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| Not shit-posting but drowning. Cries for help don't always sound like cries for help. |
Candace Owens providing another ... uh ... unique and evidence free take on reality.
Owens alleged that the US ‘military is involved’. Like many of her other claims, which came in the wake of the Turning Point USA founder's assassination, she's yet to provide proof to back this up.
I initially started off planning to make fun of her. It's still tempting. After all, this is a woman who - in the last few months has claimed Brigitte Macron is a man and is now being heartily sued for it. She's burrowed deeper into the strange rabbit hole that is her brain by claiming French special forces (aided by Israelis) are plotting to murder her.
But I remembered many years ago a post about Shoah / Holocaust denier David Irving (who, like Candace, has some problems with the Jews) and how I started off by laughing at his absurdity as much as condemning his evil, but within a few lines I found myself feeling pity more than anger and contempt. The man was obviously deeply troubled and while that doesn't exculpate him, it does provide some context.
(For the record, that post probably hasn't aged too well - the interviewer who prompted those revelations from Irving was Johann Hari, a gentleman who has turned out to have his own problems with what we will politely call objectivity. Because it turns out you can have self-serving liars, narcissists, bad actors and straight out fantasists on the left as well as the right.)
Candace Owens has been a diligent miner of the MAGA seam, conjuring outrage and alientation into gold (for her). But her output has become more and more extreme and less and less hinged. I don't think this is a cunning marketing ploy. She's alienating potential marks. Only people as disconnected from reality as she is will be buying. This doesn't look like the normal rightwing grift. This looks like someone having a breakdown in public.
