Candace Owens - This Article Disturbed Me
Aired: 2023-06-22
Duration: 09:08


=== The West's Decline (08:23) ===

[00:00:00]  So the West is falling.
[00:00:01]  There's really no way to sugarcoat that.
[00:00:03]  I think if you've been watching the show, if you've been reading headlines, you recognize that something has gone really awry in the West.
[00:00:09]  And we are just now managing a steep cultural decline.
[00:00:14]  That's kind of what's happening everywhere you go.
[00:00:16]  You just go, how do we have any power left in the world?
[00:00:19]  America has become a repeat joke.
[00:00:21]  It's not just America. It's the entire Western hemisphere.
[00:00:25]  And one thing almost broke me.
[00:00:27]  I'll tell you basically, it was just a crazy week of headlines in America and in the West and weighing them against the East.
[00:00:33]  So let me just show you some headlines that went out last week about, well, let's start with Russia.
[00:00:39]  Here it is in Reuters. Putin says Russia's new Sarmat nuclear missiles soon ready for deployment.
[00:00:46]  Saw that headline. I was like, wow, that is serious.
[00:00:48]  He is actually moving nuclear warheads into Belarus.
[00:00:51]  Here's another headline from the Eastern Hemisphere.
[00:00:54]  This one's from CNN. It says, Putin blames Ukraine for lack of talks as African leaders press for peace.
[00:01:01]  Okay, that sounds like global leaders.
[00:01:03]  It's a very serious debate. Here's another headline.
[00:01:05]  Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls for fast accession of Bosnia into the EU. Okay, that's pretty serious.
[00:01:12]  That's a serious, heavy-hitting headline.
[00:01:14]  Here's another one. This one's about Belarus.
[00:01:17]  Belarus will not hesitate to use nukes if aggressed.
[00:01:21]  Lukashenko, wow, that's crazy.
[00:01:23]  That is serious stuff that is what you expect to read when you are following politics.
[00:01:27]  Well, in that same week, here was a headline about our president, Joe Biden.
[00:01:33]  It says, Okay.
[00:01:48]  Cool. Well, it can't be that bad.
[00:01:50]  Let's roll the old footage.
[00:01:51]  Take a look. Happy Pride Month.
[00:01:55]  Happy Pride Year.
[00:01:57]  Happy Pride Life.
[00:01:58]  Yeah! Transgender children.
[00:02:01]  You are beautiful. You are heard.
[00:02:04]  You belong. You are understood.
[00:02:06]  You are loved. And you belong.
[00:02:10]  One of the bravest, the most inspiring people I've ever known.
[00:02:14]  I mean, you're welcome.
[00:02:15]  Good folks. So yes, Putin is moving nuclear warheads to Belarus, and our president is saying that the most inspiring and bravest people that he knows are LGBTQ transgendered individuals.
[00:02:32]  Those are the most bravest people that he possibly knows.
[00:02:34]  Okay, okay.
[00:02:36]  How much worse could it possibly have gotten?
[00:02:42]  Topless at the White House?
[00:02:44]  I am feminine.
[00:02:50]  I guess we all follow the story, Topless at the White House.
[00:02:54]  I really thought that one was going to drive me to my wits' end.
[00:02:56]  I didn't even know.
[00:02:58]  I just think about how leaders overseas are thinking what China is thinking when they're assessing these things that are happening on the White House lawn.
[00:03:04]  It just seems like an opportunity.
[00:03:05]  They're probably thinking, this is a perfect time for us to invade America and take it over.
[00:03:09]  Maybe Japan's over there going, hey, maybe we should just invade America and take America over.
[00:03:13]  And because obviously there's no quality in their culture.
[00:03:16]  But really, guys, when I thought it couldn't get any work, I don't know, worse, I don't know what it is.
[00:03:21]  This column broke me.
[00:03:23]  It really broke me.
[00:03:25]  I was reading that Boris Johnson was going to start writing columns for the Daily Mail, and I thought that's interesting because when somebody leaves office and Especially somebody who led Brexit, right?
[00:03:38]  Who actually led the UK's exit from the EU. He says, I'm going to start writing a column.
[00:03:46]  I go, well, that must be interesting because that was a big deal.
[00:03:49]  Brexit was a very big deal.
[00:03:50]  No one thought it could get done. It got done.
[00:03:52]  And it got done under Boris Johnson.
[00:03:55]  So I said, wow, obviously his first column is going to be something that we should all be paying attention to.
[00:03:59]  It's going to be interesting. What was it like?
[00:04:04]  in the halls of Parliament.
[00:04:06]  Well, here's the column that he went for as his first column.
[00:04:10]  The wonder drug I hoped would stop my 11.30 p.m.
[00:04:13]  fridge raids for cheddar and chorizo didn't work for me, but I still believe it could change the lives of millions.
[00:04:22]  I thought I read it wrong.
[00:04:22]  I said, there's no way he's about to write a column about Wigowi,
[00:04:26]  in case this is not Boris Kardashian.
[00:04:28]  That would be ridiculous.
[00:04:29]  Obviously, a former prime minister is not going to actually write a column about him injecting himself
[00:04:35]  with some glu-tide to make himself be skinny.
[00:04:38]  And obviously, ladies and gentlemen, I was wrong because the West is falling.
[00:04:42]  And so now everyone's a Kardashian, even Boris Johnson sitting prime ministers.
[00:04:46]  How much can you display?
[00:04:48]  Take your top off on the White House lawn or write about what Govy and how you're puking into toilets.
[00:04:52]  I'm going to read you some excerpts.
[00:04:53]  He writes, I first thought that something was up when I saw that a certain member of the cabinet had miraculously changed his appearance.
[00:05:01]  He had acquired a new jawline.
[00:05:03]  His neck emerged without effort from his collar.
[00:05:05]  When he rose from his chair at the cabinet table, the chair no longer tried to cling
[00:05:10]  longingly about his hips.
[00:05:12]  If an otherwise healthy middle-aged man displays sudden weight loss, I reasoned, there are
[00:05:17]  only two possible explanations.
[00:05:19]  Either he has fallen hopelessly in love, or else he is about to mount a Tory leadership
[00:05:24]  bid.
[00:05:25]  Start talking about his own weight and how he struggles with that.
[00:05:28]  He writes, He twanged his braces again.
[00:05:54]  There was no argument.
[00:05:56]  It was a miracle.
[00:05:57]  He then talks about the history of the drug a little bit and him consulting with his doctor about going on to it.
[00:06:04]  He goes on to write,"...say goodbye to that unconquerable mid-morning lust for a bacon sandwich.
[00:06:11]  No longer will you stand over the children waiting for them to push aside their bowls of pasta and then ruthlessly scoff whatever they have left." I was going to start to resemble a chiseled whippet.
[00:06:40]  Doctor wrote the prescription. I zoomed to the chemists, and though I was frankly a bit taken back by the cost, what the hell, I said to myself, think of the benefits to health.
[00:06:50]  So for weeks, I jabbed my stomach, and for weeks, it worked effortlessly.
[00:06:54]  I pushed aside the puddings and the second helpings.
[00:06:57]  Wasn't it amazing, I said to myself, how little food you really need?
[00:07:01]  I must have been losing four or five pounds a week, maybe more, when all at once, it started to go wrong.
[00:07:08]  I don't know why exactly, but Maybe it was something to do with constantly flying around the world and changing time zones, but I started to dread those injections because they were making me feel ill.
[00:07:18]  One minute, I would be fine.
[00:07:20]  The next minute, I would be talking to Ralph on the big white phone.
[00:07:24]  And I am afraid that I decided that I couldn't go on.
[00:07:27]  For now, I am back to exercise and willpower.
[00:07:30]  But I look at my colleagues, leaner but not hungrier.
[00:07:33]  And I hope that if science can do it for them, maybe one day it can help me and everyone else.
[00:07:39]  He concludes by saying...
[00:07:41]  I see nothing morally wrong in using these drugs to help you lose weight any more than it's wrong to use an electrically assisted bicycle to get up the hill.
[00:07:48]  Even for us fatties, it turns out there is such a thing as satiety, and science has found it.
[00:07:54]  There it is, you guys.
[00:07:56]  This column, it broke me.
[00:07:57]  I really just said to myself, we're done.
[00:07:59]  There's nothing left that the West has to give.
[00:08:02]  I mean, you can't even make something up like this, that if former prime minister decides to write a column, and this is what he decides to focus on, him throwing up in a toilet because he wanted to look slim like other people that he was seeing in the cabinet.

=== Absolutely No Shame (00:59) ===

[00:08:14]  This should not happen.
[00:08:15]  We are not serious people.
[00:08:17]  We have stopped being serious people.
[00:08:19]  I can't even fathom what would happen if...
[00:08:24]  Putin hosted a gathering at the Kremlin and a transgendered individual took off their top to show their surgically enhanced breasts.
[00:08:34]  I can't even imagine. I would assume he would kill the person.
[00:08:37]  I don't know. It's Putin. I don't know if it would just be like immediately an execution for causing such embarrassment to the country.
[00:08:42]  We have no shame.
[00:08:44]  Literally, the West has lost all shame.
[00:08:46]  We are utterly shameless from the top to the bottom.
[00:08:49]  We have absolutely no dignity, no respect for ourselves.
[00:08:53]  Women don't have respect for ourselves.
[00:08:55]  The men don't have respect for themselves.
[00:08:57]  And least of all, the leaders of our countries have absolutely no respect for themselves or the people that they serve.
[00:09:05]  So this column infuriated me.
[00:09:07]  It basically broke me.