NSFW: The Most Vile X Posts from “Moyle’s Loyals”

By now, you might know “Moyle’s Loyals,” Brandy Paradee and Lauren Walker. Based on numerous interactions and photos posted on X over the past several months, they appear to be close allies of Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle of Star. If you don’t know who Brandy and Lauren are, go read Greg Pruett’s recent takedown of these two. It’s worth the time. 

What you also might not know is how vile and disgusting their tweets are. They claim to be “plugged in” to the majority of Republicans in Idaho, but I’ve been working in Idaho politics long enough to know that their brand of politics doesn’t represent the average conservative, Christian voter that makes up the true majority of Republican voters in Idaho.

As Brandy and Lauren’s style of politics drags our state and the conservative movement into the sewer, a number of conservatives are pushing back out of concern that the division will do lasting harm to our state. Realizing most Idahoans have jobs and families and don’t have time to participate in X drama, I thought it’d be useful to show just how low these two are willing to go to harass, smear, and cancel anyone who disagrees with them or their allies. 

Following are 10 of the worst X posts by Brandy and Lauren. To the list! 

No. 10: Grifting with outrage for pay

Lauren has lots of thoughts and big feelings about people getting paid to work in politics. While this tweet is pretty tame compared to the rest of the list, this shows her strategy. A while back, University of Idaho President Scott Green coined the term “conflict entrepreneurs” as a label for those who stir up internet fights to get paid. Lauren admits she’s doing just that in this tweet. 

No. 9 : Attacking a respected congressman and his daughter 

Apparently everyone Lauren hates is a whore. Disagree with her stance on anything, you’re a whore, too. Such is the case with Congressman Russ Fulcher and his daughter, Meghan. I’m not even certain why she disagrees with Rep. Fulcher. But what’s clear is that Lauren lacks the ability to disagree with people in a civil manner. Isn’t this that purity politics she’s always trashing? Looks like it. 

No. 8: Just…..yuck. 

Are we in high school? Just yuck. 

No. 7:  Again…just…yuck

Hard-hitting accountability is fine. Great, even. But Lauren’s tweets aren’t that. It’s a ton of angry boomer-posting for attention and clicks. What’s odd, too, is that Trump wouldn’t debate in the primary, yet he’s spared Lauren’s childish ire. 

No. 6: Mocking bodily appearances

I’ve tried to stay away from attacking people’s looks and weight because I’m no…uh…Liam Hemsworth? Henry Cavill? Regardless, nothing is off limits for Lauren. Nothing. 

Weirdly, when a leftist attacked Elon Musk’s dad bod, Lauren ran right to the billionaire’s defense against so-called fat shaming. 

No. 5: More Whores! 

Seriously though, everyone who disagrees with Lauren’s nonsense is a whore. What’s fascinating about this tweet is not that it’s wrong. IACI is the worst. What’s amazing is that her fishing buddy, Mike Moyle, takes lots and lots of corporate and lobbyist cash for his campaign and his PAC, Idaho Rising. He also donates money to RINOS, including Matt Bundy, Britt Raybould in her race against Ron Nate, Greg Chaney, and many, many more. The receipts are here for the campaign and here for the PAC. 

And, to complete the cycle, Moyle has done nothing to repeal Launch, the corporate training program Lauren slams in this tweet. In fact, he quietly endorsed the handout program in a podcast chat with Tommy Ahlquist. 

So, Lauren, isn’t your pal Moyle a whore by your own definition? 

No. 4: The Whoring Continues

Lauren occasionally fawns over Attorney General Raul Labrador, and for good reason. But she never mentions that Raul was a registered lobbyist back in 2022, when he lobbied for five different entities in the Statehouse. Does she also think our widely respected attorney general is a whore?

She also fails to note that Matt Edwards of Citizens Alliance of Idaho registers as a lobbyist. Edwards and CAI have done tremendous work here in the state. Yet, according to Lauren, he’s nothing more than a whore lobbyist. 

Yikes, Lauren. Yikes. 

No. 3: Brandy Goes There

I used to think conservatives agreed that Sens. Christy Zito and Glenneda Zuiderveld deserve respect for their efforts to unseat RINOs and defeat bad bills. 

Apparently, Moyle’s hit squad doesn’t care what those two have done for the movement. That’s particularly bothersome in Zuiderveld’s case, because she won in a place where conservatives have tried for more than a decade to topple RINOs. 

Maybe Brandy would rather see IACI-backed Jim Patrick back in that seat? 

Regardless, this is a vile attack on women who have earned better. 

No. 2: The Religious Bigotry

Lauren knows little, but says a lot. That’s the case for this bigoted tweet. Lauren suggested that Maria Nate converted from the LDS church to Christianity because …reasons. 

Raul Labrador is LDS and he won north Idaho in his bid for attorney general. How? 

Lauren proves again no smear is beneath her in the quest to divide the conservative movement for her own gain. 

Furthermore, her ally Moyle is also LDS and known to have gubernatorial ambitions. Her perspective on religion could get uncomfortable when the time comes to get behind her buddy’s campaign for governor.

No. 1: Mocking a guy’s dead wife

I think Trent Clark is wrong about literally everything. Probably more than that. But Walker attacked his recently-passed wife in this X post. This is about as low as anyone can get, and any Christian who is associated with Lauren should be questioning their relationship with her based on this alone.

That wasn’t enough for Walker, who offered some weird grab bag of pejorative gibberish to conclude the argument. 

Weirdly, Walker slammed a leftist on X for labeling Clark a Satanist. Apparently, mocking Clark’s dead wife is fine, but calling him a Satanist is too far? Ok, Lauren.  

Look, my own reputation is not lost on me. I’m no stranger to rough-and-tumble politics played out on social media, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been overly-critical of people at times. But there is a difference between talking tough and Brandy and Lauren’s approach to political discourse. Their dangerous rhetoric is putting at risk some of the gains conservatives have made in hard-to-win districts. Can someone make it all make sense? 

Lauren is stirring up controversy to get paid by X while pretending she isn’t. She’s attacking good organizations that have made the Legislature more conservative. She’s relentlessly targeting well-respected conservative activists with derogatory and vile rants. And for what? A few bucks from Elon and a pat on the head from Mike Moyle? 

I left X to keep the peace and focus on my day job. I had hopes that would quiet the storm. It didn’t. Now, as conservatives push back on this effort to divide the right, many are calling for us to back off for the “good of the party.” 

But they don’t want peace or unity. They want unilateral disarmament and unaccountable politicians. That’s not going to happen. 

Peace can come if both sides in this stupid factional conflict agree to a cease fire so we can focus on the real enemies like Jim Guthrie, Rod Furniss, and Jack Nelsen. 

Without a cease fire from both sides, there will be no peace.