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How Donald Trump Got Loomered

Politics / September 13, 2024

How Donald Trump Got Loomered

Laura Loomer’s strange journey from stalker to unofficial Trump confidant.

Jeet Heer

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Laura Loomer, a right wing pundit and supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump gathers outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal where Trump is scheduled to be arraigned on June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida.(Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)

On April 3, at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump spotted in the audience a woman his aides were desperate to keep away from him: the far-right provocateur and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer. Even in MAGA circles, Loomer is regarded as a loose cannon who loves to get attention from inflammatory comments that undermine the Republican party. But Trump doesn’t share the squeamishness of conventional politicians. In fact he gave a shout out to Loomer, saluting her as “a woman with courage.” Trump added an important caution: 

You don’t want to be Loomered. If you’re Loomered, you’re in big trouble. It’s the end of your career, in a sense!

Yet despite this wise warning, Trump is allowing himself to be Loomered. In the face of considerable opposition from Trump’s other advisors, Loomer has emerged as an important advisor to the former president. She flew with Trump down to Philadelphia when he debated Kamala Harris. Loomer was part of the small entourage that accompanied Trump to an event in New York memorializing the 9/11 terrorist attack. Trump’s attendance at the commemoration raised eyebrows, since he had previously argued 9/11 was an “inside job.”

Trump’s coinage “Loomered” is a curious word. It seems to mean something like “being made a pariah for provocative speech.” That is something Loomer herself has often experienced. In 2017, she responded to the statement that 2,000 migrants had died crossing the Mediterranean that year by quipping, “Good. 👏 Here is to 2,000 more.” That same year she appeared on a podcast called Nationalist Public Radio and affirmed that she was “pro-white nationalism,” adding:

But there’s a difference between white nationalism and white supremacy. Right? And a lot of liberals and left-wing globalist Marxist Jews don’t understand that…So this country really was built as the white Judeo-Christian ethnostate, essentially. Over time, immigration and all these calls for diversity, it’s starting to destroy this country.

Because of her bigoted comments, she’s been banned on various occasions from a wide variety of platforms, financial services and transportation companies including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Lyft and Uber. Loomer’s persona non grata status with the last two companies arose out of her demand that she be served by non-Muslim drivers.

Presidential candidates usually stay away from avid white nationalists, but Trump clearly sees such open racists as an important part of his coalition. This is why in November 2022 Trump dined with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the antisemitic musician Kanye West.

Trump had actually proposed hiring Loomer to join his staff in the spring of 2023. As The New York Times reported on April 7, 2023:

Some of Mr. Trump’s aides were said to have concerns that such a hire would cause a backlash, given her history of inflammatory statements and her embrace of the Republican Party’s fringes.

That proved to be correct: The New York Times’s report on the potential hire ignited a firestorm among some of Mr. Trump’s most vocal conservative supporters, and by late Friday, a high-ranking campaign official said Ms. Loomer was no longer going to be hired.

 

But Loomer has the indefatigable energy and go-getting spirit of the true fanatic—or perhaps the true self-promoter. Even as Trump’s aides worked to keep her at bay, she was able to use her connections with other far-right allies in Trump’s circle to keep herself in the eyes of a former president. In the classic Anita Loos novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) the gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee (played by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film adaptation) has a preternatural skill for capturing the eyes of wealthy men. Although Loomer is interested (it seems) in political conquests rather than romantic ones, she and Loos’s heroine have a similar set of tactics.  Loomer may not be a blonde (she has ink-black hair, enlivened by red highlights) but she could teach Lorelei Lee a thing or two.

In a superb profile of Loomer published in The Washington Post on May 3, reporter Kara Voght made clear that Loomer’s behavior shaded into that of a stalker. As Voght recounts:

It would be easy enough for Laura Loomer to prove how much she means to Donald Trump. She just needed a way for us to bump into him.

The plan: Leave Vero Beach at 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning. That would give us enough time to swing by Starbucks — “I’m not one of those conservatives who hates Starbucks,” Loomer said — and hit Interstate 95 southbound as rush hour waned. Arrive at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach around 11:30 a.m.; her name would be on the list, as a guest of a club member who routinely plays golf with the former president. Head to the oak-paneled dining room, or maybe the veranda, for lunch. Trump would finish his round of golf not long after that. If he came by the dining area — though he often came by the dining area — he would say hello.

That plan didn’t come off, but on other occasions Loomer was able to get Trump’s attention.  Loomer’s success in worming her way into Trump’s court is due to a psychological quirk of the former president. Trump, found by a court to be liable for sexual assault, is often rough on women but has no desire for reciprocal treatment. Quite the reverse: he loves to be pampered by women and has created a harem of handmaidens tasked with soothing him. In the past, the role of Trump-pamperer has been held by figures such as Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks. Loomer was smart enough to realize there was an opening for a new handmaiden.

Normally politicians and celebrities don’t seek out the company of their stalkers, but Trump remains unique. As a part of Trump’s inner circle, Loomer is already causing divisions, since her racism is too overt even for many MAGA politicians who themselves are seen as incendiary. Last Sunday, Loomer posted a picture of the young Kamala Harris with her family. Loomer commented:

If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.

 

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, hardly an emblem of woke culture, denounced this post as “appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump.”

Loomer then counter-attacked by claiming Greene herself was a racist who liked to use the n-word. Loomer also brought up Greene’s comments about Jewish space lasers and for good measure accused Greene of adultery and having an intimate relationship with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

 

Responding to criticism from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Loomer characterized the lawmaker as a closeted gay man.

Loomer’s ability to create rifts in the GOP is wonderful news for Democrats. As the famous meme from a Godzilla movie says, “let them fight.”

The fact that Trump has taken Loomer into his fold as an ad-hoc advisor is proof of how central racism and xenophobia are to his presidential bid. But Loomer’s lack of control and propensity for inter-party squabbling could hurt the former president. Trump has Loomered himself—and we should hope the Loomering continues.

 

 

From Hope Hicks to Laura Loomer is quite a fall

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:

Another data point, pointed out to me by a woman, of course: He's not wearing a wedding ring. And you can tell by the hat the image isn't flipped.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not sure he's ever worn a wedding ring.

 

2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

 

 

 

If you're the Harris campaign what do you do as far as publicizing this?

If you say a vote for Trump is a vote for Vance what happens?  Does it energize MAGA, Confuse them, piss them off?  I don't think the Harris campaign should do anything but I know I might use it to tweak my MAGA relatives.

 

Honestly, I'd leave things as they are. The way things are going, Harris is in a comfortable position. Could be a lot of "Never Trumpers" or others who are very squeamish about pulling the lever for Trump that might not have as hard a time if they thought JD was going to take over in short order. These people don't do a deep enough dive to know how big of an uninspiring punchbowl turd that JD is. They just see a fresh, young face who is racist AF just like they are.

 

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Wait Loomer is 31 years old?

Unbelievable isn't it?

 

2 hours ago, The Dog said:

LOL

 

Simply amazing.

 

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Last year, (Loomer) said she would "gladly" serve as press secretary in a Trump White House.

If Trump wins, and the ship's going down anyways, yeah, sure, why not? I'd be down for that. Daily press conferences would be absolutely bonkers.

 

 

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edited the quote to better ID that crazy Jigsaw-resembling bitch is who it was about
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7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

From Hope Hicks to Laura Loomer is quite a fall

Hicks wasn't letting that dirty old fucker get anywhere near her naughty parts.

 

 

She was saving herself for (checks notes) ... Corey Lewandowski. What was the question again?

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12 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Hey Mario…that’s what we’ve been saying. For damned near a decade now. About all the fools who are in the thrall of a game show host with numerous photo spreads of his gold furniture and crap. Jesus, every accusation really IS a confession for these abject morons.

If the celebrity gossip industrial complex didn't exist, he would have ended up like Dustin Diamond

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1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

And when in doubt, ask a local!

as for Trump banging Loomer, i'm not gonna cast aspersions on Donnie.  when i'm 78, if i'm overweight, wear a diaper, have B.O., and in a loveless marriage, and a 31 year old starts throwing some leg at me, even if she looks like a Sleestak, i can't say i would turn it down.

Not turn it down but at least turn it over. 

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WaPo has an article about the Harris/Walz digital rapid response team. https://archive.ph/dX2tg In the Tech section, so has the feel of a feature, and not political.

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It's interesting all the way through. The conclusion gives me the expectation that not only will they find creatives uses on tiktok and insta to drive turnout, they'll be effective in doing so.

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1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

Goddammit. I got shit to do at work. I can't jump into bizarro world sitting here in the parking lot of a warehouse.

 

The rest of us are going to do that today, so you should just say fuck it and join the party

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5 hours ago, LTbear said:

Look, I'm gonna be honest... I make my chili with a shitload of spice, but it also includes cinnamon, brown sugar, and is slow-cooked in an entire 6 pack of stout beer until the liquid burns off. And it's good as shit. (No beans, obviously). 

 

Hate me if you must. 

Not hate, just a fact. Cooks used to use spices like cinnamon and clove to mask the flavor of poor quality meats.

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2 hours ago, Bojack said:

Even the most committed ledge dwellers never saw that coming. Anyone that had predicted that 2 months ago would have been dismissed as out of their mind. 

Ahem.  As a senior member of the ledge dwellers' officer corps and glee squad....I predicted that his campaign was only going to go further down the rabbit hole.  Their sole strategy is to motivate and "inspire" the true-believer base.  And to do that...you go even more "true-believer."  Loomer, and more like her, are a stone-cold lock for this campaign.  It's what MAGA is.

2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

They're definitely grifters, but it speaks to a larger issue that we're seeing in our society in general. 

There's an epidemic with people that will not will accept or absorb any genuine criticism. They choose to ignore accountability for saying or doing stupid shit and instead gravitate to a group that will fully embrace them. This is how people end up in MAGA as well.

The number of people that hold themselves accountable for their actions is dwindling fast. And it's a fucking disaster. 

PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!  EXCEPT OUR ENTIRE BELIEF SYSTEM IS TO BLAME OTHER PEOPLE FOR EVERYTHING SHITTY IN OUR LIVES!  AND WE'RE INCAPABLE OF EVER ADMITTING WE WERE WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING AND....TAKING ANY RESPONSIBILITY!

If the results and shitshow they've subjected us to wasn't so serious, this would be fucking hysterical.  Every MAGA voter is a walking bowl of runny-shit-speckled cognitive dissonance.  Even the "smartest" among them have a lengthy record of saying "Trump is indeed an insane pile of shit," now topped with their position of "and there is nothing I love doing more than gobbling Trump's crank."  They are pathetic, stupid, and loathsome.  Why we haven't launched a viral campaign of "TRUE PATRIOTS DRINK HEMLOCK!" I just don't understand.

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2 hours ago, G650 said:

Sadly, Hungary was nice. I hate what's happened to it. Budapest is a wonderful city.

Agreed; but it always had an element of darkness.  I'm never going back there.

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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Ahem.  As a senior member of the ledge dwellers' officer corps and glee squad....I predicted that his campaign was only going to go further down the rabbit hole.  Their sole strategy is to motivate and "inspire" the true-believer base.  And to do that...you go even more "true-believer."  Loomer, and more like her, are a stone-cold lock for this campaign.  It's what MAGA is.

If 6 weeks ago, you had predicted that Loomer specifically would've been joining the inner circle of Trump's campaign, helping prepare for the debate, and joining him at events like 9 11 memorials, you'd have been dismissed as a @Helobious sock.

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1 minute ago, Born to Run said:

Agreed; but it always had an element of darkness.  I'm never going back there.

My favorite Hungary story is from 25 years ago, I was working with a much senior attorney.  He was old, but incredibly smart and well-read.  And for some reason, he went OFF on Hungary.  His closing, most-denigrating remark?  "For pete's sake....THEY DON'T EVEN SPEAK AN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE!!!"

That just always struck me as a damned funny reason to shit on a country.

But in Hungary's case, it seems it's deserved.

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2 minutes ago, Bojack said:

If 6 weeks ago, you had predicted that Loomer specifically would've been joining the inner circle of Trump's campaign, helping prepare for the debate, and joining him at events like 9 11 memorials, you'd have been dismissed as a @Helobious sock.

I mean...I think her presence/role is squarely within the Brisket Rules of 1) there is no bottom, and 2) it only gets worse.  She is the living embodiment of those rules, actually.

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2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

They're definitely grifters, but it speaks to a larger issue that we're seeing in our society in general. 

There's an epidemic with people that will not will accept or absorb any genuine criticism. They choose to ignore accountability for saying or doing stupid shit and instead gravitate to a group that will fully embrace them. This is how people end up in MAGA as well.

The number of people that hold themselves accountable for their actions is dwindling fast. And it's a fucking disaster. 

They're always victims.  You know, the real pull yourself up by your bootstrap types.  

 

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

And he absolutely is banging her, because she is giving him more attention and sending more smiles his way than we've ever seen Melania do in the last 8 years.

How many male politicians/execs/faculty have their arm around another woman's, a failed politician but publicity hound, waist today, in the age of accusations?  She has everything to gain and he has everything to lose.  She loses nothing--she's at ground level.  But here it is, for all to see, an idiot and a soon to be publicity wealthy idiot.  

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13 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

This week Vance also appeared on a podcast and called this election an extension of the Civil War, and said he was running on the side of the Confederacy. You'd think that might make the news, too.

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Just now, Chopper said:

This week Vance also appeared on a podcast and called this election an extension of the Civil War, and said he was running on the side of the Confederacy. You'd think that might make the news, too.

I mean, at this point every media outlet in the country doesn't have the collective capacity to keep up with the idiotic-to-infuriating things that come out of that weirdo's mounth

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2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

MAGA does not travel to Europe in any large numbers but I hear Hungary is nice.

LOL funny enough, my MAGA mom just landed in Rome - first time.  "Oh my god, it's filthy.  And congested! Waited my whole life to come here and it's gross"

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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/13/congress/house-centrists-vow-to-certify-2024-election-00178945

Assuming these 6 stay on board, MAGA reps would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

 

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More than 30 House members, including a half-dozen Republicans, have signed a bipartisan pledge to uphold the results of the 2024 election amid an increased focus on Congress' role in certifying the tally next January.

A pair of House centrists, Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), have worked for months to organize what they’re calling a “unity commitment” — an agreement to “safeguard the fairness and integrity” of this fall’s presidential election.

 

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Five other Republicans also signed on: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) and Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.).

None of the six Republicans who signed the pledge voted against certifying the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. (Several of them were not yet in office.) A total of 139 House Republicans did vote against certifying President Joe Biden's victory.

 

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In addition to vowing to certify the election and attend the inauguration ceremony in person, the lawmakers will also speak up as “a voice for calm and reconciliation" and speak out "against those who endorse or engage in violence.”

“In America we respect election results especially once the courts and appeals work through the process,” Bacon said in a statement. “We fight hard to win during campaigns and then respect the results when the votes are counted.”

 

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In his third presidential run, former President Donald Trump has continued to insist that he did not lose the election in 2020 — stoking fear that he may again encourage his supporters to block certification of the election next January if he loses for a second time. Trump and his allies have also continued to raise unfounded alarms about voter fraud that could impact the election.

But some Republicans have also pointed to comments from Democrats such as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who has questioned whether Trump would be legally qualified even if he did win the election under the Constitution. Raskin has pointed to the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars people who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding office — though the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that enforcing that clause lies solely with Congress.

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/13/congress/house-centrists-vow-to-certify-2024-election-00178945

Assuming these 6 stay on board, MAGA reps would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

 

 

 

 

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In his third presidential run, former President Donald Trump has continued to insist that he did not lose the election in 2020 — stoking fear that he may again encourage his supporters to block certification of the election next January if he loses for a second time. Trump and his allies have also continued to raise unfounded alarms about voter fraud that could impact the election.

But some Republicans have also pointed to comments from Democrats such as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who has questioned whether Trump would be legally qualified even if he did win the election under the Constitution. Raskin has pointed to the Fourteenth Amendment, which bars people who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding office — though the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that enforcing that clause lies solely with Congress.

 

 

 

 

They'll bail.  All GQP are MAGA.  All. Of. Them. If they are in office still as GQP, they will come home to do what MAGAs do.

Never trust a Republican to do the right thing.  On anything.  Ever.  After what has happened to that party, after all that they know now, there is no painting it any other way: if you are still a Republican, you cannot be trusted.

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13 hours ago, Foosters said:

Isn't Mario Lopez's "job" being a host of a TV show that talks about what celebrities are doing?

 

13 hours ago, mdmost said:

This asshole has worked for over a decade for Access Hollywood. He works for a show that obsesses over celebrities and sells to the masses that they should also be obsessed with celebrities.

there's a reason he was cast as the airhead jock on SBtB and not much after that.

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4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Assuming these 6 stay on board, MAGA reps would be unable to block the certification of the election given the current numbers in the House of Representatives.

 

Well yeah, but you only need 87 House members to challenge a state's electoral votes (and 20 Senators). 

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28 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

The NY Times article on this is a bothsides shitrag with the headline, I shit you not, "When Political Memes Take on a Lie of Their Own." 

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean...I think her presence/role is squarely within the Brisket Rules of 1) there is no bottom, and 2) it only gets worse.  She is the living embodiment of those rules, actually.

And here we can insert the puppy killer governor from West Dakota - in Pennsylvania with Trump today.   Because nothing produces more positive energy among Pennsylvanians than shooting your puppy.

Yins agree?

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42 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

My favorite Hungary story is from 25 years ago, I was working with a much senior attorney.  He was old, but incredibly smart and well-read.  And for some reason, he went OFF on Hungary.  His closing, most-denigrating remark?  "For pete's sake....THEY DON'T EVEN SPEAK AN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE!!!"

That just always struck me as a damned funny reason to shit on a country.

But in Hungary's case, it seems it's deserved.

Sounds like he was a cunning linguist.

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31 minutes ago, Js1 said:

LOL funny enough, my MAGA mom just landed in Rome - first time.  "Oh my god, it's filthy.  And congested! Waited my whole life to come here and it's gross"

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Tell her it's because of the mafia.

She would prefer Northern Italy for its cleanliness thanks to it not being controlled by the mafia, but instead by-  /dramatic pause/

the illuminati.

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My 6am thoughts: JD Vance was the plan for President by the #HeritageFoundation all along. It was NEVER about Trump. Please realize that the Republicans are good at one thing — besides greed, racism and hatred — and it’s the long game for ultimate power. I couldn’t figure out WHY that weirdo was SO cocky with his hatefulness. It’s because he KNOWS HE will be President a month after a Trump inauguration. 25th Amendment, baby. Also: The corrupt and bought Supreme Court created immunity for VANCE, not Trump. What Vance and Thiel and the Heritage Foundation have planned will need it. All Trump needs is a broad pardon that will keep him out of jail. Staying out of jail was his only goal in running. He’s already got the secrets to sell to get more money. Y’all better realize what’s actually happening and get everybody you know to vote #HarrisWalz! You think a Trump Presidency is bad. Take 40 years off him and add more malevolent evil. Vance also isn’t dumb. He’s arrogant, unscrupulous & charm-free. But he’s not dumb. Which makes Vance WAY more dangerous. His whole life he’s shape-shifted to fit the agenda & his goals. His look, his name…even his preferences & proclivities are mutable. HE’s the snake. THINK, people. Make sure you and your friends are registered and vote like your life and the freedoms you love depend on it. They DO ! Let’s go!

 

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