In this episode of the Kim Monson Show, delve into the pressing issues affecting Colorado and beyond as Kim Monson and guests cover everything from governmental overreach and treasury looting to auto insurance intricacies. Discover how the Protect Kids Colorado initiatives are gathering substantial support in the face of a shifting political landscape, and explore the legacy of George Washington’s espionage efforts as told by Kim and her guests. This episode provides a rich discourse on consumer advocacy, political integrity, and historical interpretations that connect the past to present challenges.
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If you give people rights, women’s rights, gay rights, whatever, there can’t be equal rights if there are special rights.
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Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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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 The Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You eat your treasure. 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, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. Did you miss me? Of course. I was out. It was good to get out of Dodge. I was away for about a week and wonderful guest hosts. I really appreciate the team and what they’ve done. It’s good to be back. But it was good to get away because this this Colorado, this crazy communist Colorado is starting to wear was starting to wear on me. But we’re back in the battle. And it is a battle. So thank you so much for joining us. Check out the website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. 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 on the show, we focus on the issues, and we’ll mention the people pushing those issues, but we really work to stay out of all of the personality fighting. You can text me at 720-605-0647. Our word of the day is CAPRICE. It’s spelled C-A-P-R-I-C-E, and it could be an impulsive change of mind, Number two, an inclination to change one’s mind impulsively. Or number three, a sudden, unpredictable action or change. And that is from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language, fifth edition. And I would say that it’s somewhat capricious down at the state capitol that they say one thing, but maybe they don’t change their mind. They just say one thing, but they’re going to do another. And that’s not the way we want it to work. Our quote of the day, I went to George Washington because we have been focusing on him during the month of February. It is his birthday month. He was born February 22, 1732, died in 1799. He was a founding father, first president of the United States, and commander of the Continental Army. And he also oversaw the Constitutional Convention. He said this, And I’m looking at the state legislature and also county and local governments as well, trying to wring out every dime from the taxpayer they possibly can. And Washington said this. He said the last official act of any government is to loot the Treasury. And I want to say they’re looting the Treasury of middle-class Americans. They’re looting the Treasury or trying to loot the Treasury of the American idea. So, again, George Washington, he said the last official act of any government is to loot the Treasury. And one way that they do that is through elections. And so you need to take a look at this House Bill 26-1113, Modification of Elections. The sponsors on this are Representative Emily Sirota, Representative Jenny Wolford, and Senator Katie Wallace. And CUT, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, has taken a vote no on this. And I do want to say thank you to this team. They are amazing, the way they are stepping up. They’re all volunteers. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And this is the explanation that we’ve given for our no on House Bill 261113. says the bill modifies the uniform election code of 1992 and the Colorado Open Records Act. Cut is loudly against this bill as it is a sweeping omnibus election bill, making dozens of changes to how our state conducts elections. This gigantic bill makes a good deal of changes, including more time to turn in ballots. There’s a problem with that. Elimination of registered electors challenges to another voter’s eligibility. allowing election judges as young as 15 years old, lengthening ballot circulation between 18 and 29 days. We said this bill needs to be killed. Election transparency and accountability are premier, and this bill does nothing of the sort. And so one of the ways to – and we’ll talk about it in the next hour with our young guys, Producer Joe and Producer Luke – is disarming the population and it could be whether or not with firearms or with ideas or with elections and so we’re hard known on this house bill 26 11 13 you need you all need to take a look at that and these important discussions happen because we work with amazing people And I’m talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan Insurance Team. And we’ve been doing a series regarding auto coverage and underinsured or uninsured motorists. But what happens if you are, like, for example, hit and you don’t have any collision on your particular vehicle?
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If you get hit… Hi, Kim. Good to see you again. Mm-hmm. There is a coverage out there. Let me paint the picture here. So you have a car that’s maybe 15 years old. It’s worth maybe $5,000. You have no collision on it. You get hit by a guy or someone who doesn’t have any insurance, so they’re uninsured. So how do you get your car covered if you don’t have collision on your own car? Well, there is no coverage. You’re on your own. That claim, let’s say it’s a $3,000 claim, you’re not going to get compensated at all because your uninsured motorist coverage in Colorado does not include property damage. So the only way for you to get your car repaired is if you have collision on it, then you go to your own policy and you pay your deductible. So if you have a 500 deductible, your claim is $3,000. You get $2,500 from your company to repair your car, but you’re out $500. Now, there are several people out there with cars that have no collision coverage on it, and they get hit by an uninsured motorist. There is a way for you to buy a very inexpensive coverage in that case. It’s called UPD, uninsured property damage. It costs you about $17 every six months, depending on the carrier. And in that situation… Your $3,000 claim you would get with, let’s say, a $250 deductible, the difference between the $3,000 and the $250 deductible, so you can get your car repaired. Collision on a car normally costs somewhere between $100 and $300, depending on the value of the car. So this is only $17 every six months for your car that does not have… collision on it and hit by an uninsured motorist. What typically happens with us is someone’s in a parking lot. They went to King Sooper to shop. They come out. A grocery cart hit their car and did some significant damage. So that’s an unidentified driver, which means he’s an uninsured situation occurred with your car. And if you had this coverage, you can then make a claim. Very, very good coverage to have. So why wouldn’t somebody…
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then not pay for collision, but pay for UPD. That seems like they’d be dollars ahead, yes?
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Yeah, it’s interesting. You… If a car is financed, for example, your finance company is not going to accept UPD, and it has to be an uninsured motorist. So you could be the one causing the accident. Say you rear-ended somebody, and the damage to their car was $5,000, and your car is $3,000. You’re an insured driver in your own car, so with UPD, we would not have covered that claim. That’s you causing the damage to your own car. Not an uninsured motorist will cause you damage to your car. So you’re the insured motorist, and let’s say your front end costs $3,000 to $5,000 to fix. You’ve got a $500 deductible. You pay that. The insurance company is going to pay the difference on your front end repair.
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Okay. And for people to get more information on not only their auto insurance, but other insurance as well, we’ve got about a minute left. I have heard from a number of my listeners… They’ve reached out to the Roger Mann State Farm Insurance Team, and your team, by bundling insurance together, has saved them big bucks. This is real money in their pocket.
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Yeah, I should point that out. State Farm, effective January 1st. or actually December 15th, I think, they actually lowered their insurance rates on auto insurance 16%. So if you’re out there and you’re not happy with what you’re paying to your current carrier and you want a quote, We’re coming in way lower than many, many companies. For our existing business, we’re also lowering our premium by 10%. So there’s a lot going on in the industry behind the curtains. They realize that… Their premiums are high. And by the way, their premiums are high because of COVID and a lot of supply chain problems over the last four or five years. They’re finally recovering from that and they’re able to lower the rates.
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And so for people to have a… A complimentary appointment. What’s the best number to call?
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You can call my office at 303-795-8855.
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That’s 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. It is February, which is George Washington’s birthday month. And I wanted to talk a little bit more about George Washington. And this is from Colonel Benjamin Talmadge memoirs, which were written in 1830. They are the only account of the event occurring in the long room of Francis Tavern on December 4, 1783. And I’ll talk more about that. But that is where George Washington died. basically said farewell to his officers in the Continental Army. But this was super interesting. It says, The New York City Washington left behind following the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776 was changing rapidly under British control. At the start of New York’s occupation in August of 1776, the port city became the nerve center of Loyalist activity throughout the war. Loyalists from surrounding areas sought refuge in the city, including enslaved people, in the hopes of obtaining freedom. under British promises of freedom. The flood tide of Loyalist refugees continuously grew. By early 1777, the city’s population was at 12,000. Three years later, in 1779, it reached upwards of 33,000. Washington, understanding the rich follow of information pouring through New York’s streets, took a different course of action regarding the British-occupied city. In 1778, Long Island native Benjamin Tallmadge was appointed by Washington as the Director of Military Intelligence to secure information on the British in New York City. The Culper spy ring, named after Culpeper County, Virginia, which Washington surveyed during his early career, created a flow of American intelligence traveling from New York Harbor to Long Island’s North Shore and finally on to Connecticut. Together, Washington and Talmadge implemented a series of tactics to gather intelligence and confuse the New York loyalist community. Such tactics included a system of three-digit numbers served as words or phrases to encrypt the ring’s information in case the intel would fall into the wrong hands. For example, Washington was 7-11, New York was 7-27, and Talmadge was 7-21. Recruiting and sending female spies into the city under the impression of delivering food and supplies to relatives, the women gathered valuable intel on British patrol movements and in passing information would hang several petticoats and handkerchiefs on a clothesline at boarding houses along the New York shore. Washington also encouraged members of the spy ring to spread disinformation. He asked members to exaggerate his troop size and strength in false military plans regarding troop movements and attacks. Only a fraction of the intelligence worked during the war. The Culper spy ring’s actions ultimately defeated the British in 1781. Moreover, the ring worked to capture Major John Andre, who was known for his cooperation with the infamous turncoat Benedict Arnold. Washington and Talmadge’s work within the New York spy ring laid the groundwork for today’s intelligence community. Without said work, the outcome of the American Revolution might have been drastically different. Just think of all the risks that they were taking. And so let’s get over here to talk with Kevin Lundberg, former state senator and author of the Lundberg Report. Kevin Lundberg, welcome.
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Well, good morning. Thank you. It’s great being with you.
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Well, it’s good to be with you as well. And I’ve been away for about a week. And so first and foremost, congratulations. Protect Kids Colorado, over 500,000 signatures. This is remarkable. So bring us up to speed on this. Where are we at?
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Well, thank you. Yes, last week was the deadline where we had to turn in what signatures we had gathered. And as I’ve been reporting to you for several weeks, we were in the running. We knew, but we honestly didn’t know where it would end up. And there was just such a rush of signature petitions coming in at the end that it was just beyond what we’d expected, honestly. I mean, we knew that we were… I’m going to come in above the minimum required number, but you’ve got to have that cushion of 20%, 30%, and we exceeded the 30% on all three of them. 173,000 signatures for the initiative dealing with child sex trafficking, 170,000, and a little bit more. I’m kind of rounding off, but I’m rounding down, not up. $170,000 for the women’s sports initiative and then the one dealing with child mutilating surgeries was $163,000 so there’s a little bit of range in there but they’re all above the 130% of the minimum required so we’re very excited about this and we’ve got about 30 days to wait for the Secretary of State’s office to give their reports and You know, and we’d have a small period of time to challenge some of those decisions if they came in and said, well, you didn’t quite make it, but we’re trusting that God’s blessing will be on this end of the process, even as it has been for every other stage of this very long adventure that’s had some ups and some downs and ups some encouragements, but a whole lot of miracles that really got us this far.
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Well, I wanted to say thank you to the team. And the board is you, Kevin Lundberg, Aaron Lee, Mark Spangler, Patty McKernan, Jeremy Goodall, Lori Gimmelstein, and Shannon Thomas. And then Yvonne Piaz stepped forward to… the petitions, and there were so many petition gatherers, so many captains, that we can’t really say thank you to all of them, because there were over 3,000 people that ended up carrying petitions, which is remarkable, Kevin Lumberg.
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Oh, yeah, way over, actually. I was saying 3,000 in the last few days, and then looked at the final total, and it was over 3,300 people. So, and that was, of course, why we were able to collect so many signatures. That and, I mean, just all the, churches stepped up. And normally they don’t. They’re kind of like, oh, we don’t know. That sounds kind of political, doesn’t it? Well, they knew that it really sounded like real common sense that needed to happen. And hundreds of churches conducted petition gatherings or signature gathering, I should say, events on Sundays and other days that they might have had services on as well. And then people got creative and they just collected signatures everywhere and just carried them around. I know I’d go to events and I’d bring my petitions with And there would be two or three other people who were there as well. And I just knew it. This is coming together. Very, very encouraged at that point. Now, there we had to connect with 170,000 people to get those signatures. Well, now we’ve got $4.5 million, assuming that we make it through the gauntlet of the Secretary of State’s validation of our signatures. So this is kind of a stop-off in a long journey that we are going down. I’m very, very excited for what the prospects are for… collecting not not signatures but votes and making the people of colorado aware of what the problems are um you know that that’s why we’re doing this is to change the law and you only change the law if you change the opinion of the people um and i should hope that this will have an effect on People who become elected as well, they’ll figure it out that the people of Colorado have had enough of this nonsense, this dangerous nonsense that the legislature has been throwing at us. And, you know, frankly, I want to see them throw the bums out and put this in place and give us a legislature that reflects the values and the principles that are right. and the principles that reflect the people of Colorado. Because I’m confident, I am very confident that if we can get the message out as to why this, that this is really happening. You know, I got an email from somebody who I knew as a detractor. They’ve been writing me messages for years, this particular person. And they had this long, long email that said, well, these things aren’t happening in Colorado. There isn’t a problem with men and women’s sports. There isn’t a problem with any surgeries going on that are literally destroying the physical bodies of children. um and talking about destroying the physical and emotional and and uh mental uh well-being of children well the child sex trafficking surely that’s not a problem here in colorado well people know better and we’re we’re dealing with this and now we can we can move forward and And bring this to the population as a whole. I think this is the most significant thing I’ve done in my legislative career. And I turned out eight years ago, seven years ago at this point. But working on the eighth.
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Well, and Representative Scott Bottoms has brought forward proposed legislation regarding, I think, these three initiatives, these three issues. And, for example, House Bill 26-1082, Children Are Not for Sale Act. And this died in the legislature. And So this is this legislature is not protecting children whatsoever. And and I think it’s good that he’s gotten this legislature on record regarding these particular issues because people it is hard for us to believe that people are. are selling children. It’s hard to believe. For a lot of people, it’s hard to believe that we are mutilating children. And it’s also hard to believe that we are having men in women’s sports or boys and girls sports, which means we have men in women’s locker rooms as well. It’s hard to believe that that is where we are. But that’s why these initiatives are so important. But it’s also important to recognize that these legislators of the Democrat Party that are down at the statehouse are supporting this. boys and girls sports and boys and girls spaces and mutilating children and allowing children to be for sale. It’s important that people understand that, Kevin Lumberg.
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Right. Now, this, you know, people have to understand that, of course, you’ll see a lot of uh legislator bills proposed that have uh pretty strange uh motives like like the one this year that that’s calling for the complete legalization of prostitution now i still kind of shake my head in disbelief and say i i don’t think they’re going to turn that into law but the issues we’re talking about they have and don’t forget the governor who has signed all this legislation Yeah, this is an agenda that is being implemented here in the state of Colorado by a legislature that has just gone nuts. And I’ve been following this for a long time. Back in 2020, I helped publish the book. unmasked 2020 that dug deep into every aspect of legislation here in Colorado and showed how extremely radical it has become. And that’s why we had to engage in such a huge effort. And this has taken… I want to say tens of thousands of hours, but I’d say it’s probably closer to hundreds of thousands of hours of citizens who have stepped up and done something that, to my knowledge, has never been done before. The Citizens Initiative has been a part of the Colorado Constitution and the law of the land since its inception 150 years ago now. And occasionally, there is… I mean, we get initiatives put on the ballot all the time, but if you… If you look under the hood, you might say, you discover that the vast majority have been paid for through a professional system of gathering signatures, which means somebody very, very wealthy or some group spent a lot of money to get it done, and that’s a valid, legitimate way to do it. But for the citizens to step up and in a largely volunteer effort, I say largely because we did put on a very big push. We didn’t have any big funders behind us. But we knew that as we were getting the end, because we thought there was a professional funder who was going to run a parallel effort for these initiatives, and that fell through. Because all of the big money around the country said, Colorado, no, we’re not going to do this there. They actually took our ideas and the Women’s Sports Program initiative has already qualified for the ballot up in Maine because they took our idea, ran with it, and said, not in Colorado, but we’ll do it in Maine. They’re working on it in Nevada and I think Arizona. But here in Colorado, the big smart money in politics, you might say, have said, we’re done with Colorado. It’s just not going to happen.
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Well, that’s why we have to continue to fight for Colorado, engage in this battle of ideas, and that’s what we do on a regular basis. We’ve got to hold the line, stand in the gap, and that’s what we do here. So let’s go to break. We will be back in just a moment to talk with Kevin Lundberg. Regarding everything residential real estate here in the metro area, talk to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And Little Richie’s is your neighborhood spot where you can get authentic New York-style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned and have been serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years. They’re a great place where teams celebrate and families meet up. And at Little Richie’s, Tuesdays are for the families. Kids eat free after 4 p.m. with the purchase of an adult entree. So let them handle dinner tonight and the dishes. And again, that’s Little Richie’s in Parker and Golden. And also check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. You can get early bird pricing for their golf tournament, which is in May, which is right around the corner as fast as time is going. And also, there will be the President’s Challenge in March in celebration of President Paula Sarl’s birthday. It’s her 77th birthday, and she’s got something very important that’s going to happen with that as well. So check out their website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. We’re talking with Kevin Lundberg, and he is on the board of Protect Kids Colorado. And I was talking with producer Joe. We’ll be talking about Machiavelli’s book, The Prince, with young producer Joe and producer Luke in the second hour. We’re doing these book discussions. In chapter 20, I think it is, It talks about disarming the public, disarming your enemies. And Joe and I, as we were talking in preparation of the show, I said, here in Colorado, this legislature continues to put forward legislation to disarm us from firearms. But They’re also, in a way, I think, disarming us from our foundational principles and disarming us of important ideas and disarming us by mutilating our children. And I just was taking that a step further than just disarming from a firearm standpoint. And if you disarm from a firearm standpoint, you cannot protect everything else, Kevin Lumberg.
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Well, yes, I’m seeing that happening in the legislature. The legislature in some ways reflects the culture. But in the case of Colorado, there’s been some shrewd manipulation on the political scene. And that’s why. I’m so confident that issues that we’ve worked on through these initiatives really do reflect the people. And actually, we did our homework before we started, too. We went through and did some polling and some focus groups and, you know, just made sure that we were not just aligned up with what we thought, but that it really did reflect what the people of Colorado thought. And… There’s been a very thorough change to the laws here in Colorado. It was Obama who said he wanted to fundamentally transform the government. In Colorado, they have been fundamentally transforming the policies in the state of Colorado. And this year’s legislative agendas shows that as well. We’ve got over 400 bills that have been introduced so far, and that’s well over half of what we’ll see total. And so we’ve got a pretty good picture on what they’re doing on this election year. I always learned in the legislature that anybody with kind of a radical agenda who’s in charge, they would back off on election years because they didn’t want to really, you know, people to realize what was happening. Well, I don’t see that happening this year. I see them just going full force with all the Bad ideas. And I mean, they’ve just got so many others. I already mentioned the legalizing prostitution. Now, I don’t know if it’s going to get legs. So hopefully that’ll get killed in committee because sometimes the really, really bad stuff they don’t go forward with. But there are just so many directions. You mentioned the gun bills. Yeah, they’ve got a bunch of those. They’ve already put in place a lot of restrictions, which are in direct violation of not only the U.S. Constitution, but the Colorado Constitution guaranteeing our right to bear arms and to defend ourselves, to protect ourselves, to protect. To honor the principles of self-determination and personal responsibility, we see an attitude of, you know, we’re from the government, we’re here to help you, and sit down, shut up, and just do what you’re told.
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yeah so with that kevin i know you look at legislation cut colorado union of taxpayers also does this and we would recommend that people join us go to coloradotaxpayer.org it’s 25 a year you will then receive our weekly email that we send to legislators and the governor regarding legislation that is scheduled for hearing for the week And this bill is 44 pages long, and it is the modifying elections. And it is of great concern to our cut board members. What do you think about it?
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Whenever I see election legislation, election-related legislation coming up in the last several years, I think we’re in big trouble again. Now, this one doesn’t have as many fundamental changes as we’ve seen in the past. like going to all-mail ballots system and radically changing the way registrations are looked at. But there is one component in here that I find very troubling, and that is the statutes dealing with how you can challenge voters or registrations that aren’t legitimate voters. is being repealed. It’s being removed. So they’re taking away the mechanism for anybody to come up and say, well, these registrations here are not valid because nobody wants to take away the registration of a valid citizen who is registered to vote in their district. But if there’s some name on the list that isn’t representing an actual ballot voter, it should be challenged. Well, they’re just stripping that out of the law. So that’s one area. You’re right. It’s 44 pages, and I’ve slogged through some of it. But honestly, I’ve been so busy with the initiative stuff that I haven’t been able to fully cover that one. So go ahead. Well, here’s one other thing I would say is that particular element I haven’t seen in all of the lists of people saying, well, this is what the legislation will do. But it does. It goes through and repeals the mechanism to challenge illegitimate voter registration lists.
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So, in a way, it’s disarming our elections, if you will. Now, I would recommend that people go to coloradotaxpayer.org. And we have invested in something called Cut Engaged. And we have these basically in kind of chronological order. So we posted three bills that you can let your legislators know how you feel about them. And one is House Bill 26-1104, Credit Agency Voter Address Verification, which we think that is a really good idea. And then we also are opposing this House Bill 1113, Modifications to Elections. And we’re also had featured on this cut engaged House Bill 26-1065, Transit and Housing Investment Zones Verification. which we are a no. So I highly recommend each of us go, and it’ll take about three minutes to send these messages, but that way our voices are heard. If you can’t testify in person or online, This is a great way to be sending a message down to the state legislature. So I would highly recommend that people do that. But this House Bill 1104 is really an interesting bill. It just makes a lot of sense. It’s like, okay, credit agencies, they’re verifying people all the time. And this says this bill would mandate that the Secretary of State will annually conduct a change of address search for all registered voters using a third-party credit bureau, except for those enrolled as confidential voters. It makes a lot of sense. And to connect the dot, for those that are proposing legislation that would keep illegitimate voters on the voter rolls, for those that would oppose voter address verification, you have to connect the dot then that they are really not supporting free, fair, honest, and transparent elections, Kevin Lumberg.
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Right. I mean, you and I have both been on the front lines for some time on trying to sound the alarm that the Colorado election law is is is not a gold standard. It’s a fool’s gold standard. It’s it’s intentionally set up to enable. somebody to come in and fiddle around with the results on an election. And voter registration is one of the biggest, worst parts of it. I mentioned all-mail ballot system, where they mail out a ballot to everybody that’s on the voter registration list. Well, you know, back when they put that in place, which was in 2013, uh they they intentionally i’m i mean intentionally i brought this the the the attention of the senate on on the senate floor said why in the world are you taking inactive voters and making them active voters with this bill that will then send a ballot out to a name that’s been on the rolls for a long time but nobody’s been voting it you know and and people i found out that after the well no i knew this and prior to this that that the total voter rolls sometimes exceeded the total number of people in a county because there were so many inactive voters but you know that’s just an example of how they very intentionally And, you know, we brought this up. We tried to amend these things back in 2013. They didn’t go for it. Why? Because they were very intent on changing the law to make it easier to cheat.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
There’s no other answer. That’s and that’s. Yeah. And I told them to their face on that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that is the bottom line on this. This came in on the text line, text line 7206050647. What is a confidential voter? This listener said they’d never heard of it. I hadn’t either. But I think a confidential voter might be somebody in law enforcement, somebody where they don’t want their information totally public. That’s my understanding. Do you have an opinion on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. And there are private citizens for whom a court has said, we will keep your personal contact information uh private because of you know maybe some stalking situation or something like that where where they know that you know this person needs to be extra specially protected in that area so there we do have that category it’s not that large but it does exist and that’s appropriate there are things like that that need to be in there but you know with We’ve kind of blown the doors off of how you can register to vote. Automatic voter registration requires the Secretary of State to register anybody who, if they’re given a name, an address, and an age, a birth date, and no questions on whether they are a citizen or whether they are even… There, really, if they end up on this list, they automatically register to vote. For you to vote, to register to vote as a citizen, you are to go to the county clerk or their representative, and you can do it online. I mean, how in the world they conflated it to that? But you’re supposed to validate who you are, what your name is, and where you live, and give some evidence, and yet no evidence is required now.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and the bottom line is that it opens up the opportunity for fraud, is what it does. So, Kevin Lundberg, we’re going to continue the discussion. This is so important. When we come back, I want to talk about Marco Rubio’s speech in Munich. You highlighted that in the Lundberg Report, which people can find at KevinLundberg.com. These discussions happened because of our sponsors. We’ll talk with John Bozen in the next hour.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I agree. I agree. And particularly in today’s political environment, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, gave a speech to European leaders. They were gathered in Munich, Germany, and he. he laid down a lot of principles that were, and he wasn’t being unnecessarily confrontational. He presented it more as a friend speaking to the European leaders saying we have to get back to follow the principles that have made us strong and you know, Europe has changed so dramatically in the last several years. If you look at the, you know, the cultural shifts, a lot of it is because they have been so open border policy for such a long time that they’re You know, they’re just such a mixture of different values and cultures that that it they become very dysfunctional. And Donald Trump is doing a tremendous job in in. uh pointing this out but he’s he’s he’s been a bit more confrontational than than his secretary of state uh uh had was marco rubio got up and and said look as friends we’ve got to get along and we’ve got to put put things back in order so that we can continue to be a blessing to the people of our countries and to the name to the world as a whole um You’ve got to watch it. It’s about 25 minutes long. Now, the link I provided actually has about 15 minutes of preliminary stuff, but if you scroll forward to where the speech starts and just listen to what he has to say, and actually it’s a little bit less than 25 when I think about it, because there’s a Q&A at the end where they dig a little bit deeper with him, but watch the whole thing, and you’ll figure out that he… he is um really laying a good foundation and and um this yeah this may become a historic moment of of pulling a lot of european thinkers back around to what needs to happen and assuring them the united states is not abandoning them you know when when When Trump came into office initially back in 2017, he threatened to leave NATO, not because he wanted to leave NATO, but because he wanted to shake them enough to say, you’ve got to stop doing what you’re doing. And Michael Rubio stepped in with his speech that was kind of the good cop, bad cop thing. Well, he was the good cop saying, okay, this is how we can make it happen. And he did it in a very forceful fashion.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and we have just about a minute left, but I find Trump, it’s so interesting. During the campaign, he’d referred to Marco Rubio as like little Marco. And then the next thing you know, they’re working together. He has elevated him to secretary of state and given Rubio tremendous support. decision-making responsibilities, I find it absolutely remarkable how Trump works. So we’ve got about 30 seconds. Your thoughts on that, Kevin?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it’s part of the president’s way of dealing with issues. I mean, he’s a master at closing the deal, you know, the art of the deal, like his book title went. And he knows how to use both tools. coercion and and attraction you know the carrot and the stick both he’s brilliant he’s brilliant on this and I just love watching what he does because I agree with where he’s headed
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and that is that the sovereignty of the United States preserving, conserving this great American idea, that is what his agenda is, and we’ve got to support that. Kevin Lumberg, congratulations on Protect Kids Colorado. We’ve got a lot of work to do moving forward, but thank you. We’ll talk with you next week. Keep up the great work, and that’s KevinLumberg.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, thank you. Looking forward to it.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion. If you give people rights, women’s rights, gay rights, whatever, there can’t be equal rights if there are special rights. Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
SPEAKER 08 :
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 each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And it is good to be back in the saddle. I was out for a week. I thank all of our guest hosts and all of our guests for really stepping up and making some great shows. And I do appreciate that. Check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. Make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. And the text line is 720-605-0647. I thank all of you who support us because we are an independent voice on an independent station 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. On the show, we focus on these issues. We’ll talk about the people pushing the issues, but we really work to stay out of all the personality fighting that’s going on. I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you’re having any challenges with your personal climate, being warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. and all of our sponsors. You can find them on our website. I did also want to say thank you to Hooters restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. They’re your neighborhood wing joint. They’re a home of the famous Hooters girls and the craveable wings that make game day legendary. So whether you’re catching the basketball game, UFC, or just meeting up with the crew, Hooters is where the energy is high, the beer is cold, and the wings are always saucy. So Wednesdays at Hooters, that is Wings Day Wednesday. Our quote of the day went to George Washington, born in 1732, February 22nd, and died in 1799. He was a founding father, president of the first president of the United States, commander of the Continental Army, and he presided over the Constitutional Convention. And he said this, the last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. And when I look at what is happening in Colorado…
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s good.
SPEAKER 06 :
They’re looting the treasury of everyday people through taxes and fees and rules and regulations. And that that snicker that you heard is producer Luke. He’s in studio. We’re going to be doing our book discussion on the Machiavelli’s The Prince. It’s good to have you here.
SPEAKER 22 :
It’s good to be here, Kim. Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and we’ll have Producer Joe weighing in on this as well. And so we’ll do that in the second and third segments here. So let’s get over here to our word of the day is caprice, or it could be capricious. And caprice is C-A-P-R-I-C-E. It could be an impulsive change of mind. Number two, an inclination to change one’s mind impulsively. Or number three, a sudden, unpredictable action or change. And again, your challenge is to use the word caprice in a word today or capricious in a sentence today. So that is your challenge. Okay. Our bill of the day is House Bill 261113, Modifications to Elections, 44 pages. And it’s not because they’re trying to make our elections more honest and transparent. Not with 44 pages, but it’s House Bill 261113. And this has cut the Colorado Union of Taxpayers’ position on it. It says the bill modifies the Uniform Election Code of 1992 and the Colorado Open Records Act. Cut is loudly against this bill as it is a sweeping, omnibus election bill making dozens of changes to how our state conducts elections. The gigantic bill makes a good deal of changes, including more time to turn in ballots. I think actually we should have one day. and and it everything has to be in by election day number two elimination of registered election electors challenges to another voter’s eligibility number three allowing election judges to be as young as 15 years old Can’t even drive yet.
SPEAKER 22 :
Can’t vote in the election.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can’t vote in the election. What could go wrong with that?
SPEAKER 22 :
No, nothing, surely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Lengthening ballot circulation between 18 and 29 days. And we say this bill needs to be killed. Election transparency and accountability are premier. And this bill does nothing of the sort. And that is House Bill 1113. You can make your voice heard by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. And weighing in with our Cut Engaged, it’ll only take you about a minute. And I’ve got to do that as soon as the show is over. And we have these discussions because we have amazing sponsors. And one of those is Bozen Law. John Bozen is on the line. John Bozen, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good morning, Kim, Luke, and Joe.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. And lots happening, John Bozen, but we continue to talk on a personal level about what people need to do if they have been injured, and we can’t say it enough. So what do you want people to know?
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Well, we haven’t talked about this subject for a little while, but when someone suffers a accident and a resulting injury from somebody else’s negligence, or if it’s just something that happened to somebody, it’s super important to go and see a doctor and get evaluated, checked out, and start on the road to recovery as soon as possible. I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ve talked to a lot of folks over the years and People sometimes think, oh, it’s just I’ll work through this or it’ll be gone in the morning. And sometimes people have serious injuries that can be life-threatening and should never be ignored or they shouldn’t have that mentality just to push through because it could result in loss of life. And that may sound like I’m overstating it, but I’ve been doing this and it has happened to folks. So if someone is injured… in any way, shape, or form, they should go and seek medical care and attention. Get a doctor looking, get some tests done, make sure you don’t have, for example, bleeding on the brain from a car accident where you’ve suffered a significant traumatic brain injury. And some people can actually appear to be okay, and there’s a delayed effect. It can be two, three hours, five hours the next day when they really get hit with the full effects of an injury like that. But if you get in, see doctors, they can look at you. They can determine that, hey, something’s not right here. Do a CAT scan and find something that otherwise could have been life-threatening. So for purposes of just getting well and recovering, get in, see a doctor, get a proper diagnosis and get started with care and treatment that’s going to help you recover. From the legal side of things, it’s important because lawyers need documentation. We need to know and be able to show an insurance carrier or whoever is on the other side that may have contributed or caused the accident that resulted in injuries. that the injury is from that accident. And that also happens when you get in, see a doctor, get checked out. Then I can tie, as a personal injury lawyer, the injuries to the accident without hearing an argument from the other side that, oh, that can’t be related to that accident because they didn’t get care, didn’t see a doctor, didn’t have a diagnosis of that until a day after or a week after, whatever it may be.
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And so we continue to make this point, prompt action, medical care, reach out to John Bozen and his team. What’s that number, John Bozen? 303-999-9999. Again, that’s John Bozen, Bozen Law, 303-999-9999. And that initial consultation is complimentary, and so highly recommend prompt action when that happens. So, John Bozen, as always, thank you, and we’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you, Kim. Luke, Joe, have a great discussion and the rest of your show.
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SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, it’s good to be here.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we’ve got Producer Joe behind the studio board, and we’re ready for this discussion. This is Chapter 20. And it’s whether fortresses and other things which princes often make are useful or injurious. And the first thing it is, at least in my experience, transition, my book on this, is it says, some princes, in order to securely hold their possessions, have disarmed their subjects. Some others have kept their subjects’ lands divided into parts, and others have fomented enmities against themselves. Others have endeavored to win over those whom they suspected at the commencement of their rule and some have constructed fortresses. The first thing on this is the disarming, the Second Amendment. That is… the first thing that i totally focused on uh producer luke and my concern and i was mentioning this to joe in our pre-call because we’re seeing down at this colorado state house continual bills that are really taking away our right to keep and bear firearms by a thousand cuts a bill here a bill there year after year after year building on that And I got to thinking about it is, now this was, let’s see, this was written, what did we say this was written in 1513, published in 1532. So this was pre the American founding, pre the Bill of Rights, this right to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. So this is pre all that. But when I now look at the Colorado State Legislature, and it is radical activists that are in control there, and one would say that they’re progressives, is that – How can we trust somebody to deliver on what they say they’re going to do for the betterment of people if right off the bat they want to disarm us? And I think that’s an important thing for people to start to think about, Luke.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, yeah. And you’ll have to forgive the voice. I’m kind of coming off the tail end of a bit of a head cold. Doing all right. Most of it’s gone, but, you know, I’m still a little stuffed. There’s something going around for sure. Tis the season. And you’re right, and it’s interesting, too, because if we look at the text itself, when Machiavelli’s talking about it, the chapter title is about whether princes should build fortresses. When getting into this chapter initially, it sounds very, oh, this isn’t going to be terribly relevant. We don’t build castles and fortresses anymore. Really, what the chapter is about is this idea that To build a fortress is to plan for failure. Because the only reason you need a fortress is if you don’t have the trust of the people. Machiavelli mentions at the end of the chapter that if you feel that you are at risk of being invaded by a foreign nation or a different government, then build a fortress to keep yourself and your subjects safe. But… If your biggest fear is from your subjects, their anger and their ire, then no fortress is ever going to protect you. The people will get to you. So it’s interesting to see that kind of how it pairs with the beginning of the chapter, where if a prince doesn’t trust his people and fears that there is no loyalty between him and his people, will seek to disarm them. Because the people are almost always the single most dangerous thing a government can be under threat from. So the first thing to do if you are worried your people don’t like you or if you are worried your people hate you is to disarm them. Which I think is, you know, like you said, you see it a lot in the sense that as the people’s opinion of its government changes, shifts and changes and kind of moves through the years, there’s been this push to take a little bit and take a little bit, you know, take away the right to bear arms just a little bit as that sort of division within the country itself seems to be widening. Because, you know, if you believe 50% of the population is out to get you, well, yeah, you’re going to try and disarm them, which I don’t agree with. I think, especially talking about the Second Amendment, one of the things I’ve mentioned before is I’m one of the most pro-Second Amendment people I think you’ll ever meet. I’ve mentioned it one or two times. I think if you can afford an F-16 fighter jet, you should be able to privately own one. Private nuclear stockpile. I mean, go all the way, right? That’s what I think. So it’s interesting to see that, like we’re talking about. The removal of the right to keep and bear arms almost in proportion with the level of division the country is under and how much less the people are trusting of its government.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, Producer Joe, what do you think about this whole disarming thing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I find it… Well, I’m not necessarily… So the disarming is unique because I think it’s not just about the weapons. It is also disarming ideas, disarming the population. If they can control the amount of people that live in this country, they kind of can control which way they go in the elections and stuff. And that’s a whole different disarming that… really brought or caught in my brain. So I’m still rattling around with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I think this is really interesting. Not only the disarming of firearms, but the disarming of foundational principles. And we see it playing out all the way to the foundational principle of male-female. We see this disarming of… of these foundational principles that all men are created equal. I’ve been shocked over the last week or so, I was out for a week, is seeing a number of these stories about this hatred of straight white men. Do you get in discussions with people at all about that, Luke?
SPEAKER 22 :
A little bit. A little bit. My social group, those who I hang out with, my primary friend group, are all definitely and very firmly left of center. That being said… There’s a joke we make kind of in the process of like our normal discussions and hanging out is some of us, the straight white men, will put on this sort of act and go, when is it going to be our turn? When is it a guy’s turn to win? But I guess that’s kind of the joke in a sense because we have been winning for a very, very long time. And I feel like a lot of this isn’t so much as… I don’t know if I’d want to call it an attack more. A knee-jerk response… now that the playing field’s opened a bit. Because I think it’s easy to make the attack, but it’s also very easy to forget that it was really, like historically, not super long ago that women couldn’t vote. It was not very long ago that black people couldn’t vote, or their vote wasn’t worth as much. And that’s very recent, recent history.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, wait, are you alluding to the three-fifths clause in the Constitution when you say that their vote? The three-fifths compromise, yeah. Okay, that’s not what that was about at all.
SPEAKER 22 :
But their vote still didn’t count as much. Like the in-practice application of that was their vote wasn’t counted as much.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that is incorrect. And that is something that I need to pull out my constitution. That was a compromise. And it wasn’t saying that a black person was three-fifths of a person. And that is a narrative that is out there that’s got to be corrected. Because the compromise on it was, as the southern states, as they were trying to figure out representation, the southern states wanted, at that point in time, to have all population count as one person. But the North said, but wait a minute. You are in favor of slavery. And so these people… You want to count them for population, but yet you don’t want to allow them to be free. And so they came up with this three-fifths compromise saying that we will count the population, but because these are not free people at this particular point in time… that there was this three-fifths compromise. It was never saying that blacks were three-fifths of a person. It was a compromise regarding representation for the United States government. And that is a narrative that has been pushed that’s incorrect, and we’ve got to make sure that we understand that. Does that help at all, Luke?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, yes. No, I appreciate the correction, because I think the historical intent’s important. I think the initial point of recent, in terms of recent history, black people couldn’t vote until recently, right? Before the compromise was even made initially. Not to lament the point too much. Again, I think it’s more of a back and forth. It’s a tug of war almost of because the playing field’s opened up, you see a lot more of this discourse that was previously punished or looked down upon a bit more. I think that’s probably, that’d be my stance on it, I’d say.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Joe, you want to jump in here on this?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t know really what to say.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and this is interesting because, well, let’s go to break. And we’re talking about chapter 20 in the Prince, Machiavelli. And I had another question that I will pose and we’ll keep that as a cliffhanger. And that is, Machiavelli, it’s known as that the ends justify the means. And in talking with people that are left of center, What are the ends that they’re trying to accomplish? What is the ends that is being used or that these, you know, these means are being used to justify that? What is that end? So we’re going to continue the discussion. We’ve got producer Joe and producer Luke in studio. We’ll be right back.
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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. Let’s see. Let me make sure, bookkeeping-wise, I’ve got everything taken care of. I did want to mention the Center for American Values. And Drew Dix just recently did a presentation on Valor. And you can see that presentation by going to their website. That is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. Talking with producer Luke, producer Joe… regarding the prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, and this disarming, not only of firearms, but of ideas. And I mentioned that straight white men have been under attack. And it’s Marxist to put people in groups and then to try to pit these groups against each other. And so when you’re with your friends and you’re saying, when is it our turn? Well, we shouldn’t be in a position where people are elevated because of their descriptor. People should be elevated because of their striving for excellence, I think.
SPEAKER 22 :
Content of their character or something like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. What a great idea. Someone smarter than me, I think, said that. Yeah. And then also, Machiavelli is known that – and let me know if you think that this is – True, but on the back of the book that I have, it says, the end justifies the means. So, tearing down straight white men, what do you think the end goal is on all this, Luke?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, you’d have to ask someone other than me on that one. I think there are two pieces that I’d like to add to this. Okay. The first is that the ends justify the means, Niccolo Machiavelli. Very famously, that is sort of the attribute that has been appointed to him. But as we’ve discussed while discussing this book, that what Machiavelli is doing over the course of this piece of work is he is revealing the nature of those who have taken power and will continue to take power. The Prince is not a guidebook. The Prince is not a reference sheet. It is a list of documented historical examples of what people in power will often seek to do. One of the things we mentioned, I think, after the show, last month, I want to say, we were talking about, I think we were talking about Joe Biden. And you had mentioned Or Kamala Harris, one of them. Well, maybe he had read The Prince. And we were talking about some historical figures. Maybe they had read The Prince as well. But the people that Machiavelli is referencing within the context of The Prince hadn’t read The Prince because they are the examples used in the work that is being written. Got it. The Prince… like I said, isn’t a guidebook. It is this idea that there is a certain archetype of people who take power. There is a certain set of common characteristics found in those who seek out positions of authority. And he mentions a couple of these. He gives examples of foolish princes, of conniving and intelligent princes, of some of the people in between. But it’s this idea that the people who are willing to take power are often of a certain set of individual characteristics that manifest in the ways Machiavelli then describes and sort of lays out for you. Where he goes, hey, there are people like this who exist. Here’s what they’re going to be doing. So when you’re talking about disarming the people, individuals in power of a certain mindset who are intent on doing a certain thing are very likely going to attempt to disarm you. It’s in their nature to do so. It is within the set of characteristics to do so. In this chapter, he mentions, I think, in your version of the text, it says dividing the lands. In my version of this text, it says creating factions. The creation of factions more inherently refers to factions being of factions of people, of groups, of ideologies, to create division in the intentional dividing of the people. So they’re busy. So I’m busy at your throat. You’re busy at Joe’s throat. Throat’s busy at my throat.
SPEAKER 06 :
Which is exactly what is happening right now.
SPEAKER 22 :
None of us are dealing with the actual problem.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so this is so important. And I think I answered… The question I asked you, what is the ends that they want? It’s power. It’s power and control over other people, which is antithetical to this vision of the American idea. So that is why it’s not only the disarming of us from firearms, but it’s disarming the ideas. So going after the founding fathers, just saying that they’re old white guys, old rich white guys that were just trying to become richer. Well, many of them, when they signed the Declaration of Independence, they knew as they were signing it that they were putting a death sentence. You know, death sentence on themselves. And how many people these days would be willing to put their lives on the line for liberty for other people? Go ahead, Joe. You look like you wanted to say something. Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was just thinking about it, though. And this is kind of leads back to Chapter 20 as well, where. They they’re feeling nervous inside the fortress right now. And so they’re attempting to disarm us in many of different ways. But in the same way. they need to gain the people’s appeal. And so what I’m seeing is they create an issue like race so that they could divide one separate group out and unify the rest of them so then they have numbers and it’s all pick on the little guy now and everybody feels bigger when they pick on the little guy.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the little guy right now is the straight, white, Caucasian male. And when you look back, who saved the world? World War II, World War I. It basically was the straight, white, Male that stood up against all that tyranny.
SPEAKER 22 :
It goes back to this idea of the people in power will attempt to create factions and divisions within the people in order to avoid the scrutiny of the people. Right. The people are the most dangerous thing to a government. Right. And so the government has kind of this vested interest, if it feels like it’s losing the people, to subdivide it and pit them against each other. In the sense that I don’t know a whole lot of individuals, a whole lot of individual human beings on this planet who have a natural-born animosity towards any one group. I don’t know anyone who was born fresh out the womb and goes, boy, I hate black people, or boy, I hate white people.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think people are taught that.
SPEAKER 22 :
You’re taught that. So who are you learning it from? Who is teaching you to hate another group or to attack another group? Whoever is putting pressure upon you and saying, you should really hate this generalized group of individuals, right? So you should hate MAGA. Those are the people you should look at.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s this fomenting of, I didn’t like Barack Obama’s policies, but I didn’t hate the people that supported him. But there are people that hate Donald Trump. They hate anybody that they think is labeled as MAGA. This fomenting of this hatred is really of great concern. And people then say, well, we’re so divided. How can you unite with someone that wants to destroy you and wants to destroy your country?
SPEAKER 22 :
I mean, that’s the game plan, you know? The game plan is… To turn anyone with an opposite ideology, anyone who believes differently than you, they become an objective moral evil. Because if someone is an objective moral evil, you can justify any action taken to destroy that objective moral evil. So there is a vested interest in getting you, getting them, getting him or her or anyone else involved. To believe that anyone opposite them, anyone who believes differently than them, is an objective moral evil, which is wrong. That is the takeaway, is this idea that even if you disagree with something, Kim, even if someone disagrees with you, I think… The right thing to do, the intelligent thing to do, if someone disagrees with you, is to still sit down with you and have a conversation. Understand why you believe what you believe. Understand your position and where you come from. Understand the foundation of your ideology. And I think it’s a good idea to invest that same level of understanding in the person sitting across from you. The second that conversation devolves into you’re on the opposite side of the aisle. I hate you. You are different than me. I hate you. You believe in these things. I’ve been told to hate you. Therefore, I hate you. That’s where this huge sort of like foundation level destruction happens. Well, because then I’m busy fighting you and you’re busy fighting me. And we’re not dealing with the people who have a vested interest in us fighting each other.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
If they want us to fight each other, we should be looking at them.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s exactly right. And that is my point. When you’re looking at disarming, in this case be firearms, but disarming ideas as well, if they want to disarm us here, how can you trust them over here? So this Colorado State Legislature wants to disarm us. But then they say in their talking points, we care about the homeless. Well, they care about their own pockets, the bureaucrats that are making decisions. Big money. Yeah. Or the Green Initiative, the Green Initiative, again, dividing people. But it’s about money and it’s about power. Joe, we really need to do this long form. We’re going to run out of time. What’s your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 04 :
So I had a thought about what Luke was saying. He’s right. We need to have a conversation. I think they’ve taken it even a step further to remove that. interior conversation using labels so when you say maga you’ve got an automatic assumption of what that person is like now and they can just write it off without having a conversation of who that person truly is and that is the goal i think is to prevent us from having discussions but the other thing is is you we have a responsibility to be able to be in a
SPEAKER 06 :
An apologist to defend our ideas. And if the idea is not defensible, you know, as you get into it and I’m paraphrasing C.S. Lewis, if you get into it and the idea can’t cut the mustard for two or three questions in, then perhaps. You might want to revisit those ideas, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
I mean, it takes a lot of humility and a lot of intelligence to self-reflect. And if someone, you know, if someone hits you with an idea and you’re defending something vehemently, you go, oh, wait a second. Why am I? Is this really a hill I’m going to die on? You know, it’s really difficult. Same thing if you’re talking to someone else and you’re having an honest conversation. If they’ve picked that hill and they’re going to die on it no matter what, you know, it’s, like I said, it’s individual. It is your responsibility to self-reflect and to think. And as frustrating as it is, if I could force other people to self-reflect, God, I would. But you can’t, you know. So you really can only manage yourself. So make sure you’re applying these ideals to yourself before attempting to enforce them on someone else. Change has got to start within. You know, you’ve got to manage yourself first.
SPEAKER 06 :
Agreed. And this is great. So several things. One of these is regarding the comment about women couldn’t vote, blacks couldn’t vote. And the listener said, those issues, it says, left us continue to resurrect old battles that have already been won. Let’s talk about current things. You guys, this is golden. We’re out of time, unfortunately. No time. Yeah. Producer Luke, producer.
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One of these days we should do a show of just answering people’s texts.
SPEAKER 06 :
We should. If we should. There’s so much good stuff coming in. 720-605-0647. Another listener said, race and class are the two best dividing lines that the communists try over and over and over again. You guys, you’re such great sports on this. I so appreciate it. And this happens because of our sponsors for everything mortgages. Talk to Lauren Levy.
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And it is February, which is George Washington’s birthday month. He was born on February 22nd in 1732. And so we’re going through things so that we can learn about our history. And this is from the Talmadge Memoir from the Francis Tavern Museum in New York. And it says, Francis Tavern on December 4, 1783. That is when Washington said farewell to his generals and other commanders. But it says, The New York City Washington left behind following the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776 was changing rapidly under British control. At the start of New York’s occupation in August of 1776, the port city became the nerve center of loyalist activity throughout the war. Loyalists from surrounding areas sought refuge in the city, including enslaved people. in the hopes of obtaining freedom under British promises of freedom. The flood tide of Loyalist refugees continuously grew. By early 1777, the city’s population was 12,000. Three years later, it was 33,000. Washington, understanding the rich follow of information pouring through New York streets, took a different course of action regarding the British-occupied city. And in 1778, Long Island native Benjamin Talmadge was appointed by Washington as the Director of Military Intelligence to secure information on the British in New York City. The Culper spy ring, named after Culpeper County, Virginia, which Washington surveyed during his early career, created a flow of American intelligence traveling from New York Harbor to Long Island’s North Shore and finally on to Connecticut. Together, Washington and Talmadge implemented a series of tactics to gather intelligence and confuse the New York loyalist community. Such tactics included a system of three-digit numbers serving as words or phrases to encrypt the ring’s information in case the intel would fall into the wrong hands. Washington was 7-11, New York 7-27, and Talmadge was 7-21. Recruiting and sending female spies into the city under the impression of delivering food and supplies to relatives, the women gathered valuable intel on British patrol movements and in passing information would hang several petticoats and handkerchiefs on a clothesline at boarding houses along the New York. The pink petticoats mean one thing and anyway. Yeah. So he asked members to exaggerate his troop size and strength in false military plans regarding these movements. And it says, only a fraction of the intelligent work done during the war, this culprit spy ring’s actions ultimately defeated the British in 1781. And on the line with us is Paula Sarles. I had posed the question about our founding fathers, people that put their lives on the line. for liberty and paula sarles and her team at the usmc memorial foundation are working diligently to keep these stories alive of many that have been willing to put their lives or given their lives for our freedom paula sarles the work that you’re doing is so important welcome to the show well thanks for having me kim and i’m loving this story I think we see pictures of George Washington and we don’t even think about what they were going through. All that they did to secure liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom for individuals. You… You joined the Marines, which there weren’t many women at that time in the Marines, Paula Searles. But you joined the Marines and your family was surprised. And just tell us a little bit about that.
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Well, I was 18 and I had a recruiter that I worked with at Kmart and he lied to me and so I signed up and was off for a great adventure and I just love America and I wanted to serve and do something important to help our troops in Vietnam and it was A learning experience in more ways than one. Well, and you met Tony in the Marines, right? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. And this March 16th is my 77th birthday, and it would have been our 57th wedding anniversary. And it’s 27 years that I’ve been serving as a veteran advocate. And 17 years since his passing. So there’s a little bit of a theme there with the number seven.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and so what are you going to be doing to honor, well, your birthday, the memorial? And people can support you. So tell us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 11 :
For a couple years, we’ve been doing the President’s Birthday Challenge, and I skydived and climbed the stairs at Red Rocks. And this year, I’m going to be out at the memorial all day from 8 to 4, and my voice will hold out. And we’re going to be reading the names of Marines that have bricks. people that are involved with the memorial fallen not just marines but all the fallen that we can find and just reading names as long as we can and we are inviting as a challenge the public to donate an amount that ends in the number seven To honor my birthday and to help us keep the lights on and the flags flying. And come out and we’re going to be live streaming all day on Facebook. And if you want to come out and say your hero’s name and tell a story, we’re letting people do that. Nice. You can donate at the memorial or you can donate online at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. and we’re going to be doing this rain or shine because a marine mom named marge long time ago said that her son doesn’t get rain days and i promised her that we would do our celebrations rain or shine so um and on in her honor that’s what we’re doing and like i said we’ll be live streaming all day
SPEAKER 06 :
and make a donation online or come out and have a cupcake and celebrate my birthday it’s uh it’s always remarkable what you do for your birthday and the day that you jumped out of a plane i was there as you landed and it was like she is truly amazing and It is so important that we remember and honor those that have given their lives, been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And the work that you’re doing regarding the USMC Memorial is so important. So right now, now the event again for your birthday, what day is that again?
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s on March 14th. It’s a Saturday. And it’s from 8 to 4 at the Memorial at Colfax and 6th Avenue in Golden. And… You can learn more or donate at usmcmemorialfoundation.org.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Again, that’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Paula Saros, as always, greatly appreciate all that you’re doing. And then also for the golf tournament, which is in May, people can get early bird pricing right now, which is a great deal.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, it is. It’s a really good deal. And it’s… On the webpage, there’s a banner for that. And the early bird registration goes through March. So get in there and get registered. And we need sponsors, too.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and thank you for all the great work that you’re doing. I so appreciate it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, thank you for all you do for us. We really appreciate you, Kim, and all you do for America.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it is my honor, and we must engage in this battle of ideas. Got about a minute left, so I’ve got to say thank you to the guys. Producer Luke, Producer Joe, Luke, we have so many text messages. We’ve got to figure out how to incorporate all that. We need to do long form or something, but it’s always great to have you here.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, thanks for having me, Kim. Always a pleasure.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Producer Joe does a great job as well. And so we’ve got to engage in this battle of ideas and have these conversations. And that is what we’re all about. In fact, when I started my little company, I named it Conversations LLC. So that’s what it is. There you go. And so our quote for the end of the show, I went to George Washington and said, Our attitude is important, how we look at life, how we live each and every day. And my father always said, your attitude is so important. And I think that he got it from all of the studies that he did on our founding fathers and understanding this American idea. And this is what George Washington said. He said, happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world. And we need to be teaching that to our children as well because it makes us more resilient. Instead of victims, we need to be resilient and be able to overcome the challenges that we face each and every day. 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’re not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And we’ll be here tomorrow in engaging in these battle of ideas to help you understand what’s going on so that you can engage with your friends, family, and neighbors. So we’ll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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