Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer celebrates with Milo Yiannopoulos (left) on August 18, 2020 Photo: Allen Eyestone via Imagn Content Services, LLC
Laura Loomer, the bonkers, perennially failed Florida Congressional candidate, an avowed conspiracy theorist, and one more slavishly devoted Donald Trump fan, had a breakdown on X on Thursday in an unhinged rant hurled at gay dads Pete and Chasten Buttigieg.
Among the insults expelled: the men are “psychopaths,” “freaks,” and “perverted.”
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The slanders didn’t go unanswered.
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Loomer’s meltdown started in response to a typically on-point riposte from our Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg nailing the Republican nominee’s absurd description of himself as the “father of IVF” (delivered of all places at a women’s town hall hosted by Fox News).
“He is indeed the father of IVF… getting banned in Alabama,” Buttigieg posted drolly.
He is indeed the father of IVF… getting banned in Alabama.
That set Loomer off into a multi-tweet, homophobic spiral, showcasing everything—conspiracy theories, discredited science, and downright venality—that makes her a MAGA mouthpiece even Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lindsay Graham couldn’t love.
“You incubated a baby in biological woman’s womb and pretended to breast feed with plastic nipples in a hospital bed like a psychopath,” Loomer cackled, referring to a debunked AI image circulated in far-right media.
“Homosexual men cannot give birth. Gay men can’t get pregnant or make breast milk,” Loomer lectured, stating the obvious.
“You aren’t even a real father.” See venality.
Coming to Buttigieg’s defense: author and devoted husband Chasten Buttigieg, ever the on-message political surrogate, in reply early the next morning, likely over coffee and after feeding the kids.
“Look, we know Laura Loomer (one of Donald Trump’s closest allies) is a conspiracy theorist. She says 9/11 was an inside job, and yet Trump brought her to the 9/11 memorial because he values her friendship more than respecting the families of those lost. She is obviously against adoption and LGBTQ rights. Let them keep doubling down on this type of weird bigotry while we focus on knocking on doors, making calls, and bringing people together.”
“Kamala Harris is for the people. MAGA is for whatever this is,” he wrote.
Is this who we want in the White House influencing policy on childcare or education? Sitting in the Oval Office pushing Project 2025? Look, we know Laura Loomer (one of Donald Trump’s closest allies) is a conspiracy theorist. She says 9/11 was an inside job, and yet Trump brought… pic.twitter.com/633XWjcNe2
The description apparently stung the looney Loomer. Minutes later she flew in with a swarm of baseless charges.
She called the couple “psychologically abusive” for raising kids without a mother and labeled them “mentally ill communist men.” She doubled down on the discredited “breastfeeding” AI fake, called Chasten “perverted,” and maybe most perverted of all, called Pete a “conspiracy theorist.”
Ironically, the outburst accompanied a totally adorable pic of the new dads with their newborns.
“Is this who we want in the White House influencing policy on childcare or education?” Chasten asked about Loomer, cutting to the chase and, as always, staying on message.
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