Join Kim Monson as she engages with Jody Henze of Mint Financial Strategies and Karen Gorday of Radiant Painting and Lighting. The episode covers intriguing insights into financial freedom and the controversial zoning changes in Lakewood. Discover how these issues reflect broader themes of autonomy, data ownership, and personal rights in today’s society.
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My email is Kim at KimMonson.com, and I’m making progress online. on catching up on that i do want to hear from you the text line is 720-605-0647 thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice on an independent station searching 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 it’s not compassionate, it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable, and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda being pushed by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites playing out with the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature, this governor, and they use all kinds of stuff, land use codes, zoning regulations, forced fees. conservation easements, all these things. And so we need to be reclaiming freedom. And that’s why we need to talk about it. And again, something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And we focus on the issues and we’ll talk about the people pushing issues, but we really work to stay out of all of the personality stuff. And so let’s see here. Let’s get over here. Our word of the day is incongruous. And it’s I-N-C-O-N-G-R-U-O-S. It could be lacking in harmony or incompatible. It could be not in agreement as with principles, inconsistent, and not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical, inappropriate. I would say the No Kings Day was incongruous with the founding of our country. I was looking through some things on the Internet, and Tom Cranawitter, Dr. Cranawitter, had said the real No Kings Day is July 4th, 1776. And I think he’s really nailed it, because that is where we said that we the people would be governing ourselves. That means that we have to be involved, understand these founding principles of the vision of our Declaration, that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. And the Constitution is there to make that play out. And that’s what we need to be talking with people about. The No King’s Day really was, I think, anti-Trump, obviously. And I know he’s got a big personality. I get that. And I get that some people, his personality rubs them the wrong way. I get that as well. However… It really was not just anti-Trump. It was anti-America. When you look at the riots in L.A. And riots are not okay. And this was one of the headlines that I found. Hold on here. No Kings protests. SUV charges protester rallies largely peaceful. The word largely peaceful. It means that some of them weren’t. And so that devolves into riots, and riots are not okay. And it’s incongruent with our American founding. Our quote of the day is from Nathaniel Green. He was a major general. In the Continental Army. He was born in 1742. He died in 1786. And he was an American military officer and planner. And he served with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. And he emerged from the war with a reputation as one of George Washington’s most talented and dependable officers. And is known for his successful command in the southern theater of the conflict. And he said this, we fight, get beat, rise up. Fight again. And that is Nathaniel Green. I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We are blessed to work with amazing sponsors and really appreciate their great support of the show. I’ve been thinking a lot, my friends, about these AI centers. data, we’re realizing that data is the new gold. And those data centers aren’t just there to create an AI answer for you when you put a question into AI. They are at they are getting data points on all of us on a consistent basis. And when we look at the Fourth Amendment, let me get my Constitution out here. When we look at the Fourth Amendment, let me get here. And it says that the people are to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated or no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Now, I know that this is about government. But government and big tech, we saw during COVID, they got in bed with each other on all of this technology stuff. And so I’m thinking what we should do is we should own our own data. and virginia maca last week had sent over a whole bunch of information i tried to verify it so this is hypothetical but and she is the founder of sam for the land kansas and in some of the information she sent over she said that the department of education again i i need to re-verify this but let’s say this is hypothetical and i tried to find out the amount of money that the Department of Education in Colorado received on the data of our students. And AI didn’t have an answer to that. But she had down $58 million was what the Department of Education of Kansas received for selling the data on the students in Kansas. So I went and I found how many students there were in 2022 in Kansas. And what it worked out to was about $116 per student. So let’s start to think about that. If you owned your own data, and you were paid for that data or you would determine whether or not you wanted to sell that data I think that we need to start a movement on owning our data instead of having somebody else own all that and I know that we sign the little things that give up all of our rights on all of this data we need to figure out a way to walk that back so I’m going to let you all ruminate on that but let’s just think about how that could help a family You have two, three kids in school, an extra $300 a month. That starts to make a difference. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg on all this data collection. So I want to hear from all of you. We might be able to talk about that in the very last segment of the second hour. So I want to hear what you all have to say about that. But I have on the line with me a great sponsor of the show, Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. Jody, happy Monday. Good morning, Kim. Happy Monday to you, too. And what do you think? I know I’m springing this on you, but what do you think about this own your data thing? I think it could get legs.
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Well, interesting concept, because I know we were talking about financial freedom last week, and I was thinking about some strategies this morning about how families can try to achieve that. And there’s really only two things you can do, either lower your expenses or increase your income. And when you mentioned that, a light bulb went off in my head. I was like, well, that’s an interesting concept about finding some more income sources. And obviously, if somebody was interested in doing that, that could certainly help out by bringing in some additional income to their family. I’ll be curious to see what some of your listeners think.
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Yeah, I’m interested to hear what they have to think about it as well. Because families, they are getting squeezed. When you talk about increasing income, and I talk with our young guys on a regular basis, I think that business gets a boost. a bad rap on and employers that they think that they’re greedy. They don’t they don’t give raises the way that people would like them to. And of course, employers are squeezed. And I said, but I think that a government that forcibly takes money out of your your pocket, whether taxes or fees, if we could reduce that, that’s a good way to increase people’s income. So we work that way. And just think if a little family could own their own data and they got an extra $500, $600 a month if they decided to sell it. I think that could be very helpful.
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Yeah. I mean, it’s an interesting idea, and I was thinking about that, too. And as you were starting off the show, I was using ChatGPT, talking about AI, and And I came across an interesting statistic. It says 46% of households have zero retirement funds in accounts like 401ks and IRAs. And that’s interesting because one way to increase your paycheck or reduce some of the taxes that you’re sending to our favorite uncle or the IRS is by contributing to some of those retirement plans. Because by doing that, you are deferring your income. And 46%? Just almost half.
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I can’t believe that the statistic was so high. It really shocked me. Well, and you’re in the business of helping people get to economic freedom because it really is freedom to be able to have economic freedom. And my dad always said, speaking of lowering expenses and increasing income, If you do what you need to when you need to, then someday you can do what you want to when you want to. And that has always stuck with me, Jodi.
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I agree. I mean, I think that’s one of the things that we see in today’s society, especially with some of our young people. And I know this is going to be very controversial, but one of the things that you could do is The budget, you know, so many people don’t do budgeting anymore. And, you know, in this consumerism society that we have this pay now and pay later, buy now and pay later, and people just don’t account for their money anymore. And it’s this keeping up with the Joneses society. I mean, that’s incongruent with financial freedom for sure. So budgeting is the other side of that equation. Find some more money to bring in, but accounting for every dollar that’s going out.
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That makes so much sense. I have to congratulate you on a regular basis. You’re using the word of the day. Well done, Jody Hensley. And you are helping people wherever they are in their financial journey, whether or not they’re young, have put assets together. You can help them. What is the best way for people to reach you?
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Yeah, we have a caller text line, too. That’s 303-285-3080. Again, 303-285-3080. Or you can contact us right through the website, which is MintFS.com.
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That’s MintFS.com. And Mint, like FS Financial Strategies. Jodi, great advice. I always learn so much from you. And we’ll talk with you next week. Sounds good, Kim. Thank you. Have a great week. And really, really blessed to work with amazing people. I know each and every one of our sponsors personally. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team wants you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage. Their office will respond to your caller text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, Roger Mangan’s team is there.
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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 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 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. And on the line with me is Karen Gorday. She is the owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting. And I wanted to talk about an issue that she is really keeping an eye on out in Lakewood. Karen, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Happy Monday. Happy Monday to you, Karen. And one of the things that you are very concerned about is transparency in government. And you’ve got something going on in Lakewood that you’re pretty concerned about.
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That is correct. Lakewood is currently redoing the entire zoning code ordinance. Not the part of it, the entire zoning ordinance, which is 409 pages long. Wow.
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And what’s in those 409 pages?
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That’s a good question, Kim. Essentially, so it’s important to understand that Lakewood is a home rule city. And I know you’ve talked a lot about that. You’ve got home rule versus statutory rule. Lakewood is home rule, which means we can do what’s best for our communities. And essentially, what is proposed in the new zoning is basically telling the state, OK, state of Colorado will give you whatever you want. And they are going to try to be compliant with HB 241152, 241304, 241313, and 241007. You may know that six cities are suing Polis and the states because they’re encroaching on home rule and Lakewood was not part of that. And in fact, Lakewood City Council passed a resolution last December. It’s resolution 24-62 and It essentially adopts all those state-level zoning goals I just mentioned, which eliminates single-family zoning. It legalizes zero lot line housing, which means you can build lot line to lot line. It codifies a 90-day approval for affordable housing. It requires compliance with eliminating the parking requirements. The bottom line, it’s not good for the residents.
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Wow. And so this is what I see big picture on this, Karen Gorday, is they’re moving to a point where people are going to be on top of each other and have to drive around to figure out a place to park a car. So people that do have single somebody that has a single family home, their neighbor could sell their property, their house. This is hypothetical. So that house could be scraped, and then there could be more than one unit put up over there, and there wouldn’t be any parking requirements, so there could be cars everywhere. Am I getting this right?
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You absolutely are. So you could put a village of tiny homes on that lot. You could build a quadplex on that lot with no parking allowances as well. They’re going to allow any resident in the city to have 750 square foot of their house as commercial space. So for personal services, so think hair salon, spa treatments, dry cleaners, even coffee shops can be in your neighborhood on what used to be a quiet, quiet cul-de-sac lot.
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Wow. So what, first of all, do the people of Lakewood know that this is occurring?
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I think the ones that pay attention know what’s occurring, to what extent. I don’t know that people are aware. And then, of course, those that don’t follow city government or don’t understand how city government works, they don’t know. They have no clue this is coming.
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This seems like… Okay, backing up, I certainly support property rights, people being able to do what they want to with their property. There is, however, this is changing all the rules. So if there’s zoning, people bought property with particular zoning, not having somebody build right up to the lot line, this is, I think this can be an assault upon property rights. What do you think, Karen?
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I absolutely do. We have, uh, in Lakewood, we actually have a lot of horse property, um, and people paid really good money for a horse property. And if someone has a lot, um, right next to the horse property, oh, well, um, you, your horse property could be ruined because you’ve got, now you’ve got buildings right up against your, your lot line. The other thing, and this really concerns me as well, is they’re going to limit the square footage of houses on a lot above grade, so basements don’t count. But if you have, for example, a 4,000 square foot house above grade, and it burns down, the largest, depending on how you’re zoned, the largest house you’ll be able to build above grade is 3,250 square feet. So forget all about replacement value.
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Wow. So they are going to say just how big your house could be. Correct.
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This is crazy. You can subdivide and put multiple units on your lot. So you can add an ADU to your lot, but they’re going to limit the size of your main dwelling unit.
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Wow, this is so anti-freedom, I can’t even believe it.
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I know. It is mind-boggling, Kim. And I watched the last planning commission meeting, and I was just floored that multiple planning commissioners are thrilled with this document and how it could be a blueprint for other cities across the Front Range, and they are proud of their work. And it is assault on property rights and personal freedom.
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Well, you know, and the other thing, Karen, and we’ll probably talk with Mary Jansen about this tomorrow, is that the Planning Commission… is appointed really by the mayor or city council, although I think staff has input on that as well. But I think many times these agendas can hide behind planning commissioners, and there are good planning commissioners that understand freedom and property rights, and there are those that don’t. that are really more about control but they’re also they’re unelected which I think is important so they’re it gives an insulation of responsibility of the mayor and the city council they hide behind the oh the planning commission is recommending this yes Yes.
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But in this case, we have that resolution from last year that provided the direction of all this. So I don’t know how much they can hide behind that in this case.
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Oh, good point. Good point. So what timeline? And I think you’ve got an article coming out soon.
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Yes, I do. So I was up late last night finishing or trying to finish it. I finished it about 10 minutes to six this morning. So I am proofreading it now. and then it’ll go to the editor of the lakewood informer and it’ll be published within the next 24 hours the title of this article is zoned out how lakewood is selling out its neighborhoods and there are upcoming city council meetings the next one is july 14th and then july 28th july 28th is the first reading of the zoning ordinances And then Monday, August 11th, we need to pack the room, show up in force, because that’s public comment on the zoning. There are no additional city council meetings in June, but my recommendation to Lakewood property owners would be to reach out to your city councilors, have those discussions, show up to the next meetings, and speak in general public comment, and let’s make our voices heard.
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Okay. And this article, it sounds like you pulled an all-nighter on this one, Karen Gorday.
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Almost, yes. I want to get the word out, and we’re in summer vacation mode in this area, and so the sooner we can get this out, the sooner we can get people involved.
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That way people can understand that. Again, people will be able to find this article where? On the lakewoodinformer.com. Okay. Karen Gorday, thank you so much for being an advocate for property rights because owning property, property is inherent within the American idea. And so thank you. And so let’s stay informed on this. I really do appreciate it. Thank you for letting me come on, Kim. Absolutely. My friends, this is not so subtle, a not so subtle attack upon our property rights. And we have to have these discussions. And I wanted to mention Hooters Restaurants. They are great sponsors of both the Kim Monson Show. and America’s veteran stories. I’ve known them for many years, and it’s from an experience I had with them when I was on city council about freedom and free markets and capitalism, and then PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties trying to exert power and control. So it’s really a foundational story about America. But they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs, great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and for happy hour. And again, I would highly recommend their fish and chips. Another great sponsor of the show is Karen Levine. And for everything regarding residential real estate, buying or selling your home, or looking at a new build, you want to have Karen on your side of the table.
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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. 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 the Center for American Values is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And this summer, I’d highly recommend that you put the kids in the car and go down and visit the center and just take a look at the portraits of valor of many of our Medal of Honor recipients and talk with your kids or your grandkids about that. The center is nonpolitical. It’s nonpartisan, focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. On the line with me is a fan favorite of ours, and that is Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports. Lauren, welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me back. Man, a lot has happened since we last talked.
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Yeah. And there’s more good stuff coming. We actually have some good news for a change. It looks like with all this electric vehicle mandates are going away, the state of Colorado has not made a statement. But a few states are going to try and sue President Trump after he signed. So I should explain. There was an electric vehicle mandate in California. And that, of course, 17 states agreed with that, of which includes Colorado, New York, where I live. And, of course, typical states that follow New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts. But consumers are saying, hold on, there’s no charging infrastructure. It costs more to insure. The vehicles are more expensive. I like my vehicle. Why would I want to get rid of it? Or I’m in the middle of a lease or a purchase and financially I can’t afford to buy a new car. But, see, the state doesn’t see it that way. We do because we pay attention to that. but they they live in a world where they think if we mandate this you have to do it that’s like saying you can only eat broccoli i mean there’s a point where people like but i don’t want it so because of the pushback with that once the trump administration got in lee zeldin who’s in charge of the epa sean duffy department of transportation chris wright from uh energy secretary they got together they put together what’s called a cra which is a congressional review act and what happens is they go and they pull this statement this line item that President Biden put into place. And these three, one of them includes the electric vehicle mandate. One is diesel emissions for trucks. In other words, they couldn’t go to ports. They didn’t want big trucks transporting. And you just talked about that on Friday on your show. That’s really important because getting goods from ports to warehouses to your home, it’s all done by truck. Whether you’re delivering a refrigerator or you’re delivering food from coast to coast that’s refrigerated, those are problems. And of course, that means everything gets more expensive. So when President Trump got into office, there was actually four or five of them. There were smaller things of ridiculous rules that were put in place. Those were passed by the House with bipartisan support. Many of these representatives knew that people in their state Couldn’t afford it. I mean, and it wasn’t just the typical states you would suggest. So because of that, it went to the Senate. The Senate passed it, placed it on President Trump’s desk, and he signed it last Thursday. I was so excited. I wish you could have heard me jumping up and down. I was so happy. Celebrations for sure that this was signed. Now, once it’s signed, it can’t be undone. it would take an act of Congress, which would be 75% of the House and the Senate, in order to put it back into place. And it could not be exactly the same wording or anything even close. So this is a huge win. And to do this, you could only do it when the president has the House, the Senate, and, of course, the White House. So this is the time to do it because the midterms are going to be critical because we know the midterms and how the left operates, that if they get back into power, they’re going to just do the same thing again. We’ll try to impeach them, waste time in lawfare, which they’re doing right now. They’re doing everything they can to stop their plan. which is basically government control. So we’re in the midst of doing other things, trying to help get this other rules taken away as well, so that you as a consumer can buy what you want, not just in cars, but in appliances, water pressure, toilets, heat pumps, so you don’t have to make your home all electric. All these things are part of what President Trump is doing. So the good news is that we’ve got this through. And that means trucks can go to ports, goods get transported to your home at a lesser cost, and you can buy whatever you want. Now, of course, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and his usual moves, I’m going to sue. He can try all he wants. There is not a chance that this is going to pass. He’s just going to take it to the courts, but it will not change any rules in the interim. So note that if you want an electric car, Fantastic choices out there. I cover all of them on my Car Coach Reports channel. I’ve reviewed all of them. There’s some great products out there. If you want to buy a Tesla, go buy one. If you don’t want one, there’s hybrids, there’s gas, and there’s diesel options, and you can buy what you want. And that is the best news of the month.
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Well, now, I thought I did see a headline. Well, I did see the headline regarding Gavin Newsom suing on this. And I thought Colorado was part of that. But since this has gone through the House and the Senate, they really don’t have a leg to stand on to sue on this, do they? I think that’s what you said. Okay.
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They don’t. And that’s typical, though. We’re talking about California. You know, if things don’t go the way you want, just sue. If you don’t like what President Trump did, you know, find a federal judge or an appellate court judge or somebody, some sort of law fair to slow it down. Trump has won every single one of these. Some take longer. Some will have to go to the Supreme Court. But as far as far as the Supreme Court, what I’m watching right now is the big one. This is the one that we all should celebrate. We’re trying to take the powers away from California because in the Constitution, you cannot have one state make the rules for the other states. Each state has its own rules. And that’s why you feel like when you go to the state of Colorado to register your car, that’s Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s not the federal one. It’s your state. And so each state has their own rules, regulations, taxes, etc., So California’s been telling the other 49 states what you can sell, how you can sell it. You know, he’s been trying to push. And there are a few states that will align. Of course, the fool that runs our state of New York, Kathy Hochul, is just as bad as Gavin Newsom. Colorado, you have your own issues there. Same situation where they jump on board with whatever Gavin Newsom has to say. However… when the Supreme Court finally gets this on their docket, and I’m watching, we want them to take the powers away from the California Resources Board. And the only reason they got the power was because when Obama got into office, he was there for eight years, he kept giving them more and more powers every year. And it made them very powerful. And they started telling car manufacturers what to make for the rest of the country. And then, of course, Trump came in, and it was too late into his four-year term to try to undo it. So he knew he had one more shot at this to get it done. And then, of course, Biden gave them even more powers. The goal is to take away all of their powers so that California can’t tell the rest of the world, or the country at least, what we can buy, what we can do. And that’s his goal. I mean, he thinks he’s a little president over there, but he really doesn’t have the power. He’s basically an actor. And remember, he’s related to Nancy Pelosi, and you can take it from there.
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Wow. Okay. Now, one other thing in this headline that I had seen regarding this mandate, it says that Trump also said that he unveiled a plan to ban windmills. So do you know much about that?
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I do know a little bit about that. I’ve been watching wind and solar for a while because they were trying to say it was going to power cars. But I also cover energy. I have a background in economics and all that. The problem with the windmills is this. We see them all over the place. We see them in New York, California, Florida, wherever. The problem with these windmills is a lot of things. One, they kill eagles, which is obviously not a good thing, but a lot of birds get killed by them because they spin slowly. To get them started, those gigantic windmills, to get them started requires a motor. And that motor uses a lot of energy. And, of course, it’s not electric. But that motor, because those windmills are made of fiberglass, so each blade is very heavy. It’s brought in a very long truck, and they put them up one at a time. The problem is they don’t take them down when the motor dies or it needs maintenance or they get damaged. They just leave them because they’re made of fiberglass, so they can’t be recycled at all. They have to be buried in the ground. And that’s not good because it affects well water. It affects the water supply. So, again, quite foolish. So when President Trump got into office, he wanted to get rid of those windmills because they don’t give us enough energy. At the maximum, we can get about 10%. of energy that we need. So the cost of putting up those gigantic towers is a problem. In addition to that, if you own a home nearby, you just hear this whirling noise all the time. And people that live near there, it destroys the value of their property. It’s actually completely useless to have it up there. And it’s they’re ugly. As a matter of fact, as those of us in the car industry always laugh, we go with the Mercedes logo because it’s a three-star. But look at all those Mercedes logos in the sky. But there’s a lot of problems with them. And when they tried putting them in the water, they were killing the whales. That project in New Jersey is done. Finally, people from the green side have woken up to realize, yeah, this is not working. If you care anything about any of the animals or our environment, they’re not smart to have these windmills in the water. The damage it does to the ecosystem, to the fish, to the birds, to everything is terrible. And it’s also killing whales. They’re getting beached. You probably saw that in the news.
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So that’s not good. And solar panels are equally as bad. Honestly, if you want them, great. Put them on your home. But the truth is, it will take you about 20 years to recoup your funds on that because of the overall cost. You have to put a new roof on your home. And all those panels are made in China. They’re not being made here. So who are we helping? We’re helping China. Sounds like an interesting prospect that Biden put into place. Let’s use Chinese components, parts, and give money to their companies so that we as Americans are reliant on them. That’s why he’s undoing all this.
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Well, and all of those had significant subsidies as well. And we need to get away from all of these subsidies and tax incentives and tax credits and get to an even economic playing field so that the best products can be brought to market that provide reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy sources for Americans. And if we do that, Americans will thrive and flourish. And we can coexist and take good care, be good stewards of our environment as well, Lauren Fix.
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I agree with that 100%. I think that people aren’t aware that the oil industry gets subsidies as well. That should go away. There shouldn’t be any subsidies to any form of energy. I know that they’re putting subsidies in place for nuclear power, which is fantastic because it actually is efficient. They’re going to do smaller, healthier, safer power supplies. And here in New York, they shut down a plant that was supplying New York City. So where are they getting their power from? Canada. Why are we going to Canada to get power that comes from their nuclear power plants and sending it down to the states? So that’s why we were having tariff issues. That’s why Canada will just shut off the power to the U.S., which is really stupid. But it’s important to note, we can supply ourselves with energy. We have the energy capabilities without wind and solar. But all it takes… is us to disconnect from other countries supporting us with energy, which makes zero sense. And I know President Trump knows that. I know he’s working on that. And Colorado may be doing the same thing, and you may not even know it. You may get your electric bill like, I got mine. I’m like, whoa, that’s super high. I mean, my electric bill here, and I live in Buffalo, New York, has doubled. And why? Because we’re getting our energy from Canada and they’re putting a tariff on it and we’re paying for that. And that doesn’t make any sense when I live near Niagara Falls and we have natural energy coming from the water because we do have the power authority that Nikolai Tesla put into place. way back in the turn of the century. So these are things that don’t make sense. And this is what President Trump’s trying to undo. So subsidies for any of these energy companies should go away. That’s your tax dollars that should go back into roads and bridges and other things that make sense. Education. There’s a million things you can think of. We all have things we can think of. Or our own pockets. Yeah, well, essentially you pay for it too, right? Every time you get your electric bill, natural gas where I am as well. And that has not gone up as much, but that is a smarter choice already. And what do you think is charging all these electric cars? Oil and natural gas. This all doesn’t make sense. There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors that the previous administrations had put into place. And We’re starting to realize that even some of the Republican past leaders, which I believe include Bush, were not necessarily on our side. There’s a lot of rhinos out there, Republicans in name only, and you can see them, and they’re starting to show their true colors when they start making, picking sides, essentially. Which side are you on? Now we know who you are. And these are real issues.
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They are real issues. And out here in Colorado, we’ve got a governor and a state legislature that is trying to totally shut down oil, natural gas and coal. And we’ve got some really significant natural gas fields out here. And they are through rules and regulations and taxes and fees trying to shut down. this reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy source. It is just crazy to be able to make that happen. We’re talking with Lauren Fix. You can find her Car Coach Reports at Substack and CarCoachReports.com. And I want to talk with her about tariffs when we come back. And before we do that, if you need a mortgage, first or second mortgage, reverse mortgage, reach out to Lauren 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. 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 searching 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. And check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are raising money for this remodel of the Marine Memorial. the official Marine Memorials right here in Golden, Colorado. It’s time for a facelift and we need to honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And of course, liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. On the line with me is Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports. Lauren Fix, what about Trump’s tariffs and how’s that affecting the automotive industry?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, this is something new. When President Trump signed this mandate to removing the mandate for electric vehicles, he said, you know what? I think we’re going to have to put some more tariffs in place. Much like what he’s doing with other countries, he needs, this is for the auto industry, much like other countries, he needs to get them to the table. But the ultimate goal is, and people don’t understand this, why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? The goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States, number one. Number two, In order for car prices to lower, we have to lower costs to manufacturers. And the only way to do that is to bring production back. Because under Clinton and under Obama and even under Bush, they were incentivizing shipping manufacturing to other countries. And over the years, we used to make microchips here. They’re now made in Taiwan. Why would you do that? There’s jobs here. So their goal was a different economy. political view to ship all manufacturing overseas and everybody here would work for the government and that’s where you’re seeing all these government layoffs because a government job is great but you’re not producing anything you’re just you’re just bolstering the cost of us living and everything gets more expensive for you and me and everyone nobody gets a break on that And so the goal is with tariffs is to get manufacturers to bring product back. Now, many of them have already started this. Years ago, under Clinton, BMW, over 25 years ago, produced, built a plant in South Carolina. They’re the number one manufacturer of products. BMW in the entire world is here in South Carolina. Well, not in South Carolina, but in the U.S. Volvo has also produced a plant here. But many of their drivelines are made in other countries and literally anywhere. They could be China, Mexico. Audi builds cars in Mexico. They’re talking about moving products here to the U.S. because they already have a plant, Volkswagen Group Volkswagen. owns Audi, and they have space in their Chattanooga, Tennessee plant where they build Volkswagens, and they could easily build Audis. They’re pretty much the same with different bodies and some different components. That could be done. So they’re looking into that. So we’re starting to see other brands of Honda, big, big selling products. They moved their production to Mexico because it was cheaper. Now they said, oh, no, no, no, no, we’re bringing it back to Indiana. Because they’re only using 60% of their capacity. They have a lot of empty plant space. We don’t want that. We want jobs here, which helps our economy. And so he’s going to push for this. Car manufacturers are making moves. They’re starting to wake up. GM is, interestingly, working for this. You know, we’re all electric. No, no, but we just put $1.4 million into our plants for gasoline engines. So which is it? So I actually called them out on that. They weren’t very happy with me, but the facts are the facts, and I’ll always stick with that. But you’re seeing every brand starting to look at moving their production from other countries. The final goal will be USMCA, which is supposed to be renegotiated in July of 2026. President Trump wants to bring them back to the table beforehand because they found a loophole and they used that to hurt us by taking manufacturing and move it to Mexico, where there’s no unions, cost of labor is much less, moving it to Canada, which bolstered Canada’s economy and gave them jobs but took jobs away from us. So that’s why he’s trying to bring it back to the table. None of this back and forth across the border with components and cars and trying to play around. Mexico has already started talking with President Trump. They’ve reduced their tariff down to 15 percent. Canada, they won’t sit at the table. They have a new leader and he’s trying to show that he’s a tough guy. But I think he’s going to lose in the end on that.
SPEAKER 12 :
So these tariffs, I had seen a headline that a automotive parts store was the first casualty of tariffs. I just saw the headline, of course. I hate to see anybody go out of business. What about that?
SPEAKER 07 :
And a couple car manufacturers are a couple suppliers and parts suppliers that have been in trouble. And I agree with you. I don’t like to see any big auto parts chain go out of business because it reduces the options for a lot of people in smaller cities where there might only be an advanced or a NAPA and so forth. Some brands are doing well. They pick up the difference. The reason is they’re getting a lot of their parts from China because they were cheaper. And they were essentially knockoffs. We’ve all seen that. Oh, look at this great… whatever but i can get it from china for less so they were looking at profit margins and starting to bring in supply from overseas and again that helped bolster their profit margin but now that the tariffs in place it makes it less you know the profit disappears and now they have to look at other suppliers and all those original suppliers well they’re either out of business because that’s what the past administrations have wanted, or they don’t have space to start producing that. It has to ramp up production. So in the meantime, you’re watching a lot of consolidation going on in the auto parts world, not just with the obvious names, you know, like Advance and names like that, but you’re looking at A lot of the sub suppliers that you wouldn’t see, we’re seeing a lot of mergers and acquisitions going on. And this may actually be helpful because we’re going to be more efficient, more effective, more profitable. And that would mean more jobs. It’s still going to be the same demand. It’s just going to be less suppliers, which is not necessarily good. But nobody likes change. And you just have to you have to live with that. It’s going to be that way. And, you know, as long as President Trump can get these policies in place. And I’m hopeful that whoever comes in after him is on the same America first mindset, because we can’t do this back and forth. It makes it very difficult for Americans.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it really does. And ultimately, on Make America Great Again, we want people to be able to thrive and flourish. And we’ve got to get our freedom back, Lauren Fix, because I just feel this onerous kind of invisible boot upon our necks right now. And we’ve got to get our freedom back.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree 100 percent. And the freedom is not just that. It’s also a lot of things that we don’t think about every single day. I’m currently working on the kill switch mandate. We’re trying to get to Byron Donald. He’s very much in support of having it removed. Thomas Massey, who is the House of Representatives, has tried this. We need to get away from them collecting our data, watching us, and trying to control us, because that’s really the past administration’s goal, control the population. No matter where you stand politically, you can be on any side of the aisle. They want your data, they want to control you, and they want to make sure that you drive what they want, go the distance they want, so they can keep an eye on you. I don’t need a nanny, I don’t need a babysitter, and neither do you.
SPEAKER 12 :
So with that, we only have two minutes left, but I’ve been thinking about this whole data thing this weekend. And I mentioned it with Jody Henze earlier in the show. But I would love to start a movement of own your own data. And so if you want to sell your data, okay, you can do that. But instead of the big tech owning our data, I think that we could get some legs on this. What do you think? And just a minute, comment on that and ruminate on it. We’ll talk about it next month.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I’m definitely 100%. And if you’re doing something, let me know. Let’s get that out there because I think people don’t realize that all that information in your car, which is probably even more than your home, they’re listening to you. You know that. We talk about our mattress and suddenly we’re all getting text messages and notifications in our emails about mattresses. They’re collecting the data. They’ve been listening through our phones. It’s your data. If you want to sell it, that’s up to you. You’re not going to get a lot of money for it. But they’re making millions and billions of dollars selling information from your car, your home, your phone. And that belongs to you.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we’re going to have to start a movement on that, Lauren Fix. About 30 seconds left. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s a lot more stuff coming out. You’re going to see gasoline prices increase in Colorado, California, and where I am in New York, because Gavin Newsom’s trying a different angle. He can’t mandate cars, and he’s going to still try for his state and probably yours as well as mine. They’re going to make another attempt at this, but they’re going to start raising gas prices, trying to force people to electric. I’ll be covering that. There’s a story coming out Tuesday night on my Car Coach Reports channel. We’ll have all the breaking news. Car Coach Reports on YouTube. You can find me on Rumble under the same name as well as my sub stack. All forms of social media where I also share at Lauren Fix. All my car reviews have moved to Car Smarts. Whether you’re looking for electric, plug-in, hybrid, whatever it may be, we cover it all there. And we put up stories twice a week. There’s lots of car reviews and lots of car information. And if you think, ah, I don’t care, it really does affect you. It may not affect you today, but it will affect you in the near future.
SPEAKER 12 :
Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports and CarSmarts. Great. We will talk with you next month. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is from Nathaniel Green, Continental Army General. He said, America must raise an empire of permanent duration supported upon the grand pillars of truth, freedom, and religion, encouraged by the smiles of justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. 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.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each 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, Teresa, Amanda. And all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting, happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And a jam-packed show, lots of information. And I was reading some Bible verses this weekend. And it was in Acts. It was talking about Paul as he was in his ministry. And he would go in and said he would reason with people. and try to persuade them which those are not force words and i was thinking that’s one of the things that we really work to do on this show is to look at these things try to reason put reason on these issues and then work to persuade people to this idea of liberty the responsible exercise of freedom So we do that on a regular basis each Monday through Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. And it’s on all KLZ platforms. That’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And I really appreciate it. All of you. And also then you can hear it on Spotify and iTunes as well. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim Monson. at kimmonson.com the text line is 720-605-0647 and thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice on an independent station we’re searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues 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 Some of the big headlines out there, obviously, we’re watching this thing with Iran and Israel and would love to get to a peace there. I think it was Richard, the limo guy, had texted me last week and said that basically Trump had said with Iran we would like to negotiate something they had not negotiated in good faith. had not been telling the truth. And he’d given them about 60 days. On day 61, the Israelis took action. And so stay tuned on that. We’ve got that going on. And then the No King’s Day weekend, this last weekend, it really is focused on a personality that people don’t like. And that That hatred has been fomented in mainstream media big time. And Trump does have a big personality and he’s trying to get a lot done. And there’s a lot of really positive things happening, as Lauren Fix mentioned, on freedom of mobility, also on energy freedom. working in our military to get our military back to a real fighting force. So he’s doing some really good things. And so we want to stay tuned on that. But this last weekend, we saw that a Democrat politician or two Democrat politicians in Minnesota were targeted and shot. And one of the politicians and her husband were died. And I think the other politician and his wife are in critical condition. This is not okay in America. This is not okay whatsoever. And I know we’ll get more information, hopefully, about the motives of the killer on this. But our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these politicians. This is not okay. Let’s see, next thing, let’s get over here to our word of the day. It’s incongruous. It’s spelled I-N-C-O-N-G-R-U-O-S. Could be lacking in harmony or incompatible. Not in agreement as with principles, inconsistent. Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical, inappropriate. As I was looking at all of the narrative on the No Kings protests, They were using words of we the people, for example, from Lincoln’s speech, of the people, by the people, and for the people. And so they take words, these freedom, liberty words, and they use them. But ultimately, the No Kings protest was all about, I think, hatred of Donald Trump, hatred of America, hatred trying to divide us, but yet they were using some of the words that are so important to us, which those two things, it’s incongruent to do that. And so let’s continue to really dissect these words, what they mean. Our real No King’s Day, as Tom Cranawinter said, is July 4th, 1776. Our quote of the day is from Major General Nathaniel Green. He was a general in the Continental Army, was born in 1742, died in 1786. He said, we fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. That was the American spirit. And we have to have these important discussions. We get to because I work with really great people. And I’m talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And, Roger, you do a lot of different things in helping people. But I wanted to ask you about Social Security benefits. I think a lot of people have a question on whether or when they should begin to access their Social Security benefits. What would you say to that?
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That’s an interesting question. And to unravel the Social Security conundrum, It’s an individual choice based on your individual situation. The average Social Security payment today per month is $1,868. You could take that early but end up only getting 70% of that number if you do it at age 62. So, for example, let’s say your Social Security benefit was $2,000. and you need more money than you’re earning from Social Security, so you would more than likely go to work. If you do that and earn more than $23,400 under current law, you would get a penalty on everything that exceeds the $23,400 based on a formula for every… dollar, where every three dollars you earn, you have to subtract a dollar from your Social Security benefit. So, for example, if you earn $50,000 outside of Social Security, you would actually reduce your Social Security income by $8,866. That’s a significant number. So when you get to that point, you really need to talk to somebody who is a solid financial advisor and see if there are other methodologies or strategies for you to exercise to maximize your social security in your retirement years. You can also wait until 70, by the way. Normal retirement age is 66. So if you wait to age 70, for every year you wait, your Social Security benefit goes up by 8% a year. So if you have $2,000 at age 66, by the time you’re 70, that $2,000 would go to $2,721. Now, would I wait until age 70? No. At 62, you may be getting older, but you’re a young oldster. By the time you hit 70, a lot of health issues can crop up. So I would certainly not wait until 70. I would take my normal retirement age. And again, you really need to talk to somebody to lay it out, to do the math. Okay?
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Yes, that would be anybody who supports your show, I’m sure, would be very capable of assisting people in making that decision.
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And, Roger, you have such great advice for us across the board. I really appreciate it. And you can help people with all of their insurance needs. And what’s the best way for people to reach you and your team?
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Please call us at 303-795-8855. And I’d like to add a codicil to that. If you want to have me personally look at your insurance, I would suggest that you call, get an appointment with me, and before the appointment, let’s exchange your insurance policies or give them to me, and I will look at them before the appointment. So when you come in, I have nailed down recommendations based on what I see could be changed, if anything, on your current insurance policies.
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Well, that sounds like that makes a lot of sense, and that number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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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 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 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, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values. It is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there are four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there, which is pretty amazing. And that is why the center focuses on many of our Medal of Honor recipients with their beautiful portraits of valor, their great Medal of Honor quote book. Get more information by going to their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is former or retired border agent from the San Diego sector, Chris Harris. Chris, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good morning, Kim. Thank you, as always, for having me on.
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Good to have you. And we just got through No King’s Day, which, again, I want to remind everybody that the real No King’s Day was July 4th, 1776, where the Americans said that we would not be ruled by a king, that we would put in place a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And that does require civic engagement. But you’re out in California. We’ve seen these pictures from Los Angeles. We’re seeing headlines like this. One of them was no King’s protests, SUV charges, protester rallies, largely peaceful, which would mean that they were not totally peaceful. What’s your thoughts about that, Chris Harris?
SPEAKER 11 :
So, I mean, look, people have a right to air their grievances that’s in our Constitution. I have no problem with people peacefully protesting. Now, the problem is, even if it starts relatively peaceful, one, they close down roads. So, I mean, you’re inconveniencing people. I got to say, I worked with an activist group several years ago when I was a labor guy for the National Border Patrol Council for the Union. And they wanted to have a protest. They wanted to shut down traffic at rush hour. And I talked to one of their leaders. I said, I don’t know. Have you guys ever done a study to see if this is really effective to get people to want to support you wherein they can’t get home or if they’ve got to bring somebody to the hospital or to the doctor’s office or their kid has to go somewhere to meet with a college entrance guy? You’re really disrupting people’s lives. So is that something that’s, like, you’ve done a study to say this is actually the way to go, and they’re like, well, not really. I said, okay, I just got to say, if I’m stuck in traffic, you’re not endearing me towards you. So, you know, God bless, have your protests. And I guess most of them were relatively violence-free. We had protests out here. They shut down quite a few roads to accommodate that, you know, causing headache for people and heartache. There were scattered violent acts. Other areas had much more violence. L.A., again, descended into violence and certain other cities that are prone to do that. I’m going to say it usually seems to be more partisan cities, the ones that are more blue. They seem to have an issue with law enforcement in general, not wanting to obey laws. And then you get Antifa involved and it turns into a horror show. So, yeah, they had their protest. No King’s Day. God bless. I think it’s kind of foolish. I’m not… I don’t personally like Trump, but I support him. I voted for him, and there was reasons I voted for him. I pulled up my big boy pants, used my critical thinking skills, and said, I think he’s going to do the best for our country, and I still think that. He’s going to secure our border, which was a major issue for me, and he’s doing that. But then I asked my friends that are more – I’m originally from New York. I have a lot of liberal friends. You guys keep thinking he’s going to be a tyrant and he’s not going to leave. He was here for four years. Did he leave? Yes, he did. So I don’t know why all of a sudden things he didn’t do in 2016, 2020 period, you all of a sudden now ascribe he’s going to do all these dictatorial things and basically be this tyrannical master and, oh, we have to get rid of him. And I’m seeing signs saying get rid of him now. The only way to really get rid of him now would be assassination. Is that what they’re advocating? I’m a little confused on that. But yeah, I mean, God bless. They had their protests and they let America know what some segment of it feels. I think that they’re misinformed, deliberately so by a lot of the media and by certain members of elected officials that they are deliberately misinformed. The only we can do, Kim, is do what we’re doing now and try to explain to people what’s really going on. And hopefully they’ll say, OK, it’s not as bad as I’ve been led to believe as far as ICE and Border Patrol and arrests and so on and so forth.
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So, Chris Harris, I have seen some reports that Trump is going to ease back on deportations of hospitality workers, farm workers, that there are those that have thought that he’s been too aggressive on that. What’s your thoughts on that?
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Yeah, I’ve seen some complaints about that, and I understand where some of that comes from. I’m going to suggest that there’s just going to be a refocusing, that the priority might not be somebody working in the fields, working hard. Now, understand, I know up here in Oxnard, they went and they targeted one individual in the field. So, you know, that guy might have had a warrant for him. What I’m seeing that I’ve never seen before is the Border Patrol and ICE are actually acting on a lot of Interpol red notices. So these are bad guys that came to the United States to hide from their country because they committed some egregious crime in their country. And I’ve never seen this in all the years I worked for the federal government. I worked 26 years in federal law enforcement. I never saw so many red notices being apprehended. and returned to their nation of origin, extradited, to face justice in their country. I mean, they’re getting people from Guatemala and all around the world, quite frankly, who are wanted for rape and robbery and murder. So there’s that. So that guy that is working in the fields, he might just be laying low, and they figured out through intelligence and good detective work that’s where he is. So if you see them go and get one guy in the field, I don’t think people should take that as, oh, they’re going to start raiding every field everywhere in the United States. That being said, if they’ve done that, yeah, they might refocus to basically cities. And I think you’re going to see a major focus by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Tom Homan on some major, major cities. And I actually think Trump just mentioned it, but it’s what I expected, that he’s going to hit cities that they’d like to blatantly say, we’re a sanctuary city. We’re going to help you evade federal law. And those cities are going to be cities such as L.A., Chicago, New York, et cetera. I think you’re going to see a major focus there. So those people living in these inner city areas, they’re not being as productive. They’re not working on farms. They’re not doing that. A lot of them went there. They were staying in hotels for free, getting EBT cards and so on and so forth for free, SNAP cards for free. So I don’t think that’s going to affect productivity of agriculture at all. So I think that you’re going to see a refocusing of from countryside and rural to inner cities and cities.
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Now, that seems like that makes sense because we have a limited amount of resources. So for sure, get the bad guys out of here. So that makes a lot of sense to me. Then secondly, people that were brought here not to go after the American dream, to work, to create value. But so that that next round would be all these people that have come here and been promised free stuff. that they go back. And then we’ve got to figure out a way for people that have come here illegally that are working in these businesses. And I know that there’s been something called the red card, where as employers could work with other countries where employees could come across the border and could work here. I know we can come up with a solution. Absolutely. Absolutely, and we should. It says, despite repeated claims that Colorado is not a sanctuary state for illegal immigration, Governor Jared Polis on May 23rd signed a bill into law that both reinforces and expands Colorado’s existing protections for immigrants living in the country illegally. It’s Senate Bill 276. It’s called Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status and was a top priority for major Democrats in the state legislature. What’s your thoughts on that, Chris Harris?
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Well, look, every president has deported people. There are deportations under Obama. Nobody seemed to care. So what I find particularly, almost egregious, is that all of a sudden these people, and a lot of them are decent people, again, they’re being fed something and they’re buying into it. All these people are not coming out of the war. It’s just because Trump’s doing it. I mean, the hatred for Donald Trump is real. It’s surreal, but it’s real. And I got to ask you, were you protesting? And were you, you know, in the streets rioting? Were you protesting? Were you contacting your congressmen, your senators? When President Obama was, when Bill Clinton, that’s when I got hired by Bill Clinton. That was the first big hiring push for the Border Patrol pretty much ever. And he really did ramp up deportations. All these guys in the past said that they were for deporting criminals. They all said it. You can look up the videotapes of Obama saying it, of even Biden saying it, of certainly Bill Clinton saying it, Hillary Clinton saying it. So all of a sudden now Trump does it, and it’s bad. And I just – I really wish people could get out of this fog of thinking where anything – if Trump does it, i.e., it’s bad. No, it’s not necessarily bad. I don’t like everything he does or says, but on this issue, and that’s what we’re talking about, he’s doing nothing wrong. He’s enforcing federal law. I mean, these are laws on the books. And all of a sudden people are like, well, we don’t want you to enforce them. You can’t just pick and choose. I mean, we’re either a nation of people or a nation of laws. And a nation of people can easily become a nation of mob rule. So we either want to go by the rule of law or we don’t. And so you don’t get to pick and choose, oh, I don’t like that crime, so just don’t enforce it anymore. If that’s your case, then work with Congress and change the law. That’s how the system is set up. To talk about, oh, I’m afraid of trumping a fascist or a dictator and this and that. You’re doing dictatorship. You’re saying it’s going to be mob rule. We don’t like this law. We’re not going to work through the system. We’re going to work around the system and say we’re not going to let you enforce these duly enacted laws. That’s not the way it works. That’s the danger. He’s doing the proper thing. And you mentioned before about finding ways to alleviate concerns for the agriculture industry and then certainly partly the hospitality industry. Years ago, they had the Procero program, and we need to bring something like that back where people can come for X amount of months, they work, they get American dollars, and they take it back to their home country, generally Mexico, but wherever, and they go back, and then they come back the next year. And it’s a win-win for everybody because they get to go back to their families and their houses. They don’t have to leave everything behind. They come to the U.S., they make American dollars, which is important to them and to the Mexican economy. And we get the fruit of their labors. And there’s nothing wrong with that. And so I think we’re going to hopefully find ways, and this is on Republicans, too, to work out a system that’s fair and equitable, that lets people that do want to pursue the American dream either come here part time or find a way, a pathway. Hey, I’m here working. I want to pay taxes. I want to do this. I want to learn English. I want to participate in American Dream. And my wife and I had discussions on it. She’s from Mexico. She was born in Mexico. Her mom and dad came here, and they worked their butts off. And she has noticed that there’s a different vibe of people coming. She’s done jobs for the county, working with benefits, and people just coming in. They’ve been here one day. I want all my benefits. So there’s a difference for a lot, not a lot, but for a lot of them that aren’t coming for the American dream. They’re just coming for a handout. And that needs to stop, that we can’t afford that. But the guys, the men and women that want to come here and work hard, that do not want to commit crimes while they’re here, and that’s a key point, and they want to go along with the system, they want to try to learn English, because we’re a melting pot and you have to try to melt in, that’s fine. We need to find a system for that. And I have hopes that we can. I want to bring out one important point, Kim, is that it looks like, even according to the Washington Post, and I’ve done work with the WAPO in the past. I don’t always agree with them on a lot of things. But they’re saying that it looks like possibly up to a million people have self-supported so far since Trump has become president. That’s a huge win. That’s, you know, we don’t have to take enforcement actions. We don’t have to pay for that. They return to their homeland, and then if they want to, they can try to find a way to come here under a legal pathway, and then they would be welcomed back. So you’re not hearing a lot about that in the press. Like I said, the WAPO talked about it. So if that’s true, and I’ve seen some other things that was over 750,000. um so the wall posting million uh are self-reporting and and then that means that the the crackdowns are are working on a secondary level of people saying you know what i don’t want to take a chance of getting caught possibly having to do some federal time, being removed. And then if I come back, I’m definitely facing federal time at UFC 1326 reentry after deportation. Let me self-deport. Take the $1,000 bonus they’re giving me. Let me fly back. They’ll fly me back. And let me see about coming to the U.S. in a legal manner. That’s a huge win. And I think people should be talking about that because that’s a great secondary effect to the enforcement actions we’ve been seeing so far by ICE and U.S. Border Patrol.
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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 dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. And 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. Do you want more freedom and confidence with your money? Well, Mint Financial Strategies can help. They’re an independent firm with over 25 years of experience, and as an accredited investment fiduciary, they put your best interests first. Always. With a strategy-first approach, they’ll help you build a plan that fits your life. Call Mint Financial Strategies now. And that number is 303-285-3080. 303-285-3080. And talking with Chris Harris, he is a retired border agent from the San Diego sector. And Chris Harris, I find it interesting regarding, you had mentioned that some of these protesters on No King’s Day, they just said Trump has to go. So they’re not talking about a specific issue. I would say that they’ve been influenced on this Trump hatred issue. So that’s somewhat suspect in looking at their premises on that. But what I did find, and we’ve seen pictures from L.A., is protesters, rioters, because it was devolving into rioting, is waving the Mexican flag and then those saying that they want to redraw the boundaries of the U.S.-Mexico border saying, which would put a whole bunch of California, parts of Colorado, a whole bunch of the western United States would then be owned by Mexico. What’s your comments on all that?
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That’s an idea that’s been around for a while, Lamecha and others, including one time Lieutenant Governor of California was a member. They had a manifesto published years ago. Then they quickly pulled it offline, but a lot of people kept it. Yeah, basically they said that several areas would return to Mexico. First of all, those areas only belong to Mexico for 20 some years. They belong to Spain and then they belong to Mexico for a bit. Then we had a war with them and then we bought it. So we’ve had it for a hundred and some years. So it’s suspect to say it’s Mexican. But let’s go with this premise. So I always thought it was funny, like, all these people left Mexico because they wanted to get away from what happens down there and the corruption and the cartels and all that. So they came here. Now you want to give this back to Mexico? Then I saw, hmm, they wanted to be a semi-autonomous region. So, again, they’re going to try to, like, rule themselves and be their own little empire. So it’s ludicrous to think it would work. It’s not going to happen. Hopefully not. I mean, that’s not how international law works. um and again you left the country for a reason why would you then want to have this part of that country that you left for a reason um good point wow people in the in the intelligence uh area uh in our agency um you’re gonna see less mexican flags you’re at first you did you saw mexican flags you saw palestinian flags you saw guatemalan flags you saw flags from countries in africa all being waived, and certain powers to be on the left realized the optics were horrible. That was actually a win for Trump. I mean, I know even some moderates that don’t like Trump were turned off by seeing all these people rioting and then flying the flags in defiance of this country, the country they left, flying those flags. And the question then begs, Why don’t you just go back there? If you love it so much there, go back there. I’m not telling you have to unless you’re illegally, but the fact is you left for a reason, and now you’re running around with a flag of a foreign nation state. But you’re going to see less of them. So the message went out, for no King’s Day at least, on the Mexican flags and foreign nation state flags, fly American flags. So especially in San Diego, we saw a lot of people flying American flags upside down and all that, but a lot less because the optics were horrible. It let people know what people, you know, it let people on TV, even the mainstream, the legacy media, it was hard for them not to show it. And so when people saw all these foreign flags being flown, I think it really shook up a lot of people very quietly. These aren’t the people that are going to go out there and argue with the protesters. They’re just going to vote. They’re going to remember that come the next election. They’re quietly. They’re not going to argue with their friends and neighbors who are liberal and who might try to disown them or whatever. They’re just going to keep that to themselves, internalize it. And when the elections come, they’re going to remember that. And so people on the left that are behind some of these riots and protests, they realize the optics are bad. So pay attention to that. You’re already seeing less of the foreign flags, specifically Mexican flags, and you’re seeing more American flags falling upside down. But again, to think that you’re going to take back California, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, part of Wyoming, all that, and take it back so it becomes part of Mexico again, it’s just ludicrous. And if people are advocating for that, then they’re actually advocating almost that that’s insurrection. If you want to talk about insurrection, talking about seceding from this country and going to another country, that’s civil war stuff. That’s what you get. That’s secession. And that’s not allowed. We didn’t allow it back in 1860. We’re not going to allow it now. But it shows the people’s true colors, where they’re at. A lot of people on the left that are activists, hardcore activists from Mexico and so on and so forth, they call it voting by their feet, by putting enough people, mass migration into this country, that they will then be able to get what they’re after, which would be to break that part of those states back to some semi-autonomous zone of Mexico. That’s dangerous. And then that is, that’s insurrection, that’s secession. And we don’t allow that. We didn’t allow it, and hopefully we won’t allow it now. And hopefully enough people will see some of these protests and riots and go, wow, these people hate America. They’re flying foreign flags. There’s Palestinian flags. There’s flags from here. There’s flags from there. They have no love for this country. They just want to be here for free stuff. Those are the people that we want to remove, quite frankly. If they’re here illegally, those are the people we want to remove. If there’s students on visas here, they should also have their visas canceled and be removed. That’s not why we let you come here to study, not to protest, not to riot. And I think we’re starting to see this kind of, we’re seeing a lot of federal district judges. There’s 94 in the U.S. And again, under other presidents, I’ve never seen this amount of activity by these activist judges. All of a sudden, finding reasons that they can do a nationwide injunction and stop the president from doing things that, to me, appear that constitutionally he’s been able to do that forever. Now, all of a sudden, it bothers you. But I think that’s going to ultimately have to be resolved by the Supreme Court. And I think we are going to see people, their student visas revoked, certain universities, their right to have people come here on student visas revoked. And that truly is the power of U.S. government. That’s not… Private universities don’t have the right to say, you have to let these people in to come to our college. They don’t have that. That’s not a right. That falls squarely under the U.S. government executive branch. So we shall see where that goes. But if you’re here illegally or on a student visa and you’re rioting and protesting, you’ve got to go. And I’m glad that the men and women of ICE and U.S. Border Patrol, and again, U.S. Border Patrol and the Southwest Border, I’ve said this over and over again, Kim, is a minority-majority agency. So everybody, oh, they’re white supremacist, fascist, they’re mostly Hispanic, in U.S. Border Patrol. So kudos to the men and women who are doing the job that they were elected to, hired to do, and duly enacted laws, enforced them. And that should be what people want. And all of a sudden, we hate ICE, we hate Border Patrol, we want them dead. That’s evil.
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That is evil. Question on the border crossings. What do the numbers look like these days?
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some of the best ever, best ever, at least to the 1960s, maybe even before that. The numbers are down dramatically. That’s one of the reasons that they can take assets, U.S. Border Patrol assets. And again, nothing says we have to, U.S. Border Patrol has to act on the border only. I mean, it says in the name border, but that’s not, by law, we can take enforcement action, you know, all 50 states, commonwealths, territories. I mean, they send Border Patrol to foreign nations. They’ve been in Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia. But because the border is so much better now in conjunction with other federal allies, including the U.S. military, they’re able to draw assets from the border right now and send them to areas where they need to be sent to assist other agencies, including ICE. But the border numbers are staggeringly low. Fentanyl is down. I forget which news organization. It might have been CNN. One of their talking heads said, Couldn’t understand why fentanyl coming into the U.S. is down so much. And a lot of people laughed at CNN. Like, you can’t figure it out? Maybe because there’s border enforcement? So the number of fentanyl, the amount of fentanyl coming into the U.S. is plummeted? Does that maybe strike a chord with you? Like, that might be the reason because we are enforcing our nation’s borders? And Kim, you don’t know bones about this. And I do this in my speaking engagements. I mention this all the time. No nation state in the history of the world has been able to succeed and survive if they can’t control their own borders. Ultimately, it leads to their demise. Just ask the Roman Empire. If you can’t control your borders, you won’t last long as a sovereign nation state. So there’s nothing inherently wrong or racist or whatever controlling your borders. And we are doing that now quite successfully. We knew what it took to work. It’s not something like, oh, we don’t know what to do. We did. Under the last administration, they undid everything previously, and it was utter chaos. We lost track in the last administration of 320,000-plus children. They were given away to people that we don’t know who they are. So we regained control of the border. What we’re doing now is the second phase of that is enforcing interiorly people that came across that shouldn’t have come across, including some really bad people. And the third stage, as we talked about earlier, Kim, is to find a way for Congress to work together and inform and revamp the immigration system to do what we want as a nation state. That’s something that’s fair and just and allows people a pathway to get here to work and pursue the American dream. People we want here, not you don’t get this. I use this analogy all the time is that you have a right to decide who comes into your house. I speak about this. I’ve probably said in your program before. Nobody thinks anything weird if somebody comes to your door and says, hey, I want to come in. You go, no, you’re not coming to my house. That’s okay. Well, it’s the same thing writ large for the U.S. government. And the same thing if you let somebody in as a guest, meaning under a visa, and they misbehave, so they’re in your house, you say, hey, I don’t like your behavior. I let you in as a guest. I’m kicking you out. That’s acceptable. So it should be acceptable writ large for the United States to do that at its borders and within its interior. Because if we don’t, we’re going to lose our nation.
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So this is absolutely imperative, critical, that the Trump administration continue on this trajectory of getting people that are here that are criminals, just kicking them back out to their countries, and then also people that have come here for all the free stuff, they need to go back as well. And so there’s plenty of work to do just with those two things, yes? Yes.
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Yeah, and it’s not going to get done under one administration. There’s probably about 30 million people in this country that shouldn’t be here, that are here unlawfully or illegally. Some entered legally under a visa and never left when the visa expired or they’re out of status. Others entered illegally. They jumped the fence. They crossed somewhere. That’s all actually a federal crime. You would see 1325 entry without inspection. It’s a misdemeanor the first time, a felony the second time. We need to go after them. It’s a long process. I think that there might be some tinkering around the edges and a little refocusing, and that’s fine. You try something, it seems to have some negative connotations that come with it, then you reevaluate. And I think this administration is capable of doing that, sitting down, you know, Kristi Noem, Tom Holman, President Trump, and saying, okay, this is causing some grief. This isn’t working. This is not the best allocation of our resources. So we’re going to refocus. We’re going to fine tune. And that’s what adults do. That’s what leaders do. And that’s what I think we’re starting to see right now. And the focus, if you’re a sanctuary state leader, you should be concerned because the focus is going to be on your city. Trump did not mention Denver, but I would suggest that’s probably on the list. And if there’s going to be rioting, he’s going to call out the National Guard, and all of a sudden people are going crazy about that. Oh, that’s a dictator. Nobody cleared when Dwight David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, did it against Arkansas to D.C. agree to schools. He did the exact same thing. He called them out in direct opposition to that governor, and he had them do what he had them do. So calling out the National Guard because of rioting, Bush did it in the L.A. riots in 92, it’s been done before by Presidents including against, you know, opposition of the governor at the time. So it was ruled legal. It was constitutional. But now some people are like, oh, my God, that’s a dictator. OK, how come another president did it? You didn’t see never problem with it. Good point. So Chris, that that might happen.
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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. 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. Do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation’s website. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. see all that they have planned for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And my friends, it is important that we remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And speaking of that, a little bit later today, I will be going out to Fort Logan as Don Whipple will be interred there. He is a World War II Iwo Jima veteran, and he just recently passed on an Really an amazing man, and so I really do honor him. And I got to know him through Cooper’s Troopers, which is a group of combat veterans, marine combat veterans, that meets on a regular basis up in north Denver. And Don Whipple, an honor to have you in my life and really appreciate that. Let’s see here. A couple of things. I did want to mention regarding climate. As you all know, I had the great honor to moderate a climate conversation, and you can watch that for free at climateconversation.com. And it was the brainchild of Walt Johnson. He and his wife, Ramey, financed it to have just a real conversation about all of this climate narrative. And we also did a great podcast series with a number of great scientists and experts. But I found this. This is from Climate Compass. And it says, climate models are shaken by swift Antarctic ice buildup. That has been one of their narratives is that all the ice caps are melting. which there was a time that they were lower, that they had melted even more. But interesting that the ice is growing in Antarctica, which would really go against the climate change narrative. Of course, the climate change narrative has been used as a cudgel. to work to control our lives through controlling our energy sources, our freedom of mobility, our showers, our toilets, our light bulbs, all those things. And we’re realizing that And the other thing that I learned in all of this is the whole climate change narrative is based on models. And you can garbage in, garbage out. You can get whatever you want from those models. And so this is really interesting. The climate models are being shaken by the swift Antarctic ice buildup. So I thought that you would all find that interesting. Next thing on my idea about own your data. And a great question coming in from one of our listeners said, here’s some things to consider on our own your own data is how will you access websites that require your data? Good question. What mechanism will be used as a clearinghouse for selling it? Good question. Would you have control over downline people who buy and resell data? Good question as well. I think the first thing that we need to do, though, is have people start to think about owning their own data instead of big tech and owning your data. Let’s figure out – let’s just have this conversation about owning your own data and what that would mean for you. And so, again, I love your thoughts on how will this be implemented, but I think the first step is to talk about owning your own data. And I think one of the other things – to figure out is how much does big tech make off of your data? And I know we can find that out. I’m pretty sure they probably don’t want us to find that out, but I think that we probably could do that. Next thing, this Bracero program that we had implemented, it was a program which was designed to fill agriculture gaps shortages during World War II. It offered employment contracts to 4.6 million bruceros in 24 U.S. states. It was the largest guest worker program in U.S. history. So Eric had a good point here. He had said, he said his concern was with, for example, illegal alien hospitality workers and that are here. They have stolen Social Security numbers from USA Citizens. What about that? And Eric, you’re right. We should not have illegals working here. Somehow a guest worker program would make some sense. The Bracero program, the Red Card program, something like that. But good point on that, Eric. And let’s see, is there’s… Okay. Anything else you want to talk about on the text line, just text me. I’d like to hear about that. Last thing, this is a headline that I’m very concerned about, and this was from the… Colorado politics. It says ranchers and Colorado lawmakers raise concerns over the sole finalist for this state land board director. It’s Nicole Rosa Marino, the sole finalist, and she will be the next executive director of the Colorado State Land Board. And she has been in over 30 years advocating for the restoration of agricultural land to native prairie. What that means is taking land out of production for food for humans. And she was recently confirmed. And I think that ultimately, we’ve got to really keep an eye on this because Our farmers and our ranchers, our food producers are really under attack, and also our energy producers. I think that her focus would be to keep humans off of the land. And we can actually coexist and be good stewards of the land and our environment. And so stay tuned on that as well. Our quote for the end of the show is from Continental Army General Nathaniel Green. He said, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of truth, freedom, and religion, encouraged by the smiles of justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. 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.
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