Former South Carolina Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> exploded on pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy during the second GOP primary debate on Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
Haley made the remarks in response to Ramaswamy explaining why he decided to use TikTok after he previously said that people should not be using it.
&#8220;This is infuriating, because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have,&#8221; Haley said. &#8220;And what you&#8217;ve got, I honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.&#8221;
Elaborating on what TikTok does, Haley said that the company now has 150 million people using the platform and that it &#8220;can get your contacts, they can get your financial information, they can get your emails, they can get your text messages, they can get all these things.&#8221;
&#8220;And what we&#8217;ve seen is you&#8217;ve gone and you&#8217;ve helped China make medicines in China, not America, you are now wanting kids to go and get on the social media that is dangerous for all of us,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;You were in business with the Chinese that gave Hunter Biden $5 million.&#8221;
&#8220;We can&#8217;t trust you!&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We can&#8217;t trust you!&#8221;
Ramaswamy responded by saying the candidates would be better off if they didn’t throw “personal insults” at each other.
The entrepreneur caused a stir in the first primary debate when he <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gop-debate-scott-ramaswamy-heated-over-bought-paid-for-insult">called</a> all the other candidates &#8220;bought and paid for.&#8221; Ramaswamy and Haley have <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4177316-haley-knocks-ramaswamy-over-childish-name-games/">traded barbs</a> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/23/ramaswamy_slams_nikki_haley_good_luck_in_your_future_career_on_the_boards_of_lockheed_and_raytheon.html">publicly</a> over the last month.
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Haley Ramaswamy

Haley Explodes On Ramaswamy After TikTok Remarks: ‘Every Time I Hear You, I Feel A Little Bit Dumber’

Haley Explodes On Ramaswamy After TikTok Remarks: 'Every Time I Hear You, I Feel A Little Bit Dumber'

Communist China

Elections

Nikki Haley

Politics

TikTok

Vivek Ramaswamy

Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1332-bud-light-must-be-destroyed-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Michael Knowles Show,”</a> September 18, 2023.
Did you know most men think of the Roman Empire every single day? This fact has gone viral over the last week because a woman <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ifitwerentfunny/video/7278041817470356779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on TikTok</a> asked her husband if he thinks of the Roman Empire daily, and he said, yes, he does.
When I saw this story begin circulating, I realized I was not conscious of the fact that I think of the Roman Empire every day — but I do. The minute I saw the video, I thought, Oh, I guess I do. Do women not think of the Roman Empire every day? Then, when I got home, my wife, Alissa, turned to me after having seen the TikTok and asked, “Do you really think of the Roman Empire every day?” I laughed and said, “You live with me. I basically talk about the Roman Empire every day.”
Why is that so? Why do men think of the Roman Empire every day? The answer seems rather obvious to me: the Roman Empire was the last time we had a unity of all of Western civilization. A perfect unity of it. There was a total political unity of all the lands and the peoples. There was a theological unity after the Edict of Milan when Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire. There was a unity of religion, a unity of politics, and a unity of land. There was a unity of everything.
The fall of Rome is the main historical event that people compare anything to. With it came a break up that we have always been trying to reconcile and put back together. There was a bit of a resurgence with the Holy Roman Empire, though I consider that to be a sort of extension of the Roman Empire (so I think that counts). Thinking about the Habsburg monarchy, an almost continuous reign as Holy Roman Emperors, qualifies as thinking about the Roman Empire every day.
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During the Middle Ages, there was a yearning in the Western mind to return to the Roman Empire. Dante wrote about this unity that they were — and now we are — all seeking. We are all so fragile and now we are so extraordinarily fragmented. That is why people make these comparisons to the fall of Rome — because they know that was a travesty.
I spoke with my friend Spencer Klavan about this “thinking of Rome every day” realization, and he pointed out that part of what is so delightful about it is, it’s the first time in quite some time that we have seen one sex stumble upon a fact about the opposite sex and get a kick out of it. So often today when one sex finds out something or makes an observation about the other sex, it is an observation made in disgust or revulsion. This is obviously true of feminists. When they discover anything masculine, they label it “toxic.” It is also true of the red pill bro-men who do not like women.
The Roman Empire question/answer is a good example of women discovering something they previously did not know about men and thinking, That’s kind of cute. That is sort of delightful. That is, of course, how it is supposed to be because men and women are different, no matter what our cultural elites tell us today. Differences between men and women are actually a cause of delight and one of the great aspects of life as a human being.
Vive la différence. 
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Most Men Think About The Roman Empire Every Day

Catholicism

Italy

Michael Knowles

Readers Pass

Roman Empire

TikTok was slapped with a $370 million fine by the European Union Friday for mishandling children’s privacy data on the social media app.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission issued the ruling on behalf of the EU, saying that the Chinese-owned video platform didn’t adequately protect children’s privacy or provide transparency on how it handled data of users 17 and younger, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/tiktok-european-union-fine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland Helen Dixon <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66819174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> BBC News that the investigation into TikTok found that the accounts of those ages 13-17 were automatically made public when they registered, which violated the EU&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law.
&#8220;That is precisely at the hands of TikTok because of the way they designed the platform, and we say that infringed the data protection by design and by the default requirements of the GDPR,&#8221; Dixon said.
TikTok pushed back and argued that the regulators focused on features that TikTok changed before the investigation began. The investigation focused on the last five months of 2020.
&#8220;The criticisms are focused on features and settings that were in place three years ago, and that we made changes to well before the investigation even began, such as setting all under 16 accounts to private by default,&#8221; a spokesman for the social media giant said.
The large fine isn’t the first TikTok has faced for its handling of children’s privacy. In 2019, the social media platform, then known as Musical.ly, agreed to a $5.7 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating U.S. rules relating to data protection for children. Then, earlier this year, TikTok was fined $15.8 million by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-facing-potential-massive-fine-from-u-k-watchdog-over-failure-to-protect-childrens-privacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British regulators</a> for allowing children under the age of 13 to sign up, according to the Times. 
TikTok has faced waves of criticism from city, state, and federal government officials in the U.S. and governments around the world that are concerned about the Chinese-owned app’s privacy settings. More than two-thirds of U.S. states have banned the social media platform from being downloaded on government devices. India completely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> the app in 2020, and other countries such as the U.K., Canada, Australia, France, and New Zealand have banned the app from government devices. 
Some U.S. lawmakers are pushing for more than just a ban on government-issued devices, pointing to the threat of China and arguing that TikTok needs to be completely banned from app stores. 
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“China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> last month. “If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict­­ — they need to think again.”

TikTok Fined $370M For Failure To Protect Children’s Privacy

TikTok Fined $370M For Failure To Protect Children's Privacy

Big Tech

Children

European Union

Privacy

U.S.

In the midst of the #MeToo hysteria, when everyone was fixating on Aziz Ansari&#8217;s bad date and Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s phantom gang rape trains, researchers at Morgan Stanley had a very different focus. They were concerned, as you might imagine, about the financial ramifications of the modern feminist movement. So they sent an analysis to their corporate clients looking into the economic impact of this new wave of feminism that was overtaking the country. Here was their top-line conclusion: &#8220;By 2030,&#8221; Morgan Stanley wrote, &#8220;more than 45 percent of working women aged 25 to 44 in the United States will be single.&#8221; If that prediction holds, it would be the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/economy/single-women-economy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest percentage</a> of single working-age women in this country&#8217;s history.
The economic impacts, Morgan Stanley predicted, would be significant. Morgan Stanley <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted</a> one researcher as saying: &#8220;We find that single women outspend the average household, shifting spending profiles toward categories most poised to benefit from the demographic growth in single women with rising incomes.&#8221; Those categories include apparel, automotive, entertainment, and dining.
Like most research that consultants charge millions of dollars to produce, none of that&#8217;s terribly surprising. When women don&#8217;t get married, they tend to climb the corporate ladder, where they earn money that they don&#8217;t have to spend on kids. But there is one line of the Morgan Stanley report that stands out. It&#8217;s the part where Morgan Stanley specifically urges its corporate clients to encourage women to pursue this unmarried lifestyle because it will make the corporations a lot of money. &#8220;For corporates and investors that embrace these trends, there are numerous benefits, from more nuanced corporate governance and performance to bottom-line growth.&#8221;
The Morgan Stanley report, and several others like it, put all the big brands on notice that they should take a proactive role in ensuring that more women become career-driven, instead of getting married and having kids. And predictably, over the past few years, we&#8217;ve seen various initiatives along these lines. Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies began <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/15/apple-facebook-offer-freeze-eggs-female-employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> to freeze the eggs of female employees. That&#8217;s not for any medical reason; they&#8217;re offering it purely so that women don&#8217;t get pregnant and take maternity leave. Many companies have also started <a href="https://katiecouric.com/news/major-u-s-companies-covering-abortion-travel-costs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paying</a> for out-of-state abortions. That&#8217;s all been widely reported.
What hasn&#8217;t been covered is the extent to which influencers and celebrities — most of them beholden to large corporations — are now openly campaigning, all at once, for women to remain single, or to become single again if they made the mistake of getting married. You can choose to believe this is all an accident, or maybe you think it&#8217;s coordinated. Whatever the case, it&#8217;s clearly happening. There have never been more famous people telling young women to stop making commitments to men. You may have seen this recent video from the actress and model Emily Ratajkowski, for example. She has around 2.6 million followers on TikTok, where she posts videos <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7199679187463032107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> random couples that their relationships won&#8217;t last, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7160115132058602798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encouraging</a> women to dress like prostitutes on Halloween. In her <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@emrata/video/7275780895607491882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest video</a>, Ratajkowski extols the benefits of getting divorced by the age of 30, so that women can party and have fun while they&#8217;re still young and beautiful:
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Emily Ratajkowski (who has a personal net worth of at least 8 million dollars) is glamorizing divorce and says marriage is a &quot;fantasy&quot;
Completely out of touch and delusional 
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The caption on that video reads, &#8220;personally i find it chic to be divorced by the age of 30.&#8221; It&#8217;s extremely popular on the platform; more than 130,000 people have liked it. This video appears to be a message of support for Sophie Turner, who I didn&#8217;t know existed, but apparently is a famous actress who is now getting divorced from one of the Jonas brothers because she felt &#8220;trapped&#8221; by marriage and motherhood and wanted to go party instead.
What Emily and Sophie are doing — getting divorced in a very public fashion, for avowedly selfish reasons — follows a pattern recently of famous women advising other women to either stay single and childless or get divorced, tear their families apart, and act like they’re childless even if they have children.
Mia Khalifa was another one, as shocking as it was to hear bad relationship advice from a porn star. Here&#8217;s how Mia spoke to her <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@miakhalifa/video/7262135829320125742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">37 million followers</a> about the importance of getting divorced — multiple times, if possible:
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Mia Khalifa is back in the news. This time for giving women marriage advice. 
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At this point you&#8217;re probably noticing a theme, which is that none of these women display even a modicum of interest in sacrificing anything to make their relationships — their marriages, in many cases — work out. Instead they&#8217;re adopting, without exception, what psychologists call an external &#8220;locus of control.&#8221; Everything that happens to their relationship is someone else&#8217;s fault. It can&#8217;t possibly be related to them. They can&#8217;t conceivably do anything that might salvage their marriage. So they move on. Not to belabor the point, but this is the message that young people are seeing all over the place. 
To give one more example, there was also the country star Kelsea Ballerini who talked about leaving her marriage because the &#8220;glitter wore off&#8221; and it would be a &#8220;disservice to herself&#8221; to stay in the marriage. Here it is:
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If there&#8217;s not enough &#8220;glitter,&#8221; just bail, go party. Whatever you do, don&#8217;t think about putting in any kind of effort. Hollywood and the media have been pushing this message for a long time. They&#8217;re doing it with maximum intensity. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been talking about the insane levels of backlash I&#8217;ve received for criticizing an influencer who promoted the &#8220;childfree&#8221; lifestyle as a path to happiness. It was a relentless barrage of media coverage, all over one tweet I made on the subject. That’s because they’re very invested in promoting this lifestyle, which means that anyone who criticizes it must be furiously dogpiled and shut down. 
The point is that there&#8217;s a large-scale effort underway to convince young people — especially young women, but not just young women — to be as shallow and selfish as possible, even if it means abandoning their marriages and wrecking their families. Lots of wealthy people and powerful forces are invested in pushing this message. 
In fact, the government is pursuing it as well. The National Bureau of Economic Research <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30159/w30159.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crunched</a> the numbers on this last year. They looked at federal and state taxes, along with benefit programs. And found that, in effect, there&#8217;s a massive &#8220;marriage tax&#8221; in this country. People who decide to get married, especially low-income people, end up sacrificing roughly two years of income to the government simply because they got married. The researchers found that, &#8220;Absent the tax, 13.7 percent more low-income, single females with children would marry annually and 7.5 percent more would be married by age 35.&#8221; The researchers also found that the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — imposes a &#8220;substantial marriage tax,&#8221; because people who get married stand to lose a lot of subsidies under that law. 
You never hear anyone talk about that, but it&#8217;s true. The government is punishing people who want to get married, especially low-income people. That&#8217;s a legacy of Barack Obama that&#8217;s never mentioned. And of course the current administration is continuing what Obama started. Last year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, testified that abortion is good for the economy, because it means more women are working for large corporations, instead of getting married and raising kids:
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Abortion leads to &#8220;increased labor force participation,&#8221; therefore it&#8217;s good. Put aside the fact that aborting tens of millions of children certainly shrinks the labor force over time — not to mention amounts to a holocaust of human beings on a scale previously unknown to mankind. Still, that’s the treasury secretary of the United States saying that women should kill their children and pursue a career at some soulless Fortune 500 company because, in her estimation, it will boost the GDP.
There&#8217;s no doubt that some of the videos we began the show with are just women who are rationalizing their own self-destructive choices. But it&#8217;s a mistake to dismiss what we&#8217;re seeing as the idle narcissism of a few famous ditzy women on TikTok. There are forces that profit immensely by creating a society full of self-centered automatons who seek connection and fulfillment from pop culture and social media rather than family life. These forces include Morgan Stanley&#8217;s clients as well as the federal government.
What are the consequences for regular Americans? For women, it&#8217;s not great. And it used to be that you could say this publicly. It used to be conventional wisdom that it&#8217;s bad to encourage most women to be single. This is a Harvard Business Review <a href="https://hbr.org/2002/04/executive-women-and-the-myth-of-having-it-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from 2002: &#8220;At midlife, between a third and a half of all successful career women in the United States do not have children. In fact, 33% of such women &#8230; in the 41-to-55 age bracket are childless—and that figure rises to 42% in corporate America. These women have not chosen to remain childless. The vast majority, in fact, yearn for children. Indeed, some have gone to extraordinary lengths to bring a baby into their lives. They subject themselves to complex medical procedures, shell out tens of thousands of dollars, and derail their careers—mostly to no avail, because these efforts come too late. In the words of one senior manager, the typical high-achieving woman childless at midlife has not made a choice but a &#8216;creeping non-choice.'&#8221;
Two decades later, that &#8220;creeping non-choice&#8221; has been rebranded as a positive. You could never get any article remotely like that one published in the Harvard Business Review today. As disastrous as this transformation has been for women&#8217;s happiness and fulfillment, it&#8217;s probably even worse for men. As we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/traditional-masculinity-is-the-solution-to-the-male-loneliness-epidemic-not-the-cause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> on this show, men are now using more drugs, and killing themselves, more than they ever have in recorded history — and at rates that far exceed women. We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised by that. When all of society reorients to promote girl bosses and to demean the institution of marriage, yes, women make more money in the short-term. Men also have fewer opportunities to start families, and have fewer opportunities to make a living.
In polite company you&#8217;re not supposed to say any of that. You&#8217;re not supposed to think about the ramifications of the social engineering that&#8217;s underway in this country. But whether it&#8217;s acceptable or not to point it out, none of this is an accident. From every angle, women are being told that the key to happiness is being narcissistic and abandoning marriage. At the same time, men are being told that, simply by virtue of their gender, they&#8217;re members of a patriarchy that needs to be destroyed. That is a destructive combination if there ever was one.
In both cases — for men and women — the power centers are saying, essentially, &#8220;you&#8217;re just a passive observer.&#8221; Women are being told that, if their marriage isn&#8217;t appealing, then they don&#8217;t have to do anything about it. They should just leave. Men are being told that, no matter what they do, they&#8217;re sexist bigots. This passive approach, this total denial of personal responsibility, is unsustainable. As we&#8217;re seeing, again and again, no marriage can survive it. That&#8217;s now abundantly clear.
 What we&#8217;ll soon find out, if this continues, is that no society can survive it either.
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Matt Walsh

Why The Most Powerful Forces In Society Want You To Be Single, Childless, And Selfish

Abortion

divorce

Feminism

Women

It turns out that something I <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> last Sunday is now very big news. One of the biggest news items of the week, in fact. This is not according to me — I don’t find it especially newsworthy, to be honest — but rather it’s according to the social media mob, and the news media, and daytime talk shows. The post had me trending for days, with thousands of outraged people screaming various unintelligible insults and telling me to kill myself in various gruesome ways, and so on. It was the subject of a lengthy and angry think piece by NBC News, another one by Rolling Stone, and various other articles by other outlets including the National Review which called me out for “shaming.” It was also discussed during a segment on “The View.”
What makes all of this quite funny, and ironic, is that everyone from the mob, to NBC, to Rolling Stone, to the ladies on “The View” — they all agree that my post was stupid because I shouldn’t care so much about the thing I posted about. In fact, the subject of my post was so irrelevant that they have all decided to spend days telling me how irrelevant it is. This is a rather common phenomenon. 
So, let’s back up and tell the whole story. How did I become this week’s super villain? What was the content of this post — this dumb post about a subject that doesn’t matter? Why did it inspire multiple news articles informing us of how little it matters?
Well, it began with a TikTok video published by a woman named Julia Mazur. Julia has a TikTok account where she frequently posts videos about her life as a single and childless 29-year-old woman. She also has a podcast about the same subject, where — NBC tells us — she talks about being “pretty much done” with the societal expectation that she’ll be married and have kids by the age of 30. The podcast is called “Pretty Much Done.” So, this is a woman who talks about this subject quite a lot, and talks about it publicly, which would lead you to the conclusion that she wants people to notice and hear what she’s saying. 
Typically if you have a social media account and a podcast dedicated to talking about your lifestyle choices, that’s a good indication that you consider your lifestyle choices to be open for public discussion. If you do not want public discussion about the choices you make in your life, then the smartest strategy would be to refrain from speaking publicly and frequently about your lifestyle, and even hosting a whole podcast on the subject. Granted, this woman’s following was relatively small up until now, but I’ve never heard of a burgeoning TikTok influencer and podcaster who only wants a few thousand people to interact with their content.
The point is, when I saw one of her videos floating around on Twitter, I figured it’s fair game to respond to. If this was a secretly recorded video of Julia venting to her friends in the privacy of her own home — taken and posted without her knowledge — then I certainly would not respond or repost it. I would never want to participate in the invasion of another person’s privacy. But I don’t consider a public response to public comments to be an invasion of privacy. 
As for those public comments, here is the video that started all of this ruckus: 
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Her life doesn’t revolve around her family and kids so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. Worst of all she’s too stupid to realize how depressing this is.
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I responded to that by tweeting: “Her life doesn’t revolve around her family and kids so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. Worst of all she’s too stupid to realize how depressing this is.” 
Now I will admit the word “stupid” was a little harsh. I don’t think it was a crime against humanity. I don’t think it was worthy of four days of intense national outrage. I don’t think it was newsworthy, but it was a bit harsh. Perhaps “oblivious” would have been a more accurate, certainly more charitable, choice of words. I have been known to use harsh language at times. I will tend to do that when I feel especially passionate about an issue. And I do quite passionately oppose the promotion of childlessness and the idea that we should spend our young adulthood focused on self-centered pursuits and mindless amusements. I very much oppose that idea. I think it leads to despair and societal decay. I think that if a critical mass of people adopts this approach, it eventually brings about the collapse of human civilization. That’s not to say that Julia on TikTok will cause the collapse of civilization, but rather that the idea, the life philosophy, she promotes — if accepted by enough people — will have that effect. Which is why I tend to attack this idea quite vigorously.
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This could have been the end of the conversation. It was one tweet about one TikTok video. Not a big deal. But then the outrage mob got to work. They swarmed and screamed and called me a bully and a Nazi and many other things. Many other influencers — including some conservatives — condemned me in no uncertain terms. Random famous people like Mark Cuban jumped onto the dog pile. They said that she’s just a young woman having fun and I should butt out. They said that her choices are none of my business. They blamed me for bringing attention to Julia that, they assumed, she didn’t want. Which, again, is ironic because the whole reason I was trending — and thus why Julia was trending — was because of all of the people outraged at me. If they had all shut up and gone about their day, there wouldn’t have been any of this attention. But then again, shutting up and going about their day is not exactly the MO of the outrage mob. 
Next came the media. First, NBC News published <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/was-childfree-woman-enjoying-saturday-came-culture-warriors-rcna103581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their article</a>. This makes, I believe, my third NBC hit piece since July — a respectable pace of one per month, but frankly I think we can pump those numbers up. The article has this headline: 
<blockquote>“She was a child-free woman enjoying her Saturday. Then came the culture warriors.” </blockquote>
The article states: 
<blockquote>“Julia Mazur was having a relaxing Saturday when she decided to chronicle her day on TikTok. By Sunday, she had become the most recent fodder for the internet’s ongoing culture war around societal expectations for women. Mazur, 29, had posted a 92-second video to her 7,000 TikTok followers, laying out a day in her life as a single, childless woman, planning to take a crack at making the egg dish shakshuka and watch some TV. The next day, the hate started to pour in. ‘All of a sudden on Sunday, I started receiving hateful comments, and then I caught wind that he had posted my TikTok,’ Mazur said. He, in this case, is Matt Walsh, a conservative media provocateur who posted Mazur’s video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to his more than 2.4 million followers, stating that she is “too stupid to realize how depressing this is.” Other conservative pundits piled on. Some on the left came to her defense.&#8221;</blockquote>
I actually didn’t post the video on the platform, someone else did. But we can’t expect accuracy from NBC after all. 
We’re then told this: 
<blockquote>“Mazur had inadvertently found herself in an ongoing and fervent corner of the culture war that is increasingly playing out online, one where content that directs hate toward women — even against women with relatively small social media presences — has become profitable and popular inside and outside of conservative circles. Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values. That has included targeting medical gender transition procedures and openly criticizing women who have not married and had children. One version of this ideology has become known as ‘trad wife’ content, where women envision ‘50s-style housewife ideals including subservience to their husbands, which has made the practice controversial.&#8221;</blockquote>
I think the word “inadvertent” is doing a lot of work there. She quite &#8220;advertently&#8221; has created a lot of content talking about being “child free.” This is not a conversation she finds herself in by accident. But the article continues: 
<blockquote>“NBC News reviewed hateful comments made on X about Mazur’s appearance and her ability to have children in the future, while Mazur said she also received direct hate and threats. &#8216;I understand that with social media you’re putting yourself out there to be judged or criticized. But I don’t believe anyone has the right to spread hate, and the way his followers spoke about me and to me was deplorable,&#8217; Mazur said in a phone interview. &#8216;It definitely gave me empathy for celebrities and influencers who put themselves out there. It painted a new light for how the internet works.&#8217;” </blockquote>
Now, a couple of quick things here. I don’t believe I was “spreading hate,” but whatever you want to call it, I do have the right to say what I said, for the record. Second, obviously if anyone is making threats against this woman, that is insane and wrong and grotesque. I will say that I did not see a single person make anything even resembling a threat, and it is interesting that NBC News reviewed the “hateful comments” but didn’t review the alleged threats. Make of that what you will.
From there, the article tells us how Mazur wants people to ignore “societal pressure” and “live the lives they want to live for themselves.” It says that she rejected the “rhetoric” from her “first generation Russian Jewish family” that she should get married and have kids. It ends with this: 
<blockquote>“I found myself in those safe, good-on-paper relationships, but I also found myself feeling deeply unhappy and unfulfilled because I felt like I was checking off a box to appease other people. Throughout that process I realized, ‘That’s not the only thing that can make you fulfilled.’ I’m 29 and single and I feel fulfilled by my life and my career, by my friends and family.”</blockquote>
So, she was in good relationships with good men but, she says, she left them because she was “unfulfilled” for unspecified reasons, and now she’s 29 and childless, and focusing on spending her time watching TV shows and so on. What’s more, she says she wants to encourage other people to adopt this same strategy, to, as she says, “live for themselves.” 
I must say again that I absolutely reject that, I think it’s terrible advice, it’s a terrible way to live, and I will never tire of fighting back against this despair-inducing philosophy no matter who is promoting it. Because the philosophy is really the point here. This isn’t about some woman on TikTok and that’s not what the Left and the media are concerned about. They aren’t angry at me for being mean to Julia. They’re angry at me for attacking a philosophy — a philosophy of self-centeredness and materialism — that they all personally live by. 
This was made clear in the Rolling Stone article about this, titled: “The Right Would Like All Women to be 1950s Housewives, Please.&#8221; Apparently, we have moved on from transphobia-for-clicks to shrieking at women for not giving birth.” What follows from there is all the tripe you would expect, we probably don’t need to read through any of it. We also don’t need to listen to Joy Behar’s take on all of this, but we will anyway: 
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Joy, you don’t have to act like you’ve never heard of me. We all know you secretly listen to my podcast every day, just like I secretly watch “The View” every day, as penance for my sins. 
In any case, it’s obvious what’s really going on here. The media and the mob are pretending to “white knight” for a small time TikTok influencer and podcaster who suffered the horrific fate of going viral — the one thing that every influencer and podcaster dreads most of all — but they don’t actually care about her. As I said, they’re angry not that I criticized what Julia said, but that I criticized them. She was expressing a point of view that they all agree with, and live by, and it is that point of view they are passionately defending. It is the point of view that says, “We should live for ourselves, focus on ourselves, and find happiness in our own pleasure and amusement.” It is a point of view that says, ”The highest joy is that which can be found by consuming pop culture content, unencumbered by the demands of family life and parenthood.” This point of view — the one that places “living for yourself” over living for something greater and more enduring than yourself — is the dominant view in our culture.
This is the point that Julia gets wrong most of all. She says that “society” tells her she should be married and have kids by 30. But that is not at all what society says. In fact, the mainstream of society — the most powerful voices and institutions, including corporate media — fully agree with her that young people should “focus on themselves” and have fun and put off marriage and family life. They agree that, even if we find ourselves in a good relationship with a good person, we should leave it anyway in order to give ourselves more time to scroll social media and make Shakshuka.
Between the two of us, if anyone is living in a way that is not approved by society, that is in fact scorned by society, it’s me. I’m 37 with six kids. She’s 29 with none. The powers that be approve of her choices much, much more than they approve of mine. She is already living as society wants her to live — or at least as the forces driving society want her to live. Because those forces do not actually want her, or anyone else, to be happy and fulfilled. But I do want that for her, and for everyone. 
Which is why I say, yes, you should get married and have kids. That is what most human beings on this planet are meant to do. It is what we are called to do. It is what we are designed for. To form families, to build homes To fill those homes with love. And live in service to something greater, deeper, and more beautiful than our TVs and our phones and our careers. There is nothing wrong with any of those things, in proper proportion. But there is more to life, or at least there should be. And that’s what I want the Julias of the world to understand.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gwyneth-paltrow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gwyneth Paltrow</a> is causing a stir once again for posting “pretentious” content on social media.
This time, the Goop founder is being mocked for an ad she posted for probiotics that’s gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Social media users assume Paltrow was paid to do the promotion, which makes them question why the actress used a version with overly loud background noises.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> video promotes the company Seed, which markets probiotic capsules for adults, teens, and kids. The original video has since been deleted.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actress</a> begins the promo while sitting in her kitchen, about to swallow a large green pill. &#8220;So this is a twenty-four strain probiotic—&#8221; she begins, but then is interrupted by a loud sound from somewhere else in the room.
Seemingly undeterred by the commotion, Paltrow plows ahead, saying, &#8220;Not the kind that you find in yogurt and stuff like that.&#8221; She doesn’t raise her voice, making it difficult to hear what she’s saying over the noise.
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Paltrow followed by explaining that her son Moses was steaming milk. 
&#8220;And it&#8217;s so good for bloating and regularity,&#8221; she added of the probiotic pills.
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Followers couldn’t believe Paltrow would submit that video as a final product rather than redoing it. The video went viral on several social media platforms, including in a reshare by user Alanna Bennett on X. That clip has racked up 1 million views.
She wrote in the video caption, &#8220;My new favorite thing is Gwyneth getting paid to do this ad and then delivering…this.&#8221;
&#8220;Part of me hopes she actually gave them a polished, professional take but they just chose this from the discard pile because they knew I would love it,&#8221; one account posted.
&#8220;I only saw this ad because people are mocking it so maybe it was the best thing for them,&#8221; another admitted.
&#8220;&#8216;Moses is steaming some milk&#8217; has got to be the most pretentious thing I&#8217;ve heard all summer,&#8221; another chimed in.
“genius PR move tho if she did it properly it wouldn’t be talked about anywhere but look at us,” said another commenter.

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‘The Most Pretentious Thing’: Gwyneth Paltrow Mocked For New Probiotic Video On TikTok

'The Most Pretentious Thing': Gwyneth Paltrow Mocked For New Probiotic Video On TikTok

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In his latest step in his fight against the pernicious influence of TikTok, Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio called for the banning of Chinese-controlled TikTok in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/as-tiktok-comes-for-american-businesses-its-past-time-to-ban-it/">opinion piece</a> published Tuesday.
“TikTok’s public-policy chief blatantly lied under oath when he denied US data is stored in China,” Rubio wrote in his piece published by The New York Post. “ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, was caught in October using the app to spy on American journalists.”
Rubio noted that The New York Times reported TikTok stores Americans’ private information, which includes driver’s licenses, addresses, and device IDs, in China, where they can be accessed by ByteDance employees. He also pointed out that Forbes revealed the tax information and Social Security numbers of content creators on TikTok are also stored in China.
“Almost a third of the country uses TikTok semi-regularly,” Rubio pointed out. He delineated how TikTok is undercutting American companies by selling products more cheaply through its app. “Who, for that matter, will even be aware of American goods on the market when TikTok’s algorithm begins — as it surely will — to favor Chinese sellers?” he asked.
He referred to the disingenuousness of TikTok’s tactics when they said they were “celebrating” American small business in May when committing $1 million “to support Black and Brown” entrepreneurs and funding small businesses suing Montana for banning the app.
“China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power,” Rubio wrote. “If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict­­ — they need to think again.”
In March, Rubio and Iowa GOP Senator Joni Ernst introduced the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/#:~:text=U.S.%20Senators%20Marco%20Rubio%20(R%2DFL)%20and%20Joni%20Ernst,partnership%2C%20or%20advertisement%20with%20TikTok." target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Funds for Enablers of Adversarial Propaganda Act</a> to deny federal funds to any individual or entity if it had an agreement, partnership, or advertisement with TikTok.
“Chinese-owned TikTok is a threat, but some entities, including our nation’s airports, are still willing to accept advertising dollars from the company. They are either naive, greedy, or both. Regardless, they shouldn’t receive taxpayer dollars if they are going to accept money from or partner with TikTok. These companies need to stop enabling Chinese Communist Party propaganda and espionage efforts,” Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/">stated</a>.
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“Make no mistake – TikTok is an insidious platform weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party to snoop on Americans and negatively influence our children. This bill rightfully ensures that American taxpayers aren’t forced to foot the bill for ads that bolster the CCP’s toxic platform. I’ll always fight to protect taxpayer dollars and our national security,” Ernst added.

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‘Think Again’: Rubio Warns Americans Against TikTok, Wants It Banned

Rubio Warns Americans Against TikTok, Wants It Banned

Twenty-one-year-old Texas woman Soren Aldaco, who no longer identifies as transgender, is suing her doctors in excess of $1 million over transgender medical interventions she received as a teenager that left her irreparably damaged.
Soren and her lawyer, Ron Miller, are not only searching for accountability and justice in Soren&#8217;s particular case, but want to send a message to medical insurers.
&#8220;It&#8217;s about catching the attention of insurance companies, that they might want to stop insuring this kind of practice,&#8221; Miller told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And if they stop insuring this kind of practice, practitioners tend to not like to take that risk on themselves, so they stop doing it.”
In the lawsuit filed last week, Soren claims that medical professionals in Texas were guided by their ideology and irresponsibly facilitated treatments and surgeries that have led to Soren&#8217;s “permanent disfigurement&#8221; and have caused &#8220;profound psychological scarring.”
“What happened to me was preventable,&#8221; Soren told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I wanna hold my providers accountable for what they did, and I feel very strongly that ideology was prioritized over my long-term mental and physical wellbeing.”
Feeling uncomfortable with her changing body during what she likened to an overly sexualized era of girlhood, Soren started to believe she was really a boy at age 11.
&#8220;I was growing into girlhood during an era where girlhood is, ya know, plastic surgery ads on social media,&#8221; she said, &#8220;or, dances on TikTok where you&#8217;re shaking your butt.&#8221;
Soren waited until she was 17 to seek medical treatment and was quickly pushed through the system, despite suffering from a slew of mental health issues. Miller said Soren was prescribed testosterone by one named defendant within a matter of minutes of knowing the teen, and without any psychological assessment. 
Miller also said that another medical provider authored a “falsified letter” in support of Soren’s double mastectomy. The letter was supposed to come from a practitioner who had been providing Soren therapy on gender dysphoria for over a year. But while Soren was meeting with this practitioner, the therapy was not in relation to her gender.
Following that double mastectomy, Soren pressed her doctors about the pain and bruising post-op, but was told it was all part of the normal healing process. It wasn&#8217;t.
Just two weeks after surgery, Soren ended up in the ER for the emergency removal of blood clots, which included the insertion of temporary drains for the blood and puss.
“I went to the ER and I was there for eight hours, by myself,&#8221; Soren said. &#8220;I had only local anesthesia while they were actually performing the operation to reopen my incisions, no pain meds. It’s probably one of the most traumatic medical procedures I&#8217;ve had, &#8217;cause, you know, I was awake for the whole thing.”
Miller said the facts of Soren&#8217;s case are &#8220;almost unbelievable.&#8221; 
&#8220;The level of disregard and kind of reckless indifference that these medical professionals had for her health, safety, her wellbeing, both physically and psychologically is just grotesque,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
Miller said there is no dollar amount that could actually compensate Soren for what she&#8217;s been through and what she&#8217;s lost, and is seeking far more than $1 million from these medical providers, though this number can&#8217;t be disclosed at this time, per Texas procedure. But the goal is not about a payday.
&#8220;For none of us, is it really about the damages other than how much of a message can those damages send.&#8221;
Soren is certainly not the only young person who is suing over transgender medical interventions. A young female detransitioner named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-has-a-right-to-sterilize-a-child-two-detransitioners-sue-doctors-over-medical-interventions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prisha Mosley</a>, for example, filed a lawsuit against her doctors earlier this month. The suit was the first of its kind in North Carolina. 
Mosley says she was just 16-years-old when she was put on a path to medically transition and claims healthcare professionals lied to her, both by telling her she could become a boy and “grow a penis,” and by withholding critical information about permanent loss of function from such treatments. 
Another young woman who has since detransitioned, Chloe Cole, is <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-02/transgender-patients-chloe-cole-lawsuit-against-kaiser-lgbtq-rights#:~:text=Cole's%20legal%20complaint%2C%20filed%20Feb,distrust%20of%20the%20medical%20system.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing</a> the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system for her transgender treatment, which included puberty blockers and a double mastectomy. On Thursday, Cole testified before Congress about her experience:
&#8220;Doctors are human, too, and sometimes they are wrong,&#8221; Cole <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5079802/chloe-cole-opening-statement-transitioning-detransitioning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a>. &#8220;My childhood was ruined – along with thousands of detransitioners that I know through our networks – this needs to stop. You alone can stop it. Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience; please let me be your final warning.&#8221;
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Why Soren Aldaco, 21, Is Suing The Doctors Who Facilitated Her Medical ‘Transition’ As A Teen

Why Soren Aldaco Is Suing The Doctors Who Facilitated Her ‘Transition’ As A Teen

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The online world of romance is <a href="https://mashable.com/article/tinder-future-of-dating-2023-gen-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changing</a> as young users demand more from their dating apps, but the question remains as to whether these changes will make a difference in the overall sense of isolation affecting young people. 
Young people have grown accustomed to using the internet to find love, and more recently, to discover friendships. Potential relationships are endlessly dangled in front of users, but this can prove altogether overwhelming. As it provides a constant, inescapable reminder of the countless possible connections at one’s fingertips, the internet can further deepen the feelings of loneliness hanging over this generation.
Over the course of the past several years, online dating has moved from a solitary practice sometimes met with stigma to a more common way to find a romantic partner. The number of people using online dating techniques has held steady in recent years. According to a Pew <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research</a> survey from 2022, 30% of U.S. adults said they had “ever used a dating site or an app,” which was the same as three years prior. The most popular service was Tinder, with around 46% of respondents saying they had utilized it. The app recently released its Future of Dating Report, which <a href="https://www.tinderpressroom.com/2023-05-22-WELCOME-TO-A-RENAISSANCE-IN-DATING,-DRIVEN-BY-AUTHENTICITY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that people in Generation Z are more interested in making sure they are taking care of themselves when it comes to dating — and are interested in finding romantic partners <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-dating-app-for-young-conservatives-made-by-former-top-trump-aide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who agree</a>. This demographic also puts certain characteristics on a pedestal, like loyalty and respect — coming in at 79% and 78%; and 61% of them put a high value on open-mindedness.
Tinder’s Global Relationship Insights Expert, Paul Brunson, sees promise in the new generation’s dating style. Brunson stated that “Gen Z will have the most successful marriages yet. Why? Because they’re investing in emotional well-being and clear communication.”
Yet despite the positive outlook and high rates of activity on these apps, users are not entirely satisfied with their results. A recent Currys <a href="https://www.currys.co.uk/techtalk/mobile/modernlove2023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> out of the United Kingdom <a href="https://www.shinyshiny.tv/2023/02/are-dating-apps-on-their-way-out-new-study-reveals-success-rates-are-dropping.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that Tinder had the highest rate of success out of 15 apps and sites. However, the notorious swipe-right/swipe-left app still had a lower success rate in 2022 than it did the year prior, a drop of about 5%. Almost every online dating venue showed a dip in reported successful relationships.
The low levels of success might be causing another movement as well. The younger generation is using dating sites for purposes other than finding romance — they are simply using them to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/how-gen-z-is-turning-to-dating-apps-like-bumble-bff-to-make-friends.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make</a> friends. Bumble <a href="https://bumble.com/en-us/the-buzz/what-exactly-is-bumble-bff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BFF</a> is a new way the ladies-first dating app is helping users find friendship. Conversely, Gen Z is turning to social media sites like Instagram to romantically connect with people instead of dating apps like Tinder. According to a February <a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2023/02/09/gen-z-and-millennials-social-media-impacts-dating/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from YPulse, 39% of 13 to 39-year-olds had “met a romantic partner on social media.” In contrast, only 29% had found someone to date on a dating app.
Instagram’s 2023 Trend <a href="https://about.instagram.com/en-us/file/1276350079639305/TRENDREPORT_2022_fin-2.pdf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report</a> supported this, pointing out that social media can create a more comfortable environment for people to share their feelings and emotions than being in person. “More than half of Gen Z social media users feel more comfortable being vulnerable online and over text than in person. On Instagram, DMs and messaging continue to drive connection and conversation between friends and love interests,” the report noted.
Gen Z may be shifting the way they date online,  but the fact that online sources are needed to make friendly connections points to a deeper void in the social circles of young people. It could also be an indication of a change in culture: the rise of remote work and schooling has led to an inability for many people to easily find peers with whom they might connect. 
While Gen Z searches for meaningful connections, they have retreated from doing so in classic ways, such as through traditional religion. According to the<a href="https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/generation-z-future-of-faith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> American</a> Survey Center, “Generation Z is the least religious generation yet,” with 34% of them unaffiliated with a religion. Data from the Springtide Research Institute found that one out of three Gen Z adults said they believed in a higher power, which was an increase from 2021. However, many have <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/why-gen-z-is-more-spiritual-and-religious-than-millennials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they are more interested in non-denominational and interdenominational practices rather than traditional religion. 
Even as they search for spiritual alignment and relationships over the web, this is still a generation awash in loneliness. The more connections people make over the internet does not appear to have a positive correlation with how connected they feel to those around them. In fact, the high amounts of time spent online might ultimately drag them down. According to Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/05/14/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from 2018, 45% of teenagers aged 13 to 17-years-old said that they were online almost constantly, with 44% saying they were on it several times a day. Almost a third of Gen Z and Millennials <a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2023/03/22/how-lonely-are-gen-z-and-millennials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they feel lonely often or all the time. 
Thanks to the internet, the opportunity for friendship and romance appears to be readily available at any time. The disheartening reality, however, is that not everyone can be reached. 
The younger generation is searching for connection — whether to a spiritual being or to one another. The internet can provide this initial spark, but it threatens to replace real interactions with a false sense of intimacy. It will ultimately be up to the users to decide if it will benefit their generation and generations to come — or not.

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Danielle Jones, OB-GYN, scolded a woman on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> for daring to suggest that giving birth was an experience that was unique to women.
The video, shared by LibsofTikTok, began with a short clip of one woman talking about how childbirth was a uniquely feminine thing &#8212; and then another woman, wearing a lab coat that identified herself as obstetrician and gynecologist Danielle Jones, took over.
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“Every patient who has a baby is not a woman… how dare you say that nobody who gives birth can be a man” &#8211; OBGYN <a href="https://t.co/Xuca0bFTqk">pic.twitter.com/Xuca0bFTqk</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1681336433393426432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The first woman said, &#8220;I assist women in labor, and the things that they are doing are uniquely feminine —&#8221;
Jones jumped in then, immediately attacking the other woman for not being &#8220;inclusive&#8221; in her language.
&#8220;So first off, as a doula, your job is to support the person giving birth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If all of the patients that you have are women, then it&#8217;s totally fine for you to call them women. However, every patient who has a baby is not a woman.&#8221;
&#8220;As an OB-GYN, I care for many patients who are trans men or non-binary people who have babies,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The point of inclusive language is not to misgender someone who is a woman or is a mother, it&#8217;s to appropriately include &#8212; especially in educations on large platforms like TikTok — anyone who might need the information.&#8221;
Jones went on to claim that it was especially egregious for the other woman to have posted her commentary during LGBTQ+ PRIDE month, adding, &#8220;So how dare you, during PRIDE month, come on this app, which is very inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community, and say that nobody who gives birth can be a man or a non-binary person. Just because you don&#8217;t care for these people or you don&#8217;t want to care for these people does not mean that they don&#8217;t exist and you don&#8217;t get to choose what they are called. They do. Do better.&#8221;
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Critics were quick to rebut the doctor&#8217;s position, with @TRHLofficial (The RedHeaded Libertarian) leading the way. &#8220;These constant drills in insanity are meant to exhaust us into compliance. We disarm them by laughing in their faces, rejecting their language, dismissing their labels, and guarding our empathy from their exploitation. Their power is an illusion,&#8221; she wrote on Twitter.
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These constant drills in insanity are meant to exhaust us into compliance.
We disarm them by laughing in their faces, rejecting their language, dismissing their labels, and guarding our empathy from their exploitation.
Their power is an illusion. <a href="https://t.co/pvDjSzUrCZ">https://t.co/pvDjSzUrCZ</a>
&mdash; The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1681339175906209793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Call me crazy, but I think this person&#8217;s license to practice needs review. And maybe her college degree, too, since she obviously flunked basic biology,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1681360121887354880" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;Watch with the sound off and look at the doctor’s eyes!&#8221; actor James Woods <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1681353322295607297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advised</a>.

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A plastic surgeon in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> had her medical license revoked and has been banned from practicing in the state after she botched surgeries on three patients while livestreaming on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a>, according to the Ohio Medical Board. 
From 2018 to 2022, Dr. Katharine Grawe, known as “Dr. Roxy,” amassed thousands of followers on TikTok, where the doctor would often livestream her procedures and answer questions from her followers while patients were under the knife. Grawe was banned from practicing in Ohio and fined $4,500 for failing to meet the standard of care, WCMH <a href="https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-medical-board-strips-dr-roxy-of-license-after-tiktok-livestreams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
A member of the Ohio Medical Board said at a hearing in Columbus on Wednesday that Grawe prioritized her social media clout above the well-being of her patients.
“I strongly recommend that there never be a Dr. Roxy or patient one, two or three — and protect the people of the state of Ohio from this reckless physician,” said board member Dr. Jonathan Feibel.
Mary Jenkins, one of Grawe’s former patients who successfully sued the doctor in 2019 after tissue from her breast reconstruction died, hopes the board’s decision will offer some closure to victims like her. 
“It will never go away,” Jenkins said, “because every time we look down, we see a scar and we will always remember.”
The board said Grawe was warned as early as 2018 about privacy concerns regarding her filming of the procedures often located in intimate areas. Grawe’s license was temporarily suspended last October before the board completely stripped it away. 
At the Wednesday hearing, Grawe said she filmed her surgeries “to make people smile in a world that is negative and difficult to navigate” but added that she now understands “many of those silly videos appeared unprofessional.”
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According to a notice from the medical board, another one of Grawe’s patients suffered a perforated intestine one week after her surgery that the TikTok doctor performed while livestreaming for her followers. That patient also had severe bacterial damage in her abdomen and lost brain function due to the amount of toxins in her blood, the notice said, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ohio-tiktok-doctor-surgeries-license-revoked-4f1ab7a71b2b3d396d102156f2c9e219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. 
“These outcomes were not normal complications like those that exist in the routine practice of medicine, but were rather caused by recklessness and disregard for the rules governing the practice of medicine in Ohio,” Feibel said.

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Trans activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-backlash-after-trans-activist-goes-topless-at-white-house-pride-event-a-disgrace-to-our-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rose Montoya</a>, a man who identifies as a woman, apologized after briefly going topless at a White House Pride Month event, an act the Biden administration later called &#8220;inappropriate and disrespectful.&#8221;
In a three-minute long clip posted on Friday on <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1669759282282102786?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a>, Montoya said that &#8220;Today I need to apologize…in a quick moment of fleeting and overwhelming trans joy I decided to do something unbecoming of a guest of the President at the White House lawn celebration.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to take this moment to apologize for the impact of my actions,&#8221; the transgender influencer added, without specifically saying what those actions were.
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Topless Trans TikToker Rose Montoya has finally issued an apology after flashing his breasts at the White House. 
“Today I need to apologize…in a quick moment of…overwhelming trans joy I decided to do something unbecoming as a guest of the President.”
In the 3 minute apology… <a href="https://t.co/P1x51xXFoF">pic.twitter.com/P1x51xXFoF</a>
&mdash; Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1669759282282102786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Montoya went through a lengthy list of apologies to various LGBT groups before claiming that &#8220;family and friends&#8221; have been &#8220;harassed&#8221; after the incident.
&#8220;Last but not least, I would like to apologize to the president, the White House, and the nation,&#8221; Montoya said. &#8220;It was also never my intention to create a situation that would lead to harassment and harm of myself and others.&#8221;
&#8220;Nor for my little moment of trans joy to be weaponized by vile people of the opposition,&#8221; Montoya added.
The video concluded with a plea to members of the media to respect both Montoya&#8217;s family and friends&#8217; &#8220;privacy at this time.&#8221;
The comments came after several trans activists went topless at the WH event, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-faces-backlash-after-trans-activist-goes-topless-at-white-house-pride-event-a-disgrace-to-our-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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White House bans ‘disrespectful’ topless trans influencer Rose Montoya <a href="https://t.co/An6Oi86FRU">https://t.co/An6Oi86FRU</a> <a href="https://t.co/LhphT5Eour">pic.twitter.com/LhphT5Eour</a>
&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1668662398914379776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Shortly after the images surfaced, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-claims-it-is-outraged-at-transgender-activist-who-went-topless-at-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Biden</a> administration issued a statement calling the stunt &#8220;inappropriate and disrespectful,&#8221; and saying that those who participated will not be invited to &#8220;future events.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyre-liars-ben-shapiros-not-buying-wh-shock-over-topless-trans-person-at-pride-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;They&#8217;re Liars&#8217;: Ben Shapiro&#8217;s Not Buying WH Shock Over Topless Trans Person At Pride Event</a>

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