On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Laura Loomer, an anti-Muslim hatemonger, conspiracy theoriest, and general example of what would happen if you fed a cave full of bats Chipotle and Ex-Lax. More importantly, we’re profiling this bigot because she was also a Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida’s 21st Congressional District in 2020, looking to challenge Democratic Congresswoman Lois Frankel.
Now, if her name sounds familiar, that might be because you remember she’s vile enough in her opinions that she has been banned from virtually every social media platform, including Twitter, which is a TALL order in today’s world. And yet, she managed to pull of that achievement after repeatedly defending Islamophobia as “rational” and that Islam is “cancer”, before she finally sealed her ban by harassing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with Islamophobic posts (among them accusing her of marrying her own brother to gain citizenship), and responded to her Twitter ban by marching on the company’s headquarters, handcuffing herself in a door while wearing a Star of David like what the Nazis would have put on Jews during the Third Reich, and comparing her treatment to “the Holocaust” while also accusing Twitter of carrying out a double-standard for banning people like Alex Jones (deranged conspiracy theorist), Milo Yianappolous (white nationalist that advocated for pedophilia), and Roger Stone (convicted felon and general right wing nut job) that showed they supported Sharia Law (she is bugs*** crazy, don’t try to make sense of that).
While Loomer thought this would be a great inconvenience to Twitter, they ignored her and went about their workday. Having been determined enough in her silly idea of a “protest”, Loomer forgot to bring a key to her own handcuffs and soon realized she had trapped herself, and nobody was coming to get her. The NYPD showed up and just put a barricade around her and let her know they weren’t removing her until Twitter asked to press charges, and they said they had no plans to. At that point, Loomer started listing her demands to the police which amounted to, ”I’m not saying people shouldn’t be banned but why are they banning me? … I think there’s a double standard. It’s egregious, Dorsey thinks I’m a terrorist. I’m not a terrorist If I have to, I’ll pee on myself. I haven’t eaten or drunken today.” Of course, that’s sillier and far less scary when she threatens suicide over being banned from social media platforms.
This is the sort of idiocy and faux victimhood you would expect from someone who once worked for alt-right provocateur James O’Keefe at Project Veritas, and who got suspended from Barry University for trying to start a “Humanitarian Club” that supported ISIS. (They got caught trying to create the thing that they would be outraged at the university for “creating”, as is often the case with James O’Keefe funded “journalism”.) Meanwhile, she has compared CNN to ISIS.
Loomer has denied being a white nationalist because she’s Jewish, but she repeatedly defends other white nationalists and their policies, and can, in the same sentence, use her background in defense and then immediately go into spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros being a Nazi collaborator. Loomer files frivolous lawsuits against people who have the nerve to ban her from their social media platform or mock her deranged behavior online.
Terrifyingly, Loomer actually won the GOP Primary for Florida’s 21st, but only got 39% of the vote in the general election against Lois Frankel. Post-election, Loomer of course spent the rest of 2020 leaning into the narrative that there was massive voter fraud that somehow made her lose by 20 points, adding fuel to the fire that was Donald Trump and Republicans’ “Big Lie” would eventually engulf the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th. Perhaps then it should be little surprise that when Trump finally put out the video to his supporters to tell them, “It’s over. Life is about to get very hard for conservatives in America.”
And yet… she still is reappearing to ambush the CEO of Twitter to accuse HIM of “election meddling” and further that conspiracy theory. She’s still allied with several people implicated in the planning of January 6th, including being close enough to Roger Stone to have him claim… and hold your lunch for this… he was “freezing my sperm for Laura Loomer”.
In January of 2021, Loomer also started to dig in hard on anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, and downplay the threat of Covid-19. The most damning quote was, far and away:
”I hope I get COVID so I can prove to people I’ve had bouts of food poisoning that are more serious and life threatening than a hyped up virus,“ she posted on December 30, 2020. "Have you ever eaten bad fajitas? That will kill you faster than COVID.”
Spoiler alert, nine months later, she got Covid-19, and a case bad enough to hospitalize her because she believes her own bulls*** and refused to get vaccinated. Which may have been why she claimed she was being treated with hydroxychloroquine, even though it was known as not an effective treatment for Covid-19 for months. She did insist that she would not be getting vaccinated, because in her warped mind, it was unsafe and ineffective”.
Truly, a veteran of Project Veritas.
Well, here’s our update… Laura Loomer will not go away, and has decided to carpet-bag her way over to Florida’s 11th Congressional District for a 2022 challenge Republican Congressman Daniel Webster, who has held onto his own very red seat for some time now. While we have no love for Webster, we have to think that the choice between him and Loomer being in Congress is like having the choice between being shot with a gun, or shot with a cannon. Keep your fingers crossed that he chooses to run for re-election, because if he doesn’t… it might line up for Loomer to head to DC to party with Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
One Year Ago, February 2nd, 2021: Enrique Tarrio (FL)
Two Years Ago, February 2nd, 2020: Laura Loomer (FL)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, February 2nd, 2019: Rob Schaaf (MO)
Four Years Ago, February 2nd, 2018: Brandon Hixon (ID)
Five Years Ago, February 2nd, 2017: Jennifer Carroll (FL)
Six Years Ago. February 2nd, 2016: David Rivera (FL)
Seven Years Ago, February 2nd, 2015: Pat Bertroche (IA)