Taylor Lorenz

yes, so what are we going to do about it?

Like, Candace is not proposing those solutions.

And I think that we need to get behind people that are willing to hold power to account.

And also just to recognize, like, the other thing that drives me crazy about these conspiracy theorists and this movement, especially on the left, which you're seeing a lot more people on the left get sucked into right-wing conspiracies and these leftist conspiracies, it's like the world is bad enough, right?

Like, the world is bad enough.

The stuff that we know is bad is bad.

Like...

They're already sending undocumented immigrants to concentration camps.

Why do you need Elon Musk to be doing Neuralink on them?

Why is that compelling to you?

But like the reality of this other stuff isn't.

Like, why do you have to make the world more depraved in these ways?

I think of that viral Reddit post that went viral recently of the guy that was like, I'm a whistleblower at a...

Delivery app company or something.

Yeah.

And they have a desperation score and they do that stuff.

And of course, none of that was true.

It was totally written by AI.

The guy was an AI grifter.

It was all this fake thing.