Can someone explain to me why multiple world leaders respond to the random things Candice Owens says on her strange little show?
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Can someone explain to me why multiple world leaders respond to the random things Candice Owens says on her strange little show?
Do they not understand that to engage with her is to raise her profile?
She's having a moment and becoming one of the most important voices in conservative media. Isn't America remarkable?
Is she the one who will inherit the ... role of Alex Jones. I didn't see that coming.
These conservatives loooove a Black person talking nonsense. Good lordt.
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Can someone explain to me why multiple world leaders respond to the random things Candice Owens says on her strange little show?
Do they not understand that to engage with her is to raise her profile?
She's having a moment and becoming one of the most important voices in conservative media. Isn't America remarkable?
Is she the one who will inherit the ... role of Alex Jones. I didn't see that coming.
These conservatives loooove a Black person talking nonsense. Good lordt.
I don't even like to talk about her because controversy is her O2. But at this point with all these presidents and so on addressing what's she's said I don't think that matters much.
Rumors that are beneath even denial.
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I don't even like to talk about her because controversy is her O2. But at this point with all these presidents and so on addressing what's she's said I don't think that matters much.
Rumors that are beneath even denial.
To take the time to deny them gives them credit.I keep making posts like this then realizing that for people not in the US, or those who don't follow politics in the US probably too much it must be very confusing.
Here is the context.
Candice Owens is a right wing "commentator" with ties to TPUSA (where Charlie Kirk, the guy who was murdered worked) but she is more famous for working with Ben Shapiro of the conservative "Daily Wire" Candice left the Daily Wire since she didn't agree with them about Israel.
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I keep making posts like this then realizing that for people not in the US, or those who don't follow politics in the US probably too much it must be very confusing.
Here is the context.
Candice Owens is a right wing "commentator" with ties to TPUSA (where Charlie Kirk, the guy who was murdered worked) but she is more famous for working with Ben Shapiro of the conservative "Daily Wire" Candice left the Daily Wire since she didn't agree with them about Israel.
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There is a rift on the right and it's mostly over two issues: Epstein and Israel.
The Qannon-adjacent crowd: Alex Jones, Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson is (sort of) against foreign intervention or really even US participation in wars and weapons. They sometimes seduce people on the anti-war left because of this. But, it's NOT about being anti-war in that general sense for these folks.
The more "mainline" conservatives who think the US army and weapons should be everywhere. 2/
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There is a rift on the right and it's mostly over two issues: Epstein and Israel.
The Qannon-adjacent crowd: Alex Jones, Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson is (sort of) against foreign intervention or really even US participation in wars and weapons. They sometimes seduce people on the anti-war left because of this. But, it's NOT about being anti-war in that general sense for these folks.
The more "mainline" conservatives who think the US army and weapons should be everywhere. 2/
Kirk was unique in that both of these groups liked him. He found a balance by leaning into "Christian Values" consistently throwing out red meat for racists and bigots and being VERY CAREFUL what he said about foreign policy.
They are squabbling to claim his legacy for their sides. It's very ugly.
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Kirk was unique in that both of these groups liked him. He found a balance by leaning into "Christian Values" consistently throwing out red meat for racists and bigots and being VERY CAREFUL what he said about foreign policy.
They are squabbling to claim his legacy for their sides. It's very ugly.
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In the past week Candice Owens has been getting millions of views. She thinks that Kirk was "taken out" by Israel. (She says this.) She thinks it's a big conspiracy and the shooter is a pasty. They are even trying to make up second shooters.
She also thinks the wife of Emmanuel Macron is a secret trans woman.
Both Macron and Benjamin Netanyahu have responded to these accusations and THAT is what I find absolutely wild.
Why respond?
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In the past week Candice Owens has been getting millions of views. She thinks that Kirk was "taken out" by Israel. (She says this.) She thinks it's a big conspiracy and the shooter is a pasty. They are even trying to make up second shooters.
She also thinks the wife of Emmanuel Macron is a secret trans woman.
Both Macron and Benjamin Netanyahu have responded to these accusations and THAT is what I find absolutely wild.
Why respond?
4/When looking at this kind of stuff please remember that conspiracies ALWAYS contain bits of truth. But conspiracies are fundamentally stories that try to make the world make more sense to the people who create them.
When bad things happen it must be the fault of "enemies" ... it can't be that the world is complex and chaotic.
It can't be the result of systemic issues we've ignored. It needs to be a whole STORY.
I don't enjoy any of this. God help us all. 5/5
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In the past week Candice Owens has been getting millions of views. She thinks that Kirk was "taken out" by Israel. (She says this.) She thinks it's a big conspiracy and the shooter is a pasty. They are even trying to make up second shooters.
She also thinks the wife of Emmanuel Macron is a secret trans woman.
Both Macron and Benjamin Netanyahu have responded to these accusations and THAT is what I find absolutely wild.
Why respond?
4/@futurebird Been a few years since I've paid any attention to her at all, but I don't remember her being THAT batshit crazy! Even if she doesn't believe any of that and is just trying grab attention, wow, that is some bonkers stuff!
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@futurebird Been a few years since I've paid any attention to her at all, but I don't remember her being THAT batshit crazy! Even if she doesn't believe any of that and is just trying grab attention, wow, that is some bonkers stuff!
She has gotten so much worse. And it's working for her, she has an audience who eats it all up.
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There is a rift on the right and it's mostly over two issues: Epstein and Israel.
The Qannon-adjacent crowd: Alex Jones, Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson is (sort of) against foreign intervention or really even US participation in wars and weapons. They sometimes seduce people on the anti-war left because of this. But, it's NOT about being anti-war in that general sense for these folks.
The more "mainline" conservatives who think the US army and weapons should be everywhere. 2/
@futurebird do they think the US's economic success and its military supremacy were unrelated?
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@futurebird do they think the US's economic success and its military supremacy were unrelated?
@ehproque They do not “think” very much at all.
Bu more seriously I think people like Tucker Carlson with connections to wealth and power understand this fact and do isolationism as cosplay— part of this world view also says that ordinary people can do nothing significant to stop these forces— so his money and friends are in now real danger. In fact if enough people are distracted away from practical effective resistance such as forming unions it helps him.
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Can someone explain to me why multiple world leaders respond to the random things Candice Owens says on her strange little show?
Do they not understand that to engage with her is to raise her profile?
She's having a moment and becoming one of the most important voices in conservative media. Isn't America remarkable?
Is she the one who will inherit the ... role of Alex Jones. I didn't see that coming.
These conservatives loooove a Black person talking nonsense. Good lordt.
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@futurebird i'm glad i have no idea who this person with a fake name. candy? this is a first name. lol.
@tootbrute Not her real name— I was making fun of her.
