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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Loomer figured it out? Loomer?! This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Don't take it the wrong way, guys.

She's probably be saying this with pride.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Thanks jigsaw we will take that into consideration

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago

Women on the right are always so shocked to find it's full of misogynists even when they play by the rules.

They won't ever respect a woman. No matter how hard she brown noses.

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I did nazi that coming....

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Maybe they slashed your tires, Laura.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The moron is way behind the curve. We have known this since Mango Mussolini's first term.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, it's simpler than that. She's lying about being surprised.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

This is her maybe getting off the bus, saying "I just thought this was going to the mall..."

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Remember, rats scatter off a sinking ship

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

God damn I always forget just how ugly she is

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

She's trying to out-pivot MTG. Don't let them get away with it.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah this halloween mask of a person is very well aware of who she's been playing with this whole time, she just thinks now is the time to cut bait on MAGA and set herself up as a new voice.

Just like the 17th century villagers she originally terrorized did, we gotta get the incantations just right for this one to go away.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 hours ago

Hey, guys. I think MAGA might be... bad?

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)


...She thinks this is a problem only just now.

[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

“So many ‘conservatives’ are just salivating over the thought of being able to break windows and openly Sieg Heil in public,” she claimed. “These people hate Trump because he won’t Sieg Heil with them. He won’t scream Alle Juden Raus! And deep down, they hate him for that.”

She really doesn’t get it. Even trump is smart enough to know even he doesn’t have the latitude to “openly Sieg Heil.” The mask has slipped so far from right wing faces that his dumbest supporters think it’s now fine to openly fly their Nazi colors, but the heritage foundation and the like (kochs, Murdoch, et al) are trying to slam on the brakes and pull them back from the brink. But this is a runaway train and she may be right that we’ll have an open Nazi party in ten years time. But she doesn’t seem to grasp the nuance of what’s happening.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah only Elon Musk can openly sieg heil ._.

[–] andxz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He's protected on account of his imaginary wealth. It's all kinds of wrong but it is what it is.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 41 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

More rats sensing the ship is about to sink and scurrying off as fast as they can.

In a few years time, depending on what happens in the next year, you might think that the entire MAGA movement was a hallucination, as it will be next to impossible to find a single person who ever defended it, you won't see anyone who admits to ever having a bumper sticker or flag on their lawn, they will have all up and disappeared like a fart in the wind.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.

Republican politicians aren't leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

You think this is "holding back"? We have death camps in Florida. We have people, citizens even, getting deported to countries they aren't citizens of, or have never lived in. Fuck, my guy, it sure could get worse, but they're not holding back very much, are they.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Uhhh. No. They think the crazies are useful idiots so they platform them and use them to get more power. Then they only disavow if it becomes politically expedient to do so.

So, not "holding back" so much as "actively garnering support for until it isn't valuable to do so any more"

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Thing is each time the sane ones jumped ship leaving room for crazier and crazier leadership. In the meantime the ones that left keep pulling the other side further right.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Those asshats are not from Charlottesville. They invaded it.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

True, my apologies to Charlottesville and VA.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

More rats sensing the ship is about to sink

Nah. Loomer is a chronic attention seeker. She's just saying anything that will get her name in the headlines one more time.

In a few years time, depending on what happens in the next year, you might think that the entire MAGA movement was a hallucination

They've straight up murdered people en mass. They've "doubled Gitmo" with their concentration camps in Honduras and El Salvador and God only knows where. That's not something you can just undo or walk away from.

If MAGA feels like a hallucination in another few years, it is only because of a massive cover-up by the Still Extremely Fascist media. It will be a prelude to another fascist surge and another wave of totalitarian violence.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

That’s not something you can just undo or walk away from.

I don't disagree with any of what you said, I am saying that they will absolutely try to walk away from it, from the ignorant base to the cowardly, evil grifters, pundits and politicians. And largely, it will work. Because American attention spans are shot from being overworked, overstimulated and under-nurished. This country elected Trump twice after some of the highest voter turnouts in history despite his first term being some of the lowest approval ratings of all presidents. That's not a sign of a healthy population.

There is a systemic problem in American society, and while a lot of it is manufactured and deliberately imposed on us, we can all do a lot more to combat it. It requires a lot more involvement and a lot more effort to remind people of atrocities and problems of the past that we're risking repeating over and over.

And I don't mean online either. We have to get a lot more active in the physical world. Talk to people, volunteer, do phone-banking for actual leaders in your community who represent you. We're all stuck on social media sites like this one, screaming into the void and thinking something will change or someone is coming.

Nobody is coming.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You know it's bad when the nazi mouthpiece says there are too many nazis in the nazi party.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 19 points 16 hours ago

We need to find the guy responsible!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 68 points 21 hours ago
[–] shane@feddit.nl 9 points 15 hours ago

It seems like the thing that bothers her is that people won't vote for Nazi's, not that, you know, racism or genocide is a problem.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 20 points 18 hours ago

Is her issue that there's not enough?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

LOL, Laura Loomer:

  1. Says it's not about Israel

I'm thinking she is only saying this now because even if she saw all the Nazi shit before ( and seriously, how could you not?) she was willing to overlook all that as long as the GOP was sufficiently loyal to the very worst shit that Israel was up to. Now that there are a few cracks in that front, she's now worried about all the obvious rampant Nazi shit in her party.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 18 points 18 hours ago

"The GOP has no moral clarity right now"

😂😂😂😂😂

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 21 hours ago

I like how she conveniently left out anything related to actual GOP policy and then had to insult Muslims for no reason. Call me crazy, but something tells me they're gonna continue having a Nazi problem.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

She's achieving self awareness!

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

America used to know how to deal with Nazis back in the 1940s...

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Finally noticed the skull on her hat, did she?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 33 points 22 hours ago

It's peak irony that she would excempt herself from the nazi problem.

But in the end this is still good news - every tiny bit of coherence lost in the MAGA movement. Infighting. Yay!

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

Laura Loomer warns, she's part of the Nazi problem.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 7 points 17 hours ago

Yeah no shit the GOP is nazi

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 13 points 19 hours ago

They've had that problem for at least 50 years. It's just been really fucking obvious for the past 12.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 18 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Isn't she sleeping with the fuhrer?

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

Sat what you will about Laura Loomer but she is an expert in the obvious.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 15 hours ago

The walking plastic surgery malpractice lawsuit is right about something for once

[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago

Just wait until this fucking idiot discovers that when they say "globalists" they mean "Jews".

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