- I don't have a weapon
on me, you can check me.
I am not a violent individual.
I'm just a conservative, okay?
- [PJ Evans] That's Laura Loomer.
I'm PJ Evans, and this is the
story of how a total outsider
- Laura Loomer's got the biggest
goddamn balls of them all.
- Her balls are (bleep) huge.
in Tucson, Arizona to a Jewish family.
As an 8-year-old, Loomer's
politics began to take shape
after 9/11, thanks to Bush era propaganda.
Loomer explains,
Which must of made her super fun
to hang out with on the playground.
"Trade ya my Blastoise
for your Charizard".
"Sorry, all I can offer is a two
of hearts Osama bin Laden."
Loomer abandoned the
barren desert for a college
in Massachusetts,
because she claims she felt
Loomer said.
But, you know, she totally has
a great personality otherwise
and would have had a ton
of friends, for sure.
She then moved south to Florida where
There Loomer hosted the
university's news station.
- [Laura Loomer] It's
not just how you dress,
it's not just how you dress,
you want to make a statement
about yourself in the interview.
So here are our few...
Okay.
- (Unidentified speaker)
Just keep on going.
- Okay.
- When she wasn't hosting
the funniest show on earth,
Loomer, in her own words, was known as the
at Barry.
In 2014, Loomer tipped off a Florida blog
about how an imam had been
Loomer said.
The next year
by secretly recording herself
talking to university
officials about starting a club
on campus called
Despite the school's
wishes, as Slate notes,
In another failed publicity stunt,
Loomer attempted to get the
Clinton campaign to taking
legal money, violating
campaign finance laws,
but it backfired and Loomer
was caught and exposed.
On the day of the 2016
Presidential Election,
Loomer went to a polling
place dressed in a burqa
and
who as Forward notes
But it was her next move
that launched her into the
alt right spotlight.
In 2017, Loomer stormed
the stage of Shakespeare
in the Park's production of Julius Caesar,
in which the titular character
bore a resemblance to Trump.
Loomer, live on Periscope,
took the stage and screamed,
but by the end of the night
who just the previous night
offered the money to anyone
who would disrupt the play.
- This has been very important to me
because the left has
systematically and programmatically
used free speech and artistic
expression as a pretext
to incite violence against the right,
and promote the assassination
of President Donald Trump.
- [PJ Evans] Loomer has
also been a contributor
to the conspiracy theory they then quote,
unquote, news site info wars,
where she sit out to
discredit the survirors of the
Parkland High School shooting in Florida.
She tweeted,
She also often appeared
on Alex Jones's show.
- They're cowards,
they're keyboard warriors,
and unlike them I actually
take the fight to the streets
and I get in people's
faces and confront them
because I'm not a (bleep).
- [PJ Evans] While Loomer has
taken the fight to the streets
she also made her fair share
of racist remarks on Twitter
before she was ultimately
banned from the platform.
In 2017, she tweeted,
And
And,
And
She has also frequently
attacked congresswoman
Ilhan Omar on Instagram.
One post said,
A week after getting banned from Twitter,
- [Bystander] Laura why didn't you
handcuff yourself to both doors?
- [PJ Evans] But this wasn't
Loomer's last pit stop
to a platform's headquarters.
After getting banned from Facebook,
Loomer went to their
lobby to try to meet with
- [Laura Loomer] I mean, you
have full blown communist
propaganda on the walls up there, okay?
Equality.
Justice.
I mean they are not even
trying to hide the fact
that they're biased.
- [PJ Evans] Loomer is
currently banned from
Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, PayPal,
Venmo, GoFundMe, Chase Bank,
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
Medium, and CPAP.
But luckily for her,
Venmo has higher standards
than the United States Congress.
In August of 2019, Loomer
announced that she would be
running for a republican
seat in the House.
A year later, without the
push from social media,
which happens to be
the district that represents
Trump's Mar-a-Largo resort.
She received endorsements
from Florida congressman
Matt Gates, convicted
criminal Roger Stone,
and a certain former
state's salesman turned
President of the United States.
Donald J. Trump retweeted
at least four posts
about Loomer's win and
even tweeted himself,
- And when I win my race in November,
I'll be the youngest
woman ever elected to the
United States Congress. (Cheering)
- [PJ Evans] Laura Loomer,
much like a stain an
unwanted stain on a favorite
shirt isn't going anywhere.
Attempts to get out damned
spot appeared to only fuel
interest in her unique brand
of Islamophobic hatred.
Assign that deep-pockets
endorse her hate too.
And now, Loomer is just
near votes away from sitting in congress,
legislating on behalf
of all American people.
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