Chris Salcedo fills in for Todd Starnes pt. 2

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Oh, common sense. Check, but it's not Todd's Darren's, folks. You got me at your liberty-loving Latino, Chris Alcedo. Glad you tune in to Todd Starn Show, honored to be visiting with this audience. As uh every once in a while I get to sit down with you guys.

and have this discussion. For those of you who have uh lost track since I uh walked away from Network, cable, television I'm with an outfit now called Torch Audio, Folks, being put on by Glenn Beck. You're going to be hearing a lot more about that. in the radio industry. You can go to Chrisalcedo.com.

You can still see me on camera, by the way. We do a simulcast of the radio show on cam, as they say, in the business.

So you guys can catch me across streaming platforms, Rumble, and And then of course on X and getter Am I missing anything? Yeah, I think that pretty much has it covered.

So, today on the program, Mary Walter will be visiting, and I'm going to be teeing up a conversation with Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton, who is running for Senate. And Folks, I'm going to be addressing this throughout the program, but Have you heard of the individuals who are going to be staying home? These are Republican voters who looked at what John Thune did. Who looked at what these 22 fake Republicans did and said, I'm staying home, I'm going to punch.

Punish. the Republicans for ignoring me. For Serving socialists and not teeing up and getting past the Save America Act, which they were capable of doing. But chose to prioritize but hurt Democrats and Socialists over their own voters. And to punish the Republicans.

The The Republican voters are some of them are saying To punish the Republican Party, we are not going to show up and vote for them because that will punish them.

Now there's a problem with that. With that logic, folks. And well, I might as well just give up the ghost right now. Maybe you guys want to call in on this. Telephone number is 901-260-5926.

901-260-5926. If you want to call in. Here's the the dirty little secret. That's exactly what John Thune and The fake Republicans wants you to do. They have undergone this dispiriting campaign for the last.

Well, over a year and a half now. They delivered on the On the big beautiful bill, which was a massive pork giveaway. to all their Democrat Socialist friends. And yes, they had to, because they couldn't get away with it, they had to give President Trump his wish list. And they used him to sell it.

And the Republicans ended up spending, overspending, even more than Socialist Democrats did. In service to socialists. But that was supposed to be the only victory. And by the way, it has been the only victory.

So after that, the run out the clock strategy began. being run by John Thune and by the fake Republicans in the United States Senate. And the idea was to get Republican voters so disgusted. with the Republican Party. Mostly in the house.

Because they they stand for election every two years. Right? to wipe out the majority in the House. And to give breathing room and maybe even hand over the entire Senate to the Socialists to stop Trump. Look, Thune and Elizabeth Warren Thick as thieves.

You've got these these Republicans who are In it for the Socialists and for the Communists, I think. Again, because there's a lot more money to be made in government. When you do things that way. And I've got some examples to. To tell you, but for those of you who think by not showing up you're going to punish Foon.

You're going to punish Tom Tillison Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn and Carl Rove. And Hugh Hewitt. That you're gonna punish These Brian Kill Me, these never Trumpers, these moderate squishes, no, folks. This is what they've been working toward. You are falling into the trap they've laid for you.

You will be doing exactly what they want you to do. Turn over this country to communists and socialists so You lose power. The America First Coalition goes away and we lose. That the greatest chance since Reagan. To do some real and transformative things to preserve this last best hope of mankind on planet Earth.

That's the game. And I hope you wake up and you're hip to it.

So What are you going to do? What you have to do is elect every Republican, fake Republicans and real Republicans alike. We will have no chance. To get back on the right track, if socialists and Marxists have a majority anywhere in this government, these anti-American kooks, freaks, and nuts. And that's what they are.

I'll explain throughout the course of the program, but if you're one of these Republicans, Who says, I'm going to stay home. And I'm not going to vote because I'm going to punish the Republicans. I want to hear what your rationale is about all this. Convince me. Convince me I'm wrong.

Tell me how. Turning over the country to socialists and Marxists will do Anything but punish you and your family. Because I can guarantee you. Jon Thune's family is going to be A-O-K. And I can guarantee you that.

that uh Even when he's on the outs, Bill Cassidy, even when he's on the outs, John Cornyn, even when he's gone, Tom Tillis, they're going to be A-OK. Because their good Democrat friends are going to make sure they get taken care of with your money. with taxpayers' dollars. That's the game, folks. I want to stop this merry-go-round.

I want to get off. I want to stop this ride. I want to get off. I want to get back to being America. Don't you?

Don't you? So I'm sick and tired of accepting, well, it's the way it's always been. Whenever there's been a president in power, his party has always lost. In the midterms, you know, I'm sick of that. I'm sick of being told this is the way it must be.

You must accept socialism. You must accept communism. You must look at Zorhan Mandani and stroke your chin thoughtfully and say, hey, how can I? find middle ground, With the Red-Green Alliance instead of defeating. The Red-Green Alliance.

Telephone number is 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926. I want to start off here, though. Where the rubber meets the proverbial road, my friends. With your money.

I want to start off with your Money.

Now Mm-hmm. I always invariably get into trouble. With a lot of you folks out there who are dependent on that Ponzi scheme that we call.

Social Security. And I I I'm wondering How many of you know what Social Security truly is. Do you know? Do you know that Social Security has been one of the mechanisms by which poverty has been Preserved. In the United States?

Did you know that? Yes. By the way. Ted Cruz said it in my interview with him yesterday. That Poverty is an all-time low.

With President Trump at the helm. and with the current Republican Congress. Poverty is at an all time low. Did you guys know that? Of course you didn't.

Because ABC, NBC, CBS fake news and CNN and MSNBS, they didn't tell you. They're not going to tell you. But indeed it is. Because of the inflationary spiral rim, that you're not feeling it. Because of what's going on over in Iran.

Because of oil prices. But you will. Once the Iran conflict is over, But by then It'll probably have been too late. If if you stay home.

So back to Social Security.

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Let me ask you this. When your money flies out of your pocket and goes into Social Security, is it your money anymore? When the government takes it out of your paycheck. Whose money is it?

What happens is that the federal government takes that money. dumps it into the general fund. And then you are given an IOU. That's what Social Security is. How many of you think that your money is going into a lockbox somewhere?

Oh, it's not. It's not. As a matter of fact, it goes to pay. current retirees.

Now that's fine when Social Security was invented. And by the way, all of the lies that they told to get it passed. None of those I call them lies because none of the promises made were ever kept. No, it was It was not Ever Confined, or hardly ever confined within for every one penny you'd pay, I think it was like. Three cents or something like that would be matched by the federal government, if I remember.

I wrote an article about this, folks, in. PJ Media back in twenty ten. And you guys can look this all up. every promise made. by by the social security apparatus was broken.

Including it being voluntary? How many of you think that Social Security is voluntary? It's not. Right? So What this pay-as-you-go system does.

is it sacrifices, takes all your money from today, And pays off retirees. Again, fine when it's a 20 to 1 ratio, when you've got 20 workers to one retiree, which was what was going on in the country. At the time when Social Security was crammed down our throats or up the nearest orifice. Right? That's what happened.

Now, today It is Four workers for every three retirees. That's the ratio. The last time I looked it up, could be far worse now. Could because remember, the Democrats And the weak-kneed Republicans allowed. Us too.

slaughter sixty eight million children. who will never see the light of day, who will never become grubbing become taxpayers. Since nineteen seventy three. That and we have a A replacement rate in the United States, it sits about 1.6 to 1.7 children per couple. And that means that we're not replacing Americans at a sust uh Sustainable rate, we need to be at 1.9 or above.

1.9 is the bare bones minimum, folks. 1.9 children per couple in America. Even with our massive illegal immigration, We're not keeping pace. With our replacement rate, even with the massive criminal illegal influx into the United States. It's not keeping pace.

Mm-hmm.

So President Trump has come up with a little bit of a lesson. for all of you to show you The error of our ways. And he's doing it in a very I'd say Crafty and intelligent way to disarm you because the minute I start saying social security. But what do all of you retirees start doing? Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you're going to take away my Social Security?

It's not yours, by the way. If anything, it's your great-grandchildren. Yeah. They're the ones who are going to be paying for you. Or your grandchildren, they're the ones getting into the workforce right now.

If anything, it's their Social Security paying for you. They're losing their Social Security to pay for you. You know, what kind of people? What kind of people Endangers the present to save to save the future, endangers the future to. to preserve the present.

What in other words, what kind of person says, you know what, I want to impoverish my grandchildren and my children right now so I can barely eke by, so I can allow government to be the arbiter? of my money and their money.

So, at any rate. I understand. This is a sort of Damocles. The government's been hanging over you to keep you impoverished. and keep you needing them.

Because let me ask you before I go to break this question. If you didn't rely on government for your meager crumbs off the table, What would you need them for? They know this. Democrats certainly know it.

Some Republicans have bought into this. Folks, I'm going to explain the magic. Of Trump accounts and what it means. to actually solving The poverty crisis. We can eliminate poverty in the United States in one generation.

We could do it. If we just Just gave the America First Coalition a little more time. Chris Salcedo with you here on the Todd Starn Show. I'll be right back. This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bo and Yang.

This is Bo and Yang from Lost Culture Eastas with Matt Rogers and Bo and Yang.

Okay, we've been talking about QP Mayo for a minute now, Bo, and wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff. You're stopping us in the street going, I love QP. And if you're thinking, wait, what is QP? Uh, do you not have the internet?

It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise, the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. Once you know it, you start seeing it everywhere. People ask what makes it different from basic mayo?

Well, the answer is: egg yolks. Cupie is made with egg yolks only, giving it this incredibly rich, umami flavor that elevates everything: burgers, fries, sandwiches, chicken, noodles. Chefs use it, restaurants use it, people who really love food and flavor use it. Whatever you're eating, QP it.

So if you haven't Tried Cupie yet? Find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Cupie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. Uh Welcome back, everybody.

It's from the Todd Starn Show and me, Chris Salcedo, sitting in your liberty-loving Latino, unlike. Don't confuse me with loudmouth leftist Latinos out there. I actually love my country. Love my state, the great state of Texas, where I'm broadcasting to you from, and the United States of America. Folks, The the polit the political discussions we get into a lot We neglect to connect the dots.

As to what It's all about. And what it's all about is what the politics means to you and your life. And one of the biggest boondoggles. in our nation's history has been Social Security. Let me ask you.

Do you know what the rate of return is? If you are black or brown on Social Security. The rate of return is negative. You get a negative rate of return on the money that you're paying into Social Security. If you're white and you're lucky you get a 1% rate of return.

That's if you're lucky. And that's because Just actuarily speaking, folks, the whites are living longer than black folks and brown folks and as you're liberty loving Latino that does That doesn't make me feel very good to know the United States government has been forcing on me a negative rate of return on my Social Security dollars. It's true. And Isn't it amazing where forty trillion dollars in debt And yet, even though President Trump has battled and got us to the lowest poverty rate in U.S. history.

It we have not eradicated poverty. We could. We could do so. How many of you have heard of Trump accounts? Trump accounts have been set up.

By the President, and what happens is. is you get a thousand dollars put in to uh to uh after uh by the way the babies that are born after this Trump account was created. Those are the only ones eligible. If you've got kids who are five or six years old, they're not eligible at this point. It's from Trump forward.

So the American taxpayers put $1,000 into the baby's account.

Now What what would happen? Just if, and by the way, when the kids reach adulthood, they get access to the account. What happens if the parents, nobody else, Just the parents puts in $25 a month. Until the child turns 18. What do you got at the end of it?

Remember, it started out with $1,000. In the bank. In this account, And then you And then you put 25 bucks in a month all the way till the age of 18. How much will that be worth?

Well, you've got to know something called the rule of 72, folks. The rule of seventy two states The rate of return divided into 72 is the number of years it's going to take for your investment to double.

So let's just say we look at the stock market. Traditionally, since it began, the stock market has performed between 10 to 12 percent rate of return.

Some years greater, some years smaller, but on average, 10 to 12 per cent.

So let's use the 12 because it's going to go into 72 a lot easier. Right? So you take 12 into 72, you get 6. That means every six years your money will double.

So an 18-year-old. has three doubling Periods in their lives from the time they were born to the time they turn eighteen. I did a little programming with artificial intelligence, folks, and basically put this formula in and said that if if the child's account We're starting out at $1,000 from Trump. 25 bucks a month from the parents. How much would it be worth by the time they turn 18?

That number is $20,000, folks.

Now, many were going to say, wait a minute, that's not wiping out poverty. Oh no no no. I'm just getting started. I'll connect those dots next. Chris El Cedo, in for Todd Starnes.

Glad to be back, everybody. Coming up next hour, top of next hour, we'll talk to. Or you'll hear my interview with The Attorney General of the great state of Texas, Ken Paxton. He is running for Senate. He defeated a fake Republican in the primary, a guy by the name of John Cornyn, who has been betraying our state.

For many, many moons in the state of Texas. That's where I'm broadcasting to you from, folks. I've been up close and personal watching this guy sell us out to socialists for many, many moons. And so now we've got a shot at sending an actual conservative to the Senate to get things right. But All of this stuff we're talking about Has has some impact on you.

The policies have some impact on you. It's not just Republican versus Democrat. Look at the social security system we've been talking about.

Now, where I left off. is with the Trump accounts. And I'm going to get to where I wanted to go, but I got a call waiting and I want to get to him right away. The name says German Shepherd. Listening to KWAM.

German Shepherd, welcome to the Todd Starn Show with me, Chris El Sedo. Thanks, Chris, for taking my call. I really appreciate you stepping in for Todd, and just a shout out to Todd at Gizalu. The time, but I wanted to You know, you're talking about Social Security. I would also like to connect Section eight welfare.

that the Bible teaches us who our provider is, is who we worship. And who he worships That's what we become like. And so many people, and we've seen how people that Zeb. That think that the government is their provider and they worship the government and how it It's a bad master to be enslaved to, and we see how it's destroyed families. Uh The government becomes the provider, a father's pushed out of the out of the out of off the scene and and It's amazing what people get used to as they're enslaved in poverty and You know, uh even the Republicans and Democrats, they're all telling us how easy they can make our lives instead of How uh How they can What they're gonna do.

Two in a Secure the future of this country like securing Social Security. And I'm just. Thankful, uh for you and your fate, as you shared yesterday. And it's important that we Serve the good Master, the Lord Jesus, Because he he's a good uh a good master to be enslaved to. Yeah, and you know what?

The good news is he doesn't try to enslave us. The good news is that's true freedom. The natural state of mankind is freedom. And when you're beholdened. To government, which is a terrible, as you said, a terrible master.

You're doing more than walking away from your freedom. You're walking away from your faith. You cannot have two masters. You cannot serve two masters. And if you serve big government, you are not serving God.

That's for sure. German Shepherd, thank you for the kind words. Appreciate it. And what you said. is very apropos to what we're talking about.

When I tell you about what I'm about ready to tell you, you're going to be kind of angry. I'm going to tell you that our government could have solved the poverty. CRISIS It could have been solved. But they didn't. Why?

Because if they did, what do you need them for? It's it was their job security, folks. Politicians in government. didn't allow you. to to escape poverty because certain elements of government, the m almost every Democrat and Sadly, Some Republicans have bought into this too.

They want you dependent.

So where we left off with our scenario. Trump accounts. And Nikki Minaj, you guys may not know this name, she's a rapper. And she was talking about Trump accounts, and this was her take. Listen to this.

Many people can't, you know, they won't be 18 and be able to say, oh, I have an account and I've, you know, and friends and family have been putting into this account since I was a baby and now I can invest from that account and I can learn about trading and, you know, all that stuff. We didn't have those opportunities when I was growing up.

So to me, it's a blessing. And I love the fact that my fan base, you know, they liked the idea as well. Yeah, well. It, what's there not to like? President Trump.

says The taxpayer is going to give every child born in America $1,000. By the way, folks, that's a bargain. That's a bargain compared to what we sign on to, the entitlement state we sign on to right now. It's that that's a bargain. compared to what Social Security is taking out.

of our paychecks every Single. Paycheck. $1,000. And we already told you that if the parents just contribute $25 a month. That $1,000 in 18 years turns to $20,000.

And some of you say, well, that's all well and good, and maybe the kid can get a nice down payment on college, or, you know. Maybe one semester of college, but it's not, and by the way, government interference has made college. Way too expensive. Government interference makes everything way too expensive, folks. From our gas prices to everything else.

Government is not a help in that regard. It is always a hindrance, always.

So it is the wise politician who says it's best to get the government the hell out of the way.

So now $20,000. What if Trump and I think this is what he was trying to do was to educate Uh Americans. $1,000 just turned into $20,000 in 18 years. Imagine what it would do from the moment you were born. All the way until you're retired, 65, 67 years of age.

So I. Plugged this into AI. and said, Do some calculations for me. Remember, the average rate of return is 10 to 12. Percent.

And that That is accounting for some markets that are great, some markets that are not so great, the ebbs and flows. When you have time, you can weather those ebbs and flows. As long as your investment remains.

Now, folks, this is the scenario. I'm going to change the scenario now. Instead of 18, I'm going to say. The child is born, they get $1,000 from the Trump accounts, from the taxpayers. Then the parents, and just the parents, put in $25 a month until the age of 18, and then they stop.

They just stop right there. No more parent parent, and then that account just sits there. all the way until the age of 65, 67. At the age of 18, writes AI, the account would be worth roughly $20,000. That lump sum then compounds.

For another forty-seven years, about six point five doublings. Growing by a factor of roughly ninety Let me just put it in perspective for you folks. 20,000 becomes 40, 40 becomes 80, 80 becomes 160. which becomes three twenty, which becomes six forty. And so forth, and so on.

By the time retirement age is reached. How much money has that Trump account? Again, just the parents putting $25 a month in from age... Born to 18. Mm-hmm.

The government using taxpayer dollars to fund the account by $1,000 upon birth. What is it worth by the time it reaches retirement age? 1.8 million dollars. That's it. One, and that's just one account.

That doesn't take into account whatever the child has done, male or female. in their working career. Has no, and by the way, if the kids were investing into this account. They kept up that twenty-five-dollar discipline that their parents. Had installed.

Boy, we're talking about a huge amount of money. I should have run that by too. It's going to be even greater. But what you just created was a millionaire. Nearly a multi-millionaire, 1.8 million.

And again, that's not including pensions. Or IRAs. Or anything else the child does outside of this one account. That's what I mean. by eliminating poverty.

in one generation.

Now That's called compound interest, and the wealthy, including your politicians, have known about it. For decades, for actually over half a century. For maybe even the better part of a century. It's knowing how money works, how interest works, how the stock market works. And You were never given this education in school in the government-run education system.

You were never given this education by any Democrat politician, hell, any Republican politician. The only reason I have knowledge of it is because I did financial services. for a time in another life. before I got into media, bef well, actually while I was in media. But we could wipe out Poverty.

within one generation. But your government won't allow you to. Chuck Toomer won't allow you to. Nancy Pelosi won't allow you to. AOC and Marxist Mandani, they won't allow you to.

Why? By the way, for those of you, I actually had a friend of mine said his family member If if the her children were not were eligible, they're not, but if they were eligible for the Trump accounts. That That she would have not allowed it because she hates Trump so much, she would have screwed over her own children. Folks, if if it was Obama setting up this account, I would take it for my children. Because you see, I love my children more than my politics.

I love my children and their futures more then I despise communists and socialists. But you're never given the opportunity. Because you're told That it's just impossible. Understand that Social Security and what you're giving to the government is no longer yours. Is theirs?

And I'm asking each and every one of you. If we have a prayer Of seeing Trump accounts expanded. I mean, you can't do anything about you folks that are in your 50s and 60s like me. We can't do anything, but we sure as hell can make sure that our children aren't under the yoke of this slavery. And that's what it is.

under the yoke of this slavery where our own money is used to the benefit of others instead of ourselves. We can make sure the next generation doesn't have to go through this. You and I and this is what Trump is doing. Trump is laying a foundation to where you and I have the ability if we can just get beyond steps one and two. Look down the road, just a little bit further, I'm asking you.

And give the America First Coalition a chance to make real transformative change. But there are those. who are saying Nope, I'm not voting Republican because Jon Thune disappointed me. By the way, calling John Thune a Republican, isn't that a stretch? Calling these fake Republicans in the Senate a a Republican, isn't that really a stretch?

We'll discuss more about that. Coming up on the other side of the break, you found the Todd Starn Show. Me, your liberty-loving Latino, Chris Salcedo, sitting in. Be right back. You have found the Todd Starn Show, folks, and me, Chris El Sato.

Filling in. By the way, I want to let you guys know how you can find me on social media. Just go to chrisalcedo.com, C-H-R-I-S-S-A-L-C-E-D-O dot com, ChrisSalcedo.com. That's where I'm at. And you look in the social media section, connect with me, and then you're going to find all of our social media hookups up there.

We're on X. The big presence is on True Social. I think we got 2.78 million folks on there. And, you know, we just got back onto, just a couple of years back, got back onto. Uh X 2.0, we we left communist Twitter.

And then got back on, so we had to start all over again. And so we're battling to. To move that social media needle back to where it needs to be. And you folks can help by following us there. You know I started out the program talking about about the Republicans Voters who are going to stay home.

to punish To punish the Republicans for not for basically delivering for socialists. And what I want you all to recognize is really who you're punishing will be yourself. Because John Thune and John Cornyn and Carl Rove and Brian, kill me. They are working to elect these communists and these socialists.

So if you stay home You're actually fulfilling what they want you to do. You're actually doing what they want you to do. That President Trump has been doing everything he can. And let's look at our successes, folks. Bill Cassidy will not be returning.

to sell you out anymore in Louisiana. Tom Tillis will not be returning to sell you out in North Carolina. And John Cornyn will not be selling me and mine out in Texas any longer. in the United States Senate. We've had some victories.

We need more time. The best way to do that? is to make sure that Republicans keep the majority. and no socialist and Marxist majority is enjoyed anywhere. in the United States.

Why? Because this kind of stuff will go away. If the socialists are in charge anywhere, listen. A department that's focused on the basics, the warrior ethos. No more ideological garbage anymore, no more DEI garbage and social engineering.

That's all done. We don't do critical race theory, we don't do DEI, we do colorblind. gender neutral, merit-based. Merit only. Discipline, accountability, readiness, training, lethality, that's it.

If it doesn't contribute to any of those things, we don't want it. As the U.S. military should be, that is our Secretary of War, Pete Hagg said. All the woke stuff is gone. And by the way, folks, Democrats are jonesing to bring it back.

Why? Because it's cultural Marxism. That's they implemented it. It's cultural Marxism. And it made us a less lethal fighting force.

It made us less effective against enemies and adversaries abroad, like Communist China, like Iran, and such. And thank God President Trump has us back on the right track. But we need to stay on the right track. Out there in the People's Republic of California, folks. What have they been doing out there?

They've been taking all of your taxpayer dollars, by the way, these fake Republicans, voted for all of it. I've said we can't allow fraud. To be the defining feature of government in the United States, but it is under the Uniparty. All the aforementioned fake Republicans voted to give all of this fraudulent money to. the People's Republic of California, and listen to what they did with it.

Well, Sandra, a major problem here is a lack of oversight and accountability, and that comes down to politics, which is who's mining the store. In LA, that's supposed to be the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, which yesterday took a hook to the jaw when several of its providers were indicted by the feds, who now refuse to give the agency a nickel. Yesterday, HUD Secretary Scott Turner $1 billion. Lhasa has received $1 billion, and I want everybody to hear this, $1 billion of taxpayer money over five years with zero results.

billion dollars. To the People's Republic of California, folks, a billion dollars to eliminate homelessness. And what has homelessness done out there? only increased. The Department of Education.

How many of you believe the Department of Education has been with us since the founding? Oh no, it's not. No, it's it's not been with us. It was an ininvention of Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy nine. And you know what test scores have done ever since the federal government stuck its big, unwelcome nose into government education?

The test scores have done nothing but go down. It would seem there's a corollary here. That's all we're doing is flushing money down the toilet and getting no results, like we did in the People's Republic of California. Until last week, Mayor Karen Bass served on the Lhasa board. She was invited but refused to attend a congressional oversight hearing yesterday into the LA homeless problem.

Yeah. Why would she attend? It indicts her.

So folks There are better things we can be doing with our money. Not giving it to socialists is a good start. Ken Paxton, Senate candidate, up next on the Todd Star Show. From Memphis, Tennessee, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's uh That's right.

I love this American ride. Todd Starns. Oh, yeah. Folks, you got Chris El Sedo sitting in for Todd Starnes today. He's out there in the People's Republic of California.

I'll get back to that story in. A lot more to say about that. But I wanted to get to an interview and this is actually part and parcel of what we're discussing. There is an effort where we've been having some victories. You folks out there in the Republican Party and the conservative movement who think things aren't going fast enough, look.

We've got eight years of Barack Hussein Obama. We've got four years of Beijing Biden and President Otto Penn. To wipe out. And you're not going to do it with four years of Trump interrupted by four years of Beijing Biden and four more years of Trump. It ain't going to get it done.

You need we need the time. We at least need to have Two more administrations of Conservative, Republican. American administration before we can fully recover from the damage done by socialists and Marxists to this country. In my humble estimation.

So I am begging and pleading with all of you. To basically Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and say, look, the Republicans aren't perfect, but at least with them, we have a shot. We, the people, have a shot at making a correction in this country. If they're not in the majority, folks, if the Republicans are on the majority, we have no chance. Because Democrats don't even care about their own voters, much less you.

Right? So look. I had an interview with Ken Paxton earlier today. This is how it sounded on the Chris Dalcedo show on Torch Audio. And so, you guys are going to hear some music and stuff like that.

It was tightly edited, but I couldn't get all of it out.

So I just want you guys to know this is recorded earlier today on my morning show. But the themes we're going to be touching on here. or what I really want you to pay attention to. Here's how it went.

Alright folks, welcome back. Thank you. You found the Salcado show. Let me get out to my guest. He is the one, the only conservative attorney general in the great state of Texas, Ken Paxton.

Sir, welcome back. Good morning, Chris. Hope you're doing well today. Right back at you, sir. You're nine to five, and you're still doing your job for the great people of Texas.

Texas is investigating Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Tell me why that is. Yeah, so typically our authority to investigate a company is if they defraud, if they mislead, if they do not tell the truth about what they're actually offering. In this case, we think they they make They tell you that you're paying premiums, but then when you actually try to make claims on that coverage, they don't actually make it very difficult for you actually to get that claim covered. They make it almost impossible.

So we're trying to understand their process and to make sure that they are not. Defrauding the people of Texas who are paying millions of dollars in premiums.

Now, I've been talking to a couple of medical professionals, had them on as guests' shows, and this is called downbilling, something, a process called downbilling. Let's say you do a physical and it's a level five and it costs you $150, and that's what's billed of the insurance company. Through AI, this is the allegation. Through AI, they're kicking back $120 for a level three physical. Is that kind of what you're investigating?

Is that what you're hearing as well? We're looking at all of that. We're looking at just people not being able to get claims paid. We're looking at whether they're doing things like you're talking about down billing. We're just trying to figure out are they actually delivering on what they said they would deliver when you pay these premiums every month?

Because they're pretty expensive for most people. They're a pretty big part of the budget. And when you find out Things aren't covered, or they will make it very hard for you to get them covered, or they're not fully covering them. That's a problem. Understood.

Understood. Okay, well, let's get on to your other job, which is running for the United States Senate right now. Americans, as you know, are having a bit of an affordability issue right now, including fuel.

So the Socialist Democrats are running a guy who wants to destroy, who says he wants to destroy Texas's oil and gas industry. How will James Tallarico's prescription destroying oil and gas industry? How will that make our energy prices lower?

Well, in combination with him trying to pass a bill that literally would have dismantled the oil and gas industry because it would have had so strict emission standards that they couldn't have been met, that was his bill. He tried to pass that, and he backed it up by saying you cannot be a Christian and support the oil and gas industry. On top of that, he voted for a state income tax for all of us and voted for every tax he could. And on top of that, he said that capitalism is oppressive and that we need to dismantle it. This is a guy that is.

I mean, communist, socialist, whatever you want to call him, now he's running a course as a conservative Republican because he doesn't want voters to know the truth about what he actually said and believes. Indeed. And I'm going to play Because I'm leading somewhere with this. I'm going to play a sound bite. You're not going to be able to hear, but I know you've.

I know you've seen it, and I know you have watched it. This is Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker is going to tell you. What he wants. And of course, he's backing James Tellerico. He's backing Abdul Al-Sayed.

He's backing the Red-Green alliance, the Communists and the Socialists who are winning in Democrat primaries. He wants China-style gulags in the United States. I'm going to play the soundbite for the audience, and I'm going to ask you to give me your reaction. Stand by, listen. I will throw you in prison.

Okay. I want to put you. Physically behind a prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now.

Okay, I want to do cultural revolution shit when I see that. Cultural revolution excrement. He wants to throw his political opponents. In prison, your reaction just to Hassan Piker, the guiding spirit for a lot of these Democrat candidates across the country. I think it exposes exactly what they want to do.

Their hostility towards our Constitution, their hostility towards our way of life, their hostility towards America and wanting to remake it in a more socialistic, communistic. Mode, and I think it's pretty clear from him. He's the out front guy. He says all the stuff out loud. And guys like James Tallerico, who have been saying it out loud, now cover it up as they try to trick Texans into believing they're just a regular politician, regular Democrat politician who's sort of moderate and not going to do anything extreme.

But that's the reality: Hassan Piker is in the mode of James Tallarico, 100%. Indeed. And you know, You and I have had this conversation. Many moons. And there are a lot of Republican voters and a lot of conservatives who say: look, if this is what the Democrats are going to do.

We ought to and they've asked you in your in your capacity as Attorney General, they've asked you as a member of the Texas legislature. They've said, look, if the Democrats are going to go extra constitutional, like Barack Obama did, if they're going to start throwing our people in jail as Joe Biden did and Beijing Biden did during the presidency of Otto Penn. Than conservatives like yourself, you've got to take off the gloves. You've got to go extra-constitutional. You've got to break the law to basically give these Democrats a taste of their own medicine.

And you've always had the same answer to me. But I want you to repeat this for all of these. These left-wingers and these socialists out there. And also for Republicans and conservatives, what is your take when you're being asked to violate the constitutional rights and the law? Uh the way the Democrats are doing.

I certainly understand the frustration, and I always tell people that we are at a huge disadvantage to the other side because we are limited by the truth. The law and decency. if we go outside of that, and that means they have a lot more tools. They can lie, they can cheat, they can try to steal elections. They have a wide array of tools.

They have a huge advantage in trying to win these elections and win other things. But if we step down to that level, then we've lost our Constitution anyway, and now it's just a power fight, right? It's just who's got the most power if we're no longer confined by what the right thing is, which is our Constitution protecting our rights, And so I've always said I've always resisted that, even though I understand the frustration. Right.

So I'm to understand that if you are elected senator, there is no circumstance in which you will sign on to the abandonment of the Constitution or the abandonment of the rule of law. Absolutely not. It is the highlight of modern civilization in this country. the greatest in the the history of the world because of that constitution. Indeed.

As you know, there are fake Republicans out there working to elect communists, and they. And then there are the dispirited Republican voters out there who have seen what John Thune and the 22 fake Republicans in the United States Senate have done. Basically, running out the clock and making sure that the America First Agenda isn't codified into law. What is your message to both of them? I asked Senator Cruz this yesterday.

What is your message to those? A, those fake Republicans who are working to elect communists. I mean, one of them is out there saying that he is going to vote Democrat in Texas. Another one of them refuses to back you in your effort, even though he claims to be a Republican. And then, of course, the voters out there who look at what Jon Thune has done and say, my gosh.

What good is it voting for a Republican when all they do is help Democrats? Give us your message to those people. Yeah, I mean, it's for those who are out helping elected Democrats, especially right now, when you consider. You know, right now our party, the Republican Party, is as far from the east as from the west with these democratic socialists. We're not talking about, oh, we're just going to make a minor change here.

So if you're a Republican, No matter who you are, and you're out supporting these Democrats, there's no way you align with being a Republican. You're not really a Republican. There's no way that you, you're not even really a Democrat. You're a socialist communist. And so it's just, it's one thing to say you're a Republican.

It's another thing to act like one. And unfortunately, as you know, we have Washington politicians who tell us they're Republicans. But when it comes down to the hard questions, suddenly they can't be with us. Suddenly, they have to go the other way to make a point about their own personal power. And that's what's going on here.

So as far as the Senate Republicans, I mean, yes, it's frustrating because we have several in there. I could name them. You could name them who aren't really with behavior and with their votes, they're not voting Republican. Those people. have to be replaced.

That's why I ran. I felt like it was time for a change because we were not getting what we were being promised. And that is up to the voters of each state to recognize that and find people that will go. Make that change because we have the opportunity to do it. We have we elect people.

Ted Cruz said the same thing yesterday. He said, If you have a problem with the way the Republicans are behaving, get better Republicans. And that's what the state of Texas has done in sending Ken Paxton up to Washington DC rather than the the guy that used to be in there. Ken Paxton, the Conservative Attorney General of the great state of Texas folks, Senate candidate, if folks want to support your efforts, mister Attorney General, where can they go? KenPaxton.com, we need all the help you can give us.

Any donation is awesome, or you can volunteer.

So we need your help. We've got five weeks left, three weeks, less than three weeks, until early voting starts. This is a critical election for the survival of our state and our country. Amen. It is, sir.

And make sure you keep us posted and get back here as soon as you can if you've got any updates. Ken Paxton, sir, thank you. Thank you. Okay, kids, that's how it went. I gotta get to a break.

I'm a little long here, but when we get back, I'd love to hear your reaction. And how he handled this. This is uh This is something that's pretty much Pretty much been on my mind. The existential threat that the Red-Green Alliance. Poses to this country and what we as a people are prepared to do about it.

You got Chris El Sato sitting in on the Todd Starn Show. Be right back. America Dot gov going online, folks. This is a massive streamline and efficiency of the federal government. That's a leviathan that.

Both parties have allowed to grow beyond the consent of the governed. I have to give a hat tip to the Trump administration. and to the brainiacs who put together using AI Just one example of things that you can do, folks. You're able to now, if a woman gets married, she can change. One form Change her name, have it all verified, change her name, and then it changes across government.

So it'll all be changed simultaneously. It won't. It won't be that you have to go to every agency, fill out every form of every agency to get your name changed. It's all done on one spot, America.gov. Went live today.

President Trump. uh making that happen as he signed it into law. Or created the executive order, I should say, executive order to consolidate. Federal services into America.gov. America.gov will be your one-stop shop in dealing with the federal government, which is.

Well, you know, what makes us deal with the federal government less and less and less is a good thing. I'm going to say, it's a good thing.

So Look, I I know that That this interview with Ken Paxton, many of you folks listening are in different states. But it doesn't matter whether you're in Michigan or Iowa, doesn't matter if you're in Texas. These Marxists and these socialists are all the same. Let me just I'm going to get back to that story out of California, folks. I'll probably get that after the bottom of the hour here.

And they've got Mary Walter coming in at the top of the next hour.

So I'll get back to California in a second, but I'm just going to take a little departure here to let you know about everything the Democrats. want to do to you. And I'll go to Iowa, the Senate race there. Joshua Turek says he wants foreigners to take. Iowa jobs.

Listen to this. And this is an area that we really need to have a healthy and robust immigration program. You've got around 41% of the direct care workers that are immigrants. And so I think we also need an easier pathway to earn citizenship.

so that we can bring in more workers, not only for that industry, but as well for the agriculture industry and the meatpacking plants. I mean, this is a state that's really, really struggling. Wow.

So If you live in Iowa, The Democrats don't want to employ you, they want to bring in foreign nationals. And notice how the Senate wannabe did not. say, you know, we're going to make sure that they assimilate and become Americans. He just wants to give them citizenship. They can keep their the values from the the countries they come in from, like for example, China.

Or Iran. Or Pakistan. Right? Keep those same values. Come on in here.

And No insistence on being an American. I mentioned John Cornyn several times today, folks. fake Republican, who was defeated finally, In the state of Texas, The guy that's running for his job was asked about. Him. Listen, listen to this.

If John Cornyn himself Chose to endorse you, is that support that you would welcome? Oh, absolutely. I'm running for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Excuse me.

No, I'm sorry, Mr. Tallarico. That seat belongs to we, the people. It's not his seat. It's not your seat.

You can stick it up your seat. It's ours. It belongs to the American people. I'm running for his seat in the U.S. Senate.

And whether he endorses me or not, I will seek his counsel. I will seek his guidance in doing this big, important job. Yeah. He's going to seek out The Republican. Fo the alleged Republican Current senator of Texas, God help us all.

As a socialist and Marxist Democrat. What you all probably don't know is Staff from Cornyn's office has left Their comfortable digs in Washington. And you know where they've gone, folks? They've joined James Tallarico's campaign because apparently. John Cornyn's values are the same as James Tallarico's values.

This is what we're up against. Bill Maher has something to say about the socialists, and we'll get back to California up next. Todd Starn Show.

So, a perfect transition back out to the People's Republic of California, folks, is Bill Maher. I've been uh uh Demonstrating, I hope, praise God, to all of you. Every step that we have taken in this country towards socialism and communism. Has been to the detriment of this society. We have not improved in this country.

as certain Republicans have retreated or sold out, And the socialists and Marxists have become increasingly anti-American. And by the way, if you're a socialist and you're a communist, you are by definition. not an American. You You cannot be an American and be a communist. Folks, I hope you understand that.

I said it yesterday on Todd's show. I said If you are a Democrat, you can be a faithful Democrat or you can be a faithful Christian. You cannot be both. Why? Because we know Democrats believe in their sacrament of abortion.

And no real Christian believes in that. Uh I d did I did I tell this story? It's I've told it so often. There was there was somebody out in a newsroom that I used to be a part of out in Southern California. who declared to to the entire newsroom that she had had three abortions and she was proud of it.

Those are three lives that will never see a sunrise, three lives that will never draw a breath. To all you Democrats who say you care about. The uh The ability for people to pay taxes, they'll never be a taxpayer. Right? So Uh I just want to be very plain about what I'm speaking about here.

You can be a good Christian or you can be a good Democrat. You can't be both. You can be a communist or a socialist, but you cannot be an American while you're one of those. You can be a good American, or you can be a communist and socialist. You cannot be both.

So I think as we have turned away from our Constitution, much the way You could say the same thing as we have turned away from the Christian ethic that informed that constitution. Our Our fortunes in this country have dimmed, And I think that we ought to be about. Pivoting away from socialists and Marxists and the Democrat Party and pivoting back to being Americans. That way our lives can improve. It's kind of that simple.

But let's do as we've been connecting the dots. We've already established the Democrats want to jail you if you don't believe in their communism, right? Hassan Piker provided us with that. But Bill Maher. Who is a traditional left-winger, a traditional liberal folks?

He's looking at what the DSA. is selling Matter of fact, I should probably do Two of these sound bites because there's one, I think it's from the same show, folks. Let me just go ahead and dig for this. By the way, if you want to call in and you want to talk about anything we've talked about, 901-260-5926. 901-260.

5926. Put you in touch with me, Chris Alcedo, and the Todd Starnes show.

So let me just go ahead to my archive here. And I'll look up Bill Maher because he's been doing some actually He's been messaging far better than the Republican Party has. And Well, okay, here's Bill Maher confirming. The Democrat Party has been taken over. By Communists.

Listen. And finally, numeral, Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, That's not one of them. And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates. Dadie Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, Oh my god, you're a Republican now.

No, that's not what I said. I said in play. And here's why: because not a week goes by where I don't read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out. Again, let's just read the quotes.

The DSA platform says, you work as much as you are able and no more than needed. If that was any closer to Karl Marx's dictum from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs, they'd be sued for plagiarism. New York Mayor Mandani once tweeted Karl Marx's words exactly. They're not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hassan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy.

He laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China. Mendami's aide, his top aide, Sia Weaver, said, if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over and impoverish the white middle class. What? That's a that's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?

That's right, that's what she said, folks. They they want by the way, she's white. We've got to impoverish the white middle class. That's their goal. And you know what, frankly, folks, I take them at their word.

Why is it do you think Jon Thune doesn't. Why is it you think that uh all of these these fake Republicans who turned their back on eighty four percent of the country and securing our elections, why do you think they don't believe these socialists and Marxists? They didn't believe Obama, and look what he did to us. They didn't believe that Joe Biden was three burritos short of the combination plate and somebody was running this country into the ground for the four years he occupied the Oval Office, right? President Otto Penn.

We found out that Adam Schiff. That the liar Adam Schiff had accessed the presidential auto pen, illegally so. But nothing happens to him. Right, just I just put this up on X, folks. Just found out that the Inquisitor Jack Smith.

that he he actually commandeered Got 5,000 copies of personal checks. 5,000 personal checks of individuals who donated to President Trump. Are you one of them? Hit that. How is this legal?

Why is Inquisitor Jack Smith at least not been charged? Many of us are asking this: why has he not been charged? I mean, for the love of all that's holy. But these people are for real. If you give them power, they are going after you, putting you in jail, impoverishing the white middle class.

One of the new soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chevalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said seize the means of production. Mendami has said the end goal is seizing the means of production. I think they want to seize the means of production.

Now maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but that's communism.

Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance and I must take them at their word when their words include: our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society, in a word, communism. What do they do? Tweet out, elect more communists? Oh, yeah, see a weaver did that. Good, I'm glad you're shocked.

Did you hear that? Did you hear? He said What are they going to do? Tweet out elect more Communists? Yeah.

See ya weaver did Quote Elect more Communists, she put out on a tweet. And the audience there, let's remember, folks, these are mostly Democrats in Bill Moore's audience. Bill Maher has mostly left wingers. He may have a few now conservatives in there because Bill Maher has been talking about going against socialists and communists and promoting free speech.

So some conservatives might be finding their way to him. But but Why can see a weaver Be one of these individuals. Who is influential in the Democrat Party right now, who is part. I think she's with Mandani, right? She is saying elect more communists, but ABC, NBC, CBS won't report that.

Why not? Why does it take Bill Maher to report that? Why does it take your liberty-loving Latino here to report that? Why won't they? And you heard the shock in a Democrat audience that watches ABC, NBC, CBS fake news, CNN, MSNBS.

They watched those. They had no idea this is what the Democrats are all about. that they're communists. that they're anti-American Communists, and you heard the gasps. And Bill Maher says, Yeah, I'm glad.

I'm glad you're shocked. It should shock you. That You've got Jon Thune and 21 fake Republicans, and the reason I say 21 is because one has passed away, who are doing their best to grease the skids for these socialists. Right? And I'm telling you right now, folks, we won't have a chance to replace those fakes.

if the Socialists take over any form of government. Was that enough for you? How about this from Bill Maher about the Democrats, Socialists of America? Have you seen the platform from the Democratic Socialists of America? They ask us to imagine a future without capitalism.

Where your job isn't just a job to pay bills. And then they say, speaking of bills, you don't really have them anymore. Whew, no bills. I'm listening. I'm listening to insanity, but I'm listening.

Their website says in the future, you don't pay a mortgage or have a landlord because comfortable housing is a human right. Wow, so the government pays for all housing for everyone everywhere? Yeah. Isn't that great, folks? And if the government determines, hey, for your family of four, you need only a one-bedroom house because that's all the government can afford, guess what?

That's what you take. That's comfortable housing, of course. Comfortable. Comfortable is subjective. By the way, there is no prayer they have of delivering this, folks, as Bill Maher is about ready to explain.

That sounds like it could be a little pricey. Oh, oh, not just housing? Also health insurance, food, education, medicine, transportation, free daycare, free universal daycare. Just day? What happened?

What about night? What are parents supposed to do at night, see their kids? I mean it's Just how much will this heaven-on-earth cost?

Well, the estimates are between $72 trillion and $212 trillion, which of course Debbie Downer economists say will cause astronomical inflation, whatever.

Well then give everyone more money. Think of it as stimulus for the wheelbarrow industry. You know what he means by that. Remember in the dark days of the World War, and we came out on top after those dark days? the the vanquished economies like Germany, Their currency was worthless because they had printed up all this money.

And when you print up more money, folks, it devalues your currency. They were taking. They were taking wheelbarrows full of cash to go get loaves of bread. Because the money was so worthless. And that's exactly when you spend $212 trillion to provide their socialist Marxist utopia.

There isn't enough money. To do all of that.

So apparently there's going to be some cutting that is done. And guess what? When you've given up all your rights and all of your power and all your authority to a mindless, senseless government, guess where they're going to start cutting first? Them? No.

You. You Which leads me back to the People's Republic of California. I'll get to it the other side of the break. You got the Todd Starn show with me, Chris Salcedo. Be right back.

Just got word that Todd Starns was. Speaking to the Speaker of the House, speaking to the Speaker, folks, we'll play that interview for you coming up next hour, along with our visit with Mary Walter. You got Chris El Sado sitting in for Todd Starnes on the Todd Starnes show.

So, you know, I'm going to start this Karl Rove Never Trump Network story over again, folks, about. About a billion dollars that was sent to California. to to fight homelessness And you know how many homeless people that it stopped? Zero. As a matter of fact, homelessness has done nothing but go up.

Since that billions or millions of dollars to up to a billion dollars has been flowing over there.

So that means where'd all that money go? It went into the pockets of Democrats, folks. Listen. Yeah. Well, Sandra, a major problem here is a lack of oversight and accountability, and that comes down to politics, which is who's mining the store.

In LA, that's supposed to be the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, which yesterday took a hook to the jaw when several of its providers were indicted by the feds, who now refuse to give the agency a nickel. Yesterday, HUD Secretary Scott Turner $1 billion. Lhasa has received $1 billion, and I want everybody to hear this: a billion dollars of taxpayer money over five years with zero results. Until last week, Mayor Karen Bass served on the Lhasa board.

She was invited but refused to attend a congressional oversight hearing yesterday into the LA homeless problem. If Washington would it wanted to help, They wouldn't cut our resources. What? Cut our resources. Wait a minute.

They're cutting your resources because apparently the resources were not used for the stated purpose. else we would see a reduction in homelessness. But all we have seen is an increase in homelessness. That means the one billion dollars has been wasted, Karen Bass, because it I would bet you dollars to doughnuts it went to a bunch of your left wing cronies. to pay off a bunch of your political constituencies.

rather than actually helping homeless people. Los Angeles is not going to be bullied. by a extremist Republican cotton. An extremist Republican bullied.

So If you don't give a billion dollars to Democrats to do with as they see fit, To solve the homeless problem, and not one homeless person is helped. And in fact, the homeless population only grows. What? That's how you bully somebody. If you're demanding results.

For the taxpayers' money, that's That's bullying? But it's not just Republicans. The Democrat dominated L. A. County Board of Supervisors also refuses to fund Lhasa, which doles out up to a billion dollars annually, yet recent homeless numbers in Los Angeles went up, not down.

The city has budgeted about $4.4 billion. Since 2022. And there's been little to almost no accountability. With the worsening homelessness problem, particularly in LA, it is shameful that the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, refused to show up today. Wow.

That the last one was Nancy Mace, but the other one was the the Democrats' City Council. Saying, yeah. But Where did the money go? Where Where it always goes when Democrats run things, folks. into their cronies' pockets.

Yesterday, the feds indicted three for fraud and skimming some $18 million intended for the homeless, including Michael Young, who allegedly stole $7 million for luxury vacations, cars, clothes, a nightclub, and bingo hall. Another defendant, Danya Mitchell, allegedly used grant money to pay his bail. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

So it it's funny in a way. Isn't it, folks? I mean As I have always said, the Democrat Party is the party of the criminals, of, by, and for the criminals. And I'll tell you a quick story. In Texas, there was a guy by the name of Representative Reynolds.

And he was reelected as he sat in a jail cell. That's what Democrat voters, that's how much attention they pay and how much they care about what they do to the country, folks. That they, if it's a criminal, it's a resume enhancement for the Democrat voter. The complaint alleges that Young used a web of shell corporations and fraudulent billing practices to misappropriate millions of dollars in taxpayer funds earmarked for homeless housing. Last year, a Clinton-appointed federal judge called oversight in Los Angeles dysfunctional and cited several examples of, quote, obvious fraud.

So politically, Sandra, this has been a defining issue for Mayor Bass. We'll see what voters think in November. And that's the perfect segue. And to what I've been talking about. You know I can guarantee you folks, yes, it is true that fake Republicans like John Cornyn, fake Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, that they have seen fit to use your money, your hard-earned money, to basically placate their good Democrat friends and allow this level of corruption.

But right now, President Trump is starting to claw some of that money back for us. I'll talk about that. We need to give him a little more time. We need the America First Coalition in there a lot longer than just four years or two years, folks. Hour three of Todd Starn Show coming up next with Chris Salcedo.

From Memphis, Tennessee, it's American. favorite gun totem Deplorable America. That's us, that's right. I love this American rap. Todd Starns.

Oh, yeah. Hour three of the Todd Starns Show. Glad you tuned into the program, folks. You've got me Chris Celsato. For those of you.

Who may have lost track of me since I walked away from network television? I am located at a place called Torch Audio. Glenbeck has started. a new venture and that's uh Where we have landed. We're still doing a lot of stuff.

On video, but to access that, you got to go to chrisalcedo.com and you'll find all the links there. All of our social media hookups are there. Everything you need to find me, chris salsado.com, C-H-R-I-S, S-A-L-C-E-D-O. And you know, Torch Audio is going to be making its uh its mark relatively shortly.

So Matter of fact, I'm told I would estimate we're about 35% capacity right now. We've been broadcasting for about Oh, about a month now. And then really getting the shot in the arm coming up next Monday, from what I'm told.

So, everybody, just keep your eyes peeled. GlennBack.com, and that's where. You will be able to find out if you want to keep track of what I'm doing. As always, we're keeping track of what Todd Starn is doing. Todd Starn is out in California, he's speaking.

With faith leaders out there and the belly of the beast, as it were, I guess. You go to save sinners, and boy, there are a hell of a lot of them out there. The People's Republic of California.

So Todd's out there, and he just so happened to bump into. The speaker Of the house. Mike Johnson. And this is how their conversation went. Listen.

Well, Mr. Speaker, I know that so many of the pastors here wish you could be at the Spiritual Leadership Conference here at Lancaster Baptist Church, but you're on the road, and I know a lot of pastors are wondering what they can do, how their congregations can be involved in getting out the vote.

Well, thanks for asking, Todd. I do wish I could be with you. I'm in the middle of a nonstop six-week campaign swing. I'll be in 22 states and 40 different congressional districts between now and election night, which is 36 days from today. But who's counting?

But listen, that's a really, really important question. And I think this is arguably. Maybe the most important time for people of faith. to be engaged, to really live out our faith in the public square and to be involved in our civic affairs. I mean, I believe, and you do, and I'm sure everyone there understands the necessity of our engaging the culture and being salt and light.

And this election cycle gives us almost an unprecedented opportunity to do just that. And the reason is because in this faithful midterm election, on the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation in the history of the world, Todd, you and I both know we are bending the completely different worldview, a philosophy that's Marxism, that would destroy those very foundations.

So now is a time for people of faith to step forward, for Christians to stand up. Speak the truth in love, but do it with clarity, conviction, and consistency right now more than never before. I know Dr. Paul Chappell, who is the pastor at Lancaster Baptist and the president of West Coast Baptist College, has really been encouraging church planning along the, especially in California and the western part of the United States. And I know it's got to be tough for these pastors because they're out there on the front lines.

What's your message of encouragement to the pastors here?

Well, now's the time for the people of God to be led by the shepherds. I mean, truly, and it's an incredible time to be alive if you have the answers. People are desperate for truth, especially young people. The reason that they're falling sway to these false ideas, the ideas of socialism in the political realm and secular humanism, they've lost faith in institutions. They've lost faith in the concept of truth itself.

And we represent the truth. I mean, we represent the biblical truth, the faith that once and for all was given to the saints. And now is the time for us to present that. And when you speak into the void of the culture and you share that truth, it resonates. The people are desperate for authenticity and hope.

And that's what the church provides.

So it's a great time to be a church planner. I mean, I think we need evangelism to be on steroids right now because the country desperately needs it and the world needs it. And America is a bright, shining light for religious freedom. And we've got to exercise it or it'll be taken away from. Mr.

Speaker, you know, we see the polling data out there, and I think there's almost a lot of people suspect there's a disinformation campaign going on. What do we need to do to make sure that we can push back and fight back against this really communist insurgency in the country on Election Day?

Well that's what we're facing. And listen, I'll tell you There are 435 House races on the ballot, of course, in 36 days. And it's going to come down to roughly two dozen seats. And we've always known the majority would come down to that. The latest cook report is one of the analyst groups everybody looks to.

They confirmed that 282 toss-up seats.

Now the good news is we prevailed in 21 of those 22 seats. Just two years ago.

So, we have a lot of tailwind, so to speak, but we've got to go out and run through the tape. Voter turnout is going to be essential. And if people of faith do not get out and vote, we are truly jeopardizing the freedom, the foundations that we have enjoyed in this country. Ronald Reagan used to remind us, speaking of California, right? He said, Freedom's never more than one generation away from extinction.

We don't pass it in the bloodstream. We've got to fight for it, we've got to protect it and then pass it along to the next generation. Todd, that's what's on the ballot just a few weeks from now, and we've got to make sure we defend it.

Well, Mr. Speaker, we know you're a busy man, and I know you've got a lot of fans here at this conference and a lot of friends back in Washington. Pastor Brad Wells, who pastors Graceway Church there in D.C., is with us. And I want you to know a lot of people are praying for you and your team and your family as we head towards the midterms.

Well, thank you so much. We're grateful we're all in this together. A government up, by and for the people. It's up to us to preserve it. I'd leave you with this thought.

I'm so glad you all are convening right now and talking about all this. The answer for us is obvious. We don't jeer at people who are receptive to socialism and these dark, dangerous philosophies. The answer is to teach them to shine a light, show them the perils of that dangerous ideology, and lead them to the ultimate eternal truth. And I'm so grateful you all are doing that.

God bless you. Have a great, great gathering there. Hopefully, maybe I can attend sometime in person. Mr. Speaker, thank you very much.

God bless you. All right, Mr. Speaker, thank you. I really appreciate that. All right, all right, folks.

That was how the conversation went between Todd Starnes and the speaker. of the house I Let me just echo what the speaker and Todd were talking about. Folks How am I going to phrase this?

Something's not right.

Something is not right in the country. You can feel it, I can feel it. You you know That The the sides of It's going to sound so melodramatic what I'm about ready to say, and I'm not trying to be. The forces of darkness Really making a push. And I'm not just talking about the ones here in the United States, they've got allies.

Across the globe. As I've told you, left wing thought is evil. Left-wing leftist communistic collectivist thought is evil. Because it prioritizes as we've been discussing in various forms throughout this entire show. It prioritizes an elite few, men, government, if you will.

Over the will of God It prioritizes their interests for wealth, for power. Over Frankly, where all the wealth and all the power really resides, and that is In God everything that we're going to need, the wealth of spirit, the wealth of Our material wealth for what it's worth and how temporary it really is. It all resides in God Almighty. And I said this in another form earlier in the program. But I truly believe it.

And I think Reagan believed it. That We can map This country's decline in direct proportion to our turning away from God. As a matter of fact, I've got one of my favorite quotes from Ronald Reagan. Let me see if I can find it here, folks. I'll do a quick search.

And Ronald Reagan was speaking at an ecumenical breakfast. Um about faith. about God. And there were Well, there were a couple of instances where he was. Talking about About how God is essential.

And If you want to look at all the great civilizations, That have that ri that rose to extreme Heights and then fell. He said there was always a precursor. to their full. And that was turning away. from God.

Turning away from They're gods. Or God. I think this is the sound bite. Listen. I submit to you.

that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us, it strengthens us, it makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance. And then deteriorated, declined, and fell. we find they all had one thing in common.

One of the significant forerunners of their fall. was their turning away from their God or gods. Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material. That flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive.

Without God, there is a coarsening. of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. Without God, there's a coarsening. of the society.

Is that not what we're seeing? Isn't that not what Gen Z is rebelling against? They're trying to find God again. Because of the emptiness of the millennials, the emptiness sorry of the baby boom generation. That that this reliance on government the coarsening of the society, the thuggery that we embrace?

I think I mentioned Candace Owens just marveled at how the black community celebrates its thugs, its criminals, its murderers. and how the American left celebrates terrorists, its thugs, and its murderers. Whether they be murdering children in the womb or the criminals who are. murdering those outside the womb. He also said something that pertains to government.

Without God There is no prompting of the conscience. What does that mean? Prompting of the conscience. What he was saying was And it's a corollary to this old axiom, which states. You know, character is what you do when Nobody's watching.

When you know only God, is watching. You don't steal the money from the till, even though you can get away with it. Why? Because the Eternal I God the Father is watching. Jesus.

He's watching.

So you don't? That's what moral character is all about. And when you get members of our government who don't have that prompting of the conscience, who have turned their back on God, turned their back on us, mankind, You know why I call socialists and communists enemies of mankind. They are. And they're among us, And I resent the hell out of Republicans who are trying to turn this country back over to them.

And I think we should do everything in our power to prevent it. as children of God. It's Chris Elcedo in for Todd Starnes. Back in a minute with more on this on the Todd Starnes Show. Welcome back, everybody.

You got Chris Elcedo sitting in for Todd Starns, the way I do talk radio. This is your. Radio Republic, unlike your current government, your views are heard, listened to, and addressed right here when I am behind the mic. Give a call, 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. You know, this whole shift toward toward Reagan, it uh I found a couple of other sound bites.

That I think would be very instructive. Reagan did say we needed. Defense. from godless politicians like the Democrats. Listen.

Climate has changed greatly since then. And since it has, it logically follows that religion needs defenders against those who care only for the interests of the state. There are these days many questions on which religious leaders are obliged to offer their moral and theological guidance. and such guidance is a good and necessary thing. We have to defend ourselves.

Against those who believe in the supremacy of the state, who do not believe in a government of, by, and for the people. You know In defense of President Trump, He is making decisions on the international stage. And on on the on the l on the domestic stage. That will be transformative. I mentioned America Dot gov.

Right? I mentioned that and how That's just one example of the streamlining of making government once again the servant of we the people. What about our national security? Trump was right on Greenland, folks. I hasten to point this out to you Canadians out there, and I hasten to point this out to all of you Republicans who say, Well, I'm staying home.

He's not paying enough attention to what's going on here at home. The whole Iran thing. He was right on our national security on Greenland. I just want to say I want to thank the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister, Greenland, Denmark. And we're going to have a tremendous relationship, a secure relationship.

And we look forward to it. We'll be working very hard and very much in conjunction with each other. And it's just a real honor to be here. This was. Long in the making, you know.

Yeah, it was. It was long in the making. And President Trump. His opening gambit was, Hey, we're going to take over Greenland. It's going to become an American territory.

That was the opening bid to which Europe panicked, Denmark panicked. The people of Greenland were like, oh, well, wait a minute, what could that be like? Right? And then ultimately The National Security Agreement Uh Denmark will retain Greenland. Uh the Greenlanders will um Have their autonomy, and the United States will have a permanent security presence there, be responsible for the security.

of Greenland, which will be necessary for our security.

So, that communist China and Mother Russia and other bad actors won't be able to use it as a staging ground to launch against our. our country. That is a chess piece that is now off the table, kids. And you can't thank John Cornyn for it, and you can't thank these other shrubs, you can't thank George W. Bush, you can thank Professor.

President Trump. And the same way that No future Congress. No future president will have to consider as part of their defense calculus or their defense posture. the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. Do you guys know how powerful that is?

I mean, when the Soviet Union, I was around, folks, when the Soviet Union, many of you were, when the Soviet Union fell. We are going to go to bed.

Sometime soon, and never have to worry about the radicalized Islamic fundamentalist terrorist regime of Iran. developing a nuclear weapon. No more allocating billions of dollars to that eventuality. and defending against it.

So, at any rate, kids. I just want to give President Trump credit. for the transformational things he has been doing. And Maybe it'll prompt some of you to say, Well, I want to see more of it. And the best way you can get more of it.

is to make sure no communist or socialist gets governing majority in this country. Mary Walter is coming in next. We'll have more discussions on this next Todd Starn show with me, Chris Salcedo. We'll be right back. Play that funky music.

Welcome back, everybody. You got the liberty-loving Latino in for Todd Starnes here. I am Chris El Cedo. I am the. Preveyor, the founder of the Chris El Sato Show.

You guys may have seen me around town. Maybe you've seen me on. Network Television before I walked away earlier this year, and now have landed at Torch Audio, folks. Keep your eyeballs out for big things coming from Torch Audio. And thanks, as always, for To Taz Darns for making sure that I get some airtime on terrestrial radio, get to flex the old muscles every now and again.

All right, Roger that. We got Mary Walter joining us right now, folks. She's back from my cable news days. She was a frequent guest on the Chris Salcedo show on television, and she is the hostess. I mean, I don't think we're going to be too bashful about affirming that there's a difference between men and women.

She's the hostess of Mary Walter Radio. What's going on? Hello, my friend. Boy, you make it sound like it was so long ago. Like when I used to see you all the time, it wasn't that long ago.

How are you? And what a thrill. One of my favorite people filling in for one of my favorite people. How lucky am I today? Dude, tell me about it.

You know what? I mean, lucky that we're going to get a chance to have a conversation because we haven't talked in a long time. And I am every once in a while, I get to go on your show, and every once in a while you get to come on my show. You know, and this is a very good time for us to be having this conversation because I want to know how you're processing this election cycle. I mean, if you listen to the doomers and the gloomers, if you're listening to John Cornyn and Karl Rove, and you know, Carl Rove has said he's going to be voting Democrat this This cycle, and what's his name?

Bill Crystal, who is saying, now is not the time to vote for Republicans. Let's vote for the socialists and the Marxists. Uh how are you processing twenty twenty six?

So here's the thing. John Cornyn, I get he's he's all butt hurt.

So, you know, he wants to see Trump fail, right?

So that because his feelings are hurt, because that's mature. As for Bill Crystal and the others, Carl Rove, I don't get that. I don't understand what their end game is. Maybe they think that they're so wealthy and they're so above it all that when the social, when the communists come into power, they're not going to be the first to go. Clearly, they don't know history.

But here's the thing.

Now, I am a pessimist. I always say I'm a pessimist. I want to expect the worst and hope for the best, right? Like just like if the best happens, then that's great. But I always expect the worst because this way I'm not crushed.

Because I'd rather be all happy and excited than, oh, damn it, and really upset. I want to be prepared for it. But I will say, the more and more that I am reading, the more I'm starting to believe that the polls are a total BS and that the media is carrying the water yet again. For the Democrat Communist Party. And I don't know why, because apparently our generation was the only generation that was taught history, maybe.

I don't know, but they don't seem to understand history either. I'm beginning to think that the polls are BS. That's just me.

Okay, so uh So, yeah, there's a little hope out there. And again, let's remember, I want to buttress your argument here. that the polls have been Absolute garbage with the with very rare exceptions like McLaughlin and Associates, a buddy of ours. I think you know. Mark Mitchell, formerly of Rasmus, and just started his own polling service called The Honest Poll.

So They are seeing an undercurrent here. Maybe not the blue wave that everybody is forecasting, but they're seeing an undercurrent. And one of those undercurrents I want to explore with you, because what you have is Jon Thune doing a great job, along with 22 fake Republicans, doing a great job of dispiriting Republican voters by basically running on the clock and doing nothing, accomplishing nothing in the United States Senate for a year and a half. That is, of course, being done to hand over government. To Democrats.

However, Democrats aren't waiting for the government. It's socialists who are winning those primaries and communists who are waiting in the wings, which is the danger of this gambit. Address first those Republicans who are saying, I'm not going to vote because I'm going to teach the Republicans a lesson. What do you say?

Well, you know, have you noticed though? A lot of them are being primaried out. A lot of them are on their last legs because they didn't win their primaries.

So that's we, the people, giving them a message, a message they don't like. And that's just too bad.

Now, can the Rhinos and the establishment government, which is made up of both Democrats and Republicans, can they wait Trump out? They probably can. Can the MAGA part, the new part, Trump's Republican Party, did they learn the lessons of fighting? Either way, Trump does. I don't know.

I think some of them have, but I think some of them are still a bunch of cowards who would just rather go along to get along and they like the status quo and they just want to keep getting reelected.

So there's a lot of unknown questions of where this goes. And I know people say it every single election cycle, but this is like the most important election of my lifetime. I know people say it every presidential election was the most important presidential election of my lifetime. And this is the most important midterm election of my lifetime as well. Because if the communists get in, apparently Democrats are just going to let them take over.

Democrats seem to be totally fine with that as long as it gets them power.

So, you know, and I think the Republicans, the establishment ones, are just going to roll over, unfortunately.

So this is a very scary one. Yeah, and again, I'm less concerned with how the butthurt politicians are processing this. How How do we reach The Republican voters. Who have fallen for the Uniparty con, which is, as you know, Jon Thune colluding with his good Democrat friends, you know, Mitch McConnell's good friends, to basically do nothing, sitting on his hands, making sure that there was no accountability for what the Democrats did during the Beijing Biden years, the term of President Otto Penn. What do we say to dispirited Republican voters who are, again, saying, I'm not voting Republican because I want to punish the Republicans for not doing what I want?

How do we reach those people? You know, I don't know. That's a great question. I don't know. I think, and I keep saying this over and over.

I think, like in Texas, where Tefrico is beating Paxton, I think John Cornyn did a lot of damage to Paxton. Obviously, when you have a primary like that, a lot of money is spent. It was the most expensive primary in history that he did a lot of damage. Republicans need to spend their money. They're sitting on a lot of money.

How are Democrats winning when they're so broke they had to sell the DNC headquarters because they don't have the money being laundered through to them the way they used to, right? Trump shut down a lot of those programs that shockingly laundered money through back to the Democrats, in my humble opinion. That's why they're broke. Republicans got to start spending their money. Honestly, I think you can attack Tall Rico in Texas.

And I keep saying this in the hopes that someone in the administration is going to hear it. Why don't they spend money on billboards, on all the highways in Texas, the major highways with Telefrico? Frico's picture and some of the weird, crappy stuff he has said. In the past, like some of these comments, he goes, Oh, I don't feel that way anymore. People would be shocked.

Get it out there. They don't have the media to help them.

So you've got to be creative. And billboards are not that expensive. Put them up now for a month. Put them up to election day. That's easy.

But unfortunately, Chris, there's a group of people and I see them posting. I'm not voting. They're either not going to vote at all or they won't vote Republican. They'll vote for like a third party or something along those lines because Trump said no new wars. And you have to say no.

He didn't say no new wars. He said no unending wars. But they don't want it. They're very upset by that and the prices. Prices are higher.

And you could put all the statistics in their face to say, actually, no, they're not. Doesn't matter. It's how they feel when they get a bill and they think it's too high. Yeah. I'm right there with you.

And there are a lot of headwinds. Folks, we're talking to Mary Walter, Mary Walter Radio, a longtime political analyst, a good time friend of mine, and Todd Starnes.

So, you know, and let's give the President his view, and let's point the finger at the Uniparty as to the reason why. You know, look, I firmly believe that John Thune and company and McConnell's, the McConnells and Cottons and Murkowski's of the world, they want to get back to corruption as usual. Trump really put a hitch in their get-along. All their good Democrat friends are being defunded, you know, with the USAAD boondoggle and all this garbage going on through government.

So here's a story out of the Daily Caller. Trump invokes rare authority to cancel nearly. A billion dollars in congressionally approved overspending.

Now, they say spending, but it's overspending. You and I both know this. This was the White House announcing on late Friday that it will rescind $810 million in appropriation funds through the budgetary process known as a pocket rescission. According to CBS fake news, the largest cut, $567 million, in health and human services accounts that funded, get this. Nonprofits serving refugees, illegal aliens, and asyles, illegal aliens.

According to the administration, the officials arguing this money is no longer needed. Because we've stopped the illegal immigration invasion.

So there is President Trump. By the way, it was Cornyn and these fake Republicans who joined with Democrats to fully fund all of this corruption, fully greasing the palms of their good Democrat friends and keeping all of them awash in cash, and President Trump drying up the well. And it seems to me that the America First Coalition is the only one looking out for our bottom line. Yes? Absolutely.

But you know what? They're so terrible at messaging. Why aren't the numbers out there of how much we saved you this week and how much we saved this week? Put it, I don't know, get one of those tickers like they have in New York with the debt on it. Put something like that of how much money they've saved by shutting down this program, how much money we saved this week by shutting down this program.

Put it out there. The numbers don't get out there. That message is not getting through. That's number one. But number two, as long as people feel that everything's too expensive when they go to the grocery store, because that's what the media is bashing into them, it's too much.

It's too much. Gas here, and they pump it for you here in New Jersey was $417. And everybody's like, oh, it's over $5. I'm like, man, it's $4.17, and New Jersey is a blue state, so we kind of have high taxes on our gasoline, but they pump it for you.

So it's really not, and the price is coming down in the last couple of weeks.

So, but the media, when you're you, they got the headwind of the media, and that's a big problem. Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? To be honest, J.D. Vance is getting out there.

Talking about the fraud, which, by the way, approved by the Republicans, fully funding fraud, which I've always said that cannot be the cost of government, fully, you know, fully funding fraud. Oh, yeah, you got to take the fraud so that we can get you good government. No, that shouldn't be the cost.

So, J.D. Vance has been talking about the billions of dollars saved by the administration, but as you rightly point out, the kitchen table stuff is what's resonating. And you've got a compliant press, you've got fake Republicans and the Democrat Socialists all against. The America First Coalition, and that's that's formidable. Mary Walter, everybody.

If they want to get in touch with you, Mary, where can they go? Just follow me on X at Mary Walter Radio, Facebook, Mary Walter Radio. Those are my two socials. I need people. Oh, and I'm also on TrueSocial and Getter.

Mary Walter Radio as well there. For any more socials than that, I need people. But you can catch me on Newsmap tonight at 525 on Ed Henry's show.

So you're old Stealthy Grass. You can catch me there tonight. Yeah. Say hi to Ed for me, if you will. I really appreciate that.

All right, Mary Walter, have a great day. I will be sure to do that. All right, folks. Back in a minute, Chris El Sato in for Todd Starns on the Todd Starnes Show.

Alrighty, folks, from the time we have left, I want to get out of the phones. Let's get out to Ocala, Florida, W-O-C-A. Richard is waiting. Richard, what do you say? How do you do, sir?

Mr. Chris, I appreciate you taking my call. Chris, I've been listening to you. I really appreciate. Will you tell us how so many of the Republicans, I think you said twenty percent and twenty one percent of the people are against us.

Chris, for years I've said 100 percent of the Democrat politicians are traders to God and country, and I felt like fifty percent of the Republicans was. And I believe it's playing out to Proven true. 80-something percent of American people wanted the Save America Act pass, and they absolutely. refuse to do it. They're voting against the will of the people.

And it's really disheartening. I have no more respect for John Thune than I did Nancy Pelosi. um he could have forced that thing through if he would and he refused to do it. I think they I truly believe they want Trump impeached. and want the communists to take over our country.

But if God would allow it, Chris, if the American people would get out and vote I don't care how unhappy they think they may be, the little snowflakes. if they would get out and bold and seek God and repent of their sins, We can overrule these crooked politicians. Yeah. I mean, this country was what? For the people, of the people, and by the people.

We're supposed to rule ourselves. and when our politicians are ruling against us, If we would prayerfully fight the fight, remember Ronald Reagan said Every generation has to fight for its freedom. Every generation, he said, had to fight. And we know most of them are against us. Most of them want Trump though out of office.

They want the communists to take over. But if we would pray and vote We can overdo Roo. their wishes. if God would allow it. And I think every American, if they ever want their freedom, they better vote this election.

Well, there's another way of saying that, Richard, you're spot on. We outnumber them. There are only 535 individuals plus one president up there on Capitol Hill. And they are a fraction of the majority. As you pointed out, 84% of the country wanted the Save America Act.

John Thune, if he would have believed in the Founding Fathers and would have restored the Founding Fathers filibuster, could have gotten that done. The filibuster was never supposed to be a mechanism to stop debate. It was supposed to be a mechanism to foster debate, quite the opposite. And you're absolutely right. Americans know something was wrong with what John Thune did.

And look, if you want to punish John Thune for what he did, trying to turn this country over to socialists and Marxists, there's only one thing you can do: vote Republican. Thank you very much, Richard. We go to Georgia. W-D-U-N-N-Joe is calling in. Joe, what do you have to say?

You're doing a great job substituting for Todd. I just want to say that my good friend Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz, I think is going to run for president. And I sent word that if he does, I will strongly endorse him. He's a great taxpayer champion, and I think he would be a super president of the United States. And I've invited him to come to LAJ to Pooh's famous barbecue and hopefully announce that he's running from Pooh's barbecue.

And if he comes, I'd love for you and Todd to come. Because we're fired up about Ted Cruz down in Georgia and think he would be a great President of the United States.

Well, you know, Cruz has said he makes no bones about it. He makes no secret. That he wants to be the President of the United States. And I asked him this when he was on with me yesterday, when I interviewed him yesterday, I said, you know, people want to know what your future is. And he basically said that he's focused right now on the primaries and exclusively on the primaries.

What is it what is it that you you find most Endearing about Senator Cruz and his policies and his public persona.

Well, I campaigned with him when he ran last time and got to know him real well. I think he's a super taxpayer champion. I think he'll always put the taxpayers first. He's got a great personality. He's brilliant.

In fact, my guess is he would be elected president of the United States and serve for eight years and then go to the Supreme Court and probably be, you know, he's a great, he's a great president. a tremendous speaker, and I think he would be great on the Supreme Court, but I'd love to see him President of the United States. And we've invited him to my hometown of LA Japanese barbecue to speak, and love to have you and Todd come if we can get him there, and I think we can.

Well, Joe, I would be honored if Senator Cruz decides to throw his hat in the ring. It's going to be a pretty big ring, I got to because the Republican bench is deep. We got Marco Rubio 2.0, who was doing fantastic work. We've got JD Vance, the vice president, of course. who you can't say enough good things about, so.

Lots ahead of us, folks, but let's take care of 2026 first. Chris Alcato out. See you next time on the Todd Starn Show.