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[01:45] Kim Monson: We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[01:52] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it.
[01:56] Kim Monson: And it's never compassionate, my friends, to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, or lives, via force.
[02:05] Kim Monson: And force can be a weapon, policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, feeling that big time right now, The World Economic Forum, the Globalist Elites, the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature, this governor, the World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, and forced fees.
[02:29] Kim Monson: And if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it.
[02:34] Kim Monson: And we focus on these issues, try to stay out of the personalities.
[02:39] Kim Monson: In fact, I wanted to talk a little bit about Doug Burgum, who is a former North Dakota governor.
[02:49] Kim Monson: And he has been picked by Trump to be, I believe, the secretary of the Department of the Interior.
[02:55] Kim Monson: And I had one of our listeners, thank you, Ron, that reached out and said, really excited about these picks.
[03:02] Kim Monson: I said, I'm a little concerned about Burgum.
[03:06] Kim Monson: Because his understanding was the Sierra Club was opposed to Burgum, which, yes, the Sierra Club is one of those.
[03:16] Kim Monson: It's become a really an eco-activist group.
[03:19] Kim Monson: And so, yes, that would be a good sign.
[03:22] Kim Monson: But I had remembered this and done some research on it.
[03:29] Kim Monson: This is from the Grand Forks Herald.
[03:44] Kim Monson: Bill Gates donates$ 100,000 to Doug Burgum's campaign for North Dakota governor.
[03:49] Kim Monson: So that's why I think we're going to really need to keep an eye on what's happening there, because that's just a great concern.
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[04:15] Kim Monson: I need to add on to that all of these petroleum derivatives that really make our lives better.
[04:24] Kim Monson: Just everything that we touch is basically a petroleum derivative.
[04:29] Kim Monson: And so all these things make our lives better.
[04:32] Kim Monson: And so we have to question why there is this movement to try to shut down our oil, gas, and coal industries.
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[04:45] Kim Monson: Our word of the day, and this is, I think this came from Richard.
[04:55] Kim Monson: and it could be to prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of, and as they thwarted her plans.
[05:04] Kim Monson: Or number two definition, to oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of someone to move across or counter to cross.
[05:13] Kim Monson: And I think there's great concern, obviously, the bureaucrats would like to thwart the Trump agenda and the Democrats would like to thwart the Trump agenda.
[05:27] Kim Monson: But we need to have the Republicans get on board and get this government less centralized, push that out to the states and local and most of all to the people.
[05:43] Kim Monson: And so we'll have to watch as I'm sure there are those that will want to thwart these plans.
[05:48] Kim Monson: And our quote of the day came from Mary Janssen, Ronald Reagan.
[05:56] Kim Monson: He said, we don't have inflation because we are living too well.
[06:01] Kim Monson: We have it because the government is living too well.
[06:06] Kim Monson: Of course, Ronald Reagan was born in 1911, died in 2004.
[06:09] Kim Monson: He was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States.
[06:15] Kim Monson: He was a member of the Republican Party.
[06:16] Kim Monson: However, he initially was a Democrat.
[06:18] Kim Monson: And he became an important figure in the American conservative movement, and his presidency is known as the Reagan era.
[06:25] Kim Monson: So again, we don't have inflation because we are living too well.
[06:29] Kim Monson: We have it because the government is living too well.
[06:33] Kim Monson: Let's see, several things in history.
[06:37] Kim Monson: 1307, William Tell reputedly shoots the apple off of his son's head.
[06:43] Kim Monson: A couple of weather events in 1421.
[06:46] Kim Monson: In 1421, the Southern Sea floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in the Netherlands.
[06:52] Kim Monson: And in 1424, another storm ravages the Dutch coast.
[06:56] Kim Monson: And I bring up these weather events because we have weather.
[07:04] Kim Monson: And this whole climate change narrative is being used to really kind of weaponize the elites against the everyday people.
[07:13] Kim Monson: And that's why this film that Walt Johnson wanted to create, so he financed it and the executive producer on it, is A Climate Conversation.
[07:26] Kim Monson: And check that out at aclimateconversation.
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[07:34] Kim Monson: The director and writer was actually, they worked together, but Colton Moyer and Walt Johnson.
[07:43] Kim Monson: to come up with just Socratic questioning with experts and scientists about this whole climate narrative.
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[08:07] Kim Monson: There was one other weather event that I had in here.
[08:13] Kim Monson: The North Siberian record for cold was a negative 55 degrees Celsius.
[08:20] Kim Monson: And so, yeah, that was pretty, pretty cold.
[08:25] Kim Monson: I thought 1477, the first English data printed book, Dictys and Sanges of the Philosophers by William Caxton, was printed at his press in London.
[08:36] Kim Monson: And I look around now at the many, many books that we have, and I thought, gosh, 1477, can you imagine the first book?
[08:52] Kim Monson: President Trump names Chris Wright from here, right here in Colorado.
[08:59] Kim Monson: He is the head of Liberty Energy as the next energy secretary.
[09:08] Kim Monson: And then many of you sent this over.
[09:14] Kim Monson: Gosh, I have all these open, and then I have them in all these different spots here.
[09:21] Kim Monson: And this was, the GOP releases the audio of Griswold telling county clerks about the password leak.
[09:33] Kim Monson: We're going to create, I think, a Colorado 2025 election project.
[09:38] Kim Monson: The Colorado 2024 election project, you all helped with that so much.
[09:43] Kim Monson: And so those two lawsuits are out there regarding our elections.
[09:50] Kim Monson: The first, we raised the money for the legal team for the United Sovereign Americans.
[09:57] Kim Monson: As Peter Berneger said, we're now in the ping pong phase of legal action.
[10:05] Kim Monson: And so that's where that is with United Sovereign Americans.
[10:07] Kim Monson: We will have Marlee Hornick on the show tomorrow, who is the co-founder, to give us an update.
[10:14] Kim Monson: And then the second phase ended up with Peter Berneger with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice.
[10:19] Kim Monson: And that lawsuit was filed before Election Day as well.
[10:22] Kim Monson: stating that our voter rolls are not clean.
[10:26] Kim Monson: So we've got those two lawsuits out there.
[10:29] Kim Monson: And so now we're looking at this BIOS password situation, also the fraudulent ballots that went through in Mesa County.
[10:37] Kim Monson: And it's against the law to certify an election if you know that there's problems with it.
[10:44] Kim Monson: So that's going to be kind of the next thing I think that we're going to be working on, and also some potential legislation.
[10:51] Kim Monson: So we're going to get to work on a new Colorado 2025 election project.
[10:57] Kim Monson: So stay tuned, and thank you to all of you who have helped us with that.
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[11:52] Kim Monson: One other thing, it looks like the Democrats very possibly may lose the Colorado House supermajority.
[12:01] Kim Monson: Rebecca Kelty down in the Colorado Springs area, it's very, very close.
[12:06] Kim Monson: She is an excellent candidate working to unseat Representative Vigil, and so I think they're working on that right now.
[12:15] Kim Monson: And so anyway, this was said after the GOP wins two more races as final votes are tallied.
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[12:37] Kim Monson: It's really like it's just like man-to-man combat almost, it seems like, fighting out on these races.
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[15:41] Kim Monson: Thank you to all of you who support us.
[15:42] Kim Monson: We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[15:49] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it.
[15:53] Kim Monson: And I know many of us have heard this term- recess appointments, and what does that mean exactly?
[16:00] Kim Monson: This is from the Associated Press, and it's: what are recess appointments and how could Trump use them to fill his cabinet?
[16:12] Kim Monson: It says: as president-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for even some of the most powerful positions in the U.
[16:27] Kim Monson: It says Trump over the weekend demanded that Republican leaders in the Senate, who will hold a majority in the chamber next year, agree to allow recess appointments.
[16:36] Kim Monson: It would be a significant shift in power away from the Senate.
[16:40] Kim Monson: But Trump is returning to Washington with almost total support from his party, including the more traditional Republicans who still hold sway in the chamber.
[16:49] Kim Monson: Since their commitment, however, is being tested now that Trump has turned to picked people outside the Republican Party mainstream, like former Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii for top positions.
[17:04] Kim Monson: It quickly became apparent Wednesday that figures like Gates, who Trump announced as his choice for attorney general, may struggle to gain majority support from the Senate, even though Senate Republicans will enjoy a 53 seat majority.
[17:19] Kim Monson: But that may not matter if Trump is able to use recess recess appointments.
[17:25] Kim Monson: It says the Senate, as set up by the Constitution, holds an important role in confirming or rejecting high-level officials like cabinet positions, judges, and ambassadors.
[17:35] Kim Monson: It's part of the government's checks and balances that ensures the president does not get to unilaterally rule.
[17:43] Kim Monson: However, there is a clause in the Constitution that allows presidents to fill out their administrations while the Senate is in recess.
[17:51] Kim Monson: During the nation's early history, Congress would take months-long breaks from Washington, and presidents could use those recess appointments.
[18:00] Kim Monson: Hold on, these pop-ups are such a pain in the kazoo here.
[18:12] Kim Monson: And it says, but more recently, the process of recess appointments have been featured in partisan fights with the president.
[18:18] Kim Monson: President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments, and President George W.
[18:25] Kim Monson: Bush made 171, though neither used the process for top-level cabinet positions, according to the Congressional Research Service.
[18:32] Kim Monson: President Barack Obama tried to continue the practice, using it 32 times, but a 2014 Supreme Court ruling put a check on the president's power to make recess appointments.
[18:43] Kim Monson: It goes on to say, it says the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Senate has to recess or adjourn for 10 days before a president can make unilateral appointments.
[18:54] Kim Monson: That's resulted in a practice where the Senate, even during weeks long breaks from Washington, still holds pro forma sessions where one senator opens and closes the chamber, but no legislative business is conducted.
[19:06] Kim Monson: The House also holds some power over recess appointments by refusing to allow the Senate to adjourn.
[19:14] Kim Monson: And then this goes on to say, why is Trump demanding this?
[19:15] Kim Monson: Because he envisions becoming a president who is much stronger and forceful than perhaps any before him.
[19:22] Kim Monson: Also president in 2020, again, this is from the Associated Press, Trump threatened to use recess appointments after Democrats had slowed the Senate from confirming his nominees.
[19:31] Kim Monson: And he threatened to use a presidential power in the Constitution to adjourn both chambers of Congress on extraordinary occasions.
[19:37] Kim Monson: And when there is a disagreement between the House and the Senate on adjourning.
[19:41] Kim Monson: So this is certainly going to be quite political and it'll be quite interesting to see what happens.
[19:49] Kim Monson: But I don't remember where I read it, but somebody said Trump basically has 100 days to really get things going here.
[19:58] Kim Monson: And that's what you think about it, because we'll be moving into the 2026 election very soon.
[20:04] Kim Monson: So he kind of learned, I think, last time last time he came to Washington.
[20:08] Kim Monson: I think he tapped people that had been in Washington for a long time.
[20:14] Kim Monson: I know he tapped people throughout the country that he thought was on his team, and there were a lot out there, including even here in Colorado, that were sabotaging him, and I think he learned from that and I think well, for example, the first two years of his term He had the House.
[20:37] Kim Monson: I think now I can't remember if we had the Senate or not.
[20:40] Kim Monson: But basically, they did nothing regarding immigration.
[20:45] Kim Monson: And then you fast forward, you get to the Biden administration, and you see what happened then with immigration.
[20:52] Kim Monson: And I think that he is working on that to make that happen.
[20:55] Kim Monson: And so, again, we'll have to see how this whole political thing happens on these recess appointments.
[21:00] Kim Monson: Here in Colorado, this is, I think this is really sad.
[21:07] Kim Monson: And, but it's, it is because of, let's see here.
[21:14] Kim Monson: Well, I had all of these up here for you.
[21:16] Kim Monson: So I'll just go ahead and comment on it.
[21:19] Kim Monson: It says, Senor Burritos is closing in the Baker location after 34 years.
[21:27] Kim Monson: It's because of bad policy that we're seeing this beautiful city that I have loved.
[21:34] Kim Monson: It's dirty, it's dangerous, and it is because of public policy.
[21:40] Kim Monson: It's because of these Democrat governors, the Democrat governor, and it's also because of these Democrat mayors, and so this business is moving to Westminster, and I think all of these other cities should be able to take a look at this and maybe start to have more freedom in each of your cities.
[22:02] Kim Monson: The Metro Mayors Caucus is pretty powerful.
[22:07] Kim Monson: And I think they get in this bubble.
[22:09] Kim Monson: They don't realize that they're actually, that you're supposed to be representing their constituents and their businesses and standing up for them.
[22:18] Kim Monson: Instead, I think what happens is many times people get into elected office, work with the bureaucrats, and they start to think that they are working for the city or the county instead of realizing that actually they're representatives of the people.
[22:37] Kim Monson: And so what's happening in Denver, of course, the sales taxes are quite high and people start to make choices to shop for bigger items at other places.
[22:53] Kim Monson: And this, again, this beautiful city is being run into the ground right now because of these Democrat policies.
[23:02] Kim Monson: And so I think people are starting to pay attention.
[23:04] Kim Monson: And we need to be voting for people that will represent the people, not the bureaucrats and the entities out there.
[23:14] Kim Monson: Next thing I had here was, and this was unbelievable to me.
[23:21] Kim Monson: The Denver City Council declared November 14th as the Day of the Black Girl in honor of African American Young Ladies Summit Program.
[23:31] Kim Monson: My gosh, friends, if we had a Day of the White Girl or a Day of the Hispanic Girl, So what this is doing is this is dividing us into groups instead of recognizing that all of us are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[23:50] Kim Monson: And so we have to push back on these things.
[23:53] Kim Monson: We need to do things that unite us instead of dividing us.
[23:59] Kim Monson: Eric is a great listener of the show.
[24:01] Kim Monson: He is the founder and creator of Manning's Famous Burritos.
[24:05] Kim Monson: and he watches, he's so well informed and he watches politics and he's very politically astute as well.
[24:15] Kim Monson: But he called on Friday and he had a big concern and I understand the optics on this are a challenge.
[24:23] Eric Manning: Good morning, Kim.
[24:24] Eric Manning: You great American.
[24:32] Eric Manning: Yeah, thank you.
[24:33] Eric Manning: Go ahead, I'm sorry.
[24:34] Kim Monson: You're concerned with Trump's picks.
[24:40] Kim Monson: You've said, well, set it up for us, Eric.
[24:45] Eric Manning: Yes, Kim, it's very concerning to me because at least two of the people that I wanted for President Trump, that was very loyal to him through thick and thin throughout his, with his policies and with him through his campaign.
[25:09] Eric Manning: It was two gentlemen.
[25:10] Eric Manning: They were black gentlemen from Congress.
[25:14] Eric Manning: And now it's probably too late for him to pick the two that I think that deserve it.
[25:20] Eric Manning: I mean, they were just with him in churches, barbershops, in the RNC.
[25:30] Eric Manning: And that was Congressman Wesley Hunt of Texas.
[25:37] Eric Manning: And he was a West Point graduate.
[25:41] Eric Manning: His brother and sister were West Point graduates.
[25:43] Eric Manning: He was in the military.
[25:45] Eric Manning: He did terms in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[25:50] Eric Manning: I mean, he was just loyal as I'll get out to President Trump.
[25:57] Eric Manning: And Byron Donald, congressman from Florida, he was as close to Trump as, you know, an adopted son, so to speak.
[26:09] Eric Manning: And he was one of the picks that may have been his vice president.
[26:17] Eric Manning: And I just think after all I can, when I talked to you, there was 19 cabinet members, Kim, and there was no black members picked.
[26:28] Eric Manning: And then it became five more added.
[26:31] Eric Manning: And then the one that you talked about this morning.
[26:34] Eric Manning: So that's been like five to six more, without any black people.
[26:39] Eric Manning: That put President Trump in different parts of the counties in our country over the top.
[26:51] Eric Manning: And I don't want to leave out the Hispanics one iota.
[26:58] Eric Manning: They are great as well.
[26:59] Eric Manning: and the youth, the young people put him over the top.
[27:05] Eric Manning: But he's forgetting about the black people because Rubio, he's on there.
[27:14] Eric Manning: And I don't know what kind of nationality is Gabbard, Tulsi Gabbard, and all of them are great.
[27:23] Eric Manning: I love them all.
[27:24] Eric Manning: it's just that I would love to have some black love, you know, in his cabinet to show some appreciation, because I don't want this to get to Oprah.
[27:35] Eric Manning: I don't want it to get to Stephen A.
[27:37] Eric Manning: Smith, you know, and The View, Whoopi Goldberg, all these haters, Van Jones on CNN.
[27:47] Eric Manning: I don't want that out there, you know, because they're going to bring, I'm surprised it hasn't even come up yet.
[27:54] Eric Manning: him, the racism, um, flack that they always spew out on him.
[28:01] Eric Manning: And these people are qualified.
[28:04] Kim Monson: Well, you and I, when we were talking about it the other day, um, I had seen a article where, uh, the speaker of the house, Johnson said that, uh, no more can't take any more congressmen are women and uh because they do have that razor thin um you know um razor thin majority there yeah yes but but um and so that's a problem but i agree with you i think the optics on that uh is very important and i hope that somebody is listening on that so that we can get that figured out because i think that i totally agree with you we We want to be united, but the optics on that would be really great to bring that together.
[28:52] Eric Manning: Absolutely, Kim.
[28:53] Eric Manning: And, you know, like Joe the Plumber had said, I loved him, too.
[28:56] Eric Manning: And I voted for Donald Trump three times.
[28:59] Eric Manning: And I am a black man, conservative Republican.
[29:03] Eric Manning: And I miss Rush Limbaugh big time.
[29:06] Eric Manning: Rush Limbaugh would have put him in his place.
[29:08] Eric Manning: But like Joe the Plumber said years ago, miss his soul.
[29:13] Eric Manning: Wish he was still with us.
[29:17] Eric Manning: He said, share the wealth, so to speak.
[29:19] Eric Manning: But I just wanted to throw that out at, and I love President Trump, his family, and all his policies, everything he stands for.
[29:28] Eric Manning: But I think that he needs recognition of the black people that were 110%behind him, Kim.
[29:36] Eric Manning: That's all.
[29:36] Eric Manning: That's all I thought.
[29:37] Kim Monson: I think that's a really valid point, Eric, and I really appreciate you sharing that with us.
[29:42] Eric Manning: Okay.
[29:44] Eric Manning: We'll talk soon.
[29:45] Kim Monson: And these are important discussions.
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[32:54] Kim Monson: As I'm looking at his piece in The American Thinker, Let the Reckoning Begin.
[32:58] Kim Monson: But first of all, I wanted to just get his read, his take on the election.
[33:07] Kim Monson: It's been a while since we've talked, and the world has changed since we talked last time, Dr.
[33:12] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The world has changed indeed, and I think for the better.
[33:16] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's been a wonderful two weeks.
[33:19] Dr. Brian Joondeph: weeks.
[33:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: weeks just watching not only Trump winning, but the margin he won by, winning the popular vote, and watching the reaction of the left.
[33:33] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's, you know, you don't like to take pleasure in the dismay of others, but there's something delicious about watching the meltdown on the left.
[33:46] Dr. Brian Joondeph: the Twitter bots, the celebrities, the media people.
[33:51] Dr. Brian Joondeph: They've been calling us names, calling us Nazis and fascists and white supremacists for years now.
[34:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And it's just wonderful to see them eating crow and seeing their reactions.
[34:07] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And instead of getting on with life as we do with our preferred candidate loses, that happened in 2008, 2012, 2020, etc.
[34:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's just fun watching it.
[34:23] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So that's a big part of it, just the reactions.
[34:27] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And seeing how Trump is a regular guy, his appearance at the UFC fight at Madison Square Garden, president-elect, he's hanging out with Dana White, Joe Rogan, and Kid Rock and Dan Bongino and people like that.
[34:45] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And everybody's just having a marvelous time.
[34:46] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And you can see his little YMCA dance at the NFL's doing it.
[34:51] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I saw a highlight reel where all these NFL players are doing the little Trump shuffle.
[34:57] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's just, it's fun.
[34:59] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's really been a lot of fun to watch all this and see it play out.
[35:06] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And as Trump would say, the best is yet to come.
[35:11] Kim Monson: June Depp, I really had been concerned if the Harris-O'Bidenadministration continued on.
[35:19] Kim Monson: Back when I was on city council in Lone Tree, 2012 to 2016, I remember the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, was trying to, I remember what the word was, net neutrality.
[35:33] Kim Monson: which in essence under that would have taken over control of the Internet.
[35:41] Kim Monson: And I was really concerned also about talk radio.
[35:45] Kim Monson: I was anticipating that we were going to have less freedom of speech if that administration was voted in.
[35:56] Kim Monson: And so it was a big sigh of relief for me.
[35:58] Kim Monson: And I didn't watch election night because I just didn't think I could take the back and forth on it.
[36:05] Kim Monson: And so I went to bed and I got up early the next morning because I wanted to get all the election results.
[36:11] Kim Monson: And I picked up my phone and I kind of just looked at it and my neighbor had stayed up and she had texted me that he won.
[36:19] Kim Monson: And it was like, oh, I couldn't believe it.
[36:21] Kim Monson: I just really I just was really pleased because I I felt that this was heading towards more freedom.
[36:28] Kim Monson: And the other way would have been, I think, shutting down voices, shutting down freedom of religion, shutting down opportunity, all those things.
[36:41] Kim Monson: June Depp, there is much that we have to do.
[36:43] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Well, there is.
[36:45] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's winning is one thing.
[36:47] Dr. Brian Joondeph: No, it's governing.
[36:48] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And I think it will be interesting to see what Trump does.
[36:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And part of what what I wrote about last week is the reckoning of fixing all the illegal injustices that were done toward him.
[37:06] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The lawfare, the the lying, the election rigging, all of that.
[37:10] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I think there needs to be a reckoning for that.
[37:15] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And the people that did this have to be punished severely enough that they never try this again.
[37:21] Dr. Brian Joondeph: On the other hand, Trump wants to govern and he's got an agenda and he's going to have to extend an olive branch to his enemies at some point to govern.
[37:32] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So that's the dilemma.
[37:34] Dr. Brian Joondeph: How much of one, how much of the other?
[37:36] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He reached out to the Morning Joe crew and invited them to Mar- a-Lagoand had a conversation with them.
[37:45] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And, you know, he's not taking the attitude of, hey, elections have consequences.
[37:51] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I won, you lost, like Obama said famously.
[37:54] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So how do you strike that balance between working with those that tried to destroy you and your family and put you in prison for nonsense versus getting your pound of flesh back and and having a reckoning so this stuff doesn't happen again?
[38:17] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I think that's that's going to be his dilemma, You know, Dr.
[38:20] Kim Monson: June Depp, I think it might be motivation.
[38:22] Kim Monson: Maybe that might be the term, because if he goes after, as you say, trying to get a pound of flesh from these people, I think that's a real problem.
[38:33] Kim Monson: But if he goes after them for justice, I think there's a nuance.
[38:40] Kim Monson: There's a difference between the two.
[38:42] Kim Monson: And I would hope that he would go for justice, not retribution.
[38:49] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And I think justice can be both.
[38:51] Dr. Brian Joondeph: When I say reckoning, I don't mean just destroy your political enemies, because that's what Biden did.
[39:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's not getting into the gutter like that.
[39:04] Dr. Brian Joondeph: But applying the rule of law and people that knowingly lied, intelligence officials that knowingly lied, FBI that fabricated evidence to illegally get a FISA warrant and spy on Trump.
[39:19] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The January 6th, a lot of these things, a lot of the covid cover up censorship, misinformation.
[39:26] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There has to be a house cleaning on this.
[39:29] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And it's not just lock them up, lock them up.
[39:33] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's.
[39:33] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Investigate transparency sunshine, find out what happened and and who did what, and hold them accountable if they did wrong.
[39:44] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's all that's.
[39:45] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's what I view as the reckoning not not come out and just, you know, attila the hunt style.
[39:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Uh, plunder your enemies and just rape, pillage and plunder and destroy villages and leave nothing in your wake.
[40:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's not the approach I'm advocating Right.
[40:03] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Right.
[40:08] Kim Monson: I hadn't mentioned this to you to talk about this, but I have found this super interesting regarding the national popular vote.
[40:13] Kim Monson: As you just mentioned, he won the national popular vote.
[40:15] Kim Monson: And do you remember several years ago where there was this movement?
[40:20] Kim Monson: It was called a national popular vote compact.
[40:22] Kim Monson: and it was a number of different states, primarily blue states.
[40:28] Kim Monson: It was to undercut the electoral college.
[40:31] Kim Monson: And, of course, as I was really uncomfortable with it, and then as I've learned more and more about elections, for example, here in Colorado we have these mail- inballots that are flying all over the state and have not really cleaned up these voter rolls.
[40:47] Kim Monson: There can be funny stuff, I think, that could happen regarding the national popular vote.
[40:53] Kim Monson: So here was this movement for national popular vote, that if the national popular vote went to a specific candidate, then the states had said that they were part of a compact, that then their electoral votes would go to whoever won the national popular vote.
[41:11] Kim Monson: And Colorado was one of those states.
[41:16] Kim Monson: And it would not go into effect until they got enough states to agree to do it.
[41:21] Kim Monson: to get to that 270 electoral college threshold.
[41:27] Kim Monson: But I've seen several different articles that said, well, hey, Colorado, hey, Minnesota, you wanted to be part of the National Popular Compact.
[41:35] Kim Monson: Why don't you step up to the plate and do it?
[41:39] Kim Monson: And if that was the case, he would get like 500 and some electoral college votes and Kamala Harris would get like 18.
[41:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The Democrats push this because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
[41:58] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And when their candidate wins the popular vote, then they want this.
[42:04] Dr. Brian Joondeph: When their candidate loses the popular vote, you know, imagine if Trump lost the Electoral College but won the popular vote.
[42:13] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There'd be no push for this.
[42:14] Dr. Brian Joondeph: All of a sudden, the Democrats would be lauding the Electoral College, the brilliance of the founding fathers.
[42:21] Dr. Brian Joondeph: How great.
[42:22] Dr. Brian Joondeph: How wonderful.
[42:23] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And the fact is that Electoral College gives a voice to smaller states so that the election is not decided by the coastal elites that live in the large cities, large cities of the West Coast, East Coast and Chicago deciding the election.
[42:39] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So there's a reason we have this.
[42:44] Dr. Brian Joondeph: If it's that important to Democrats, Then they should propose to change the Constitution, Not just have some pact that a bunch of blue states Can decide how elections are handled.
[42:56] Dr. Brian Joondeph: This is in the Constitution And it should be changed appropriately If that's the will of the people And through the proper process.
[43:05] Dr. Brian Joondeph: But Trump campaigned differently this time.
[43:08] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Trump wanted to win the popular vote.
[43:11] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So there was no none of this.
[43:13] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Oh, he's an illegitimate president.
[43:15] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He didn't win the popular vote, et cetera, et cetera.
[43:19] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He wanted to win.
[43:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And that's why he campaigned in New York, California, New Jersey.
[43:24] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He did rallies.
[43:25] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Why would he do a rally in Madison Square Garden?
[43:28] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He has no hope of winning New York, but he wanted to win the popular vote.
[43:33] Dr. Brian Joondeph: and I think there's a different strategy to winning the popular vote than winning the electoral college.
[43:39] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And in 2016, he wanted to win the electoral college.
[43:43] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He campaigned a certain way.
[43:46] Dr. Brian Joondeph: This time he wanted to win both, and he campaigned differently in terms of locations.
[43:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So there's strategy involved, and you can't just change the rules midway.
[43:56] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's like changing the rules of football at halftime.
[44:02] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It doesn't work that way.
[44:05] Dr. Brian Joondeph: You have a strategy based on how the game is played well before we go to break.
[44:16] Kim Monson: The way he did, including all the down ballot candidates, was equal to a thousand pounds of flesh.
[44:27] Kim Monson: We're going to continue this discussion on Let the Reckoning Begin.
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[47:49] Kim Monson: Brian Joondepth, and we're talking about this reckoning that needs to happen.
[47:54] Kim Monson: And the lawfare, well, first of all, Dr.
[47:58] Kim Monson: Joondepth, I cannot believe the energy of Donald Trump to do all of those rallies.
[48:07] Kim Monson: He is focused on getting the job done.
[48:11] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Uh, he doesn't sleep much, he's admitted that, but he has huge energy and he hasn't slowed down.
[48:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He is showing us his uh future cabinet, uh, who he wants, and he continues to do events.
[48:30] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He was at the mma fight in new york city the other night and um, you know, just the the pictures and memes and everything they're putting out are great.
[48:42] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There was a picture of him on the plane with RFK Jr.
[48:49] Dr. Brian Joondeph: and Mike Johnson and his son and Elon Musk, and they're, you know, eating McDonald's and saying, Maha starts tomorrow.
[48:56] Dr. Brian Joondeph: You know, it's just it's fun.
[49:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I think people that aren't so whipped up in the frenzy of anger over this election can sit back and enjoy this and say, this is how it should be.
[49:14] Dr. Brian Joondeph: This is fun, watching this, watching everything happen and all the enthusiasm.
[49:21] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's a bunch of sourpusses, the women that want to shave their heads and wear blue bracelets and not have sex and dump their husbands.
[49:30] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And it's like, you know, who?
[49:32] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's such negative energy.
[49:36] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Nobody wants to hear that or be around it.
[49:38] Dr. Brian Joondeph: This is it's self- defeating,it's it's nobody.
[49:43] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Nobody cares.
[49:44] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There's a handful of celebrities that are announcing they're leaving america.
[49:48] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Who cares?
[49:49] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I don't care what robert de niro or bruce springsteen.
[49:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: If they leave, if they stay where they go, nobody really cares and.
[49:58] Dr. Brian Joondeph: and
[50:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Instead, we're watching the fun.
[50:02] Dr. Brian Joondeph: We're watching Trump build his administration and have fun doing it.
[50:07] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's not a bunch of somber stuff and everybody in dark suits and so serious.
[50:13] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And when has an administration done it this way?
[50:19] Dr. Brian Joondeph: You know, by going to UFC fights and sporting events and things and just not making light of it, but having fun with it.
[50:26] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I think America needs that.
[50:27] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's been a tough four years and it's time for some fun.
[50:32] Kim Monson: Well, he's got a lot of work to do.
[50:34] Kim Monson: We've got to get this border closed, as you mentioned in your article.
[50:37] Kim Monson: And also these wars that the bad guys have been rattling their sabers.
[50:46] Kim Monson: And if Harris, the Harris O'Bidenadministration had been elected, I'm very, very concerned about more wars.
[50:56] Kim Monson: And so I really like to get us back to more peace.
[51:03] Kim Monson: The whole thing with McDonald's, when I saw that, it just made me laugh out loud.
[51:11] Kim Monson: And the interaction, did you notice?
[51:13] Kim Monson: So the young black girl that was kind of training him, helping him.
[51:17] Kim Monson: And I really thought the interaction between him and her was really a beautiful thing.
[51:23] Kim Monson: And I've heard this about Trump, that he's very good to the people that work for him.
[51:29] Kim Monson: And I just saw this genuine love of people.
[51:34] Kim Monson: And, you know, in Trump fashion, he's like, isn't she doing a great job?
[51:39] Kim Monson: You know, I thought that whole interaction was just beautiful.
[51:46] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And you hear from people that have worked with him directly, and he's like that.
[51:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He's a genuinely nice person.
[51:53] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And the media and the Democrats portray him as this fascist Hitler ogre.
[51:59] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And he's nothing like that.
[52:01] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Yeah, he can be snarky.
[52:04] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I grew up in New York, so I know that personality.
[52:07] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And that's not unusual.
[52:09] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's that's how people are.
[52:12] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He's brash.
[52:13] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He calls people out.
[52:16] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's just his personality.
[52:17] Dr. Brian Joondeph: personality, but he has this very warm side to him.
[52:22] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And yeah, I mean, that's what makes him endearing.
[52:26] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And the people that know him love him for that.
[52:30] Kim Monson: Well, I had to laugh out loud on the whole garbage thing, though, as well.
[52:35] Kim Monson: That was one of the most brilliant marketing things I've seen.
[52:40] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Trump is a master at marketing and branding.
[52:43] Dr. Brian Joondeph: He's had a 10- yearrun of The Apprentice and other projects he's done, and he's quite good at that.
[52:51] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And whether it was his idea or staff's idea, whoever's idea it was, it was brilliant.
[52:59] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Get out there in the garbage truck, do the McDonald's, and it sucked the wind out of the Harris campaign.
[53:05] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And they had to play defense and defend it and play word salad with garbage, The word garbage and moving comment or commas around and apostrophes around to try to explain Biden's comments.
[53:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's almost as if Biden was throwing the election.
[53:25] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's another interesting path to go down.
[53:28] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Did Biden want Trump to win?
[53:31] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The reception Trump got at the White House the other day, you know, Jill's wearing red.
[53:38] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I've never seen Joe Biden so happy It was when he was Posting Trump, And it's like he deliberately Sabotaged it because they screwed him Out of the nomination.
[53:48] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Like him or not, Joe Biden won the nomination Fair and square, And then they railroaded him out By threatening things And installed Harris, Who got no votes.
[54:00] Dr. Brian Joondeph: She didn't get any delegates back in 2020 and didn't get any this time.
[54:07] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So she was basically an installed candidate.
[54:10] Dr. Brian Joondeph: They railroaded Joe out.
[54:12] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's not right.
[54:13] Dr. Brian Joondeph: No, it's not right.
[54:17] Kim Monson: And one other thing, we're just about out of time, Dr.
[54:20] Kim Monson: June Depp, but you said the place for the low- hangingfruit for Trump, to start with, is those 51 intelligence officials that claimed in writing with their signatures that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
[54:35] Kim Monson: So how would you like to wrap this up for us?
[54:37] Dr. Brian Joondeph: The reckoning must begin.
[54:40] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And as we talked about, it's not a reckoning of retribution.
[54:44] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's applying the rule of law equally and fairly to those that broke it.
[54:49] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There needs to be investigations.
[54:50] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Who did what?
[54:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Why?
[54:52] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Follow it up.
[54:54] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Get the emails, get all the communications, not only on the lawfare, but on COVID, on January 6th, all these things.
[55:03] Dr. Brian Joondeph: There needs to be transparency.
[55:04] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And if people broke the law, they need to be dealt with appropriately.
[55:08] Dr. Brian Joondeph: That's the only way that there can be a reckoning.
[55:11] Dr. Brian Joondeph: I don't mean imprisoning your political opponents on a whim, because that's what Biden's been doing.
[55:16] Dr. Brian Joondeph: But follow the rule of law fairly and openly.
[55:20] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Well, I agree.
[55:23] Kim Monson: June Depp, we've got a lot of work to do here in Colorado, but I'm excited about it.
[55:28] Kim Monson: I think we've got some great opportunities.
[55:29] Kim Monson: I so appreciate you as a monthly guest and your pieces.
[55:38] Kim Monson: We want to make sure that they know that.
[55:42] Dr. Brian Joondeph: Well, I'm an American thinker and I have a piece this morning on Trump's dream team.
[55:45] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So I recommend you all read it.
[55:47] Dr. Brian Joondeph: It's kind of a deep dive into the dream team that he's assembling to advise him and be in his cabinet.
[55:55] Dr. Brian Joondeph: And it's kind of a fun read.
[55:57] Dr. Brian Joondeph: So have fun with it.
[56:00] Kim Monson: Joondep, thank you so much, and we'll talk next month.
[56:05] Kim Monson: And our quote for the end of the show is Ronald Reagan.
[56:07] Kim Monson: He said, Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government, competition with business, frustrated minorities, and forgotten Americans are not the products of a free enterprise.
[56:17] Kim Monson: They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy of government by a self- anointedelite.
[56:26] Kim Monson: 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.
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[59:01] Kim Monson: We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[59:07] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, You should not have to force people to do it.
[59:14] Kim Monson: Oh, I forgot to mention it in the first hour.
[59:19] Kim Monson: Today, Yvonne Paez, co- founderof Perspectives 101, has organized a meeting this evening, 5.
[59:27] Kim Monson: at the downtown Fort Collins Library regarding Fort Collins and these forced trash fees.
[59:34] Kim Monson: And so, again, that is tonight, 530 p.
[59:39] Kim Monson: at the downtown Fort Collins Library.
[59:41] Kim Monson: And they're going to be talking trash, these forced fees.
[59:45] Kim Monson: So this public- privatepartnership, in essence, is the politicians choose a business that will have the basically kind of the exclusive contract.
[59:58] Kim Monson: and so when I say big business and big government like to get in bed with each other, that's exactly what I mean.
[60:07] Kim Monson: So they choose who will be the trash service in Fort Collins and they said: you can still have a choice.
[60:15] Kim Monson: You could still have another company, although they chased one of the companies out, but there is another opportunity.
[60:20] Kim Monson: But if you use this other non- chosenone by Fort Collins, then you have to not only pay for that trash service, but you have to pay a fee to Fort Collins.
[60:35] Kim Monson: And ultimately, this, what I think is going to happen is, is this sets it up for a World Economic Forum kind of stuff on controlling how much trash you can have and charging you fees if you have more than a certain amount of trash.
[60:50] Kim Monson: And that's not the way this is supposed to work.
[60:53] Kim Monson: So anyway, this is going to be a great meeting tonight.
[60:56] Kim Monson: 530 at the downtown Fort Collins Library.
[60:59] Kim Monson: I know that Yvonne has invited city council and the mayor, and I know many of you are concerned about that.
[61:08] Kim Monson: Our word of the day is thwart, and it's T- H-W-A-R-T.
[61:13] Kim Monson: Transitive verb, it could be to prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of, as in they thwarted her plans.
[61:20] Kim Monson: Number two definition, to oppose or defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of someone.
[61:25] Kim Monson: Well, we can see that happening in Washington.
[61:27] Kim Monson: Many are trying to thwart the Trump agenda.
[61:30] Kim Monson: And number three, to move across or counter to cross, as the example they had is an arrow thwarts the air.
[61:38] Kim Monson: And thank you to Richard, the limo guy, for suggesting that.
[61:41] Kim Monson: Mary Jansen sent in our quote of the day, and it's by Ronald Reagan.
[61:45] Kim Monson: Ronald Reagan was born in 1911, died in 2004.
[61:48] Kim Monson: It says we don't have inflation because we are living too well.
[61:52] Kim Monson: We have it because the government is living too well.
[61:56] Kim Monson: And I did want to give a shout out to Natalie Minton.
[62:01] Kim Monson: She ran for Jefferson County Commissioner, and she also has been a stalwart, a protector of Tabor, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights.
[62:11] Kim Monson: And this last election, I saw Natalie.
[62:13] Kim Monson: She came over when the girls were over on Wednesday.
[62:17] Kim Monson: And I could see she just was really frustrated because Arapahoe County, Jefferson County, and RTD, all those votes to detabor future revenue and property tax caps passed, if you can believe it.
[62:38] Kim Monson: And so we've got to dust everything off and we've got to go to work again.
[62:43] Kim Monson: But I want to give a shout out to Natalie Minton for her great work, and the show comes to you because of our sponsors, and I learn so much from all of them when they come on and talk about just the things happening in their particular arena and really blessed to work with great people- and I'm talking with Roger Mangan, with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team, and you can help people with their home, their auto, but condos and townhouses as well, so let's talk about that.
[63:12] Roger Mangan: Well, there's a lot going on, as you probably know if you live in a condo or a townhouse.
[63:19] Roger Mangan: I live in the townhouse so we have a master policy.
[63:24] Roger Mangan: The master policy is probably 31 percent in my subdivision of the total monthly fee to cover just the insurance, 31% inmy case.
[63:37] Roger Mangan: Anyway, what happened is we got a quote for the renewal.
[63:48] Roger Mangan: Thealternative bid we got against that$ 400, 000 was$800, 000.
[63:53] Roger Mangan: Noinsurance company, for the most part, want to insure townhouses or condos anymore in Colorado.
[64:01] Roger Mangan: So what's happening is a lot of the associations are dissolving the master policy, amending their bylaws, and having you as an owner buy a separate homeowner's policy.
[64:16] Roger Mangan: It shifts the cost to you, the homeowner or the unit owner, condo unit owner, and away from the HOA.
[64:24] Roger Mangan: So you would think in the balance that your fees would go down, but everything else is going up.
[64:35] Roger Mangan: You can surmise that just by what I'm saying.
[64:37] Roger Mangan: I think the important thing for you to know, if you still have a master policy, you have two types, either all- in orbare walls.
[64:45] Roger Mangan: We've talked about this sometime in the past.
[64:49] Roger Mangan: But bare walls basically says that master policy will cover everything up to the studs.
[64:54] Roger Mangan: So the drywall, wallpaper, paneling, anything on that drywall is not going to be covered.
[65:02] Roger Mangan: Everything inside is not going to be covered.
[65:04] Roger Mangan: Your toilets, your hardwood floors, your fixture, your sink, your countertops.
[65:13] Roger Mangan: I have a lot of insurers who call and say, is this covered?
[65:16] Roger Mangan: Have you called your manager for the association to ask them what the insurance policy is doing?
[65:22] Roger Mangan: Because I don't know what your master policy does.
[65:26] Roger Mangan: And once you find that out, if you've got bare walls and on your HO6 policy, which is your condo townhouse policy, if you have$ 125, 000 onbuilding coverage and you have bare walls, you're in trouble.
[65:40] Roger Mangan: You need to have that probably$ 300, 000,$ 400,000,$ 500,000, dependingon the quality of the unit you live in and the HOA you live in.
[65:48] Roger Mangan: So if you had a major fire and you were underinsured and someone paid you$ 123, 000 andyou were barrel walls and it cost you$ 400, 000 rebuilt,you're in a world of hurt.
[66:05] Kim Monson: So what about, though, if you're in a townhouse or a condo, if you're now getting your separate insurance policy, what about new roofs for the whole?
[66:18] Roger Mangan: Let's say you're in a duplex, and one side of the duplex has American Family, the other side has State Farm.
[66:24] Roger Mangan: And there's a fire on one unit, but it destroys part of the other unit.
[66:29] Roger Mangan: You need to make sure when you talk to your agent that coverage that was caused by the unit next to you is going to be covered by you, and it would be.
[66:40] Roger Mangan: the fire, the insurance company that paid on your behalf and you weren't at fault is going to subrogate against the insurance company that was at fault, assuming there was liability involved.
[66:51] Kim Monson: Always great information that you're sharing with our listeners.
[66:55] Kim Monson: And to make a complimentary appointment with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, what is the number to call?
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[68:50] Kim Monson: So pleased to have on the line with me, you know her, Lauren Fix.
[68:56] Lauren Fix: Well, thank you for having me back.
[68:59] Lauren Fix: Lots going on in the automotive world as we wait for the next Transportation Secretary nomination.
[69:06] Kim Monson: Do you have any idea who you think it might be?
[69:13] Kim Monson: Oh, I would nominate you in a heartbeat, Lauren Fix.
[69:24] Kim Monson: You and I have talked over the years about freedom of mobility and, of course, electric vehicles and these mandates I see ultimately is really controlling mobility.
[69:36] Kim Monson: What do you see is going to happen with President Trump, President-elect Trump?
[69:47] Lauren Fix: We know there's a lot of rules are going to be undone.
[69:49] Lauren Fix: And so the first thing I know is going to happen, number one, and believe it or not, Elon Musk is behind it.
[69:55] Lauren Fix: No mandate for electric vehicles and removing that$ 7,500 tax credit.
[70:00] Lauren Fix: That is top of the list, and that is definitely going to disappear.
[70:05] Kim Monson: Now, you're out in California right now.
[70:13] Kim Monson: Some states have followed them on these mandates.
[70:17] Lauren Fix: Okay, well, right now there are 17 states that follow the California rules, which is California Air Research Board.
[70:23] Lauren Fix: And I expect that President Trump's going to go back after them, taking them to court.
[70:27] Lauren Fix: It is unconstitutional for one state to tell the other states what to do.
[70:33] Lauren Fix: And this is exactly what's happened with the electric vehicle mandate.
[70:35] Lauren Fix: And under President Obama, he gave California even more power to go after emissions and whatever they want.
[70:42] Lauren Fix: So basically that's what he used as his arm to convince the other states that if you don't comply, we're going to fine you.
[70:48] Lauren Fix: Now you think, well, I live in Kentucky.
[70:51] Lauren Fix: However, there's no manufacturer that's going to build a car for one state or 17 states and a different one for the others.
[71:00] Lauren Fix: So then you fly to Kentucky, buy a car, and drive it back to California.
[71:05] Lauren Fix: So when one makes the mandate, they put the pressure on the car manufacturers saying, if you want to sell your gasoline-powered vehicles in our state of California or the other 17 states, which is Massachusetts, New Jersey, includes Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, those are the states that are saying, well, you know, then this is how it works if you want to sell in our state.
[71:26] Lauren Fix: And you can't not sell in California because it's the number one car sales state.
[71:30] Lauren Fix: But there's a couple other rules that are important.
[71:32] Lauren Fix: So I know that they're going to fight the California Air Resources Board, have that removed.
[71:37] Lauren Fix: But in itself, I just put a story up, I think it was last Friday, that new motorhome sales are about to be banned as of the first of this year.
[71:47] Lauren Fix: Nobody's talking about it, and that's a problem.
[71:51] Lauren Fix: So, again, these 17 states, starting with California, Oregon, Washington State, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Colorado will join in as well because it does.
[72:01] Lauren Fix: they are going to ban the sale of gasoline and diesel-powered motorhomes.
[72:05] Lauren Fix: So if you've got a 40,000-pound motorhome, you take your family, you bring the dog, you bring your grandparents, you're going to have everyone have a good time and enjoy nature.
[72:14] Lauren Fix: Sorry, it has to be electric or no sale.
[72:18] Lauren Fix: So you think, well, then everyone's going to go buy electric vehicles or go buy older gas vehicles, right?
[72:27] Lauren Fix: Well, that's a problem because they're going to start forcing you to smog test all of your vehicles at$ 500 twice a year.
[72:32] Lauren Fix: So basically, they're charging an additional$ 1,000 to buy that vehicle because they claim it's polluting.
[72:38] Lauren Fix: When we're not even talking about what it takes to build these motorhomes as far as electric batteries for more time charging.
[72:46] Lauren Fix: And all of this goes into effect January 1st, 2025.
[72:53] Lauren Fix: It's your typical run it through on a Friday night.
[73:00] Lauren Fix: And oddly, the RV industry did not take this to the public.
[73:03] Lauren Fix: You would think that they would put out commercials, be on news stories, or are the news stations, as President Trump calls them, fake news, not taking on the story.
[73:17] Kim Monson: Yeah, because you and I have not talked about it.
[73:19] Kim Monson: And I've always been just totally enamored with these motorhomes.
[73:25] Kim Monson: And here you have everyday people that can travel around.
[73:30] Kim Monson: Can you imagine the Queen of Sheba, how she would have loved to have had just a regular motorhome to drive around in back so many years ago?
[73:37] Kim Monson: And now regular people can, as you say, drive around in their house.
[73:45] Kim Monson: I can't believe the RV industry that nobody, I can't believe that this got snuck through.
[73:58] Lauren Fix: Well, have you ever gone buying those motorhome dealerships?
[74:03] Lauren Fix: They've got Prevost and all these high-end Airstreams and beautiful, beautiful trailers.
[74:09] Lauren Fix: I mean, some people have actually done the RV life.
[74:16] Lauren Fix: And they can travel the whole world and go visit whoever they want, go wherever they want.
[74:20] Lauren Fix: And you can do everything online now, right?
[74:24] Lauren Fix: And they are basically wandering around, which is fine.
[74:27] Lauren Fix: I have a couple of friends that are actually doing that.
[74:29] Lauren Fix: And they get to see the country and visit people.
[74:31] Lauren Fix: However, those people won't be able to travel through those states because the goal is to ban by 2027 any gasoline or diesel-powered vehicle.
[74:41] Lauren Fix: And having a 40,000-pound electric motorhome, again, is unacceptable, unreasonable.
[74:46] Lauren Fix: And you won't be able to take the older homes through there without paying a fee.
[74:50] Lauren Fix: So how are you supposed to get around Colorado?
[74:54] Lauren Fix: I mean, that's a lot of driving out of the way.
[74:57] Lauren Fix: And with New Mexico partnering in, that certainly makes for problems as far as traveling coast to coast.
[75:03] Kim Monson: Well, can you imagine how heavy that battery would have to be?
[75:08] Lauren Fix: It won't be a 40,000-pound electric motorhome anymore.
[75:10] Lauren Fix: It's going to be like an 80,000-pound, which will do more damage to the highways and use up more tires.
[75:15] Lauren Fix: And no one ever talks about the particles that come off those tires.
[75:20] Lauren Fix: Are you going to sit in that vehicle while it charges?
[75:23] Lauren Fix: Because that sounds pretty scary to me, because what it really means is that you could potentially be exposing your family to a lot of radiation or at least magnetic field.
[75:40] Lauren Fix: There's nothing you can do to stop it at this point other than a new president, which is what we elected.
[75:44] Lauren Fix: So as of now, January 1st, while Biden is still in office, this goes into effect.
[75:51] Lauren Fix: Now, will it last till January 20th when President Biden takes over?
[75:54] Lauren Fix: Only if someone puts an executive order in front of him to strip this out.
[76:00] Lauren Fix: I'm sorry, President Trump has to strip it out.
[76:02] Lauren Fix: He's got a lot of things to sign on day one.
[76:07] Lauren Fix: And this has to be one of them because it will impact our economy.
[76:10] Lauren Fix: When you tell those dealerships, you can't sell.
[76:12] Lauren Fix: And I already know of one very large RV dealership that is in Southern California that basically sold out.
[76:20] Lauren Fix: He sold all the inventory and closed their doors.
[76:22] Lauren Fix: And that had been in business there for 40, 50 years.
[76:26] Lauren Fix: Now you've got people that are unemployed.
[76:29] Lauren Fix: You lose a company in your area that is supported by all the smaller companies, you know, the diners and the accountants and all other things.
[76:37] Lauren Fix: That impacts the economy in California, which is already in trouble.
[76:41] Lauren Fix: and people, I understand why they stay here, you've got family and businesses and so forth, but at some point people are just going to start leaving the states that are implementing these unrealistic rules.
[76:54] Kim Monson: So, well, first of all, we've got to reprieve.
[76:59] Kim Monson: Can you imagine if we had a Harris or Biden administration that we were facing here on January 20th?
[77:10] Lauren Fix: Then we just might as well meet North Korea because we'd be pretty darn close to it.
[77:17] Kim Monson: And, again, I've just been so enamored as I would drive down the highway and see these big rigs.
[77:27] Kim Monson: And I thought, what a cool, innovative thing this is that everyday people can drive around in a beautiful vehicle like that.
[77:36] Kim Monson: And, of course, the radical activists, elitists, they don't want people to have fun.
[77:43] Kim Monson: They don't want people to enjoy life.
[77:45] Kim Monson: They just want people to live in these tiny little apartments and ride around on trains and bicycles and buses.
[77:53] Kim Monson: But, of course, the elites, well, speaking of that, I have to think, I loved the, or I didn't love it.
[77:59] Kim Monson: I found humor, maybe, maybe not even humor.
[78:03] Kim Monson: when Kamala Harris went back to Washington, D.
[78:06] Kim Monson: C., and she greeted all of her staff.
[78:10] Kim Monson: Did you notice that she was getting out of?
[78:12] Kim Monson: The whole entourage was a bunch of gas-powered vehicles that she drove up in?
[78:22] Lauren Fix: Well, listen, when you want to make the beast that the president is electric, then it makes sense.
[78:29] Lauren Fix: It doesn't make sense because it's too heavy, right?
[78:31] Lauren Fix: And when it's too heavy, you spend more time charging and it doesn't go anywhere.
[78:35] Lauren Fix: And this is exactly the problem that they have.
[78:43] Kim Monson: Well, and all of these things that we're talking about, Trump can roll them back because they were not done legislatively.
[78:50] Kim Monson: That they were done via executive orders or through rules and regulations.
[78:57] Kim Monson: What that means, though, is government's gotten out of control over on the executive branch, that the executive branch and the bureaucrats could make all this happen.
[79:08] Kim Monson: And so it is important that he rolls all this stuff back for freedom.
[79:13] Lauren Fix: Yes, I don't think we have a choice.
[79:18] Lauren Fix: I think that our only angle at this point is to make sure whoever becomes the transportation secretary is aware that this is a situation.
[79:29] Lauren Fix: Because on a federal level, they're going to be allowed to tell the states that, I'm sorry, that doesn't work.
[79:39] Lauren Fix: A lot of these buses are made in Indiana.
[79:40] Lauren Fix: I mean, you're going to destroy a state with all the trailers and motorhome sales.
[79:45] Lauren Fix: I mean, I just can't believe that someone is so short-sighted as the governor of California to allow something like this to happen without even looking into what this means in the bigger picture.
[79:56] Lauren Fix: But it's well beyond his capability for sure.
[79:59] Lauren Fix: But they don't care about everyday people, Lauren Fix.
[80:05] Lauren Fix: It's the elitist attitude of I can have a motorhome like Whoopi Goldberg can have a motorhome.
[80:17] Kim Monson: Yeah, and that's so antithetical to this idea of America that we're all created equal and that if there is a law or a rule or a regulation or an ordinance, there should not be waivers on it, I don't think, because then what happens is these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties get to choose who has to abide by it and who doesn't and that's wrong.
[80:43] Kim Monson: And so if there's something that has to have a waiver on it, then we shouldn't be having that particular whatever it is, rule, regulation, law, whatever it is, or fix.
[80:58] Lauren Fix: If there's going to be a regulation, helping everyone, it makes common sense.
[81:04] Lauren Fix: Like, I don't know, don't speed in a school zone.
[81:08] Lauren Fix: But just stopping the sale of something because you personally don't like them is ridiculous.
[81:13] Lauren Fix: It's like saying you can't self-catch up anymore because I don't like it.
[81:20] Lauren Fix: If somebody else likes it, too bad.
[81:23] Kim Monson: And we had a number of different things that happened out here in Colorado, a couple of ballot boxes, questions that were really trying to affect people's lives.
[81:35] Kim Monson: And fortunately, those were defeated.
[81:42] Kim Monson: We're going to continue the discussion regarding the Trump administration and our freedom of mobility.
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[85:12] Kim Monson: And one of our listeners texted this, said, Isn't it ironic that the RV thing would destroy Indiana and the Transportation Secretary is from Indiana?
[85:35] Kim Monson: Thank you to our listener for that.
[85:40] Kim Monson: So, Lauren, you and I have really, over the years, we realized that this freedom of mobility is really under attack.
[85:50] Kim Monson: We've talked about the Chinese car market.
[85:54] Kim Monson: I think entrepreneurs, you think about American dealerships, the entrepreneurs that have created wealth for themselves and their families.
[86:03] Kim Monson: and through all of these mandates and fees, it's really, I think, made it very difficult for them.
[86:10] Kim Monson: What do you see for American dealerships under the new Trump administration?
[86:15] Lauren Fix: Oh, there's going to be a lot of changes.
[86:18] Lauren Fix: I expect, and I have this going out this week's story on the EV tax credit.
[86:22] Lauren Fix: Once that lifts, and Elon Musk is behind it, and you're thinking, why would he be behind it?
[86:28] Lauren Fix: Again, thinking outside the box, like your listener who sent a message in, which I thank you, So Elon Musk has started the electric car industry to mainstream.
[86:38] Lauren Fix: There's been cars all the way back to the 1800s that were electric, and they just didn't work, and gasoline took over as the lead.
[86:46] Lauren Fix: So when Elon Musk came on the scene with his Roadster, which did okay, and then he said, well, I'm going to do the Model S, and that has been very successful for him, and he's now a global car company, U.
[86:56] Lauren Fix: car company, because we don't have Stellantis anymore.
[86:58] Lauren Fix: You're watching other companies struggle to try and catch him.
[87:02] Lauren Fix: because once you blaze a trail, like in any industry, everyone's going to try and chase you.
[87:06] Lauren Fix: All your competition is going to say, I'm going to do bigger, better, stronger, smarter, faster, and it doesn't always work.
[87:12] Lauren Fix: And in this case, this is exactly what we have.
[87:15] Lauren Fix: We have a situation where he has blazed the trail to the point that he's even opened up his interface and all his software.
[87:29] Lauren Fix: It creates competition, which is fine by him because the competition was all falsely getting that$ 7, 500tax credit, which you would think would be something he'd want to keep.
[87:39] Lauren Fix: But at this point, that's not really– his sales haven't changed one way or the other.
[87:46] Lauren Fix: No one's buying a Tesla because I get the$ 7, 500 taxcredit.
[87:48] Lauren Fix: But when it comes to Ford, GM, Hyundai, Kia, Audi, you name it, they only survive with the tax credit and the mandate because they have fines going against them for not complying.
[88:03] Lauren Fix: Those electric vehicle tax credits go away.
[88:06] Lauren Fix: Tesla survives and remains the leader in the industry, and everybody else starts paring back on their offerings.
[88:13] Lauren Fix: They're still going to offer electric.
[88:16] Lauren Fix: I think there's going to be a massive difference, and I'm really excited to see what happens.
[88:21] Kim Monson: So, Lauren Fix, I remember early on with Elon Musk, He was a real darling of the left.
[88:29] Kim Monson: And I had done some research on it, and on that whole electric vehicle market, these fines and these credits, the other companies had to purchase these credits if they didn't hit these, and you know this better than I do, so I'm trying to explain it.
[88:50] Lauren Fix: Carbon credits, okay, yes, carbon credits.
[88:52] Lauren Fix: So what happens is, this goes way back, actually, it goes back to before Obama, But what they did was they said, listen, you want to sell cars in California, you don't sell enough electric cars or zero emissions cars.
[89:06] Lauren Fix: Andwhat we're going to do is you can buy carbon credits to offset this.
[89:11] Lauren Fix: If you don't, it's$ 20, 000 percarbon credit.
[89:22] Lauren Fix: But the carbon credits, we'll just say it's a large amount.
[89:27] Lauren Fix: Buteither way, since I don't have that number in front of me, what do you do?
[89:33] Lauren Fix: You only sell Mustangs and trucks, right?
[89:37] Lauren Fix: So they say, okay, you can buy the carbon credits.
[89:39] Lauren Fix: So Tesla would sell the carbon credits because they get seven carbon credits for every car that's sold.
[89:46] Lauren Fix: And every electric car that any other brand makes only gets four because he made the deal.
[89:50] Lauren Fix: So now he's got these carbon credits, and he turns around and sells them to the other car companies.
[89:54] Lauren Fix: So that's how he started making money, because he wasn't making money on the sales of his vehicles, which I think have terrible build quality.
[90:02] Lauren Fix: And if you looked at that and saw that that came from any known car brand that is a dealership, they'd be out of business.
[90:09] Lauren Fix: Shifted panels, paint qualities off.
[90:12] Lauren Fix: But although it's a little better now, it's still the fact that if you want an electric car and you don't want to deal with dealerships, there's only a few options.
[90:21] Lauren Fix: This now made him the leader, and people bought teslas because they were sick and tired of the dealership experience which falls on the manufacturers and the dealers, even though I was a dealer trainer and I know we train them.
[90:32] Lauren Fix: That doesn't mean the salesperson does what you're told like in any business.
[90:35] Lauren Fix: So now they've got these tax credits they have to purchase.
[90:40] Lauren Fix: Now they're starting to produce cars that are electric from other brands.
[90:44] Lauren Fix: Uh, like jaguar still says they're going all ev, they say they're going to be a premium electric vehicle brand.
[90:49] Lauren Fix: I don't know how they're going to survive.
[90:50] Lauren Fix: I've already seen some pictures of the concept cars that are coming late next year.
[90:59] Lauren Fix: They got rid of all their big engine cars that people wanted, the hemis and the hellcats and the demons.
[91:04] Lauren Fix: All that's gone, all the big performance.
[91:05] Lauren Fix: And now they're just selling trucks with smaller v8s, which is foolish.
[91:10] Lauren Fix: Suvs with a lot of two liter turbocharged engines which are lower on power but slightly better on fuel economy, or a six cylinder and no cars.
[91:19] Lauren Fix: So they now come back with the charger and they go, we're going to rush out the six cylinder new charger, which is not going to appeal to their customers because whoever is running the company, which I've done a story on, on my, on my channel does not understand the U S marketplace at all.
[91:35] Lauren Fix: And the results are, they're just, they're, they got rid of all their senior executives and now they let 1100 people go and they're stopping Jeep production in their main plant in Belvedere, Illinois.
[91:47] Lauren Fix: And where are they going to ship all their future production?
[91:50] Lauren Fix: Mexico, because the UAW put the screws to them.
[91:55] Lauren Fix: So there's a lot of interesting plates spinning, shall we say.
[91:58] Lauren Fix: And the bottom line is forcing someone to buy something they don't want, like you constantly say, whether it be a consumer or build something that consumers don't want to buy, you take a loss on every single one.
[92:10] Lauren Fix: To give you an idea of a loss, Ford loses$ 44, 000 onevery single truck they sell.
[92:17] Lauren Fix: So if they're making a loss, how do they make that up?
[92:22] Lauren Fix: Well, they lay off a bunch of people.
[92:25] Lauren Fix: And then what they also do is they jack up the price of all the cars that they have.
[92:29] Lauren Fix: And a perfect example is the Bronco.
[92:31] Lauren Fix: I have a Bronco Raptor, which is like the top of the line.
[92:34] Lauren Fix: I got a 24 in, and it's$ 20, 000 morethan my 22.
[92:39] Lauren Fix: But there's no difference other than they painted the fenders.
[92:46] Lauren Fix: I would never get a 24 for$ 20, 000 more.
[92:52] Lauren Fix: I don't know what it is, but it isn't right.
[92:55] Lauren Fix: And the result's going to be lower sales.
[93:00] Lauren Fix: They're going to keep what they have.
[93:02] Lauren Fix: Well, what does this mean then, Lauren?
[93:05] Kim Monson: because we talked about this before the election with the China and the China manufacturing that is occurring.
[93:12] Kim Monson: And things have changed with the Trump, you know, Trump being elected.
[93:18] Kim Monson: But what do you what do you think about the Chinese cars coming here?
[93:24] Lauren Fix: Oh, they're going to be a tariff on them.
[93:26] Lauren Fix: It's going to be pricey because they're already starting to negotiate tariffs in other countries because what that does, it destroys their auto industry.
[93:31] Lauren Fix: In Germany, they let all these Chinese car manufacturers come in and sell cars everywhere, and they did.
[93:37] Lauren Fix: BYD is the biggest, but there's like 100 others.
[93:39] Lauren Fix: And what it did is it destroyed the German car industry, and they just shut down three plants, three manufacturing plants.
[93:45] Lauren Fix: Like 80, 000 peopleare out of jobs or are being moved around.
[93:51] Lauren Fix: But the fact is, what are you doing?
[93:54] Lauren Fix: You're destroying your own industry, and most of the people that live in Germany, they work in some aspect of the auto industry.
[94:00] Lauren Fix: So the tire people will sell tires and so forth.
[94:05] Lauren Fix: But when you're telling someone you can buy an SUV and it's only 30 grand instead of 60 grand, you know, whatever that converts to in euros, people start going, well, I'll just buy the$ 30, 000 car.
[94:16] Lauren Fix: I can buy two of them at that price.
[94:18] Lauren Fix: So they came in, they lowballed the price to steal the market, to destroy their competition, and then they just keep raising the prices then.
[94:26] Lauren Fix: And that strategy has been used in the past by other brands too.
[94:31] Lauren Fix: I fear that they come into this country and start offering cheap cars.
[94:37] Lauren Fix: It kills Ford, GM, and other car brands.
[94:42] Lauren Fix: And think about the manufacturing again.
[94:43] Lauren Fix: When the largest BMW plant in the world is in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
[94:49] Lauren Fix: Every single SUV sold by BMW, except for China, is made in the U.
[94:55] Lauren Fix: Everysingle one, including what goes to Germany and all around the world, are made in the U.
[95:00] Lauren Fix: It is the largest employer in the state of South Carolina.
[95:04] Lauren Fix: And you're going to tell these people, I'm sorry, after 30 years of producing cars here, that that's a problem that will kill a state that could kill your economy.
[95:19] Kim Monson: First of all, on tariffs, I've always I've loved free trade, but it has to be free and fair trade.
[95:23] Kim Monson: And what I learned from my friend Helen Raleigh, who immigrated from China during the last Trump administration, she said tariffs are one of the few things that he has in his quiver.
[95:37] Kim Monson: Because you can't have free and fair trade when you've got another country, for example, China on the steel industry.
[95:45] Kim Monson: They were manufacturing steel and subsidizing it and then selling Chinese steel here in America at a much lower price because it was subsidized.
[95:57] Kim Monson: It wasn't an honest and free market.
[95:58] Kim Monson: And then that really affected our steel industry in a very negative way.
[96:05] Kim Monson: And so when you have that going on, that's not free and fair trade when you've got a dictatorship such as China trying to undercut our industry here.
[96:16] Kim Monson: And then once that happens, when they're the only manufacturer of it, then they would jack the price up.
[96:20] Kim Monson: And so this whole tariff thing, I know that I had to kind of come to a new understanding on that.
[96:33] Lauren Fix: If you make a better product, people should buy it.
[96:37] Lauren Fix: If your product tastes better, whatever it might be, is better, then it is better.
[96:41] Lauren Fix: And it's up to you to sell it because quality is always better than quantity.
[96:45] Lauren Fix: However, what I see in the tariff thing, and if you go back, and I had to do some research as well because I was always free trade.
[96:53] Lauren Fix: I'm a supply- side economicsperson.
[96:56] Lauren Fix: And if you go back previous to 1913, we survived from 1776 to 1913 on tariffs.
[97:10] Lauren Fix: When you bought things, like you pay a tax on whatever, that would be fine, like a lot of states do.
[97:17] Lauren Fix: Well, what's interesting is all the fees, we had so much money left over.
[97:22] Lauren Fix: We had blue ribbon panels on what to do with all the cash because we used it all on tariffs.
[97:27] Lauren Fix: You want to sell in our country, there's a fee.
[97:29] Lauren Fix: Just like when we sell in other countries, there's a fee.
[97:32] Lauren Fix: And when you start looking at, well, geez, what can we do with all this cash?
[97:35] Lauren Fix: Well, you could help homeless people.
[97:37] Lauren Fix: You could help people that are low income, help them get kids to college.
[97:43] Lauren Fix: If all this cash was free and you weren't being taxed and you got to keep 100% of whatyou made, my gosh, you'd buy more stuff, right?
[97:55] Lauren Fix: And that's a whole different angle to look at things.
[97:57] Lauren Fix: But if you want to do some research on your own, look at the history prior to 1913, when the president of that time decided, we're going to take money and we're going to pay back what happened after World War I and World War II to help rebuild other cities.
[98:09] Lauren Fix: That was supposed to end in the 70s.
[98:12] Lauren Fix: And even in the 80s, they tried to end that federal taxes, and it didn't work.
[98:18] Lauren Fix: So President Trump has a big mandate in front of him to get rid of the federal taxes.
[98:24] Lauren Fix: My God, that would save me a ton of money.
[98:28] Kim Monson: Or invest it as well, which creates jobs.
[98:33] Kim Monson: But you would have the choice on what you wanted to do.
[98:35] Kim Monson: A couple of things before we let you go.
[98:38] Kim Monson: This came in from Mary on the text line.
[98:41] Kim Monson: Rivian EV trucks are so heavy you can't get tires at discount because their lifts can't lift them.
[98:46] Kim Monson: You have to go back to the dealership to get the tires changed.
[98:50] Kim Monson: And she also said, and remember, China uses slave labor.
[98:53] Kim Monson: Those are two important points, Lauren Fix.
[98:58] Lauren Fix: Yes, a lot of these trucks like the Rivian and the Hummer EV, the Rivian does not have a dealership, by the way.
[99:05] Lauren Fix: You buy it online and you order whatever you want, and then they have a delivery location.
[99:09] Lauren Fix: But, yeah, getting tires means that you're a captive audience.
[99:13] Lauren Fix: That takes away your limit of choice.
[99:16] Lauren Fix: You're limited on where you go to buy tires.
[99:18] Lauren Fix: All of these electric cars require very quick transition on tires, usually about a year.
[99:24] Lauren Fix: And the reason for that is they weigh so much.
[99:26] Lauren Fix: So if they weigh more, that downward pressure on the tire against the road surface breaks them down.
[99:30] Lauren Fix: Another little teeny factor from a health standpoint, again, no one covers this, and I'm not a doctor, but I'm looking for someone, if someone is a doctor and knows about this, reach out to me.
[99:41] Lauren Fix: The little particles from the tires break down, and those tires, that little particles go into the air.
[99:47] Lauren Fix: And it's polluting the air, and we're breathing it.
[99:49] Lauren Fix: Because as those heavy cars go down the road, it's polluting.
[99:54] Lauren Fix: It's polluting by tire destruction, and the brake pads get worn out quicker.
[100:00] Lauren Fix: So again, that costs you money to maintain that.
[100:06] Kim Monson: How do we start a campaign for Lauren Fix for Transportation Secretary?
[100:12] Lauren Fix: Well, first of all, before we get to that, all my car reviews have been moved to Car Smarts.
[100:21] Lauren Fix: Everything's still on the same channel or on my Substack or social media or on my website, Car Coach Reports.
[100:26] Lauren Fix: All of my news stories, things that you and I talk about are on Car Coach Reports on YouTube as well as all the other locations.
[100:33] Lauren Fix: I guess the only thing you can do is contact your representative, whoever is part of the Trump team, if you know somebody, and say, hey, we need someone in the transportation industry who knows about cars, who can talk to the people that are manufacturers and talk to consumers and understand both sides.
[100:50] Lauren Fix: And that's the biggest problem we have.
[100:52] Lauren Fix: They make these stupid rules, but they don't think about you and how it impacts you.
[100:57] Lauren Fix: But then on the other side, the government's making these rules because there's no one in there even owns a car.
[101:03] Lauren Fix: So it's really important that if you know somebody who's on the team who's going to be nominating the position, hey, I'd be on an advisory board.
[101:12] Lauren Fix: Anything I can do to help, because we need to get some common sense car laws in and get rid of the stupid rules like getting rid of your motorhome.
[101:24] Kim Monson: Lauren Fix, always great to talk to you.
[101:26] Kim Monson: We'll talk to you next month, and have a great day.
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[105:00] Kim Monson: But just learning these stories of our Medal of Honor recipients is really important.
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[105:16] Kim Monson: Coming in on the text line, I'm going to try to get to some of these.
[105:19] Kim Monson: We've been all over the place here regarding these different subjects.
[105:25] Kim Monson: Gammy had texted in regarding Trent Loos this morning, had covered the Sustain Act.
[105:31] Kim Monson: And when Trent is on on Wednesday, we'll talk about that.
[105:35] Kim Monson: and I think it's regarding carpet sequestration and so stay tuned on that.
[105:43] Kim Monson: Also coming in from a listener says, again, this is North Dakota former governor and now the Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum used to work for Microsoft.
[105:56] Kim Monson: Yes, he did take money from Bill Gates but also farmland, thousands of acres was supposedly purchased and tied to Bill Gates.
[106:04] Kim Monson: So I don't know for sure about that.
[106:09] Kim Monson: And then regarding Eric says Trump has to be careful not to drain the U.
[106:13] Kim Monson: House of like minded folks to help him with his agenda.
[106:16] Kim Monson: The Senate replacements can be made by governors and other takes on the election.
[106:21] Kim Monson: And then another listener said, remember that Vivek Ramaswamy is been appointed with Elon Musk to clean up government.
[106:32] Kim Monson: One of our listeners said, seems like Ben Carson could have a place in the cabinet.
[106:41] Kim Monson: So hopefully he'll consider Ben Carson.
[106:47] Kim Monson: Brian June depth and these different investigations, it says proper investigations will be impossible due to ongoing destruction of evidence.
[107:01] Kim Monson: Another listener said President Trump has to do whatever he has to to get his appointed nominees in and do his great policies like he said he'd do immediately in the first year.
[107:13] Kim Monson: Another listener said, let's see, how's this?
[107:17] Kim Monson: Dems who swear off sex are self-defeating for future voters.
[107:22] Kim Monson: I'll have to ruminate on that one.
[107:24] Kim Monson: Oh, Yvonne, again, thanks for announcing the event tonight.
[107:28] Kim Monson: This is regarding talking trash up in Fort Collins regarding the forced trash fee.
[107:34] Kim Monson: That meeting is at 530 today, Monday, and the downtown Fort Collins library.
[107:47] Kim Monson: It says, in past presidential elections prior to Trump didn't we always have a peaceful transition of power where the president that is incoming was allowed to implement his agenda as he saw fit?
[107:59] Kim Monson: This listener went on to say, I'm very concerned about the elections here in Colorado.
[108:08] Kim Monson: And that's why we have these two lawsuits out there that were funded by all of you through the Colorado 2024 election project.
[108:15] Kim Monson: And both of those indicate that our elections are not up to, well, the United Sovereign Americans indicates that our elections are not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress.
[108:27] Kim Monson: And that's because of a lot of great research that Mike Cahoon and his team has done regarding these elections.
[108:33] Kim Monson: And then the other lawsuit that we have out there is through Peter Brunegger with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, where they found that our voter rolls are not clean.
[108:47] Kim Monson: And so anyway, this person went on to say, it says they live in Jefferson County and was very concerned about the detabering of Jefferson County.
[108:59] Kim Monson: and says she blessed Natalie Minton for being willing to run, where I'm so sorry that she did not win.
[109:12] Kim Monson: One of our listeners said, it looks like Wyoming is going to get a lot more Colorado residents fleeing for freedom.
[109:18] Kim Monson: And then this last text, it says, I mentioned that Arapahoe and Jefferson County voted to give up their TABOR, as well as we voted to give up the TABOR refunds in RTD as well.
[109:33] Kim Monson: My understanding is yes, that is giving up our TABOR refunds of excess revenue in those counties forever.
[109:40] Kim Monson: Also, it gave up the property tax caps is my understanding as well.
[109:44] Kim Monson: And again, thank you, Natalie Minton, for being such a great watchdog for all of us.
[109:49] Kim Monson: Ronald Reagan said this as our quote for the end of the day.
[109:52] Kim Monson: He says extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise.
[110:02] Kim Monson: They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy of government by a self-anointed elite.
[110:09] Kim Monson: 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.
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