The Slime Machine Targeting Libs of Tik Tok

Karlstack:

The tale of how Taylor Lorenz was used like a puppet by German intelligence.

I woke up last week to find that Ihad been namedropped in a New Yorker article called The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees.

Lisa Cook’s reputation was sullied enough that the Senate Banking Committee vote on her nomination resulted in a tie, with no Republicans supporting her. Cook’s nomination can still proceed to the Senate floor, but her confirmation remains in limbo, as one conservative news outlet after another repeats the A.A.F.’s talking points. A writer for the Daily Caller, Chris Brunet, said in a Substack column that Cook is a “random economist at Michigan State University who has shamelessly leveraged her skin color and genitalia into gaining the backing of several key White House officials.” Brunet tweeted proudly that his critique had been promoted on Fox News by Tucker Carlson.

— Jane Mayer, staff writer at The New Yorker

Jane from the New Yorker is calling me slime. Here is my official rebuttal to Jane from the New Yorker, in the form of a motivational quote:

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

I had actually been flirting with the idea of writing a long-form rebuttal since I was selfishly incentivized to grow my Substack subscriber base by glomming on to any New Yorker clout that I could. Plus, it would be easy to write, the New Yorker brand is literally synonymous with “snooty elitist douchebags” so I had infinite material to work with. So, I was already flirting with the idea of writing that rebuttal, but never actually got around to it. Then something even scummier crawled into my crosshairs… Taylor Lorenz.

If you already know who Taylor Lorenz is: you spend too much time online. Touch grass.
If you don’t already know who Taylor Lorenz is, bless your soul, here is a quick primer. more