Psychosis Maxing With Candace Owens

In this episode, Simone & Malcolm Collins dive deep into the escalating conspiracy theories from Candace Owens’ world—especially after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. From Charlie being a time traveler who attended a secret “X-Men school” for gifted kids, to Brigitte Macron (and Michelle Obama) secretly being men, Harvard as a Mossad base, Frankist cults running the world, the Bolshevik Revolution, 9/11, JFK, fake moon landings, dinosaurs being “fake and gay,” and the infamous Egyptian planes surveillance plot... we break it all down.

Is this audience capture on steroids? AI-induced psychosis? Genuine belief amplified by massive Patreon money ($200k+/month)? Or just the most entertaining grift in conservative media right now? We plausibility-check where things aren’t totally insane (spy recruitment on campuses is real!), laugh at the absurdity, and explore why her follower count exploded in 2025.

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Simone outlined this episode, so the notes (and some text screenshots) follow and the transcript can be found after. :)The Candice bot: https://rfab.ai/share/adventure/youre-candace-owens-and-all-your-conspiracy-theori RFab is finally mostly stable:

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Episode Notes

Candace Owens has gone so off the reservation that we’ve got to talk about it.

The latest from Candace Owens is that she claims he’s a time traveler based on joking, flirty texts he sent her.

Writes Cinema Shogun on X: Candace Owens is now saying that Charlie Kirk was marked since a child because he had special powers. She thinks he could possibly see into the future. And claims he went to a secret school for kids with gifted abilities like the X-Men. That’s where we’re at folks.

* He posts a clip of her talking about this followed by the X-men intro—love it

I had not realized how far it had gotten.

And yet Candace Owens has a huge following:

* 7.5M followers on X

* For scale:

* Brett Cooper—also part of the Daily Wire cinematic universe—has 538.8K

* Ben Shapiro has 8M

* Asmongold has 1.2M

* Elon Musk has 2342.5M

* Donald Trump has 109.3M

* Hasan Piker has 1.6M

* Greta Thunberg has 5.1M

* 5.74M subscribers on YouTube

* Ben Shapiro has 7.13M

* Brett Cooper (who split off from Daily Wire __ after Candace Owens) has 1.68M

* Asmongold has 4.31M

* Hasan Piker has 1.77M

* 11.8K members on Patreon

* Her membership starts at $20/month, so minimally she’ making 20*11,860= $237,200/month.

* Minimal tiers allows people to: “Submit questions and comments to have answered/discussed in the final segment of “A Shot In the Dark”. This will be the only pool of questions selected from.”

So I decided to explore:

* What exactly Candace Owens is claiming

* Whether her apparent psychosis is AI psychosis, audience-driven psychosis, good ol’ fashioned psychosis, or a mix

* What role her audience plays: Are they egging her on for entertainment, intentionally worsening her psychosis? Do they believe what she’s saying?

Candace Owens’ Claims

The Antisemetic Theories

I think these may be the most important, as I think they lead to a surge in support (as antisemitism is on the rise and her expression of it is uniquely entertaining)

* Owens has alleged that Jews founded Israel as part of a “cult” linked to the Frankist sect, involved in crimes against Christians during Passover.

* She has claimed Jews orchestrated the Bolshevik Revolution to exterminate Christians, that Harvard University serves as a Mossad base, that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that the Holocaust is exaggerated or fabricated (calling Elie Wiesel a “liar”).

* She has also suggested critics of Israel fear for their lives and that Jews assassinated JFK. These claims have been labeled as promoting antisemitic tropes.

The Transgender Conspiracies

* I knew about the Macron conspiracies:

* That Brigitte Macron, France’s first lady, was born male (named Jean-Michel Trogneux, her brother’s name), leading to a 2025 defamation lawsuit from the Macrons.

* Side note that she also claims the Macrons:

* Are plotting her assassination

* are complicit in Charlie Kirk’s murder (via French involvement in global conspiracies)

* What I did NOT know was that she made similar baseless allegations about other women like Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris, suggesting these are part of a broader pattern where powerful women’s achievements “defy traditional norms.

The Fake and Gay Series

She has referred to some things as “fake and gay” though sadly in this case “gay” is meant as a slang pejorative and not an additional conspiracy about gay men conspiring to do things, which would have been entertaining.

Moon Landing

Owens has described the Apollo moon landings as “fake and gay,” hosting conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel on her podcast to promote the idea that they were staged (possibly by Stanley Kubrick). She later clarified on Bill Maher’s podcast that she doesn’t care enough about the topic to fully endorse it as a hoax

Dinosaurs

She has called dinosaurs “fake and gay” and suggested the moon landing denial ties into broader skepticism of official narratives. Owens has also promoted Gnostic-inspired ideas, viewing certain events (like Kirk’s assassination) through a lens of ancient heresies where hidden knowledge reveals elite control

Social and Political Conspiracies

She has called dinosaurs “fake and gay” and suggested the moon landing denial ties into broader skepticism of official narratives. Owens has also promoted Gnostic-inspired ideas, viewing certain events (like Kirk’s assassination) through a lens of ancient heresies where hidden knowledge reveals elite control

The Charlie Kirk Conspiracies

* The Assassination Plot

* Owens alleged Kirk was shot from below the stage, with the assassin escaping through tunnels.

* She tied the killing to Israel (suggesting Mossad involvement due to K