Only months after Donald Trump Jr. floated Laura Loomer as a White House press secretary, Loomer used her platform on Rumble to launch into a half-hour long racist screed against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Somalians living in America, birthright citizenship, and Muslims. Loomer begun the show by referring to Rep. Omar as a "black dog" whose "district is literally Somalia," and claimed that Omar's constituents are "breeding like rabbits. I guess they've never heard of something called birth control. Unfortunate for us. Unfortunate for Western civilization" and "modern-day jihadi welfare queens." After claiming that Rep. Omar's relatives "sleep in caves and have sex with goats in Al-Shabaab," Loomer declared "I really do believe in IQ science," "some of the people that have the lowest IQs are Somalis," and claimed that Rep. Omar is "so inbred that they have an IQ that is legally classified as mental retardation": Loomer also ran with a blatant mistranslation of Omar's speech about the Republic of Somaliland. Later, she also used line taken blatantly out of context of Omar speaking about 9/11.
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They can’t get any more brazen at this point without just using the N-word.
Which I am amazed hasn’t happened yet to be honest.
Because that’s the line that might actually lose them some supporters and they know it. There’s still a pretty big chunk of that camp that likes to pretend “oh, that was out of context” or “oh, they didn’t mean it that way, just about insert specific situation here”. If they go all in with straight up racial slurs those deflections don’t really work anymore.
That being said, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to slip up on that soon because he’s been starting to get a bit unhinged even by his usual standard as of late.
You remember that line from The Boys where Stormfront says
Goddamn were they right about that one. It’s the same as when Alex Jones blames the “globalists” because he knows outright saying “the Jews” is bad.
Many years ago, journalist Jon Ronson did a miniseries in the UK called Secret Rulers of the World. In one episode, he follows around David Icke as he talks about lizard people and asks Icke if he means Jews when he says lizard people and Icke won’t give him a straight answer. In another episode, he follows Alex Jones to Bohemian Gove. When he’s asked if Icke means Jews, Jones’ response was, “well there are Jews and then there are Jews.”
Of course, only those of us in America who are Anglophilic enough to watch such things via sailing the high seas would have heard him say that, and it was long before he was at the level he is now.
If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a podcast called Knowledge Fight that’s devoted to debunking Alex Jones. They even had Jon Ronson on late last year. It’s weird to me to see how prevalent pro-Israel antisemitism hypocrisy is in conspiracy circles, but I guess if they were rational they wouldn’t be conspiracy nuts in the first place.
Exactly, I don’t mean outright intentionally (at first anyway). I’m amazed that Trump or Greene or Boebert… one of the nuts… hasn’t slipped up yet.
Ah, fair. My bet is if it happens, it’ll be mid rant at one of Trumps little fascism pep rallies.
Pretty sure they’re still scared shitless of getting punched in the mouth.
That doesn’t mean they won’t slip up at some point. Especially Trump as his brain turns to Swiss cheese.
If Trump used a hard-R n-word at a rally his support among Republicans would increase, and they’d trot out Tim Scott to say how it’s not a big deal.
No doubt, the people who would absolutely love it would outnumber the ones with any level of concern.