DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
Jul 6
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THREAD: Candace Owens on Erika Kirk, in Her Own Words
Candace, yesterday, pre-spun a @Network Contagion Research Institute report she hadn't read, calling it "Zionist." The report is Candace's own show. It doesn't accuse her of anything. Her own footage does that.
Before the investigation, Candace spent 40 episodes defending Erika Kirk. She called her "genuinely such a nice person." She swore that nobody "outside of my husband and Erica Kirk" had the power to shut her up. She told her audience she would stop if Erika asked.
Erika asked her to stop. Candace didn't stop. She couldn't; the investigation had become her primary subscription product. So she revoked Erika's authority the only way she could: by making Erika untrustworthy.
No new evidence appeared between the praise and the accusations; just a new business need.
And this business need may very well end up in tragedy.
Here is Candace and her audience - in their own words.
(Special credit to @SKDoubleDub for the music.)
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 
🧵 THREAD: Candace Owens on Erika Kirk, in Her Own Words
Candace, yesterday, pre-spun a @Network Contagion Research Institute report she hadn't read, calling it "Zionist." The report is Candace's own show. It doesn't accuse her of anything. Her own footage does that.
Before the investigation, Candace spent 40 episodes defending Erika Kirk. She called her "genuinely such a nice person." She swore that nobody "outside of my husband and Erica Kirk" had the power to shut her up. She told her audience she would stop if Erika asked.
Erika asked her to stop. Candace didn't stop. She couldn't; the investigation had become her primary subscription product. So she revoked Erika's authority the only way she could: by making Erika untrustworthy.
No new evidence appeared between the praise and the accusations; just a new business need.
And this business need may very well end up in tragedy.
Here is Candace and her audience - in their own words.
(Special credit to @SKDoubleDub for the music.)
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. Candace built four mutually exclusive theories about who killed Charlie Kirk. Each version contradicts the last. None had a single named source.
The closest thing Owens comes to offering actual receipts is declaring a .30-06 could not have possibly killed Kirk and left no exit wound. One that is easily debunked by searching for counter-examples.
The report maps Candace's words works as a permission structure for something much more ugly.
Stage 1: Dehumanizing Erika. Grieving wife becomes "pageant girl."
Stage 2: Strip her grief. "Operation Warp Widow." "How's our emotional asset doing today?" Mock the widow scriptures. And then the infamous "That is not a real person."
Stage 3: Make harm feel deserved. Compare Erika to Kouri Richins, a Utah woman convicted of poisoning her husband. Diagnose her with psychopathy on camera. Imply she needs to be jailed.
Stage 4: Violence becomes conceivable. Candace denies she's accused Erika of murder. But her audience certainly has gotten that message.
What's most alarming of all: her audience has started writing the ending.
They predict her death. Pre-written alibis. If something happens to Erika Kirk, it reads as confirmation of the conspiracy, not a tragedy.
Candace says this report is a Zionist conspiracy against her. The report is her own footage, her own audience, her own words on her own show. Every stage of the permission structure is on camera. Nothing was taken out of context because nothing needed to be.
The only question left is whether she stops before her audience finishes what she started.
networkcontagion.us/reports/permis
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