some other suggestions for panels that would fit iton this year’s convention — unaware that the Democratic National Committee had put together a fake schedule of its own.

Here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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