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00:02:22.880I want to make the most of our time together, Candice.
00:02:24.580Listen, I really want to start – I've watched you online, and I've been watching the latest conversations that you've been having with a variety of figures.
00:02:35.240And it seems to me, four years since the COVID debacle kicked off, and it was the COVID debacle that kind of woke me up to so many other issues,
00:02:45.980it seems against all my expectations that even now the world is getting madder and madder, faster and faster.
00:02:55.980I wondered if you feel as if whatever ride we're on is spinning ever more out of control.
00:03:04.840I actually, though, am optimistic about it because I think that the reason it feels more feverish is because for a very long time,
00:03:16.220there was sort of this authority that everybody trusted, and therefore it seemed ordered because nobody was awake.
00:03:24.280Like you said, after COVID, I sort of woke up to this and started to realize maybe some things that I thought were or were not.
00:03:32.120And because of that, because the establishment, so to speak, feels threatened, because they should feel threatened, people are no longer believing them,
00:03:42.980They're in a total fever pitch right now trying to figure out how to kind of get the sheep back in order.
00:03:49.540Is it, is the COVID, well, I always call it the COVID debacle, was that for you also?
00:03:58.140Because I admit, I've loudly admitted over recent times when challenged that I was naive.
00:04:04.400I was not paying attention for the first five decades of my life.
00:04:08.400And it was only, it was only what started to happen around COVID that, for whatever reason, made that kind of fight, flight, you know, reptilian bit of my brain flicker for the first time.
00:04:57.060I love that there's always a name for something.
00:04:58.840I was blessed when I was 20 that I got vaccine injured by the Gardasil shot.
00:05:04.040And it took me out of a reverie with medical, like big pharma, because I basically had a mini seizure while I was at the doctor and then got up.
00:05:14.800I was about 19 or 20 and went, I don't know anything about this shot.
00:05:34.920And so when my husband and I got married and had kids, I had already made up my mind to do a series on vaccines for parents so that they could just hear a different opinion.
00:05:43.540And so I had already was producing that series.
00:05:46.280And then luckily for me, COVID hit and suddenly people were going, what's going on with big pharma?
00:05:52.340And I, of course, was saying, don't get the shot from the very beginning.
00:05:55.360And I think that, you know, people were finally ready to hear, it's hard to imagine in your mind that the establishment could be that evil.
00:06:05.840And I think that's what's so difficult.
00:06:07.200We're naturally trusting because the other option is to believe that the entire mainstream media apparatus,
00:06:14.540in collusion with governments worldwide, in collusion with vaccine makers, in collusion with the government organizations,
00:06:25.820for us it's the FDA, are all colluding for you guys, the NIH, are all colluding to lie to people.
00:06:32.060Like you'd have to actually be a madman to think that first.
00:06:35.480And I got to think that first because I got vaccine injury, injured when I was younger and survived it.
00:06:40.840So I was, I was already, I had arrived at that conclusion.
00:06:43.220And it's, what's been so devastating for me, and I don't use the word lightly or casually, is the trust issue.
00:07:08.040But I just assumed that whether they were red or blue, whether they were left or right,
00:07:15.140that the establishment, the government of the day was, basically had my, mine and my family's interests at heart.
00:07:23.080They would have ideological differences about politics and society and all of the rest of it.
00:07:28.580But basically they would keep the lights on, they would come and empty the refuse, there would be schools, there'd be hospitals, there'd be food in the shops.
00:07:34.880And that they basically wanted me and mine to be well.
00:07:38.900And the realisation that I came to over a very painful, almost a period, almost like grieving, that actually, on the contrary, at best, they didn't care if I lived or died.
00:07:50.780And at worst, there might actually be something malevolent at play.
00:07:57.700Because, you know, it's like being betrayed by a, by a lifelong monogamous spouse.
00:08:04.480You know, I feel as if, I just feel so foolish that I, that I placed that trust.
00:08:10.020We got our kids, my kids are now 21, 18 and 16.
00:08:14.520And at the time, when they were little, we got them all the MMR, via vaccinations, you know, the measles, mumps and rubella.
00:08:22.160And we, you know, we did it for all three.
00:08:24.620You know, they were born about each, you know, two years apart.
00:08:27.420And we marched these little bodies into the, into the doctor's surgery.
00:08:30.760And we got those, we got those vaccinations.
00:08:32.980And now I look back on it and I think, well, we just weren't, we were just so blithely naive.
00:08:39.480We didn't, we didn't take the COVID products.
00:08:42.800We managed to keep my kids away from the COVID products as well.
00:08:46.060And it's, if it's the thing that I, that we achieved as parents, I think we're probably happiest about in all of it, in all of the years.
00:08:53.880The fact that we, the fact that we kept those needles away from their arms at that point is, you know, was, has come down as a great, has come down as a great accomplishment.
00:09:21.240And that's, and that's what you're describing as like, it still makes me blush to, to look back on your former self and to realize that I had trust in the establishment.
00:09:28.320But I always tell people, like I said, you'd have to have been crazy not to have trust in them considering they have created, and I hate to overuse this term, but it is in fact a matrix of sorts.
00:09:39.460They're controlling the textbooks, right?
00:09:42.760The information that they're getting is telling you that it is actually a token of your education to read the New York Times and to, and to, and to register that as the reality of everything that's happening in the world.
00:09:54.080You know, you guys probably have a different, you know, trusted newspaper, maybe the Times of London.
00:09:59.300They're telling you that it's a token of your education to vaccinate your children.
00:10:03.840Like, thank goodness you're not just like a poor child in Africa, and we get to have this remarkably educated society where we get to vax our children and we can go to the doctor.
00:10:12.280And so everything from the moment that you are handing your children over to the government is to plug them into this matrix unquestioningly.
00:10:21.400It is, it is the enslavement of the mind, and they've accomplished it, and it is evil, but the thing is, is they went too far.
00:10:32.720They just went too far, and inevitably that's what happens.
00:10:35.540You know, lies eventually collapse under their own weight, and we're at that moment, and that's what keeps me so optimistic.
00:10:42.060I agree up to a point, Candice, but I thought, when I mentioned the four-year time span, because in recent weeks, the fact that we're four years in has really begun to prey on my mind.
00:10:56.360Because I struggle with the fact that so much has been revealed now in the past few years about the damage done by lockdown, about the damage done by the medical interventions, you know, about the meaninglessness of masks and magic arrows on shop floors and keep six feet apart and all of that.
00:11:16.420Then there's, you know, you get into the nature of what's happening in Gaza, so much is out there in plain sight, almost being admitted to, and yet it doesn't seem to matter.
00:11:32.040You know, the corruption of the Biden family, you know, the millions that were accrued by selling access to Joe Biden as vice president to Obama, it gets out there.
00:11:43.080The truth is out there, and we were supposed to believe that the truth is a lion that only needs to be set free and it'll take care of itself, but it doesn't seem to be bringing down any of the culprits.
00:11:53.760You know, in terms of the people that have imparted the evil, no, you're correct, because they have a tremendous amount of power,
00:12:00.040and they're never going to penalize themselves.
00:12:02.700But like I said, when you're speaking about the rift right now that you feel, that is a rift between the people that are governing over us and the people that are being governed.
00:12:13.840People are waking up, and that is a problem for them.
00:12:15.880Is it going to be overnight? No, but it's happening slowly.
00:12:18.880It's actually, I think it's happening quite quickly.
00:12:20.420And if you just examine, for example, in America, these mainstream media sources are just not watched or listened to anymore.
00:12:28.600People are pursuing independent voices for a reason.
00:12:33.620And so it may not feel like the shift is radical enough because you're still perceiving what the mainstream media is saying,
00:12:39.720and there is also a contingent of the population which still listens to them.
00:12:43.440But even to those individuals, I have compassion for them.
00:14:09.060And when you invite people to contemplate a notion like inalienable, I only really started pondering the nation of inalienable rights relatively recently in that they're given to you by, well, God.
00:14:25.880They're not given to you by a human being.
00:14:28.080Therefore, they can't be taken away from you by a human being.
00:14:30.340But the point is, in being inalienable, even if you want to, you can't give it up.
00:14:49.060Even if it would be easier for you to go along with that, you can't.
00:14:53.300But because of the nature of the right of the freedom being inalienable, it's at that moment that you have to say, I'm going to have to fight to the death on this because I cannot lose this freedom.
00:15:06.300But with my life, you're going to have to rip out of me like my beating heart.
00:15:11.220The option to be a slave is not actually your gift to grant.
00:16:17.340Like, I am now more free because I know this and it's going to be good for my kids to inherit this true freedom because the only true freedom that exists is the freedom of the mind.
00:16:27.720When you had your awakening, as you, you know, in the aftermath of the seizure that you described in your teens,
00:16:35.680and you began that process of thinking, well, if I've been misled about these medical interventions, what else?
00:16:49.640What were some of the next steps that you made so that you were now suspicious about big pharma?
00:16:58.500What else did you begin to look at and think, wait a minute, if that's wrong, what about this over here?
00:17:04.020So it's funny because at the time, I would say that I was, I always describe it as like a sleepy liberal, like sleepy left-leaning, as in I was in university.
00:17:13.000Most people are, believe they're left-leaning.
00:17:15.480You're being, your mind is being poisoned every single day.
00:17:18.740And I didn't correlate it to politics at all.
00:17:21.260It was just for me, I was never going to get another vaccine in my life.
00:17:24.520That was kind of my mind that I had made up.
00:17:26.080And I knew that someday when I had children, my children were not going to be vaccinated.
00:17:29.240And I knew that would be a tough sell to whoever I married and trying to explain why I was so passionate about it.
00:19:26.120And so that really was the earth shattering moment for me, because that was when I went through that cognitive dissonance of like, is it plausible that everything I thought was true is not?
00:19:35.820Like, this is the upside down moment, because I thought the left and the Democrats were the good guys fighting for rights.
00:19:40.920And I then had to confront the idea that all of those people that I had dismissed as like backwards and racist and rednecks and, you know, wish that Black Americans were still enslaved may have been lied about.
00:19:57.600And the only way that I could get through that was through true education, meaning I started buying books from people that I had dismissed in my head as race traitors.
00:20:08.640And the person who completely changed me was Thomas Sowell.
00:20:13.340I started reading Thomas Sowell's books, and there was no coming back from that.
00:20:17.220I was made aware of Thomas Sowell, I don't know, before COVID, he had started cropping up for whatever reason, and I started reading him.
00:20:31.480And likewise, that was a great awakening for me.
00:20:35.620That was a sense in which I was made to confront the possibility that a large part of the civil rights, whatever, Black Lives Matter, the Democrat Party, the party of the people, that it was upside down.
00:20:54.380What Thomas Sowell was saying, I thought, can that be true?
00:20:57.440Because this guy certainly looks and sounds credible.
00:20:59.580I'm going to have difficulty thinking that this guy is, you know, is not qualified to say these things.
00:21:08.300What do you, how do you assess then, you know, fast forward to now, Trump and Kennedy Jr.?
00:21:17.240What's your reading of that apparent unity of intent?
00:21:38.800I think both of them, first and foremost, if you're running and you're Trump and you know that actually a large contingent of your voter base was keen on RFK Jr.,
00:21:50.200I would say definitely like suburban moms were keen on RFK Jr. because they preferred his demeanor, preferred his rhetoric.
00:21:57.240I mean, even conservative women, you will still have that continued who are just like, I just don't like the way Trump speaks.
00:22:04.920And so I think it was, look, I'm going to back up Trump because, and this is from RFK Jr.'s perspective, I truly believe that what the left wants to implement is evil.
00:22:15.880And so if I have to back someone, and also they treated him terribly, I'm going to back Trump.
00:22:20.800And then from Trump, I think their team is just thinking, well, it's good because this shows how radical the left is.
00:22:28.100But is it a true partnership in terms of their ideas?
00:22:32.180And one of my concerns is I wonder if him partnering with RFK Jr., while it does placate a piece of the base, if it abandons another, because there are people, many people, who just think, I don't want you to placate.
00:23:57.760I thought, we're getting away from the everyday world here that I've inhabited for all of these decades.
00:24:05.240We're now moving into terrain into which I have not really previously stepped or explored.
00:24:12.940But that word comes at me too often now for me to, well, I certainly won't dismiss it out of hand.
00:24:21.860Do you feel that we're dealing with actual malevolence, actual evil, that rather than us just being caught in the cogs of a big machine for which we are just, you know, dots on spreadsheets, flashing lights on screens, do you detect evil intent?
00:24:42.700Yeah, I don't just feel it, I know it, you know, I've spent time, I've done the research, and it is full, unadulterated evil that we are confronting right now.
00:24:53.980And it's, when we're referring to a global elite, a small group of people that have amassed power over almost the entire world, the kind of evil that can control the media and compel the human race into action, knowing that it is going to harm them.
00:25:13.880The kind of evil that can tell a global lie and get away with it and not even care that you're harming, and this is really, for me, the litmus test, children.
00:27:02.300Because I look on it, I look on it, what's happening, or I've been looking on it, what's happening in Ukraine.
00:27:09.360And I've been paying close attention to it and talking to people about it from the start.
00:27:14.900And because of the loss of trust that I'd experienced during COVID, I was instantly suspicious about what was happening in Ukraine.
00:27:23.520It seemed too convenient that they suddenly had this upon which to focus everyone's attention.
00:27:30.320And by now, and of course, I watched our own former Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the NATO bag carrier who went out and scuppered the peace deal, which was already on the table.
00:27:40.940And that has led, well, directly really to, well, I was talking to Colonel Douglas MacGregor the other night, and he was quoting a figure of 600,000 Ukrainian dead.
00:27:54.120And then there's Russian dead on top of that.
00:27:56.360And then I look at what's happening in Gaza, and that the brunt of the suffering there, and most of the dying, is women and children and babies.
00:28:10.500And that I live in a world that's blithely looking on at both of those sequences of events unfolding.
00:28:20.460And it's like watching a car crash in slow motion and being unable to do anything to stop it.
00:28:27.840And you say children, and you say evil.
00:28:31.040And the motivations behind those things, increasingly, I find it impossible to deny, but that it's malevolent intent.
00:28:41.220We installed, after a color revolution, a leader in Ukraine that we could control.
00:28:48.940That leader was then followed up by another leader who was an actor, which is an actor, Zelensky.