Over the course of the next couple of weeks, your social media timelines will be polluted with wide-ranging commentary regarding the recent and unprecedented leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States. 
As you are likely very much aware by now, the opinion laid out the court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade — the decision which federalized abortion back in 1973. 
Now, after 50 years, that decision is facing review by a conservative-leaning court. 
<h4>Leftwing Contradiction and Hypocrisy </h4>
As Jack Posobiec, Michael Knowles, Carrie Sheffield, and I discussed on the panel of my show last week, which I encourage you to go <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace">watch in full</a>, much of the commentary you’re going to hear will be the wailing and groveling of the whole leftwing party over the remote possibility that this decision even becomes official. 
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Reid, and a host of celebrity feminists are already on their pedestals — crying, screaming, and claiming this is an egregious attack on human rights and on women; on the unprecedented nature of it all, and how women should be able to kill babies; that such a “right” is freeing for women and is sacred. 
Yes — the right to kill babies is “sacred” to them.  
You’ll see many contradictory statements from leftwing individuals on the very idea of “woman.” Not two seconds ago, even saying that women alone can bear children was “transphobic.” Men, they said, could bear children too.
Apparently, though, that’s gone now. As my colleague Matt Walsh, author of the best-selling LGBTQ+ book Johnny the Walrus — a book which should be required reading for your child by the way — quipped: “Congrats to women for making it to the top of the victim pyramid once again. It will be a short visit. Trans people will reclaim their spot soon enough. But enjoy the stay while you&#8217;re there.”
Much of the commentary will also feature groundbreaking hypocrisy regarding “bodily autonomy” and the right to decide bodily choices for oneself. Again, not two seconds ago, leftists were advocating for the mandatory vaccination of all Americans — regardless of whether they already had immunity to Covid-19, regardless of whether they were even at risk, and regardless of constitutional rights.
Let’s bar the unvaccinated from all entertainment venues, they said. Let’s bar them from restaurants. Let’s pressure employers to force their employees to vaccinate. 
Now that Roe v. Wade is under review, though, the coin magically flipped. Freedom and privacy is essential, and snuffing out the life of another human being for your own selfish reasons is “bodily autonomy.” 
<h4>An Intentional Leak</h4>
Much of this “rage” will be perpetuated and repeated so as to encourage one thing and one thing only — mob justice. The kind that would make even Black Lives Matter rioters blush. 
That indeed is most likely why the document was leaked in the first place. To reignite the same forces that were mobilized in the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. 
You think the George Floyd trial and Brett Kavanaugh hearings were bad? Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. 
<h4>The “Unwoman”</h4>
What you won’t see or hear in the mainstream commentary and rage is any discussion of the “unwoman.” You won’t see or hear it in part because, well, because I made up the word. 
It’s what I use to describe what is left over after a predatory education system and culture have successfully had their way with the mind of young girls; carefully training them to reject and fight tooth and nail against the very things that make them unique, powerful, and ultimately happy.  
To put it simply, girls are being brainwashed — and have been for over thirty years — to fight against themselves, against their biology, and against the very things that make life worthwhile. 
Like family. Like children.
Be unfeminine, the “unwoman” says. Be ugly, she screeches. The only relationship women should have to children, she asserts, should be to not have them. Or to abort them. 
<h4>The Beauty of Femininity </h4>
Early in my media career, I sat down to discuss the ills of modern-day feminism with radio host Dennis Prager. 
At the time, I told him how despite all of the perceived glamor of my present life — hanging out with Kanye West, invitations to the White House, introductions to former presidents — the best part of every single day for me was coming home to my family. 
Femininity. Beauty. Fertility. These were my God-given joys.
There’s no greater music than the pitter-patter of my toddler’s feet when I get home. There’s no greater reassurance than the kicks that I feel from my little girl, who currently grows inside of my womb.
I already know her personality, like I knew my son’s when he was growing inside of me. She’s calmer, more delicate, and more sensitive.
And it’s sad and terrible that many women will never know the same.
<h4>A Sad Reality </h4>
Buried in the YouTube comments on a recent video of mine was one woman who expressed her gratitude for my critiques and openness to the joys of femininity and domesticity. I’m paraphrasing here, but what she essentially wrote was, “Thank you for taking the time to warn women about the dangers of feminism. I found out myself how much of a lie it was too late. I am now 52 years old, I am unmarried, I am childless, and I take pills every day to fight my depression.” 
Her comment broke my heart. 
And it is all the commentary you need regarding the pro-abortionists, the feminists, and the activists in our country. Because whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, when you look at the faces of rabid feminists shrieking, raging, and marching outside the Supreme Court, you’ll recognize the “unwoman.” 
The woman that has bought whole-hog the feminist lie and thus has had every bit of feminine joy stolen from her. A woman who has nothing left to offer but rage, fear, and the howl of loneliness. 
Only an “unwoman” who has spent decades fighting against her own fruitfulness can be so hateful and so broken as to march for a perceived right to kill millions more infants in the womb. 
It might sound harsh, but it’s true. Women fighting against children is unnatural and it’s demonic. The “unwoman” is unnatural and demonic. We should pray for them. We should pray especially for the younger girls and women who are being brainwashed to become like them. 
And before it’s too late, we should join the fight and support the work done by pro-feminine, pro-life, and pro-woman companies like The Daily Wire who continue to expose the propagation of the “unwoman.” 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Candace

The Beauty Of Femininity

Abortion

Readers Pass

The transgender debate continues to rage across the country. It’s parents versus school boards, versus states, versus the legacy media. The debate is not slowing down—it’s just heating up. 
Often, it’s hard to sift through the lies, manipulation, and monopolization of the discussion; both sides scream so loud it’s hard to understand what exactly we are talking about. 
 Take the notion of “gender-affirming care,” for example. It’s a term used by trans-activists and media talking heads when discussing, as journalist Abigail Shrier put it, “puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and experimental surgeries whose benefits are unproven.” In other words, it’s a euphemism only meant to soften the blow of what transitioning and radical gender ideology looks like. 
It makes transitioning sound like a cakewalk which, in turn, makes the issue sound like it’s impossible to argue against.
A Mother Meets Reality
The latest story to break through these euphemisms and carefully crafted narratives comes from a mother on the online social media platform Reddit. The post went viral for, as you’ll see, the “controversial” and taboo question asked by a helpless and ignorant mother.
The mother’s son, who received puberty blockers from an early age and underwent gender reassignment surgery, is now 20 years old, identifies as a girl, and is unhappy. And not just unhappy — he is suicidal, and the mother doesn’t know what to do. At the age of twenty, her son has a micropenis that is unable to be aroused and a “vagina” made from part of his colon. He can’t hold relationships, often because of his lack of “urges,” and the doctors say this may never change. 
“I have always been in support of my transgender daughter,” the mother wrote. “When she was still a boy, and started expressing a want to be a girl, I did everything right. Therapists, then puberty blockers, everything.” 
What’s the mother’s question, ultimately? Well, she doesn’t know what else to do. She’s so desperate, she turned to strangers on Reddit at the suggestion of her friend.
“I don’t know what to do… please help me help my child!” she concluded.
Since her “friend,” either willfully ignorant or in league with the transgender cult, cannot provide the truth to this mother and instead pushed her to turn to strangers online for help, I’m going to be a true friend and reply honestly. And I hope other mothers who have fallen for this cult—and the lies surrounding it—hear me and hear this woman’s story. 
A Healthy Boy’s Imagination
It’s true — the mother’s son, being a perfectly healthy young boy, probably had certain imaginations and magical fantasies. 
Some of these imaginations, as we all know, are harmless. They include the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus; imaginations that we, as adults, play along with and enjoy participating in.
Some, though, can be harmful—and that’s where we, the parents, step in to teach our children about reality.
If a child believes he’s Superman, that’s quite alright and fun for him. It’s a harmless imagination. It becomes dangerous when he starts to believe that he can truly fly. Children looking to don a cape and leap from a bedroom window can seriously harm themselves. Or worse, kill themselves. Because humans cannot fly. 
It’s true that if a child did have such a belief, he may not understand why his parents would pull him away from the window. He might scream and kick and cry because he truly believes he can overcome the force of gravity. 
But the parents know the truth. And they know it’s their responsibility to keep their child healthy and alive—to show him the difference between right and wrong, reality and illusion. It’s why there are parental clichés like, “You’ll understand when you’re older.”
“I Want to be a Girl, Mommy”
Now, imagine a boy, like the one above, came to his mother and said, “I want to be a girl, mommy.”  And rather than explaining to him why that is ultimately a biological impossibility—no more possible than flying like a bird—the mother, in her ignorance, went along with the fantasy.
She allowed her child to jump from the figurative bedroom window, and now, her child has grown into adulthood and is crashing into reality all at once. He’s already harmed himself and he’s thinking about taking it a step further—suicide is on his mind.
Because, as the doctors have told the mother and her son, there is no way to undo what’s been done. Reality has caught up with fiction. Truth has caught up with lies. His depression stems from the fact that he will never be a woman. Sure—they can use parts of his colon to give him something that resembles a vagina, but he will never be a woman—and he knows that. 
A Victim of Irreversible Damage
His suicidal thoughts also stem from the realization that he’ll never have the opportunity to be a man now because his mother allowed his sexual parts to be mutilated. He’ll never truly know real physical desire—because an irrevocable decision was made for him in his childhood.
Yes—alongside a host of predatory doctors and therapists who should all be imprisoned, this mother agreed to the physical mutilation of her son.
The heart aches for the son because he is a true victim; a child victim; a young man whose life was stolen from him.
The Truth About “Transitioning” 
To the mom who reached out on Reddit for help — the truth is, you mutilated your once-healthy son over a feeling and a fantasy that he had. Ultimately — and this is hard to accept — you bear responsibility for that mutilation because you prioritized acquiescing to an insane cultural narrative rather than first-grade-level, immutable, biological facts. 

“Transitioning,” despite its cultural popularity, is not a solution for gender dysphoria.
That’s why suicide and depression rates often don’t improve for individuals after they complete the transition process. Their interaction with reality eventually becomes paralyzing.
Hope for the Mother
The hope for this mother is that there are groups that help individuals in her son’s predicament. “Sex Change Regret” is a nonprofit run by a group of former trans individuals who help those who regret and further suffer from their gender reassignment procedures.
It’s not hopeless. The mother needs to hear that. The son especially needs to hear that. Although there is no way back, there is, fortunately, a way forward.
And that way forward begins by no longer suppressing the truth. 
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Candace Owens

The Truth About Gender ‘Transitioning’

Gender

Transgender

Wokeness

Mask mandates on airlines have been struck down by a federal judge. 
Many are celebrating. I am not. 
My policy, when it comes to government edicts and declarations, is to not be overly joyous when our leaders decide they’ll return to us what was rightfully, and constitutionally, ours in the first place. Like the right to breathe, for example. 
In other words — when they decide to return what are our most basic rights in the first place, I don’t celebrate. Your policy should be the same. 
Maybe those celebrating this removal of mask mandates forgot what else the government attempted to do in the name of “science” and “public health” during Covid-19. 
They unconstitutionally shut down small businesses and the ability for many to make a living. They locked us in our homes. In some places, they threatened to shut off power and water to those who were having their own private parties. They encouraged citizens to snitch on their neighbors if their unconstitutional and tyrannical edicts were not being followed. 
<h4>Neither the First nor the Last Great Paradox</h4>
But guess who was allowed to keep their freedom to do business? 
Walmart, Costco, Amazon, and other big corporate entities. Do you know who else? The airlines! They were allowed to stay open. While you and your loved ones were labeled “grandpa killers” for wanting to put food on the table, the airline business was allowed to flourish. 
To justify this contradiction, they cited studies published by Big Pharma hacks which said air quality was top-notch on planes, and that the filtration systems would prevent any spread of Covid-19. 
Strange, because when they finally allowed small businesses and restaurants to re-open, and mask edicts across the country began to fall, the Biden administration decided to keep the federal mask mandate on planes. And they wanted to keep it going into this May, more than two years after the pandemic first broke out, with the continued option for its renewal even further. Due to “The Science” or something. 
Why? Restaurant air filtration systems aren’t as good as those on airplanes, but oh wait, now that’s irrelevant? If it’s all about science and health, then how could there be so glaring a hole in their logic? 
Well, they would assert that “The Science” is tricky. It’s ever-changing. And it’s something that’s much too complex for plebeians like me or you to understand.
If this all sounds like garbage to you, that’s because&#8230; well, it’s garbage.
<h4>The Real Purpose of Their Covid-19 Policies </h4>
As I’ve repeatedly, and exhaustively, said from the beginning, the response to Covid-19 was pursued and subscribed to for two simple reasons. Number one — to eviscerate and eliminate the middle class. See the concessions and breaks given to corporations during the pandemic versus the burden and tyrannical edicts on middle to lower income brackets. Number two — to rapidly expand government power in every area of our individual and personal lives. 
The point was never “Science.” The edicts were, and always have been, avenues for taking away our constitutional rights. 
And they were successful in achieving their goals. 
How successful, you might ask? Consider airports again. The mask mandates are down. There’s no reason to wear a mask, scientifically or otherwise. But count how many masks you’ll see at airports anyway. Regardless of the facts, people will still be wearing them. Count how many you’ll still see double masking, triple masking, and living in fear of the breath of strangers. 
I’d say the government&#8217;s ploy worked. 
For further proof, consider children, who are at little to no risk of dying from Covid-19.
You still see them with masks at school. In airports. In the mall. At the park. In church. Outside with other children. 
Many fell prey to the simple proposition laid out by the government during Covid-19—abandon your rights and we will be sure to keep you clean from disease and ailment. Practice, observe, and worship the new Church of Covid-19, sponsored by the government, and you will be free to visit grandpa. 
Comply your way into everlasting health. Bathe in a torrent of Purell and surrender yourself to an onslaught of vaccinations. If you merely shut down your business and listen to every edict from a public health tyranny, you will at last be clean. 
As Tucker Carlson astutely observed, Fauci is “Jesus for people who don’t believe in God.”
Did the government’s fear-mongering work? I think yes.
<h4>Jail for Thee, but Not for Health Bureaucrats or Corporate Thugs</h4>
And even though their venture into illegal territory has been labeled so by the courts, they will not stand to pay for their crimes. Like OSHA before them, with its forced vaccination rules, the CDC will suffer no punishment for its breach of the constitution. 
Of course, when regular people break the law, there are consequences. 
When regular people ruin the lives of other people, they are charged. 
When regular people do things that lead to the death of others, whether it be through drug use, suicide, or increased criminality in neighborhoods, all of which are the true legacy of these illegal government policies and lockdowns—when regular people do these things, they are held accountable. 
Not so for those in the CDC, the government, or any other bureaucratic, tyrannical organization.   

<h4>Fight for a True Cause to Celebrate</h4>
I won&#8217;t celebrate until the criminal Big Pharma cartel leaders that run our government are handcuffed and put in federal prison for executing crimes against humanity and for using fake science to destroy human lives and crush human spirit. 
When those criminals, and the criminals in government agencies, are made to suffer in the same way that they’ve made our children suffer, only then will it be time for celebration. 
In the meantime, I’ll keep fighting. Until the thugs responsible are put behind bars, I will not rest. And neither should you. 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The Government Gives Back What Was Rightfully Yours

I get asked lots of questions about dating, so I’ve decided to answer a few of the most frequently asked. Dating is difficult, but it doesn’t have to be as difficult as people make it if you know what you’re looking for — and what you’re not.
Q: When should I start talking to my partner about marriage?
A: I may be the last person you should ask this question to — or, actually, maybe the first. I got engaged after two weeks. That’s right — we met and got engaged two weeks later. I don’t believe in wasting time. Modern “wisdom” will tell you to wait at least a couple years before even broaching the subject. But that’s two years of your life you’ll never get back, and no one’s getting any younger. If you want children, that’s something to pay attention to as well because if your end goal with a relationship is marriage and kids, you should feel confident talking about that right away. Talking about it doesn’t mean engagement, marriage, and kids needs to happen today, tomorrow, or the next day, but having the conversation will let you know if you’re dating someone who wants a serious relationship or if you’re dating someone who wants to Netflix and chill, as the kids say. Let your level of seriousness about marriage guide your answer.  
Q: How did you know so soon with your husband? 
A: Knowing my husband was the man I wanted to marry so soon was a bit of a weird experience. I honestly just looked at his face and knew I was going to marry him. It was the most bizarre thing in the entire world! Looking back, I’m not sure if I had seen his face in a dream, but seeing him was like seeing a puzzle come together. I thought, that’s my husband. No questions asked. 
Q: What questions should you ask on a first date?
A: First, you should definitely figure out what they’re looking for. Most times, men will tell you the truth and be quite forthcoming about that. And even if they’re not honest to your face, their actions will be; they won’t text you after, say they had a nice time, or proactively make plans to see you again. That would let you know they’re just looking to play around. So, you should ask questions that give you answers you’re looking for. If you want a serious relationship, you should ask serious questions. Are you looking for a serious relationship? Are you looking to commit? Are you more interested in dating around? If you want something serious and they don’t, continuing to date them would be a total and utter waste of your time. Yes, this is contrary to what society says the position of the modern-day woman should be, but if you want something serious, there’s no reason at all for any woman in the modern age to stick around for a guy who does not.
Q: What was the worst piece of dating advice you received? Did you follow it? 
A: Any advice with the attitude of dating just to have fun or only doing whatever you feel because “it totally doesn’t matter” is just wrong. It totally does matter. It actually matters. People, television, music, and society in general promote the idea that being a woman in the modern age means sleeping around to date. Contrary to what is promoted — that you won’t have any feelings — you will have feelings. Dating, cuddling, and hooking up are all experiences that inherently lead to having feelings. Oxytocin, the chemical released during these activities, is called the cuddle hormone for a reason. Being told you’ll just “outthink” it or that “it doesn’t matter” because you can just have a causal relationship with a guy is the worst piece of advice you can possibly give to a young woman. In the end, it just leads to heartbreak.
Where can I meet strong, conservative men? 
Not Instagram! Be suspect of guys who are really invested in social media because constantly looking at advertisements of different women is simply not good. Men in the past seem to be so focused on building families while men today can swipe right like they’re purchasing a car. If you’re religious, you can find someone at church, and if you attend political events, you could find a fellow conservative at a conference. You’ll have the same thoughts and ideas, so if you’re interested in conservatism, do conservative activities and you’ll likely draw a conservative to yourself. 
If you’re looking for a serious relationship, get serious about your dating. And be confident and comfortable doing so. There’s no reason not to be. 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

How Do You Know They’re The One? Candace Owens Answers Questions On Dating

Dating

Relationships

So, unless you&#8217;ve been hiding under a rock — which under these circumstances might be a good thing — you have probably heard that we are on the brink of World War III, and that the entire world is going to end, likely via nuclear bomb, unless you share this or that post, or donate money to some random online fundraiser, or at the very least, tweet a Ukrainian flag and fist emoji.
Depending on which millisecond you are surfing the web, either everyone is dying in Ukraine, or absolutely no one is dying in Ukraine. Either we are all going to die until Putin dies in Ukraine, or until Elon Musk turns on Starlink, or something. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned on Twitter, at least.
I&#8217;ve also learned that I&#8217;m apparently a Russian Spy. You can imagine how surprising that was for me to see on Facebook, given the fact that I’ve never been to Russia, I don&#8217;t speak Russian, and I certainly can&#8217;t read Cyrillic. But I can read English, and multiple Facebook posts have claimed that both Tucker Carlson and I — and plausibly every single American who voted for Donald Trump — are secretly working for the Kremlin. All of us!
On Instagram, I was informed that this entire war is actually Donald Trump&#8217;s fault, because Putin is only doing what he is doing because Trump is not doing what he was doing and what Biden is not doing… I think. The point is that President Trump, as the supposed commander of us non-Russian-speaking-Kremlin-operatives somehow made Putin happy while he was in office, but now Putin is not happy and is instead on a murderous rampage.
But TikTok is where the real education about this conflict takes place. It was actually there that I learned — in back-to-back three-second clips — that everybody is actually already dead. Great stuff. Get on TikTok.
The footage across all of these sites is extremely inspiring. For example, take the brave assault from the lone jet fighter in Kyiv who fought off all those Russians in the air, reportedly becoming an ace in a single day. The internet even gave him a name: &#8220;the Ghost of Kyiv.&#8221;
Also, did you happen to catch the video of that courageous little blonde girl? She must have been all of seven years old — but she walked right up to a Russian soldier occupying her street and started hitting him, telling him to leave her family and home alone.
And that&#8217;s why I love the internet. Because it can capture and spread beautiful moments like those. Moments that become trending hashtags, trending hashtags that become national holidays, national holidays that become movies that we celebrate well into the future, despite the minor detail that none of those events actually took place.
As I said, minor detail, but the Ghost of Kyiv video was fake and was actually footage from a video game.
And the brave little blonde girl defending her homeland? That footage was actually taken in 2012… in Palestine.
But that&#8217;s not the point.
The point is that videos and stories like these make us feel something. Feelings, not facts. I learned from the internet this weekend that that&#8217;s how wartime propaganda works. Everyone involved in the conflict must be divided into categories: either hero or villain — absent any nuance. Journalists write sensational headlines and it’s our responsibility to share them rapidly on social media, in an effort to show people that the true mark of patriotism is acceptance. Just accept that your gas reached $10 a gallon and that your son or daughter might get sent to war. Just accept that you&#8217;re likely sending money you don&#8217;t have to a fundraiser that will never reach the Ukrainian it was intended for (in fact, that Ukrainian might actually be a Palestinian from 2012) — but so what!— &#8217;cause patriotism, bro.
And I know I shouldn&#8217;t ask this next question. It will probably implicate me further in my spy activities, but what happened to COVID-19? I mean, none of the people that I saw crossing into Poland or hiding in subways were wearing masks. And as a matter of housekeeping, are any of the soldiers vaxxed and boosted? I thought the science was settled? Soldiers cannot perform their duties unless they are fully vaccinated against the virus, so I don&#8217;t even understand where these Russian soldiers are coming from or why Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci haven&#8217;t said anything about President Zelensky&#8217;s apparent refusal to wear a mask while briefing the rest of the world on the siege.
It&#8217;s COVID-19 first and then everything else, remember? Yesterday&#8217;s propaganda said we were fighting an invisible enemy and that we were all in this together. But today&#8217;s propaganda says we are fighting a physical enemy, and actually, the Ukrainians must go at it alone. I just can&#8217;t make sense of it.
Wait a minute, didn’t yesterday&#8217;s propaganda insist that citizens should never be armed and that we need tighter restrictions on guns? But today, it says the Ukrainians are being armed in droves by their government to defend their land and we should be celebrating this! But which is it?
And I swear it was just a week ago I was told biological differences are not real and gender is a social construct, yet today, I&#8217;m being asked to donate to the women and children who are fleeing Ukraine for Poland, while all the men stay behind to fight.
But what is a woman? How am I expected to donate to something that doesn&#8217;t exist?
At least — at the very least— amidst all of this insanity there’s one thing that has remained constant and that is the fact that we are all going to die, no matter what&#8230; unless.
Unless we do exactly as our government and media says. It’s a perpetual existential crisis — unless. That’s the glue that keeps this great nation together. We are united in one nonsensical state of emergency followed by another, which requires the never-ending understanding and economic sacrifice from us little people.
Now, you’ll have to excuse me. I’m off to do my part and learn Russian.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Owens

The Never-Ending Crisis Cycle

Russia

Personal story time. My husband and I have an SUV that is kept in an underground public garage. About a week ago, someone attempted to break into the car, but fortunately the doors were all locked and we had invested in shatter proof windows, so despite cracking the exterior — the would-be criminal was unsuccessful. 
Safe to say, we were glad we made that extra investment. We were also glad that the car doors were locked. Not that we would have deserved to have our car broken into if they weren’t, but it’s always good to take necessary precautions. 
Years ago, stuff like this used to be referred to as common sense — across every category of life. But at some point in the early 70’s, there was one space that marked itself safe from common sense. The women’s movement — feminism. Around this time, women began heavy talk about sexual freedom and positivity. No longer would we be restrained by the ideas of yesteryear, they told us. Make him a sandwich? He can make it himself. I’ll be outside, naked!
The sexual freedom movement is what has brought us to the cultural moment of today, where if you’d like to, you can attend — ready? — a slut march. I’m not kidding. There’s an annual “Slut March” that takes place where women parade around half naked to remind you that they are free. 
The idea is simple. If you suggest to a woman that she shouldn’t walk around half naked and drunk because there are predators, then you are the problem. If said woman decides to go out half naked to a bar, becomes inebriated, and lands in a terrible situation — perhaps leading to her sexual assault or rape — it is in no way her fault. You’ve heard the “short skirt” analogy — essentially, if you believe that there is anything a woman could have done differently to prevent her own assault, then you are a “victim-blamer,” or worse… “a rape apologist”. Don’t blame the short skirt, blame the rapist. No nuances applied.
Of course, if our SUV was unlocked in a public garage with a stack of cash in the front seat and it was consequently broken into — the police might offer to us, “in the future, you’ve really got to remember to lock your car door at night, especially in public lots”.
That would be considered sound advice. Only a fool would shout back “BURGLAR APOLOGIST!”  
But the messaging to young women today is radically different. 
Sexual freedom most nearly means throwing caution to the wind. 
Over the weekend, I watched the docu-series “The Secrets Of Playboy,” where former playmates and girlfriends of Hugh Hefner — its infamous founder — spilled on what life was actually like at the Playboy mansion. 
Hefner for decades was credited in the media as a revolutionary — the man who single-handedly ushered in positive sexuality. His magazines helped give us Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith, Pamela Anderson — women who showed us just how wonderful and glamorous and powerful embracing sexuality could be. These ladies were the precursor for the Kim Kardashians and Madonnas of the world. Setting the tone for women to display their bodies, unapologetically.
It turns out however— that far from the happy storyline presented in the media, what really went on in that mansion from the 70’s and onward were drugs, rape, and even beastility. Women who were so drugged on the quayludes funneled to them, that they were instructed to — while being filmed — perform humiliating sex acts…sometimes on dogs. 
The men who visited the mansion could buy into this culture. They could pay for a playboy membership which would give them access to any bunny they wanted. 
Hugh Hefner, according to his many girlfriends, was a sexual deviant. So deviant that he actually idolized  Charles Manson. He was obsessed with filming and taking pictures of women in compromised positions. It was a combination of fear, blackmail and eternal shame that led to the women’s silence over the decades. 
Now, who could have guessed that a man who walked around with barely-clothed women half his age —- dressed as bunnies, mind you — was actually himself just a sick pervert? Who could have guessed that throwing parties with powerful men and naked women actually wasn’t about freedom at all — but the exact opposite — sexual enslavement?
Anyone with common sense could have guessed. But common sense is not permitted, remember? It’s application would make you a rape apologist. 
What’s incredible is how many women signed up for the playboy lifestyle. All of them deluded by the glossy glamour of its magazines. Many women were somehow convinced by a false narrative that agreeing to take their clothes off in a mansion would somehow make them freer. One former girlfriend spoke about how it was famous women who made her aspire for that lifestyle. 
And that’s the thing. The leaders of these absurd movements are of course always wealthy celebrities. Log onto Instagram and you’ll find the world’s top models half naked. You can find Madonna — now almost 65 years old — sitting on a bed with her legs open wide in fishnets, ranting about sexism and the need to free the nipple. 
It’s always those wealthy feminist celebrities — the ones who spend millions of dollars a year on their private security — who subliminally convince younger, poorer women who follow them to aspire to that brand of freedom.
 Take your clothes off. 
Free your nipples! 
Less is more! 
It’s so much easier to throw caution to the wind when you’ve got money in the bank and a security detail waiting outside. 
And It’s only the underprivileged who blindly follow their lead, who suffer. 
It’s why I hate modern feminism. Because it hinges on a lie. 
All of this to say, to the young women who follow me: suffer no fools. 
Pursue truth. Not trends.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Feminism

Today, I&#8217;m taking a break from politics, because I want you guys to hear my biggest pet peeves — in no particular order, I actually hate all of these things with equal passion — so we can jump right in.
 Number one: Fake birthday posts. 
You know what I&#8217;m talking about. It&#8217;s your best friend&#8217;s birthday and you post a picture with them in which you look really good, but the person whose birthday it is looks really bad. You just want to post yourself, so you go, &#8220;Happy birthday to my amazing friend! I love you. It&#8217;s been like the best year,&#8221; but your friend looks really bad, and you just really wanted to post that picture of yourself looking good. Please stop doing it. It&#8217;s their birthday. Don&#8217;t post a bad picture of them. If you want to post one of yourself, just do it. Don&#8217;t use someone else&#8217;s birthday as an excuse. 
Number two: Food on the floor in kitchens.
 I have such an aversion to food being on the floor in kitchens. I can&#8217;t stand when you&#8217;re walking barefoot in a kitchen and people have just cooked and there&#8217;s that slimy feeling. I think after you eat, you really should vacuum or swiffer the floors. Just do something to the floor in kitchens!
Number three: Modern model poses.
I cannot stand this. It&#8217;s a new, I guess, artsy fartsy trend. But all of a sudden, when you&#8217;re buying stuff online, the models are posed in weird, almost gymnast-style poses. You&#8217;re trying to buy a shirt and they&#8217;re upside-down. I want to buy the shirt, but I can barely see it because of the model&#8217;s pose! Look, I don&#8217;t really care if your model can do the splits, so please, let&#8217;s stop this trend. It&#8217;s really bad. 
Number four: Everything being automated.
 I can not stand that technology has gone so far forward that we&#8217;re basically backwards. I&#8217;m tired of looking like I&#8217;m doing karate in the bathroom because I have to try to turn on the water faucet, or because I&#8217;m trying to get a piece of paper out of the paper towel. It especially sucks, because people always try to talk to me in bathrooms, like they&#8217;ll say &#8216;Oh my gosh, Candace I love you,&#8217; and I&#8217;m doing karate and everyone looks ridiculous down the line. So, you know what? 
Please stop with the sensor technology in bathrooms, OK? 
Number five: &#8216;Basic bitch&#8217; captions.
 Can I say that? I guess I&#8217;m saying it. I cannot stand basic bitch captions on the internet. Captions like &#8220;I hate #Tuesdays Am I right?&#8221; No, you&#8217;re not right. What are you right about? It&#8217;s Tuesday. Or &#8220;I&#8217;ve got that Wednesday feeling.&#8221; Anything that sounds really annoying and whiny, I can&#8217;t stand. Please stop using those kinds of hashtags.
Girls, I know it&#8217;s a culture on Instagram, but please stop with the Tuesdays. Am I right? No, you&#8217;re wrong.
Number six: Disorganized grocery carts.
This is just a crazy Candace thing. My husband thinks I&#8217;m crazy. But I cannot stand it when I go to the grocery store and people are not organized in their carts. I am so organized when I go there: I put the fruits and veggies in one section of the cart, and I actually will stop the bagger and ask them if I can do their job. In fact, in another life, I feel like I would have crushed it as a grocery store bagger because I cannot stand it when people are not organized and they&#8217;re throwing things everywhere. 
Number seven: Styrofoam. 
I can&#8217;t stand styrofoam because&#8230; I don&#8217;t need a reason. Humanity was not meant to ever do styrofoam. It&#8217;s not right. 
Number eight: Bridal showers.
If I had to rank my most annoying pet peeve, it would definitively be bridal showers. 
I don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re doing with bridal showers these days, but it&#8217;s weird. It&#8217;s really, really weird. Let me take you through what happens — for those who have never been to a bridal shower. The bride goes online and picks out everything she wants, right? And then you get invited to her bridal shower and have to go online and buy whatever it is that she wants. But then she wants you to wrap it up and bring it to her at a shower. She sits in a pretty little chair and she opens the gifts one by one and pretends to be surprised by each gift that she picked for herself. And then we all have to go, &#8216;Awww,&#8217; and then she opens another one. 
I think it is one of the creepiest, weirdest things in general. Being a bride is a bratty experience for a lot of women, but I think bridal showers hold a special place in my heart when it comes to the things I am passionately against. Just have your friends over and celebrate being married, but please don&#8217;t make us sit through you opening the gifts that you got yourself like you&#8217;re a four-year-old. 
Let us celebrate the fact that you&#8217;re getting married and stop being a spoiled brat. Long story short, don&#8217;t invite me to your bridal showers.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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My 8 Biggest Pet Peeves

Recently, my husband and I went to a friend’s home and got all of the kids together. This particular friend had purchased a pair of oculus goggles for his son. They are a pair of giant goggles you wear that allows you to play a video game in a sort of virtual reality. At least, that was the pitch when they first came out. But when I tried these oculus goggles on, I realized it was something entirely different.
My experience wasn’t a long one.
I put the glasses on and suddenly was transported into an elevator — and it was incredible how real it looked and felt. I pressed a button and went up the elevator and it opened and I was standing on the top of a building, on a tiny little ledge.
I could hear the people around me in the real universe saying &#8216;just step out onto the ledge and jump off.&#8217; And I told them, &#8216;I&#8217;m not jumping off, there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m jumping off this ledge.&#8217;
I was aware, of course, that in the real universe, my feet were on the ground. But seeing is believing, and in this reality, I was convinced that I was actually on top of a building — and I was terrified. I tried to inch my way forward, but finally, I said, &#8216;Nope, I&#8217;m taking these things off.&#8217;
And then my friend went next.
&#8216;I don&#8217;t want to do it,&#8217; he said. But my husband thought it would be funny to push my friend, and he fell over — in the real universe — onto the floor and screamed. He was genuinely terrified. He took the glasses off and said he felt like he was actually dying.
I noted that someone was going to actually die from a heart attack— and the person who was hosting us informed us that you have to sign a waiver to play. Because people have actually died. How’s that for a game?
Now, why am I telling you this? Because what we are talking about, and what I experienced, was the coming of the metaverse. You’ve heard about it. Facebook recently changed its name to Meta. Everyone is talking about the metaverse.
A tract of virtual land sold for $4.3 million in the metaverse, and guess what — after what I just experienced — I can tell you that that was a good investment.
Snoop Dogg, the rapper, has a $17 million NFT collection. That&#8217;s a virtual art collection. What do you do with virtual art? You put in a virtual world. In your virtual house. On your virtual plot of land.
But the second, more important reason I’m telling you this is because it scared me. It scared me because I felt in my gut that I had stumbled upon a missing piece of the authoritarian puzzle.
Think about it — all of the radical changes that we have experienced in society over these last two years — somehow it all perfectly aligns with the coming of the metaverse.
Social distancing. People are afraid — genuinely afraid — to see one another’s faces. What better solution for that than to only communicate with one another via the metaverse? Just throw on a pair of goggles and meet up, virtually. Come to my house, in the virtual world.
The never before seen national shut down of schools to combat covid — virtual learning established to combat a virus that has an approximate 0.1% chance of harming any child. Children made to exist behind masks anyway.
What better priming could there be for a meta existence? Soon, children will be told to stay home and put on their goggles to go to class.  And they’ll be convinced, by the way, that they are actually in a classroom sitting next to their peers. Because that’s how real it feels behind those goggles. Only this time, their parents won’t have to worry about any germs.
There will be no need for parents to physically go into work anymore either— just throw on your goggles and be immediately transported into your office.
Isolation, and more technology.
What we are talking about, what I am trying to communicate to you, is that we are on the brink of  transhumanism. Human beings are becoming the computers.
I want you to think about that the next time you hear words like “biotech” — biology and technology merging.
What we are on the brink of is the next iteration of the world wide web and it should terrify you.
So, welcome to Web 3.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Metaverse, Biotech And The Beginning Of Transhumanism

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Last week, I did a monologue addressing conspiracy theories. More specifically, a monologue on the believable ones, many of which have already turned out to be true. But there was one line in my monologue — one example of a widely circulated theory that at the very last second, I decided to delete. It went like this:
<blockquote>&#8220;And there are some conspiracy theories that absent any concrete proof, we all feel deep down might be true, like the one about Hollywood running a pedophile ring end quote.&#8221;</blockquote>
I deleted that line because I thought — despite my personal inclinations as to its potential veracity — that it was too, you know, tinfoil hat. I&#8217;ve already lived to regret that last minute judgment call.
The &#8216;Hollywood pedophile ring&#8217; conspiracy theory runs in parallel to the idea that there is an elite group of individuals in this country who are so powerful that despite routinely committing sex acts against children and despite our intelligence communities being fully aware of these acts, they go unpunished because those would-be criminals serve a higher purpose for our government. Essentially, prosecuting pedophilia ranks beneath other national interests.
Now, if you&#8217;re sitting back thinking, &#8216;Candace, that sounds crazy,&#8217; then you&#8217;d be right. It is crazy. But our government does protect pedophiles. Last week, BuzzFeed, a publication for which I normally have very little respect, put forth a stunning piece of investigative journalism that I think deserves a Pulitzer.
The piece was ten years in the making. Journalists had to file 13 public record requests and three separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits over nine years to access closed investigations pertaining to the CIA, until finally this year, the documents they requested were partially released to them. And here is what those documents reveal.
First, it says that there&#8217;s credible evidence from the last 14 years that suggests 10 CIA employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children. One employee had sexual contact with a two year old and a six year old. A second employee purchased three sexually explicit videos of young girls filmed by their mothers. A third employee estimated that he had viewed up to 1400 sexually abusive images of children while on agency assignments. Another employee signed an affidavit admitting that he used a government laptop to view photographs and videos of girls as young as 10 years old being abused by an older man.
One CIA contractor logged into a chat room and solicited sex from a child, only to discover that that child was actually an FBI agent posing as a child.
One official extensively downloaded abuse material, sixty three videos of children between the ages of eight and sixteen, to be exact. The man regularly used government Wi-Fi to download the material he distributed to others, and he brought the photos back into the US after he returned from a trip overseas.
Now, that&#8217;s just a few of them. It goes on and on, and yet, it turns out that only one of these sick perverts was ever charged with a crime, and that individual, it&#8217;s important to know, also happened to be under investigation for mishandling classified material. In other words, the CIA had other reasons for wanting to see him prosecuted.
But everybody else? Nope. Nothing. Rather than prosecute these pedophiles, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office — to whom the cases were referred — sent it back down to the CIA to handle internally. Their conclusion, of course, was that prosecuting these individuals would have procured public testimony that could have potentially exposed the CIA&#8217;s methods and sources.
Let me run that one back to you. There are young children who have been abused by individuals with top clearance in the United States government, and they will never receive justice, because the government&#8217;s methods are deemed more important.
Put another way, there are child pedophiles whom our government are fully aware of, who are roaming around free in our society right now, because methods are more important.
What does this all mean? I don&#8217;t know. What does it mean that sex crimes against small children are being rampantly covered up by our government?
I think it means that in many circumstances, the term &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; is meant to gaslight the public. To make us turn our cheeks and look the other way. I think it means that pedophilia and other sexual crimes against children are not a crime in elite enough circles. And it certainly adds a new layer of understanding to an administration and a Department of Justice that are fighting tooth and nail to expose children to indecent concepts in public schools.
It means these people are perverts. And it&#8217;s time to stop being afraid to utter that truth. If BuzzFeed worked up the nerve, I promise, so can you.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The CIA Is Covering For Pedophiles

What&#8217;s a conspiracy theory that you believe in? We&#8217;ve all got at least one. For example, Apple sending out a bug to all of its devices before they drop a new iPhone. For years, we were all told that we were crazy and it was just in our head. Our phones weren&#8217;t really slowing down. Until last year, when Apple agreed to settle for $500 million for a claim that they intentionally slowed down the performance of older phones to encourage customers to buy newer models. 
Another &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; that I fully believe in: the flu shot causes the flu. I don&#8217;t care how many doctors say it doesn’t, or how many degrees those doctors have. I don&#8217;t care if you received a Ph.D. in each and every flu variant. Every time in my life that I have gotten a flu shot, I have gotten the flu, until about 13 years ago when I said that I was no longer going to get the flu shot. And guess what? For 13 whole years, I didn&#8217;t get the flu. 
Now, for moms and dads out there, you&#8217;re going to love this one. How about the &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; regarding the correlation between babies teething and spiking a fever? Every expert and doctor on the web says that that&#8217;s a myth. The fever is not at all related to teething. It&#8217;s just that every parent in the entire world will tell you otherwise. When babies teeth, they spike a fever, and they get a runny nose. 
There&#8217;s even a conspiracy theory about the term “conspiracy theory.” It&#8217;s the idea that the term was first introduced by the CIA in the 1960s to disqualify those who questioned the official version of the Kennedy assassination. In fact, in 1963, the year Kennedy was shot, did you know that the CIA launched a program known as Operation Mockingbird? They enlisted four hundred American journalists — as well as journalists around the world — to manipulate public opinion by spreading propaganda. Now, why would they do that after Kennedy&#8217;s assassination? The program, by the way, has never been officially discontinued. 
I want you to really think about that. How many mockingbirds do you think are out there today trying to throw you off the government&#8217;s trail? To that effect, the term “conspiracy theory” is meant to be a disciplinary device. If you commit a thought crime, by recognizing that perhaps the corruption runs much deeper and darker than we could have ever imagined, then you&#8217;ll be painted as a wacky Aunt. 
But what if your Aunt&#8217;s not so wacky? Could the lies really be so deep and so dark as to suggest that our very own government orchestrated the assassination of JFK, a sitting president? I don&#8217;t know, that one seems pretty far-fetched. At least it did seem far fetched until our government just kept delaying and delaying the promised release of the JFK files. In fact, they were supposed to be released this year again. And Joe Biden said, &#8216;No, actually, we can&#8217;t because of COVID 19.&#8217; He said, “temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military, defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.” What? What could possibly be in the JFK files that would threaten our intelligence operations? What lies were told to the public? 
Today, we have mockingbirds who are effectively telling us every day that we&#8217;re all going to die unless we do exactly as the government says. We had to stay home, forfeit our businesses, mask our children, inject ourselves with new mRNA technology vaccines — not once, but twice — in order to return to normal. Of course, normal never came. They kept masking our children, and they extended vaccination to our small children, who have an approximately 0% chance of dying from the virus. But the mockingbirds want you to know that you should trust the experts anyway, even though they lied about virtually everything, even though it never went back to normal, even though the vaccines did not give the vaccinated their freedoms back. 
Now, the mockingbirds are telling you to get a booster and beyond that, a fourth shot — also, a booster will be ready in 100 days to combat the fourth or fifth variant. I don&#8217;t know what omicron is. Honestly, I lost count. But the conspiracy theorists on the other hand, the ones that you should not be listening to because they&#8217;re &#8216;anti-science,&#8217; they&#8217;ve been telling you that things were never going to return to normal, that the government is using COVID to usher in a new global totalitarian world order that is going to give them control over every area of your life down, down to how many people you are allowed to have in your home during the holidays. 
The conspiracy theorists, the ones that you should not listen to, have been telling you that this was an intentional pandemic planned for years among the most powerful people and corporations in the world. So I guess my question for you at this juncture is who do you believe? How many variants and boosters will it take for you to see what is right in front of you?
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Who Are The Real ‘Conspiracy Theorists’?

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you know the nation is divided over the handling of the Kyle Rittenhouse case. I want to break down why he is innocent and how the media and FBI have allowed a teenager to suffer horribly to feed the lies of Black Lives Matter. 
First, let&#8217;s take a look at what some members of the media said about Kyle Rittenhouse.
In their minds, Kyle Rittenhouse is what you would have had in a school shooter. A 17 year-old-kid who shouldn&#8217;t have had a gun. An armed teenage vigilante — arguably a domestic terrorist — who picked up a rifle and drove to a different state to shoot people. A deeply racist teenager who crossed state lines to supposedly protect property, knowing he was going with the intention of shooting people at a Black Lives Matter protest. He was looking to get into trouble, and he did. He murdered multiple people. 
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old-kid radicalized by Trumpism, took his AR-15 to Kenosha and became a killer. 
There are countless things about the media’s portrayal of Kyle that infuriate me. First, they refer to him as a racist and white supremacist, and that really irks me. They repeated this lie — absent any proof — because you don’t need proof when your job as a member of the corporate media is to brainwash the masses. We know how brainwashing works, right? They just keep repeating a lie over and over and over again. This narrative of an angry, racist white supremacist became so real for some people that when I defended Kyle Rittenhouse on my Twitter feed, people actually accused me of being anti-Black.
I was called a race traitor for taking the side of a white teenager. Clearly, many people have become so deluded by the mainstream media that they were shocked to learn that Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two white people. White supremacists don&#8217;t typically kill white people. This case has nothing to do with black people. 
Next, I want to take a look at some of the responses from famous people and athletes. Of course, LeBron James had to jump in after Kyle broke down in tears during the trial, tweeting, “What tears? I didn&#8217;t see one man knock it off. That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.” Of course, LeBron is wrong, they were real tears. 
And I must ask, has LeBron James, in any circumstance, ever been on the right side of any issue? The man who swears black people are oppressed, but happens to live in a gated $100 million home in Bel Air? The man who swears white people are the oppressors, but chooses every day to live in various all-white neighborhoods all around the United States? The man who tells Black Americans we are suffering because of the residual effects of slavery, but is sponsored by Nike, a company that helps keep the slave industry alive in China?
If there&#8217;s any person who knows a thing or two about fake tears and acting, it’s LeBron James. Watching him drop to the ground and fake injuries every time a gust of wind passes him by on the court has become an American pastime. 
The final thing worth pointing out regarding this trial is the media’s incessant use of the phrase “radicalized by Trump” when describing Kyle Rittenhouse. That is the Freudian slip. 
Now presented with the facts of the case during the trial, it has become abundantly obvious to us all that Kyle Rittenhouse was persecuted by the media for no reason other than the fact that he happened to be a white person breathing ahead of Trump&#8217;s potential reelection. 
At that time, as is still the case, the media became obsessed with extracting a race narrative from anywhere — even, apparently from a case involving only white people. Even a case that dealt with a teenager who, by the way, wasn’t even old enough to have voted for Trump in the first place.
I think the Rittenhouse case represents an example of the media attempting to ruin the life of a 17-year-old kid who, by all accounts, served his community, and had never been in trouble, all the while supporting a literal pedophile and domestic abuser. 
Did you know that the people the media is defending in this case, the two people who were killed, were a convicted pedophile and a convicted domestic abuser? They were willing to do that to satisfy their anti-white election time narrative. 
I think Rittenhouse will be rightfully found not guilty. And after that, my wish is for Kyle Rittenhouse and his legal team to dedicate the rest of their time for the rest of his life going after every journalist, politician, basketball player, platform, network, and individual who smeared him as a white supremacist terrorist. 
I hope he sues you all into oblivion for the rest of your miserable public lives. 
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Kyle Rittenhouse Is Innocent And Those Who Smeared Him Should Face The Consequences

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My son is 9 months old and I have to say that it’s a really precious age. They really start to express themselves, their likes and dislikes and one of the things that my son likes — no, loves — is a walk. I&#8217;m not joking when I say I can put my son in a stroller for three hours and he won’t make a peep. He just holds the handle bar and smiles.
We were in DC this past weekend and the weather was absolute autumn perfection. So I decided I couldn’t miss the opportunity to take him around for some errands. Instead of putting him in the stroller, I put him in a carrier. He was attached to my chest facing outward and I&#8217;m not kidding when I say that I could feel his happy energy radiating off of me — radiating outward to every person who was walking around the city. 
I&#8217;m also not kidding when I say that every person we walked by, no matter who they were, no matter what walk of life they were from, or what sort of mood they were in, couldn’t help themselves. Instantly a smile would cut across their face and they got this look, you know what look I&#8217;m talking about — it’s almost a dreamy one — the look we give when we come across unadulterated happiness. 
There was this younger black woman who was walking past us and said “he looks like he is having the best time ever,” to which I responded “my baby loves a walk.”
A few paces later and I was standing outside of a Starbucks. I noticed this older white couple who were clearly fighting their every impulse to say something as well. Finally, the gentleman, — on the brink of an implosion — goes “I just have to say, that that is the cutest baby that I have ever seen” — to which his wife chimes in, “and we have grandchildren that are not going to be happy to know he said that.”  
Their various smiles and reactions set against the backdrop of the most politically charged city in the country made me realize something. Despite our many differences, despite the ever-encroaching feeling that we have nothing left to unite every citizen around — not a president, not a policy, not even a flag anymore — there is still hope. There&#8217;s still hope because there are still children. Children are the hope. They possess a spiritual purity that somehow unites us, across race, across political parties — on this one topic we very much agree.
I believe our government took a step too far when they shifted their focus to our children. For example, the sexually explicit material taught in elementary schools. That was a step too far. Suggesting that parents who are concerned about that material are domestic terrorists? That was a step too far.
The evidence of that is everywhere — most conspicuously perhaps, in Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin, a Republican gubernatorial candidate who shouldn’t have had a shot in hell against incumbent democratic governor Terry McAuliffe, just won. For reference, President Biden carried Virginia by 10 points in the 2020 election. That’s not because of Youngkin, by the way. I&#8217;m sure he’s a great guy, but it wasn’t Youngkin&#8217;s personality that motivated democrats to come out in support of him. It was actually his opponent. It was Terry McAuliffe, who said during a televised debate, that he vetoed a bill which would have informed parents that pornographic material was being made available to their minor children via the school library. It was Terry McAullife who said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Yeah, that was the step too far.
I have been telling you for months that children are now the government’s new focus. They want more control over the things they are being taught and are making parents fight to regain that control — just like parents now have to fight for their children not to sit behind cloth masks for hours per a day.
And the next battle on the horizon, if you are paying any attention, is going to be covid-19 vaccines.
This weekend, the FDA announced their approval, for emergency use, of covid-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 5-11 years old. 
What’s the emergency, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine. Children have a virtually 0% chance of dying from covid. In fact, to date, I haven&#8217;t found a single case of a child or baby who died purely from COVID-19.
To be clear, I say “purely,” because they instead use doublespeak. “Died with complications from” or “with” covid is the language they’ve used in the very few cases they’ve publicized. Except, when I dug deeper into those hysterical claims, I discovered that those children had severe comorbidities, like meningitis or terminal cancers. 
These are the games that governments are playing to inspire fear. 
And somehow, they’ve managed to approve this vaccine for emergency use. I think we can fathom what comes next.
If our government believes that parents desiring to know what their children are being taught is a form of domestic terrorism, if parents no longer have a say in whether or not their children should be forced to wear cloths over their faces, then you better believe that even in the absence of risk, parents of small children will not be given any right to decide whether or not their children will be injected with a new vaccine — a vaccine, by the way, which doesn’t even stop people from spreading the virus. 
A vaccine, by the way, which comes with a warning of heart inflammation and myocarditis for minors. Still, I bet they will issue mandates  and they will suppress and censor any person who dares to speak out against the mandates. 
I bet they’ll do the same to any individual who complies and receives the vaccine — and then speaks out honestly about a bad reaction their child has had from it. Their stories will be labeled “misinformation,” because only the government determines the information now. “Missing context,”  they’ll say, because the government determines the context now. “Anti-vaxxer, science-denier!” Because denying the government control of your body — or your child — makes you both. 
And perhaps, finally, they might even be labeled domestic terrorists for allowing their presumably-diseased children to roam freely without the jab. How dare they? How dare they allow children to breathe freely? To live freely? How dare they allow their children to roam the streets, unmasked and unjabbed — to spread joy — unadulterated joy?
They might suggest through various CDC guidelines — that children should be perceived as a threat. How dare any parent allow their 5 year old to be a child?
Except this time, my gut tells me, they are going to come up against a firm wall. This is it. I believe this is the issue that will bring Americans back together. Because when it comes to children, we are guided by something bigger than fear, bigger than government — it’s instinctual and it’s spiritual.
So I don’t care if you’re a democrat. I don’t care if you spend your weekends at climate protests — my question to you is: do you believe that children should be protected? 
If your answer is yes — then you and I, at this extraordinary moment in American history, are on the same team. 
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