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Move over Mace! There's a new crazy lady in town

Kari Lake assaulted Tim Miller, literally, at a right wing convention. He might have bruises from the encounter. And it's all on camera, apparently. And if that's not crazy enough, Laura Loomer emerges as a protagonist in the situation.

[QUOTE]“DON’T TOUCH ME,” Kari Lake screams in my face, I assume in reference to a bit of discomfort with mid-interview physical contact that I had expressed in our last encounter. “YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.”

[QUOTE]The face briefly collects itself and appears to look back and see if her husband was taping the exchange. One of the many observers of the scene—and let me tell you, it was a SCENE—later told me that they thought Cameraman Lake had missed the approach, possibly the cause of Kari’s decision to double back for more. She turns back around.

[QUOTE][Italic]“You are a piece of shit!” she repeats over, and over, and over, and over, and over, staring up at me with increasing rage in her eyes and at times pinching my arm like an angry grandmother.[/italic] Lake goes on to make a series of other accusations about my integrity. Among them: That I don’t care about “fentanyl mothers,” that I am a “fake news” “liar,” and that I was hiding my signature pearl necklace underneath a button up shirt. (On this last count, at least, I can conclusively say that she was incorrect. )

[QUOTE]The attack subsided when an unlikely peace-maker emerged from the growing crowd of onlookers: The right-wing conspiracist Laura Loomer, who you may recall as the Trump hanger-on who briefly became a lightning rod during the 2024 campaign. Loomer made her way through the crowd of onlookers, stood next to Lake and echoed her assessment that I was a lying POS, but in a tone that was more appropriate for a public gathering. Loomer’s calm-disdain-mixed-with-curiosity about my presence seemed to cause Lake’s manic rage to peter out.

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by Anonymousreply 8December 22, 2024 10:29 PM

The Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago.

by Anonymousreply 1December 22, 2024 6:00 PM

This was a fascinating read.

He really made some very interesting points in the article, showing that MAGATS are NOT DONE yet.

Which is why we should be worried. Democrats always get complacent or give up.

But these MAGATS never do. They are always looking for the next fight.

[quote] Anyway, back to Kari and me. The Lake exchange, while frivolous and a quite a bit cray, was telling. Her behavior was the most unhinged—by far—of anyone I encountered. But it reflected the broader vibe I got from the attendees: People just didn’t seem as happy and fulfilled as I expected.

[quote] Take Lake. You would think that a person who went from local TV anchor, to failed gubernatorial candidate, to failed Senate candidate, to director of the Voice of America in a few short years—based on no actual accomplishments— would be . . . happy? Or self-satisfied? Or that they would at least want to gloat.

[quote] But instead it was wine night goes wrong on Bravo. Telling, no?

His point is well taken. Why is she still so fucking angry?

[quote] But overall the mood at Amfest was was not the celebration I expected. It was decidedly mid.

[quote] In fact the organizers of the event and the assembled were already looking forward to their next battles:

[quote] Ensuring Mr. Trump gets his nominees.

[quote] Deposing the new bad man, Mike Johnson.

They're relentless.

[quote] Then there were the speeches from the main stage, where the crowd reaction was tepid compared to last year. You could sense the speakers searching for material that would generate some heat. Many settled on talking about how this year proved that God was on Trump’s side and that His hand had emerged from the heavens to protect him on that field in Butler. (This bit was well received.)

[quote] But in years past the real juice had come from defining foes. The crowd would get rabid as speakers railed against the deep state, and the election thieves, and Dementia Joe. Kamabla. The Never Trumpers. Kevin McCarthy. The Establishment RINO Cucks. The Muslims. The Killer Migrants. The Trans people who worked in the Biden Administration. Etc. Etc.

[quote] The problem for speaker’s this year is that most of their enemies have been defeated and are down bad. And sure, some of us got kicked around a bit on stage to standard applause. But the rabidity was missing. Turns out that it’s hard to get it up for kicking the wounded donkey.

[quote] There were a few moments where you could feel real energy. Bannon talking about the “criminal Zelensky” was the most noteworthy among them. But without the acute foes, it just wasn’t the same.

What does a MAGAT do, when they get everything they want?

[quote] The overwhelming sense I got throughout the weekend: This crowd wants to go to war, not to Washington. In the lobby of the Hyatt Regency across the street I bumped into the human proof point for this theorem: Matt Gaetz.

[quote] There are two major caveats to the notion that all the winning might result in MAGA becoming purposeless, grasping around the desert in an existential search for meaning.

[quote] (1) The TPUSA AmFest event itself continues to be a marvel; 21,000 devotees, young and old, making a pilgrimage to Arizona a few days before Christmas? This is objectively a sign of grassroots potency and mission-focus that’s missing right now for Democrats.

[quote] (2) There is no need for MAGA to find meaning because they have their Spiritual Leader and it is he who provides the purpose and the bounty. He is the alpha and omega of the movement.

This is the scariest part. They will follow him, until death.

by Anonymousreply 2December 22, 2024 6:22 PM

^ MAGAts will never be satisfied. Maybe if Dump could get away with genocide on their enemies, but even then I doubt it.

As my Dad used to say, "they wouldn't be satisfied in a pie shop."

by Anonymousreply 3December 22, 2024 6:26 PM

The ending of his article, though, is the most poignant.

What will they do next? That's anyone's guess.

[quote] But when God has blessed you with the world, you must then decide what to do with it and how you will leave it for your descendants.

[quote] During my interview with Bannon he bragged about the way that he had baited the media with his high-octane trolling about “Trump 2028.” But underneath the intentional mischievousness there was an admission. That even, he, the MAGA Rasputin, didn’t know how MAGA would manage all this winning.

[quote] Like they said about Louis XIV, “after me the deluge.” There’s nobody that can replace Trump. He’s a unifying figure and also a figure as a deliverer of blunt force trauma that only he can do to the established order. . . . I would love to have the opportunity to have Trump back—and I’m serious about this—in ’28 if that’s [at] all physically possible, or possible by law. And we are looking at a lot of alternatives.”

This is why Democrats should be worried.

They all know that without Trump to lead their charge, they have nothing.

Which is why they are going to do everything in their power to keep him in power. And to keep themselves in power.

[quote] Listening to Bannon, I couldn’t help thinking about Hans Gruber’s lament: “And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.”

[quote] But MAGA’s entire mission was destructive. The Trumpian promise was that he would destroy the old order and vanquish the Bad People. And he did it. The final victory is here and we will not again hear from Barack Obama, or Paul Ryan, or Hillary Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris. They’ve all been consigned to history.

[quote] So now what?

Indeed. Now what?

by Anonymousreply 4December 22, 2024 6:26 PM

A news presenter in her recent past who now decries fake news and media biases.

A waste of time and energy and space.

by Anonymousreply 5December 22, 2024 6:57 PM

tl;dr

by Anonymousreply 6December 22, 2024 7:06 PM

WTF, OP? Bonnie Mace is known for her extreme sexual exploits, not smacking people across the face. (Are you confusing her with Noodles?)

And unlike Laura Loomer, she wouldn't get within 20 miles of Trump's tinymeat.

by Anonymousreply 7December 22, 2024 7:08 PM

Who is Noodles?

by Anonymousreply 8December 22, 2024 10:29 PM
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