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Taylor Lorenz may just be the quintessence of our Social Justice era: a rich kid from the suburbs who lives in a swank Brooklyn brownstone from where she cheers on political hatred and violence while knowing full well she will never be on the receiving end of it. And who, when called on her infantile narcissism, immediately starts weeping about how hard her life is and how no one knows the pain she feels because so many people hate and mock her, not because of anything she may have done or said, but because of whatever is the trendiest -ism or -phobia du jour, all of which allows her to play political revolutionary and martyr while doing nothing but monetizing her mental illness and imagining that her emotional instability provides her with a war-wound level of credential.

Taylor is a national treasure and should be sealed inside a lucite box in the Smithsonian next to Fonzie's jacket and Archie Bunker's chair. This way when people in the future want to learn what the 2020s were like, they can see a weepy suburban girl denouncing everyone for not recognizing her special genius while pretending that her tantrums have anything to do with "society" or "politics".

She is the Patient Zero of our AWFLocracy's descent into neurotic rage.

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John Duffner's avatar

I recall reading somewhere that a mark of psychopathy is viewing the pain of others (such as assassination in the street) as inconsequential or even enjoyable, while finding the slightest bit of pain to one's self (like mild, accurate insults) to be completely intolerable.

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BillS's avatar

You also need to consider the fact that her father is Deep State. I think it's more likely she is an operative using tactics to sow division.

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Perkins's avatar

I didn't know that BillS, but it makes perfect sense. Seems that type of thing is quite often the case. Her take is so bad it's hard to believe it's genuine. Good call.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

Exactly. You could be describing my cousin. There may be a difference between malignant narcissism and psychopathy, but I'm not sure what it is.

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HBI's avatar

Clinical narcs are psychopaths. Spent 14 years with one until I hit recovery.

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Kittykat's avatar

Now that you mention it that seems to be a pattern. Especially in the privileged and university educated class of kids in recent years.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

We seem to always comment on people like this. She has no standing. I really don’t see the need for any attention to be paid to her. Talk about wasting our time.

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Ann Robinson's avatar

She is the future, the rotten apple in the middle of the barrel, the poisoned well from which our children drink. Not to pay attention to her is not to pay attention to someone who is raising and/or reflecting our kids. We don’t pay attention to what kids watch or read or hear or do. It is too much trouble and we are too busy. It is coming round to bite us.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Ok. That sounds reasonable . I can certainly accept that. Thanks

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The Fourth Turning's avatar

Excellent post.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Thanks!

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PL's avatar

Good news: she is a miserable, unwell, childless husk.

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LP's avatar

Clever Pseudonym, that is a succinct masterpiece. Well done!

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Bobby Lime's avatar

CP makes masterful comments every time he shows up.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Thanks!

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ShirtlessCaptainKirk's avatar

If capitalism is making them sick, maybe they should stop taking all that money.

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John R. Grout's avatar

Lorenz is a sick puppy.

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Patsy D.'s avatar

Great post, Clever. If I didn’t enjoy the poetry of Matt’s writing so much I’d say the topic was a waste of brain cells though.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Thanks

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Michael's avatar

Lorenz is every bad, idiotic and flatulent thing anyone has ever accused her of being.

But she's right that in American society "murderers" are lionized.

I mean, what the fuck does "Thank you for your service" really mean anyway?

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Ernest More's avatar

I encourage you to spend time figuring that out.

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Chad Jones's avatar

For the absolute win... spot fricking on...

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

lol thx

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Paul Harper's avatar

Wow! One of your best! Kudos!

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Thanks! much appreciated

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LosPer's avatar

Giving Matt a run for his money. Brilliant!

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Thanks! much appreciated

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Doctor Mist's avatar

Taylor Lorenz is cretinous and deranged. That is all.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Thank God our Founders, in all their wisdom, devised a constitutional republic to protect us from the Taylor Lorenz's of the world.

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A.'s avatar

You know Ryan...I am envious of your Constitution. Hope it always holds.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Nothing always holds. Just a degree of time, I might add

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A.'s avatar

I am going to be positive about the American Constitution having some staying power yet.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

My point: “always” is a long time

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Ron Evans's avatar

The

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A.'s avatar

No...."your". Because Ryan is American and I am not.

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Marilyn F's avatar

Why are you commenting on OUR constitution?

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A.'s avatar

You don't want to be complimented on it? That's very odd, Marilyn.

And given the American honouring of free speech, are you going to stop someone from stating their opinion, whatever it is? THAT would be dis-honouring your own Constitution.

You're a funny duck.

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Adam's avatar

Are you actually saying that people can't have knowledge of, and talk about, things and issues outside of their own country? You're saying far more about yourself than you are about anyone else if this is what you really believe.

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Kelly Green's avatar

Marilyn F is cretaceous and detained.

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steven t koenig's avatar

Damn them! I was looking forward to Jello-wrestling her

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

⬆️This is one weird 🤖 here folks!

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you, for the compliment Chilblain it gives me the Chilblains,

It is supposed to snow tonight and the equinox was almost three weeks ago I think let me count. I wish I could count to two but there is a universe of numbers between zero and one.

I turned 77 and I am still Asperger's Syndrome and in the disordered part of the human autism spectrum. At Autisme Quebec we say disordered is what I am . I am who I am. It is not easy being an almost blind portrait photographer. But I am a happy old bugger and great grandma is still beside me.

https://autismequebec.org/

In Quebec everyone is a me not an us. In Quebec race is Homo Sapiens. It a boast or oxymoron if you have that in your limited vocabulary. In Quebec gender is analog not binary. Sex is for recreation, procreation or remuneration. In Quebec religion is confined to the home, the church or the closet so we can live in an empirical reality instead of America's Never Neverland with Peter Pan and his pirates, damsels and Tinkerbells.

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A.'s avatar

Moe, I have lived in Quebec, I have lived in the rest of Canada, and I have lived in the States (as we call it). While I can see the Quebecois point of wanting to keep their culture, they do have a bit of a totalitarian slant to the way they do it.

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North Country's avatar

The sign & language police! 🚓

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

No shit. I know French history how long did the first Republic last? How long did they have democracy in the 19th century"? Marx credits Franklin and Voltaire with communism but Britain's parliament was in charge from 1689-2025.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Lolol. Coming from a Canadian

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Chantal's avatar

Quebecois, it's not the same.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

For sure

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Interesting. Do Californians or Texans or Floridians or whatever they call them in Michigan get bent if you call them an American? (well, maybe the Texans).

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A.'s avatar

C'mon, Chantal. Have some loyalty to Canada.

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Chantal's avatar

Have you lived there? They are a distinct society, and ROC has recognized that.

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Pacificus's avatar

Moe! You lovable dingbat! How are you, buddy?

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A.'s avatar
Apr 14Edited

Moe and I get along. We don't take each other too seriously. And we can both discuss the unusual Quebec politics. Or John Ralston Saul -- the fellow no one else ever heard of.

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Carol Jones's avatar

Except every other Canadian (like me). He is an unsufferable pompous boob. Lived in my neighbour-- NEVER came out of the house without English green high wellies and his hand clasped behind his back like Prince Charles (yuck King).

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A.'s avatar

John Who?

Anyone under 40 has never heard of him. And those over 40 have long since forgotten him. He was one of the arrogant entitled elite....for no particular reason. He was a philosopher in his own mind only.

I share your opinion of Charles too. The WEF-man Globalist.

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Carol,

He is married to Adrienne Clarkson nee Poy Canada's heart throb and former Vice Regent. Sir John is not a pompous boob he is an Army Brat and Adrienne is still CANADA's Vice Regent. Time magazine called him a prophet and he writes for a select audience that lives in a world I know well. My wife wrote her Doctorate on Bay Island in Great Slave Lake and they didn't speak English or French. I am reminded of a comedy skit written by the Great Bard. John Ralston was COO of PetroCanada under Maurice Strong before Mulroney sold us out to the Yankees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Clarkson

https://archive.org/details/belongingparadox0000clar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsC-Aumx4dk🤣

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thanks Pacificus,

I am having a bird. As the Weavers once said "Life gets interestinger and interestinger. We are living in interesting times. The American revolution was not about King George he spent his days in court with courtiers and courtesans. Lord North the Prime Minister was the power behind the throne. The throne gave up all power in 1689 and the House of Lords owned all the shares of the East India Company. The East India Company's tea was untariffed and its ships flew the East India Company flag on Boston Harbour which was owned by guess who the company that owned Boston.

The American revolution was fought over the Quebec Act that gave full citizenship to Roman Catholics and Opus Dei Inquisitor Scalia was a constitutional scholar?

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it. Horace Walpole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole

Thomas Jefferson was a evolutionary botanist. In 1805 after the cotton gin President Jefferson called the constitution an abomination and in 1820 he put together the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.

https://ia801801.us.archive.org/12/items/jeffersonbibleli0000unse/jeffersonbibleli0000unse.pdf

I wake up before dawn and read the Guardian, The Times of London and Haaretz and listen to MSNBC and laugh hysterically all day long. Life is good on Sesame Street especially with some fresh pita and hummus or passover matzah with fresh local horseradish..

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A.'s avatar

I don't read the Guardian. Too WOKE for me.

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

I have no idea what your intention is with this list of links to definitions, but I thank you for making me aware of this online version of Johnson's dictionary.

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RioRosie's avatar

Testimony to Matt's literary skills is that he limited himself to only two adjectives.

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Doctor Mist's avatar

Yeah, but then he went on and on! :-)

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

But also an untalented Swiss boarding school dipshit.

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The Wright Stuff's avatar

Lorenz is, though, an excellent foil for the increasingly deranged Matt Taibbi not to have to have to write about Abrego Garcia (or anything of substance that reflects negatively on Trump and co.)

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump must bring Garcia back to the U.S.

Trump said no.

We’re either a nation of laws or not.

What say you, Matt?

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NeoMaxiZoomDweebie's avatar

"Facilitate" -make (an action or process) easy or easier.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

💯🛎️🔨🎯🏆🔥

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WilliamD's avatar

It just goes to show that intelligent life as we know it does not exist.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

Perhaps a twin of AOC?

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Greg's avatar

The "R" word twin.

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Hynek Dvorak's avatar

“Swiss boarding school neurotic” Thanks. I’ll edit my Sugar Daddy want list profile…

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Judith Cohen's avatar

Love Greenwald’s description of her!!!

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: “Swiss boarding school neurotic”: Decades ago, in a high-rise building where we once lived, I was chatting with Ralph the doorman when a frantic lady entered the lobby. She wanted to go from door to door, selling things.

Ralph politely said No. She persisted. I lost it and told her to leave the premises before --- "BUT I WENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL IN SWITZERLAND!!!"

The sheer bathos... who in the world with such "dazzling" credentials would be wasting her time trying to impress people in NEW JERSEY?

She fled after I succeeded in defusing her Toblerone milk-chocolate hand grenades.

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badnabor's avatar

Her whole style, as far as I can tell, screams neurotic. Maybe that's why she can develop and justify her insane thoughts. The real shame is that she serves as a rallying point for the other socially unacceptable, deranged, lost and morally lacking psychopathically inclined clowns to use as a "reputable" reference.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Watch out bro. You got Feminist Karen on your case. She is like a dog on a bone, too.

If I were Carnac the Magnificent, and someone mentioned "Feminist Karen" as the clue, I would hold the envelope up to my head and say "the worst kind."

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

You triggered a nostalgic moment.

Ed Mc Mahon hands Carnac an envelope that's been "hermetically sealed and placed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since NOON TODAY!" etc.

Carnac holds the envelope up to his turban and divines the answer, "Siss, boom, baa."

He then unseals the envelope, blows it open and reads the question, in this case an instruction:

"Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes."

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Ann Robinson's avatar

She needs to get out of Austen and find a man.

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Cheryl Knapp's avatar

Seems to me she licks her finger and feels which way the wind is blowing and composes her words to get the most clicks and the most money. So little different from the mass media.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

There lies the danger, I guess. Using her commentary as a “ rallying point.” I wonder how many these clowns there are. Lots? A few? Granted, I live in the suburban South; not many obvious psychopaths. Just wonder if she is worth writing about.

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Karen's avatar

“Socially unacceptable?” What difference does that make? Why should it?

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Roderick Bell's avatar

Why should a pathogen be rejected by the body?

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Karen's avatar

So you favor deporting people to foreign prisons just for the hell of it?

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badnabor's avatar

Whoa, must've hit a nerve. “Socially unacceptable" as in the tacit approval of murder, but if the shoe fits, wear it.

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Karen's avatar

No, I find the statement incomprehensible. You are all defending deporting people to foreign prisons without due process. Deporting people to foreign prisons is bad enough but you’re actually defending sending a man to a hellhole prison on nothing but Trump’s assertion.

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badnabor's avatar

I feel confidant in accepting Trump's assertion over your's, any day.

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Hynek Dvorak's avatar

This reminds me. A good friend of mine growing up his mom was Swiss. She came over to the states in her 20s and wound up marrying his dad. They had him the next year. Dad was 68 and than died of cancer seven years later. She wound up marrying Ollie the Swedish butcher and later dumped his. Anyway, where I’m going with this is that mom was nice but loopy. I think she was undiagnosed bipolar…

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

It’s all the cheese, the stuff with the holes… that’s it, I’m sure of it

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The Scratch's avatar

My grandmom was Swiss boarding schooled.

Her mom passed away from the 1918 Spanish flu and her dad, a Manhattan businessman, sent her to Switzerland via an ocean liner at the age of 12, per her new step-mom's request. Not nice, but she never complained to us about it.

She liked telling the story that the boarding school allowed only one shower per week so she would buy showers from the other girls.

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Karen's avatar

Taibbi is a preppy trust-funder himself. He’s just envious that Lorenz went to a better school than he could get into.

And just to remind everyone for later, Walter Kirn is a fucking Princeton legacy.

None of these people worked their way up from the middle class. It’s one bunch of soft-handed nepo babies complaining another one of their number and should be ignored.

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Matt Taibbi's avatar

I never had a “trust fund,” I funded my move to Russia working demolition, and went door to door for work overseas. I never asked anyone for help in getting any job. Does it really seem like I would have needed it?

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Matt Taibbi's avatar

Also your timeline is off - my father didn’t hit NBC until I was much older. What I got from him was a great education and guidance from someone who really was self-made. I don’t care that Taylor went to prep school, but she deserves to be laughed at for saying an insult from Glenn “destroyed my life.”

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Bill Cribben's avatar

Matt no need to explain let us deal with the trolls.

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TruthCanHurt23's avatar

LOL. 😆

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Hawker's avatar

Ignore the karens ! Taylor being a very fine example of a karen. They look like the Wicket Witch after having water thrown on her. As she melts down while screaming , flopping like a Crappie on the bottom of the boat.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: Matt, it's hilarious that The Voice Of Ignorance assumed that a TV reporter's income could result in the creation of a "trust fund." OK, perhaps today, with numbskulls making $250K/year and up while giggling about tomorrow's weather, but back when your dad was at NBC, those salaries weren't propelling anyone into trust fund territory. I know; I was there at the time (1980-1984).

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Karen's avatar

Great. You’re somewhat less privileged than I thought. You still haven’t answered the real question which is why are you bothering with Taylor Lorenz when Trump is planning to deport American citizens to Salvadoran torture chambers?

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

Username checks out.

The lightbulb is dim indeed.

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BD's avatar

Good one!

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Pacificus's avatar

The guy is not an American citizen, Karen. He's Salvadoran.

So funny to note what causes/people the Left embraces. For Laken Riley? Not a peep.

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Karen's avatar

He is also not a gang member ànd has not been accused or convicted of à crime. He is now locked forever in one of the cruelest prisons on Earth. Besides, Trump announced today that his administration is going to start departing American citizens to foreign prisons, presumably without trials.

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calmdown's avatar

He's from Venezuela, not El Salvador

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Greg Stark's avatar

My god, it's the exact same reply from dumb authoritarian progressives every time, for every subject Taibbi writes about that even hints at something amiss in left discourse/logic:

"Matt, don't look at our warts, look over here at something obviously much worse. If you talk about our warts, we'll label you right-wing or try some other smear tactic".

Matt doesn't have to write about Trump's authoritarianism, you can do that. Matt should write about *your* authoritarianism, and he is, and he will continue to do it, and you will continue to whine about it like a little child.

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Karen's avatar

I am not in the government; therefore I am not capable of being an authoritarian. Taibbi is aiding and abetting the elimination of the American Constitution and should be held accountable for that.

You and Taibbi see the mote in the Progressive eye and ignore the entire sawmill of logs in the Trump Administration’s.

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Richard Fahrner's avatar

Deportees are NOT American citizens, hence they can be deported. Dumbass,

If you need a lightbulb changed, the result may improve your view of the world.

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Karen's avatar

Your sentence is a tautology. They are not ‘deportees’ until they have been removed from the country. The question is whether they should have been deported or not, and since the Trump administration never bothers with hearings or due process of law, we do not and cannot know whether there was any evidence supporting this decision.

Further, what kind of moral monster are you to think that the administration has the right to send anyone it wants to foreign torture prisons.

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Indecisive decider's avatar

You sound concerned. At what campus are you enjoying your Soros box lunch at today, and how much longer do you have on your F1 visa? Have you been contacted about your visa being voided?

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Karen's avatar

Do you approve of sending people to torture prisons without any due process?

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: The Voice of Ignorance has apologized (with a counter-insult as ignorant as her opening gambit).

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Tardigrade's avatar

'Great. You’re somewhat less privileged than I thought.'

And yet you made those accusations with the utmost confidence. So we're supposed to believe anything else you might say?

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BookWench's avatar

It seems like no matter what Matt writes about, there are always a handful of comments wondering why he isn't writing about some other topic.

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Mike Williams's avatar

typo

"Great.I made a mistake.I should not post in public"

Fixed

Now you switched the "attack"(snigger)

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Jim M's avatar

WTF is going on w/people doing some kind of half-assed 'privilidged kid' schtick on you? I saw the same thing happen w/the comments on ATW last week. (Aaaand... I saw your reaction, and so did my wife.) It really sux that no matter how much accolades ya get, how bad the cheap shots can still sting, man.

You're a good guy, Matt; keep at it.

Having said that... what's up b/t you & Adidas? Do you love their stuff THAT much? Just askin' cuz I'm nosy.

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badnabor's avatar

It's mainly just Karen screeching again. Nothing she espouses should be taken too seriously. She doesn't accept reality. The voices she marches to are in her own head and are not swayed by facts.

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Cooper's avatar

You don’t need to justify yourself. Your writing and reputation speak for itself; whether you grew up in the streets or a mansion is irrelevant to your success.

I often disagree with you, Matt T, but love your support of free speech.

I suppose I’m lucky that I never really heard about this Swiss educated, apparently buffoonish, woman.

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Pacificus's avatar

Yes, Taylor Lorenz, AKA, Crybully-in-Chief.

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Cheryl Knapp's avatar

AKA Swiss-educated drama school grad for clicks and the Yankee dollars.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/15/25: CNN is so desparate for stories, they helped her swim across the moat and into the brackish, moldy studios of CNN.

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Haldir's avatar

I would have loved to hear the pitch. "Hi, I'm your friendly door-to-door demolitionist. Want a free estimate?"

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

It will do you no good with this one, Matt. You are a male, and therefore you suck. Walter too. A bunch of your commenters too.

The magic of her name really sets one up to know THIS is going to be a fucked up comment.

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Sandra Slivka's avatar

And why does it matter? What matters is what's in one's heart and soul, not what's in their bank account. Unfortunately it does seem to correlate that the richer are often more morally bankrupt.

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Joel Gruber's avatar

Not been my experience. The ratio is similar but wealth is an enabler, so they tend to generate more visible damage.

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BookWench's avatar

I am not so sure about that, because a lot of poor people commit an awful lot of violent crimes.

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Cooper's avatar

Actually, I want to say that’s just an easy thing to say that kind of annoys me. I have plenty of money and know others with a lot more, most that I know try to do good things for people. Some not great. I do ok by people, but that’s my nature. I think the way you act is because of the way you are, not because of what you have. One thing that’s interesting is to see how ‘nice’ people act when do get some money.

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Cooper's avatar

Your opinion is based on what?

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Joel Gruber's avatar

As I said, my experience.

I’m a retired tech executive. I worked with a lot of very successful people. Also many normal people.

It seemed like a pretty even distribution of good versus bad.

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Luna Maximus's avatar

Who should be ignored are people exalting a murderer. And those feminists who cannot change a lightbulb.

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Dims Stink's avatar

Taibbi has a trust fund?

😂😂😂😂😂

His father was a reporter who worked at a laundromat to pay his way through Rutgers.

You're more insane than Tay-tay.

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Karen's avatar

His father was an NBC correspondent when he was a child. Lots of rich kids had parents who grew up poor. They were still rich kids with cushy childhoods.

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JDJAWS's avatar

Karen got caught. Like Tay-Tay, she should stop digging that hole.

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Dims Stink's avatar

His father worked for NBC after paying his dues for 20 years.

And $200k a year doesn't yield much of a trust fund or get you to Swiss boarding schools. 😂

His parents were also divorced by that time.

🤫🤫🤫

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Ts Blue's avatar

Let me get you a tissue

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Bill Cribben's avatar

I remember his dad as a Boston TV reporter well before that was a high paying job.

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MajorSensible's avatar

Wait a minute- I just made the connection - your name is Karen Cox and you write like you're the manifestation of Heather Cox Richardson's id. Are the two of you related?

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Karen's avatar

No.

What difference would it make if I were?

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gortroe's avatar

The same difference you allege being a rich kid does, Karen. Follow the dots.

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MajorSensible's avatar

Just curious.

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gortroe's avatar

Would it make you happier, Karen, if we made all American kids poor?

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

It would make her happier if she didn't have to read any comment from men. Because duh, they're all assholes.

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BookWench's avatar

Don't feel bad, because she also hates me.

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BookWench's avatar

What do you care?

Matt is a great reporter, and an excellent writer.

He worked a lot of what you so eloquently called "shit jobs" in the former USSR, though I wouldn't care whether he grew up wealthy.

He supports free speech, and he loves America.

Get over it.

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Chris's avatar

Karen's got a crush on Luigi too. That would be a funny catfight to watch.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Karen hates all men. Because they are all assholes.

This is the entirety of my research on her in these pages.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: The Voice of Ignorance Has Spoken.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

No, that's called "the American dream".

You know something all of us Americans held as a core value until the commies marched through our institutions for over 50 years.

You and your ilk are the end result of the march. Apparently the RSVPs for useful idiots was fully subscribed, and now the invitation for useless idiots is getting a strong response.

Always ends this way with the Left. Always.

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JDJAWS's avatar

Yes, and then they start forming circular firing squads.

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CPJ's avatar

Ad hominems do not a cogent argument against make. For all we know, absolutely everything you said applies to you. Cosplaying middle-class laptop warrior, firmly ensconced in the enclaves of wealthy WASPs.

Having gone to an “elite” prep school, I speak from experience when I say it’s possible to both be middle class AND have parents who had the sage wisdom to bank enough cash to send their kid to one.

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Laurel VanWilligen's avatar

And your name's Karen. Thank you.

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Indecisive decider's avatar

Karen, if you hit the buzzer, a nurse will empty your colostomy bag and give you your ritalin and booster shot. Hang in there kid!

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Robert Franklin's avatar

Yes, so I guess we should compare and judge them on the quality of their journalism. Gee, I wonder how that might turn out.

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TimInVA's avatar

I like you, Karen, because you are funny.

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BookWench's avatar

And even without trying!

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Jane De Haven's avatar

I missed the day the law banning Ivy Leaguers from having an opinion because you don't like them was passed.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

I wish there was a law....would wipe out half or more of the political elite in DC

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Stxbuck's avatar

I’m not against people having stupid opinions, I’m against people with stupid opinions being unwilling to debate people with opposing/non-stupid opinions.

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TWC's avatar

Ahh....Karen, indeed. What a complete moron.

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Carol Jones's avatar

Karen -- "A Feminist who doesn't do her research-- just spews"

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Actual feminists are likely somewhat embarrassed.

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Tardigrade's avatar

"Somewhat" is a pretty stupendous understatement.

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Thoughtful Reader's avatar

So you just make shit up? Can’t even find any ad hominem attacks that aren’t instantly falsifiable? None of us are surprised. I guess you’re a devotee of Katherine “truth is a distraction” Maher.

You do an outstanding job of self parody, but that’s becoming pretty commonplace with leftists these days.

This little hysteria tidbit was pretty entertaining, though… “It’s one bunch of soft-handed nepo babies complaining another one of their number and should be ignored.”

Veracity: F

Grammar? C-

Entertainment factor? B

Unintentional transparency? A+

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Excellent grading overall, though I think you're being a bit generous on grammar.

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Bill Cribben's avatar

And I bet at age 6 you followed three generations of your family into the coal mines.

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Karen's avatar

No.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

I was getting worried, as I hadn't seen your retorts in a few minutes. So you're still in the game? Attagirl!

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Bill Cribben's avatar

The question was rhetorical

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Karen's avatar

Mine wasn’t. Do you support sending people to foreign tortue prisons without due process? Taibbi is apparently completely fine with it. Are all his fans?

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Kath's avatar

ok, so what is it you want him to do? I watch you do this double down and triple down shit all the time... we are all waiting for due process to catch up to Trump on his extradition bs. We are waiting, and watching the situation, because no one, not even the most omnipotent Mr. Taibbi, can change it. No amount of hysteria in comments will change it. No amount of posting about it will change it. Entire branches of government are in play for quite awhile on this --- and the truth will come out, eventually. What we don't have at the moment is enough real information to do a timeline, to have a comprehensive discussion or debate. You constantly throw accusations and misinformation around at Taibbi in what appears to be a desire to punish him, like he didn't ask you out to the prom or something and you gotta mean girl the place. Or is someone is paying you to be this stupid?

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Karen's avatar

He announced yesterday that he was going to start deporting American citizens. He WILL deport American citizens, the Supreme Court will approve it, and you will gleefully celebrate it. Taibbi will write 793 columns about how horrible liberal women are ànd laugh about us dying in Salvadoran gulags.

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EndOfTheRoad's avatar

Trump is going to ship AWFLs to foreign prisons? This is even better than I thought.

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Mrs. Erika Reily's avatar

I'm not sure I can read past a middle aged woman using the word "stanning" in a sentence.

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badnabor's avatar

Hell, I had to look up what it meant! My grammer may suck, but at least I attempt to still use understandable english. Guess this means I ain't cool any more.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

What does it mean?

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

From "How-To Geek":

"A stan is a highly devoted fan of a particular person, like a musician, actor, author, or influencer. Stans are characterized by their high commitment and intense involvement in a performer's fandom.

The term is used as both a noun and a verb. Someone can identify as a "stan" of a pop artist, or they can also "stan" a new song or movie."

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Nunya's avatar

Read the lyrics to Eminem’s song Stan. It’s not a positive thing. Though kids are too stupid to know you don’t want to waste your life being a Stan.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

i cringed in shame on her behalf

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Hawker's avatar

Yea , I bet you do!

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MDM 2.0's avatar

it's what the kids are saying nowadays.

ignore the fact that Lorenz is not that far from being a Boomer age wise

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MajorSensible's avatar

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

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Scuba Cat's avatar

It's what the kids were saying 25 years ago.

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MG's avatar

Her age is really up for debate - she's lied about it in the past.

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Jack Frost's avatar

I had to look it up, lol.

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A.'s avatar
Apr 14Edited

It's cult-of-personality behaviour. I have to say, sometimes you can find it on various Substack forums too, where the commenters go overboard on gushing. Present company excepted/accepted 😁.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: Same here. How the word was born is inconceivable. But then again so is Taylor Derangedz.

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Dan B's avatar

Eminem - Stan. The song is 25 years old. 👴🏼

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MajorSensible's avatar

Ah, thank you for explaining it. Makes sense now.

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Dee's avatar

Needed to look it up…

Continued to read the comments for clarity…

Got it, thanks!

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Art's avatar

I’m holding my breath for the future of humanity until she’s post-menopause.

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BookWench's avatar

She's gotta be pretty close.

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John Bitwinski's avatar

She could always adopt...

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Not sure what standing refers to.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Oops Stanning

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Christine Summerson's avatar

Had to look it up...

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TheAbjectLesson's avatar

She’s worse than all of that: she’s an Op -

Walter was right again.

Somewhere in the bowels of the Pentagon or Langley (or both), there is a budget line item that pays that dipshit.

She’s about as “organic” as a pair of boobs at the Silver and Gold club on a Friday evening, and infinitely less entertaining or hard working.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: She'd be the only dancer in a strip joint wearing a Fauci mask.

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TWC's avatar

Pls, dear god...STOP! I'm dyin...that is quite the image!

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: We'd have to drain every bottle behind the giggle-joint bar and then buy 51% of the ten closest whiskey distilleries and then drink each one of their warehouses dry in order to be able to get that image out of our heads.

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Louis Marra's avatar

And no doubt, the mask would have the latest social-justice hashtag printed on it.

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Don Reed's avatar

"Rent This Space --- BLM Valentine's Day Messaging Inc."

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

maybe they're dosing her mkultra. she acts crazy enough.

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ThePossum's avatar

Lol good one! I entertained myself for about 4 minutes today trying to come up with a description for her that wouldn't be mean to whatever it was I was comparing her to, like a venomous spider.

So I decided that I would consider her a noxious mushroom. Just when you think your yard is clear of wet fungus, first one and then a whole slimy forest emerges. That's my image of Lorenz and her ilk: we stop hearing from her or about her, yet she pushes up through the soil and starts decomposing everywhere, stinking and sliming everything, which effluvium is then fed on by the slugs and beetles.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Remind me not to walk across your lawn…..

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

What? You mean they aren’t real?

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Grape Soda's avatar

It’s true she is connected. One reason for her utter confidence to spew trash without consequence.

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rtj's avatar

Dunno Matt. It's springtime, maybe step away from the Internet and take your kids for a walk in the woods or something. Some things are worth getting bent out of shape about. A pathetic attention whore who's been ignored isn't one of them. It's not worth giving her what she wants by devoting a whole piece to her.

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Samhain's avatar

This piece gave me a much-needed laugh, though I might consider taking your excellent advice...

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Callimachus's avatar

And please, please do NOT talk about either her OR Luigi on tonight's ATW!!! They aren't worth bothering with.

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rtj's avatar

I didn't get an email yet saying that there was an ATW tonite.

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Jim M's avatar

THERE BETTER BE! My wife & I watch them every Monday!

Just checked: It's on baby!

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Seriously?'s avatar

Seems like she is better suited to TikTok than substack.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Dat true

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Dazed and Confused's avatar

There is something completely unhinged about our society where Lorenz can call mangione a "morally good man" and people just eat it up. I fear for the future if this attitude is mainstream. WTF is wrong with people?

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CPJ's avatar

Given that the CEO helmed a company engaging in “social murder” (see Engels), I have zero sympathy for that POS. I’ve seen many people murdered by healthcare companies positively tumescent over denying claims and slow or no paying providers. When it’s cancer vs stock buybacks, the patients are expendable and only the asset owners win.

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MajorSensible's avatar

Uh, denying claims is not the same thing as denying care....Please share an example of someone "murdered" by a denied payment claim....

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

Exactly. Health care is provided by doctors, nurses, hospitals, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Only they can "deny care ".

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LosPer's avatar

That guy was a talented business executive, and a self-made man and a father of small kids. In a more moral society, people with your views would be shunned or worse. Grow eyes in the back of your head comrade. You're likely going to need them soon...

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John Duffner's avatar

They are really not going to like the new rules they're trying to implement. Unlike Luigi, most members of the libs' hated outgroup can get their guns to actually cycle.

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Tardigrade's avatar

"Hating insurance companies" and "Not condoning murder" are not mutually exclusive stances.

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BookWench's avatar

"tumescent"???

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

I ponder exactly how many slurp up her crap. Please tell me there’s not many

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Ellen's avatar

Her demeanor is that of an intoxicated 14-year-old girl talking about a pop star she has a crush on. Why does she have to constantly roll her eyes upward when she talks? There's something genuinely wrong with her.

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Noam Deplume, Jr. (look,at,me)'s avatar

That vocal fry made shipping her off to a Swiss boarding school a must.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I feel a little dirty knowing she has a Substack.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

The lefties have joined Substack. The grumps are here with their disrespectful, angry comments. Ugh. It was nice while it lasted. Hamish et al are innovating it to death….

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SimulationCommander's avatar

At least we don't have to deal with Taylor and the Gang saying the place is overrun with Nazis anymore.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Did she leave?

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SimulationCommander's avatar

No, but the argument gets much more difficult when you're forced to say 'SUBSTACK HOSTS NAZIS BUT OBVIOUSLY THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO ME'.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

You have a point there. But when did “that doesn’t apply to me” stop them?

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Me thinks you be right

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: You have let the cat out of the bag. A mandatory re-branding to "Substink" has been ordered by DOGE.

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

subskank

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David Burse's avatar

Wish I could ❤️ that more thanonce

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BookWench's avatar

Subskank: Where Taylor, Acosta, Lemon, etc. can all hang out together.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

Substank

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SimulationCommander's avatar

For those who are interested, I wrote an article about how the HHS pressured people (but children in particular) to get the covid jabs. The government spent A LOT of time and money doing what amounts to market research so that parents would lean on their kids.

Government even wanted to give kids EXTRA SCIENCE CREDIT if they got jabbed!

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/media-claims-rfk-would-destroy-the

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Jack Frost's avatar

She contemplated suicide? I'll take things that didn't happen for $500 Alex. She's someone who smells her own farts and expects everyone else to clamor for them to be bottled and sold as a perfume. No self harm for her.

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kevin trudell's avatar

An awful lot of people who have long felt distress over gun violence in America sure were happy about this example of gun violence in America.

Most of the almost entirely anti-gun and extreme gun control gang over at the Washington Post comment page got wood over Luigi.

They hate guns. They think every gun owner in the country is a murderous maniac, just waiting his or her turn to shoot up a movie theater or a junior high school.

Yet, they simply adore Luigi Mangione. Must be why Taylor worked there; they're her people.

I'm not sure they've thought this through.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Maybe the two of them can do a "Field & Stream" ad for Smith & Wesson.

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Josh Wilson's avatar

Hah!!

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Kevin Kanelsnurrer's avatar

Human bug-zapper. Sure glad I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read that. Now, if I could only figure out a way of working that into a conversation.

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John Duffner's avatar

He really has a superpower for figurative language.

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ktrip's avatar

Now if Taylor really wanted a love interest, I would say Nina Jankowicz is a better match than the Unibrower.

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That TERF Owl's avatar

Unibrower... LOL

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ResistWeMuch's avatar

what about the dudweiser tranny? they look alike..... a mannish woman and a pajama boy

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ktrip's avatar

Another fine choice and excellent suggestion. Just because I loathe Lorenz, doesn't mean I don't want her to find happiness plus Dylan could give her makeup tips!

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BookWench's avatar

Yeah, I don't even think Luigi is hot -- and my late husband was part Sicilian.

Luigi looked better in those photos when he had his hood up.

Now he just looks like he needs some eyebrow grooming.

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Colin Longval's avatar

These same people wanted Daniel Penny to rot in jail. Hard to keep up!

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John Duffner's avatar

The ingroup can do no wrong, the outgroup can do no right. A simplistic, pre-civilization concept camouflaged in academic jargon.

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Charlie Kilpatrick's avatar

Maybe it would have been piling on, but you could have at least devoted a sentence to the extremely funny episode where Taylor was pushed out of the Washington Post when she called Joe Biden a war criminal and then lied about it. I mean, even your favorite outlet NPR did a story about it, and the Post itself confirmed that her departure was linked to her social media faux pas:

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g-s1-17201/washington-post-taylor-lorenz-tech-columnist-biden

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/01/style-media-taylor-lorenz-leaves-washington-post/

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: Enemy propaganda! At WaPo, no form of bad behavior --- no matter how extreme or dangerous --- is suffiecent cause (grounds) for getting fired.

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TJNash1's avatar

Don, we're all aware of what today's date is.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Damn! Today is the 14th?

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Don Reed's avatar

04/14/25: Oh, good! I've forgotten what it is. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks!

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