In this episode, Kim Monson reflects on President William McKinley’s contributions to American history and connects those lessons to current political climates. We explore how past policies influence today’s ideals, particularly in the realm of economic strategy and expansionism. Discover how this historical perspective is revitalized in contemporary discourse around state budgets and taxpayer rights as we highlight critical legislative decisions affecting Colorado citizens. Join us in understanding how a proactive approach can equip you to engage effectively in legislative processes, protecting personal freedoms and ensuring accountability among elected officials.
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to the kim monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured you’re 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 theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting happy wednesday producer joe happy wednesday kim And if it’s Wednesday, that means it’s Wings Day over at Hooters Restaurant. You buy 20 wings. You get an additional 10 for free. And that is for to-go or to dine in. 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It’s spelled M-I-S-N-O-M-E-R. It could be an error in naming a person or place. It could be an application of a wrong name or number three, a name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or subject. And I hadn’t even thought about this, but this might be actually a great segue into our quote of the day regarding when Mount McKinley died. was renamed by Obama to Mount Denali. And one could say that that was a misnomer. And I don’t know that much about William McKinley, president, the 25th president of the United States. But he was born in 1843. He died in 1901. And he was the 25th president of the United States. And he served from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. He was a member of the Republican Party. and he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. He successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish-American War, overseeing a period of American expansionism with the annexations of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii. McKinley also rejected inflationary plans such as free silver in favor of keeping the nation on the gold standard, and he raised protective tariffs. He was the last president to have served in the American Civil War, and he was the only one to begin his service as an enlisted man and ended up as a brevet major. And so he was a tariff guy, and he made no bones about it. And, of course, tariffs are in the news right now. But he said, I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform. And so that is William McKinley. Our bill of the day, we’re going to be talking with Corey Onusorg in the next segment. He is one of my fellow board members on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Board. And we’ll be talking about some of our new bills that we have on our Cut Engaged program. And so just stay tuned for that for the next segment regarding the bills of the day. I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And it is because of them, your resources, that we are on the air. We’re an independent voice on this independent station. And so I really do thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. Probably the biggest news of the day is, and we talked a little bit with Kevin Lumberg yesterday about it, was that the long bill, the Colorado state budget, has been introduced down at the statehouse. And $43.9 billion. And this is from Colorado Politics. And it says that this was introduced last Monday in the state senate. Setting up the 2025-2026 budget, which contains hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts, transfers, and sweeps. Now, let’s just take a quick look at that sentence. They say that it’s cuts, but it’s because they’ve asked for so much money. So they’re having to cut a lot of what they’re asking for. It says the plan includes $16.7 billion in general fund dollars, and that is the discretionary money that comes from corporate and individual income taxes, as well as sales and use taxes. And the lawmakers use that to fund new programs, although it’ll be in shorter supply this year because they have to find a way to cover expenses. a $1.2 billion shortfall. As Kevin mentioned, they have these orbital bills, and we thought there were 49. In this article, it says that there’s 63, and they make statutory changes to balance the budget, and that’s where a number of those cuts can be found. It says among the largest is Senate Bill 264, which transfers $225.2 million from 52 separate cash funds to the general fund in the 2024, 2025, and 2025-26 budgets. And it says the current year transfers would roll over into the 2025-26 budget. It says the largest sweep is $71.4 billion, which – excuse me – which for the Multimodal Options Fund, a cash fund within the Department of Transportation. And so they’re going to be using that. That multimodal, let’s just unpack that just a little bit. Multimodal does not mean roads or bridges. Multimodal means all of these things that they are trying to fund to get you out of your car. And as we’ve seen with the whole Tesla thing is this push on EVs obviously really wasn’t about EVs. It was about control. And so it would be nice to see money pulled back from that multimodal focus. However, one of the first things that they’re going to do is, I think, reduce money to go to roads and bridges because they want to make it painful. So that if you’re hitting potholes, in fact, I saw a friend yesterday had to go out and deliver something, was getting on C470. And he said a friend hit a pothole and lost a tire. So if they can make it so painful. to drive on our roads and then ultimately what they hope is that then we will approve more money for them to spend on down at the state house but they’re spending it on all kinds of other things so that’s really the first big headline out there the next headline and this is very important as well is that Democrat lawmakers are preparing to sue over the constitutionality of Colorado’s TABOR laws. That’s the Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. So just connect this dot. Democrat lawmakers want to sue to keep more of your money. And it’s Sean Camacho who’s sponsoring this resolution to require the General Assembly to sue, which would be to use money over the constitutionality of Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. This is an article from Mary Ann Goodman from Colorado Politics. And I remember this. In 2011, a coalition of 33 individuals and groups, including current and former lawmakers, county commission, and other elected representatives in school districts sued the state of Colorado, challenging this constitution of the Colorado’s Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights. A decade later, the lawsuit was dismissed on a technicality. The lawsuit the federal courts indicated had the wrong plaintiffs. So a state Democrat lawmaker who is part of the legal team in Kerr versus Hickenlooper, later Kerr versus Polis, is now sponsoring a resolution to try again, but with some important differences. It says this Representative Sean Camacho sponsored House Joint Resolution 1023, which would require this suit. The two differences between Kerr and this lawsuit are the plaintiffs and where it will be filed. It says Camacho told Colorado Politics that Kerr was litigated for years, going from federal district court to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, on to the U.S. Supreme Court, back to the district court and appeals court. And it said they had the wrong plaintiffs. And so it says Camacho said we never got to the merits of the actual legal argument. So instead of being in federal court, they’re going across the street, going to state court. So stay tuned. The people of Colorado. Put this amendment in place. We approved it because we wanted to make sure that we could keep government in control, keep more of our money. And now you have representatives, supposed representatives that are going to sue to keep more and more of our money. And so that is certainly a big problem. So let’s see. A couple of other things I wanted to mention is a friend of mine has teenage kids. And she said that yesterday they would be bringing the baby home from school. I think her daughter’s 14 years old. And I don’t know if this is health class or what it is exactly. I do remember hearing about this where… uh ostensibly this is to teach kids about how to take care of a baby and apparently this baby is computer generated it’ll wake up you have to change the baby you’re shaking your head yes producer joe so you’ve seen this before or tell me about that i had to do it in middle school
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Legitimately, you bring home a computerized baby, it’ll wake up in the middle of the night. It’s supposed to really closely simulate a baby, and it kind of teaches you the struggles of it.
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See, that’s the point right there, is I think that this is a way to, first of all, having children is very challenging sometimes. It just is. But this bringing home a computerized baby that’s not really your baby, that you’ve not carried the baby in pregnancy, delivered the baby, that connection with your offspring. I think that this is setting it up for kids. And you said this was in middle school, setting this up for kids that if they get into a situation where they have an unplanned pregnancy, they’re going to remember, oh, my gosh, this is really so hard. In swoops, the abortion industry and wham, bam, thank you, ma’am. I think this is all connected. And I hadn’t really thought about that until my friend just mentioned this show.
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That’s fair. I never thought about it that way, too. I just I took it as a project. But that that makes it you make a good point on there is no connection. There’s no emotional building through the pregnancy to get to this child that is yours. The love that is built with that.
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Yeah, so that was my first aha. One other thing, I was going down to meet a friend of mine in North Cherry Creek. We went over to a meeting first in downtown, right across from the Brown Palace. My friend’s Denver is in disarray. It is a mess down there. And you can put this at the feet of former mayor Michael Hancock, this mayor Michael Johnston, and these Democrat governors as well. And downtown is in decline. They’re shutting down access to businesses down there for their multimodal projects. It is really a mess down there. But I was at the corner of I-25 and Colorado, Joe. And I saw something that I haven’t seen in years. And that is somebody opening up their car door and putting their trash on the ground. I haven’t seen it in years. I was shocked. It must be happening because there’s trash everywhere, but I haven’t seen it in years. Have you seen it? I’ve never seen that before. And it was a Tesla, somebody in a Tesla. And so I kind of wanted to look at them. So I drove up and It actually looked like a couple of people that I really wouldn’t want to mess with. But I could not believe it. I was just shocked to see that happen. And then to have somebody driving around in a Tesla, because isn’t that the virtue signaling, or it used to be, that you took care of the environment, right?
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Yeah, and they’re also really expensive cars. So I’m confused on how that goes. Like a lot of them are about $50,000, $60,000. That’s a lot.
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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. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you’re over there. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. That comes out on Sundays. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. Pleased to have on the line with me my fellow board member, at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group, which is watching legislation down at the Statehouse. He did run for Statehouse as well, and that is Corey Onazorg. Corey, welcome to the show.
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Good morning. How are you, Kim?
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I am well, and we are absolutely thrilled that you recently joined the Colorado Union of Taxpayers board. You are adding so much to what we are doing and watching all of this legislation, and I want to say thank you.
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Well, thank you, President.
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And let me just give a shout out to our other board members, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And it’s quite a job. Aren’t you learning a lot, Corey Onizorg?
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Yeah, I mean, it’s changing my perspective on, you know, What my job would have been had I won House District 23. And it also changes my perspective on the majority party having gone pretty far over to the left with their legislation. It’s pretty wild to see what they’re doing. And 644 total bills, I believe, as of today.
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It really is unbelievable. And Colorado Union of Taxpayers has been around since 1976. People ask me if we are making a difference. And first and foremost, I think we’re making a difference in, first of all, understanding what’s going on down there and offering a tool to to inform everyday people about that because I feel they’re flooding the zone down there. It’s difficult for us to keep track of it, but the first step is to know what’s going on, Corey.
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That’s exactly right. That’s why we came up with Cut and Gauge that you can find on coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s in the top tab there. And we also started a Colorado Unit Taxpayers X Account, and you can follow that at COCUT1776.
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And you’re handling that, which I’m absolutely thrilled about. But Cut Engaged, we just have dedicated time, money, and resources. We’re choosing four to five bills each week. We just kicked it off. But it’s a super easy way for people to weigh in on pieces of legislation. And I think one of the ones – I mentioned it yesterday – that we chose for this week was the House Bill 25-1244, the Welcome Reception and Integration Grant Program. This is money going towards NGOs, to bring illegal immigrants to Colorado. And you can easily weigh in on that. Just go to coloradotaxpayer.org, hit Cut Engaged. That brings up the opposed bills or the bills. You can click on that. And with just like one, two, three, you can let the sponsors know you’re on this case disapproval of this bill and you can also put some comments in and you can send something to your own senator and representative so it’s it’s really slick i love the way that it works cory yeah it’s great it’s easy to put your your first last uh name in there email and then uh
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You can personalize the message and get it to your specific house rep or state senator. And, you know, it gets the message out. We really like to get this across all of our counties and all the house districts, all the Senate districts, and get everyone engaged as much as possible. So when legislators do against the will of the people, they hear about it. So it’s a great tool.
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Well, and on Monday, and I mentioned this in the first hour, is Representative Sean Camacho has introduced a bill to basically challenge the constitutionality of TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. So we’re going to have to roll up our sleeves on that one, Corey.
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There’s a lot of work yet to do, and they got a lot squeezed in for the season here, so. And, you know, we’re watching them with our eagle eyes. And it’s just a great group of people that all volunteers and, you know, work so hard to keep people informed.
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Well, and that is the first thing that needs to be done. Now, the other bills that we have on Cut Engaged, if you have that in front of us, why don’t you just give us a rundown on those? If not, I’ve got it here in front of me, Corey.
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Yeah, the four we chose this week in addition to 1244. And one note on that that I think is interesting, fun fact, 1945, the first NGO was created by Article 17 at the United Nations meeting, I believe it was in San Francisco. And not ironically, United Nations also wrote the paper Replacement Migration, which is basically the Cloward and Pivot model that we’re going through, bringing all these illegal aliens here. So I just wanted to point out that fun fact, but… The other bills are House Bill 25-1269, building decarbonization measures. This is going back to, you know, quote-unquote settled science of how we have to decarbonize. And it’s amazing. They’re trying to put fines up to $47,000 per day. We really think it’s going to be a job killer. And… You know, this ideological legislation is, you know, they keep doing it and we keep screaming about it. We’re going to continue to call it out. And then also Senate Bill 2537 coal transition grants. Basically, you know, the taxpayer, we said the taxpayers cannot afford to compensate for the loss of businesses that the state destroyed. uh property remedies tend to do the legislation and the coal business you know and on on top of that you know what where the solar and wind industries are you know supposedly supposed to employees people so um and the other one the last one this this week we have out house bill 25 12 11. uh this is a real bad one uh a lot of our members uh worked in city council really opposed this um so yeah house bill 25 uh 12 11. The state’s not a water utility, and it’s not a proper role of state government to diddle their way into water utilities.
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Well, and this really seems like a special interest bill as well. And that’s another thing that I’m learning, Corey, is I used to think – I was very naive. I thought that down at the Capitol that we had legislators that were looking at legislation that would be good for the people and make sure that we’re protecting their rights and protecting – They’re right for their property. Oh, no, no, no. There’s a lot of special interests down there that what they do is they find a legislator to write a bill to carry a bill. And then the legislator ends up with legislative council. I think it is. They write the bill up. but it’s all done with special interest so in this case two of our board members are all over this they said that this is a special deal for probably developers out in Lakewood particularly regarding the federal center and interestingly enough one of the legislators who had been on the Lakewood City Council she’s now in the state house is one of those that’s carrying this bill so it’s like it is kind of fun to connect the dots. It’s not that hard right now to connect the dots, but well, sometimes it is, but this is a pretty blatant connect the dots, Corey.
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I couldn’t agree more, Kim. And, uh, you know, I was seeing a bill, I believe that was heard yesterday that I don’t believe we rated, uh, but it was all over the news. House bill 1312 legal protections for transgender individuals, uh, called the Kelly loving act. That’s a wild one where, um, POTENTIAL OF IMPOSING FINES FOR GOING AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ALSO THE ISSUE OF BASICALLY IF A PARENT DOESN’T ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR CHILD’S WHATEVER THAT’S GOING ON, THEY COULD LOSE THEIR CHILD TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES. SO IT’S REALLY JUST THE WILD STUFF THEY HAVE GOING ON DOWN THERE. We’re keeping up as best we can, Kim.
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Yeah, it really is wild. And I didn’t choose that bill because we do have, with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, things we’re trying to stay within a wheelhouse of taxpayers and parental choice. I guess I could have pulled that. Maybe I’ll add that on because that does fall under parental choice. Maybe I’ll add that on this week. And then property rights and then protecting Tabor. And those are all really important things. Corey, just a quick description of what you are doing over on X. I am absolutely thrilled. Again, just bringing up this fun fact. I didn’t know that about NGOs. I love what you’re doing on X. And we would really love to have people follow us. That handle is COCUT1776, correct? Correct. Yeah. Did I lose him? Oh, okay. I lost him. Okay. So that’s C-O-C-U-T. Yeah, we’re back. We’re back. Oh, we’re back. Okay. C-O-C-U-T 1776. I love what you’re doing over there on X and would really recommend people start to follow us there, Corey.
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We really appreciate your leadership, Kim, and you’re fighting every day against tyranny. So you’re a great leader.
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Well, thank you. That is what we’re doing for sure. And Corey Onizorg, thank you so much. Keep up the great work. Be sure and join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. And we will talk to you soon, Corey.
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God bless you and God bless Colorado, Kim.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com as well. Did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are having their second annual golf tournament, and that will be on May 15th out at the Ridge. golf course in Castle Rock. It’s a great event. You’ll get to play a great course, get to meet some new people, support the USMC Memorial Foundation, and I guess there’s a limited number of spots, so you want to make sure that you get that taken care of. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Pleased to have on the line with me Bob Boswell. He is the CEO of Laramie Energy and And as we talk about on a regular basis, it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy sources from oil, natural gas, coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. So it allows us to thrive and prosper. And the industry has been under attack culturally. We’ve seen it in media and certainly from a political standpoint, a regulatory standpoint. So pleased to have Chris Wright with Liberty Energy as the new secretary of the Department of Energy. But the globalists are not going away. They are doubling down. That’s why we need to talk to Bob Boswell. Bob, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim.
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It’s good to have you. And first thing, you texted something over regarding potential fines, I think, on the oil and gas industry regarding our oceans. And I was trying to find that. And I found that there’s going to be the fifth UN Ocean Forum. And that looks like danger, danger to me. And that’s going to be coming up here very soon. So unpack this for us.
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Well, it’s not oil and gas as much as it is shipping. And the UN’s proposing some fees against shipping companies in the name of climate change. And what, you know, they’re saying that the shipping is affecting the oceans and therefore there needs to be a fee extracted to compensate for that. And it’s very controversial. I doubt that it will pass. At least I certainly… Hope not, but it would increase the cost of all things shipped because it would cost increase. These fees would increase the cost of shipping. So it’s a very punitive type of action, you know, and it affects all products that go across the waters. So it’s just another example of a of a. semi-governmental organization, the United Nations, trying to promote various policies which can affect countries throughout the world and increase the cost of products for everyone, which is inflationary and would hurt particularly poorer countries that don’t have the ability to pay these extra fees on the products.
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Okay, Bob, so I’m looking at this. It’s this website. It’s unctad.org. And, yeah, I hadn’t quite connected that dot as I was looking at this last night. So it’s shipping, but obviously these ships have to be powered by naturally occurring fossil fuels, yes? Right? Okay.
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Nuclear submarines and things of that nature, but it’s not in the commercial shipping yet to my knowledge.
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Okay. And in this article, it says climate change is one of the first things. Overfishing and pollution threaten marine ecosystems and the 600 million people worldwide who rely on fisheries for their livelihoods. The ocean is pretty big. We’ve had Patrick Moran, who was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. And he is very, he certainly calls himself the sensible environmentalist. And we all want to take good care of our world, but the ocean is really, really big. And he’s really made the case for naturally occurring fossil fuels for people to thrive and prosper. And I guess this is a good time that I should mention, people should go to our documentary at climateconversation.com and see just this great conversation about all of these issues out there. Because what I figured out, Bob, in all these podcasts that we’ve done, is the green in the Green New Deal is the green that is going into special interest pockets. So these fees that would be extracted for shipping are going to go into, I think, interested people’s pockets as I really look at this.
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Well, I think that’s obviously the case in the United States with the different programs that have been put in. The biggest allusion to the public is the Inflation Reduction Act, which spends trillions of dollars and does nothing more than create a tremendous amount of inflation, and then it funds some of these green initiatives. several of which have failed, and many of which are just for intermittent power that needs to be supplemented by fossil fuels. So if you want reliable, affordable, clean energy, you need to really focus on natural gas and nuclear. Nuclear is going to be a transitory. It’s being used more highly in other countries, but the U.S. with our stringent policies and regulations. have inhibited the development of nuclear at the scale it should be. Fortunately, there’s some modular nuclear plants underway, under study, under development, that I think in the next probably 10 years will become more of a factor in terms of the generation of electricity.
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Okay. But this reliable and affordable and abundant energy sources have really been under attack. And ultimately, that comes down to everyday people here in America and across the world, that if they don’t have this reliable, efficient, affordable energy sources, it’s very difficult for them to go after their hopes and dreams and to thrive and prosper. And we’ve taken all of this for granted here in the United States, but we also want people across the world to thrive and prosper. And these proposals, for example, from this United Nations Ocean Conference, in the guise of saying they want to protect fishing and fisheries and those kinds of things, will actually… keep people, I think, into poverty, not only across the world, but it will also, I think, make it more difficult. We see a disappearing middle class if we don’t have these good, affordable energy sources.
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Right. Well, I think, you know, one of the issues is that we’ve got eight billion people on the planet. We’ve grown from four billion to eight billion. And how do we feed these people and how do we how do these provide for an economic well-being for these people? And part of that is, you know, it’s being allowed the freedom for them to develop, allow freedom. the ability for us as people to invest and help some of these countries grow their own economies, things like that. And what we don’t need is more regulations that inhibit the ability for us to do that and to use our natural God-given elements and knowledge to help develop a better world. You can’t mandate it. You can’t have a central governing agency that covers it, but that’s what elements such as the World Economic Forum are advocating, and it’s just the wrong way to go. We’ve seen that through history. Independence, freedom, and capitalism are the ways to bring a country and develop its resources and the betterment of its people.
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Well, Bob, I feel like we’re at the tip of the spear here in Colorado. As watching all of this legislation and, of course, from the regulatory situation, I was with a friend last night, and she was talking about these new rules. I think it’s in Colorado. across the board where new buildings, commercial buildings over a certain square footage. Of course, I think that they’ll change that, so it’ll be lesser square footage. And then also, if you’re going to refurbish a building, have to meet these, and I have this in air quotes, energy kind of mandates on these buildings, and the cost is is really almost prohibitive, and I think that that’s really going to affect our economy in a negative way here in Colorado. And so I think we’re at the tip of the spear on all of this stuff that’s happening. That’s why we have to keep having these conversations about this, Bob.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think you can look at California as an example on that and how they – mandated that you know that you couldn’t use natural gas to heat and provide power to cool buildings and it’s really backfiring on them so it is uh you know these policies that are uh implemented in the name of climate change aren’t often the best for, you know, the environment or the economy. But they have these politicians that like to grab onto the theme and ride that for their own, mostly individual purposes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, so, Bob, with your ear to the ground, and you know Chris Wright with Liberty Energy, and now that he’s in Trump’s cabinet, It seems that the Trump to administration is really working to get to sensible energy policies for the people of America. But as this what you had mentioned regarding the United Nations Ocean Conference Forum is the globalists are not going to are not going to back down. They’re going to continue to push this kind of stuff. So how is this matching up as you’re watching Trump to Chris Wright and then the globalists?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think this is America first now. And what you’ve got in Chris Wright is an incredibly charismatic, intelligent leader who understands energy perhaps better than anybody in this country. And his leadership throughout his career has demonstrated that. He will be a strong advocate for the right policies. And, you know, we’ll do use common sense. And I think you’re going to see that we couldn’t have had a better choice than Chris Wright. And we’re just fortunate that he’s in that leadership position. But, you know, the globalists will do what the globalists will do. But the United States is the strongest economic power on the planet. We have the best economy. We have the best resources from multiple viewpoints. And I think we can steer our own ship and hopefully by our model and for others that we can help influence other countries so the global elitists have less influence and less power.
SPEAKER 13 :
We’re at an exciting time, Bob Boswell.
SPEAKER 07 :
We are.
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And so let’s go to break. I’m talking with Bob Boswell. He is the CEO of Laramie Energy, which is a natural gas producer right here in, based here in Denver, and a great sponsor of the show as well. All of this happens because of these sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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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. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. Email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And I know where I’m going to be on April 16th. That’s going to be down at the Center for American Values in Pueblo for one of their On Values presentations featuring Norma Donlon, who is the widow of Roger Donlon, who was Roger was the first Medal of Honor recipient that was awarded in the Vietnam War. and he just recently passed on. So this is going to be a really fascinating presentation. It doesn’t cost anything, but RSVP by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s on April 16th down at the Center for American Values. On the line with me is Bob Boswell. He is the CEO of Laramie Energy, located or headquartered right here in Denver. Great sponsor of the show as well. Bob, tell us just a little bit about… Laramie Energy, the business, you’re primarily focused on natural gas, correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. Yeah, Laramie Energy is an oil and gas exploration company that produces natural gas primarily in the Peons Basin, which is roughly between Aspen and Grand Junction. and it goes north and south. It’s an intermountain basin of stacked sands and shale that go roughly from about 6,000 feet down to about 15,000 feet. We operate about 1,500 wells. We’re the Third largest operator in the basin. There’s actually only about three of us, so the other two are much larger than us. But we’ve been at this longer than the others. They’ve come into a series of acquisitions. Most recently, both Terrace and Terra have sold. Terra is scheduled to close, I think, in April. Coast in the next couple weeks. So if longevity counts, we’ve been here the longest, but it produced clean natural gas. We comply with all the Colorado regulations. They have increased the cost of operations and hurt the development economics in the basin and in Colorado, but we’re compliant and I think in the longer term that common sense and the realities of energy and cost of energy will prevail.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, we’re working on that. We certainly are. So explain then the process. So exploration, development of oil and natural gas. And then how does natural gas become liquefied natural gas or LNG? How does that work?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, natural gas is cooled down to a negative, I think it’s around 160 to 200 degrees, and it’s liquid at that. It’s encased in these large tanks on ships, and then it’s transported across the ocean. A lot of ours goes to Europe, which was reliant on Russia for natural gas and And Russia tried to use it as a lever against Europe. And so the demand for liquefied natural gas has increased quite a bit. We’ve been one of the main suppliers of it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. And so this was interesting. I saw this from World Oil, and I guess it’s a Bloomberg report. But this is frustrating when I feel like somebody’s not shooting straight with me. And this is titled, a shelved Biden study found pollution impact of LNG exports minor. And again, this is from Bloomberg. And it said, when the Biden administration stopped approving licenses to export U.S. liquefied natural gas in January of last year. Officials said they first needed to determine how those shipments would affect the environment and economy, but they already had the answers. Just four months earlier, the Department of Energy completed a study. This, again, is under the O’Biden-Harris administration. Of the issue, they concluded that ramped-up LNG exports would only modestly increase domestic residential gas prices and wouldn’t appreciably change global greenhouse gas emissions, and it would help the people in Europe, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. So I just indicative of a number of difficult to understand decisions made during the Biden administration. For example, what we have on immigration by their actions and policies actually incentivize people to come. And we saw what happened. I’m not sure how many people came in. I’ve heard anywhere from 6 million to 17 million, but a significant number. And, you know, that’s worked against us. We’ve got increased drug problems. We’ve got homeless. We’ve got increased criminal activities. You know, we’ve had some of the gangs that have come out of Venezuela that have operated illegally and have done, you know, broken many laws, some violently. It’s created a whole bunch of issues. So how do you understand some of these decisions and the detrimental effects it’s had on this country? It’s difficult to understand.
SPEAKER 13 :
But we’re getting that changed, which I think is super important. Changed at the national level. Bob, as I’m watching legislation down here at the Statehouse with my fellow volunteers, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, they’re still doubling down on a bunch of this stuff here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you know, I guess… This grand bargain we had with there would be no new legislation on energy didn’t stop them from increasing the regulations. And they’ve proposed several things that are just going to increase the cost of power in the state of Colorado. The most recent one, which we are fighting as an industry, is an imposition on a methane tax. And this mainly affects midstreams, the people that compress and transport gas, but it’s going to increase the cost of that fee and to the detriment of the state of Colorado without any effect on greenhouse gas emissions. It’s just another example of those type of regulations, but it’s not just that. Multiple regulations coming down the pike on water. We’re already regulated on water, but this is additional regulations, most of which will have only a minor effect that’s positive, but at a much greater cost. It’s difficult to understand other than it’s just the I guess the blue nature of our electorate.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, that’s why elections really do matter, Bob Boswell. And so we’re working over in that arena as well because people want to make sure that we have honest, transparent elections. And so we do need to work on that because what I see down at the Statehouse is it’s almost like without any abandon whatsoever, so many of these different bills. And so just to report on our Bill Track 50, which is what we use for Colorado Union taxpayers, I asked them to flag some different words so that we could see different legislation quickly that might have some of these words in it. So regarding energy, there’s 37 bills down there at the statehouse right now that are referring to energy. And then I also asked Karen to flag the word climate. And there are 27 bills referencing climate. So there’s so many of these things that are under the radar because they’re flooding the zone. It is really difficult to keep track of everything that’s happening down there. And I think it’s by design, Bob.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it absolutely is. You know, I’m with you. The current administration in Colorado government is doing is they’re trying to get around the Tabor laws by the Tabor law by instituting fees. And last count I saw there was some 20 new fees that are actually taxes that are called fees to increase government revenue. And a lot of these are fees that are made up around these regulations that they’re promulgating that are unnecessary. And you see today where the state of Colorado has a $1.2 billion deficit. You know, it’s just hard to understand how we could have that large a deficit, you know, with a reasonably good economy. So it’s just government spending, you know, gone wild. Too much regulations. They’re doing everything that… we’ve seen examples of that have worked against really the economy of the state and ultimately the well-being of its people.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and so quick question. This came in on the text line. Somebody said that diesel prices are up a little bit. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the gas pump. What do you think is going to happen with gas and diesel prices here over the near future?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think there’s two elements to that equation. One is the cost of crude oil, and we’ve seen the cost of crude oil has come down. The other is the margins in refineries and the cost of operating these refineries where inflation has affected them. So I suspect that the price of gasoline and gas And diesel will come down modestly just simply due to the decrease in the price of crude oil. But it’ll be offset somewhat modestly as well by the increased refining costs. So net-net, I think it’s going to be down modestly both for diesel and gasoline.
SPEAKER 13 :
OK. Hey, Bob Boswell, thank you so much. I learn so much. I know our listeners do as well. I appreciate your partnership. So you have a great day and we’ll talk with you next week or next month.
SPEAKER 07 :
OK. Yeah. Thanks, Kim.
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OK. And the quote for the end of the show is from William McKinley. He said, the free man cannot be long an ignorant man. That’s why we need to know what’s going on. And of course, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, that’s a great place to start. 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 that like Superman stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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We search for truth and clarity on the show by dissecting these issues, looking at them through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I Let’s get over here. Our word of the day, and thank you to Mark, and also thank you for challenging me on something I said in our number one. I do appreciate that. You’re right. And his word is misnomer, and it’s M-I-S-N-O-M-E-R. And number one, it could be an error in naming a person or place. Number two, an application of a wrong name. Or number three, a name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or object. And I would say that calling wind and solar clean, renewable energy is a misnomer. Because first of all, it has to be, it’s unreliable, and therefore it has to be backed up by naturally occurring fossil fuels. so that’s the first thing but they never talk about the strip mining in third world countries for the rare earth minerals that have to be used in electric vehicles they don’t talk at all about what happens to solar panels or wind turbines when we’re done with them and so it really is a misnomer when you hear the word renewable energy or clean energy and we need to challenge that So you should be able to use misnomer in a sentence today. That is your challenge. I quoted the day I went to William McKinley. And you may remember that within the last few months since Donald Trump took office in his second term that he – reversed Obama’s renaming of Mount McKinley in Alaska from Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley. And I don’t know that much about William McKinley. He was born in 1843. He died in 1901. He was the 25th president of the United States, and he served from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was in favor of the gold standard, protective tariffs, and he was the last president to have served in the American Civil War. And so tariffs is in the discussion out there. And I thought this was an interesting quote. He said, I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform. And I did have a discussion yesterday with somebody regarding tariffs, because many of the headlines particularly said, From the left, there’s concerns, though, across the board regarding what will these tariffs do to our economy. Would recommend that you check out the interview I had with Lauren Fix yesterday. Card Coach reports regarding these tariffs. It’s not what the headlines are saying. And you can find that on Spotify and iTunes. But ultimately, it sounds like Trump. would love to reduce spending, find all this waste, fraud, and abuse, have some tariffs to ultimately – and remember, these other countries have been charging tariffs on our goods going into their countries. So some of this is just protective tariffs that he’s doing – that he could get rid of the income tax. Would that not be something for everyday people to get rid of the income tax? And what that might do to the economy and to everyday people thriving and prospering would be pretty amazing. So speaking of taxes, though, Representative Sean Camacho. down at the Colorado State House is introducing a bill to sue to the constitutionality of the Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which was approved by the people of Colorado in 1992, because there’s this insatiable appetite for more and more of our money. And Tabor, basically all Tabor says is three things. One, hey, PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, if you want to raise our taxes, you just have to ask us. And actually, the taxes, let me, yeah, if you want to raise our taxes, you have to ask us. If you want to incur debt that we have to pay off, you have to ask us. And if you want to keep excess, let’s see, your over-collection of money from us, and that is above a very, So generous formula of inflation plus population. If you want to keep a revenue above that, you just have to ask us. So this representative, Sean Camacho, wants to sue to say that they don’t have to ask us. That’s going to be a serious problem. So we need to understand what’s going on on that. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, be sure to reach out to Lorne Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. So Lorne Levy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hey, good morning, Kim. How are you?
SPEAKER 13 :
Good. So what do you think about Senator Sean Camacho and the Democrats suing to keep more of our money?
SPEAKER 17 :
I read that yesterday in the morning in the headlines, and it immediately was like, Kim has content for the next like three years here.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s for sure. Unfortunately, but we will be in.
SPEAKER 17 :
I couldn’t believe it. It’s like going against everything you always talk about. I’m like, that’s going to be a no. That’s going to be a no. The question is, can they get away with it? You know?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and that’s why we have to shed light on it. And that’s why what we do here with your help, your sponsorship is so important. But the other thing, Lauren, is people wanting to buy houses. I see houses for sale out there. Mortgage rates are staying pretty stable at this rate, yes?
SPEAKER 17 :
They are. In the last few days, they’re creeping down just a little bit, which is nice, ever so slightly. Every little bit helps. You know, we talk about it constantly, you and I, about the 10-year U.S. Treasury. It’s down to about 412 today, which is a relief from being closer to 5, you know, like it’s been before. So that helps a little bit, bringing rates more down into the probably middle 6s, you know. So that’s always helpful for more buying power. But, yeah, there’s a lot of activity. People are buying homes. I think people are used to these rates now and, you know, are having to move for one reason or another, which is, you know, helpful for the whole overall real estate market. So, yeah, things are going okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and that’s one of the things that I had learned in talking with you and with Karen is that when interest rates were really low, there wasn’t much inventory, and it really had stopped the velocity of housing. Of course, I think a lot of that is regulatory, stopping the supply and creating supply for housing. But it has stopped the velocity of that, and I am pleased to see it looks like things are starting to really move again.
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You never know why someone needs to move. It doesn’t have to be job change or job loss. I think there’s people out there that maybe just get tired of living in the same house. I don’t know. I look around my neighborhood and there’s been a couple sales here in the last couple months and there’s a couple signs up now. I thought those were people that would just never move because some of the people that you think are stuck with low rates that don’t have an incentive to move because their mortgage payment is so low. But for one reason or another, they’ve decided to list our homes. So we’re starting to see more of that now. And I think people are just getting their arms around these rates in the sixes and realizing that, you know, it’s not that big of a difference in their mind to stop them from moving. So, you know, we are definitely seeing that, which is nice. But it also is what we talk about a lot, creating some competition for new homes, depending on, as Karen would say, if they’re listed at the correct price and if they’re in good shape and We’re seeing people having multiple offers happen and bidding a little bit again, which makes it so important to be pre-qualified and ready to go and know what you can afford and what you can get to.
SPEAKER 13 :
How can people do that, Lorne Levy?
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SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I love that. And you take such great care of your clients. That number is 303-880-8881 for everything mortgages in all of the states except New York. Lorne Levy, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, you got it. Thanks, Kim.
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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. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. It is Wednesday, so that means that it is a Trent Luce Wednesday. Trent Luce is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher who’s been shedding light on these issues that have been facing the people that feed and fuel us, rural Colorado, rural America, for over 20 years. And ultimately, this affects us in the urban corridors. We’ve taken it for granted. reliable, affordable, abundant, and efficient energy, abundant and affordable food at the grocery store. We’ve taken it for granted, and it has been under attack, regulatory, politically, mainstream media, all these things for quite some time. But I think people are waking up. So, Trent Luce, it’s good to have you. Welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 09 :
Has it really been a week already?
SPEAKER 13 :
I know. It’s crazy, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 09 :
Days go slow, the years go fast. Yeah, that’s for sure.
SPEAKER 13 :
So what’s going on, though? You’ve been a little busy, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
I had a massive day yesterday. It just seems like, and I know everybody’s busy, but I got one phone call after another and ended up in the middle of six projects, and this was on the heels of going to Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska, the day before on Monday because of a 23,000 acre fire. But then also yesterday, I accidentally got in the middle of a situation where a mother had her 24 hour old baby taken from her while she was breastfeeding in the hospital.
SPEAKER 13 :
What?
SPEAKER 09 :
Because she was reluctant, not reluctant. She opposed them giving her baby vaccinations, and a rectal thermometer temperature, taking our temperature. She opposed that, and they literally, Child Protective Services, literally brought three police officers in the room. She had already been cleared to leave the hospital, and they took that baby away. And last night at 7 o’clock, on behalf of a lot of people who got involved, the baby was taken from her on March the 26th. And last night at 7 o’clock, the baby was returned to her. It just, I mean, that came at me in the middle of the day. I had no idea anything was going on. Then, of course, I jumped in the middle of it and went to bed very happy, but not as happy as Rhonda Christensen is.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, set this up. What hospital we’re at. Give us the details.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sanford Hospital in Bismarck, North Dakota. But I did a little search just to figure out, and I think there’s something here that needs to be followed up on. Child Protective Services follows up on leads of 7.1 million children and infants a year that they go look and determine whether or not there’s a problem. And when they deem it a problem and being an unfit mother, I mean, we went through the medical report. The baby was born at eight pounds, three ounces. And they considered her an unfit mother because she didn’t push, which she says she did. But this was right in the report. She did not push trying to get this baby out. It obviously was too big and she couldn’t handle it. Eight pounds, three ounces. It’s like, why is this even part of the discussion? What’s this really about? And then… Without people even knowing that I had been brought up to speed on what was going on with it, I started getting phone calls from my regular listeners and viewers to say, Trent, I think there’s something going on that’s the kind of thing that you normally engage in. And so the word got out, and there was a significant number of legislators in North Dakota that engaged. But my phone calls… We’re all along the lines that this child protective services in every state are just out of control. And who are they answering to? Who holds them accountable? And I’m bringing it up here today because I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of people in our listening area from central Wyoming to Utah to New Mexico that have experiences and stories that are like, what is going on with this where a government entity, child protective services, can take liberty to just take a baby away? while nursing?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I’m just thinking about how important, first of all, baby, new baby, bonding with the mom. Of course, if she’s breastfeeding, and you said that they took the baby on the 26th, and here we are to April 1st. So a woman’s body, as she’s breastfeeding, there’s all kinds of things going on. If she’s not getting the relief of the baby nursing, that’s a problem. And where did the baby go for those five days? Who was taking care of the baby? This is downright scary is what it is.
SPEAKER 09 :
The good news is that she did mention, because I was not in the interview, but part of an interview that she was a part of yesterday, she was pumping. and trying to supply the breast milk to her baby, but she has no idea where the baby was. Zero contact with the baby from the time they took it until last night when it was returned. But you are absolutely right. That bond that’s created in those first days and that colostrum effect and all of those things that come about with newborns was completely disrupted.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow. Well, we’ve got trouble out here in River City, Trent, and that is there’s a bill out here that, gosh, now, my friends, I think it was 1312, I think it was, that basically if parents don’t affirm their child, this is my understanding, I’ve not read the whole bill yet, affirm their child with their child, sexual dysphoria, thinking they might be transgender, particularly during adolescence, that they could take those kids away from them as well. We’re in a really dangerous position right now with our children. And the government doesn’t give, no government can ever care for your children the way you would care for your children.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, you’re absolutely right. And it’s great that we continue to focus and probably should spend more time on what’s really going on with our kids because we’re literally shaping the future of not only the nation, the world.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and Colorado’s at the tip of the spear. This is very troubling. So I had no idea about that. I know that you’ve been involved regarding this fire in, what is it, Dad’s, I had written this down, it is Dad’s Lake Fire. Okay, so bring us up to speed on that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I got a phone call from a gentleman who had just purchased a ranch in Cherry County south of the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge. He purchased it so that his son and his daughter-in-law had a place to raise cows and be a part of the cattle business in Cherry County, which is the number one cow-calf county in the nation, by the way. Got to throw that in there. Cherry County arguably is God’s own cow country. It’s the largest county in the state of Nebraska. This fire started on the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge. It was started, and in fact, Fish and Wildlife Service issued a statement right away saying that they were responsible for the fire and they would do an investigation into what really truly caused it, which everybody in Cherry County contacted me and said, this is strange. They never admit guilt right away. They never admit there’s going to be an investigation, and yet there was. So I jumped in my pickup, and I went up there, and I visited with Matt Blackford, and he’s from Brownlee, Nebraska. You want to hear the really interesting story about Brownlee, Nebraska? The population of Brownlee is seven people. Wow. 12 people on the fire department. Wow. It may be the only fire department that is actually larger than the population that it serves. But anyway, it’s just how remote this area is. And obviously there are ranchers that are on the volunteer fire department. So Matt gave me a tremendous tour, and we looked at where the damage was. But then I started digging into what’s taking place. And the damage is totaling about 23,000 acres. Not all of that, by the way, is on the refuge. The majority of it, in fact, is on deeded property. And the refuge itself is 71,518 acres. The Fish and Wildlife owns 71,516 acres in Cherry County, Nebraska. And it goes back to a 1935 bill that… in fact, created this refuge. And then there was a change in 1978 and the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act that I’ll get to in a moment. But what I learned is that the refuge itself, I went and dug through and with the help of Twyla, a friend in Cherry County, we found what the refuge federal government had been paying to the tax base of Cherry County. 21% of what every other person in Cherry County pays. That’s the deal, 21%. And that is a direct result of the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act of 1978. So just on first glimpse, I look at this and I see the federal government who gets a major exemption, and it’s a payment in lieu of taxes. They get a major exemption because they’re a federal government. They cause, and I then yesterday talked to a firefighter who was on the scene watching one of the fish and wildlife vehicles drive through a pasture that they’re not grazing properly because there’s this whole anti-grazing component of what’s going on today in the federal government. And this pickup driving through the pasture refuge was, he said, I literally saw that pickup start four separate fires because of the systems of driving through. I’m sure it still had a catalytic converter on it. And it’s been extreme drought. It was a high wind day of 75 degrees. All the conditions were perfect for starting a fire. So one rig with the volunteer fire department was literally following this government pickup through the pasture, putting out the fires that they were starting. That’s the mismanagement that’s going on. And it turns out the investigation was yesterday, the day I was there, Monday. I don’t know what the results of the investigation are. But just a little glimpse of what happened here. Kim, and I’m going to bring this to a close because I know where we’re at. The entity that pays 21% of their owed property tax to the county caused a fire that burned a majority off of their property to people who pay 100% of what they owe in property tax, and their livelihoods for the next two years are in peril right now because the feed for their cows just went up in smoke due to mismanagement on federal property.
SPEAKER 13 :
Goodness. We’ve talked about it regarding the mismanagement of our forests as well, and that rolls over to our grasslands. Also, this, I don’t know what to say on that. So is this fire under control now?
SPEAKER 09 :
The fire was put out that day. Saturday was completely out. It did follow with five inches of snow, which was a great thing. And now the true danger is coming about. The sandhills of Nebraska were created really by buffalo overgrazing. And then the winds, and we get a lot of wind in the sandhills of Nebraska, the winds come up and blow the sand dunes out. So the concern now is one of two things. If we get a normal rain this spring for the area, and like we had last night, we had a pretty hard rain last night, which we needed badly. But you have a hard rain on 23,000 acres that’s just been burned to zero. There’s nothing there. You’ll have massive erosion, which will then be followed by high winds. And so they’ve literally changed the landscape of this 23,000 acres forever because of mismanagement on federal land.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s mismanagement. It’s not nefarious intention. It’s just mismanagement in your opinion, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I don’t have that opinion yet. I’m neutral on that question.
SPEAKER 13 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And May 15th, there’s going to be a great golf tournament. It is the second annual USMC Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament to raise money and awareness for the Marine Memorial located right here in Golden, Colorado. The event is out at the Ridge Golf Course in Castle Rock. So a great way to play that course. Meet some new people. support the USMC Memorial Foundation. So to reserve your spot, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Trent Luce is on the line, a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. We had talked about this Dad’s Lake fire outside of Valentine, Nebraska, in the Sandhills of Nebraska. But he started the conversation with this mom in Bismarck, North Dakota, who had a two-day-old baby, was breastfeeding the baby, was going to be getting out of the hospital. She refused some vaccinations. That’s probably the key thing there. And Child Protective Services came in, took the baby for some of those crucial first days after birth, that bonding between mom and baby, after birth. And so one of our listeners, well, Yvonne, she wanted to know, was the baby vaccinated against her will before return back to her? Do you know the answer to that, Trent?
SPEAKER 09 :
I sadly do know the answer to that, and it’s yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow. Wow. Which vaccine was it? Was it that Hep B? Is that the one that they are forcing on?
SPEAKER 09 :
That was one of, I believe, three that the baby was given.
SPEAKER 1 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
In Bismarck, North Dakota.
SPEAKER 09 :
Against the will of the mother. Wow.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow. Okay, well, we answered that question. Next thing, Trent, I talked about this in the first hour. One of my friends has three teenage kids. Her daughter, I think, might be a freshman. And it was her project to bring home from school a computerized baby. that they would take care of, feed, change, wakes up at night. I guess this is a pretty realistic computer thing from what producer Joe has said, because he said he did that in junior high school. He’s 26. And I remember hearing about that project thinking, oh my gosh, that is so creative that kids would learn how to take care of a baby. And babies are a lot of work. They’re a blessing and they’re a lot of work. But as I was thinking about this now, is I think this may play into then encouraging kids to have abortions if they have an unplanned pregnancy because they’ve just had the school experiment where they brought home this computerized baby who they have no connection with because It hasn’t gone through pregnancy, delivery, any of that stuff. And I’m thinking about it. I’m like, huh, I wonder if this is another conditioning for young people to choose abortion over babies. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I could absolutely agree to that. But you’re spot on. It’s maybe a simulation of something close. But until you actually have the hormones, until you actually have all of the chemistry that takes place with childbirth, you can’t replicate what is happening. And how long does this project last? I mean, there’s so many unanswered questions for me that I could absolutely see where it would contribute to that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I know. I know. And then text line. This came in from Yvonne. She said the baby received these vaccines before the baby was able to receive the colostrum from natural immunization. And that’s a really excellent point, I think, as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I don’t know. I mean, she had been nursing in the 24 hours that she was there, so there would have been some classroom transfer, but clearly it’s a disruption of the natural process. And the reason I brought it up here today, Kim, I wonder how often this is happening all across the country. I have to believe this is not a rare isolated incident.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, gosh, now I want to make sure I get it correct. I want to say it was with Dr. Jack, but, again, I’m not going to say that for sure. But my understanding is if you go in for surgery and you’re under and you’ve not had some vaccinations, you might get vaccinations against your will there as well. This whole thing is a little bit out of control.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know people that tell me that that has happened to them.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. So we need to continue to shed light.
SPEAKER 09 :
My question for Rhonda, which I think is a valid one, and she answered it to the best of her ability, is if you had these concerns before you went to the hospital, why didn’t you choose an alternative method, home birth or something else? And Number one, she said she explored that, could not find someone that would be suitable to assist her in doing that, and that she had a level of fear that they would come and take the baby away if she did a home childbirth. Well, she went to the hospital. They took the baby away anyway because she knew that she was not going to accept a vaccination regimen of any kind.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and a baby that size, to have a baby that size at home, there could be complications on that as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and it’s easy for anybody now to second-guess her and her decisions at that time. But at the end of the day, they took a 24-hour-old baby away from a mother while nursing. That’s just unimaginable in today’s world.
SPEAKER 13 :
It is. It truly, truly is. Okay, well, we’ll ruminate on that for sure. Gosh, if they, yeah, we’ve got our hands full here in Colorado because I see them setting this whole thing up. Let’s just talk a little bit about it. Indoctrination regarding the extreme transgender activist agenda. We’re seeing that. pride flags transgender flags at school and so these kids are inundated with it junior high is a very impressionable time and so a kid comes home and says hey you know i think i’m the other sex and parents say you’re you know knock it off you’re not in colorado it may get to a point where if the parent says knock it off child protective services may come in and take the child We are in tough times right now, Trent. It’s bad.
SPEAKER 09 :
There’s two other issues I got to work on yesterday.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
In Winnipeg County, Iowa, there’s a sheriff, Sheriff Marks, who’s been charged by the state’s attorney under the direction of the governor, Kim Reynolds. because she is saying that there’s a federal mandate on how expected or potential illegal citizens of the county are in the county. And he is saying, I am constitutional sheriff. I’ll follow the constitution and the law and protect the citizens of this county and not comply with any mandate from the state or federal government. He said that originally in a Facebook post. And this is so I did a show on it with a gentleman from Iowa talking about what had taken place. And that was on March the 12th. And then lo and behold, this week she did place him under arrest. And so there are many sheriffs in the state of Iowa that are rallying around Sheriff Marks. And we at every turn. This has been my mantra, and I will continue to be our mantra. We have state and federal policies trying to mandate what’s happening at the county level, and the sheriff is the ultimate authority in that county. And his county commissioners, everybody in the county is 100% behind the sheriff, and this is going to come to a head at some point in time.
SPEAKER 13 :
Boy, I thought that, okay, this says, I’m looking at this, KCCI 8 News, Iowa Sheriff deletes social media post after AG report calls it illegal. The AG files lawsuit. This is in Iowa. Now, I thought that we were all pulling on the same side regarding this illegal immigration because Kim Reynolds is a Republican, right? We are not.
SPEAKER 09 :
We are not pulling on the same side. In fact, we need to follow the law. These people that are illegal should not be here. But to illegally remove them unconstitutionally and put other citizens of your county at risk is not something we need to be a part of. Okay. This whole deportation of illegals has gotten really murky for me, and it’s very troubling. Unfortunately, we have somebody like Sheriff Marks who’s willing to take a stand and say, no, I’m not going to comply when it violates the rights of my citizens.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, now I’m not sure I’m understanding. Is he saying that he will not deport illegal immigrants?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, that’s not what he’s saying. He’s saying that he is going to go through the proper procedure to verify that they are illegal immigrants and that the state is wanting them to detain them longer than legality will really allow them to do so. In addition, what the cost is to the county is going to be beyond what they can handle. And that’s not just him saying that. I had two other sheriffs come up with that yesterday and tell me that this is a bigger deal than anybody’s really talking about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hmm. I don’t know if I agree totally. I’m going to have to research that out. Thank you for bringing that to our attention here. So we’re going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce. We have all these important discussions because of all of our great sponsors. And one of those is John Bozen with Bozen Law.
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It is a great day to be alive, and we’re having important discussions. I want to say thank you to Harris Family for their gold sponsorship of the show, and also the Center for American Values is going to have a great event on April 16th. I will be emceeing that event down in Pueblo at the Center with Norma Donlon, who is the widow of Roger Donlon, Medal of Honor recipient. I would love to have you join us, and so check that out by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. And Trent Luz is on the line with me. Trent, I’m going to have to do some more research. I think I may be on the other side of you regarding this sheriff. So I’m going to have to do some homework on it because it looks like he’s not following ICE detainers and those things from this initial article. So I think that we may have to have another discussion about this next week. I need to do some more research on it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that’s perfect because I’m actually headed to Iowa on Friday, so I’ll have some on-the-ground stuff. But if a sheriff is asked to do something that’s unconstitutional, you can’t support that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Sanctuary says that this is Attorney General Byrd said sanctuary counties are illegal. Sheriff Marks was given the chance to retract a statement, follow the law and honor ICE detainers, but he refused. So, yeah, this is going to be so you and I have our homework for next week. That’s great. You also mentioned you had this issue. Was there one other thing that you that you’d done this week?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, well, absolutely. You promoted that in your newsletter. We’re talking about CO2 pipelines. And the CO2 pipeline is under construction in central Nebraska. And I’ve been working at letting particularly the first responders, the emergency responders, firefighters, let them know that they are not prepared to deal with a rupture if, in fact, and when the rupture occurs on a highly pressurized CO2 pipeline. But, you know, all the work I’ve been doing in Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, that was over a proposed deadline. pipeline. This one is going in. And so I’m trying to bring my neighbors in Nebraska up to speed on how dangerous and this is not just another pipeline.
SPEAKER 13 :
So this pipeline goes from where to where?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it goes, what is taking place is that they have the old tall grass and trailblazers natural gas pipelines are two that run through the middle of Nebraska taking natural gas from Wyoming, into the eastern part of Nebraska. And so what they’re doing is converting the trailblazer into a CO2 pipeline, which any engineer will tell you is problematic. But then what they’re laying right now, the pipe that is going in the ground, is feeder pipelines from existing ethanol plants to tap into, and those are 8-inch lines for the most part, to tap into the tall grass pipeline that scotia called the trailblazer so it would literally go from eastern nebraska into that denver formation underneath cheyenne because we’re still committed and putting co2 in pore space and there is no data that says that it’s safe and yet that they’re laying pipeline to do it so in the next week you will continue on my substack to see me bring greater awareness to the risk as opposed to my neighbors in Nebraska.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the problem is there’s incentives, tax incentives, to make that happen. Otherwise, it would not be happening. And so we’ve got to get that stopped. We’ve got several callers. First of all, we’ve got Gammy on the line. You’ve got a minute and a half, Gammy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning, French. My phone doesn’t work right. You haven’t been getting my messages for weeks. I have to go on signal. Now, that’s my secret code to you. Now, secondly, I want to read something that you all are very familiar with. After being up all night on another Zoom for the, you know, gender garbage. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient suffering of the colonies. Declaration of Independence. Trent, you have been saying this for two years. We, the people, are going to have to get very local, vet our sheriffs, our law enforcement, our everything, our commissioners, city councils, school boards, and show up in such big numbers that we cannot anymore be ignored and recall people that are doing illegal things. bills like our legislature that are literally eviscerating sterilizing mutilating our children and they’re claiming it we’re targeting them uh think not we
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and Gammy, you’re spot on. And our children are under attack from before they’re born till when they’re born. And we have a duty to protect them. So thank you, Gammy. And thank you for all the great work that you’re doing. We have Ron on the line as well. Ron, what’s on your radar?
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Kim. Just your first hour about the oceans. I have a couple things. But the oceans, what they’re doing… And the plastics and everything, they’re dumping, after they get about 70 miles out, they can dump trash. And they go in there and they dump all this trash. Military, commercial, you know, cruise lines, they dump all their trash in the ocean. So that’s where they’re getting all this plastic and everything. And that’s why they got this big island of trash. They need to stop it. And the nets, the abandoned nets are causing issues, too. And the second thing is about the MS-3 or MS-13 guy that they busted. He had automatic weapons and assault weapons, and he’s illegal. And he doesn’t—I wonder how he passed his background check. So I’m just kind of curious of— you know, how he was able to get that, and they’re trying to disarm us.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s a really excellent point. So the bad guys will have firearms, and the law-abiding citizens would not. That’s really a focus here in Colorado. Thank you so much on that as well, Ron. So Trent Luce… Gosh, I want to go back, first of all, to this CO2 pipeline. Since they’re building it, it’s going to be difficult to get it stopped. I’m sure that there’s all kinds of incentives, tax incentives or tax credits around this pipeline that you’re seeing being built in Nebraska, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it’s 45Q tax credits that they’re tapping into. and they get $85 per metric ton for every ton that they bury somewhere. That’s the proposal. It hasn’t happened yet. There have been, I should mention, it has happened in Decatur, Illinois, where an ethanol plant owned by Archer Daniels Medlin, ADM, they have been for two years. And I was at this location two years ago when they started burying CO2 They’ve stopped because the seismographic activity taking place and the potential of earthquakes has accelerated to the point where they could no longer take a chance. And yet, with that being known, we’re continuing to funnel taxpayer money into these projects, which will create chaos and death.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the other thing is, is these tax credits, many of them are transferable. So they’re not really getting the tax. They want these tax credits for the tax benefits. And then, gosh, I can’t remember which credit. Yes, it was. They said that then the income from those tax credits is not taxable as well. And we had an expert on. I can’t remember who it was, but I would say that they knew what they were talking about. This is a racket is what it is, and it’s a dangerous racket, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s a production tax credit. You’re absolutely right. It’s a deduction from the taxes they owe. And Warren Buffett, just as a reminder, last year at the end of his Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, was happy to report they had a $37 million tax credit that came from their investment in wind alone. That didn’t include anything else they’re doing, just wind alone. $37 million they did not pay in taxes because of that tax credit. And that’s what happens, Kim. That’s the moral of the story. We’re transferring wealth from people who are working hard every day to make something work to these individuals who are already wealthy. It’s a continued acceleration of transfer of wealth.
SPEAKER 13 :
And the hypocrisy of Warren Buffett when I think it was Obama was looking or saying that, hey, everybody needed to pay their fair share, when in essence they wanted to make everyday people pay more in taxes. decimating the middle class and warren buffett said well percentage wise my secretary pays more in taxes than i do well i guess the reason is is because he’s taken advantage of a number of these tax credits so hey warren why don’t you step up and pay your quote-unquote fair share right that would simplify the whole thing would it not Well, it would. So let’s lower taxes across the board and let everyday people have more money in their pocket. And it will decrease this wealth disparity that has been occurring because of PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. They’re all in bed together making sure that they are feathering their pockets with the Green New Deal, if you will. We’ve got a minute left. Trent Luce, as always, it’s riveting. And so your final thought. Did I lose him? Sounds… Okay, Trent.
SPEAKER 08 :
I made a mistake, Kim. My fault.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, your final thought.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my final… I’m sorry. I’m what Danny said. All of these things are local. We can’t sit back and say I can’t do anything about it. We must engage. In fact, the Constitution says you must be a dutiful citizen to keep these rights or you will lose them. That’s why we need to have faith and get engaged.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and to Gammy’s point, I love the fact that she quoted the Declaration of Independence. We need to make sure that we understand our founding documents, our declaration, and our Constitution. We need to adhere to that, that vision that all men are created equal by God with these rights of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Trent Luce, we’ve got our homework for next week. We will talk next week, and you have a great day.
SPEAKER 09 :
Can’t wait. See you then.
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