Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - He Tried to Debunk Conservatives. Then He Switched Sides ft. Xaviaer DuRousseau ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:00:35.360 Xavier, the CEO of Walk With Me, thank you for joining the Riley Gaines Show.

00:00:41.680 Super duper excited you're on.

00:00:43.500 There are very few people like you with your background and your experience and your testimony, quite frankly,

00:00:49.280 on the conservative side of the aisle, especially in the influencing, if you even want to call it that, department.

00:00:57.220 Can you give us a little bit of that background that I'm talking about?

00:00:59.960 Because I think it's incredibly interesting, and it probably gives you unique insight and perspectives

00:01:05.040 and a lot of the things even still that are circulating in the conversations online.

00:01:10.040 Well, first of all, thank you for having me, Mrs. Barker.

00:01:12.800 You know, I'm a huge longtime fan and supporter of you, and I play no games about you ever, not today and not any other day.

00:01:18.620 But yes, I come from a, you know, I would say unique, but at this point, there's so many people that are coming along the journey with me.

00:01:26.800 I'm very happy about it, but I was a BLM activist.

00:01:29.580 I grew up in a very left-wing liberal household.

00:01:31.780 I would dare to even say it was pretty Marxist, my upbringing.

00:01:34.900 And I was told my entire life that I needed to fixate on race and that everything needed to be about race.

00:01:39.780 And then as a joke, I applied to be on a Netflix reality show and ended up being cast to be a part of The Circle, either season two or three.

00:01:47.800 They were filming it during COVID.

00:01:48.920 and my whole character was supposed to be me pretending or me pretending to be a woke white

00:01:53.980 woman being a catfish online but teaching people how to be progressive activists and in the process

00:01:59.140 of getting ready to go on that show i was like well let me study the counter arguments so that

00:02:02.980 i could go up and debate charlie kirk and ben shapiro and prager you and try to debunk all

00:02:07.640 these prager you videos and i accidentally debunked myself instead and backed out of the show next

00:02:13.700 thing you know i'm like well if i am wrong about all these different things i'm wrong about the

00:02:17.460 Democratic Party. I'm wrong about socialism. I can't be the only one who is going through this.

00:02:22.420 So I started speaking out. And five years later, here we are on The Riley Gaines Show.

00:02:26.860 So this was peak COVID, you said. So like what, 2020, 2021 timeframe?

00:02:34.020 Yes. And the only reason I applied to be on this reality show is because I was bored. It was the

00:02:38.500 height of the pandemic. And I made this application video as a joke because it was one of the shows

00:02:43.060 I was binge watching with my old roommate and he like his girlfriend actually was the one that got

00:02:48.840 me to end up sending the video in during COVID. So I was like, okay, well, I'm doing this now.

00:02:54.180 And I ended up being selected to be a finalist right after George Floyd had died. So it was all

00:02:59.820 just happening at the same time. And because it was COVID, I had nothing but time on my hands.

00:03:03.820 So I'm like, well, let me start researching without confirmation bias, which I didn't realize

00:03:08.440 how bad I had confirmation bias, and I saw quickly that I was not researching to make a conclusion.

00:03:14.780 I already had a conclusion that I was trying to research to defend, but once I started looking

00:03:19.100 at the conservative side of the argument, I started realizing, oh wait, socialism has literally never

00:03:23.600 worked. BLM has always been a scam, and the Democratic Party has always been the party of 0.82

00:03:29.040 racism and violence. I have just been drinking the Kool-Aid because this was the indoctrination 1.00

00:03:33.440 that was put upon me from the age of a little child well let me tell you i watched the show

00:03:40.000 the circle um i enjoyed it i had no idea though that they give you that much prep or maybe

00:03:46.700 direction going into the show so that's super interesting and i will say the covid to reality

00:03:52.900 television pipeline must be universal because i applied for survivor imagine me like out in the

00:03:58.780 wilderness. I just thought the idea at the time, like, again, this is peak COVID, where you're

00:04:03.360 kind of like, I think everyone had like a little bit of hysteria, especially me. I was a college

00:04:07.240 athlete during the time, and I felt like I was getting fat. I wasn't swimming the same way. I'm

00:04:10.920 like, I want to go on Survivor so I can be skinny. That's what I wanted. So the pipeline is so real.

00:04:16.660 Anyways, all that to say, with this being like the George Floyd timeline, that was like kind of

00:04:22.920 another wrench in it all, though. Talk about that. And then when you're speaking up came, I think,

00:04:27.780 And specifically the George Floyd timeline and maybe some of the response that you saw from other BLM activists.

00:04:35.640 Yeah, so I was already a BLM activist long before George Floyd.

00:04:39.320 So I was already, you know, I was the kid in high school that was putting the posters all over the walls.

00:04:44.280 I was the kid in college that was, you know, spreading woke stuff on campus.

00:04:47.600 I was never radical left, but I was always very, you know, woke.

00:04:51.100 I was trying so hard to, you know, live out this dream that I had of continuing the civil rights mission, dare I say.

00:04:59.240 So then by the time that everything happened with George Floyd, I was really aghast pretty quickly on after George Floyd's death because I just started seeing people exploiting the movement so much.

00:05:10.360 And I started realizing how performative a lot of the activism was.

00:05:13.440 Like, I remember I was never on the all cops are bad train.

00:05:16.780 Eight of my uncles were police officers.

00:05:18.560 My best friend is a police officer and he was my best friend then, too.

00:05:22.180 And he was in the police academy when all of this was happening.

00:05:24.680 So I knew that I wasn't against all police officers.

00:05:28.040 So I thought it was weird that so many people were demonizing every single cop.

00:05:32.140 And I thought it was insane to watch the looting and the rioting happening.

00:05:35.600 And I remember I created a Twitch account where I was watching these Antifa riots and the looting.

00:05:40.680 And it was like these white Antifa members saying that they were stealing all of these shoes and TVs in the name of justice for reparations.

00:05:48.560 It's like there's so many layers of why this just wasn't making sense to me.

00:05:51.920 Then I started looking at some of the families.

00:05:53.580 I looked at Breonna Taylor's mother and how Breonna Taylor's mother was even speaking out saying that her daughter's name and death was exploited.

00:06:01.480 And there was millions of dollars made off of her death.

00:06:04.040 And not a single dollar went to her, went to her legal fees or anything of that nature.

00:06:08.560 So I just started seeing the fraud pretty early on.

00:06:11.320 And whenever I called it out, I was told that I needed to stay in line or that I was losing the plot.

00:06:16.880 and I just got sick of it.

00:06:18.820 I was tired of it.

00:06:19.940 And then once I started seeing behind the curtain,

00:06:21.980 it was around that same time

00:06:23.180 I started to do the research

00:06:24.420 and started going on like PragerU.com

00:06:26.360 and looking at the videos,

00:06:27.700 seeing that the party switch never happened,

00:06:29.600 seeing that the KKK was a Democratic Party wing,

00:06:32.660 seeing how ActBlue was funneling all of this money

00:06:34.920 that we thought was going to the black community,

00:06:36.600 but actually going towards progressive causes 0.88

00:06:38.400 that were further destroying the black community. 0.93

00:06:40.780 And once I had enough, I finally walked away. 1.00

00:06:43.680 Talk about that for a second.

00:06:45.380 You know, the party switch never happened. I think that's very relevant now, especially with what we've seen in the past few weeks with the Southern Poverty Law Center, who had been receiving and funding white supremacist rallies.

00:07:00.980 So this party switch elaborated on that a little bit more.

00:07:04.640 Yes. So a lot of people will try to argue with you saying that, well, Republicans, yes, they'll agree that Republicans freed the slaves and that Republicans, you know, were in favor of civil rights.

00:07:12.980 but then they'll say that there was this big switch it's like okay when did this switch happen

00:07:16.660 it never happened over the course of 30 to 40 years you maybe had a handful of people that

00:07:23.260 switched parties you will always see like different slight alignments changing over the course of

00:07:28.920 decades when it comes to political parties but there was never a grand moment of them being like

00:07:33.620 okay well we're now the democratic party and you're now the republican party and we are going

00:07:37.300 to take over these issues that simply never happened that's a myth and when people try to

00:07:42.500 So my thing when I say to people is when they bring up the party switch, I'm like, OK, how many seats actually changed?

00:07:47.800 How many people actually got up and went to the other side?

00:07:50.260 That did not happen.

00:07:51.680 So when we see now that the Southern Poverty Law Center is getting exposed for sending millions of dollars to the KKK and to the American Nazi Party, that does not shock me at all because this has always been their strategy.

00:08:03.540 Because what they know is that racism and particularly the fear of racism has always been the Achilles heel of our society.

00:08:09.760 Our country has bent over backwards more than any other nation to right the wrongs of our past.

00:08:16.200 So what they know is that if they don't have that leverage of the fear of racism, then they don't have leverage at all.

00:08:21.780 So that's why they're taking hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, and putting it towards making it seem like there's racism.

00:08:28.640 The supply for racism was not reaching the demand.

00:08:31.640 So they had to overexpose these different groups that are so niche with so few people that actually align with them.

00:08:38.280 They had to go and funnel the racism and create these rallies.

00:08:42.100 And so many of the different events that happened with the Unite the Right rallies, that was funded by the SPLC.

00:08:48.600 That was funded by the left because they want to try to make it seem like there's way more racism in this country than there actually is.

00:08:54.800 And that says a lot about the state of the left.

00:08:57.480 Yeah, you know, you can't fight something that's not really there.

00:09:00.480 So what do you do? You create it.

00:09:01.960 And the fear of racism, that's a really good point.

00:09:04.700 And it's not even just America.

00:09:06.180 We've seen people like Keir Starmer, the prime minister in England,

00:09:10.840 who has said, like, you know, the greatest threat that Britain faces is Islamophobia.

00:09:15.560 Therefore, he's not willing to go after the grooming gangs

00:09:18.260 or any of the bad actors who have immigrated illegally into Europe, 0.66

00:09:23.660 which I think is a pretty grave site, especially in looking at it.

00:09:28.100 It's a much smaller scale of what could happen here, even in America.

00:09:31.820 Now, you were told that some people, as you just alluded to,

00:09:34.700 told you to kind of you know stay in line what specifically do you think they're referring to

00:09:41.660 is it because of the color of your skin they're telling you you have to act a certain way because

00:09:45.600 you are black well mind you when i would hear things like that it would literally be at blm

00:09:51.800 rallies where i would hear things of that nature so like when they started going on like i remember 0.61

00:09:56.500 particularly walnut creek california there was a protest that i had went to and it was a peaceful

00:10:00.940 protest and i had said to people from the jump like we are not about to go bust these windows

00:10:05.560 please stop robbing the nordstroms here it's my favorite nordstrom i was like you guys need to

00:10:09.840 behave yourselves if we're going to get our point across we cannot be dangerous and violent and

00:10:15.040 reckless that's not how this works and people were telling me that like my focus was in the wrong

00:10:20.720 place and that i need to stop worrying about the people who want to loot and riot and worry more

00:10:24.600 about you know police being bad people and i remember the the point that like absolutely fried

00:10:31.260 my mind is our protest suddenly like diverted off of the path and they started going down to the

00:10:38.460 highway and blocking off the interstate and i'm a firm believer people have to get to work people

00:10:43.280 have babies that they need to give birth to people have reasons to be on this highway why are you

00:10:49.080 guys blocking the interstate and i didn't go down to the interstate i kept telling people like you

00:10:53.540 guys should not do this and there was a guy there it was a white guy particularly he started charging

00:10:58.980 at the police officers that were on the interstate to try to like combat this whole situation and the

00:11:04.160 police were begging him to stop coming forward otherwise they were going to have to hurt him

00:11:08.340 and he was begging them to shoot him so they shot him with a rubber bullet just barely grazed him

00:11:14.680 mind you he saw that i watched this all play out in real time he saw that there was blood he laid

00:11:19.360 on the ground kind of did this a little bit so the blood would drip and then had his friend with a

00:11:23.380 professional camera come and take a photo of him and then after that like an hour or two later that

00:11:28.600 photo was all over the san francisco bay area of people saying it was a peaceful protest yet the

00:11:33.680 police chose violence yeah i think when you have the opportunity or the ability to witness it in

00:11:40.460 real life and you see it play out differently than what's being portrayed online i would imagine that

00:11:46.200 radicalizes you a bit and so now i guess kind of being on the other side of the aisle which i hate

00:11:52.960 to make it sound partisan like that because the reality is these issues a lot of the issues that

00:11:58.160 have become so divisive at least in terms of elected representation and certainly how legacy

00:12:03.140 media purports these things they're really not having kind of been on both sides here where

00:12:08.060 would you say you stand in the political aisle now i would say i am right of center i'm a

00:12:16.820 constitutional conservative and i overall just want common sense i'm not somebody that wants to

00:12:21.660 see you know the left to be demoralized or stomp all over them i want the best for all americans

00:12:26.240 in this country and i want to see us uniting and i feel like the political horseshoe has changed

00:12:32.260 so much between 2020 and now where it's no longer just right versus left it is extremism versus

00:12:39.040 you know common sense moderates you know i have a lot of people that follow me that are left of

00:12:44.200 center and it's because they also don't like what's happening on the left where they're trying

00:12:48.000 to castrate children but they also don't like what's happening on the far alt-right where

00:12:51.520 they're just, you know, conspiracy theorists that have absolutely lost their mind and want to blame

00:12:55.540 Israel for the reason that they didn't have enough milk for their cereal that day. So it's like,

00:13:00.720 I try to align with the people that overall want the best for America. I'm about American interest.

00:13:07.280 And that includes, again, every American that is legally here. That's why I want to protect,

00:13:12.240 but I'm all about the constitution and I am all about, you know, I want people to be able to do

00:13:16.680 their thing. I say that my audience is the Beverly Hills conservative. Like I'm not the most strict

00:13:21.440 authoritarian person on what you're you know able to do or what i believe that you should be allowed

00:13:25.760 to do i'm just all for god-given rights and having common sense who's your favorite member of

00:13:31.480 congress like who do you feel like resonates most with you i love representative anna paulina luna

00:13:41.280 she is iconic and legendary she really is she has been fantastic i mean across the board um even

00:13:48.360 And today, I think I'll see her on a lot of the Maha stuff.

00:13:51.780 She has been just a fantastic leader.

00:13:54.100 What about someone like Thomas Massey, who he's a pretty principled constitutionalist.

00:14:00.620 How do you feel about him?

00:14:03.920 You know, I haven't done as much of a deep dive on him as I need to.

00:14:06.920 I know that he tends to be a really polarizing character, but I don't have too much of an opinion.

00:14:12.340 I need to look more on him.

00:14:13.800 Yeah, I know.

00:14:15.060 Say what you will about him.

00:14:16.200 I don't know if he's the best team player.

00:14:18.360 but I brought him up because he does seem to be incredibly principled.

00:14:24.040 Okay, you mentioned kind of some of the flack that you receive from the right,

00:14:30.080 and I've talked about it on this show before,

00:14:32.280 and we were talking about it prior to clicking record.

00:14:36.000 Do you almost feel like there's a level of fatigue in the,

00:14:40.600 again, I hate the word influencer, but in the influencer space,

00:14:44.680 especially being a conservative influencer like do you feel a level of fatigue and just

00:14:51.360 like i'm tired i'm tired of this i don't feel that we have a moment of peace no peace here's

00:15:00.260 the thing it's when you when your side wins because conservatives were winning we were

00:15:04.580 winning back culture maga is hot like you think back to 2024 everybody was locked in we had we

00:15:10.800 were finally getting people to be on the same page of, okay, we should not have men in the

00:15:14.940 locker rooms. We should have strong borders. Everybody was getting aligned with, again,

00:15:19.760 common sense policies that protected American interests. But once we won, it seemed like a lot

00:15:25.680 of people, if we're just being real about it, a lot of people just needed to keep the rent paid.

00:15:29.140 So they had to start finding new enemies. And because the left was so demoralized for so long,

00:15:33.980 it's like the right just started imploding within on itself. And now it's like, I feel like we've

00:15:39.220 been in a civil war when it comes to right-wing commentators over the last two years. And a lot

00:15:45.020 of it is because of bots. A lot of it is because of paid propaganda. And I feel like the people

00:15:51.200 that are often getting paid or the people who are often getting accused of being the paid grifters,

00:15:56.080 they're the ones that aren't even collecting the check. It's the ones that are coming from like

00:16:00.040 the Qatari influence, which is actually documented and actually being showcased. 0.99

00:16:04.200 It's like a lot of them tend to be dividing us on the right. 0.88

00:16:08.180 And it's sad, too, because it's like our top leaders are all fighting each other within the conservative movement.

00:16:14.120 This civil war that's been happening between, you know, Daily Wire and Candace and Tucker and Megan and everybody attacking each other.

00:16:20.540 The person that we had that was the glue that would have kept all of us, you know, more sane and able to actually have productive conversations.

00:16:27.780 That was Charlie Kirk.

00:16:29.100 And ever since Charlie Kirk has been murdered, I feel like the conservative movement has been really ghetto.

00:16:33.000 it feels lawless it feels like we don't have direction i feel like i'm not even joking when

00:16:38.280 i say the conservative movement feels like haiti when haiti lost their king it's like there's no

00:16:43.240 longer somebody that's like keeping us you know aligned and able to be civil so now it's just

00:16:49.340 it's uncivilized what do you think the future of the conservative movement is which granted i will

00:16:54.620 say it's like nearly impossible to predict um i think a week in politics is equivalent to like

00:17:00.760 two years in in normal life so it's impossible to predict but do you think like the whole maga

00:17:06.760 movement dies when president trump is out of office or do you think we coalesce behind the

00:17:13.000 next political leader is it another influential figure who's not elected uh obviously we talked

00:17:18.360 about charlie kirk and i am like in full agreement with you he really was like the connecting fiber

00:17:23.400 coalition builder i will never forget kind of watching the behind the scenes of the rnc

00:17:29.000 of i think what july leading up to the election this was right after president trump

00:17:33.260 had an assassination attempt one of many at this point in butler pennsylvania on his life

00:17:38.480 watching the behind the scenes of charlie coordinate some of the speakers who were there

00:17:43.920 one of those being amber rose who i know you're friends with um he really was like the connecting

00:17:50.320 fibers and the most amazing thing was he didn't want credit for it so that's what i think a lot

00:17:55.000 of people who maybe didn't get to witness it up close and personal you really didn't realize

00:17:58.960 but now we're all feeling the real effect of what this looks like so what do you think

00:18:04.060 the future is i think especially going into 2026 and 2028 you know my answer to that changes month

00:18:12.860 over month there is so much that's just left in the unknown at this point i feel like we were

00:18:18.140 going down the direction for a while where i was getting really scared about the state of the right

00:18:21.580 To be honest, we started seeing way too many people that should not be viewed as showcase.

00:18:26.040 Like there were way too many people who should not be viewed as the centerpiece of the right

00:18:30.420 that were becoming way too popular way too quickly.

00:18:33.160 You know, you know who they are.

00:18:34.360 Like some of these more extreme people like a Nick Fuentes, like a Dan Bilzerian.

00:18:38.100 But what actually does give me some optimism is you have someone like Nick Fuentes finally

00:18:42.360 admitting he's not even Republican.

00:18:43.840 He's a Democrat.

00:18:44.920 He is outwardly telling everyone now that he is a Democrat.

00:18:48.100 And, you know, all of the fraud and the extremism and the hate that comes with him, that's going along with him across the horseshoe over to the radical left.

00:18:56.980 Then you have someone like Dan Bilzerian.

00:18:58.900 Dan and Nick are at a civil war now where they're attacking each other.

00:19:02.520 So I think they're also starting to implode.

00:19:05.100 A lot of these people that are just radically, you know, conspiratorial and crazy on the alt-right, they have attacked each other so much that I think that they are starting to cancel each other out.

00:19:15.100 now what is left in the unknown is what's going to come in these next few months i mean people

00:19:20.140 were just talking again last week thinking that we're going to have another pandemic so it's like

00:19:25.220 you know you never know what's going to happen that's going to drastically change people's public 0.86

00:19:28.940 perception you know the war has not been popular i'm very in favor of the war but hopefully you

00:19:33.780 know once the war is wrapped up we're able to get back into a position of not being on defense but

00:19:39.160 showcasing who's really on offense we need to get back to reminding people we are not that far

00:19:44.540 removed from joe biden's america we are not that far removed from it being normalized for men to

00:19:50.140 be in the locker rooms for us to not have borders like we didn't even have any kind of border patrol

00:19:54.820 for so long we had millions of illegals coming into our country for so long and we have shut

00:19:59.320 that down but instead of people celebrating that and being happy about that and focusing on that 0.87

00:20:03.400 they're instead focusing on attacking each other within the right about the most small things but

00:20:08.720 i don't know i i'm i try not to be optimistic or pessimistic to go back to your initial question

00:20:14.760 because if you're pessimistic you won't do any work if you're optimistic you'll get too comfortable

00:20:19.800 and not do any work so i just try to be as real as possible and get things done you know it's so

00:20:24.440 true uh and history has proven this to be true right where success it breeds complacency

00:20:30.460 and complacency breeds failure it's the enemy to growth it's the enemy to progress and i think

00:20:36.740 there is a level of complacency amongst the conservative movement. And I totally agree

00:20:42.240 with you, too, about people like Nick Fuentes who are now coming out and saying, you know,

00:20:46.680 I would never vote for President Trump or the like again. I'm voting for the Democratic Party

00:20:51.900 to punish them. I've never understood. They oftentimes get labeled as far right, but I

00:20:56.800 never really saw Nick Fuentes as far right. I think he's been able to hide under the cloak

00:21:03.280 of conservatism i don't think he's a conservative really by any stretch of the imagination maybe on

00:21:08.160 some of the cultural stuff that again 90 of people agree on sure i guess um but i think he's been

00:21:14.540 able to hide under that cloak for a long time so to now see him saying it outright i'm right there

00:21:19.300 with you one thing i want to ask you about before that there's several things i want to get to but

00:21:24.600 you say you're in support of the war we see a lot of discourse online especially from some of the

00:21:28.380 people that we've already alluded to we've already mentioned who are in opposition of the war

00:21:33.220 and call President Trump horrible things because of it.

00:21:36.160 Can you tell me why you are?

00:21:38.000 I think this is good for my audience or my viewers to hear.

00:21:42.060 So the conversation begins with Islam.

00:21:44.940 I will never miss an opportunity to remind people

00:21:47.820 that when someone is screaming,

00:21:49.940 death to America,

00:21:51.000 and we are constantly seeing death in America, 0.90

00:21:53.600 maybe we should believe them. 1.00

00:21:55.360 Okay, when it comes to the radical Islamic brotherhood, 0.99

00:21:58.140 they have been dead set on destroying Jews, Christians, 0.95

00:22:01.520 and all of Western society for literally over a thousand years. 1.00

00:22:06.120 Since the beginning of Islam, they have been dedicated to trying to take us out. 1.00

00:22:09.580 And I understand why certain people are, you know, concerned and jaded, 1.00

00:22:13.980 especially if they're, you know, an older generation than us, no shade.

00:22:16.860 If they were, you know, older and watching everything that happened with 9-11 and Afghanistan

00:22:22.200 and they don't want to be in another forever war,

00:22:24.540 I can understand why they are concerned about that.

00:22:27.320 However, those concerns are completely divorced from reality. 0.95

00:22:29.800 everything that we have done so far in this current war it is as opposite as the afghanistan

00:22:35.520 situation as it possibly could be we are getting more transparency we're very efficient we're not

00:22:40.820 putting you know boots on the ground and like just invading every single middle eastern country

00:22:44.920 we are getting in we are neutralizing the threat and then we are getting out we already know that 0.68

00:22:50.760 in iran the iranian regime was building nukes that were you know a hundred feet underground why else

00:22:56.680 would they be under there if they weren't trying to build their weaponry? And they, again, have

00:23:00.200 told us so many times about what their intentions are. And we've seen the way that they have wreaked

00:23:04.780 havoc on every single ally of ours, not even just Israel, but all over Europe. So we have to get

00:23:10.580 really serious about neutralizing this threat. And when people bring up the fact that, oh, well,

00:23:14.900 they've been saying every few years that Iran is a couple of weeks away from building nukes, 0.97

00:23:19.440 that's because every time we stomp them out, they come back like roaches. Every time we neutralize 0.99

00:23:24.500 the problem, they spin the block. So we have to spin the block. I describe fighting the Islamic

00:23:30.020 terror situation as mowing the lawn. You have to mow the lawn every so often. Otherwise it's going 1.00

00:23:37.160 to start growing again. The weeds are going to start growing again and the extremism is going

00:23:40.660 to come again. So we have to wipe that out before they come over here. And hopefully we are able to,

00:23:45.700 you know, come up with some kind of regime change over there that they're at least going to be

00:23:49.620 western friendly so that they're not being run by terrorists who want to take us out we've already

00:23:55.000 had 60 000 islamic terrorist attacks since 9 11 how many more do you want before you realize we 0.78

00:24:00.520 have to do something about this threat yeah and you you got to give it to president trump uh he 0.78

00:24:05.080 continues to prove people wrong whether it's international relations whether it's the tariff

00:24:10.760 conversation uh you got to give it to him it he knows what he's doing uh and yeah my husband like

00:24:17.120 I said he you know Louie grew up in England lived in Dubai which is very westernized but lived in

00:24:23.020 Kuwait and Malta spent time in the Middle East just with I guess his his dad's work but now

00:24:28.700 looking at the state of England he actually calls it Englandistan he's like I'm so glad I'm not

00:24:34.520 there I'm so glad to be 4,000 miles separated from his home country which is sad for him he's

00:24:41.500 like look I have so many people I love there my friends and my family he says it has become

00:24:45.000 so radicalized by that that sort of influence um so i'm right there with you and speaking of dubai

00:24:53.960 it's like the uae themselves they spoke out and they started putting restrictions on their students

00:24:57.860 going to school in in england because they know that if they send their students their arab students

00:25:03.260 over to the uk for their higher education there is a good chance they're going to be radicalized

00:25:08.140 by islam so if the uae is saying that why are americans here not understanding it i think too

00:25:13.820 many americans have such a westernized perspective of the world they don't understand that in the

00:25:18.000 east they actually want to wipe us out and they are actually willing to kill themselves in order

00:25:22.720 to kill us so we have to take that seriously especially as we're seeing iran partner up with 0.98

00:25:27.580 more of our enemies you're seeing radical islam partner up with all these marxists and communists 0.95

00:25:33.340 you see them in cuba you see them in venezuela you see them in columbia and they are taking over 0.99

00:25:38.780 all the communism there and partnering up to trade anti-american secrets and they also iran 0.51

00:25:44.260 also just did a 25-year deal with china in exchange for cheap oil and they're exchanging 0.82

00:25:50.080 military training and anti-western secrets and we've been in a secret war with china for years 0.73

00:25:55.900 now if not decades at this point where they are beating us it's called the art of war you know 1.00

00:26:00.840 the war of deception they are they are fighting us in a war without firing a single bullet so china 0.96

00:26:06.140 is still the enemy islam is the enemy and communism and marxism are certainly the enemy

00:26:11.380 all right i want to talk to you guys about something that i know a lot of people privately 0.91

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00:26:56.020 to yrefy.com that is y-r-e-f-y.com and be sure you tell them that riley from the riley gains show

00:27:01.760 sent you. I think people here, especially like your standard woke white woman, right? You know

00:27:11.240 the one I'm talking about. They have such a skewed perception of what oppression really is, so much

00:27:16.360 so that they don't recognize real oppression. Like radical Islam is rooted in pedophilia. It's rooted 0.98

00:27:23.780 in forced compliance. It's rooted in honor killings, total oppression of women, but they just 1.00

00:27:30.800 have no idea i think a large part of that is because of our education system here where maybe

00:27:36.260 maybe they aren't necessarily taught it i know i really wasn't which is kind of concerning

00:27:40.900 so they just have a totally skewed perception of what it means to be oppressed because they

00:27:47.820 believe they themselves are oppressed we live in the most diverse inclusive opportunistic nation

00:27:52.960 in the world and they can't recognize it so uh really not surprising that they don't i guess

00:28:00.400 call it what it is or be excited when we aim to destroy terrorism one thing I

00:28:08.000 want to ask you about because it's something you do really really well is

00:28:12.160 comedy like you're funny and you're easy to watch and you're enjoyable and I find

00:28:17.020 myself like she's an ear-to-ear when your videos pop up on my screen what do

00:28:21.340 you make of other conservative personalities maybe influencers I feel

00:28:28.000 like this is something that our side does not do well at all. You know, when it comes to the

00:28:35.020 political commentary, influencer, creator space, whatever you want to call it, I think that more

00:28:40.400 people just need to make sure that they have other aspects of their brand that connects them to

00:28:46.820 people. So like with me, I started, when I first started making content, I only talked about

00:28:51.140 politics. And then I realized I was like, okay, if I want people to understand that I'm a sane

00:28:54.640 person and i'm a person that is actually a human in america that wants america to be real i started

00:29:00.560 talking about the other things that i'm passionate about outside of just politics so i would start

00:29:04.460 talking about you know pop culture i started talking about you know certain sports things

00:29:09.440 fashion things travel things you know being bougie um and then doing also with a layer of comedy

00:29:15.660 because i feel like comedy is the best way that you can try to reach across the aisle and try to

00:29:21.400 get people to understand your point without them getting triggered and offended and you know wanting

00:29:26.500 to cancel you and because i'm somebody that was over on the left for so long i know what clicks

00:29:31.720 for the left i know what is i know what the trigger words are that the left is automatically

00:29:36.460 going to stop listening to you so like when i created my walk with me series for example

00:29:40.780 i created that with a very particular purpose where i wanted to win over los angeles audiences

00:29:46.100 And I wanted to be the most over-the-top, obnoxious LA influencer ever with the $25 smoothie and the headphones on and the hypebeast athleisure clothing on.

00:29:57.240 I was like, I'm going to do everything cliche and everything about it is going to make you think when you open this video, I'm about to go on some woke liberal rant.

00:30:07.280 but I'm talking about conservative values, but from a stance of, this is common sense.

00:30:12.520 This is what we all agree upon behind closed doors and at the dinner table.

00:30:16.640 But when you just put it out there while sassily walking and sipping a smoothie,

00:30:21.920 it's like people tend to gravitate towards it more and start to ask themselves more questions.

00:30:27.000 So that's what I try to do.

00:30:29.080 And I think there's a lot, there are some really talented creators out there.

00:30:32.120 I just think that they need to make sure that they don't get too boxed into the X atmosphere, that they start losing track on how to relate to humans that are absorbed into politics all the time.

00:30:44.380 Because this space can really make you lose your mind.

00:30:46.820 You really can get demoralized quickly, lose passion quickly, and just lose the plot if all you're doing is constantly consuming political content.

00:30:55.420 So you have to have other hobbies and passions and interests, and showcasing that on your platform definitely will help as well.

00:31:01.680 Yeah. And I think when you do that, it allows you to show up to the political space with more, I guess, umph and kind of like fire under you. Otherwise, I agree with you. What about you mentioned being in L.A.? What's the current state of things there in terms of like the homelessness, the drug problems, the poverty, the high prices? What do things look like currently? Because we see things online, but you live there.

00:31:32.360 So L.A. currently looks like the purgatory on the way to hell.

00:31:36.660 It's pretty bad.

00:31:38.940 I luckily do not leave my little areas.

00:31:41.680 I know exactly where to go and where not to go.

00:31:43.620 So I do love living in L.A.

00:31:45.040 I just don't visit 95% of L.A. because it's so bad.

00:31:49.740 And it's way more profitable to pretend to fight an issue than to actually fight an issue.

00:31:54.980 So the homeless crisis keeps getting worse because they keep getting billions of more dollars to pretend to fight it.

00:32:00.020 And what's wild about it is most of the shelters are empty.

00:32:04.540 Most of the shelters have plenty of beds, plenty of room, plenty of food, but they're constantly incentivizing the homeless people to stay on drugs and to stay on the streets because that's how the benefits just keep cycling for everyone.

00:32:19.960 They get to keep their drugs.

00:32:21.040 They don't have to go to rehab.

00:32:22.280 And the homeless shelters keep getting more money without actually having to do any work.

00:32:26.780 And then you know everything with the Palisades.

00:32:28.540 It took so long for them to start acknowledging the fact that this was arson.

00:32:31.700 I knew from the day it was happening that it was arson because I had multiple friends calling me, telling me that they saw a gang of people on motorcycles going around starting these fires.

00:32:42.340 But for so long, they didn't want to acknowledge it, just like they didn't want to take accountability for the fact that there was no water in the fire hydrants.

00:32:49.520 So there's all these different things happening.

00:32:51.380 The crime is egregious.

00:32:53.180 You know, you can't drive anywhere.

00:32:54.340 I have rules where if there's not a secured parking garage or valet, I refuse to drive there in L.A.

00:33:00.200 It's that bad.

00:33:01.720 So I'm very disgusted by how bad Karen Bass has allowed this city to get.

00:33:07.180 And I'm so happy that someone like Spencer Pratt is jumping into this race because, you know, he's somebody that didn't necessarily want to be a career politician.

00:33:14.840 He would have been very happy sitting on his millions and chilling for the rest of his life.

00:33:18.820 But instead, he is somebody that is in this for the love of the city and the love of the game.

00:33:22.560 He is someone that actually wants to come and change and expose this fraud, bring some transparency to L.A., and make L.A. cool again.

00:33:30.700 Everybody that's here, that's been here for more than, I would say, five years, at least four years, they are on the same page of we want to see L.A. have its golden era back.

00:33:39.740 We want to see the movie industry coming back because L.A. is even losing the film industry because it's going to Atlanta.

00:33:46.720 Yeah, it's going to Atlanta and New Orleans and all these different places.

00:33:50.160 And all of our major events are going to Vegas because it's too expensive to have a business here.

00:33:54.720 And this is largely Gavin Newsom's problem, too.

00:33:58.100 He's making it to where it's impossible to have a thriving business.

00:34:01.220 So many of my favorite places that I would go to in L.A. since I've been here and I've only been here three and a half years, they have been shut down.

00:34:08.260 And it's crazy because they have booming business every single time I'm in these vicinities, in these places.

00:34:13.480 it is packed wall to wall and they still can't be profitable because they're dealing with so much

00:34:18.860 crime, so much taxation, and then so much constantly, you know, so much constant new

00:34:24.280 regulation that it's just made the city impossible to thrive in. So we definitely need change and we

00:34:30.060 need it now. Yeah, I'm super excited for Spencer Pratt. You said it, but oftentimes those who

00:34:36.520 don't want to be politicians make the best politicians. It did not stop Magic Johnson

00:34:42.560 from endorsing, I believe, as most people would, the worst candidate in the race.

00:34:51.240 Let's watch this video really quick.

00:34:53.120 I'm supporting Mayor Bass.

00:34:55.440 First of all, I go back with her probably 30 years.

00:34:59.520 She sustained the first ever consecutive decrease in homelessness.

00:35:06.340 Homicide rate is down.

00:35:08.420 New housing units, 40,000.

00:35:11.540 I mean, she's doing a tremendous job.

00:35:14.980 Mayor Bass has to have a second term, and I'm excited to say that.

00:35:20.900 Oh, nice. Thank you so much. I so appreciate that.

00:35:25.960 Well, you know, listen, you took on a tough job here, and you've done a fabulous job,

00:35:34.700 and all of us appreciate your effort and what you're doing,

00:35:37.400 And we look forward to helping you continue your mission and the things that you have in store, your vision for the city.

00:35:46.920 And I'm on board. You just tell me what I need to do.

00:35:49.540 Well, you know what, Magic? You are so important to Los Angeles.

00:35:53.400 When people think of Los Angeles, they think of Magic Johnson.

00:35:57.060 You are such a bright light to our city. You've always stood with me.

00:36:01.120 We have stood together, accomplishing great things for Los Angeles.

00:36:04.940 And I look forward to all that we can do.

00:36:07.400 We're creating jobs for the people here in Los Angeles.

00:36:12.720 That's what she's doing.

00:36:14.060 Amazing. 0.97

00:36:15.220 Tremendous job.

00:36:16.820 Those types of videos just seem so manufactured, right?

00:36:21.560 Obviously, she's standing just barely out of frame.

00:36:24.220 She walks in.

00:36:24.860 Magic Johnson's like, oh, man, how'd you get here?

00:36:27.660 What do you make of this?

00:36:31.540 Magic Johnson blinked twice.

00:36:34.340 Yeah. 0.99

00:36:34.560 link twice because i just know karen bass was behind that camera like

00:36:38.220 being like endorse me or else you know here's the thing because how you know magic johnson is lying

00:36:49.020 is because nobody that is self-respecting and having an honest conversation is ever going to

00:36:54.760 say that there has been improvement in the homeless crisis here no matter how far left you

00:36:59.140 are there is not a single person i know in la even my most liberal friends would say that to

00:37:05.360 to brag about karen bass's treatment of the homeless crisis is insane or to talk about 0.84

00:37:11.640 housing or any of that overall that is absolutely moronic but you know can i say something is this 0.78

00:37:17.440 a safe space really come on isn't magic johnson the same person that got magically healed from 0.91

00:37:23.400 hiv back in the 90s if we're gonna have an honest conversation and i'm not trying to put my tinfoil

00:37:28.060 hat on but i'm just saying i have a hunch that whatever kind of deal he did behind the scenes

00:37:34.160 with this remedy this cure that nobody else can access they probably have him on a leash for the

00:37:40.760 rest of this man's life if we're going to keep it all the way a thousand if we're going to keep it

00:37:44.740 all the way real he has some secrets that he knows that they know that they need to make sure that or

00:37:50.960 that he knows that he needs to stay in the good graces of these people of the powers that be

00:37:55.240 Because if there's one person in Los Angeles that I know is probably a part of some of these corrupt elite circles that people talk about, it's probably, it's for sure Karen Bass.

00:38:05.520 And, you know, also when it comes to Magic Johnson, it's so disappointing to see him be like this because I actually just ran into him at Air One.

00:38:12.140 And this guy.

00:38:13.620 It's like the most L.A. thing ever.

00:38:15.340 Yeah, literally.

00:38:16.920 I ran into him at the Studio City Air One.

00:38:19.780 And I know that he has partnered with lots of conservative organizations behind the scenes.

00:38:24.540 So I know he has more common sense than to go on camera and act like he supports Karen Bass unless he actually was forced to.

00:38:32.720 There is no doubt in my mind that he was forced to make this endorsement in one way or another.

00:38:36.980 They have some kind of stronghold on him.

00:38:38.700 And I'm a firm believer, too, that you can tell a lot about a man by the way his children are.

00:38:43.660 And if you look at his son, his son EJ is seven feet tall, 300 pounds, dressed in a dress and looking a mess, looking chopped all the time.

00:38:53.580 I mean, the fashion would be great on a woman that wasn't, you know, seven feet tall, you know, a real actual woman.

00:38:59.160 But E.J. Johnson is a ginormous behemoth and is constantly saying that he is a better woman than any woman.

00:39:05.520 He was looking at the Met Gala dresses saying that he would have a better dress than any of the girls.

00:39:09.400 He's constantly belittling women and saying that he does a better job at being one than them.

00:39:13.680 It's like if you were doing a better job at being a woman than them, why are you a seven foot, seven feet tall, 300 pound man?

00:39:20.160 tell me they really are they're so regressive in the name of being progressive and they're so

00:39:28.200 misogynistic in the name of like feminism it really doesn't make sense and it shows you how

00:39:34.260 hypocritical their stances really are and i love a good conspiracy theory about magic johnson i'm

00:39:41.900 gonna look into that one i've been trying to be better about my routines lately especially sleep

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00:40:52.920 Okay, I want to finish with this.

00:40:54.360 I have a list of names, and I'm going to rapid-fire them at you.

00:40:57.380 And I want you to just tell me the first word that comes to mind.

00:41:00.720 Oh, wow.

00:41:01.820 I know.

00:41:02.580 You tell me when you're ready.

00:41:04.580 Okay, I'm locked in.

00:41:06.300 All right, Beyonce.

00:41:10.320 Tragic.

00:41:12.200 Jay-Z at that point then, come on. 0.51

00:41:14.220 jay-z um if i can make this all in one word ultimately going to hell

00:41:19.120 no spaces no pause no pause g one more time fauci anthony fauci 0.98

00:41:26.500 criminal um rfk

00:41:31.380 junior strong okay alex cooper

00:41:38.500 wench alex earl skinny skinny that's so real i am definitely team alex earl though

00:41:49.700 same i actually like her actually enjoy her content there are very few i think especially

00:41:55.460 outside of the political realm influencers that i enjoy watching but she seems like she keeps it

00:42:01.640 pretty real so i like her i have i've never met her but i have a good amount of mutuals with her

00:42:06.240 she's based she gets it see I I kind of get that vibe from her I do Michael Jackson legend oh I'm

00:42:15.640 so glad you said that I am like the biggest Michael Jackson Stan Nicki Minaj Queen Cardi B

00:42:22.680 Roach Megan Thee Stallion alcoholic Fetterman poorly dressed that's it Sydney Sweeney

00:42:35.640 bombshell uh baron trump the future justin bieber

00:42:44.240 two words but deserves better that's it uh jennifer welch

00:42:52.960 who that was so good that was the best word you could have said for her although winch uh what

00:43:03.040 you said for i think it was alex cooper that would work as well um katie porter

00:43:07.060 insane have you seen i guess they're trying to the new ad that she did because all of that that 1.00

00:43:17.120 the the horrible things uh really profane things came out about her leading up to her gubernatorial

00:43:24.100 i guess dropping her name in the hat uh the the people in the back of her shot well they're now

00:43:29.420 trying to make this this new commercial this new ad we're at the back at the end of the the

00:43:33.800 commercial she's laughing and she's like oh hey get out of my shot it's like ma'am you're not

00:43:39.920 funny all of your staff uh like alleges abuse against them okay so uh california is in deep 0.99

00:43:47.780 if she wins i believe she is so aggressive i'm actually terrified of that woman and it's like 0.99

00:43:54.420 do we even have to say alleged at this point we've seen her verbally abused at the very least 0.99

00:43:58.920 so much of her staff and for her to try to like downplay that as if that's not something to be

00:44:03.860 concerned about it's like you are completely emotionally driven and so unprofessional that

00:44:08.160 you're willing to just lash out at people like this it's like i genuinely feel like she would

00:44:12.240 just abuse her power the second that she gets in i'm all for a strong leader i don't need someone

00:44:16.720 that's going to be soft i don't need someone that's going to be you know cozy to everybody

00:44:20.120 around them i mean trump says some things that aren't the nicest about people it's like it's not

00:44:24.540 even about that it's more just about like who are you and your character and i feel like katie

00:44:28.580 Porter is just a dangerously aggressive human being, and her being in that position of power, 0.79

00:44:34.900 we're all cooked. That's it. Well, I so appreciate you, Xavier. Tell us how we can support you, 1.00

00:44:41.240 what your next thing is, and where we can follow you. Well, thank you for having me. I'm on all

00:44:47.480 social media platforms, at Xavier, except for X. I'm at Xavier D. It's a regular spelling,

00:44:52.160 X-A-V-I-A-E-R. You can check me out on YouTube for my podcast, Respectfully Xavier.

00:44:57.160 love it well you rock and we're so grateful for you likewise thanks for having me

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - May 12, 2026

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