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Sunday, September 15, 2024

"They're Eating The Pets", Laura Loomer, The Stupidity Loop Oh My!

Tangerine Palpatine has Finally Found his Eva Braun


Moving forward on all blogs with Donald Trump - we will be referring to him as Tangerine Palpatine.


The rise of Tangerine Palpatine brought with it a new era of political idiocy, where lies and conspiracy theories became mainstream currency for his most fervent supporters. Enter Laura Loomer, a prime example of how far-right grifters, desperate for relevance, latch onto the Tangerine Palpatine train, embracing a "stupidity loop" that keeps misinformation churning for an audience more interested in outrage than reality. The lie that immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, perfectly captures this moronic cycle—a tale so absurd it should’ve died instantly, but instead, it spread like wildfire among Tangerine Palpatine supporters, revealing the intellectual rot at the core of MAGA culture.

The so-called pet-eating immigrants' rumor, devoid of any basis in fact, was a symptom of the broader MAGA disease—a pathological need to demonize the "other" to justify their xenophobic and often racist agenda. Instead of embracing reality, Tangerine Palpatine and his followers, including fringe mouthpieces like Loomer, peddled fantasy, doubling down on fabrications because they knew their audience would eat it up. This is the stupidity loop in action: feed the base an outlandish claim, watch as they regurgitate it across social media, and then reinforce the lie with more lies. Facts? Who needs them when ignorance is your currency?

Laura Loomer, is a deviant fuck, a relentless attention-seeker with a penchant for bigotry, epitomizes this loop. Her career is a cesspool of Islamophobia, immigrant-bashing, and sheer idiocy. She has never let truth get in the way of a good grift, and Trumpism provided her with the perfect audience—people who are not only willing but eager to believe the most asinine, fact-free claims. The idea that immigrants are coming to America to feast on household pets is so patently ridiculous, yet in the MAGA echo chamber, it became just one more "truth" in their alternate universe where Trump walks on water and immigrants are demonic invaders.

This idiocy isn’t harmless. It's part of the calculated narrative that Tangerine Palpatine and his minions, including Loomer, use to manipulate their followers. The Springfield pet-eating hoax was deployed to whip up fear, making immigrants out to be savage threats to American life. But the real savagery is the intellectual wasteland that Trump and his cult-like movement have created, where followers reject reality for the comforting delusion that they’re the last bastion of civilization, fighting off hordes of barbaric invaders. It’s as stupid as it sounds, but MAGA thrives on stupidity.

Tangerine Palpatine, of course, has mastered the stupidity loop. From his claims that Mexico would pay for the wall to his constant fearmongering about immigrant "rapists" and "criminals," he’s built his empire on lies. When a figure like Laura Loomer amplifies these falsehoods, she’s just one more cog in the MAGA machine—a machine that runs on ignorance, paranoia, and racism. The Springfield lie was another tool in Tangerine Palpatine's arsenal to stoke division, and Loomer was only too happy to carry the torch, proving once again that in Tangerine Palpatine’s America, stupidity isn’t a bug; it’s a feature.

The fact that so many people bought into the idea of immigrants eating pets reveals the intellectual bankruptcy of MAGA world. These are the same people who believe Tangerine Palpatine’s election was stolen, despite all evidence to the contrary, and that COVID-19 was a hoax. Loomer, who thrives on the paranoia of these people, knows exactly what she’s doing. She doesn’t care about truth or integrity. Like Tangerine Palpatine, she’s playing to the lowest common denominator, banking on the fact that there’s always a large segment of the population ready to believe the most ridiculous, xenophobic garbage if it aligns with their fears.

But let’s not kid ourselves—this stupidity isn’t accidental. It’s intentional. Tangerine Palpatine, Loomer, and their ilk actively cultivate this culture of ignorance because it keeps their base loyal, angry, and, most importantly, distracted from the real issues. When Tangerine Palpatine rails against immigrants or Loomer spews her bile about Muslims, they aren’t offering solutions. They’re creating scapegoats, diverting attention from their own failures by manufacturing crises that don’t exist. Immigrants aren’t eating pets in Ohio, but why let that stop the stupidity train?

The stupidity loop goes like this: someone like Loomer or Tangerine Palpatine throws out a blatantly false, inflammatory statement, it gets picked up by right-wing media, spreads like a virus through MAGA social circles, and by the time it’s debunked, it doesn’t matter because the lie has already served its purpose. In this case, the lie was meant to demonize immigrants further, reinforcing the ridiculous notion that America is under siege by foreign hordes who don’t share our values. In truth, it’s the MAGA crowd that doesn’t share American values—values like truth, integrity, and basic decency.

Loomer’s career is the perfect testament to this stupidity loop. Despite being banned from multiple social media platforms for hate speech and misinformation, she still found a home among Tangerine Palpatine’s die-hard followers. Why? Because in MAGA world, facts are irrelevant, and the more outrageous the claim, the more likely it is to be believed. It’s not that Tangerine Palpatine and Loomer are misinformed or misguided—they know exactly what they’re doing. They’re cynically manipulating the stupidity of their base to maintain power, profit, and relevance. 

Ultimately, the pet-eating immigrant lie in Springfield wasn’t just a random hoax—it was a strategic deployment of disinformation in the service of a broader agenda. Tangerine Palpatine, Loomer, and their followers are engaged in a battle against reality itself, using the stupidity loop to keep their base in a perpetual state of fear and anger. It’s a strategy that worked for Tangerine Palpatine throughout his presidency, and figures like Loomer are more than happy to continue the cycle. The result is a political landscape where truth is dead, and the only thing that matters is how many people you can convince to believe your lies.

In this idiotic world, it’s not surprising that a rumor as absurd as immigrants eating pets gained traction. What’s surprising is that there’s still a sizable portion of America willing to believe it, proving once again that in Tangerine Palpatine’s MAGA dystopia, stupidity isn’t just encouraged—it’s mandatory.




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