Move over QAnon shaman, Ye, and Nick Fuentes, there's a new MAGA wingnut in the media spotlight

Above, QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley, Ye (Kanye West) and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Obviously Trump doesn't care who he embraces. He's now making the news for literally embracing another fringe supporter. Can you guess to whom I am referring?

I turned on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" (part of my morning multitasking as regular readers of this blog know). This is what they were discussing:

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"Morning Joe" was fortunate in that they had interviewed a woman in September of 2022 who is now on the way to becoming, thanks to Donald Trump, as well known as this guy for pretty much the same reason:

"QAnon shaman"

The likelihood that you probably already knew who she was prior to reading this far suggests that she is well on the way to achieving MAGA celebrity status.

Morning Joe just re-aired this Sept. 2022 interview: 
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How famous is Micki Larson-Olson, the woman shown above? I'll never have my photo in The Washington Post for my opinions but thanks to her flamboyant attention grabbing outfit and Trump she's now relevant enough to have a 900+ word article about her in The Washington Post (here, subscription).

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Here's are some tidbits from The Washington Post article about her and the incident which I wasn't aware of in my bold:

• She identified herself as a member of a spinoff of the QAnon extremist movement known as Negative 48 that has frequented Trump rallies and campaign stops since last year.
• On Thursday, Larson-Olson wore her usual costume of a skintight red, white and blue jumpsuit and bedazzled cap, but she replaced her usual QAnon badge with a button displaying the Pledge of Allegiance, sinceQAnon paraphernalia is not allowed inside Trump events. 
• They (she and another Trumper) both got another chance to see Trump, however, when a member of the former president’s event team (Foley identified him as Secret Service, but the campaign said he was a local volunteer wearing an earpiece) took note of Foley’s jacket, featuring a stylized image of Trump as a matador. Foley said the person told him that Trump would stop by a famous nearby diner, the Red Arrow, after the speech. So Foley and Larson-Olson headed over.
• Here are some more facts about Larson-Olson from another article.

How famous is she? She is this famous:

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You can watch a video of this encounter here. You can hear a man shouting "I'm the college Republican leader, can I have a picture" but near as I can tell Trump ignores him and responds to Larson-Olson.

Of course there are two meanings to the word embrace, and thanks to Trump's hugging this woman we have pundits like Jonathan Lemire saying as he just did on "Morning Joe" that Republicans like Trump are literally embracing extremists.

We now have an oddity named Trump who is worthy of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. He's a freak who embraces freaks. 

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He makes the news by behaving in outlandish ways. He doesn't appear to care in the least about this behavior being suggestive that his political judgment is severely impaired. He has pushed the envelope of what used to be considered acceptable behavior for politicians so far without it being detrimental to his career that he is not likely to clean up his act.

There are lots of vulgar phrases to describe how little he cares what people think about this kind of behavior. I won't go into the gutter to end this blog with one of them.

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