Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Solari
Report, and welcome
to Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, where
I’m with last year’s
Hero of the Year
and the head of Team
Cash, Susan Luschas.
So you need no
introduction on the
Solari Report, but
I have to tell you,
spending 24 hours
with Susan and her
family is always an
incredible treat,
and your friends,
and some great
state legislators.
So you’ve been
campaigning.
We have been
campaigning, yep.
The election is
tomorrow, and my
husband’s running for
state h- state House
of Representatives.
And all of
this came about
because of cash.
And- So here we are
… and you’ve been part
of a ground game, and
knocked on… You and
Manuel have knocked
on 2,000 doors.
Yep, over 2,000
doors- Yeah … for
his campaign,
but made some
progress and raised
a lot of awareness.
So we’re gonna
talk about that,
and we’re gonna
talk about cash.
Thank you for having
me, and I’m so glad
to, blessed to be
here talking about
cash, my favorite
topic, and we’re
gonna talk about
what I’ve been
doing in the last
year, turtling
still on cash.
And along with that,
I would like to fold
in some anecdotes
about several Solari
topics, so things
like the cellphone
tower, the data
center, banks, ex-
the legislative
run- and things that
actually all kinda
tie back into cash.
So we’re gonna talk
about those topics
a little bit, too.
So we’re focused on
freedom, and cash
is a powerful tool
to protect freedom,
and we bump into
all the things that
are encroaching
on freedom.
Right,
exactly.
So it’s one thing.
So Turtling for
Cash Part 2.
Okay, so where do
you wanna start?
I would like to
start with our cash
legislation that we
passed last year,
which was cash
at school events.
This legislation
passed by one vote
and the grace of
God, if you remember
from Turtling
for Cash Part 1.
And so what happened
was, in August,
we started up our
school year again.
The law went to ef-
into effect July
1st, and we started
up our school year
in August, and we
had schools having
football games and
volleyball games
and things like
that, and it’s now
state law that they
must accept cash.
There were several
schools that decided
they still didn’t
have to take cash,
and so because we
were the family that
stood up everyone
contacted me and
contacted our family.
” They’re not
taking cash.
What are you gonna…
What am I gonna do?”
I didn’t really know
what to do, so the
first thing I did is
I sent the schools
email and said,
“You’re violating
state law,” and
included a copy
of the state law.
Now, one thing we did
un- knowingly, but
unknowingly, is that
we put in a clause
for the playoffs
so that no matter
where the school team
was playing, they
had to accept cash,
whether it was a home
school property or
whether it was a big
s- playoff stadium.
That was to include
the playoffs, that
they have to accept
cash for playoffs.
It turns out that
clause worked in
our favor, because
what it did is it
said, even if you’re
the away team, it’s
illegal for you
to play at a venue
that doesn’t take
cash, even if you’re
the away team.
So when I was sending
those emails, I could
send it not just to
the home team that
didn’t take cash, I
could send it to the
away team, because
they were violating
state law, too.
Now, would you send
it to the head of
the… Would you
send it to the coach
or the principal or
the school board?
Who?
Usually I’d send
it either to the
athletic director at
the school if I had
their information.
If not, I’d send
it to the principal
of the school.
Or in one case
sent it to the
superintendent
of the school.
So it depended,
’cause some
districts are big
and some are small.
So I’d send this
email saying, “You’re
violating state law.”
that worked in most
cases, except for
one, and the one
school, it still
refused to take cash
So I said, “Okay,
I’m gonna come verify
this for myself.
I’m hearing it from
all the parents.
I believe them,
but let me
verify it myself.
I went myself.
They weren’t taking
cash, and they
weren’t letting in
people for free.”
So our law says you
either have to take
the cash or you have
to let people in for
free. They weren’t
doing that, so I
sent them another
email and said, “I
was there myself.
I saw it.
You’re not taking
cash.” And he said,
“Yes, we are.” And
I said, “Oh no
you’re not, so I’m
gonna now show up
with my friends,
their cameras.
We’re gonna
take video.
We’re gonna take
pictures, and then
we’re gonna bring
another s- bill this
next legislative
session that’s
an enforcement
bill that’s gonna
say every time
you have an event
and you don’t
take cash, we’re
gonna fine you.”
‘Cause our
bill had no
enforcement clause.
We had no fine
or penalty for
violating state law.
And I just wanna
stop you and say,
in my experience,
when you’re trying
to do something
new like that, you
have a much better
chance of getting the
first bill through
and then coming
back and getting
the enforcement
bill, when somebody
won’t, you know-
Exactly.
But then I had an
idea, because this
school I’m not gonna
name the school,
but th- they, there
would be a reason why
this school wouldn’t
want bad publicity.
Let me just say
it that way.
So I said, “I’m gonna
call the bill the ABC
High School Bill.”
and let’s just
say I showed up
with my friends
and my cameras,
and guess what?
They had a cash
line So the threat
of an enforcement
bill that was
called the ABC High
School Bill worked.
And so we did have
end up having a
successful school
year in terms
of school events
taking cash.
So we did enforce our
own state law, and
we had a win there.
But a lot of people
didn’t realize, a lot
of our legislators
didn’t even realize,
that just because
you pass a state
law, it doesn’t
mean anybody’s
gonna follow it.
We live in this
world, even in
South Dakota, and I
have some examples
of that actually
that I wanna just
quick talk about.
We have a lot of
laws in South Dakota
that are not being
followed, and they’re
not being enforced.
So for example,
when legislators
take their oath of
office, they have to
say that they will
not have conflicts
of interest.
They w- and … But
what has happened in
our legislature is
that when legislators
have said, ” I
don’t wanna vote on
this bill because
I have a conflict
of interest,” the
committee chair or
speaker, whatever,
has told them,
“You can’t do that.
You have to
vote.” Really?
So what we have in
South Dakota is we
have, for example,
w- state, the state
can invest in Bitcoin
bills being brought
by legislators
who have Bitcoin
mining companies
in the state.
You’re kidding.
I think that’s a
conflict of interest.
And even though
it’s in the oath of
office, no one is
enforcing that, and
they’re being told
they have to vote.
So that’s
one example.
Another example is
we actually have
federal term limits
in our constitution.
That is not
being enforced.
Thune shouldn’t be
where he is in the
Senate, and Rounds
shouldn’t even
be on the ballot.
He’s on the
ballot tomorrow.
So that’s not being
enforced either.
It’s a big deal.
We also have a
lucrative office
clause in South
Dakota constitution
that says if
you’re already in a
government lucrative
office, for example,
you’re a city council
member who’s b-
getting a stipend or
health insurance or
being compensated in
that way, you can’t
hold another public
lucrative office like
a state legislature,
legislator who gets
a small stipend.
So you can’t get
stipends from sorta
two government jobs,
and we have plenty
of state legislators
that are also
pulling city council.
So we have a lot
of violations of
our constitution,
of our state laws.
And so just because
the legislature
passes a law or just
because something’s
in the Constitution,
you need someone
to enforce it.
And- Has anybody ever
gone and tried to
clean up … Because
I think given
the poten- So
legislator’s not
full-time, and
so it’s gonna be
very difficult
to never have a
conflict of interest
even if you did
everything you could
not to have one.
So you need
the ability to
recuse yourself,
good heavens.
Correct.
Correct.
And unfortunately, at
this point, enforce-
these are just some
examples- that I
pulled off today.
Unfortunately,
enforcing this is
a full-time job.
We need to hire
someone I don’t
know what but- You
need the attorney
general
… enforce
everything.
Yeah.
Which
… Yeah.
I don’t know
what to say.
I don’t want to
start on that, but-
yeah, I would think
so too, that the
attorney general
should be enforcing
these pretty
fundamental things.
But for whatever
reason, he’s
not.
Sounds to me like you
need a legislative
cleanup anyway.
Yes.
But I don’t think
that’s uncommon.
We see this in South
Dakota, so just
because they’re
passing laws doesn’t
mean that they’re
being followed
or that there’s
anybody enforcing
them, which brings
me back to cash.
Because again, the
number one thing
we can all do is
pay with cash.
And so I, I actually
skipped one point
that I want to
come back to,
which is, what do
I mean by cash?
When people t-
hear me talk about
cash or hear I’m
the South Dakota
cash lady, they
say, ” cash loses its
value, the dollars
inflation and so
forth.” And what
I’m talking about
is not saving all
your money in cash.
What I’m talking
about is when you
buy gas and you buy
groceries, you have a
choice of using cash
or your credit card
or your debit card
And I’m asking you
to make the choice
to use physical cash.
I’m asking you to go
to your ATM, go to
your bank, get your
physical cash at your
bank account, and
use that to pay for
gas and groceries.
If all of us pay
for at least gas and
groceries, anything,
let’s say, under
$100 with cash,
we’re gonna keep our
financial transaction
freedom, but we
all have to do it.
We c- I can sit here
in South Dakota and
pass laws until I’m
blue in the face
or red in the face,
but then I’ve gotta
run around and try
and enforce them.
The easier way is
for us all just
to pay with cash
and don’t support
businesses that
do not take cash.
It really is
that simple.
I can’t do
this by myself.
I need everybody
doing this, not just
in South Dakota, but
worldwide, and thank
you f- Solari for
helping me promote
cash in that way.
So let me just
step in and make
sure everybody
understands.
So I describe
the systems now
with two locks.
So cash is the only
truly two-lock system
where the buyer has
a lock or a veto
on the transaction,
and the seller.
So two people and
they decide what
happens, and
it’s relatively
surveillance-free.
So there’s privacy,
and the, and
it’s between the
buyer and seller.
It’s nobody
else’s business.
That’s a
two-lock system.
If it goes through
digital tracks
in a bank in the
current financial
system, there is a
manual third lock.
We know what
happened to the-
Canadian truckers.
That’s a manual
third lock.
It’s very cumbersome.
It takes a lot
of work, a lot of
laws, a lot of mess.
Now what they’re
pushing up to is
an automatic third
lock backed up with
the data centers and
with digital IDs and
what that means is
central headquarters
can interfere in
your transactions
and supersede what
you and the what
the buyer and
the seller want.
So that’s an
automatic three-lock
system with a
third lock which
is superior.
So Mr. Global
gets a say in
every individual
transaction, and
the data centers and
AI are what really
make that system go.
And so what we’re
saying is if you
protect two-lock
money, they can’t
move to a system-
that’s all third
all three lock, and
therefore they can’t
automate the third
lock for control.
Exactly.
So we need… And
that takes all of us.
There’s no
president, there’s no
legislature, there’s
no Congress that
can fix this for us.
We have got to
choose to pay with
cash, at least for
gas and groceries.
Don’t invest in cash.
Don’t put all your
money in cash in
your bank account,
but use it for your
transactions, your
daily transactions.
That’s what I’m
asking everyone to
do, and that’s what
I’m really trying
to promote here.
So one of the most
successful, I do a
lot of things that
fail, and one of
the most successful
things I’ve done
has actually been
Halloween, cash
at Halloween.
So I have my cash is
king costume where
I just printed out
dollar bills and
different $5 bills
and $10 bills on
my printer, and I
pasted, I glued them
on an, a cardboard
box, and I strung it
over my shoulders.
And th- and then
I have a king
hat, and that’s
my cash is king
Halloween costume.
This year I decided
everyone in town
knows it it’s
the same costume
every year, so we
made new costumes.
It’s called
carry cash.
So we’re
basically cowboys.
Instead of pistols,
carrying pistols,
we carry cash.
So we have holsters,
and we put cash
in our pockets.
We have cash
eyeglasses and
cowboy hats, and
that’s our new
costume this year,
so that was really
exciting for us.
And then we of course
give out cash at the
door for Halloween.
We give out dollar
bills usually for
the older kids, and
the little kids get
quarters with cash
messages on them.
The quarters are
taped to the back
of a piece of paper
with a cash message.
So I have to stop
you and tell you- Go
ahead … this is the
most clever way to
not poison kids with
sugar on Halloween
’cause they like the
cash more, right?
They do.
And l- we’re getting
more and more people
worldwide to do this
and to- try it.
People are afraid.
They think the
kids won’t like it,
and the feedback
I’m getting all
over the place is
that the kids love
it, and they’re
happy about it.
They come back.
I- this has been
so successful.
And your dollars
have these little
stickers on them
that tell them
why you should use
cash, and then they
run home and tell
their parents they
should use cash.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I tell them at
the door Pay with
cash, not credit,”
and they run back,
” Mommy, pay with
cash, not credit.”
It’s so successful.
So this year I’d-
we decided to do a
basically a trunk
or treat event.
There was one in the
state park where the
kids go around the
campground and get
candy from all the
different campers or
businesses that set
up in the campground.
So we just poached
and set up a little
cash thing, and
we wrote, we wore
our cash and carry
costumes, and we
handed out cash.
I was prepared for
a few hundred kids.
It turns out the
event has 1,000 kids.
L- luckily we don’t
live far away, so we
ran home and got more
quarters and taped
them to the back
of the papers, and
we w- but next year
we’ll be prepared
for 1,000 kids, and
we’re just reaching
more and more people.
A lot of people
already know us,
and they hear the
message every
year, and the kids
look for us and
the parents know.
And so I feel like
slowly, it’s taken
years, it’s taken
thousands of kids,
but slowly we’re
promoting it.
I still do carry
dollar bills in my
wallet with a cash
sticker on the back.
If people ask
me about cash or
whatever, I give
them a dollar with
a sticker on it, and
I ask them to spend
it and use it and
circulate it around.
I actually wanna
say that I had my
first dollar bill
come back to me.
Really?
And I am so excited.
So what happened
was Catherine sent,
was, sent me to
Rogue Foods, and I’m
blessed for that,
and I got to talk
about my favorite
topic, which is cash.
And some- there was
someone at Rogue
Foods who spoke
from Wyoming, and
we got in a c-
m- conversation
about freedom and
what’s freedom look
like in Wyoming.
And it turns out
he got a dol-
one of my dollar
bills in Wyoming.
And I said, “You
did?” And he’s Yeah.
Wow, you’re the lady
that did that or the
family-” Is that-
“… that did that?” And I
was like, “Yeah.” And
I said, “Where is it?
Show me.” And he
said, “I can’t, I
spent it.” And I
was like, ” great.
I’m glad you
circulated it,” but
I was so excited to
hear from someone I
just don’t know, not
even in my state,
had gotten one of
these dollar bills.
I think over the
years in dollar
bills we must have
given out already
about $2,000 in
dollar bills probably
over the years,
and I don’t know
how many quarters.
The quarters they
untape from the
message, so the
message doesn’t
get circulated with
the quarters, but
it does get cir-
circulated with
the dollar bills.
So I love it
that people are
circulating them
and and putting
them around.
So the other thing I
wanna mention about
the dollar bills
is that w- I got a
call from my banker
About the dollar
bills because I order
them in advance for
Halloween because I
just need so many.
So I don’t wanna
show up to the bank
and say I need $400
in dollar bills
and wipe them out.
So I order it
in advance.
I just t- give them
a few days notice,
and they give me
whatever dollar bills
I want, and that
hasn’t been a problem
until this past year.
My, the manager,
branch manager of a
bank called me and
was very rude about
the dollar bills.
She just said, “Why
do you need these?”
And, “We don’t do
this, and we don’t
give this kind of
money unless you’re
a business order
this kind of money,”
and, “What are you
doing with them?”
And she knew I
was giving them
out on stickers.
It’s… Or putting
stickers on them.
It’s a small town.
She knew exactly what
I was doing, and she
was just rude about
it and said I can’t
be doing this all the
time and all of that.
Now, this is a
difficult one because
the branch manager is
I would say
politically on the
other side of us.
But a lot of the
ladies in the bank
are not that work
in the bank are
more down to earth
and more with us
and understand the
importance of cash.
So I realized,
you know what?
If I have a bank,
if I’m banking at
a bank that doesn’t
get the cash and
doesn’t support cash
at the top level,
maybe I shouldn’t
be banking here.
And we did
due diligence
on this bank.
We looked at
their financials.
We did the whole
Solari finding a good
local bank thing.
We love the bank.
They know us by
name by face.
We love the
bank, but I said,
“You know what?
This is the branch
manager, and I think
we need to get out
of this bank over
c- over this issue.
And it’s important.”
it’s extremely
important, and if
that means we have
to lose… We have
to find a new bank,
we have to find
a new bank.” So
I drag my husband
around for a day.
He was not happy,
and we looked
for a new bank.
We thought, we
researched online
and looked at some
things, and we
thought, “Okay,
this looks like
the best place.”
So we went there
and to ask some
questions, and
it turns out they
didn’t wanna answer
the questions,
couldn’t answer the
questions, et cetera.
Said, “All right.
We’re not banking
here.” So we ended
up just going
around all day.
I said, “We are not
gonna stop going
around to banks,”
we took the day off,
“until we find one
where we can open
an account We went
to seven banks.
It was terrible.
They were all just
not up to par.
And then we
finally found one.
It’s actually a
startup sort of
credit union that
was very met
all of our criteria
and gave us
financials and was
open and honest,
and we were very
comfortable there.
So now what we’ve
done is we’ve moved
about half of our
banking to that
credit union, so
we’re 50% here and
50% there in terms
of local banks.
I don’t know if
we’ll get out
of that original
bank completely.
You never
wanna leave the
old one until
you’ve been through
one or two tax
cycles, ’cause
you want access to
the information.
There’s that,
and just kinda
hedging your bets
at this point.
But so the cash
issue actually caused
us to go through the
whole solari find
a local bank, and
I sympathize with
those of you out
there who are having
trouble doing that.
It took us a full day
off work to find a
new, good local bank
and get an account
set up, and it w-
it’s painful, but
it is so important-
so important.
All right, moving on.
The next thing that
happened, I’m going
in chronological
order here, is that
we have cellphone
towers all over the
place, a lot of times
near our schools here
in Sioux Falls area,
and what we had was
a cell- a 5G tower
that wanted to go
in across from an
elementary school
and an intermediate
school, so I think
it’s total about
1,200 kids, if I
remember right.
And they wanna
put a 5G tower,
of course, on the
school property, but
our superintendent
said no to that.
So they found a
little property
across the
street where they
wanted to put the
cellphone tower.
So not me, but
somebody else
organized against
the cellphone tower
to tr- another mom
petitioned or was
trying to go to city
council and speak out
against the cellphone
tower, and it just
kept dragging on, and
she really wasn’t
getting anywhere.
And luckily, I read
about it in the
paper, and I showed
up and tried to help.
And basically, what
happened was They
were rezoning the
land from natural
conservation to
industrial so that
it- they would
have the correct
zoning to put in
the cellphone tower.
So we caught it
before the cellphone
tower use permit.
We caught it at
the rezoning level.
And so what happened
was there were…
They approved, the
city council, of
course, re- approved
the rezoning.
It wasn’t unanimous.
I think it was four
to three, so we did
have some dissent on
that, which was good,
but it still passed.
And so in South
Dakota, you can
petition local
decisions with 5% of
registered voters.
So if you get a
petition together
with 5% of registered
voters, you can
put that issue
on the ballot.
So we had five of
us, moms basically,
that said, “Let’s
try to petition
this cellphone- the
rezoning for the
cellphone tower.”
Now, I’m gonna
pause here for
a second because
what’s fascinating
about these moms
is that three of
us are what I would
call Republican
conservatives, at
least that would
probably align with
the three of us most
of all the political
affiliations.
And then we have two
people of the five
that are Democrats
and the five of
us, though, worked
as a team, and
we work together.
We support
each other.
We are 100%
like-minded on the
cell phone tower.
So cell phone
tower did something
huge in my mind.
It shifted the
fight from Democrats
versus Republicans
to what I call
corpos versus peeps.
Now, what does
that mean?
Corpos, to me,
to- in our family,
means corporations.
It means the, either
the corporations
themselves or the
people backed by
the corporations
some way, somehow.
Either they’re
getting a salary,
they’re getting
campaign donations,
have kickbacks
for whatever.
So what I call
those corpos.
And then peeps is
what my teenagers
say to describe
their peeps, their
people their what
w- we would say
mandala or their
group, their people.
Their citizens.
Their citizens.
And
taxpayers.
And taxpayers.
And that’s what my
teenagers call them.
So this shifted the
fight from Democrats
versus Republicans
to corpos versus
peeps, and that’s
the fight I think
we all re- really
need to be fighting,
and that’s what I’ve
been telling people
when I go around
and talk about CASH.
I’ll talk to
Democrats.
I’ll talk to
Republicans.
This is a corpos
versus peeps, and
that’s really the
fight we need to be
fighting, and those
are really the sides.
And I wish we could
see it, because
then what would hap-
happen is I feel like
the peeps would have
a much better chance
if they would unite.
So I just have to
say, I’ve been in the
United States now for
six or seven weeks,
and what I’m seeing
is that all the…
So the control grid
has three legs.
It- it’s a
three-legged stool.
There’s programmable
money, there’s
digital ID, and then
there’s the local
hardware, and the
local hardware is
the flock cameras
and the surveillance.
It’s the the cell
towers and the
underground cables as
well, and then it’s
the data centers.
And what we’re
suddenly seeing
is all the local
hardware issues from
the flock cameras
to the data centers
to the cell towers
is getting people
to come out of their
couch and put aside
Democrat versus
Republican, and what
they’re all saying
is, “Wait a minute.
We’re paying
for this.
This is affecting
our quality of life.
We don’t want this,
and this will be
used to control
us.” And we…
And that’s exactly
what you’re seeing.
You’re seeing
everybody get out
of the uniparty,
divide and conquer,
and into stopping
the local hardware.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So this, I’m gonna
tie this quick
back to CASH.
So us five moms from
all these political
affiliations worked
together, and we
got our s- we had
20 days to get
5% of signatures,
which in our area
was 400 signatures.
It was around
Thanksgiving, so not
only was it cold in
South Dakota, it was
a holiday season.
We got our
signatures done
in about 10 days.
And we’re on the
ballot in November,
and we’re gonna
work together again
on that, getting the
word out about the
right way to vote on
that ballot issue.
And hopefully we’re
gonna at least stop
the cellphone tower
in that location.
Now, I’m sure they’ll
find another location
and whatnot, but
at least we’re not
gonna have it right
across the street
from our schools, God
willing, in November.
But another… To
bring this back to
cash for a second,
so one thing then
that happened is
one of the Democrats
that I just didn’t
happen to know
ended up coming to
my Easter party and
learned about cash.
Because one of the
things we do at
Easter is we put cash
in the Easter eggs
with cash messages.
So that kinda brought
that family in that
we didn’t know and
brought these l-
people together that
are like-minded,
and they’re like,
“Oh, cash. Oh yeah,
that makes sense.”
And once people…
You explain it to
people, y- they
think about it,
they see the message
we’re just planting
a lot of seeds.
So that issue
helped us plant
even more seeds.
So the e- next
thing after sort
of Thanksgiving
cellphone tower,
we had the
Christmas float
in the Christmas
holiday parade.
Unfortunately, we
got canceled again
because of weather.
That’s South Dakota.
But my plan is still
for next year to
on our h- street
f- neighborhood
Christmas float,
we’re gonna throw
quarters, ’cause
quarters don’t fly
away in the wind.
We’re gonna throw
quarters with cash
messages taped on.
So that’s next year.
Hopefully I’ll
report next year
back on that.
And then my Christmas
present for my
daughter was this
$10 cash coupon
which basically says
she gets $10 cash
per month with no
digital purchases.
So if she buys her…
She’s off at college
now, so if she buys
her gas and groceries
with her cash and
not her debit or
her credit card,
she gets $10 cash.
This has been an
utter failure.
My daughter
doesn’t care.
She still uses
her debit card
all the time.
She’s a college
student, so
don’t tell her.
She probably
won’t listen
to this anyway.
But next year I’m
gonna up the d- up
the money from $10,
I might try $20 or I
don’t know what her
trigger level will
be, but we’ll be
trying this again.
This failed.
But what’s
interesting about
this is then right
after I did this at
Christmas, guess what
she got in the mail?
A $10 reward
from her bank-
To qualify, simply
make at least 20
transactions on
your First Dakota
National Bank debit
card in March,
valid March 1 to 31.
So they’re g-
offering her $10
to use her debit
card 20 times in
the month of March.
Now, is that creepy?
I think it’s a little
creepy that I gave
her this cash coupon
for- It’s unlikely
it’s a coincidence.
It’s unlikely it’s
a coincidence, and I
wanna point out this
bank is not our bank.
We don’t actually
bank here.
She has a account
open at this bank
with $20, I think,
in it, and she
did it because she
wanted to apply for
their scholarship
when she was in high
school as a senior.
So she literally
is the only one in
our family with a,
an account at this
bank, but I thought
that was just super
creepy, so I wanna
point that out.
All right, so the
next thing that
happened to us
in the thick of
winter was the data
center, the Sioux
Falls Data Center.
Now, what was
interesting about
this is Sioux Falls
was very sneaky about
their data center.
They said, “We’re
gonna sneaky annex
some land on the edge
of town between Sioux
Falls and Brandon,
and we’re gonna annex
it, and then put the
500-megawatt data
center right there.”
Now, 500 megawatts
is about the same
amount of power that
the whole city of
Sioux Falls consumes.
But what’s
interesting is they
put the, they re,
they annex the land,
and that data center
will be less than a
half a mile away from
homes in Brandon,
where I live, but
yet about a mile or
more away from any
Sioux Falls homes.
The residents in
Brandon have no
voice in the Sioux
Falls City Council.
So the resident,
the homes that it’s
closest to have
no voice in that
data center Sioux
Falls had a city
council meeting
where they discussed
the data center.
They were again
trying to rezone
from, I think,
agricultural to
light industrial,
I believe.
So Sioux Falls had a
city council meeting
about this, and I
think about 170
people showed up.
I think a hun-
more than 100
people testified.
I think it went
till midnight.
I actually slept
through it.
My husband went,
and he was there
late, and they all
testified, and this
again turned into
corpos versus peeps.
All the peeps were
there, the Democrats
with blue hair
and nose rings
and all kinds of
things, and then
the old conservative
grandma Republicans.
Everyone was there
testifying against
this data center.
Even though it wasn’t
close to any Sioux
Falls homes, they
were testifying
about electricity and
our electric rates
just went up 10%.
They were testifying
about water, about
all these things.
So it was again
a situation where
the peeps came
together, no matter
their political
affiliation.
Now, what happened
was the city council
members politely
listened to all of
this testimony and
then voted in favor
of the data center
seven to zero So in
South Dakota, we have
a, this process where
these decisions can
be put on the ballot
with a petition of
5% of the signatures,
just like we did with
the cellphone tower.
Now, the problem was
the Brandon moms that
did the cellphone
tower couldn’t do
this because we don’t
live in Sioux Falls.
So our signatures are
invalid because we
don’t live in Sioux
Falls city limits.
So we could
collect signatures,
but we couldn’t
sign ourselves.
And of course,
living in Brandon,
most of our friends
and community are
in Brandon, not
in Sioux Falls.
But us moms,
cellphone tower
moms did collect
signatures for the
cell- for the data
center petition, but
it was led by Sioux
Falls residents.
Sioux Falls is also
a much larger town.
So 5% of registered
voters in 20 days,
that’s about 6,700
signatures needed in
20 days in January
in South Dakota.
Wow.
So
we- What’s the
average temperature
in January?
I don’t know.
Freezing.
Freezing.
Below freezing.
Below freezing.
And it’s not really
the temperature,
it’s the wind chill
that gets you.
And so we did do some
standing outside,
but it was brutal.
In fact, I was
collecting signatures
outside with a
friend in front of
a hockey game, and
our pens were frozen.
People couldn’t sign
because the ink was
frozen in the pen.
So it was brutal,
but we did collect
a lot of signatures.
Now, what was
interesting was this
was led by Sioux
Falls people, not
by us cell tower
moms, and there
were several things
that didn’t quite
make sense about it.
So one of the
organizers was kinda
downright rude.
The whole
organization
team didn’t want
signatures turned
in to the city
clerk or the city
clerk’s office, which
is where they go.
She wanted the
signatures turned
in to the tattoo
shop where they
would be locked
up and protected
and counted, and
then turned in
on the last day.
Now, this isn’t
how we did the
cellphone tower.
On the cellphone
tower, we turned in
the signatures to
the clerk as we got
them, and then the
clerk would validate
the signatures
and tell us what
our total was.
“Okay, you have 200
signatures. You have
350 now.” so we
got a running total.
We needed, we
knew how hard we
needed to work
and how many more
signatures we needed.
They just locked,
wanted to lock them
up in a room, not
tell anyone how many
signatures they had,
and not turn them in
to the city clerk.
And I had multiple
conversations with
the organizers
about this.
I sent multiple
emails.
I said, “People need
to know how many more
signatures we have
so they know if they
have to canvas all
night, or we need to
know where we’re at.
We need to know how
many are valid.”
And they just would
not. And so I said,
“You know what?
This is awful
suspicious on
multiple levels.”
So I found out
that one of the
organizers was paid
by the data center.
Now, the, we saw
this all the time
in California.
They would,
when we lived in
California the the
corporations would
pay someone to lead
the opposition, okay?
People here in
South Dakota aren’t
used to that.
So it w- I feel
like I’m the only one
that figured it out.
How were you- No one
else figured it out
… How were you able
to ascertain that
they were paid?
So there were
three organiz-
main organizers.
I was suspicious
of all three.
The one that was
downright rude I
just c- I was very
suspicious, and I
checked out on her.
I checked
around on her.
H- how do any
of these three
people make money,
first of all?
One of them’s
claiming to have
five little kids.
I don’t see how that
person doesn’t seem
to work and seems to
be out all the time
with five k- there
were a lot of things
that just didn’t
make sense to me.
But one of them
specifically I
checked into, asked
around, and it turns
out she’s a paid
petition circulator.
So she’s a known paid
petition circulator.
So then it’s okay
who’s paying her?
She earns, I think,
about $30 an hour
is what I was
tol- was told.
So the question is,
who pays her, and who
paid her to do this?
It-
I always talk about
always know how the
money works on any
situation, and know
how the money works
for every person
you’re working with
and what’s going on.
You need to know
how the… The
perfect example.
And at that point,
when I realized she
was paid by the data
center I didn’t
even need to research
the other two.
It was not worth my
time at that point.
And so what they
do is they collect
signatures, and
they ref- they- They
sabotage the process.
Yeah they just
disappear the
signatures.
They were also
doing things like
telling people to
turn in signatures
without the forms
being notarized.
The forms have to
be notarized by
the collector of
the signatures.
They told them
to turn them in
unnotarized, and
they went and crossed
some off that weren’t
valid, and then
they were gonna come
back and notarize
th- I don’t know.
The whole thing was
just so sketchy.
So I said, “All
right, I figured
this out. I want
my signatures to
be counted.” So I
took mine directly
in the city clerk
office, not to the
tattoo shop, and
the city clerk is
totally on our side,
it turns out, ’cause
they’re peeps, okay?
So they are totally
on our side.
They were happy to
get my signatures.
They were happy to
email me a couple
hours later with
exactly the total of
how many I had turned
in, and h- I don’t
think they validated
them at that point,
but they had tr-
were right on track.
You turned in this
many signatures.
This is your
total count.
It was a tough
situation because
I tried to get the
word out about that,
that we need to turn
in our signatures
directly to the city
clerk, but that’s
going against what
the organizers are
saying, and a lot
of people here in
South Dakota have
never seen this
before, where the
opposition would
pay the organizers.
They just trust.
We live in a- So-
… world of trust here
in South Dakota.
We all leave
our homes open.
We all leave our
keys, our car
keys in our cars.
That’s just how we
live around here
for the most part.
Not everyone lives
that way, but a
lot of us still do,
and- It’s hard to
get people to to
realize these things
when they’re not
used to seeing them
One of the things
we’ve seen, and
a lot of feedback
we’re getting on
data centers, is
that they’re not used
to developers who
intentionally lie.
And there are now
even TikTok videos
about developer
professional liars
that that are funny.
But if you’re not
used to dealing
with people who
lie and use covert
operations, we need
to get we need to
get educated about
that right away.
Yep.
Right?
Yep.
Yeah.
So that was our data
center experience.
So the data center
did go through.
Our petition
obviously failed.
And the data
center, as of
now, is scheduled
to be built.
We did bring a bill.
Us random Brandon
moms, basically
cellphone tower
moms brought a bill
to the legislature.
We actually got it
out of committee
was killed on
the House floor.
And all the other
data center bills
basically failed.
We did get through
a data center Bill
of Rights, but
it’s, in my opinion,
not enforceable.
Our electric rates
already went up 10%.
In my opinion,
that’s gotta be for
the data center.
There’s no
other reason.
I don’t know.
We’re still
working on it.
We’re still
brainstorming.
We’re st- still
seeing if there’s
anything we
can do on that.
I think our focus
right now is to get
everyone elected
who’s a peep and not
a corpo, so that we
can have the votes
to do something in
the legislature.
So that’s our
focus, I think,
right now, at this
point in time.
The election
is tomorrow, so
that’s what we’re
all focused on.
All right, so
back to CASH.
In the past, I’ve
done CASH talks
at any group that
will talk to me.
So Republicans,
Democrats, just any
group, Rogue Foods
any group that will
talk about CASH or
wants to hear about
it, I will talk at.
Unfortunately, this
past year, I was
only able to talk
at one local group.
The Democrats won’t
talk to me anymore
because- … even
though these are d-
actually blue state
bills, the CASH
bills they are just
so polarized in the
Democrats versus
Republicans that
because I brought
the bill with one of
the most conservative
Republicans in
our legislature,
they won’t talk
to me anymore.
So that’s all right.
S- I hope some days
they realize that
they need their
Republican brothers
and sisters, and I
hope the Republican
br- Republicans
realize they need
their Democrat
brothers and
sisters, ’cause
we’re all peeps.
I will also
say one thing.
A lot of the
Republican versus
Democrat is
intentionally
engineered.
A lot of money is
put into it to keep
them from talking
to each other and
being effective,
and that’s how Mr.
Global is coming
into their hometown
and absolutely
rolling them.
And when you think
of what the noise
pollution of that new
data center is gonna
do to people near
it You know and
but you get them
to not understand
that and not stop
it by getting
them fighting.
Exactly.
It’s the plan.
Is working pretty
well, but we’re
trying to fight
against it, but
yeah, it’s working
pretty well.
So the one talk I
did give this year
is a group that I’ve
talked at a few times
before, so they’ve
heard the cash story,
but I feel like a
lot of them don’t
really fully get it,
and a lot of them
are still paying with
their credit cards.
They get it.
They’ve heard
it a few times,
but they’re not
paying with cash
every day for gas
and groceries.
Some of them are, but
a lot of them aren’t.
So I thought, “What
can I do this year
that’s different that
will just kinda jar
them?” And so what
I did is I showed
them a 15-minute
horror movie, I call
it a horror movie,
called Utopia.
And what this movie
is about someone
who went away from
his city called
Utopia for, I think,
15 years or so,
came back, and the
digital control grid
was implemented.
So for example,
he only had cash,
but nowhere took
cash anymore.
They had cameras
everywhere
surveilling you,
controlling you.
If you said a
curse word, you
would get a fine.
You couldn’t
leave your house.
Your car wouldn’t
start until you
paid your fine.
And the only
place that there
weren’t cameras or
microphones to listen
to your curse words
and fine you was
in the bathroom So
in the bathroom you
could drink wine,
and you could curse
and all those things.
So people started
building their
homes with
bigger bathrooms.
And it… The movie
has a fun English
accent to it that
people like, and
it’s only 15 minutes.
So I thought, “Let
me show them this
horror movie.” And
b- let me s- pause
a minute about
this horror movie.
Turns out when,
if I skip ahead,
my husband’s
currently running
for legislature, and
he does not wanna
run for legislature,
let me tell you.
And when I told him
he has to because
everyone else we
found can’t do it
for various reasons,
and we don’t have
anybody else, and
if he doesn’t do it,
we’ll have corpos
instead of peeps.
And he knows this.
He knows it’s true,
but he doesn’t
wanna be in the
legislature.
I get it.
I don’t wanna be
in the legislature
either, but somebody
has to do it.
So I thought,
“All right.
My husband’s
mad at me.
In fact, he stopped
talking to me for
a little while.
What am I gonna do?”
But he has to do
this. So I showed
him this 15-minute
horror movie. I
showed it to him, and
I said, “Okay let’s
watch the movie.
Let’s watch this
movie.” And I made
it homeschool.
We also homeschool
our girls.
They go to full-time
public school, and
we homeschool them
on mostly deep state
tactics these days.
But I said, “We’re
gonna do it for
homeschool. We’re
gonna watch this
movie.” So I showed
him the movie, and
after the movie he
said, “All right.
I’m gonna run for
legislature.” So-
Isn’t that wonderful?
Yeah.
Well- Because here’s
the- Scary enough.
It’s hard for busy
people to understand
what that world is
gonna be like, and
it’s hard for many
people to fathom
that anybody would
do this, and that’s
the great thing.
So I just wanna
warn everybody,
we’re gonna show
the movie right now.
If you don’t wanna
watch the whole
thing, skip ahead,
but it’s gonna be
internally for cash.
So here it
comes, right?
Yep.
Sounds good
Hey, how you doing?
15 years.
Ah, great to
see you, Frank.
Welcome home, Jack.
Courtesy note: All
fines must be paid
before check-in.
Thank you.
Have a nice day
To Utopia.
Citizen
departures 676
I can’t wait to see
Margaret Citizen
arrivals 087
So
glad to be back home.
So what’s been
happening?
Anything at all?
No, nothing’s
changed.
What a beautiful day.
Processing.
GPS coordinates
confirmed.
How you doing?
I’m starting the car.
What do you
think I’m doing?
What the
Did you throw
out any rubbish?
No, of course not
Is that yours?
Hey, that’s
my bandana.
Yeah.
It must have fallen
out my pocket.
So what?
What are you doing?
I’m
looking for a
credit card.
Credit card?
What for?
The car won’t
start unless I
pay the fine.
Now you understand?
How about this one?
It’s Margaret’s
The car’s in my name.
Margaret won’t mind.
Can’t believe
we’re walking.
You live an hour
away, Frank.
Anyway, who
fined you?
I didn’t see
any cops.
There are no cops.
Anyone can fine you.
Gee, things have
changed a bit.
We hardly noticed
Margaret
Frank, have you
seen my credit card?
You left it
in my car.
That’s great.
Just great.
Why?
I just got fined.
Can you drop
it off to me?
I’m walking.
Oh, no, not you too.
What are you
looking for?
Some beer.
There’s no beer, Jack
Besides, alcohol
is bad for you.
You’re not my
mother, Frank
Is that a camera?
New regulations.
There’s one in every
home, in every room.
It’s for our
own good, Jack.
You gotta be
kidding me.
Are you
telling me that
the- Alcohol is
illegal, smoking
is illegal, and
we’re all much
healthier now.
And our insurance
premiums are low.
This is madness.
What’s become
of this country?
Just keep your
voice down.
Why?
You gonna fine me?
Did I just get fined?
This is too
fucking much.
What the hell were
you people thinking?
Don’t swear.
This is too up
Your government
is . Your rules
are . You’re all
! Have you finished?
Go yourself
Now I am.
Follow me
No fines.
Take a seat
So it’s all come
down to this?
No choice.
People started making
their bathrooms
bigger and nicer
than the rest of
their houses, but
the government and
council caught on
fast and set limits
to the size you can
build your bathroom.
Is there anything you
don’t get fined for?
I’ll have to think
about that one
What are you doing?
How’s this work?
There’s a government
app on your phone.
You point and take
a snapshot of any
offense, and the
government gives you
10% commission from
every fine you record
I can’t live
like this
Sure you can.
We’re creatures
of habit.
You’ll get
used to it.
Here, have some food
I don’t eat
in bathrooms
Tell me why
I’m sorry, Jack,
but you can’t stay.
Why?
$2,000 in
fines, Jack.
What the hell
were you thinking?
We also get
fined because
it’s our house.
I’ll promise to
pay you back.
It’s not just
the money.
You’ve affected
everything we do.
Until we pay our
fines, we miss
out on shopping
discounts, public
transport, bank
loans, everything.
I’m your
brother, Frank.
I can’t fight it
anymore, Jack.
We hate it, too.
Why don’t you
just get up and
leave the country?
We can’t leave.
Why?
We have a mortgage.
Any debts, big or
small, you can’t
travel outside
the country.
It’s as simple
as that.
All the changes
started happening
slowly after you left
I did the protests
but teenagers and
hippies on the
streets aren’t
convincing enough.
Can’t blame the
people When your
belly’s empty, you
swallow anything
they shove down
your throat.
Artists were supposed
to turn a mirror
on society, but
instead, most of them
turned the mirror
on themselves and
it became a selfie.
Most writers,
artists, poets
sold out.
Too scared to
challenge in case
they lost the
corporate sponsor or
some government grant
I’m old now
I’m tired
I’m done my fighting
I’d like to live
out the rest of my
life with the few
freedoms I have left
I’ll leave in
the morning
Jack, just
some advice.
If you help anyone
with a red wristband,
you get fined too.
But whatever you do,
never, ever pay for
anyone else’s fine
Hello.
Hello.
Are you okay?
Why are you
sleeping here?
I don’t have a home
Why don’t you
sleep at a hotel?
They won’t take cash
So where will
you live now?
Here
Processing.
GPS coordinates
confirmed.
Margaret, nice to-
Ticket, sir
… see you.
Sir, your ticket
and passport, please
I’m sorry, sir, but
you have unpaid fines
Margaret, p- please,
look, I’ll pay
them another time.
I’ve gotta get
out of here.
Sir, in order
for your check-in
to proceed, you
need to pay the
outstanding fines.
Why are you
doing this?
How much?
$2,000. Your credit
card, please.
I don’t have
a credit card.
I’ve only got cash.
We can’t accept cash.
Margaret, please.
Press some button.
I beg you, fix this.
I’ve gotta get out
of this country.
Please.
Please move away
from the counter.
If you do not
move, I will
have to fine you.
I don’t care anymore
Sorry, Jack
I know you are.
I forgive you
Have a safe
flight, sir
Thank you.
Thank you
Payment detected
From your
current location.
Your cooperation
is appreciated
Can I ask you
a question?
Why are you
always smiling?
Because I’m free
So after the
people at this talk
watched the horror
movie, what I did
is I had slides
to show them how
Utopia is coming
to Sioux Falls.
What a great idea.
So I took all the
elements in the movie
and sh- and had a
slide for all the
elements that are in
Sioux Falls or coming
to Sioux Falls.
So first off, the
cellphone towers.
A lot of the Sioux
Falls schools have
5G towers on their
school campuses, and
I showed them some
pictures of them.
Flock cameras.
Sioux Falls has a
ton of flock cameras.
There’s a website
called deflock.me,
and you can… It s-
has a map with all
the flock cameras
in your area.
I showed them
the flock cameras
in Sioux Falls.
Turns out all of
our current mayor
candidates for
election support
the use of more
flock cameras
in Sioux Falls.
A lot of people at
the talk, by the
way, didn’t realize
there were cell
towers on the school
properties, and they
didn’t realize there
were flock cameras.
So I raised a lot
of awareness with
those issues.
And then the
Ring doorbells.
Knock… We’ve
knocked over
2,000 doors.
I would say 90%
of doors have
Ring doorbells.
You’re kidding.
Nope.
Wow … and people
do not realize
what’s gonna happen.
When I lived in
Silicon Valley
during COVID, we
had COVID lockdown.
Your kids weren’t
allowed to have
friends over
for play dates.
You weren’t allowed
to walk your
dog, et cetera.
They would catch you
going out of your
home or a kid coming
over for a play date
on your neighbor’s
Ring doorbell and
send you a ticket.
Our county in
California issued
over $5 million
in COVID fines.
Wow.
So this… But people
here don’t get it.
They’ve not
seen it be used.
So anyway if
you’ve seen the m-
movie Utopia now,
y- you understand
why Ring doorbells
might be a problem.
Over 90% of doors
here have them.
And then we had a
smart camera light
bulb on sale at
our local Menards,
our local sort of
hardware store, for
$19.99 at Christmas,
and I saved the ad.
It’s a light bulb
that screws into a
normal light socket
with a camera on it.
And that’s
exactly- What?
Yeah.
It’s $19.99 at
Ch- on sale at
Christmas, and this
is what they use in
the movie Utopia.
The light, there’s
cameras in every
room, whether they’re
in the light bulbs
or on the walls.
We had that on
sale for Christmas.
And then, of course,
our data center that
I just talked about.
That’s part of
this Utopia land
in Sioux Falls.
And then the
kill switches
in the vehicles.
A lot of people
here do, in s-
South Dakota,
do not realize
about the federal
kill switches
in the vehicles.
So that was an
eye-opener for
some people.
And- I
just have to stop
you for a second.
We’re just about to
publish an interview
with John Padfield
about how all the
new cars have cameras
that are watching
and recording you.
And if you rent a
car and you read
the terms and
conditions if the
camera, which is
sharing data with all
sorts of different
people sees you
doing something
that’s technically in
violation, they can
pull the insurance.
Right.
Right So the other
thing we have
in South Dakota
as of 2025 is
we have digital
vehicle titles now.
So that’s
another way.
Do you really own
your car even?
I don’t know.
So we got– We-
that legislation
was passed in 2025,
and then of course
there’s the get rid
of cash movement
that’s worldwide.
Social Security’s
going 100% paperless
by March 2025.
No more paper
checks from the
federal government
in September 2025.
No more pennies.
By the way, nickels
cost more to mint,
so it’s probably
not gonna save us
any money, and the
rounding tax to
consumers could cost
us about six million
dollars a year.
And then the other
interesting thing
is that the Fed is
actually tracking
cashless settlem-
sentiment for the
first time in 2025.
So because of all of
our cash legislation,
and we have to
be right with God
and have proof for
everything we say,
I always bring these
statistics from the
Federal Reserve about
cash, who uses cash,
who has a, who’s, has
a credit card, who
doesn’t, et cetera.
So one of the
things in the Fed
Diary of Consumer
Payment Choice this
year for the first
time was that the
Fed is tracking
cashless sentiment.
So they’re asking
people, “Do you
currently have any
plans to stop using
cash in the future?”
And in 2020– it’s a
year behind in the,
in their statistics.
So in 2024, they said
92% of people said,
“No, I do not have
any plans to stop
using cash.” And then
5% of people said,
“Yes, I have already
stopped using cash.”
And then 1% of people
said, “I plan to
stop using cash in
the next two years.”
Two to fi- 1% of
people said also, “I
plan to stop using
cash in the next
two to five years,”
and, “More than five
years from now, I
plan to stop using
cash.” That was
also 1% of people.
So most people say
they’re still using
cash, and they plan
to keep using cash.
So that’s good.
That’s good news.
But the bad news here
is that the Fed is
even tracking this.
They wanna know
when are we ready
to give up cash.
They were not
tracking this
previously,
and now they’re
tracking this.
At least in
their published
statistics, they
weren’t tracking it.
So now they’re
publishing it and
saying people wanna
get rid of cash
maybe someday.
So anyway, so the
elimination of cash.
And then the other
thing I did in
this talk that I
gave is I had a new
argument for the
credit card people.
So credit card fees
cost the average
American household
about $1,200 annually
And you’re paying
for it, or are you,
is the question.
So it turns out that
credit card reward
expenses, I have
a chart here, and
they’re shown in
blue on this chart.
Meanwhile, the
transaction margin
is shown in red.
So basically what
this is telling you
is that the rewards
programs cost more
than the swipe fees
and the annual fees.
So they’re giving
away more in cash
back and free flights
and things like that
than you’re paying in
your swipe fees and
in your annual fees.
So how is
that possible?
So let me go back.
So the average
household pays 1,200
in fees, but they’re
getting more than
1,200 in rewards?
Correct.
So they’re trying
to buy everybody
into the trap.
Here’s the thing.
So if I, if you let
me ke- if I keep
going for a second,
this does not include
interest charges-
Right
and finance charges.
Right.
So basically what
happens is they’re
making it up in
the interest and
finance charges.
So according to the
Federal Reserve,
the credit card
credit function,
meaning interest
charges, makes up
about 80% of credit
card profitability.
So fees, in
particular late
fees, comprise
approximately 15%
of credit card
profitability.
So if you look
at the ratio of
credit card debt to
monthly income.
Okay?
That’s what this
next chart is,
this chart is about
that I showed them.
So if you look
at it, the people
that are lower
income have more
credit card debt.
Okay?
And then
it goes down.
As you get to the
higher income levels,
they have less
credit card debt.
So this tells you
that your low-income
families and your
medium-income
families are paying
for your rewards,
’cause they’re the
ones paying the
finance charges-
They also pay higher
interest rates
… A lot of
times they do.
And the late fees,
the interest charges,
and potentially
higher rates.
So the, so your
vacation or your
cash back is coming
from the low and
medium-income people.
So is that really
a vacation or a
reward that you can
feel good about?
I don’t know.
So you go on your
vacation, and then
you donate money to
the local food bank.
Why not just
stop using your
credit card- And
pay with cash.
And then the other
thing I wanna, that
came out in this
last year, I think
Solari put it out.
Now, I would like
to just read it
really quick.
It’s from a Zero
Hedge article
called When Cash
Disappears, So Does
Something Else.
So it says, “If I
hand $20 in cash
to the empan-
empanada vendor,
he hands that same
$20 to the barber
who cuts his hair.
The barber gives
it to a babysitter.
The babysitter uses
it to buy a pizza.
The same do- $20
bill keeps moving
through the community
at full value.
No one skims
anything off the top.
But in the digital
system, that cut
happens again and
again, and the
effect compounds.
At a 3.5% fee, after
one transaction, that
$20 becomes $19.30.
After two
transactions that
$20 is now $18.62.
After three
transactions, it’s
$17.97, et cetera.
So by the time five
digital transactions
happen, only about
$16.74 remains
in circulation.
So more than $3 of
the original $20 has
quietly disappeared
in a handful of
everyday exchanges.
That money didn’t
go to the farmer,
the barber, the
babysitter, or
the pizza shop.
It left the community
entirely.” Now,
that money that
left the community,
where did it go?
It went to MasterCard
that’s head-
headquartered in
New York or Visa,
headquartered in
San Francisco.
Do we, as South
Dakotans, really
wanna fund people
in New York and
San Francisco?
So let’s aggregate
that and look.
So if I remember
correctly, two years
ago, you said that
the total credit
card fees taken out
of South Dakota in
one year was what?
Almost a
billion dollars.
Ah.
I don’t
remember,
but it was a
lot.
Was it 7- Yeah
… 750 million?
Something like that.
Imagine if that 700
million continued
to circulate and
multiply within
South Dakota.
It’s amazing in terms
of the municipal and
state tax base and
just local business.
Yep.
Absolutely.
You’re talking
about a fortune.
I used that argument
last year, and
I’m trying to use
different arguments
every year.
So this was my new
argument in the
talk this year.
And at the end of
my talk, I always
get really good
questions, and I…
The talk usually
there at that group
ends up going at
least two hours, if
not two and a half
or three, and I get
a lot of really good
questions that, that
really challenge
me to come up with
a better message
or a better way
of communicating.
So one of the
questions I got this
year w- After all
of this was, why
am I so passionate
about cash?
And I just thought,
“Ugh, I didn’t get
my message across. I
need… I failed.”
If they don’t get
why I’m so passionate
about cash now,
I’m not sure how
they’ll get it.
But then I s- I
just thought, and I
just thought, “Oh.”
Then I looked at them
and I said, “Do you
wanna live in Utopia?
Remember the
horror movie that
I showed you?
Do you wanna live in
Utopia?” And everyone
s- everyone said,
shook their head,
“No, we don’t wanna
live in Utopia.”
I said, “Do you
have a better idea?
Do you have a
better idea?
Anybody here have
a better idea other
than paying with
cash every day?”
Everybody looks
at each other.
No better idea.
No better idea.
And it’s as simple
as paying with cash
every day for your
gas and groceries.
It really is
that simple.
That’s all I need.
You don’t need to
give out stickers
at Halloween,
$10 with stickers
at Halloween.
You just need
to pay with cash
for at least
your gas and your
groceries every day.
That’s it.
And no one had
a better idea.
If anybody
listening to this
has a better idea,
please let me know.
I’d love t- I’d
love to know.
I don’t have
a better idea.
So can I just stop
and say one thing?
So you and your
husband were
successful Silicon
engineers, and one
of the things, one of
the reasons I think
you’re passionate
about cash is you
know that any digital
system can end up
with a third lock.
That there’s no…
I listen to a lot
of activists say,
“Oh we have this
digital system or
that digital system
that can work.”
And I’m like, “No.
If you’re gonna
have a successful
financial system,
you have to have a
healthy analog part.
You have to have
something that’s
absolutely two
lock.” And I
think it’s because
you’ve you’ve,
you have the…
You have fantastic
engineering degrees.
You worked in
Silicon Valley.
You understand where
that all goes, and
that it’s always
potentially gonna be
central controlled.
So keeping analog
alive is it.
Right.
And what we saw in
Silicon Valley is
there’s a backdoor
to everything.
I don’t… And
people come and
say, “This crypto’s
secure, this credit
card- None of it’s
not … this bank
acc-” None of it is.
There’s a backdoor
to everything.
Right.
And and I hate
to say it, but I
think Catherine’s
right about the
attitude in Silicon
Valley is, “We’re
smarter and better
than everyone else,
and we can control
the other idiots.”
I hate to say it,
but- It’s true
… that is the attitude
in Silicon Valley.
And,
We just saw one
of the top tech
billionaires move to
Argentina because now
that more and more
people understand
that he- that’s what
his attitude is he’s
out… He wants to
get out of town.
Right.
Yep.
So I think it’s
time for the peeps
to stand up and use
cash every day for
gas and groceries
and well- … send
these numbers
the other way.
You don’t have
to fight with
Mr. Global.
You don’t have
to fight with
Silicon Valley.
Just don’t use them.
Just- Walk away
… use cash, and don’t
shop at businesses
that don’t take cash.
Right.
And the other que-
the other question
I got at the talk,
after the talk,
besides why am I
so passionate about
cash, the other
question I got is,
how do I know that
the data centers
are being used
for control, like
the control grid
that we saw in the
Utopia movie or
the control grid
that Catherine and
I think is coming?
How do I know the
data centers are
being used for that
and not just for
my everyday digital
activities like
texting or calling
or streaming my
favorite video?
How do I know that
they’re actually
gonna use them
for control?
People here don’t…
They’re trusting.
They’re very
trusting, and they
don’t see that the
data centers are
necessarily evil.
They think it’s part
of technology and
growth, and we need
them to communicate
with our grandma in
Germany and so forth.
So how do I know
they’re being
used for control?
And he stumped
me on that one.
I said, ” because I
helped build it.” And
then I thought about
it, and I thought,
” wait a minute.
I can mathematically
prove this to you.
I can mathematically
prove you, prove
to you that there’s
no reason we need
this much data
capacity for what
you and I would
call good, everyday
digital activities.
There’s no way we
need this much data
capacity.” And I
thought about it.
I thought, “All
right, maybe we can
mathematically prove
this right now,” but
it’d probably take me
at least an hour on
the whiteboard here.
We had a whiteboard.
And I thought, ” I
don’t know that
everybody wants to
stay here another
hour.” It was
already 8 or 9
o’clock at night.
And I decided,
you know what?
We’re gonna try and
write a whitepaper.
So my husband and I
are actually drafting
a whitepaper.
Because of this
Cash Talk, we’re
actually drafting
a whitepaper.
It’s maybe, I don’t
know, a third written
because we’ve had
to campaign for his
election, but we will
finish it, and it’s
going to take a stab
at mathematically
proving that data
centers are gonna
be used at control.
So that’s gonna be
something we’re gonna
be working on after
the election all
because of cash,
this is fantastic.
I didn’t know
about this.
Yep.
I can’t wait.
So one of the things
I wanna bring up
to you is if you
look at the payment
stablecoin marketing
plans- cause I think
control you’re gonna
have programmable
money with s-
payment stable coins,
but also with the
digital tokens.
So the DTC has
announced their
effort to, to
tokenize all
114 trillion of
stocks and bonds.
So you’re gonna have
programmable money
embedded in stable
coins being marketed
all around the world,
dollar stable coins,
and the digital
tokens marketed all
around the world.
So if you look at the
size of the financial
data, not to mention
the surveillance data
coming in on that-
That’s gonna be
part of the formula.
Right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So we’re capturing
all that in our
white paper and doing
some calculations
and numbers and
showing that the
numbers don’t line
up for anything
else but control.
Right.
Anything else but
basically a utopia
style control.
Right.
So all right.
So the next thing
we did in the cash
world, in the Turtle
for Cash, is we did
cash legislation.
So one exciting thing
is our representative
that brings our
cash legislation,
his name is John
Sharda, a fantastic
local farmer, such
a great guy, such
a ethical, honest,
just amazing person.
He actually got a
nickname this year,
and his nickname
is Johnny Cash.
And everyone started
calling him Johnny
Cash this session,
which was great.
So I asked him
for one bill this
session, and it is
a house concurrent
resolution, 6004.
It’s a concurrent
resolution
encouraging the use
of physical cash in
transactions, and
then it says it has
a bunch of whereases.
“Whereas payment
with physical cash
prevents tracking
and controlling
purchases, and
whereas payment with
physical cash saves
businesses money on
transaction fees,”
et cetera, et cetera.
I won’t read
the whole thing.
Be it resolved that
the citizens of this
state are strongly
encouraged to support
businesses that offer
a discount for using
phys- physical cash.
Be it resolved that
the citizens of this
state are strongly
encouraged to pay
with physical cash
whenever and wherever
possible,” et cetera.
So I just wanted a
resolution to bring
awareness to cash,
and- With, so with
this resolution,
I had two handouts
that the committee
got and that we
actually put on the
floor of the House,
which is 70 House
Representatives.
I had two handouts.
So the first handout
is the South Dakota
businesses with a
lower cash price.
So it’s by city,
and it has all
the businesses.
They either offer
a cash discount or
charge you a fee
for using a card.
So that’s a list
of businesses, and
then we also have a
website with the same
information on it.
And I asked the
representatives if
they know of any
other businesses
in their towns to
please write them
on the handout and
give it back to the
repres- Johnny Cash,
and he would get it
back to me, and we’d
update our list.
And so our list
has actually… I
think in the last
year, it’s doubled
in size, I believe.
At Rogue Foods, I
got a bunch of new
businesses that,
that on the list.
So anyway, so the
resolution was an
excuse to bring
awareness to these
businesses, to bring
awareness to cash,
and to get them
talking about cash.
And the other thing,
handout I gave
them is this Solari
business flyer that
Solari did for us
why I’m proud to
be a cash-friendly
businesses
business, benefits
for businesses,
customers, and
communities.
So they got these
two handouts on
their desk, and the
resolution was really
intended to bring
awareness to cash.
So this resolution
made it through
committee.
We had… I said
it was inspired by
this representative,
I’ll call him
Representative S,
who said, ” He voted
against every single
cash bill we brought
so far, and he said,
” just pay cash if
you want to.” and I
thought, ” we should
then…” And he said,
“My business offers
a cash discount,
so businesses
can do that if
it’s economic,”
blah, blah, blah.
“We have a free
market.” So I, in
testimony, I said,
“We don’t really have
a free market when
50% of our GDP is
from the government.
That’s not really a
free market.” And
so we wanna support
these businesses
that offer a cash
discount like yours,
Representative S.”
And he actually
voted for us for
this cash resolution,
which was super
exciting for me.
And we got out of
committee no problem,
and then we I think
we, yeah, we got
out of committee
eight to four.
We passed the House
floor 43 to 24 And
then basically we
fumbled it in the
Senate, and this
was kinda my fault.
We thought the
senator that had
signed onto it
was gonna prime
sponsor it.
Turns out he
didn’t wanna
prime sponsor it.
We had our prime
sponsor from the cash
at school events.
He would… He
actually called me
before session and
asked me h- asked me
what he could do to
help us with cash.
So we got him to
sign onto it, but
we thought it was
gonna be assigned
to committee.
They waived committee
and just put us on
the Senate floor
the next day.
So we didn’t
have time to prep
him on the bill.
We didn’t have time
to get handouts
to everybody.
So the Senate, it
tied I think it
was… Oh, it failed
actually 16 to 18.
So we failed
on the Senate
floor 16 to 18.
Oh, that hurts.
But like I said, that
was with no handouts
and no preparation.
He just stood up
there and said
something and wasn’t
prepared, and we
weren’t prepared
’cause we wanted
to go to committee.
We wanted to…
So we fumbled.
We should’ve… The
Senate pro temp
he’s on cash,
so we should’ve…
We just fumbled.
We should’ve gotten
with him earlier.
We thought he
was gonna send
it to committee.
He didn’t, and we
just fumbled it.
So that’ll be a
good excuse to bring
it back next year.
So this resolution
will be back
next year.
We’ll be talking
about cash again with
this resolution.
So I was excited that
to do that again, but
then Johnny Cash said
he wanted our cash
at retail bill back,
and I did not wanna
bring that bill back.
We lost… Last
year, we lost 0 to
13 in committee,
and we had a line
of lobbyists out
the door testifying
against us.
We got hammered, and
I just didn’t see
any reason to waste
our time and energy
bringing that back.
And we wrote
a good bill.
It wasn’t w- A, a
few things could’ve
been differ- done
differently, but
we had a good bill.
So I just didn’t see
any reason to come
back with it But he
said Representative
L wants it
brought back.
Now, Representative L
voted against us, and
I thought clearly
Representative L
has taken a year to
think about their
decision and- He
probably saw Utopia
I don’t know.
But Representative
L wants it brought
back, so we should
bring it back.
And I thought, all
right, we’ll get
hammered 1 to 12
instead of 0 to 13.
Okay if they really
want it brought back
we’ll bring it back.
And he said, “Yeah,
we need to bring it
back. This person
asked us to bring
it back. We have
to bring it.” So we
made a few little
minor changes,
nothing major.
The, I would say
the main change we
made was we put
the bill, instead of
being in effect the
ne- it would’ve been
passed in March,
it would’ve gone
into effect in July.
We made it a
year and a half.
The July, the next
July it would go into
effect, the reason
being the Board
of Regents n- was
complaining about
their concession
contracts, and
they’re already in
these contracts for
no cash and so forth,
which is ridiculous
because if the FDA
ups- updates food
handling safety
issues for their
concessions,
they obviously
have to make
immediate changes
to their contract.
So I… But whatever.
We, that was the
main change we made.
So the bill was
basically cash
must be accepted
at in-person retail
and government
transactions
less than $100.
So business,
retail, in person,
and government
transactions
less than $100.
There were exceptions
for airplanes,
security deposits,
rental cars, and
banks, and it goes
into effect one
and a half years
later to give time
for concessions
contracts to be
re- renegotiated.
The other thing
about the bill is
the definition of
cash is important.
I sweated a lot over
this with cash at
school events, and
I got some pushback
and I stuck my guns,
I stuck to my guns,
which says cash
means physical coin,
currency, or notes
that are designed
as legal tender
by federal law.
Now, the reason I
was so picky about
this is because I
t- it says physical
coin, currency,
or notes that are
desi- designated
as legal tender
by federal law.
They wanted to take
out the physical
because they
potentially want
to declare other
things like digital
currency legal
tender So I really
wanted the word
physical in there,
so I fought for
that and I got it.
I got it kept in all
of our cash bills.
We’re talking
about physical
coin and currency.
All right, so
what did I do in
committee differently
this time?
I was more… We
were more well
prepared for
committee this time.
We obviously learned
from getting hammered
last time, so we had
better arguments.
So we had our
updated statistics
about, from the
Federal Reserve
about the people
who are unbanked,
and basically what
it shows is that
the people who are
unbanked are still
low income, young
people, minorities,
and people with
a disability.
So the people that
you’re excluding
by not accepting
cash are still sort
of these groups.
And it’s a surprising
number of people.
Correct.
It’s about
what is it?
Overall is 6%, but
t- 13% of Blacks
are unbanked, 12%
of Hispanics are
unbanked, 13% of
people ages 18 to
29 are unbanked
And then we also
looked at credit
card ownership,
who has a credit
card, who doesn’t.
And if you look at
the people who don’t
have a credit card,
it’s mostly people
with a disability,
minorities,
et cetera.
So we had updated
statistics, the same
statistics they had
already seen, but
they were updated.
The– When we got
hammered, there were
a bunch of committee
members that said
thank you for the
statistics and the
education, that they
learned something
from our testimony
because we actually
need to be right
with God and have
proof for everything
we say ’cause the
lobbyists are just
making up things
and saying things
that aren’t true.
So we were sure to
be right and had
statistics to back
up what we say.
And then the oth- So
I just wanna point
out one thing ’cause
I live in a in
a county that has
an average income
of 24,000, and the
percentages of people
who don’t have a
credit card or are
unbanked are much
higher is my guess.
And so if you’re a
state legislator and
you’re s- in a state
and you hear these
statistics, what you
have to understand
is some of the poorer
counties have much
higher percentages,
and so it can be
devastating for them.
Exactly.
So on our statistics
here it says if your
family income is less
than $25,000, 22% of
those are unbanked.
Exactly.
And then if
it’s less than
$25,000 60 or 54%
of those people
do not have a
credit card.
Right.
54% of them don’t
have a credit card.
In my– in some
of the counties
in Tennessee, it’s
extraordinary.
It’s that
kinda number.
Exactly.
So then the other
statistics we have
are about share
of c- consumers’
preferred payment
instruments for
in-person payments.
So it tells us
that in 2024, 17%
of people prefer
paying with cash.
And then the
share of payment
instrument used by
household income.
So it tells us that
if y- you earn a
household income of
less than $25,000,
24% of those people
or households prefer
to pay with cash
versus greater than
150,000 in income,
only 9% of those
households prefer
to pay with cash.
So it’s really
the low-income
people that are
even preserving
our physical cash.
The low-income
people are preserving
our freedom right
now, and we’ve
got to flip that.
We’ve gotta get
the middle class,
the upper class
paying with physical
cash because we
are gonna lose it.
So we’ve got the
low– God bless the
low-income people
for still using cash.
So the other
thing That we had
in testimony the
previous time,
again back to
Representative S,
he said he wanted
a list of businesses
that aren’t accepting
cash because he
thinks in South
Dakota this doesn’t
exist because why
would a business
not take cash?
He’s not seen
the problem.
He’s also from a
more rural community
than Sioux Falls.
So he doesn’t think
it’s a problem, so
he wanted a list
of businesses that
didn’t take cash.
And when we f- the
previous year when
we got hammered, we
didn’t have a list.
We weren’t prepared
for that question.
We knew some that
weren’t taking cash,
like school events,
there was a car
wash but we hadn’t,
we didn’t have a
comprehensive list.
So this past year
I’ve been collecting
a comprehensive list
for Representative
S. Not that I thought
I would bring this
bill back, but I
just thought I like
to be able to answer
any question that’s
asked of me in terms
of cash, so let me
co- collect a list.
So I’ve just
basically been
asking around word
of mouth to friends
and family, “Give
me a business that
doesn’t take cash.
Can you send me
any?” And what I did
then is I created
a handout with
all of the answers
that I got, and
this is my handout.
It has one, two,
three, four, five,
six, seven, eight,
nine businesses on
it in the whole state
of South Dakota.
That’s what I
could come up with.
Now, what was
interesting was
as people started
sending me businesses
that don’t take
cash, I noticed
these aren’t
small businesses.
And wait a minute,
are they even South
Dakota businesses?
So what I did on
my handout is I
have two columns.
I have the name of
the business, then
I’ve got are they
a small business?
And then I have
are they based
in South Dakota?
And then I have notes
about that business.
So let me just
read through some
of these for you.
The first one is
national parks.
None of our
national parks or
monuments in South
Dakota take cash.
Are they small
businesses?
So Mount Rushmore
takes cash
For p- I think
the parking does.
It… You’re only
paying for parking at
Rushmore, you’re not
paying for admission.
So- So that’s the
parking vendor, not
the national park.
We know somebody
at Mount Rushmore
who works there, is
trying to push cash,
and thanks people
for using cash.
That’s my
understanding.
You can pay
cash at at the
ice cream shop.
Okay.
Okay.
And you can pay-
Yeah … cash in
the gift shop.
In the gift sh-
okay, must be
the gift shop.
Yeah.
The, By the way,
if you come to South
Dakota, okay, and
you go to Rushmore
two things about,
if we can diverge,
t- about Rushmore.
First of all, I
don’t like ice cream.
Go in the ice
cream shop and
get an ice cream.
They have the,
what is it?
The Abraham Lincoln
ice cream or the
Franklin ice cream.
Anyway, this ice
cream recipe has
no artificial…
It’s all pure
ingredients.
They list all the
ingredients out.
It’s the old school
recipe, and it is
just so fantastic.
It’s not toxic,
and I actually
can eat it because
it’s not toxic.
So do get an ice
cream at Mount
Rushmore if you go.
Second thing is,
if you go to Mount
Rushmore, don’t
go without going
to Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse is way
better than Rushmore,
and it’s a way better
story because the
government tried to
make Crazy Horse a
national monument,
and they said,
“No. We don’t want-
Oh, no … the
government’s support.
We don’t…” And
they said, ” you’ll
never finish it.
It it’ll
take forever.
You guys
can’t run it.”
And they said,
“No, we don’t want
the money. We’re
not gonna make it
a national park.”
So- So definitely
go to Crazy Horse,
watch the movie.
It’s another great
example of pushback.
So
can I just tell
you, I was driving
past Mount Rushmore,
the turnoff for
Mount Rushmore on
the highway, and
it was snowing.
And I thought, “Okay,
this is, could be
dangerous ’cause
it the snow got
very bad,” and I
ended up in a ditch.
But I said, “I
have… I can’t
pass Mount Rushmore
and not go.” So I
went up there, and
it was a weekend.
There was no one
there because of
the snowstorm, and
it was wonderful.
So I spent a couple
hours there, and the
staff was incredible.
So I love Mount
Rushmore, but I
apparently have to
go to Crazy Horse.
Yes, definitely.
Crazy Horse,
way better.
So back to the
national parks.
So they are not a
small business, and
they are not based
in South Dakota,
and they don’t
take cash, okay?
Next one, Denny
Sanford Premier
Center Concessions.
They’re not a
small business.
They’re not based
in South Dakota.
Denny Sanford Premier
Center Concessions is
operated by Legends
Global, based in Los
Angeles, California,
with a revenue
of $1.7 billion
in 2024, okay?
The next one,
Nautical Bowls.
They’re not a
small business, and
they’re not based
in South Dakota.
They have 174
locations worldwide,
headquartered
in Minnesota.
The next one, Sanford
Pentagon Admissions.
They’re not a
small business.
They are based
in South Dakota.
They’re owned by
Sanford Health.
Their revenue was
9.9- 8 billion,
and income was 1
billion in 2025.
The next one, Silver
Star Car Wash.
They’re not a
small business.
They’re not based
in South Dakota.
They have 11
locations in
South Dakota.
They’re now part
of Mammoth Holdings
based out of Atlanta
with 67 car washes
across the Midwest.
There’s four
more here.
I’m not gonna read
through all of them,
but you get the idea.
These are not
small businesses,
and these are not
South Dakota-based.
Now, if you compare
that back to the
list of businesses
offering a cash
discount in South
Dakota, these
are all, for the
most part, local
restaurants th-
if I could read
them off, but
they probably mean
nothing to you guys
’cause they’re not
chain restaurants
for the most part.
They’re local
businesses,
They’re local
businesses owned
by people in South
Dakota who trust
their employees.
Correct.
So what I showed
is that the
businesses that
aren’t taking cash
are billion-dollar
corporations, not
small businesses,
not… Most of them
not based in South
Dakota So actually,
Representative S
did me, did us a
favor by forcing us
to prove this, that
who’s forcing the
cashless society?
The big corporations.
He helped us prove
that in a very d-
very different way.
This bill, after
all this, we
did have some
lobbyists testify
against us, not
as many this time.
We did much better
compared to them.
We failed
four to eight.
We went from zero to
13 to four to eight.
The Freedom Caucus
supported the
bill this time.
They were against
it the first time.
We had one vote
missing, which
should’ve been in
our favor, so I think
we should’ve been
five to eight, and
then w- I think we
had one legislator
that was on our
side and questioned
on our side, and
then voted against,
so I’m not sure if
that was a little
confusion there.
So we did great.
We did so much better
than I even thought.
And as a tidbit, from
the Cell Tower Moms
we did a data center
bill, and one of
those people listened
to our cash testimony
because she was gonna
come testify for the
data center bill.
I said, “Oh, we’re
gonna be in cash
committee. Why
don’t you listen
to our testimony?”
And so she
listened to our
ten- testimony.
She’s a small
business owner, local
business owner, very
successful business.
And she listened to
our cash testimony,
and she said, “That
is terrible, and I’m
a member of South
Dakota Retailers that
testified against
you and was mean
about it.” She’s
immediately canceled
her membership
to South Dakota
Ret- Retailers.
So I thought, “This
is great.” Because
of the Cell Tower
Moms and this
connection and the
data center, now
we’re raising more
awareness about cash.
Right.
And we’re not
gonna support the
businesses that
are… We’re not
gonna support fund
our enemies anymore.
So the other bills
we had were all
the digital money
bills, and we had
several of them.
We had state
investments in
Bitcoin, so this
would permit the
state to invest
in Bitcoin.
Again, brought
by a legislator
with a Bitcoin
mining operation.
It failed last
year, the previous
session, and it
failed again three to
10 So that was good.
And the next bill we
had was a tGold bill.
It was a digital
gold bill declaring
digital gold
legal tender.
The gold would sit
in a depository
out of state.
The treasurer
would go audit
and make sure the
gold was there.
The state would
pick a vendor to do
this legal tender
digital gold.
And it did have a
social credit s-
system clause, so it
said you can’t use
this for a social
credit system.
Now, who in the
world would enforce
that once your bank
account’s in frozen?
I don’t know
who can even
enforce that, but,
But you can install
programmable money
without it being
deemed a social
credit system.
Yeah.
There were multiple
problems with it.
Yeah.
Why in the world
South Dakota would
wanna declare
digital money legal
tender is beyond me.
It just makes
no sense.
Unfortunately, what
happened was the
committee let the
proponents of the
bill just go on
and on, and I was
actually at Rogue
Foods at the time,
missing talks that
I wanted to hear,
and sitting in a
little private room
listening to this
testimony, waiting
for my turn to
testify so I can get
back to the talks
I wanna listen to
at Rogue Foods.
He just didn’t put
in any time limits,
and so it was an hour
later until I finally
got to testify, and
let me tell you,
I was hopping mad.
I am very
difficult… I don’t
have patience, and I
was mad by the time
I got to testify.
And the other thing
I was mad about was
that the proponent
had had all these
testifiers that
weren’t s- that were
saying things that
were misleading, in
the category of lies.
One of his testifiers
said that this would
establish a physical
bullion depository
in the state, which
is not what the
bill said at all.
So there were
just blatant lies
about what the
bill even was.
So I was mad
by the time I
got to testify.
And I just, I
completely lost my
cool, but- … I
guess it was good
that I did, because
let me tell you
what happened.
I testified against
the bill with all
the n- sort of normal
reasons, and then I
said, “You know what?
If South Dakota
wants to declare
something legal
tender, let’s back
our money by buffalo
instead of gold.
Why would we back our
money with gold that
sits out of state,
that’s controlled by
other people, where
the treasurer has to
go audit the gold in
a different state?
Let’s back our
currency by buffalo,
where we actually
have buffalo in
the state.” In
fact, South Dakota
has three, 33,995
buffalo, the most
of any state.
Nebraska has
32,206 buffalo.
So South Dakota owns
the buffalo market.
If we make buffalo
legal tender, we
make ourselves
rich instead of
other people Okay?
So let’s declare,
let’s back our
money by buffalo.
We can trade that
digitally too-
So- … on our phone
with an app, and we
can trade a leg of a
buffalo or an eye of
a buffalo, just like
they want to t- trade
a fraction of a gold.
Let’s make it buffalo
instead of gold.
So can I just stop
you for a second?
Because if you go
back 50 centuries,
the history of
currency, the first
currency were cows.
So this is not
as unusual as
you might think.
So at the end of my
testimony some other
opponents testified
with me on… Didn’t
talk about buffalo,
but I knew I’d lost
my cool with the
whole buffalo thing,
but it was true.
It’s, the thing was
so ridiculous that I
really felt we should
go with buffalo
instead of gold.
So the committee went
around, and they have
committee discussion,
and the chair of the
committee said, “I
was thinking about
it, and in South
Dakota, we have a
lot of grain in grain
bins. Why don’t we
back our currency
with our grain in
our grain bins?”
Yes.
And I thought, “Yes.
Let’s do that. Even
better than buffalo,
grain doesn’t die.”
So he got it.
He actually got it.
The bill tied
four to four.
The bill tied
four to four.
It was, I think,
a Thursday.
They don’t, they’re
not in session
on Friday, that
Friday, so we had
the whole weekend,
and they were gonna
reconsider on Monday
when the one person
that was missing
was gonna be back.
The bill tied
four to four.
So we had the weekend
to try to send more
emails and do more
phone calls, and
they weren’t gonna
re-testify the
bill, reconsider.
They were just
gonna re-vote
on it on Monday.
So one of the things
that I noticed
in the proponent
testimony was that
the prime sponsor
had these slides that
were very glittery.
They were black
slides with sort of
gold and silver, and
they were very wordy
and long, and clearly
he did not make them.
There’s no way
that prime sponsor
made those slides.
I knew that.
They were too
glittery, too goldy.
And so I thought
I had seen that
somewhere before,
and sure enough, it
turns out he used
slides from Kevin
Freeman, who is
Pirate Money, okay?
He’s from Pi-
Pirate Money.
He wrote a book
called Pirate Money
and I believe has
some kind of company
Pi- Pirate Money.
So from Pirate
Money, I was able
to trace that back
that Pirate Money
has a partnership
with Glint, which
is a payment
processing system,
and Glint partners
with MasterCard.
So what I did is I
wrote an email to
the legislators on
the committee and
I said, “The prime
sponsor’s slides
were made by Mr.
Kevin Freeman from
Pirate Money. Pirate
Money partners with
Glint, a d- digital
gold processing
company based out
of the UK, and
Glint partners with
MasterCard.” So the
money train is the
senator’s slides, Mr.
Freeman, Pirate
Money, Glint,
MasterCard.
I traced the money
trail all the way
back to MasterCard
via Glint, an
out-of-country
company.
Okay?
So the Glint and
MasterCard are
funding the push for
legal tender status
of gold and silver
nationwide so they
can make money from
transaction fees
on our everyday
transactions.
That kind of
makes sense.
But the bill doesn’t
require us to use
digital payments.
That’s what the prime
sponsor is saying.
He’s saying,
” people don’t have
to use it if they
don’t want to.
We’ll just make it
legal tender, but
they don’t have
to use it.” That’s
his argument.
And so I email…
In the email I
said, “Isn’t…
That is not true.
Consider that there’s
currently federal
lig- litigation
pending that would
require national
parks to accept
physil- physical cash
because it’s legal
tender.” So there’s
currently litigation
pending that says you
have to accept money
if it’s legal tender.
So they wanna get
this legal tender
everywhere in the
country, and then
we’re gonna pass
federal legislation
that says you
have to accept
le- legal tender.
Now all the
businesses in South
Dakota have to
accept digital gold
and these payment
processing systems.
So I sent that email.
I prayed.
I had other friends
send emails.
And Monday morning
they revoted, and
the final bill
failed one to seven.
Yes.
So I don’t know if
it was because of
my email tracing
the money and
pointing out that
they wanna require
people to take it.
I don’t know what
did it, but it did
fail one to seven.
I’m sure it will
be back next year.
That senator has
said that was
his best bill,
and he… I’m sure
it’ll be back next
year if he’s back,
we did in South
Dakota also have
a debanking bill.
It’s an act to
protect persons
from discrimination
by financial
institutions.
I did not testify for
that bill the reason
being that committee
at that point was
the committee.
So I just was
not a good
person to testify
for that bill.
But only for banks
above a certain size.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, so
it’s, it failed
four to nine.
And then the other
thing that’s happened
is that my husband
is actually running
for legislature.
I already talked
about that.
He’s decided to step
up ’cause no one else
would run, and we’re
actually doing things
a little differently.
So we’re not
campaigning on
social media.
We don’t think
it’s healthy.
We don’t let our
kids have it.
We don’t use it, and
we’re just not using
it for this campaign.
There’s some people
that say we can’t
win because of that.
There’s some people
that love it and are
voting for us because
we’re not using
social media, so
we’ve got everything
in between.
We are not using AI
to write our content.
Most people are.
We are self-funding,
so we are not
taking any donations
from anybody.
We’ve had some
unsolicited donations
from PACs come in,
and we actually
spend our own
money on a stamp
to send them back.
For our family it’s
kinda priceless that
we can say we tried
to do something.
It’s priceless to
look at each other
and our kids and
say, “We stepped
up. We tried to
do something. We
ran my husband
for legislature.”
And we are using a
lot of Solari words,
so we’re creating,
Content that talks
about financial
transaction freedom
and local food and
health freedom and
digital surveillance
and culture.
These are topics
that no one talks
about when they’re
campaigning.
And because we don’t
really want to be in
the legislature, we
just want to offer
people a choice,
we see it more as
an opportunity to
raise awareness about
these topics that no
one in South Dakota
is talking about.
So that’s what
we’re doing.
The election’s
tomorrow.
We honestly have
already won.
The other thing
we did is I wrote
a wife letter.
You’re supposed
to write a wife
letter promoting
your husband,
and I couldn’t…
That’s not really
my personality to
say how wonderful
my husband is.
He’s great.
He is wonderful.
He is wonderful,
but it’s just not
my personality
to do that.
It’s more my
personality to make
fun of him, and then
he knows I love him.
So I wrote the
wife letter
mostly about cash.
It’s on the web-
on his website.
If you Google
Manuel Loucha, you
can check it out.
I m- wrote it mostly
about cash and
how cash preserves
our freedom.
The other thing the
legislative campaign
did is it helped
us find like-minded
people, and it helped
raise awareness,
so we now have a
network of people
that we didn’t have
before that agree
with us on data
centers, cellphone
towers, cash,
all these issues.
The other thing I
did is I used it as
a prayer mission.
So when I was
knocking doors,
it was incredibly
painful for me, but
one thing I started
doing is that I
pray at every door
that I knock So that
means I’ve prayed
at thousands of
doors, and I tell you
that is priceless.
That is priceless.
Whether he wins
or loses, I don’t
even tell people
I’m praying at
their doors.
I p- I ring the
doorbell, I knock,
I pray un- until
they answer.
That’s m- what I’ve
turned it into, is
a prayer mission.
And we had, I wanna
mention this too,
we had the best idea
ever from a country
door that we knocked.
This country s-
voter said, “You know
what I’m starting to
think we should do?
I’m starting to
think we should
treat politicians
like jury duty.
We should just pull
names, and if your
name gets pulled,
you’re the president.
And if your name
gets pulled, you’re
a legislator.”
And I just thought
about this, and
I thought, “What
if you’re a drug
addict?” And then
I thought, “Wait a
minute, that might be
better than some of
the people we
have.” This is a
brilliant idea.
And you know what?
He’s got a point.
You get the money
out of politics,
which is one of the
things we’re talking
about, get money
out of politics.
If you just pulled
names and did it
like jury duty it
might be better
than what we’ve got.
So the other thing
I wanna mention is
that healthy people
can think and vote
and make a decision.
If we’re not all
healthy, it’s
hard for voters
to think and make
a good decision.
So the m- number
one thing we need
to do also as
a voter is keep
ourselves healthy,
so healthy water,
food, et cetera.
The other thing
I wanna say,
even though my
husband’s running
for legislature, we
don’t believe that
the legislature can
fix all our problems.
Like I said, you
can pass laws until
you’re red in the
face, but a lot of
them aren’t being
enforced anyway.
The most important
thing we can do
is pay with cash
every day, gas
and groceries at a
minimum, refuse to
shop at businesses
that don’t take cash,
and don’t be afraid
to do these things
and turtle forth.
So I’m gonna bring
up one more thing.
You clearly, guys,
you have it good
in South Dakota
because you haven’t
brought up disasters
and emergencies.
One of the things
we’re seeing all
around the world is
more and more people
are saying, “You
know something? It
was a mistake.” The
Scandinavian central
banks, it’s a mistake
to roll back cash
because when we have
an emergency, we are
in real trouble if
we don’t have cash.
Cash literally
in emergencies
saves lives.
So we saw in East
Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, the
people who had cash
came out much better
than those who don’t.
So that is a very
compelling reason,
and all I can figure
is life is good
in South Dakota
’cause you didn’t
bring that up.
We didn’t…
We did bring that
up the first year
we did it, so in
Turtling for Cash
Part One, that was
one of the things
we talked about.
Yeah.
We did bring that up.
It did not
resonate We need
a natural disaster
in South Dakota.
It did not re- that,
that point did
not resonate here.
Resonate.
It did not.
So in Tennessee
it resonates
tremendously.
I bet.
Right.
I bet.
So it depends on
where you are.
Okay, so
turtle forth.
I thi- I, nobody
I know is, does
a better job of
turtling than you.
You never give up.
And what I’m always
asked is, why are you
so hopeful, and why
do you never give up?
And I just want
you to say one
last word before
we close about why
you never give up.
Because I have to
be able to look
myself and my kids
in the face and say,
“I did everything
I could. I tried.”
I just have to be
good with myself
and say, “I did
everything I could.”
And that’s priceless.
Win or lose, I did
everything I could
the best I could.
Right.
And tried to be
the best person
I could be.
Now, I have to
apologize to you,
because I picked
up $2,000 in cash
along the way on the
trip, and I burned
through it, so on the
way to South Dakota
we’ve been paying
for everything with
cash except for gas.
I’ve been using a
credit card, but
I’m gonna hit the
ATM when I leave
here, and I’m gonna
go back to cash
for the gas too.
Okay?
Great.
You’ve inspired me.
Susan Luschas,
thank you so much.
Ladies and gentlemen,
have a wonderful day.
Thank you for
joining us on The
Solari Report.
