>> In me defending Taylor Lorenz are pointing out that her identity being revealed isn't doxing,
I don't have any vested interest in any consequences for her. But I understand the game
that's being played, they want her anonymity not to protect her, she's under no threat. And I don't
want her to be, I don't want anyone to harass libs of TikTok anymore than the individuals that libs
of TikTok has made their name and eventually their fortune by harassing, I don't want that.
But what I also don't want is the right wing game where they pretend
this is just a regular person, it's just organic. It's some regular person that's
doing something the left is freaking out about. No, we're gonna be very specific about
what this person is doing. This person by the way, was apparently at the Capitol on January 6th,
had gone through multiple phases of the social media desperately trying in a very
Dave Rubian way to find something that will break through and make them a name.
They did the Q and on stuff, they did Trump stuff, they did all that and then eventually they landed
on, you know what's really popular these days, homophobia and I'm gonna jump into that,
that's all it is. Now they've got like a job with the Babylon bee or whatever.
They're continually talking with Rhonda Santos and his team.
Whatever this is, it's not a regular grassroots person just doing the Lord's work,
but that's the myth that they want. The right has tons of money, tons of infrastructure,
tons of systematic support for their machine, but that also is really inauthentic, it's artificial.
They need the veneer of grassroots for their movements, for their protests,
for their libs of TikTok, that's what they need. That's by the why they love people like
Joe Rogan and Elon musk. They're continually talking about these independent thinkers who
suspiciously agree with them on virtually everything. It's because they need plausible
deniability that there are people who aren't paid operatives, ideologues that agree with them.
And so they will they will load these people. Like for instance,
Glenn Greenwald being brought on every day is for exactly this.
He doesn't identify vocally as a hard right winger despite the fact that he wants republicans
to maintain control of the US government in virtually every election suspiciously.
And by the way, he's only ever brought on Fox News to agree with them
but they used the cloak of people's past reputations. The supposed independent position
that they hold or at one point in the distant, now mythic past held, to make it
seem as if they're more popular than they are, because their positions are wildly unpopular.
It requires tons of PR on a daily basis to pretend that that isn't the truth. Anyway, I don't know.
>> I completely agree. >> It's just so frustrating,
it's so much money goes into this. And what's the end result, stripping people of their rights.
If you're watching this, if you're a conservative,
do you believe that the Republicans have decided that the 2022 election should effectively be
a massive nationwide ballot initiative on whether gay people should be allowed to live.
Because they care about your economic circumstances and they have a lot of plans for
how they're gonna make your lives better. Do you think that's why that this is what their focus is?
Come on, you cannot be that stupid. They assume that you're that stupid.
Some of you might be, I hope and think that you can't in mass numbers be that stupid.
>> Unfortunately, I think a lot of them are, which is why they
these individuals continue to succeed. Why they have
libs of TikTok and so on and so forth, yeah. >> To mention like two more points on this. One,
the libs of TikTok person is now mass deleting tweets, which by the way, you're allowed to do.
You've no obligation to leave up your old tweets.
But when people have now pointed out who you are and the sort of work that you've done the past,
including possibly being involved in the insurrection. We'll see the fact that
she's deleting thousands of tweets, I don't know, that's interesting, I think that's worth noting.
Also some credit to the Washington Post for standing behind Taylor Lorenz saying,
she's an accomplished and diligent journalist whose reporting methods
comport entirely with the Washington Post professional standards. Should they point
out that the libs of TikTok woman Chaya Raichik, has had significant impact on
public discourse and our identity had become public knowledge on social media.
We did not publish a link to any details about her personal life, all of that
is true. Taylor Lorenz has identified a person in her area of focus which is
social media and technology, that is having an incredibly outsized effect
on legislation that is not just hypothetical in the future that has already been passed.
And the mass mobilization of homophobes as a basis for republican politics.
That is the job of journalists and she's doing it. That's why they freak out about her,
that's why they're all tweeting about her. That's why Tucker Carlson can't go a day without
doing a monologue about her, about mocking her struggles with mental health and things like that.
It ain't because she's a joke you can ignore, its because they fear what she's doing,
actually identifying bad actors in our politics. >> Yeah, you are absolutely correct about that.
The reason he continues to go after her, Tucker Carlson attacking Taylor
Lorenz and have his minions go after her is because she's effective at what she does.
And she is doing right by exposing the right and all of their ridiculousness and the things
that are harmful for our society. And so I'm glad the Washington Post stood behind
her. It's just sad that it even needs to happen because it almost adds a little bit of legitimacy
to the critique that Fox News is spouting out with this propaganda.