When “Alligator Lives Matter” Becomes Genocidal Rhetoric in a Suit
🧨🐊 And there it is—actual genocide talk, out loud, in public, from someone in Trump’s orbit. This is no longer dog-whistle politics. It’s a damn foghorn. Laura Loomer—a deranged conspiracy theorist, habitual bigot, and self-proclaimed “close advisor” to President Trump—just tweeted that alligators would get 65 million meals if we “get started now.”
The “meals” she’s referring to? Latinos. All 65 million of them. That’s not satire. That’s not exaggeration. That’s genocidal rhetoric cloaked in dark humor, broadcast straight from the lunatic fringe now comfortably seated at the table of mainstream right-wing power.
And let’s be clear: this isn’t just one rogue extremist popping off on social media. This is a woman Trump personally elevated—flown on Air Force One, championed by MAGA surrogates, courted by GOP influencers. Her voice carries because the movement gave her a megaphone.
So when someone like Loomer jokes about feeding millions of human beings to alligators—and the GOP’s reaction is a collective shrug or a chuckle—you’re not witnessing fringe behavior. You’re seeing the center of the movement laid bare. The fantasy of mass extermination isn’t the subtext anymore. It’s the script.
Imagine for even a second if someone on the left made this kind of remark about white evangelicals or MAGA voters. We’d see congressional investigations, cable news meltdowns, and Fox News panels for weeks. But when the target is Latino? Silence. Because cruelty aimed at marginalized groups is the coin of the realm in Trump’s America.
This is how fascism advances—through laughter, through dehumanization, through a steady drumbeat of increasingly unhinged “jokes” that are nothing of the sort. It starts in tweets. It ends in camps. And we are well past the starting line.
Figures like Loomer serve a purpose. They’re sent out like ideological canaries—testing how much venom can be released before anyone pushes back. And the answer, more often than not, is none. Because the goal isn’t just to dehumanize. It’s to desensitize.
There are children in this country, teenagers working jobs, parents picking up groceries, grandparents watching grandkids—65 million real, breathing, beloved people—being reduced to a punchline. That should stop the nation cold. And yet… here we are.
If you’re not chilled to the bone by that tweet, ask yourself why. Is it because the targets weren’t you? Is it because we’ve been taught that some groups are simply more “mockable” than others? That’s how genocide creeps in—when the jokes start, and no one flinches.
We’ve got to scream about this. Not whisper. Not minimize. Not move on. Because genocidal rhetoric doesn’t announce itself in military uniforms. It slips in through memes. It builds momentum with silence. And it solidifies when people in power respond with retweets instead of rebukes.
We’re not just fighting for policy anymore. We’re fighting for the basic recognition that our neighbors aren’t jokes. They’re people. And that shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say.
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