The Islamic Republic of Iran is CRUMBLING. We are now hearing that over 20,000 Iranians have been SLAUGHTERED by a regime so savage they are hunting down their own citizens like animals with automatic rifles!Show more Meanwhile, Iranian State TV is broadcasting clips of Tucker Qatarlson to save their dying regime! Laura is exposing how Tucker has become a useful idiot for the Ayatollahs and why the Iranian regime is personally attacking Laura for reporting the truth.
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We're all waiting patiently, waiting to see.
I told my producer tonight, I wonder if we should do the show later or if we should just do the show at a regular time because I feel like I'm going to go to bed and I'm going to wake up.
And maybe, maybe there's going to be reports that the United States has bombed Iran or done an airstrike and killed the Ayatollah.
I don't know.
We'll see.
But there's been a lot of movement, obviously, over the last two weeks in Iran.
We've watched these barbaric and brutal protests where the brave Iranian people are protesting for their freedom against the oppressive Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, fighting for their freedom.
And sadly, the death count now for these protesters is well over 20,000.
We're getting those reports from Iran.
Over 20,000 innocent people gunned down, killed with military-style weapons, automatic machine guns, just brutal scenes out of Iran.
I mean, some of the footage that I've received from some of my Iranian sources who are in direct contact with Reza Pahlavi's team sending me these videos and these photos.
It's just absolutely horrific.
And I want to go ahead and play some of these clips momentarily.
But we saw President Trump today posted on True Social encouraging the Iranian protesters to continue their protests.
He told them to keep on protesting and that help is on the way.
And knowing President Trump, he's a man of his promises and he's a man of his words, right?
Promises made, promises kept.
I don't think that President Trump would make a claim that help is on the way.
You can get this True Social post up on the screen here.
Iranian patriots keep protesting.
Take over your institutions.
Save the names of the killers and abusers.
They will pay a big price.
I have canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.
Help is on its way.
MIGA, right?
So a little bit of a troll for all of the haters of the Jews in Israel there.
Say MIGA stands for make Israel great again.
It actually stands for make Iran great again.
So in classic Trump way, right, his Trumpian way, he has co-opted MIGA.
MIGA.
It's no longer Make Israel Great Again.
It's Make Iran Great Again.
And he signed it, of course, President Donald J. Trump.
So I think that it would probably look very bad for the Trump administration if they allow for these brutal killings to continue and promise the protesters, you know, even if they continued protesting, that help would be on the way if they weren't actually going to send help on the way.
So I think that there's a strong likelihood that over the next 48 hours, we might in fact see some airstrikes in Iran.
We already saw reports earlier today of Iranian airspace being closed.
There was a report put out earlier today by Reuters and also a statement from Qatar that the U.S. airbase was evacuating some of the military personnel, the U.S. military base there that we have.
So we can get those reports pulled up.
I tweeted about that earlier.
And then, of course, today we saw reports of outages from cellular networks across the country.
And only about two hours ago did cellular service finally get restored to some of those carriers there.
So you can go to, let's go to my account.
You can scroll down.
Let's go to my main page.
Scroll all the way down.
Keep on scrolling.
I don't know if you saw this today.
I know that I wasn't able to really use my phone for most of the day today.
It was actually quite inconvenient.
Keep on scrolling down.
Very inconvenient.
And it almost makes me wonder if there was some kind of an Iranian cyber attack today.
There were outages reported with ATT, T-Mobile, and also with Verizon.
And go to the photo section, type in the photo section on my account, and you'll see it.
It's posted there.
You want to follow along right now.
You can see it on my X account.
Scroll down.
The statement.
scroll up.
Well, just type it in, type it in online.
Reuters, evacuations.
Just go to Google and type it in.
Reuters, Google evacuations from the Qatar air base today.
This was a big story where U.S. military members, they said, were being evacuated because there were reports that there was possibly going to be airstrikes in Iran or escalations with Iran, war with Iran.
And as a result, now we see this report from Reuters today.
Some personnel advised to leave the United States military base in Qatar.
Diplomats say.
And as I said before, the Qataris also released a similar statement.
And so this had people scrambling today, thinking that we were going to see some airstrikes.
But what was interesting about it is today during President Trump's White House briefing, he was asked about the tensions with Iran and the protests with Iran.
And he made a statement that had a lot of people kind of wondering whether this was a deflection.
Maybe this was some kind of a distraction tactic.
Maybe this is Trump in his way trying to, you know, make the Iranians think that he isn't going to carry out airstrikes or he's not going to target the Ayatollah.
He's not going to target the Iranian regime for targeting these protesters.
We can go ahead and play this clip.
But today the president was asked whether or not he was going to take military action against the Iranians.
And he said that they told him and they gave him his word as if you could really trust these people, right?
As if you could trust people who are actually gunning down their own people in the streets of Iran.
They've murdered over 20,000 innocent people, mostly young people too.
We're going to play some of this footage for you soon and you're going to see how barbaric it is.
Viewer discretion advised.
Lots of dead bodies.
So if you can't handle seeing dead bodies, I don't recommend that you watch it.
But it was kind of a strange statement, I will say, but knowing President Trump, he's not going to let them get away with it, especially today when you had the Iranians making threats of assassination against President Trump on Iranian state TV.
But the president basically said that he had conversations with the Iranians and they gave him his word that there weren't going to be any executions.
And what he means by that is today and tomorrow, the Iranians were actually planning, the Iranian regime, of course, they were planning on publicly executing the leaders of the protests.
And so this has been going viral on social media.
Reports about how they were going to actually hang the leaders of the protests to teach them a lesson for, quote, committing crimes against Allah.
So let's go ahead and play this clip from President Trump today in the Oval Office.
Again, I don't know if that's President Trump just trying to deflect from the situation as a distraction tactic, but certainly can't trust the Islamic Republic of Iran at their word.
You certainly can't trust the mullahs and the ayatollahs when they say, oh, you know, we're not killing anybody.
I mean, they're doing an internet.
They have an internet blackout right now currently in Iran.
They have tried to disrupt the Starlink setup in Iran so that the protesters can't have access to the internet.
So, you know, these people, they're shutting down the internet.
They're killing their own people in the street.
The streets are lined with dead bodies.
They don't even have enough body bags.
There were reports today that they don't even have food and water in the stores.
Could be a tactic, of course, to make the protesters get dehydrated.
You can die from dehydration within 72 hours if you don't have food or water.
So that might be a way that the Iranian regime is trying to starve out the protesters.
So they literally do not have access to food and water unless they stop protesting.
So with an internet blackout in Iran, it's kind of hard to know what the truth is, but I can't believe I don't think that President Trump is a stupid person or a stupid man.
Obviously, he knows how brutal the Iranians are.
He bombed their nuclear facilities.
He always said that under his presidency, he was never going to allow for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
So I know that President Trump knows that you can't take the Iranians at their word.
I mean, just today, and we're going to play the video momentarily after I play this video footage of all the dead bodies in Iran.
This video was filmed yesterday, by the way.
Today on Iranian state TV, they were threatening to assassinate President Trump and they took credit for the Butler assassination.
They said this time, the bullet isn't going to miss.
So let's go ahead and play this disturbing four minute clip.
Again, viewer discretion is advised.
This is very horrific video footage, uncensored, lots of blood, lots of dead bodies, four minutes of just pure carnage in Iran.
And this is a scene.
This was sent to me by a source who is in direct contact with protesters on the ground, an Iranian friend of mine who is in direct contact with Iranians on the ground.
And I've been asking them to send me video footage as well of some of the more barbaric things so that we can get the truth out about what they're doing, right?
Because today we saw that Fox News had one of the foreign ministers for Iran on the program.
And they were like, oh, it's all fake news.
There's no dead bodies.
Oh, you know, it's only hundreds of people who are protesting and it's just a few disruptors.
And I don't know why they're allowing for these propagandists in Iran to get access to mainstream media on Fox News so they can continue lying to everybody and spreading their Islamic propaganda, spreading their lies about how they're not killing innocent people and innocent protesters.
But you take a look at this four minute long video clip and you tell me if it looks like nobody's dying.
Again, viewer discretion is advised.
It is very horrific video footage, but it's important for people to see this because it's the truth about what's happening in Iran.
So, again, you can see for yourself there are not enough body bags to keep up with all the dead bodies.
Absolutely horrific.
And yet, you know, Iran's foreign minister is going to go on Fox News, and Fox News is going to allow them to say without any pushback whatsoever that there aren't thousands of dead people, that the numbers are actually in, you know, the dozens.
And oh, they're that we aren't shooting our own protesters.
I mean, we can see the footage ourselves.
We can see the footage ourselves.
We can see the footage ourselves.
Let's go ahead and play clip number 34 and clip number 35.
You can see hundreds of people marching in the streets, thousands of people marching in the streets, and you can hear the sound of automatic weapons being shot in the background.
No, those are not protesters using those weapons, those are IFGC forces opening up fire on innocent people.
So, that's just one location, by the way, where you probably just saw in that four-minute long clip over 2,000 dead bodies.
Imagine how many other locations there are where bodies are piled up on the streets as well.
I mean, it doesn't take much to see this footage.
Unfortunately, a lot of the footage is being blocked out, and you know, we're getting this footage as it comes in, but it's very hard to get this footage.
It's very hard to get this footage.
It's not hard to see it once it goes viral because everybody's sharing it, but it's hard to get this footage because of the internet blockout in Iran that is currently taking place.
So let's go ahead and play clip number 34, clip number 35.
In this clip, you can actually see that there's security forces for the regime opening up direct fire onto a crowd.
I mean, this is, this is horrific.
I already showed you the footage of the dead bodies.
Let's go ahead and play clip number 37.
If you haven't already seen this, this footage should be all over the mainstream media, but for some reason, they're not showing it.
They're talking about it, but they're not actually showing the footage.
They're not actually showing the footage.
I mean, if I was Fox News, I would not be interviewing Iran's foreign minister and allowing them to have this softball interview to get away with lying to the American people, lying to the world about the real situation on the ground in Iran.
I would be showing them these clips and asking them how they can actually be making the statements that they're making when we see the videos of the bodies piling up on the street and we see the videos of Iran's security forces opening fire at protesters, innocent, unarmed protesters.
Let's go ahead and play clip 37.
So you've seen the video clips of all of the dead bodies and you've seen the video clips of Iran security forces shooting innocent people.
Now, contrast that with President Trump's statement today about how the regime says that the killing has ended.
I don't think that the killing has ended.
How can we actually tell if the killing has ended if there's an internet blockout in Iran and we're not able to really communicate with people on the ground or the regime of Iran is manipulating what type of content can and cannot be released.
If the killing has stopped, how come they're censoring people and not allowing for the internet to flow freely?
Why not?
Let us see for ourselves if the killing is truly stopped.
I prefer the statement that President Trump made a couple days ago where he said that he's going to hit Iran very hard if the slaughter of the innocents continues.
I don't really know how many more people need to die before the president takes action.
Now, knowing President Trump, like I said before, I don't think the president is stupid.
I don't think the president actually trusts the word of the Ayatollah and the Iranian regime when they say that the killing has stopped.
I think that President Trump is a lot smarter than that, which is why I would not be surprised if we wake up in the morning only to find out that airstrikes have been carried out.
Airstrikes have been carried out in Iran.
We'll see.
I don't know anything.
And if I didn't know anything, obviously I wouldn't be releasing this information.
But I can only hope that action is taken soon because we know we've been dealing with the Iranians for how long now?
Okay.
You have the 47th president who has the opportunity to finally end 47 years of oppression, oppression by this oppressive Islamic regime in Iran.
And now I see this has obviously caused a big debate online amongst the conservative right with people saying, no, no, no, we can't have President Trump strike Iran in the middle of an election year.
No regime change, no regime change.
Well, the people of Iran are the ones who are actually carrying out this regime change.
What are we supposed to do?
Just continue to allow for innocent Iranian people to be gunned down while the Ayatollah makes threats of assassination against President Trump.
We already know that the Iranian regime and the IRGC are quite serious when they talk about carrying out assassinations of political figures on U.S. soil.
As I posted today and I've reported on in the past, after in the immediate aftermath of the Butler assassination attempt on President Trump, it was very strange because we were told that Thomas Crooks, who of course is the individual who tried to kill President Trump, we were told that Thomas Crooks was in touch with the Iranians.
And we were told that Thomas Crooks had multiple computers and multiple cell phones and that the feds had reason to believe that Thomas Crooks actually had bank accounts tied to Iran.
Now, this was mentioned in the aftermath, the direct aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt.
And then poof, it just disappeared.
You didn't really see about it anymore.
You can't really find many articles about it anymore.
But they did say that they had reason to believe that Thomas Crooks was tied to the Iranians.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Because today, Iran state television, we actually haven't heard anything about Thomas Crooks since the assassination attempt of President Trump and the tragic assassination of Corey Comperatory, who was shot in the head and died at the Butler rally.
What's really strange is that even a year after the near assassination of President Donald Trump, we still don't really know anything about Butler.
We still don't know anything.
And the question is, why has there been so much secrecy around Thomas Crooks?
And how come we never heard anything in the aftermath of the assassination after that initial report?
Right.
In the initial aftermath of the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, we saw that several people were actually indicted in New York for trying to assassinate President Trump.
They were part of an IRGC, Iranian, state-funded hit squad.
You can type in, just type in Iranian indictment.
There we go.
And a lot of people don't know this because it didn't really get a lot of attention.
And then you have people like Tucker Carlson interviewing the president of Iran, pushing out propaganda and lies saying that this never happened, lying and saying that the Iranians never actually tried to assassinate President Trump.
But they did.
They did.
November 8th, 2024, Justice Department announces murder for hire and related charges against IRGC asset and two local operatives.
Iranian asset, Farad Shakari, employed multiple associates in the New York City area to surveil and murder a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin who has publicly opposed the Iranian government.
Shakari was tasked by the Iranian regime with surveilling and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump.
So President Trump knows that the Iranians have tried to assassinate him.
When I was speaking to President Trump's own campaign staff as well, they told me that they had to have additional armed security because the Iranians were not just targeting President Trump, but they were also targeting his campaign staff, including his campaign manager, Chris La Sevita.
Again, if you're Tucker Carlson, or if you watch Tucker Carlson, he has lied and said that this is not real.
He has actually interviewed the president of Iran who said that it's an Israeli lie, that it was planted by Netanyahu.
It was all made up by Netanyahu that the Iranians tried to assassinate President Trump.
Oh, yeah, so then why is our own DOJ indicting people here in America for trying to assassinate President Trump on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
How come?
Why is that?
You can scroll down, see the rest of this indictment.
There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran, said Attorney General Merrick Garland.
I mean, you even have Merrick Garland admitting this, okay?
Merrick Garland, who targeted President Trump himself.
Merrick Garland, who weaponized the government, okay?
The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who is tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination of plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump.
We have also charged and arrested two individuals who we allege were recruited as part of that network to silence and kill on U.S. soil an American journalist who has been a prominent critic of the regime.
We will not stand for the Iranian regime's attempts to endanger the American people and America's national security.
This has been going on for quite some time now.
Now, let's go ahead and play this clip from Iranian state TV today of them threatening to assassinate President Trump.
And it's a compilation clip.
You can see that shortly after, you can see an interview from last year in which Tucker Carlson interviewed the president of Iran, in which the president of Iran said that no, they've never tried to assassinate Trump.
It's all made up.
It's a conspiracy theory.
It's an Israeli conspiracy theory, according to these people.
Justice Department announces murder for hire and related charges against IRGC Asset and two local operatives.
What's the date on that?
November 8th, 2024.
So again, you know, Tucker Carlson has said that, well, I'm just asking questions.
I'm not running cover for the Ayatollah.
I'm not running cover for Hamas.
I'm not running cover for Islam.
Well, when you have an interview with the president of Iran in July of 2025 and you allow him to blatantly lie, all while knowing that individuals have actually been indicted and arrested in the United States for being hired by the Iranian regime to murder President Trump and also murder critics of the regime, you have to ask yourself who Tucker Carlson is truly representing and who Tucker Carlson is truly fighting and speaking for.
It's not the first time he's done this either.
In fact, when I posted that Tucker Carlson was a mouthpiece for the Islamists today, he actually posted a tweet attacking me from his Tucker Carlson network account.
It's kind of funny.
Let's go ahead and get the tweet pulled up too.
He said that he lied.
He was mocking me saying that, oh, well, my network, you know, my network isn't communist.
It's not pro-jihadi.
It's not pro-Sharia.
He was basically trying to dispute everything that I have been saying about him.
And then he mocked me as a journalist and said, oh, well, you know, only a real fact-finding journalist like Laura Loomer would be able to give you this information when in reality, everything I said is true.
You can see here, because our newsletter is pro-communist, pro-jihadi, pro-Ayatollah, and pro-bin Laden propaganda, obviously.
Congratulations, Laura Loomer, for figuring it out.
It's kind of funny how he's trying to be sarcastic here, but the reality is, is that it's actually kind of an admission, right?
Because I'm going to show you now all of the receipts that proves exactly what I just said, right?
I already showed you how he's pro-Ayatollah.
Why would you have a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime on and not push back on them?
Only a true fact-finding journalist like you could have cracked the code.
A message to your followers who we hope aren't suffering too much from your blabbing.
Yeah.
Well, our country is suffering because unfortunately, our vice president is friends with Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson has unfettered access to the White House, right?
That's crazy.
I mean, it's crazy how you can be a simp for Islam and a sim for Islamic terrorism and then just be friends with the vice president and get to crash the oil executive meeting because the vice president invites you to lunch, right?
That's what's unfortunate.
Our own country is suffering now.
The Iranian people are actually suffering because you have Tucker Carlson telling the vice president of the United States that we shouldn't be taking action against Iran, right?
And now there's this discussion taking place in the White House over Tucker Carlson because we all voted for an alcoholic, right?
To be an advisor to the vice president.
We all voted for this, right?
I mean, really, honestly, it's so crazy, but eventually it's going to, it's going to reach a breaking point.
And look, I like JD Vance.
I respect JD Vance.
I get along with JD Vance, but enough is enough.
Okay.
You know, as somebody who wants to be president of the United States, I would hope and I would actually expect JD Vance to have the moral clarity to tell Tucker Carlson that he's not allowed to come back to the White House.
Right.
So this is the type of moral clarity that we expect to see from people who want to be president of the United States.
And that's not an attack on JD Vance, but eventually he has to decide what he cares about more, his friendship with an unhinged lunatic mouthpiece for Qatar or being president of the United States, because we all know he wants to run for president in 2028.
And that's great.
That's fine, right?
Go ahead, run for president.
But I need to know, I think a lot of people want to know if Tucker Carlson's going to be some kind of advisor to him, why he keeps on having Tucker Carlson come to the White House for these lunch dates, whatever they are.
I don't know.
Blaming it on Donald Trump, saying that it's Donald Trump meeting with Tucker Carlson.
It's not.
It's the vice president.
I got the White House to confirm that to me as well.
So definitely has a Tucker Carlson problem.
And look, you can run for president.
That's fine.
You know, we have primaries in this country.
It's great.
We're going to have a primary.
JD Vance is going to run for president.
Okay, great.
But, you know, if you want to run for president, you have to also understand that a large portion of the MAGA base doesn't like Tucker Carlson.
And we don't want to see Tucker Carlson on the campaign trail.
We definitely don't want to see Tucker Tarlson in the White House.
So you could see a message to your followers who we hope aren't suffering too much for your blabbering.
You don't have to live under Lipfiller Laura's iron fist.
Liberation is within your grasp.
All you have to do is pick a new news source.
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Yes, we recommend the Tucker Carlson Morning Note where you can listen to Tucker Carlson and his alcoholic brother talk about how America is North Korea and how President Trump raided Venezuela because, oh, he was spreading globo homo.
Oh, the president had to go in and capture Maduro because he actually just wants to spread homosexuality to everybody.
Right.
Yeah.
If you want to listen to deranged alcoholic, you know, talking points like that, go ahead, sign up for Tucker Carlson's morning note.
Right.
If you want to have a bunch of neo-Nazis in the White House, go ahead, sign up for Tucker Carlson's morning note.
But, you know, it's not exactly what I'm voting for.
So it's not exactly what I voted for to begin with.
Right.
So yeah, if you, if you are a Hitler fanboy and you think that Hitler did nothing wrong and that the United States should have allowed for Germany to win the Second World War, and you think that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and you hate Jewish people and you think that you're not an American unless you're a white Christian man, then yeah, sure, go ahead and sign up for Tucker Carlson's newsletter.
Then we'll just win 2028 and Gavin Newsom will be president.
I mean, that's where it's headed right now, anyway, right?
So let's go ahead and play this compilation of Tucker Carlson.
And you'll see for yourself, everything I said about him is true.
You could scroll up really quick before you play this compilation.
Because our newsletter is pro-communist, pro-jihadi, pro-Ayatollah, and pro-bin Laden propaganda, obviously.
You should know, Seth, that the real danger is Sharia law.
Sharia law.
And you can tell when you go to a place like Abu Dhabi or Riyadh, like, oh man, I hope we don't ever wind up with a society like this with a rape rate of zero where you leave your keys in your Lamborghini and don't ever worry about it being stolen.
And, you know, if people want to get wasted, they do it at home.
Most Americans have more in common with each other than they disagree on.
And almost everybody agrees on that.
And almost everybody is willing to tolerate a good faith argument about how to get there.
Except a few.
And they're the ones running around calling everyone an anti-Semite.
But everyone else is like, yeah, of course, that should be the debate.
And they'll vote for you.
They want that because they know they haven't had that.
That's the fact.
And what you're watching now, attacking people on the attacking millions of Americans because they're Muslims?
It's disgusting.
And I'm a Christian.
I'm not a Muslim.
I'm never going to.
I know there's a lot of effort to claim I'm a secret jihadi.
I'm not.
You should not attack people on those grounds.
And you're seeing it from Republic.
What the hell are you doing?
What you're doing is trying to divide the country.
And I've lived through 50 years of this crap.
All these fake race wars that they're always promoting.
Oh, go hate each other while we loot the treasury.
That's exactly what's going on.
And most people are totally sick of that.
So, yes, there is a possibility for a huge coalition of decent people once they free their minds from the traps set for them by others and realize, wait a second, we all want to make this country better.
And the 15% or 30% who don't, okay.
You know, good luck in Maryland or wherever you wind up.
But the rest of us would like to fix it.
But he's like, you know what Islam means?
Submission.
And like, let it hang in the air like that was self-evidently disgusting.
And I was like, I think submission to God is like the whole point of life, but I didn't say anything.
Anyone who submits to God, like, I'm just for that.
I mean, I believe in a religion that extols humility, in which humility is like the cover charge.
Like, you don't get anywhere without you.
Travel a lot in the Middle East.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
I'm not Muslim, obviously.
In fact, I'm like a Christian, you know, flat out Christian.
And my ancestors are from Europe.
And so I'm not, I have nothing in common on that level with the Gulf.
But you go to the Gulf and it's incredible to be in a place that has pride in itself, that believes in its religion and culture, that thinks we're onto something.
regime right now is literally broadcasting Tucker Carlson interviews in Persian on their 24 hour news channel.
The country is in a state of chaos, and yet for some reason, the Islamic regime is choosing to play Tucker Carlson interviews because this is like, you know, it's Islamist propaganda.
I'm just filming this right now because if I didn't do this, no one would believe.
This is literally what's going on in occupied Iran right now.
Have you seen this photo of Tucker Carlson lately?
He literally looks like his face has turned into a vagina.
And I'm not trying to be mean, okay?
But Tucker Carlson really isn't one to be, you know, go up, scroll right there.
This is Tucker Carlson.
Okay.
So I think it's really funny how he wants to attack me for my appearance.
The guy has literally aged like 80 years since he left Fox News.
Okay.
He literally looks like Mitch McConnell now.
And I don't know if he's on Ozempic.
Like if he wants to lose weight, that's great.
Like I'm not going to judge.
Ozempic has helped a lot of people.
Like personally, I think that if something makes you feel better, you should do it.
I had a nose job several years ago.
I don't, I'm not ashamed to say I had a nose job, you know?
Like I didn't like my nose.
I also had a deviated septum and I had a hard time breathing.
So it kind of worked out.
It was like, I don't want to have to break my nose twice.
So when they fixed my deviated septum, I was just like, hey, do you think you can like, you know, get rid of this little weird bump on my nose?
I don't like it.
And now I feel more confident.
I would never have wanted to do a podcast if I had to do a side profile before.
And now I like the way my side profile looks more.
Some people are very fat and they want to take Ozempic.
Some people take Ozempic because it helps them prevent cancer.
Did you know that?
You could take a micro dose of Ozempic and it can actually help prevent cardiac disease, cancer.
It helps a lot of things actually.
So diabetics, I've had friends who had triple bypasses and they take Ozempic and, you know, they lost 150 pounds.
And now they actually have a shot at life when the doctor told them they had two years to live if they didn't lose the weight.
So I don't really care, right?
It's clearly obvious that Tucker Carlson is doing something.
A lot of people online think he, think he's on Ozempic, but I would rather have lips that look a little puffy, although I think my lips look fine, than look like that.
I'd rather have lip filler than look like that.
He looks like shit.
And he's got a lot more money than I have.
So if you're rich, I don't think you have an excuse to look like shit in this day and age if you're rich, right?
Get a personal trainer, right?
Like figure out a nutrition plan if you're on Ozempic.
I don't know.
Okay.
I have no idea.
But I just think it's really funny that Tucker Carlson doesn't have anything.
Like he can't actually combat my argument and he actually cannot combat my receipts.
So he has to say lip filler Laura, lip filler, Laura.
He actually did this in his newsletter the other day too.
I had a nose job and I get Botox in my forehead because I don't want to have lines when I speak.
I mean, everybody I know is getting Botox, literally everybody.
So I don't really care if Tucker wants to attack me because he says, oh, she has lip filler.
She has lip filler.
He's really not one to be talking.
It's just so crazy to me that Tucker Carlson has completely transformed into a Muslim mouthpiece.
It's wild, isn't it?
Isn't it crazy?
Isn't it crazy to watch his previous interviews where he's interviewing Tommy Robinson or interviewing people talking about Islamification of America, talking about how Israel is our top ally?
And now he's, you see that entire video.
He's talking about how he wants people to submit to Allah, talking about how the Gulf Muslim countries are tolerant.
Really?
Did you know you're not even allowed to proselytize in Qatar anything outside of Islam because it's against the law?
You could be killed.
You know, they don't even have churches or synagogues in Qatar.
Do you know that kill gay people?
And yet, Tucker is talking about, oh, I want to buy a house.
I want to buy a house.
He said he actually had a lobbyist named Bob Amsterdam on his show.
Okay.
He had a lobbyist on his show named Bob Amsterdam.
And the guy is like literally talking about how, oh, there's no such thing as the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is literally dropping bombs on Nigeria, killing ISIS, right?
I was just giving you so many examples of this.
Doesn't tell his audience that, oh, by the way, this guy's a lobbyist.
Let's put that in the footnotes.
By the way, he's taking money from the government of Nigeria to represent their Islamic interests.
Maybe that's a little important information to inform your audience of if you're going to have a lobbyist on talking about how there's no such thing as the persecution of Christians, Christian genocide.
I don't know.
Maybe just maybe something called journalistic integrity 101.
I don't know.
But it's just crazy.
He's completely turned into a mouthpiece for Muslims.
I mean, that clip from Turning Point USA, when they decided that they were going to use the assassination of Charlie Kirk to just let everybody say any crazy thing that comes to their mind, like, oh, Charlie's dead.
So let's just, you know, use the stage of Turning Point to convert everybody to Islam.
I mean, you got to have some standards, right?
I don't even think Charlie Kirk, when he was alive, would have stood for that.
But apparently, there's no more standards anymore.
It's just a whole free-for-all now.
You can just deny genocide of Christians on the stage of Turning Point USA, and you can tell everybody that you want them to convert to Islam.
No problem whatsoever.
No pushback, right?
We're not going to sue Candace Owens.
We're not going to sue Ian Carroll.
We're not going to sue Tucker Carlson for saying that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, right?
It is a memorial, hijacking the stage, saying that the people who eat Hummus killed Charlie Kirk.
We're not going to stand up.
No, we're actually going to continue inviting Tucker to spew his nonsense.
I mean, screaming at young Americans and Islam is a great religion.
Muslims are amazing people.
If you don't like Muslims, you're just an evil person.
I just, I just cannot believe these Republicans.
What is wrong with you?
It's like, what is wrong with us?
We don't want third world Muslims in our country.
We don't want third world Muslims in America because they don't know how to assimilate Tucker.
You would think that that would have been the breaking point for Turning Point USA.
Like, okay, okay, this guy's obviously drinking again.
This guy who's obviously an alcoholic who's clearly like, you know, losing his mind.
I don't know.
Maybe he's got, maybe he's got some mental illness.
I don't know.
Maybe he's drinking again.
Maybe that's why he looks like shit.
I don't know.
Okay.
Alcohol can make you age a lot.
I don't drink.
But there's so many questions that I have.
And it feels like nobody wants to question Tucker.
It's so taboo, right?
Like, oh, he's friends with JD Vance.
We're not allowed to question why this degenerate alcoholic Jew hater is hanging out with the vice president in the White House, right?
We're not allowed to ask why the vice president, if you ask why the vice president is inviting this lunatic for lunch at the White House, you must be paid to attack JD Vance.
Like, no, actually, we're not attacking JD Vance by asking why he's having lunch with Tucker Carlson.
We're genuinely trying to find out why after Tucker Carlson just spent the entire week shitting all over Marco Rubio.
I don't know.
Maybe he's jealous because people are viewing Marco Rubio as a strong contender for 2028.
Maybe it's because President Trump is hanging out with Marco Rubio and looking like he's having a really strong connection with Marco Rubio.
Maybe Marco Rubio is going to be the nominee in 2028, right?
Maybe it's not going to be JD Vance.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's up to Donald Trump, right?
It's up to the American people.
But now you have all these influencers and advisors who work for JD Vance online saying, oh, you're a paid influencer to attack JD Vance if you're questioning Tucker Carlson.
No, nobody's getting paid.
I'm not getting paid to attack JD Vance.
I haven't endorsed anybody for 2028.
I never said that JD Vance shouldn't be president.
I'm simply asking.
Why are people lying and saying that it was President Trump who invited Tucker Carlson to the White House?
It wasn't.
The White House told me, the highest levels of the White House told me that it was JD Vance who invited Tucker Carlson to lunch.
So why don't you just say it?
Just be honest about it.
Why is everybody so afraid to say that it was actually JD Vance who invited Tucker Carlson to lunch?
I mean, why is everybody so afraid?
You have a son working in your office.
Just say it.
Just say that you invited Tucker Carlson for lunch.
But now, you know, you have people taking shots at President Trump because they think that it was Donald Trump that invited Tucker Carlson.
And it's not.
It's not.
It's really unfair to the president because, you know, the president is not an anti-Semite.
The president does not want to entertain hatred of Jewish people.
I'm not saying that the vice president is an anti-Semite, but I'm pretty sure that President Trump, I don't think that it was a coincidence that he issued his statement about how Jew hatred is not going to be tolerated in the GOP one day after Tucker Carlson was at the White House.
I just don't think that it's a coincidence.
I really don't.
So again, I just had to say that because I think it's so funny that Tucker Carlson, that's all he has.
Lip filler, Laura.
Lip filler, Laura.
Okay, keep on calling me lip filler Laura.
I just hope that JD Vance realizes that Tucker Carlson is literally cancer to his campaign.
And again, I'm not campaigning against JD Vance.
I'm not saying JD Vance isn't going to be president.
What I'm saying is that JD Vance will not be president if he continues associating with Tucker Carlson because Tucker Carlson will literally drag his entire campaign down, which is why his advisors now have to create this fake narrative that influencers are getting paid to attack JD Vance.
That's not true.
Nobody's getting paid to attack JD Vance.
Okay.
I'm as pro-Trump as they come.
Nobody's getting paid to attack JD Vance.
That is a blatant lie.
Okay.
What is happening is people are wanting and they've been begging the vice president for months now to condemn Tucker Carlson and to show some distance and some moral clarity about Tucker Carlson because Tucker Carlson is literally insane.
He's literally a Qatari propagandist, right?
And that doesn't belong anywhere near the White House.
So look, I guess we're going to have to deal with more of these like, you know, hysterical antics from advisors online who say people are getting paid to attack the vice president.
Nobody's getting paid to attack the vice president, all right?
We just don't want to have Tucker Carlson, who's literally simping for Muslims and has Muslim Brotherhood operatives on their podcast talking about how, oh, our brother Tucker, Brother Tucker is so amazing.
Brother Tucker is spreading dawah.
We don't want that.
Like, if I wanted that, I would have voted for Barack Hussein Obama.
If I wanted that, I would have voted for Kamala Harris, you know?
If I wanted to have a Muslim mouthpiece in the White House, I would have just voted Democrat, you know?
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Another interesting development with everything that's happening in Iran, which is a clear sign that the regime is about to fall any day now.
There was a report today from Israeli intelligence that senior officials, including Khamenei's own son.
are panic transferring funds.
In fact, this report says that they have panic transferred $1.5 billion in escrow accounts to Dubai over the last 48 hours.
This amid reports that the protesters are setting banks on fire in Iran and all of the state-run banks in Iran are about to completely collapse.
And it looks like that Israeli intel report is now being confirmed by Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
There was a clip tonight that just came out from Newsmax from an interview with Scott Besant being interviewed by Rob Schmidt on Newsmax, in which he said that the Treasury is tracking that tens of millions of dollars is currently fleeing Iran because the leaders of Iran know that the end is near and they're trying to escape sanctions.
And Besson, during this interview, called it rats fleeing the ship.
Rob, the other thing as Treasury who carries out the sanctions, we can see is we are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship because we can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, snuck out of the country by the Iranian leadership.
So they are abandoning ship and we are seeing it come into banks and financial institutions all over the world.
And what we do at Treasury is we follow the money, whether it is through the typical banking system or through digital assets.
We are going to trace these assets and they will not be able to keep.
Rob, the other thing is it's only a matter of time.
And you know, going back to what President Trump said today about how, oh, well, all reports indicate that the killing has ended.
I personally think that that's just a deflection strategy because when we've seen reports, look, I don't even want to cite Lindsey Graham because I don't even like Lindsey Graham.
But you even have U.S. senators saying that all reports are still indicating that the killing is very much still going on and that people are still being killed by the regime.
Lindsey Graham actually just tweeted this.
And again, I don't like Lindsey Graham, never been a fan.
We've publicly sparred.
But you now have even public statements from United States senators.
Let's go to his X account tonight.
Here we go.
Every indication.
One hour ago, Lindsey Graham just tweeted.
Every indication, and of course, Lindsey Graham is very close to President Trump, they golf together and whatnot.
Every indication that I've seen says that the Iranian regime's killing of protesters is still very much in full swing.
The death toll is mounting by the hour, hoping that help is on its way.
And even Iranian activist accounts on X are also saying the same thing: that the killing is still ongoing.
So, again, like I said, President Trump is not a stupid person, but it could be a distraction technique to make the regime think that, well, you know, the Trump administration believes them.
But reports coming out of Iran and even statements from United States senators clearly show that the killing is still happening.
The killing is still happening.
But despite the despair and all of the violence happening in Iran, the Iranian people are resolute and they are determined to secure their freedom.
And it's really inspirational to see that while President Trump is championing their cause on True Social, the Iranian people are thanking President Trump by renaming streets and praising the president's solidarity with the Iranian liberation movement.
Let's go ahead and play clip number 66 of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in this video message to President Trump urging him to take action, urging the 47th president of the United States to end 47 years of oppression in Iran.
We were told today that several of the student protest leaders were going to be executed by the regime.
We have this story about Iran to hang 26-year-old in alleged first execution over protests.
And now we're seeing reports that that execution today did not happen.
But just because it didn't happen today doesn't mean that it's not going to happen in a couple days.
So here we go.
You have this report here.
Iran to hang 26-year-old in alleged first execution over protest human rights groups warned.
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Irfan Sultani is allegedly scheduled to be hanged to death after his arrest during the protests in Karaj last Thursday.
The Iran Human Rights and National Union for Democracy group said.
His family was told that he had been sentenced to death and that the sentence was due to be carried out today on January 14th.
Well, he has not been executed, thank God.
But there's, like I said before, there's no telling how long this is going to continue, whether or not the Iranians are just taking President Trump very seriously because they're worried that he is going to take retaliatory action through strikes or bombings.
But we don't know what the fate of Irfan Sultani may be in a few days from now.
We don't know.
I think the only way to really guarantee that more student protesters are not executed and they're not hanged in the public square in Iran for what the Ayatollah is calling crimes against Allah.
I mean, literally on his own social media account, it's crazy.
This guy has an actual ex account, Khameni.
It's pretty wild that he hasn't been suspended or banned from X, despite the fact that he literally uses his account to call for assassinations every single day, whether it be of Jews or Israelis or President Trump or U.S. soldiers.
Last time I checked, that was a violation of terms of services.
But really, the only way that we can guarantee that these hangings don't continue and that brutality like we have seen over the last two weeks doesn't continue is if the United States takes these decisive airstrikes against the Ayatollah and the second in command, the third in command, the fourth in command, and makes it very clear that the Ayatollah's will not rise again.
You will not rise again.
The Islamic Republic of Iran will not rise again.
In fact, the Iranian people do not want an Islamic Iran.
They do not want to live under Islam.
Okay.
These are people who want to have normalized relations with Israel.
They want to have normalized relations with Jews and Christians.
They don't want to have to practice their faith of choice in underground churches or underground synagogues.
They don't want that.
They don't want to be forced to wear the hijab.
The women who are being beaten in the streets and arrested and sentenced to death because they refuse to wear the compulsory hijab, they don't want to live under Islam.
In fact, every single Iranian that I've ever met has said they hate Islam.
As soon as they leave Iran or they're able to escape Iran, they either become an atheist or they convert to Christianity or they're a Jew and they're finally able to practice their Judaism out in the open.
Nobody in Iran actually wants to be a Muslim because I love Islam.
It's forced upon them.
It is literally forced upon them.
So hopefully with the ultimate freedom and the liberation of Iran and the Iranian people, we will finally see more exposés and more truth being spoken about how brutal Islam as an ideology truly is, truly is.
And that's what I've been working so hard to prevent.
And just this last week, actually, my dear friend Amy Mech and I, we launched the Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact.
We launched the Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact.
DMSPAC.com, DMSPAC.com is the website.
DMSPAC.com, if you want to check it out.
We launched the Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact precisely for this reason, because we see the threat of Islam in America.
We see the threat of Marxism and communism in America.
You look at the recent election of people like Zoran Mamdami, okay?
We see what is happening in America, and that is why we just launched this pack, a first of its kind, the first pact really ever created to stop the spread of Sharia law and Islam in America.
And so we encourage you to add your name to join the fight.
If you want to stop the Islamification of America and you want to stop the spread of Marxism and this Red-Green Alliance in America, we encourage you to add your name, go to dmspact.com, fill out your name on the form here so that you can receive emails and text messages, make a donation and support our PAC today.
Because what is happening in Iran will come through the streets of America if we are not successful in pushing back against this red-green alliance that is actively trying to destroy the United States of America.
Mark my word, you guys.
Mark my word.
That's what's coming.
You can go through the website.
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Click the drop-down bar.
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There's my bio.
Co-founder Laura Loomer.
In case you want to read more about our PAC.
And if you want to support our PAC as well, continue.
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There's Amy, co-founder of the PAC.
If you're not following Amy, I recommend that you follow her on X at Amy Mech.
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So, what is our PAC?
Well, together, Amy and I have formed one of the most formidable independent political forces in America.
Together with our combined social media reach and our lists, our audience extends to millions of engaged Americans who follow our work.
And really, they trust our publicly crowdsourced, independent research, open source intelligence, and they also trust our research and our analysis of the threat, this red-green alliance, this red-green axis.
And if you don't know what a red-green axis is, it's the merging of the red communist groups in America with the green, of course, the Islamic movements.
And together, as we've seen with the recent election of Zoran Mamdami, these socialists and communists are working with Muslim organizations, they're working with Muslim Brotherhood organizations in America to further subvert and undermine our American political institutions.
So what is the Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact going to do?
Well, this PAC leverages the reach and our media influence to fund aggressive, lawful, independent political communications.
The purpose is to confront radical agendas and oppose candidates aligned with Marxists and militant Islamic movements and ensure that those ideologies are rejected at the ballot box before they can gain governing authority.
The objective is very clear and electoral.
Inform voters, apply accountability, and defend the republic when elections determine our future.
Elections have consequences, as we know.
Elections have consequences, whether those are real elections or whether those are stolen elections.
And we have sat by for years now and watched as our lawmakers have allowed for the Islamic movement to take over America.
You have people that are campaigning with Iranian lobbyists, supporting the Iranian regime, supporting Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah.
And now we literally have Iranian operatives serving in the United States Congress.
People who support groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, funded by the Iranian regime.
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Time to act before it's too late.
Now, what you need to understand about this red-green access is that the threat is operational.
Across our country, organized ideological movements are no longer operating on the margins of politics.
They're entering elections, capturing institutions, and they're reshaping public policy from within.
We've seen this again with the latest example of Zoran Mandami, who is an immigrant from Africa, winning the mayoral race in New York City.
And now we've seen the craziness that has come out of his inaugural committee.
Look at this.
This guy was just sworn into office.
He takes his oath of office on a Quran inside a tunnel as an homage to Hamas, okay, and homage to Hamas.
And then on top of that, he's appointing a bunch of communists and Muslims who support Hamas, who support the Muslim Brotherhood, who say things like it's white supremacy to be a property owner.
And now New York residents and New York voters are wondering what the hell they just voted for.
This is what you voted for: the communists and Islamic takeover of America.
In fact, tomorrow, Zoran Mandami is having a Zoom meeting to discuss the public allocation of taxpayer funds, okay, taxpayer funds to fund Islamic groups in New York City.
And so, what he's going to do is he's going to use the public available funds in the budget in New York City to fund a lot of these nonprofits in the Islamic community and within the radical left, including movements and supporting candidates.
In fact, he's supporting a candidate to replace his old assembly seat in Astoria, a woman by the name of Diana Moreno, who has called for abolishing the police, obstructing ICE, and who is on the record supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihadist organizations tied to Hamas.
Okay, this isn't going away anytime soon.
We are in the middle of a midterm election year, and it's very important for people to support the PAC and to familiarize yourself with the threat, or else we're going to lose our country.
And President Trump is going to become a lame duck president.
Members of the Democrat Socialists of America are currently holding hundreds of elected positions across federal, state, and local governments.
This is evidence, especially with the rise of these DSA candidates.
And you saw with Zoran Mandami's campaign, these people are incredibly well-organized and well-funded.
Now, it's twofold because at the same time, you have the DSA, and then you also have very well-funded and organized Islamic political networks that have openly declared their plans to train and position more than 100,000 political operatives, candidates, and future office holders within America and within our civic and governmental institutions.
So, this is something for all of you to keep in mind as we are now officially in 2026.
It's very real, and it should be very real to all of you.
Okay, this is not a speculation.
They are stating this, and this is 100% fact.
This is their stated, documented political strategy.
This is why all of these Islamic groups have formed their own political organizations and their own super PACs.
And so, naturally, Amy and I found it opportune and also very appropriate, opportune in the sense that, you know, we're never going to have another moment to rise to the occasion to do this because if we lose in 2026, we will lose our country to this Islamic takeover.
That's it.
So, now is the perfect opportune time to have a PAC like the Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact.
Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks are actively building political influence in the United States through coordinated engagement and leadership programs, while the Democrat Socialists of America are systematically embedding its activists into school boards, city councils, prosecutors' offices, state legislators, as well as Congress.
These movements are disciplined, well-funded, and increasingly effective at winning elections.
Let's continue now.
What are the consequences of political action if we don't take action?
If we don't use our position right now in the majority with President Trump in the White House to take out people like the Ayatollah, right?
To capture Nicolas Maduro and to try to take down a lot of these socialist networks, communist networks, Islamic networks.
So if these trends continue without sustained electoral opposition and without the Republican base and Republican majorities supporting President Trump and doing what needs to be done to stop the rise of multipolarity and to stop the rise of global Islamic state sponsors of terrorism and communist regimes that are flooding American leftist organizations with funds so that they can acquire political power and turn our country into an Islamic caliphate.
Well, the impact on American governance is going to be profound.
What is going to happen?
Let's take a look.
Public policy will increasingly reflect ideological frameworks hostile to constitutional principles.
We're already seeing that now, where you have Muslim candidates that are taking their oath of office on the Quran trying to implement Sharia law instead of abiding by the United States Constitution, which is why we've now seen a lot of popularity with the rise of the Sharia Free America Caucus, something that I was really first to report here on Loomer Unleashed months ago when I interviewed people like Tommy Tuberville and Congressman Chip Roy,
who are creating bills, along with Congressman Randy Fine as well, to crack down on the rise of Sharia law in America.
So while these members of Congress are creating a caucus to combat the rise of Sharia law, I saw today that Congressman Brandon Gill in Texas, as well as Congressman Byron Donald out of Florida, both just joined the Sharia Free America Caucus.
Now we have a PAC that is really going to dovetail these efforts by these members of Congress.
And there's just going to be a lot of synchronicity, right?
It's going to flow beautifully as we're trying to take our country back and raise awareness and also educate people through our independent journalism and our communications through the PAC, digital communications, about the dangers of Sharia law and the rise of Islam and really why we just can't allow Muslims to hold office in America.
Educational institutions are going to be shaped by ideological actors who reject American history, civic unity, and our national identity if we do not take action now to stop these Islamic and Marxist movements.
Speech and dissent are going to face escalating cultural and regulatory pressure, and constitutional protections will be applied unevenly, favoring ideological allies and marginalizing opposition.
We're already seeing this right now in New York City, where Muslims are being favored and we're seeing other groups get targeted.
We're seeing Jewish students get harassed on college campuses.
We're seeing Christian groups get harassed and targeted as well.
While we see Muslims become a super protected class in America because our politicians are so afraid for some reason of being called Islamophobe, right?
What's so bad about being called an Islamophobe?
I don't know.
I'll never understand it.
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Again, that's dmspac.com/slash get involved if you are interested in getting involved.
Stopping the Sharia takeover of America, stopping the Islamic takeover of America.
The Defeat Marxism and Sharia Pact exists to confront this reality through lawful, independent political action.
We are an independent expenditure-only committee.
We do not coordinate with candidates or campaigns.
We do not exercise government authority.
Our role is precise and powerful: to research, document, communicate, and mobilize voters at a scale and without compromise.
Led by Laura Loomer and Amy Mech, the Defeat Marxism and Sharia PAC operates as a national political intelligence and communications platform focused on elections where ideological extremism poses the greatest threat to constitutional governance.
So why do we call it a political intelligence and communications platform?
Because Amy and I are using our investigative reporting and our intelligence that we have gathered through research, right?
Open source research online.
Documenting the radical ties of these socialist, Marxist and jihadist candidates running for office trying to subvert our political system, and so if this is something that you support, then you can go to our website and make a donation today, and through your donation you will help us do independent opposition research, scroll up into candidates, ballot initiatives and ideological networks.
You will help us carry out strategic communications and media campaigns presenting this documented research and our findings directly to the public and high propensity voters.
We will be conducting voter education about the threat of Islam, about the threat of Marxism.
We will be doing issue advocacy ground grounded in constitutional principles and national sovereignty, and this we will be carrying out independent expenditures supporting and opposing candidates based on verified records and stated positions.
So if you go to Dmspac.com, let's go to the front page, scroll all the way to the top, go to the dropdown bar.
If this is something you support, I encourage you to click the donate button on our website and make a grassroots donation today, whether it's five dollars, twenty five dollars, fifty dollars, a hundred dollars.
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It doesn't matter what you can afford.
Whatever you can afford is greatly appreciated.
It can be a one-time donation or it can be a monthly recurring donation.
Whatever you can afford, we encourage you to donate to support us in our efforts to stop the Islamification of America, because look, Iran also used to be a free and prosperous country.
Right, Iran used to be a free and prosperous country and then Islam took over and now 20 000 people in the last week have been shot to death shot in the face, shot in the head, shot in the heart because they are living under Islamic tyranny and we don't want that to become our country here in the United States Of America, and that's why Amy Mech and I are committed to defeat Marxism and Sharia so that you don't have to be be enslaved and live under Islamic oppression,
like these poor people in Iran are currently living under.
I want to go to the chat.
Take a couple of questions and comments from the chat.
Fla Hustler said, Verizon just said they have resolved the outage problem tonight.
Thank god, because I haven't been able to use my phone all day long.
Oh god, Verizon at T and T-mobile, from my understanding, so if you have any of those three carriers haven't been able to text, make phone calls all day sucks waste of faith.
Says it's too late.
Laura Dems will take over the house in november.
Yeah, they probably will take over, but we can still expose people and try to prevent the Islamic takeover of America.
Exodus 225.
Thanks for exposing every fake ass.
America first or Laura?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean Tucker Carlson is clearly not America first.
You can't be America first and be simping for Iran and simping for Qatar.
It just doesn't work that way.
Let's scroll up, see what we missed.
We had a lot of questions earlier in the previous segment.
All of the executive orders are going to be reversed.
Absolutely.
Little animals.
So Tucker's on the American Conservative Board.
Yes, Tucker Carlson is in fact on the advisory board of the American Conservative Board, another group that pretends to be American and conservative.
And yet, his executive director is hanging out and speaking on panels with NIAC, which is the Iranian lobby.
So, again, you know, there's a lot of people out there pretending to be America first right now, and they are deceiving Americans as our country gets taken over by Islam.
So you have to be really careful.
You have to be really careful about where you're getting your information these days.
And now Marco Rubio, along with President Trump, is really hands down the star of the Trump administration.
In addition to President Trump, of course, too.
But Marco Rubio is absolutely killing it.
Just absolutely killing it.
Let's go ahead and put the story up on the screen here.
Visa crackdown.
I mean, in addition to orchestrating and helping President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth carry out the raid in Venezuela and the successful capture of Nicholas Maduro, today the State Department, let's go ahead and open up this tweet from the State Department.
The State Department has now revoked over 100,000 visas, including some 8,000 student visas and 2,500 specialized visas for individuals who had encounters with U.S. law enforcement for criminal activity.
We will continue to deport these thugs and keep America safe.
Amazing.
So I assume that a lot of these students are probably like student protesters or, you know, maybe people who are living in the United States.
They don't have to be students necessarily, probably participating in protests.
You have a lot of people abusing our visa system, participating in these anti-ICE protests, participating in pro-Hamas protests on college campuses.
So it's really great to see that we are getting rid of all these people because Marco Rubio earlier in the year, you'll recall, issued a statement and said that his estimates show that nearly 55 million people living in the United States could potentially be visa violators.
And you combine that with the 65 million illegal aliens that we already have in our country.
And that is over 100 million illegal aliens or 100 million people, foreigners, right?
Foreigners living in our country who really shouldn't be here.
And then when you take into account the population of America being close to what?
Like almost what?
Almost like 300 and 370 million people or so.
Whether that number includes the 100 million or doesn't include the 100 million, I don't even think that it really includes the 100 million foreigners.
But if you get rid of all those people who are living here scamming our system, they're abusing welfare.
President Trump, of course, just said that no more Somalis are allowed to come into our country.
Every single Somali who is found to have been abusing our welfare system in America is going to be deported, he said.
You start to realize that that breaks down to nearly one in five people, maybe even one in four people living in the United States of America shouldn't be here.
And so then when you look at the fact that so many Americans are struggling to find housing, so many Americans are struggling to be able to afford a house, so many Americans are just unable to live with a sense of affordability these days.
What would happen if we kicked out 110 million people from our country?
How many houses would be available?
How many jobs would be available?
How much would the cost of living go down?
How much would tuition go down?
Right?
Just things to think about.
So bravo to Marco Rubio.
Today, Trump froze all immigration from Somalia amid the massive fraud scandal.
Pretty incredible.
They found that the vast majority of Somali migrants take welfare once presented in the United States.
I mean, nothing good comes from importing people with an average IQ of 68, which is literally below the United States medical classification of somebody for mental retardation.
Why are we importing all these Africans who have the IQ, IQs lower than people who are clinically diagnosed as mentally retarded in America?
Why do we want to have a bunch of future Ilhan Omars?
We don't.
We shouldn't.
We should be kicking all these people out of our country.
And this is why there's so much talk right now about whether Marco Rubio is going to run for president in 2028.
I mean, look, it's just, you can see the dynamic is shifting.
And I'm not trying to cause any tension, but you can see that President Trump is really starting to take a fondness to Marco Rubio.
And there's a lot of people online that are recognizing that Marco Rubio is a very strong leader.
I'm not saying he's going to be president.
Who knows, right?
Maybe JD Vance will be president.
Maybe Marco Rubio is going to be president.
But I will say, I think a lot of people are getting ahead of their skis on 2028.
I think a lot of people are getting ahead of their skis.
Okay.
JD Vance has not distanced himself from Tucker Carlson.
His advisors can cry about this all they want and say that people are getting paid to attack him.
They're not.
There's a difference between attacking JD Vance and attacking Tucker.
I've actually defended JD Vance and his wife extensively from the attacks of Groypers and the attacks of people who have been nasty towards his wife, right?
Called her a, called her a Jeet.
I've defended his wife and I've said that this kind of rhetoric is only going to continue because Tucker Carlson is the person who is normalizing this type of rhetoric.
So I'm not paid to attack JD Vance, but I will say, I have publicly said many times, and I've told the vice president this himself multiple times.
So it's not like I'm talking shit.
So I've literally said this to JD Vance to his face.
If you don't distance yourself from Tucker Carlson, you're not going to be president.
He's going to destroy your campaign.
He will destroy your campaign and make it radioactive.
And Marco Rubio will be president.
So it'll be interesting to see if there's a competitive streak that develops between Marco Rubio and JD Vance.
We don't have coronations in this country, folks.
We don't.
I know Turning Point USA endorsed JD Vance on stage and they said that JD Vance was going to be our next president.
Okay.
I'm not saying that I'm against Shady Vance, but we also mocked the Democrats when they didn't have a primary.
There is going to be a primary in 2028.
Mark my word.
There will be.
There will be a primary.
The voters will decide.
President Trump will decide.
And again, I'm not saying that I'm against JD Vance, but what I'm saying is that if JD Vance doesn't distance himself from Tucker, I don't see how he's going to become president because Tucker Carlson is such a destructive force within the GOP.
He's causing people to not want to support JD Vance.
All you have to do is read the room.
I was told that they're actually going to be launching Jews for JD.
So I don't think that's a coincidence that a group called Jews for JD is suddenly going to be launching, right, in the aftermath of Tucker Carlson at the White House.
They're going to launch Jews for JD, apparently.
Okay, whatever.
Still not going to change the fact that Tucker Carlson is spewing all his bullshit.
You can create Jews for JD all you want.
It's not going to do anything if you don't say that what Tucker Carlson is doing is wrong.
And again, I'm giving constructive advice to the vice president, right?
I've said this multiple times.
I've always said that I have been supportive and I always planned on being supportive, but I find it to be a little disturbing that he continues to associate with Tucker.
Again, not an attack on the vice president.
I'm just saying that it's not going to be because of me.
It's not going to be because of any paid influencer, which is, you know, just a complete made-up lie.
Some of his people are just making up lies.
Like his, you know, fanboys online, they're saying things like, oh, influencers are getting paid to attack JD Vance.
They're not getting paid to attack the vice president.
Okay.
I like the vice president.
Nobody's getting paid to attack JD Vance.
This is a lie.
It's because these people are all doing business with each other and they do business with Omin Malik.
Okay.
The people that are making up these lies that people are getting paid to attack JD Vance are literally doing business with Omin Malik.
You know, the guy that gave $15 million to Tucker Carlson to start his media company.
Omin Malik flew to Qatar with Tucker Carlson, right?
So it's a lot easier to spread a conspiracy theory and say people are getting paid to attack the vice president when in reality, it would be a lot easier for the vice president to say, look, you know, I've known Tucker Carlson for many years now, but I don't agree with what he's saying.
I think it's wrong.
I think it's wrong.
I don't know why he still continued to be invited to the White House, even after he shadowed over Marco Rubio and President Trump and Pete Hegseth's operation in Maduro.
Like, I don't know.
They say that they're friends.
Like, we see that JD Vance and Marco Rubio are friends.
But then, I don't know, if somebody was my friend, I certainly wouldn't be inviting Tucker Carlson to the White House after he just got done shitting all over the operation by saying that Trump and Marco and Hegset invaded Venezuela and they captured Maduro because he wants to spread homosexuality.
They want to spread homosexuality in Venezuela.
I mean, we have the clip.
We can play the clip.
I'm not making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
Nobody has to pay JD to attack JD Vance.
We're not attacking JD Vance, right?
Like, nobody is saying anything against JD Vance.
We're saying, hey, it's kind of weird.
Like, why is the vice president hanging out with this guy that's shitting all over the administration and is simping for Muslims and saying that terrorists are people that deserve our compassion, right?
That's not a paid attack.
Like, we have questions.
And I think that these are, it's becoming, it's becoming such a distraction.
The Tucker problem is becoming such a distraction for the Trump administration that it really honestly has the ability to cost us the midterms.
I've said this over and over again.
It really honestly has the ability to cost us the midterms.
And it has the ability to cost JD his presidential campaign, which is why I've been so desperately trying to convey this to him and his advisors who just don't.
I don't know.
I don't know if they want to listen.
I don't know if they want to listen, but I hope that they do listen because it's very destructive.
It's very destructive to President Trump.
It's very destructive to the MAGA base.
And again, I like JD Vance a lot, but this is very destructive to JD Vance's campaign.
I mean, this is what Tucker Carlson was just saying a week ago, and then he was invited to have lunch at the White House with Vice President Vance.
You can post your comments in the chat and let me know what you think, but I don't think that this is very respectful to the president.
We have this clip of Tucker Carlson talking about how Nicholas Maduro was captured because Trump wants to spread homosexuality.
And before I have people jumping down my throat in the chat, no, this is not a joke.
This is not him being sarcastic.
This is not Tucker Carlson making a joke.
This is Tucker Carlson, who is friends with JD Vance.
Again, Tucker's son is the deputy press secretary for the vice president of the United States in the White House.
He invited him to the White House.
This is what Tucker Carlson just said about the Venezuela operation.
We can safely discount democracy as a reason for effecting regime change in Venezuela.
We're not going to go kill Nicholas Maduro because we don't like the way he's treating his people.
It's possible we're mad that he doesn't allow gay marriage.
That is a distinct possibility, but no one will say that out loud.
Not defending the regime, just saying one of the most conservative countries in North or South or Central America.
Only El Salvador really comes close, which is much smaller, of course.
And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader who would take Maduro's place if he were taken out is, of course, pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezuela.
So, to those of you who thought this whole project was global homo, it's not crazy, actually.
If you think that it's about exporting globo homo and making everybody around the world a homosexual, then you're not wrong.
I mean, we just we have to make everybody gay, right?
That's what that's what it's all about.
That's what Trump is doing, obviously.
I mean, it's like some Candace Owens level shit, right?
I had a dream, and you know, this gay fairy came to me in my mind and told me that President Trump and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegset, they just want everybody to be a gay little gay boy running around Venezuela.
They want everybody to be waving rainbow flags again.
I'm not trying to be nasty when I say this, but either Tucker Carlson is having a mental breakdown, he's on, maybe he's on drugs, or he's drinking again.
I don't know if a lot of people know this, but Tucker is an alcoholic, okay?
And he's displaying very irrational behavior.
I don't know if he's relapsed, I don't know.
In fact, I believe I posted the clip showing Tucker Carlson in his own words, admitting that he was an alcoholic.
A lot of people don't know this about Tucker, but maybe this is what's happening to him.
Maybe he's on a re, maybe he's on like a, you know, like a bender.
I don't know.
Look at we have this clip here.
We can go ahead and play it, but listen to him in his own words, talking about how he's doing shots at three o'clock in the morning, getting drunk while his wife's pregnant.
Like, Tucker Carlson is a self-admitted alcoholic.
I believe he's also previously admitted to using drugs.
So, again, I'm not saying that Tucker is drinking again or that Tucker Carlson is using drugs, but his behavior is very irrational.
And you have to ask yourself how somebody who portrays themselves as, you know, this staunch conservative for years all of a sudden has just done a total 180 on all their positions.
And I just think it's important for people to know that Tucker has had substance abuse issues because maybe, maybe, I don't know, maybe it's the Qatari money.
Maybe he's just taking so much Muslim money that he'll just say whatever to appease his Muslim paymasters.
Maybe that's what's happening.
I don't know.
Maybe he's getting paid off by Muslims and these Gulf Muslim countries that he can't stop talking about.
Maybe that's what's happening.
Or maybe he's having a mental breakdown triggered by substance abuse.
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You know, I'm a new member of the Pentagon Press Corps, so I was able to travel on the doomsday plane.
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Two more questions.
Two more questions.
Laura, you know, Tucker isn't wearing a wedding ring as well.
Yeah, it's a little strange.
Law Hesla said, Holy shit, no wonder why he's friends with Hunter Biden.
Yep.
It's a bit strange, isn't it?
I bet you I bet a lot of people didn't know that Tucker was an alcoholic.
Press one in the chat if you didn't know that Tucker Carlson was an alcoholic, actually, because it's really interesting.
It just goes to show you that a lot of people are getting their news from these people.
And you don't know what people have going on in their own lives, right?
Like you don't know anything about these people who you're getting your content from.
Some of these people are like the most screwed up people you're ever going to meet in your life.
And yet there's people listening to them like they're God.
Right?
Like, oh, wow, who appointed Tucker Carlson as you know, an authoritative voice in conservative media?
The guy can't even get his own life in order.
I'm not good.
I mean, everybody in the chat is pressing one.
Just really makes you wonder.
It really makes you wonder if he's even sober when he records his episodes.
I've kind of wondered that, like, if he's saying these things while he's sober, defending Sharia law.
You know, I'm recently engaged, as you know, and I'll tell you a story.
So, you know, for months, I was telling my fiancé, oh my God, Tucker Carlson has lost his mind.
And he would say, well, you know, I don't know.
Tucker's, you know, you got to be really careful, Laura.
Like a lot of people really like Tucker, you know, and he would tell me, like, you know, oh, you got to be careful.
A lot of people really like him.
You know, oh, you know, you're getting a little aggressive on Tucker, blah, Right?
So, you know, it's my fiancé, so I would respect his opinion, obviously, but I didn't agree with that insight.
So one day, this was about a month or so ago.
We were driving in the car.
Maybe it was like two months ago.
I think it was Halloween.
We were driving in the car back from dinner.
And I'm just watching clips from Tucker's podcast in the car.
He's driving the car.
I'm on the phone.
And I literally like played the clip out loud.
Right?
He's driving.
There's no music on.
And you could hear the clip of Tucker Carlson talking about how we need to have Sharia law in America, talking about how Sharia is great.
Because wow, you could just leave your keys in your Lamborghini and nothing's going to happen, right?
I swear to God, my fiancé said, wow, this is crazy.
AI is getting so good.
That's what he said to me.
He goes, wow, AI is getting so good.
That's like a, that looks like a real clip.
He said, I can't believe how realistic AI looks.
And I looked at him and I was like, babe, that wasn't AI.
That was really Tucker Carlson defending Sharia.
And he was like, there's no way.
There's no way.
He didn't believe me.
Like, he literally did not believe me.
So he had to go do the research himself and see.
Tucker Carlson literally had this episode in which he, you know, was defending Sharia law.
And then at that point in time, he's like, all right, babe, you win.
Tucker's officially lost his mind.
I agree with you.
So he thought that Tucker Carlson talking about Sharia law was AI and he was willing to actually give him the benefit of the doubt.
He didn't want to believe that it was real.
He didn't believe it.
He really honestly didn't believe it.
He thought I was pranking him in the car when I said it's a real clip.
So it's shocking.
It's so shocking that my fiancé actually thought that the clip was AI, believe it or not.
So even people who defended Tucker or people who, you know, wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt because, you know, he used to watch Tucker or I used to watch Tucker, right?
They realize that he's so far gone.
He's so crazy now that his own statements sound like they're AI clips, but they're real.
They're real.
It's not fake.
It's not a fake manipulated clip.
Tucker Carlson is defending Islam and telling people to submit to Allah and talking about how it's so great that Islam wants you to submit to Allah, pretending like all is the same thing as, you know, the Christian God or the Jewish God, right?
Like it's just, it's very bizarre.
You have to watch these videos for yourself in the compilation and it's like living in a simulation.
So very strange.
A lot of people in the comments are saying it too.
Really strange.
I've been a big fan of Tucker until recently.
Tucker is even buying a house in the Middle East.
Yes, that's true.
He said that he was buying a house in Qatar.
DB Dim 9th said, yeah, I used to never miss a Fox episode of Tucker.
A lot of people used to love watching Tucker, but a lot of people have told me that they're very grateful for these exposés that I'm doing because they realize that he's lost his mind.
It's crazy.
It's totally crazy.
Let's scroll up a little bit, take a couple more questions.
I think there are a couple more comments that we skipped over.
Will you do more documentary-style content like you did in Israel a few months ago?
You know, I've been thinking about it.
I've been thinking about whether I want to do more show content or more documentary style content going into this next year.
And a lot of people really enjoyed the documentary style content.
They really liked the documentary that I did last year, The Great Replacement about immigration and the invasion of America.
People really liked the short documentary video that I did when I was in Israel and when I was on the border of Syria, interviewing victims of Jelani.
So, yeah, I hope.
I hope that I can.
I'm going to be doing a lot of work exposing candidates going into 2026, doing a lot to try to help the COP keep the house in terms of exposing this radical left jihadist takeover of America, going to be running the PAC simultaneously doing the show.
But a lot of that is kind of complimentary, right?
Because I'm already exposing a lot of this Marxist jihadist activity in America.
And, you know, now it's just an official political operation as well.
But we'll see if you have any thoughts or comments on what you'd like to see me do a documentary style report on.
Definitely always enjoy hearing your feedback.
So put it in the chat.
I'll take two more comments or questions before we close out tonight.
Scroll down.
All the way down.
Do a doc on what's going on in Texas with Epic.
Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
It's absolutely insane what's happening in Texas.
Amy and I will continue exposing it.
Where does Laura post her content?
It looks like her YouTube channel's old uploads.
Well, I'm censored on YouTube.
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And then my written content is on my website, loomered.com.
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Please stay safe.
Thank you.
It's very generous of you, very kind.
I really appreciate that.
Very kind of you.
Yeah.
And for those of you who are asking where you can watch that documentary that I made on the invasion of our country called The Great Replacement, it's actually on my Rumble channel.
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Just type in Laura Loomer at the top, The Great Replacement.
And you can see it was broken down into a series.
So there's five episodes, but then we compiled all of the five episodes into one full-length documentary.
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The Great Replacement, full-length documentary, really great documentary.
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