Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer announced she is taking a “brief hiatus” from her Loomer Unleashed podcast just hours after a Trump administration adviser exposed her for being paid to post some of her manic, hateful content.
It all started on Thursday, when Alex Bruesewitz, who is behind much of Trump’s digital media strategy, took aim at conservative social media influencers following the GOP’s massive midterm election loss.
“Believe it or not attacking Democrats over their relationships with a streamer (Hasan Piker) wasn’t an effective hit,” Bruesewitz posted, not mentioning Loomer by name. “GOP candidates probably shouldn’t take messaging advice from fringe right-wing ‘influencers’ moving forward.”
Loomer took the bait.
“But they should take their advice and meetings with @TuckerCarlson instead?… It’s completely reasonable for people to be appalled with Democrat candidates campaigning with a guy who said America deserved 9/11. Hasan Piker regularly makes comments in support of jihadi groups,” she wrote. “What wasn’t helpful was your friend Tucker Carlson essentially endorsing Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers and using his show to tell people to not support Rogers just a few weeks out from an election. But we all know you will never condemn your buddy Tucker.”
“Laura, you are basically the Republican version of Hasan Piker. Democrats over the years have attacked Republicans for affiliating with you. Those weren’t effective hits either,” Bruesewitz replied. “Voters simply don’t care enough about ‘influencers’ or streamers. lol”
Loomer took offense to that, claiming that she was not an influencer and criticizing Bruesewitz for his association with Omeed Malik, a conservative venture capitalist and major Republican donor.
“I’m a journalist and an opposition researcher Alex. What are you? What is it that you do for Omeed Malik exactly? He’s a Muslim right? Half Iranian and half Pakistani if I’m not mistaken,” Loomer fired back. “Is that why you have such an issue with the things I say about Islam?”
“Okay lol. But is it common for journalists to get paid for their opinions and tweets?”
“You say ‘Okay lol.’ Not sure why you are laughing. I recall last year your company X strategies reached out to me asking me for help. Do you deny that? What is so funny? I guess I don’t get the joke,” Loomer said, admitting that she was indeed paid to tweet. “You loved sharing my journalistic reports during the 2023/2024 DeSantis-Trump primary too. What changed?”
“No I don’t deny that. I’ve paid you for tweets before. I haven’t for at least a year though,” Bruesewitz wrote back. “I also know you still get paid by others for tweets so I do think it’s fair to refer to you as an ‘influencer.’ What percentage of your tweets are paid for?”
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Hours later, Loomer announced a “one to two month show hiatus.”
She could use more filler.
You’re a yatus!
make it permanent
i really don’t know much about hasan piker, but fucking hell he is really living in their domes rent-free.
Piker is very much “new media”. He’s been caught saying things that can be taken out of context and was burned by right wingers for it. I might not agree with everything he says, but he’s definitely not a terrible person either.
TIL Laura Loomer thinks she’s a journalist.
Honestly the MAGA crash out has been so amusing, especially locally and online with all of these influencers.
Eat each other. Do it.
I thonk it should be illegal to push someone else’s message without an explicit and obvious disclaimer.
Beyond that I think it is shameful and embarrassing. Anyone who posts other people’s opinions or propaganda as their own for money should feel like a piece of shit, because that’s what you are.
I thonk it should be illegal to push someone else’s message without an explicit and obvious disclaimer.
Representing it as your own message when someone else wrote it, OK. Otherwise it steps on free speech far too much.
It’s not free speech if you get paid to say it.
The FCC already has rules that influencers must disclose they were paid to endorse a product. That why you see those “#ad” tags in YouTube videos or whatever. It’s kinda crazy that it doesn’t extend to political influencers.
It does still impact political influencers, just not in the desired way since the content itself nor the group it’s endorsing aren’t a product per se. They should close that loophole.
I thonk
Derp.
Yu dun thunked?
Apparently I didn’t thonk very hard
Thank.
Why use many word, when few word do trick?
Thenk again
There used to be a law against using federal funds to spread political propaganda domestically, but it was abolished some time in the past few years.
Hey, I heard we control both houses now. Hmm.
One stopped and admitted he did it. The other doubled down.
I mean, journalists, newscasters and any other media organization about news are being paid to say what they’re told. We all know that, but I don’t think it makes a difference. The 1% decides what most of us hear.
I think there is an extremely big difference in how I view a message coming from someone who believes what they are saying, and someone who i know is getting paid to push a message.
I will actually attempt to process and debate someone’s honest opinion. A paid shill? You know its disingenuous so why even waste your time on it.
The thing about posting for a living is that you can get owned out of a job
“Laura, you are basically the Republican version of Hasan Piker. Democrats over the years have attacked Republicans for affiliating with you. Those weren’t effective hits either,” Bruesewitz replied. “Voters simply don’t care enough about ‘influencers’ or streamers. lol”
hahaha
Oh the popcorn to be had watching all this infighting. How the snakes turn on each other.
Jigsaw will return…
Imagine being this pathetic for money
After getting her 15th face torn off by the leopards, she’s first in line for getting her 16th new one.
Hopefully she has a punch card for a free one
Of course, the strip mall plastic surgeon she goes to uses punchcards like that
She looks like if a claymation demon came to life and then made its own clay person and then turned it into AI slop
Well said. I can’t help but* imagine an alternate universe in which the fascist ghouls embraced their age and features for their own sake instead of twisting into the fucked up white supremacist beauty standards. Its as depressing as it is dunk-worthy
*edit: typo
Jigsaw rage quit
Hasan Piker is nothing at all like this plastic bimbo. Not even close
