The Charlie Kirk Show

Islamic Supremacy vs. Western Freedom

42 min
Feb 4, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Charlie Kirk and guest Ridvan Idemir (Apostate Prophet) discuss Islam as a political ideology incompatible with Western values, citing persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas announces a $1 million donation to Turning Point USA and discusses efforts to preserve Christian values in education and governance.

Insights
  • Islamic theology is presented as inherently political with explicit doctrines for societal domination, distinguishing it from other religions in its comprehensive governance framework
  • Strategic demographic concentration through projects like EpicCity and QatarCity represents a long-term political influence strategy in Western democracies
  • Gen Z is characterized as opportunity rather than lost cause, with receptiveness to conservative messaging when properly engaged and reasoned with
  • Religious liberty and faith-based governance are positioned as essential to preserving American culture against what is framed as a coordinated leftist/communist takeover
  • Educational institutions at high school and college levels are identified as critical battlegrounds for cultural preservation and ideological influence
Trends
Organized demographic settlement strategies by Islamic organizations in Western countries to build political influenceCoalition-building between progressive movements and Islamic organizations in Western democracies to advance shared political goalsIncreased focus on K-12 education activism as a counter to perceived leftist institutional captureReligious liberty legislation and faith-based governance as political priority in conservative-led statesGen Z political mobilization through student organizations as alternative to traditional party structuresChristian persecution metrics and international religious freedom as political messaging frameworkState-level resistance to federal immigration and cultural policies through legislative actionWeaponization of religious identity in political campaigns and donor engagement
Topics
Islamic Political Ideology and Western CompatibilityChristian Persecution in Muslim-Majority CountriesEpicCity and QatarCity Development ProjectsReligious Liberty Legislation in TexasGen Z Political Engagement and Turning Point USAEducation System Ideological CaptureImmigration Policy and Border SecurityTransgender Policy and Social DisruptionSupreme Court Composition and Political StrategyFaith-Based Governance and Cultural PreservationStudent Activism and Campus OrganizingIran Islamic Regime and Human RightsMedia and Education System ControlApostasy Laws and Religious FreedomDhimmi System and Religious Hierarchy
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Turning Point USA
Student organization receiving $1M donation from Lt. Gov. Patrick; expanding to 1,000+ chapters in Texas with 50 new ...
Preserve Gold
Precious metals company sponsoring the episode; described as Kirk's recommended gold and silver experts
Y-Refy
Student loan refinancing service offering custom payment plans for private student loan debt relief
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
Faith-based nonprofit providing security and support to Jewish people in Israel and diaspora communities
People
Ridvan Idemir (Apostate Prophet)
Former Muslim turned critic of Islam; primary guest discussing Islamic ideology as political system incompatible with...
Dan Patrick
Texas Lieutenant Governor; donated $1M from campaign funds to Turning Point USA; discusses religious liberty legislation
Charlie Kirk
Turning Point USA founder; deceased; referenced throughout as visionary leader whose legacy drives current organizati...
Yarsar Karadi
Islamic scholar and EpicCity spokesperson; cited as advocating for increased Islamic political influence in America
Zoram Mamdani
Progressive Muslim activist; discussed as example of leftist-Islamist coalition strategy in Western democracies
Donald Trump
Former president; credited with preventing Hillary Clinton's election and preserving conservative Supreme Court majority
Hillary Clinton
Former presidential candidate; referenced regarding potential Supreme Court composition if elected in 2016
Cardinal Timothy Dolan
New York Cardinal; member of religious liberty commission; quoted comparing Charlie Kirk to Apostle Paul
Dr. Phil McGraw
Member of Lt. Gov. Patrick's religious liberty commission
Paula White
Faith leader and member of religious liberty commission
Quotes
"Islam is incompatible with the West. So he pointed this out very, very clearly. He got a lot of backlash for it."
Ridvan Idemir
"It's not a battle guys of republicans democrats it's a battle of darkness and light"
Dan Patrick
"You cannot change a country unless you change the culture of that country and you can only change the culture by changing the character of the country"
Dan Patrick
"Gen Z is not the problem they're the opportunity in the solution"
Charlie Kirk (referenced)
"I'd rather be kicked out of office than kicked out of heaven"
Dan Patrick
Full Transcript
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point you would say college chapter. Go start a turning point you would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. All right, welcome back. Our two of the Charlie Kirk Show is underway here. We've got two great guests this hour. We've got Ridvan Idemir, also known as the Apostate Prophet, and that's going to be up first. Then we have Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick from the great state of Texas. I'm going to ask him about some of the Islamification of the state of Texas as well. It's kind of a theme this hour. He's going to be in studio, which can be great. First up is Ridvan. He's become a friend, a trusted voice on this topic specifically. We had him at Student Action Summit at Charlie's Request and his content went viral all over the place. You're with us now. Ridvan, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much. It's a great pleasure to be here again. Thank you for coming. I think this is the... We have to keep hitting this topic. We have to. Islamification of America, of the West. You are the Apostate Prophet. I think you chose your name sort of prophetically here because you are like one calling out in the wilderness warning people about a conquering ideology of Islam. Start there, Ridvan. I'm kind of thinking back to your remarks at the Student Action Summit. Build the case from the ground up. Explain. Our audience knows this, but we have to keep repeating it. The name is actually a very important thing. I chose Apostate Prophet very specifically because apostasy in Islam, so leaving Islam is something that is explicitly and clearly punishable by death. It is punished by death according to traditional Islamic jurisprudence. And the majority of Muslims around the world today support the idea actually that if you leave Islam and you publicly speak about it, you publicly express that you have left Islam, you ought to be somehow punished. And traditionally you are supposed to be put to death. So this is not just a religion like any other religion where your faith is simply between you and God or you and the divine. It is one that is a political system where leaving it is considered treason. It is considered betrayal in a political and very serious sense, in a military sense. And so such a religion naturally will not only be hostile against its own apostates, but also against those that do not align with its values, those who stand against it, with systems that are incompatible with its own values. And Charlie very often pointed out, and you can find this in many speeches and many tweets, that Islam is incompatible with the West. So he pointed this out very, very clearly. He got a lot of backlash for it. He repeated it again when he was on stage with me, which was wonderful. He pointed out that people hate him for many reasons and this is one of them. But it is simply true. It is a system that is incompatible with Western civilization. It is one that is all about... So I grew up as an Muslim. What I learned, and it's not just what I learned, but I learned for example that when I was in Germany, it was our duty to be part of the society in a sense, but to never really integrate into society, because the Quran says very explicitly and repeatedly, do not befriend the Jews and the Christians. They are friends of one another and whoever befriends them, he is one of them. They are supposed to be enemies of Allah. Muslims are according to chapter 9, verse 29 and 30 of the Quran, subjugate and humiliate the Jews and the Christians and take protection money called Ejizya from them like the mafia. So that is the status that Muslims are supposed to have over them, because they are supposed to be only slaves of and servants of Allah and all other religions are supposed to be made subject to Islam, if not when the time and opportunity arises, eradicated in favor of Islam. Only Islam is supposed to prevail. That is the ideology. That is the core of how Islam views politics and interfaith interactions. Ridhvana, I would talk to Charlie about this a lot of course, and I think that's a key point that's worth expanding on and emphasizing that Islam really does much more than Christianity, for example, have a vision for itself as a totalize. It offers much more explicit guidance. How do you set up society? How do you set up a political organization that is dominated by Islam? How do you live with other faiths specifically by dominating them? And it's not, you know, as you say, Ejizya, there's a special tax you're supposed to pay if you're not a Muslim. There's, I believe in most, I'm not sure if this is in the Hadiths or so on, but I know that in many Muslim countries, they would have rules. You couldn't dress the same way. You had to be separated by dress. And even today, in countries that aren't even particularly extremist on Islam and other ways, they still, they make it, for example, very easy to convert to Islam, but impossible to convert out of Islam. And that can be weaponized in a lot of ways. I know there have been issues where, for example, Christian women have essentially been abducted and kind of forcibly converted, or they're told they can't un-convert once some sort of process has been gone through. Elaborate on that a bit. So the last thing that you brought up is a very tragic one. There are lots of cases that is endless, especially in countries like Egypt. You know, despite Egypt supposedly making steps toward modernizing and westernizing and collaborating more and all that, it is still a very, very everyday thing that the Coptic Christian community in Egypt is very much subjected to the violations by the Islamic communities. And so, I mean, everyone, every Coptic Christian in Egypt knows of somebody or knows somebody who was at some point abducted by Muslims and made to forcibly convert or stopped in the process. In Pakistan, it is very, very much known that the Christian community is very much silenced, and they are in fear. In Muslim countries in general, Christians are brutally mistreated and suppressed. We have statistics on this that come out every single year by OpenDoors, which is a Christian organization, which keeps a list of countries in the world where there is the highest level of suppression of Christians. Of the top 50 countries where Christians are most suppressed in the world, the majority, probably 40 or more, are usually Muslim countries. It is very much part of Islam to be dominant and to suppress the other, and Christians are specifically considered a threat. With other religions and with other groups, they can often do kind of, you know, whatever they want to them. But with Christians, Christians are considered the strongest and largest religion, and there is a historical aspect to it as well, of the clash between Islam and Christianity. So Christianity is considered an actual formidable enemy, an opponent. So with Christians, the Muslim society is generally specifically careful to put them in their place and subjugate them as much as possible while keeping a public profile of, hey, we're just friends, you know, we're good with each other and all that. So the tragic thing is that I spoke to a Coptic Christian organization once, a while ago, they specifically asked me when I asked them if I could publicly do something for them, they asked me to please not publicly speak off of them, off that organization in general, because if the public associates me with them, with my anti-Islamic stance and all that, they could be severely persecuted and the Islamic communities in Egypt could take revenge basically on them. So they are in fear constantly for their lives. And you have correctly pointed out that in the Hadith, Muhammad did very often say that he came to fight the people until everybody becomes a Muslim. He did curse the Jews and the Christians, often mentioning the two of them together, and often pointed out that Muslims should not dress like them and that they should dominate the Jews and the Christians. So it became Islamic law basically early on. It's called the Dimi system, that when Muslims conquer neighboring countries as they always should and subjugate the Jews and the Christians and make them their subjects and take protection money, it is their duty to basically impose dress codes so that all Christians are supposed to dress a certain way, all Jews are supposed to dress a certain way, they're supposed to wear things on their necks like a golden calf or a very heavy cross, but they're not supposed to worship in public, they're supposed to be distinct. And Muslims are supposed to be in every single visible and every single way that you can feel it be made superior in society. So this is very much Islam. Ridvan, it just strikes me that you've got, I mean, I remember a few years back, there was all this news about the Coptic Christians, you reminded me of it, getting just massacred in Egypt, just killed, their churches getting bombed. ISIS killed like I think two dozen of them or so, fishermen in Libya. And you've got the whole Syrian situation where Christians are getting persecuted and you've got Lebanon that used to be majority Christian and now it's slowly becoming less and less and less Christian, they've been targeted massively. And then you've got what's happening in Africa, you've got those fights in Nigeria, you've got the fights in Sudan, I mean, it just seems like time and time again, Muslims have proven to be exactly what you are describing them to be a conquering religion that believe it's a political ideology that wants to conquer Christians. So if if the West is losing its backbone, Muslims are not the Islam supremacy is is actually, you know, that is mainstream, right? And the and meanwhile, the West is flirting with multiculturalism and thinks that it needs to be so inviting to outside cultures. And I'm gonna I'm gonna sort of preface this because everybody's heard of Epic City now, thankfully, I think we've done a good job of highlighting that. It's I think, you know, somewhat getting shut down, there's I'm here in conflicting reports in Texas. But there's another project that we were just alerted to in Phoenix or in the in the greater Phoenix area here in Arizona called Cutter City, Qatar City. And it's a project proposal. It doesn't I doesn't look to be like it's moving forward. You know, Abe Hommaday has said that it's not moving forward. Okay, good. But throw this up. Cutter City project proposal. And you know, why it it struck me is because I saw we see you see this image of Katie Hobbs, the governor of the state of Arizona meeting with the general of the state of Qatar in Los Angeles, 369 there. And I'm thinking, hmm, this is a 6000 acre project that has at least been proposed. I don't think it's moving forward. Thankfully, it's the agenda. It's the fact that this exists in the first place that this was somebody that put together a plan 10 square miles, basically 10 square miles to build something called Cutter City. And I'm sure that the PR folks were going to change the name at some point because that was not a good good starting point. But this is like really disturbing that somebody put all this time and energy into building a proposal so that they could sort of impose some sort of Islamic neighborhood in Arizona. What are what is what is their plan here? Are they just going to slowly move in, build up these little outposts, outbreed us and then take over mayors, mayors races until they they gain sort of a, you know, a critical mass of power? Is that their plan? I mean, you could speculate it about you could speculate about it all day long. The thing is, there are certain people who have actually spoken about this certain Muslim voices such as one person to pay attention to very closely is Dr. Yarsar Karadi. He was a recognized Islamic scholar. He is right here in America. I think he is from Texas. He has spoken about how this is a fantastic project, Epic City, for example, and more like this should come according to him to more and more strengthen the power and the presence of Islam in America and to slowly have more and more political influence in America, to have more political impact in America. And the thing is, you know, if this was just a regular community, if this was just a peaceful, nice religion that just wants to live its own way and had no trouble where it goes and had no ideas of imposing itself on the rest of the world and subjugating the rest of the world, all of this would not be a problem. Maybe you could welcome a little society that just has kind of quirky beliefs and all that. But Yarsar Karadi, for example, who has been a spokesperson, a speaker for Epic City and who kind of also ironically helped blow this up and caused a scandal through that, he is somebody who clearly believes, for example, that free speech should be limited, that even in America, in Western countries or wherever Islam has more and more of a hold, people should vote for Muslims no matter how devout, how traditional or how secular they are, so that we can increase the Islamic influence and we can start demanding or making demands that are in line with Islam, such as respecting Islam, restricting apostasy laws and things like that. So an increase in demographics and a concentrated community would lead naturally to a strengthened political presence in that region, which would lead to electing Muslims in that region and that is a starting point for them. Hi folks, Andrew Colvette here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y-Refy. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y-Refy for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Y-Refy will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually. They can save you thousands of dollars and you can get your life back. We go to campuses all over America and we see student after student who's drowning in private student loan debt. Many of them don't even know how much they owe. Y-Refy can help. Just go to Y-Refy.com. That's the letter Y then refy.com and remember Y-Refy doesn't care what your credit score is. Just go to Y-Refy.com and tell them your friend Andrew's hitting you. Well, I mean I have so many questions I want to get to. This one popped in my head. I'm just going to go with it. You're describing a form of Islam. I think that a lot of people think of as this jihadis and you know but then you have you know Mamdani. If you were writing a New York Times editorial you're just going to profile Mamdani like what makes him tick? How Muslim is he? Does he really believe the the precepts of Islam explain him to our audience? So Zoram Mamdani is a very very interesting case because if he was a politician in a Muslim country he would be heavily disliked by the by the by the traditional Muslim voting bloc by the traditional Islamic people because he is very much a leftist but things change once you go once you leave the Muslim countries and go into the west for example where you have to play things differently. For let me give an example from the UK. In the UK the Islamists or you know Muslim and Islamist forces are very much present in two major parties which are the the socialist labor party and the very very much far leftist green party. Such parties would be unacceptable among traditional Islamic groups in the Muslim world but in the west they have to kind of go with these parties to to push more inclusivist subversive and pro-islamic politics and policies. So Ramamdani therefore if when he is a progressive socialist leftist is a perfect tool to do the exact same thing. Now I would not say that Zoram Mamdani himself is very much an Islamist but but he very much fits into this whole game that also by the way led to tragic consequences in Iran. Iran as we see today is ruled by a tyrannical Islamic regime that's 80 percent of the population or more absolutely hates and this tyrannic regime overthrew the you know the the monarchy and put itself at the top through the help of leftist socialists and communists. When you have a society where conservative non-Islamic traditions have a hold the best way to subvert it is to use progressivist leftist socialist movements and through them slowly infiltrate overthrow the system and then establish your Islamic values because it is the easiest way. Well and so yeah I mean that that makes a ton of sense like it's it's like water it will go through the path of least resistance to to get inside the rock freeze it and shatter it right. So it makes sense that this is the route they would take in liberal western democracies. So I only got one minute left here Ridvan but you know Caroline Levitt's doing a press conference right now about and she's talking about Iran how do we have any idea how many people have really been killed by the regime there and what do you think the next step should be one minute real quick here Ridvan. So the estimates range the estimates are very wide ranging the Islamic regime itself says that thousands have been killed there are estimates going from 30 000 at the moment to much higher 60 000 I would say that the reasonable estimates are probably somewhere between 30 000 and 40 000 so that many people have been massacred brutally massacred by the Islamic regime no help has arrived they sense that this thing is getting very serious and they will lose grip over the over the government over the Islamic regime and what the Islamic regime under Haman e the supreme leader the Shia leader thinks is no matter how many people die no matter how many people are killed the individuals are not more important than the Islamic regime than our ideology so if we have to do it we will massacre tens of thousands of people to uphold this that has to end Ridvan thank you my friend we'll have you on again soon thank you without further ado I'm very honored to have our next guest on the show and that is of course Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick from the great state of Texas and we have you here sir because well for a variety of reasons but you have made a tremendous down payment I'm stealing your your language sure on club americas in the state of Texas and that's you came to our campus you signed a big million dollar check that you donated from your personal campaign and first of all thank you and second of all please share with our audience what inspired you to do that well first of all I want to challenge every elected official out there who has money in their campaign account that they'll never spend on a campaign they would probably give it to some other nonprofit to consider making even if it's a you know $25,000 whatever it is you know campaigns are big in Texas so we raise more money understand not everyone has a million in their campaign account but this should be a challenge for every god loving god fearing elected official out there to support a club america campus on all of their high schools in their state and that's why we want to do it in Texas we want to have a chapter on every campus in Texas and and I knew charlie in the early days when he was first getting started he came to Texas a lot to raise money here's your picture there we go and that was from Lubbock was that yeah yeah I was I was actually at that event yeah that was our 2020 I think that was our last event we did together and but in those early days you know Texas has a lot of faithful people a lot of conservatives a lot of money and so he would raise money there and we got to know each other long story short at the inauguration in january of 17 I was going to the trump hotel and charlie happened to be walking in the door at the same time held the door for me and he said uh Dan I've got some something I want to share with you and it was chaotic in there you know everyone was celebrating and but charlie we sat down on the couch and he told me his vision which was a mighty vision that we thought can you really make this happen which he did and so when I was on the phone with your team uh after that terrible day talking about I want to get a chapter on every campus in Texas it just came to me lord put it on my heart um pay it forward you know he gave his life for what he believed so so writing a check for a million dollars out of my campaign uh is the least I could do um for that young man who sat on that couch and shared his dream and made it made it happen and uh you know I cha I chaired the president appointed me to be chair of the religious liberty commission and we'll report to the president later this year on our recommendations to restore religious liberty because the last administration you know attacked people of faith of all faiths and uh I just you know I think about where we are in this nation it's not a battle guys of republicans democrats it's a battle of darkness and light and what we're seeing uh across our country is darkness and there's a there's a movement in this country that wants to remove god from our country uh I don't mind saying it because it's true uh and those of us who are believers again in all denominations and all faiths those of us who believe have to stand up and fight for for that belief or we'll lose this country you cannot change a country unless you change the culture of that country and you can only change the culture by changing the character of the country and you can only change the character by changing the heart of individuals and you can only do that through faith for me as a christian through jesus and uh and that's where we have to get to and when charlie made that pivot from really politics to faith that's when he changed the world and that's when he became a target because the other side does not want that the totalitarian governments who want to take this country down the first thing they have to do in any country is to destroy god destroy civil law and order to disrupt families by having boys play girls sports and make us fight about it over and over and over this is a battle of darkness and light and the book of jude uh right before revelations two words in the bible i really always remember that i love jude said we have to contend earnestly today we'd say fight for what you believe you have to contend earnestly and if we don't have combatants who contend earnestly um and support what charlie started we will lose this nation i don't know if you have anything but i have lots of testimony i love you saying charlie sits you down and he explains his vision to you because i think so many people had that experience the first time you meet charlie and he just he has that overflowing level of vision of ambition and you sit there thinking is this guy for real and i remember when i first started here and he would just say turning point usa the most important organization in america and i would i'm always my cynical self-emotional really but then he went and he made that the reality that level of self-belief and some people saw it right away some people had to be won over to it and eventually he proved all of us wrong and that was the most stupendous thing about him if you think back to that moment he had just been don juniors bag man on the campaign got to experience this incredible whirlwind he's getting cokes for don juniors taking the bag he's doing social media posts then they win nobody thought they were going to win i don't you know it was a miracle genuinely and then he's in dc for this inauguration most people that are what i was 22 with that at that point at that age with all of that that had just happened would have been probably partying and they would have been wasting the time what is charlie doing he's opening the door for lieutenant governor and of texas and then he sits down and says i want to talk to you about turning point that is an amazing image i hadn't heard that story but what an amazing image candles were lit on bondide beach by families by children by people of faith to celebrate a festival of light a festival from bible times one that jesus himself celebrated people gathered with hope seeking unity and comfort and tradition but instead of light there was darkness violence fear hatred showing itself at a time meant for prayer and rejoicing times like this remind us that even with the ceasefire in israel jewish people are being targeted simply because of their faith and times like this remind us why the international fellowship of christians and jews exists to stand in the gap providing safety and security to god's people the fellowship brings together christians and jews to be a light to suffering jews in israel the former soviet union or wherever the needs are greatest together we can make a real difference in the lives of those who need hope the most your gift today will help provide the security that god's people so desperately need visit urgent i of cj.org that's one word urgent i of cj.org or call now at 866-338-IFCJ that's 866-338-4325 to accomplish what he did in such a short time means that you're focused on what you want to accomplish 24-7 you don't have time to party you don't have time to think about anything else and you put that first and we have a great commission on my religious liberty commission and dr. phill dr. carcin reverend grayham paula white timothy dolin robert barron some of the great faith leaders and intellect in our in our country and so cardinal dolin cardinal new york who's who's now retiring he said to me he called me he said damn i i didn't know who charlie kerrk was and i saw this memorial and i thought who is this person and he said i went back and watched his his sermons in essence his speeches and he said he's a modern day paul and so we have to realize that um gods if we don't think that god's hand is in what has happened and not that he wanted to see the tragedy that happened to charlie um you know god god is here to protect us and prosperous uh but it's an evil world out there and and charlie's life was taken because people feared what he was doing they feared that he was being a voice that they wanted to snuff out yeah and you have to look at president trump you know this this hatred towards president trump um they feared him and that's why they tried to assassinate him is that you have to understand this leftist movement this communist movement in this country has been going on for decades and we've been asleep at the wheel and there's three things you have to take over to um in a totalitarian government to take over country number one is you have to take over the education system does anyone want to argue that they haven't taken over the education saw the walkouts this past uh show the walkouts number two you have to take over the media you have to have the propaganda machine do you see the grammy's yeah it's everywhere and then number three you have to have the supreme court and the reason they hate donald trump is they can't believe that guy that came down the escalator that day beat hillary clinton who they thought was a shoe in and the reason they don't like her either is because she lost to him because he stopped that he stopped that from happening do you realize what the court would be today if hillary clinton had won it was a 6372 8 to 1 liberal court and it wouldn't make any difference how conservative texas is and how many conservative laws we passed everyone would be overturned so that's why they hate donald trump he stopped them on their 40 year mission and so now what do they do you can't have a civil society if you don't have law and order um these aren't peaceful protests these are not guaranteed in the constitution this is they're committing felonies every day when they're attacking our our police and again i go back to the transgender issue we love all people god loves all people and pray for these people to get through whatever issues they're having i'm sorry a man does not belong in a ladies room and a young man should not take away the trophy or the chance to be on an olympic team from a young girl nor should a man take away a a small business loan from a woman who would qualify for it you know what's going to happen next is someone who's 40 years old going to say i'm a trans senior i you know i really i really believe i'm a senior i want my social security benefits now i mean that's who i believe i am i believe i'm 65 i'm not 45 i mean this is craziness and it's so crazy that we have to pass laws as we have in texas to stop it uh but that's what the left wants to do create chaos chaos chaos and this whole plan about illegal immigrants who came mostly across our border in texas because we have 1250 miles of border with mexico to put that in comparison that's atlanta to main is how big our border was you know zigzag but that many miles is the plan was this bring millions in bring millions in and then when the next president whoever it is tries to run them out we'll just go in the streets and we'll stop it and so this is this is all a clear plan and and so i come back around to it's not republicans and democrats look there are a lot of good democrats who are believers who vote they just don't know that their party's been hijacked they just don't know it and they need to wake up to it that's a generous take yeah it's a generous take because at this point i don't know how it was more defensible 20 years ago i think it was more defensible but but i but i know that there are democrats out there who who i know who are you know strong in their faith go to mass every week or go to church every week and they just don't see it for what it is but they're but they're waking up or they have bad theology and they think that you know they take the verses of the bible about the sojourner in your land and all this stuff and and they skip the verses that says god lays out the uh the boundaries in the borders of your of your country so i mean charlie would charlie really believed in educating the church to make sure they had good theology so that they didn't fall into an open borders trap right so boundaries are where especially with countries are where good ideas begin and bad ideas end or vice versa and they're really really critical especially if you look at a place like texas which is thriving which is law and order which is which uh which has such an amazing population with amazing character and in history you got to preserve that you can't allow the erasure of your culture and your people and and we're seeing that in europe and so many other places i will say last time i was in texas i don't want to be the bearer of bad news and i actually we can talk about you know that special election if you want uh i i don't i don't think that's indicative of where the state's at no it means uh and we can talk real quick yes please the reason we lost that senate seat 74 we think the official number 74000 74000 republicans who were one two three or four hours who normally vote didn't vote yeah it doesn't surprise you it's a one off special election can't we'll take the seat back in november i feel terrible for not knowing about it but i didn't hear about it normally we like to highlight these things tell people to get out and vote we didn't even hear about it so it was just something something was off and i will say i don't i think the the amount of damage this particular democrat can do is fairly limited in the time they have and we'll take the seat back okay but when i was there i was well we're not in session so you can't do any that's what i'm saying uh so um young people in texas i fear there is a you talk about complacent voters but there is a complacency maybe amongst young people in texas that maybe think that your generation is a little backwards and they want to be more progressive something that was the vibe i was getting when i was on when i was on the ground so this is why i think what you guys are doing and partnering with club america at the high school level blake mentioned all these walkouts that we saw across the country anti-ice walkouts i think it's so critically important that we save texas everything depends on saving texas from a national level i was just in uh texas visiting a friend and we were meeting another friend of his and he was telling me he he's in texas in austin and the number of people fleeing california the bay area because of how bad that's gotten and he was telling me there's really only a handful of places in the entire world that are really truly innovative where they're doing the cutting edge on technology business and all of that and one of them was silicon valley and they're ruining it and he said blake i think it is existentially important for all of western civilization that texas remain republican yes well first of all you could never win the white house uh ever again the electoral votes of new york california and texas so you're you have a one-party government forever uh secondly we're not going to let them win texas but this was in many ways um this this was a good wake-up call because what happened in terryon county one of the reddest counties in the country they just couldn't imagine even in a special election a democrat could win and so now for the next eight months as we're campaigning um will be reminding people your vote really matters uh and you have to get out and vote and that's all across the country uh you know i i go back to this darkness and light uh i think we have to approach people on where they are in their faith walk you know i someone interviewed me as you know we were coming in uh and they asked a question about well you know just is america really still a faith-based country and and the answer yes i know because every time there's a crisis uh where do people go they go to their knees and pray whether it's a national event or whether it's a personal crisis where do they go and we have just we have walked away those of us who are believers and not wearing it on our sleeves i'm not trying to proselytize and convert anyone although it is my great commission as a christian i am i'm cool with it yeah i mean that's what i do but i'm one come on yeah please in my in my politics i understand what you know what i'm saying i'm not going out there and saying you before you leave take a yard sign and i want your commitment but if we are examples to people yes um through how we behave and how we act and and if we can through club america teach that to the next generation um then that generation will be the generation to an inherent america not the generation that we see in the streets well and i believe what charlie believed that gen z is not the problem they're the opportunity in the solution absolutely and that's why you know that we we think that they've lost the plot of america but charlie proved that they had to be reasoned with that we had to respect their what their pushback that we had to respect their questions enough to answer them yes and once they hear the answer you can win a lot of them over and they can be convinced it's not set it's this this is wet cement though so we got to keep winning them right uh it's not set in in america's this unbroken chain of one generation passing on the values and the promise of america to the next but that link is is fragile right now so we have to pass it on but i think they are there is so much opportunity in gen z and they are actually really radicalized about a lot of things previous generations got wrong and they're ready to move on if we had the money um so another call for all elected officials out there with your campaign funds that you're sitting on that you're never going to spend uh send a check and you know maybe you can't send a million dollars from your campaign because we have more in texas and smaller states but send something because we need to have a we need to have uh clima america on every campus our young people are dying for look this is a whole different generation they're drinking less they're they're uh astaining uh standing from sex they want they want that family um they're hungry they're hungry for it and we have to feed that hunger and there's look there's no one else on planet earth except turning point that's willing to feed and has the ability to feed we just need the funding to to continue to do that because it's expensive to hire people and be on every campus the growth was explosive after after charlie and i mean we're talking hundreds of thousands of applications start new chapters we're still starting i check with our field team we're still starting 50 new chapters a day do you have any and that's registered student organizations approved on campus i don't even know how you do it we've we've gone from about 300 uh before september to a thousand now in texas and of course we have we have a 1200 school district so we have a ways to go but we're going to get it done but i go back to we cannot keep america the country that we used to have i i like to say the reason people are coming to texas is texas is america the law america used to be and we do uphold the law we do we are a conservative government we protect the second amendment we protect relent logistic liberty this session i passed senate bill 10 to put the 10 commandments in every classroom uh senate bill 11 to put prayer back private time at every school you know as a lieutenant governor i i put in god we trust in the senate for the first time ever in history and under god in our pledge and and so that i just think that you can't expect to turn around the culture of this country if you don't talk about these real issues um uh from the bible you just can't do it i totally agree and you mentioned though the character of the people you have to keep that intact we've only got a minute left here but you talk you know here about epic city you hear about all the moss that are popping up in texas what do we well we have to say about that well uh we're actually uh having a hearing on it in the next couple of weeks in texas and our attorney general is dealing with that and that's not going to happen we're not going to allow sharia law in texas um we're going to go by the the constitution of the united states and the constitution of texas and we're not going to put up with that um you know we just need politicians not to be afraid to step up there are a lot of people uh again but look one of the things that just aggravates me at the democrat party is they don't they're all cowards right now they cower to the radical left that no one in that party will stand up and say what's right um and so that has to be a breakthrough somebody over there has to be i'm so wait a minute we're we're going to i i mean i can't believe they're still running on men and ladies rooms so that has to stop but we we as um again it's not a political thing but we as republicans we've got to take this mantle and move forward i always say at the end of the day i'd rather be kicked out of office than kicked out of heaven so it's real simple when you come down to tough decisions follow jesus or follow your faith and uh don't follow the world well god bless you sir thank you and thanks for having me keep fighting for texas we need to keep texas red and thank you for your incredibly generous donation to club america and texas my pleasure my pleasure thank you guys thank you so much for more on many of these stories and news you can trust go to charlie kerrk.com