The "Apostate Prophet" Ridvan Aydemir joins the show to break down the doctrine of Muslim supremacy, and how Islam sees itself as a conquering ideology that will inevitably control all aspects of global life — which it will achieve through deception, mass immigration, and finally by overt colonization. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announces a major donation to support TPUSA's Club America efforts, and talks about the all-important struggle to keep Texas as a red state. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All right, welcome back.
Hour 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.
And I'm going to ask him about some of the Islamification of the state of Texas as well.
So it's kind of a theme this hour.
He's going to be in studio, which is going to be great.
But first up is Ridvon, and 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.
And you're with us now.
Ridvan, welcome back to the show.
Thank you so much.
It's a great pleasure to be here again.
Yeah, thank you for coming.
I think this is the so we have to keep hitting this topic.
Yeah, 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.
So start there, Ridvon.
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.
Yeah, so the name is actually a very important thing.
So 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 he made 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 a Muslim.
What I learned and what, 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 jizya 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.
Yeah, Ridvan, 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 totalized, 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, jizya, 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 in 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 unconvert 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.
It is endless, especially in countries like Egypt.
Despite Egypt supposedly making steps toward modernizing and westernizing and collaborating more and all that, it is still a very everyday thing that the Coptic Christian community in Egypt is very much 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 Open Doors, which is a Christian organization, which keeps a list of countries in the world where there is the highest level of suppression of Christians.
The top 50 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 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 actually 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 are just friends, you know, we are 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 of them, of 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, so 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 Dhimmi 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 are 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, you know, it just strikes me that you've got, I mean, I remember that 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 during like 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, you know, it's slowly becoming less and less and less Christian.
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They've been targeted massively.
And then you've got what's happening in Africa.
You know, 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 believes it's a political ideology that wants to conquer Christians.
So if the West is losing its backbone, Muslims are not.
Islam supremacy is actually, you know, that is mainstream, right?
And meanwhile, the West is flirting with multiculturalism and thinks that it needs to be so inviting to outside cultures.
And I'm going to 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.
I'm hearing conflicting reports in Texas.
But there's another project that we were just alerted to in Phoenix or in the greater Phoenix area here in Arizona called Cutter City, Qatar City.
And it's a project proposal.
It doesn't look to be like it's moving forward.
You know, Abe Hamade has said that it's not moving forward.
Okay, good.
But throw this up.
Cutter City project proposal.
And, you know, why it struck me is because we 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 6,000-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 Qatar City.
And I'm sure that the PR folks were going to change the name at some point because that was not a 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 is their plan here?
Are they just going to slowly move in, build up these little outposts, outbreed us, and then take over mayor's races until they gain sort of a critical mass of power?
Is that their plan?
I mean, 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. Yasserqadi, who is 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, 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 Yasser Qadi, 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.
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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 it's, 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 precepts of Islam?
Explain him to our audience.
So Zohran Mamdani is a very, very interesting case because if he was a politician in a Muslim country, he would be heavily disliked by the traditional Muslim voting bloc, by the traditional Islamic people, because he's very much a leftist.
But things change once you leave the Muslim countries and go into the West, for example, where you have to play things differently.
Let me give an example from the UK.
In the UK, the Islamist or Muslim and Islamist forces are very much present in two major parties, which are the socialist Labour 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 push more inclusivist, subversive, and pro-Islamic politics and policies.
So Rhan Mamdani, therefore, when he is a progressive socialist leftist, is a perfect tool to do the exact same thing.
Now, I would not say that Zohran Mamdani himself is very much an Islamist, 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 80% of the population or more absolutely hates.
And this tyrannic regime overthrew the monarchy and put itself at the top through the help of leftist, socialist, 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 makes a ton of sense.
Like, it's like water.
It will go through the path of least resistance 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, Ridvon, but, you know, Caroline Levitt's doing a press conference right now about, and she's talking about Iran.
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 government, over the Islamic regime.
And what the Islamic regime under Khamenei, 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.
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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 language.
Sure.
On Club Americas in the state of Texas.
And 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 $25,000, whatever it is.
Campaigns are big in Texas, so we raise more money.
I 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 I knew Charlie in the early days when he was first getting started.
He came to Texas a lot to raise money.
There's your picture.
There we go.
And that was from Lubbock.
Was that Lubbock?
Yeah, I was actually at that event.
Yeah, that was our last event we did together.
But in those early days, Texas has a lot of faithful people, a lot of conservatives, and 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, Dan, I've got something I want to share with you.
And it was chaotic in there.
You know, everyone was celebrating.
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 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, pay it forward.
You know, he gave his life for what he believed.
So writing a check for a million dollars out of my campaign is the least I could do for that young man who sat on that couch and shared his dream and made it happen.
And I chair, 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 attacked people of faith, of all faiths.
And I just, you know, I think about where we are in this nation.
It's not a battle, guys, of Republicans and Democrats.
It's a battle of darkness and light.
And what we're seeing across our country is darkness.
And there's a movement in this country that wants to remove God from our country.
I don't mind saying it because it's true.
And those of us who are believers, again, in all denominations, all faiths, those of us who believe have to stand up and fight 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 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.
In the book of Jude, 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 and support what Charlie started, we will lose this nation.
I don't know if you have anything, but I have a lot of people.
It's such a 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?
I remember when I first started here and he would just say, yeah, Turning Point USA, the most important organization in America.
And I'm always my cynical self.
I'm like, 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.
If you think back to that moment, he had just been Don Jr.'s bagman on the campaign, got to experience this incredible whirlwind.
He's getting coaxed for Don Jr.
He's 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 D.C. for this inauguration.
Most people that are, what was he, 22 at that point, at that age, with all of that that had just happened, would have been probably party in a party.
And they would have been wasting the time.
What is Charlie doing?
He's opening the door for the lieutenant governor of Texas.
And then he sits down and says, I want to talk to you about Turning Point.
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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 the Religious Liberty Commission, and Dr. Phil, Dr. Carson, Reverend Graham, Paula White, Timothy Dolan, Robert Barron, some of the great faith leaders and intellect in our country.
And so Cardinal Dolan, the Cardinal of New York, who's now retiring, he said to me, he called me, he said, Dan, I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was.
And I saw this memorial and I thought, who is this person?
And he said, I went back and watched his sermons, in essence, his speeches.
And he said, he's a modern-day Paul.
We have to realize that God's, 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, you know, God is here to protect us and prosper us.
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But it's an evil world out there.
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.
And you have to look at President Trump.
You know, this hatred towards President Trump, 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 in a totalitarian government to take over a 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 system?
They saw the walkouts this past few years.
They saw the walkouts.
Number two, you have to take over the media.
You have to have the propaganda machine.
Did you see the Grammys?
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 would be a 6-3, 7-2, 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.
These aren't peaceful protests.
These are not guaranteeing the Constitution.
They're committing felonies every day when they're attacking 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 lady's 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 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?
You know, 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.
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 1,250 miles of border with Mexico, to put that in comparison, that's Atlanta to Maine, is how big our border was, you know, zigzag, but that many miles.
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 all a clear plan.
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 the party's been hijacked.
They just don't know it.
And they need to wake up to it.
Well, that's a generous take.
Yeah, it's a generous take.
Because at this point, it was more defensible 20 years ago, I think.
It was more defensible.
But I know that there are Democrats out there who I know, who are 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 waking up.
Or they have bad theology, and they think that they take the verses of the Bible about the sojourner in your land and all this stuff, and they skip the verses that says God lays out the boundaries and the borders of your country.
So, I mean, 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 has such an amazing population with amazing character and history.
You got to preserve that.
You can't allow the erasure of your culture and your people.
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 that special election if you want.
I don't think that's indicative of where the state's at by any means.
You can talk real quick the reason we lost that Senate seat, 74, we think the official number is 74,000.
74,000 Republicans who were one, two, three, or four hours who normally vote, didn't vote.
Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
It's a one-off special election.
Candidates.
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 until people get out and vote.
We didn't even hear about it.
So it was just something was off.
And I will say, I think 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 talking about.
Well, we're not in session, so he can't do anything.
That's what I'm saying.
So 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 or something.
That was the vibe I was getting 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 Texas visiting a friend and we were meeting another friend of his and he was telling me he's in tech 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, ever again, the electoral votes of New York, California, and Texas.
So you have a one-party government forever.
Secondly, we're not going to let them win Texas.
But this was, in many ways, this was a good wake-up call because what happened in Taring 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, we'll be reminding people, your vote really matters, and you have to get out and vote.
And that's all across the country.
You know, I go back to this darkness and light.
I think we have to approach people on where they are in their faith walk.
You know, someone interviewed me, as you know, we were coming in, and they asked the question about, well, is America really still a faith-based country?
And the answer, yes, I know, because every time there's a crisis, 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 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.
Come on, come on.
Yeah, in my politics, you know what I'm saying.
I'm not going out there and saying, you know, before you leave, take a yard sign, and I want your commitment.
But if we are examples to people through how we behave and how we act, and if we can, through Club America, teach that to the next generation, then that generation will be the generation to inherit 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 and the solution.
Absolutely.
And that's why, you know, 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 pushback, that we had to respect their questions enough to answer them.
And once they hear the answer, you can win a lot of them over, and they can be convinced.
It's not set.
This is wet cement, though.
So we've got to keep winning them, right?
It's not set 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 fragile right now.
So we have to pass it on.
But I think 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 them.
If we had the money, 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, send a check, and 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 Club of America on every campus.
Our young people are dying for it.
Look, this is a whole different generation.
They're drinking less.
They're abstaining from sex.
They want that family.
They're hungry for it.
They're hungry for it, and we have to feed that hunger.
And 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 continue to do that because it's expensive to hire people and be on every campus.
The growth was explosive after Charlie.
And I mean, we're talking hundreds of thousands of applications to 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 gone from about 300 before September to 1,000 now in Texas.
And of course, we have 1,200 school districts, 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 like to say the reason people are coming to Texas is Texas is the America that all America used to be.
And we do uphold the law.
We are a conservative government.
We protect the Second Amendment.
We protect religious liberty.
This session, I passed Senate Bill 10 to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
Senate Bill 11 to put prayer back private time in every school.
You know, as a lieutenant governor, I put in God We Trust in the Senate for the first time ever in history and under God in our pledge.
And so 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 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 here about Epic City.
You hear about all the mosques that are popping up in Texas.
What do we have to say about that?
Well, we're actually 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.
We're going to go by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Texas, and we're not going to put up with that.
You know, we just need politicians not to be afraid to step up.
There are a lot of people, again, look, one of the things that just aggravates me about the Democrat Party is they're all cowards right now.
They cower to the radical left.
No one in that party will stand up and say what's right.
And so that has to be a breakthrough.
Somebody over there has to stand up.
So wait a minute.
We're going down.
I mean, I can't believe they're still running on men and ladies' rooms.
So that has to stop.
But we, we as, 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 don't follow the world.
Well, God bless you, sir.
Thank you.
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 in Texas.