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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2374 - Candace Owens Is Evil

24 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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We'll prepare for President Trump's State of the Union address, and we're going to analyze the top global box office at Wuthering Heights and explore what its perversity actually means for our civilization. But first, everyone knows what the legacy media is going to look like tonight. It'll be somewhat depressing, somewhat dramatic. Caitlin Collins will be a little outraged. But President Trump

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is going to be making his State of the Union, and you can hang out with us instead. We have our very own State of the Union watch party. It kicks off 8 p.m. Eastern with a live pre-show hosted by Cabot Phillips. We'll get you ready for President Donald Trump's big night, which you can watch right here. And then once the speech is over, we're just getting started.

Chapter 2: What controversy surrounds Candace Owens and Erica Kirk?

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She has been calling Erica Kirk a lesbian pedophile grooming a 15 year old. She is suggesting, of course, she has been suggesting for a while that TPUSA was complicit, if not in the murder of Charlie Kirk, then in the cover up of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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This is the stuff that Candace Owens has been doing because Candace Owens is a true vampire when it comes to conservatism and the conservative movement. She finds prominent people and then she grifts off of them and then she does more grifting off of them and then she grifts them until she's done grifting them. Then she moves on to the next thing she can grift off of. Truly sick, truly evil.

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You lack for words. There is a biblical injunction for those of us who actually care about the Bible. There's a biblical injunction in Exodus 22.

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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about President Trump's State of the Union address?

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You ought not to oppress any widow or orphan. Now, the reason that I focus in on this is because aside from the fact that Candace drives huge numbers through slandering people, truly slandering them. And yes, Erica Kirk absolutely should sue the living hell out of Candace Owens for this sort of stuff.

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The reason I bring this up is because there's been a wide and vast silence by people who should have spoken out about this months and months and months ago. In fact, some of us were calling this out from the stage of TPUSA in December. Here's what I had to say about Candace doing exactly this thing. This is back in December. It is now nearly the end of February.

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And the same people who I suggested were silent then are silent now.

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So, if Candace Owens decides to spend every day since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting aspersions at TPUSA and the people who work here, who worked with Charlie every single day, his best friends, to cast aspersions at Mikey McCoy and Andrew Colvin and Blake Neff and Tyler Boyer and, yes, at Erica Kirk, and to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover-up over Charlie's murder...

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to spew absolutely baseless trash implicating everyone from French intelligence to Mossad to members of TPUSA in Charlie's murder or a cover-up in that murder, then we, as people with a microphone, have a moral obligation to call that out by name.

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Erica Kirk and TPUSA never, never should have been put in the position to have to defend themselves against such specious and evil attacks, particularly in a time of mourning. And the people who refuse to condemn Candace's truly vicious attacks, and some of them are speaking here, are guilty of cowardice. Yes, cowardice.

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The fact that they have said nothing while Candace has been vomiting all sorts of hideous and conspiratorial nonsense into the public square for years is just as cowardly. When the signs are there for years on end and people say nothing and people continue to say nothing today, that's cowardice, obviously. Where are Charlie's friends? Where are Charlie's closest friends?

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Where are all the people who proclaim solidarity with Charlie and with Erica today? What are they doing? And for all the people who are watching Candace stitch together a bunch of specious nonsense because they like the gossip of it, because they enjoy the tawdry Maury Povich nonsense silliness of it because they're watching a car crash at the side of the road.

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Please have some more respect for your own brain than that. Please have some more respect for yourself than that. Truly, truly, because what she's doing is evil. And when you watch her show, she gets paid to do that evil. That is how she is making her money.

Chapter 4: How does Candace Owens's behavior reflect on the conservative movement?

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It's been this gigantic freeze that has beset New York City and the rest of the East Coast. And as you'll see. On Washington Square. Several NYPD officers responded to a call there and people started hurling snowballs at them. Isn't like playful stuff. They were actually trying to hurt them. They started just hurling objects at the police officers.

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Every one of these people should be identified and every one of these people should go to jail. Every single one of them. Hurling objects at police officers, assaulting police officers, mobs of people. Some of them masked, trying to assault police officers. This is 1970 style disorder in New York City. And yes, it has been prompted and promoted by people like Zoran Mamdani.

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The attitude that governance has toward people who are actual hoodlums in the streets has a pretty marked impact on whether or not people act like hoodlums in the streets. Forget about broken windows theory. How about attacking cops theory? You attack a cop, you go to jail. Again, pretty simple stuff.

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But the rising level of disorder and chaos that we see in the country is a direct result of governance decisions that are being made in blue cities, particularly by the people who run those blue cities.

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You think it has no impact on how people think of the cops that Zahra Mamdani has spent his entire career prior to being elected mayor of New York, ripping on the cops and suggesting that they are a nefarious force. for viciousness, of course it has an impact. Every single one of those people pelting the NYPD with snowballs should go to jail. And those are full-grown adults, by the way.

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Those are not kids. You're not talking about misbegotten 15-year-old juvenile delinquents who get frisky with the cops. You're talking about, look at that video again. You're talking about people who are standing there, the cops arrive, and they just start hurling things at the cops. Jessica Tish,

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who is the commissioner of the NYPD, put out a statement, quote, the NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops. I want to be very clear, the behavior depicted is disgraceful and it is criminal. Our detectives are investigating this matter. The PBA called the incident unacceptable and outrageous, according to ABC7 in New York.

Chapter 5: What are the implications of the new Wuthering Heights film on society?

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A viral report by Citrini Research tapped into a new strain of fears about AI, painting a dark portrait of the future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge at work. Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software industry disruption don't go far enough. The global intelligence crisis is about to hit.

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Citrini wrote, for the entirety of modern economic history, human intelligence has been the scarce input. We are now experiencing the unwind of that premium. And basically, in English, what they are saying is that... During the information technology era, people who are smart are the shortage, and those people get paid a lot of money. And then there's a lot of downstream jobs from that.

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But what happens when everybody becomes smart because of AI? What is now the scarce input? How do people get paid? What do you do that a machine can't? So number one, there is labor, manual labor that people do. There's care work, healthcare, for example. But I think the thing that's going to be in actual short supply remains a level of intuitive creativity that machines just can't do.

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And there will be jobs that are created by that. Now, are we in a transitional period where we don't know quite what's going on? Yes. And this is why I think the president really should convene a lot of AI optimists and have them put out together a report that suggests what they think the future economy looks like. What will people actually do for a living?

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Maybe it's speculative, but the downside right now is speculative. So we're going to have to see, again, how the president addresses that. I think that is sort of the dog that isn't barking yet, at least clearly in the minds of many people with regard to this economy. People are sort of feeling like they're on the precipice of something they don't know quite what.

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Meanwhile, the president's continual focus on tariffs is not helping him. That is not a popular policy with the American people. I think it is right not to be a popular policy with the American people. The president, however, keeps talking about how he's going to jack up tariffs. Tariffs are going to make America rich.

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The reality is that the tariffs that the president has loaded on the economy have not rejiggered manufacturing in the United States. They have not reduced the trade deficit. They may have contributed slightly to inflation.

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However, the president continuing to talk about it creates serious input problems when it comes to small businesses, businesses that have to determine whether or not they're going to invest in new workers. Where do they spend the money? Are they going to have to pay higher prices for the inputs in their labor? Are they going to have to pay new fees and taxes to the government?

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That uncertainty is a real blow to the economy. And so President Trump will argue the economy is great. And the economy is overall pretty good. But convincing people of the thing they don't feel in their guts is a very, very difficult thing. Now, when it comes to the generic congressional ballot, while the president is currently riding at 40, 39% or so,

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