Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Link Lauren on Socialism, Pop Culture Politics & Why Conservatives Need a Better Message

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00:00:30.000 I feel like we need a new dictionary for social media.

00:00:32.740 Looks maxing, mogging, geomaxing.

00:00:36.200 It's like whatever happened to run spot run.

00:00:39.400 The internet, politics, and our culture has somehow gotten more unhinged.

00:00:44.840 We have Link Lauren on the show today.

00:00:47.280 People are still masking in July.

00:00:49.900 We've got geomaxing bros who are advising foreign world leaders. 0.96

00:00:54.640 The Scarlet Lady gay cruise ship drama. 0.60

00:00:57.720 and CNBC declaring that Tennessee and other red states are the worst states to live in 0.94

00:01:02.800 while millions of people keep moving here.

00:01:06.120 The timeline we've got working here is broken.

00:01:09.400 So what in the world is going on in pop culture right now?

00:01:18.680 Well, Link, thanks for joining the Riley Gaines Show.

00:01:21.780 We were just talking prior to clicking record that your voice is one of those that's rare,

00:01:28.460 but I would say very timely and very necessary if the goal is to win, to persuade, to change

00:01:36.060 hearts and minds, to call out the craziness that we're seeing all across the U.S., really all

00:01:41.140 across the world. So thank you for doing what you're doing. I didn't really plan on asking you

00:01:45.500 this, but again, prior to record, just can you mention the, the link that you've seen between

00:01:52.420 pop culture and political news and why you feel like it's important to talk about

00:01:56.980 some of the pop culture things? Absolutely. I'm so grateful and happy to be with you,

00:02:01.900 Riley. And I'm so happy for your growing family and your success. Of course, I follow you and

00:02:05.800 we've been internet friends for a while now. So it's nice to finally talk face to face over the

00:02:10.520 internet. But what's interesting, I always think about how culture is upstream from politics and

00:02:15.640 President Trump for decades, right? He was a media figure, he was a builder, he had a hit television

00:02:20.920 show, he would call in and give, you know, discussion on pop culture topics. I remember

00:02:25.740 President Trump would go on the Wendy Williams show. That was, you know, one of my favorite

00:02:29.620 pastimes watching President Trump on the Wendy Williams show. And so I think sometimes in

00:02:33.680 politics and news media, people forget, you got to give them something else. Sometimes you can't

00:02:38.220 just drive home the same hard news every single day. And women, my audience, a majority of them 1.00

00:02:42.460 are women. They're interested in other topics. They might be interested in what the royals have 1.00

00:02:46.780 going on or an issue that pertains to them and their lives and their households. That's not

00:02:50.940 necessarily a hard news topic. And so I never feel like I have to just sit here and give you

00:02:56.000 a play by play of the war or what's going on because they're people much more qualified to

00:03:00.700 do that. Thank you for that. I wanted to start with the craziness of the DSA, the Democrat

00:03:06.880 socialists of america uh we just saw i just saw this morning when i was scrolling online

00:03:12.960 a picture that was posted it was very quickly deleted which is kind of unsurprising

00:03:17.280 this was the first denver dsa general meeting after i don't even know if i can pronounce

00:03:22.900 that name a lot kiro's victory packed house line out of the door big things are happening

00:03:28.420 okay tell me the first thing you notice though when you're looking at this photo

00:03:32.600 Well, the one, okay, the first thing I see when I look at this picture, I see way too many COVID masks. Now, in 2026, when I see COVID masks, I think you either really better be immunocompromised, or there's some type of deeper issue going on here. I almost think when I see a COVID mask, I'm going to stay away from you. Like if I'm on a plane now, and I see a bunch of people with COVID masks, it's sort of the opposite. Stay away, don't come close. And so I have a hard time taking people seriously who are still doing this in 2026.

00:04:02.600 riley do you think it's because they're scared of covid or whatever contractible disease it is or

00:04:09.920 do you think it's you know maybe they're ashamed and they don't want to necessarily attach their

00:04:14.500 face to the cause they're fighting for they don't want to like have that attached to their identity

00:04:18.860 or do you think it's because they're ugly like i'm just throwing out suggestions here like do

00:04:23.740 you think they're really scared of covid the people in that room no i don't think they're

00:04:27.160 scared of covid i think it probably is you know the folks who are wearing masks in 2026 there's

00:04:31.340 not much to see under the mask. And maybe it's sort of a bonding exercise for all of them. They

00:04:35.860 can wear these masks. But this is a form of mental illness, these folks, right? These are the ones you 0.76

00:04:40.560 see on the internet, the most ridiculous, the most deranged, the people who are out protesting all 0.99

00:04:45.080 day. And my thing is this, do y'all not work? Do any of these people work? Why don't you have jobs? 0.99

00:04:50.140 Why aren't you going to a nine to five? Why aren't you striving for something in your life? You're

00:04:53.320 sitting around in a meeting with a COVID mask on, and you want more government control and more

00:04:57.900 government outreach and you want the government to coddle you and take care of your housing and

00:05:01.620 everything in between why don't you grow up that's what yeah we've seen videos circulating online

00:05:08.620 from some of these dsa activist people with with influence i guess amongst this this democrat

00:05:16.080 socialists of america party if that's what you want to call it talking about how they want to

00:05:20.300 destroy america destroy it from within how big of a threat do you think the rise of of dsa influences

00:05:26.840 in the US, but I think especially in Democrat politics. And do you even think they're really

00:05:32.800 that much different? Well, it's interesting. I do think the Democrat party and the base,

00:05:38.180 they sort of capitulated to this more socialist progressive wing. We've seen that with Chuck

00:05:42.520 Schumer and he's capitulated. Everybody's scared to call out this ultra progressive

00:05:46.420 socialist wing, but I do think it is something to take seriously. And I did a video on this over

00:05:51.120 the weekend. I worry about my Republican and conservative friends and colleagues who just

00:05:55.700 dismiss the socialist as radicals and lunatics because of course millions of them are but there

00:06:01.600 are some folks out there young people who are working multiple jobs earnestly trying to own a

00:06:06.840 home pay for health care and everything in between and they feel like they can't get ahead so when a

00:06:11.480 socialist candidate like mom donnie comes along for example and he says we're going to get you

00:06:15.620 free housing free health care government-run grocery stores you're so desperate treading

00:06:20.820 water it's almost like a life raft and i think it's our job as conservatives and people with

00:06:25.360 common sense to say socialism has never worked let's show you a history book and let's show you

00:06:30.560 what we can actually do to help you with your top concerns and issues and so i think there are a few

00:06:35.360 different cohorts right there are the latte liberals who will spend ten dollars on a starbucks

00:06:40.620 they probably went to ivy league schools and they just like socialism because it's hip then you have 0.94

00:06:45.420 these deranged lunatics who are sitting around in the covid masks you're never going to reach them 0.94

00:06:49.400 probably they're absolutely insane but this third group the young people who really are struggling 0.97

00:06:54.840 and working to get ahead and they feel like socialism is their only way out i think we can

00:07:00.040 reach those people and talk with them and maybe it's more deportations helping housing it's the

00:07:04.600 interest rates coming down maybe it's the new housing bill there could be some positives there

00:07:08.740 but i think we have to try and reach them and have some meeting of the minds i worry moving into

00:07:14.040 2028 if we just dismiss them riley and i know i'm filibustering here but it's just something that

00:07:18.920 concerns me because young people were never a bellwether voting group we always thought baby

00:07:24.120 boomers and older folks always go to the polls. These young socialists have shown us they will

00:07:29.260 get their asses up and vote. And so that is very, very concerning moving into 2028. And we should

00:07:35.120 try to bring some folks into our coalition who are just struggling and looking for a life raft.

00:07:40.200 No, 100%. I agree with you. I saw actually something this morning. I think it was from

00:07:46.840 CBS News. It said the average US home is less affordable to the average American than at any

00:07:53.080 point in recent history. And so, I mean, I think that speaks to the desperation that young people

00:07:59.880 feel. We want to be able to own something, at least I do, which kind of goes against everything

00:08:04.040 that socialism really stands for, if you know what socialism is about. But nonetheless, that

00:08:08.620 is appealing to young people. They want to be able to afford things. How big of an issue do

00:08:13.060 you think affordability will be for young people or maybe first-time voters in November?

00:08:18.100 I think it's a big issue. Home ownership was the biggest issue for young people in 2024. I think it's going to be an even bigger issue moving into 2028. And obviously, we know socialism is a mirage. It's like, you know, seeing a Dasani water bottle in the middle of the Sahara Desert, right? We know it's a mirage. We know it's not going to work out. But I don't want to dismiss all these young people out of school, because they really are trying to get ahead.

00:08:41.780 there are some who are totally lazy brats and entitled and i call them out all the time you

00:08:46.100 know they cry if you call them the wrong pronouns but then there are young people really trying to 0.89

00:08:50.660 hustle and work and pay for their health care and even if it's a marketplace health care it's still

00:08:55.100 expensive to them with their jobs and the way things are so i think we can reach those people

00:08:59.520 and bring them in and i just don't want to dismiss them because home ownership affordability cost of

00:09:05.180 living these are still their top concerns and republicans did such a good job at reaching young

00:09:10.120 people in 2024 on podcast and social media. And I think we're going to have to hone back in on that

00:09:15.940 coming up here in 2028. A hundred percent. And just speaking to like healthcare prices,

00:09:22.960 specifically health insurance, I pay for, I guess my husband and I, for our family,

00:09:28.820 granted, we have a little baby. We have maternity care on there because we want to have more babies.

00:09:33.040 We're both technically self-employed. We pay $1,900 a month for health insurance.

00:09:39.360 that is absurd. And I recognize that most people with mortgages and other fees and bills that you

00:09:45.660 may have, most people can't pay $1,900 a month for health insurance. That is absurd. So I'm

00:09:51.980 right there with you. Back to the DSA influence and the Democratic Party. I see a lot of parallels

00:09:59.520 there. I actually saw a young woman, she was on Gutfield of all shows, explaining this pretty

00:10:04.480 brilliantly. She says, look, the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America, they really just

00:10:09.360 lead the Democrat policies to their logical conclusion. So Democrats will say, look,

00:10:16.140 you know, no human is illegal. That sounds right. Like warm and fuzzy and like compassion doesn't

00:10:22.020 sound overly destructive. So they say, if no human is illegal, let's abolish ICE. That sounds a lot

00:10:27.260 more harmful, a lot more daunting, a lot more, you know, negative, I guess. And it's, it's

00:10:31.480 connotation. I got a video here of Rashida Tlaib. Let's play it really quickly. 0.67

00:10:38.000 Look at this room's mother f***ers. We ain't going anywhere. 0.99

00:10:44.160 Political structures that I have to work in, that we all are surrounded by,

00:10:49.420 was built on slavery and genocide and rape and oppression. Real change doesn't come from the

00:10:56.120 cowards and warmongers in Congress. It comes from the streets. It comes from all of us 0.96

00:11:01.560 mobilizing and seizing the power to resist and fight back. Gaza is the compass in this country. 0.95

00:11:12.280 Now we're in Congress and we're every corner of the United States.

00:11:18.020 Now we're in Congress in every corner of the United States. They almost like

00:11:21.700 brag openly brag about viewing themselves as this like hostile invading force is it time we probably

00:11:29.700 should start treating them as one no we absolutely should but we should also offer a positive

00:11:35.880 alternative i'm worried right now we're not offering a vision of hope or positivity on our

00:11:41.020 side we got to give them something that's positive as an alternative but there are folks like rashida

00:11:45.200 to leave and some of these socialists who do just want to destroy our country from within right they

00:11:49.900 hate America. They're not patriotic. I don't know why you guys want to stay here. But they want to

00:11:54.760 make America into these countries that they fled, right? You flee socialism. And then you come here

00:11:59.780 and you want to make America into a socialist country. And so they absolutely hate America. I

00:12:03.900 think most of them are lost causes. But I think we can still reach some of them. Maybe not the

00:12:08.100 Rashida Tlaib people, maybe not the folks wearing keffees around on the street. But I think there's 0.99

00:12:12.220 some folks we can reach. But we should definitely take them seriously as a threat. But we can't just

00:12:17.300 run against them we have to do that in tandem with offering a positive vision who on the

00:12:23.380 republican side do you look at and feel very hopeful about the future the future of our party

00:12:29.860 it's interesting i like marco rubio i think he has a great sense of humor i think he's funny

00:12:35.800 avuncular he seems really competent in his job and if you're competent i will probably like you

00:12:40.960 so i like marco rubio i think brandon gill is also such a rising star in the republican party

00:12:45.640 He knows how to do social media, but he can also walk the walk and talk the talk in real life, right?

00:12:51.240 There are a lot of folks in Washington, D.C. who are influencers these days.

00:12:54.620 They do viral videos, and they try to get viral moments, and they really don't pass a lot of legislation.

00:12:59.500 Brandon Gill is one of those folks from my home state who really knows how to do both things, garner attention and reach people, and then also deliver on what people voted for him.

00:13:09.260 Yeah, 100%.

00:13:10.060 I want to ask you about this poll that I saw over the weekend.

00:13:14.080 Uh, according to CNBC, these are the 10 worst States to live in. Okay. Number one being Tennessee,

00:13:20.620 my home state, uh, then Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma,

00:13:28.800 Arkansas. Um, I was looking at what were some of the criteria on what would constitute these

00:13:34.880 States as bad States to live in. Uh, and they scored low on reproductive rights and LGBTQ plus

00:13:41.940 inclusiveness what do you think they said the best state to live in was

00:13:46.560 oh it's either going to be like california or michigan or minnesota something like that it's

00:13:52.420 vermont i don't even know anyone who lives in vermont shout out to vermont yeah come on so

00:13:59.300 what do you make of this i mean it seems as if actually i can attest to the mass exodus that

00:14:04.560 we have seen from probably some of those states that rank pretty high on their list

00:14:08.940 to states like tennessee well it's interesting i think you and i are in the same boat where we're

00:14:14.660 happy to see our states on that list because we don't want more people moving from california

00:14:19.320 here and bringing their liberal policies i don't know why california isn't the number one where

00:14:23.560 state because aren't they number one in u-hauls leaving the state more people are renting u-hauls

00:14:28.120 to leave and flee california and they're fleeing gavin newsom and the fire hydrants don't have

00:14:32.800 water so those are things i would take into account but whoever puts these polls together

00:14:37.100 Their number one issues are always abortion, LGBTQIA, R2, D2.

00:14:43.460 I don't even know all the letters anymore.

00:14:45.100 Those are their top issues, right?

00:14:46.760 My top issue is the economy, freedom, what you can do as a small business owner.

00:14:52.220 Many of my friends in Texas own their own small businesses, so they need to have the

00:14:56.120 ability to not have tons of regulation and red tape and get done what they need to get

00:14:59.980 done every single day.

00:15:00.900 And you just can't do that in California or a lot of these blue states that have more

00:15:04.460 overreach. 0.99

00:15:05.340 Why don't you look at some of these states where they're spending gazillions of dollars on Somali daycares with no children and think maybe that should be number one worst state to live in?

00:15:14.420 But this is like Kamala Harris in 2024. 0.99

00:15:16.800 She thought she could just run on abortion being her number one issue and it would galvanize enough people to go to the polls. 0.91

00:15:22.840 She was so bird brain, brain dead, she didn't realize that Dobbs' decision already settled that.

00:15:27.580 It was already sent back to the states. 0.55

00:15:29.040 Whether you like it or not, whether you agree or not, it's already settled.

00:15:32.940 So you've got to find something else to run on.

00:15:34.680 but if that's what their criteria is for the worst state, Hey, that's fine with me. I will say as a

00:15:39.240 gay person, I feel pretty good living in Texas and seeing my family and going around Dallas.

00:15:44.080 I have no problem with it. It's a good point, you know? Um, and it, it kind of leads us to the next

00:15:49.300 thing I wanted to ask you about. We've, we've got to talk about the gay cruise ship, right? Uh, a

00:15:54.740 chartered LGBTQ cruise ship. It's called the scarlet lady, very feminine, very dainty was, 1.00

00:16:01.380 i think it was organized by like atlantis events whatever it was carrying around 2 000 gay

00:16:05.960 passengers they were ultimately denied permission to dock in turkey during their like mediterranean

00:16:12.220 voyage turkish turkish officials said the cruise was chartered by groups whose activities were not

00:16:18.300 aligned with the structure of our society and our moral values and said that there was no

00:16:23.500 possibility of allowing the planned port call after it generated public concern so

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00:16:56.400 edition now only on netflix what's your message for folks i think here in the u.s who go out on

00:17:03.820 the streets and they march for pride month which that that's one of the beauties of america you

00:17:08.760 get to do that uh gay folks who can get married they have every right all the things that straight 0.95

00:17:13.640 couples can do they can also do yet still claim to be oppressed what's your message well it's 0.71

00:17:18.800 interesting is millions of gay people here in the united states they cosplay like they're oppressed 0.91

00:17:23.320 They cosplay like they're victims. To my recollection, in the summer of 2015, June 2015, 1.00

00:17:29.160 we had the Obergefell Supreme Court decision. We got gay marriage. That's what y'all were fighting

00:17:33.680 for for decades and decades and decades. But now gays have to find new ways to play the victim card 1.00

00:17:39.060 because it's a currency. It's a way to fundraise. Gay Inc. is very powerful. So now they're on this 1.00

00:17:43.960 cruise ship. They try to go to Turkey. Turkey says, we're good. We don't really want 2,000 gay

00:17:49.180 men running off the dock right now. They try to go to Egypt. Egypt says, we're good. Thank you. 1.00

00:17:54.580 Come back another time. And now these gays are acting like they're victims of some horrific hate 0.98

00:17:59.720 crime. Maybe y'all will come back to the United States where you bash President Trump every day 0.99

00:18:04.340 and you say he's anti-gay, which he's not. He has the highest ranking gay cabinet official in 0.98

00:18:08.420 American history. But y'all complain all the time while you're here on American soil. Maybe you'll 1.00

00:18:13.160 come back with a sense of patriotism, gratitude, appreciation for the liberties and freedoms we

00:18:19.100 have in the United States. And I will say this as someone who is gay. When I travel, I do a quick 0.91

00:18:24.300 Google search to see where they are on gay rights. You know what I'm saying? I like to make sure when

00:18:28.640 I'm going to a country, what's going on and what's going down. But I don't vilify these countries for

00:18:33.720 governing themselves the way they want to govern. Who are we to tell Turkey and Egypt what they

00:18:37.740 should be doing? I mean, this ship, we don't know what's on this ship. It could be like floating

00:18:41.360 monkeypox. You know, you're not going to catch me on that ship. They're having about as bad a time

00:18:46.720 as the Titanic. I also think Patti LuPone, she's on the ship and she's this big Broadway legend.

00:18:52.260 You know, her voice is like a foghorn. She's ultra liberal. During COVID, she would stop her 1.00

00:18:56.660 shows to scream at the audience to put their masks on. And so this is just sort of karmic

00:19:01.740 retribution in a way. It's so beautiful that Patti LuPone is stranded. And the last thing I'll say,

00:19:06.240 I was thinking last night, I almost want to write a horror film, like a Final Destination style 0.99

00:19:11.920 horror film it's like 2000 gays stranded at sea it's like tom hanks castaway but with like glitter 0.99

00:19:17.820 and spirit fingers so they're stranded at sea rations are dwindling alcohol is running out 0.56

00:19:24.200 drugs are running dry pad of the pones run out of songs to sing the dj jump ship in a dinghy he's

00:19:30.700 gone to shore i feel like only the strong will survive like lord of the flies i just think a 0.99

00:19:35.340 few gays will be left they're almost like a white lotus but we need a horror film 2000 gays on a 0.99

00:19:40.920 a limited amount of food. They've run out of the playlist. They've gone through every Gaga song 1.00

00:19:46.600 and Whitney Houston and Donna Summer. They're now really getting desperate. I think they're

00:19:50.880 going to come home like Brittany Griner when she was stuck in that Russian prison. And Brittany

00:19:56.100 Griner, she didn't like the national anthem. She complained. She didn't like America. And then that 0.95

00:20:01.720 black obnoxious American hating lesbian came running back from Russia singing Yankee Doodle 1.00

00:20:06.760 dandy and now what does she do she stands for the national anthem she's happy so maybe these 1.00

00:20:12.540 gays will come home with an appreciation and that is my monologue thank you you know what i love that

00:20:19.160 like it's like a an all-gay survivor yes survivor i don't know if i'd watch it but i think i enjoy

00:20:27.740 the concept of it definitely survivor i'm a celebrity get me out of here it's just such a 1.00

00:20:33.220 concoction of everything I would not want to be a part of. And I have friends who go on gay cruises 1.00

00:20:37.360 and I'm sure they have a fun time. I just love my peace and I love my privacy. And I couldn't

00:20:41.860 imagine being on a boat like the germs and everything or just any cruise. Even when I see

00:20:46.720 the videos from the carnival cruises this summer and people are like getting into fistfights over

00:20:50.560 chicken fingers at the buffet. I'm like, I like to be at peace in my home. You couldn't pay me

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00:23:12.960 cruise does not sound that like appetizing to me especially cruise i go on i make a gay cruise 1.00

00:23:19.620 anyway so i'm kidding you're so funny and it's true what you said about looking up some of these 0.60

00:23:24.400 laws i was curious i think especially in recognizing like the crossover that we have

00:23:29.640 here on the u.s especially like on college campuses with the lgbtq activists and those

00:23:35.940 who march for that and protest for that but also those it's kind of like the same people who march

00:23:40.520 protest for you know the free palestine movement i was looking up some of the laws in some of these 0.54

00:23:46.920 middle eastern countries uh egypt it doesn't have a law against being gay but they will just jail you

00:23:52.200 for debauchery instead syria is up to three years in prison for being gay lebanon up to a year in 0.83

00:23:57.660 prison for being gay iraq up to 15 years in prison for being gay under a law passed in 2024 iran 0.64

00:24:03.240 death penalty for being gay saudi arabia death penalty for being gay same thing with yemen 0.75

00:24:07.340 Qatar is up to seven years in prison for being gay Gaza up to 10 years in prison for being gay 0.98

00:24:11.740 like come on the crossover there do you think people in the U.S. that they just don't realize 0.91

00:24:18.860 it do you think they just don't care do you think they just want to get rowdy for whatever

00:24:22.640 the like anti-administration anti-Trump thing really is I think it's just that being a victim

00:24:32.180 is such a currency right now to get attention on the internet it's a way to get clicks it's a way

00:24:36.760 to get views. And we see this with other celebrities like Meghan Markle, right? Every

00:24:40.360 time she opens her mouth, she's a victim, right? She's a woman. She's a woman of color. She was 1.00

00:24:44.640 oppressed. It's like always the same old, same old, same old. And those of us who live in reality

00:24:48.960 and have common sense, we don't play into those games anymore. We saw it years and years ago. We

00:24:53.800 saw it with the Me Too movement. And then there was the backlash to the Me Too movement. And then

00:24:57.420 we saw it with Black Lives Matter. And then we realized that was a whole scam. And so I just 1.00

00:25:01.380 think playing the victim card, they haven't caught on to the fact no one cares anymore.

00:25:05.420 And I just think it's so laughable. You're now upset with President Trump. And some of these gays are saying it's the administration's fault that they're being denied entry. Like, if I'm sitting right, let's say I'm at the pyramids in Egypt, I'm having a nice tour with my family. It's peaceful. You know, we're sitting eating hummus or whatever they eat over there. And you can hear 2000 gays running down the dock, like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, that would just ruin your vacation.

00:25:31.060 So I can understand Egypt being like, we really don't want 2000 gays covered in glitter and leather harnesses sprinting down the dock. 1.00

00:25:38.760 We're actually fine with that. 1.00

00:25:40.520 Thank you very much.

00:25:41.720 See you next year.

00:25:43.080 Yeah, it is.

00:25:44.700 You make good points.

00:25:46.880 And I feel like if anyone's qualified to speak on it and the privileges that we have here in the US, it's certainly you.

00:25:54.300 So thanks for that.

00:25:55.860 And I will say one last thing I will say.

00:25:57.080 It's not like I haven't been bullied and beat up and been on the receiving end of attacks.

00:26:01.500 Obviously, I went to an all boys school growing up, but it wasn't the easiest thing for me.

00:26:05.800 But I did the work.

00:26:07.320 I pushed through.

00:26:08.320 I knew better days were ahead.

00:26:09.440 I don't walk around with this victim mentality. 1.00

00:26:11.760 And it's sad to see some of these gays. 1.00

00:26:13.760 It's like they're twice my age, three times my age. 1.00

00:26:16.180 And it's like victim, victim, victim.

00:26:18.160 You should have looked up the cruise before you booked it.

00:26:20.540 This is your fault.

00:26:21.540 Call your travel agent.

00:26:22.940 That's my advice.

00:26:23.580 I feel like our society, I mean, just as you said, like we've put people in one of two boxes where you are either an oppressor or you are oppressed.

00:26:33.180 And if you're like a straight white man, you're automatically in the oppressor box.

00:26:38.440 And when you are, yeah, like the king colonizer or the oppressor, you owe someone something.

00:26:44.360 But if you are oppressed, you are owed something.

00:26:47.900 So like if you have to pick if you owe someone or you're owed, most people are going to want to be owed something.

00:26:52.940 You know, so I get it. But there is a faction of society that wants to be marginalized. They want to be the victim, which I think is a really weird mindset to have.

00:27:03.980 Well, I also feel like there are folks, and we see this with some black folks as it pertains to Black Lives Matter, and we see with LGBTQ folks where they think of that identity as number one on their list, right?

00:27:16.980 As a gay guy, I don't walk around thinking about the fact that I'm gay all day long.

00:27:21.120 I think about the fact that I'm an American.

00:27:22.980 I've got my job to do.

00:27:24.020 I'm a brother.

00:27:24.620 I'm a son.

00:27:25.200 I've got my friends.

00:27:26.320 That's what's most important to me.

00:27:27.480 But to some of these folks who care about identity politics, that little box that they

00:27:32.060 check, it's like the number one thing they wear on their sleeve all day long.

00:27:35.820 And people are sick of it and tired of it.

00:27:38.260 I want to ask you about Olivia Rodrigo. 0.95

00:27:41.040 She's kind of once again, like blending pop music with her political activism. 0.96

00:27:47.080 She recently partnered with the nonpartisan voter engagement group called Headcount to

00:27:51.220 encourage fans to register to vote or to at least verify their voter registration.

00:27:55.520 and as part of this campaign fans who you know took those steps they could win some sort of like

00:28:00.640 vip ticket and travel package to her new music festival at the same time she announced that her

00:28:08.060 net proceeds from that festival are going to benefit organizations that she says advocate

00:28:13.140 for women and girls including planned parenthood the center for reproductive rights and other

00:28:18.280 non-profits i'm kind of of two minds here because i think on one hand you have like the shut up and

00:28:25.420 sing model and i think a lot of people certainly on the conservative side take this approach where

00:28:30.360 it's like you know people aren't coming to you they're not coming to your concerts they don't

00:28:34.240 follow you for your political takes but on the other hand which is kind of like the more free

00:28:39.200 market approach you have this large platform do with it what you wish you know support the causes

00:28:45.060 you want to support. And if people, your fans still want to support you, that's their decision

00:28:50.380 at the end of the day. So what's kind of the right answer here? It's interesting. I'm tired

00:28:55.720 in general of a lot of celebrities and actors and singers giving their political opinions because

00:29:00.920 they're usually so ill-informed and it's so detached from reality. If you have something

00:29:05.840 clear and cogent and interesting to say, maybe I will listen. You do have a platform, but you see

00:29:10.960 folks, even like Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro goes out there. It's total Trump derangement

00:29:15.760 syndrome. It's like it has eaten him alive. This iconic actor, this Hollywood legend,

00:29:21.040 who is Robert De Niro anymore? He's an MSNBC talking head who hates Trump. Okay. You hate

00:29:26.520 Trump. Great. Fine. It's a free country. Can you just lay out the policies you have issues with?

00:29:31.480 Can you actually offer what you're concerned about? But it's just, we hate Trump. We hate him.

00:29:36.320 trump is like bruce springsteen right bruce springsteen it's all of these folks and so

00:29:40.420 unless you have something to offer to the conversation i really don't want to hear

00:29:44.380 from you and as for this olivia rodriguez rodrigo ralibu i don't know her name but as as far as she

00:29:50.540 goes if she has these concerts and she's signing people up to vote and she's registering voters

00:29:54.940 great she's like a little scott presler out there good for her i'm glad she's signing people to vote 1.00

00:29:58.880 but we need to pass the save america act because i don't want a big chunk of olivia ralibu's votes 1.00

00:30:04.660 coming in at the last minute from her concert. You know what I'm saying? I want to verify if

00:30:09.400 you are registering votes at your concerts and you're signing people up, whether it's Taylor

00:30:13.400 Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, I want to just know, okay, that Jane Doe was at the concert. I want to know

00:30:19.760 that she's not on 10 other lists. I want to know that she is not 134 years old and has been

00:30:24.700 deceased. That is what I want to know if you're registering voters. But you mentioned the Planned

00:30:28.920 parenthood and the abortion of it all there are certain women a faction of women on the left who

00:30:34.860 think abortion is the number one issue right and they think something's going to change about it

00:30:39.340 i've said it a thousand times with the dobbs decision it's already been settled for now

00:30:44.880 i actually think you could use that as a positive and run on other things but the left has nothing

00:30:49.760 to run on but open borders abortion men and women's sports they have no other path because 0.98

00:30:55.940 they can't run on the economy themselves. They've run it into the gutter too. So I just think they 0.99

00:31:00.380 have to find something, I guess, abortion is it, but I'd rather see Olivia Rodrigo Rodriguez, 1.00

00:31:06.160 a young woman with a platform, tell young girls, you can start a family, get married, 1.00

00:31:12.060 you can settle down. Why is it always abortion? The number one go-to, you know, you can talk to 1.00

00:31:16.540 them about the nuclear family, which is dwindling in our country and talk to them about those values. 0.67

00:31:21.220 But instead it's just abortion all day. It's not contraception. It's just abortion. 0.63

00:31:25.940 yeah which it's it's pretty concerning i think when you think about how dedicated they are

00:31:32.840 to making sure women have access to killing their babies you know it's it's a pretty horrible thing

00:31:39.820 and i say that now as a mom to a beautiful little baby girl um last thing for you um i saw this on 0.81

00:31:48.120 actually on exo scrolling this morning this was posted from polymarket it says

00:31:52.880 new clavicular reveals he dined with benjamin netanyahu's advisors to teach them about looks

00:31:58.860 maxing and was asked to do a gem stream with the israeli prime minister so many questions there

00:32:04.920 but then clavicular followed it up with my new strategy is going to be geomaxing the united

00:32:10.060 states is far too brutal of a dating market to compete in so i'm going to geomax to countries

00:32:14.460 with poor economies to mog people i mean you've been looking forward to this all week and with

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00:32:46.780 can you decipher that there are so many words there i feel like we need a new dictionary for

00:32:54.300 social media looks maxing mogging geomaxing it's like whatever happened to run spot run i don't

00:33:00.940 know what all these people have going on clavicular clava boo boo i don't know it's the name sounds

00:33:06.040 like something you'd hear on that's so raven 20 years ago clavicular is here venereal disease yes

00:33:10.800 it sounds like something you need to go to the clinic and get an antibiotic for immediately it's

00:33:16.080 like have you been impacted by clavicular it's going around this summer but anyway clavicular

00:33:22.280 when i see him on social media he's this young man who looked perfectly handsome and fine before

00:33:27.880 and i think in the last few weeks he's had his forehead done his nose done he as you've pointed

00:33:33.140 out hits himself with a hammer to try to chisel his face i actually have such empathy for clavicular

00:33:39.380 and i'm sure he would say i'm not mogging or looks maxing now but i built a career off of

00:33:43.520 talking and my intellect so I don't have to rely on my looks. But nonetheless, clavicular, he's out

00:33:48.540 there telling young people that looks are the number one thing and you need to get the perfectly

00:33:52.460 chiseled nose and the forehead. And he had his ears pinned back, which is very painful. I just

00:33:57.400 have such empathy for him. And I worry he's going to end up dead in a year or two. I worry he's

00:34:02.580 going down a dark path and that nobody's really stepping in because when you live stream all day

00:34:07.480 and your whole life is getting clicks and you have to be more outrageous and up the ante to keep the

00:34:11.880 viewers, we've seen many people not make it out alive after a few years. That's a tough,

00:34:16.800 tough, tough pill to swallow. So I actually do feel bad for clavicular. And he seems like

00:34:21.100 he's hurting in searching for something. It does. Yeah, I think I wonder, again,

00:34:27.220 I don't know much about him beyond like what I see circulate online. But you have to wonder if

00:34:32.620 there's some form of like trauma, or something that ultimately led to where he feels like he

00:34:38.280 needs to irreversibly change himself his physical appearance because i agree with you like that

00:34:44.280 that's a pretty sad thing i have empathy for him too i really do i also feel like clavicular in 0.95

00:34:50.200 six months is going to come out as a transgender woman i feel like that's the path we're going 0.74

00:34:54.360 down clavicular all these plastic surgeries the nose the chiseling the hair the looks trying to

00:34:59.340 be the prettiest boy you can i feel like he's just going to come out as trans in six months probably 0.90

00:35:03.860 that's like the snake you know that picture of the snake eating its own tail clavicular he's 0.81

00:35:08.240 just gonna come out as a trans woman in six months that's probably the next progression right well i 0.97

00:35:13.020 feel like if madonna has taught us anything it's that getting all of these procedures done to your 0.83

00:35:18.060 face doesn't actually make you look better right or make you look younger it makes you look botched

00:35:24.880 and so like where clavicular is now fine like i mean i will admit it like he's an attractive

00:35:30.720 appearing guy right but i think if you continue down this path like the likes of madonna it

00:35:38.420 doesn't actually make you look good and certainly not natural maybe we'll just say that doesn't make

00:35:43.720 you look natural it's interesting too and it's like i'm sure you're the same way we don't even

00:35:48.160 shame people on our shows for getting plastic surgery like if there's a woman who really feels

00:35:51.940 like hey i want to change this or i want to change my nose i want to change that go for it do it for

00:35:55.980 you but don't do it for other people but i just worry about clavicular definitely but i think also

00:36:00.980 in the future and we're seeing this now the new wealth status symbol is being ugly like choosing

00:36:07.360 to just be ugly in this day and age when you have ozempic plastic surgery all these new treatments

00:36:12.360 that's kind of the new f you to everybody like if you choose to have nothing done it's like oh

00:36:17.340 that's a secure rich b-i-t-c-h right there you know what i'm saying so i think that's the new

00:36:22.740 status symbol as not getting anything done it's not caring it's so true and you see the response

00:36:28.580 i think especially from hollywood or maybe some of those left-leaning media outlets like when

00:36:34.180 someone like pamela anderson who was like the it girl right who now comes out and she's like i don't

00:36:40.700 really feel the need to wear makeup anymore and she goes you know all natural and maybe she looks

00:36:45.720 older than her peers but i mean granted she is older she's an older woman and she's like i have

00:36:50.700 problem with my wrinkles and they like smear for it so i love riley okay i love when these

00:36:58.060 celebrities like pamela anderson and alicia keys come out and say i'm doing no makeup i'm doing 0.77

00:37:03.720 the no makeup look look at me i'm wearing no makeup and women are in the comments like

00:37:07.360 you're so brave you're so brave you're so strong and i'm like the soldiers are brave people fighting

00:37:13.700 for our country are brave people going to work at 4 a.m to provide for their families they are brave

00:37:19.460 women going on a red carpet with no makeup they're like she's so brave queen status yes exactly

00:37:26.900 it's a tell tell sign though of where we are culturally when it is considered brave um to

00:37:34.360 show your bare face yes exactly like i'm sitting here with nothing on look how brave i am look

00:37:41.280 right oh my gosh okay rapid fire you ready favorite cabinet member oh favorite cabinet

00:37:49.400 member maybe marco rubio okay if you could geomax in one country where would it be nowhere anytime

00:37:58.240 i leave america i just want to come running back to my own house and my own bed and not be bothered

00:38:02.640 dealing with customs and international travel and flights and chaos so no geomaxing for me i will be

00:38:08.240 here in america okay if you could term limit one celebrity who would it be i would say madonna

00:38:14.240 because she was just shaking her leg over a ledge in time square and twerking for everybody down

00:38:19.040 below but then again it's such good fodder and entertainment okay current favorite meme

00:38:24.020 my favorite meme i love a good kermit like kermit drinking the lycton iced tea kermit doing anything

00:38:32.620 kermit on the computer i use that all the time with my friends okay political hot take yes your

00:38:38.420 hot take that would get you canceled hot take that would get me canceled i can't even think of

00:38:43.020 anything because i don't care about getting canceled anything i would say that would get

00:38:45.900 me canceled probably help our careers right so i don't know what would get me canceled saying

00:38:50.360 there are two genders nowadays saying that they're male and female gets me canceled by half the

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - July 14, 2026

Link Lauren on Socialism, Pop Culture Politics & Why Conservatives Need a Better Message

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