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[00:11] Kim Monson: An early childhood taxing district.
[00:15] Kim Monson: The latest in politics and world affairs?
[00:19] Kim Monson: I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say I can't understand that.
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[00:34] Kim Monson: And it's not fair, just because you're a big business, that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
[00:39] Show intro announcer: Is it freedom or is it force?
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[01:12] Kim Monson: And Joe and I were talking in our pre-call for the show regarding this weather that is being forecast throughout the nation.
[01:23] Kim Monson: and I don't normally watch the news or the weather.
[01:26] Kim Monson: I normally just go to my phone and look at the app and see what the weather's supposed to be.
[01:31] Kim Monson: And I still, on my app, it's not showing any snow for where I live at all for the next week.
[01:41] Kim Monson: But I don't understand that, quite frankly.
[01:44] Kim Monson: But I don't know, Producer Joe, it's a mystery to me because you said it was snowing a little bit as you were driving into the station today.
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[01:59] Kim Monson: And yet, I don't understand how they think they can tell us what the temperature's going to be in 100 years regarding climate change and global warming, but we can't seem to figure out what the weather's going to be for the day right here in front of us.
[02:14] Kim Monson: And that's why you should check out A Climate Conversation, which is the documentary.
[02:19] Kim Monson: And I have the great honor to be the moderator in that particular documentary.
[02:28] Kim Monson: And Walt is in the process of planning the sequel on this.
[02:33] Kim Monson: In fact, we think that we've got a date for filming for that.
[02:39] Kim Monson: It's just very thoughtful, reasoned conversations about climate with experts and scientists.
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[03:12] Kim Monson: We are 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.
[03:24] Kim Monson: You should not have to force people to do it.
[03:26] Kim Monson: And force can come in a variety of ways, and it's not compassionate to take other people's stuff via force, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force.
[03:40] Kim Monson: And force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government- inducedinflation, this agenda by the World Economic Forum and globalist elites that plays out at the United Nations, but all the way to local government as well.
[03:58] Kim Monson: And so we have got to really get government back in its proper role.
[04:03] Kim Monson: And it is a big job because it is being financed by us, the taxpayers, like I say, all the way down to the local level.
[04:14] Kim Monson: And we're seeing our freedoms, our liberty is just being chipped away each and every day.
[04:24] Kim Monson: And we'll talk with Susan Harris, she is our featured guest in hour number two, about really these big ideas.
[04:32] Kim Monson: And ultimately, this move towards socialism and communism.
[04:42] Kim Monson: The free stuff is just the carrot to get people to vote for it.
[04:48] Kim Monson: But ultimately communism comes down to the haves and everybody else is the have- nots.
[04:55] Kim Monson: And we're seeing this play out in New York City, which is just.
[05:00] Kim Monson: It's crazy to watch this right before our eyes, but it is playing out there, but it's also playing out here in Colorado as well.
[05:07] Kim Monson: So that's why we continue to shed light on what is happening.
[05:11] Kim Monson: We have to first understand what's happening, and then we've got to go after the root causes of why this is happening.
[05:18] Kim Monson: And that's what we're doing here at the Kim Munson Show.
[05:21] Kim Monson: We focus on the issues, and we'll talk about the people that are pushing those issues, but we stay out of the emotional personality fighting.
[05:30] Kim Monson: We want to stay reasoned and focused on what is really going on.
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[06:17] Kim Monson: Our word of the day, let's get to that.
[06:19] Kim Monson: And thank you to Ginny for the suggestion on this is Eschew.
[06:31] Kim Monson: And it says to avoid using, accepting, participating, or partaking of, to evade or to refrain from doing something.
[06:38] Kim Monson: And lastly, to shun, to avoid as something wrong or from a feeling of distaste to keep oneself clear of.
[06:46] Kim Monson: And it's just really good advice to eschew.
[06:50] Kim Monson: One more time, I'm not getting that right.
[06:56] Kim Monson: And I did practice that, but not very well, obviously.
[06:59] Kim Monson: those that are really, really pushing for this more and more government control of our lives.
[07:11] Kim Monson: And so, again, maybe you can use the word eschew a little bit better in a sentence than I just did, but I'll keep working on it.
[07:21] Kim Monson: Our quote of the day, since it is Friday, I'm going to the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values.
[07:27] Kim Monson: I'd highly recommend that you have a copy at home in your Freedom Library.
[07:33] Kim Monson: You can order that by going to AmericanValueCenter.
[07:39] Kim Monson: And it's a compiling of a number of the Medal of Honor quotes from the Portraits of Valor.
[07:52] Kim Monson: Thacker, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, born 1945, for actions taken on March 31, 1971.
[08:01] Kim Monson: And this is his citation, and it's really remarkable.
[08:06] Kim Monson: And as we read these citations, we can take great inspiration from these Medal of Honor recipients.
[08:16] Kim Monson: for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, First Lieutenant Thacker, Field Artillery Battery A, distinguished himself while serving as the team leader of an integrated observation system co- locatedwith elements of two Army of Republic of Vietnam units at Fire Base 6.
[08:38] Kim Monson: A numerically superior North Vietnamese Army force launched a well- planneddawn attack on the small, isolated hilltop fire base.
[08:47] Kim Monson: Employing rockets, grenades, flamethrowers, and automatic weapons, the enemy forces penetrated the perimeter defenses and engaged the defenders in hand- to-handcombat.
[08:58] Kim Monson: Throughout the morning and early afternoon, First Lieutenant Thacker rallied and encouraged the U.
[09:05] Kim Monson: and Republic of Vietnam soldiers in heroic efforts to repulse the enemy.
[09:09] Kim Monson: He occupied a dangerously exposed observation position for a period of four hours, while directing friendly airstrikes and artillery fire against the assaulting enemy forces.
[09:21] Kim Monson: His personal bravery and inspired leadership enabled the outnumbered friendly forces to inflict a maximum of casualties on the attacking enemy forces and prevented the base from being overrun.
[09:32] Kim Monson: By late afternoon, the situation had become untenable.
[09:37] Kim Monson: First Lieutenant Thacker organized and directed the withdrawal of the remaining friendly forces.
[09:45] Kim Monson: With complete disregard for his personal safety, he remained inside the perimeter alone to provide covering fire with his M16 rifle until all other friendly forces had escaped from the besieged fire base.
[09:58] Kim Monson: Then, in an act of supreme courage, he called for friendly artillery fire on his own position to allow his comrades more time to withdraw safely from the area and at the same time inflict even greater casualties on enemy forces.
[10:13] Kim Monson: Although wounded and unable to escape from the area himself, he successfully eluded the enemy forces for eight days until friendly forces regained control of the fire base.
[10:27] Kim Monson: The extraordinary courage and selflessness displayed by First Lieutenant Thacker were an inspiration to his comrades and are in the highest traditions of the military service.
[10:38] Kim Monson: and I can't even imagine how he eluded them for eight days.
[10:48] Kim Monson: But his quote is from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
[10:51] Kim Monson: And he said, The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction that we are moving.
[10:59] Kim Monson: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against the wind, but we must sail and cannot drift nor lie an anchor.
[11:09] Kim Monson: And so I thought Oliver Wendell Holmes, he, I thought, let's learn a little bit about him.
[11:20] Kim Monson: And he was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932..
[11:27] Kim Monson: Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the court and for his pithy opinions, particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy, and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures.
[11:48] Kim Monson: Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justices on the Supreme Court.
[11:57] Kim Monson: He previously served the Union as a Breivik colonel in the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three times.
[12:04] Kim Monson: And he was as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and as well professor of law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.
[12:23] Kim Monson: His positions, distinctive personality, and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.
[12:32] Kim Monson: Supreme Court to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902.
[12:36] Kim Monson: He supported the constitutionality of state economic regulation and came to advocate broad freedom of speech under the First Amendment after in Schenck v.
[12:49] Kim Monson: The United States, 1919, having upheld for unanimous court criminal sanctions against draft protesters with the memorable maxim that free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
[13:09] Kim Monson: And just to comment on that now, I'm not sure if it was Rob Nadelson or which constitutional expert we talked with, but that was later really basically said that that's not correct regarding that free speech decision.
[13:24] Kim Monson: But also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., formulated the groundbreaking clear and present danger test.
[13:32] Kim Monson: So later that same year, in his famous assent in Abrams v.
[13:37] Kim Monson: United States 1919, he wrote that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
[13:45] Kim Monson: That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution.
[13:50] Kim Monson: It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
[13:53] Kim Monson: He added that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.
[14:02] Kim Monson: So I think at some point in time we should probably do a show on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
[14:11] Kim Monson: I'm not quite sure what to think about these particular decisions.
[14:14] Kim Monson: And so I'll let you ruminate on that as I do today as well.
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[16:55] Kim Monson: Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show.
[17:01] Kim Monson: Now that the Colorado State Legislature is in session, we have brought back the Bill of the Day.
[17:07] Kim Monson: and today's bill of the day is Senate Bill 26005.
[17:14] Kim Monson: And, of course, these numbers, so SB, so you can find it by putting in Colorado Legislature, SB26-005.
[17:25] Kim Monson: And it's Rights Violation in Immigration Enforcement Remedy.
[17:30] Kim Monson: This is basically an anti-ICE piece of legislation.
[17:35] Kim Monson: And it is introduced by Senator Mike Weissman, Senator Julie Gonzalez, Representative Javier Mabre, and Representative Yara Zoke.
[17:50] Kim Monson: And it's referenced concerning state court remedies for violations of federal constitutional rights occurring during immigration enforcement.
[18:02] Kim Monson: And it says the bill creates a statutory cause of action for a person who is injured during a civil immigration enforcement action by another person who, whether or not under color of law, violates the United States Constitution while participating in civil immigration enforcement.
[18:24] Kim Monson: A person who violates the United States Constitution while participating in civil immigration enforcement is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief.
[18:39] Kim Monson: The action must be commenced within two years after the cause of action accrues.
[18:45] Kim Monson: as I'm just making my first perusal at this.
[18:51] Kim Monson: I think first thing that's interesting is that they are saying that it's going to be remedies in state court.
[19:00] Kim Monson: And this, I find that quite interesting because as we look over at the Tina Peters case, President Trump has pardoned her, but Governor Polis Colorado has said that they do not recognize that pardon because she was convicted in state court.
[19:29] Kim Monson: So let's just think about what, this is very dangerous of what is just occurring here.
[19:33] Kim Monson: And you know what, we did a Bill Track 50 training yesterday and I am going, I think that we will be able to, I can actually track and see if there's other legislation in other states on this.
[19:49] Kim Monson: So I'll do that during the break as I'm thinking out loud while we're going through this.
[19:53] Kim Monson: So what I see here is that we could have ICE personnel could be accused of a crime.
[20:03] Kim Monson: It would go to state court, not federal court.
[20:07] Kim Monson: It looks to me like that they could be liable personally and that the president could not pardon them.
[20:17] Kim Monson: Now, text me if you think that that's and you can look it up by putting in Colorado Legislature Senate Bill 26005.
[20:25] Kim Monson: But let me know if that possibly could be your read on this as well.
[20:30] Kim Monson: And this makes our communities more dangerous as well.
[20:37] Kim Monson: in this protection for people that are here illegally.
[20:41] Kim Monson: This is really trying to tie the hands of our immigration and customs enforcement.
[20:50] Kim Monson: And again, you can see by the bill number, this is 005.
[20:53] Kim Monson: On the Senate side, there's three digits in that.
[20:59] Kim Monson: And this is just the fifth bill that was proposed.
[21:04] Kim Monson: And so it's right there at the top, as one of the top priorities by this legislature and this governor.
[21:11] Kim Monson: And I think we need to make sure that the Trump administration knows what's going on with that as well.
[21:22] Kim Monson: And so let me know what you think about it as well.
[21:26] Kim Monson: And so, yeah, be sure and let me know on that.
[21:29] Kim Monson: Let's go through some of these headlines.
[21:36] Kim Monson: And we mentioned yesterday that enrollment for public schools in Colorado is down.
[21:43] Kim Monson: But that does not stop the radical progressives that are controlling the legislature and the statehouse.
[21:52] Kim Monson: It does not stop them from talking about children.
[21:57] Kim Monson: And so this is from the Colorado Sun.
[21:59] Kim Monson: It says the legislature mulls ballot measure that would ask voters to raise TABOR cap by millions, primarily to fund Colorado schools.
[22:09] Kim Monson: And the measure is backed by the Colorado Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, and other education organizations.
[22:17] Kim Monson: And it would boost funding for K-12 education and helps the state address its massive budget shortfall.
[22:24] Kim Monson: Not quite sure how those two things are connected exactly.
[22:31] Kim Monson: And it says the initiative would raise the taxpayers' bill of rights cap by the amount of money the state spends on K-12 education through the general fund, which is currently$ 4.
[22:42] Kim Monson: The money would be prioritized to increase K-12 education spending.
[22:47] Kim Monson: That's also a backfill for PARA, so we need to realize that.
[22:53] Kim Monson: By spending at least 2%each year, about$ 90 million in the first year.
[23:00] Kim Monson: Any leftover dollars could be used to cover the cost of other state programs and services.
[23:03] Kim Monson: So instead of cutting spending, they are going to probably have a ballot measure to really gut TABOR.
[23:12] Kim Monson: And so we really need to be on that.
[23:17] Kim Monson: It says, the TABOR cap restricts the amount of money state lawmakers can spend each year, based on the annual change in inflation and population.
[23:24] Kim Monson: Any dollars collected over that cap must be refunded to the taxpayers.
[23:28] Kim Monson: And when our young people are being told that it is capitalism and capitalists and business owners that are greedy, just take a look at who the real greedy entities are, and that is government.
[23:43] Kim Monson: And it goes on to say that measure is seen by Democrats as a way to solve two financial conundrums at once.
[23:51] Kim Monson: It would let the state increase spending on education, but it would also solve the structural gap between how much money the legislature has to spend and how much it costs to continue offering the same government services and programs.
[24:06] Kim Monson: And it says this year that shortfall is expected to be about$ 850 million.
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[27:51] Kim Monson: Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show.
[27:53] Kim Monson: We've got a new system and having a little bit of technical challenges, and so I apologize on that.
[28:07] Kim Monson: Okay, so Joe said that we lost a connection.
[28:10] Kim Monson: I'm broadcasting from home today that we lost connection as I was going through the bill of the day.
[28:23] Kim Monson: And so I do want to make sure that we got the commentary on that, and I will be watching a little bit our technical difficulties.
[28:27] Kim Monson: But anyway, the Senate Bill 26005, Rights, Violation, and Immigration Enforcement Remedy.
[28:33] Kim Monson: And the sponsors on that are Senator Mike Wiseman, Senator Julie Gonzalez, Representative Javier Mabre, and Representative Yara Zokai.
[28:44] Kim Monson: And this is very dangerous for Colorado.
[28:46] Kim Monson: It's a bill that creates a statutory cause of action for a person who's injured during a civil immigration.
[28:52] Kim Monson: Enforcement action by another person, whether or not under color of law, violates the United States Constitution.
[28:58] Kim Monson: I don't understand what that means, color of law.
[29:00] Kim Monson: And so that's something we're going to have to learn about as well.
[29:03] Kim Monson: While participating in civil immigration enforcement, and a person who violates the United States Constitution while participating in civil immigration enforcement is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief.
[29:15] Kim Monson: So this puts our ICE agents, from what I can tell, personally responsible.
[29:24] Kim Monson: This is going to be in state court, which we saw this whole thing play out with Tina Peters, that she was convicted in state court.
[29:33] Kim Monson: And so Colorado would not recognize her presidential pardon.
[29:39] Kim Monson: All of this is connected, my friends, with all of these protests that we're seeing regarding ICE.
[29:49] Kim Monson: And we are in a very dangerous time.
[29:52] Kim Monson: And okay, I think we've got Jill here.
[30:00] Jill Vecchio: I've got to manage, I've got to get my phone off speaker.
[30:11] Kim Monson: We're having some technical challenges this morning, Jill, but we are powering through that.
[30:24] Kim Monson: We started, you, Molly, and I, at Crawford Broadcasting.
[30:39] Kim Monson: And we initially, we looked at each other and we're like, what will we talk about?
[30:48] Kim Monson: And so for an hour, we talked about the declaration.
[30:51] Kim Monson: We went through the Constitution, which was great.
[30:53] Kim Monson: And then because you'd read the complete Obamacare bill, we went through that as well, health care.
[31:00] Kim Monson: So you're a real health care expert, and it's great to have you here.
[31:07] Kim Monson: So let's talk about health care and AI.
[31:10] Kim Monson: This is something that you're very concerned about, and so let's talk a little bit more about that.
[31:16] Kim Monson: because it's something that's very dangerous.
[31:19] Kim Monson: And once something is put into medical records, it's going to be difficult to get that out.
[31:25] Kim Monson: But what do you see as concerns regarding AI and health care?
[31:30] Jill Vecchio: Well, it's interesting because the World Economic Forum earlier this year– sorry, I'm getting a really weird echo on my phone.
[31:42] Jill Vecchio: So maybe I'll have to– after this segment, I'll have you call me back.
[31:46] Jill Vecchio: Anyway, so the World Economic Forum issued some big article on their website saying, well, you know, thanks to COVID, where we had experience with, we were able to collect all this data from electronic health records that were set up in Obamacare.
[32:08] Jill Vecchio: that COVID gave them an opportunity to use AI through telehealth when they had people all locked down.
[32:18] Jill Vecchio: So I don't know if any of us even knew that that was happening.
[32:24] Jill Vecchio: Because now they have a worldwide database that they're feeding into AI, And they're bragging about, well, by 2030, we will have universal worldwide health care.
[32:40] Jill Vecchio: Worldwide, everybody will have universal health care, the same care.
[32:52] Jill Vecchio: You found that at the World Economic Forum has said that?
[33:01] Kim Monson: Well, I see a real problem with that because remember during COVID that they made a determination that there were essential businesses and non- essential businesses.
[33:16] Kim Monson: Soyou could see they could make determinations on who was going to be in charge.
[33:20] Kim Monson: who are essential people who are non-essential.
[33:23] Kim Monson: So those that would get health care, those that wouldn't.
[33:33] Jill Vecchio: So now also with the AI, they accumulated all this data.
[33:37] Jill Vecchio: So now they are coming up with their little scientific models, right?
[33:45] Jill Vecchio: So now they have scientific models that have been developed by AI to look at an individual person, like maybe lab results or something like that, and determine whether or not they will have some future disease.
[34:14] Jill Vecchio: oh, we're going to have universal health care, and who's going to decide then whether or not you get care?
[34:23] Jill Vecchio: Well, and if you're going to have some expensive illness, then maybe they just need to kind of get rid of you already before you can cost too much money.
[34:39] Jill Vecchio: K., they already have been discriminating against elderly people saying you can't have neurosurgery after the age of 70.
[34:46] Jill Vecchio: I think they actually eliminated it a few years ago, but that was going on for decades.
[34:53] Jill Vecchio: And I have a friend who had a personal experience with that.
[35:03] Kim Monson: Gosh, this has been under the radar.
[35:11] Kim Monson: Jill, all this is playing out, I think, with President Trump.
[35:18] Kim Monson: All of these things that are occurring, these protests, these ICE protests, All of this is, I think, connected to try to stop the Trump agenda, which I see as the bulwark against all of this, these really terrible globalist elites agenda.
[35:45] Kim Monson: And so we are at quite a time in our history right now, Jill.
[35:50] Jill Vecchio: And Cloward and Piven just keeps coming up, doesn't it?
[35:54] Jill Vecchio: I mean, with the whole Somali, the fraud, and not just the Somali, but what we're finding out, fraud, California is probably much worse than Minnesota and Ohio.
[36:09] Jill Vecchio: But it's like it's that cloud and pivot, overwhelm the system.
[36:12] Jill Vecchio: And at this point, if they have so much fraud that it's going to be hard to get to the bottom of it with these complicated, convoluted money shifting and obvious money laundering, and where is it ending up?
[36:33] Jill Vecchio: Because if the somalis are sending a chunk across back to their home country, then hmm and uh and the and the politicians are looking the other way or even encouraging it.
[36:50] Jill Vecchio: How much money is being kicked back to them right or to the party or the NGOs, and then it gets laundered through all the NGOs.
[37:02] Jill Vecchio: So it's all this kind of, we have to destroy the current system, especially in the United States, in order to rebuild it in the way that the World Economic Forum wants us to be.
[37:13] Kim Monson: And the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites, it's basically communism.
[37:19] Kim Monson: There will be Those at the top, and then all of the other, and they will be wealthy, and all of the other minions, all of us at the bottom, with the top making the decisions for everybody else, what we can, you know, where we can live.
[37:42] Kim Monson: I know we're over here on this telehealth, but it's all so connected.
[37:49] Kim Monson: As I look at all of these apartment buildings that are being built in Colorado, and we're starting to watch legislation.
[38:04] Kim Monson: You may not be aware of this one, Jill.
[37:59] Kim Monson: And that is, there was legislation, and I'll get the bill number here in a minute, but there is legislation that would allow a municipality, for example, a mountain town, to charge an additional property tax on, and I have it in air quotes, vacant property, which would be, could be a second home, to try to encourage those that own that vacant property to provide housing for those workers in the mountain towns because it's so expensive to live there.
[38:41] Kim Monson: And I'm almost overwhelmed as I'm watching all of these headlines and trying to sift through it to bring these things forward for people.
[38:52] Jill Vecchio: but this all of this stuff is connected yes oh yeah well it's just it's the people who think that they know so much more than everybody else that they are so much better than everybody else that they can just ignore people's rights constitutional rights let me talk about these mountain communities you're talking about people's individual investments and now all of a sudden a bunch of these towns in the mountain communities are deciding, well, hold on, I know that you've been able to do short-term rentals forever, right, for decades, but now we decided, nah, you know what, there are too many of these, and the local people are starting to complain.
[39:40] Jill Vecchio: So now we're going to have a lottery, or we're going to decide individually, we're just going say, yeah, you get to have a permit for short-term rentals and have that income to offset your mortgage and your expenses, but you guys don't get that.
[40:01] Jill Vecchio: So you're talking about a violation of constitutional rights.
[40:08] Kim Monson: So just explain that a little bit more.
[40:12] Kim Monson: So Summit County is saying that you cannot do short-term rentals.
[40:17] Jill Vecchio: Yeah, some people can and some people can't.
[40:22] Jill Vecchio: Like Breckenridge, I think, started this a few years ago.
[40:26] Jill Vecchio: And some of the ones in Silverthorne, I think, they're talking about it if they haven't already started it.
[40:35] Jill Vecchio: But they'll have like a lottery in some places so that if you own a condo up there, that's your second home or whatever, or someplace that you want to rent out, like an Airbnb or just, you know, VRBO, whatever, if you don't win a lottery position to do that, then you can no longer rent your property on a short-term basis.
[41:08] Kim Monson: So what this really is huge, It is huge.
[41:13] Kim Monson: When Klaus Schwab with the World Economic Forum said, by 2030, you will own nothing and you'll be happy about it, or when the World Economic Forum said that, I don't think that you'll be happy about it is true.
[41:24] Kim Monson: But these efforts to take property via higher and higher taxes and fees is an assault upon property rights.
[41:35] Kim Monson: and then connected to health care, that there would be those that will determine who will get health care and who will not.
[41:47] Kim Monson: Jill, we're going to come back because I'm going to ask this big question, and that is, what do we do about it?
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[45:10] Kim Monson: Jill Vecchio, and she is an excellent health care commentator.
[45:17] Kim Monson: She read the complete Obamacare bill.
[45:21] Kim Monson: I had heard that there was a doc who had read the bill, and she was out on the stump explaining to people, this was 2013, 2014, well, 2012 even.
[45:36] Kim Monson: 2011, actually, I think it was, Jill, now that I think back about it.
[45:41] Kim Monson: You were out on the stump trying to explain what would happen with Obamacare, and what you said was going to happen is happening now.
[45:50] Kim Monson: And the question is, is what do we do about it, Jill?
[45:55] Jill Vecchio: Well, with the AI, I think one of the problems is a lot of times we are not even going to know when we're interacting with AI.
[46:03] Jill Vecchio: Now, Google just started inserting AI into Gmail.
[46:09] Jill Vecchio: So a couple of days ago, I opened my Gmail account, and all of a sudden I'm opening this thread, and all of a sudden this blue box pops up.
[46:17] Jill Vecchio: hey, it's AI, here's what you guys are talking about in your email.
[46:22] Jill Vecchio: And then it has a little thing at the bottom, a little disclaimer.
[46:30] Jill Vecchio: But how many people even read that little line, and are they going to go ahead and read the emails, or are they going to trust AI to interpret the emails correctly?
[46:41] Jill Vecchio: Does that mean AI, who's reading my emails?
[46:49] Jill Vecchio: Is the content of my email being stored somewhere for huge more data collection?
[46:56] Jill Vecchio: If we interact with our physician in a physician or a provider's office and we're giving personal information to them and ai is listening number one, are we even going to know if they're listening and if they're listening, where's that information going to go?
[47:13] Jill Vecchio: Are we going to be able to refuse interacting with a physician that uses AI?
[47:18] Jill Vecchio: Are we going to be able to sign a consent form that says, I do not want to have any interaction, nothing of mine goes into AI?
[47:27] Jill Vecchio: We should have done it with electronic health records, but they didn't have a choice.
[47:32] Jill Vecchio: But it's like, you know, the biggest thing to me is, are we even going to know if we're interacting with AI so that we can refuse to do it?
[47:42] Jill Vecchio: And what will they do if we refuse to play the game?
[47:52] Kim Monson: We see these data centers that's being proposed to us that these are great economic drivers for different communities.
[48:01] Kim Monson: We are realizing these AI data centers that they are really energy hogs.
[48:12] Kim Monson: And now all those on the left that were concerned about climate change, all of a sudden, such as Bill Gates, they now, and Bill Gates had come out and said that, oh, he just changed his mind regarding climate change because now it would be, he needs the energy for these data centers.
[48:30] Kim Monson: And, Jill, I'm just so concerned about what we're leaving to our next generation here.
[48:38] Kim Monson: And opting out of this stuff, we have not really had that option.
[48:43] Kim Monson: And I'm just really, really concerned, Jill.
[48:48] Jill Vecchio: What we need to have is some kind of legislation where there's some HIPAA addresses AI.
[48:56] Jill Vecchio: To my knowledge, you know, I haven't looked it up.
[48:58] Jill Vecchio: but I'm not sure that there is any provision in HIPAA for AI.
[49:06] Jill Vecchio: And once it's in the cloud, you know, good grief, are you kidding me?
[49:12] Jill Vecchio: And AI can only, what happens if AI disagrees with your doctor?
[49:17] Jill Vecchio: What happens if AI thinks that you have some other disease, or that you should have some other test, or that you don't need a test, or that you should have this treatment instead of this treatment?
[49:26] Jill Vecchio: Or, you know, and are you going to have a choice anymore?
[49:29] Jill Vecchio: If AI says, no, she needs to be fully vaccinated against COVID, so she needs her 13 COVID vaccines.
[49:37] Jill Vecchio: You know, because some input somewhere told AI to think that the COVID vaccine still worked.
[49:47] Jill Vecchio: Or my doctor says, no, I'm not going to do that with this patient.
[49:53] Jill Vecchio: And then who's going to be held responsible for a bad outcome?
[50:04] Jill Vecchio: You know, yeah, but there needs to be some HIPAA legislation.
[50:06] Jill Vecchio: Um and the shoot, the bureaucracy can do that, but there needs to be some limitations and we need to have some control over whether or not we want to interact with AI, especially in our doctor's office.
[50:19] Kim Monson: So, Jill, are you seeing other docs, any other people in health care, as because I know that you research a lot, are you seeing many people realizing the danger?
[50:38] Jill Vecchio: I haven't belonged to the ama for decades, but I think they still claim I'm on their rolls.
[50:46] Jill Vecchio: I can't get rid of them, but they send a thing here.
[50:48] Jill Vecchio: You know, I participate in a survey because the AMA is setting up a whole separate department for AI.
[51:02] Jill Vecchio: And the doctors typically have embraced electronic health records and AI.
[51:05] Jill Vecchio: And let's face it, we're in a computer generation, right?
[51:08] Jill Vecchio: So especially the young kids, they took all their notes in medical school on computers.
[51:18] Jill Vecchio: I mean, you know, we've got kids that are using AI to write every one of their papers in school, and that's been going on for years.
[51:30] Jill Vecchio: AI has dumbed down the, I mean, the kids that graduated this year.
[51:36] Jill Vecchio: I mean, they used AI for all kinds of stuff.
[51:39] Jill Vecchio: I mean, it's dumbing down students already.
[51:44] Jill Vecchio: Are there going to be a bunch of doctors who are just going to embrace this?
[51:51] Jill Vecchio: If there's a computer based something or some we call it computer aided diagnostics that have been around for a long time, computer aided diagnostics, then shoot, they're going to rely on that.
[52:01] Jill Vecchio: That'll make me that'll make me go faster through my workload.
[52:05] Jill Vecchio: And, you know, I can I can not have to know as much.
[52:09] Jill Vecchio: So if we're going to start dumbing down our health care providers, that's frightening because then who's going to be our backup?
[52:18] Jill Vecchio: And AI can make all kinds of crazy mistakes.
[52:23] Jill Vecchio: There is an artist that, she was an expert on the Middle Ages.
[52:29] Jill Vecchio: And so she went to AI and said, here, draw an image or make an image of London during the plague, during the Black Plague.
[52:45] Jill Vecchio: I mean, the Black Plague was like middle ages, and AI made so many mistakes.
[52:54] Jill Vecchio: And this historian was going through all of these images that she would tell AI to make an image based on blah, blah, blah, something that happened historically, and AI would be putting stuff in there that was so inaccurate.
[53:06] Jill Vecchio: But people are depending on it, especially these kids.
[53:09] Jill Vecchio: They think AI is 100%correct, 100% accurate.
[53:14] Jill Vecchio: I don't have to worry about whether AI is right.
[53:26] Kim Monson: As I'm looking at a whole bunch of things coming in on the text line, and thank you to all of you, for people that are not familiar with Cloward and Piven, explain that.
[53:36] Kim Monson: And when the motor voter law was put into place, that was back when Bill Clinton was president.
[53:45] Kim Monson: And he's signing that legislation, and Cloward and Piven are behind him in that picture.
[53:52] Kim Monson: But if people are not familiar with Cloward and Piven, and you were the one that introduced me to them, tell us who they are.
[53:59] Jill Vecchio: Yeah, so Cloward and Piven were two professors.
[54:06] Jill Vecchio: And they wrote a paper together in the 1960s.
[54:13] Jill Vecchio: I have it somewhere in my piles of all of our research.
[54:18] Jill Vecchio: But it was essentially the idea was if you want Democrats to stay in power forever, then you need to keep poor people poor, and you need to get them addicted to welfare and food stamps and get them addicted to these social programs.
[54:38] Jill Vecchio: And once you get enough people enrolled, this is the community activists.
[54:47] Jill Vecchio: So the community activists, according to Cloward and Piven, the idea was you engage all of these community activists to sign up, all of these, especially black people.
[54:58] Jill Vecchio: And in that article, they specifically targeted black people.
[55:04] Jill Vecchio: So you get the black people, you go to those neighborhoods, you get them signed up for all these welfare programs.
[55:08] Jill Vecchio: The system will start to collapse because it can't support financially all of these programs.
[55:16] Jill Vecchio: And then the Democrats come in and convince these ignorant black people, according to Cloward and Piven, convince them if they vote Democrat, then the Democrats will take care of them and fix everything.
[55:30] Jill Vecchio: And so then you just make you get this snowball effect of more and more people on the rolls.
[55:39] Jill Vecchio: And once you collapse the system, then the government has to step in to fix it.
[55:44] Jill Vecchio: So if all the Democrats are in office, the Democrats will step in to fix the problem, But they only actually make it worse by Medicaid and aid to dependent children and all of these, you know, the great, what was it, all these poverty programs like under Lyndon Johnson.
[56:04] Jill Vecchio: That was, you know, that was kind of Cloward and Piven were instrumental in that whole concept of if you keep people poor, but you tell them that you're going to give them stuff, they'll vote for you.
[56:20] Jill Vecchio: And it seems like it took a long time for some of these poor neighborhoods and these poor demographics to realize that they weren't any better off than they were 30 years ago, even though they were voting for Democrats the whole time.
[56:53] Jill Vecchio: So now I think people are starting to wake up.
[56:58] Jill Vecchio: But Cloward and Piven, the idea is if you get enough people on these entitlement programs, then you can crash the system.
[56:43] Jill Vecchio: And then, like, and Obamacare, I think, was set up to crash health care so that the only alternative that anybody could think of was for government to step in and have a single- payer healthcare system run by the government.
[56:56] Jill Vecchio: So I think that's, like you said, I think this all plays into the World Economic Forum wanting one world government, one world universal health care.
[57:04] Jill Vecchio: If they can crash the system in just enough countries, then they can be the ones to step in and claim to be Superman.
[57:19] Kim Monson: Jill, we're out of time, but who's standing up against the World Economic Forum?
[57:28] Kim Monson: It's been a wild morning, but thank you.
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[60:19] Kim Monson: It's E- S- C-H-E-W,andthank you to Jenny for suggesting it.
[60:27] Kim Monson: It could be to avoid using, accepting, participating in, or partaking of.
[60:33] Kim Monson: And the next one is to refrain from doing something or to shun a void as something wrong, or from feeling distaste to keep oneself clear of.
[60:43] Kim Monson: And I really want to eschew this agenda of the radical activist left.
[60:50] Kim Monson: And we are seeing it play out, my friends here in Colorado.
[60:54] Kim Monson: And I was thinking about it yesterday.
[60:58] Kim Monson: I feel this is our 250th birthday this year.
[61:02] Kim Monson: And it seems like we are up against a, it's everywhere.
[61:10] Kim Monson: This agenda that is taking away individuals' freedoms, this hatred that we're seeing of dividing between races, that we're seeing a number of these black representatives, black legislators that really hate another group of people, white people.
[61:34] Kim Monson: And it's just, it's, and I think maybe it's not even that.
[61:41] Kim Monson: I think it's a hatred of the American middle class, everyday people being able to thrive and prosper, to keep most of the fruits of their labor.
[61:50] Kim Monson: And with excessive taxation, excessive fees, it's an assault upon property rights because it is government that is taking more and more of everyday hardworking people's money.
[62:20] Kim Monson: and actually someone shared with me yesterday and I was going to make a comment on it.
[62:10] Kim Monson: I shared it with many of my friends yesterday and that was a video that was a guy put on a wig, like from the Colonial Times, and addressed his local government regarding that.
[62:25] Kim Monson: The bureaucrats now are the kings and queens, and they are not elected.
[62:33] Kim Monson: They're not accountable to the people.
[62:36] Kim Monson: They have their jobs, and they are paid healthy, healthy salaries.
[62:39] Kim Monson: And so I started to do some research on some different municipalities.
[62:43] Kim Monson: And you can do that by going to Open the Books, and we have them on the show regularly.
[62:49] Kim Monson: And you can find out what these local bureaucrats are making, and they're changing the fabric of our communities.
[62:58] Kim Monson: But anyway, this was a great video.
[63:00] Kim Monson: And I was thinking it would be great if we had a movement across the nation of people addressing our local governments on this.
[63:12] Kim Monson: Anyway, it seems like it is monumental what has been put in place and our freedoms, our liberties, our opportunities to go after our hopes and dreams are really being tied down by these radical activists.
[63:33] Kim Monson: Let me get to the word of the day is eschew, and it's E- S- C-H-E-W.
[63:38] Kim Monson: Yourchallenge is to use that in a sentence today.
[63:43] Kim Monson: The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
[63:48] Kim Monson: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against the wind, but we must sail and cannot drift nor lie in anchor.
[63:55] Kim Monson: And that is a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
[64:04] Kim Monson: Thacker, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient born in 1945.
[64:06] Kim Monson: I shared his citation regarding the actions he took and why he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
[64:15] Kim Monson: But it is amazing that he actually, this was during the Vietnam War, he was wounded and he was able to successfully elude enemy forces for eight days after he had taken these actions to help save the lives of U.
[64:35] Kim Monson: soldiersand Republic of Vietnam soldiers.
[64:39] Kim Monson: And so that is his quote, and I would highly recommend that you have the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values.
[64:45] Kim Monson: You can buy that by going to their website, which is AmericanValuesCenter.
[64:51] Kim Monson: Andwe have on the line with us a great sponsor of the show, and that is Teddy Collins with Spartan Defense, which is a very impressive firearm store in Colorado Springs.
[65:04] Kim Monson: And Teddy is also a founder of the Second Syndicate, which is a group that is going to be working at the state legislature to continue to keep people informed about legislation that would take away our right to protect ourselves against bad actors.
[65:23] Kim Monson: And he's also running for Colorado Senate District 4.
[65:27] Kim Monson: Teddy Collins, welcome to the show.
[65:34] Kim Monson: And you are, Teddy, we're watching, as President of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, we are watching legislation that's being proposed down at the Statehouse.
[65:43] Kim Monson: And it is already bad down there, I would say.
[65:50] Teddy Collins: I mean, Colorado is spending money they don't have.
[65:52] Teddy Collins: We have a deficit, and we collect a lot of tax revenue.
[65:58] Kim Monson: And as and so you have decided to run for colorado house senate district four.
[66:06] Kim Monson: So what are your top issues that you are going to tackle down at the state?
[66:15] Teddy Collins: Colorado has become one of the least affordable states to live in.
[66:19] Teddy Collins: It's something that we have to fix for our children and for our descendants.
[66:23] Teddy Collins: This state should be a place for the American dream.
[66:28] Teddy Collins: Another thing would be no boys and girls sports, just the indoctrination of our children.
[66:40] Teddy Collins: that parents have a say in their education and what is taught.
[66:44] Teddy Collins: And, of course, one of the biggest things for me would be the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights protecting our civil liberties up at the Capitol.
[66:51] Teddy Collins: I'm lucky enough to have the incumbent's endorsement in this, Mark Baisley, who will be running for Senate against Hickenlooper, and he's endorsed me for that seat.
[67:02] Teddy Collins: But I have a number of issues that I'm running on, and I know we only have a short amount of time today, But I advise everybody to go and check me out.
[67:13] Kim Monson: Okay, and that's collinsforcolorado.
[67:17] Kim Monson: Let's talk about your business, Spartan Defense.
[67:25] Kim Monson: I have so many people say, oh, Kim, I feel like I know you because we talk all the time on the show.
[67:33] Kim Monson: and pretty impressive firearm store there that you have at Spartan Defense, Teddy.
[67:42] Teddy Collins: Yeah, we're one of the largest family-owned and operated gun stores in the state of Colorado.
[67:47] Teddy Collins: And we have a huge selection, things that you don't normally find at your everyday store.
[67:52] Teddy Collins: We have about 28 state-exclusive brands and city-exclusive brands in the city of Colorado Springs and in the state of Colorado.
[67:59] Teddy Collins: And yeah, we have something for everybody, starting, you know, from a$ 200 gun all the way up to a$ 20,000 gun.
[68:06] Teddy Collins: If you're ever in the Colorado Springs area on the east side of the Springs, stop in and check us out.
[68:21] Kim Monson: You're out in Las Vegas at the shot show, so you're probably not aware of this piece of legislation that I've been talking about today.
[68:29] Kim Monson: It's Senate Bill 005, and it is rights violation in immigration enforcement remedy.
[68:40] Kim Monson: This looks to me like this is very dangerous for the people of Colorado.
[68:47] Teddy Collins: From what I understand and from what I've read of the legislation, we're actually organizing some testimony against this right now.
[68:54] Teddy Collins: We're waiting for it to come up in committee so that we have the opportunity to come up there and actually testify against it.
[69:02] Teddy Collins: But this would essentially create civil liability if you're reporting a legal alien.
[69:07] Teddy Collins: And they believe that their rights are violated in some way from both law enforcement and, potentially, the person who's reporting them.
[69:14] Teddy Collins: So it's essentially, you know, the Democrats and the left were always the party of the whistleblower.
[69:19] Teddy Collins: But this makes it illegal to be a whistleblower.
[69:24] Kim Monson: Well, and the other thing here is that I see is that the bill creates a statutory cause of action for a person injured.
[69:34] Kim Monson: It looks to me like it's really against taking action against our immigration and customs enforcement agents.
[69:42] Teddy Collins: Law enforcement and immigration and customs enforcement as well.
[69:48] Kim Monson: But the other thing that I see as I'm reading this, Teddy, is that it says state court remedies.
[69:54] Kim Monson: And I talked about this in the first hour, is what we've seen with Tina Peters is she was convicted of stuff.
[70:08] Kim Monson: In state court, President Trump pardons her polis and company, although hopefully he's considering, hopefully he will, Polis will release her.
[70:20] Kim Monson: But they have ignored, said that the pardon for Tina Peters does not, is not in effect because she was convicted in state court.
[70:28] Kim Monson: So what I see is our law enforcement and our ICE agents, again, as you mentioned, they could be personally liable, but then there could not be a presidential pardon for them either.
[70:42] Kim Monson: And I tell you what, Teddy, it just looks to me like I don't know who's the puppet tears in this whole thing, but they certainly are very smart, and I would say in a diabolical way.
[71:00] Teddy Collins: Yeah, this takes away the ability of a president like Donald Trump to be able to pardon these individuals in some way.
[71:07] Teddy Collins: it puts it into the state's hands where that can't be done.
[71:15] Kim Monson: So, Teddy Collins, a couple of things again.
[71:19] Kim Monson: What is that website for Spartan Defense, and also what is the website for your campaign?
[71:27] Teddy Collins: And then for the campaign, it's Collins with two L's for Colorado.
[71:38] Kim Monson: Have a great day, and we will continue on.
[71:42] Kim Monson: And I appreciate you stepping forward to run for office.
[71:46] Teddy Collins: Y'allhave a blessed day, and God bless the great state of Colorado.
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[75:14] Kim Monson: And on the line with me is Susan Harris, a great sponsor of the show, goal sponsor of the show, and I appreciate the Harris family for that.
[75:27] Kim Monson: So, Susan, you and I have had some interesting conversations within the last few weeks about what is happening in our country.
[75:39] Kim Monson: And I've had some other conversations as well with people about what is this messaging.
[75:48] Kim Monson: And as I was thinking about our conversation today, Susan, I said, these are the real issues that we have.
[75:57] Kim Monson: and that's do we support creation or destruction, life or death, order or chaos, clarity or confusion, truth or lies, liberty or tyranny?
[76:08] Kim Monson: I think these are the big questions that we're facing right now, but I think a lot of people don't even realize that, Susan.
[76:20] Susan Harris: But also, as I was listening to your first hour this morning, it kind of dawned on me that not only are people not aware, but I think there's a lot of fatigue around those issues.
[76:51] Susan Harris: and just the constant barrage of bad news and, you know, less freedom and more government.
[76:45] Susan Harris: I think the left has become very efficient at making everyone feel exhausted and feel powerless.
[76:55] Susan Harris: And, you know, I think that's another part of what we're dealing with at this point.
[77:02] Kim Monson: I think you are spot on, because I can feel that even with me right now and I'm watching all of these issues and as I go through the headlines, it hurts my heart as I'm seeing this, because I'm looking at it and I'm involved in it.
[77:27] Kim Monson: I think a lot of people, as you say, they just don't want to pay attention to it because there's such a barrage of it.
[77:35] Susan Harris: Yes, and, and I think that's um, one of the big tools that's being used against us right now is just overwhelm and, and probably it's been used all along, but we've, we've kind of reached a point where um it just.
[77:51] Susan Harris: You know, most people, I think are, are so exhausted with it and they just want to live their lives.
[77:59] Susan Harris: And sometimes choosing to just turn away from all of these issues and just live your life in your little bubble of community the best you can feels like the only answer for people.
[78:15] Susan Harris: And so, you know, I think the left is being very successful at making us give up a a little bit on the actual standing for liberty and standing for clarity.
[78:28] Susan Harris: I don't know if you want me to tell the story, but, you know, I was on a flight not too long ago from Charlotte to Phoenix, and I had an encounter with a gentleman.
[78:41] Susan Harris: And I don't know if you want me to tell that story, but it was so eye- opening.
[78:45] Kim Monson: I've thoughtabout that story, and I've actually shared the story with some other people as well.
[78:54] Kim Monson: And it stops everybody in their tracks.
[78:56] Kim Monson: And I wasn't sure if you were comfortable doing that.
[79:00] Kim Monson: But if so, yes, I think it's really, really important.
[79:05] Susan Harris: So it's about a five hour flight from Charlotte, all the way back to Phoenix.
[79:12] Susan Harris: So I was seated next to a gentleman that I did not know.
[79:17] Susan Harris: And he was one of those people that was just ready to chat.
[79:19] Susan Harris: And I was a little bit concerned because it's a five hour flight.
[79:23] Susan Harris: And I was like, Oh, no, this guy's going to want to chat with me the entire flight.
[79:28] Susan Harris: And he was very, you know, very nice, don't get me wrong.
[79:33] Susan Harris: But he was a little older, he was in his, I would say mid to late 70s.
[79:39] Susan Harris: And he proceeded to tell me so much about his life, and that he was raised on the East Coast, mostly in New York, but then spent most of his adult life in Los Angeles owning a restaurant.
[79:56] Susan Harris: And, you know, he was a very interesting man, but that he and his wife had moved to Phoenix back in 1995, and they purchased a home, and they were very happy there.
[80:08] Susan Harris: And he told me that, you know, he enjoyed Phoenix and that some of the people in Phoenix were very nice.
[80:17] Susan Harris: I said, well, I live in Phoenix and I find the people of Phoenix to be very, extremely nice and almost, you know, nice to a fault.
[80:27] Susan Harris: I don't know if it's because of all the tourism or the sunshine might be helpful.
[80:33] Susan Harris: But I find that when you go about your day, people are very, very friendly.
[80:37] Susan Harris: And he said, yes, except for the stupid people.
[80:40] Susan Harris: And I didn't, you know, push on that issue.
[80:44] Susan Harris: I said, yeah, well, you know, really, I guess you could say you could find stupid people anywhere you go.
[80:53] Susan Harris: So, you know, I kind of wanted to push back on that and just let that lie, because I'm just not the kind of person that wants to go down a negative road.
[81:00] Susan Harris: But he kept bringing it up as he was telling me about his life, except for these stupid people that I have to deal with.
[81:07] Susan Harris: and I kept, you know, kind of pushing back on it, just kind of insinuating that I don't really, I'm not interested in speaking about people in that way.
[81:18] Susan Harris: But part of the life that he was telling me about is he had taken up the hobby of stained glass, and he got out his phone and started showing me all these, quite frankly, beautiful pieces of stained glass, And they were just lovely.
[81:40] Susan Harris: And one of them that he showed me was this gorgeous, very large piece of an American flag.
[81:47] Susan Harris: And what he had done is replaced the 50 stars with a peace sign.
[82:00] Susan Harris: I just thought, well, this is really beautiful.
[82:04] Susan Harris: And I just said, that is really a gorgeous piece of work.
[82:09] Susan Harris: And he said, yeah, did you notice I replaced the 50 stars with a peace sign?
[82:13] Susan Harris: That's because of all the stupid people that I come across.
[82:16] Susan Harris: And you know, it kind of became clear what he was, what he was implying and who the stupid people were, and he even made a couple of direct remarks about the Trump administration and some of the decisions they had made.
[82:33] Susan Harris: So I kind of was getting the message that he and I were not on the same page politically.
[82:38] Susan Harris: But that's fine with me and I just but, but this is a five- hour flight andI did not want to get into these issues with this man when I have to sit next to him for five hours.
[82:55] Susan Harris: And I did tell him how beautiful his work was.
[83:01] Susan Harris: And my wife asked me recently, if you only had two weeks to live, and you knew you were going to die in two weeks, what would you spend that two weeks doing?
[83:11] Susan Harris: and I said wow that's quite a question and what did you tell your wife and he wife and he
[83:20] Susan Harris: looked at me and he said, and I quote, I would murder some people.
[83:27] Susan Harris: And I was so shocked, Kim, I was just completely taken aback.
[83:33] Susan Harris: And I said, wow, that's an interesting way of spending the last two weeks of your life.
[83:43] Susan Harris: And he said, yes, you know, they could put me in jail, but I'm going to be dead in two weeks anyway so I would definitely murder some people and I just thought this is where we are I'm like you know and I I didn't know really how to respond to this gentleman because of the the length of the flight I didn't want to upset him I didn't want to make the rest of my flight uncomfortable but I thought to myself and I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't have the courage to say it, but I thought to myself, wow, you have just proven to me that the people that you think are stupid are probably right about you because you have made this beautiful American flag with a peace sign instead of the 50 stars, yet your heart is so full of hate.
[84:39] Susan Harris: it's the opposite of what you are telling me you believe.
[84:43] Susan Harris: And I was really shocked with what he would spend the last two weeks of his life doing, because it is so opposite of what I would choose to do if I knew I only had two weeks to live.
[84:58] Susan Harris: I would spend that two weeks just relishing in my family and my friends and my community and the beauty of this earth, and being so grateful for everything and all the blessings that had been given to me in my life, and telling people how much I love them.
[85:21] Susan Harris: And so it was just a shocking illustration of how different, at least this gentleman and I are, And it makes me wonder how many people on the left feel this way, that they are so full of hate and anger, even though they tell themselves that that's not true.
[85:47] Susan Harris: and that they're proponents of supposed love and compassion and empathy and sympathy.
[85:58] Susan Harris: Yet what's really in their hearts, if they only had two weeks to live, is this incredible vengefulness.
[86:06] Susan Harris: And I just wanted to put that out there because you know, it makes me feel like you know you're right about what these issues are.
[86:17] Susan Harris: We are really up against good versus evil, and I'm not saying that I'm good or that he's evil, but these ideas.
[86:25] Susan Harris: I mean that man, at that moment, I felt like the devil had possessed him, and um, I know that, uh, god loves everyone and he, He loved that gentleman just as much as he loved me.
[86:40] Susan Harris: But an evil spirit had really taken over that man.
[86:46] Kim Monson: Well, okay, Susan, that story is amazing.
[86:56] Kim Monson: I'm talking with Susan Harris, and I thank the Harris family for their sponsorship of the show so that we can talk about these important ideas and we'll continue the discussion.
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[90:17] Kim Monson: And I'm talking with Susan Harris, and I thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show.
[90:23] Kim Monson: And Susan, you shared this story regarding this gentleman that you were sitting next to on a long flight from Charlotte to Phoenix and what he would do if he had two weeks to live.
[90:37] Kim Monson: You and I, when we were talking about it, when you shared the story initially with me, I, like you, if I knew I had two weeks to live, I would be loving on my family and connecting with my friends and preparing then, knowing that I will see Jesus at the end of those two weeks.
[91:00] Kim Monson: And so what a difference to someone that said that he would murder someone.
[91:05] Kim Monson: And this is, when we see the narrative out there that our country is so divided, it's pretty difficult to unite with someone that looks at life that way.
[91:20] Kim Monson: And so those that are trying to divide us then are highlighting the division.
[91:29] Kim Monson: I think that we've got to go to these bigger ideas that we talked about regarding creation, destruction.
[91:38] Kim Monson: Where do people come down on those things?
[91:40] Kim Monson: What's your thoughts on that, Susan Harris?
[91:47] Susan Harris: I think we've been able to unite in some areas.
[91:54] Susan Harris: And if we can just pull the thread, continue to pull the thread in these areas, I think it'll be extremely helpful.
[91:58] Susan Harris: You know, I think recently, RFK Junior's Health and Human Services Department and all that they're doing for health care, I think it's been a great benefit.
[92:11] Susan Harris: And I'm not saying that people are united on it, but certainly people can agree that we need to improve our nutrition, improve our health, be more proactive with our health and that pharmaceutical companies need to be held accountable for the products that they're providing us.
[92:31] Susan Harris: And we need to be able to freely question any type of medication that we put in our bodies.
[92:38] Susan Harris: And I really do think people are united on those issues.
[92:43] Susan Harris: But again, I think that the weapon that's been utilized to kind of unhinge some of that is fatigue and overwhelm and not letting us, you know, get a foothold on these issues that we do agree with.
[93:04] Susan Harris: And also, you know, another example is actual fraud that's going on in our government.
[93:09] Susan Harris: I really do think people are united in the idea that they do not want fraud in our government.
[93:18] Susan Harris: They do not want our tax dollars to be just stolen from nefarious people.
[93:27] Susan Harris: But we're being overwhelmed, you know, with the idea that it's not really fraud.
[93:38] Susan Harris: You're racist if you even think that it's fraud because of the color of the skin of some of the people that might be committing the fraud.
[93:42] Susan Harris: So, you know, where we're united, again, they seem to go after those issues to try to overwhelm us with conflict once again.
[93:55] Susan Harris: But I do think there are areas where we are becoming more and more united.
[94:01] Susan Harris: And I'm so happy to see that the Trump administration in Davos really pushed back on this, on the globalists.
[94:12] Susan Harris: And I think for really the first time, the United States kind of put its foot down and said, no, we're not going to do this.
[94:26] Susan Harris: And, you know, Trump also is removing our membership from the World Health Organization.
[94:36] Susan Harris: So when your previous guest this morning was talking about AI in health care, I'm hoping that that removing us from the World Health Organization will at least, you know, put a wrench in those plans of having global AI take over our health care systems.
[94:57] Susan Harris: And I don't know that it can stop it completely, but certainly maybe it can put a wrench in things and have us not participate globally, have us only participate from the standpoint of the United States and its best interests.
[95:17] Susan Harris: We have to continue to be aware, continue to try to get the word out to people that we know and care about- and I'm not sure what else we can do other than that- and and encourage our politicians on a, especially on a local level.
[95:37] Susan Harris: I love that one of your sponsors is running for office.
[95:44] Susan Harris: We've got to get into these local communities and from a grassroots level start making changes.
[95:54] Kim Monson: Well, I think you're absolutely right.
[95:57] Kim Monson: As I look at all these things that are occurring, in some ways it feels like this whole globalist agenda that we're seeing play out even right down to our local government.
[96:11] Kim Monson: Sometimes I feel like 250 years since our founding, 1776, that we're in our 1776 moment now because what we are waking up to is a labyrinth, I think, of this globalist agenda.
[96:29] Kim Monson: People are waking up, but it sure seems like Sometimes it's just the little guy against the big, big guy.
[96:37] Kim Monson: It seems that Donald Trump and company are really trying to stand up to this globalist agenda.
[96:44] Kim Monson: And I shudder to think that if he had not been elected in 2024, what would be going on right now?
[96:55] Susan Harris: And I'm hopeful that the administration is aware of, you know, a great deal more than you and I are, or actually most of us, you know, out here in the trenches are aware of, because of all the information that they have.
[97:14] Susan Harris: And I'm very hopeful that, you know, we're just seeing a small piece of the fight that they're fighting and that in reality, they are doing much more behind the scenes to put a stop to it.
[97:30] Kim Monson: Well, and I think that's why we are seeing the doubling down of these ICE protests is to try to create confusion in people's minds.
[97:42] Kim Monson: And there are some visuals that I look at them.
[97:50] Kim Monson: There was headlines that were coming across yesterday that ICE had used a five-year-old as bait, is what the headline was, to get the adults that were to be deported.
[98:06] Kim Monson: And that's a tough visual to take a look at, Susan Harris.
[98:12] Susan Harris: But again, you know, that was misconstrued.
[98:16] Susan Harris: The only reason they had custody of the five-year-old is because the actual immigrant took off and ran.
[98:24] Susan Harris: Well, they can't just abandon the five-year-old.
[98:27] Susan Harris: That is why they took the five-year-old into custody.
[98:30] Susan Harris: Not because they wanted a five-year-old or they care about, you know, dealing with a five-year-old.
[98:36] Susan Harris: But the parent of the five-year-old took off and abandoned it.
[98:44] Susan Harris: And these are the types of things, you know, the nuances that, of course, are not reported in the mainstream.
[98:51] Susan Harris: And you have to do a lot of digging to find out what really happened.
[98:55] Susan Harris: Because when you think about that story, ICE, you know, taking into custody a five-year-old illegal immigrant, of course, that makes no sense.
[99:05] Susan Harris: And, you know, it's absurd that our government would do something like that.
[99:11] Susan Harris: No, they took custody of and they were trying to take custody of an illegal adult who had a five year old with them.
[99:21] Susan Harris: So, you know, there's so much more to the story that doesn't get reported in the mainstream, definitely.
[99:30] Susan Harris: And and even if it does, it's so brief or way beyond after the erroneous headlines or the misleading headlines have been reported.
[99:41] Susan Harris: So it's just interesting that that's what happened.
[99:46] Susan Harris: But I am very hopeful, you know, that at the executive levels in the administration, they are truly working on things.
[100:01] Susan Harris: They're working on things that we aren't even aware of at this point.
[100:05] Susan Harris: I mean, the situation in Iran is another example of things that are happening that are just, you know, I'm so curious.
[100:17] Susan Harris: You know, we're seeing reporting coming out of Iran that millions of people are protesting and they are paying the personal price.
[100:31] Susan Harris: They are dying for their freedom there right now.
[100:33] Susan Harris: Now, you know, it's hard to know, Kim, what's really going on there because our access to true information is so limited.
[100:44] Susan Harris: But I'm very curious about what the people in Iran are really doing right now for their country, because I don't want to impose American values where they're not wanted.
[100:58] Susan Harris: But it seems like those people are really, you know, ready to get some of their freedom back, if not all of it.
[101:09] Kim Monson: Yeah, it is really curious what people will put on the line ultimately for freedom.
[101:15] Kim Monson: And we take it so for granted here in the United States.
[101:21] Kim Monson: And from a bureaucratic standpoint, over taxation, over fees, we're seeing this assault upon property rights.
[101:27] Kim Monson: And America was founded on one of the foundational principles is property rights, the right to keep most of your fruits of your labor.
[101:37] Kim Monson: We realize that there is some proper role of government, a limited government.
[101:40] Kim Monson: but we are way out of the lane and we are at a defining moment in our country.
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[104:12] Kim Monson: And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show.
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[104:47] Kim Monson: I'm talking with Susan Harris, and I thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show.
[104:51] Kim Monson: And Susan, I talked earlier in the show regarding this Senate Bill 26005, which is really, I think, an anti-ICE bill, Immigration, Customs Enforcement and this Bill Track 50 that we have with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers.
[105:11] Kim Monson: We can search for similar bills and I sent out a help on my text line with the cut board and they were able to get me to this place.
[105:21] Kim Monson: And there are similar bills that have been proposed in other states right now, here in January, and let's see, it says there's one in Arizona- let me just check that- and so this is occurring.
[105:37] Kim Monson: It's the same kind legislation across the nation.
[105:41] Kim Monson: And this is in Arizona, it's House Bill 2880.
[105:45] Kim Monson: And it says the bill aims to protect individuals from certain immigration enforcement actions in specific settings by these new legal provisions.
[105:55] Kim Monson: So there's some kind of puppeteers that are really influencing across the nation with different legislation.
[106:05] Kim Monson: And we see it even get played out to the local level.
[106:08] Kim Monson: But this is really of great concern.
[106:11] Kim Monson: I think that people that have come into our country illegally and that have committed crimes need to be deported.
[106:19] Kim Monson: If people have come here illegally and are committing fraud, they need to be deported.
[106:27] Kim Monson: And if they're coming here to live off of the American taxpayer, I think they need to be deported.
[106:31] Kim Monson: I think that those really should be some things that we could unite around, Susan Harris.
[106:36] Susan Harris: You would think, I mean, especially the criminals, people who are committing crimes here.
[106:43] Susan Harris: That should be just not even a question whether or not they should continue to get to live here.
[106:50] Susan Harris: And the welfare issue is a little bit mind blowing to me.
[106:56] Susan Harris: I've even seen reports and articles about, you know, the average Social Security payment that goes out to a retiree in America.
[107:05] Susan Harris: and I'm probably not getting these amounts right, but it's like$ 1,200 to$ 1,500 a month, versus these illegals come in and get over$ 3,000 a month in benefits, and they've never paid a penny in taxes.
[107:22] Susan Harris: And that is just so frustrating, and I think that is something we can unite on and probably would if the information was disseminated more widely.
[107:34] Susan Harris: And I really think it would be great if the Trump administration could get that type of information across the country so that people really understand what we're talking about.
[107:46] Susan Harris: And that our money is literally being stolen.
[107:55] Susan Harris: And I'm not saying that there aren't people that need help, but they come here illegally and literally are stealing our tax dollars.
[108:09] Susan Harris: I think somehow they are, through money laundering and the NGOs, are, you know, getting kickbacks, so to speak.
[108:24] Susan Harris: In Arizona, we do have one advantage, and that is that the Republicans do have control of the House and the Senate at the state level right now.
[108:33] Susan Harris: And we work very hard to maintain that, even though right now we have a Democrat governor who is horrible and a criminal and is facing criminal charges at this point.
[108:44] Susan Harris: We are able to stop a lot of legislation from going through because we do have the majority on the Republican side.
[108:54] Susan Harris: And I'm sorry to say that that's not the case in California or Colorado and a number of other states.
[109:04] Kim Monson: Well, yes, and uh, I think colorado's at the tip of the spear for much of the really tough stuff that's happening out there.
[109:17] Kim Monson: We this came in on the text line and he said: without god and without adherence to the ten commandments, there is no limit on what human, what one human, can do to another, and I think that goes back to your conversation with this guy on the airplane.
[109:34] Kim Monson: But you also said something that is really important: that God loves each and every one of us.
[109:42] Kim Monson: And so if, and I think one of the great equities, if you will, in life is that Christ went to the cross for each and every individual.
[109:55] Kim Monson: Now, each individual gets to decide, and this is something kind of that C.
[110:00] Kim Monson: Lewis said as well, what they will do with their relationship with Christ.
[110:05] Kim Monson: But Christ loves all of us so much that he went to the cross for each and every one of us.
[110:09] Kim Monson: And I know that that's something that you and I talk about as well.
[110:13] Kim Monson: And I want people to understand that.
[110:16] Kim Monson: And that's when I say on the show that you're loved and you're treasured, you have value.
[110:21] Kim Monson: I want people to understand that, because that's the great hope that we can have as we see all these things that are coming out.
[110:29] Kim Monson: As we've got a couple of minutes, Susan, your final thoughts on all this.
[110:33] Susan Harris: Yes, I agree 150%with what you just said, of course.
[110:43] Susan Harris: But one other point I want to make quickly, I have seen a couple of opinion pieces about this, and I don't know if I believe it or not.
[110:48] Susan Harris: But there is an idea that President Xi and Putin as well, in addition to Trump, none of these leaders want the globalist agenda to actually happen because they all want to maintain their own independent nations as superpowers.
[111:08] Susan Harris: And so there is incentive for the Chinese and the Russians, along with the United States, to defeat this globalist agenda.
[111:19] Susan Harris: And if that's the case, we have to know that even though we consider the Chinese and the Russians not exactly friends, maybe there is one battle that we are all fighting together.
[111:40] Kim Monson: And I did see a headline just come across just a few minutes ago that Trump said that she may be coming to the United States at the end of the year.
[111:48] Kim Monson: So that's super interesting as well.
[111:51] Kim Monson: Well, Susan Harris, I always learn so much from you.
[111:56] Kim Monson: I'd love to get through all of these.
[111:58] Kim Monson: I'm not going to because we're out of time.
[111:59] Kim Monson: But I so thank you for engaging in this battle of ideas and supporting us as we do that as well, Susan Harris.
[112:09] Susan Harris: You're the one getting up every morning and fighting the fight out there in Colorado.
[112:14] Susan Harris: And we're just so grateful that you, even though it feels overwhelming and exhausting, that you just keep getting up every day and giving us this information that we really need.
[112:33] Kim Monson: And our quote for the end of the show is Oliver Wendell Holmes.
[112:37] Kim Monson: It says it says controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, and the fools know it.
[112:43] Kim Monson: So 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.
[112:56] Kim Monson: God bless you and God bless America Out into this great unknown.
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