Monday, September 16, 2024

Laura Loomer Is the Symptom, Not the Disease

Sam Stein: If you're worried about Trump being surrounded by conspiracy theorists right now ... it's a little late!

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As Sam Stein observes:

> Loomer isn't the disease, she's the product of a MAGA movement that both attracts and produces attention-hungry fantasists"a movement that routinely whips up threats against minority communities and - not so long ago - attempted an insurrection.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-16 07:02 AM

"The former president has been a prolific conspiracy theorist for decades," observes Stein. "Let's take a tour through what Trump was thinking even before Loomer joined his entourage":

Trump was the de facto leader of the Obama birther movement, even casually suggesting that the director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who died in a plane crash, was murdered as part of a coverup.
He openly mused that former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers wrote Obama's memoir and that Obama never actually went to Columbia University.
He floated the idea that Ted Cruz's father had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald. He raised doubts about Vince Foster's suicide.
He wondered aloud if Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was suffocated to death.
He pushed the story that Muslims in New Jersey were cheering after 9/11.
He raised the idea that Marco Rubio was ineligible to be president because his parents weren't yet U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. He did the same about Ted Cruz. And Nikki Haley. And Kamala Harris, too.
He questioned the authenticity of the Access Hollywood tape (this was after he apologized for it).
He claimed Obama had him wiretapped at Trump Tower.
He claimed the death toll from Hurricane Maria was inflated to make him look bad.
He said the noise from windmills causes cancer.
He pushed a video saying that the Clintons killed Jeffrey Epstein.
He said Ukraine could be hiding Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
He said that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
He said that fears about asbestos were a conspiracy designed to line the pockets of asbestos-cleanup companies run by the mob.
He retweeted several conspiracy theories around the death of Osama bin Laden (that it could have been a body double).
He has said jobs numbers are manipulated, the unemployment figure was made up, the COVID death numbers were inflated, the Obamacare enrollment numbers were exaggerated, and the border crossing numbers "manipulated" to make the Obama administration look better.
And, of course, he's spread a steady stream of lies about election numbers. The 2012 one: dead people voted for Obama. The 2016 one: cheating in blue states like California and New York deprived him of a popular vote win. The 2020 one . . . where do we even start? Sharpies did not invalidate Trump votes; Dominion did not either. People weren't throwing away bags filled with Trump ballots or randomly finding suitcases filled with Biden ones. Thousands of dead people didn't vote multiple times. And, no, Italians did not use military technology to tamper with U.S. voting machines.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-16 08:13 AM

Interesting that people are saying the same thing about Loomer as they said about Trump (that she's a symptom rather than the disease).

It seems like he's been testing the waters for her as a possible replacement.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-09-16 12:50 PM

She's literally the disease, as in she has mental illness.

She can't own a firearm because of it. She has lifelong mental illness that caused both her love of trump and her destruction of her own face.

And because her mental illness makes her praise trump, trump feeds it.

She is the perfect avatar for the female trump supporter.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-16 01:41 PM

Exactly. She is a reflection of millions of other republicans in America right now.

#5 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-16 01:46 PM

re: Sentinel comment #3

I think he is more likely grooming her to be the FL MAGA candidate for congress AGAIN but with "bonafides," allowing her to be seen with him in public and traveling with him (and staying at Mar-a-Lago, wth!?)

I just don't think that is going to play well, even in Florida. But, it has been a long time since I lived there. Current FL residents, weigh in please.

#6 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-16 01:52 PM

This is rich coming from the same folks that insist Trump had 3 people shot and one killed (plus the shooter) to stage a prop and gain traction in the polls.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-16 02:24 PM

#7

And that's rich coming from people who think it was a Democrat plot but Jesus intervened at the last second to protect Trump's ear, but He couldn't be bothered to protect a married man with kids who happened to be standing by.

#8 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-16 02:37 PM

This is rich coming from the same folks that insist Trump had 3 people shot and one killed (plus the shooter) to stage a prop and gain traction in the polls.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Trump is a known liar and con artist who has to win this election to stay out of jail. All the motives for him to fake an assasination attempt are there.

Imagine the conspiracies loomer would be screaming if harris had almost been shot.

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-16 02:41 PM

Speaking of disease, if she didn't have syphilis before, she sure has it now after giving Combover Quisling, according her close friend child sex advocate Milo Yiannopoulos, the oral gratification (will that satisfy the sensor) of his life. Apparently, according to Milo who advocates for sex with young boys, Dotard is incapable of actual sex these days. I suspect it's a combination of his diet and STDs that make it impossible for him to get turgid, or maybe the stench of him makes it impossible for women to even fake interest in having him on top of them. Since Looney Loomer the Billie the Puppet from Saw lookalike has diagnozed mental issues, I bet she's good at working with tiny limp noodles and the stench doesn't bother her.

#10 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-09-17 05:02 AM

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