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Taylor Lorenz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
947 total appearances

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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

I mean, we could do a whole other episode on just like the current meltdown happening in the right wing world.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

Like we've seen so many different factions emerge.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

But I think of her as kind of like a modern day Alex Jones, but far more palpable.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

I think what makes her so compelling is she's beautiful.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

She's put together.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

She's not sounding like a ranting, raving lunatic when she's saying this stuff.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

But if you listen to the stuff she's saying, it's conspiracy theories that are completely divorced from reality.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

Who's the real deep state actor?

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

There's been, as a lot more conservatives have become disillusioned with Trump, and especially the far right, the QAnoners.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

You've seen this sort of backlash with Epstein stuff, with Israel.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

A lot of those people on the far right and people on the left are looking for guiding voices.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

And they're turning to people that are very anti-establishment.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

And Candace was able to seize on that so effectively because she doesn't identify as pro-Trump anymore.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

She talks about, you know, sort of almost leaving the MAGA movement.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

And now she's just this, like, anti-institutionalist and positions herself against power in this way.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

Her stream on Monday was unreal.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

She talks about how people aren't real.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

And, like, she talks...

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
How Candace Owens Left Reality

She's so good at weaving all these narratives together, but she's talking about the rise of AI and how things don't feel normal and how people don't seem real.