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Joel Mowbray

@joelmowbray

Feb 17

The new Carrie Prejean "star" persona is not actually her.

It's manufactured.

And it shows last week's blow-up was carefully planned. For months.

Per a scathing new Grok analysis, Prejean "very likely... is no longer the primary author of her recent X content."

Instead, the evidence "strongly indicates" her posts are now written by some combination of "AI, ghostwriting, or PR optimiz[ed] for engagement."

Crucially, Grok cited the "sudden... emergence of new core themes and keywords (Catholic fulfillment theology, anti-Zionism memes, 'Christ is King'), mostly appearing only as of mid-January 2026."

And her radically different, newfound style utilizes "algorithm-optimized tactics (longer structured arguments, citations, tags, rhetorical questions, hashtags) that she is highly unlikely to have mastered independently and suddenly."

The most potent evidence? Prejean didn't use the word "Christ" until one month ago.

In short, her "TradCath" lexicon is brand new. Before last month, Prejean simply did not use "key phrases and topics like 'Christ is King'... and terms such as 'Jews,' 'Jewish,' 'Zionist,' 'Zionism,' 'Israel,' or even 'Christ'," which were entirely "absent before mid-January 2026," "except one 2024 reference to another's use" of "Christ is King."

That's part of what Grok determined was an "artificial progression from simplistic... and often emoji-filled content before late 2025 to increasingly sophisticated, theologically dense, and controversy-driven posts thereafter."

This pronounced and sudden shift culminated with last week's hearing — with Eric Metaxas noting Prejean "seemed to WANT confrontation" — which coincided "with abrupt introductions of hot-button topics and advanced engagement strategies that amplify virality, suggesting external input rather than natural personal growth."

At the hearing itself, Prejean's fiery confrontations were as stage-managed as her social media transformation has been.

Her eyes were glued to her phone, reading aloud almost every utterance. The WSJ reported that she was getting her answers fed to her by an Islamist staffer for the Commission, Sameerah Munshi.

In other words, her bespectacled bomb-throwing at the hearing was staged.

Everything was pre-planned by her new handlers, just like her new X persona, designed for "maximum algorithmic reach, controversy amplification, and public influence" by "incorporating these hot-button, controversial elements, which naturally drive higher replies, reposts, and overall engagement through provocation and virality."

Prejean's public evolution into the "Christ is King" Queen follows the traditional three-act narrative structure, as in comics, going from a normal person with frustrated ambitions to the villain who torments the city by ripping apart the social fabric and turning people within a tight community against each other.

The evidence is overwhelming.

And it is all detailed below.

Prejean's reverse-butterfly metamorphosis caught many off-guard.

@EricMetaxas agreed to Prejean's pre-hearing request to help her. But he was "shocked at her combativeness."

Perhaps he was expecting "First Act" Prejean, whose posts prior to late 2025 were "upbeat, conversational, and devoid of deep theological or political analysis.

This version of Prejean was "apolitical and non-confrontational," with "no evidence of algorithmic optimization."

As for her substance back then: "Emojis are frequent, [and] structure is minimal."

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@ericmetaxas That kind of lack of polish was at least in keeping with the Prejean the public first got to know.

Back in 2009 at the Miss USA pageant, she famously referred to the traditional union of a man and a woman as "opposite marriage."

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Joel Mowbray

@joelmowbray

Feb 14, 2024

Valentine's is a day to celebrate love. This post is to show love for John Fetterman. His backstory on Israel is one you probably don't know, and it explains why his support is unlike anything we've seen in a long time, if ever.

Almost every pro-Israel user on Twitter/X remembers Fetterman draping himself in the Israeli flag at a massive pro-Israel rally. And who could forget him climbing on his roof to wave the Israeli flag to taunt the pro-Hamas "protesters" who descended upon his home?

But the background is deeply moving. The origin story of Fetterman's profound love for the Jewish people -- like so many great love stories -- was borne out of tragedy.

On October 27, 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Shabbat morning, murdering 11 and wounding six.

Fetterman lived a short drive from Tree of Life, and he was called almost immediately after the authorities knew about the shootings. At the time, Fetterman was in the home stretch of his ultimately successful campaign for Lt. Governor.

Within moments of learning about the mass murder, @JohnFetterman did something unthinkable. He personally called his Republican opponent in that race, Jeff Bartos, who is Jewish.

As Bartos told Politico, Fetterman told him, "I’m so sorry to be the one to call you, but I just got off the phone with the governor. There’s a shooting happening right now at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. It’s going to be bad."

Perhaps most amazing is this little nugget, revealing how little exposure Fetterman apparently had until that point to the Jewish community. Bartos explained that he called Fetterman back later that same day and said, "I’m calling to let you know that you’re a mensch. And he chuckled and said, ‘Is that a good thing or a bad thing?'"

He didn't know the word "mensch." Let that sink in.

Just five years before @SenFettermanPA became one of the greatest champions of Israel and the Jewish people, he didn't know perhaps one of the most common Yiddish expressions -- one that even most non-Jewish Americans know.

One of the ugliest memes out there is that Fetterman supports Israel because of -- wait for it -- Jewish money. That's a hateful two-fer, cheapening the powerful roots of Fetterman's beliefs while (as usual) trotting out the ugly trope that Jews just buy support.

I hate that this is even necessary to explain, but Jews have low enough standards that we are easily impressed. Think of it like "Dayenu," the famous song recited at Passover Seder each year. Basically, it means that if G-d had done any one of these things, it would have been "dayenu" -- enough for us.

If Fetterman had just voted to support pro-Israel resolutions after Oct 7 and given a few milquetoast speeches, dayenu.

If Fetterman had just stuck it to those tearing down posters of hostages by wallpapering his Senate office with those same posters, dayenu.

If Fetterman had just told @jaketapper on CNN that he didn't understand why it's controversial to support Israel as the Jewish state is fighting to eliminate Hamas, dayenu.

If Fetterman had simply highlighted that those protesting for a ceasefire are not also calling for the hostages to be released or for Hamas to surrender, dayenu.

If Fetterman had only gone back to his Senate office and come out waving a small Israeli flag to taunt pro-Hamas "protesters" as they were getting arrested by Capitol Police, dayenu.

Of all his words, though, Fetterman showed his simple greatness when he said that Israel has the "imperative to destroy Hamas."

There are no truer words as Israel somberly prepares to enter Rafah to strike one -- hopefully last -- mighty blow against Hamas.

I hope that after people read -- and share -- this post, they will join me in declaring @SenFettermanPA as the Valentine for Israel, the Jewish people, and the many millions of righteous supporters of the Jewish state.

Even that would not be "dayenu" for all Fetterman has done since Oct 7, but it's the best place to start on Valentine's.

Here are more videos:

1) Fetterman on his own roof waving the Israeli flag at pro-Hamas "protesters" in front of his home;

2) Hostage posters all across his Senate office;

3) CNN interview w/ Jake Tapper;

4) Taunting protesters being arrested by waving the small Israeli flag.

This is the Politico story referenced in my post above, which was extremely well-reported by talented reporter @hollyotterbein ...
politico.com/news/2023/11/2…

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Joel Mowbray

@joelmowbray

Dec 11, 2023

Do you regret putting Qatari agents (Zarate & Glaser) in charge of FDD's sanctions policy work? Do you regret killing the research into Qatar funding Hamas in 2017, which was the only project of its kind -- after Qatar/GlobalLeaks intercepted FDD's comms & sent to the media? Do you regret walking away from H.R. 2712, the Hamas Sanctions Bill, afraid that the Qataris would do more with FDD's hacked emails?

Do you regret paying those Qatari agents -- Juan Zarate & Daniel Glaser of Financial Integrity Network (now K2) -- $400K/year for @FDD_CEFP to turn a blind eye to Qatar and Hamas? Do you regret not telling Congress that FDD's sanctions policy work was overseen by people making 8-figures annually from Qatar?

Do you regret hiring Qatar's lawyers at Covington & Burling to represent FDD? Do you regret muzzling FDD voices who wanted to still expose Qatar over its terror finance?

Do you regret your cowardice in dropping your criticisms of an Islamist government that secretly funds Hamas’s military wing (and Hezbollah, etc), responsible for horrific violence, rather than fighting to expose that Islamist regime that funds the rape & murder of Americans, Israelis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others?

This is @FDD_CEFP website *today* -- four of the eight terror finance "experts" are/were Qatari agents as executives with Financial Integrity Network (FIN), now @K2Integrity. So half FDD's team handling its sanctions & terror finance work -- meaning the people who make FDD's recommendations to Congress & the media -- are people whose livelihood depends at least in part on remaining in Qatar's good graces.

@FDD senior advisor Daniel Glaser -- biz partner of
@JCZarate1
-- CURRENTLY serves on Board of Qatar's Central Bank sub. Yet Glaser, Zarate & their
@K2Integrity
folks are STILL, post-10/7, helping oversee FDD's policy recommendations re Hamas & Qatar.
qfcra.com/staff-members/…

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