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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to the Kim Monson show thank you so much for listening you each are treasured and valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history thank you to the team that’s producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting it is wednesday producer joe happy wednesday kim Happy Wednesday. And if it’s Wednesday, that means it’s Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. That’s for to go or to dine in. And those locations are Loveland, Westminster and Aurora. And of course, great place to watch March Madness is Hooters restaurants because they have all kinds of TVs. So be sure and check that out. Also, check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Make sure that you’re signed up for our weekly email. 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And it’s not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force and control. And it can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation. Fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. The agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites and their tools are the United Nations. But this is going all the way down to school districts, to municipalities. In your school districts, if you see the… DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, or sometimes they change it around to equity, diversity, and inclusion to try to trip us up on that. If you see that in your school districts, that’s World Economic Forum stuff. If you see a road diet where these main thoroughfares now have bike lanes, and think about all the money that has gone into the paint and the manpower to create those roads bike lanes with the little barriers, that’s World Economic Forum right there in your community. And so we see this play out in our lives big time. And that’s why we have to reclaim this you know, this great American idea. And socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is used as a carrot to get people to vote for it. But socialism ultimately comes down to force. And as Maggie Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people around those issues. But we really work to stay out of the personality fighting that can happen. Out there. I’d like to say thank you to our sponsors. Our goal sponsors are the Harris family, and I thank them and also 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 if you are having any challenges with your own personal climate, I know you may be thinking about you need to get that air conditioner going as warm as it’s been. Check out Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. Our word of the day is, oh, I worked on this. Yvonne, you’re going to have to help me. It’s iconography, and it’s spelled I-C-O-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y. And Yvonne Paez is a linguist, and she suggested this word. particularly after I was talking about the symbolism in some of these different things. So this is a symbolic representation, especially the conventional attached to a meaning. Number two, subject matter in the visual arts, especially to the reference to the conventions of treating a subject in artistic representation. Number three, the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts. And number four, a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing. And I think I’m going to go with definition number four, behind door number four. And that is when I was at caucus, I was at one of the local high schools, and there was not an American flag in the classroom, but there was a big pride flag with the word A-L-L-Y on it. And the A-L-L-Y, I had to look that up. But that stands for all the people that basically are affirming all of the stuff on the pride flag. And so our kids are getting this indoctrination day after day after day. And that is the World Economic Forum playing out in our everyday lives. Our quote of the day is from Henry Ford, because we’re going to be talking with Lauren Fix here in just a little bit. And she is a car coach, reports everything autos. Henry Ford was born in 1863. He died in 1947. He was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. also the assembly line. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles. He was born in a farmhouse in Springwells Township, Michigan, and left home at the age of 16 to find work in Detroit. He wasn’t sitting around playing video games. And it was a few years before this time, and he wasn’t sitting around wondering if he was a girl. It was a few years before this time that Ford first experienced automobiles, and throughout the later half of the 1880s, he began repairing and later constructing engines, and through the 1890s worked with the division of Edison Electric. He founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 after prior failures in business, but was successful in constructing automobiles. The introduction of the Ford Model T vehicle in 1908 is credited with having revolutionized both transportation and American industry. As the sole owner of the Ford Motor Company, Ford became one of the wealthiest people in the world. It was also among the pioneers of a five-day work week. And just think about this. He created something that gave everyday people the freedom of mobility. We’re going to be talking with Lauren Fix in a little bit that now we have government that wants to try to tax you for every mile that you drive. And when you start to tax something, you get less of something. And it is their agenda that try to get people out of their personal safe vehicles. And so it’s amazing what’s happening right now. But this is Henry Ford’s quote, and I loved this. He said, a poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream. And as we look at education, I continue to hear educators say that we need to educate for the workforce. No, we don’t need to educate for the workforce. We need to educate our children so that they have the tools that they can go after their hopes and dreams. Now, certainly they need to have jobs so that they can be self-sufficient. But it’s not that we are educating for the workforce. We want to educate our children so that they have the tools to be anything that they want to be. Next thing, our bill of the day is House Bill 26-1339. And the prime sponsors on this are all Democrats, Representative Monica Duran, Representative Lorena Garcia, and Senator Jesse Danielson. And it says March 31st, this is the summary, is currently known as Cesar Chavez Day and may be voluntarily observed as a legal holiday. The bill changes this March 31 voluntary legal holiday to instead be known as Farm Workers Day. And you’re seeing this across the nation. And Cesar Chavez had been known for working for migrant farmers’ rights. And as we learned recently that he he well, let’s take a look at this article from Politico says California lawmakers pushed to strip Cesar Chavez’s name from the state holiday. It says Latino caucus members huddled in the state capitol following sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader. and it says um uh goes on it says and okay california pushing to strip the official holiday honoring his birthday following the sexual abuse allegations leveled against him the highest profile in a rush of efforts to remove his name from parks public buildings, and commemorations across the state. Says Latino Legislative Caucus Chair Lena Gonzalez on Wednesday told reporters that lawmakers will pursue a name change, though she did not suggest an alternative or lay out a timeline, saying there’s going to be a short and a long-term process. California annually celebrates Chavez, the United Farm Workers Labor Union co-founder and Latino civil rights organizer. And People around him had to know what was going on. It goes on to say Latino caucus members huddled in the state capitol following the publication of a New York Times report in which two women alleged Chavez sexually abused them as girls. Chavez’s labor movement partner, Dolores Horta, also accused him of twice raping her, resulting in two children she sent to be raised by other families. It’s somewhat… unbelievable to me that it’s taken all these years for this to become public and we’re seeing democrats very quickly right here in colorado with this bill house bill 1339 to make a change on this and i just find it first of all it’s tragic and second of all people had to know and because he was pushing a certain agenda people look the other way and that is not okay And we have these important discussions because of our sponsors, and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team is such a valued sponsor of the show. And Roger knows that life can be challenging, and it’s their team’s mission to maximize your financial security as you manage the risks of everyday life. So give Roger Mangan a call at 303-795-8855 for more information. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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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 so pleased to welcome Radiance Power, not to be confused with Radiant Painting and Lighting, as a new sponsor of the show. And Radiance Power specializes in providing expert electrical solutions for your home. They’re licensed electricians, excel in electrical installations, ensuring your systems are safe and efficient. Radiance Power offers comprehensive panel upgrades to enhance your electrical capacity, reliable generator installations to keep your home powered during outages, and custom lighting installations to illuminate your space beautifully. Colorado-owned Radiance Power offers better pricing for your electrical needs because of less overhead than the big guys. Contact RadiancePower.net for all your electrical needs, delivering quality, safety, and peace of mind with every project. That’s RadiancePower.net. On the line with us is Mike Rolick. You know him. He is with the Ralston Valley Coalition. He’s also an informed, engaged citizen and doing really great work to continue to illuminate what is happening regarding surveillance in our communities. He’s on the ground in many local things. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Jim, good morning. How are you doing?
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Well, I am doing well. And first of all, last night there was a meeting for House District 24 and House District 27. How did that go? Give us a rundown.
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Oh, it was really nice, actually. It wasn’t kind of an informal meeting because it was in the zone. However, we did have Scott Bottoms show up, and then Sam Pond was there as well, as well as a gentleman named Chris. I do forget his last name, but he threw his hat in the ring for… House District 24 as well. So it was nice to meet some candidates. And also the county coroner, Jeffco County Coroner candidate was there as well.
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Okay. And so Scott Bottoms is running for governor. Sean Pond is running for U.S. Senate. And then you had these other candidates as well. Okay. Yeah, we are in election season, aren’t we?
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Unfortunately, it seems like election season grows and grows and grows. But yeah, this is a very important one. There is a lot on the line for sure to rebalance out the power to get away from this super minority, trending minority. Our majority? Conservative and Republican side. Well, I’m saying to ours. Oh, on our side, okay. To trend away from that, try to balance it back out. Yeah.
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And when I say our side, what I mean is people that want to be representatives of we the people and to reclaim Colorado as where the rugged individualism that built Colorado is what we need to reclaim. So that’s what I mean when I say our side. What we see on the Democrat side right now is it’s been hijacked by radical activists that want to control every aspect of our lives. So I think I needed to make that clarification.
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Yeah, and additionally, you know, we did discuss a little bit about this last night and also want to bring this up today. There are folks on who are generally on the left who also feel. a little bit politically homeless. And I think it’s really important to find those synergies. And gosh, one of them, I just saw Denver City postponed its vote to switch from flock safety over to action. So out of the frying pan and into the fire we go. And this is a quote from the Denver Party for Socialism and Liberation. And it says if we normalize these types of technologies and if we keep making the conversation about singular technologies and singular contracts, i.e. flock versus action in this case, we’re going to mistake the forest for the trees, right? We’re going to fast track ourselves into really what would turn out to be an AI-powered police state facilitated by multi-billion dollar private corporations, which is just absolutely unnecessary and dystopian. How can I disagree with that statement? i know who’s on the left complaining about a very left-leaning city council voting for very scary technologies in my view so you know i it the whole world basically is getting flipped on side of its head and you know like when we say gosh you know we talk about left versus right but there’s there’s a fair bit of interesting, like politically homeless, like I say. So how would that person feel if there was a privacy driven candidate who might see other social issues differently than this person would, but they might still say, you know what, privacy first, we need to get out of this AI dystopian future reality. And I would happen to agree. So I think it’s important to say, where do we find this common ground as well? and just say, gosh, stop with this Fourth Amendment abuse.
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Absolutely, we need to work towards common ground. And that’s probably why we need to get out of calling Democrats and Republicans. However, that’s what’s at the Statehouse is Democrats and Republicans. But we really need to talk about the policy. So what you’re talking about here in this quote is you’re talking about policy issues. That’s where we need to be focused. And I think that’s how we can can start to get us into this tent of liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. Because it sounds to me like even that, what did you say they were, socialists?
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Denver Party for Socialism and Liberation. I mean, I don’t even know that existed. But they’re quoted in this Denver 7 article. article as well as there’s a letter and then, you know, ACLU is a signatory on the letter, but there’s so much stuff when it comes to privacy and freedom that would happen, have to agree with in their statement, not a whole lot of other things in life. But when they were talking about the ACLU showed up and tried to defend kids against facial recognition techniques in classrooms, you know, young kids being kind of bullied into using FRT for curricula where where these these machines can actually read your face and determine if you’re paying attention or not and you know we talked about that how in china they were using being uh used to unfortunately misdiagnose kids with with different learning disabilities and now well the machine said you have a learning disability therefore so but then again we we disagree on a vast majority of other issues but yeah like you said how do we go for the the policy missing a lot whereas unfortunately when we were testifying against ALPR bills and other things like that there was a lot of top-down pressure from Colorado Municipal League different district attorneys you know and things like that to say we need this technology because it’s making our police our police job much easier and we’re solving crimes and And that felt like a very top-down look, whereas as we’re saying, hey, bottom-up in a way like we just want our personal freedom. And I’m not mentioning the Cloward and Priven top-down, bottom-up. I’m just saying what I’m looking from a structural side, I feel like the folks that were asking for a little bit of personal privacy and autonomy when they’re out in public were against the district attorney level.
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Well, and under the guise of safety, gosh, I think Franklin had a quote, if we would give up liberty for safety, then, and I’m paraphrasing, then we will get neither, something like that.
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Well, yeah, exactly. And people will say, well, gosh, in this article, there was X amount more thefts and carjackings, what have you, that were solved. And I say, well, yes, this works as long as your government is generally benign and good. But we’ve seen throughout history the Pol Pops of the world who would love to get their hands on this kind of technology. There have been things in history, very verifiable, where the government and the people were not doing so well getting along. And that’s the worry here. that maybe not this government, maybe not the next iteration who gets voted in, right? But there might be somebody someday who really seeks to abuse. We don’t know who that person is yet.
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And that’s why the founders, the Declaration, the Constitution, it’s timeless because human nature does not change. And at some point in time, if you take the guardrails off now and – Somebody at some point in time will take advantage of that. And speaking of that, we opposed House Bill 26 as cut 1138, which is retail theft prevention program. And I would really recommend people to utilize this cut engaged. I was able to weigh in and you’ll see the date at the bottom of each of the bills there. That’s when we posted them. So we have the five most recent and this is bipartisan. But we are a no on this because here under the guise of, oh, we’re going to. to try to reduce crime. But we’re seeing all kinds of theft because we are not enforcing our laws. And it’s very detrimental to our retailers. And then those costs then go on to we the people. And what is just crazy to me, though, is this particular bill What it would do is put in… It creates a Retail Theft Prevention Advisory Board in the Office of the Attorney General to develop grant procedures, review and award grants, analyze data on organized felony-level retail theft and gift card fraud, and make policy recommendations. We don’t need another bureaucracy. We need to get back to a society that theft is not okay, Mike Rollick.
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I would tend to agree, and… you know i i i haven’t really looked into this bill but but just on its face creating a whole new bureaucracy comes with its own perils uh you know and comes with its own costs and i i would see your you know just a just a instinctual reaction that these grants will one day just go towards refunding what the retailer lost as opposed to actually handling the problem at hand
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That’s an excellent point.
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So you’ll just grow and morph into that. Yeah.
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And the grants end up we we don’t need any more government grants either, because as Maggie Thatcher said, well, with socialism, you can’t give to somebody that you have not taken from somebody else already. And that’s what a grant is. Final thought, Mike Rollick. This went by very quickly.
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Yes, March 31st. I was going to say December. March 31st, this vote is going to happen at Denver City Council to talk about canceling flock and possibly adopting accent. So if anyone’s in Denver or can go in general, it would be a really good meeting to go to to see what’s happening down in Denver. Because what we’re noticing is Lakewood did the same thing. They said, well, gosh, you know, flock action. is a lightning rod ALPR company. So let’s try a different company and see if it’s less politically charged. What we’re forgetting is it’s not the company. It’s the technology. And if we keep it broad-based and say we’d like to not be surveilled as we drive, as opposed to we don’t like flock safety for some reason because it’s a lightning rod, we need to get down to the actual fundamentals here.
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Excellent point, Mike Rolick. Excellent point. And Mike, we will talk to you actually in a couple of weeks. We’re pre-recording for next week. So we’ll talk to you in a couple of weeks.
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Okay, sounds good. Thanks so much.
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and 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 on the line with me is lauren fix you know her she is everything car coach reports and you can find her at substack and lauren fix welcome to the show well thanks for having me back yeah a lot’s going on in the automotive world we have the new york auto show coming up next week not a lot to show but a lot of other things are happening there are a lot of things happening and lauren fix when i was on city council that was 2012 to 2016. we were starting to see this idea floated that that we would tax people on every mile that they drive and i said hey i think that we are taxing them that’s when we fill up we pay a gas tax But this is something that they have not given up on. And you’ve just written this piece. The mileage tax isn’t a California problem. It’s a warning for every driver in America.
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Yeah, that is 100% true. So what’s happening, it always seems to start in California or New York, the two states that are completely coolest, although Colorado is not far behind. And it seems like about 17 states follow. So what they decided was with all these electric cars that they were mandating, when they’re pushing all these EVs that no one really wanted, but they’re like, well, you gotta have it, you gotta have it. What that led to was cars that were no longer using gas tech. So if you fill up with fuel, then you would pay a tax, a state tax, a federal tax. And those monies are supposed to be used for roads and bridges. We know they’re not. They go into a general fund in almost every single state. And so when you look at your roads and you see the potholes that are here in the spring, people get very frustrated. The damage to their car falls on them. And so that’s always an issue. So now what they realize is now these cars are getting better fuel economy. So we’re losing more money. So the new answer to the problem is this. We’re going to tax everybody by the mile. That includes electric cars, hybrid cars, gas cars. But the people with gasoline and hybrid cars are paying twice. So if I’m filling up at the pump, I’m paying a tax, a federal and a state, and I’m driving on the roads now, I’m paying a mileage tax. But the big part of this mileage tax is, and again, Colorado is the same problem that a lot of states do, not everybody lives a mile from work. And so if you live out in the country, you’re enjoying life, and then you have to drive to work and it takes you an hour, which isn’t unusual. Then what? Then you’re paying for the mileage driving both directions. And that’s where the problem lies. And it’s become a real problem because in California, much like Colorado, that long driving distance could be enough to put you in the poorhouse.
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Well, and the other thing is, is just think about the surveillance that has to occur. If government’s going to be tracking every mile that you drive, where you’re at, just think about the liberty aspect of this.
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Well, that’s a whole nother factor. So how are they gonna get that information? So if you’ve got a 1985, I don’t know, Taurus, and you’ve been driving it forever and taking care of it, there’s gonna be no way for them to track that information. The only way they’d be able to track these are through your insurance. or a state inspection, or they’d have to trust you to send in the right information. They’re really pushing people back to older cars that are pre-90s, pre-computers, in which I’m sure people are looking at those types of vehicles. So what ends up happening is they’re gonna collect your information a couple of ways. They’re gonna collect your information through your phone. Most people have a phone. and they can track that very easily. They know where you are, they know where you ping at your house, when you’re connected to your Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or whatever, and they know when you arrive at work. Trust me, there’s a lot of data collected and it’s everywhere. Whether it be from a camera on an intersection to the Wi-Fi on your phone to the interface on your car, all that data, where is it going? It’s going to the state so they can tax you. Isn’t that lovely?
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And that’s why I’m so concerned about this rush for all these data centers, Lauren Fix.
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Yeah, that’s where it’s all coming from. And I’m sure you’re well aware that these data centers are going to be what’s collecting the information. Because there are humans working there. It’s not you and I sitting at a keyboard going, oh, Kim drove to work today. I’ll just hit return and enter that information. It’s automatically collecting that data. It’s collecting the data on your vehicle and everything about you, where you’re going, how fast you’re going. Because there are a bunch of different types of cameras. We’ve discussed them in the past. One of them is the flock cameras, F-L-O-C-K. That information’s at every single intersection that went through the infrastructure bill in 2021. along with the kill switches and everything else that data is supposed to be deleted after 24 hours and we know for a fact that it’s not and by the way there’s only one group of people that can opt out of those flat cameras and that data can you guess which group government official yeah politicians they can say they’re vips and you can’t have that data we’re not vips they’re vips isn’t that nice talk about separating us and them So that information is then collected and they can use that to tax you. They can say that you were in Denver longer than we expected. Here’s a bill. You drove from work to wherever and then went home. We got you. And so all those miles they have, no matter whether you’re driving a 60s Mustang or you’re driving a brand new vehicle.
SPEAKER 18 :
Warren Fix, I got to return to what you just said. In this piece of legislation, did they opt out politicians? Did they include bureaucrats? Is that in the legislation?
SPEAKER 24 :
Yeah, it’s part of the deal with flock cameras. They got billions of dollars to install these cameras. So the deal goes like this. If you’re in a little teeny town, I don’t know, but when I know in color like golden and they go to the and I’m not saying they did or didn’t because I don’t know anybody there. But let’s just say they go to the town and they say, hey, listen, we’ve got these cameras. We’re going to install them. And they’re like, we don’t want them. Well, they can say, well, we’re going to pay for them, we’re going to install them, and it’s going to make your town safer so you can tell your residents, the people that voted for you, that we’ve made your town safer so we can keep an eye on the criminals, the bad guys, people running red lights. accidents that happen and will make your town safer and that’s how they get it through now there are some smaller towns that have already said no we don’t want this we don’t want this monitoring those are the ones that are paying attention but remember a lot of these people look at it as a way to get re-elected and so because of that they’re being installed the few towns that have opted out you know they might change their mind down the road and again that is up to us to say no i don’t want this i do not want to be tracked and there’s no way to opt out of it
SPEAKER 18 :
As an individual, but a municipality could opt out of it.
SPEAKER 24 :
That is true. But again, that municipality has to be paying attention and realizing that we don’t want to give up this information. And the problem is they typically it’s about reelection and saying that we’ve made our town safer. I’ve made your town safer. So you need to reelect me because now we don’t have people running red lights. And if there’s a criminal, we can track that criminal. And that’s the guys are using to get people to agree to this monitoring. Because once you give up your freedom, you don’t get it back.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. Are you seeing a trend? I had Mike Rollick on in the second segment, and he said that Denver… Let me see exactly what he said. I think that they were not going to have flock cameras. He said he found out that Denver City postponed their vote to cancel flock and possibly adopt Axon. That vote is March 31st. And he said… We need it. So it’s another company. Yeah, that’s what he said. He said we need to be focusing because apparently flock is having some PR challenges now. And yeah, thanks to us. Thanks to us. But he made the great point. We need to talk about the surveillance, whether or not it’s flock or accident, whoever it is. That is the real issue. And I think I think that’s super important.
SPEAKER 24 :
It is. And don’t go by the name of a company. It could be, you can call it ABC or 123. The fact that cameras are being put at every intersection. And let me tell you, I was just in Fort Myers, Florida. I was at a Naples area driving around. I saw this little blue light that I had not noticed before. And I tend to be very observant. uh with the auto industry and what goes on like tracking and and i thought well this is interesting so i talked to a friend of mine as a police officer and he said yeah they put them in they typically go in during the night or they do it during maintenance of a light you know they’re doing an intersection they’re changing a light bulb or making some sort of wiring adjustment so the lights are adjusted properly that’s what they’ll install them and they’re everywhere it doesn’t matter if you’re in a red city or a blue city They’re everywhere. There’s funding coming from the federal government that they can use to put in the roads and bridges or whatever the town wants to do with it. Of course, there’s always politicians that that love to say that they’ve made your town safer. But those cameras are everywhere at every intersection. So when you’re driving. you’re driving today, look up at every intersection, you will see little teeny cameras, some of them operate on solar, some of them are electric powered, but they’re all there, they’re all collecting data so they know not just what you’re driving, they know the bumper sticker on your car. If you’ve got a cargo container, who’s in the car? The cameras are that good. There’s two on each mount. They can actually see the driver and see the car, the color of the car, if there’s damage on the car, literally everything about your vehicle. And now they can also, of course, they can also tell how fast you’re going. Did you run the intersection? They’re sending tickets out in California. And I just found out yesterday they’re doing it also in Tennessee and other states that they’re sending tickets to people and there’s civil tickets. So if you get a ticket in the mail before you pay it, check online. If it impacts your insurance, yeah, you probably want to figure that out, whether it’s you driving or someone else and resolve that. But if it’s a civil ticket, It’s nothing. It’s a money grab. So you have to be really careful on that too.
SPEAKER 18 :
OK, we’re going to talk about that when we come back, because this is another piece that you had at your sub stack. And that is your 500 ticket is in the mail. We’re talking with Lauren Fix. It is I think it all this, Lauren, is an assault upon the Fourth Amendment in the Constitution. We’ll talk about that when we come back as well. And these important discussions occur because of our sponsors. We’ll talk with him in the next hour. And that is Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And 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 there are multiple areas of planning for your financial freedom. With over 25 years of experience and their credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary, Jody Henze and her team at Mint Financial Strategies can help you navigate corporate and business structures, tax-aware planning, investment management, risk management and asset protection, qualified retirement plan design and administration, retirement plan and IRA distribution strategies, and business succession. So for a complimentary consultation, give them a call. That number is 303-285-3080. Mint Financial Strategies is 303-285-3080. We’re talking with Lauren Fix regarding everything autos and really talking about our freedom. And this next piece that you published, your $500 ticket is in the mail. California speed cameras are here. I think this is a direct affront upon the Fourth Amendment where it says the right of people, the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. I think that and this started with the red light cameras a number of years ago. And as you mentioned in the previous segment, it’s all about these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties say this is to keep you safer. I think it’s revenue and I think it’s surveillance is what I think.
SPEAKER 24 :
I think you’re correct because they want to be able to know where you are, what you’re doing. That’s all about control. And it always has been that way. We’ve seen this so many times. And they bring it to you from different directions. You’ll see the camera, the red light cameras. Oh, no, I don’t run red light. So then you don’t have to worry about it. And obviously we don’t want you to do that. But they use this as an excuse. We’re just monitoring to make sure the roads are safe. We have flock cameras to protect you from criminals or whatever branded camera. All of this is a data collection. Then you see all these AI data centers. If you’re ever driving, like I just did a drive from Jacksonville, Florida to Buffalo, New York. Our flight got canceled, so we had to drive. It was a long drive last weekend. And along the highway, all you see is tons and tons and tons and tons of empty warehouses. And you start thinking from a business standpoint, why would you build a gigantic empty warehouse with no customer? That doesn’t make sense. I was a manufacturing company. And one of the things I always say is, why would I build a new building if I had nothing to go in it? I didn’t have a renter. I didn’t have any or any potential renters. Why are are all these warehouses going up? They’re going to be filled with computers. This is all about tracking all these data centers. Big data is how they’re going to control us because they can’t use individuals. They can’t use humans because they may have flaws. There’s no flaws in computers. It just collects data, collects data, collects data. Question is, what are they doing with that data? The goal is obviously to control where we go, when we go. And it’s about taking away our freedom. And once they got it, once you give it up, you don’t get it back. Just like at the airports, right? We’ve seen all the lines at the airports. All of that is about control. And so what California has done is they’ve decided that they put up signs that say that your traffic has been monitored, right? And so what they’re doing is you’re driving along, minding your own business. And they said, geez, Kim, you were kind of fast going through that intersection. We’re going to send you a ticket. And you’re like, well, I wasn’t even driving the car. I lent the car to a friend of mine. How am I getting the ticket? Well, you’re the owner of the car. Now you have to pay to take it to court to appeal the ticket. So if you didn’t pay the ticket, you’re still going to pay to appeal it, which makes no sense.
SPEAKER 18 :
This is a major problem. You mentioned the kill switches. Tell us about that. What’s going on with those?
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, I’ve been monitoring it. I’ve been reporting on this for a while. That’s also in the infrastructure bill from 2021. And what ended up happening was it passed on the infrastructure bill under Biden. Everybody has tried to strip it out. Thomas Massey, Byron Donald. I believe his name is. Steve or Scott Perry from Pennsylvania, Bernie Moreno, everybody’s tried to pull the funding on this. It has passed. We’ve had a second attempt at it to remove it from the last budget bill. They passed it again because there’s pressure coming from Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Even though drunk driving has been reduced dramatically because people don’t want to obviously kill anyone, now it’s been altered essentially so that… The bill still stands as it is. It’s still funded right now. It’s about $50 million. The problem is the technology is not there. Today, there are rearview mirrors that collect literally the data in everybody’s car. They’re not just the driver’s car. or the third row, your dog, your kids, all that. They know who you are, that data is being collected. Again, where’s that data going? Back to those gigantic warehouses. In addition to that, the eyes of the driver are being tracked today. The only thing we haven’t been able to create yet, and I’m sure they’re working on it, is when you put your finger on the start stop button, it’s supposed to tell whether you have something in your system, whether it be alcohol or drugs, and not allow you to start the car. Now, there’s all kinds of scenarios going through your head. Or if you’re distracted and you’re driving, it’ll also pull the vehicle over and put on your four-ways. That technology is pretty close. And all this funding is coming from the federal government. So they’re going to fund… All the car companies and, of course, the lobbying firms got to get involved in that too, right? Lots of money going. It’s about control. It’s not about drunk driving, even though Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been a part of this. And I think they’re being tricked or scammed or whatever you want to say to believe that it’s truly what it’s all about. It’s about control. So you paint off a paintbrush. Anybody could do that. Or you were working with rubbing alcohol and someone calls you, hey, I was in a car accident or I need your help now. It’s an urgent situation. You do what we all do. You drop everything and you go and you help that person. But if you get in the car and you hit that start stop button and it won’t let you start the car because it believes you have alcohol in your system or believes that you’re stressed The car won’t start. So what do you do? Do you call the dealer and go, hey, I bought your fill in the brand and it’s not running. They’re going to go, I can’t help you. It’s all controlled by computer. You can’t call the government. You can’t call the police department. You can’t call the manufacturer. They can’t undo it. The problem is what I call kill switch jail. How long does it take for you to get out of it? Does it reset itself in a minute, an hour, a day, a month, a year? Never. Who knows? Because there’s no rules written for this. And this is a huge problem. And as you look at how the government operates, and I’m not just saying who’s the administration right now, whether it’s Trump or anyone else, you have to look at the bureaucrats that are unelected that are behind the scenes. Once they’re in these positions, they start making rules and regulations and there’s no recourse to them. Because they’re all about doing the control. It’s about control and that’s it. And so this kill switch issue is big because if you’re driving along and you’re having a dispute with someone over the phone, it already hears you through your center screen. It’s already connected to your Bluetooth. It can sense that you’re stressed. Put on your four-way, pull the vehicle over. It doesn’t care whether it’s the middle of the night, whether you’re a female by yourself, whether you’re in a not so nice area. It doesn’t make a difference. The difference is it’s saying the car can be controlled remotely without a person behind stopping your ability to move. It’s all computer generated. And this is a huge issue. And I’ve been in the forefront of this. I’ve been on everything from Tudor Dixon’s podcast to you name it talking about this. And people get very upset, but nothing is changing. The idiots that we’ve elected on both sides of the aisle and the unelected bureaucrats are still pushing forward with this. And they’re saying, we’re not going to change it. And we’ve got $50 million now allocated to us. And there’ll be more coming, I’m sure, from all different ways to make more controls and limit your freedom.
SPEAKER 18 :
Boy, this is daunting. Sorry. I have an older model vehicle. I probably just need to keep taking good care of that, yes?
SPEAKER 24 :
Not a bad idea. Why get something new, especially if it’s, you know, the cost of things today, you know?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, gosh, you would think that the auto company should be pushing back on this, but they’re not, are they? No.
SPEAKER 24 :
No, they didn’t on the EV mandate either, did they? And they lost billions of dollars. I have a report coming out that the industry, I think it just came out last Friday, there was $140 billion in losses across the entire industry. Volkswagen alone, Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi and Porsche, took a 98% hit in profit.
SPEAKER 1 :
98%.
SPEAKER 24 :
How do you live on 2% profit? You can’t. You’re going to have to shift. Now they realize, yeah, maybe we should do some changes. You think? It’s a little late because now the problem is you let the government try to run your business. And if you think that works, look what happened in England. There’s no car manufacturers that are based in England. There’s some car building going on there, but the car brands that used to be there are all gone because the government said they knew how to run it better than the car companies. Government stinks at running any business, whether it’s the post office, Amtrak, health insurance, fill in the blank. They really don’t know what they’re doing because none of them have any business acumen.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think Milton Friedman said that if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years, there would be no sand. Yeah, that’s probably pretty accurate. And when government gets involved, the quality goes down, the supply becomes limited, and the price goes up. And you can see that across the board. We’ve got a minute left. Lauren Fix, final thought.
SPEAKER 24 :
I’ve got a lot of new information coming out and you can find that at Car Coach Reports. I also have a sub stack under my name, Car Coach Reports. You can find me on YouTube, same name. Also check out our radio show called The Drive with Lauren and Carl. You can find that online, The Drive Car Show. We talk about cars, what’s going on in the industry. I’ll be covering the New York Auto Show. All my information will be on my website, which is Car Coach Reports. And we appreciate the support. And like I said, I’m going to keep putting out information. They may not like what I have to say, but I’m not giving up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, that is so great, Lauren Fix. And we can’t give up because our freedom of mobility to be able to go where we want to, when we want to, is inherently American to be able to do that. And so this is bigger than just a ticket that comes in the mail. It’s all about our liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. Keep up the great work, Lauren Fix. We’ll talk with you next month. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is from Henry Ford. He said, anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. And so, my friends, today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. I think it’s a deflection technique to readjust the scope.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Okay. Thank you to all of you. I try to think through all these things, but I missed that. So thank you, Alan, for that as well. And we had Lauren Fixon in our number one talking about freedom of mobility. She lives in New York. But if she wanted a mortgage in New York, she couldn’t get it from Lorne Levy because he can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. Lorne Levy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 22 :
Hey, good morning, Kim. Nice segue.
SPEAKER 18 :
You like that? What’s happening in the markets? There’s still a lot of uncertainty because of the Iran war, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, and it’s almost on the daily now. So it’s a very interesting time. We’re very news driven right now, which has been, you know, a little bit of difficulty navigating. And it’s just simply, you know, as things news hits, whether it’s a you know, the initial attacks or whether it’s the, you know, the five-day ceasefire or whether or not we’re actually close to an agreement to end the thing. Each day things happen and then there’ll be a headline and then there’ll be a counter headline, you know, a little bit later. And so the market’s just in motion right now based on what the news is doing. And it’s happening with stocks as well. You’ll see stocks way up and early or way down and then they close the opposite. Similar thing happening in the bond market where bonds are having huge fluctuations even throughout the day which lenders are having trouble keeping up with and so it just makes it for an interesting time and so it’s even more important than ever if someone’s out there looking to buy a home to be in touch with someone uh who can help guide them through it and uh you know that that’s what we’ve always suggested is to be working with someone that you can you can trust that you can get pre-qualified for or uh or take advantage of opportunities when they might show themselves even for a fleeting little bit of time
SPEAKER 18 :
Is the mortgage interest rate market fluctuating quickly as well?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, because as you and I always talk about, it’s very tied to the 10-year US treasury. So I was looking at it yesterday and I believe it was maybe four weeks ago, right before the war started, we were at a 10-year treasury of 394, 3.94. Yesterday it hit 4.41. And then today it’s already because of just the news that we might be gaining ground on some sort of a ceasefire. It’s 434, which is a big step down, you know, for just a brew, really just maybe 12 to 18 hours of time going by. So, yes, mortgage rates are moving a lot as the 10 year is moving a lot.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, if somebody wanted to lock in something, they found a house, these interest rates are fluctuating a lot, you see it go down, can you lock it in? I think you’ve used the word pounce. Can you pounce on that and lock that in?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, you can lock in with just some basic information. You technically, if you’re looking for a home, don’t even have to have one identified yet as long as you think you will soon because we can lock in on what’s called a TBD, a To Be Determined Address. It does start a clock of the rate lock being good for so you got to be able to find a home pretty quick. But if you’ve got a home identified or a close, yes, we can lock in in a moment’s notice, but just a few pieces of information and take advantage of whatever opportunity might show itself before things possibly switch and go the other direction.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, what if you locked something in and rates went down? What would happen then?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, that’s the advantage of most of the time if you’re just working with a bank, you’ve kind of got a problem there because it’s the bank’s opinion that if rates go down significantly, they usually have some sort of an option called a float down option where you can move down. Sometimes there’s a cost for that because the bank’s stance is, well, if rates go up and you’re locked in, we’re not going to call you and tell you your rate went up. So it works both ways. However, when you work with someone like myself, who’s a broker that works with a lot of different banks, we have options and alternatives to handle that if we had to. So that’s another advantage of working with a broker versus just a straight bank.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, because there’s lots of options. How can people reach you if they have any questions about mortgages, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 22 :
The best way is always just give us a call at 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 18 :
And that’s Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881. And I need to get on your schedule, Lorne. We’re pre-recording for next week, so I’ll be in touch so that we can get that done. Sounds like a plan. Okay, and that’s Lorne Levy, 303-880-8881. A couple of things I wanted to mention is today is Medal of Honor Day. And of course, the Center for American Values is recognizing that because that is one of the focuses with their Portraits of Valor and their Medal of Honor quote book. is honoring our Medal of Honor recipient. So today, four o’clock down in Pueblo at the center, there will be an event for that. You can get information about that by going to their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. And we have these discussions because of great sponsors like Lorne Levy. and also the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. Roger has been in business for over 50 years, serving his customers, providing for his family, and giving back to the communities of the complete community here. Give them a call if you’d like to set up a complimentary appointment to go over your insurance coverage. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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SPEAKER 03 :
I’ll be darned. I don’t either.
SPEAKER 18 :
So I guess the bet’s off then.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I think the bet was that you would not show up in Logan County on Saturday at the meet-in day. And I was right. You did not show up. So I win the bet. You owe me a calzone.
SPEAKER 18 :
I don’t think you invited me.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s not true. I drive all the way to Logan County, Colorado. Spend a fantastic day with 3,000 people celebrating meat production, meat consumption, and contributing to two different local nonprofit organizations like the Santa Masso family has done now for the sixth consecutive time of the meat end day. They’ve generated more than $1 million for nonprofits, one of which you take 100% responsibility for planting in Jason’s head to donate to them. It’s just a fantastic event and auctioneer contest. And no Kim Monson present, nowhere to be found. You owe me a calzone.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, I’ll do that. And well, that’s great to know that they’re supporting a nonprofit that I dearly love. That is wonderful to hear as well. Trent Luce, we’ve got something going on in Lakewood. We normally talk about rural things, but what we’re seeing in the urban area is what’s called up-zoning. We’re seeing it at the local level. We’re seeing it at the state level. And ultimately, it’s an assault upon private property rights, an assault upon people being able to own single-family homes because what… What the plan is is under the guise of affordable housing to take tax dollars and subsidize this stuff. Affordable housing is subsidized housing. So take money from the taxpayers and then use that money to then change their neighborhoods by putting maybe an apartment building in their neighborhood or multifamily housing. And as citizens are realizing this, they’re pushing back. on this and city hall and the pbis are are doubling down on it and what’s happening in lakewood is historical because the citizens went to work and when they heard that there was an ordinance to up zone the whole city change the whole fabric of the city they mobilized and they wanted to get a referendum with the pbis the city council and the A city manager realized that there was opposition and that there would be a possible referendum on this vote of the people. What they did is they took the ordinance and and split it into four different ordinances, which would make it more difficult for everyday people to get these to a vote of the people. Because they had to get signatures on four petitions instead of one at different times. But guess what? The citizens prevailed. There is a special election. The ballots are out there. The election is April 7th. And this is going to segue into our first subject. But this is pretty remarkable, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, actually, I think this is the subject every day. Because, Kim, you’ll remember in the last two years, we’ve talked about 15-minute cities. And we kind of, you know, we talk about like, oh, this is what they want to do. I got to tell you, every place I go, the march towards confining people to a city, and it actually plays exactly into what I want to talk about later about electric prices and what is taking place and getting people out of cars through unaffordable fuel. It’s all coming together. And I more clearly see this now than ever. What I don’t understand, Kim, is that You mentioned the Lakewood City Council, right? They’re the ones that divided this up into four. Why do the local, I mean, we can talk all day and night about what happens in the state capitol, whether that be in Denver or Lincoln, but I see the same, almost like they’re hypnotized. Local authorities, whether that be a county commission, whether that be a city council, whether it be a mayor of any size town or city in this country, They they seem to be giving marching orders on how to take this to the next step. And I’m telling you, the next step is confining people in small city areas and taking the land away from the rest of the people.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and that is what it is truly all about. And what has happened, and the four years that I was on city council, it almost seems like a dream. And it was a real commitment. But what happens is these electeds get, they get put into a bubble. And they’re not really talking with everyday people out here living our lives, trying to take care of our families. Who they hear from is staff, the bureaucrats. Then they go to all of these different meetings. They might be the liaison to Colorado Municipal League or if it’s county commissioner, the county commissioner league, whatever it or school boards, school board leagues. And that is those entities have really been. captured by this move of what we’re talking about. And so you get your electeds that are in this bubble, they’re not really thinking about, they’re hearing, oh, it’s affordable housing. Well, it’s subsidized housing. Flock, well, surveillance cameras, whether or not it’s Flock or whichever company it is, keep our community safer. So there’s pressure there in this bubble, and we got to engage to say this is not okay. And this is what’s amazing about this group out here in Lakewood. And then there were residents in Littleton that organized as well. But we’ll comment on that, and then I’ll go to the next thing I had for you on this particular subject.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, my comment’s very brief. I don’t think you’ve been more brilliant in any statement since I’ve known you the way you just walked through.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, thank you, Trent Luce. Hey, make sure, Joe, that you are recording that, that Trent Luce said that I did. Because people sometimes sound, they say you guys sound like brother and sister, the way you sometimes kind of argue.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, here’s the problem. The lights are going to go out, and brilliance requires light. So without the electricity, I don’t know how we maintain the brilliance.
SPEAKER 18 :
That is an excellent point. But Trent Luce, we, I guess two and a half weeks ago, after three years of effort, we added in two new, we’re calling it the three presses, of the Kim Monson Show. It’s the broadcast. We’re creating a community, but a newsroom. And the newsroom is arm’s length from me. They’re doing great work. I will give commentary on it. But yesterday, Mike Rolick was on, and Karen Gorday, I know, is going to talk about this tomorrow. Is this whole thing in Lakewood? Big money is coming in on this, and the title of this, Houston 501c4 funnels 75,000 into Lakewood upzoning fight. And it goes on to say here that, let’s see, Well, let’s just go through because this segues into something that you had posted this last week is that PBIs like rodeo contestants should have to start to wear emblems on their suits and dresses showing who is paying them to play. I thought that was brilliant. Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s gotten to be really bad at all levels. In fact, today I’m going to do another little short video about what I’ve learned in illegal campaign contributions to our governor and our U.S. congressman. But what you’re alluding to is came out of a fight at the state capitol in Lincoln about the brand laws. And I was able to track the very people that are trying to control the future of the brand laws in the state of Nebraska are the people who are contributing the most money to the sitting senators on the Ag Committee. And this is not just a Nebraska issue. This is an everywhere issue. These PBIs, I’m stealing your term, but I’m never going to not give you credit for that. These PBIs are simply responding to where the money comes from instead of the people. Let me give you an example. I talked about the brand law once again last week. I was in Lincoln and testified. In this particular bill, and I don’t need to go into the details. It doesn’t matter. In this particular bill, there were over 300 written comments against it. There was one for it. There were untold people. I think there ended up being about 20 people testified in person against it. Not one testified for it. And what do you think they’re going to do with that? They’re still going to advance that to the next level because the people who pay them, they figured out that we’ll just make a $100,000 contribution to our favorite senator. And we don’t have to show up and speak. The money speaks for us. Put that logo on your shirt. Well, I want to see who’s paying you. Just be like a rodeo contestant. Put it right there.
SPEAKER 18 :
I love that idea. We’re going to continue this. And you said that’s the brand law, like branding livestock, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And I’m talking with Trent Luce regarding, well, the pay to play. And these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties should, like radio contestants, have to wear the insignia of the people that are paying them. And And Producer Joe said, why don’t we add in nonprofits as well? I think that’s a good idea too, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this whole, as I dig deeper into this, and I was aware of it, but I didn’t really understand the implications of this whole PAC concept where contributions are made, but yet the disclosures don’t show exactly who’s paying them. That’s a big deal. It’s a bigger deal than we’ve ever had before because now they respond to their revenue instead of their citizens.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, tell me about this brand law. What’s going on? What’s the concern? Is it surveillance or what is it?
SPEAKER 03 :
So in a nutshell, what makes it more confusing is two-thirds of the state of Nebraska has a mandatory brand inspection. So what that means is that before I transport cattle or sell cattle or leave the brand area, I have to have a brand inspector come and inspect the cattle, give me a piece of paper that says, yes, here’s proof of ownership. These are your cattle. And that’s been in existence in its current form since 1941. And the change in 1941 was that the whole state was. There was a new brand law put into place. One-third of the counties elected not to participate. That’s kind of at the core of the real problem because we have a portion of the state that’s not participating. Fast forward, and by the way, there’s $1.10 per head charge every time you have that done, just to lay that out there. So it’s cumbersome, but it’s a protection for your property. And I mean, all commodity organizations, to be honest, if you go look at the Colorado Cattlemen, the oldest organization, commodity organization representing cattle in this country. But it really started because of using the brand to protect the cattle for the individual cattle owners. That’s where all these commodity organizations started. They started around brand laws.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and the purpose of the brand was really a private properties rights kind of thing because that way you knew that that was your property, right? That’s what that was all about?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, today, how many companies talk about we got to ride for the brand? Do they even know what the original brand was? You were riding for the brand of the outfit you’re working for. That outfit had the same brand on all of their cattle, and it was how they proved that these are their cattle.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Fast forward into this has been a three-year fight. This didn’t just happen this year. I was down there last year. It was there before. It’s been a fight for the last three consecutive years. And in a nutshell, the feed yards in the brand inspection area want to be exempt from the brand inspection and audits that come along with that. And so what is happening here is the big fee payers to the system want to put 100% of the burden of maintaining the system on the calf producer instead of the feedlot operators. And so it’s created some division, some dissension. And what I did as I went and looked at who was contributing to, particularly Senator Teresa Eibach, who has been a champion for this from day one, to exempt the feed yards from my stance is pretty simple it either applies to everybody right or it applies to nobody exactly taking a poor a portion of the cattle owners out of the equation is just the wrong approach well that’s my stand from the get-go it goes directly to the vision of the declaration of independence and that is that all men are created created equal and
SPEAKER 18 :
And that justice is supposed to be blind. Everything is supposed to be equal. And that’s where we’ve gotten ourselves into a world of hurt is because government is treating people differently, which is antithetical to the vision of the declaration. So if the feedlot operators want to be exempt, wouldn’t everybody else want to be exempt as well?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, no, the cow-calf do not want to be exempt because it’s protection to nobody steals your property.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, I gotcha. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. And really, that’s an issue for feedlots, too, although they believe they brought about more control because their cattle are confined. They’re in a certain area. The cow-calf man… Those cattle could be running on 2,000 acres in the summer, and you go out there, and you want them to be there when you go haul the calves home in the fall.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, right. Well, in the industry, I agree totally with you. Everybody should be treated fairly on that. And so that’s really important. So anything else on that? And then I want to go back to Lakewood and the money over here in Lakewood. Anything else to wrap that one up?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, just stay tuned because it’s not come out of committee yet, but I fully expect it to come out of committee. And we’re in the final two weeks of the legislative session, so you’re going to see a full court press. And here’s what really upset me the most, to be honest, Kim. The majority of the area that’s in this brand inspection fight, the Sandhills, the heart of the Sandhills, just had a million acres burn up. And it’s just so disrespectful for these people to sit down there in their ivory tower. In fact, my very first suggestion when this all happened, as I said, they wanted to have a hearing last Thursday at 12 o’clock noon. I said, if you have a hearing next Thursday, that was last Thursday at 12 o’clock noon, it needs to be in Oshkosh, Nebraska, which is where the moral fire started. Well, we can’t do that. We can’t move out yet. right because you don’t care about the people that you’re trying to enact laws that affect these their livelihoods are threatened they’ve lost their fences there’s maybe a hundred thousand head of cattle that have died through the fire and you just want to sit down here and create who’s the winners and who’s losers by changing the brand law that’s how disrespectful you are okay boy um thank you for shedding light on it what’s the status on the fires Still burning. I plan to go to Oshkosh, which I just described, tomorrow and spend most of Friday there to get an up-close personal feel. But the long-term effect is starting to kick in right now. And the short-term effect was we got to save our homesteads. We got to save our lives. We got to save our cattle. We’ve lost fences. I don’t know how many dozen homesteads have been lost. but now the ripple effect is starting to take effect because people are trying to find a place to keep their cattle a place to get a new source to feed to feed their cattle because what burned in these fires it may be a couple of years until there’s grazing potential And so now I’m getting calls from people on the fringe that are not impacted by the fire, but they just had their long-term agreement pulled out from underneath them because somebody else called and wanted to take their grass for grazing because they had to go somewhere with these cows. This is going to be a very, I’m going to use the word tumultuous situation as this plays out in the next 12 months.
SPEAKER 18 :
And ultimately, everyone needs to remember that this is our food source. This came in from Patty. And she said, Kim, not all nonprofits are bad. NGO would be a better one. People contribute to C4s to shield themselves from political backlash. Leftists will trash your business if they don’t like your cause. I agree. This is probably a whole other subject. And what’s happened is this whole nonprofit thing goes back to when we passed the income tax, which was in those progressive policies. Once we started doing that, then… Then there were charities, hospitals that helped take care of people, elderly homes. He said, well, guys, you know, we probably don’t want to tax them. But then we’ve seen this morphed into where these NGOs get nonprofit status and they now are lobbying and using their power to change public policy. So, Patty, thank you for that comment. I know that we need to talk a lot more about that. Next question before we get over to Lakewood. Trent, this comes in from Jenny. What about JBS and the strike in Greeley?
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s still going on. We still have 12,000 head of cattle that do not have a place to be processed that we had January 15th. As this continues to play out, it’s going to continue to be a big problem. I’m very suspicious of the timing when there’s been more pressure from the beef industry than ever before to have a true investigation into price-fixing collusion and monopolies by the big packers. It’s almost like as if they had a shutdown using a labor strike as an excuse just to show people what it would be like if we didn’t have JBS.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, okay. Now, next thing, I just wanted to get back to this financing regarding the Lakewood thing. And it says, here we go. Makewood Livable. This is from Kim Monson Newsroom. Make Lakewood Livable, the issue committee backing the rezoning, raised approximately $200,000 as of March 9th, according to the Denver Post. Three committees supporting repeal raised just under $40,000 combined. The largest single contributor on the repeal side was $2,500. Action Now’s initiative, $75,000, accounts for more than a third of the pre-zoning war chest. Other major contributors include Boulder-based Conscious Bay at $50,000, Gary Community Ventures of $25,000, and Cardell Homes at $10,000. And it says Lakewood Livable also has the backing of Housing Ford, Colorado, and Metro West Housing Solutions, Jefferson County Commissioners, U.S. Representative Brittany Pedersen, and former U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter. And who is Action Now? It’s a 501c4 social welfare organization founded in 2012 by John Arnold and his wife, Laura Arnold. The organization describes itself as a nonpartisan advocacy network that supports the mission of Arnold Ventures to maximize opportunity and minimize injustice through evidence-based policy reform. John Arnold is a former Enron executive who founded Hedge Fund Centaurus Advisors in 2002 after Enron’s collapse, retired in 2012 at the age of 38, and they have a combined net worth estimated at $2.9 billion, according to Forbes. So these people that are proponents of the upzoning, they should be wearing those badges on their clothing every day as we’re going through this particular question out there in Lakewood, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know how much time we have in this segment.
SPEAKER 18 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson show. If you are a golfer, you will want to partake in the USMC Memorial Foundation’s fundraiser, which is a golf tournament, which is, let’s see, it is in the middle part of May and and you can get early bird pricing right now. So to get all the information on that, it’s May 14th. Go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Trent Luce is on the line. He is a sixth generation rancher from Nebraska. We’ve been talking about, how about if these PBIs have to wear badges on the people that are funding them? I think that’s a brilliant idea. You had another thought you wanted to button up on this, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it was about Lakewood and the money. And let’s just walk quickly through the things that we agree on. We have had government intervention crippling our reliable and affordable supply of electricity. Agreed? Agreed. We have had government incentivizing major new uses of electricity, i.e. federal government just as behind AI data centers like you can’t believe. Agreed? Agreed. And you’ve also suddenly had this push on electronic vehicles. In fact, California is on a pace to be 100% EVs by, what, 2030 or 2034 or something like this. Well, with these high fuel prices, I didn’t put all the pieces together until I had a conversation with my partner in Australia, Ingrid, and that was yesterday. Diesel fuel in Australia is now equivalent in the United States to over $9 and some cases $11 a gallon. And they have their government pushing for electronic vehicles like crazy. And so I started thinking about that. Why are they pushing for electronic vehicles at a time when we’re artificial? Because they’re doing the same thing with data centers. Australia’s doing the same exact thing. New Zealand’s doing the same exact thing. In fact, my friend Damian Buckley said Monday that 6% of the electric will be used by this one new proposed AI data center if it’s built. So here we have globally this continued crippling of reliable, affordable electricity, the growth of more demand for electricity than we’ve ever seen through AI data centers and our everyday use and electric vehicles. What’s the end story? They’re going to crowd people into Lakewood, Colorado, because you can’t afford a vehicle because you can’t use the electric vehicle. You can’t drive the thing over 100 miles before you plug it in a local golf course. It’s part of this plan that’s just kind of all coming together right in front of us of what you just opened with that is completely tied to everything else we’ve ever talked about. 15-minute cities, removing people, being out on their own, driving their own vehicle.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s actually, that is the bottom line. And that is why we’ve got to shed light on this. I think we are at a point where people are paying attention. And this group out in Lakewood, also the group in Littleton, people are getting engaged in this. It is… This is like our 1775 moment in a battle of ideas. And we are looking at this monster of government. And it’s not just here in the United States. And it seems like it’s so daunting. But we have to go back to our founding. And liberty people… stood up against the most powerful empire on the face of the earth. And because they were focused on the right things, and that is liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom for every individual, they ultimately prevailed. And we are at this moment right now, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 03 :
One other quick thing that I didn’t understand, even after I went to Australia five times until just recently, Australia, New Zealand, Canada are still under the rule of the monarchy of the United Kingdom. And the United Kingdom and everything we just talked about is light years ahead of us. Well, now the light years are like weeks. But they all have… The Queen of England is the commander-in-chief of the Australian Army.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so what’s the common denominator? And it ties into what you just said. We had a revolution. None of those countries did. We still are under control of the United Kingdom, by the way, but it’s through the financial and the banking system. That’s why it takes them longer and why they have to go to great lengths to get confinement of the people like they want.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, well, we’re going to continue to shed light on this. I know we have Gammy on the line, and she’s got some things she wanted to share with us. Gammy, welcome.
SPEAKER 20 :
Good morning. All right, I’m going to do three quick blasts. Number one, Trent, I sent you a Twitter. $450 billion was sent by the Farm Credit Bureau to foreign people. You need to dig into that. I sent it to you. Number two, Steve Schleicher, El Paso County clerk and recorder, quit the… Colorado County Clerks Association. And that is huge because why did he quit? He quit for several reasons. He quit because it’s supposed to be a neutral organization, nonpartisan. Yet the Secretary of State And Matt Crane and the Denver attorney for the Colorado Democratic Party exerted significant influence on the clerks and recorders and legislation, which you’ll recognize. HB 261113 is largely a policy bill and brought on by others other than the clerks. And there were 23 amendments. Anyway, clerk Schleicher quit because he feels this isn’t right. He was excluded from the executive committee meetings. excuse me and i sent all this stuff to the clerks to the legislators to the governor to the world and i also have called 80 i’m up to 80 of the 100 senators to fight for the save act and all the addendums which soon and those democrats are stripping but i called them all and now i’m going to do another video to them but they’re taking away not just our rights They’re taking our voice, our elections, which 72 nations had stolen. And we know it was the machines. And henapeters.us has all the data, the whistleblowers. And I said all this stuff to each message, to each senator. And I’m telling you, they are stealing our nation. And I’ve said it’s not a partisan issue. It’s not Democrat, Republican. I asked them all on my voice message. Do you want your kids dead just like mine? Because you didn’t fight for free and fair elections. Dump the machines. Hand count. Mark Cooks. And Count Roadshow is perfect to teach everyone how to do that in the precinct. But I’m telling you, we are being scammed. The latest amount I heard was $55 trillion, in fact, was stolen from us over these last few decades by the insidious deep state and the globalist pond scum.
SPEAKER 18 :
Thank you, Gammy. Thank you, Gammy. And Trent, we’ve got just about a minute left. And that bill she was referring to is House Bill 1113, modification of elections. And you can check that out. And I’m pretty sure that CUT actually took a position on that as well. Trent, your final thought.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’m glad GAMI brought up the $459 million. I don’t need to dig into that, actually, because it’s my friend Dustin Kittle from Tennessee who exposed that, and I’ll be having Dustin on the air once again to revisit that issue.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. And we will be having tomorrow in the last segment, Tina Peters, attorney here in the Colorado, attorney John Case will be on as well. And we’ve got a big election guest on the first hour. So it’s going to be a great show tomorrow. As always, Trent Luce, important discussions. And this is really about. Everyday people being able to thrive and prosper and live in liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. And we’ve got to engage in this battle of ideas. That’s why we do the show. Trent, that’s why you do everything that you do as well. So keep up the great work.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Kim. See you soon.
SPEAKER 18 :
See you soon. And again, I wanted to just make sure Cut and join us. And that is coloradotaxpayer.org. And check that out. And yes, Cut did take a position on that House Bill 1113, modifications to elections. And you can find that at the website. That’s coloradotaxpayer.org. And our quote for the end of the show is from Henry Ford. And he said this, he said, a poor man is not the one without a scent. A poor man is the one without a dream. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 10 :
Like a new moon rising fierce Through the rain and lightning Wandering out into this great unknown And I don’t want no one to cry
SPEAKER 14 :
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