Candace Owens sets the record straight

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I ran across this amusing video from right-wing nutjob and conspiracy theorist Candace Owens:

You have to admire the confidence with which she says the most idiotic things.

Here’s a sample where she’s talking about the moon landings (at 21:50 in the video):

…Bill Maher made fun of me for this, like, a little tweet that I said that, I don’t know, the moon landing just seems weird and whenever the media like, tries to make you feel like you’re stupid, that’s usually for me like, the first breadcrumb that, like, you’re on to something, because they’re, that’s what they are trained to do. They’re trained to sit here and tell you “You’re ridiculous, you don’t believe this.”

But then I decided to read this document, it was 119 pages, and I know there’s a book, too, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, and he just broke down the science in a way that was very digestible so I didn’t have a non-expert problem. So there’s a basic thing that you guys can do if you’re, like, somebody who’s like, “It had to have happened, the moon landing,” um, what you can do is look up, uh — I’m calling this the firmament, but it’s the, um, uh, what is the, uh, belt the, uh, 200 miles out, you hit the Van Allen belt.

Okay, so there’s a Van Allen belt. So we have never gone beyond that belt, right? There’s been no human that’s gone beond belt since the moon landings, allegedly. And not even Elon Musk when they go out to space they have to stay like, there is a space station, but like once you get 200 miles out you hit the Van Allen belt which has an incredible amount of radiation. NASA has said, like, in order for us to get through it we’d have to have cement blocks around someone.

So I want you to just Google, if you’re watching this, the temperature of the Van Allen belt. Okay? Just Google that, and you’re going to get something like, at the lowest points in the Van Allen belt it’s, I think, 3,000 Kelvin and at the highest points it’s like 30,000 Kelvin and then I want you to Google what material the shuttle was made out of, and then I want you to Google at what temperature that would just burn and you’re just going to laugh out loud. This literally doesn’t make sense, that an aluminum alloy could have gone through the Van Allen belt for an hour and a half or 59 minutes. It just couldn’t have happened, literally can’t happen, there’s no explanation for it. They just don’t even talk about it, they don’t like talking about the Van Allen belt because that part makes entirely no sense…

Sorry, Candace, but you definitely have a “non-expert problem”.

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  2. keiths,

    Puts me in mind of my friend. Angry voice notes because I don’t accept that the evidence on the conspiracist angle – pizzagate, baby murder, cannibalism, Satanic ritual – is concrete and irrefutable. Unfortunately (as is often the case) there is a grain of truth – Epstein did Bad Things, and we may not know the full extent yet – but frothed up beyond reason.

  3. Just skimmed the OP again; it’s funny how people think the moon landings impossible, due to radiation and improbable vacuum temperatures, but believe in aliens, who have to traverse the same barrier as well as survive the radiation generated by atomic collisions with gas and dust given speeds equivalent to CERN. Aliens, of course, have access to Special Physics.

  8. Here’s Melania’s unexpected and bizarre Epstein speech.

    And here’s the official transcript in full:

    Good afternoon.

    The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.

    The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather, I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation.

    I have never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.

    To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence. My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trivial note.

    I am not Epstein’s victim. Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband, by chance, at a New York City party in 1998. This initial encounter with my husband is documented in detail in my book, MELANIA.

    The first time I crossed paths with Epstein was in the year 2000, at an event Donald and I attended together. At the time, I had never met Epstein and had no knowledge of his criminal undertakings.

    Numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been circulating on social media for years now. Be cautious about what you believe. These images and stories are completely false.

    I am not a witness or a named witness in connection with any of Epstein’s crimes. My name has never appeared in court documents, depositions, victim statements, or FBI interviews surrounding the Epstein matter.

    I have never had any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of his victims. I was never involved in any capacity—I was not a participant, was never on Epstein’s plane, and never visited his private island.

    I have never been legally accused or convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein’s sex trafficking, abuse of minors, and other repulsive behavior.

    The false smears about me from mean-spirited and politically motivated individuals and entities looking to cause damage to my good name to gain financially and climb politically must stop.

    My attorneys and I have fought these unfounded and baseless lies with success and will continue to maintain my sound reputation without hesitation. To date, several individuals and companies have been legally obligated to publicly apologize and retract their lies about me, such as The Daily Beast, James Carville, and Harper Collins UK.

    Now is the time for Congress to act. Epstein was not alone. Several prominent male executives resigned from their powerful positions after this matter became widely politicized. Of course, this doesn’t amount to guilt, but we still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth.

    I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors. Give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress, with the power of sworn testimony. Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public, if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the Congressional Record.

    Then, and only then, will we have the truth.

    Let’s highlight just one side point today. Melania allegedly speaks six languages. When reading the above text, she manages to utter things like “email doesn’t amount to anything more than a tryval note”, “fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been calculating on social media” and “I have never been legally accused or convinced of a crime,” so clearly English is not one of those languages. Are Americans, and I mean especially Trump supporters, sure that Melania counts as an American? Are Americans okay with that their president has a foreign immigrant non-English-speaking trophy wife?

    Meanwhile in other news, Trump has denounced Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones over their criticism of Iran war. This is the second notable MAGA split after MTG broke with Trump over the Epstein files.

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