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Thread #173399 Message #4208348
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
14-Sep-24 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Presidential race 2024
Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
Bill D, doing something is better than doing nothing.
Meanwhile, the newscycle churns on and since I last posted conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Laura Loomer has become an item - so toxic that original Trump-supporting bigots Senator Lindsey Graham and Marjorie Taylor Greene pronounced her a bigot. She seems to be traveling in the Trump entourage at the moment, including to the 9/11 ceremonies in New York City on Wednesday. Among other conspiracies, Loomer claims 9/11 was an "inside job."
I noticed a post on Threads this morning that suggests (based on a photo of Trump and Loomer standing in close physical contact) that "they're a couple." Bill Maher made the suggestion recently (along with posting a photo of the pair standing so close that her right boob rests on his left arm). The Daily Beast has an article that says Trump met with Loomer last year but his campaign co-manager Susie Wiles "made a point of sitting in so that she could nix the hiring." The have a different close-proximity photo of the pair. PoliticusUSA suggests that Bill Maher has intentionally started this conspiracy theory about Trump and Loomer to punk Loomer.
This from the New York Times: Who Is Laura Loomer, the Far-Right Activist Who Traveled With Trump? After fellow Republicans criticized her appearance on the trail, noting her history of offensive remarks, former President Donald J. Trump praised her but later said he disagreed with some of her statements.
Ms. Loomer, 31, part of a generation of web-savvy right-wing influencers, decided to trademark the term she had coined for her signature move of ambushing people with unexpected, often embarrassing questions. She called it getting “Loomered.”
Already a well-known figure among internet obsessives thanks to her anti-Muslim activism, undercover sting operations and web-savvy political stunts, Ms. Loomer found herself at the center of the presidential campaign this week when she traveled with former President Donald J. Trump. She went with him to Philadelphia for the presidential debate, and then accompanied him to Sept. 11 memorial events in New York City and Shanksville, Pa., which drew pointed criticism from Democrats and Republicans because she had previously called Sept. 11 “an inside job.”
The Times and other big news outlets won't touch the affair suggestion, which is probably just as well. The closest you'll find in the Times is that Loomer "accompanied" Trump to the debate and the NYC event.
That said, in the past when affairs had an impact on politics, Democratic Senator Gary Hart tanked his presidential chances by having an affair (the fool challenged the press to prove anything and they did.) And Democrat John Edwards did something similar. Teflon Don once again seems to defy the community standards regarding how his relationships are represented. Whatever they are (well, except of course Stormy Daniels hit him in the courtroom, as did E. Jean Carroll.)