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Loomer, who accompanied Trump on flight to TV debate, made comments at white nationalist conference in 2022

Close Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer told a white nationalist conference in 2022 that she considered herself a “white advocate”, according to a recording of the speech obtained by the Guardian.

Loomer has come under scrutiny in recent days after being seen accompanying Trump on a flight to the presidential debate on Tuesday, and a subsequent string of racist tweets aimed at Kamala Harris.

That caused a political firestorm after Trump’s disastrous debate performance, with Harris emerging the clear winner. In particular, Trump’s raising of false claims around Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating pets triggered outrage and mockery of him

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean yeah she’s obviously a fucking Nazi

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Stormfront without super powers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At least Stormfront seemed cool at first

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What was ever cool about stormfront? I remember them as the ignorant assholes that got booted off public BBS and created it as a KKK safe space.

After typing it out, funny to me how that keeps recurring.

Edit - lol I guess "stormfront" they meant this character from The Boys, not the Klan site oops.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

🤣I also just realized the Stormfront connection. The Boys writers were not being subtle with that one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

The right has no appreciation for art, because art can be subversive and speaks truth to power. That's why they miss the subtext involved (or in the case of Born in the USA, the literal text).

It wasn't until the third season of The Boys before the right said "Wait, why is Homelander the bad guy? And why am I wrong for supporting him?" And the fourth season has the villains saying near-verbatim quotes from the right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Other way around, I believe. The boys was originally just a comic and stormfront is a character in the comics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The site predates the comics by 15 years, I feel confident it influenced the character name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Isn't that website itself a reference to the magazines the Nazis were circulating before WWII?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never got into the comics. Was she also a nazi there?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hard to tell. He very well might have been.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Yea that's pretty subtle. Can definitely see how someone might miss the reference.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Believe it or not, she’s Jewish. Completely fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

It's the strangest thing when people who were targets of Nazi persecution become Nazis themselves (Loomer is Jewish). But then again, it also seems to be a feature of far right personality organization to behave this way. Like Roy Cohn (Trump's long ago attorney/mentor) was gay but denied it including when he died from AIDS. Some kind of self-hatred and projection combined. As though ones sins could be pushed off onto something other which can be persecuted as a scapegoat, which as I think about it is a well known narcissistic family dynamic. In any event, it's Weird!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

A reason why some German Jews supported Hitler was that they thought that his anti-Semitism was only for "stirring up the masses".[1] Also, they adhered to a kind of respectability politics that led many non-Jews in the German Reich to congratulate the VnJ with the phrase, "If only all Jews were like you."[2]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really don't understand your use of "far left" here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, me either. I made a mistake. I meant "far right". I'll edit it to fix.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

She is a disgusting racist and Trump loves her. He is also a disgusting racist.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm white. This fucking turd doesn't speak for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

came to say this. she can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

What the hell happened to her face? She looks like she was made up of spare parts by a mad plastic surgeon and an insane taxidermist....

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Bruh. She’s only white at the convenience of bigots. She’ll be Jewish when it’s time to pack the cattle cars.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

That's some fancy words to avoid saying "racist".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

God why do all these people look like they're wearing a Basic Bitch mask from Temu

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is Twitter equivalent to fucking yourself down the bar skank ladder. I knew of Laura Loomer exclusively from Twitter when I was there and she was in a similar but less illustrious category as that guy who got caught pretending to be a black man, that weirdo whose profile pic looks like he bought a shirt too small in order to roid rage out of it, or that former Hercules idiot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Time to starting putting ally in quotes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Weird. Her face looks quite ethnic to me.

Repressed self hatred much?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Shes Jewish. Unsurprisingly, she uses her heritage to be a convenient antisemite when it suits her.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

That face has been modeled after at least a dozen botched surgeries and Botox sessions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Is that the lady from game of thrones with the fantastic bazongas?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Watch these guys. They have followed this nut job from her start. Plus they make great content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66SLUtTDgS4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

This lady looks like a GoT style witch. I guess Trump is Stannis in that scenario, only with less charisma.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Not really a shock knowing her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Her being Trump's Right Hand is PROOF that Republicans are NOT Racist!