Welcome to another episode of This Fucking Guy, the series where we pick one fucking guy making America worse and explain why they suck. I'm Aaron Ryan, host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast. And I'm Alyssa, the other host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast. You know, Alyssa, if I have to be generous, there are some fucking guys who I actually don't think I'd mind sitting next to on an airplane.

Like they might be evil, but they're not going to try to eat your face off while you're sleeping. If I had to pick a fucking guy to sit next to it would probably be Jerry Falwell because he's dead. Oh, see, I was going to say Samuel Alito. He would just do stink face the whole time. He wouldn't want to talk to me, which would be fine. But, Aaron, today's subject is a person who is so erratic and unhinged that she sets off primal alarm

bells in my brain. I see her and my flight response almost takes over. Yeah, same. Today,

we are talking about Laura Lumer, perennially friendless Maga Goblin, whose desperate, racist histrionics were at one point a goofy side show.

But not anymore. Somehow the final boss of Maga Face has won the trust of the president of the United States.

Following the life of Laura Lumer, Alyssa, is a bit like unpealing an onion that keeps getting more and more putrid the

further you get in. On the surface, it's the story of an emotionally unstable woman with a maladaptive

fixation on getting the attention of a world leader no matter what. But the further down you get,

the more you see that her story is really about how technology has allowed the worst humans in the world to

connect, befriend each other, egg each other on, and how now, because of that, they're the ones in

charge. Well, as the Grateful Dead would sing, going to hell in a bucket, but at least they're

enjoying the ride. Laura Louer did not, in fact, grow alongside the slime mold that scientists have

discovered on the rims of deep sea hot water vents.

She was born to two human parents on May 21st, 1993 in Tucson, Arizona.

1993! If you get nothing else from this episode,

consider it a cautionary tale against doing stuff to your face when you're too young.

Laura's father was a rheumatologist and her mother was a nurse. There's not much publicly

available information about her mother. Online reviews of her father's current medical practice

show that he's apparently a competent medical professional, but competent doctor does not

equal good dad. Laura has described her childhood as very violent.

Her older brother suffered from severe mental illness.

When she was a tween, her brother attacked her mother and was sent to live in a residential

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