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If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate. That’s one of the ways they try to get you to vote for higher taxes is say it’s compassionate to take other people’s money via force, your money via force.
So it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities or lives. Force obviously can be a weapon, but it can also be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government induced inflation, the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites, United Nations, they’re all working, colluding together. The Colorado State Legislature and this governor, he’s no libertarian, the World Health Organization and Ballot Initiatives.
And the list goes on and on. But if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use Force to implement it. We focus on the issues, not the personalities, and we’ll certainly mention people that are behind these issues, but we want to stay focused on that.
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So much going on. The US Constitution signed by the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention. And again, that was in 1787.
Of course, that is a great segue into Grand Lake US Constitution Week. It began yesterday and will go all week. And great speakers, great events.
You can get all of that information by going to grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. That is grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. And I’m going to, I’m excited.
I would, one of these years, I’m going to be up there for the whole week. But that wasn’t this year. I’ll be going up on Friday and back on Sunday.
But today, let me get to the events here in just a moment so that you can know what’s going on. Because I think today is the day that yes, at noon, Holly Cason will be speaking regarding voting rights laws and the First Amendment. And it only takes a couple of hours to get up there.
I would highly recommend to try to get up there for that particular speech, that presentation. Holly Cason, Ash Epp and Sean Smith really took a stand when the state of Colorado went after them as co-founders of the US. EIP, the US.
Election Integrity Project. And they didn’t settle, they stood strong and the case was decided in their favor. And so they are certainly really heroes on that.
And then this evening at 5 p.m., Thomas Cranewitter will present on the US. Constitution as the greatest anti-slavery document ever. And so those are going to be two great speeches today or presentations today.
So get all the information by going to grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com and it is going to be a great day up there. Our Word of the Day, which should be pretty easy to use in a sentence, is expound. And when I work on the copy for the newsletter each week, I use the copy that we then use to record the spots that will, the promotional spots.
And I’m always looking for new words to help describe what our guests will be doing. So expound is a good one. It’s an intransitive verb.
And it could be number one, to explain in detail or to elucidate. Two, to make known or set forth to present. Or three, to make a detailed statement.
So for example, Kevin Lundberg will be our featured guest in this hour, and he will expound upon some of the different subjects that he had in the Lundberg Report. So expound is e-x-p-o-u-n-d, and your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And we’re going to be talking about Amendment 79 initially with Kevin, which is that would enshrine abortion up until the time of birth in the Colorado Constitution.
And we do not want to do that. So I was looking for quotes regarding children, and I found this from Cicero. And he was born in 106 BC, died in 7, excuse me, 43 BC.
He was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer, and academic skeptic who tried to uphold optimum principles during the political crisis that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. And his extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. And he is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and proselytists and the innovator of what became known as the Caesarian rhetoric.
And he said this, What gift is providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? And that is for sure. So again, this day in history, in 1787, the US.
Constitution is signed by the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention. In 1849, Harriet Tubman first escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers. In 1862, the Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the American Civil War.
Just think about this. All those years ago, 22,000 were dead, wounded or missing in this first battle on Union soil. Then, weather event, and I like to bring these up because they happened before all of these allegations regarding global warming, and that was in 1926.
Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach, Florida, and about 450 die. And this is a good segue into mentioning aclimateconversation.com. You can watch the documentary at climateconversation.com for free.
And you can also see these amazing podcast series that we are doing to complement the documentary with great scientists and great experts on the particular subject. A couple of other things. This correlation, 1940, Nazis deprived Jews of their possessions.
But we also see this with this ever insatiable, overreaching government through taxation, are depriving us of our possessions as well. And I thought that was a bit of a correlation. 1944, Operation Market Garden, which is the largest airborne operation of World War II.
The Allied paratroopers landed in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnheim Bridge over the Rhine. And it ended up some of the British troops trying to capture that bridge. It was devastating for them.
And this whole thing is depicted in the movie A Bridge Too Far. And then lastly, 1980, Polish workers under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa found the Solidarity Movement at the Gdansk Shipyard. So lots of things happened in history.
And I think it’s just so interesting to think about all these things happening. The biggest news probably is, continues to be this assassination attempt upon President Trump. And this is from the, let’s see, this is from Fox News.
It says, Trump assassination attempt, the suspect’s possible personal vendetta among investigators for key questions. And this is by Christina Coulter. And she said that there are four key questions that don’t need to ask.
And I think it’s good that they, they actually were able to get him alive because this is going to, I think, be very telling. Although I am concerned with those at the top of the FBI. I think the agents are quite, probably quite good, but I am concerned about how that information is going to be acted upon.
But it said, did, these are the four questions that she recommended. Did Ryan Wesley Ralph act alone? Number one.
Number two. What was his motive? Number three.
How did he come into possession of a firearm? And number four. Did he, how did he know where to lie and wait?
And there are stories that he was there for over 12 hours. So how did he get there? And so these are all going to be really important questions.
And then President Trump, it’s, it’s amazing. He’s been to assassination attempts and then the lawfare against him and all of these different decisions and these lawsuits is really remarkable. This man is, has nerves of steel.
But Daily Wire reports this is in this headline, that they wouldn’t let me finish. J. Vance reveals Trump’s first reaction to the gunman.
And says Trump was frustrated that the scare on Sunday, which resulted in secret service agents opening fire on a gunman, poking a rifle through the fence at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, disrupted his game. I did see at the beginning of an interview with the guy that Trump was playing golf with. And these shots, I think, were a lot closer than I had actually realized.
And it’s pretty remarkable. And then this is from Politico. Is Trump called for unity after the first assassination attempt?
Not this time. And it said the incident came up briefly on a regularly scheduled call with surrogates and advisers. And I think we realized that Trump is under attack, the American idea is under attack as well.
And then the vice presidential debate, this is from The Daily Caller, is scheduled for October 1st. And CBS, it says, the leadership of CBS News, the network set to host 2024’s only vice presidential debate is rife with Democrat donors, as FEC records show. In what could be the last debate of this election cycle, Ohio Senator JD.
Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are set to face off October 1st and is hosted by CBS News. The leadership of the network and its parent company Paramount have previously made donations to the Biden-Harris campaigns and numerous other Democrats according to public records reviewed by The Daily Caller. So we’re going to have to wonder if this is going to be a three against one as well and it would be nice if, in fact, when a candidate did not tell the truth, that they might be fact-checked on that, which that did not happen with Kamala Harris in the Trump-Harris debates.
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Very pleased to have on the line with me, former state senator Kevin Lundberg. He is the author of the Lundberg Report, which you can find at Kevin Lundberg. That’s lundberg.com.
Kevin Lundberg, welcome.
Well, thank you, Kim. It’s always good to be with you.
Well, there’s a lot that’s happened since we talked to you last month. Another assassination attempt upon President Trump. This is unbelievable to me, Kevin.
Yeah, I think it’s unbelievable to everyone, except for the fact that it’s been happening, and that’s the environment that has been created by this election cycle. I’m not going to blame Donald Trump on this, which the left-leaning media wants to do all the time. I’m blaming those who are making such radical changes to our culture and our laws, and that belongs on the left side of the political spectrum.
You get what I mean here?
I do. And before we get into all of this and talk about these different things, I want to re-mention artclubmovie.com. This is the story of Erin and John Lee, and their daughter, 11 or 12 years old, were coming out of COVID.
She’s shy, new school. I can imagine she goes, hey mom, I’d like to go to artclub after school. And most parents would say, okay.
But that’s the thing about these insidious stuff that’s going on, is they don’t really tell you what they’ll really do. And instead of artclubmovie, it was a transgender indoctrination session. So I have a feeling, Kevin, if she would have said, hey mom, I want to go to a transgender indoctrination meeting tomorrow after school, the answer would have been no.
And I think it’s the same thing with Kamala Harris, is she won’t tell us what she really will do. And so that’s why it’s so important that you shed light on this, that we do what we’re doing here, Kevin.
Right, right. And I’m glad you draw that parallel, because it is kind of their method of operation, their MO, if you will, that let’s not really tell people exactly what we’ve got in mind, because they knew where we were heading towards. They wouldn’t like that.
And you know, I see this within the political arena here in Colorado, in particular, all the time. Let me go all the way back to 2004 with the election that flipped the legislature from strong Republican control to strong Democrat control. And that night, because I was in the legislature, and I won my race, but I wanted to know who was I serving with?
Because all these Democrats got elected, and I went to their websites, you know, to try to learn a little bit about them. And if you believed what was said on the website, these were rock-solid conservatives who just happened to have a D rather than an R behind their name. And yet, when I got to the general’s regular session that next year in 2005, and started watching the bills, the very first day, they rolled out radical changes.
As a matter of fact, the first bill that they rolled out was so bad that the Democrat governor had to, oh wait a minute, let me back up because that was two years later, never mind. But the push towards the left was dramatic once they got into power. But the way they campaigned was very much to look like a conservative, like I’m not going to grow government, I’m not going to increase taxes or fees, I’m going to just hold the line because we want to increase freedom and really empower individuals to run their lives as they see does.
But the only way you do that is government has to be held at bay, not grown with new programs and everything else. So yeah, their rhetoric is the exact opposite of what they’re trying to do. And we’re seeing that this year in a greater measure than we’ve ever seen before, really.
And you know, if you look at like, let’s go to that presidential debate, and I put that in quotes because it was really just a street fight where three people ganged up on one. But in that, everything that I heard from Harris, it was strong. You know, and I’m close enough that I know most of the details on this stuff.
And every time she would say something, and of course, we find out now that fact checking was not going to be allowed on her part. And yet, everything she said was deceit, virtually everything. And, you know, that’s because she doesn’t want to admit what she’s really been doing and what she’s really all about.
She’s embracing most of Trump’s actual campaign and governance policies in an attempt to to fool the public. Well, fool me once and maybe shame on you, but fool us twice. And this seems to be the second round on this for her.
We need to be more discriminating and not watch at what she says, but watch at what she has done and expect her to do the same in the future.
Well, and in your Lundberg report, you had linked to this comparison from First Liberty, and I think that that is really a great document. It goes through judges and of course, Trump appointed judges Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, and as a Senator, Harris voted no. Trump opposes court packing.
She says she’s open to court packing. Trump created the Religious Liberty Task Force, and she introduced to build to weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It goes down those key issues, and I think that’s probably something that would be great for people to print off as they are talking with people that are just starting to really pay attention.
In fact, I was talking to a friend of mine that’s really more apolitical, and I had said on the show last week that I felt that she came across pretty well, and Eric, one of our listeners, really took me to task on that. And it wasn’t that I meant what she said. There wasn’t the substance there, but I think you recognized it as well.
From a style standpoint, we’re used to seeing her tripping over words, cackling, not making sense, word salads, and she wasn’t that bad. So for those of us that know how she normally presents, from style points, she did better. Of course, like you say, it was a street fight, three on one.
But I told Eric, I would make that clarification that that, and he’s like, Kim, they didn’t even challenge her on any of those things that she said. And he has a good point. So I think that print, so I digress.
So a friend of mine is a political, said, Kim, I thought she was a terrible communicator. How could she have ever been a prosecutor? And in my mind, I’m thinking, oh, this was an improvement over what she normally, how she normally presents.
And so I thought that was interesting. He said, I’d never heard her talk before. And I don’t think we realized that a lot of people in our lives are so busy doing, you know, working on their lives, taking care of their families that they haven’t been paying attention like we all do.
Yeah, yeah. We kind of put ourselves in a political bubble, you might say, not realizing that everybody else is in their own bubble. And I learned this, I’ve, you know, been through eight or nine campaigns myself.
And most of the people who end up voting don’t pay attention until sometime in October. And, you know, it’s a little frustrating for those of us who have been following this very carefully. But but yeah, it’s it’s there.
There’s a whole lot to happen in the election cycle until the election day actually occurs. Or, you know, I know it’s election season the way it works nowadays, which is a little ironic. No subject.
But yes, I know she.
Yeah, it’s you know, you talk about the debate. Let me add one other element that I was I was watching it very carefully to see how they how they manage the visuals for all of the debate, knowing that they were going to try to diminish Trump and maximize Harris. And something I missed was her podium was much smaller than Trump’s podium.
And then when they showed a wide shot, they had this kind of weird angle where it looked like it was this fish eye lens and it looked like she was way in the distance and he was up front because he was bigger and she was smaller. But they did, they created this optical illusion because in fact her podium was much smaller. It was proportion to how tall she was as opposed to how tall Trump and how big Trump is.
And you know, I mean they played every game in the, you know, in the optical illusion world and then they almost always had side-by-side shots. But they had zoomed in on her so she appears just as tall and just as big and just as imposing. And I can kind of understand them zooming in, but I’ve never seen that trick before where you actually have identical looking podiums.
But one is, it was probably 20 to 30 percent smaller in proportion to every direction. And so you looked at it side by side and they, you know, she actually looked more imposing. Here’s something I did catch and that is that they made sure that Trump’s microphone was a little bit lower.
So for him to actually project into the microphone, he had to lean over and it looked threatening. You know, it’s kind of like if you come up, somebody’s sitting at a desk and you lean into the desk, you are, you know, you are threatening them. You’re looking threatening.
Well, they made Trump do that in order to actually talk into the microphone. Yeah, and everything is just stacked one direction only when it comes to the media, the reporting and what the average citizen is actually getting right now.
Well, and we need to realize that everyday people, hardworking Coloradans, are starting to pay attention. I will, I’m working on my voters guide and people are requesting it. And we hope to have it done by the end of the month.
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So Kevin Lundberg, former state senator, author of the Lundberg Report. This last Lundberg Report, you mentioned Amendment 79. And this is one of the things that’s confusing, is before the ballot is totally set, these different questions may have a different number.
And so this is now the actual number that will be on the ballot. It is a question to enshrine in our Constitution. Just think about that.
The killing of babies up until the time they are born. You talk about cruel. This is terrible.
But you have several different reasons, which I think are really important to hit regarding to vote no on Amendment 79.
Well, yeah. I mean, the biggest point is that it is putting in our Colorado Constitution the right to abortion, which is just… You’re right.
It’s unbelievable. Yeah, I actually printed, asked the gentleman who’s really been studying this, Lloyd Benz, up here in Northern Colorado. He’s a real pro-life champion.
And he boiled it down to five different questions. Do we wait till women start dying from unlicensed and uninspected abortion clinics? And what that means is the way this constitutional measure is worded, is it puts in this language to the Colorado Constitution.
The right to abortion is hereby recognized. Government shall not deny, impede or discriminate against the exercise of that right, including prohibiting health insurance and coverage for abortion.
Now, what is that?
Right now, if a minor gets an abortion, the parents or the guardians are to be notified that that’s occurring. That will go away, because that would be impeding the possible abortion. And here it’s spelled out in such an explicit term in this proposed section for the Constitution, that it overrides everything else.
I don’t want to go through all the little details. We don’t have time for everything here. But it really does put this on such a high level.
And to me, that’s such an offensive piece of language, because abortion is killing a child, an unborn child. And I’m quite grateful that at least most people recognize that, even those who do call for that, but somehow they put these blinders on and say, well, it’s going to be OK to do this in this case, because somehow we accept this terminology of abortion rather than murder. But biologically, there’s no difference.
So Kevin, and as I was reading these different things, this is one that really stopped me in my tracks. Do we wait until sex traffickers can freely coerce women into abortions without prosecution? And that really stopped me in my tracks.
I want to… OK, so there’s several different things regarding this whole issue. But first of all, we do not want to enshrine in our Constitution abortion, nor do we want to have taxpayer dollars for that.
Bottom line, the other thing, Kevin, is there are many people that we know. Some have shared it with me, some haven’t. But people that we know that made a decision because they maybe felt they didn’t have other options.
We know people that we love and care about that have had abortions. And so, I want to say that on an individual basis, and of course, what was the movie with Abby Johnson, where she realized God’s forgiveness for this, and she had healing in it. And I really want to move towards that and make sure that women and men that have gone through abortion, that they understand that there is loving forgiveness for this.
And so, I want to make sure that we make that point, but we do not want to enshrine in our Constitution abortion. I feel that there are two separate things that we want to make sure that people understand compassion over here, but we’ve got to stand for life over here on this question 79.
Yeah, and Kim, I think you really struck that balance appropriately because within the political rhetoric that occurs on this, a lot of people lose sight of what we’re trying to do. It’s not punish the mom, it’s protect the child. And the laws in the state of Colorado actually allow abortion at any time.
And this doesn’t change that. This just fortifies it and constitutionalizes it so that it cannot be changed by the legislature at any time. I mean, it’s frightening how extreme and radical this amendment is.
And, you know, here’s another thing. If you read the title that will be on the ballot, it doesn’t say anything about, in order to accomplish this, you have to repeal another section within the Colorado Constitution that prohibits public state funds from being used for abortions. It’s implied, but it’s not explicitly stated.
So if you were to show the ballot title to 20 potential voters today, I think, and ask them, so does this therefore repeal a portion of the Colorado Constitution, specifically Article 5, Section 50? And I don’t think you’d get a single voter who would say, oh yeah, we’re repealing that part of the Constitution. It’s deceptive, the title is, in my mind.
Well, and also, I think that, and as you were working on Protect Kids Colorado and getting through the title board, and there were all kinds of roadblocks that were put up for, and the two questions that we finally, or that you finally got to the petitioning phase was to keep boys out of girl sports, and then parental notification if a child was experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence, I guess that was the word, at school. And they ran you guys in circles regarding those ballot titles. And in Colorado, a ballot title is only supposed to have one subject.
But it seems to me like this has two. One is enshrining abortion in the Constitution, and two, repealing or repealing and then instating that there would be taxpayer funding for abortion. So that seems like that that doesn’t cut the mustard with me, at least for one single title or a single subject.
Well, by the standards that the title board was accepting for every other measure, I thoroughly agree. I would say that the legislature is under the same single subject requirement via the Constitution. But the title board for citizens initiatives are very, very strict.
And that’s, you’re quite right, that’s the irony of this whole thing, is they bent over backwards to allow this measure to be put in place. And then they wrote a, a ballots title that I don’t believe sufficiently describes what’s occurring, because it totally ignores the fact that it, that it takes a repeal of a part of the Constitution to get this done. And, you know, here’s a curious thing, that the Colorado Constitution actually covers that.
Here’s what it says in Article 5, Section 1, Subsection 5.5. You don’t have to remember that. I’m just giving you the citation.
But it says, If any subject shall be embraced in any measure which shall not be expressed in the title, such measure shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall be not be so expressed. Which means if you don’t put it in the title, it actually isn’t supposed to be, the law isn’t supposed to be changed through the adoption of an initiative. And yet I know that they’re going to just kind of let this one slide through.
I’d love to see a serious court case challenging how this actually works. I think the title is defective and deceptive. And that’s why it’s defective, is it doesn’t tell you the whole story.
And then it also doesn’t explicitly say that this will also repeal the statutory requirement for parental notification of an abortion by a minor. It just gives this blanket statement that it’s going to be allowed everywhere at all times and state employees cannot be prohibited from any insurance that would not include abortion. And I’m even wondering what this is going to…
Yeah, anyway.
Yeah, it’s… And it’s going to be a big ballot. And so let’s go to break.
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Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And today is Constitution Day.
And this week is Grand Lakes US Constitution Week. You can get all information about all the events by going to grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. But big day up there.
Today at noon, Holly Cason will present on Voting Rights Laws and the First Amendment. You will totally learn so much and enjoy her. And this evening, Thomas Kranewitter will present at 5 p.m. the US Constitution as the greatest anti-slavery document ever.
So happy Constitution Day, Kevin Lundberg.
Why, thank you very much. I’m glad you acknowledge that part of it all, because, you know, the Constitution, the United States Constitution, which was really birthed on this day. I mean, it took a long time to put it all together, but it had to be adopted at a certain time.
That’s September 17th, is the foundation for our system of government here. And whenever we start to tinker with it, we have to be extremely careful. It has to be a long, thoughtful process.
Does it need to be changed from time to time? Yes, that’s why we have, what is it, 27, 28 amendments on the US. Constitution.
But it has to be in a very careful, thoughtful manner, and so too here in Colorado, we need to be careful.
Absolutely. And they’re enshrining abortion into the Constitution. There’s other things, other amendments, though, as well, that one of the, well, there’s, I think there’s 12 questions on our Colorado ballot.
That’s why I’m doing a Voters’ Guide to help you with that. And what I do with my Voters’ Guide, Kevin, is I will give the ballot question, and then if there is additional text that is behind that, sometimes we don’t realize we’re voting in pages of stuff on whatever the question is. Right.
My recommendation and then my reasoning. I’m not telling people what to do. I’m just giving them information and they can decide from there.
But man, there’s a lot of stuff on here. What’s the next one you’d like to talk about out of these 12?
Well, another really, really bad one is actually called a proposition because it’s changing the statutes, it’s not the constitution. But that’s Proposition 131, which is to put in place ranked choice voting instead of the primaries that we have today. And I’ve got some problems with how the primaries are conducted because it’s more than just party members who vote on these in these primaries.
But this would throw all of that out and it would replace it with what they call ranked choice voting, where for the first round of the voting process in Colorado for elected officials, everybody goes on the ballot. And that could be dozens or literally hundreds of people on the ballot. If you know, like up in Alaska, where they first tried this for a special election for filling a congressional seat, I think they had 40, 42, 43 names on the ballot and people who were to check between all of those.
And it does so many things. It takes political parties pretty much out of the process. Yes, they can submit somebody to be on that, but that would be among everybody else who would jump through the hoops to get on the ballot.
And then you don’t just select one and the highest vote taker gets it. No, they throw out your top vote if you didn’t vote for one of the most popular ones and they replace that with any lesser choice you have. And there again in Alaska, a very Republican red state, a Democrat ends up getting elected eventually because of the way everybody’s vote was divided up among other popular candidates.
This is a wolf in sort of cheap, cheap clothing. In other words, I don’t see how people can see it as being anything but a wolf. But it has so many bad implications, and it’s only going to take a simple majority to be voted in being a proposition rather than a constitutional change.
So, oh, and that’s the one other thing people need to realize is for constitutional changes, it takes a super majority vote to actually pass it.
So yes, there will be amendments and there will be propositions. But interesting players on this, one I knew for sure, and that was Kent Thery, who has put in 3.51 million, and total 5.45 million in contributions have come in to this particular question. Opposing, there’s only $20,000.
And so what this means is it’s going to be big money, it’s going to control our elections, and it’s ranked choice voting, it’s convoluted, it’s complex, a computer algorithm will decide who the winner is, and it’s almost impossible to actually audit these elections. But you probably knew this, former state Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadams is out there on the stump in favor of this, and I’m very disappointed in that.
Well, unfortunately, Dick Wadams turned in his conservative credentials a very long time ago. He’s backed the open primary system we have here in the state. He backed some big funding things in the last election cycle for I think it was affordable housing, and that’s because he picked up a really fat check from the proponents of it.
So I just don’t, I mean, why in the world people pay attention to somebody who has so radically changed their political philosophy, I don’t know. But yeah, Kent Theory, he’s the big player here. And here, I’ve got a quote from me.
He said, I think this is about bringing voice and choice back to the people, whether they’re Democrats, Republicans or independents, they need their voice and choice back. But that’s not what this does. This turns it over to the very super rich who can buy their way onto the ballot, and then who can buy their way into success because they’ve got all the money.
And who’s that? That’s Kent Theory. You know, you talk about, you know, some of the political rhetoric that happens in an election that’s the exact opposite of what it is.
Right now, we have a two-party system in this country. It developed out of the necessity for people to amplify their voice by joining like-minded people to form a political party. Well, there’s been this slow attempt on the part of many, Kent Thurie being the champion in Colorado, of destroying the two-party system.
And, you know, it doesn’t mean everybody has a voice. It means nobody gets a loud megaphone like the people who are the super rich.
The super rich. Yeah. Kevin, we are out of time.
It always goes too quickly when you’re on. And really, really, really appreciate it. But we will talk again soon.
We’ll get you on next month. And again, Kevin Lundberg, the Lundberg report. You can find that at kevinlundberg.com.
Kevin, thank you for sharing your perspective. I greatly appreciate it.
Well, thank you, Kim, and thank you for being there. A voice, a reason in a very unreasonable world.
Well, we’re going to keep it up just like you. And I thought this quote for the end of the show was so great from Cicero. He said this, The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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This day in history, 1787, the US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention. And that is why this is such an amazing week up in Grand Lake. And it began 13 years ago.
And what had happened was it was too dry for the 4th of July, for them to set off their fireworks. And so they had these fireworks. What would they do with them?
Well, the founders of US Constitution Week said, how about if we celebrate the Constitution? And on Saturday, we’ll shoot off the fireworks over the lake at that time. So that’s what will happen on Saturday evening, this coming Saturday, the 21st.
And so that’s how the Grand Lake US Constitution Week began. But then they just kept doing this. Every year, bringing in great speakers.
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That’s grandlakeusconstitutionweek.com. And let’s see, what else to mention to you? I think just this, these reports that are coming out regarding this assassination attempt upon President Trump, and the fact that they got the guy alive, I think is good because they’re going to get more and more information on that.
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And Matt Vadum, welcome to the show.
Hi, good to be here.
You had recently published a piece regarding youth activists are asking the US Supreme Court to revive a dismissed climate lawsuit. And I had the great honor to moderate a very thoughtful documentary on this subject to climateconversation.com. We’ve created a podcast series to accompany this.
So I understand a lot regarding this particular issue. And I had watched this case, this court case, that was dismissed by these young people. They’re getting older now.
But basically, it says that they want the Supreme Court, they want the courts to make a decision regarding that they’re injured via climate change. Do I have that close to correct, Matt Vadum?
Right. They say that they have a right to to be protected from a climate that’s changing for the worse.
And so this lawsuit was filed in 2015?
They just made that up, because that’s a totally novel argument. But not surprisingly, it was dismissed by the lower courts.
So they’re going to ask the Supreme Court to take a look at this, though, yes?
They’re going to ask, they’re asking, they are asking the Supreme Court to reinstate the case.
Okay.
They want their day in court.
So what do you think is going to happen?
Supreme Court is going to tell them to take a long walk off a short pier, probably. That would be my guess. I can’t predict.
Maybe they’ll want to hear the case in order to settle the issues involved. But it sounds to me like it’s a novel argument that is not based on rights. They’re saying that they have a right in the US Constitution to not be subjected to harm from climate change.
So I don’t know where they’re getting that from. But they don’t have standing is what the lower court rule, the Ninth Circuit rule, that they don’t have standing. That you can’t, you have to show a strong enough connection to the action complained of to justify participation in a lawsuit.
And they don’t, they can’t just say because, you know, the climate is changing, which is an arguable point, right? You know, the climate is always changing. And that’s not enough to bring a lawsuit.
So it was thrown out, I guess, on what you’d say were, you know, technical grounds, as a lot of cases are. It was denied. The Ninth Circuit ruled that it lacked standing to hear the case or lacked standing, that the plaintiffs, the petitioners lacked standing.
And they directed the lower court judge, a US. District Judge Anne Aiken, to dismiss the case. And she previously had refused to do so.
She found reasons not to dismiss it and kept hearing the case. And then, so they previously, she was ordered to dismiss the case. And now again, the Ninth Circuit order her to dismiss the case and said that you’ve got to do it.
And the plaintiffs, a group of young people say, that’s not fair. We want our day in court.
Well, and as I’m reading your piece from the Epic Times, Matt Vadum, and what I see is ultimately, this is another attempt to shut down our naturally occurring fuels of oil, gas and coal, because it says here, and you’re quoting your piece, but despite the severe dangers posed by carbon pollution, and I do want to make the point that carbon dioxide is plant food, okay? It says, the government made things worse through fossil fuel extraction, production, consumption, transportation and exportation according to the complaint. And what we’re learning with our podcast series at aclimateconversation.com, and we had Lord Monkton on just recently, who’s been in this arena as far as research regarding the climate change narrative, is that he ultimately said that this whole climate change narrative is really, he said it would lead to communism.
I know that those are strong words, but he’s been studying this for a long time. Your thoughts on that?
Well, he’s right. He’s right, because there’s no limit. If you can claim a right not to be injured by the climate, well, if you have a right to that, then whoever is deemed to be doing something that is changing the climate, that is hurting you, is violating your rights.
You have to be able to have some recourse against the person. Right? So, yeah, it would lead to, it could lead to all sorts of things in the future.
It could lead to the shutting down of all sorts of energy, means of energy production if they are deemed to be contributing to climate change.
We’ll end.
Climate change isn’t even, we don’t even know, see, this is such a vague area. You know, it’s not even clear that climate change is bad, okay? Some climate change is good.
You know, warming climate makes it easier for farmers to grow crops. So like climate change is not an entirely bad thing.
Well, right.
You can see the problems they’re getting into here.
Right. And so did you really delve into the non-profit public interest law firm that is representing these 21, they’re probably getting growing up now, these 21, though, probably activists. Have you looked much into that law firm?
I didn’t look much into them, but you know, if you read their website, you know, they’re pretty clearly part of the left. You’re talking about the group in Oregon called Our Children’s Trust.
Correct.
And, you know, they seem like a pretty garden variety, left-wing environmentalist organization.
Well, that’s the impression that I got.
Yeah, the other dot to connect here, as I’m looking at this, is that it’s a not-for-profit law firm. So would that mean that they could take contributions to their law firm since they’re not-for-profit and whoever would give to them would get a tax write-off?
Yeah. That’s my understanding of it. Yeah, if they’re a non-profit, if they’re a registered tax-exempt non-profit, then if you give money to them and you itemize your taxes, your deductions when you file your income taxes, then yeah, you could conceivably get a tax break.
Okay.
Yeah, there’s lots of non-profits in the world and sometimes they do legal work, like ACLU, for example.
Gosh, I hadn’t really connected that dot on that, that this is a great way for the left. And it seems like many times these billionaires that of course, Kamala Harris says that she wants to tax their capital gains. But then we see some of these billionaires say that, oh, I’ve talked to the Kamala Harris campaign and know that is not the case.
Well, they’ve figured out a way to get around all this. They could be contributing to these left-leaning nonprofits and getting a tax break. We saw that with Mark Zuckerberg in the election cycle in 2020, giving to the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
And it looks like they’re going to be added again, where these billionaires can give money to these different nonprofits that are left-leaning, pushing left-leaning agendas. And these billionaires get a ride-off on it. And so they may, I just find that’s a really important dot to connect for people, Matt Vadum.
Right, yeah. People get, you can contribute to the causes that you like. And excuse me, and some of them, some of them are involved in, some of them are involved in, in, you know, strategic litigation meant to achieve political goals, like shutting down the energy industry, for example, which I think is probably the ultimate goal of this lawsuit.
I think that is the ultimate goal, because if they were really serious about climate change, they would have to look at China, which is, they are building…
China and India, right?
Yeah, China and India, they are building power plants that use coal, and ours certainly don’t have all the standards that we have here regarding our coal, our natural gas. And so it’s really about kneecapping the West and our energy sources. It’s kneecapping our way of life.
That’s ultimately what would happen with this, from what I can see, Matt Vadum.
I think that that’s a fair assessment.
Well, and boy, this work that you’re doing as covering the Supreme Court, I want to talk with you about some of the other court cases that are there. You had the next one that I’d like to talk with you about is regarding these Maryland parents wanting to have their kids be able to opt out of LGBTQ storybooks. And so we’ll talk with Matt Vadum on that when we come back.
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He is, covers the Supreme Court for the Epic Times. And Matt Vadum, you’re doing excellent work regarding these different subjects. And people do not realize this, that our children are being indoctrinated at very young ages on this whole LGBTQ plus agenda.
And so some Maryland parents wanted to opt their kids out of some of these storybooks that are promoting this LGBTQ lifestyle. And they’re having to go to the Supreme Court. So tell us about that.
Right, the parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is one county over from me, I live in Maryland, are upset that the Montgomery County Board of Education took away their right to opt their children out of pro-LGBT storybooks. And so when that happened, when there was this policy change two years ago, the parents were upset about it and they protested and they complained. And then they filed a lawsuit.
And the federal district judge in August of last year denied their request to block the cancellation of the opting out policy. And then in May of this year, four months ago, US. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld that decision and found that the parents hadn’t demonstrated that an injunction was just justified.
So they refused to halt the policy.
They took away their right to they took away their right to opt their kids out of their out of the LGBT storybooks. So now the parents filed an emergency appeal with the US. Supreme Court and asked to have the policy allowing them to opt out to be reinstated.
So we’ll have to see what’s going to happen with that. I don’t know if the Supreme Court will deal with it on an emergency basis or if, you know, it’ll just spin the pile and wait to be considered like all the other cases that come in. That’s not clear yet to me.
Matt Vadum, I can’t believe this, that first of all, you’ve got a school board that is mandating that young children be read these storybooks that is pushing, really pushing kids to think about carnal desires, carnal things. Instead of high ideals such as this, the United States was founded on these high ideals that were all created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. So you’ve got a school board.
Then you’ve got, what, a judge and court on two different occasions that are saying parents don’t have the right to opt their kids out of this.
This is beyond belief to me what’s happening in America, Matt Vadum.
Yeah, well, that’s the way it is. If you send your kids to public schools, you’re taking a big risk nowadays in America, that they’re going to be indoctrinated with the most trendy, even politically correct, woke stuff, whatever is popular on the left. So public schools are really just indoctrination mills, but it’s been heading in that direction for some time.
But when they start coming for your children, as a parent, you tend to, and trying to force a lifestyle on them that a lot of people object to, then that’s a problem.
Yeah, it really is a problem. And so I think this is one of those cases to stay tuned on, right, Matt Vadum?
Right, right. We’ll have to wait and see what the court is going to do. I don’t, as they say, I don’t know if the court’s going to, Supreme Court is going to jump on it immediately, or if they’re just going to throw it on the pile with the other things, you know, where it will wait its turn to be considered.
But whatever happens, I will be there reporting on it.
Okay, so explain this to us. I have Rob Nattleson on a regular basis, who is an expert out here in Colorado, lives in Colorado, but an expert on the Supreme Court. And there’s two different sessions, is it called Sessions?
And are they hearing cases now? What does this all look like for the Supreme Court right now?
I guess you could say there’s two dockets, right? There’s the regular docket, that’s the regular group of cases that get heard when the Supreme Court gets around to it. And then there’s the emergency docket, okay?
And the emergency docket is when the emergency docket is for urgent things, like an urgent court order to stop how a state is registering voters or counting ballots or, you know, if something is really important, the Supreme Court can act very quickly. If there’s no urgency to it, though, then it will go on the regular docket, the non-emergency docket, and it will just be heard in the, in due course. So, you know, could take like a year for the case to be heard and decided.
So does that answer your question?
Well, I think so. So don’t they meet twice a year? So we hear the Supreme Court is in session.
So isn’t there like two different times that they meet each year?
There are sessions. So there’s a session, right? There’s are a term, they call it.
And the next term of the Supreme Court begins at the beginning of October, you know, the court hears its first case on the first Monday of every October. And so that’s roughly when the new term begins. And then that runs from October until, you know, October till Christmas, and then they start another session, and they come back in January, and that runs till the end of June.
And the court tries to get all of its decisions made by the end of June, so then it can go on summer recess. Right now, which it did on around July 1st or July 2nd of this year. And right now, it’s still in summer recess.
Summer recess lasts until, until, you know, the beginning of October. Their definition of summer is a little bit longer than a lot of people’s. It includes Indian summer.
That’s funny. So then they hear these course, these cases, and then they’re clerks. This is a big deal for people to clerk for a Supreme Court justice.
How many clerks do they have? And so are the clerks doing research to try to help the justices then make their decisions? And don’t they wait a while?
It seems like at some point in time, we have a lot of these decisions that are released. So how does that time frame work, Matt Vadum?
I think they usually have three, each justice has three clerks or maybe more sometimes. And at least two anyway. And that person is like a top law student who’s competed to get the position.
It’s like a very prestigious internship, essentially. And they get to help the justice. Now, how much of the justices work?
They actually do is a secret. But I think it’s fair to say they read all the briefs that the justice is supposed to and they give recommendations to the justice as to what he or she should do. So yeah, it’s a powerful position.
Now, you know, a lot of the times what they’re, they have to go through really crappy, useless petitions that have been filed with the court. A lot of people, a lot of cranks file petitions with the Supreme Court. Often they’re handwritten, you know, and they’re just, you know, people who are not well will, like, file an appeal with the, a frivolous appeal with the Supreme Court, often not even based on a court decision, just their complaints about the world.
So with things like that, you know, the clerk is going to spot that pretty quickly and tell the just, advise the justice that the, you know, the case should be, the petition should be dismissed. So they take care of a lot of housekeeping, things like that, and save the justice’s time by doing that. So then in the more important cases, I think they actually do read the briefs carefully and think about what should be done and make a recommendation.
Okay. So then don’t they release for each term then? Don’t they pretty much make decisions for that term?
It seems like we have a lot of things that will come out in December, yes? Or do they wait and release thing for their decisions for both terms right after the end of June?
What they do is they leave the bulk of it for the end of the term. So to like, you start seeing a lot of decisions coming out in May and June, once the pressure is on, the deadline to leave, to go on summer recess is approaching. But, sometimes, they will hear a case in October and you’ll have a decision in November.
It happens, but it doesn’t happen with a lot of cases. So the court is going to hear a whole bunch of cases in October and November, and I’d be surprised if you had a decision in more than two or three cases of those cases that they heard by the end of December.
Okay, then last question.
It tends not to work that way.
Okay. And I’m learning a lot. My last question.
We have the election, which is right around the pike. It’s coming down the pike, I guess we should say. Yeah.
And out here in Colorado, we’ve created a Colorado 2024 election project, where we are taking legal action, a couple of different things. One, to compel the state of Colorado to bring our elections up to the minimum standards as set forth by Congress. And that case has been filed.
And the other is to prevent undeliverable ballots from being mailed out to people. And that letter has been sent to the Secretary of State. And we have to wait 20 days.
And so that case should be filed around the 26th of September. What do you see? I assume that some of these things could hit an emergency docket regarding the election.
Do you see anything coming down the pike regarding the elections right now at the Supreme Court?
Well, yeah, there’s a few things. That doesn’t mean they’re going to act on them. Let me think.
The Supreme Court right now is dealing with an emergency request to put the Green Party on the ballot in Nevada because Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, was booted off the ballot for whatever reason. And the Green Party is not happy because the Democrats, the state Democratic Party, I guess, abused them as a threat and came up with a legal argument and the courts bought it. And so the Green Party is maybe reinstated by the US Supreme Court.
We’ll have to see. That application was only filed a couple of days ago. But there’s also something, the Supreme Court is reluctant to get involved.
Courts are reluctant to get involved in things really close to the election because of a case called Purcell. And so they call it the Purcell Principle. And the Purcell Principle is that you should not change the rules of an election too close to the election day if it will cause confusion among the public.
So the courts are guided by that and they don’t always follow the rule. But the general idea of the Purcell Principle is don’t change the rules when the election is just around the corner. So courts are generally reluctant to do that.
Okay. Well, super interesting with what we have going on regarding elections right now. Matt Vadum, I have learned so much and I thank you for that.
What’s your final thought you would like to leave with our listeners?
I wish the Supreme Court justices weren’t so lazy. They only hear like 60 cases a year. They used to hear close to double that.
And I don’t know why. No one’s really explained to me anyway, why has been able to explain why they don’t hear more cases, because there’s a lot of good cases they should be taking, but they don’t take them. And I think that’s a shame because there’s a lot of there’s a lot of justice to be dispensed that isn’t being handed out by the Supreme Court.
So I wish the Supreme Court justices were busier.
Okay, Matt Vadum with the Epic Times. Thank you so much. This has been very informative.
I greatly appreciate it.
Okay, thank you. Okay, bye bye.
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Ranked choice voting. How is this not voter suppression and disenfranchise, just disenfranchising people? And that is such an excellent point.
So we have on the line with us, Danielle Jurinsky. She is a city councilwoman in Aurora. And of course, Aurora has been in the news regarding Venezuelan gangs.
Danielle Jurinsky, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me, Kim.
Well, it’s been quite a, it’s great to have you. And it’s been quite an adventure in a way. What do you want people to know regarding the Venezuelan gang situation in Aurora?
Well, I think just regarding specifically Aurora, I would just like people to know that, you know, our city is working very hard on this. But this is a much bigger problem than Aurora. And that’s what people need to understand.
There is only so much that Aurora can do. You saw Governor Greg Abbott come out yesterday and announce a plan to really start cracking down on the border, specifically for Trendy Aragla. They took over a hotel in El Paso.
You saw the United States, I can’t think of which department it was, but they’ve actually deemed them a national transaction criminal organization. So, I think that Aurora definitely opened Pandora’s Box on this and shed the light that it needed. But this is nationwide.
This is nationwide. This isn’t about what Aurora is doing, what this city is doing, what that city is doing. We need border.
We need border security.
Well, absolutely. And this was interesting regarding this question. This is from the City Journal.
And it says, how did these gangs find themselves in suburban Colorado? And it says, the story begins in 2021 when the Biden administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act allocating $3.8 billion in federal funds to Colorado. The city of Denver had declared itself a welcoming city or a sanctuary city to migrants.
They drew on that money and they launched their emergency migrant response resettlement program. And then, in turn, they signed contracts with NGOs that brought these people in. And then the next thing you know, these people are over in Aurora.
So I think it’s important to connect those dots, Danielle Jurinsky.
Yeah, we already have those non-G, those nonprofits are Papagayo, Live Wellness. And we are looking into Village Exchange. We haven’t yet confirmed them as a third, but we believe they’re a third.
So, yeah, we have all of that information. We are well aware. But this is a sad state of affairs when you have a city that declares themselves not a sanctuary city, but you have these nonprofits getting all of this, you know, tax funding and placing these people in Aurora.
And then what? The city of Aurora is expected to take care of these people from then on. We declared and deemed ourselves not a sanctuary city.
The whole situation is really a mess. And the governor has some explaining to do. Our federal government has some explaining to do.
As of yet, I don’t know. I don’t know who all is involved and who still is not involved. But I do know that this is being taken very seriously in Aurora.
Well, and it’s I think it’s important to note that you really just standing up for your constituents was how this whole thing, I feel, really started Danielle Jurinsky.
Well, that’s exactly right. When I have police officers coming to me, telling me that they’re not being heard, they’re not being heard in the Chiefs Office, one of us is going to get killed out here. You are going to bury a police officer, Danielle, if you don’t do something.
Let me tell you something, that will spark a reaction out of me.
Well, and I think that that’s shedding light on this. And to your point, that open border and the pipeline from the border to Denver and all of this money that Denver has expended upon people that have come here illegally is pretty unbelievable. And so your final thought that you’d like to leave with listeners on all this, Danielle, because I know that everybody has been wanting to talk with you about this and you’ve been on local and national news.
What’s your final thought? You’d like to leave with listeners.
My final thought is, I just hope that really everybody is really talking about this. And this isn’t a time to attack people with different beliefs than us. This is a time to educate them, to talk to them, to tell them these stories.
Because, I mean, there is nothing more important right now than our public safety.
Right, because people can’t pursue their life, liberty and happiness unless that they are living in safe communities. And so, I laud you for bringing this forth because this needs to be addressed now, not tomorrow, because they’ll just gain more and more power as a transnational gang. And so, it does need to be addressed now.
And I thank you for bringing this to the attention of the people of Aurora, Colorado and nationally as well, Danielle Jurinsky.
Absolutely. Thanks, Kim. Have a great day.
You as well. And I have learned so much today. Matt Vadum with Epic Times, a Supreme Court reporter.
He reports on the Supreme Court. It really has been so informative. One of our listeners said, interesting is what Matt said about the Supreme Court, that they don’t always follow the rules.
And so maybe that’s possibly why we’re in the situation that we’re in. And sometimes I paraphrase these a bit. And then, let’s see, one of our listeners said, and this was regarding these kids that had filed this case regarding climate change.
One of our listeners said, I’m amazed at how remarkably immature that these, many of our young people are, but she says we put this at the feet of the baby boomer generation who actually raised these kids. I think that’s a very good point on that as well. So my friends, we will have a great show plan for you again tomorrow.
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