0:03 ladies and Gentlemen please welcome host
0:07 of Candace Owens Candace Owens [Applause]
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0:34 all right let's get started
0:36 first and foremost I just want to thank
0:37 you guys for having me back it's always
0:39 such an honor to speak on the stage and
0:41 I was thinking about it today and
0:43 unbelievably I've spoken at CPAC five
0:45 times it seems to have gone by so fast
0:48 they've always welcomed me Mercedes and
0:50 Matt schlapp and I'm just so grateful
0:52 for that opportunity and I was thinking
0:54 back to those first moments and how much
0:57 my life has changed since five years ago
0:59 how much all of our lives have changed
1:02 since five years ago how much the global
1:04 conversation has changed nobody could
1:06 have fathomed five years ago the covid
1:09 era nobody could have fathomed so much
1:12 Global governance taking place but I
1:13 think the biggest changes in my life
1:15 obviously have taken place on a personal
1:18 level I think about flying around the
1:20 world traveling with Charlie Kirk when I
1:22 first started and now I'm a married
1:30 the best part of life beginning for me
1:31 and and so much change is when you
1:33 become a parent you hear it all the time
1:36 and it's so correct and I think what
1:38 really changes is your understanding of
1:40 what matters in the world you know you
1:41 look at your children you look at your
1:42 family and you understand that this is
1:47 what really matters but in the same vein
1:48 you could say that you also understand
1:51 what doesn't matter what's not important
1:55 and then you also understand what can't
1:57 matter and I want to talk about that for
1:58 a little bit because when I say what
2:00 can't matter I'm talking about matter as
2:04 a word as a substant existence of
2:05 something what things that cannot
2:08 materialize I have this thought all the
2:11 time I'm so preoccupied with thinking
2:13 about things that cannot materialize now
2:14 that my children are in this world
2:17 because the fight now seems so much more
2:20 important uh the battles now I'm we are
2:22 deciding upon the future for our
2:24 children for my children and I've never
2:27 been more committed so I wanted to First
2:28 share with you something that a
2:30 colleague of mine posted Matt Walsh she
2:32 posted this onto his Twitter yesterday
2:34 actually and I was really struck by it
2:36 because I've read things like it from
2:38 the past and I think it really serves a
2:41 reminder for everyone in this room as to
2:43 where we are today in America this is
2:45 the passage it was written during the
2:48 Civil War and this is a letter to a
2:50 loved one from a soldier an infantryman
2:53 in Pennsylvania
2:56 he writes under the dark shade of a
2:58 towering Oak near the dunker Church lay
3:00 the lifeless form of a drummer boy
3:03 apparently not more than 17 years of age
3:06 flax and hair and eyes of blue and form
3:09 of delicate mold as I approached him I
3:11 stooped down and as I did so I perceived
3:13 a bloody Mark upon his forehead it
3:15 showed where the lead-in messenger of
3:17 death had produced the wound that caused
3:19 his death his lips were compressed his
3:22 eyes half open a bright smile played
3:25 upon his countenance by his side lay his
3:28 tenor drum never to be tapped again so
3:30 again to provide that context this was
3:33 written as just a letter to a loved one
3:37 from an 18 year old Soldier and why Matt
3:39 was struck by this passage and why I
3:41 have been similarly stricken by passages
3:43 like it reading these letters that just
3:45 soldiers 18 year old seven-year-old boys
3:48 were riding back home is how poetic and
3:51 how beautiful it is this is not written
3:52 by somebody with a formal education it's
3:54 written by an year old just saying this
3:56 is what I'm seeing on the battlefield
4:00 and yet it reads like a haunting poetry
4:02 and it begs the question what on Earth
4:04 has happened
4:06 where Once Upon a Time in America you
4:08 had people with no formal education that
4:10 were able to produce words and content
4:12 like this and now we are suddenly in a
4:14 society where there's so much formal
4:17 education and do you think the average
4:19 18 year old could describe what they're
4:21 seeing in that way
4:22 this is not a this is not a stunning
4:24 example this is not a person that was
4:26 exceptional this was your average 18
4:29 year old during the Civil War so what's
4:31 happened in American society today we've
4:33 given out so many degrees we actually as
4:38 a fact have never given out more degrees
4:40 and yet from an IQ perspective we have
4:41 never produced students that are this
4:43 dumb that doesn't make sense
4:46 I'm serious I'm talking about
4:48 their standardized tests children are
4:51 getting dumber and dumber and dumber and
4:54 you have to ask yourself why or how that
4:57 is also the emergence at the University
5:00 level of what Thomas Soul refers to as
5:03 soft subjects right people that are
5:04 receiving all of these degrees but
5:06 getting them in bizarre subjects like
5:08 gender studies
5:10 what is that what do you do for four
5:13 years when you major in gender studies
5:17 what do you do when you graduate with a
5:18 degree in gender studies here I'll ask
5:21 you guys a question have you ever at any
5:23 moment in your entire life I want you to
5:25 think of every single moment in your
5:27 life have you ever in a time of trouble
5:29 or if you just had a basic question have
5:32 you ever said man I really need a gender
5:33 Studies major right now to sort through this
5:41 I'm gonna guess the answers no because
5:44 why would we need somebody with a degree
5:45 in general size there's nothing that
5:48 that person can do to contribute to our
5:51 society once they leave college and they
5:53 have mounds and mounds of debt and so
5:55 you laugh at these bizarre subjects that
5:57 you're seeing that are popping up so
5:59 many different bizarre ones just like
6:01 that and yet these kids leave with their
6:03 degree and they are the most egotistical
6:05 conceited children that you've ever seen
6:07 certain that their degree means
6:09 something until they're smacked in the
6:12 face with the Real Worlds until they
6:13 realize that it's not just the people in
6:15 this room that laugh at gender studies
6:17 Majors it's it's everybody nobody needs
6:18 you right
6:21 and then that person that spent all of
6:23 that money and has all this debt and now
6:25 has met the real world and realizes that
6:27 they're not needed becomes a very angry
6:30 individual and let me tell you something
6:32 there is no person that is is more
6:34 dangerous than an angry person that
6:36 perceives their own intellect that
6:37 believes that the world owes them
6:40 something because how could these high
6:42 school kids that didn't go on to college
6:44 and just learned how to fix ACS how are
6:46 they making more money than me is what
6:49 this person thinks right I have a degree
6:51 in gender studies how is Joe from my
6:53 class back in middle school making more
6:55 money and running a business oh I don't
6:57 know because personally for me I live in
6:58 Tennessee let me tell you something
7:00 about Joe from middle school class if
7:02 he's running a business
7:04 when the AC goes out I will pay any
7:08 amount of money for that person to come
7:13 because he has a real skill and real
7:15 skills are needed in a free market
7:17 Society we will pay for people with real skills
7:18 skills
7:20 I want to quote you something else that
7:23 Thomas Soul says about academics because
7:26 again I laugh at these people but they
7:29 do become dangerous this is a quote he
7:31 wrote people who have acquired academic
7:33 degrees without acquiring many
7:35 economically meaningful skills not only
7:37 face personal disappointment and
7:40 disaffection with Society but also have
7:42 often become negative factors in the
7:44 economy and even sources of danger
7:47 especially when they lash out in many
7:50 places and times soft subject students
7:52 and quote-unquote intellectuals have
7:54 inflamed hostility and sometimes
7:57 violence against many other successful groups
7:58 groups
8:01 here's another Thomas quotation
8:04 he wrote there is usually only a limited
8:05 amount of damage that can be done by
8:08 dull or stupid people for creating a
8:11 truly Monumental disaster you need
8:13 people with high IQs right you need
8:15 people in the Academia these people tend
8:17 to go on and then become professors
8:18 because that's all they can really do
8:20 with these meaningless degrees and they
8:22 become angry and they become dangerous
8:24 and if you look back at the last 100
8:26 years in American society there's
8:29 evidence for that everywhere a true evil
8:31 that has taken place in American society
8:32 is always being thought up on a
8:35 University campus it's the academics and
8:38 their solutions to problems right they
8:40 come up with horrible ideas like during
8:43 the Progressive Era they came up with
8:45 Eugenics they thought up Jim Crow these
8:47 people that you should be respecting are
8:49 the ones that are in classrooms right
8:52 now teaching themes like transgenderism
8:53 of course we shouldn't expect we
8:55 shouldn't respect them they know nothing
8:58 they've done nothing and yet they're
9:00 convinced of their own superiority
9:02 one of the biggest uphill battles when I
9:04 launched my YouTube channel so many
9:07 years ago was that the number one
9:08 critique that I was getting from
9:11 journalists aside from the fact that
9:12 they thought I was a black white
9:14 supremacist people are so smart they're
9:17 really smart guys they're really smart
9:19 but they kept remarking on the fact that
9:22 I hadn't finished College like that was
9:24 what made them feel above me okay
9:26 Candace didn't finish University yes
9:27 it's true I had to drop out in my senior
9:29 year because Sally May had a big
9:31 collapse and my family couldn't afford
9:33 it so these elitists and their mentality
9:35 mocked me for years until I eventually
9:37 finished but they mocked me and they
9:38 felt better and smarter than me because
9:40 they have a meaningless degree and that
9:42 that makes them feel that they are of
9:44 some importance
9:46 and what they do when they are in these
9:48 classrooms and when they get power they
9:49 understand what they can do and why they
9:51 become dangerous is that they are
9:53 raising up the next generation of people
9:55 that we are going to have to contend
9:57 with with Society they are brainwashing
10:00 them with more bad and dangerous ideas
10:02 I'll give you just a few examples of
10:04 some that we are dealing with today some
10:06 things that have materialized in our
10:09 society today there is the Battle of
10:12 climate change right it's every couple
10:14 of years they change why we're all going
10:15 to die I don't know when I was in school
10:17 global warming maybe when you were in
10:20 school it was global cooling there was
10:23 the ozone layer catastrophe they told
10:25 people acid rain if you're from the 70s
10:26 you know they keep telling us we're all
10:28 going to die every 10 years we get it right
10:30 right
10:32 and you wonder why is this a focus why
10:35 are they obsessed with making students
10:37 feel this fear why did they make me try
10:40 to program me when I was in high school
10:43 to watch uh Inconvenient Truth and
10:46 listen to Al Gore lecture us the planet
10:48 was going to be gone in 10 years unless
10:51 we of course listened to more governance
10:53 another one of their big big ones
10:55 obviously which I touched upon earlier
10:57 is transgenderism never thought we'd be
11:01 here never thought there's no way I do
11:03 not care if you had a crystal ball
11:04 there's no way that you could have
11:07 fathomed that you would be considered a
11:10 bigot if you said that men cannot be
11:13 women and women cannot be men that's
11:20 that you would be considered a bigot
11:22 I've been called a bigot for saying that
11:25 only women can give birth these things
11:29 are obvious obviously true and yet they
11:31 are teaching students people are earning
11:33 degrees in categories like
11:36 transgenderism to learn that no actually
11:38 that's not true that there's something
11:40 other than reality that you can that you
11:42 can achieve
11:45 another category of course is feminism
11:47 my personal favorites it's just rinsing
11:49 women to believe that they should hate
11:51 men that they should reject men that
11:52 every problem and Ill that we face in
11:55 society can be described by fluffy terms
11:58 like toxic masculinity right these women
12:00 that are Marching and you look at all
12:01 these things and I describe them as
12:03 evils and things that we shouldn't laugh at
12:04 at
12:06 because yes the left is radical but they
12:09 are ever so intentional they are
12:12 Machiavellian and they know exactly what
12:15 they are doing they know what all of
12:16 these things have in common climate
12:18 change transgenderism feminism we look
12:22 up and we go how why what's wrong with
12:25 the bathroom signs why why do they
12:27 choose violence every day against random
12:29 things that nobody cared about
12:33 well the truth is that their intentions
12:36 are to go after the one thing that
12:39 stands between them and absolute power
12:51 and so we revisit those topics and I
12:52 want you to remember this because it's
12:54 so important you will see it everywhere
12:55 and attack on the family unit you
12:57 revisit those categories and the things
12:58 that they are raising up children to
13:00 believe and you see how it destroys families
13:01 families
13:03 climate change of course what they tell
13:05 children first and foremost is that it
13:07 would be irresponsible to have big
13:09 families it would be irresponsible to
13:11 have children AOC once said that she
13:13 wasn't going to have children because of
13:14 planet and climate change she thought it
13:16 was irresponsible now listen I am not
13:18 going to fight her not going to fight
13:19 her on that one [Applause]
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13:24 but think about that think about the
13:26 facts that Prince Harry and Meghan
13:29 Markle were awarded with an award a
13:31 climate change award for agreeing to
13:33 only have two children because it's
13:35 better for the planet
13:38 it's it's so evil it's so sociopathic
13:39 that this is what they are warning
13:40 people for
13:42 you revisit transgenderism and what
13:45 better way to annihilate families than
13:47 to annihilate bodies we won't be able to
13:49 produce families you have men that are
13:50 mutilating their bodies so that they
13:52 can't reproduce you are having women
13:54 that are mutilating their bodies so that
13:55 they cannot reproduce you are having
13:58 people that are confused people that are
14:00 taking so much medication after they
14:02 realize of course
14:05 that mutilating your own body does not
14:08 change your sex it does not do that it's
14:10 just you mutilating your own body these
14:12 people become enslaved by big Pharma
14:14 they take pills to try to make
14:15 themselves happy to deal with their own
14:17 depression but of course that is an
14:19 attack ultimately on the Family
14:21 and then you look at feminism and you
14:22 look at how radical it's become in the
14:26 hatred towards men and and you see the
14:27 way that women speak of men absolutely
14:30 no respect the modern feminist has for
14:32 man and you see them confusing gender
14:34 roles again telling men that telling
14:37 women that they need to be just like men
14:39 need to go out in society we need to
14:41 climb the corporate ladder don't worry
14:42 about your kids the government will
14:44 raise them that's why we have the
14:47 Department of Education which by the way
15:00 but you see they understand that as they
15:02 pressure women to go out and to pursue
15:04 their careers and they simultaneously
15:06 tell women that they don't need a man
15:09 they are of course attacking the family
15:12 units because those children are no
15:15 longer in two-parent households because
15:16 at the same time they're fathers
15:19 ironically are being told to act like women
15:21 women
15:24 be more sensitive cry more get into your
15:26 feelings right you can be just like a
15:28 woman you can you can literally be a
15:31 woman right you're telling men that any
15:34 demonstration of masculinity is wrong
15:36 and backwards you're producing a society
15:38 where they want men to be like dogs with
15:40 their tails in between their legs and
15:42 that is because they know that there is
15:44 no society that can survive without
15:47 strong men and there is no family that
15:49 can survive without both strong men and
16:01 family is is what it's all about and I
16:02 think that has been my biggest
16:04 understanding over these last five years
16:08 that it is the most important topic my
16:10 husband gave a speech recently where he
16:13 talked about cultivating a positive and
16:15 healthy interior life right and I think
16:16 about that often I think about my
16:18 household and I think that the best way
16:20 to effectuate change is to make sure
16:22 that you are cultivating a healthy
16:24 interior life you can control what
16:26 happens in your households we need more
16:28 people committed to that
16:30 friend of mine Jack pesobic says if you
16:33 want to be a rebel start a family I'm
16:34 going to add to that and say Don't just
16:47 the interior life your family is of the
16:50 utmost importance but closely following
16:52 that of course is the exterior life and
16:55 here's what I will say and I say this
16:56 um from the bottom of my heart and I
16:58 mean this well
17:00 if you are somebody who believes that we
17:03 need to meet and sit down and break
17:06 bread with the left on these various
17:07 topics to figure out how we can come
17:10 together we don't need you
17:31 they're
17:33 there there is no middle ground on
17:35 transgenderism there is no middle ground
17:37 on child grooming there was no middle
17:39 ground on coming up with fluffy terms
17:41 for pedophilia there is no middle
17:43 grounds and if you are offended because
17:46 some of us have the courage to say what
17:49 needs to be said we simply don't need
17:59 ladies and gentlemen I think I have made
18:01 a career of fighting like hell my
18:03 promise to you always upon the stage and
18:04 out in the world is that I will never
18:07 stop fighting like hell especially when
18:09 it comes to family thank you so much God
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18:18 thank you so much
18:21 thank you so much thank you [Music]
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