Tag Archives: Candace Owens

Newsweek reports: Conservative political pundit Candace Owens said she won’t be celebrating the new federal holiday of Juneteenth, suggesting that the move to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S. is just the Democrats trying to “repackage segregation.” The House voted overwhelmingly to pass Senate Bill 475, entitled the “Juneteenth National Independence Day Act,” by a 415-14 on Wednesday. …

Media Matters reports: Owens attacked the prospect of a vaccine against COVID-19 with the confounding claim that a vaccine against the disease — which has killed more than 270,000 Americans so far — “makes no sense” because there is a “99% chance that you’re going to survive if you get COVID-19,” so “why the hell would you take a vaccine …

The Wrap reports: Conservative commentator Candace Owens is facing down Twitter wrath after saying Harry Styles’ groundbreaking Vogue cover is an “outright attack” on “manly men” in American society. On the cover, which was the first one ever to feature a man by himself, Styles wore a Gucci dress. When the cover was revealed last Friday, Styles and the Vogue …

Just in via email from Trump cultist Candace Owens: Here’s how the media is reporting on clear, undeniable election fraud: The New York Times: “Torrent of Falsehoods,” CNN: “Baseless voter fraud claims,” NPR: “False Claims of Fraud, Rigged Election,” CBS News: “Voter fraud complaint is ‘garbage,’” Meanwhile, Big Tech is getting in on the scam too: Facebook has banned the …

Reuters reports: A viral post on social media falsely attributes a lengthy quote predicting the adoption of communism and the gradual creation of a “socialist state” in the U.S. to former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on September 29, 1959. On September 18, 1959, Khrushchev addressed the UN General Assembly. A transcript of this speech by the New York Times shows …

ABC News reports: Some guests for Saturday’s White House event on the South Lawn, which was President Donald Trump’s first since testing positive for the coronavirus, had their travel and lodging paid for by controversial conservative activist Candace Owens’ group BLEXIT, according to emails obtained by ABC News. Supporters, who were also scheduled to attend a separate BLEXIT event earlier …

The New York Daily News reports: Conservative author Candace Owens claimed Saturday that around 1,000 people have written to her saying that copies of her book “Blackout” are getting stomped on, apparently by Amazon employees, before they are shipped out. She also alleged a smear campaign — including a picture of a book copy that she said was rubbed with …

“How do you combat your child going into a kindergarten class — and this is actually the circumstance in some schools — where they are allowed to call your child by a different gender all day, and they’re not required to tell the parent. “I can’t wrap my — to me that is Satan, right? Satan is the author of …

Candace Owens wails to Breitbart: BLEXIT founder Candace Owens will sue Facebook over its “blatant censorship” after the social media platform demonetized her page following her comments about senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) swearing into congress in 2017 as an “Indian-American.” Candace Owens said that Facebook has suppressed her page after she commented her thoughts on senator Harris being chosen as …

The Hill reports: GoFundMe has suspended a fundraiser established by conservative activist Candace Owens for a café co-owner who called the late George Floyd a “thug,” saying her campaign violated its policies on “intolerance of any kind.” Owens had raised more than $200,000 for the Parkside Café in Birmingham, Ala., after co-owner Michael Dykes sparked backlash by insulting Floyd and …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump retweeted Glenn Beck questioning George Floyd’s character late Friday. Beck wrote above a video, “I don’t care WHAT George Floyd did. The officer should have never treated him like that and killed him! But we still must ask: Is he a HERO? BLEXIT founder @RealCandaceO gave her thoughts: ‘The fact that he has …

Via email from Trump cultist Candace Owens: The people of Michigan spoke up against Big Government tyranny from their far-left Governor Gretchen Whitmer. I defended these brave Americans on Twitter so the world would know Patriots are taking a stand against egregious civil rights violations during this quarantine. As a result… Twitter banned my account. I’m certainly not the first …

Mediaite reports: Commentator and right-wing Twitter activist Candace Owens has been locked out of her account, she says, over a tweet instructing Michigan residents to violate the state’s lockdown orders issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and saying that the police won’t enforce the orders. The tweet that was flagged by Twitter as having violated the site’s policies was shared on …

“Serious question for those of you that are in the ‘we need to expand testing’ camp. Do you expect testing to be compulsory? Because I have no plans to get tested for #coronavirus, and in a nation of 330 million people, it’s safe to assume I’m not the only one. “And if your answer is ‘no it should not be …

From the antifa site It’s Going Down: A video sent to It’s Going Down and already going viral on various Facebook pages, shows the leader of the Las Vegas chapter of Turning Point USA, Riley Grisar, along with a young woman screaming about how they are going to “Rule the Country.” They then go on to yell, “White power! Fuck …

The Hill reports: A clip of a confrontation between conservative activist Candace Owens and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has become the most-viewed C-SPAN Twitter video from a House hearing ever, according to C-SPAN. During the exchange, Lieu questioned the appropriateness of Owens’s presence at the hearing, playing a clip of her from December discussing the difference between “nationalism” and “globalism” …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens has had a winding road to testifying before the House about extremism. Just a few years ago, she ran an anti-Trump website that floated conspiracy theories about the size of Trump’s penis. Then she took a right turn, straight onto the set of InfoWars. Somehow, she parlayed that insanity into regular appearances on Fox News. Then …

The Washington Post reports: For years, Silicon Valley has struggled to strike the right balance between allowing users to express themselves and preventing the viral spread of objectionable posts, photos and videos. But a series of recent, high-profile failures in the eyes of some Democrats and Republicans have prompted renewed debate in Washington over the need to hold tech companies …

“The thing is, it [the political left] needs to burn. I used to think you could reform it, and that’s why I was like, ‘OK, if I stay in this thing, we can fix this.’ But what I’ve realized is that every time there’s been a chance where they should look in the mirror –  ‘Trump got elected president, maybe …

“It’s common sense to me that conservatives need to start invading culture, because we are the party that believes first and foremost in God. And in case you guys forgot, it was our belief in God and Judeo-Christian values that inspired culture in the first place. Florence [Italy] is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world. “It’s …