I’ve watched about 10 of Candace's cult episodes post-assassination. It’s a fascinating window into cult indoctrination.
Watching the full videos is even more disturbing than the clips. Some of the cult tactics she uses:
1- She repeats herself constantly. Repeats words and phrases she wants to stick. She repeats them instead of letting them hang there where you might wonder ‘what’s the evidence of this?’
The evidence never comes, but she makes the statement again, and again, with more conviction…as if she showed you evidence.
2- She uses sarcasm, mockery and contempt probably 90% of the time now. Innuendo and implication delivered in sarcastic form. No evidence. But the tone tells you you’re stupid if you can’t see this.
3- Forced Teaming. She uses a lot of inclusive language so the cult feels like a home. Us, us, us, we, we, we. We will solve this. They can’t stop us. Etc.
She elevates herself to cult leader status constantly, usually after several we and us statements. She likens herself to David, fighting Goliath.
4- She ends every show reading effusive praise about herself. You’re a hero! You’re our David! We must protect you at all costs!
5- She uses mystical knowledge that you just have to “trust her bro” about. She uses the phrase “I don’t know. But I know know.” Over and over. Even puts it on merchandise now. Advertising that none of this is backed by evidence. But she know knows! Ya know?
She says Charlie came to her in a dream. Trust her bro. She uses this ghost Charlie to put words in Charlie Kirk’s mouth from beyond the grave. She refers back to it from time to time, adding to it and embellishing, when she wants to add extra authority to one of her attacks on people. She’ll attack their character simply because their husband was in the military for example (yes, this happened) and then back it up with ‘oh yeah and this was one of the people Charlie warned me about in the dream.’
6- She pretends her life is in danger and makes reference to this in various ways, in every episode, which triggers the attack dog sensibilities of her most rabid cultists. She needs to be defended you see!
7-She actually puts other people’s lives in danger by targeting them and implying something nefarious that she never offers evidence for. She has done this to dozens of people, including non-public figures like that poor hoodie guy. She has done this to Charlie’s closest friends and even to his Pastors.
Her biggest targets seem to be Seth Dillon and Josh Hammer though. She name drops them multiple times in almost every video. She brings them up constantly. She focuses the wrath of her increasingly unstable cult on these men and on Charlie’s friends, family, employees and Pastors. It’s like Orwell’s 2 minutes of hate but it’s over and over and over. Her cult essentially practices this kind of communal and focused hate of her perceived enemies with her.
There’s a lot more that’s alarming, but that’s a good start.
Whenever you’re discouraged, remember that millions of people around the world today heard these words at Charlie’s memorial:
“He’s the King of glory, He’s the Prince of Peace, He’s the Savior of the world, He’s the living God, He’s the God of all mercy and grace, the total embodiment of love, the total embodiment of truth. And He’s here today to call His children back to Him.” Rob McCoy
“Charlie, right now, is in heaven. Not because he was a great husband & father…. Not because he sacrificed himself for his Savior. Charlie Kirk is in heaven, because his Savior sacrificed himself for Charlie Kirk” Frank Turek
“Christ has overcome death!” Andrew Kolvet
“What we’ve known for 2,000 years is that any attempt at trying to extinguish the light makes it shine more brightly.” Tucker Carlson
“We were all created by the hands of the God of the universe, who loved us created us to live with Him in eternity. But then sin entered the world and separated us from our Creator. So God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us, and He suffered like men, and He died like a man. But on the third day He rose unlike any mortal man… And when He returns, there will be a new Heaven and a new earth, and we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie” Sec. Marco Rubio
“Put Christ at the center of your life.” Pete Hegseth
“I have talked more about Jesus in the past two weeks [since Charlie died] than I have in my entire public life.” JD Vance
“On the cross, our Savior said: ‘Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.’ That young man [who murdered Charlie]: I forgive him.” Erika Kirk
Praise God!
How did Charlie Kirk change your life?
I’ll start: Charlie made me open up about my relationship with Jesus and get into the Bible. I used to be quiet about faith because I didn’t think I was the perfect messenger. He made me realize perfection wasn’t what God expected from me.
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Fact of basic record: In Minnesota you can kill a baby in an abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and multiple babies have been born alive after failed abortions and left to die. All under Tim Walz's leadership.
Amber Thurman died because she aborted her twin babies with the abortion pill & subsequently got sepsis, a side effect listed on abortion drug box. Then, Amber didn't go to the hospital. When she did, doctors negligently didn't do a D&C to save her. She was killed by abortion.
@CocaineStan @Cliff_Sims @ChrisCillizza Ohioan here. Many Republicans don’t like DeWine. He got Dem support because they liked that he was “forward thinking” with Covid and one of the first to lock down his state. Dems loved his mask mandates, etc. Check out the numbers he got in the Republican primaries.
You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant. The “let me help you” megathread:
Imagine you’re a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media.
Your daily reminder that the CDC has presented no data showing vaccinated people are spreading COVID infections
If you’re vaccinated, you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than dying of COVID.
Our government, now considering lockdowns, has lost its effing mind.