 So if you're familiar with the idea of extortion, then you know the feeling well. He's now upping the ante and suggesting that I extorted him. Well, just when we thought that Stephen Crowder's beef with the Daily Wire was over, he decided to seemingly out of nowhere, reignite the war specifically though with Candice Owens this time. And we're not simply talking about them taking pot shots here and there at one another on their shows. We're talking about an escalation that's so severe it could literally pit them against each other in court. So very, very big things we're talking about here and you love to see it honestly. I love watching these ghouls fight. So let's get to the actual spat. It starts with Stephen Crowder accusing Candice Owens of extortion. This is a word that he uses specifically when referencing something that she said. And first though, he reveals that he and his wife are getting a divorce, something that he's kept private in order to protect his children according to him. And that might seem irrelevant, but this is the key detail here. So let's watch. Since 2021, I've been living through what has increasingly been a horrendous divorce. Now, let me say on the outset to be clear, there is no infidelity, any kind of physical abuse at all on either side. And no, this was not my choice. My then wife decided that she didn't want to be married anymore. And in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted. It's been the most heartbreaking experience of my life. What I consider to be my deepest personal failure. And just so you know, my opinions on parenting and families have not changed. I've always believed that children need a mom and a dad. That divorce is horrible. And I still believe that children need a mom and a dad and that divorce is horrible. But in today's legal system, my beliefs don't matter. In Texas, divorces permitted when one party wants it, period. So for well over a year, well over a year, in the best interest as well as physical safety of my children, we've decided to keep this issue private and to resolve it privately with the appropriate attorneys. What have you, legal jargon? Now, before we get to the extortion claim, I have to point out that he referenced one party divorce laws in Texas and suggests that he would have unilaterally stopped the divorce from happening if he had the legal capability of doing so. And I find that really weird because in essence, he's admitting here that he'd forced his wife to remain in the marriage against her will if he could legally do that. And that might just be him trying to virtue signal to his evangelical audience who thinks that divorce is a sin because they do. But either way, it's deeply, deeply misogynistic and just cruel, but it's very on brand for Steven Crowder. It doesn't surprise me that he would do something like this even to somebody who he loves. And he pointed that out multiple times. That being said though, that's a little bit of a side point, he stressed that keeping the divorce private was essential to protect the emotional and physical safety of his children. And he absolutely has a right to conceal that information from the public. It's not necessarily something that's part of our business. I don't care about that. But he's going to point out that other people in this space knew and threatened to use that information against him, specifically Candice Owens. Here's what he says. Many other people knew about this behind the scenes. Some, not all, but some of them in positions of power, influence, leverage, knew of this. They also knew that the safety of my children included keeping it private. So if you're familiar with the idea of extortion, then you know the feeling well. Now some of these threats were so thinly veiled that I'm frankly surprised you didn't all guess immediately. Steven has a lot going on, I guess is the best way to say. He has a lot going on and that should be clear because people don't do stuff like this if there's not a lot going on in their lives. I would like to implore my audience and everybody that isn't paying attention to this situation not to condemn him but to pray for him. Sometimes people need a prayer. Sometimes people need a scripture. Stephen purports to be a Christian. I am unsure at this moment if it is my place to say more than that. Maybe if I feel in further defense, some things should be said or maybe if I feel that the public has a right to understand certain circumstances. Oh, my children have a right to privacy. Now, some other issues have been or I should say inferences have been more pernicious behind the scenes with demands and threats to use this information that they believe would be so publicly embarrassing to me and my wife in a difficult time that it could be used knowingly putting my children in harm's way. So to those self-styled Christians, conservatives, and allies, well, not in my book. Now, if you find yourself, I don't want to get into details so this is going to likely be the only time I have to address this or want to address this. If you're asking yourself, hey, did X person or did Y person know? The answer's likely yes, which will be made alarmingly clear as this process of discovery continues. And it also, by the way, makes me that much more appreciative of those who did know about this and in understanding the best interests of my family, my children, kept their word and used discretion. I can't thank you enough. Sincerely, I appreciate it, won't forget it. And I will say that what's in the best interests of my children is not internet drama, speculation, certainly not blatant or veiled shakedowns or dragging their father or mother. And I can't be clear on that enough or their mother through the mud. And to anyone who tries it, I'm no longer going to pacify, capitulate or sidestep because I love them a whole lot more than I love you. And I will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect my children, discussing the divorce any further on social media or on this show or in any public space is not what's best for them. I'll be handling this through the proper legal avenues and channels available as a matter of record in which I have more than full confidence. So I'd ask that you understand the need for and respect or privacy in what is obviously a pretty tough time. And I hope that none of this has to go any further than that. So make no mistake about it. He is ever so subtly suggesting that he's willing to take legal action against Candice Owens if she continues to speak out against this. So he viewed her tacit reference to his divorce as a threat. And if he didn't stop attacking the daily wire in his mind, he viewed her comments as, well, I'm gonna spill the beans about your divorce. That's how he perceived it. And I think that that is a fair way to interpret her comments. Now, I'm not sure if that'll actually hold up in the court of law. I think that she has some plausible deniability. But at the same time, it's not unreasonable to assume from his perspective that she is making a thinly veiled threat here. Although he suggests that he can confirm that Candice knew for sure, which, I mean, it's likely that she did know but in that video, he kind of admits that she probably knew not necessarily bulletproof in the court of law. But when it comes to Candice Owens, she addressed his accusation in video and on Twitter, we'll get to Twitter first. She says, Steven Crowder accusing me of extortion is so patently insane that it honestly makes me question how there are still people who cannot see how thoroughly undone he has become. This is not stable behavior. He is a man on a spiral, outright bizarre and concerning. If you are going to use your children as human shields to block people from digging further into your divorce, please do so without inserting me into the narrative. To remind people, the video Steven used in his show of me was a video of me responding to Steven's first set of bizarre attacks against the daily wire. Steven is not the victim, he never was the victim. He's just a bad person who continues to burn a lot of people. Okay, now to be totally honest, I think that Candice Owens is playing dumb here. I think that it's highly likely that she did know about his divorce and that was her implicitly threatening to leak that news to the public about his divorce to make him look bad if he didn't be quiet about the daily wire. But I also think that she's right. That Steven Crowder is using his kids to shield himself from this in order to cultivate sympathy, I guess, which is kind of weird. I get that protecting your kids is a necessity and I understand how keeping this from getting into the public sphere is a good thing for your children. But at the same time, saying that or implying rather that this is going to threaten their physical safety is just bizarre. And I think that she's right about that. So there's, I can see both sides of the argument here and not to be offense that are I hate both of these fucking people and hope that they both burn in hell forever. But I mean, you can kind of see how both of them are, they're both trying to use this, right? They're trying to finesse the situation to their own benefit. Remember, we're talking about inherently dishonest people here. So whenever they lob accusations against each other, it's not unreasonable to automatically assume the worst about both of them here. But the drama doesn't end there because things quickly escalated when she responded on her show and she also threatened legal action but much more explicitly than Steven Crowder did. That's it. That's the big scary story. I then went onto my platform and I said, pray for Steven Crowder, honestly because that's where he needs a prayer. And apparently nobody's answering those prayers right now because he's still acting erratic. He's now upping the ante and suggesting that I extorted him. I will not take that lightly, okay? I am not Hillary Crowder. I am not anybody in his family. I am not going to take somebody going onto his platform and alleging that I either harassed, threatened or did anything that would put his children at risk. That is very serious stuff that he is saying. And so what I did this morning after this clip was sent to me is I contacted a defamation lawyer and I am sending Steven Crowder a cease and desist and I'm going to demand a full-throated retraction to the idea that Candice Owens threatened him or extorted him. And not that I simply did a little math, one plus one equals two. A crazy man doing these sorts of things to his friends obviously means that something is going on personally. Honestly, this time I'm not even going to suggest anybody should pray for him. I am so deeply troubled by the idea that he is trying to insert me into this narrative pertaining to his divorce. I'm frankly angry about this. So I'm going to hope that he does the right thing, okay? That he does another one of his live feeds on the exact same platform via the exact same medium and offers me an apology and takes back every single word that he says. I'm enjoying this so much. It is all so goddamn delicious. Listen, Candice, I think you should do it. I think you should definitely sue him for defamation and Steven, make sure that you also take legal action against her immediately and let's make sure that we all harden our stances further and involve the legal system so as to make it as ugly as possible. I want them both to lose. I want them both to fight as much as possible. I just, I love watching all of this. I'm here for the ride. Now it's difficult to know whose side grifters in their orbit are going to be on but based on one preliminary response from a stinky motherfucker on the right it seems as if they're siding with Steven Crowder because the courtroom defended Crowder on Twitter and he took a thinly veiled shot at Candice Owens, writing, it's absolutely disgusting that people on the right would use Steven Crowder's divorce as leverage against him to use it against him to embarrass him. Divorce happens. It doesn't even sound like it was his choice. You expect it from the left but totally shameful from the right. Yes, because we all know that the left is known for using people's divorces against them. It's just, it's so good. Lines are being drawn and if you're on the right, you've got to pick a side. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, they do. Now look, I want to make it very clear that I don't care about either one of these individuals or anyone involved. The optimal outcome for me and really for American democracy to be clear would be for each of them to inflict the maximum amount of damage on each other so they both hemorrhage as much money and support as they possibly can while dividing their conservative fan bases in the process. That's honestly what I want to see and considering the amount of rot that they've inflicted on the brains of Americans with their propaganda, I don't feel bad saying that. I don't feel as if I'm being overly petty. These are bad people we're talking about here and the hate that they've spread towards marginalized people, the LGBTQ plus community like I don't find it wrong to relish in their misery currently, including Steven Crowder's personal misery. The vile hate that he has spewed for years, the bigotry that he has espoused on his large platform has literally incited harassment against multiple people including gay people like Carlos Mazza and it made Carlos Mazza suffer for years. His phone number was leaked, he was harassed for years. So the fact that Steven Crowder's divorce has caused him great pain is just a small taste of the misery that he's inflicted on other people. So I've got no sympathy for him and I'd say that I hope this suffering will lead to his enlightenment because oftentimes there's this trope that when you suffer through something you'll come out stronger and have more wisdom but this individual is not an honest actor, right? It's not like he's going to be enlightened and this experience is going to get him to understand the impact that he has on the world. We're talking about somebody who has paid millions of dollars to lie for a living. So we all know that none of this is going to change him for the better. So I can't feel any sympathy for him. When a normal person goes through an experience like this they grow, they change, they learn more about themselves and their partner. Steven Crowder is incapable of introspection so I don't expect him to be a better person at the opposite end of this. But with that being said, I'm not surprised that Steven Crowder's wife would leave him because this is a miserable, hateful piece of shit and he's clearly struggling with homosexuality, bisexuality or gender dysphoria and rather than embracing himself he's choosing to suppress his true nature and attack anyone who's brave enough to be their authentic selves. He's jealous, he's envious of queer people which is probably why he lashes out against them so much and furthermore I've just got to point out that in 2015 he wrote this sanctimonious article for Fox News suggesting that his marriage was oh so special because him and his wife decided to not live together and didn't have sex until marriage and he wrote, let me preface this column by saying this my wife, I have to get used to saying that and I not only waited sexually in every way no we didn't pull the bill Clinton and technically avoid sex sex but we didn't shack up as livens and most importantly we courted each other in a way that was consistent with our publicly professed values. We did it right, feeling judged, I couldn't care less. You know why? Because my wife and I were judged all throughout our relationship. People laughed, scoffed and poked fun at the young celibate naive Christian couple. Yeah, not so smug now, are we Steven Crowder? Now I'm sure that he felt judged because in true evangelical form this insufferable prick pretended as if not fucking his fiance made him somehow superior to everyone else and he probably wouldn't shut the fuck up about it and made being celibate his entire identity and anyone who didn't agree with him or didn't wanna hear about that or didn't do it exactly as he did were probably judged by him. So by them responding I'm sure he's saying, oh well I felt judged but really I know people like this, right? I grew up in evangelical circles these folks made it seem as if their relationships were better than everyone else's relationships because they did it the right way, God's way but it turns out that that doesn't actually matter and yeah, you were the judgmental prick and now you kind of have to eat crow and now you've kind of been proven wrong. In fact, your entire world view has been proven wrong but I mean I can't speak to Crowder's wife but I can guarantee that she is way better off without him and I'm sure that she's happier now and I wish her nothing but the best because Steven Crowder is an objectively terrible human being and anyone who's not in his vicinity I think is probably much better and I hope Crowder continues to stoke right wing infighting and I hope that the Daily Wire people respond by escalating and I hope that all of their little sycophants watch in horror as they both burn each other to the fucking ground because again, we are talking about terrible people whose purpose as right wing propagandists seemingly is to inflict as much pain and suffering on people as they possibly can so when they get a taste of their own medicine when karma comes back to bite them in the ass I don't feel bad for them so I say, let them fight. I'm gonna come to the castle.