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Speaker 1: victory for the American way in Colorado Springs with that
Speaker 1: big raid. We're going to keep talking about it and
Speaker 1: want to get to your take on, Hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think was really behind it? Do you expect to
Speaker 1: see more? What else do you want to see the
Speaker 1: Trump administration do here in Colorado. We'll tie that into
Speaker 1: the President sign in a number of additional executive orders
Speaker 1: today dealing with illegal immigration, but really want to focus
Speaker 1: on the Springs and very specific action you would like
Speaker 1: to see the administration take next three or three seOne
Speaker 1: three eight, two five five d an five seven seven
Speaker 1: three nine. And when I say take next, I mean
Speaker 1: right here in Colorado, which has been a notorious sanctuary
Speaker 1: state and sanctuary city. Right And the thing that infuriates
Speaker 1: me the most because listen, I can underst and having
Speaker 1: different political ideologies and disagreeing on major issues, etc. But
Speaker 1: there are some things that just cross all lines of
Speaker 1: human decency. And every single top elected Democrat in Colorado
Speaker 1: is guilty of this as our top party officials making
Speaker 1: a deliberate decision to sacrifice innocent human life at this
Speaker 1: altar of getting as many illegal folks into the country
Speaker 1: as possible because they're going to be Democrat voters. And
Speaker 1: that's why, time and time again you've seen these top
Speaker 1: elected Democrats try to protect people here illegally who are
Speaker 1: committing serious crimes. And how just basic human decency, How
Speaker 1: could somebody ever support.
Speaker 2: That, let alone use their power they got from.
Speaker 1: The voters to protect people here illegally who committed other crimes.
Speaker 1: Often those crimes are committed against other folks here illegally,
Speaker 1: very often the crimes are committed against US citizens. But
Speaker 1: as a matter of basic human decency, how to the
Speaker 1: Johnstons and polices and hicken Loopers and Bennetts of the world,
Speaker 1: the wisers of the world justify that. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: even begin to comprehend that. But my personal belief is
Speaker 1: that it comes back to on the left, just this
Speaker 1: what's become a distorted, perverted view of the value of
Speaker 1: human life. And very much, and I'm not colon any
Speaker 1: of these people Marxists, but very much is kind of
Speaker 1: communist Marxist view, right, that the individual human life doesn't
Speaker 1: have any inherent dignity or value or worse. And so
Speaker 1: all these innocent US citizens, all these women being raped,
Speaker 1: all these people being murdered, all the people who their
Speaker 1: father or mother don't come home tonight because they've been
Speaker 1: killed by an illegal immigrant on the roadway, they're just
Speaker 1: an acceptable casualty rate to these Democrats. So I really
Speaker 1: do think this sanctuary city, sanctuary states stuff, and you
Speaker 1: look at what it really means, providing sanctuary to people
Speaker 1: committing illegal acts, providing sanctuary and protection. What a sanctuary,
Speaker 1: I mean protection, providing protection against law enforcement to people
Speaker 1: who are here committing brutal, violent crimes.
Speaker 2: And I so I.
Speaker 1: Support absolutely everything under the sun that Trump administration can
Speaker 1: legally and constitutionally do to stand up for innocent human
Speaker 1: life because it's it's you know, the pro life movement.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's about protecting masses of people, millions from being
Speaker 1: killed before they're born, but it's protecting innocent human life
Speaker 1: at every stage. And so this idea of ending sanctuary
Speaker 1: cities and states where people committing crimes are given protection.
Speaker 1: That's very much in my view of pro life issue
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Speaker 1: your take on what you want to see the administration do.
Speaker 1: Next related story this in the Denver Post, Colorado Springs
Speaker 1: landlord shocked underground club was operating on property Colorado Springs.
Speaker 1: The owner of a Colorado Springs building that was the
Speaker 1: site of a federal raids Sunday morning told Denver seven
Speaker 1: investigates he had no idea an underground nightclub was operating
Speaker 1: on his property.
Speaker 2: Quote, I've never even seen a.
Speaker 1: Lot of trash in the parking lot to even suspect
Speaker 1: anything like an after hours nightclub is going on. So
Speaker 1: it's pretty shocking, told investigative reporter Tony Koveleski. Does a
Speaker 1: great job over there at Channel seven. But yeah, Ryan,
Speaker 1: there's one thing about MS thirteen and trend Aragua, right,
Speaker 1: they're very very neat.
Speaker 2: They always pick up their litter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm sure there just wasn't even anything in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. But yeah, the DEAIS, multiple other agencies.
Speaker 1: I think there were how many, maybe three hundred law
Speaker 1: enforcement involved in this rate bust Colorado Springs underground club
Speaker 1: quote frequented by TDA and MS thirteen terrorists. Why didn't
Speaker 1: Phil Wiser do this earlier? Why didn't police get involved? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you just sent me something, right, Ryan, I think
Speaker 1: we've had a condemnation, right, And I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: a condemnation of you know, just the fact that this
Speaker 1: terrible nightclub existed.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: No, al Paso County Democratic Party condemns Colorado Springs dea. Right, Wow,
Speaker 1: can we send them some money just so they can
Speaker 1: keep sending out stuff like this? City and counter leadership
Speaker 1: failed their constituents by refusing to call for restraint, compassion,
Speaker 1: or due process for the very residents they represent. Residents,
Speaker 1: including US citizens, are at real risk of wrongful detention, deportation,
Speaker 1: and imprisonment or worse that from the Alpasso County Democratic Party. Right,
Speaker 1: do you remember that missuing a statement of condolence or
Speaker 1: empathy or condemnation for any of the innocent people in
Speaker 1: al Paso County raped by somebody here illegally or or
Speaker 1: brutally violated by MS thirteen or TDA, or people whose
Speaker 1: children died of fetanol that was brought into the country
Speaker 1: through the open border. I bet there's a long string
Speaker 1: of text from the Alpasso County Democratic Party condemning all
Speaker 1: of those horrors.
Speaker 2: None of what you mentioned comes to Mina. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: What's so good right now is everything we were talking
Speaker 1: about during the campaign. Remember where I was talking about, Okay,
Speaker 1: vitally important obviously the Trump win, But what's very, very
Speaker 1: important is that the left then collapses. And to collapse,
Speaker 1: the left has to reveal itself, right, because only the
Speaker 1: people can collapse the left. The left is never going
Speaker 1: to collapse itself. But my prediction was, and fortunately it's
Speaker 1: born out, that as it became more and more obvious
Speaker 1: that Trump was going to win, and then once he
Speaker 1: did win, the Left would lose its self control and
Speaker 1: the Left would just expose itself to the people for
Speaker 1: what it really is. And then at that point we
Speaker 1: get the double barrel. We get the election of President
Speaker 1: Trump and all the good that has brought, but then
Speaker 1: we also get the left kind of eating itself, the
Speaker 1: Left destroying itself.
Speaker 2: By exposing itself.
Speaker 1: And fortunately we're getting the benefit of that as well.
Speaker 1: If we get really lucky, then AOC is going to
Speaker 1: be their presidential nominee right, or at least be a
Speaker 1: viable enough presidential candidate. Shall certainly be viable enough, I think,
Speaker 1: to pull the party even further to the left. Which
Speaker 1: where are they on the scale? Then once AOC pulls
Speaker 1: the Democrats even further to the left, where are they
Speaker 1: on the deskpot scale? Where do they compare to say,
Speaker 1: g and the Communist Party of China?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, how much further left can you go? The
Speaker 1: good news is we're about to find out, because the
Speaker 1: further left this Democratic Party goes in Colorado and nationally,
Speaker 1: the sooner it will meet its demise, and Colorado tougher
Speaker 1: not to craft. But we're up for that challenge. Three
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Speaker 1: a n five seven seven three nine dan. As a
Speaker 1: church organist, I've played hundreds of Catholic funerals. Not once,
Speaker 1: says a Texter, did anyone complain about black not being worn,
Speaker 1: no matter how supposedly important the dead person was? Right,
Speaker 1: I have to admit I've been a bit oblivious to
Speaker 1: this controversy over President Trump wearing a blue suit to
Speaker 1: the funeral of the Pope. I'd be very surprised if
Speaker 1: that would offend God in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3: Remember, Dan, these are the same people that always go
Speaker 3: to the criticism of President Obama's tan suit by conservatives
Speaker 3: and made fun of that, And now they're engaging in
Speaker 3: what color was.
Speaker 2: Now a tan suit's a different, different animal. Where where?
Speaker 2: What do you wear a tan suit too?
Speaker 3: I think it was a press briefing or something pretty innocuous.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no reason to criticize that.
Speaker 4: That's I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, if you wore a tan suit to the
Speaker 2: Pope's funeral.
Speaker 4: That'd be different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be different.
Speaker 4: That aren't blue and black and most instances interchangeable.
Speaker 1: Right, And I know one texter mentioned that that what
Speaker 1: that that.
Speaker 2: Pope had wanted everybody to wear black.
Speaker 1: I yeah, but listen, I don't think there was anything
Speaker 1: even remotely disrespectful. Listen, we talked about in the last segment.
Speaker 1: It was the ultimate respect of President Trump to go.
Speaker 1: It was respect for for Catholics throughout America, respect for
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, and there should be a lot of
Speaker 1: respect on a lot of levels. And he said it's
Speaker 1: starting with the fact that the Catholic vote was he
Speaker 1: won it in America and that was obviously very important,
Speaker 1: but also all the great work the Catholic Church does,
Speaker 1: because you can bet on this as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: Colorado falls apart Denver first, much more quickly and without
Speaker 1: all the great work done in the trenches by Catholics.
Speaker 1: The Catholic Church Catholic Charities obviously not the only group
Speaker 1: or faith or anything else doing a lot of great
Speaker 1: work in Colorado, but in terms of scale, enormity of scale,
Speaker 1: all the different diverse services provided, literally, Denver would fall
Speaker 1: apart in one week without the Catholic Church and Catholic
Speaker 1: Charities ministering to the poor the way that it does.
Speaker 1: So Trump showed I think, ultimate respect to the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church into Catholics by going to the funeral, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad he did.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: The left track to make a big deal out of
Speaker 1: President Trump wearing a blue suit and blue tie to
Speaker 1: the Pope's funeral, and you know, please, I hope they
Speaker 1: keep spouting that kind of nonsense because it was a
Speaker 1: Catholic myself, and flawed, far from perfect work in progress Catholic,
Speaker 1: but one who loves the church, and I'm grateful for
Speaker 1: my faith. I can tell you I was so appreciative
Speaker 1: to President Trump for the respect that he showed by
Speaker 1: attending and in respect to you know, American Catholics as well.
Speaker 2: And as he mentioned, hey, he won the Catholic vote
Speaker 2: and he wanted to show respect. So I think that
Speaker 2: is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: Why did you feel it was important to go to
Speaker 5: the folks.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was out of respect.
Speaker 4: You know, I won the Catholic vote, and I think it's.
Speaker 6: The first time that ever happened where a Republican won
Speaker 6: the vote.
Speaker 1: But I wanted by a lot, and you know, I
Speaker 1: have a great relationship to the Catholics. Oh, he actually
Speaker 1: won it in sixteen, and I do think it was
Speaker 1: undeniably the difference maker in sixteen Upper Midwest Blue Wall
Speaker 1: States Catholic surge for Trump at the very end, in
Speaker 1: part rebelling against Hillary Clinton's glorification of late term abortions.
Speaker 1: So no, it's great, and it's great he showed that respect.
Speaker 1: By the way, there were plenty of other people there
Speaker 1: in blue. Biden wore a blue tie. And the people
Speaker 1: who are making this argument that Trump broke dress code.
Speaker 1: They're citing a document about protocol being black tie black
Speaker 1: coup well, and then Biden broke it to and then
Speaker 1: Prince William and a bunch of other people. So again
Speaker 1: that kind of nonsense from the left, Bring on more
Speaker 1: of it, because it's just going to mean more Republicans
Speaker 1: get elected. Three or three someone three eight two five
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Speaker 2: Anybody you want to see is an ex pope there,
Speaker 2: Ryan saw nominee that I was going to bring your
Speaker 2: attention to it. I thought, I sent you a text,
Speaker 2: but I gotta find it, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And then in that next segment we will play this
Speaker 1: hilarious thing that's just out there in X right now.
Speaker 1: Somebody did a great job working this up where they
Speaker 1: did a mock draft for the next pope, a vaticant
Speaker 1: draft for the next Pope, and I just think it's
Speaker 1: done in good cheer and everything else and kind of fun.
Speaker 1: My hope is that obviously somebody has to be right
Speaker 1: on the faith right, because the whole idea within the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church is, hey, you're the mailman. You can't change
Speaker 1: the mail, right, You don't get to write the mail.
Speaker 1: Jesus writes the mail, God writes the mail. You just
Speaker 1: carry the mail. You can't change the mail. I hope
Speaker 1: we get a male carrying pope, but boy, I would
Speaker 1: love to see I'd love to see a pope from Africa.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I'm gonna be along the same lines
Speaker 3: as you, Dan, and we might be on the same
Speaker 3: page here. So a pope has chosen, I don't know
Speaker 3: a lot about this. You do this conclave process from.
Speaker 2: An existing cardinal or what's cardinal?
Speaker 4: Cardinal Robert Sarah.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, no, so impressive. I'd love to see him
Speaker 1: as pope. I think he's considered a long shot. But
Speaker 1: then again, John Paul the Great probably wasn't even on
Speaker 1: the board.
Speaker 3: I think he's a native of Guinea uh in Africa.
Speaker 3: And then also the only thing maybe working against him,
Speaker 3: But I don't know if this has been a big
Speaker 3: factor in the past.
Speaker 2: Is he is up there in years? He's seventy eight.
Speaker 1: Which could work for you, right right, depending on what
Speaker 1: people want. If they're looking for a shorter term pope.
Speaker 1: You know, thank God literally that John Paul the Great
Speaker 1: was picked when he was young enough to then have
Speaker 1: that big long term impact.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I I follow him on X and
Speaker 2: I love some of the I love a lot of
Speaker 2: the stuff he's done.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in Africa, man, I'll tell you, Catholicism is
Speaker 1: just exploding in Africa. So I would love to see,
Speaker 1: you know, an African pope again, assuming the you know
Speaker 1: doctrine is right. Yeah, it's going to be really interesting
Speaker 1: to watch. Three seven three eight two five five text
Speaker 1: d A N five seven seven three nine. Talking again,
Speaker 1: we have throughout the show about the a big raid
Speaker 1: down in Colorado Springs. I've been, and obviously the illegal
Speaker 1: immigrant piece of it was very important, but there's also
Speaker 1: the drug aspect and the two intersect right when it
Speaker 1: comes to fentonyl open borders, et cetera. What do you
Speaker 1: make of the fact that I've seen reports running up
Speaker 1: to twelve active US military arrested there.
Speaker 2: What do you make of those reports?
Speaker 4: That is a curve ball?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, And I think some of the reports
Speaker 1: I've seen as suggested, you know, working as security things
Speaker 1: like that. But I think it just goes back to
Speaker 1: an undeniable point that even our most revered institutions, consisting
Speaker 1: of our very best and bravest and brightest, and that
Speaker 1: would be the military police fire. For me, as a Catholic,
Speaker 1: it'd be priest. Any human endeavor is going to have
Speaker 1: a few bad apples because were you. And then the
Speaker 1: challenge is to just root that out and to be
Speaker 1: just ruthless and clear eyed about it. So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: do hope we get some pretty thorough reporting, meaning from
Speaker 1: the administration none on what that was all about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm having Kelly reach out right now to John Fabricatory,
Speaker 3: who is under consideration for a post in the Trump administration,
Speaker 3: and if he's unable to join us, hopefully he'll be
Speaker 3: able to recommend us somebody that can join us to
Speaker 3: talk about the western Colorado springs.
Speaker 1: What else do you want to see the administration do
Speaker 1: here in Colorado? We covered earlier in the show this
Speaker 1: really important announcement today that President Trump, now and I've
Speaker 1: been pushing this for years on air, is going to
Speaker 1: require all truck drivers to be proficient in English.
Speaker 7: And then the third executive order, which actually speaks the
Speaker 7: heart of your question earlier about the uber drivers, will
Speaker 7: be a order directing the Department of Transportation to include
Speaker 7: English literacy tests for our truckers. This is a big
Speaker 7: problem in the trucking community.
Speaker 2: That, oh, amen to that.
Speaker 1: I mean, as I mentioned to you, I was over
Speaker 1: at jeff Co Jail a few weeks ago deposing for
Speaker 1: almost six hours a trucker who had killed my client's
Speaker 1: beloved husband, spilling pipe on him on a Colorado roadway.
Speaker 1: And then the DA out there only prosecutes it as
Speaker 1: a misdemeanor. Lots of other people hurt too, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's only prosecuted as a misdemeanor. And so the guy's
Speaker 1: going to be out in less than a year. And
Speaker 1: I had to get the deposition before he was released
Speaker 1: from jail, and you know, you're doing it through an interpreter,
Speaker 1: and it's like, obviously, this cannot be safe. You've got
Speaker 1: to be proficient, proficient in English to operate safely, you know,
Speaker 1: a semi truck on America's roadways. And so I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to see President.
Speaker 2: Trump do that.
Speaker 1: But where's the leadership at the Colorado state level on that, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, we have become this killing field, you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to trucks. And hey, the good truckers,
Speaker 1: I've said this for decades on air, the good truckers
Speaker 1: are heroes. Really hard job without them, we can't have
Speaker 1: our lives. Our lifestyle would still be alive, but we
Speaker 1: can't have our lifestyle. They're backbone of America. But the
Speaker 1: industry has a dark underbelly, extraordinarily dangerous. I mean, in
Speaker 1: terms of the dangers facing you and your family right now,
Speaker 1: probably reckless Trucker is very, very very.
Speaker 2: High up on the list.
Speaker 1: And so it's something any sane society wants to protect
Speaker 1: its own should be ruthlessly acting against.
Speaker 2: Every single day.
Speaker 1: But you look at policy coddles, the guy who calls
Speaker 1: that massive fireball on the highway, all those people burned up.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Look, i started borgital in nineteen eighty four. I've been
Speaker 5: at this for over forty years. I worked for six presidents,
Speaker 5: Star O Round Reagan. Every president ever worked for it
Speaker 5: to boris security seriously, because you can't have national security
Speaker 5: if you don't have strong Boris security. We got to
Speaker 5: know who's coming in, what's coming in, where's coming in,
Speaker 5: why's coming in?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to
Speaker 5: secure the border because they understood and national security was important.
Speaker 5: Joe Biden was the first president in the history of
Speaker 5: this nation who came in office an unsecured a border
Speaker 5: on purpose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember with the support of Michael Bennet and
Speaker 1: John Hickenlooper and Mike Johnston and Jared Polis right, remember
Speaker 1: that hopefully the voters of Colorado will three or three
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Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. I'll go to the full
Speaker 1: lines quickly. But Texter Dan, did you see that Tennessee
Speaker 1: is now requiring autopsies for mass shooters for purpose of
Speaker 1: identifying links to psychiatric drugs. I think it would also
Speaker 1: show marijuana or other drugs too. You've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the drug connection of the shooting.
Speaker 2: You bet you.
Speaker 1: You go back and you look at these mass shooters
Speaker 1: in Colorado and elsewhere.
Speaker 2: It's really rare.
Speaker 1: That a mass shooter is not a heavy marijuana user.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean every marijuana user heavy marijuana user is going
Speaker 1: to be a mass shooter, of course not. But when
Speaker 1: you look at this, when you look at this common
Speaker 1: denominator among most of the mass shooters, isn't that something
Speaker 1: that we should be studying. Isn't that a concern? Isn't
Speaker 1: that something that should weigh against the legalization of marijuana, right?
Speaker 1: But that's just not talked about right because the legalization
Speaker 1: of marijuana is holy grail for the left, because the
Speaker 1: left knows that a drug society is more dependent on
Speaker 1: government and more likely to vote for Democrats. That's that's
Speaker 1: been their game for a long time now. Jerry Brown
Speaker 1: announced you remember Jerry Brown, the uber liberal was called
Speaker 1: liberal back then governor of California, and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: how many stoners can you have and still be a
Speaker 1: great state. But yeah, so that's why you don't have
Speaker 1: this focus on mass shooters often being heavy marijuana users.
Speaker 1: And for those who don't spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: studying this issue, it's it's not that, okay, they get
Speaker 1: so intoxicated they go out and do something tom like that.
Speaker 1: It's causing psychotic breaks. It's causing psychotic breaks that cause
Speaker 1: them to go out and do demonic things like that.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Steven in Denver.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapla show. Welcome.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to follow up on the Tim tebow
Speaker 6: Ye was very yeah, I'm so glad you see this.
Speaker 6: I'm no one will ever convince me that he could
Speaker 6: not play in the NFL. Well, he proved he could
Speaker 6: start that down. Yeah, once you start, you know, once
Speaker 6: you get rejected by one team, that becomes a kind
Speaker 6: of a snowball.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, Stephen, thank you for my call my friend
Speaker 1: to call my friend.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful thing about this tebou debate. There is
Speaker 1: no debate. He proved it. Go back and google up.
Speaker 2: I had two.
Speaker 1: Pieces, one in the Post and one in the Gazette,
Speaker 1: just documenting, you know, the success of Tim Tebow compared
Speaker 1: to the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 2: If you study the first couple of years in the league.
Speaker 2: He proved he could succeed in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He didn't get run out of Denver because he didn't
Speaker 1: succeed in the NFL. He succeeded at historic levels. He
Speaker 1: got ran out of Denver over ego because Tim Tebow
Speaker 1: became the most popular athlete in the world. And a
Speaker 1: big part of it was what a good person he
Speaker 1: was and his faith and all the positives he was
Speaker 1: doing for faith and Christianity. But none of that would
Speaker 1: have mattered if he wasn't a winning football player. But
Speaker 1: he was both and it was his popularity that got
Speaker 1: him run out of Denver, and so yeah, it's under
Speaker 1: his success on the field, it's undeniable, that was proven.
Speaker 2: And none of that's not a knock on Manning.
Speaker 1: Manning's one of the coolest people and greatest quarterbacks ever.
Speaker 1: But Manning was always going to be a sugar high,
Speaker 1: a short term fix because we got him at the
Speaker 1: end of his career. Tebow would have been ten or
Speaker 1: twelve more years, and so that's what we lost out on.
Speaker 1: Three or three, he seOne, three, eight, two, five, five,
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Speaker 1: fare over all those years? Yeah, yeah, not great. But
Speaker 1: I do think we're coming back from the wilderness now,
Speaker 1: not a sports show or I go further down that road.
Speaker 1: We'll save those conversations for the breaks. I did want
Speaker 1: to get to this though, because it is so typical
Speaker 1: of what's going on on the left, and they really
Speaker 1: do believe in this violence stuff, right because they can't
Speaker 1: win arguments on the merit, on the facts, on the logic,
Speaker 1: on the morality. They can't win there so so often
Speaker 1: the left is about politics of personal destruction and implicit
Speaker 1: or explicit threats of violence. I mean, before I get
Speaker 1: to the latest example, who can ever forget this greatest
Speaker 1: hit that should have had him criminally prosecuted. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show how the Biden administration corrupted
Speaker 1: justice and weaponized the justice system, not only by misusing
Speaker 1: it against political endsies, but by protecting political friends from
Speaker 1: being prosecuted when they should have been as Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: should have been prosecuted for this direct threat against specific
Speaker 1: by name US Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: Tell you, Gorzaz, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you
Speaker 1: have released the whirlwind and you will pay the rice.
Speaker 2: You won't know what hits you.
Speaker 1: You won't know what hit you if you go forward
Speaker 1: with these awful decisions. Yeah, and then any surprise that
Speaker 1: somebody came to Gorsuch's house to kill him in his family,
Speaker 1: No surprise couldn't have been a surprise to Schumer who
Speaker 1: said those words.
Speaker 2: He should have been prosecuted. But Governor J. B.
Speaker 1: Pritzker, who now wants to be president, wants to be
Speaker 1: the Democrat nominee. Now, he tried to be a little
Speaker 1: more careful with it, but the message is the same.
Speaker 1: And again, all these people they note they're speaking to
Speaker 1: a wide range of folks, including deranged folks who can
Speaker 1: take messages like this pretty easily as a call to violence.
Speaker 2: Never before in.
Speaker 3: My life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization,
Speaker 3: for disruption.
Speaker 2: But I am that peace. Repulments cannot know the moment
Speaker 2: of peace.
Speaker 3: They have to understand that we will fight their falty with.
Speaker 4: Every megaphone and microphone.
Speaker 5: That we have.
Speaker 2: We must fascinate them on the soapbox and then punish
Speaker 2: them at the ballot box. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what he does, obviously, right, is he throws out
Speaker 1: that first piece separately, these Republicans can never know a
Speaker 1: moment of peace, and then he tries to cover it
Speaker 1: with the back part, fully knowing that already there have
Speaker 1: been two very serious assassination attempts. I'm Trump serious, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, without divine intervention, in my opinion, he's dead
Speaker 1: after the first one. But that's just who they are.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: The beautiful thing is, I think America is on to him,
Speaker 1: So it really Ryan. Remember when I instituted that rule
Speaker 1: on the show that nobody followed because nobody cares when
Speaker 1: I instituted a rule here. But remember that rule I
Speaker 1: instituted that there would be no more discussion on this
Speaker 1: show of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee. And I
Speaker 1: instituted that rule months before he finally got, you know,
Speaker 1: cout out, because it was so obvious he was never
Speaker 1: going to make it to election. He was never going
Speaker 1: to be their nominee. And so I think we need
Speaker 1: I think we need some more rules on this show.
Speaker 1: And one of those I think has to be or
Speaker 1: where do you want to start?
Speaker 2: No talk of JB.
Speaker 1: Pritzker as president or the Democrat nominee because he's not
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: Do you think I'm missing something there? No? What about
Speaker 2: Paula's Oh my lord, come on?
Speaker 1: I mean, and you see all the articles now right,
Speaker 1: but by these lefty publications, whether it's New York Times
Speaker 1: or any basis, he's not even on any lists anymore. Now,
Speaker 1: why do you think he's falling off those lists?
Speaker 3: He's a nonentity, and he's just blended in with the
Speaker 3: fire left and signing this gunband bill and everything else.
Speaker 3: He did nothing to stand out Dan as a unique
Speaker 3: candidate that might be in his own lane.
Speaker 1: But that's been true for a long time, right, And
Speaker 1: he was on the list for a while. But now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure somebody can find some list somewhere,
Speaker 1: but he's just not on the lists anymore. What do
Speaker 1: you think I think there was something that caused everybody
Speaker 1: to just write him off.
Speaker 3: How do you think he feels about being surpassed by
Speaker 3: the likes of AOC in those conversations because she's being
Speaker 3: seriously bandied about by the left as a presidential candidate.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, I would bet that doesn't bother
Speaker 1: him nearly as much as some of the other people
Speaker 1: are surpassing him. Yeah, you know, because they're like people
Speaker 1: nobody's ever heard of. They're like people who don't have
Speaker 1: one hundred or two hundred million dollars to spread around
Speaker 1: to try to get more political influence or win another.
Speaker 2: Office or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the answer to this, but I
Speaker 1: am really intrigued by it, because all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he just fell off the list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: My own belief, and it's not meant to be at all, mean,
Speaker 1: just just realistic. Is that the more people saw, including
Speaker 1: the more people saw in the media of different performances
Speaker 1: on air, et cetera.
Speaker 2: The more he saw. Yeah, that's that's not going anywhere,
Speaker 2: not after he.
Speaker 1: Gets out of the money bubble in Colorado, and the
Speaker 1: money he has is enough to buy Colorado elections, not
Speaker 1: enough to buy national elections. Three or three se one
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Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here on this pretty evening and probably one
Speaker 1: of the most important texts in a long time. This
Speaker 1: from Peter in beautiful Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so ironic that four to twenty is
Speaker 1: the weed holiday. They weren't exactly potheads, but Harrison Cleebold
Speaker 1: were both marijuana users, well documented. First of all, rearding
Speaker 1: Harris and documented marijuana use. I'm not sure the details
Speaker 1: of that. I'm just not You know, you looked at
Speaker 1: the way she spoke and acted sometimes and it was
Speaker 1: consistent with that, But that doesn't mean that was the
Speaker 1: cause of it.
Speaker 2: In terms of Cleve Bald and Harris. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you look at almost.
Speaker 1: All the mass shooters, I'm trying to think of an
Speaker 1: exception in Colorado, I can't think of one. I think
Speaker 1: all the Colorado mass shooters have been potheads, heavy pot users,
Speaker 1: and the same is true for most mass shooters across
Speaker 1: the country. But we don't have that part of its studied. Right,
Speaker 1: you don't see the Democrats at the Colorado legislature now
Speaker 1: wanting to you know, reverse Amendment sixty four or even
Speaker 1: limit potency of marijuana, which has become krackawana, right, because
Speaker 1: it's the holy grail. They need a drugged up population
Speaker 1: and so it's more dependent on government, more.
Speaker 2: Likely to vote for the left.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so every time they talk about, Okay, we
Speaker 1: need to take away your Second Amendment rights to stop
Speaker 1: these mass shootings, when obviously mass shooters don't care about
Speaker 1: our murder laws. They're not going to care about our
Speaker 1: gun laws. But they won't talk about limiting the availability
Speaker 1: high potency marijuana, right, or the common thread of having
Speaker 1: marijuana use of mass shooters because no, that's, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: too important to them politically. So you know, screw the
Speaker 1: innocent victims of the next mass shooter. You know, they're
Speaker 1: just not willing to go there. But the other reason
Speaker 1: I think this text is so important, Ryan, and it's
Speaker 1: something we've touched on in air, but never really directly addressed.
Speaker 1: But now we must is to what extent is this lunacy,
Speaker 1: like really truly bizarre lunatic stuff that we're seeing from
Speaker 1: a lot of these top elected Democrats, including some who
Speaker 1: used to appear wrong, But saying, to what extent do
Speaker 1: you think that's due to legalized marijuana? I mean, how
Speaker 1: many top elected officials in the Democratic Party here in
Speaker 1: Colorado and elsewhere do you think have become Maria?
Speaker 3: I want to users could be a better explanation than
Speaker 3: whatever the alternative would be.
Speaker 2: I mean, and listen, I have no worth the idea.
Speaker 1: I've never asked him, none whatsoever, no idea whether Mike
Speaker 1: Johnston uses marijuana or not. But when you see a
Speaker 1: guy who I always used to have great conversations with
Speaker 1: and we disagreed on most everything, but a guy who
Speaker 1: used to be kind of rational and stable, though wrong
Speaker 1: on things, A guy like that come out and talk
Speaker 1: about Tienaman Square and sending Denver cops out at the
Speaker 1: border to stop the Feds from enforcing federal law, just
Speaker 1: really goofy bizarre stuff. I think it's a fair question
Speaker 1: in a state where marijuana is legal, not accusing him
Speaker 1: of anything illegal I'm not accusing him of anything. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he uses or not, but I think
Speaker 1: it is a fair question now when you see otherwise
Speaker 1: smart people saying and doing really really goofy things. So
Speaker 1: just across America, how many of these Democrat leaders and
Speaker 1: officials who are saying all this goofy stuff? How many
Speaker 1: of them do you think?
Speaker 2: Are you and dope? Do you think Bernie Sanders uses AOC?
Speaker 2: I don't want to say.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I and is it a fair question?
Speaker 1: Is it a fair question now that you have marijuana
Speaker 1: legal in these different places? Because at that expression, that
Speaker 1: old expression, I'll have guys like he's acting like he
Speaker 1: used on drugs. That expression exists for a good reason, right,
Speaker 1: because when people are on drugs, they do a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy stuff and they say a lot of crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. Dan is a fellow Catholic.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Latin Mass versus the New Math,
Speaker 1: both both personally and politically these days, I find it
Speaker 1: harder and harder to go to the New Mass, although
Speaker 1: it meets my obligation. I see a lack of respect
Speaker 1: for the Mass T shirt and food like a movie anyway,
Speaker 1: Just curious or hey, thank you for the text.
Speaker 2: I can tell you've been to both.
Speaker 1: And there's a Latin Mass church you know, out here
Speaker 1: and at the South Denver area and the South suburbs
Speaker 1: and just an absolutely wonderful place to go. And then
Speaker 1: mostly I'm going to you know, the more traditional Mass, and.
Speaker 2: I just enjoy both myself.
Speaker 1: This business about lack of respect for the Mass, my friend,
Speaker 1: I have not encountered that, maybe we're going to different places.
Speaker 1: What I'm encountering, and I hate to sound like such
Speaker 1: a cheerleader, but it's just legit.
Speaker 2: What I'm encountering is.
Speaker 1: Just an explosion of attend and said Catholic churches, and
Speaker 1: I you know, depending upon where I'm in trial or whatever,
Speaker 1: maybe we're traveling, I'll hit a lot of different Catholic
Speaker 1: churches around the metro area. And then I have a
Speaker 1: trial coming up in Fort Collins. They'll be in church
Speaker 1: up there next week of trial in Colorado Springs being
Speaker 1: church down there.
Speaker 2: Everywhere I go, it's packed.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan, we went out to the seven point
Speaker 1: thirty yesterday and I hope I don't have to go
Speaker 1: to confession for this one.
Speaker 2: Try to beat the crowds. It was packed.
Speaker 1: It's just so I'm not seeing the lack of respect
Speaker 1: for the mass in the more traditional masses. But Texter,
Speaker 1: thank you for noting. If you want to write back
Speaker 1: or call, please, we'd love to talk with you. It's
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting show tomorrow. A lot lots
Speaker 1: shaping up for the show tomorrow, and some of it
Speaker 1: is still being confirmed right now, so I can't really
Speaker 1: promote that.
Speaker 2: But I one of the.
Speaker 1: Things that I'm really intrigued by because I think President
Speaker 1: Trump very focused on Colorado right for lots of legitimate reasons,
Speaker 1: and the sanctuary state in the sanctuary city and Mayor
Speaker 1: Johnston coming out and calling Trump out publicly and everything else.
Speaker 2: I think Trump is determined to.
Speaker 1: Protect the people of Colorado because our elected officials on
Speaker 1: the left have not been willing to. We'll talk tomorrow
Speaker 1: about what you want to see the Trump administration do here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ryan, Thank you, Kelly. Catch you tomorrow.