The madness of Candace
As readers would know, the US podcaster Candace Owens has been going down the conspiracy path for some time. She has been openly anti-semitic and has posted bizarre theories that Charlie Kirk wasn’t in fact killed by Tyler Robinson, but by Israel and TPUSA insiders.
I thought Owens was simply a grifter. She just said more and more outrageous stuff because she knew it got attention, clicks, listens and revenue. It was all just a way to make money.
But now I wonder if she is seriously mentally ill, as she is now alleging …. well see for yourself.
Yes, she is claiming the French Government is trying to assassinate her, along with the Israeli Government. And they also killed Charlie Kirk it seems.
Such detail – a French female assassin, and a male Israeli one.
And Candace is so important, that it costs $1.5 million dollars to kill her.
Egypt is involved also. It was a joint Israel-Egypt-France operation!
I suspect the next stage will be she does a Jussie Smollet and arranges an attack on herself, to prove her delusions are real.
It is probable she is still just grifting, and doesn’t believe a word she says. But I don’t think you can rule out mental illness. It reminds me of an incident in the 1990s when I was in Young Nationals.
One of the Young Nationals office holders was admitted as an in-patient to Wellington Psych Unit. I visited them a couple of times. It was coming up to a general election, and I mentioned Young Nats were working at National HQ on election night (this was pre-Internet, when we chalked results up on a giant board). He asked if he could come along. I asked if that is allowable, and he said it was – he wasn’t the subject of a compulsory treatment order.
When I went to pick him up on election day, I heard the charge nurse saying to him how all the staff thought him going to this event was a terrible idea. This got me slightly nervous. Then as we were driving over, he asked me if I knew why he was in the psych unit.
I had deliberately not asked, but I told him I assumed he had been suicidal. But he wasn’t. He told me he had been having severe delusional fantasies. More specifically he thought that because he had sometimes been critical of the Government, that it was trying to assassinate him, and Cabinet had established an Assassination Sub-Committee chaired by Murray McCully. He explained that his delusions were so powerful he literally boarded up all the windows at his house, wouldn’t go outside etc.
At this stage I started to share the nurse’s views that him going to National’s election night function might not be a great idea, especially as Murray McCully was actually going to be there! He did say though that he was better now, and now realised it wasn’t real.
When we got there, I immediately hunted Murray down and told him that it would be really useful if he could avoid this particular Young National. He of course asked why, so I told him. Murray commented that if there was an Assassination Sub-Committee of Cabinet, he would be the logical chair of it. I told him that would not be a helpful comment to make!
I relate this story, because believing multiple Governments are trying to assassinate you is not a normal thing. It can be paranoid delusions. So either Owens is a world-class grifter, or she needs serious help.