The Outrage Is Real, But Let’s Get Our Facts Straight
Everyone’s losing their minds over Candace Owens again. The far-right commentator, podcaster, and occasional provocateur has dropped a new docuseries trailer—this time targeting Erika Kirk, the widow of the late Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk. Social media exploded with fury. “Pure evil,” wrote Meghan McCain. Ben Shapiro called her a “vampire.” The commentary is loud, nasty, and relentless. But here’s the thing: just because you hate what someone says, or the way they monetize their platform, doesn’t mean they should be stripped of their First Amendment rights.
Let’s be crystal clear—Owens can be a loon, a provocateur, even distasteful. Her content often traffics in conspiracy theories and questionable claims. That doesn’t justify mobbing her off the air. In America, the remedy for false statements or defamatory claims is the court system, not public shaming or censorship. If Erika Kirk—or anyone else—believes they have been defamed, there are legal channels available. That’s how the system is supposed to work.
Candace Owens Is Not Above Criticism—She Deserves It
Let’s be honest: Owens’s actions here are provocative. She’s digging into Erika Kirk’s past, connecting dots that might not exist, and layering in some truly wild conspiracies. You might find it morally reprehensible, in bad taste, or downright cruel to exploit someone’s grief for clicks and views. That’s fair. Use your own platform to call her out. Write think pieces, tweet your rage, post your TikToks. But there’s a huge difference between expressing outrage and demanding the government—or corporations—silence her.
This is the slippery slope that worries anyone who values free expression. Once we start picking and choosing which voices are “acceptable,” the principles of free speech crumble. Owens isn’t untouchable. Critique, mock, and rebut her claims. Let the marketplace of ideas do its work. But do not let outrage turn into censorship.
Charlie Kirk’s Death Evokes My Sympathy, Not Reverence
As for Charlie Kirk himself, let’s not sugarcoat tragedy. His assassination was horrific. No one should downplay the grief his family endured. My condolences are sincere for Erika Kirk and their children. That said, Charlie Kirk’s multi-million-dollar charity, Turning Point USA, has always operated as a political organization with a particular agenda. I feel zero need to glorify its operations, which are often indistinguishable from other political nonprofits. Sympathy for a human tragedy does not automatically extend to the political machinery left behind.
The narrative that Owens’s docuseries somehow attacks “innocence” is overblown. She is going after power, influence, and perceived hypocrisy in the conservative world. That may be morally messy, but it’s not a criminal act. The backlash from pundits and media personalities is a performance of outrage, not a statement of law.
Warning
If you choose to watch Owen’s “Bride of Charlie” series, beware. It is filled with bat-shit level conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, and all of the manipulative craziness that Owens says with a straight face.
Excerpt: Bride Of Charlie: A Wrinkle In Time — Episode 1
I’ve done a lot of work here speaking to ex-boyfriends, speaking to old classmates. I really wanted to get a sense of who Erica was. And also, in a word, yes, I concur.
There is something about her. I don’t know any single personality in the media or politics that has had the same effect that Erica has had on people worldwide. She’s a rare bird, okay? She has actually managed to unify the left and the right on a single perspective.
Think about that, how amazing that is. Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, but she had a true following on the left, right? It was a bloody match back in 2016. Now beyond Erica, what Elizabeth is diving into here is psychology, right? She’s guessing and she’s speaking about psychology, a social science that was created, to be very clear, by German mystical Jews, right? They believed in mystical Judaism.
They were practicing the occult. Now if you are a regular viewer of this show, you know that I have sort of obsessed myself with this history over the past two years, the books that we read in book club, all about the very dark history of modern psychology and its direct relationship to child abuse, trauma-based mind control. That’s what the book, The Assault on Truth, lays out.
This person wasn’t just an author that was guessing when he wrote this book. He was in control of the Sigmund Freud archives and lost his entire career just trying to ring the alarm on what these scientists knew. He explains that they abused children with the goal of transforming them into future psychopaths that can be controlled.
That is the science that was brought here to America via Operation Paperclip. What began as Project Monarch in Germany ultimately became MKUltra in America. The Manson murders, the 60s, all of that was our government.
CIA gone wild after the assassination of JFK for drugging and experimenting upon citizens with the explicit goal of controlling minds, social engineering, making people get into a formation. These are indisputable and historical facts. This brought forth the dawn of serial killers in America, too many of them with curious ties to the military.
Yeah, MKUltra was a military-grade program. Truthfully behind every unthinkable crime is a deranged psychologist and a prescription cabinet. If you think that MKUltra ever stopped, I hope that the Epstein files and the stunning defense of the Epstein files from our quote-unquote elites helped to shatter that illusion for you.
We discussed MKUltra during the Kamala Chronicles, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France is suing me for merely mentioning MKUltra on Tim Dillon’s show. How bizarre. Why is the president of France, who himself is a victim of minor sex abuse, so concerned about that conversation being opened up? Independent study into Sigmund Freud and what he and his colleagues were doing in Vienna is crucial for you to understand what is going on in this world and the way that the world works.
Okay? Now pivoting back to Erika and her story, I will tell you my personal opinion and my experience with her. What alarms me about Erika isn’t so much the fact that she lies, which we will prove to you over and over again, but it’s also the fact that I don’t know that she’s aware that she’s lying. It’s almost as though she doesn’t remember.
The Bottom Line
Candace Owens may be a provocateur, a conspiracy theorist, and an opportunist, but denying her the right to speak is un-American. Free speech is messy, uncomfortable, and sometimes morally repugnant—but that is precisely the point. If someone crosses the line into defamation or lies that cause measurable harm, there are courts to handle that. Until then, the answer to speech you dislike is more speech—not bans, not silencing, not cancel culture. Critique, ridicule, and debate Owens as much as you want. But America does not win by punishing voices simply because they irritate us or anger us.
We are so screwed.
— Steve
