Starting to think Laura Loomer will be the instrument that causes Trumpism to finally implode.
— Ragnarok Lobster ?? (@eclecticbrotha) September 13, 2024
Yep, Drudge is going there. pic.twitter.com/vbfrs2yjL6
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 13, 2024
I hope she becomes his top adviser. | Republicans fear Laura Loomer is influencing Donald Trump https://t.co/pS0V5pNSEI
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 13, 2024
When someone’s too sketchy for Project Veritas and too racist for MTG… Per the Washington Post, “Trump’s time with Loomer, a far-right activist, upsets his GOP allies” [gift link]:
Former president Donald Trump has traveled the country this week accompanied by far-right activist Laura Loomer, unnerving some GOP allies with his increasing embrace of a provocateur with a history of espousing conspiracy theories and incendiary rhetoric…
On Friday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) posted on X that Loomer is “a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans. A DNC plant couldn’t do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump’s chances of winning re-election. Enough.”
Loomer most notably joined Trump as he made multiple stops Wednesday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, standing nearby as Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), met with firefighters in New York City. Just last year, Loomer posted a video on X that called the 9/11 assault on the United States an “inside job.”…
In addition to joining Trump in New York, Loomer was seen getting off his plane the day before in Philadelphia before his debate with Harris there. And after she visited New York with Trump, Loomer headed with him to Shanksville, Pa., for ceremonies commemorating 9/11.
Loomer emphasized this week that she does “not work” for Trump, but the campaign has declined to say why she has been traveling with him amid increasingly harsh scrutiny from Democrats and some Republicans…
Loomer first gained national notoriety as an undercover agent for Project Veritas, focusing her efforts on infiltrating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. She left the group in 2017 to do stunts under her own name, such as chaining herself to Twitter’s New York headquarters and leading a group of undocumented immigrants to hop the fence at a Napa, Calif., home owned by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Loomer ran for Congress in Florida twice, in 2020 and 2022, and lost both times. Her anti-Muslim rhetoric, among other alleged terms-of-use violations, have led Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Uber, Venmo, PayPal, GoFundMe and Cash App to ban her, Loomer claims.
Loomer fashioned herself as a social media warrior for Trump during the 2024 Republican presidential primary, crusading against one of his rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. She repeatedly accused DeSantis and his wife, Casey DeSantis, of using Casey DeSantis’s breast cancer diagnosis to generate sympathy from voters.
These days, Loomer identifies as an investigative journalist in service of Trump’s reelection.
“I’m happy to dedicate all my time to helping Trump, because if Trump doesn’t get back in, I don’t have anything,” she told The Washington Post last March. She says she was in talks to work for Trump’s reelection campaign in the spring of 2023.
The New York Times reported that Trump wanted to hire her; a backlash from Trump loyalists ensued, including a fierce rebuke from Greene. No job ultimately materialized — an outcome for which Loomer holds Greene responsible…
A Vance spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Loomer post that said the White House would smell like curry if Harris wins.
Greene responded Wednesday on X, calling Loomer’s post “appalling and extremely racist.” The congresswoman told reporters Thursday that she usually tries to ignore Loomer’s posts, but the attack on Harris as an Indian American “bothered me so much.”
Graham called the attack “abhorrent.” He said he spoke Thursday morning with Greene about the matter and that she is “very concerned about the political impact this will have in Georgia,” a battleground state that is home to one of the largest Indian American populations in the country.
Laura Loomer isn't in the top 5 most racist people Trump has been associated with but they know an affair story is coming and they want him to break it off now. https://t.co/Su7WEmfe8E
— Shadow Of The Nerdtree (@agraybee) September 13, 2024
Jon Chait, at NYMag — “Bigoted Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer Somehow Gains Access to Donald Trump. This is so unlike him.”:
… Who could have foreseen that a bigoted conspiracy theorist would be associated with Donald Trump of all people? It is an affront to the former president’s good name! The once-sterling reputation of Donald Trump is now associated with totally unfounded claims and weird rants about minority groups. A shocking fall from grace.
Yes, yes, Loomer’s rap sheet, which includes describing herself as “pro-white nationalism,” is comparatively more scandalous than Trump’s, and we shouldn’t discount the importance of every incremental step toward the party’s legitimizing explicit racism. But the Republican angst over Loomer’s influence is not an attempt to establish boundaries. It is, to the contrary, a reflection of Republicans’ inability to confront the derangement and racism expressed by their party’s leader…
Loomer has made enemies by clawing her way into Trump’s inner circle. Trump is the focal point of Loomer’s personal and professional life. She does not date, she explained to the Washington Post in a revealing profile in May, and reshaped her body to make herself acceptable as a prospective Trump press secretary, her apparent dream job. “I try to eat really healthy,” she told the Post. “I want to work for Trump. He doesn’t really like … I’m not saying you have to be thin to work for President Trump. I’m just saying that if I wanted to work for the president and have a communications job, I’d have to look presentable.” Steve Bannon compared her to “a monk in medieval France,” saying, with apparent admiration, “I don’t know anybody who has dedicated their body and soul to not only Trump, but MAGA, the way she has.” (Bannon himself has dedicated only his soul).
Loomer’s ascension owes itself not only to her cultlike devotion to the great man himself — this is mere table stakes in Trump world — but also a willingness to knife fellow sycophants for their alleged disloyalty. Her trademark move, which she calls “Loomering,” involves confronting Republicans with a camera at close range and attacking them for some real or imagined betrayal of Trumpism. This tactic has the simultaneous benefit of drawing public attention to Loomer and helping her ascend the greasy pole at Mar-a-Lago…
Marc Caputo reports Loomer “has long been viewed by a faction of Trump land as a Rasputin-like figure.” It is a telling comparison. Rasputin certainly had a deeply unhealthy influence on the czars. But the problem with Russian governance was not Rasputin; it was the czars themselves. The consternation that centered on Rasputin’s hold on the royal family in St. Petersburg served as a distraction from the fundamental decay of the Romanov dynasty and the dysfunctional state it produced.
Trump himself is both a racist and a conspiracy theorist. These facts are both too inculpatory for his Republican allies to concede yet too obvious for them to deny. And so their dismay is channeled into the figures surrounding Trump. Like indulgent parents of a delinquent teen, they focus their anger on the other kids who might be exerting a bad influence over their precious child, ignoring the obvious possibility that their child is himself the bad influence.
!!!! a very defensive Trump defends his relationship with Laura Loomer and says "she's a free spirit … I don't know exactly what you're referring to" pic.twitter.com/WnR8tTswUz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2024
We all know what if means when a married man says a woman is a free spirit
— 🥥🍦Centrist Madness🍦🥥 (@CentristMadness) September 13, 2024
I’m not going to lie and say I’m trying to give Trump good advice but does it help him to have laura Loomer fluffing him like this? Everyone needs encouragement when they’re in a bad place. But I dunno.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 12, 2024
a lot of pics and vids like this are cropping up all of a sudden https://t.co/WaQAwomE3d
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 13, 2024
Holy shit – this Laura Loomer thing has gone mainstream.
Trump is screwed.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) September 13, 2024
CNN used this photo of Laura Loomer and Donald Trump 🤣 https://t.co/d2MzXPNlP0
— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) September 13, 2024
Scott Taylor was trying to defend Donald Trump taking advice from Laura Loomer and bringing her to 9-11 ceremony, and Anderson Cooper was not having it. pic.twitter.com/WY6PDzR4Fm
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) September 13, 2024
Almost literally “the good czar is surrounded by faithless ministers” https://t.co/9ipAuBTrEL
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 12, 2024
I think @LauraLoomer is a perfect adviser for Trump. I hope he keeps her very close to him between now and the election. They belong together.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 12, 2024
Fixed it for you, Senator. https://t.co/Y52zQ9M00v pic.twitter.com/jZRKdiyA1f
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) September 13, 2024
Laura Loomer is the loosest of cannons. https://t.co/qVzFQS5brU
— Ragnarok Lobster ?? (@eclecticbrotha) September 12, 2024
Wait do people remember when Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's NY HQ to protest being banned but it was a double door and she was only linked to one of them so people could just walk right past her pic.twitter.com/iYKb6rZir8
— Alex Muresianu (@ahardtospell) September 13, 2024
War for Ukraine Day 933: 49 More Russian POWs and Detainees Have Been Returned Home
columbusqueen
Remember, everyone: God does work in mysterious ways. Let us give thanks.
Gin & Tonic
I am shallow and crude, but I can’t get over what she has done to her face.
p.a.
Concerned conservatives: Donald tRump has bottomed out by associating with Laura Loomer*
DT: Hold my Diet Coke.
*The writers getting too obvious with the names in this plot twist.
Kent
They should have just left her locked to that door in NYC. Permanently.
Soapdish
I guaran-effing-tee she’s trying to get knocked up by Trump.
Kent
@Gin & Tonic: Astonishingly she is only 31 yet looks like a 55 year old divorcee after years of plastic surgery and prescription drug abuse.
Hoppie
Good lord, it should be provocateuse. Have they no language abilities? Sheesh.
Frankensteinbeck
My first thought was that she is not Trump’s type and especially too old. Then it hit me today that the spotlight on him has been so intense since he became president that his sexual assault opportunities must be very limited. He is absolutely going to grab the first even halfway decent looking woman willing to give him access to her body. Plus, she clearly knows how to tell him what he wants to hear, that he’s the greatest man who ever lived plus disgusting, hateful, racist, sexist bullshit.
EDIT – @Kent:
She’s 31!? I actually did assume she’s 50 with lots of plastic surgery!
scav
We should start a pool about how many commandments and virtues Drumpy can annihilate at high volume all the while insisting his religious fanbase slobber over his ring. Well, ok, maybe it’s more a pool about the total number of individual ways he can break them because he’s sure to have already done a clean sweep.
M31
@Soapdish: lol just read someone speculating on bsky that Loomer has ‘that pregnancy glow’
lo-fucking-l
Sister Golden Bear
Another fun fact, in college Loomer started an ISIS fan club to “prove” that liberals would join it, but nobody did, and she got expelled for starting an ISIS fan club and also was not allowed near the campus ever again for creating a hostile environment. 😅😂🤣
mrmoshpotato
@Kent: Ouch.
mrmoshpotato
@scav: The orange shitstain most definitely violated all 10 commandments long ago.
sconosciuto
🎵 is she really going out with that 🎵
🎵 is she really gonna let him grab her by the twat 🎵
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Portly Neighbor
My favorite Loomerism – years ago there was a twitter post of hers showing her car tire with a sidewall cut and she said someone was out to get her and slashed her tire. And the replies were, of course, “Uh, you drove into the curb.”
HumboldtBlue
Any guy named Tom, who spells his name Thom, is a dick.
scav
@mrmoshpotato: Hence sentence two.
Frankensteinbeck
@scav:
As near as I can tell, he has broken all of the commandments. I put ‘executing all of the death row criminals before Biden could take over and put death row back on hold’ in the murder department. It’s killing under his direct order that is not a byproduct of other actions, and for no practical reason. He and his crew are just assholes who wanted to kill someone.
The sexual assaults definitely count as ‘coveting your neighbor’s wife’ in the classic biblical sense. He bears false witness in the classic biblical ‘accuse others of a crime they did not commit’ sense. He has seriously broken all the commandments.
Tehanu
Sick, sick, sick.
eclare
Another state that has a large Indian American community is TX, around the Dallas/Plano area.
Villago Delenda Est
And yet the fundigelicals LOVE him to pieces, saying he’s been sent by their invisible sky buddy to save America from Godless Socialism and treating Blahs and Browns as if they were actual human beings.
twbrandt
@HumboldtBlue: Um, I happen to know a Thom who is the executive director for a non-profit that supports a nursing school in, of all places, Haiti.
He’s a really good guy.
Villago Delenda Est
@Portly Neighbor: Shades of the “B” carved backwards on the face of that woman in Pittsburgh in 2008.
Sister Golden Bear
@Gin & Tonic: She knows what Trump likes. Albeit she looks like a Temu version of Melania.
Sanjeevs
Why didn’t Maga Haberman report the Laura Loomer stuff when supposedly everyone knew this for months.?
Was she saving it for the next book?
Hoppie
@twbrandt: Exception that tests the rule, perhaps?
Pro language tip: “prove” back in the day meant “test”, as in French and Italian, so the exception “tests” the rule. Makes a lot more sense, eh?
Frankensteinbeck
@Villago Delenda Est:
Their religion states openly that following those rules does not matter. Only saying Jesus properly matters. They’re ferocious and direct about it. Trump is championing the tribe’s desires, so he’s got an honorary membership and they enjoy seeing him do the things that they feel is their privilege because they say Jesus correctly.
Shalimar
@Gin & Tonic: Loomer looks a little plastic, but not too bad for her early 60s.
Tom Levenson
@HumboldtBlue: Can confirm.
No self respecting Thomas would accept any substitute for Tom. We throw those dudes out of the club so hard they bounce into LEO.
twbrandt
@Tom Levenson: See my comment at #22. (FYI, I am also a Tom).
Chet Murthy
“Emotional-Support Waifu Pillow” !! GUFFAW! That’s so precise! So on-target! OMIGOD! All that surgery, and she looks like a blow-up doll, not a women! I mean, before surgery she wasn’t a beauty queen, just a normal-looking woman in her 20s. Now? Oof, uncanny valley. Waifu Pillow.
Tom Levenson
@twbrandt: Perhaps I may be guilty of hyperbole.
japa21
@mrmoshpotato: Hope you haven’t been watching the Cubs game. The unfortunate thing about this late season surge which will end up going no where is that everybody will be excited about next year. Meanwhile Brewer fans have realized it wasn’t Counsell that was the genius, it was their bench coach.
hueyplong
I’ve wished a lot of misfortune upon Trump, but was never imaginative enough to think of Laura Loomer. Kudos to the writers.
twbrandt
@Tom Levenson: :)
Pink Tie
@eclare: Sugar Land (just outside of Houston) has a large Indian-American and Pakistani population as well. Although Harris County is typically one of the blue islands along with the other large metro areas.
I can’t believe she is still around after losing her two Congressional races and considering her other gross stunts. Whoever is observing that she is maybe trying to get pregnant — or already is — all I can say is whew, that feels like so much grossness that “physics says no.”
Dave
@Villago Delenda Est: That poor young woman was just a bit ahead of her time.
Though she may have lacked the requisite visciousness to truly thrive in the Court of Mar-a-Lago.
Jackie
OMG. The photo of him in his golf garb. He’s waaay more out of shape than he looks without his girdle on. TCFG is literally a sloppy blob.
I wonder what Melania pays Loomer to seduce him and keep him away from her.
Dave
@hueyplong: They really are a perfect couple. Wish those crazy kids nothing but what they deserve.
Melania must be incredibly excited at the prospect of exiting stage left before everything hits the fan.
Jay
Funny, there used to be an idea, or a “concept”, once upon a time, of “peak wingnut”.
We were so silly, then.
hueyplong
@Jackie: I thought the photo of Trump had been manipulated until I realized he must wear a girdle made in a foundry.
Parfigliano
I rember when things on Drudge were GOPer Gospel during the Clinton Cock Hunt.
Sister Golden Bear
@Sister Golden Bear: I suspect Trump’s preference for women with a few too many plastic surgeries, parallels the his weird bronzer.
As far as bronzer, I’m convinced he intentionally fails to apply it to his eyelids and around the eyes to mimic “googles”* of the tanning bed look. Why? Back in the late 70s, it was new and expensive, hence a status symbol. I don’t know if Trump owned a personal tanning bed, but it seems likely, and either way it was signaling he could afford to get it done regularly.
*Users of tanning beds wear tiny googles to avoid eye damage)
As far as plastic surgery, a couple decades ago, I was friends with the black sheep daughter of an ultra-rich Beverly Hills family. In those circles, overtly visible plastic surgery was a status marker, and even down to which particular surgeon “did my work.” Yeah, plastic surgery/surgeons are ubiquitous these days, but again, I think Trump’s stuck in the ’70s or ’80s when it wasn’t.
JML
Of course TFG is into having Loomer around. all he wants is to have younger women with big tits around who will do what he says and tell him he’s great. The rest of of it doesn’t really matter, but the fact that she’ll repeat and reinforce all his racist thoughts and fantasies is like a bonus.
Chet Murthy
Every time I see one of these clips where WHCA reporters ask the press secretary what the President thinks about some abhorred piece of filth extruded by the ReichWing, I want the press secretary to respond with:
“Why don’t you tell me, as an American, what -you- think of this, first? B/c you’re an American, you’re a patriot, and surely you have opinions about this”
Jesus fuck it pisses me off that somehow we have to have the President tell us where our moral spine is located every GODDAMN TIME one of these ReichWing shitheads mouths off. Why can’t the Press Corpse (sic) do it themselves?
If I mouthed-off about that fucking Fascist Sulzberger, if I started publishing the coordinates of his house, his family, his children, they wouldn’t need FUCKING JOE BIDEN to tell them how to respond to that. Fucking gutless flatworms.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Repeated quote from an earlier thread, Driftglass on Loomer:
That’s why pleatings from assholes like Tillis are simply the usual (R) redirection tactics. The GQP has cultivated the environment that has led to people like Loomer for close to 50 years.
Chet Murthy
@Pink Tie: I look forward to two events:
In that order.
Fake Irishman
@eclare:
And Houston has quite a large South Asian population too. Helped flip Fort Bend County at the federal and local levels since 2016. It’s the first large suburban county to flip in Texas. Two more have followed around Austin or are in the process of doing so, with two more on deck north of Dallas (as you are implicitly noting) and another near Houston.
Scout211
Hey Republican pols, is Trump a strong leader who should be re-elected to run the country or is he a vulnerable toddler who can be easily influenced by a crazy conspiracy theorist?
Strong leader or weak-minded toddler. Choose one. You can’t have it both ways.
Melancholy Jaques
@HumboldtBlue:
Even Thom McAn?
Harrison Wesley
There’s something that looks really familiar about Laura Loomer. Did she have a recurring part in one of those ’70s or ’80s horror TV series? Not Dark Shadows, but something like that.
KatKapCC
Does G-d love me enough to have Melania serve Trump with divorce papers in the next week or so and then immediately afterward there are multiple leaks of horny texts and make-out photos between Trump and Loomer?
(Not that I want to see Trump kissing anyone. Just the thought makes me want to take a Brillo pad to my own lips.)
RaflW
@Shalimar: Loomer looks like she went to southern California and said to a plastic surgeon “Make me look like late-career Joan Rivers.” Weird as hell.
Melancholy Jaques
@Hoppie:
Okay. Now do “begs the question.”
Anotherlurker
@Kent: She is 31? OMG, talk about rode hard and put away wet.
KatKapCC
@HumboldtBlue: I can’t help but say it phonetically in my head. Same with names like Meagan, Rachael, and Geoff.
FelonyGovt
They’re definitely fucking, aren’t they 🤮
Poe Larity
She’s going to take all the kids inheritance.
Harrison Wesley
@HumboldtBlue: Then what is a Dhick?
KatKapCC
@hueyplong: But in the photo where she’s pushing her floatation devices into him, he’s also wearing the polo and he doesn’t look nearly as big as the second photo in the same shirt.
SuzieC
@Anotherlurker: Hate ages a person. So does extreme plastic surgery. Though in her case, she finally achieved that inflatable sex doll look that Trump finds irresistible.
azlib
Anything which causes infighting among the MAGA faithful is a good thing. Please proceed.
Jay
@Scout211:
They always have it both ways, it’s Schrodenger’s ReThuglicans.
KatKapCC
@Harrison Wesley: That’s how Trump said Cheney’s name after he saw the endorsement of Harris.
Chet Murthy
@KatKapCC: Right, the girdle pushes his potbelly up, pushes everything up, so his shoulders bulk out. Youv’e noticed that he seems to have big shoulders and upper chest when he’s in his suit, right? And yet when he’s in his polo, he’s basically a collapsed pear, eh?
twbrandt
@Harrison Wesley: she’s 31(!), so no.
Frankensteinbeck
@KatKapCC:
He’s out at an event, so if he wears a girdle he would be wearing it. I really don’t know what to trust about stomach side photos. Photos can be deceptive so easily.
RaflW
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: The sin the Bushies committed was to play to the base in the election season, but then stiff them on policy once in office, preferring their old club connections and Ivy league friends. Turns out those execrable elites did have some moderating effect on the party, and with them sidelined, all the worst shit just flies it’s freak flag.
Decades in the electoral wilderness is what that whole party deserves. I lack the confidence that our citizenry can deliver on that. I think Harris will win. But the snap-back in 4 or 8 years will show that the tumors are still all over the GOPatient.
HumboldtBlue
@twbrandt:
Any guy named Tom, who spells his name Thom, except for that brilliant nursing school guy, Thom the awesome guy, is a dick.
lollipopguild
@columbusqueen: You are 100% correct but I think when this is all over, we will need someone to drive a wooden stake thru trump’s heart just to make sure.
twbrandt
@HumboldtBlue: agreed!
RaflW
@Chet Murthy: “he’s basically a collapsed pear”
LOL. That’s absolutely perfect.
KatKapCC
@Chet Murthy: Right, but what I’m saying is, in both photos in this post, he’s wearing the polo shirt, but he looks literally twice the size in the second one. It looks photoshopped to me.
Frankensteinbeck
@RaflW:
A black man was elected president. Trump was specifically chosen to punish us for that. To prove that the worst white man was better than the best black man. To prove that his voters, who were the worst white men or women who had devoted themselves to the worst white men, were better than the best black man. To rip off the mask, because polite racism had failed and they weren’t willing to compromise anymore. 2016 was a different world than 2000.
Kyle Rayner
Hey, what’s revolting to some is a fetish to others. I don’t care what cranks Loomer’s gears, so long as it costs Trump the election.
Chet Murthy
@KatKapCC: As with all these things, I’m just spitballin’, and I want the worst the the bastard so I’m biased. Two observations:
Just spitballin’.
Harrison Wesley
If Trump changes shape like a yooge bag of playdough depending on whether he’s wearing a girdle or a jockstrap or a diaper or an iron maiden or WTF ever, he’s got to have a very peculiar bone structure (or none at all – perhaps an octopus without the class).
Jay
@Harrison Wesley:
Jabba the Hutt.
columbusqueen
@eclare: Columbus has the 4th largest Hindu community in the country. Not enough to shift all of Ohio, but still. . .
NotMax
Chained herself to only one of the double doors. Video at the time showed people entering and exiting freely through the other door.
Quoth the bunny: “What a maroon.”
HumboldtBlue
Names are funny things. Dick was a widely popular name until what… the 70s? There were Dicks everywhere, in every profession, in every walk of life. You were always encountering a Dick, whether at home, at church, in school, TV, movies, hell, the plumber may be a Dick.
We still have some Dicks around, but they’re all at least Boomer, Dicks are most certainly Boomers, and they know they’re Boomer Dicks.
My dad did. He was Dick up until about the age of 85 to 86 or so. It may have even been me who said at the family dinner table with two dozen or so family members that the key to life was to “not be a Dick.”
I still recall the ambulance crew who arrived to take him to the hospital after a fall, and when the medic asked him his name, he responded, “John, John Richard.”
Citizen Alan
@Villago Delenda Est: The moral stature of American Evangelical Christianity has been destroyed forever by Donald Trump and they don’t even care.
Elizabelle
From Jon Chait’s article:
Gag. Melania has to be so happily relieved that the greasy pole is frequently several states away. (Although. Does he still fly home to Florida every night?)
The Lodger
@Harrison Wesley: You might be thinking of Elvira.l
eclare
@Elizabelle:
I thought she was going to spend more time in NYC since that is where Barron goes to college.
wjca
Maybe she went IVF. Without telling him, naturally. (It’s not like his ego would let him demand a DNA test.)
HumboldtBlue
@Melancholy Jaques:
That fucker started it.
Chet Murthy
@wjca: This is all prurient spitballin’. that said ….
It was widely reported that TCFG demanded that Melanoma abort when she was preggers with Barron (the misogynist bigot, as we learned). So one supposes that he’ll demand Laura abort, same story. Perhaps. Perhaps.
karen marie
@Portly Neighbor: That was hilarious.
I may have to reevaluate my opinion of CNN given their use of that photo of Fat Trump and Loomer.
Harrison Wesley
@The Lodger: I hadn’t considered that – makes sense. Although Elvira’s problem for me was being too camp, not too loathsome, so I probably wouldn’t identify her too closely with the new Trump Whisperer. And la bella Loomer is only 31? Maybe it’s something in the water.
Anotherlurker
@The Lodger: Elvira, (Cassandra Peterson) is a fine person and does not need to be associated in any way with Loomer trash. She is a gay activist and all round good egg.
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
With the Campaign focus on infertility and childless cat ladies, if Loomer is preggo’s, it will be carried to term and a Campaign ad about Dolt45’s “virility”.
Harrison Wesley
@Chet Murthy: Maybe his new bestie Elon can talk him out of it. M. Musk seems to be a great believer that spreading his seed as far as possible is one of his many gifts to humanity. Doesn’t he have 12 kids or something like that?
dmsilev
@Poe Larity:
Joke’s on her if she thinks there will be any money left.
jonas
Next up: huge, drunken Real Housewives-style screaming fight next to the bar at Mar-A-Lago between Loomer and Habba over who gets to fly on the plane to the next rally with the Big Man, with drinks thrown in each other’s faces, tears, smeared mascara, security pulling them apart. The whole megillah.
It’ll all be filmed for the upcoming season of Apprentice II: PA and the B’s.
NotMax
Y’all can guess the tune right off.
:)
coin operated
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve not read the other comments yet…but you are not alone with that though. WTF happened?
Elizabelle
@eclare: That makes sense.
Chet Murthy
@coin operated: Plastic surgery is a helluva drug. Apparently.
dmsilev
@Jay: Jabba at least was a successful gangster.
Anoniminous
@Jay:
It’s the concept of a concept: Peak Wingnut, like the speed of light, can only be approached, never achieved.
jayne
@NotMax: Given that every accusation is a confession, I’m really starting to wonder if someone* on Team Trump stole and ate a cat at some point.
*It was RFK Jr, wasn’t it?
NotMax
@Jay
A barrel with no bottom. anchored over the Mariana Trench
KrackenJack
@Frankensteinbeck: Thank you for the Lyndon Baines Johnson reference!
Anoniminous
@Citizen Alan:
Can’t destroy what they never had.
jonas
@Citizen Alan: When your whole brand is built around the idea that the more persecuted you are the more righteous you are, it’s tough to come around to the idea that, no, you really are horrible and there’s a reason everyone hates you.
NotMax
@jayne
“I was restringing a violin at the time, honest.”
//
mrmoshpotato
@Kyle Rayner:
I like that way of thinking – especially the costs Dump the election part.
KatKapCC
@The Lodger: Not in any way. This ambulatory Fleshlight couldn’t dream of holding a candle to Elvira, in the looks department or any other way.
scav
Shit! So that’s why Drumpy is suddenly going on about his magnificent weaving! Weaving is what you do on a Loom.
and I thought it was just about his hairstyle . . . .
KatKapCC
@wjca: He did say that weird shit at the debate about a “leader on fertilization”. Maybe that was foreshadowing.
scav
@wjca: And there’s the expert in fertilization comment explained.
prostratedragon
@Sister Golden Bear: Along with the door chain demonstration, I must wonder: could this be the Great Exception to the Liebowitz Principle?
jonas
@wjca: This whole thing has a Kitty and George Sr. vibe to it. I can just see her going up to LaCivilta as she’s being escorted out of his office: “This is the last time you’ll be seeing these!!”
lollipopguild
@Citizen Alan: They have no idea of what they have done to themselves ….. yet. Some of them will never figure it out.
Trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Lips to brats.
Pro tip: bring mustard.
jonas
@KatKapCC: Word. Cassandra Peterson is ca. 70 and, unlike that plasticized piece of racist bile, a beautiful and witty woman who does a lot of LGTBQ advocacy work (she came out as gay later in life after her first marriage ended).
HumboldtBlue
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down one-on-one for an exclusive interview with Action News anchor Brian Taff on Friday.
eclare
@jonas:
And there have to be overturned tables.
SW
Could this get any more absurd?
Hoppie
@Melancholy Jaques: Assuming the truth of a proposition so that the conclusion is foreordained. Elementary error.
NotMax
@KatKapCC
Elvira is no match against the buxom, wasp-waisted Vampira.
;)
SW
Trump is the real victim here. He just chose the wrong influencers.
HumboldtBlue
@SW:
No.
mrmoshpotato
@SW:
YES! Most definitely!
SatanicPanic
@mrmoshpotato: it’s inevitable really
Gwangung
@HumboldtBlue: As people here insisted she do. Yeah!
Princess
Why is Vance doubling down on Springfield? Part of it is the attack on immigrants. But the other part is the other side of the fascist playbook, ie. keeping control of your own side. It’s a dominance display. Bomb threats and verbal attacks will continue until the Republican mayor and the white pastors and the governor of Ohio all agree that yes, legal Haitian immigrants are illegal migrants, and yes they are eating people’s pets, and yes, they are spreading disease ( right out of the anti-Semitic playbook). It’s chilling.
Sally
@Chet Murthy: According to Derek, the fabulous menswear guy on twitter, trump wears big shoulder pads to try and reshape his profile. He shows how they collapse when he leans forward. The shoulders of his suits seem to be inches wider that his shoulders.
cain
Keep in mind that it wasn’t Laura Loomer that started this crazy shit with pets and Haitian and then escalated it to TB and HIV.
JD is way worse. Since Loomer just says racist things. JD got the neo Nazis to show up in Springfield.
Jay
@Princess:
It’s Wingnut 101, keep repeating the lie, forever, never admit it was a lie.
Chet Murthy
@Jay: @Princess: I agree with both of you, but I feel that there’s something else going on too. Maybe it’s deeper, maybe it’s less deep: sadopopulism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjJtEkKMX4
Timothy Snyder coined the term and explains it thus (errors are mine): oligarchs and personalist regimes tend away from competence, b/c they prize loyalty instead. So they can’t actually deliver for their voters. So how do they stay in power? Instead, they identify culprits, scapegoats, and assign responsibility for their voters’ ills to those scapegoats. They tell their voters: “give us power and we will punish them, the ones responsible for your pain”. They do not offer solutions, but instead, sadism, to their populace. Sadopopulism.
TCFG can offer nothing positive to his voters. But he can offer them something negative: he can offer to punish those people whom his voters hate. And so, in order to win this election, he must gin up objects of hate. And of course, once he’s proposed an object of hate, he can’t very well back down from it: if an object of hate were ever revealed to not be such, why, it would all fall apart. Once an object of hate, once an enemy of the body politic, forever an enemy of the body politic.
At least, I find this analysis convincing.
piratedan
@Princess: just spit balling here…
if they can trigger some violence, then they’re betting on a soft response from the 46 Admin and then showing that they just have to “push harder”.
Have we heard anything from DOJ, Homeland or the FBI?
While DeWine has condemned this, the Ohio AG has signed on to the “just asking questions” bullshit lending some wiggle room from the claims.
Since the right has pretty much made winning 2024 their next best throw of the dice, I imagine that they’ll try and apply pressure outside of the DJT campaign for plausible deniability… i.e. the whole immigrants eating pets shit started with neo-nazi’s bringing it up at a council meeting then that “just repeating bullshit I heard 3rd hand” via Facebook.
They run amok before ANYONE can call BULLSHIT and even though it was specifically fact checked during the debate… here we STILL fucking are.
piratedan
Chet Murthy
@piratedan: “even though it was specifically fact checked during the debate”
Even though the woman whose FB post was the root of this entire fantastic blood libel has publicly recanted!
piratedan
@Chet Murthy: I’m just at the point of believing that the GOP is no longer a real political party, they’re mostly a tool between competing factions of techbros, evangelicals, rich douchebags and foreign factors.
Then again Occam’s razor suggests that no one is REALLY in charge over there, just a bunch of different factions trying to establish control of the monster they built collectively.
Chet Murthy
@piratedan: haha SO true! SO TRUE! They’re all fighting over it, and the alliances keep shifting too. If only we could kick their asses for a couple of Presidential cycles, they’d all fall to infighting and it’s be epic!
Shalimar
@piratedan: Laura Loomer has discovered the secret: whoever provides Trump with viagra controls the party.
patrick II
It would be so ironic if Trump lost this election and goes to jail for the rest of his life for the love of a woman.
Chet Murthy
@patrick II: “for the love of a woman.”
Let’s not go overboard now: it’s more like “b/c he couldn’t keep it in his pants.” Which would be ironic since that is sorta his claim to fame at some level.
piratedan
@Chet Murthy: to be fair, I’m not exactly sure who pursued whom…
I just don’t want to turn into them, and there’s a lot of work that has to be done to repair not only our social contract but our institutions.
I hope that we can make them better and part of that has to be to have institutions that will hold these fuckers accountable. If you’re talking about seizing power to control certain elements of the government (hello Leonard Leo), then that’s fucking treason and you can sit your ass in jail because there will be NO BOND for you.
Chet Murthy
@piratedan: if Leonard Leo were Black he’d be in a military brig at best, and in the Brig of a Hulk circling Antarctica at worst. There’s no way he’d be getting due process.
ETA: of course assuming he hadn’t been shot on sight.
David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch
3…. 2…. 1….
“I don’t know Laura Loomer, I don’t know what she looks like, I wouldn’t know her if she was standing right next to me.”
hueyplong
@David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch: “I think she did fetch ‘us’ some coffee and Viagra a couple of times.”
Ramona
@Jackie: the picture you are talking about makes it seem to me that he has osteoporosis. Notice the slump in his back?
Basilisc
I love KJP, but she did miss a hanging curveball by not starting her answer with something like, “Well, first of all, Donald Trump’s personal life is his own business, and I can’t comment on that. Second …”
patrick II
@Chet Murthy:
I don’t know. She seems crazy enough that he may finally have met his true soul mate.
Chet Murthy
@patrick II: ehhh …
Tony Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
Woman walks into a plastic surgeons. Holds up picture of Glenn Quagmire.
“Do this to me”
And so it began.
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq, and Anna Nicole married for love.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@HumboldtBlue: This reminds me of the sign in the window of the bar Dick’s Place in Mendocino: So few Richards, so many Dicks.
Baud
Project 2025 Addendum: Young women will be required to get plastic surgery in the style of Laura Loomer.
Also, too, is Loomer really a replacement for Melania or Ivanka, who no longer seems to hanging around these days.
Dangerman
@FelonyGovt: Ya know, if Donny pulled a Nelson Rockefeller, I’d give it a half Nelson, i.e., ha!
Craig
@Jay: great job Levon. Love that scene.
Duane
The Kansas City Star’s Derek Donavan reported Loomer posted on X Thursday, “Haitians aren’t just eating cats and dogs. They eat HUMANS. It’s a FACT.”
Is it peak wingnut now?
Jay
@Duane:
Nope, there is no peak wingnut.
Baud
On topic reddit
Jeffg166
Franklin Graham will be condemning this adulterous relationship when?
Baud
@patrick II:
It was more romantic they way Edward VIII gave it all up.
hueyplong
This Loomer plot twist is borderline disorienting. There was nothing like this on my bingo card.
And two weeks from today it still won’t be October yet. You kind of want to make sure your tray is in the upright and locked position.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
I cannot help but imagine somewhere in the background, there’s a debonair black man, looking like he belongs there in defiance of all logic, whispering apparently to himself, “I know this wasn’t part of the plan, Nate. I didn’t maneuver them into doing this. This was all them. And you’d better tell Parker to back off for now.”
Baud
@Duane:
It’s especially disconcerting when you remember that it’s always projection with there people.
Chet Murthy
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: i’m sorry, I don’t understand the reference. But I’m guessing it’s something funny? Could you please explain a little?
Geminid
The Times of Israel has an article up this morning about some ads being run on Michigan social media. The ads tout Kamala Harris’s support for Israel, and are ostensibly pro-Harris. In one, vewers are told that when protesters came out for the Palestinian cause, Harris “put them in their place,” and the ad shows her chiding protesters at a Michigan rally.
Another ad notes thst Doug Emhoff would be the first Jewish spouse in the White House: “let’s make history!” The kicker is that the ads are micro-targeted to communities with large Arab-American populations like Dearborn in what is known as a “ratfucking operation.”
The New York Times, whose reporting is cited in the TOI article, linked the poltical action committee responsible for the ads to a social media site run by former Rep. Lee Zeldin. He’s a Republican powerbroker based on Long Island, New York. Zeldin disclaimed any involvement whatsoever.
My guess is that the Trump campaign has many similar operations, probably as many as there are wedge issues to exploit and social groups to micro-target.
Baud
@Geminid:
Hopefully we do too.
Baud
p.a.
We olds remember Dan Aykroyd’s SNL male prostitute character? “Well let me remove this series of belts and trusses…” (paraphrase)
Also too isn’t there a tRump-on-Ozympic rumor?
hueyplong
@p.a.: If there isn’t there probably should be one.
lowtechcyclist
@Frankensteinbeck:
Which is weird, because Jesus very clearly said otherwise. If anything, Jesus raised considerably the standard of behavior he expected his followers to aspire to.
TBone
More than I ever wanted to know, but since we’re going there…
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/laura-loomer-donald-trump.html
TBone
@Baud: ⚡
lowtechcyclist
@Dave:
So insufficient viscosity was her failing? A quart of 10W-50 would have helped with that. ;-)
satby
@Chet Murthy: Leverage. it’s a reference to the show Leverage.
lowtechcyclist
@Chet Murthy:
My WAG is that she hopes to get knocked up in order to get on the child support gravy train. So he’d probably have to pay her a few mil to get her to abort.
Central Planning
@HumboldtBlue: TBF, aren’t his parents the real problem dicks?
MagdaInBlack
C’mon. Trump can’t even find his winkie, much less make it work.
Geminid
@TBone: I saw an excerpt from Trump’s “news conference” in Cali yesterday where he explained that Laura Loomer is “a free spirit”!
Trump’s visited California in order to slag Kamala Harris’s record as San Francisco D.A. and California Attorney General, and also to champion Big Agriculture’s water rights over those of the state’s Delta Smelt population. Characterizing some human lamphrey who’s stalking him wasn’t what Wiles and LsCivita had mind for this trip, but their candidate simply cannot get out of his own way.
NeenerNeener
I can’t help remembering what happened to the Gary Hart and John Edwards presidential campaigns. But they were Dems; Republican voters have no problems with this kind of sh*t.
Baud
Via reddit, LA Times article.
Ken
After the way Trump reportedly screwed over the rest of his family with his father’s estate, there would be a kind of justice to that.
lowtechcyclist
@NeenerNeener:
The party of family values!
JPL
On Friday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) posted on X that Loomer is “a crazy conspiracy theorist who regularly utters disgusting garbage intended to divide Republicans. A DNC plant couldn’t do a better job than she is doing to hurt President Trump’s chances of winning re-election. Enough.”
Someone tell Thom that trump is a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Baud
@JPL:
It’s always the woman’s fault in the GOP.
Shalimar
@Baud: On a positive note for the Trump campaign, nothing he posts on his Truth Social account is viewed anywhere remotely near 13.7 million times. His damages for future copyright violations will be a lot lower.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Trump and Loomis do look very touch-feely in the pics. But dear god, can you imagine getting naked with Trump? And he’s 78. The fun times are going to be, um… I don’t even know how to complete that sentence. The naked with Trump thing has pickled my brain.
Ken
@patrick II: @Chet Murthy: I also wouldn’t call what Loomer feels for him “love”. It appears more like a very unhealthy form of stalker behavior, exacerbated because Trump has responded.
If he does break it off, she’s going to be in the top three on the Secret Service’s “do not allow to approach” list.
Geminid
@MagdaInBlack: That’s what Viagra’s for. It occurs to me that curing erectile dysfunction can lead to moral dysfunction. I’ve wondered if that had something to do with how Rudy Giuliani got to where he is now.
Male psychology can be weirdly phallus-centered. I would not be surprised if a sociologist could detect a surge in white collar crime, and other anti-social behavior among older guys, that coincided with the advent of erectile dysfunction remedies.
Baud
@Geminid:
They’re anti-vax when they should be anti-Viagra.
MagdaInBlack
@Geminid: Please don’t ask me how I know that Viagra and the like do not always work
I think that in this case, shes an ego stroker, not a dick stroker. The result on him is the same. He’s ‘smitten” and going to make an even a bigger fool of himself. And I’m fine with that =-)
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Surely its gods will, right?
Geminid
@JPL: I think Thom Tillis knows what Trump is as well or better than I do, but he’s stuck with the guy. Tillis is looking ahead to a tough reelection in 2026, and he can only win it with Trump’s party behind him. Tillis can’t criticize Trump so he criticizes Loomer.
Suzanne
LMAO.
Every time I see people who got fillers and then they moved around so weirdly….. I wonder was it worth it? Were you really so ugly before?
Is there any cosmetic procedure that has gone so badly as fillers?
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
It’s Baud’s will.
MagdaInBlack
@Suzanne: I’m calling the look we are seeing so much of ” The Fredericks of Hollywood Blow-up Doll Aesthetic”
TBone
@Suzanne: I remember when butt augmentation was a popular thing.
Suzanne
@TBone: Butt augmentation (Brazilian butt lift, aka BBL) is still a popular thing. It just….. doesn’t fail as obviously as fillers do. Fillers were thought to be pretty risk-free, but they’ve been found to move around one’s face and kind of settle in a ring around the mouth.
Ken
There are a lot of people that post screenshots of his stuff on other media*. I wonder if those would be taken into account in a copyright case? Probably not for music, since the screenshots don’t have sound.
* As Molly White said, the internet is now five huge websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four.
Suzanne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That notion is enough to make me understand why women become nuns.
Baud
@Ken:
Yep. I use reddit and Anne Laurie to screen other social media.
TBone
@Suzanne: butt filler injections to “fix a flat”‘ were popular for a while. Then this happened
https://www.vice.com/en/article/south-floridas-most-infamous-butt-doctor-was-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/buttloads-of-pain-0000190-v21n1/
VeniceRiley
#NotAllThoms
The Loomer Vs MTG stuff is hilariously meltdown popcorn show.
The attacking minorities stuff is definitely not. It’s their plan, and they’ll be happy to start roundups, killings, and strange fruit.
I hope everyone votes accordingly. And not only that, do what we can to support and protect the Haitian and Indian communities.
Suzanne
@TBone: Oh, there are so many BBL horror stories. There was a woman who attempted her own using silicone caulking in tubes that she bought at Home Depot. People still get them.
I don’t get it, either. Just do some squats.
Suzanne
@MagdaInBlack: There’s also “Instagram face”, which is where you look like you have no ethnicity and that you have FaceTuned your actual face.
TBone
@Suzanne: 😆 now I’ma call Loomer “buttlip.”
Geminid
@MagdaInBlack: I don’t really want to get further into this topic either, but the general observation is something I have pondered for a while now.
As for Loomer and Trump, you are probably right that this is not a physically sexual relationship. She’s flattering him and flirting with him, creating a psychically sexual relationship so to speak.
Someone on Democratic Twitter brought up— in connection to Loomer— an old story about an appearance by Trump on Howard Stern’s show. Stern got Trump bragging about sexual relationships and Trump told Stern that some of the best sexual partners were “crazy women,” whatever that means.
Laura Loomer probably read about that because stalkers research their targets and she’s basically a stalker. I think Loomer understands at some level that she is mentally ill, but she has found a way to make that work as a sycophant and grifter. Loomer may even tell herself, “There’s method in my madness!”
MagdaInBlack
@Geminid: Physically sexual vs psychically relationship is so much nicer than the way I put it, but yes, that’s what i think is going on.
Msb
@eclare: and increasingly large in Houston, too.
Another Scott
@Jackie: It’s a fake “picture”.
Newsweek.
Immediate gut reactions of “that can’t be real” are a good caution these days.
Cheers,
Scott.
Cheers,
Scott.
Geminid
@eclare: The Atlanta area also has a signigicant Indian-American population. I remember how in 2020 Rep. Pramila Jayapal appeared at an Atlanta event mobilizing Indian-American Democrats. That could have made a difference in a state Biden won by thousands of votes.
And judging from my Atlanta friend’s experience, there are a lot of Indian-Americans in engineering schools. Last year he took an Introductory Calculus course at Georgia Tech and at least half the class was South Asian.
Geminid
@Msb: State Senator Suhas Subramanyan is on track to be the next U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 10 CD, and he grew up in the Houston area. His parents flew from Bangalore, India to Houston to take up medical careers. On the way they stopped at Dulles Airport, which happens to lie in the Congressional District their son will represent in Congress.
Tony G
@Kent: Like a human version of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” maybe. Honestly, though, I don’t think that Trump screwing around with Loomer will cause him to lose a single vote from his cult. The cult members will support their god-emperor no matter what he does, and a significant proportion of them view his serial cheating on his wives as a sign of his manly studliness.
Tony G
@Villago Delenda Est: Most of the Evangelicals don’t follow any of the supposed commandments themselves. They could care less about what Trump does.
brendancalling
I have no doubt Loomer and Trump are fucking, and it’s nauseating.
Tony G
@Geminid: I am not a physician, but … given Trump’s advanced age and generally terrible physical condition, I doubt that he is capable of a physically sexual relationship at this point. He is, however, extremely vulnerable to flattery.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist:
I think evangelicals exploit that to get to their perverse antinomianism.
The claim is “Yes, the standard is high–impossibly high. So high that the most virtuous human being and the most loathsome sinner are identical in the eyes of God: damned, without a grace that cannot depend on our actions at all. So what really matters is praying using the proper formulae to get the get-out-of-Hell-free card.”
So they circle around from high standards to none.
Chigail
@HumboldtBlue: oh. Did you date him too?
Bill Arnold
@hueyplong:
Finally, the writers get some praise, not mockery. :-)
And it’s only mid-September, as you note in another comment.
Surprises are fun.
Bayesian Surprise Attracts Human Attention (PDF, Laurent Itti, Pierre Baldi, 2005) (Focused on sensory perception but applies at other scales.)
Elizabelle
@Geminid:
Just hadda see that sentence again. Human lamphrey. Slap!
Ruckus
@Kent:
Aw, you praise her……
OK maybe not, but that’s about as close as anyone sane is likely to get to praise for her.