Wednesday's Absurdity of the Day: Taylor Lorenz. She's the Absurdity.

Taylor Lorenz personifies everything that is wrong with the corrupt news media in America today. She’s a bully, she is utterly inept, and she is completely devoid of self-awareness. She’s a leftist ideologue whose personal bias bleeds through in every report she does. She wallows in self-delusion and self-pity whenever her abusive behavior is called out.

She is, in other words, a standard-issue product of modern American journalism schools, the perfect “reporter” for the Bezos Post.

Early this week, Lorenz decided to make it her mission to Doxx the woman who operates the “LibsofTikTok” Twitter account and her family. She sent threatening email messages to these folks and even personally showed up at the front doors of their homes to harass them. Lorenz’s fake-journalistic jihad came after LibsofTikTok had been suspended by the evil overlords at Twitter, ostensibly for harassment and abusive behavior.

All of this attention focused on a Twitter account that does nothing but re-post TikTok videos that were originally recorded and posted by the liberals themselves. That is literally all LibsofTikTok does. Nothing else.

In his monologue last night, Tucker Carlson absolutely destroyed Lorenz and Twitter for their bullying abuse of this woman and her family.

It was truly glorious. Watch:

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#Thread Tucker Carlson's Opening Monologue On The Mainstream Media's Attempts To Silence & Intimidate @libsoftiktok For Exposing What's Going On In America's Schools "No news organization in America has done more to reveal the reality within American schools than @libsoftiktok."

The full transcript of Carlson’s monologue can be found at this link: Carlson Monologue.

Here are some excerpts from it:

Good evening and welcome to "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Last year, unbeknownst to pretty much nobody, a woman in Brooklyn started a Twitter account that was comprised almost solely of videos of liberals talking about themselves. The concept was very simple: Find interesting tape that had already been uploaded to the internet by the people who made it and then repost that tape. There was no editing of it, no special effects. There was very little editorial content.  

The idea was to let activist-types describe, in their own words, what they believe, unfiltered. The woman who created it called that account "Libs of TikTok." Libs of TikTok now has more followers than the entire population of the state of Wyoming. Libs of TikTok's audience dwarfs the nightly viewership on CNN. 

So, it was quite successful by definition. The question is why?  

Here's why: It turns out that is repellent as academic lifestyle liberalism may seem to you as an observer. The reality of it, as described by the people who actually believe this stuff, is even worse than you ever imagined. It's really beyond belief, both idiotic and disgusting. It's like watching someone eat roadkill. You feel nauseous, but you can't turn away. So, Libs of TikTok not only found all kinds of tape on the internet, but they found a bunch of selfie-style videos from the publicly available social media accounts of teachers. They didn't snoop. They just put what people already posted.

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So those are the people in charge of tending to your small children's minds while you're at work. Now maybe you agree with the views you just heard. Maybe you think that doctors just guess at the sex of newborns. Maybe you don't agree. It almost doesn't matter. Either way, you have a right as a parent to know what these people are teaching to your children. And yet, before Libs of TikTok, there was not an easy way to find out what they were teaching. You take the teacher's word for it. 

Well, it turns out there are an awful lot of videos like this out there. Libs of TikTok found a lot of them.

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The neoliberal slander machine Media Matters published four separate hit pieces on Libs of TikTok in just the past three weeks. It was trafficking hate for allowing liberals to talk about themselves. It was anti-gay as if the site was attacking anyone.  

Certainly, it was not attacking gays. It was just playing tape of people talking about themselves in their own words—video that they uploaded. 

Well, Twitter could not stand this. They shut down the account entirely twice. They suspended it. One of the suspensions came after a complaint from a Harvard law instructor called Alejandra Caraballo.

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So ultimately, Jeff Bezos weighed in. Bezos' personal newspaper, The Washington Post, decided to harass the family of the woman who operates the Libs of TikTok. They couldn't find her, so they went after her family. The Post sent what it calls its tech columnist, Taylor Lorenz, to show up outside a home that belongs to one of the woman's relatives and then Lorenz set about trying to find the woman herself. 

She couldn't. She sent a direct message on Twitter to someone who turned out to be not that woman and had nothing to do with the account whatsoever. But because she did that, we know what Taylor Lorenz was saying.  

Here's what she said: "You're being implicated in starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people." Right, a hate campaign. So here you have Taylor Lorenz, who's effectively acting as the Stasi for the Deep State, trying to intimidate a private citizen into silence and this morning she gave her best shot. The Washington Post published a piece by Lorenz linking to the name, the physical address and the real estate licensing information of the woman who runs Libs of TikTok. 

After the Post published the article, the woman behind Libs of TikTok went into hiding. That was, of course, the whole point of the exercise. People know where she lives because The Washington Post linked to it, so she had to leave.

Now, Taylor Lorenz, of all people, knew this would happen. She knew what she was doing when she wrote the story. She was trying to shut this woman up. It was just a couple of months ago, you might remember, that Lorenz herself complained on television that she was being harassed and that no one under any circumstances would be allowed to show up at her home.

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So this is obviously an intimidation campaign designed to shut down a highly effective Twitter feed. But take one step deeper into the story and ask yourself: Did Taylor Lorenz, the woman you just saw crying on TV because she has PTSD, did she really do the reporting here? Did she really track down the personal information of the woman who runs Libs of TikTok?

Please, of course not. She couldn't.

Taylor Lorenz is not a reporter. Apart from whining about herself on television, she has no skills. She couldn't do a weather forecast in a rainstorm. She's not a journalist. She's merely a receptacle for information that other people gather for their own ends, a willing receptacle.  

So where did she get this information? Who gave her the identity of the woman who runs Libs of TikTok? Well, actually, we don't have to guess because today's Washington Post story answers that question. The Post piece tells us that information came from a man called Travis Brown. Travis Brown runs the "Travis Brown Hate Speech Tracker," which uses a variety of proprietary methods to reveal personally identifying information of private citizens who stray from the approved storyline.  

Now, who pays for all this? That's the question. Well, the "Travis Brown Hate Speech Tracker" is funded by something called the prototype fund. Here's how the prototype fund describes the point of Travis Brown's project: "Prominent right-wing extremist accounts on Twitter and Facebook have developed a well-documented pattern to distribute controversial and extremist content to their followers and then delete it before moderators have the opportunity to react to it. In other words, before it can be censored. "Archiving is an important element in counteracting this behavior and has in many cases led to prominent victories in the fight against the supreme extreme right." 

Extreme right? So, not all hate speech is the same. The hate speech tracker does not target the hate speech of BLM rioters or Antifa. No, only enemies of the Biden administration and the guys at Davos. How do they do it? Well, Brown's methods, according to him, include using automated software to save user account names and social media posts long after they have been deleted.

So, there's no hiding from these people. Now, that appears to be a violation of Twitter's terms of service. Not that we care because they don't care. 

We reached out to Twitter about this. Isn't this a violation? Well, they ignored us. They suspended our account.  

What's interesting, though, is that Travis Brown himself appears to be a former Twitter employee. So again, who's paying for this? Well, a foreign government is paying for it. The prototype fund gets its money not from private donors, but from the government of Germany—Germany's Federal Ministry of Education. It says so right on the website.  

In other words, what happened to the woman who runs Libs of TikTok, her life being destroyed, was not the work of Taylor Lorenz, the fearless journalist who cries on TV from her PTSD. No, it was a foreign intelligence operation designed to silence and intimidate an American citizen. Wait, is that legal?

Did the Biden administration have any role in this particular intel op? Why is the German government trying to shut down an American Twitter account posting about American teachers? And since she was the recipient, the willing recipient, of this information from a foreign government designed to destroy an American citizen, why hasn't Taylor Lorenz, at the very least, registered under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA)?  

We seem to remember quite a bit of talk about this over the last year. We think there was an impeachment trial of it. Someone went to prison because of it, but Taylor Lorenz can take information from a foreign government to crush an American citizen, clearly as part of an Intel operation, and she's a journalist in good standing at Jeff Bezos' newspaper? Lots of questions here. We hope we can get to the bottom of all of them.   

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Glorious.

That is all.