Feast of Saint Peter in Chains, August 1st, 2025
The Nick Fuentes verses Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson Deception
I “providentially” just recently wrote about how Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have made the biggest (positive influencial) impression on me when it comes to right wing politics, the real history of the Jews and 1948 “Israel” as well as “everything is fake and gay” (coined by Candace). Something Ann Barnhardt said in a recent podcast about Owens made me really stop and think, however (it’s good to do that, you know!). She said something along the lines of, “I just don’t know about Candace” and I think she was saying that she doesn’t fully know if she can trust her. Fair! Trust is tied to discernment. And let’s face it, betrayal is everywhere today, so we very naturally mistrust everyone. It reminds me of the old Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None about a group of people lured to a mysterious island.
One by one, people start to mysteriously die, and the members of the group realize there is a killer among them. Reasonably, they all start to point fingers at each other. People they would normally trust are seen as suspect. It can be a form of PTSD… and a mass experiment to observe human behavior with how people react in times of misunderstanding and chaos? While I still look to Tucker and Candace as my “go to” for what’s REALLY going on in the world, am grateful for them serving as a catapult to getting my foot in the door of truth, they aren’t always right and they certainly aren’t above my criticism (nor my trust). I’m not in a cult, and I’m certainly not in a cult of thought, which is also why I have absolutely no problem criticizing Trump even after I voted for him three times.
I’m open about my critiques and it often makes even other conservatives mad at me (I’ve seen this reaction to the papacy and I’ve seen it with reactions to my critique of “Israel”). But I have a brain God placed in my head, and Our Lady and the Holy Ghost expect me to use it. I’m learning that humility is everything, and admitting we are wrong is exceedingly important if we always want to be on the side of truth. What is interesting is the angry reaction, I more often than not, get from even “the right” and the “trad right” when I am honest about my doubts on situations that don’t make sense to me. It’s like… I get in trouble for noticing and connecting the dots. I know our current climate in the Church, and in the country, is “shut up!”, to keep your head down, stay in your lane and “be obedient” (you want to talk about inversion. Let’s start with the definition of obedience), but I simply can’t operate like that anymore, because I’d be turning my back on the Holy Ghost and how He “operates”.
Which brings me to the BIZARRE Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes interview. This interview hosted by Candace was the first time I was left feeling “gaslit” by her. Which, is ironic, because in Tucker’s recent interview with Candace on August 1st, 2025, they spent a big chunk of the interview speaking about the definition of gaslighting, to which Tucker gave one of the best definitions of the term I’ve heard:
“Gaslighting is the process of inverting blame.”
What initially drew me to Candace was her bravery in defending the truth, especially on the topic of 1948 “Israel” and her proclamation of Christ’s Kingship. She prides herself on the virtue of honesty and often says, “I don’t lie” and “I have nothing to hide.” But after what I witnessed with the Nick interview I just couldn’t look at her the same following the coverage. I was left with a sour taste in my mouth, and against my will I might add. It was as though I couldn’t “unsee” what I saw, and without being a body language expert (I know, I know, those people make me laugh, too, and are pretty lame when they describe what they see… can’t anyone be a body language expert?) when I watched her show days following that interview, it came across as fraudulent, rather than viewed as authentic this time around seeing Candace say “I don’t lie”. I had a hard time believing her for the first time, and she does keep her eyes cast down when she says that; I’ve noticed!
With Tucker in his interview with Candace, he did this thing (I’ve seen him do several times) where he runs his hands through his hair and won’t look at the person. He did this casually on the interview posted today with Candace, while at the same time saying he didn’t know his Dad was CIA until he found out through Nick Fuentes. Full stop. Wait, what? When I told this to my Papa and Grammie, Pop goes, “that’s B.S.”. This was the first time I wanted to go straight to the comment section just to see what people were saying in defense of Nick. I wasn’t disappointed. People said it was laughable that Tucker only JUST found out about his Dad being CIA and through Nick no less. “Come on, man!” I knew his Dad was CIA. Didn’t most of us? But Tucker didn’t? Yeah, just no. Keep running your hands through your hair. Get a load of the comments:
But I’m getting ahead of myself, let’s go back to the Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes interview from early July that took place before her Tucker interview, today. I had heard of Nick from a trad priest who respects him and his stance on the state of Israel and the Jews, but that’s all I knew. I had never watched his show or any of that, until AFTER Candace’s treatment of him. First off, Candace didn’t post this interview on YouTube. She put it behind a $1.99 paywall, which Nick pointed out later that if 40,000 people paid that price, you do the math. Imagine 1,000,000 viewers X 1.99$ (her average viewer ship is average a million per show). That’s a lot of money. Something Candace consistently says is “I don’t answer to money.” My Grammie’s reply after I told her about her paywall charge was, “I thought she didn’t answer to money. Why isn’t it free?”
Good point, Gram, you smart cookie 
! I initially walked away from that interview biased to Candace, thinking Nick was kind of socially awkward and would be hard to be friends with despite his talent. I think because he reminded me of a specific Pharisee like student I went on a mission trip with in college, I did not like the comparison and automatically was prejudiced NOT in his favor, but that wasn’t fair to Nick. Candace originally said she didn’t want to post it on YouTube because YouTube would censor anything pertaining to Nick Fuentes being banned on most platforms. But then people started streaming her full interview and reacting to it, and the response was very unfavorable to Candace. I think this was the first time I saw her ratioed. I don’t believe I found one single comment, of the hundreds, that came to her defense; that’s how bad it was. That was an eye opener. Many of them were her fans, like me, simply saying, “I’m a fan, but that was a bad look for Candace.” She started hitting those channels with CopyRite strikes within 24 hours, and I believe even started deleting comments on her channel that questioned her behavior to Nick.
Comments from the Tucker and Candace Interview:
I commented several times, on her personal channel and each time I would go looking for it, it was gone. Even a YouTuber commented specifically to me, and twice or three times, my reply kept being deleted. I finally gave up. I started questioning my own sanity: “where is my comment?”. Speaking of gaslighting! Someone told me YouTube is famous for deleting comments, but I thought, “why would YouTube be mad at me criticizing Candace? The very person THEY don’t like. It’s not likely.” And I personally have not had issues with my comments being deleted in the past on other channels. That leaves Candace and her team as the only culprit behind the censorship of comments I left on her YouTube channel days following that interview. Here was my main comment to her that I believe she had deleted. I’ve commented on her videos before and no matter how many likes someone can get, your own comment is toggled and highlighted at the top. It was gone and even when I searched for it, I couldn’t find it. I’m glad I saved a copy, as I still hold this opinion:
Candace, I mean this with love as your sis in Christ. Here’s some honest feedback: I think you shouldn’t have put the Nick Fuentes interview behind a paywall. You said your reason for not uploading it on YouTube was because THEY would censor anything featuring Nick Fuentes, but when other content creators uploaded your interview sharing honest critique, it’s YOU and not YouTube throwing CopyRite strikes making sure this interview doesn’t make its way on the platform. It just looks suspect.
I think you should upload the interview with Nick on YouTube and if they take it down, at least you did the honorable thing and I think your audience would really respect you for it. If you are not posting it for fear of your comment section criticizing how the interview went, I don’t think that’s an honest reason. No one wins every debate, and that’s okay, but I do think the interview was hostile. There seemed to be a lot of deflection and projection of your own insecurities onto Nick. Was he perfect? No, but so much time was wasted on petty grievances that could have been spent on talking about Epstein, Trump and the “joos”. It was also unbiblical to call Nick selfish for not actively seeking marriage. Saint Paul says that it’s better to remain unmarried, like him, because those who remain single can serve God with their full attention while those who marry can’t give God their full and undivided service.
When you said Nick doesn’t know who he is yet because he is unmarried is not theologically sound; maybe that was true for your own life, but that’s certainly not the case for everyone and it’s tone deaf and even self righteous to say otherwise. Saint Paul actually only advises marriage to those who can’t “control their passions”. As a Catholic, it’s important that you know that. It’s not an attack on marriage at all; both are needed but this also means you shouldn’t attack celibacy and make others like Nick feel beneath you for choosing the single state. We all have selfish tendencies in some shape or form. I hope you invite Nick back for a do over. I value both of your opinions:)!
So… Candace is all for free speech, until she loses a debate? You can say, when my comments were either missing or no where to be found on her channel, and this happened multiple times, I felt as though I saw some “true colors” of Candace I wasn’t expecting to see. I wasn’t looking for these colors and nor was it pleasant. It was disappointing. I saw her mask slip. But this again is a valuable lesson that nobody is perfect and as much as we hear people we respect say, “I don’t lie”, that’s just not true. Proverbs reminds us that even the just sin seven times a day. I take all the commandments seriously and I would say the one that is the most important to me, and draws life to all the others, is not bearing false witness. The synodal church teaches us that white lies are fine, this, that and the other, but I am truly of the belief that if we are honest in every aspect of our lives and tell the truth in all things, the other commandments are much easier to obey.
Think about it! If we have an honest view in all things, including an honest view of ourselves (examination of conscience), it’s easier to live a godly life. I always know when I’ve said something that was exaggerated or not exactly the full truth because I feel a sort of instant shame and fear, and immediately, even when sounding silly, try to reform my sentence to set the record straight when I am talking to someone. Even if people may think “what are you doing?” at least I feel I have a clear conscience in the site of Our Lord and Our Lady. These are nudges from the Holy Ghost. “Let your answers be yes for yes and no for no, EVERYTHING ELSE IS FROM THE EVIL ONE.” We also hear that phrase “lie by omission”, and that’s when things can get tricky. If someone is fat, you’re not going to say, “look, you’re fat.” We just have to use common sense and charity. But, if someone asks directly, “am I fat?”, there are ways to say “yes” with charity.
No matter what we must always be on the side of truth, and there are going to be uncomfortable times when the people we trust or love most are on the side of deception. What’s the lesson here? It’s good to exercise the muscle of truth and learn to always be vigilant. To choose truth even when it comes with the risk of accepting and coming to terms with the fact that the person we thought we could trust lied to our faces. Look, at the end of it all, I do not really know Trump, Candace, Tucker or Nick (do any of us, really?). SO MANY people are very often being accused of being a fed or controlled opposition and for all I know, all four of them could be controlled opposition, and the second lesson here is that if I look at all four of these individuals knowing that is a possibility, I will not be disappointed when they let me down. These experiences also reveal to us when we make idols out of people, and Our Lord, being a jealous God, and in His goodness, allows these lies to shine forth so we learn to only adore Him, and Him alone. I guess Candace really was right, to use her own words against her, “everything is fake and gay”.
Carmelite Sister Martyrs 