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It’s crazy, but through elections, people are being elected to offices that are pushing Marxism. We see that with Mondani in New York, with Spansberger in Virginia, the governor of Virginia. And I just saw this headline that a couple of things here. New York City’s Mandani urges the state to slash the tax threshold from 7.3 million to slash the estate tax threshold from 7.3 million to 750,000. And it is one of the tenants of the communist manifesto to have a significant estate tax. And so you can see Mandani is pushing communist policies It would be crazy if, in fact, Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, did go through with this. But the veil is off, and the avulse of the veil of Marxism is off that is prevalent in America today. So your challenge is to use the word avulse in a sentence today. And our quote of the day is from George Washington, born in 1732. As I read more and more of his quotes, What an amazing thinker. And he continues to talk about the divine provider, which in the Declaration of Independence, the creators referred to four times. And so this country truly was founded on a faith in God. But Washington was born in 1732. He died in 1799. He was a founding father. He was our first president and the commander of the Continental Army, as we know. fought and won our independence from Britain. And, uh, he also, um, oversaw the constitutional convention. And so he’s known as the father of our nation. And he said this, he said, the determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable. And those decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times is nevertheless met for gracious purposes. And that is George Washington quoted the day. Our bill of the day is one of the bills for cut engaged. And I’m seeing more and more of you utilizing cut engaged. And you can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org and just click on the cut engaged tab. You will see the last, they’re in basically in chronological order as we’ve posted them. So the last five for this last week are there and I did them, I did all five bills the other day. It took me four minutes and I think seven seconds. And what you can go in and put in your name and your email address, and then it’ll come up and it’ll have over on the right hand side, our cut commentary. If you want to put in an additional message, you can do that. And then the other thing is, is if you want to add in your state legislator and Senator, you can do that as well. And then you just hit send, and that will go to the prime sponsors as well as your senator and legislator. And as we get to a point where we are sending thousands of emails through CutEngage, it really will make a difference. It’s making a difference as it is. But it doesn’t take long. I know so many of you are so concerned about what’s going on. It’s hard to keep track of it. That’s why you should also join CUT for $25 a year because you will get the email that we send out on Mondays going to the legislators and the senators and the governor regarding all of the bills that we are taking positions on for that week. So that way you’ll know what’s going on. You can take action and then you can go about your day and take care of your family and your businesses as well so the bill of the day that we and this is one of the cutting gauge bills is house bill 26 1206 and it’s titled improve funding to support development and this is our commentary we are a no on this the uh sponsors on this are representative junie joseph and senator william linstead and said this bill grants city and county uh housing authorities the power to impose a sales tax Sales and use tax or property tax within their jurisdiction with the revenue going directly to the authority. This is obviously a tax. This needs to be voted on by the people. This is a direct violation of TABR. But anyway, it goes on. These authorities could also issue revenue bonds. To implement this, the city and county would be required to pass a resolution and ask for voter approval. Oh, there we go. Sorry, I missed that. That is a taper thing. Cut unanimously opposes this. This bill would allow large, up to 1% sales tax increases, plus authority to issue revenue bonds. Consequently, a favorite group would benefit at the expense of everyone else, which is like communism. says this is unequal protection under the law. Despite the existence of housing authorities, housing is neither a right nor a proper role of government. Instead, if the legislature were to cut restrictions, taxes, and regulations, companies would then have incentives to innovate and provide housing to benefit those in need without taxing and indebting everyone else. This bill also improperly inserts the safety clause, which means that this bill would not have the review of the people. 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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I have on the line with us Mike Rolick. I have on the line Mike Rolick, and he is with the Ralston Valley Coalition. He’s also an engaged citizen and keeping us up to speed on what is happening regarding a lot of things on local government. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Kim, good morning. How’s it going?
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It’s going well. How are you doing?
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All right. All right. Can you hear me okay?
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I’ve got you. I’ve got you. So let’s jump in here. We are watching what’s happening in Lakewood regarding the special election, which is April 7th. And you’ve also been keeping us up to speed on some PPPs, public-private partnerships. What’s our update that you have for Lakewood right now, Mike?
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Well, Lakewood… Big update is the ballots started dropping, I believe, yesterday. The vote is, like you said, April 7th. There is some interesting updates will be coming from Karen and her group starting on Sunday. But I would urge everybody to vote yes to repeal. The language is kind of confusing because voting no is to keep the new rule. Voting yes would be bringing back the fact that it wouldn’t be a blanket upzoning. So right now, there’s a blanket up loading across every property. So even if you had an ag property, horse property, what have you, that could be built into a multifamily as used by right. I would see this as generally pushed by the basic YIMBY movement, but there are some details to emerge for sure. But it is pretty interesting. When we did get out and do some flotters, a lot of people were very interested in this topic. And I found a little bit of conflation between this and some of the moves at the state level as well, such as, you know, HV 24, 13, 13, which was pushing the transit oriented districts. And again, it’s those, those competitive layers of government that I think are kind of confusing, but Lakewood city. Yes. He’d vote last year to blanket up on every single residential property. So that, that is the key takeaway here. Vote yes to repeal.
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Okay, and I know that Karen, Mary Jansen, that whole team out there is working really hard. In fact, I saw Mary last week, and she said that they had put, I think she said she’d walked like 33,000 steps, if that is possible, as they are working really hard out there. This is citizens that have gotten engaged, which is so important. And so help, help them. You can go to, I think it’s Lakewood. I had the website and I don’t have it right here. Let me see if I can get that. Yeah.
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Lakewood Cities Alliance.
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Lakewood Citizens Alliance. Okay. That’s it. And, um, help them. And if you can help do any walking or give them some money, that would be a great thing. What else is on your radar, Mike Rollick?
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Well, next week we will be having a, uh, a joint hd 24 and hd 27 meeting and then an event uh meet and greet for uh representative scott bottoms who is obviously running for governor uh for colorado so it’ll be up at in the zone on 44th and mcintyre and uh it’ll be on the 24th uh 6 p.m is the meeting and 7 p.m will be the actual uh meet and greet and in honor of that i just want to kind of go over some of the Moves that Scott Bottoms has tried to make in the legislature since 2024 that would have, in my view, really have helped. And unfortunately, they always meet stiff opposition from the other side.
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Well, and he has, one of the things he seems to be really focused on is children and down at the state house and has brought forth bills regarding children and to try to prevent trans surgery or pharmaceuticals on children, which I think is really important.
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I do as well, but I also want to point out some other things that he had tried to do. If we take a little look back in history, back in, 2023, he and a co-sponsor tried to end the length that a governor could have an emergency for. So what was going on in the early 2020? COVID, right? So when I looked into it, Governor Polis had put the original COVID emergency in March 10th of 2020 and extended it, extended it, extended it, extended it via more executive orders since July 8th of 2021. This bill would have prohibited the governor from renewing a state of disaster emergency declared beyond 30 days. Instead, it would have needed a general assembly to adopt a joint resolution for the extension. If the assembly was not in session at the time, then it would have the power for the governor to call an extraordinary session for that purpose. And unfortunately, it lost three to seven with only DeGraff and Amargos voting yes. Now, when I was looking into this, why I bring this up in the first place is when we look at who we might want to vote for as governor, we want to see someone who is responsive to what has happened in current events and try to rein in the government in my belief. And when I was looking at the orders, This is amazing because it says this is the actual declaration of the orders here. It says Governor Jared Polis declared a state of emergency on March 10th through the executive order. D-2020-003, which is subsequently extended through Executive Orders D, SB-2020-18, 32, 58, 76, 109, 125, 152, 176, 205, 234, 258, 264, 268, 284, 290, 296, and then 2021-009. 022, 028, 045, 061, 068, and 087. That’s how many times the governor unilaterally was able to extend an emergency. Which is frightening. Yeah. And then he had to stay at home order as well. And I was reading about that. And there was a time… between March and April of 2020 that apparently if you left your home for reasons not deemed viable by the executive stay-at-home order, you could have faced a year in jail, which is interesting if you’re trying to stay away from people, or they could have charged a $1,000 fee. So when I look at, like, you know, a history of what someone’s tried to work on, yes, lots of good bills that Scott Bottoms has put forth to protect kids, to protect… executive abuse of authority is what I believe as well. And also taxes. Since you’re part of cut, I wasn’t sure if you had known about this, but in 2024, I remember the bill, but I didn’t remember the details, the reduction of state income tax from 4.4% down to 4%. That one lost as well on basically on party lines, but the fiscal note says, Oh my gosh, you know, you lose $620 million of revenue. In 2024 to 2025, $1.32 billion. In 2025 to 2026. So instead of looking at taxpayer money as money that the taxpayer has and has to give to the state, the state looks at it as revenue loss, which I think is kind of an upside-down situation there. But, of course, that loss as well. So that would have given about $100 per person back in 2024 to 2025, and $220 to 2025 to 2026, so people could have had more of their own money spent.
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When we talk about affordability, that is something that people, that’s the big political term now, affordability. But to many people, the affordability means that you continue to take from one person to give to another. Actually, affordability is lower taxes, lower rules, lower regulations, and that way everyday people have more money in their pocket so that they can afford their lives. And that is one of the things we really… need to understand regarding these politicians.
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Oh, I would totally agree. And it’s interesting to say, okay, how much tax can we now reduce to give people more of their own money back and flip that paradigm from certain people thinking, how much money is the state losing? It’s not the state’s money, it’s the people’s money first. And we have to find that right balance to get taxes as low as possible. but still provide the services. And the last I want to mention is pretty forward thinking as well. Last year, he had the Insect Production Human Consumption Act. And I don’t know if you remember that one, but basically it was trying to limit… Okay, cool. It’s a pretty interesting one because I happened to be online for something else at the time. Again, failed on party lines. But what it was trying to do is to prohibit engaging in commercial insect production for human consumption unless you already had an established business. And if you had an established business, it would set your limit at that point. It lost because there is a There’s an interesting flip that happened when I was listening to this where it said this is an anti-freedom bill because you are now restricting businesses’ freedom to have GMO insects for human consumption. But, you know, if you look at the World Economic Forum type things, you know, you will eat the bugs. I thought it was very forward-looking of Representative Scott Bottoms to be putting this forth and give the conversation. or other GMO bugs. It lost again, unfortunately. And then I look and see a few more columns. They had a chocolate covered cricket heightened study for irritable bowel syndrome. So you just can’t make it up.
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Well, and the other thing is though, is the world economic forum talking about eating bugs because, and we see policies that are trying to stifle and make it more difficult for our, beef producers, our meat producers, which that is, beef is such a dense form of protein. And you have to wonder why that they’re trying to shut down those industries or make it difficult for those industries. And yet the World Economic Forum wants all the regular people to be eating bugs. It doesn’t make sense. So yeah, that is pretty forward thinking. When is this event again for these house districts?
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Oh, it’s going to be March 24th. 6 p.m. is the meeting. 7 p.m. is the meet and greet. And it’s up in the zone off of 44th and McIntyre and Golden, just off of Highway 58. Okay. I can get you that flyer if you’d like.
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Oh, yeah. Where can people get more information?
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If I can get you that flyer, or I can try to see if HP24 can post it. Yeah.
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Okay, that sounds just great. Mike Rolick, as always, thank you. Thank you for your great work. We’ll talk with you next week.
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Thanks, Kim. Have a good day.
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That is quite correct, Kim. And yeah, I was thinking the same thing because yesterday we got word that our final meeting third initiative. We ran three initiatives with Protect Kids Colorado and the third one was officially accepted for the ballot yesterday. So that means all three of them will be on the ballot in 2026. This is the culmination of thousands of people working very hard for several months. I was on a call two days ago with some initiatives, proponents around the country. And I was there to report on what we were doing with Protect Kids Colorado. And they said they’ve never seen such a volunteer effort with such energy and such organization. My hat is off to everybody in the organization that’s worked so hard. And I would also hasten to add that this could have only happened with God’s blessing. We felt miracle after miracle happening as doors, some doors would close and then two more would open up. And through this whole process, it’s just been a divine intervention into a very ugly political situation here in Colorado where the legislature has been going the exact opposite direction of what is good common sense, is good for the people of Colorado, and is what the people of Colorado wants, too. So when it comes to these three issues of preventing child sex trafficking in our state by making the standard penalty life imprisonment, and in saying no more men in women’s sports, and this is right on the heels of Jefferson County being, their school district being, you know, held accountable for dozens of men in the women’s sports programs. And then, of course, banning child mutilating surgeries for gender issues. This is just fantastic that we’re finally going to be able to put this before the people of Colorado and say, what do you want to do? Where do you want to go? And I believe that this is a very, very stout statement to the legislature that you’ve been going down the wrong path. Now, we’re only halfway through. We’ve got it on the ballot. Now we’ve got about 4 million people we need to talk to. So everybody who pitched in on the front end, that was just the preseason. This is the real event here.
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This is, but it’s so much work to get to the real event. And I wanted to mention the names of the people on the Protect Kids Colorado board. And you can get more information about Protect Kids Colorado by going to protectkidscolorado.org. And thank you to you, Kevin Lundberg, Erin Lee, Mark Spangler, Patty McKernan, Jeremy Goodall, Lori Gimmelstein, Shannon Thomas. And then I actually saw Yvonne Paez yesterday, and she… stepped up and helped be an organizer on the petitions and want to give her a shout out as well. But thank you to each and every one of you.
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You know, I’ve said this before. We call Yvonne our general because she’s the one that’s just managed this huge army of people who’ve gone out. And she’s a very good organizer and a very diligent worker. I can’t say enough about how she has worked so hard to make this happen. And, you know, we didn’t just barely get across the line. A couple of things. One is we’ve collected overall between the three initiatives, we’ve collected over a half million signatures. And that boils down to about $170,000 per initiative. So maybe $180,000 because there’s a little bit of you know, crossover on some people signing one and not another. But nearly 200,000 people have stepped up and said, let’s put this on the ballot. And Yvonne was really a key, key player on that, along with so many other people. We have district captains all over the state who have been working hard. We have something that’s really encouraged me is a lot of churches have stepped up. the Catholic Church really pitched in and largely through Patty McKernan’s efforts.
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You know, being the facilitator on it, but they were very willing to say, you know, to say, this is important. But a lot of other churches and denominations have stepped up as well and said that this has to stop this madness that’s been happening in Kalamata’s law. And You know, finally, I’ve got to underscore this again. Having spent 16 years in the legislature, I can tell you that there’s a great deal of power down there that can be wielded for good or for ill. And when it comes to this whole transgender ideology madness, they have embraced it. The majority, you know, the majority party. Not everybody. Some people have been fighting the good fight to try to prevent it, but but they’ve been overwhelmed by those who are down there, frankly, doing the wrong things, just thinking the wrong thoughts. And it’s time for them to either change their mind or for the people to change who’s in there. And I hope that this is a real opportunity for a reevaluation of what’s happening in Colorado. I honestly believe that if we’ll take this and run hard between now and November and that we cannot just change these rules, but we can change the whole political environment in this state.
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My understanding, Kevin, is that Scott Bottoms ran companion bills to what these initiatives are down at the Statehouse. And I was told that people during testimony on those bills And those bills died down at the state house. But people were told that they could not refer to these initiatives. Is that true?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yeah. Let me add a little clarity because it’s one committee in particular that was listening to the bill concerning men and prohibiting men in women’s sports programs here in Colorado. of the committee told everybody we will not, you can’t talk about the initiatives that, uh, any initiatives that are out there. And, and, and this just kind of mind blowing that, that, uh, you know, a chairman of a legislative committee conducting a public hearing would have the gall to say to the people, but you can’t really talk about what’s really out there. I mean, that’s just absurd. And I understand several people got up and very, very shrewdly spoke about that which would not be spoken about. But isn’t that the freedom of speech? Well, yes, it is. Now, I’ve chaired many, many committee meetings. Public hearings, in particular, are a very important component. Every bill must be heard in a public hearing, first and foremost. And then uh, you know, this is the opportunity for we, the people to engage in the legislative process at that level. Uh, and, and for a chairman of a committee to say, but you can’t talk about this, this or this. Now I understand that, that there’s some proprieties that somebody gets, you know, uh, out of line and starts yelling at people or, or, uh, impugning their intentions, which is, um, It’s something that they try to keep people away from. Okay, that’s appropriate to say you’re out of order. Don’t say that. But to simply say, but this part of the discussion is off limits, strikes me a little bit more like a Politburo than a legislature in Colorado.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s what we’re seeing. I was thinking about this. I think this is a real… opportunity regarding this next election, because I think people have gotten apathetic. I think people have gotten tired of politics in Colorado. And I think that they’re like, why does it matter? But what you have shown here, you and your team with Protect Kids Colorado, is that we, the individuals, can still make a difference because over 3,500 people carried petitions. And I tried to remember, I had different neighbors and different people that helped me. And when I learned yesterday, late afternoon, that these had all made the ballot, I texted all of these everyday people to let them know. And I said, thank you for your help in getting this to the ballot. And people are paying attention. I think that this is going to be a catalyst to get people to the polls. And so we have such a important time now to engage with people, talk about these issues, why they are important, even give the story in this one committee that people were, their freedom of speech was taken away. I think this is going to be an amazing opportunity. And I’ve been referring to, I did George Washington quotes today regarding, and he continues throughout Many of his different quotes, he talks about the divine provider, and you started this with this. Divine Providence has his hand on this whole process right now. We just need to step forward and do our part.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And there’s something you said that really struck me here, and that is people are saying, well, what does it matter? Well, I think back to when I first ran for the legislature, and I asked myself, so why does it matter? Why should I get involved? And I looked at my three kids and I realized that’s why it matters because it’s not just how I’m doing in the state and whether I can make it through life reasonably free and pursuing life, liberty and happiness, but it matters because the next generation deserves the same opportunities. And in Colorado, that’s being stripped away bill after bill after bill. You know, we’ve got over 400, nearly 500 bills now, which is kind of typical. But if you look at them, some vast majority are not heading the right way. And, you know, I’ve got a list of maybe, I haven’t counted them at this point, maybe 40 or 50, what I call really bad bills. But there are a whole lot of others that aren’t correct either. And the good bills get killed and the bad bills go forward and become law. That’s why it matters, and that’s why we call our organization Protect Kids Colorado, because that’s the point. That’s why it matters, and it matters a lot for the next several months, because we’ve got probably the best opportunity in our lifetime to step up and change the political environment and really head our culture in the right direction rather than what we’ve seen for far too many years.
SPEAKER 03 :
And Colorado is at the tip of the spear on this, and this is so exciting. And we’re going to continue the discussion with Kevin Lundberg, but congratulations to Protect Kids Colorado, the board, everyone that carried a petition, everyone that signed a petition. We are stepping forward. We have a responsibility to protect our children and to pass on, as you say, even if people do not have biological children, It is the American thing to do, to step forward, to pass on something better to the next generation. The founders stepped forward and put their lives on the line to pass liberty to the next generation. We stand on the shoulders of giants. We have this responsibility. We’re going to continue the conversation with Kevin Lundberg when we come back.
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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And your financial freedom is shaped by more than numbers. It’s shaped by planning for the realities of your life. At Mint Financial Strategies, Jody Henze and her team can help you assess your current reality while planning for your future. Additionally, Mint Financial Strategies helps you navigate through your emotions regarding the economy, your career, and the market while encouraging you to evaluate family dynamics that could influence your financial well-being. These insights can help to design a strategy that fits your life. So take that step towards financial freedom. Call Mint Financial Strategies. That number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. And also check out the Center for American Values. They’re located in Pueblo doing all kinds of great events. There will be an event on March 25th, which is Medal of Honor Day. And so be sure and get all the information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And talking with Kevin Lundberg. And again, congratulations to you and the board and all the volunteers regarding Protect Kids Colorado. Now the work really begins as we talk with all the voters in Colorado about these issues because this will be on the ballot this coming November. In your Lundberg report, Kevin, well, I guess let’s talk legislation. Is there anything this week that you want people to be aware of? We’ve been watching a lot with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you know, the budget is coming up soon, and that’s called the long bill. for a very good reason, because it’s a very long document with lots of numbers in it. The Joint Budget Committee has been working since November on preparing this, and this will be a very interesting document. It’s not out yet that I’ve heard. I mean, understand I’ve been a little bit distracted with the initiative the last few days, but we need to keep a sharp eye on that, and I think it’s going to be a very interesting document what the priorities they have, uh, they will have on here because, uh, um, they’ve had to do some very serious, uh, cutting of what they wanted. Now I’m not expecting the budget to be less than it was last year. So, you know, I understand a cut in, um, in government terms means we’ll grow slower, but, but there, there’s going to be a lot of hand bringing and gnashing of teeth is, uh, legislators realize that there really isn’t any case, any extra case for their extra program. And understand this, too. There are a lot of bills that have gone through the process and are waiting in what’s called the Appropriations Committee. And the way this works is we’ve got to get through the budget first, and then they figure out if there’s any additional money that can fund these programs. So that becomes center stage pretty quick here in the legislature. And so we get through the long bill that takes a week or two. I mean, it used to take a full two weeks, but it kind of shrunk it down a little bit. And then after that comes the really hard decisions on what bills will they move forward or what bills will they simply say, we just don’t have the dollars for it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the economic climate in Colorado is deteriorating. We used to be one of the top regarding economic growth. People are leaving the state, and it is because of bad public policy. We’re seeing in many of these blue states that people are leaving from both sides of the aisle. What’s interesting about human nature, no matter what your political persuasion is, but generally humans prefer to not pay any more in taxes than they necessarily need to. Now, what we see is that people don’t mind their neighbor maybe having to pay more in taxes, but when it comes right down to the individual, people don’t really like to pay taxes generally. And I remember when, I think it was during the first Trump term where there was a change on deductions for interest on homes, which meant people with mortgages with, you know, bigger mortgages that they were not going to get to take as much of a deduction at all. And so there were people lined up in Boulder and at the end of the year, to pay their property taxes. I think it was to pay property taxes. I guess it was they couldn’t deduct their property taxes. That’s what it was at a different level. And right before the end of the year, before the new thing would take an effect, people were lined up in Boulder to pay their property taxes because they wanted to pay less in taxes. And I think that That’s important that we start to lower taxes and rules and regulations. Otherwise, we’re going to continue to see a decline here in Colorado, Kevin.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there are so many factors. And with, you know, with any legislation that changes anything, it has an effect everywhere somehow. And here in Colorado, the net effect over the last several years, particularly since Polis become governor, honestly, Before that, there was a little bit of restraint here and there, but we’re looking like California when it comes to so many things. What’s happening in our schools, the business environment, and now the whole elimination of coal-fired electric plants and the requirement that natural gas not be used, that that be cranked down on. that large buildings be converted to electric, which is so ironic because we’re shutting down electric utilities. Businesses are fleeing the state that have the opportunity to do that. What was that one Palantir, I believe it was, which is a huge, huge software system or company that does a lot of work research and the development in that area, they said, we’re done. We’re moving out of this state. And this is happening in so many places. And yeah, it’s got to stop. It’s got to change. This is why I’m excited about what we’re doing for Tech Kids Colorado, but I believe it’s just the tip of the iceberg, you might say, because there’s so many other things that need to be corrected in the state of Colorado. And it can only happen with Good, solid, sound leadership leading the right direction. And first and foremost, the people have to slam on the brakes and say, none of this nonsense anymore. We’re going to have a chance to do that in November.
SPEAKER 03 :
So it is very, very exciting. I’d highly recommend that people check out the Lundberg Report. You can find that at KevinLundberg.com, and that comes out on Saturdays. And I would recommend that you have that in your repertoire of things to check, as well as Joint Cut Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And I always like to say thank you to the board. That’s Steve Dorman, Greg Golanski, Chris Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, David Evans, Corey Onazorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard, join us. These are all volunteers that we’re working diligently to reclaim the Colorado that we love. As always, Kevin Lundberg, great information. We’ll talk with you next Tuesday, and congratulations to you and the whole team and all the volunteers for Protect Kids Colorado.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you again, and looking forward to picking this up next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
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And we’ll be talking with Trent Luce and Lorne Levy in this next hour. But I want to say thank you to Protect Kids Colorado, because the three ballot initiatives that thousands of people carry petitions for will be on the ballot this November. Those three initiatives, one is no boys and girls sports, no transgender surgery on children, and if someone buys themselves a child for sex, that they go to prison for life. And those are going to be on the ballot this November. So congratulations to Protect Kids Colorado. And check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. It is new, improved, beautiful information. The recaps of the shows are amazing. We’ve got actual transcripts of the show as well as the podcast is there. And so check that out while you’re there. Also sign up for our newsroom. Click on the newsletter icon there and you can sign up. Just go ahead and sign up for both of them if you’re already signed up, but that’ll take care of it. And you can email me at kim at kimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice as we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And for any concerns about your personal climate, to be warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Bins Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. Our word of the day is evolve. It’s A-V-U-L-S-E. It could be to pull off or tear away forcibly, to pluck off or tear away. And we must evolve the veil of narcissism. this Marxism that is prevalent in America today. Our quote of the day is from George Washington, and he said this. He said, the determinations of providence are always wise, often inscrutable, and though its degrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, it is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes. So I think that’s basically, we’ve got to keep on keeping on. And our bill of the day is House Bill 26-1206, titled Improved Funding for Support Development. This is, sponsors on this are Representative Judy Joseph and Senator William Lindstedt. And this is cut the Colorado Union of Taxpayers commentary on it. And you can get our commentary on the bills that we take positions on each week by joining us at coloradotaxpayer.org. And this is our commentary. It says the bill grants city and county housing authorities the power to impose a sales tax, sales and use tax, or property tax within their jurisdiction with the revenue going directly to the authority. These authorities could also issue revenue bonds. To implement this, the city or county would be required to pass a resolution to ask for voter approval. As I’m looking at this, this would be very interesting. Many times there’s low turnout in these kinds of elections. And so you can see how how this could be an additional tax, which this makes life less affordable for everybody because of higher taxes. But continuing on, Cutt unanimously opposes this. This bill would allow large, up to 1% sales tax increases, plus authority to issue revenue bonds. Consequently, a favored group would benefit at the expense of everyone else. This is unequal protection under the law. Despite the existence of housing authorities, housing is neither a right nor a proper role of government. Instead, if the legislature were to cut restrictions, taxes, and regulations, companies would then have incentives to innovate and provide housing to benefit those in need without taxing and indebting everyone else. The bill also improperly inserts the safety clause, and the safety clause says this is for the preservation of public peace, health, or safety. That’s not necessary for this bill. And note, improved funding is a euphemism for increased taxes. And important to know what’s happening down at the state legislature. And we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And we have Loren Levy on the line. And you know him. He’s an expert in mortgages. He works with different lenders so that he has all kinds of different options when helping you with your mortgage, second mortgage, reverse mortgage. And he can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Loren Levy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, good morning, Kim.
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And I had mentioned in headlines in hour number one that New York City’s Manani is urging the state to slash the estate tax threshold from $7.3 million to $750,000. So all those people that are going to be moving out of New York, you can help them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I hadn’t heard that. That is massive if they do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is massive. And I don’t think Kathy Hochul… I can’t believe that they’ll do that. But just the fact that he is proposing it just shows exactly where he is on the political level, which is really Marxism. So New York’s in trouble, but there’s a lot going on with these states that are being controlled in these blue states. But let’s talk about Iran. Last week when you and Karen were in, we talked about what was happening there and the effect on rates. which has been a lot of volatility, yes?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. And, you know, as you and I always talk about, rates tend to be news-driven in the last several years, not just economically driven. And so rates are kind of fluctuating around a bit with the price of a barrel of oil lately. So on a day when we see oil pull back a little bit, the 10-year note, the 10-year Treasury yield tends to pull down a little bit. And on the days when oil spikes, like this morning a little bit, the 10-year tends to rise, which takes mortgage rates up with it. And so it’s been mostly news-driven. Today, we got this producer price index just a few minutes ago while you’ve been on the air, which came in at 0.7 versus 0.3, which is really hot. And normally, I would have said… that we should talk tomorrow, Kim, because the Fed’s making an announcement at noon today. But the odds that they do anything are so low that I didn’t think we needed to really worry about it because they’re not going to cut and they’re not going to do anything just because of what’s been coming lately with the inflation data and the price of oil.
SPEAKER 03 :
If, in fact, something different happens with the Fed meeting, let’s get you on so that you can give us an update on that. But if it just, as you think, it’s going to be just status quo. We’ll just stay with that. The economy, so the 0.7%, is that the inflation rate? Is that what that is?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, this one is the producer price index. So it’s not the consumer price, but people are paying, the average consumer. This is what the people that make our stuff are paying. So the question is, what is it coming through? Is it any type of tariffs coming through? But more than likely, it could be oil coming through because oil is in everything that’s plastic, oil is in fertilizer and seed and things like that for what we grow. So it’s that, it’s the producers and the prices they’re paying, which normally isn’t a hugely looked at number by the Fed, but it’s just another one that’s higher right now than they like, which is going to make them not want to lower rates. Got it. I got it.
SPEAKER 03 :
So people are getting squeezed with these high taxes and high fees and what’s happening out there. And then we had talked last week about Trump indicating he might be interested in capping interest rates on credit cards. We had Phil Kirpin on with American Commitment on Monday to talk about that as well, which would be difficult for Americans. people, what it could do is constrict credit for people that might need it. But there is an option if people have some equity in their home. Well, I guess we’ll explain that to consolidate. What would you recommend to do on that to consolidate to get a lower interest rate? What could that look like?
SPEAKER 04 :
So it depends on what they have for a rate on their first mortgage or if they even have a first mortgage. But And we always want to do an analysis, but there’s a lot of people out there right now. We know credit card debt’s at an all-time high. We also know that credit card interest rates are at an all-time high or close to it. So those can be anywhere from 19% to 26% on credit cards. And some people are carrying quite a load of credit card debt and just trying to make those interest payments, which never gets them paid off and really doesn’t get you ahead. But yet we still have a lot of equity because home prices have been holding up in Colorado pretty darn well. And so if someone has a fair amount of credit card debt at a really high rate and we can consolidate that into a new first mortgage for them at a rate with, you know, a six in front of it and potentially a five, depending on the time and, you know, what the market is doing and eliminate that 20 something percent debt, it can really help people breathe and make those payments manageable so they can get those cards paid off. and start recovering and start making principal payments again. And so sometimes you want to look at your overall cash outlay on a monthly basis. You might think, well, I’ve got a great rate on my mortgage. I can never get rid of that. But I’m bleeding to death over here on credit card bills. Well, if you’re paying $3,500 a month in total and we can get that down to $2,800, it doesn’t really matter. where it’s coming from as far as whether it’s the mortgage or the credit cards, if we can get the whole thing down, that is significant savings and that’s helping a lot of people.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, my dad always said that cash flow is king. And that’s, I think, kind of what you’re describing right there. If you can get that cash flow more in line and get some relief, that may make some real sense. How can people have the conversation with you, Lauren Levy, to explore these opportunities?
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The best way is always just give us a call. The number is 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. That’s Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881. Lauren, unless the Fed does something wild, we’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 04 :
You got it. Thank you so much.
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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And Little Richie’s is your local neighborhood spot where you can get authentic New York-style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned, and they have locations in Parker and in Golden. And on Tuesdays, kids eat free after 4 p.m. with the purchase of an adult entree. On Monday night, you buy one pizza. You can get a second pizza half off. And on Saturdays, it’s Calzone Day. You can buy one calzone and get the second calzone off. And Little Richie’s is spelled L-I-L-R-I-C-C-I-S, and they are located in Parker and in Golden. So be sure and check that out. And it is Wednesday, so it is a Trent Luce Wednesday, and Trent Luce is a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska. Trent Luce, welcome.
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I’m often told, Trent, you didn’t need to grow up. So would I qualify for the kids menu?
SPEAKER 03 :
Are you saying that you identify as a kid?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yes, absolutely. I do identify as a kid. This is my youthful plainness.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what? Let’s go over, and I’d just like to watch you see to try that. I think that could be quite interesting.
SPEAKER 18 :
It would be fun. I’m up to that challenge.
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Next time you’re in Denver, let’s do it, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 18 :
Just have to make my way to Parker.
SPEAKER 03 :
Got to get to Parker for sure. Trent Luce, I haven’t been there for a while, but that’s the Sandhills of Nebraska, which I’ve always thought has just a raw beauty to it. And my understanding is there is a significant fire right now. What’s going on with that?
SPEAKER 18 :
Tomorrow will be the seventh day. since the fires started, there were probably, counting some smaller fires, six or seven total. There’s three fires, one of which is pretty much contained at this moment, one that is maybe 50% contained, and one that’s just wildly out of control. I’m I’m pretty confident that by tomorrow, the seventh day, we’re going to have reports of one million acres that have burned in western Nebraska. The smallest one of those would be the Halsey Fire, which ironically was started by the federal government in a prescribed burn. Halsey, for those who may not know, is not far from Valentine, south of Valentine, about 80 miles. And the intense fire is what is called the Gothenburg-Grady Fire. If you’re driving along Interstate 80, you know where Gothenburg is at. That is on both sides of the Platte River and the interstate. That fire was intense on both north and south of the Platte River and the Interstate 80. The fire that’s consuming the most acres is called the Morrill Fire because it started in Morrill County. And last account I saw, which would have been yesterday, they’re at about 650,000 acres that has burned at that particular fire. To put it into context for you, I’ve talked to many friends in the past week. I’ve not been to the fire. I’m in Madison, South Dakota today. I probably will be there yet this week. But I had a friend in Arthur, Nebraska. And he went Thursday morning, went out to his pickup. He calls on veterinarian clinics, and he smelled smoke. And so he started calling around because you smell smoke in any of our areas, and we have been so desperately dry. I mean, this is the driest winter I’ve ever experienced in my life. He started calling around, and he was told that the fire was at Bridgeport. Bridgeport is 70 miles from his house. So… It’s 70 miles away. No big deal. By four o’clock that afternoon, he was in an evacuation order and they were gathering cows and trying to get them to safety. That fire had made 70 miles in no time flat. And then it went on farther north and went as far north as Grant County, which is Hyannis. And I’ve been talking to people along the way. One life has been lost. numerous homesteads and we won’t have any handle on the number of cattle until really this concludes. I’m told that they’re by people that are in the midst of the mix. They tell me that it’s amazing how many animals have not been lost, but that, I mean, you could lose, your neighbor could lose everything and you not lose anything. And, you know, that’s just the situations. So it’s too early to tell. I know that hay is rolling in. People are donating from all over the country. There are several different places. Nebraska’s Strong Disaster Relief has been doing this since 2009 in a tornado that first hit Nebraska. But I do just want to issue a word of caution to anybody that wants to help. Make sure you know who you’re dealing with because so many times in this situation I’ve seen, My first involvement was really the flood 2019 that we had in Nebraska. I’ve been to four fires similar to this, none of them this big, Kansas fire, Oklahoma fire, Paradise, Kansas fire. Last summer I went to North Dakota where there was a fire that was similar in size, didn’t have the same damage total. But the real heroes that need to be identified in this is that it’s probably a 200-mile area now that volunteer firefighters have gone to help. And, Kim, it’s been below freezing the last three days. And some of these situations, they’ve just had to stop because their equipment freezes up. The fire continues to rage on. Yesterday was another massive wind day. And the wind blows from the north and the wind blows from the south. And you would think that would be somehow beneficial. But they’re hoping today to get some better handle, particularly on that moral fire.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, we’ve had high winds here in Colorado, and I know what the wind is like on the high plains. This just, in a way, this just takes my breath away. What do you say to those that will maybe already have but will quickly say that this is because of climate change?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, the wind blows a lot, and Nebraska always has and always will. The early reports are that both of those big fires started because power line poles snapped, and there are some pictures to show that. power line poles, when they snap and you are as dry as we are today, you’re at a fire risk. We’ve done so many improvements from really the last 150 years. We’ve put shelter belts on the north side of our places. Some people just have closed their entire place. The shelter belt is cedar trees, typically, that create a break from the wind because we have wind regularly. 70 mile an hour winds are not That uncommon 70-mile-an-hour sustained winds for a day plus the dryness that we have, you increase your risk of fire. I give zero credit to climate change other than drought occurs. You go look at the historical components of, I mean, why are they called the Sandhills? Because drought was so bad, the buffalo on their own would overgraze, and the winds started blowing out, these parts of the country. I mean, this environment, as dry as it is, is really the best it’s ever been because we find ways to manage it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know that back in the 50s, there was a significant drought in Kansas and Nebraska. So we must understand that, yes, these situations occur and eventually it will change. We will get out of a drought, I guess, because the climate does change on a regular basis. But this is devastating. This is the people that I grew up with. As I think about people, as you say, there are some people that are losing everything. 100%.
SPEAKER 18 :
And, you know, there’s so many posts and people I’ve talked to that just they write their heartfelt thanks. I mean, what you see most is people just giving thanks for showing up. Lacey Hebert is a great example from Hyannis. She wrote a piece when they were notified that they needed to evacuate the gathered horses and they walked around their house to decide what was a must have. And their phones started ringing and people were calling, say, what can I do to help? Can you need me to come and haul something? It just, the instinct of people to rally at a time like this is just really incredible. And I still think as much as we can focus on the damage, the community minded folks that rally when something like this happens is incredible.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Well, we, we, we, Pray for moisture. We pray for help on these fires. And keep us up to date on that. Trent Luce, we’re going to go to break because there’s lots of other things to talk with Trent Luce about because he continues to focus on the people that feed and fuel us. And this really will have far-reaching effects, this particular fire in the Sandhills of Nebraska. And we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And one of those is Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
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SPEAKER 18 :
Fertilizer has gotten tremendously more expensive. It’s been edging up for quite some time. But it’s not just fertilizer. You look at what the fuel prices have done. And a lot of farmers had pre-purchased fertilizer, no doubt about that. But it still was increasing before this last debacle. The other part that not many people focus on is there are only really four companies that control the majority of seeds. And when you take into account, my father, my grandfather was a seed corn farmer, seed corn dealer back in the day when you’d have a few farmers that would be seed corn dealers. And he worked with one of the few Burroughs brothers was their name from Aaronsville, Illinois. One of the few still family owned seed corn companies in this country. But you have four today that control the majority of the seed corns. And as I can remember Grandpa talking about, oh, my goodness, this new hybrid is going to cost like $60 a bag. Do you know what corn, seed corn costs today, Kim?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t.
SPEAKER 18 :
You can buy $400 a bag corn. That is a significant increase. And it just is representative of what all inputs have done And if you look, I should look at what year, so that would have been late 70s that my grandfather would have said that. I’m guessing corn prices at that time for the farmer to sell corn was higher than they are today. So your inputs have increased exponentially, not to mention what property tax has done, because every acre you have, you have to pay property tax on. What every single cost has gone into in cash rents, and that just extrapolates out to, you know, there’s land today bringing $15,000 an acre, even in Nebraska. And there’s $20,000 an acre land in Iowa. The cost of planting a crop is unimaginable to people that have been in this for a long time. And the prices of the products are the same or lower than they were 40 years ago.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, one of the questions, though, regarding the price, is it somewhat reflective on our American farmers and their ingenuity, creativity, and being able to get higher yields? How does that play into it?
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, that’s a factor because that $60 bag of corn that I was talking about in the 70s would yield, you know, if you got 150 bushels an acre, he’s pretty happy with that crop. I’m really happy. And in today’s world, you know, particularly in the irrigated parts of Nebraska, if there’s not a 250 bushel yield, people are like, well, I wonder what I did wrong this year. And 250 bushels is really good no matter where you’re at. So there is part of that. Absolutely. And here’s the other part. We have moved back in that day. You know, we planted alfalfa. We planted oats. We planted more wheat. We had more diversification. The U.S. farmer loves to grow corn. U.S. number two yellow corn is just what we, not me because I’m not a farmer, I’m a rancher, but we just love to do that. And we do it extremely well. And we have the ability to overproduce. But I can be very critical in that we’ve been getting nudged with incentives from the USDA to do these things. And usually that’s in the name of protection through crop insurance. And so due to this subsidy and government involvement where it should not be involved, we produce products that we have the greatest protection from and crop insurance. And our banker forces that upon us because of what we’re talking about in terms of higher inputs across the board. And it’s led us to a real problem. And we need to start looking at diversification. I’m sowing 40 acres of oats. I just said I don’t farm, but I have 40 acres that I’ve been grazing this year.
SPEAKER 03 :
Of course you’re sowing your oats. I’m sowing my oats.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m hoping to sow my oats on Friday if you’re keeping track.
SPEAKER 03 :
So question regarding corn. High fructose corn syrup, we’re hearing that that’s very bad for people. What would you say to that?
SPEAKER 18 :
Sugar is sugar. It’s that simple. Whether you get your sugar from sugar cane, beet, Or corn syrup, sugar is sugar. It’s just the way it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. But there’s been, as you say, so many incentives by the USDA for farmers to raise corn that it has made it difficult to diversify, which means then that we’re having to import corn you know, some of these other products from other countries. And it’s all because of government involvement. When government gets involved, it becomes a real problem. But government’s been involved in the farming industry for what?
SPEAKER 1 :
1933.
SPEAKER 18 :
1933, the Agricultural Adjustment Act is where it all started going downhill. But let me tell you, particularly this USDA, which is fast becoming the worst in my lifetime, You know, everybody kind of celebrated the announcement in December that USDA was going to do something. They’re dedicating $700 million to regenerative agriculture. Now, I’m going to issue a word of caution that we have people that hijack these terms, and regenerative agriculture is the term of the day. It used to be sustainable agriculture, and people, they just, they screw it up. Here’s what farming should be about. You need to increase organic matter and soil health and leave it better than you found it. It’s no more difficult than that. If you want to call it regenerative agriculture, if you want to call it whatever. So anyway, in December, Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, and Bobby Kennedy, Health and Human Services, had a joint conference. They’re so excited. They are going to give $700 million through their programs for regenerative agriculture because We need to move people away from fossil fuel-based fertilizers because fertilizer comes from natural gas, fertilizer comes from anhydrous ammonia, fertilizer comes particularly from a nitrogen standpoint. Those are the sources that we use for the most part. A lot of people applaud it. See, Brooke Rawlings gets it. She wants to get us away from these dependence upon fossil fuel fertilizers. Only thing is, We now know that they gave $300 million to Nutrien, which is a Canadian-based company, the largest fertilizer company in the world, owned by the Royal Bank of Canada, second largest owner, it’s publicly traded, second largest owner, BlackRock, third largest owner, Vanguard. And their partnering, Nutrien is, with SIBO, C-I-B-O Technologies, which is a data mining company. So here’s this movement to go to regenerative agriculture and help the farmer. They give the money as a contractor to the largest fertilizer company in the world to pick their farmers that they want to have this $300 million, which is half of the $700 million. It just continues to spiral. Oh, and then it gets better, Kim. The original announcement came in December that they were going to have $700 million to regenerative agriculture. February, we learned that Nutrien is actually going to tap into nearly half of this $700 million. And then March the 6th, the Department of Justice comes out with a notice that they are investigating fertilizer companies for colluding in price fixing, five in particular. one of which is nutrients that the USDA just gave $300 million to.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, this is not the way it’s supposed to work.
SPEAKER 18 :
What happens when government’s involved, they pick winners, they pick losers, and the reason that we only have four seed companies, the reason we have five companies that control the fertilizer in the world, The reason that all this consolidation is taking place, including the consolidation, even in the marketplace, where you have farmers who in the 90s spent their equity to build ethanol facilities to generate ethanol, and now they’re all owned by the petroleum companies and completely controlled by the petroleum companies. Every bit of that can be traced back to what government has done to pick winners and losers, and they have eliminated so many people. And now next week, Donald Trump is going to have a big announcement on Friday, new news on National Agriculture Day about a renewable fuel standard, which I assure you will just be the next level in eliminating people from food and fuel production.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I’m glad you asked. I’m actually wearing a shirt that I don’t normally wear that has words on it. Normally I have a button-down shirt, but my shirt says, Under God the People Rule, which happens to be the state motto of the state of South Dakota. And, you know, I’ve spent a lot of time talking about South Dakota in the past two years with you because the people have really tried to take this state back, and it was hijacked. We don’t need to talk about Kristi Noem, but that really took it to a whole new level. Well, the state of South Dakota has become the newest, latest target for AI data centers. And it’s in true fashion. Folks wanted to say, hey, we need to get a real story out about what’s going on with these AI data centers. So last night I participated as an opponent in the AI data center roundtable debate. And it lasted for just over two hours. I actually streamed it, and 4,500 people have watched it just on one of the streams, Kim. There’s a tremendous interest in this. And I’ve just banked on my experience to be at probably been to 12 different sites. In fact, on my way home, I’m going to stop by one in Nebraska where this couple that are living on a century farm, they’re in their 70s. They live a half a mile from a data center and not a hyperscale data center, just a small data center like we talk about. They’re going to have to move because their health is deteriorating and they have many times of the day they can’t even go outside because of the sound and the frequencies. So we just had a tremendous meeting where people asked questions. There were two individuals who were proponents. There were two of us that were opponents. And we just laid out the facts, what’s really going on with this. And the question is, when you compare the energy required and the output of human intelligence to computer intelligence and artificial intelligence, why are we charging down this path so hard?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, there’s all kinds of incentives, right? We talked about incentives.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is. It goes back to government incentives, 100%. But if you go ask AI, I did this just to prepare for my debate, ask AI who owns artificial intelligence, and it will tell you. Anybody can go try that right now. It will tell you that basically five entities own artificial intelligence, and that is the ones you already know, Microsoft, i.e. Bill Gates, Meta, Google, Amazon, and the last one escapes me at this moment, but, oh, Twitter. Facebook. Well, Meta is Facebook. Meta owns Facebook. Oh, that’s right. That’s right. But all of these developers, and here’s where it really gets interesting for me. I’m averaging four phone calls a day. Sedgwick County, Kansas, Wichita, they’ve got a big situation taking place where they wanted to do this hyperscale AI data center. There was a guy got arrested for speaking seven seconds too long in a public hearing in Claremore, Oklahoma, two weeks ago. His trial is May 7th. We’re speaking seven seconds too long in a public hearing. There’s just so many things happening here, but all these developers are all working for five entities. And you have to ask the question again, why do we need artificial intelligence at this level? You know that from 6.30 to 7 o’clock Central Time every morning, I do what’s called across the pond with somebody from another country. This week, my guest on Monday, a Damien Buckley in New Zealand, and he just brought to our attention that there was an AI data center, which has to be built in New Zealand because here’s the word. If we don’t start building these, we’re going to be left in the dark ages. I said, well, Damian, what are they doing with the data once they generate this capacity to do this? He said, that’s where it really gets interesting. They’re going to put a pipe with fiber optics under the ocean to Australia. It’s like, what good does it do to generate AI data in New Zealand and ship it to Australia and deplete the resources? We cannot afford. In fact, one of the guys who was a proponent for artificial intelligence data centers said last night, I don’t remember the term, what’s beyond a gigawatt, exajoules. Okay, so exajoules, whatever that term is, the requirement on the proposed data centers would be three times our ability to generate electricity and power. So it’s like 18 exajoules compared to we generate six exajoules. So what are we doing? What is AI really about? Because I do not believe it’s about improving our home computer use.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it’s really about surveilling the American public. What about, are there data centers going in? You mentioned New Zealand. What about China? Is there a lot of data centers? Of course, I guess China’s already spying on their people big time. But are these data centers all over the world now?
SPEAKER 18 :
China is building them, and we’re told that we need to keep pace because we have to be better and bigger than China. And it looks to me like China is just sitting back watching us deplete our own resources. Why would they worry about that? I also learned through a column that I wrote this week about what we import. We are down 29% in the last 12 months on imports from China. But 76% of what we import from China is that little device that you have in your pocket or sitting in front of you keeping track of your clock right now. So why do they need an AI data center when they’re generating all of the phones that we know? Who hasn’t been talking on their phone to somebody and then check an email and get a marketing ad sent to you because of some word you used on a phone conversation? So don’t tell me we’re not being surveilled as it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know. And we seem to, as Jenny says, we are doing this because we appreciate the convenience so much. It used to be that, you know, in the old movies that they’d come in and they’d, you know, sweep the room to see if there were any bugs in the room before they, you know, did whatever. And here we have this bug in our pocket with us all the time. And because of convenience… I don’t see that changing, Trent Luce. We’ve got a couple of minutes. Your final thoughts on all this.
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m coming back to this shirt that I’m wearing. Under God, the people rule. We all need to understand that we hold the power and our complacency is what allows these globalists to grab a hold of our world and tell us where we’re going. And I’m saying no more. We unite. I mean, look at all the bad bills that come through. that not only Denver, but Lincoln and Pierre and Bismarck and every other capital, Cheyenne, we just have to get loud, be involved, and not let this happen. Our founding fathers told us you must be a dutiful citizen or government will run your life. We’re there now.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s where we’re at. One thing in Trent Luce is Protect Kids Colorado, those three ballot initiatives. Speaking of people coming together, over 3,500 volunteers came together. And those three ballot questions, we just got notification that the last one, all three of those are going to be on the ballot here in Colorado. So this is a testament to people stepping forward. But I will tell you, people spent hours and hours and hours. And I had somebody that texted me and said, why do we have to do this? I said, I know, that’s a good question. Why do we have to do this? But we have to do this, and that is to get those ballot questions on the ballot. And so people are stepping forward, which that is really good news, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 18 :
Go look at who’s contributed. There’s a disclosure form on the Secretary of State website for the state of Colorado. Go look at who’s funding these legislators who don’t do things that jive with our thinking. It’ll all come together. It’s a pay-to-play world.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and you can do that in the Tracer Reports at Colorado Secretary of State. Prayers for Nebraska, Trent Luce, and we’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 18 :
Thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
And I don’t want no one to cry. But tell them if I don’t survive.
SPEAKER 09 :
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