1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: Great Babylon be headlined Democrats condemn Hegseth for use in 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: ninety defeat soldiers when it gone to Smallly Daycares. Yep, 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: they're more upset that our soldiers who are protecting our 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: country and fighting for us get a nice dinner versus 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: all the front of the Smalley Daycare. And then let's 6 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: add the entire step benefits and what people are buying 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: from that. They don't care about those two things, just 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: the soldiers. 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: The other Great Babylon. The headline yesterday was Iranians give 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 2: up on attacking California after having seen that Gavin Newsom 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: has already destroyed it. 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 3: That's not bad, not bad at all. It's really good. 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: So the soon to be former chair of the Colorado 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: Republican Party and I spent two and a half hours yesterday, 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: and as I said at the end of the last hour, 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: her resignation is indeed like a It is sort of 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 2: stepping aside because the house is being consumed by fire. 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: No matter what the firefighters do, they can't stop the 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: complete destruction of the of the structure. So they keep 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: everything around that structure from catching fire and let it 21 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: burn itself out. And her example was a backfire, wherein 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 2: a wild land fire or a forest fire, you start 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 2: a backfire and it's a control burn, so that it 24 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 2: burns towards the other fire, and they meet and it 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: runs out of oxygen, and the fire is under control 26 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: and you no longer have the fire spreading her resignation, 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: which is and again, regardless of whether you support it 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: or you don't support Brenda, let me warn you. For 29 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: those of you that didn't support her, you have indeed 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: lit a backfire. And for those those of you who 31 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: it did support her, now's the time that you have, well, 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: a time for choosing. If you get that reference, great, 33 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: If you don't, maybe you really have to study Republican history. 34 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: But it is indeed a time for choosing. What let 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: me back up one further step. The Callon Republican Party 36 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 2: as currently constituted, is not a functional political organization. My 37 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: viewpoint is it's simply a collection of factions, and every 38 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 2: faction is convinced of its own righteousness, each willing to 39 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: spend its last dollar, its last hour, its last breath, 40 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 2: proving the other faction wrong. While the filing deadline for 41 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six candidates approaches, and district after district after 42 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 2: district goes uncontested. But here there's what I do know 43 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: about Colorado, and I want to be direct with you 44 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: about this because it matters. This state is not irreversibly blue. 45 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: Do you think that when Polis, Striker and gil sat 46 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: down back when we were solidly read and thought to themselves, oh, 47 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 2: this is irreversibly read. Let's not do anything. No, they 48 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: sat down with a plant, a blueprint, literally called it 49 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 2: a blueprint. You might still be able to find a 50 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: copy of it somewhere. You should go read it. This 51 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: state is not irreversibly blue. A recent poll by a 52 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: respect to Colorado analysts found that while Republicans are viewed 53 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: unfavorably by fifty seven percent of unaffiliated voters, Democrats are 54 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: viewed unfavorably by fifty six percent. 55 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 3: Of the same group. 56 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 2: The overwhelming Democrat controlled legislature of the Politbureau is a 57 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: thirty six percent approval rating, with forty eight percent disapproving. 58 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: Only forty one percent of unaffiliated Colorado voters say the 59 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: state is on the right track. A majority fifty two 60 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: percent of the unaffiliated voters in this state say that 61 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 2: Colorado is headed in the wrong direction. Those voters are reachable, 62 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 2: the arguments are available. What is not available, apparently, is 63 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: a functional organizational structure to connect those voters. So I 64 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: here's the question I put to Bretta and I want 65 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 2: to put to you. What if the answer isn't fixing 66 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 2: the Colorado Republican Party. What if the answer is building 67 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: something parallel to it. 68 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: I don't care. 69 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 2: I'm just just like I did with her yesterday. I'm 70 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 2: doing the same with you, just talking out loud right now, 71 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 2: just as a thought experiment. What if the answer is 72 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: building something parallel to it. Maybe it's a political action committee, 73 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 2: maybe it's a nonprofit, maybe it's some kind of candidate 74 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 2: support organization, But it's any legal entity that can raise money, 75 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 2: can recruit candidates, can train those candidates, can resource those candidates, 76 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 2: can help put them on the ballot without carrying the 77 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: weight of the brand, the stupid byelaws, the circular firing squad, 78 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 2: and the accumulated damage of every chair who has preceded her. 79 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: Some good chair, some bad chairs, but I'm telling you 80 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: that we've never had I don't care who you liked 81 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 2: or disliked as a chair, none of them will be perfect, 82 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: and none of them were perfect. Now, I want to 83 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 2: be clear about what I'm saying. I'm not talking about 84 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 2: a third party. I'm not talking about banding the Republican 85 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 2: label for candidates who want to use it. I'm talking 86 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 2: about an organizational infrastructure that the state party has consistently 87 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: failed to provide. 88 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 3: It is a machine. 89 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 2: A machine is not a pejority, but is a machine 90 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 2: that finds candidates, prepares them, funds them, and gets them 91 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 2: to the starting line. They've got across the finish line 92 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 2: on their own. That machine does not exist in Colorado 93 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: right now. The filing deadline for twenty twenty six six 94 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: days away, and the state Party, which should be that machine, 95 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 2: has got less than sixty four thousand dollars in cash, 96 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: They've got two hundred and thirty six thousand plus dollars 97 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: in debt, and they're in the midst of a leadership 98 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 2: transition driven by people whose modives I say deserve serious scrutiny. 99 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 2: Someone needs to build that machine, quietly, competently, no drama. 100 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 2: You know what the Colorado Democrats have done in absence 101 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 2: of some kind of machine like that. They have passed 102 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 2: legislation that has raised your cost. They've restricted your choices, 103 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 2: They've expanded government into domains that has no business occupying. 104 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: They've driven businesses out of the state. Pallunteered, one of 105 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: the most significant tech companies in the entire country, left 106 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 2: Colorado because of a regulatory environment that the politbureau created 107 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: without meaningful opposition. 108 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 3: The Colorado AI. 109 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 2: Act sent a signal to the entire tech sector of 110 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 2: AI that this state would rather regulate innovation than attract innovation. 111 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 2: And guess what that sector listened. Denver lost billions economic 112 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 2: activity because one party controls the conversation and nobody shows 113 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,119 Speaker 2: up to make the other argument. That is what nine 114 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 2: uncontested legislative races look like from the inside. That is 115 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: what a party with sixty four thousand dollars in the 116 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 2: bank and no candidate recruitment infrastructure produces in November. That 117 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: is the cost of the circular firing squad. So bred 118 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: To resigned yesterday, effective in April. She was right about 119 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 2: the diagnosis, but she was unable and prevented from executing 120 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 2: the cure. I can tell you after a meeting whether 121 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: she has the self awareness in the end to recognize 122 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: both of those things and act accordingly and I give her. 123 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: Credit for that. 124 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: It takes a particular kind of courage to be the 125 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: person who turns out the lights on something that she 126 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: was working hard to fix. What comes next depends entirely 127 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: on whether the people left in that building are interested 128 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: in winning elections or interested in winning arguments with each other. 129 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: Based on everything that I have seen, read, and heard, 130 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: including two plus hours of direct conversation with a woman 131 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 2: who just resigned, I am not optimistic about the current structure, 132 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 2: the structure that I am not without hope about Colorado. 133 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: I think the money is raisable. I believe the candidates 134 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 2: are out there. I believe the voters are reachable, the 135 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: arguments are available and correct and waiting to be made 136 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 2: in thirty seven legislative districts, or however, that many of 137 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 2: the final count shows after March eighteenth, where right now 138 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 2: today the other side is running out a post. Someone 139 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 2: just has to stop the fighting. Has to stop fighting 140 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 2: fire long enough the last fire, long enough to build 141 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 2: the next organization. That next organization has to be built 142 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: the current structure. I've spent way much more time than 143 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 2: I ever intended to studying the structure of the Colorado 144 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: Republican GOP. The bylaws truly should be absolutely abolished, done 145 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: away with completely re They are in such a condition that, 146 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: as a lawyer, you come to me and say I'd 147 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 2: like to accomplish X, I can probably go to the 148 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: bylaws and make that work. You come to me as 149 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 2: a lawyer and say I want to accomplish why, which 150 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 2: is the opposite of X, I can probably look at 151 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 2: the bylaws and figure out a way to make that work. 152 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: The bylaws themselves are part of the fuel that creates 153 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 2: the fire. Now I know, the fire and all the 154 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 2: infighting and in the circular firing squad is because of 155 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 2: the people that are using those bylaws for their own 156 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 2: personal interest. Nobody seems to be willing to step above 157 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: their own personal interest to try to do something to 158 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 2: turn the state around. And I caution you, well, I 159 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 2: take that back of I do know of some people. 160 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 2: I'm not at liberty to say who yet, but I 161 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 2: do know some people who are putting some organizations together, 162 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 2: or an organization together that would be a wonderful root, 163 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 2: grassroots effort to start building Colorado up and recruiting candidates 164 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 2: and putting the kinds of thing, the kind of people 165 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 2: in place so that over time, what guil Striker and 166 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 2: Polis accomplished over a couple of decades that we can reverse. 167 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 2: And I honestly believe that we can reverse what they've 168 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 2: accomplished over decades in less time. And you know why, 169 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, with all of his flaws, with all his peccadillos, 170 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 2: with all of the things that people don't like about him, 171 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: nonetheless he has shown that if you have the ability, 172 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: the willingness, and are willing to take the arrows and 173 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 2: the spears to be a disruptor and to say to 174 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: all of that, you know, well vote quote Spiro agnu here, 175 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: to all that silent majority sitting out there that the 176 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 2: polls show don't like the direction this state is going. 177 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: They are reachable, but you have to have a message, 178 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: a structure, an organization to reach those people. In in addition 179 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 2: to the same time that you're doing that, you have 180 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: to have an organization over here that is finding the 181 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: people that are willing to you know, they don't care 182 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: whether they are on a library board. Everybody thinks they 183 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 2: have to run for governor twenty one, twenty five, one hundred. 184 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 2: I don't give a rats ask how many people are 185 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 2: running for governor, we'll only end up with two a 186 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 2: Democrat and Repubny. Oh, you might have a libertary in 187 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: the Green Party, a bunch of others, but they don't count. 188 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 2: How many times over twenty years radio have I tried 189 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 2: to point out that you don't need to run for governor. 190 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 2: You really have to run for state rep. You run 191 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: for a library board, and you get on the inside, 192 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 2: and you see how meetings are conducted. You see how 193 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 2: that organization just take stick with the library board for 194 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: a minute. How do they interact with their constituents. You 195 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 2: would learn being on a library board, for example, you 196 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 2: might be bitching about, you know, I can't believe these 197 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 2: books are in this library, or why isn't this book 198 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 2: in this library? And you might soon find out the 199 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 2: library board really doesn't have much control over that, because 200 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 2: there's a larger organization that's out there that's either regional 201 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: or national, that has, you know, either with congressional or 202 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: some other kind of backing, political and legal backing, actually 203 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: dictates the libraries what they can and cannot do. So 204 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 2: on the library board, you could say let's quit that, 205 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: let's drop out of let's quit paying dues to that 206 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: let's quit being involved with that, and let's make our 207 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: own decisions locally about what books will or will it 208 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 2: not be in our. 209 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: Library in our library. 210 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: And next thing, you know, you can take that to 211 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: the next step. And once you do a really good 212 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: job there and you understand that there's all these other 213 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: structures out there that prohibit us from accomplishing. When want 214 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: want to accomplish, you take it from the library board, 215 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 2: and now you take it to a city councilor you 216 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: take you to the county commissioner, and eventually you take 217 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 2: it to a state rep or to a state Senate, 218 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 2: and you start turning this state around. 219 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 3: It can be done. 220 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 2: I sincerely believe it can be done because I see 221 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 2: the numbers. And when people tell you that the country, 222 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: in this case, the state is headed in the wrong direction, 223 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: and that's a majority of the unaffiliated voters. Will you 224 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 2: tell me we can't win. I would agree with you. 225 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 2: We can't win, not with this structure, not with this 226 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: group of people, not with the current makeup we have. 227 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: I would do things like I would first. And I 228 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: know that many of you who might be on the 229 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 2: Central Committee will scream and holler when I say. 230 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 3: This, But five hundred. No, imagine, do you think. 231 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: That you take any successful publicly traded company, how many 232 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: are in the board of directors eleven nine maybe seventeen 233 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 2: five hundred, That would be the most dysfunctional publicly traded 234 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: company in the world. They would never get anything done, 235 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 2: and or the CEO or the chairman would end up 236 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: being a dictator and pushing everybody else aside and just 237 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 2: doing what they damn well please the board be damned 238 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: until the board finally got fed up and fired this 239 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 2: CEO or the chairman and install their own person. That's 240 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 2: kind of what we've got going in the Republican Party 241 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: right now. 242 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 3: Five hundred people, good. 243 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 2: Grief, we only have five hundred and thirty five people 244 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 2: representing three hundred and what forty or fifty million Americans. 245 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 2: Yet in Colorado we have five hundred people representing the 246 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: millions of people that just live in this state. 247 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 3: It's insane. You'll never get anything done. 248 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 2: That shows a complete lack of understanding of a constitutional 249 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: representative republic. Their so called Republican Party doesn't even operate 250 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 2: as a republic. I think the money is raisable too. 251 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: I think the candidates are out there. I think the 252 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 2: voters are reachable, but we've got to stop fighting the 253 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 2: last fire long enough to build the next generation. You know, 254 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: you may think I'm an old curmudgeon, and in some 255 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: ways I am. But I've got my fingers out, and 256 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 2: I've got the contacts, and I've got the people that 257 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,239 Speaker 2: are I have a lot younger than me. All the 258 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 2: generations behind me that listen to this program that are 259 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 2: frustrated because they see the dysfunction. They've grown up in 260 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: a world not like an old bloomer like me. They've 261 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: grown up in a world where things happen fast quickly, 262 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 2: where decisions are made, you know, almost instantaneously. You can't 263 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 2: do that with five hundred people. You give me five 264 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 2: hundred people, I can divide that group into factions in 265 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: one day, one simple day. I could destroy an organization 266 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 2: that's governed by five hundred people in one day. This 267 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 2: party is destroyed itself with that kind of organization over decades, 268 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 2: and the time has come to replace that and adapt 269 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 2: it to the way the world works today. All of 270 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 2: the financial figures that I've given you today, I just 271 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 2: want to real quickly tell you came from the FEC 272 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 2: dot gov and for the Colorado GOP Committee. The twenty 273 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: twenty four uncontested seat figure nine races no Republicans that 274 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: sourced the ballot Peda's Major Party Competition analysis and the 275 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 2: Colorado Sun. The twenty twenty six pre deadline figure thirty 276 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: seven districts is from internal Colorado GOP documents citing tracer 277 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 2: data as of February twenty five. The filing deadline is 278 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 2: March eighteenth, so we'll update that figure after that date. 279 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: The Heidigenal figure losing by nearly thirty points is from 280 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: twenty two general election results. The unaffiliated vo pulling figures 281 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: comes from Colorado Politics and we have a way to 282 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: start a new organization and at the same time, I 283 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: believe kill the old organization. What you fail to understand 284 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 2: is that all decent people have already. 285 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 3: Left the state of Colorado. 286 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: Colorado is doomed to remain a Democrat toilet. 287 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 3: You're wrong. 288 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 2: That's the assumption everybody makes. But when fifty two percent 289 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: of the unaffiliated voters in this state, those who have 290 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 2: not left, say the state is headed the wrong direction, 291 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 2: that is a fertile pool of voters who are ready 292 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: to turn things around. And in addition to saying there 293 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: that all the decent people have left. I take offense 294 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 2: to that. I'm Methan still here and I'm decent, So 295 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 2: screw you. And I'm one of those who's not unaffiliated. 296 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 2: I'm a Republican and I believe the state can be saved, 297 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 2: but it takes hard work. So if you're the ones 298 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 2: that has escaped, then okay, run away. I don't care. 299 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 2: There's still fifty two percent of unaffiliated, and there are 300 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: still the Republicans themselves who want to turn the state around. 301 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 3: So your logic is. 302 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 2: Absent. Your logic is devoid of absence. You didn't listen 303 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: to a damn thing I said about the numbers. 304 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 3: The numbers are what counts. God. I get sick of 305 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 3: that attitude. You can't. 306 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 2: First of all, that tells me you live in a 307 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 2: bubble that you don't go out and speak to people, 308 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 2: because when you speak to people, there will even be 309 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 2: in the Democrat column, people who will realize, just like 310 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 2: a John Fetterman, who I probably did you know, I 311 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 2: probably disagree with John Fetterman on what seventy five percent 312 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 2: of policy issues, but the twenty five percent that I 313 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 2: agree with him on is at least some sort of 314 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 2: common ground where we could change some things that we 315 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: did that we agree upon. We'll fight about the other things. 316 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 2: But give me a John Fetterman any day over someone 317 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: like you who just puts the blinders on and says 318 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: that all the decent people have left. What a horrible 319 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: thing to say to the people who are here trying 320 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 2: to do something decent, who are here trying to make 321 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 2: a change, who actually believe in this state and recognize 322 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 2: that there's a long game being played, not just in 323 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 2: this state, in every state. Did you run off to Texas? 324 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 2: Let me tell you, Texas. It may not turn blue 325 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 2: tomorrow or even in my lifetime, but that's the direction 326 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 2: they're trying to go. So if the entire country, which 327 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 2: is the road that the progress is the Marxists, that 328 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 2: communists have us on, if that's the direction they're taking 329 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 2: us and all the decent people run away and go 330 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: somewhere else, the country will falter, and the country will fail, 331 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 2: and it will burn to the ground. And I honestly 332 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 2: think that's what some people want. I want the GOP 333 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 2: Committee to burn to the ground. I want the GOP 334 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 2: Republican Party to burn to the ground, because that can 335 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: be rebuilt. That's an entirely different subject from letting a 336 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 2: nation burn to the ground. We barely won the Revolutionary War. 337 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 2: You want to try it again. And by the way, 338 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 2: if you want to escape the United States, where are 339 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 2: you going, what's you going to do? Where's that going. 340 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let that. I'm not gonna let that 341 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: give me off track, because we're gonna we're gonna do 342 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 2: taxpayer relief. Shots in about twenty two minutes, well after 343 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 2: the new twenty six minutes. West Virginia just past Senate 344 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 2: Bill seven forty nine that would ban Virginians from acquiring 345 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 2: any new and I just don't shoot the messenger. So 346 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: called assault firearms or magazines holding more than fifteen rounds 347 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: after this June first, though, they can't keep what they 348 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 2: already own. Isn't that nice? 349 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 3: Now? 350 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 2: They define an assault firearms as a semi automatic center 351 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: fire rifle, shotgun, or handgun that accepts a detachable magazine 352 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 2: and includes cosmetic or ergonomic features like a folding stock. Oh, 353 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 2: it's scary, a pistol grip's scary, a thumbhole stock, or 354 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,479 Speaker 2: a threaded barrel. That's right, it's the feature list approach. 355 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 2: That's been tried before. A rifle is not an assault 356 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 2: weapon because of how it operates. It's an assault weapon 357 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 2: because of what it looks like. But there's a constitutional 358 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 2: framework that we cannot forget, and the trilogy of that 359 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 2: framework looks like this. The Heller decision in two thousand 360 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 2: and eight established that we have an individual right, but 361 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: crucially also said the Second Amendment protects arms in common 362 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 2: use for lawful purposes. The McDonald's case in twenty ten 363 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 2: incorporated that same individual right against the States, and then 364 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 2: the Bruin decision in twenty twenty two then blew up 365 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 2: the intermediate scrutiny balancing tests that all the lower courts 366 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: have been hiding behind. So under Bruin, when the Second 367 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 2: Amendments plane text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively 368 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 2: protects it, and so the government must demonstrate that the 369 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 2: regulation of a young or ammo or any sort of 370 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 2: accessory is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. 371 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 2: There's no longer an important governmental interest wiggle room for 372 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 2: these states. So this is where Virginia law runs into 373 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 2: a constitutional wall, or at least it should under Heller 374 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,959 Speaker 2: the Second Amendment applies to arms in common use for 375 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: lawful purposes like self defense. That's a point that the 376 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: Bruin case reiterated. 377 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: Now, since that. 378 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 2: Description clearly applies to the guns prohibited by this Senate 379 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: Bill seven forty nine in Virginia, the law is constitutionally 380 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 2: suspect on its face. Why because the AR fifteen is 381 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 2: the most popular rifle in America. There are estimated to 382 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 2: be more than twenty million of them in civilian hands. 383 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 2: So you can't say that AR fifteen is a niche 384 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 2: whipping a niche weapon that's in common use, I believe 385 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: by any reasonable definition. Now, Trump's Department of Justice, in 386 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: a law suit against DC's similar ban, noted that the 387 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 2: prohibited firearms in common use and are for lawful purposes, 388 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: and that means they are covered by the Second Amendment, 389 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 2: and that there is no historical, historically analogous precedent for 390 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 2: a broad ban on firearms that are in common use 391 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 2: by law abiding citizens for self defense. The gun The 392 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: anti gunner's argument press on a specific sentence in Heller, 393 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 2: where Justice Scalia wrote that weapons most useful in military service, 394 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: and he cited specifically in M sixteen that those may 395 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: be banned. The Fourth Circuit's majority opinion in the Maryland 396 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: case leaned on that language, rooling that weapons like the 397 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 2: AR fifteen fall outside the amateur protection offered by the 398 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: Second Amendment because in essence, they are military style weapons 399 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 2: designed for sustained combat operations that are ill suited and 400 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 2: disproportioned to the need for self defense. 401 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 3: But here's the problem with that argument. 402 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 4: I could agree with that one talk back and say 403 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 4: that Colorado's in the toilet and I should retreat, We 404 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 4: should all retreat. 405 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 3: But if you have fifty one percent. 406 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 4: Of independent, unaffiliated voters that say, hey, now wait a minute, 407 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 4: we're not heading the right direction. That is the people 408 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 4: you've got to reach out to, that's the middle. Elections 409 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 4: are one in the middle. 410 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 3: Understand that, I do understand that. It's almost like you 411 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 3: said that already. 412 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 2: Right, and I know you know I understand that. But 413 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 2: the point is people don't. The current structure doesn't allow 414 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 2: us to even attempt to reach those people that you know. Truthfully, 415 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 2: I believe I I can't back this up empirically yet, 416 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 2: but I believe that in terms of unaffiliated voters, many 417 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: of them. I don't know whether that's forty fifty or 418 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: sixty percent are at heart, I'm not going to use 419 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: a Republican, but are at heart free marketers, limited government, deregulation, 420 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: individual choice. They believe in freedom and liberty. Now you say, well, 421 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 2: my goed that you just described Republicans. I know, but 422 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call him Republican. That's why they've gone unaffiliated. 423 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: They the current structure of the party and the people 424 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: who have driven Bread out and who are trying to 425 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 2: retake control are the very ones who have completely bastardized 426 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 2: the name Republican in Colorado. They have no interest. I 427 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 2: sincerely believe they have no interest in winning elections. They 428 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 2: are the typical what I saw in DC. They're the 429 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: typical Republican that wants to be in the minority because 430 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: being in the minority is the easiest thing to do, 431 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 2: because all you have to do is bitch and moan 432 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: and gripe about stuff. All you have to do is 433 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 2: oppose everything. You don't actually have to come up with solutions. 434 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 2: You have to say what they're doing is wrong, here's 435 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 2: why it's wrong. Okay, well what would you do? That's 436 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 2: why the Republican Party up until Newt Ginrich came along 437 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: and said, here's my contract with America. If you elect me, 438 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do abcd E and F. And after forty 439 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 2: years in the wilderness, after Bob Michaels to be in 440 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 2: the House minority leader from Illinois for forty years or 441 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 2: whatever long he was, the Republican Party finally woke up 442 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: and started winning. Why do you think Donald Trump won 443 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 2: because he said, the way things are working right now 444 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: are not working, and I'm going to do this. I'm 445 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna shut down the border, I'm going to 446 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 2: do X y Z, I'm going to take America first. 447 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 2: Every policy has to pass an America first. And we said, yeah, 448 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: that's kind of what we want, and anyone. So it's 449 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: it's fascinating to me that the the current Republicans, the 450 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 2: recurrent structure of the organization has put us so far 451 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 2: behind the eight ball, which is why i want to 452 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 2: burn it down. And I've got ideas about how to 453 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: burn it down, and some will some may end up 454 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 2: being very public, and I may not be the one 455 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 2: doing it, but I'll plant the seed somewhere. I'll get 456 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: somebody doing it. And I've got I've already got one 457 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 2: person who's working on a concept that I think is 458 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 2: a wonderful concept that you know. I'm going to try 459 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 2: to help them raise some money and get that little 460 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: thing started. And if that starts, it will be the 461 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: kind of thing that you may not see a result, 462 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: although they've already seen results doing it on their own. 463 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 2: You you may not see like, oh my gosh, suddenly 464 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: just change the sky from greatest you know, sunlight blue. 465 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 2: But you will start to see people that are decent people, Yes, 466 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 2: decent people who will step up and be on a 467 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 2: library board, it will step on, step up and be 468 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 2: on a planning commission, it will step up and be 469 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 2: on something, or it will step up and run for 470 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 2: a county commissioner slot, and you'll start turning things around. 471 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: What took us so long to get to where we 472 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 2: are is not going to be done. We can't just 473 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 2: put the brakes on, put the car and reverse and 474 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 2: go back. That's not going to work. You have to 475 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: slow down what's happening now, make incremental changes where you can, 476 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 2: and start making the big changes as you keep moving along. 477 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 2: You've got to it's a startup company, and a startup 478 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 2: company needs angel investors. It needs you know, it needs this, 479 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 2: you know, round A of fundraising, and it needs some committed, 480 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 2: dedicated people that are going to recognize, oh, we're starting 481 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 2: to fight with each other. Let's let's keep our fights 482 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 2: internal and to ourselves. And they come out with a 483 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 2: common plan and a common objective, and let's go pursue 484 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 2: that objective. We can argue inside about the tactics, but 485 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 2: let's develop a strategy and then once we agree on 486 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,959 Speaker 2: the tactics, and let's go, let's go meet that objective. 487 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 2: Let's go fulfill that strategy. The current people cannot do that. 488 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 2: They have proven their unwillingness and their incapacity to do so. 489 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 2: They're too self interested, like too much in this country. Well, 490 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 2: I didn't get finished. 491 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 3: I will. 492 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 2: I will finish either tomorrow on the Saturday program or 493 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 2: next week. I'm going to rip apart Virginia Law because 494 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 2: I've seen in the text like how do they do 495 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 2: this with you know, with AR fifteenth, how do they 496 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 2: do this with these overall bands? Well, those are being 497 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 2: challenged