This is a little too on the nose for even Florida if you ask me.
Laura Loomer files to run against Rep. Lois Frankel. Running Loomer’s campaign: Trump’s 2016 Florida state director, Karen Giorno
FL-21 is a blue district, based in Palm Beach County, home to Trump’s winter getaway club, Mar-a-Lago pic.twitter.com/srDjzZtvu4
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 2, 2019
Loomer is originally from the Miami area, but who has lived in Arizona and New York as well, has, apparently recently moved back Florida just to run for Congress. The Democratic incumbent is Lois Frankel, who has been representing this district, since 2017 and prior to that represented Florida as the representative from District 22, which after redistricting is now represented by Congressman Ted Deutch. Frankel has also been the mayor of West Palm Beach, and was the minority leader in the Florida state House of Representatives.
From what I know of Loomer – deliberatively and almost shamelessly provocative, racist and bigoted, especially against Muslims, friendly with either those in the alt-right and extreme right circles playing footsie with white supremacists and neo-NAZIs or actually with white supremacists, neo-NAZIs, the men’s rights nutbars and Milo, as well as being a fantacist and a conspiracist – I think the real reason for Loomer’s run is both to suck up money through donations and to force social media platforms to let her back on. I fully expect that she is going to use her candidacy to try to force twitter, Instagram, and YouTube to let her back on and monetize those platforms because if they don’t they’re aiding her political opponent in the election. All while monetizing her election as an income stream because she doesn’t actually have any actual employment.
Open thread!
debbie
She’s certainly got a lot going for her. //
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: This likely means that Milo will be setting up shop, or trying to, somewhere in south Florida to grift on the grift/promote himself while, supposedly, promoting her. Cernovich has already started fighting with people on Twitter about how serious Loomer’s candidacy is and that she’s going to win. These people are so high on their own supply it is just nuts.
PaulWartenberg
Florida accountability moment. Am currently at Tampa Bay Comic Con. So far there is an Uptick in Stranger Things cosplay and not enough Star Trek. Pics on my blog later tonight.
The Dangerman
Might as well try to cash in while a large part of their customer base is still breathing; the income projections as their customers check out at an increasing rate must suck.
Similarly, when Trump loses in 2020, the Republican primary in 2024 should be a lot of fun.
Bill Arnold
Another Trump “I’m Lying” tell to watch for:
‘For 45 years people have been trying’: An oft-repeated time frame in Trump’s false claims – How Trump (falsely) brags about 45-year achievements – President Trump often insists his accomplishments happened after 45-year political stalemates, even when they didn’t. (JM Rieger, August 3)
Etc.
trollhattan
This Laura Loomer?
She’ll perhaps get a better reception than she got here, but I presume the actual goal is attention and camera time. She seems like an Attention Hooor and maybe, just maybe the local newsies won’t play along and simply ignore her.
Quinerly
@debbie: checks all those impt boxes for Trump supporters.
SFAW
Maybe she’s trying to get Fuckhead to drop Pence from the ticket, take her instead.
ruemara
Yeah, it’s her new job. That’s all it is. Moneymaking grift.
The Dangerman
@SFAW:
If Trump dumps Pence, it’ll be for Daddy’s Little Ghoul.
ETA: Damn, I wish I had watched the White Sox – Phillies last night instead of the Dodgers; I love baseball plays that almost never happen (last outfield assist done by a pitcher was 1950).
mad citizen
@The Dangerman: Well the Whigs once existed, replaced by the current racist party. It had a long run, but I’m good–no, great–if it goes into the dustbin of history and is replaced by some new party.
Starfish
Democratic candidates are speaking at some AFSCME public service forum.
Bill Arnold
@top post
I wonder how hard the right (with the power of the DJT administration backing them) will push social media to relax rules about hateful/ inflammatory/incitement speech. Because rules would be relaxed for everyone…
Related, a recap, but not bad:
FBI memo: Pro-Trump conspiracy theories like QAnon, Pizzagate pose domestic terror threat – FBI intelligence bulletin cites “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists” as likely source of future violence (Igor Derysh, August 3, 2019)
Shortly after QAnon appeared, one of the theories was that it was an influence operation (in one thread, Israeli) intended among other things to create a stochastic force of shock troops, both in meat-world (guns) and on-line.
tom
L. Brooks Patterson, the bigoted Oakland County (MI) county executive, has died. Since I can’t think of anything good to say about him, I won’t say anything. But let him speak for himself. twitter.com/ZugIslander/status/1157643725004300294
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: That’s her. Fortunately there is only one of her.
debbie
These clowns never disappear, do they? I hope Twitter, Instagram et al. stand strong against this bogus campaign.
@Adam L Silverman:
Milo, Schmilo. The one to avoid is his mother. Such a nasty piece of work.
Roger Moore
@Adam L Silverman:
You think they actually believe this stuff and it isn’t just an elaborate scam?
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
Are you kidding? I mean maybe no exact replicas but there a lot of scammers/grifters, racists, assholes out there. Vlad got one elected as president. We get to see all the congress members who qualify perfectly within that description. That’s an unreasonable sized sample just of the “professional” ones.
Ruckus
@mad citizen:
It’s possible that it will wither up and die. But not likely. The republican party can’t have a heart attack because they all sold their hearts for spare change. And there are too many zombies with republican name tags to just wither. But most of all there is too much money to be made and too many ways to make it for all the grifters in the republican party to go away. If it was only a generational thing it would be very likely, but it’s not just olds with no better sense than a block of cheese, there are members just over voting age in the republican party. Racism is big business in the grifting world and many, many willing grifting victims.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I keep thinking there’s a Lisa Loopner joke in here but I can’t get there.
Seriously, that’s the only thing I can think of when I hear this name. Should I know this particular wacko from somewhere? Was she on the Orly Taitz legal team or something?
Starfish
@Bill Arnold: The rules are not necessarily relaxed for everyone. Trump gets away with saying more than most. If something is considered notable or historic, there are exceptions. The President is a notable person. The picture of the naked girl who was hit by napalm is historic and not considered child porn. The rules are complicated.
Adam L Silverman
@Roger Moore: I think some of them do. I think some of them know they’re working a scam. I think some a mix of both.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
¿porque los dos?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Ruckus: Por que NO los dos
/el pedante
mrmoshpotato
My eyes rolled out of my head again! Please let me know if you spot them. Thanks!
Seriously, I hope this trash grifts a metric shitton of money from morons and then gets a cozy jail cell for some campaign finance fraud.
Ruckus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
My bad. HS Spanish was a long, long, long time ago. The fact that I hear Spanish/Spanglish being spoken every day, all around me means nothing.
Mike J
My favorite Loomer stunt was handcuffing herself to twitter and twitter ignoring her. The police refused to arrest her and make her a martyr. She then had to ask the police to unlock her handcuffs because she didn’t have a key, then she slunk away.
Bill Murray
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Loomer running is so funny I fell off my dinosaur
Ruckus
@Mike J:
Not the sharpest tool in the box. Most willing, but not sharpest.
mrmoshpotato
@tom:
There’s no law against speaking ill of recently dead massive assholes.
MagdaInBlack
@Mike J:
Oh dear god! THAT’S who this is?!
Knew the name, couldn’t remember the acts of stupidity.
Thanks ?
SRW1
Snake oil goes politics. Cause politics goes easier on the liability thingy.
cmorenc
@Starfish:
You’d have to be one malignantly sick puppy to get any vibe of sexuality from that infamous Vietnam-war photo. You’d also have to be an even more malignantly sick puppy to get any sort of violence porn kick from it.
J R in WV
Another media grifter type who displays crazed instability is Cenk Uyger, who best displayed his craze by naming his son “Prometheus Maximus Uygur” — which in my book is child abuse, worse than Moon Unit Zappa by a mile.
Historically (aka mythologicaly), Prometheus was a Greek Titan who wound up chained to a mountain peak while eagles eat his liver every day. What a gift to your son!
ETA typo in Zappa’s name…
Mo MacArbie
Rule 34, yo.
Tonto's Expanding Headband
I heard rumors about Loomer. It’s Florida. “deliberatively and almost shamelessly provocative.” That sounds a little like me.
Tonto's Expanding Headband
@cmorenc: @Ruckus:
I don’t think they could decide on the appropriate toolbox. It’s just a bag of hammers.
Tonto's Expanding Headband
@MagdaInBlack:
I think I now have the reply thingy figured out. Loomer, in a “Bitter Bierce” nutshell:
“deliberatively and almost shamelessly provocative.” That’s Bierce for you.
xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/Bierce/bierce.html
See the term’s etymology. It was not always a compliment.