Candace Owens out at the Daily Wire

Candace Owens’s watch at the Daily Wire has ended. The news came in the form of an X post from Wire CEO and Lady Ballers star Jeremy Boreing this morning: “Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship.” 

“The rumors are true — I am finally free,” Owens tweeted shortly after, along with a plug for her Locals page, a link to a site where you can donate her money and a pledge of more to come. 

The separation comes shortly after Owens said she’d “stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” making her exit a big win for trans rights. As they say en France, quand on vient pour la reine, il ne faut pas la manquer. 

Other Owens highlights of her time at the Wire include her recent questions about a “small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism”; her spat with Wire founder Ben Shapiro over his defense of Israel; her attempts to explain away her pal Kanye West’s “death con 3 on Jewish people comment” — “If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic”; donning a “White Lives Matter” shirt with West at his Paris fashion show, and her fireside chat with accused rapist and sex trafficker Andrew Tate. 

Owens will doubtless be missed… before starting her own X show in the near future.

Lankford makes a meal of it

Fresh off the thankless task of attempting to draw up bipartisan border legislation, James Lankford is now angling to become the #5 Republican in the Senate, aiming for the vice-chairmanship of the Senate Republican Conference. He’s been raising his profile in an unorthodox fashion this week: by moonlighting as a food blogger. “Great quail breakfast this morning!” he tweeted Thursday, with a picture of the seductively posed bird, its torso drenched in sauce.

“wow yall kink shaming a man who eats his fried quail posed kinda sensually covered in sauce with a garnish wig?? people just can’t live anymore huh?” reads one reply. “This is America! If senators want to eat sexy birds resting on a bird of taters with hollandaise artfully drizzled between the le—” 

“That’s me in the second pic.. this is so humiliating…” says another. The image has drawn comparisons to a ritualistic True Detective murder scene — and other things too indecent for Cockburn to describe in the hallowed pages of The Spectator. 

Senator Lankford: tell Cockburn where he can order this breakfast. No questions.

Wannabe Reagan assassin, welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web

Spare a thought for John Hinckley Jr., the aspirant singer-songwriter who once tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981. “With all of my concerts canceled, it’s a fair statement to say I’m a victim of cancel culture!” 

Setting aside the fact that Hinckley tried to cancel one of the great presidents of the twentieth century by emptying a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver at him and his staff, it does seem sad that Hinckley can’t get a gig without a venue postponing or axing him. He served out thirty-five years in the psych ward, after all. 

Cockburn is a passionate supporter of the arts: if Jodie Foster has the freedom to butcher True Detective, her biggest fan should be able to play tame pop-rock songs on an acoustic guitar in a neighborhood dive bar. This is his shot at redemption…

Your Trump donation is paying for Melania’s stylist (and you barely even see her!)

It’s not easy being fashionable. And for some, like Melania Trump’s stylist, the business is wildly lucrative. 

Recent campaign finance reports show that former president Donald Trump’s leadership PAC has paid Hervé Pierre, the former First Lady’s stylist, almost half a million dollars for “strategy consulting” since 2022. 

The two have worked together for years; he designed her gown for the 2017 inaugural balls and has worked with first ladies since the 1990s, so his ongoing ties to her aren’t exactly shocking. 

The latest revelations, which follow years of the fashionista being asked about his Trump payments, come as the former president is facing skyrocketing legal fees that he is potentially seeking to have groups like the RNC defray. 

Unless Pierre is helping keep Trump out of prison, there may be some cuts coming his way.

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