Taylor Lorenz, former Washington Post employee and resident hysteric of indeterminate years, has managed - through means fair or foul - to live the mean girl dream life of every 12-year-old pre-teen with a cranky streak and head full of overwrought revenge fantasies.
This adolescent trapped in a woman's frame has been the subject of many bemused and outraged columns here and elsewhere after bursting into the general consciousness after her stalking and doxxing campaign against Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik.
Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s internet culture beat reporter, is being accused of “doxxing” the anonymous woman who operates the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.”
Lorenz, the former New York Times journalist who earlier this month broke down in tears on MSNBC while recounting “harassment” she has experienced online, published an article on Tuesday revealing the identity of the social media user.
The weepy 'I'm the victim here" MSNBC interview would have disappeared into the network's dusty archives had it not been for Lorenz's unhinged, dogged pursuit of Raichik's identity via hounding her relatives face-to-face.
The hypocrisy of the situation and Lorenz's intransigence in admitting any error in judgment firmly established her as a 'real character' (I'm being kind) in the eyes of a more rational public. As opposed to hardcore woke WaPo readers and Instagram/TikTok addicts who seem besotted with her.
Thanks to exposure on Tucker Carlson's Fox show and Tweets (before they were banned), folks got acquainted with one of the villains playing martyr to the cause in the ongoing censorship battles of the early 2020s.
Lorenz was a major operator utilizing Twitter's formerly authoritarian regime. She'd routinely request various accounts that didn't meet her smell test be taken down. Twitter fascists were more than happy to oblige.
Hypocrite Taylor Lorenz is at it again! #TwitterFiles showed Tay Tay had privileged access at Twitter. She requested specific accounts be banned & content removed. Twitter complied with her requests.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2023
She’s now trying to rewrite history, claiming she’s been against big tech… pic.twitter.com/b8XGGM5G1Y
...She’s now trying to rewrite history, claiming she’s been against big tech censorship for years.
Lorenz, after initially preening about the MSNBC harassment piece, unloaded on the network for 'botching' the story, conveniently ignoring the fact it was her actions after the weep fest that brought the firestorm down around her head. What had MSNBC to do with that? Not a thing.
Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz slammed MSNBC’s handling of a segment in which she detailed her experiences contending with online harassment — claiming the network botched the report so badly that it made the problem worse.
In a segment airing last Friday on MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily, Lorenz revealed that online harassment targeting her and her family caused her to experience “severe PTSD” and contemplate suicide in the recent past.
The MSNBC coverage aimed to detail brutal harassment faced by female journalists — noting data that showed 73% reported experiencing online attacks while doing their jobs.
But Lorenz said she has faced “even worse” treatment since the segment went live.
This has become a well-established routine with Lorenz and her certifiably bizarre and increasingly vindictive behavior. She sails smugly and rudely into so many situations and then it's tears or lies or both as she works to extricate herself without ever once paying a price for her perfidy and bile.
It always amazed me how she kept a job. I could only speculate that she was just 'on the edge' enough that once employers, like the Post, were involved with her, she might be too much of a loose cannon to turn loose, if you get my drift. In other words, what sort of hell was she going to raise on the way out and would it be worth it to be rid of her.
Because sometimes you're never really rid of those types of personalities.
So the Taylor adventures continued and, man - did they ever get weirder and more 'in your face' to Post management. She has also carried on with an unending masking schtick - piteous posts about how none of us have a right to breathe mask-free because we're threatening Taylor's lizard-person life - which seem to come and go depending on the circumstances. Like, whether she's at a really good party or not.
For instance, she caused a bit of a stir appearing at the Porn Hub gala, mask firmly clamped to her face, but then stood for a sidewalk interview face-diaper-free in Chicago this past summer.
Of course, it's hard to be a "Hottie for Harris" if you've got a bag over your head and girl knows she's hawt.
Wait a second. Where’s her mask?!?!? I thought we were smack dab in the middle of a global pandemic!!!!!!
— 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@WaywardGreg) August 23, 2024
You listen, and all you can think is what a bizarro world these chicas live in. It's as if you were hearing about the cringiest, lowest-class bachelorette party ever.
And she's giggling like she's 22.
What we all thought would finally get her fired was a post she threw up with POTATUS in the background and a too-snarky-by-half caption calling the old reprobate a 'war criminal' (a reference to Israel-Palestinians). Lorenz immediately claimed she had been hacked, not her fault, I DIDN'T DO THAT...but NPR had the goods on her.
HOLY SHLIT. Taylor Lorenz claimed the picture of her calling Biden a “war criminal” was edited. Turns out it’s NOT edited and NPR obtained the actual post and got confirmation from 4 different people that it’s real.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 16, 2024
You can’t make this up pic.twitter.com/bAFPZzPtAi
It took two months, but at long last, she was no longer an employee of the Post.
Technology reporter Taylor Lorenz said Tuesday that she is leaving The Washington Post, less than two months after the newspaper launched an internal review following her social media post about President Joe Biden.
Lorenz, a well-regarded expert on internet culture, wrote a book “Extremely Online” last year and said she is launching a newsletter, “User Mag,” on Substack.
“I will pursue the type of reporting on the internet that has become increasingly difficult to do in corporate media,” Lorenz wrote on Substack to introduce her new project.
I don't know if you'd call it "reporting," but what Lorenz is doing now on the interwebs, unfettered by even the remotest constraints of employer rules of conduct, seems to be giving in to the worst impulses she has with abandon.
Or maybe, finally, being her true self. As these wokesters always say, now she has "agency."
She also has like-minded lunatic friends on Blue Sky - new social media site for progressives - to encourage her.
Taylor seems to be settling in so well and having a good time discussing current events. After all, she is a 'reporter.'
Taylor Lorenz is celebrating a cold-blooded murder. pic.twitter.com/ZPH2UUBH4v
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 5, 2024
Who's that referring t...oh.
Taylor Lorenz is celebrating the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. pic.twitter.com/FiUC4vmPbZ
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 5, 2024
Surely she doesn't...OMG.
WHY WE WANT THESE EXECUTIVES DEAD
And then Lorenz proceeded to literally put out hits on individual executives.
Nothing will happen we haven’t reached the point where leftists get In trouble for a single violent thing they incite yet
— SaaSguY (@wbfactor) December 5, 2024
How is this demented harpy not only unemployed but not in jail yet?
Or at least with some manner of law enforcement banging on her door?
The vile, loathsome lunatic is defending herself - they made me do it - yet again...
...She reposted another user who wrote, "[H}ypothetically, would it be considered an actionable threat to start emailing other insurance CEOs a simple ‘you're next’? Completely unrelated to current events btw."
She later seemed to defend the harsh posts, claiming there’s "very justified hatred" against CEOs for the "amount of death and suffering" for which they allegedly bear responsibility.
"People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it," Lorenz wrote.
...and, as I said above, indulging in a sick, twisted, utterly deviant death danse macabre with like-minded and prominent progressive "journalists."
...She also shared other left-leaning journalists’ posts, including Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung and journalist Ken Klippenstein, who's had past stints at The Intercept and The Nation.
Cheung wrote, "the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us."
"No s--- murder is bad. The jokes about the United CEO aren’t really about him; they’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about," Klippenstein wrote. In another post, he quipped that he hoped Thompson's ambulance ride "was in network."
Thompson was 50 years old and left behind a wife and two sons.
That's the American progressive Left for you, ladies and germs.
Right. There.
Dissing an aging grandma over her Trump vote is barely a finger lift for this bunch.
Don't ever, EVER fall for their teary-eyed schtick about injustice, empathy, and decency, EH-VAH again...if you ever did.
Beneath the face diapers, and those plastic, smarmy smiles are neuroses-packed carbon sacks of nothing but pure evil.
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