Matt Bernstein

Hashtag showtime.

Hashtag shit my cat says.

Hashtag funny.

And Taylor Lorenz, how many likes does this have?

Oh, take me back.

Candace Owens was just like us.

And her cat is so adorable.

Anyway, shall I continue?

Or are you going to?

It is so hard to look away from because it's so stunningly normal and precious for someone who would become...

Well, so Candice was a heavy contributor to the Degree 180 blog, which someone so graciously preserved on the Internet Archive.

And I read a bunch of the articles that Candice wrote.

This blog was mostly like liberal-leaning lifestyle content for millennial women, as many blogs were.

She wrote candidly about struggling with anorexia, misogyny, and monogamy.

Taylor, I've clipped a passage from an article that Candice wrote about how monogamy is not realistic.

And would you like to take that?

Come on.

Well, we talk about grift on this podcast, and there is an enormously grifty element to Candace Owens, and I think that you're just starting to poke the bear on that one.

In another article about trans people and sex, Candace Owens wrote...

The real degree 180 was the pivot she would make after this.