My husband has a lot of family members who live in Australia. They’re wonderful people. Despite the fact that we don’t always share the same politics, they are the kind of old-school folks who don’t let politics get in the way of meaningful relationships. 
Recently, he received a message from one of these family members. She was expressing how the mental state of everyone around her is in steep decline. She shared with him a message that she&#8217;d received from a friend of hers — a woman who lives in Queensland — and it’s genuinely shocking. 
It is a list of the COVID rules that she says Australian citizens are being made to follow. As you read this list, I want you to do your best to imagine your life and your mental state if you were being made to abide by these rules. 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A limited number of people allowed in your house</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">At various times we are told we are allowed no visitors</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Funerals limited to between 5-10 people</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Curfews — helicopters often patrol the skies to ensure that everyone is abiding</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Not allowed to go past 5 kilometers from your home </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Not allowed to sit down at many parks, beaches, and public spaces </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">No dancing </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Only one person per household is allowed to go shopping for essentials — only essential shopping is allowed, and at times the defense force and police have checked what people are shopping for</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">International borders are closed. No one is allowed to leave the country. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Small businesses are shut down while big businesses are allowed to operate. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Citizens are locked out of their home state — thousands of them and are not allowed to return unless they get a vaccine or go through a slow and restrictive exemption request process. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Families have been refused access to attend funerals that are across state borders. Yes — there is an application process and you have to apply to attend funerals and weddings and many people are denied. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Relatedly, many people have died without family beside them because there is a mandatory quarantine process to move — and many people didn’t make it in time. One woman was only given access to her dying father in a hazmat suit.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Protests have been declared illegal (despite the fact that protest is supposedly a constitutional right)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">If you protest, heavily armed police can pepper spray, tear gas, or fire rubber bullets at you. </li>
</ul>
For the last 20 years, the United States has spent trillions of dollars in Afghanistan fighting a war, (which we lost by the way). But we were told the war was necessary — that the slaughtering of American sons and daughters on foreign soil was necessary because we were fighting for a noble cause — to spread democracy in a tyrannical land. To free an oppressed people. 
Let&#8217;s take that strategy to an absurd extreme, just for a moment.
If we&#8217;re so opposed to tyranny, when do we deploy troops to Australia?  
When do we invade Australia to free oppressed people who are suffering under a totalitarian regime? When do we spend trillions of dollars to spread democracy in Australia?
Australia is a tyrannical police state. Its citizens are quite literally imprisoned against their will. 
So when do we deploy? When do the leaders who want to counter tyranny across the globe commit to countering this tyranny?
I ask that in jest, of course. 
But what is happening in Australia — under the guise of a virus which as of August 7th, 2021 experts estimate overall recovery rate is between 97% and 99.75%  — is, in fact, federal overreach, tyranny and totalitarianism. The kind that gives birth to evil dictatorships and human rights atrocities. 
We all know the truth — that what is happening in Australia was meant to happen here in America. That this current totalitarian administration is fighting tooth and nail to trample state rights and federalize America. If it weren’t for Republican governors standing in the way — we’d be similarly stripped of our most basic individual freedoms. 
Can anyone explain to me by the way, in simple sentences, why the Australian government is any better or any nobler than the Taliban? Both groups believe they have a right to oppress and imprison people for their own good. Are Western governments any better? 
I can say honestly that I never thought I’d live to see a world war. But here we are. We are in the midst of an ideological and psychological global war. It is a war being waged by governments all over the world, from here to Australia — against the very citizens they govern.
To that end, I say welcome to World War 3. 
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Welcome To World War III

Australia

COVID-19

Readers Pass

Felix Gallardo is a college graduate, turned federal police agent, turned drug-trafficking Lord of the infamous Guadalajara cartel. 
In the 1970s Gallardo began growing and selling billions of dollars worth of drugs each year. Everyone was on his payroll. Police officers, governors, judicial officers. Can you imagine that? The Mexican government, their law enforcement and intelligence agencies, the media — all working to assist and protect a criminal. 
Gallardo was a part of the political class. So much so that they relied on him during campaign season. In 1988, during the middle of an election, while votes were being tallied, the tallying system suddenly crashed. Votes stopped being calculated. And when it came back online, the candidate that the cartel wanted to win — who was previously trailing — suddenly won. That’s true power — rigging an election to elect a desired politician and getting away with it. 
But Felix made a mistake. He sent crooked police officials to kidnap and murder an American DEA agent who was snooping around in his business. Gallardo’s men injected their victim with adrenaline to keep him awake throughout his torture and interrogation, before drilling a hole into his brain. It was a brutal, horribly graphic crime. One which triggered the largest DEA homicide investigation ever.  
It took years, but Felix was eventually arrested in 1989 and today, is still rotting in an 8&#215;14 foot cell.
There’s something very American Dream about Felix Gallardo — especially the part about paying the right people, buying protection from the political class and immunity from the media. Yeah, there&#8217;s nothing more American than that. 
Which brings me to the FDA.
The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the federal government, and its regulatory role began because there was a chemist who was concerned about chemical preservatives in food. 
What started as a relatively small regulatory agency soon ballooned in size and scope after FDR signed into law that all cosmetics and medical devices in America needed to be approved by the federal government. 
 Flash forward to 2017, when CNN published a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/health/fda-approval-drug-events-study/index.html">piece</a> entitled “Nearly a third of FDA-approved drugs had problems, study finds.” 
A third? That doesn’t surprise me at all and it shouldn’t surprise you either — if you’ve been paying attention. 
For example — did you know that the FDA has a 5.9 billion dollar budget, $2.7 billion of which is paid for by industry fees? That’s right, 45% of their budget comes from the manufacturers of the products and drugs they approve. That&#8217;s what “Industry fees” are.
You&#8217;re probably wondering — how is that legal? How is that not a conflict of interest? Well, that power was given to them during a different global pandemic.
During the HIV epidemic, the FDA gained authorization to collect fees from companies that produce drugs and products for humans, because apparently, they realized there was a need to approve drugs faster.
But still, “trust the experts!” they say. Always. Forever. No matter what, trust the experts. They’ve never gotten it wrong. 
Except, apparently, a lot. 
It was the experts who once upon an American horror story, allowed for the advertisement of DDT—a harmful insecticide, to pregnant women. It was later banned in 1972.
The experts once prescribed Heroin — actual heroin— as a cough suppressant. At the time, all the medical literature indicated it was going to be promising. 
It was the experts who said Asbestos was a miracle mineral until they realized it’s poison. 
But Trust the experts, even though, yes, sometimes they accept money and lie to the American public. Like when big tobacco paid billions to the right people in exchange for the promotion of their deadly products. Physicians, doctors, medical journals — they all promoted cigarettes. In 1963, the FDA stated that tobacco did not meet their hazardous criteria. 
 But so what? They got it wrong. That was then, this is now, right? Medicine has improved, after all. Just look at the country now thanks to the blessing of big pharma and vaccines. 
America, the most medicated country in the world. 
And yet, across OECD Countries — that’s countries with similar GDPs to ours — we rank 28th out of 36 in life expectancy.
We rank last in terms of the prevalence of obesity.
But who cares? Trust the science. Trust the FDA. Suspend rational, independent thinking and do as they say. 
Trust the FDA, which in 2006 approved silicone gel-filled breast implants. In the years that followed, women have been reporting illness — hair loss, pain, memory loss, depression, neurological disease. This is now referred to colloquially as breast implant illness — I refer to it as common sense — but the FDA and the medical industry hardly acknowledge the illness. 
They do, however, admit that removing the implants can relieve the symptoms. They also acknowledge that breast implants have been associated with a type of Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma — cancer of the immune system — but they haven’t yet revoked their approval because… why would they? Breast implants are a billion-dollar industry and, well, industry fees.
Which explains the current opioid crisis — an FDA-approved epidemic. For 25 years, opioid manufacturers disseminated false claims regarding the risks and benefits of their products but the FDA didn’t care. They approved it anyway. They allowed opioids to be marketed as safe and ignored every medical journal that demonstrated otherwise. 
Oops.
Pop quiz: which company holds the record for paying the second-largest criminal fine in U.S History? Pfizer! In 2009, they paid out $2.3 billion in a criminal and civil liability suit — the largest healthcare fraud settlement in history at the time — for the marketing of a drug called BEXTRA, which was withdrawn from the market in 2005 for safety concerns, and other drugs.
Nobody went to prison of course, because why would they?
The largest operative drug cartel that has ever existed in the history of the world is Big Pharma.
They’ve killed millions. But they always pay the right people, and that&#8217;s what matters most.
Felix Gallardo forgot to pay the right people. If he had, maybe he would have only been made to pay a fine. And then he could have gone on to kill many more people. If he had just opened up his pocketbook, he might have even been allowed to fast track the approval of some of his drugs — for emergency reasons only of course.
Maybe Felix could have even been completely removed from any and all liability pertaining to the side effects of his drugs?
And it&#8217;s going to sound fantastical but — for the right price — he might have even convinced politicians to issue mandates to force the entire population to consume his drugs against their free will.
But what do I know? I’m not a medical “expert” like the rest of them. 
Which is maybe why you should listen. 
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Big Pharma Is The Largest Drug Cartel On Earth

Twenty weeks ago, I did something brave. I told the truth. I talked about some of the symptoms that many women said they were experiencing after taking the vaccine — before the Ministry of Truth said we could. 
Conspiracy theorist. Liar. Anti-vaxxer causing vaccine hesitancy. That’s what I — or anyone who dared ask questions — was called. 
Even actual doctors began saying things that made no sense. Dr. Paula Hillard, a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist at Stanford Children’s Health, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/COVID-vaccines-menstrual-cycles-and-16155252.php">said</a> “it’s biologically implausible that the vaccine can impact menstrual cycles or fertility.”
Universal gaslighting.
But now, it’s 20 weeks later and guess what? The NIH is looking into the trend themselves. Because it’s happening a lot. So much so that they’re now ordering a $1.6 million <a href="https://www.thelily.com/people-said-the-covid-vaccine-affected-their-periods-now-more-than-16-million-will-go-into-researching-it/">study</a> into how covid vaccines impact menstrual cycles.
They commissioned the study 4 months after I did a monologue on it. Their reason for the delay? Because it wasn’t a priority for them. 
People like NICHD director Diana Bianchi <a href="https://www.thelily.com/people-said-the-covid-vaccine-affected-their-periods-now-more-than-16-million-will-go-into-researching-it/">say</a> that changes to menstruation are “not a life or death issue”. So they allowed women to be gaslit for months online — censored by fact-checkers because it wasn’t a priority for them to look into the issue. Disparaging labels were slapped on any woman who shared the truth about what they were experiencing, because after all, “experts say there is no evidence that the vaccines impact fertility.” 
“No evidence.” Yeah, because they weren’t looking into any evidence, but were instead actively censoring the overwhelming amount of anecdotal evidence — because it could have caused vaccine hesitancy. 
I want you to really consider how bizarre and fundamentally dishonest the discussions around the side effects and adverse events of the covid vaccine are.
Imagine you’re driving a brand new Toyota off the lot and suddenly, the steering wheel locks and you get into a car accident. So you go on Facebook and you post about what happened to you. 
Would there be comments saying, “experts say there is no evidence linking locked steering wheels to the new Toyota”?
Of course not. That would never happen. If vaccines were cars, every single one of them would be recalled based on the “exceedingly rare” reactions that some people are having. 
Like the 16-year-old boy in Singapore who suffered a heart attack 6 days after getting the Pfizer vaccine. The media rushed to tell us that it was because he was weightlifting and taking supplements. He just <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/teen-heart-attack-after-vaccine-dose-receive-225000-094655532.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACVK09tadokbhqFiRzG5AUCUHtCDQMtpzDjCnWGcIDODcfNq_3A6UrVy-mIqYjgtV1UIhS8Ll5Kk54WXyhpDLm4oA4aaeYj-oxkqIJiYErZvPtnw0HW74NKKoSoZA-htdH7TeLdwEyUbbhGgmvTNfTTx7VPU9ZjMujxFSoCP66KO">won</a> a six-figure settlement from his government, who are now acknowledging that what happened to him was a direct result of the vaccine.
But don’t worry, that reaction is exceedingly rare. 
Like the 22-year-old girl, Imogen Allen, from the U.K. — a  champion showjumper who may never ride horses again because of blood clots that formed in her lungs after she received the Moderna vaccine. She is currently bedridden and will have to be on blood thinners for the rest of her life. Doctors believe the reaction may have been triggered by the vaccine mixing with her contraceptive pills.
But don’t worry guys, this reaction is exceedingly rare. 
Do you know what’s also exceedingly rare? Healthy teenagers and young adults dying from Covid. But we’re not allowed to say that — that could cause vaccine hesitancy. 
You’ll have to imagine my surprise then when Rapper Nicki Minaj shared an anecdote about someone she knew through a family member in Trinidad who claimed to have developed swollen testicles after getting the vaccine. She encouraged people to do their research. 
The reaction to Minaj encouraging others to look information up for themselves was nothing short of extraordinary. Journalists attacked her viciously. 
“She’s a liar!” they said, without asking her a single question. The truth had already been decided upon.  
“She’s peddling lies that will cost lives!” That’s what Piers Morgan had to say. In his mind, Nicki Minaj is a murderer, because she shared one anecdote. 
And I’m sure somewhere in the world a doctor is calling a testicular reaction “biologically implausible”.
I’m not a doctor or a Big Pharma propagandist, so I did something crazy and listened to Nicki Minaj. I listened to her the way I listened to the many women who told me they were having menstruation issues related to the covid vaccine.
And it turns out that Nicki is not the first person to report on men suffering an adverse testicular response to the vaccine. In fact, the United Kingdom government’s website published a 98 page summary of various suspected reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine as reported by the general public. And on page 81, they have recorded a total of 54 reactions relating to testicular disorders — swelling, pain, and discomfort included. 
Again, I’m not a doctor — but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to hypothesize that whatever is lending to women having menstruation issues may also be lending to some men having testicular issues. 
I want to be very clear here though that there is no evidence linking the vaccines to testicular issues. 
Until they decide to look into it, it doesn’t exist. So today, Nicki Minaj is an anti-vax conspiracy theorist. But in 20 weeks?
I don’t know. We’ll see what happens. 
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The Anti-Science Left Doesn’t Want You Asking Questions

Candace Owens

COVID-19 Vaccine

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&#8220;I am a woman of color, I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.&#8221;
If that sounds to you like perhaps the foreword to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s upcoming book, you would be wrong.
Actually, you&#8217;ll recall that that was actually a direct statement from a video, the CIA recruitment video, somehow — for some reason, advertising that &#8220;they&#8221; were a &#8220;cisgender mom.&#8221;
You see, they&#8217;re more accepting now, the CIA. The CIA has gone &#8220;woke&#8221; and wants more woke people to apply to their ranks to increase their &#8220;diversity,&#8221; even if the CIA should be focused on rooting out international terror threats, not rooting out white privilege in its Langley offices by staffing its desks with gender studies majors.
And then there&#8217;s the FBI. You remember they sent fifteen agents to investigate a noose in Bubba Wallace&#8217;s garage, the NASCAR driver. They&#8217;ve missed real crime and real terrorism happening in this country, threats to American families, but when it comes to a NASCAR garage pull — because that&#8217;s what it ended up being, a garage pull — they send a full team of federal agents to investigate.
Suddenly, the FBI is available because they want to address racism, and they have to be woke, they need to tell you that white supremacy, that racism is something that requires our attention — and worse, still, that its more dangerous to our national security than, say, radical Islamism or illegal immigration, problems the Biden administration has and refuses to address.
At first, the very notion of a woke &#8220;deep state&#8221; seemed funny. I&#8217;ll admit, I laughed at the CIA recruitment video, and I laughed — albeit in frustration — at the Bubba Wallace situation.
But this is really no laughing matter. The deep state&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;wokeness&#8221; is spilling over from how it staffs its ranks to how it does its job, and — make no mistake — if you&#8217;re not among those who think correctly, you could find yourself in their crosshairs. It&#8217;s a two-tiered system, where conservatives are approached with suspicion, and leftists are given liberal privilege.
If you are among those who think correctly, you won&#8217;t have to worry, even if your decisions result in the deaths of, perhaps, thousands of people.
Last week, the Department of Justice announced that they have no intention of continuing a probe into Governor Andrew Cuomo over an order he gave mandating that nursing homes accept recovering COVID-19 patients who were still contagious — an order that likely killed thousands. They&#8217;ve also dropped looking into Governor Gretchen Whitmer over in Michigan, saying that this is a topic they&#8217;re just not interested in exploring.
Speaking of Governor Whitmer, notoriously in this past week even <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant">BuzzFeed</a> is now saying that a suspected &#8220;plot&#8221; from &#8220;Trump supporters&#8221; who wanted to &#8220;kill Governor Whitmer&#8221; may have been largely driven by the FBI.
On the other hand, the Biden administration is desperate to find evidence that conservatives are plotting to overthrow the American government. Attorney General Merrick Garland even announced a &#8220;national strategy for countering domestic terrorism&#8221; pledging to root out and expose &#8220;domestic terrorists&#8221; and evil conservative &#8220;enemies of the state.&#8221;
Last month, the U.S. military&#8217;s Office of Inspector General asked for more power to &#8220;root out extremism&#8221; within military ranks. According to recent reports, suspicion of woke movements like Black Lives Matter is evidence that you might be a problem, and if you&#8217;re a problem, you can be rooted out and replaced — by the woke.
The United States military is actively looking for idealogues, people that could become unquestioningly faithful to an idea. So much so that the Constitution of the United States no longer matters. Common sense no longer matters.
That is what being woke actually means. It&#8217;s a radical approach to thinking, morality, ethics, even basic biology. Everything can be suspended because the woke believe in a greater idea, like men can be women and we need people transitioning while in the military. It doesn&#8217;t matter if those ideas are true, only that the people who believe in them are committed.
This is a recipe for disaster, a recipe for atrocity. It&#8217;s setting the stage for the kind of society where horrible atrocities against humanity can take place. It&#8217;s setting the stage for the kind of society where freedom of speech and freedom of thought are non-existent and ideas are policed by ideologues, like the kind being welcomed into the federal government&#8217;s enforcement arms.
An ideological purge is happening in America today at every single layer of our government, and it is time for all of us to stop laughing and start paying attention.
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The ‘Woke Deep State’ Is No Laughing Matter

Deep State

Gretchen Whitmer

Joe Biden

Every time I&#8217;m at home ranting about a headline, asking ‘why is the left doing this?’ My husband says the same thing: it&#8217;s because they’re a death cult. I&#8217;ve never actually paused to try to understand why he says that over and over again. In fact, I often assumed that he was making a Star Wars analogy. (My husband — like most husbands — loves Star Wars.)
Last week, after I was ranting about something new, he once more referred to the Left as a death cult, and I finally asked him to explain what he meant. And I was surprised by his response. Right now in this country, he said, it&#8217;s difficult to make sense of the left&#8217;s mania. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re social pyromaniacs. They&#8217;re starting fires everywhere, for no reason, just to watch everything burn. 
Gender, burn it down. Men can be women. Women can be men. 
Masculinity, oh that&#8217;s toxic. We can&#8217;t have any more masculinity. That&#8217;s bad. Burn it down. 
Climate change? We&#8217;re all going to be dead in 10 years. For AOC it&#8217;s become a pathology. No matter what happens, it&#8217;s climate change, climate change, climate change. 
And then there&#8217;s body positivity and fat acceptance. If you&#8217;re on Instagram you know what I&#8217;m talking about. Now, they are pushing the need for more acceptance of clinical obesity. I&#8217;m not talking about a couple of extra pounds, I&#8217;m talking about clinical obesity. If you don&#8217;t like that, if you don&#8217;t want to see that promoted as “healthy” on the cover of magazines, well that&#8217;s your problem. 
Even more radical is their stance on abortion, which they want available up until birth. They&#8217;re calling it progressive. 
Let&#8217;s revisit those topics in the context of a death cult. Ready? LGBTQ. The death of gender and masculinity, telling children they can pick their genders, what is that going to lead to? It&#8217;s going to lead to families who can&#8217;t reproduce. Right? Same-sex marriages can&#8217;t productively reproduce. If you&#8217;re telling men to be women and women to be men, you&#8217;re destroying the nuclear family. 
Think about climate change in that same context. What do they say over and over again? “There&#8217;s not going to be a planet in 10 years.” It would be irresponsible for you to start a family. That’s becoming their message. Don’t believe me? Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are going to receive an award from some progressive charity because they&#8217;ve agreed to only have two children. Think about that. They&#8217;re going to get an award for not having a larger family, and it’s all in the name of fighting climate change. 
Fat acceptance. What is fat? What is clinical obesity? It is the number one killer in America today. Heart disease is a direct byproduct of obesity, and yet they promote it. They want to glorify obesity on magazine covers. 
The role of abortion in the Left’s death cult is, sadly, self-explanatory. 
My husband was right. To be a leftist means to commit yourself to an obsession with death. 
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Democrat leadership is committed to a different kind of death. They are committed to the death of our society, the death of individualism, and ultimately, the death of freedom. We know this because Karl Marx wrote the book on it, and it seems now the Democrats are performing a play on it. 
What they are after is obviously a totalitarian state — to put it in Star Wars terms, unlimited power. Karl Marx described socialism as the transitory state between a capitalist society and a communist one, and we know that communism has been a long march of death and destruction. Leftism, when someone commits to it, is nothing but a long march of death and destruction. That&#8217;s the bad news. 
The question now is, is there any hope? I know a lot of people wake up and they feel hopeless. It feels like every day we are losing more and more of our country. Well, there is at least one quote that I love from the Star Wars movies, and this is it: &#8220;We are the very last of the resistance, but we are not alone in every corner of the galaxy, the downtrodden and the oppressed know our symbol, and they put their hope in it.&#8221; That&#8217;s powerful because I believe it to be true, today, of America.
I believe that all across the world, the downtrodden and the oppressed are putting their faith in our country. They are looking to America to see what happens. We saw this over the weekend. Of course, the protests that are erupting in Cuba right now — the protesters begging for their freedom — are waving the American flag, a symbol of hope. So what do we have to do? We have to keep fighting because it matters. It matters that we remain hopeful every single day. That&#8217;s why I fight. Why do you?
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The Democrat Party Is A Death Cult

Democratic Party

Did you know that Bill Gates is spending $1.7 Billion to “fix” the US education system? That&#8217;s so like him, right? Every time we hear about Bill or Melinda Gates, they seem to be extending their tentacles into every facet of American life, because they&#8217;re philanthropists, right? They just want to help. 
So Bill Gates decided to “help” with what he views to be problematic: math. Gates says math suffers from — you guessed it — white supremacy, so he&#8217;s put forth an equitable math curriculum.
His organization, Equitablemath.org, describes the problem with math being the white supremacist notion that in order to be “right,” students must get the correct answer in class. Now, in order to foster “equity,” they want to make every answer correct in classrooms across the country. 
To put it another way, they&#8217;re going to make your kids stupid in the name of fighting white supremacy and furthering equity.
This infuriates me because it’s just the latest example of perversion inside our children’s schools.  You might remember a few weeks ago when a woman named Justine Ang Fonte, a health and wellness educator at an elite private school in Manhattan, showed her first grade students a supposed &#8220;sex-ed&#8221; cartoon. The video featured conversations on  — get this —  erections and touching oneself for pleasure. 
This isn’t the first time this particular “educator” has shared such materials with children. She also taught a health and sexuality workshop to juniors at Columbia Grammar Preparatory School in which they all learned about different genres of porn, which included gang bang, anal and even stepmother porn, incestuous type porn. 
You might think this woman would be fired for such behavior. But no, the schools simply said she&#8217;s stepping down, but they&#8217;re proud of the work that had been done. In fact, the school has spoken out on her behalf. 
Does that seem okay to you? It doesn&#8217;t seem okay to me. 
I travel the country a lot, and it seems the number one question I am now getting from parents is: what can we do? They&#8217;re realizing that something is wrong. They&#8217;re teaching critical race theory, which is really just teaching your children how to be racist. They&#8217;re teaching equitable math, which is teaching your children how to be stupid. And now, of course, is the hyper-sexualization of our children. 
I’m always asked, “What can we do?” I&#8217;m going to reverse that question and ask you, what you would do. What would you do if you took your first grader to the playground and they came across another adult who showed them a cartoon about masturbation? Would you call a school administrator? Would you call the people who own the playground and say this is not acceptable? Is that all you would do?
When something of this nature happens within an institution or school, parents don&#8217;t know what to do. But if it were at the playground, they would know what to do. They would call the cops because that is a sexual offense. 
Children are now being sexually offended in the classroom, and parents don&#8217;t understand that. They can&#8217;t comprehend that it doesn&#8217;t change the crime because it&#8217;s happening from a teacher. In my opinion, teachers who push such content on children should have to register as a sexual offender. If that were my child, I would have have gone to the police station, not to the school administration. 
I want you to understand something: at this moment in the country, our children are under attack. They are being preyed upon by the educators. They are being preyed upon by people with nefarious goals. 
It’s time for parents to remind themselves that they are the parents.
I&#8217;m a big supporter now of homeschooling, because I think that schools are a disaster. They cannot be trusted with our children. I hear people say they can’t afford homeschooling because they have to work, and I understand the predicament. But if you’re sending your children to school because you think it’s free, you must understand something: it’s not free. 
It is costing you your child&#8217;s mind. It is propaganda. It is lies. It is making them dumber. And it is sexualizing them.
It&#8217;s a huge trade off. For eight hours a day they have your children and they are turning them into whatever it is they desire to turn them into. This is something everybody should be having a serious discussion about and let me tell you, regarding home school, do you think it&#8217;s hard? You should know that our country was based upon that model. When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, the moms got together and they sorted things out in a community and a local level.
They organized. We still have the power to do that. We still have the power to organize. The government is not the parent. We are.
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Schools Are Targeting Our Children. It’s Time To Fight Back.

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Woke Culture

I&#8217;m pleased to report that I recently broke a personal record. I trended for the longest period that I have ever trended on Twitter in the entirety of my career. For 72 hours, “Candace Owens” was a top trend. The reason was because I sent out a tweet stating simply, &#8220;Juneteenth is so lame.&#8221;
The result: internet fireworks, people outraged. They couldn&#8217;t believe that I would say that. Candace, don&#8217;t you understand? How could you? How dare you? Candace, you are a pawn!
I tweeted this for a lot of reasons, first and foremost, because I don&#8217;t like things that are stupid. Things that don&#8217;t make sense annoy me. If you&#8217;re going to talk about celebrating the emancipation of slavery, weren&#8217;t there some other more relevant dates that would make more sense?
For example, it was on January 1st, 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln declared “all persons held as slaves”in rebel states free through the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet on New Year’s Day, we don’t hear any chatter about the Emancipation Proclamation despite its massive historical significance.
Then there was December 18th, 1865. That was the date that Congress officially proclaimed the outlawing of slavery throughout the entire country after the ratification of the 13th Amendment. If you&#8217;re going to pick a date to celebrate the abolition of slavery, that seems like a more logical choice.
Instead, we’re focusing on June 19th, 1865. Called “Juneteenth,” this is when a totally less significant event occurred. On this day, General Gordon Granger entered Texas and announced that Lincoln had freed the slaves … two and half years earlier.
Of course, it&#8217;s only been rather recent that many people have been talking about the anniversary of Granger’s announcement in Texas. Over just the last few years, attempts to portray the day as highly significant have ratcheted up. Some of its proponents even say that it’s black people’s true Independence Day, that we shouldn&#8217;t even celebrate Independence Day on July 4th because we didn&#8217;t have our independence.
There is no legitimate historical argument to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. But, of course, there is a political argument.
It was the political argument that President Joe Biden offered when he made our newest federal holiday official. &#8220;Juneteenth is a day in which we remember the moral stain and the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take,&#8221; he declared.
Doesn’t that make you want to celebrate? We&#8217;re just going to look back and ponder the “moral stain and terrible toll” of slavery. On Juneteenth, we can all get together and think about how awful America has been to black people.
And that, my friends, is the point. It is always the point.
There’s a lot of stuff going on in black America today that we could be talking about. We could be talking about the inner cities. We could be talking about the crime. We could be talking about the fact that black children are not passing in school, that they&#8217;re not learning math. In California, about <a href="https://calmatters.org/education/2017/05/data-exclusive-75-of-black-california-boys-dont-meet-reading-standards/">75%</a> of black boys cannot pass a basic reading exam.
But no. Instead, our good congressmen got together and said this is the most important thing we must do, we must give ourselves another day off and we must make sure it perpetuates a left-wing political argument.
The reality is that Juneteenth is just another effort to remind black Americans that we are somehow different. The point in all of this is to make black Americans feel that we are permanently disconnected from the American dream, that we should see ourselves as fundamentally separate from everybody else. The idea is to keep us eternally angry. The idea, of course, is perpetual revolution.
At its core, Juneteenth, just like critical race theory and The New York Times’ cynical and flawed “1619 Project,” is a part of a concerted effort from the Democrats to use black Americans as pawns. There&#8217;s never going to be a fix. Whether it&#8217;s reparations, whether it&#8217;s a holiday. They&#8217;re always going to say this is just the beginning, there&#8217;s more work that needs to be done.
This is what we are constantly seeing every day in this country. It’s all about race, or more precisely, it’s all about the race game. And that game only empowers politicians.
That explains why to kick off this first federal holiday of Juneteenth we witnessed the unveiling of a statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York. George Floyd, a career criminal who traumatized and terrorized black Americans while he was alive, is now the hero that has been immortalized on the first official national celebration of Juneteenth.
We’ve gone from celebrating the unifying vision of Martin Luther King Jr. to enshrining the criminal behavior of George Floyd. On that statue, by the way, there are several quotes, including, &#8220;George Floyd was hunted. Knees were used to prey.&#8221;
The message to black Americans: Look around, be scared. This isn&#8217;t your country, this isn&#8217;t your land. Be angry. Go out, revolt — and be pawns to a sinister game being spun by Democrats in this country.
So I want you all to know that after posting my comments on Twitter and trending for a personal best three days, I took the time to reflect on my choice of words. Having done that hard work amid all that outrage, I have something I’d like to say:
Juneteenth is so lame.
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Racism

If you&#8217;ve been following me over the past few years, you know that I talk a lot about the subject of young women and the difficulty of growing up in this society. It takes a while for young girls to properly find their footing. There’s so much self-doubt, awkwardness and angst. Do I look okay? Am I pretty enough? Am I smart enough? Does he like me back? It’s tough — and some people go out of their way to make it tougher.
This weekend I finally got around to watching the much-discussed documentary “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12673718/">Framing, Britney Spears</a>.” As the film documents, the media was shameless in their attempts to make revenue off the young singer. Worst of the offenders was Diane Sawyer, who attempted to draw blood from Britney in order to drive her to tears — all for ratings. With the cameras rolling, Sawyer deliberately made Spears break down, telling the young girl that there&#8217;s a parent out in the world that wishes she could shoot her. The idea was that she was such a disgusting display of what it means to be a woman, that there are people in the world who just wish she were dead. Britney — young and vulnerable at this time — predictably burst into tears as Sawyer looked on stone-faced, content with accomplishing her apparent goal: publicly breaking Britney Spears.
One question overwhelmed me while watching the shameless Sawyer interview: Where were the adults in the room? Why did adults allow this to happen? Why didn&#8217;t someone sit up and say that what Sawyer and the rest of the media were doing was wrong? Why didn’t someone speak out and decry the evil of trying to break the spirit of a young girl. 
Which leads me to Chrissy Teigen. If you&#8217;ve been following me on social media over the last week, you’ve seen that I’ve led a campaign for people to examine the long history of abuse that Teigen has directed at young women. We’re not talking about mean tweets — we’re talking about Teigen harassing teen girls and even encouraging suicide. 
One of Teigen’s numerous targets was Courtney Stodden. For those who haven’t followed her story, at just 16 years old, Courtney married a 51-year-old man and became a celebrity virtually overnight. She was groomed for this disturbing relationship, and the cameras couldn&#8217;t look away. During that time, Chrissy Teigen, then in her mid-20s — an adult woman in a relationship with an A-list celebrity, John Legend — messaged Courtney and encouraged her to commit suicide. Teigen publicly said the same, by the way, telling Stodden via tweet that she fantasized about her taking a “dirt nap.”
In the media’s eyes, this disgusting behavior was fine for years. Stodden has repeatedly spoken out, telling those who will listen that while she was young and vulnerable, Teigen tried to convince her to kill herself. But the supposedly pro-woman, compassionate media didn’t care. 
And it turns out Courtney wasn&#8217;t the only one. Chrissy also did this to Lindsay Lohan, mocking her after Lohan attempted to slit her own wrists. Teigen said the troubled actress likely &#8220;adds a few more slits to her wrists” every time she sees Emma Stone, another A-list red-headed actress. Teigen also said she wished Sarah Palin would “shoot herself in the face.”
This has been allowed because, apparently for years, there have been no adults in the room. Well, someone must stand up and say this is unacceptable. We&#8217;re not talking about bullying. We&#8217;re not talking about cancel culture. This is not about punishing someone for their political views. We are talking about the encouragement of suicide. This is an issue of both morality and, potentially, criminality. In some states, encouraging self-harm can be punishable in the court of law. 
The Left demands people get canceled for their ideology. All we on the Right want are appropriate consequences for destructive actions. 
By no means do I want Chrissy Teigen to be silenced or punished in perpetuity. I want her to learn a lesson, because what I believe as a conservative is that actions do have consequences. What I&#8217;m calling for is accountability culture, consequence culture. I&#8217;m calling for a time where it&#8217;s no longer acceptable for celebrities and other elites to be allowed to get away with everything no matter the damage they do to the most vulnerable in our society. Being a liberal celebrity has meant never having to say you&#8217;re sorry. Not anymore. 
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After a jury ruled Tuesday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was guilty of murder, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked George Floyd for &#8220;sacrificing&#8221; his life, claiming that his name will &#8220;always be synonymous with justice.&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice,&#8221; Pelosi said in front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday. &#8220;Because of you — and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice — your name will always be synonymous with justice,&#8221; she added.
George Floyd&#8217;s name will always be synonymous with justice? You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me.
I am not an intellectual coward who will simply accept the lie about George Floyd and the way that he lived as the truth just because the mob demands it. And believe me, it&#8217;s a lie.
The Left has tried to present Floyd as &#8220;Saint George,&#8221; assuring us that he was just &#8220;getting his life together,&#8221; and working to set a good example for others. But here&#8217;s the truth. Here is the person whose life and whose name is now &#8220;synonymous with justice.&#8221;
George Floyd had a lengthy and serious <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/06/12/george-floyd-criminal-record/">criminal record</a> that included nine arrests over the span of a decade which resulted in multiple stints in prison. The charges include delivery of a controlled substance (1997), two separate charges of theft (1998), failure to identify (2001), possession of a controlled substance (2002), trespassing (2003), another charge of delivery of a controlled substance (2004), possession with intent to manufacture or distribute (2005), and — most significantly — aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon (2007).
The 2007 aggravated robbery incident, for which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison, was particularly disturbing. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the police officers’ probable-cause statement:
<blockquote>At this time, a black Ford Explorer pulled up in front of the Complainants’ residence and five other black males exited this vehicle and proceeded to the front door. The largest of these suspects [Floyd] forced his way into the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant’s abdomen, and forced her into the living room area of the residence. This large suspect then proceeded to search the residence while another armed suspect guarded the complainant, who was struck in the head and side areas by this second armed suspect with his pistol after she screamed for help.</blockquote>
I should also mention that along with another woman in the residence, there was also a toddler in the home during this traumatizing crime. Those two women and that toddler were just three of the victims George Floyd left in his wake. Yet, despite his lengthy criminal past, he is being celebrated as a wonderful human being. You are simply not allowed to acknowledge and speak the truth about his violent criminal record.
You&#8217;re also not allowed to talk about the inconvenient details of the events which led to Floyd&#8217;s death. You cannot discuss the fentanyl or methamphetamine in his system, or his history of drug usage or previous drug overdoses. None of that matters because now we live under mob rule. If a black man dies and a white person is around while that black person dies, it is a racially motivated crime. It doesn&#8217;t matter that the prosecution never proved that Derek Chauvin&#8217;s actions were racially motivated. It doesn&#8217;t matter because George Floyd has been propped up as the martyr of a movement.
There are children that are running around with George Floyd shirts. There are murals all over the country dedicated to George Floyd because his name has now become &#8220;synonymous with justice.&#8221; The question is justice for who?
If this is all really about &#8220;black lives,&#8221; why can&#8217;t we discuss black criminality at the same time? After all, usually on the other end of black criminality is a black victim. That was the case with Jacob Blake, that was the case with George Floyd, and it&#8217;s the case over and over again around America.
That&#8217;s also the case in a story that has been trending this week in which a 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio, Ma&#8217;Khia Bryant, was shot and killed on Tuesday by police. According to police, and as revealed in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-erupt-after-police-kill-black-ohio-girl-video-shows-cop-protected-woman-from-knife-attack">body cam footage</a>, Bryant was attempting to stab another girl. That crucial detail apparently does not matter to the social justice mob.
We now live in a time where we must accept fiction as fact. It doesn&#8217;t matter that Bryant was lunging at another girl with a knife. What matters is that she was black and she died at the hands of a police officer. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will eventually declare that Ma&#8217;Khia Bryant&#8217;s name will also forever be &#8220;synonymous with justice&#8221;?
The goal of all the deception and lies from the Black Lives Matter movement is clear: to make sure black people love and support criminality. That is the goal. To make black people believe that we should be in the streets, rioting and looting and demanding justice for criminals. Because that is what most people killed &#8220;unjustly&#8221; in the eyes of Black Lives Matter are. They&#8217;re criminals.
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George Floyd was in the process of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctor-who-declared-george-floyd-dead-talks-excited-delirium-drug-use-during-derek-chauvin-trial">committing a crime</a>. I&#8217;m not saying he deserved to die, but I think he deserved to be arrested. They attempted to arrest him, something many seem to have forgotten given the media&#8217;s reluctance to provide the full video which shows the police calmly trying to put him into their vehicle multiple times. That video showed that Floyd resisted arrest, claiming he was &#8220;claustrophobic.&#8221; Perhaps he was claustrophobic because he had just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctor-who-declared-george-floyd-dead-talks-excited-delirium-drug-use-during-derek-chauvin-trial">ingested fentanyl</a>, a drug <a href="http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/sapc/managepainsafely/docs/Fentanyl%20FINAL.pdf?pdf=fentanyl">100 times</a> more potent than morphine?
But we must not ask such questions, and we must ignore the inconvenient details. Let&#8217;s ignore the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/us/courteney-ross.html">testimony</a> from his girlfriend who admitted that they had both been addicted to drugs. We could be talking about drug addiction. We should be talking about drug addiction. That would be a meaningful discussion, but instead let&#8217;s ignore all of the things that would help us fix black America. Let&#8217;s not talk about drug abuse. Let&#8217;s not talk about drug dealers. Let&#8217;s not talk about criminality.
The result of refusing to discuss these things, opting instead to focus on black victimhood, will be to ensure that black neighborhoods only get worse. When you start celebrating criminals, that is, of course, what is going to be the end result. We&#8217;re going to have more black death. We&#8217;re going to produce more black failures because we&#8217;re not allowed to talk about the truth anymore.
Right now in this country, we are facing a pandemic of cowardice. People are cowering to the mob, and that mob wants to dictate what can and can&#8217;t be said, what opinions you are and aren&#8217;t allowed to hold, and what is and isn&#8217;t true, with zero consideration for the facts.
More than ever, we need people willing to stand up and say that what is happening in this country is wrong and backwards. None of these criminals I mentioned are heroes to be revered and emulated. We must refuse to accept the media&#8217;s narrative and stop bowing down to the mob. That&#8217;s how we truly promote justice in our communities and our country.
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The Media Is Lying To You About George Floyd And Ma’Khia Bryant

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We’ve all read the headlines on the border crisis and seen the pathetic Biden administration tripping over itself trying to make us all believe it’s not as bad as the reports indicate. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s far worse than the Biden-apologists in the media are telling us. And it’s been far worse than we’ve all thought for years.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace">My show</a> this week is focused in part on immigration. Not wanting to just rehash information we’ve all heard, I thought I’d dig a little deeper and provide my audience with a more authentic account of the situation at the border. So, I reached out to a young girl I know who’s a DACA recipient and asked her if it would be possible for me to speak to her mother about how she first came into this country. Despite all of the debate and statistics on immigration circulating on the internet, Americans generally don’t understand how the process takes place. How do migrants actually get into this country illegally and why does it continue to happen at such a high rate? So I asked the girl’s mother and ended up having a conversation that absolutely blew my mind.
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This woman started her journey to America in Guatemala 13 years ago. When she crossed the border illegally, she was a Guatemalan citizen. She has since married an American and has been granted a green card and thus legal status. Her first step required her handing over $3,000 to a drug cartel member, the entry fee for what would prove a harrowing journey that would cost some of the other travelers their lives.
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A group of some 200 others trying to get into America, who had also been forced to fill the pockets of the cartel, met at a farm in Guatemala where they were picked up by a massive truck loaded with a lightweight good — plastic cups. The cartels, she said, make sure that the truck has something that&#8217;s lightweight because under the goods is a hollowed-out area into which the 200 migrants are packed. The first leg of the journey lasts around 24 hours, during which time all the travelers were given was a bottle of water. The woman told me that there was also a bucket in the back to go to the bathroom.
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Over the course of that first leg of the trip, she said, the truck came to several checkpoints where people working for the Mexican government would spray the bottom of the truck with pepper spray, trying to see if there were any illegal aliens hidden inside. If the officials didn’t hear any coughing, they allowed the truck to pass. The coyotes, she said, would threaten to slit the throats of the passengers if they coughed. This routine happened about 10 times.
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After that nightmarish ride, the migrants would be crammed into a house that she said would have hundreds of people in it and where they waited for over a week for a new transport to take them on the next leg of the journey.
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Eventually, the group of migrants reached the point in which they had to walk through the desert. The woman told me that it took her group five days hiking, and at times running from Mexican authorities, through the desert to make it to the border. For that grueling trek, the migrants were handed backpacks containing just a couple of gallons of water and some meager portions of food. During the desert hike, she recalled how one man collapsed, saying he couldn’t go on any further. A woman also gave out during the brutal hike. The two were left to die out there while the coyotes pushed everyone else to keep moving.
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When they reached the American border, she told me, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Once you actually hit American soil, you know you&#8217;re finally safe, she said. The threat — and consequences — of being caught is far more real on the Mexican side.
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She crossed over in Arizona, where an SUV driven by an American was waiting for her group. The traffickers proceeded to pack 24 people into that vehicle, which then drove them all to Los Angeles to a house that held hundreds of people. Now, if you find yourself, like me, doubting the story because it all sounds so surreal, I’ll point you to a recent story that came out of California, where an SUV holding 25 illegal immigrants got into a horrific crash, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/us/migrants-crash-california-imperial-valley.html">leaving 13 migrants dead</a>.
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Once she arrived in Los Angeles, her family had to wire another $3,000 to the traffickers for her dangerous journey to finally end. The final payment received, the migrants were taken to various cities across the country. She told me that when she arrived in Virginia, she already had a job lined up for her at a national pizza franchise.
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What I am describing to you is just one person&#8217;s story among millions, and, obviously, I cannot attest to all the details of it. But the larger takeaway is that what is happening at our border is not just happening at our border. It&#8217;s happening throughout the United States. It&#8217;s beyond a crisis. It&#8217;s a network of individuals perpetuating this ongoing humanitarian crisis — on this side of the border.
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For years, I have been asking why the Mexican government isn’t doing anything about illegal immigration. Why are the Mexicans allowing these migrants to race through Mexico forcing us to work so hard to secure the border? But in this woman’s experience, it was the opposite: the migrants feared Mexican authorities far more than Americans, whom they generally felt were actually inviting them in. They were being welcomed by a highly organized network that provided them protection, a place to live and even a job.
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When then-candidate Trump stood up and declared, “I&#8217;m going to build a wall,” the politicians and the news networks exploded with rage. They did not want that wall built. They still don&#8217;t want that wall built. Why? It’s because illegal immigration is actually a well-run business operation that operates the most efficiently on the American side of the border.
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Left-wing activists and politicians are effectively sending out an invitation to migrants, offering sanctuary cities, hotel rooms, college to college, tuition, you name it. Who, we must ask, profits?
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I don&#8217;t work for the United States government. I don&#8217;t work for the CIA, or the FBI or the DOJ. I simply asked a question of one woman — and what I learned laid out an entire network of criminal behavior. If I was able to learn all of that via a one-hour conversation, do you really believe that our Justice Department and FBI don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on?
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It seems painfully obvious to me that the cartels aren&#8217;t just controlling the American borders, they&#8217;re also exerting control over aspects of American politics. It&#8217;s not a coincidence that at the very same time that tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are walking across our border, Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to ensure that voter ID is not a requirement in this country. I think the cartels want the money, but the Democrats want the power. Me? I just want the truth.
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What’s Happening At The Border Is Far Worse Than We’re Being Told

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If a future historian seeks to write a book describing what it was like to live in this era, it should be titled, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” These days, it feels like whatever is nice, whatever we’re enjoying, we can’t have it — take it away.
This week, on my Facebook memories, an old photo popped up of my dad sitting courtside and cheering at a Knicks game, and for a moment I remembered what it was like to have one of those nice things that we once all shared: sports.
I grew up in the ’90s. My family didn’t have money to spend on all of the cable channels, but my dad, being pretty crafty, figured out a way to get access so we could watch the big sports games. We also had one of those big screen TVs, a bulky, dinosaur-sized television that stood in the middle of the room. On that massive screen, we got to experience the nice thing that was sports.
Like Michael Jordan, game 6 against the Utah Jazz. I was 9 years old. Everybody was crowded around the TV, going absolutely crazy. You could hear the neighbors. You could hear people in front of their TVs down the street. Game six was a great moment, a nice thing.
And I’ll never forget the emotion in our tiny little living room — cousins, brothers, uncles — all huddled around watching Mike Tyson fight Evander Holyfield. I remember the utter disbelief, the screaming. I remember thinking something bad had happened, actually being frightened because the adults in the room were no longer acting like supervising adults. They weren’t watching us because they were transported into that moment. It’s seemed the whole world was emotionally invested in that moment. Tyson vs. Holyfield. That was a nice thing — an event  that allowed all of us to transcend our circumstances.
And that used to be a regular thing. Have a bad week at work? Michael Jordan is playing. Struggling financially? Kobe is about to grab another ring. Those moments we all watched on ESPN when the cameras cut to the stands to see a father catching the home run ball and his little boy next to him who just can’t believe it — elated because his dad, his hero, just caught his other hero’s ball.
Sports. That used to be a nice thing. It united us. In those moments nobody cared about anything else. That’s why athletes seemed larger than life. Because they had the unique ability to unite the country, unite the world. Everybody wanted to “be like Mike.” His greatness was enough. He was great because he knew that being the best at something was transformative enough. It made the world better somehow, even if only for a few minutes.
It’s different now though. Sure, athletes are still athletes. They are still performing incredible feats and breaking records, but it’s different. We all feel it. Now, it seems like athletes want to become great for the express purpose of patronizing regular people.
The NBA paints the floor with “Black Lives Matter,” invoking a controversial political organization that rakes in millions and millions of dollars that apparently disappears into a black hole. Nobody knows where all that money really goes, but the NBA paints the court with “Black Lives Matter” anyway. Don’t agree with that organization and their extremist agenda? Well, LeBron James and the NBA wants you to know you’re a racist.
The New Orleans Saints plastered the name Jacob Blake on their helmets to honor him because he was shot by police officers. Why would you honor a knife-wielding man with a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly raping a woman?
Because that’s what sports has become about. Stoking controversy. Divisive politics. Sports are no longer just sports — they’re now woke activism. It’s no longer about transcendence. It’s about submission. It’s about power. Do you like this team? Then you better agree with this hotly contested political topic, or they don’t like you.
Personally, I’ve stopped watching sports. When sports leagues began telling me who I had to be, I stopped watching. When players became billboards for political interest groups, I lost interest. Because I know who I am, and I know what they are. They are mouthpieces for woke corporations that want nothing more than control over my mind — and that was never for sale.
If enough people made the individual decision to simply say no to this divisive nonsense, we could make a difference. And maybe we can one day get some of those nice things back.
Candace Owens is an American writer, producer, conservative commentator and the host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace">Candace</a>.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Why I’ve Stopped Watching Sports

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As I say all the time, it&#8217;s really hard being a girl.
I frequently get messages from mothers who say to me, “I don&#8217;t know what to do with this society.” You’ve got 13-year-olds that are injecting their lips and thinking that they need to alter their bodies to be accepted. It wasn&#8217;t like this just a short time ago. A short time ago, kids were able to grow up at a healthy, natural pace. And a short time ago, a performance like the one that landed on the Grammys with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion would have been roundly condemned by everybody.
The people that are really getting lost at this time are young women, who are left not knowing what to do and with too few people willing to take a stand to protect them.
When I was a kid, I was allowed to be awkward, have braces — to just be a young girl figuring it all out. I&#8217;m totally dating myself here, but we didn&#8217;t have social media when I was a kid. We didn&#8217;t have Twitter or Facebook, and so we were not constantly being bombarded with images of women with their breasts out and always looking for attention on the internet. Not so anymore. Now, you cannot escape that toxic messaging.
The difficult truth is that our culture has drastically changed, and so I think it&#8217;s incumbent upon women — women who care about young women — to speak up and to speak out against this damaging messaging and to make sure that we are being leaders in this society. So I’d like to give three pieces of advice to young women who are struggling with this new culture.
The first piece of advice would be to remind young women that thoughts become things.
You might think it means nothing when you put on a dirty song on your iPad or on your phone. “Well, it&#8217;s just music,” you say. It&#8217;s not just music. What you put in your ear informs your thoughts and informs your ideas about what you think the world should look like — including what freedom is. It is not freedom to wear less clothes. In fact, I would say that’s a form of slavery. If the only time you feel like you can be seen and heard is when you are stripping down, you are selling your dignity and your self-respect. And for what? A little bit of attention. In my opinion, that&#8217;s not a very good exchange.
My second piece of advice: morality is hard, but it&#8217;s more rewarding.
I say this as someone who took a very liberal route to conservatism. You&#8217;re young, you&#8217;re going to make mistakes, and that&#8217;s to be expected. But young girls also need to know that it’s important to pick morality. It&#8217;s hard in school when you&#8217;re feeling all of the peer pressure, and especially when you have people on Instagram telling you that it&#8217;s normal at 15, 16, to be getting Botox and lip injections. If you choose morality, in the end, you will be rewarded for that. I can guarantee you that.
The last piece of advice is that modern feminism leads to unhappiness.
I want you to take a look at all of the women right now that we hold up as idols in this society, that the media tells us are so great, the celebrities we’re told to worship. I want you to ask yourself a very simple question: Do you think that those women are happy? Look at their lives. Do you think that the women screaming into the Twitter-verse are happy? Are they fulfilled? When you look around at them, does it seem like they have what you would want? Are they fulfilled in their relationships? Are they fulfilled in their families? Or are they looking for that sort of attention precisely because they are unfulfilled?
I cannot think of a single person today who says, “I&#8217;m a feminist,” who I would want to exchange lives with. That’s why I have dumped feminism. The truth is feminism is no longer about equality, it is the opposite. In many ways, it brings us back to old, antiquated ideas of what it means to be a woman that actually — and quite ironically — favors the patriarchy rather than tearing it down.
If you’re looking for actual freedom and true happiness, protect your mind, pursue morality and reject the false message of feminism. And take heart in knowing that there are those of us who will fight the good fight, who want the best for you and will have your back.
Candace Owens is an American writer, producer, conservative commentator and the host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace">Candace</a>.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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