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Walker Wildmon and Rick Green discuss Supreme Court hearings this weekend

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>> Rick Green: This is at the Core on American Family Radio. Welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Buckle up because we've got a lot to cover today, man. We got a hold in Iran for five days. We've got Joe Kent, the traitor, continuing to betray, not only Charlie Kirk, but the rest of us. We'll talk about that. We got ice at airports. imagine that. Look at what's happened already in a few of those airports. in terms of improving the wait time, you got a Senate deal potentially to fund dhs. We got the SAVE act still out there. We'll see what happens. And then I'm probably going to spend the most time on these, Supreme Court hearings this weekend. Rulings, dealing with elections and the standing of a candidate. Something I screamed from the mountaintops about in 2020, November and December of 2020. Shocked, absolutely shocked that the Supreme Court back then and other, other courts thought that a candidate didn't have standing, that if you, you're on the ballot and they're cheating, they're changing election law without legislative approval and you have no standing and, and you're on the ballot. That was insane. it was a big part of why we ended up with the Joe Biden years. But I guess that insanity was necessary for God to set us up. let us have that, set back so that we could be set up for comeback. That's, that's, that's Kirk Cameron's words there. But that's, that's, that's what happened. Anyway. All right, so a lot to cover. And then of course, your phone calls. 888-589-8840.

Let's start with Iran I don't think many expected this

Let's start with Iran I don't think most of us expected this. I didn't, such an abrupt stopped, to at least the you know, actions that we were taking. I, you know, I don't have a, I don't have a crystal ball, folks. I don't have an inside track. I'm not in the room, but I sure trust the guy in the room, as I've said many times here. And if he thinks we're to the point where he could get a deal, then, you know, get a good. What he would consider to be a regime change, then we'll see. We'll see. I'm, I'm one of those guys. I prefer to have a complete clean slate. You know, it's just, it's just cleaner. But life's not simple, or easy. And when you're talking about this kind of a situation where it's, you know, 47 years of tyranny and one of the worst regimes in history, being able to even find somebody you can deal with and negotiate with has been one of the biggest challenges. And apparently the president, says that he's got somebody that he's able to talk to. I haven't been able to. Maybe that headline came out and I just haven't seen it yet. Who he's actually consider to be, the potential next leader or person to at least usher in, some sort of change. Let me say this. I had a great time with my scholars today at Patriot Academy. We have this Patriot, institute where we have students here for a full year and we get to dive deep on a lot of these subjects. And this topic of course was on the table yesterday and today. And you know, I'm not so Pollyanna simple minded pro democracy that I think you can airdrop a constitution into a country and expect them to live by it and it operate well. You've got to have good soil and good seed. constitutional republic form of government is the best seed. No doubt. It's the best, form of government actually, as Madison said, it's the worst form of government other than every other one. So of course it has its flaws, you know, but that being said, it's the best one that we can do, with our sinful nature and with the, you know, this side of heaven. However, that being the seed, it is sometimes going to fall on the rocks and on you know, bad soil that doesn't bring forth fruit. The question is still unanswered as to whether or not Iran is going to be Good soil. We don't know if after 47 years there's any good soil left. We think there is. You know, we see the riots or, you know, the protests in the streets. They call them riots, I should say protest in the streets. And we, we say, okay, are these people yearning for freedom? Are they just, are they just being, you know, anti what m. Whatever government is in place or are they yearning for freedom? I think they're yearning for freedom. I mean, I'm, I've got friends from Iran. I hear the stories. You know, look, I was eight years old when, the revolution happened in 79, so I don't know exactly how free they were before that, but definitely more free than they've been for the last 47. my point is, you know, in Iraq, it wasn't good soil. We knew that going in. You've got people that have no concept of self governance. You have to be able to self govern in order to have a constitutional republic that, that works. Frankly, I don't think any Islamic dominated country can have a constitutional republic that works. It's just incompatible with Sharia. It's incompatible with their concepts of God and their family structure. I mean, all of it doesn't work. and so Iraq doesn't work. Gaza wouldn't work. You wouldn't be able to have a two state solution, and expect the Palestinian people to govern themselves without it becoming another Hamas. You have to make that part of Israel and it has to be, you know, there has to be an education system change. You have to change the soil. You literally have to go in and, and till up that, that entire situation. Same, thing in Japan, right? We had to go in and completely remake that culture. We had to go in and change their education system, their economic system, all of those things. It was a death cult. It's the reason, you know, the whole kamikaze mindset, that's the same with these Islamic terrorists. Iran is a weird one because the radical Islamic control has not always been there. The Persian people have a rich history and they have a, you know, they weren't always Islamic. And even today, I forget the numbers. They're not like, you know, you know, some nations that are 90% Islamic, it's, it's, it's a pretty decent percentage of Christians and secular and all of the things that, you know, potentially could create a decent mix for a decent society. But I say potential because there's no guarantees at all. Trump knows this. He went in eyes wide open, knowing that, that the only way this would work in terms of a regime change, like what people in America think of as regime change, like, you're going to somehow end up with a, you know, free society, as if there is enough good soil and enough people rise up and good leaders step forward, and all of those things are, man, the stars got to align. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't have done what we did and continue to do what we're doing. I think at this point, if President Trump says, after the five days of negotiations, if he comes out of there and says, all right, whoever the leader will be, and the form of government will be is what we've negotiated, it's the best we could get. and so it's not ideal, but it's the best we can get. And now the straits are open, and, you know, we've got a guarantee of no attacks on oil tankers, and we've got, some level of civil rights that is going to be guaranteed to the Iranian people. it's still a win. I mean, if he came out tomorrow and said, you know what, okay, we did the main thing, we went in there to do, the rest is up to the Iranian people. the Straits, it's up to Europe and the people that actually have their oil going through there. We did our part. we set them back, we took out the nuclear capabilities, we made sure they don't have a nuclear bomb. That was our number one. And, we shut down their ability to be the head of the snake and the, instigator of terrorism around the world. but we're done. And we don't care what their government looks like at this point. We'll have to go in and clean it up again in 10 years or 20 years or whatever. But we at least bought ourselves some time. I could live with that. I'd be like, okay, hey, that's a legitimate America. first action and policy. Now, the America Only people would say no, that we should have just never done any of it in the first place, and yada, yada. But America only doesn't work, folks. It just doesn't work. We will be sitting ducks at some point. and not only that, it just doesn't work economically. There's a lot of reasons America only is not a winning strategy. America first can be exactly what Trump is being right now, where on rare occasions, we use our might and the power that God has given us through our economic system and our free enterprise and our constitutional republic has produced, how we say it, the Wealthiest, the most powerful, the most free, the most benevolent nation in history. So keying in on a couple of those words, the most powerful is a result of the ingenuity, a result of the economic power, the result of the ability to create these things and then, fund them. And clearly we're in a weakened state compared to in the past because of our debt and all these problems. But even with that, still the most powerful nation in the world. And therefore there's times you have to use it. And I think the president was right to go in and use it here, no matter the outcome. So I don't know what the outcome's going to be.

I'm giving you worst case scenario so that I can then say best case scenario

I'm just telling you, I don't think there's any outcome where he comes out of this five days that we would say it wasn't worth it and that it wasn't a good move to go in and destroy, the nuclear, capabilities and cut off their ability to wage terror. of course, recognizing that they will start working immediately to rebuild. And unless we go, want to go in and have a forever war and put troops on the ground and micromanage their country, which I don't think there's any stomach for and I would not be for, you're not going to guarantee that the extremists don't end up back in charge. Okay, so that could happen. But I'm giving you worst case scenario so that I can then say I think the five days is probably going to result in a middle of the road, not best case scenario, because best case scenario is that is Islamists are completely kicked out of the country. And you know, there's a, you know, secular government that, that allows for, you know, Christianity and any other religion to be there, which technically is a Christian country if you allow for everybody else to live their faith. Only Christian nations, you know, only nations built on Christian principles where you treat your neighbor the way you want to be treated. Allow for that, but they won't call it that, of course, but that will be the influence that would, that would create that environment. it could happen. And I think the revival and whether or not the Christian church is exploding over there like we think it is and have been told, could end up with a total change and shining city on a hill in that, part of the world. I've heard several people literally prophesy that that was going to happen. I've heard, you know, people that I actually have some confidence that, they really do hear from the Lord. so I don't know, man. I mean, I think it could end up at the end of the five days, much better than we think, or could go right back into fighting. I think the President has a little bit more time before it could potentially mean annihilation, of the Republicans in the midterms. Unfortunately, that's just the way it is. There's just not an appetite for an extended. No matter what it's accomplishing, no matter how many, years it sets back our enemies or freeze millions of people, it doesn't matter. However good it is, it's a loser in the campaign, if we're still fighting the war. There's just not an appetite among the American people for an extended deal here. But I do think he's got a few more weeks. So if he comes out of this five days and says, you know what, they're still negotiating bad faith, we're going to keep bombing them, and, and goes back to destroying, until he completely destroys every vestige of that old regime, I'm okay with that, too. But I just don't think he has that long to be able to do that. And he knows that. And I think that he would love to be able to say, I said four to six weeks. We're within the four to six, six weeks window and we're done. That would be massive victory for President Trump, and I think that's what he's after. Okay, so that was the first headline that I mentioned. I'll see if I can knock out another one before we go to break, ice at the airports.

Rick Greene discusses Senate deal to fund DHS and SAVE act

This is a good, this is, this is fun. It's fun to watch. For me, you know, I'm a, I'm a, I travel a lot, man. I'm flying three times a week. And, this week I actually get to be home. And last week, most of the last week, get to be home. Very, very rare. But, you know, I'm in a lot of airports and stand in a lot of those long lines and, number one, just more ICE presence everywhere. The one, you know, one of the few things that the federal government should be doing, these Democrats don't want to fund it. One of the few things that's a proper function actually, in the jurisdiction of the federal government, Immigration, and these Democrats don't want to fund it. Oh, they want to fund all these things that aren't in the proper function of the federal government, but they don't want to fund this. It's. It's ridiculous. so DHS is, is, you know, Is, is a, is a obviously proper function of the federal government to protect our borders, to protect the nation. but ICE just showing up in Atlanta and some of these other places was enough to create some law and order and, shrink those lines. So I don't know the, logistical, aspects of that and whether or not they're actually helping with screening or all that, or they're just walking around, and providing some of the security, I don't know. But it's working in a lot of these airports. I just think it's hilarious that Democrats are walking, whining even about that. but we gotta talk about the SAVE act. That has got to get passed. We got to talk about the Senate deal to fund DHS and whether or not it's going to, you know, not fund ice. I can't imagine accepting that deal. I'm kind of surprised that some senators would be willing to do that. The president has stated he is not. But apparently some, some words out of the White House from unnamed sources saying that that might end up happening. So we'll chat about that and we'll take your phone calls. 888-589-8840. You're listening to Africa. The AFR app is a powerful tool, but it does have limitations. You can't use it to change the oil in your vehicle or get rid of carpet stains. It won't walk the dog, won't pick up the dry cleaning or take the kids to practice. But while you're doing those things, you can listen to your favorite AFR content through the app on your phone, smart device or Roku. Just go to your app store or visit afr.net Listen to AFR wherever you go with the AFR app. This is at the Core on, American Family Radio with your host, Rick Green.

The Senate looks like they might have a deal on funding dhs

Welcome back at the Core with Marker Wahman and Rick Green. Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. Phone number is 885-898-40, 888-58-9840. A lot of topics still to get to. As I mentioned, the, Senate looks like they might have a deal on funding dhs. It's all verbal right now. I don't like the smell of it. But if, if it's a, you know, if they're, if they're going. Basically what they're saying is that they're going to fund dhs, except for ICE and the detention, and removal funds and activities. Well, come on, folks. That is the issue. That is the issue. If we are not going to do reverse migration. If we're not going to remove at least the criminals, then game over. The Democrats win. This will be a cesspool of a nation for, 100 years. So why would we even entertain an option of funding DHS without them doing the most important thing. The most important thing for DHS is not to get us on the airplane on time. The most important thing for DHS is to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country. The most important thing is to protect our borders. So why would you say, okay, yeah, you know, so that people stop calling our office because they're complaining about their three hour wait line. we'll go ahead and, we'll go ahead and, you know, protect the pedophiles and the murderers and the rapists and the, and, and the rest of the illegals. you know, but, but hey, man, you're gonna, you're gonna be able to make your flight on time. That's a bad deal. Folks. You've got pressure right now. You got pressure on the Senate and the House because everybody's sick of these lines. And, and they, they should absolutely stand their ground. Well, now what they're saying potentially could happen is, and this is that whole thing about the 60 vote thing. This is, this is, this is why I'm gonna harp on this till I'm dead or it changes. Majority rule. Not minority rule, majority rule. The fact that Chuck Schumer has any say whatsoever other than his vote at the end of the day is absurd. Democrats should not even have a say other than their vote at the end of the day. And we don't need their vote at the end of the day. We've got 53 Republicans push the bill through. And, and, and the stupid idea that you've got to have 60 votes and has got to go away, folks, that's got to be, At the end of the day, we are not going to be able to function as a country if we don't get back to majority rule. You cannot let the minority rule. You can't say that if there's 100 senators in the body, whether it's the state Senate or the US Senate, that you've got to have 60 votes or 61 votes or you get, you know that 40. I'm sorry, you got to have 60 votes. So you got to, so 41 people. If you can cobble together 41 votes, you can stop anything. That's, that's a recipe for disaster. That makes you have to sit down with Chuck Schumer and get his approval on everything. So now Chuck Schumer's calling the shots, not John Thune. Chuck Schumer is the leader for the Democrats and a maniac. John Thune is the leader for the Republicans who won the elections and have the majority. So they're supposed to go make the law based on what they ran on in the. That's how a constitutional republic is supposed to work. But instead, the losers of the election are calling the shots. It's. It's absurd. All right, so apparently, though, what they're saying is that to get the 60 votes, they're going to take out funding to remove the pedophiles and the rapists and the murderers and the rest of the criminal illegal aliens, but they're going to make sure you can get on in your airplane on top. And then when they get to 60 votes, then. Then maybe. Maybe this is. This is always. But maybe they're going to add back the funding for the ICE agents to be able to remove the rapists, the murderers, the pedophiles, and the other criminal aliens that they're going to add that back in and quote, unquote, reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes. All right, if that's the strategy and you'll actually do it, fine. But, folks, I do not have a lot of faith in John Thune. I do not have a lot of faith in people that can't even require a talking filibuster that they're going to come back and get this done. It is, as I said, the most important issue. Without this, we will become an Islamic nation in a short period of time. We will become a chaotic cesspool of a nation. We will end up in civil war. We will end up. It's all the things we don't want to happen. You have to fix immigration. You have to remove the people that came illegally, and then you had to remove the people that came legally under a crazy administration that allowed people to come into our country that don't share our values and are not assimilating. You got to go back and review every one of those and say, are you actually here because you want to be a part of Western civilization and you're willing to live under the Constitution of America and not Sharia law or whatever other crazy thing you brought with you from wherever you came from? Are you willing to become an. Did you come here because you want to become an American and you want to, And you want to support the American value system? Okay, we'll let you stay. If not.

>> Walker Wildmon: Or,

>> Rick Green: And we have Any reason to believe. Facebook post, I don't care, whatever it is, we have any reason to believe that you're not, that you're gone, you're gone, we're sending you back. Okay? Those things have to happen or we don't save the country. Now, how long they take to happen, I don't know. But if you've got a Republican majority in the US Senate that is not willing to stand for those things and get that done, then we only have the executive orders of the President to try to survive for another two and a half, three years and potentially get a stronger Senate. But if these guys keep playing the wimp card, if they keep doing this in a wimpy way, we're not going to win more in the Senate, we're not getting a better Senate, we're going to get a worse Senate because the people that would vote for a stronger Senate and people that will actually save America are going to stay home. You say, why in the world would I go vote for Republicans in November? If they've got the power now and they're not doing it, what's the point in showing up and giving them more power? So all of this is tied together. The Senate deal for dhs, the SAVE act, it's all part of the same, fight. And if we lose all of it, that's a result of the same sickness of the uniparty wimpiness in Washington D.C. so the swamp man, there's still a lot of draining that's got to take place for sure.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to allow mail in ballots after election day

Now there's some, some pretty, I think, you know, potentially good news on the, on the, for, on the in the news for the next few weeks, depending on what the Supreme Court does. Now they've already handed down one good decision basically saying that you, you have standing, to bring a suit if you are a candidate on the ballot, as I mentioned earlier. And then they're weighing a decision specifically on mail in ballots. Now based on the questioning of the Supreme Court justices, it could go beyond the question before the court, which is can you, can you count mail in ballots that arrive after election day? It could, they could visit the question of voting before election day as well, or mail in ballots or all these other things. I mean Alito was pretty, pretty I think to the point that election day is election day, not days. So I don't, I don't know that they, I don't think they would go that far. That's just not just kind of throw that out there. That that somehow, some way, maybe behind the scenes. I mean, sometimes the Supreme Court comes out with a very surprising opinion that goes even further than, you know, what they were being asked or what was being considered. I don't think that's always good. I think that that's actually very risky to allow a court to do that and go beyond. But if they're applying the Constitution and the law, and making a statement about what that actually requires, which the Constitution requires Election day, not election days. If you want election days, then you could do that. But you, you should have to do a constitutional amendment to change the law, to change the Constitution and what it, what it actually requires. And so that was kind of part of the questioning and comments and things that came from Alito. it's going to be interesting to see if they, if they go that far. Most importantly, though, the two big questions that I think could be answered. One's, already been answered in a pretty strong affirmative seven. Two, that if you're a candidate on the ballot, you have the right to bring suit. You have standing. that had that been the way they handled it in 2020, we'd had a very different outcome of all the challenges. Now the second question is whether or not you can keep counting ballots after election day and whether or not election day means anything. So who knows? That's a, that's a. You know, Mississippi's the one that, that, had that challenge. And, you know, I'm frustrated with my Republican colleagues in a lot of these Southern states and other red states that, that have super majorities and still haven't gotten rid of stuff like that. Like, why would Mississippi's law even allow for counting after election day? Well, the why is because in Covid, we lost our minds and they allowed for that stuff because they bought the lie and the shutdowns and everything else. but man, that's six years ago, five years ago. Why in the world haven't we fixed that? Why would we have to have a lawsuit going to the Supreme Court from Mississippi? Why would Mississippi's Republican legislature and governor not have fixed that? For the same reason that Texas still has a bunch of goofy stuff in the election law and hasn't pushed the envelope and gotten back to sanity again. The wimpiness of Republicans unwilling to do what needs to be done. you know, and sometimes it's, they don't have the votes. But in these super red states with super majorities, it's not because they don't have the votes. It's because they don't have the backbone. Most of those cases. I know I'm armchair quarterbacking. I know some of you are thinking, wow, Rick, it's easy to say that because you're just, you know, sitting there on your microphone and you're not having to, you know, negotiate the deal and you're not having to cobble the guy. Get it. I know. I mean, I train people on, bring people into Patriot Academy's legislative hall and put them through a legislative session for that very reason so that they will know how hard it is to pass a law. So I, I will backpedal a little bit and say, I understand it's hard. I get it. It's just frustrating when it seems so obvious. I mean, we're not talking about cobbling together votes to get some, you know, very controversial, like the nation's 50, 50 on, you know, abortion or whatever it might be. I mean, we're talking about the most common sense things that 20 years ago you would have said. What, what, what? You, you're, you're letting people vote without being able to prove who they are. You're letting illegals, people that came into your nation illegally or people that are not citizens vote in the election. And, and you're blocking bills that, that would allow for that. I mean, even 20 years ago in the Democrat party, that would have been insanity. So I think I'm allowed a little bit of sarcasm, frustration, you know, basically not being as understanding of how difficult it is to pass a bill when we're talking about something that is so common sense. So I guess I feel Mike Lee's pain. Man. This guy, he is, he is a champ for what he's been doing with the SAVE act and continuing to stand his ground and fight that battle when so few people seem to be, willing to just go back to, back to common sense. So, anyway.

Dixon in Texas is up. Call him at 8885-8840

All right, let's go to the phones. 8885-898840-88858-9890. Dixon in Texas is up. first Dixon, go ahead.

>> Dixon: Hello? Yes, pleasure talking to you. Okay, I'm just. Absolutely.

>> Rick Green: Thanks for calling me. Yeah, I got you.

>> Dixon: I just, I just want to mention a few, things that my ex wife told me years ago. Our country wants to be communist. Well, think about it. Barack Hussein Obama, say, made same sex marriage legal. Okay, that's the first part. Destroy the family unit. The next part is, you know, indoctrinate the children. The next part is, control the newspapers and the media. The next part is get rid of religion. The next part is create chaos and then take away guns and reduce the population. And I don't know if you heard Kamala Harris in her speech. She actually said it coherently. She said, with cleaner, with electric cars, our children would have cleaner air, cleaner water, with a reduced population. Can you see that all happening in the United States?

>> Rick Green: Well, yeah. I mean, there's no doubt, Dixon, that, the plan to destroy America that has been really in place for 80 years has, been successful. I mean, look, they've remade the education system, the bureaucracy, now the election system, the immigration system. I mean, they have been winning over and over and over and over again. Now, I will say, even in the midst of all of that, where we might have felt like, man, they are doing all the winning. Donald Trump has, in fact, turned more things around and reversed a lot of these things, or at least stopped a lot of them and reversed a few of them in a matter of 13 months. In a way that we have to acknowledge. We have to say, okay, this can be done. We can stop them from turning America into a communist nation. I don't think, Dixon, I don't think. I don't think there's any question that there are people that want to turn America into a communist nation. I kind of share your, Your, your. Your tone and an attitude. I get it because I, I mean, I was warning about this stuff 25, 30 years ago, and people would roll their eyes at me when I would say exactly what your ex wife said or what, you know, we. We've seen happen. I would point out some of these things in the direction it goes. Oh, my goodness. They acted like I was a fear monger. And, you know, all this stuff and, and, you know, just red, white and blue wave the flag all the time. I mean, I got called all kinds of things, and it's obviously happened. But the good news is that once we got to, there was sort of a tipping point in the COVID thing, that all of a sudden those people that were rolling their eyes were going, oh, maybe those guys were right. Maybe the people that warned were right. Maybe George Orwell had a point in 1984. Maybe, maybe that could happen here. Maybe Skouson was right in Naked Communist and that the things that he warned about, they're actually happening now. And that's probably the closest to what you're saying, Dixon, if you go back and read. I mean, that was 1959 when Cleon Skousen wrote Naked Communist and pointed out what we're saying that there are people that want to turn America into a communist nation and they are getting a foothold. Man, if you read that book, I highly recommend it to everybody. If you read that book today, it's like you're reading the headlines of today in terms of what he said, could and would happen if we didn't wake up. So I, I, I think they've, they've, they've won a lot of the battles, but that is not a reason for us to say, okay, well, then let's give up, or let's go to civil war, or let's go to secession, or let's go to, you know, whatever those, those extreme measures are that could, could be necessary at some point. That's the way of the world. That's history. I mean, look, Israel and Judas, I mean, there's lot, lots of things we could point to, but I don't think we're anywhere near that now. I think what Trump has been able to do in the last 13 months, and frankly, what conservative activists have been able to do, what Charlie Kirk was able to do with Turning Point, what we've been able to do with Patriot Academy, what David Barton and Tim Barton have been able to do with wall builders, and what American Family association has been able to do, is actually pretty remarkable in the face of the left having every single institution in their control. We've been able, with very little able, to put the brakes on and start to win back some of these, areas of the culture. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there. I'm not gonna sing, I promise. we got a long way to go, but it is absolutely possible, and even if it wasn't, doesn't change our duty. So we come back from the break, we'll talk about some of those things we can be doing in the midst of this fight to be, make the most of the opportunity before us. 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It's all about force of will. When they wanted to push the homosexual act

We're back here on at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green, I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Going back to the phones, 888-589-8840 is the phone number 888-589-8840. You pick the topic. We covered a lot already. Claude's up next from Texas. Claude, go ahead.

>> Claude: Well, I just had the comment more to see what you would say about it of, why do we keep letting our Congress that we elect play these word games and take so long and act like it's harder to, to get something accomplished through our Congress than it actually is when they want to upgrade their contract or renew their contract for their wages, it doesn't take them long. When they wanted to push the homosexual act across the whole country after 25 to 27 states already went through the proper getting registered voters to sign petitions and getting that authorized and getting it on ballots in like 25 or 27 states in the United States and it got voted and passed that marriage is between a man and a woman. It didn't take them long to, to change that across the whole country. And these are a lot of the same senators yet in Congress.

>> Rick Green: Here's the deal, man. It's, it's Steve Deace, I think probably says it better than anybody else. It's all about force of will. It's what do people really, really want. And when it becomes important enough and we demand it enough, it gets done. And you're 100% right. For the members of Congress, hey, they want something like a pay raise or they want whatever it is they suddenly have plenty of time to do it. There's multiple occasions in Texas where, you know, ah, oh, it's going to take several sessions to get this done, and then something big happens and there's all kinds of attention on it, and boom, man, it's either a special session or it gets passed at the beginning of the session. It's all about the will. What, what, what. Who has enough willpower to force what they want to get done. And this is, this is why, you know, the republic works. The constitutional republic works. The process works, the system works. But you have to work the system. You have to, you have to be the one that shows up, that becomes a thorn in their side, because you're at every school board meeting, you're at every legislative hearing, you're, you're, you're at every town hall, you're calling. You're, you know, not having to be. We don't have to be jerks about it, but we have to be consistent and persistent. It's the whole persistent wet widow thing that, that even an unjust judge will finally give the ruling that we want if we keep up the pressure. They don't see the light till they feel the heat. And, I think the, you know, at the end of the day, when you look at the Christian voter turnout and 50% aren't even registered, and 50% of those that register don't even show up to vote. If you look at the city council and, school board races where it's 5 or 6%, where 95% of the people that could have voted don't even show up to vote, when you look at those things, then while I share your frustration with what Congress does or doesn't do and the legislature does or doesn't do, at the end of the day, who's responsible? Who's at fault for the policies that we have. We are. We have allowed it to happen. The church has allowed it to happen. If we are not. If your pastor is not on a regular basis, not one time in 10 years, but on a regular basis, every election, giving at least two minutes on a Sunday morning saying, hey, folks, this is important. This is a stewardship thing. God's planted us in a free society. He's given us the right to vote and choose our leaders. He's given us the ability and a voice to speak. We better use it. Because if we don't, we're the wicked and slothful servant. We want to be the good and faithful servant. And they don't even have to get up and say, here's my list of candidates who I'm voting for. I think they should, I think, I think that is absolutely constitutional. It is now allowed, you know, with this irs, settlement thing. it is, it is, needed. Because most people don't know who to vote for and don't do their homework. So I think they need to do that. But even if they don't do that, at a bare minimum, like, this is the, you know, least that they should do, they should do get up and say, voting is important, elections are important, and voting biblically is important. Don't just say, hey, everybody needs to go vote because the church ends, up voting like the world. If that's all you say, they don't do any better. You have to say, hey, everybody needs to go vote and you need to vote biblically. Now, if your church, if you have not discipled your church and they don't know what that means, then you need to have a biblical citizenship class as soon as possible, start educating them on how to vote biblically. What does it mean to be a biblical citizen? What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a good steward of what God's given us in this culture, in this society, in this nation where we've been planted? And if we don't do that, if the church doesn't do that, it's not going to get any better, it's going to get worse. So I hate to sound like a broken record, but, I mean, that's what we've been saying for 30 years. The church has to step up. Christians have to do their duty. So while I can't stand the wimpiness of these politicians unwilling to do the right thing, at the end of the day, it's because the citizens are unwilling to do the right thing. It's because we are not holding their feet to the fire. We're too fat and happy and lazy. We're too blessed to live in a society where we don't, we don't really have to sweat it much. And even our toughest times are pretty good times compared to most people who have ever lived on the planet. And so that, you know, until we wake up and say, I will not hand to my children and grandchildren a broken nation run by a bunch of weak, soft men that will lead us into tyranny, I am going to sacrifice my time. That's my life. I'm going to sacrifice my money. I'm going to start giving some percentage of my income to candidates and causes that are fighting for this. And I'm going to sacrifice my sacred honor. I'm going to speak truth no matter what it costs me. I don't care if my reputation gets ruined. Until you have enough people willing to do those three things, lives, fortune, sacred, honor, time, money, reputation, then it's not going to change. Now, I think we can get there. I don't, I don't come on here every Tuesday afternoon and spend an hour talking about these things or spent, you know, now my whole life is dedicated to motivating, educating, equipping, deploying citizens to give of their lives, fortune, sacred. I don't do that, because I don't think it's going to work. I think it's going to work. I think we can, we can win. I think we can turn this nation around. I think the soil here is good enough. I think we do have enough fumes of freedom here. And the good, principles in the DNA of our nation now it's being diluted. There's no doubt that's the whole point of the mass migration into the country, is to dilute that DNA of biblical Christianity or, yeah, biblical Christianity, but biblical citizenship. but I think there's enough there. I really do. I'm spoiled to this because I go around the country speaking to groups that have it. I have young people that come spend a year with me here at the Patriot Institute on the campus that have it. I get to. This summer, I'll go to seven different state capitals and conduct leadership congresses with young, people that have it. They've got the DNA in them. They've got the soul. So when, even though they may not have the education yet, they don't have the biblical or civic literacy yet, the soil is good. So then when I come in and I throw good seeds into that soil and teach them that history, when I, when I put them in front of David Barton and Tim Barton and all these other people, and they get more of those good seeds, it's good soil.

Someone's got to step up and say, enough is enough

And then we water it and we keep them engaged and we, and we teach them. I mean, that's discipleship. And then we get good fruit. Well, the same exact thing can happen in your life. The same thing can happen in your neighborhood, in your church, in your community. And you can be the catalyst for causing that. You can be the one that lights that torch, that lights that brush fire of liberty that then others will get engaged in. But somebody's got to lead. Somebody's got to step up and say, enough is enough. And you don't have to grab the pitchfork and charge city hall. You have to be willing to just step up and give of your time, your money, your reputation. If you're willing to do that, if you're willing to say, if you're listening to me right now and you're going, okay, Rick, what do I do then? Go to patriotacademy.com get signed up as a coach, and start getting people together in your community, learning what a biblical citizen is. That's where it starts. And once they figure out and they realize, wow, this nation has an incredible history, but that history happened, because people stepped up and did the right thing. And I'm going to have to be one of those people that steps up and does the right thing for this generation. It's my turn. It's my hour at the watchtower of freedom. It's my time to stand guard at the watchtower of freedom. If that's you, if there's something in your heart right now that's jumping and leaping, if there's something in you that's going, yes, I want to be that. I want to do that. We need you. We will train you. We will equip you. We'll give you everything you need to be the instigator in your community, the catalyst, the spark that lights a brush fire of liberty right there in your church, in your neighborhood, in your community. PatriotAcademy.com, get signed up as a constitution coach. That's the place to start. And then start a Rebuilding Liberty course or a, biblical citizenship course next week. I'm not kidding. Like, don't wait if this stuff you're watching in Washington, D.C. with the Senate not able to pass the SAVE act and not able to fund the removal of our, you know, worst, you know, elements of our. Of our. They're not even part of our society. They're invaders. If that stuff frustrates you, then do something about it. And the. And there's something to do about it. Yes, pray. I'm not. Please don't think I'm saying politics is the whole solution. I'll get some emails saying, man, you didn't talk about, you know, asking God. I talk about that all the time. And in the course, we talk about all the time, but you got to do both. John Hancock, President of Continental Congress, helped finance the whole revolution. He said, I urge you, by all that is dear, by all that's honorable, by all that is sacred, not only to pray, but to act. So, yeah, I mean, look, we're Christian programming this Is it's a foregone conclusion. I shouldn't even have to say, you need to be praying and saturating your mind in the Bible. Because all the stuff I'm talking about in terms of action. How are you going to know what the right policy to push for is if you're not saturated in God's word? So that part's kind of a given. I guess it shouldn't be. I mean, I need to reiterate it so clearly. Pray clearly in God's word. But then you got to go act. Then you got to go live it out. Faith without works is dead, man.

What are your works? What are you doing right now to save liberty

What are your works? What are you doing right now to save liberty? What are you doing right now to pour that into your kids, into your grandkids, into the ones in your neighborhood and at your church? We just did a first time we've ever done this, and maybe it's something that I'll be able to bring to you as an option for your community as well. But we just did a Vacation Liberty School. That doesn't mean we don't do vacation Bible school. I'm sure somebody's going to call and say you're replacing the Bible with liberty. No, it's in addition to. But Vacation Liberty School is focused on the biblical principles of liberty and teaching that to these kids so that they know how to live in this society, in a free society where they're going to someday vote, they're going to someday be responsible for taking care of this country. and so that was one of the things we decided we could do to help start a brush fire of liberty. Well, maybe that's you. Maybe that's what you could do. Maybe it's. Man, maybe it's something as simple as getting your pastor to speak to the cultural issues. Maybe it's something as simple as getting your church registered on the, mychurchfinder.org website. If your church is already a biblically sound, culturally engaged church, you need to have it on that website. Because then people that are looking for a place that's actually going to apply the Bible to what's going on in the world, not just talk about it, not just say this, how we should live, but, oh, we don't want to offend anybody. So we're not going to go do those things. If your church is one that is willing to do those things, doesn't care whether or not we offend people, the gospel and the truth, it's offensive. People are going to be offended. So, I got a little excited. Sorry. I just. I just. I just think, And I forget the caller's name now. Sorry. Dixon, I think. Dixon, spot on. No, that was. That was the one before. But anyway, whoever was that last caller that was talking about, you know, they should be getting this stuff done. I agree, and that's why I was ranting about it. But, man, we got to get our job done, too. We got to stop just enjoying the blessings of liberty without bearing the burden. And most people that are listening to me right now, most people in the sound of my voice, you're enjoying the blessings, but you're not bearing the burden. You're not doing enough. I'm sorry. You're not. It's time to step up and do more. It's time for you to give at least two hours a week of your time, your life. It's time for you to give at least 2% of your fortune. It's time for you to give, at least a couple of times a week, your reputation, to put it on the line and share a post or share this radio program or whatever it might be, to speak up, to have a voice to weigh in to the conversations and the debate that's taking place on all these things we talked about today.

Joe Kent reportedly going to testify for Charlie Kirk's assassin

You know, I forgot to come back to. I only have about a minute left here, but I forgot to come back to this. Joe Kent, the traitor. He's now going to testify for Charlie Kirk's assassin. This is about as evil as it gets, folks. Man, I could spend all day on why these conspiracy theories and all this insanity. Not just Candace Owens, but. But a lot of other people have peddled in order to get their clicks. It is sickening. And now this Joe Kent, grifter, sellout trader who I warned about five years ago, to the people of Washington state that were considering voting for him, now he's taking it to a whole new level. I mean, this is unbelievable. I hope these reports are not true, but it's all over X right now that, that he's going to do this. And you can imagine how the, the guys at Turning, Point that, that. That gave him the text and, and. And, you know, gave him information that he leaked. you can imagine how they feel. Talk about stabbed in the back. Special place. Special place for those folks.

All right, I hope I encouraged you a little bit today with some of the good

All right, I hope I encouraged you a little bit today with some of the. Some of the good. Hope I didn't, dwell too much on the bad, the ugly. We'll get. We'll get back to it on Thursday. Walker's got you tomorrow. Of course, I'm with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Walker with you Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. but, find something to do, folks. Take action. Get over there on Patriot Academy. Get signed up as a coach. It's free. And get you a class started this week. There's no time to dawdle. All right, thanks for listening today, folks. You've been listening to at the core with Walker walk and a Rick Greene. The views and opinions expressed in.