I understand listening to Fox News hosts and mid-2010s "skeptic" and alt-right YouTube figures, because we tend to subconsciously gravitate toward names we already recognize. But who is actually a Laura Loomer fan? I've come across enough obviously fake "Laura Loomer Fan Page" sock puppet accounts across conservative platforms and niches now that the question feels worth asking directly.Do Laura Loomer fans even actually exist?
The first time I heard her name, Jim "Metokur" was covering a moment where she'd blamed a flat tire on "the libs," back in 2015. She'd also crashed some sort of "Shakespeare in the Park" performance with a megaphone, purely for notoriety. Her obnoxious, attention-seeking behavior got her immediately declared a "lolcow" and written off by the broader alt-right sphere at the time.
She has always come off as the "ugly girl" punchline of Con, Inc. Like Pearl Davis, Laura carries an air of misery and wretchedness that makes her a pitifully easy target for mockery. She's lost both of her congressional runs, she's been banned from nearly every major platform, and by her own account she's struggled to keep basic services like Uber and PayPal running. And yet, somehow, she keeps turning up in photos next to people who actually hold real political power and influence. She has real, documented proximity to Trump.
So what's actually going on with Laura Loomer? Is she as botched of an industry plant as the plastic surgery that's left her looking like Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy? A plastic person manufactured for a role that never quite fit her, propped up by her handlers rather than any earned credibility or talent of her own?
The first time I heard her name, Jim "Metokur" was covering a moment where she'd blamed a flat tire on "the libs," back in 2015. She'd also crashed some sort of "Shakespeare in the Park" performance with a megaphone, purely for notoriety. Her obnoxious, attention-seeking behavior got her immediately declared a "lolcow" and written off by the broader alt-right sphere at the time.
She has always come off as the "ugly girl" punchline of Con, Inc. Like Pearl Davis, Laura carries an air of misery and wretchedness that makes her a pitifully easy target for mockery. She's lost both of her congressional runs, she's been banned from nearly every major platform, and by her own account she's struggled to keep basic services like Uber and PayPal running. And yet, somehow, she keeps turning up in photos next to people who actually hold real political power and influence. She has real, documented proximity to Trump.
So what's actually going on with Laura Loomer? Is she as botched of an industry plant as the plastic surgery that's left her looking like Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy? A plastic person manufactured for a role that never quite fit her, propped up by her handlers rather than any earned credibility or talent of her own?
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