About Last Week...
Lorenz, Libs, and Loss
So the worst journalist – and I type that with a sneer on my face – in the world Taylor Lorenz sat down with self-chosen arch-nemesis and creator of Libs of TikTok X feed Chaya Raichik last week for a chat.
Background: Lorenz is a person of unknown age – just know she’s older than she says she is and/or pretends to be – who has moved from one cush media gig to another despite a litany of lies, corrections, and doxxes of people she doesn’t like. Raichik herself, for example.
Lorenz – a woman who publicly bitched about her $22 delivery of avocado toast not being handled well - has literally broke down in tears on live television, claiming PTSD from having people be mean to her online (Lorenz “expertise” is internet culture and the youth who populate it, hence the lying about the age thing.)
She grew up rich and if white (and not just rich) privilege were a real thing she would be the poster girl for it – school in Switzerland, house in Greenwich, Connecticut, etc.
In other words, life has been very easy for Lorenz.
Some time ago, Lorenz decided that a Twitter channel - https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok - showing vids of liberals being lunatics (their own words – no edits, no comments, nothing but a re-post) was evil so she went after it from her perch at the Washington Post. In the course of the attempted character assassination, Lorenz leaked out Raichik’s home address, etc. setting off weeks and months of threats of violence and death aimed at Raichik.
For moron (giggle) Lorenz, please do click here for a previous posts about her evil specialty: https://thomas699.substack.com/p/baby-on-editorial-board.
To sum up, Lorenz has earned the reputation of an incompetent, lying, conniving, ruthless, back-biting whiner; in other words, she has the perfect skill set to rise that far that fast.
Anyhoo, back to the chat. Lorenz called her a book banner but admitted she hadn’t read the books Raichik said were inappropriate for third graders and does seem a bit taken aback when shown the pics in a book.
Lorenz also said “boob jobs and nose jobs” are “gender affirming” steps taken by women and no different from kids getting their genitalia removed.
She really said that.
But the two most hilarious things about the chat had nothing to do with words – Raichik wore a t-shirt with a picture of Lorenz crying on TV on it and Lorenz wore, of course, a mask.
Outside. In Los Angeles. A week or so ago.
That is one of the great things about masks – they make it easy to tell – in an instant with a mere glance - who the truly crazy people are. You can watch the chat here: https://thepostmillennial.com/libs-of-tiktok-flips-the-script-on-wapos-taylor-lorenz-in-tense-interview .
Speaking of truly crazy people, there’s the folks who run Netflix. With the superb “Babylon Berlin” they had an international award winning hit and they ran the first three seasons and then just stopped. Promised to show the fourth season – done a year ago – but never did and obviously it won’t have the fifth and final which is already being made.
Netflix isn’t even keeping up the first three seasons – they come down in a few days.
The show is German, it involves drugs and hookers and finance and filmmaking and murder and detectives and Nazis and communists and is set in the heyday of the Weimar Republic days – you could almost think “Cabaret” with less music but more murder – but it does have music:
So if you have Netflix and have time do please watch it before it goes away.
Speaking of going away, what are we going to do with Nikki?
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