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Tom of Temecula

(1,632 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:04 PM Jan 2024

Laura Loomer Spreads Bonkers Conspiracy Theory That The Deep State Is Making A Snow Storm To Hurt Trump

Trump supporter Laura Loomer thinks that the deep state has created the snow storm in Iowa to hurt Donald Trump. Unfortunately, these bonkers “theories” start out with the Laura Loomers of the Right and soon find themselves being parroted by conservative media and Republican voters. After all, she has 780.6K followers on Twitter.

Before we dive into Loomer’s “thoughts” such as they are, it’s important to note that she says she has been “banned permanently on Instagram and Facebook since 2019 because Facebook said she was a terrorist and a “DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL.” Naturally, she is on Elon Musk’s X, where she poses as a journalist (she was a former Project Veritas “operative”) who announces “Scoops” that are previously known news pieces like polls she didn’t conduct, amidst general conspiracy theories and rage posting at “establishment” Republicans.

Loomer thinks, and I use that word ironically, that the deep state created this snow storm to hurt Donald Trump and help Nikki Haley. “Is the Deep State activating HAARP to disrupt the Iowa Caucus?

We all know @NikkiHaley has a lot of friends in the defense industry and Military industrial complex. She’s losing in Iowa, and now Iowa is set to get hit with a ONCE IN A DECADE blizzard as Donald Trump is set to dominate the Iowa Caucus.

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/01/12/trump-supporter-spreads-bonkers-conspiracy-theory-that-the-deep-state-is-making-a-snow-storm-to-hurt-trump.html

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Clash City Rocker

(3,546 posts)
1. On the other hand, she recently said that if Trump isn't the candidate
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:06 PM
Jan 2024

She won’t vote, and will tell her followers not to vote. So she’s not all bad.

Traildogbob

(13,018 posts)
5. Wow
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jan 2024

So Gawd is NOT in control. He conceded to libs.
Cool, let’s take that control and rid the world of MAGA’s with that God Given power.
He/she works in strange ways for sure.

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
2. HAARP Gets Around, Sir
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:07 PM
Jan 2024

There were folk here who, in the wake of the Indonesian tsunami in 2004, maintaining in all apparent seriousness, and at great length, that HAARP caused the earthquake, under direction of something never quite clear to all....

Maru Kitteh

(31,763 posts)
16. I'm sure you've noticed it's the same types, reinforcing yet again the "horseshoe" theory
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 02:35 PM
Jan 2024

of where the left meets the right, as with antisemitism. Generally populist types with a strong innate need for heroes and villains and very little tolerance for gray areas or nuance. These characteristics combined with restless boredom, magical thinking and a lack of willingness to seek accurate information that may conflict with their chosen paradigm make them ripe targets for propagandists and conspiracy theorists.

Biophilic

(6,552 posts)
3. You know, eventually the lies and conspiracy theories are going to get even too much for the MAGAs.
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:08 PM
Jan 2024

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Code Magenta! Repeat, Code Magenta!
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:08 PM
Jan 2024

This is not a drill. Loomer's onto us. Dismantle the ferris wheel, close the midway! Code Magenta!

JHB

(38,213 posts)
6. I was thinking "Didn't she used to be considered legit?" but then checked. I was thinking of someone else.
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jan 2024

This one's been Loony from the get-go.

jcgoldie

(12,046 posts)
9. Yeah I always confuse her by name with Lara Logan
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:49 PM
Jan 2024

... used to be a serious journalist but now a far right hack.

 

Carlitos Brigante

(26,848 posts)
15. Lara Logan? At least I think thats the name. Who lost her shit the past decade and a half. nt
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 02:04 PM
Jan 2024

DBoon

(24,988 posts)
10. MAGA believes in witchcraft
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 01:13 PM
Jan 2024

If something bad happens, it must be that liberal Democrat neighbor that cast a spell on you.

Car won't start? Must be evil magic.

The solution is to burn the offending party at the stake.

We are rapidly going back to the 16th century

 

SarahD

(1,732 posts)
12. OK but is it special secret snow?
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 01:46 PM
Jan 2024

Remember the secret snow several years ago? We saw videos of people trying to melt snow with Bic lighters and getting all excited when it didn't melt. They said the snow was chemically altered, electrically charged, voodoo cursed, and so on. They blamed the CIA, FBI, deep state, the devil, or whatever. We live in a country where nothing, literally nothing, can happen unless secret dark forces are responsible.

CanonRay

(16,171 posts)
17. If we really could do this
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 04:57 PM
Jan 2024

don't you think one of us would have struck TFG with lightning by now?

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