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00:00:30.000 Hello, you guys.

00:00:35.760 Welcome back to The Riley Gaines Show.

00:00:38.200 Still the first week.

00:00:39.340 It is the second episode.

00:00:40.600 I hope you guys watched the first episode.

00:00:42.960 Came out earlier this week on Wednesday with Nick Shirley.

00:00:45.720 Talked all things Minnesota fraud.

00:00:48.540 We talked about Governor Tim Walz and the ending of his 2026 gubernatorial re-election bid,

00:00:54.400 largely to thank because of Nick Shirley.

00:00:57.520 He teased some exciting stuff.

00:00:58.820 He alluded to a part two.

00:01:00.840 So we hope to have him back on The Riley Gaines Show when that comes out.

00:01:03.920 So thank you, guys.

00:01:05.300 It had an overwhelming reception.

00:01:07.340 Thank you for all of the good feedback, comments on the socials.

00:01:09.960 Again, make sure if you're watching here on YouTube.com, make sure you subscribe.

00:01:13.520 You can follow us on The Riley Gaines Show over on Instagram.

00:01:16.680 Always enjoy hearing from you guys.

00:01:19.180 When I was thinking about this episode and what I wanted to talk about,

00:01:22.640 obviously understanding the importance, it's still the first week, what is it that I wanted

00:01:26.900 to speak to?

00:01:27.480 I put up an Instagram story.

00:01:29.720 I put one of those little boxes up there for, gives you guys the ability to answer directly,

00:01:35.300 goes to my DMs.

00:01:36.280 And I said, what do you want to hear about?

00:01:37.800 So many of you responded back and said you wanted to hear my thoughts on the different

00:01:45.240 conspiracy theories that are floating around out there surrounding Charlie Kirk's death,

00:01:51.360 his assassination.

00:01:51.960 And specifically, so many of you said you wanted to know what I thought about Candace Owens,

00:01:57.340 her takes.

00:01:58.660 When I was preparing for this episode, of course, I wanted to be able to deliver to you guys

00:02:02.680 what you want to hear.

00:02:04.000 So when I was preparing for this, honestly, I had a couple personal revelations that I'm

00:02:11.040 not overly proud of when thinking about why I had refrained from speaking about this.

00:02:16.540 Why hadn't I talked about the conspiracies and the infighting that we're seeing amongst

00:02:20.400 the conservative party, many conservative influencers?

00:02:23.340 Why haven't I talked about that sooner?

00:02:25.000 But before we get into that, I think it's important to understand the state of the nation

00:02:29.300 currently at large between our two political parties.

00:02:34.040 I probably don't have to tell you guys that there's really no common ground anymore between

00:02:39.480 the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

00:02:43.080 Look at any issue, right?

00:02:45.100 Every single issue just about whether it's the border, right?

00:02:48.520 Democrats can't say that a closed border makes for a secure nation, whether it's crime,

00:02:52.820 they can't say the crime is bad.

00:02:54.040 They cry like federal overreach when President Trump tries to deploy the National Guard in

00:02:58.400 crime-ridden cities.

00:02:59.780 They can't say that kids belong to their parents, not the government.

00:03:04.620 They can't say that men and women are physically different.

00:03:08.180 Now they'll charge you with like some kind of hate crime for saying that out loud.

00:03:12.060 They can't say that human rights extend to all humans, even those that are small, independent,

00:03:18.640 right?

00:03:18.820 Infants, babies in the womb.

00:03:21.300 And as the first episode of the Rally Gains show showed us with Nick Shirley, they cannot

00:03:26.100 say that fraud is bad for crying out loud.

00:03:29.700 Those are the obvious differences between the two political parties.

00:03:33.860 Again, didn't need to tell you about that.

00:03:35.320 I'm sure maybe you feel it in your everyday lives, right?

00:03:37.660 We just wrapped up with Christmas and Thanksgiving.

00:03:40.020 I would imagine there are some of you listening to this who sat around the dinner table at Thanksgiving

00:03:44.680 and you get into these heated political conversations.

00:03:47.680 Maybe some of your family members find out that you voted for Trump.

00:03:50.340 I've seen the videos online.

00:03:52.060 Maybe some of you have family members who didn't show up to Christmas because they found out

00:03:56.260 that you and your family are Trump supporters.

00:03:58.240 Maybe some of you listening to this, those of you maybe in college or high school, you've

00:04:03.240 felt like in the past you've had to change your stance on a persuasive essay to achieve

00:04:09.660 a good grade in your English 101 class, right?

00:04:12.200 All that to say, I'm not saying that conservatives in the Republican Party are perfect.

00:04:18.220 Of course not.

00:04:19.520 But we don't see this level of intolerance and sheer vitriol from the Republican Party

00:04:27.180 at the same degree we do the Democratic Party, which is ironic considering the Democrats claim

00:04:32.080 to be the party of tolerance and acceptance and being welcoming and embracing of diversity.

00:04:36.820 Well, let me tell you, they certainly do not embrace diverse thought.

00:04:40.140 Um, so that's the state of the Democratic Party.

00:04:44.400 Even just this week, they had a candlelit vigil for the fifth anniversary of January 6th.

00:04:52.800 If you're watching on youtube.com, we've got it playing on the screen here.

00:04:56.220 When I first saw this, I thought it was AI watching.

00:05:00.760 This is like some form of humiliation ritual.

00:05:04.120 Uh, I see this as manufactured people with manufactured outrage, right?

00:05:11.440 These are like all of the theater kids.

00:05:13.480 It's so performative and it is embarrassingly unserious.

00:05:19.640 Like watching this, I think I literally got secondhand embarrassment.

00:05:23.520 When I finally got over the cringe and the embarrassment that I felt watching this, I thought that this is the same group of people

00:05:30.040 who didn't hold a candlelight vigil for people like Lake and Riley.

00:05:34.900 Okay, important to remember that.

00:05:36.620 Uh, but praise God, President Trump is back in the Oval Office.

00:05:40.160 Gone are the days when the left could force its alternate reality on Americans, at least for now.

00:05:46.280 Uh, they went from controlling the narrative entirely when President Biden was in office to having a new president and a majority of voters who no longer buy into the theatrics that we saw there.

00:05:58.060 Uh, but watching that, it was an important reminder to me that elections matter.

00:06:05.420 Um, a few things have changed though, since that landslide victory that we had back in November of 2024.

00:06:11.600 Uh, despite their unpopularity, the left has only leaned in to their extremism.

00:06:19.740 They have only gotten more radical and truthfully, it's scary to say it, but they have gained some ground since.

00:06:25.280 Uh, and despite our advantage, some on the right seem to have already forgotten who the real adversary is.

00:06:32.500 Uh, so what I want to talk about in this episode is the rapid division that we are seeing within the conservative party,

00:06:39.740 especially within the last three or four months on September 10th, we lost one of actually probably the most influential and effective and articulate and brightest minds of our time.

00:06:52.940 That person, of course, being Charlie Kirk, uh, I'm sure many of you could gather this.

00:06:58.400 Maybe you don't have a personal relationship with Charlie Kirk like I did, uh, but I'm sure even still, you could gather that Charlie Kirk was special because he was a coalition builder.

00:07:09.080 It has become increasingly evident following his death, uh, that he was really the glue of the conservative movement, right?

00:07:17.060 He's like the connecting fiber of the conservative party.

00:07:21.100 It's what he did really, really well.

00:07:22.680 He bridged together unlikely groups.

00:07:24.900 Think about it, right?

00:07:26.200 It was his mission at turning point USA to bring along young voters, first time Trump voters, my generation, generation Z.

00:07:34.800 And how did he do that?

00:07:35.740 He did that by meeting them where they were going to college campuses.

00:07:39.300 Many people thought that people of my demographic, uh, especially young women, college age women were a lost cause to the Republican party. 0.97

00:07:46.960 Why even attempt to go after them?

00:07:48.800 Charlie Kirk, he didn't have that mindset.

00:07:50.740 He said, look, this is a winnable group of people.

00:07:54.380 Let's meet them where they are.

00:07:55.440 Let's go into the belly of the beast.

00:07:57.040 These college campuses, he did it really, really well.

00:07:59.700 Uh, also I was at the rally, the Trump rally back, uh, prior to his win in November.

00:08:06.100 And I think it was in Phoenix, Arizona, where we saw this amazing collaboration for the first time between Maha and MAGA.

00:08:14.600 Uh, that was largely thanks to Charlie Kirk.

00:08:17.080 Uh, this was a rally that he put on, of course, RFK.

00:08:20.080 He, uh, ended his presidential bid that day.

00:08:22.660 He shows up to that rally to support Donald Trump.

00:08:24.700 That wouldn't have happened without Charlie Kirk.

00:08:26.800 I never in my life thought I would see the day where a Kennedy Democrat supports a Republican nominee, especially when the Republican nominee is president Donald Trump.

00:08:38.320 Uh, so when you think of Charlie's legacy and what he stood for and what he died for, I think of how he brought people together.

00:08:46.880 And again, he did that by speaking the truth and encouraging people to think for themselves.

00:08:52.600 Uh, following his premature death, or really let's call it what it is, uh, his assassination, his murder, there was a real opportunity, uh, an opportunity to galvanize, to unite, to come together, to come back stronger following this.

00:09:08.760 Uh, and you, I think back to the following days, the immediate, and there was so much momentum, right?

00:09:15.520 Think about it.

00:09:16.260 What did you see?

00:09:17.300 Uh, I can tell you what I saw at my church on the Sunday following his death.

00:09:20.960 Uh, there was not a parking spot.

00:09:23.440 My, me and my husband, we had to park like half a mile away just to get into the door.

00:09:27.260 There was no empty seat inside that church, right?

00:09:30.260 Bible cells were up, I think 30, 35% the following month.

00:09:34.180 Uh, we saw so many young people all across the country looking for ways to get involved and inquiring about how they can live a life like Charlie Kirk did.

00:09:43.660 Uh, and honestly, I hate talking about my friend's death because yes, he was a political activist.

00:09:50.080 He was a father.

00:09:51.020 He was a husband.

00:09:51.700 Uh, to me, this was a mentor.

00:09:54.580 Uh, he was a friend.

00:09:55.640 He was my boss technically at Turning Point USA, but, but really he was more than that to me.

00:10:00.520 Uh, he was there for me at the very beginning of this.

00:10:03.060 I think he saw something, well, this is actually what he told me.

00:10:05.540 He saw something special in me.

00:10:07.600 Uh, he had no reason to, uh, kind of take me under his wing in the way that he did.

00:10:12.480 Uh, think about it.

00:10:13.440 I was just a college age girl, uh, who experienced an injustice and spoke about this injustice.

00:10:19.220 That, that was my only qualification to be in the position that I'm in now.

00:10:23.000 But Charlie Kirk, uh, he saw potential.

00:10:25.820 He believed in me and that was really like a transfer of confidence.

00:10:28.500 His belief in me allowed me to believe in myself.

00:10:32.260 And so I hate talking about my friend's death in the way that I, I guess I am in a way

00:10:39.280 that insinuates, we could have capitalized or, or we could have net benefited from his

00:10:44.080 death because frankly, I'd rather him still be here, uh, than to have that momentum that

00:10:49.600 I'm speaking to.

00:10:50.420 Uh, and quite frankly, I don't like speaking for a man who isn't here to defend himself,

00:10:55.680 but I do imagine, uh, that he would have wanted his death to be a unifying moment for the

00:11:02.400 country.

00:11:02.760 And I think more importantly for the kingdom of Christ, uh, but what has become very, very

00:11:07.800 clear is the conservative media ecosystem.

00:11:12.600 Um, is louder, it is angrier and it is more fractured than it has been in years.

00:11:18.820 A few weeks back, I was at America fest, which this is a annual conference put on by turning

00:11:24.380 point USA.

00:11:24.960 Uh, this of course was the first am fest without Charlie Kirk there.

00:11:29.560 Uh, night one, we saw people on stage taking shots at one another.

00:11:34.880 Uh, I think, uh, Ben Shapiro was night one Tucker Carlson.

00:11:38.980 I know Megan Kelly.

00:11:39.660 I think she was the next day.

00:11:41.780 Uh, I'm not here to tell these people what they should or shouldn't say.

00:11:47.600 Uh, quite frankly, that's pretty anti American.

00:11:50.800 I'm not here to do that, but I am of the mind that there's a time and place.

00:11:55.180 And I don't think that am fest Charlie super bowl, as Erica said, uh, is the time and place,

00:12:02.160 right?

00:12:02.600 When you take the stage at an event like am fest, where there's 20 to 30,000 people in

00:12:09.440 the crowd, largely consisting of high school and college age kids, uh, who are there to

00:12:14.560 be inspired.

00:12:16.200 They're there to learn with millions of people watching online.

00:12:19.760 Uh, that's a real opportunity and opportunity to, to use it for good.

00:12:25.040 Uh, one person who was not there is Candace Owens.

00:12:29.580 Before I say anything about my thoughts on Candace Owens and the wild theories that she's putting 0.99

00:12:37.000 out there, I want to say that it is okay to question things, right?

00:12:42.880 Uh, of course I believe this.

00:12:44.520 I think it would be a problem if we didn't question things.

00:12:47.000 I actually think it's a pretty inherently conservative ideological trait to question

00:12:52.040 things.

00:12:52.500 It's a good thing and it's true nature, but what I don't believe is fruitful is saying,

00:12:58.340 you know, I'm just asking questions, but what you're actually doing is making totally

00:13:02.540 unfounded speculations.

00:13:03.900 Uh, you know, like asking questions, but really they're statements with a question mark at the

00:13:10.000 end.

00:13:10.280 At this point where we are right now in January of 2026, several months following Charlie

00:13:16.060 Kirk's assassination.

00:13:16.740 And, uh, since Candace Owens has gone online and made some of these wild accusations, uh, 0.99

00:13:22.540 it's much easier now to come online and say emphatically that what Candace Owens is doing 0.86

00:13:29.900 to Charlie Kirk, to his legacy, to his beautiful bride, or really, I should say his widow, uh,

00:13:37.340 to turning point USA, which is the organization that Charlie Kirk spent his entire adult life

00:13:42.560 developing and fostering and growing.

00:13:44.920 So he could have influence among the youth, which clearly he had besides the point, it's

00:13:50.900 easy to come online now, I believe, and say that what she is doing is distasteful.

00:13:56.780 Uh, I believe that it's evil and it's defamatory, quite frankly.

00:14:02.160 Uh, I say it's easier because we've seen people come out, uh, before me, right?

00:14:07.480 People like Ali Bestucki and Alex Clark, both, uh, people who I admire very much.

00:14:13.300 They were very quick to come out when others would not and say, Hey, look, uh, Charlie's

00:14:18.300 body isn't even cold yet.

00:14:19.560 And under the guise of truth and justice, you're insinuating an array of people were involved

00:14:25.740 or somehow responsible for Charlie's death.

00:14:29.240 Uh, when this first discourse first started happening online, uh, I gave some pretty terrible

00:14:35.280 excuses, at least internally to myself.

00:14:37.940 Uh, and I, I call them that because that's what they are.

00:14:40.740 Uh, these things were excuses as to why I didn't need to comment on these things.

00:14:45.500 Number one, I didn't think anyone needed my input or commentary.

00:14:50.700 Uh, plus I was still learning, right?

00:14:52.500 New information was coming out, uh, and I had just had a baby.

00:14:55.740 Uh, so I think I was maybe, you know, four or five weeks postpartum at this point when

00:15:00.680 this was really hot in the news.

00:15:02.500 Uh, but I think the thing that deterred me the most, and I say, those are excuses.

00:15:07.820 The thing that deterred me the most from speaking about this, and I'm ashamed to say it.

00:15:12.940 And this is what I was alluding to in, you know, the first few minutes of this podcast,

00:15:16.600 when I was talking about the personal revelations that I had, uh, I was scared.

00:15:22.260 I was a coward.

00:15:23.240 I was scared of the inevitable backlash that I would get for, uh, saying something about

00:15:29.360 what Candace Owens was doing.

00:15:32.460 Uh, I realize that, uh, you get backlash for posting any of your opinions online.

00:15:39.220 It doesn't matter what it is.

00:15:40.160 You could say you like vanilla ice cream better than chocolate ice cream, and you're going

00:15:44.300 to see like a total unleashing of what about ism.

00:15:47.460 Okay.

00:15:47.700 So you get backlash for everything.

00:15:49.960 Hence why I say these were all pretty terrible excuses.

00:15:53.680 I will say, I want justice for Charlie Kirk, for his wife, for turning point, just about

00:16:00.680 as bad as anyone.

00:16:01.800 Okay.

00:16:01.960 So to be very, very clear, the person or potentially the people or the institutions who were behind

00:16:09.020 his murder, I want to see those people punished to the fullest extent of the law, which means

00:16:14.600 the death penalty. 0.87

00:16:16.000 Okay.

00:16:16.480 But some of the conspiracy theories floating around out there, again, they're, they're

00:16:21.800 entirely baseless.

00:16:23.500 Uh, and so you might say, you know, why, why do you think they're baseless?

00:16:26.500 How can you so confidently say they're baseless?

00:16:28.760 Number one, uh, Candace Owens made a podcast episode about this mysterious and cryptic and

00:16:37.300 infamous influencer gathering in the Hamptons a few weeks before Charlie's death.

00:16:43.760 I'll just go ahead and let you know.

00:16:45.280 I was there.

00:16:45.960 I was there in the Hamptons a few weeks before Charlie was murdered.

00:16:49.000 And some of the things that Candace was saying had happened at that retreat with Bill Ackman,

00:16:54.660 uh, simply did not happen.

00:16:59.040 I don't know if maybe she received information from someone that was simply false.

00:17:05.360 I don't know if she made it up.

00:17:06.520 I'm not sure, but I can tell you, uh, some of the people in the room, the things that

00:17:10.600 she said, they were saying, I was there.

00:17:12.740 It literally didn't happen.

00:17:14.740 Now, at this point, there are several people or groups of people that Candace has implied.

00:17:19.940 There's been some understanding of Charlie's death prior to, uh, the shooting, uh, right?

00:17:25.960 Like our own government, the French government, Egyptian planes, the Mossad, there's like a

00:17:31.540 secret trap door underground, uh, that's too many people wearing maroon.

00:17:36.380 It's the soccer player from Utah Valley university who had his hoodie up, uh, et cetera, et cetera,

00:17:41.880 et cetera.

00:17:42.380 Some of the people that she has been, I think, indirectly implicating is Charlie's security

00:17:46.940 detail.

00:17:47.940 Uh, I will say, I understand that dynamic very well.

00:17:52.280 Uh, I have seen the interactions between Charlie and his detail, uh, prior to his death.

00:17:58.020 I've seen what it looked, has looked like for Turning Point USA and Erica Kirk following

00:18:01.580 his death.

00:18:02.300 I can tell you assuredly, uh, based on the conversations that I have had with people who

00:18:07.880 were there, uh, that those, that, that is a ridiculous accusation or even thing to be

00:18:14.800 inquiring about, uh, two of the people who, uh, worked that security detail, uh, gave me

00:18:22.100 very in-depth detail of what it looked like in the 30 seconds he was on the ground before

00:18:29.080 carting him off.

00:18:30.260 Uh, I mean, it's graphic and I, I don't really want to go there on this podcast.

00:18:34.980 Plus, um, I don't feel as if I need to clarify what was said or the things that were done to

00:18:41.760 Charlie Kirk in those few seconds while he's on the ground. 0.63

00:18:44.380 Uh, but to say his security detail was somehow some way, shape or form implicated is ridiculous.

00:18:51.200 And one more thing too, uh, she's talked a lot about Mikey McCoy, which I know Mikey

00:18:56.300 personally, he is the happiest, the bubbliest, the kindest, the friendliest, uh, person I

00:19:04.060 think at Turning Point USA.

00:19:05.360 And he loved Charlie Kirk.

00:19:07.280 Uh, I believe he was his, you know, chief of staff or assistant, whatever you want to

00:19:11.000 call it for, for a while, uh, prior to his death.

00:19:14.360 And he's taken the death really, really hard.

00:19:17.320 Um, so I know, you know, how do you know what to believe at this point?

00:19:21.200 It's one person's word against another person's word.

00:19:23.660 I'm just here to tell you in the interactions and the personal relationships I have, uh, that

00:19:29.000 is why I think so much of what Candace is saying is entirely baseless and unfounded and

00:19:34.320 never being backed up with real convicting evidence.

00:19:40.820 Uh, I was also hesitant to talk about this because, uh, the comments that you get about,

00:19:45.400 you know, you've been paid, you know, you got the call, the $7,000 must've hit your account.

00:19:50.680 Can I just say, shut up? 0.98

00:19:52.100 Like literally shut up respectfully. 0.99

00:19:53.560 I don't even think I could point to Israel on a map.

00:19:55.960 Uh, I'm ashamed to say that I'm not proud to say it, uh, but no one pays me, especially

00:20:01.860 a foreign government to have a swayed opinion.

00:20:06.940 Uh, I think moral conviction is just a foreign concept to some people.

00:20:12.960 Uh, and I think you'll have some people who comment on this and say, well, you're just

00:20:16.720 a Trump loyalist.

00:20:17.820 Uh, you're too trusting in the FBI.

00:20:20.360 I'm not a Trump loyalist.

00:20:22.640 Uh, I actually take real issue with people who treat Trump as if he's Jesus Christ himself.

00:20:28.740 Uh, for example, uh, I have an issue with the handling of the Epstein files.

00:20:35.300 Uh, and for clarity, do I think president Trump is implicated in these files?

00:20:38.680 No, absolutely.

00:20:39.580 I do not.

00:20:40.160 I think that would have been released years ago if he was.

00:20:43.680 Um, and I also understand that, you know, we, as the public, we aren't privy to what those

00:20:49.460 internal conversations look like in the release of the files.

00:20:52.900 But I will say, I don't appreciate how president Trump handled it for a while when he was pressed

00:20:58.900 initially.

00:20:59.800 Uh, I think he said something to the effect, you know, the people who are demanding, uh, 1.00

00:21:03.940 the release of the Epstein files are, are stupid and foolish. 0.99

00:21:07.240 That's something I, I certainly wasn't okay with. 1.00

00:21:09.520 And I called out on my social media accounts.

00:21:11.400 Okay.

00:21:11.640 So get out of here with your, your Trump loyalist stuff.

00:21:15.340 So that's a little background of the infighting that we've seen other actors, again, Tucker

00:21:19.460 Carlson, Ben Shapiro, you have Megan Kelly, uh, Candace, Ian Carroll, Dave Smith, that those

00:21:25.220 are some of the people who have been involved in this.

00:21:27.980 And when approaching this conversation, I'm really of two minds.

00:21:32.200 I thought I would, you know, come on here and ask everyone to unite and put all of those

00:21:37.660 differences aside because we have to win in 2026.

00:21:40.400 And I still do think that that's why this is kind of hard for me.

00:21:43.360 So I'm kind of unpacking this out in real time with you guys.

00:21:46.560 So again, on one hand, yes, we must unite, but on the other hand, I'm not sure if it's

00:21:52.920 good to overlook some of the things that the infighting that we're seeing is fundamentally

00:21:58.480 about, right?

00:21:59.520 People talk a lot about unity as if that is the highest good.

00:22:04.140 Uh, well, I'm here to tell you that it's not the highest good.

00:22:07.940 Um, truth is the highest good.

00:22:10.480 And when truth matters, unity isn't always possible.

00:22:14.780 Uh, that reality shows up far more, I believe on the right than on the left.

00:22:20.240 And of course there's a reason for it.

00:22:22.900 Uh, the modern left is animated and enthralled and motivated by demolition and destruction,

00:22:31.180 right?

00:22:32.220 Think of it.

00:22:33.380 Institutions, traditions, history, historical figures, historical statues, uh, moral boundaries

00:22:40.080 to the left.

00:22:40.700 None of that has to be preserved.

00:22:42.860 Uh, and when your goal is destruction, you don't need agreement.

00:22:48.420 Uh, you just really need momentum.

00:22:50.220 You need the people who are on the ground, uh, willing to do those things.

00:22:53.880 Any tactic will do so long as the target falls.

00:22:57.880 Now the right, the conservative party, uh, it's different because I do believe that we're

00:23:03.660 trying to construct something that lasts.

00:23:07.260 Erica Kirk, she said it, I forget which interview it was, but you know, someone asked her, you

00:23:11.760 know, what do you say to the naysayers, uh, to the people like Candace Owen?

00:23:15.480 She says, look, we're building, uh, and building that requires clarity.

00:23:21.420 It requires shared definitions and shared goals and shared first principles.

00:23:27.760 You cannot build without answering basic questions, right?

00:23:32.380 Uh, what are we aiming towards?

00:23:34.780 What values shape this structure?

00:23:37.300 What holds up when pressure comes?

00:23:40.800 Uh, we could approach this conversation as Americans, as human beings, but as a Christian 0.87

00:23:46.280 myself, I tend to approach this conversation as a Christian.

00:23:50.400 Uh, the foundation that we're talking about, uh, it's not one of political power or government

00:23:56.760 authority.

00:23:58.000 It is the truth that human beings are made in the image of God.

00:24:00.960 Uh, one whose authority stands above the state, uh, right?

00:24:05.560 I understand that our rights don't come from legislators or courts.

00:24:08.640 They come from him.

00:24:10.180 Uh, and so when talking about right and wrong and good and bad, uh, truth versus evil, uh,

00:24:18.000 these aren't things that are negotiated by a majority vote or a 2026, uh, electoral win,

00:24:25.980 right?

00:24:26.260 That, that belief is, is load bearing.

00:24:28.140 I think we should remove it and the entire framework collapses.

00:24:33.380 Uh, so I believe as Christians, our responsibility is not to water down these principles or these

00:24:40.440 morals for the sake of surface level unity.

00:24:43.820 Uh, it is to argue, to persuade, and to invite others toward what is objectively good and true,

00:24:51.520 what is biblically good and true.

00:24:53.880 Unity that requires abandoning truth, I don't think is unity at all.

00:24:59.120 Uh, it is surrender.

00:25:00.860 And so yes, the fractures and the fissure that we're seeing on the right, it is certainly

00:25:05.780 uncomfortable to watch these debates pan out in real time online.

00:25:09.920 You want people to take it behind closed doors, uh, but I do believe they exist because you

00:25:17.140 have people who are willing to argue about what is true, uh, just as Charlie Kirk did before

00:25:22.660 we argue about who is in charge.

00:25:25.000 And yes, that process is slow.

00:25:26.420 It is imperfect.

00:25:27.500 I believe oftentimes as it's proving to be, it is painful.

00:25:31.300 Uh, but it's also honest.

00:25:33.760 Uh, the left can unify quickly because, uh, clearly the truth does not matter to them.

00:25:41.720 Uh, the truth, avoiding the truth, it makes power really easier to obtain for them.

00:25:46.660 Uh, but the right, on the other hand, I think it takes us longer to unify.

00:25:51.280 We're calculated.

00:25:51.900 And because we believe in the truth and that difference matters.

00:25:56.480 There was a tweet put up by Dan Bongino, who is the, um, deputy director, former deputy

00:26:02.920 director of the FBI.

00:26:04.220 He's now stepped down.

00:26:05.000 He's going back to doing what he did prior to this position, which is in the media, uh,

00:26:09.940 political commentary.

00:26:10.700 But I want to read just a little bit of it.

00:26:13.600 Uh, he says in this tweet, I'll put the whole thing on the screen.

00:26:17.360 So if you're watching it, youtube.com, you can see, I'm just going to read a little piece

00:26:20.180 of it. 0.98

00:26:20.460 Um, he's directly addressing here, uh, his words, a group of black pillars, life losers, 1.00

00:26:26.980 grifters, and bums. 0.99

00:26:28.320 The last paragraph here, he says, we've got midterms coming up and there's no time for

00:26:31.820 BS.

00:26:32.300 The administration is cooking and real change simmers.

00:26:34.560 If you're spending your entire day whining with three fourths of the term still to go,

00:26:38.640 then please find the exit.

00:26:40.040 There's no time for it.

00:26:41.340 It's not infighting when you excise a cancer, killing the host.

00:26:45.160 It's out fighting because you're not part of any movement I'm familiar with.

00:26:49.480 Uh, and I really took to that.

00:26:52.120 I started thinking, you know, who are some of these bad actors, people that I align themselves

00:26:56.920 with the conservative party, maybe our view traditionally as being conservative, but don't

00:27:01.720 represent the views that I have.

00:27:03.640 And I would consider myself a conservative.

00:27:05.660 And one that comes to mind is of course, Nick Fuentes.

00:27:09.100 Uh, we've got a clip.

00:27:10.220 Let's play it right here. 0.93

00:27:11.940 But I will say that women are very difficult to be around. 1.00

00:27:15.940 Okay. 0.55

00:27:16.500 So there's that.

00:27:17.980 And do you think they should have the right to vote?

00:27:21.340 I do not.

00:27:22.340 No, absolutely not.

00:27:23.940 They should stay at home?

00:27:26.780 Well, yeah, absolutely.

00:27:29.260 There's like a thousand Nick Fuentes quotes that we could play, um, that I don't believe

00:27:34.920 align with the values of many conservatives.

00:27:37.040 And I think the funny part is if you don't know what he looks like, he's like a five foot

00:27:41.620 six scrawny guy.

00:27:44.260 Anyways, he also said this about vice president Vance. 0.98

00:27:46.540 He said he is a fat race mixer who is married to a jeet and has a son named the fake. 0.98

00:27:52.200 His last name is Fuentes. 0.98

00:27:55.140 So if he's trying to imply that, you know, he wants a president, actually, he has said

00:27:59.400 it.

00:27:59.640 It's not about implying, um, who is white and strong.

00:28:03.420 He said he'd vote for Newsom over, over vice president Vance in a 2028 election.

00:28:07.560 If it came down to it, uh, this guy's last name is Fuentes.

00:28:10.420 I don't know.

00:28:12.000 Anyways, we don't align.

00:28:13.920 I can think of several other bad actors in the conservative movement who, uh, I believe

00:28:19.560 are, are necessary and urgent that we call them out.

00:28:23.660 Otherwise they gain a voice as Nick Fuentes has.

00:28:26.720 It's a pretty terrifying thought.

00:28:28.160 If we don't call them out, uh, think about where we are headed, uh, specifically if we

00:28:33.100 don't unite in some shape, form or fashion, uh, look at the political race.

00:28:40.420 That we have seen following the 2024, you know, red wave that we saw, uh, one of those

00:28:46.860 being the governor of Virginia, uh, the Democrat one, as opposed to when some Sears, uh, look

00:28:55.900 at who just won attorney general in Virginia.

00:28:57.800 I believe this is the biggest condemnation of humanity that we have seen, uh, thus far,

00:29:02.540 at least as it pertains to any major level race, uh, Jay Jones, who is now the state's

00:29:08.480 top law enforcement officer, uh, said that he wishes to watch the children of his political

00:29:15.480 opponents die in their parents' arms.

00:29:17.840 And he won.

00:29:19.460 That is a condemnation of humanity.

00:29:22.280 The state's top law enforcement officer wants to watch his political opponents' children

00:29:28.800 die.

00:29:29.740 And obviously we saw what has happened in New York, a self-described Muslim socialist, which 0.97

00:29:36.680 just inaugurated as the mayor.

00:29:38.320 Let's watch here.

00:29:39.940 We will draw this city closer together.

00:29:43.160 We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

00:29:49.140 If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this

00:29:55.780 government foster it because no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where you come from,

00:30:03.560 the words that most define us are the two we all share, New Yorkers.

00:30:11.260 If this doesn't send chills down your spine, uh, then you haven't learned a single lesson

00:30:16.600 from the 20th century.

00:30:18.520 I, for one, love rugged individualism.

00:30:22.580 Uh, that is what built the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

00:30:26.100 It is one of, uh, personal responsibility and free enterprise and limited government.

00:30:33.420 Uh, that's why the midterms are important.

00:30:36.300 That's why uniting in some way is important.

00:30:39.440 Uh, we've got one more sound we want to throw to here a president Trump speaking to the house

00:30:43.800 Republicans earlier this week.

00:30:45.340 You got to win the midterms because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to

00:30:51.220 be, I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me.

00:30:56.020 Uh, I'll get impeached.

00:30:57.900 We don't impeach them.

00:30:59.140 You know why?

00:30:59.640 Because they're meaner than we are.

00:31:02.240 We should have impeached Joe Biden for a hundred different things.

00:31:04.820 So here are some things I want to leave you with, uh, first and foremost, I think it's

00:31:12.040 important to mention, don't have such a short memory.

00:31:16.600 Uh, I'm not telling you, hear me when I say, I'm not telling you to not forgive others, uh,

00:31:22.480 or to, to never give people the benefit of the doubt, but I am telling you to not forget.

00:31:27.080 Don't forget the people who celebrated when Charlie Kirk was killed in front of thousands

00:31:31.980 of college age kids and where it will live on the internet forever.

00:31:35.880 Don't forget the feeling that you had when you learned that he had been shot.

00:31:38.660 Uh, and then to learn that that shot was fatal.

00:31:41.240 It took his life.

00:31:41.940 Don't forget the same people who had that ridiculous candlelight vigil for the fifth anniversary 0.87

00:31:47.960 of January 6th.

00:31:49.380 They didn't have a single word to say about Lake and Riley.

00:31:51.980 They didn't hold a candlelight vigil for her.

00:31:54.740 They won't even say her name.

00:31:56.280 I'm not telling you to not forget.

00:31:57.800 So you harbor anger and hatred.

00:32:00.660 I'm telling you not to forget.

00:32:01.960 So you remember why we fight and the importance of your vote.

00:32:06.080 Uh, second thing I want to leave you with, hear me when I say the internet is not real

00:32:11.940 life.

00:32:12.480 It's just not.

00:32:13.500 I learned this really early on.

00:32:15.080 Once I started speaking out, uh, the onslaught of hatred and death threats and doxing, uh,

00:32:21.920 that I got that my family members got, uh, it's not representative of real life at all.

00:32:27.380 I can't even tell you how many times I go out in public and people stop me and say, thank

00:32:32.320 you for doing what you're doing.

00:32:33.940 Uh, I've even had, you know, like grown men who will approach me in tears and say, you

00:32:39.160 know, I have a daughter.

00:32:40.160 I have a granddaughter.

00:32:41.480 Thank you for fighting that fight.

00:32:43.480 That's much more representative of real people.

00:32:47.200 Okay.

00:32:47.800 The internet is not real life.

00:32:49.940 So don't be afraid to speak the truth, to share your opinions, uh, to be unapologetically

00:32:57.200 conservative and unapologetic Trump supporter, uh, an unapologetic Christian.

00:33:03.540 And if you get pushback, take it on the chin, let it go in one ear out the other, let it fly

00:33:09.840 off of your back, like water off a duck's back.

00:33:12.580 Okay.

00:33:13.400 Um, it's not real life and understand that no one is happier than Democrats, uh, that

00:33:19.600 our focus has seemingly shifted from them to now us.

00:33:24.200 The infighting kind of begs the question, what difference does your policy preference

00:33:28.620 matter?

00:33:29.320 Uh, if one side can shoot you just for advocating for them, uh, while at the same time they suffer

00:33:35.740 no consequences at the ballot box, uh, it is due time that changes, uh, we need our leaders

00:33:42.740 throughout the conservative side to lead the way that Charlie did.

00:33:47.640 Uh, and as for the rest of us get involved, uh, that means putting your head down.

00:33:52.580 It means door knocking.

00:33:53.380 It means registering, registering voters.

00:33:55.060 It means going to church.

00:33:55.980 It means making the case to, uh, our diverse coalition to meet the moment again.

00:34:02.900 Uh, and there's certainly no shortage of options to do so.

00:34:07.320 Um, I don't know about you guys, uh, but I would much rather keep the AOCs of the world 1.00

00:34:14.080 rage tweeting at us, uh, in defeat than climbing back to power over us.

00:34:20.840 The moment that we're in our movement, uh, I think we face two simple choices.

00:34:25.760 It's to keep in fighting and lose or unite and win, uh, the outcome of next year and beyond

00:34:33.720 is up to us.

00:34:35.500 So I appreciate you guys for tuning into this episode of the Riley Gaines show, and we'll

00:34:39.640 see you next week.

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - January 09, 2026

The Battle Inside the Conservative Movement ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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