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riversedge

(70,270 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:25 PM May 2020

Candace Owens Suspended From Twitter After Urging People Violate MI Stay-At-Home Order





5/02/20 2:57pm

Candace Owens Suspended From Twitter After Urging People Violate MI Stay-At-Home Order



Hitler-praising Candace Owens has finally been suspended from Twitter after she urged followers to defy Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders – without mentioning any trip to Michigan to break the law and expose herself along with them.





Yet Owens, who lives in New York, said nothing about doing any of what she was asking others to do.

She is, however, very eager to play up her conservative victimhood, presumably from the safety of her home.

As Mediaite reported, she sent a statement to the far-right MAGA site, Gateway Pundit, whining that her comments were no different from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a workers boycott and a protest. Apparently, Owens doesn’t know that a boycott in protest of reopen orders is legal and doesn’t promote the spread of a pandemic. As for the protest, AOC was saying that folks already out protesting the shutdowns should be over at the White House instead. Unlike Owens, AOC wasn’t urging anyone to leave the house and break a law to protest.

Oh, and unlike Owens, AOC went out in the rain to deliver food to people in her district.

Meanwhile, Owens is defiant. She said in her statement:

I stand by my statement about Governor Whitmer acting as a dictator. Both the Sherriff Departments and the citizens, and the state legislature of Michigan are in agreement with me. I will not kowtow to a socialist world order that seeks to limit my constitutional freedom of speech.


Her Smugness has a long record here at C&L.

First and foremost, her attack on Gov. Whitmer as a dictator is rather hypocritical given that Owens has actually praised Hitler. "If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine,” she said. Think Hitler would have allowed you unlimited freedom of speech, Candace?

A few months later, even the right-wing Talking Points USA had had enough of her,.....................

None of that stopped the GOP from having her testify as an "expert" on anti-white nationalism. There, she characterized white nationalism as no big deal — that it "isn't even in the top 100" list of concerns for black people.”...
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According to Mediaite, this is a screen grab of the tweet that got Owens suspended.

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Candace Owens Suspended From Twitter After Urging People Violate MI Stay-At-Home Order (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
She should be arrested. roamer65 May 2020 #1
This reminds me Proud liberal 80 May 2020 #2
I think they already did that dustyscamp May 2020 #6
But those sites are not in the mainstream Proud liberal 80 May 2020 #7
Everything is also closed here in New York, except for groceries and gas stations Rhiannon12866 May 2020 #3
There should be a character and IQ test required with each social media login Under The Radar May 2020 #4
It should be obvious now what the republican strategy is. Open everything up, and the lives lost still_one May 2020 #5
Candace The "I don't know the the Fu&k I'm talking about" Owens Bored5783 May 2020 #8

Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)
2. This reminds me
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:29 PM
May 2020

That conservatives are always complaining about twitter and censorship, but continue to use it....why don’t they start their on “twitter”

Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)
7. But those sites are not in the mainstream
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:58 PM
May 2020

Or that popular....they know that those sites u mentioned don’t give them legitimacy... Lol....they always complain about the mainstream outlets but they so want to be accepted by them

Rhiannon12866

(205,775 posts)
3. Everything is also closed here in New York, except for groceries and gas stations
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:41 PM
May 2020

And even they have restricted hours. Also, masks are required if you have to go out. What is wrong with this idiot??

still_one

(92,325 posts)
5. It should be obvious now what the republican strategy is. Open everything up, and the lives lost
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:47 PM
May 2020

are an "acceptable" price for opening up the economy. If that happens, the health crisis that ensues will insure that the economy won't recover for a long long time




Bored5783

(5 posts)
8. Candace The "I don't know the the Fu&k I'm talking about" Owens
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:26 PM
May 2020

I follow her on Facebook and troll often. For this post, she had over 8700 comments. The majority, screamed she was being censored, it was unconstitutional, we are being targeted by the left. I post a quick elementary Constitution level response. Told them that her right to Free Speech, cannot abridge or force the property owners (Twitter) from editing or deleting (Freedom of the Press) Also she cannot compel Twitter to publish it. If she don’t like create her own!!! Well no responses to my post from anyone. They actually never respond to my posts. I bring facts, sources and include citations. Many a time I come to the defense of people posting dissenting views from her followers and her. They’ll gang up on one person with conspiracies and lies to support their argument.

Give it try, it keeps the writing skills up and debate skills in good working condition.

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