US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

thanks!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/650-foot-tsunami-greenland-fjord-180212833.html

Last September, seismologists around the world detected vibrations unlike any they’d picked up before.

A monotonous hum seemed to be emanating from Greenland. It would last for nine days.

“This very, very weird signal showed up that I’d never seen before at some of our stations in the North,” said Carl Ebeling, a seismologist with the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Soon after the vibrations began, a cruise ship sailing near fjords in Greenland noticed that on the remote Ella Island, a key landmark — a base used for scientific research and by the Danish military for sled dog patrols — had been destroyed.

The events drew an international group of seismologists, the Danish military and oceanographers into the mystery: What had struck the island, and where did it come from?

On Thursday, researchers released their conclusions in the journal Science. The island had been hit by one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded, they said, with waves that left a watermark about 650 feet high.

It was the result of a series of rare, cascading events set in motion by climate change.

The initial trigger came when warming temperatures caused the tongue of a thinning glacier to collapse, the researchers found. That destabilized a steep mountainside, sending a rock and ice avalanche crashing into Greenland’s deep Dickson Fjord. That displaced a massive volume of water, so a towering wave traveled across the narrow fjord, which is about 1.5 miles wide.

The tsunami waves — some at least as tall as the Statue of Liberty — ran up the steep rock walls lining the fjord. Because the landslide struck the waterway at a nearly 90-degree angle, waves bounced back and forth across it for nine days — a phenomenon scientists call a seiche.

Yeah Alfred, great news for sure. Also:

I dunno if this story went national, but my boy DeSantis suffered a pretty formidable legislative defeat last week when a bipartisan coalition fought the PR and ballot box battle to -- get this -- build golf courses on state parks.

Very much saw some stories on this, also on how the guy who essentially whistleblew to get it to everyone's attention was fired by some DeSantis minion, I'm sure, but put up a GoFundMe and blew past his goal easily. So that was kinda great!

I'm kinda glad that this Loomer lady is the Rasputin whispering in Trump's ear... hopefully she'll tell him more about the 9/11 'inside job' and chemtrails and lizard people

shes such a rando to get his ear genuine d lister considered a joke even amongst those jokers, maybe she raised her profile when she ran for office idk

mightve gotten to the bottom of it

This is why Trump is hanging out with Laura Loomer. Watch them with their hands all over each other at Mar-a-Lago. Note: He’s married. pic.twitter.com/GKdSMjDnvD

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 12, 2024

Eewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

she looks like a young(er) slovenian

wonder if they're in the Mile High Club together

Does Trump know she's Jewish? Feel like that would be his throwback bigotry dealbreaker.

a lot of his good friends are Jewish

the lady and the trump

wow

Hey @mtgreenee

Remember when you destroyed your family so you could have sex with a Zangief cosplayer?

Tell me again how you and the Arby’s in your pants are representatives of the GOP?

You couldn’t even run your own family.

Don’t tell me how to run my FREE SPEECH! https://t.co/5uLJazc1Jh pic.twitter.com/XI1zwE8fXR

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 12, 2024

You go, girl... tell him all that weird shit

When Trump landed in Philadelphia on Tuesday before his debate against Harris, Loomer was among the close allies seen deboarding his private plane. Some saw it as no coincidence that hours later, an erratic Trump exclaimed from the debate stage that immigrants were “eating the pets” of Ohioans, referencing a fast-escalating rumor about Haitian migrants circulated this week by the online right, including Loomer. Trump’s own running mate, Sen. JD Vance, had spread that false claim before acknowledging on Tuesday that it may not be true.

Trump surprised some of his advisers when he brought the rumors to the debate stage Tuesday night, sources familiar with the situation told CNN.

xp "Arby's in your pants"???? Is MTG known for meat curtains or something? holy shit

*eats more popcorn*

Loomer vs. MTG is about as Aliens vs. Predator as it gets, yeeeeeeeesh.

my favorite laura loomer fact was that she started an ISIS fan club at her college to prove that liberals would join it but nobody joined and she got expelled for starting an ISIS fan club lol https://t.co/lVZfuxoOui

— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) September 11, 2024

This is why Trump is hanging out with Laura Loomer. Watch them with their hands all over each other at Mar-a-Lago.

Every time I see some new piece of nonsense my brain adds "... and he still has a 50/50 shot at being president again."

oh yeah..

Loomer also repeatedly attacked Greene over her divorce. “Along with being an anti-semite, MTG is also a poor excuse for a Christian,” Loomer wrote in one post.

Loomer said that Greene’s attacks on X were motivated by jealousy. “Nobody talks about her anymore because she’s annoying and irrelevant and a sellout,” she wrote in one post.

Two days before the debate, Loomer said that if Harris, who is half Indian, wins, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”

It was a bridge too far even for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a notorious firebrand herself known to promote conspiracy theories, who wrote on social media that Loomer’s post was “appalling and extremely racist.”

She added: “It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA.”

My favorite Laura Looner moment was when Tim Pool had to cut his YouTube feed to black because she started talked about executing Trump critics.

“Wow” doesn’t quite cover it.

Very jarring that MTG is pretty much on the right side of this, a stopped clock etc....

watch it'll turn out that Loomer is Putin's stepdaughter or something

Huh.

What are the chances we're going to have a better title for the October thread than, "the Arby's in your pants".

?

we're not even halfway through the month, something worse will come down the pike

Sir, this is an Arby’s

We are squarely in the hold my beer phase of the fall of the GOP

Man we've fallen a long way from Mata Hari haven't we.

Loomer I think is legitimately mentally ill, if she actually has Trump's ear things are gonna get way more insane

like those of you lucky enough not to know what goes on in the fringe MAGAsphere have no idea how crazy she is

I have a candidate to play her in the movie

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/succession/images/0/02/Kerry.jpg

Is that an Arby's in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

"Loomer" totally sounds like the name of the next big social media platform--a place for the Robert Graysmiths of the world to hook up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9wAqsoHY4M

uh yeah you're standing a little close there Loomer

okay seriously how did they let this photo get published, what staffer was asleep at the wheel pic.twitter.com/P10RqWlAtZ

— Anthony (@aklingus) September 13, 2024

I always think of the "shoegaze in a pedal" from Keeley

https://robertkeeley.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Loomer-Keeley-Electronics.png

My actual favourite MBV track.

this is nuts. and not just because, as pointed out at the top, Loomer is a 9/11 truther. if the media's gonna pick up on this, how about they start there?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/laura-loomer-trump-911-memorial-1235100804/

“To the many reporters who are calling me and obsessively asking me to talk to them today, the answer is no,” she wrote. “I do not work for President Trump. I do not work for anyone, actually.”

“I am simply a loyal advocate. The number of phone calls I’ve received today is very bizarre. Human beings are allowed to have friends. Human beings are allowed to travel. Human beings can be selfless,” she added. “A selfless person cannot relate to a purely transactional person. They smear because they fear. But, I do not fear them.”

Loomer’s dream of officially joining Trump’s team nearly came true last spring. “I’ll never forget it,” she says, recalling her meeting with the former president at Mar-a-Lago. “He says, ‘Make sure she gets on the team, we gotta hire her.’ And he goes, ‘She’s a lot smarter than a lot of these other people who have worked for me.’”
This was in March 2023, right around the time she was laying into DeSantis. Loomer had been invited to meet with Trump and campaign co-chair Susie Wiles.

The president lavished praise on her, Loomer recalls. She’d been set to start work on April 1 of last year.

And then everything fell apart. The New York Times reported that the Trump campaign was about to hire Loomer. Later that day, the Times updated its story to say that the news had caused outrage among some Trump supporters, and that a campaign official was now saying Loomer would not be hired after all.

Dude deleted his tweet so here is the original from a year ago, even better with the emoji

😍 pic.twitter.com/3fxWuMJCzz

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 14, 2023

lmao Loomer is the top story on CNN right now

and look I get that "some insane right-winger weaseled their way into Trump's inner circle" maybe isn't news given that Stephen Miller is right there, but if this video starts to go viral I bet this "are they actually fucking" thing is gonna become a JD Vance couch type situation

They haven’t left each other’s side. This is really weird. Laura Loomer.

pic.twitter.com/1vTCm9o1RV

— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) September 13, 2024

this is like as crazy as it gets, having a hard time thinking of a more insane person to publicly align your campaign with who isn't already in jail (bannon) or discarded (nick fuentes)

thats the thing apparently she isn't even on the payroll she's just travelling around with him everywhere and when asked about it starts talking like Donald Sterling's insane mistress

The president lavished praise on her, Loomer recalls. She’d been set to start work on April 1 of last year.

perfect

The source for that photo is … her tweet with a heart eyes emoji

😍 pic.twitter.com/3fxWuMJCzz

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 14, 2023

Good morning!

This has a very tragic third act vibe to it

Tragic...or farcical?

What's the difference?