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Politics and Religion with Chris Salcedo: Addressing Government Overreach and Civic Engagement In this episode of Politics and Religion, the hosts commemorate Memorial Day weekend 2025, expressing gratitude for the sacrifices made by service members. Guest Chris Salcedo, a conservative political host and podcaster, discusses the detrimental effects of big government policies—including income tax, entitlement programs, and Obamacare—and the alarming influence of unelected entities. Emphasizing America’s foundation as a republic, they critique the growth of governmental power and stress the importance of civic engagement, education reform, and active participation in politics. The conversation touches on the inefficiencies of the current system, such as the federal income tax and healthcare costs, and calls for bold actions and representative integrity to restore governmental accountability and protect democracy.

• 00:00 Introduction and Memorial Day Tribute
• 00:26 Introducing Chris Salcedo
• 00:52 The Problem with Government Overreach
• 01:35 Historical Context and Current Issues
• 07:04 The Role of Democracy vs. Republic
• 11:38 Challenges and Solutions for America
• 17:30 The Importance of Civic Engagement
• 19:31 The Commitment of the Founding Fathers
• 20:01 Trading Freedom for Convenience
• 21:03 The Intrusion of Technology
• 22:25 Big Pharma and Medication Costs
• 25:08 Healthcare and Government Control
• 25:50 Tax Deductions and State Economies
• 29:24 Political Mobilization and Civic Engagement
• 34:41 The Role of Religion in American Values
• 37:18 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

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Addressing Government Overreach and Civic Engagement

A Conversation with Chris Salcedo and David Pasqualone

Politics and Religion Podcast | Episode 5

David Pasqualone: Hey Chris. What's going on today?

Chris Salcedo: Dude, what's happening? How you been David?

David Pasqualone: Man, I've been doing fantastic and I am so glad you're here with us today on politics and religion. We are here in Memorial Day weekend of 2025, so we thank God for his grace to us and for all the men and women who died for our country in memorial.

Chris Salcedo: Amen. Amen.

David Pasqualone: So today, ladies and gentlemen, we are here with Chris Salcedo. He is an amazing man. I consider him my personal friend. We've also done work together.

He is a political conservative host. He has his own podcast, a Salcedo Storm. He's on newsmax. You can check his website out@chrissalcedo.com to see everything he's doing. But Chris today. What topic, you know, people come to our show, it's a newer show at this point, but we're not just complaining about what's going on in [00:01:00] America, but we're offering up solutions and action points that we as Americans can take to help make America great again and move the country forward to God and towards being the greatest country on this planet again.

Right? 

Yeah. 

What would you like to talk about today? What's passionate in your life that you want to say, you know, this is what's going on, and here's a solution that we can work together to achieve. 

I've been asking a que actually, I may be at a bit of a loss. Maybe during the course of our conversation we can put some things together as to, as to how we solve this particular problem.

But the problem I see that dating back for over a century or more, this, this republic of ours has taken a a turn and for the worse we have instituted. If I was going to summarize what I believe is afflicting this country, we have allowed as a people our desire to have government help us, blind us to its enormous power to harm [00:02:00] us, which is one of the cautions put out by Ronald Reagan.

I think that's where we are. The institution of the income tax, the institution of these entitlement programs, the institution of Obamacare, the open borders, all of this nonsense that we have been victimized by our own government with these policies. And I, I notice the boldness at which these policies have been forced down our throats.

Nobody was clamoring for an income tax, but guess what? It happened. Nobody was clamoring for Obamacare. But guess what? It happened. Nobody was clamoring for the entitlement programs that are so controversial today. Medicare, medicaid, the the social Security system. Nobody was clamoring for that stuff, but it was imposed on us anyway.

And what I'm marveling at is the speed and the robustness at which these things were, these harms were imposed on us. And the timidity and lack or the [00:03:00] slowness of. Finding a remedy to get out from under the undeniable problems that these things have created for this country. And I'll, I'll, I guess I'll point to you two examples.

First off, they're so brazen. Now. The individuals who were in charge of this stuff, they just put up a guy by the name of Joe Biden for four years in the Oval Office, who was. Mentally incompetent, physically incompetent, wasn't able to do the job, but he was a figurehead. While some unknown unseen force, some force of appic behind the scene, pulled all the strings.

Nobody elected them, nobody appointed them. They nobody voted voted or appointed or knew their names. Yet they were doing immense damage and deciding policy for this country. That's one example. The other thing is this big beautiful bill that was just put out by the house. It's not a final version I understand, but this big beautiful bill, which not only.

Doesn't stop all of the [00:04:00] harm that I've been articulating. It doubles down on the spending. The overspending that I believe is a cancer that is slowly erod eroding away. The foundations of this country we're $37 trillion, trillion dollars in debt. We elected President Trump. We elected Republicans as a repudiation for all of this nonsense and this bill.

Whereas it does some good things, and I have to acknowledge that there are some bad things in there that. I'm frankly shocked that any Republican would put into any bill because they have Democrat fingerprints all over them. 

Yeah, I agree with you and not all of our listeners are Christian, but the fact that two plus two is four, you know, and gravity at 9.82 meters per second pulls down.

That's the same for every human. And you know, the Bible talks about the borrower is servant to the lender, and when you look at it through a filter. Of Christianity, we're enslaving [00:05:00] ourselves. Where is that debt going? You know, the Federal Reserve is neither federal or reserve. It's owned by these globalists, and it's run by these globalists.

So I agree with you completely that we are, I. We've put ourselves in this terrible situation financially, and even with the efforts that Trump and this administration has already made, they're making and will make, we're so far in the hole. It's shocking that some of the shenanigans, like you're talking about, are still being pushed forward.

Do you think anybody is gonna call them out at that, call them out at this point, or is it just gonna be slid through again? 

Chris Salcedo: I think. I think we're at a precipice here in this country now. And if bold action isn't taken to correct, what many believe with the ELE last election was about many saw as ills being foisted upon us.

I think that's a recipe for Americans, 340 million of us to arrive at a conclusion [00:06:00] that. The individuals in Washington DC are not there to serve us. They're there to serve themselves. They're there to serve another puppet master that we can't see. Maybe a foreign government, maybe the, so world government and those of you who understand your book of Revelation, you, you know, and understand exactly what the, what portends from the world government, what it all means.

So. I, I think that runs a danger once the American people conclude, Hey, nobody's listening to me. Nobody cares about whether I live or die. Nobody is nobody is. Responsive to what I'm even saying. It's all this cabal that's dedicated to preserving itself once it becomes us against them. I, I really do fear for the safety and the future of this country.

I, that's where this all leads. It's not without precedence in human history and I'd prefer as an American to avoid. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah, I agree. I couldn't agree with you more. And [00:07:00] you know, you said something originally, originally earlier on this interview. America is a republic, and that is a fact. Yes, but I'd say eight outta 10, if not nine outta 10.

Even Republicans who speak, they refer to America as a democracy, and there's a distinct difference between a democracy and a republic. And our founding fathers knew that and were wise enough to say we are a republic. And you know, when you and I were in school. We pledge allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands.

But by removing the pledge and by removing all of the founding father's intentions of truth and why they wrote and did what they did, we have an ignorant generation that's just being fed what they want. Yeah, but that's giving a kid sugar all the time. 'cause he wants cake and he gets sick and fat. Right.

So. [00:08:00] When we're listening, people say we're a democracy. That's just a flat out lie, correct? It 

Chris Salcedo: is. 

David Pasqualone: And I, and 

Chris Salcedo: I think we have to define what a democracy is because a lot of people probably listening to us right now go, wait a minute, I thought democracy was good. Well, yes it is. But also democracy has a dark side, which is what the founding fathers of this country wanted to avoid.

A democracy. For example, what if I was to tell you all, all of you folks out there that somebody could vote away your right of free speech. You would say, wait a minute, I, I, I have a right to free speech. The Constitution says so. Yes. Yes it does, because the constitution, which forms our representative, constitutional Republic, says that regardless of whether you are parties in the majority or whether you're party in the minority, you as an American have an inalienable right to free speech.

In a democracy. In a democracy, the majority can vote away. That right. For a minority and make sure that minority is [00:09:00] never heard. In this case, free speech. If you're a majority and you wanna make sure that minority doesn't have any rights, can't speak, can't defend themselves, what do you do as the majority?

You vote away their right of free speech. And that's exactly what can happen in a democracy, right? Yep. A republic, a representative constitutional republic, says you have rights that are God-given, that are inalienable, that cannot be taken away or voted away By any majority, we preserve the rights of the minority in this country, and the majority the, the rights that you have in the Constitution are eternal.

They're gifted by God. And our founding fathers believed that our rights only legitimate governments protect those God-given rights. Illegitimate governments target those rights. And that's exactly what we see around the globe. And here, two four, before the last 20 or 30 years or so, we used to protect those rights viciously, but we don't [00:10:00] anymore, sadly.

David Pasqualone: Yeah. And ladies and gentlemen, to put this really practical is. A republic has checks and balances on every level, and that's how we are originally set up on all aspects of the American government. That's why we are such a prosperous and strong nation. A democracy is fickle. They can be, the masses can be manipulated.

Think about Jesus Christ. Crucify him. Crucify him. They took him to the cross. When the guy did, Jesus did nothing wrong. So in America, what Chris is saying, I couldn't agree more that it's actually a dangerous, dangerous thing when even I've heard President Trump and I, you know, I've said this. For a long time, you can probably check out my social media feed.

President Trump is gonna go down as the greatest, not just us president of all time, but the greatest leader of all time. Or he's gonna be the biggest fake that he was just an elitist pretending and going through the motions. I do believe he's [00:11:00] real. I want to believe he's real, but only time's gonna tell, right?

So well. 

Chris Salcedo: We had his first term as a pretty good example of Yes. How real he was. And you know, and, and actually President Trump is a template. Ronald Reagan was a template. Mm-hmm. Abraham Lincoln was a template. JFK was a template. Guess what happened to all those guys? They got shot at. Because they were a template.

Some of them got killed because they were a template and what are they a template for? They're a template of pushing back on everything that I started this podcast, talking about, about all of the excesses, the totalitarianism, the enslavement of government. Then what they're doing to us, and I, and David, I don't know how you feel about this.

Maybe I can ask you a question about. You know, watching the Big Beautiful Bill, which should have been the Republican statement, the complete repudiation of the downhill slide that we've endured the last two decades, mostly under Democrat socialist rule. And it was supposed to be a complete repudiation, but it wasn't.

In [00:12:00] fact, I'll give you an example. The Tax Foundation evaluated. The carve outs that President Trump was putting in for no tax on tips. Good thing, right? It was a good thing. No tax on the interest rates on your car. That's all well and good, but guess what that did? Folks that operated within the, the current flawed income tax system, why is an income tax system flawed?

Because frankly. A government that punishes you for doing a good thing isn't a legitimate government, and making money is not a bad thing. Earning an honest living is not a bad thing. Your government should walk by your side in that endeavor, not ride on your back. And with the imposition of the income tax that I mentioned earlier, it rides on our back and instead of.

And by the way, that was a bold move by Democrat leftist socialists Marxists to put in the income tax. It was a bold move. They were bold in wanting to enslave you. Now, where do you see the [00:13:00] equal boldness to take the chains off of you? You should be seeing it in the Republican party. You should be seeing it from those who say, I'm with President Trump, who by the way, is very, very bold as, as anybody can see, but he can't do it alone.

Yeah. But what this. Last big beautiful Bill did is it said, let's take all of the Democrat premises, which are all flawed, dangerous, and harmful, and let's work within that failed, flawed system. Nobody in the Republican Party that I know of, with the exception of President Trump is saying, look, this stuff doesn't work.

Let's get rid of the failed system and revert back to where we belong to something we do know that works. I. The US Constitution. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah, amen. And I mean, everybody knows you. Everybody jokes about it. You know, what's the most ineffective systems? The government, you know, you can't go to the DMV and not wait in line, you know what [00:14:00] I mean?

Income tax. It's the most complicated, most wordy system in the world. And it's designed that way. So there's loopholes and confusion. And who's the author of confusion? Saying it. So I agree with you, and I've had many conversations with friends where it's like, even if President Trump does everything, he's trying to, and he writes America, if the Republicans and the Libertarians and even the Democrats, if they don't do the right thing for America, not just their corrupt pockets and intent.

Four, eight years from now, everything will go right back where it was or worse. So I'm tracking with you. So if I'm hearing you correctly, the solution is obviously vote for people who have gumption and support. People who have gumption are gonna do the right thing for the right reason and character matters personality.

Not so much. For instance, there's a lot of people that don't like President Trump's personality, but like you said, in his first four years in office, the man did [00:15:00] everything. He said he stuck to the constitution, he made things better, and he was being sabotaged within his own party. Right. I. Yeah, 

Chris Salcedo: exactly.

And you know what? He had universal hatred of the press, universal hatred of the Democrats and members of his own party who were colluding with those Democrats to stop him and stop him from empowering us. I think that's pretty important. It's not about this cult of personality, which often we conservatives get, get tattooed with, oh, you're just a Trump sycophant.

No. The reason why Trump has our loyalty is because he is loyal to us, and that's a lesson for all of you folks in the Republican party and the Democrat Party. Why didn't you show some loyalty to the people who trusted you, who elected you, but you don't. You show more devotion to your party, to your own bottom lines than you do us, and you think you're fooling Americans.

But you're not because more poll after poll after poll shows [00:16:00] that the American government has lost the trust of the American people. And I got news for all you Katz in Washington. You earned that. You earned that distrust. 

David Pasqualone: It's like during the 1970s, all the American car manufacturers, they were charging extra.

They were making crappy cars. And I'm like, we can do whatever we want. Mm-hmm. Well, in the eighties, the foreign manufacturers came in and then Detroit's whining about why they're losing money and can't afford to make cars. They caused their own problems. But the problem in America is our politicians who are working for, they work for us.

They think it's their country and they're selling it out and lobbyists and these politicians are like Cancer to America. So let me ask you this. Now, granted, I know, I think I know the answer, but I would love, love military security clearance, secret clearance, even government jobs you have to take polygraphs, or not [00:17:00] necessarily a polygraph, but truth tests.

And get up to 90%, 99% accurate with a lot of these tests. Why don't we make it an absolute must that these politicians. Have to be put through a polygraph before they take office and even maybe randomly during office, because the politicians would have to vote that in. Right? But why don't we as Americans force that issue?

So we get quality people who we can trust in office. 

Chris Salcedo: And that, that goes right back, David, to the, the question I posited on a preamble just, just before I came onto your program here, I asked America, are we worthy of the vision the founders had for us? We're, we're celebrating Memorial Day or Marking Memorial Day.

We're celebrating those who gave the full measure of devotion and, and so we could be free. So we have a chance of being free. And you know, the, you said, why don't the people get [00:18:00] engaged? That's a great, that's a great question. Why don't we get engaged? None of these elected officials. Are going to vote limits on their own power.

They just won't, I don't care how virtuous they are that, that we don't have that caliber of politician who will vote in limits on their own power. None of them wanna do that. They, they tell themselves that, oh no, I'm the good guy. Everybody's the hero in their own story. Right. So it's, it's a. A psychosis.

I don't think that elected leaders, elected politicians can escape. So then that it begs the question, why don't Americans press the issue? Because not enough Americans are paying attention. A lot of Americans got used to trust me government, and they said, oh, I'm election. I'm done. It's over. No, that's just the beginning.

Civic engagement has not been emphasized because of the corruption of government education. The corruption of gov ed as I call it, and those who administer it. [00:19:00] So yeah, the reason why we don't have a good effort is because the American people have not, they've lost the ability to think, and I think that's a, and to think critically about what their government is doing.

And I, I, I really believe that the answer to your question is the reason why it doesn't happen is enough people don't want it to happen. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah. And because if you went back to our founding fathers and the technology was available today. They'd be employing it. I have no doubt. 'cause they truly, you know, our congressmen and women show up and they don't show up for most of the sessions of Congress and they come in and out when they want and they vote, you know?

Yeah. On what's they're being paid to vote for. Right. But I find fathers spent months. Working towards the Constitution and they didn't leave until it was completed. They were committed to a future for America, for generations. And, but I think to myself, and, and I don't want to speak for you, and if I say [00:20:00] something you don't agree with, call me out.

But I think I've traded my freedom and I think the majority of Americans have treated more than me and were desensitized to it. And what I mean by that is this just 20 years ago. If someone said, I want to put a tracker on you, and I wanna listen to what you're saying and I want to be able to, you know, censor what you're seeing.

We do like get outta here, we call 'em a communist. We probably honestly throw 'em in jail. Yeah. And you're lazy if you're watching this. Chris just picked up his iPhone, but this is the problem. For most of us. 'cause I believe 10% of America is fighting for it. I believe 10% is fighting against it, and there's like 80% who just float.

Some more than others, right? Yeah. They're just on their life and they're hardworking and they're trying to [00:21:00] get, keep their family protected. But whether you have an Android or an iPhone. We all know and joke, it's listening to everything we say. Yeah. Legal or not? It's happening. You can talk about, I was at about three months ago, I was in Biloxi visiting my son who's in the Air Force, and afterwards we went to the casino to hang out and there was this guy sitting there with a giant Super Bowl ring.

I joked around with him and said, oh, did you get that playing table tennis? And you know, everybody's laughing and we're making jokes about table tennis for about 30 minutes for the next four days, I kept getting Facebook clips of table tennis. Chris, you know how much table tennis I've watched in my life, aside from Forrest Gump?

Zero? 

Chris Salcedo: Yeah. Yeah. 

David Pasqualone: But I still keep that device on me. I sold out, I bought the iPhone, and it doesn't matter if it's an [00:22:00] iPhone or Android. I've traded the comfort of having a GPS and a camera and a camcorder and you know, a phone and texting for my freedom. And that's a huge problem that I think most of us as Americans suffer and.

If you really think about the deep depth of where that goes in the darkness, it's scary, right? 

Chris Salcedo: It, it is. And you know, we've gotta be very careful to differentiate between government activities and private sector activities. I'm not saying that one is greater or less maligned than the other. I'll give you an example.

Big Pharma, big Pharma. Said, Hey, president Trump is, I, I don't know that his solution is 100% ironclad in conservatism, but I gotta applaud him for at least trying to do something about the what, what we pay for our medications. And there he gave a great example of a friend of his [00:23:00] who takes the fat shot.

He says, you probably saw this. Trump says, yeah, my, my friend take big, very good businessman, really famous, really rich. And he says, I take the fat shot. And Trump says it's not working for you. So I guess this guy's pretty, a large dude, right? Yeah. So he has this medication he takes to, to try to, to curb his size.

And in America it costs $1,300. The guy goes over traveling to the UK and the uk, he says that same box, same medication, same dosage, 88 bucks, and you're like. 

David Pasqualone: What. And they're still making money at $88. 

Chris Salcedo: Well, I don't know because that's, remember in the uk they're socialists. Mm-hmm. So they, they do government price controls on medication.

So they put limits on what, what companies can charge. So I don't know whether or not this fat drug. At 88 bucks is still making the, the maker of the [00:24:00] drug any money over in the uk. But here's what they said. Let's just, let's just say for argument's sake that 88 bucks represents a $2 profit for their, their products. So they're making a little bit of a profit, but that doesn't cover their shipping, that doesn't cover their getting that thing overseas to the uk. The, the, the doses over the uk, the shipping, the manufacturer, it doesn't cover any of that. And they only get, let's say they only get a $2 margin, which you can't make a lot of money and continue researcher development with a $2 margin profit.

So. What the big pharma folks did was, Hey, you know what? I got a great idea. Instead of saying, well, I can't sell my product in your country, you know, I just can't, I can't make a profit that I need to make. I just can't do that. What they did is, is they said, okay, we'll sell it to you in the UK and then I'll go back to America, my home country, and I'll charge my fellow countryman $1,300 for it.

So basically we Americans, not by a [00:25:00] government decision, even though the government surrendered us to it. Not by, but by a big pharma decision. We were forced to subsidize socialism. 

David Pasqualone: Yes. And I mean, the way I understand it, since the 1950s with Medicare and Medicaid, pretty much our government has controlled healthcare.

And we've been socialists, it's been behind the scenes in covert, but the government sets the base rates and they're in control. 

Chris Salcedo: Yeah. Well, true enough to as, as far as. The rates that doctors can charge with Medicare and medi Medicare's intrusion into healthcare. It is really completely distorted the free market.

And, and of course the event, the advent of Obamacare completely destroyed. You mean Obama don't 

David Pasqualone: care? 

Chris Salcedo: Yeah. America. Yeah. Obama don't care. So, yeah, it's, you know, and there's an equivalent to this that just happened in the big beautiful Bill. Are, do you, do you know what SALT stands for? 

David Pasqualone: I do not. 

Chris Salcedo: State and local tax deduction.

Salt, salt deduction. [00:26:00] Remember in the old days when you lived in a left wing state, you could deduct your state income tax because I used to live in California. Your state income tax, you could deduct it on your federal income tax. So what that did was, was it allowed. Blue states to, to pass on their tax burden to red states like Texas, who don't have an income tax.

So they were able to, so what, what did that do that incentivized places like California, New York and Illinois to tax their people even more? Because all you're gonna, they're gonna get it back. They're gonna be able to write it off on their federal tax return. They'll save on their federal tax obligation.

Right. Which increase the burden on Texas and on Oklahoma and on Florida, they don't have income taxes. Right. So. They just passed this in the big beautiful bill, an increase to the salt deduction, which was capped at 10,000. They brought it up, I think it was 45,000 or something along those lines. But again, it was Blue State [00:27:00] Republicans sticking it to us in Texas and in Florida and other places saying, you've gotta subsidized socialists in New York.

You've gotta subsidized socialists in California. And is. 

David Pasqualone: And that's 

Chris Salcedo: exactly what happened. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah. And it is crazy because common sense when you look at the best economies in the us, Texas, and Florida are like number one and two. Yeah. You live in Texas. I live in Florida. Coincidentally, right. We have the best economies in best states.

So why are we listening to the people who are bankrupting their states? It's insanity. It's like saying, you know, I want investing in vice from a guy who's broken in debt. No, I want it from somebody who's wealthy and comfortable. You know, I don't want to get exercise advice for somebody who has health problems.

It, it's, it's so backwards, but it keeps happening. And like you said, they're blowing through the money, asking for more. And [00:28:00] what's crazy is with like dos, people are mad at them for saving money and they're like, wait. There's actually people who are had fake, like non-for-profits. And now money cut and they're trying to sue over their illegal actions.

Embezzling money, 

Chris Salcedo: your money was going to be illegal. Aliens. 1.3 million illegal aliens enrolled in Medicaid, which is supposed to be for Americans who have a hard trouble a hard time making ends made in affording medical care. They were on. So they got social security numbers under the Biden regime, millions of them.

And you know, by the way, it bears pointing out the reason why that salt deduction was increased was because of. Republicans, blue State Republicans, instead of working hard to change the socialism in their own state, they just said, oh, well, let's let socialism flourish and I'm gonna stick conservatives in Texas and in Florida with the bill.

That's how sick and disgusting and depraved it was. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah. And so [00:29:00] Trump does not have all the answers. You and I don't have all the answers. We're not God, and God didn't ruin this, men ruined it. We made this country filthy. And the world in a lot of ways is filthy in a sense of corruption. Right. But at this point, Chris, what do you think we can do?

To bring back the sanity. I mean, we're on a podcast, you and your life, me and mine, we're doing our best to bring good logic and common sense to people. But for our listeners out there, what can they do to just say, Hey, stop it. We we're, we've had enough. 

Chris Salcedo: Well, there are several things. First off, the reason why we have.

People coming up in this country who we talked about earlier who were just on autopilot, right? The reason why that's the case is, is because of Gov Ed. We have raised generation after generation after generation of individuals who don't believe in civic engagement, who don't take civics. Hell, hell, I don't even know if civics is even required anymore.

And in [00:30:00] government ed because they history I know is deemphasized in Go Ed. 'cause they're terribly afraid you're gonna learn from it or your kids are gonna learn from it. So. The first thing we have to insist on as, as an American people, is parental school choice and education freedom. Full stop. The parent should be the determinant of how to best educate the child, not the state.

Then, you know, you've, you've got to do what, frankly, the left did you, the, the right and conservatives have to mobilize the same way and be just as committed to saving this country as the left was. At Destroy to destroying this country. That means you folks who are Republicans in New York, you might wanna choose some different representatives because they just sold out.

They may have helped you, but they sold the rest of us out with this big, beautiful bill. It was because of them that it intrusive, that is so cumbersome that it didn't reduce government. It actually grew government. [00:31:00] It's because of them. You've got to get as politically motivated as your opposition is to save the country as they are to destroying the country.

Those are the two, if I'm gonna make them short and succinct, those are the two things I think we've gotta do. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah. And then the days of writing your congressmen, you know, I, I, I gotta be careful with how I say this, but with people I was working with, you know, they were trying to get the ear of their congressmen and women.

And basically they said, until we see like a million dollar donation, or, you know what I mean, until we're we're seeing funding from your source. We can't have a meeting with you. We don't have the time. And that's where these lobbyists slip in. They're on the take. They bribe the politicians in this big disgusting vial system.

So do you think even writing your congressmen and women anymore makes a difference or should we bombard the crap out of 'em? 

Chris Salcedo: I, I don't, I don't think it's bad to let them know, but it know that some staffer, some know nothing. Staffer is going to [00:32:00] probably read the email and it'll go in the circular file.

But you need to back up the writing campaign with, you know, maybe start something like writing this Dear Congressman or congresswoman. This is to inform you that your job is not being done satisfactorily, and I'm gonna be organizing a group of people inside of your district. To make sure that you're not elected.

I've already got 1000 signatures coming on board, and I've got, I've got a plan to get 10,000 by the time you're up for election in your primary that. And, and by the way, folks, when you make the threat, you better be ready to, you've gotta deliver on that threat. You cannot sit by and think a phone call is gonna solve it.

You can't. You've got to organize, you've got to do what the other side does. You've gotta organize. You gotta get informed, and you gotta get out there and tell these politicians, show up at the town hall, show up at the, whether it's on the local level, the state level, or the federal level, you gotta show up and say, look, I'm, we see you, you're not [00:33:00] fooling anybody, and then you tattoo them for their votes.

I am here in the state of Texas and I have been tattooing John Cornyn and 36 fake Republicans in the Texas house because of their betrayals. And I've been doing it relentlessly, but I can't do it alone. I'm just one voice on talk radio. It's going to be the only thing these people listen to is the threat of losing their jobs, their phony baloney.

Do you remember? You remember blazing saddles? Ho harrumph, harrumph harrumph. We, we need to protect our phony baloney jobs. That's what these politicians think always. So if you're a threat to their job, they will listen and that only when you're a threat to their job will they listen. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah, I, I, I agree.

And I thank you so much for your time. Now, Chris, ladies and gentlemen, Chris has his own podcast. He's on newsmax. Chris, if people want to check you out daily, what's the best way for them to connect with you and reach you? 

Chris Salcedo: Chris salcedo.com [00:34:00] is the OneStop shop for everything. David helped me develop it.

So it's I mean he, he can toot his horn on this one because it's good brand spanking new chris salcedo.com. You can find the Talk Radio show. You can find the Salcedo Storm podcast. You can find where to find me on newsmax. It's all that information is there and all of our social media hookups are there as well.

So just go to chris ceto.com, C-H-R-I-S-S-A-L-C-E-D o.com and it's. All right there at your fingertips. 

David Pasqualone: All right, and Chris, before we wrap up this episode, is there anything else you want to talk about, continue to wrap up or is there anything else you just wanna leave a thought with our listeners?

Chris Salcedo: Well for those who don't know, I am a practicing Catholic. I am a devout Catholic, and one of the biggest problems I had with the late Pope Francis and the hopes I have for the new Pope Leo. Is that the papacy [00:35:00] recognized that America's founding was based on, on Christian principles that America's founding was our founding fathers saying, look, we have a.

Inalienable human rights that can, that must be preserved by this government. And we were founded on that principle. And what I didn't appreciate from Pope Francis was in his condemnation of America and his support for communism. He never recognized that our country is the only one founded on planet Earth.

That looks at God-given rights and says, we will protect those because they are God-given rights. And not only do we believe that we're gonna protect those and we want to protect those, we believe that other governments that don't are not legitimate governments. That American mindset is something we've got to recapture.

David Pasqualone: Yeah, and I agree. And when people say. The separation of church and state, and they [00:36:00] completely, I don't know if they're illiterate or if they're just evil. 

Chris Salcedo: Hmm. 

David Pasqualone: Our government, our founding fathers base this country on Christian, belief system. And that doesn't mean you don't talk about God. That doesn't mean there isn't an aspect of God in government.

What it says is to protect the people in our freedoms. The government doesn't control the church, and Christianity is the only religion that doesn't force you to believe. They give you free will. And America gave everybody that free will. Yes. And now the people we gave free will to. Are trying to take it away, but based on the, the gift they were given in free will.

So I agree with you, Chris, and with everything going on in the world, if it doesn't match up, ladies and gentlemen with what the Bible says, you, you need to run. You need to throw up that red flag and [00:37:00] call people out further. Whether you want to call it lies sin evil. We, we gotta call a black goat. A black goat.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I couldn't agree with you more, Chris, so thank you for bringing that up. 

Chris Salcedo: You're welcome. There's a reason, folks, why communists hate Christians. There's a very good reason for that. 

David Pasqualone: Yeah, a agreed completely. So Chris, thank you for your time today. Hopefully we'll see you again in another episode of Politics and Religion.

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