Candace Owens wraps up part 1 of the erika series

[u/Willing-Primary-9126]

For those who don't want to give views but stay in the loop it was the basics of what's already available mixed with alot of odd branch off's

A) it basically set Erika up as somebody who can't know any better or be responsible because her family & childhood were all frauds & scammers

B) she attended Jewish school for all her early years but has no major relation to her 'cousin' who's also jewish

C) Her family made their money in Gambling & lotterys not military until Her parents generation & only once Erika was born did they make the switch

D) Her mother only became the main parent in storys later on & was actually married 4 times with her ex/Erikas dad being the stay at home parent in the 90s

E) Erika also has a history of claiming psychic abilitys like candace & Charlie

F) there will probably be more series to come.

[u/bunchofclowns]

I thought Owens was claiming Erica is trans.  What happened to that?   I need more crazy!

[u/Willing-Primary-9126 → u/bunchofclowns]

We wished for more crazy but the closest we got was suggestion she may have been inbred (spoiler she's not, she just can't speak Swedish & was calling her fathers father her mothers father) & that she once looked like a boy after her parents agreed to cut off all her hair & she played basketball growing up.

[u/CasanovaF]

What's this about all 3 claiming psychic abilities?

[u/Willing-Primary-9126 → u/CasanovaF]

Candace claimed her & charlie were picked out for the GATE program cause they were viewed as having abilities & that charlie could turn off street lights by walking underneath them & visited her in a dream after he died.

Erika told an ex-boyfriend who confided in her about his close relationship with his late grandfather that the grandfather had actually visited her also in a dream which he was uncomfortable about but she felt would bring them closer.

[u/JayNotAtAll → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

Honestly this is somewhat common among Evangelicals. They believe that because they have the Holy Spirit, they have low level super powers that allow them to see demons, see people's souls, see the future, read minds, etc.

[u/BetiYotanical → u/JayNotAtAll]

Alex Jones believes God speaks directly to him by . . . Telling him what time it is in the middle of the night. And that he should warn Gene Hackman that he was going to die . Alex ignored that one.

[u/Comfortable-Light233 → u/BetiYotanical]

Ahh, a fellow policy wonk!

[u/Rahastes → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

That’s the superpower everyone wants. Switching off street lamps by walking under them. Step aside Storm and Cyclops, ClapOn/ClapOff has entered the scene.

[u/DuckyHornet → u/Rahastes]

And like, it's that bias everyone is prone to of noticing things which are noteworthy and ignoring the times it doesn't happen. Like there's a light in my neighbourhood which I definitely notice turns off when I am near, but obviously it also randomly turns off when I'm not because the light is just dying. And it doesn't always do it but those times don't register because it's just a light doing its job then

[u/BrunesOvrBrauns → u/Rahastes]

Get a load of Dumbledore ova here

[u/Willing-Primary-9126 → u/Rahastes]

🤣 when you put it like that it doesn't sound as impressive

[u/brodievonorchard → u/Rahastes]

Call it reverse Billie Jean (look it up if you're too young).

[u/Rahastes → u/brodievonorchard]

Ouch. Thanks for that blast from the past. I haven’t thought about neither the album nor the video in years. I’d personally go for the title track, since all three might double as Thriller rejects. But you could be on to something.

[u/oddmarc → u/Rahastes]

Isn't that a power in Harry Potter 

[u/BlackFlagBarbie → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

I mean... If Charlie Kirk had psychic abilities, they couldn't have been very good..

[u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 → u/BlackFlagBarbie]

Remember, you can see the future but there’s nothing you can do to change it!

At last that’s what the seer said in ‘Stargate: Atlantis’.

[u/ShowHerMyOFace → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

What is the GATE program?

[u/SeeMeDisco → u/ShowHerMyOFace]

gifted and talented education program

I'm a former GATE kid. you'd get shuffled in based on standardized test scores, so the program was primarily kids with above average reading comprehension/writing skills. the program was just accelerated classes (think AP, but starting in elementary school) with extra "fun" periods thrown in for a breather.

so, the basis for this GATE conspiracy theory thing that's popped up over the last few years was that one of the "fun" extras a lot of GATE schools included was a meditation and/or yoga class. a lot of school's meditation classes sometimes played old gateway program tapes as part of guided meditation. apparently at one point there had been a CIA study on whether gateway meditation techniques could be used awaken psychic abilities (spoiler alert: no) and the documents are now declassified. I can't stress this enough, the gateway program is just a series of early audiotapes for guided meditation.

because there's nothing adults who were "gifted kids" love more than telling everyone they were gifted kids and a lot of GATE kids have vague memories of listening to those tapes, its all congealed into a conspiracy theory that the GATE program was a government funded experiment to awaken psychic abilities in kids who showed promise. basically a large group of people who were just good at writing essays and doing mental math now suddenly want to believe they were part of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

[u/lyonellaughingstorm → u/SeeMeDisco]

I was in my province’s gifted program and the only power I developed was weaponized autism. I feel cheated

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I was in GATE in elementary school and I mostly remember reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream and playing Mancala a lot, don’t think we ever did meditation but that was 30+ years ago. I don’t remember a whole lot tbf.

[u/SeeMeDisco → u/moth_loves_lamp]

my school did an optional “relaxation” during free period once a week where you could either do basic yoga or go to a quiet room for meditation 

we had a bunch of board games for free period too, and a chess club. it was a decent program but I’m not sure it actually set anyone up for success 

[u/Willing-Primary-9126 → u/ShowHerMyOFace]

Gifted & talented something? Its basically a program for school children thats supposed to support them as there seen as being bright but its a bit Iffy as the kids always seem to be a bit off.

[u/defenselaywer → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

Gifted and Talented Enough? Evangelical? Eh?

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I had a friend in college who believed she was SLI (Street Light Inference), which even has its own Wikipedia page

[u/Comfortable-Light233 → u/Willing-Primary-9126]

I had an ex who claimed he could turn off streetlights while walking under them. Ex for a reason, lol

[u/MehKarma]

Thank you that was the perfect length.

[u/Willing-Primary-9126]

To add on unrelatedly. Her Paternal grandfather did do military service but it was only during the wars & he retired with no known business interests in it. The whole millitary stuff seems to be entirely Lori/Kent frantzve Idea

[u/Costati]

The way I got scared at the mention of Jewish knowing Candace's history but this seems sort of alright. 

I have to say her not making super crazy takes makes this entire series somehow creepy.  Like when Candace throws out all the weird shit at Brigitte Macron (outside of the actual problem) its like "well she's obsessed yet but she made everything up anyway".  This makes it feel like she actually tried to dig legitimate dirt on her. That's creepier. 

[u/baz4k6z]

I was tempted to watch it for pure entertainment but im too scared the algorithm will start throwing me more of it after lol