Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: you who's in the ring right now fighting for truth
Speaker 1: justice in the American way. It's our first guest, Dan Snowberger.
Speaker 1: He is superintendent of the Elizabeth School District, and they.
Speaker 2: Are fighting hard.
Speaker 1: They're fighting not only for the kids in their district,
Speaker 1: by extension kids everywhere. As the ACLU tries to force
Speaker 1: them to put books back on the shelves that we've
Speaker 1: been having excerpts quoted on this show, etc. That in
Speaker 1: my view, are obviously obscene and not the type of
Speaker 1: books that should be on school sholves. And they want
Speaker 1: a big round today in the intense circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Superintendent Snowburger. Welcome back to the Dan
Speaker 1: Caplis Show. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Dan, Thank you. Yeah, we are definitely
Speaker 3: very pleased with the outcome today. We had a little
Speaker 3: step back yesterday at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, the local
Speaker 3: Denver judge issued a preliminary junction ordering those books be
Speaker 3: returned by five o'clock on Saturday. That was a very
Speaker 3: disappointing order because again she refused hearing that would have
Speaker 3: given the district a chance to actually present its facts
Speaker 3: and evidence in this case. Again, this judges, now we
Speaker 3: shoot a preliminary injunction twice without a hearing, which is
Speaker 3: a little concerning. But at eleven o'clock last night we
Speaker 3: filed an appeal with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Speaker 3: and at ten fifteen this morning they issued us stay
Speaker 3: administrative stay not only on her order, but also on
Speaker 3: any further action on the part of that judge until
Speaker 3: they are able to hear this.
Speaker 2: Appeal.
Speaker 3: So we're pleased that this will now actually go beyond
Speaker 3: the local judge.
Speaker 1: Well, that is tremendous news to be able to get
Speaker 1: this stay. And as you know, Superintendent, so often these
Speaker 1: kind of issues, right, these type of issues require fights
Speaker 1: through multiple levels, as we talked about the other day
Speaker 1: on this show, you know, sometimes ending in the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, with the US Supreme Court taking a particular
Speaker 1: interest in cases out of Colorado these days, I think
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons and almost always that the Colorado plaintiff
Speaker 1: in your type of shoes prevails. So really appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys fighting this. How can people support the cause?
Speaker 3: You know, we definitely are working hard to keep this
Speaker 3: away from our school funding in our kids. So our
Speaker 3: Elizabeth School District dot org website has a link at
Speaker 3: the top. We also have a link a little further
Speaker 3: down on the page for folks to follow this. We
Speaker 3: have all of our motions and news information about this
Speaker 3: case a little further down on the page. So folks
Speaker 3: who are interested in following along, we encourage them to
Speaker 3: follow that side. But definitely appreciate any donations from folks
Speaker 3: who are willing to help us. Again, this is a
Speaker 3: David and Goliath story. We keep repeating that small district
Speaker 3: David did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my recollection too. I may have to go
Speaker 2: back and check that, but I hope and I think
Speaker 2: it's good to be David. Good to Dan.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate the opportunity. And again, this is great
Speaker 3: news for the children of Elizabeth, And as you said,
Speaker 3: this is an important case for children across the color right,
Speaker 3: across the nation. This is unser the law and we
Speaker 3: do believe this may end up in the spring court,
Speaker 3: and and if we have to take it there, we
Speaker 3: certainly are willing.
Speaker 2: To do so well. And I bet if you do,
Speaker 2: you'll win.
Speaker 1: Superintendent, thanks for the time, Thank you appreciate. Take care
Speaker 1: of that is our Superintendent. Dan Snowberger speaking of David
Speaker 1: and Goliath, I saw this yesterday and that just took
Speaker 1: a picture of it. I thought it was so great,
Speaker 1: says when God wanted to make a king out of David,
Speaker 1: he didn't bring him a crown.
Speaker 2: He brought him Goliath.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, right, Ryan, Yes, right, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: We all need our Goliath and all great I think
Speaker 1: you look at virtually every great figure in American and
Speaker 1: world history and they had to overcome their Goliath. And
Speaker 1: now Elizabeth School District is facing theirs, and just admire
Speaker 1: them for fighting the way they are, But folks take a.
Speaker 2: Look at helping them out.
Speaker 1: It's an expensive process, but again a victory that needs
Speaker 1: to be one, and a victory that will benefit so many.
Speaker 1: But you have to come back to this question, young Ryan,
Speaker 1: why is the left so determined to sexualized kids? Why
Speaker 1: is the acl you so determined now to go to
Speaker 1: federal court and fight through every level they have to
Speaker 1: to try to force Little Elizabeth School District to keep
Speaker 1: these books on the shelves.
Speaker 4: It's a great question.
Speaker 5: I think it's a very complicated answer, and I would
Speaker 5: like to get doctor Rich Guggenheim on dan. He is
Speaker 5: the leader of gays against groomers here in Colorado. And
Speaker 5: I am closely affiliated with the log Cabin Republicans who
Speaker 5: are LGB.
Speaker 4: Pro Republican conservative.
Speaker 5: Voices in this state. And there is an issues not
Speaker 5: all trans people. I want to make sure to preface
Speaker 5: it with that, But there's a blurring of the lines
Speaker 5: when you talk about drag shows for.
Speaker 4: Kids and reading to them.
Speaker 5: And the great point that was made it might have
Speaker 5: been Alexa one of our textures, why don't they do
Speaker 5: this in nursing homes for old people?
Speaker 4: You know they got to be with kids. What are
Speaker 4: they doing with kids?
Speaker 5: And you know you and me both were fierce protectors
Speaker 5: of kids. They need our protection from these predatory behaviors.
Speaker 5: But there's this blurring of the lines between what's appropriate
Speaker 5: what's not. Wins appropriate to sexualize them. They can change
Speaker 5: their body function organs with surgery and hormones at a
Speaker 5: certain age, And there's only one explanation to your point, Dan.
Speaker 4: It's sexualizing them.
Speaker 5: And I think it's my opinion this is not a
Speaker 5: hot take that there are those who would want to
Speaker 5: add p to LGBTQ in the form of pedophilia predatory
Speaker 5: behavior on young children.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that is not where I met my friend.
Speaker 5: But you don't believe there are people out there who
Speaker 5: want to sexualize should you said it yourself. They're sexualizing children, right,
Speaker 5: They're making it so they have agency over their own
Speaker 5: bodies to make sexual decisions.
Speaker 4: Why would they want to do that, Well, there are.
Speaker 1: Lots of bad reasons they would want to do that
Speaker 1: that stop short of they want to go have sex.
Speaker 2: With the kids.
Speaker 4: So that's what I'm injecting.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not right, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is this, I think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of bad motives, a lot of bad motives when
Speaker 1: it comes to this ongoing effort of the left. Now
Speaker 1: I'm saying the left politically. I'm not labeling gay people,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: Labeling trans people.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that there are political actors out there on
Speaker 1: the left who are pursuing these these political agendas to
Speaker 1: try to sexualize kids. Now, let me finish this on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're pursuing this agenda as well. In it's kind of
Speaker 1: hand in hand to try to silence parents, to to
Speaker 1: criminal not only parents, counselors, others who would try to
Speaker 1: step in and protect the children and say no, Johnny,
Speaker 1: you're really Johnny, You're not Jane. And we've been talking
Speaker 1: about those bills. So I think there are lots of
Speaker 1: improper motives, including on the part I'm not labeling gay
Speaker 1: people are trans people, but political action types. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of recruitment going on. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of recruitment going on. I think this effort
Speaker 1: is also intended to subvert parental rights. It's intended to
Speaker 1: build a legalized form of censorship into society.
Speaker 2: So I think there are.
Speaker 1: Lots of bad motives behind all the things we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But I do not believe that the driving force motive
Speaker 1: is to legalize pedophilia.
Speaker 4: Two points to counter that.
Speaker 5: One, we had an audio clip not that long ago
Speaker 5: of a professor in Virginia I believe it was who
Speaker 5: kept using the term minor attracted person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're talking about a creep of pervertence.
Speaker 5: That's not an isolated the other one. Again, this is local,
Speaker 5: this is statewide in Colorado. George Brockler spoke to this.
Speaker 5: Why are the Democrats fighting so hard to reduce the
Speaker 5: punishment and sentences for those who rape children?
Speaker 2: Well, great question, that's a fair question.
Speaker 1: I believe that's because the Democratic Party in Colorado and
Speaker 1: the left that controls the Democratic Party nationwide is pro
Speaker 1: criminal in general. I think they are trying to protect
Speaker 1: criminals across the board, from first degree murder to rape,
Speaker 1: to child rape to all of that. I think that's
Speaker 1: the pro criminal thing we have going on in the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. And it's obviously it's heinous. But do you
Speaker 1: really believe, Ryan, do you really believe that other than
Speaker 1: the straight pervert who latches onto the movement, and again
Speaker 1: that the movement has a lot of bad motives and
Speaker 1: I've laid some of those out, but other than the
Speaker 1: straight pervert, do you really believe that that part of
Speaker 1: the organized political effort, now we have been opposing right
Speaker 1: to sexualized kids, subvert parental rights, et cetera, is actually
Speaker 1: to legalize adult sex with children.
Speaker 5: The permissiveness that they are championing goes to your broader point,
Speaker 5: but I think it's a specific point as well. They
Speaker 5: are not as harsh or firm on punishment for child
Speaker 5: sex offenders, and they want to reduce those punishments. And
Speaker 5: like I said, it's a very important point and distinction
Speaker 5: you've made it. I've made it Rich Guggenheim gaze against groomers.
Speaker 5: The God is groomers. Why are they grooming? What are
Speaker 5: they grooming them?
Speaker 4: Forward?
Speaker 1: But this goes back to I do think now if
Speaker 1: you separate this out from from those who now wanted
Speaker 1: to be legal for adults to have sex with children.
Speaker 1: And my point is that is not the core of
Speaker 1: the movement right now that is behind all these awful bills.
Speaker 1: But as I've said, for some in the organized political movement,
Speaker 1: is their motive to recruit? Is their motive to get
Speaker 1: more kids to trans Is there?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I do think for some, and I'm talking about in
Speaker 1: the political movement, that is their motive. I think you're
Speaker 1: talking about a different motive there that I don't believe
Speaker 1: is a core part of that movement. Three out three seven, one, three, eight,
Speaker 1: two five five. Obviously love to get your take on
Speaker 1: that text.
Speaker 2: D A. N. Five, seven, seven, three nine, and.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I was going to play some sound, but I
Speaker 1: can't over that. Can't desecrate that song. One of the
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Speaker 1: day like that is brutal, Yeah, yeah, but it's still
Speaker 1: a day, right, so hopefully everybody out there is having fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yeah, well we'll talk more about the Rockies. I
Speaker 1: am sure at the moment. So glad you're here. And
Speaker 1: President Trump coming out today and saying this is a
Speaker 1: great time to get rich and first caveat and I
Speaker 1: don't just say this, please take it too hard. Never
Speaker 1: take stock advice from me, Okay, never I've done fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't want it on my conscience.
Speaker 1: Never ever ever do anything in the stock market, not
Speaker 1: that you would. I'm just saying this for my own
Speaker 1: peace of mind. But my goodness, just looking at this
Speaker 1: as a guy, I'm no market expert, but I take
Speaker 1: it seriously, right because I invest our Famili's money, and
Speaker 1: I obviously in consultation with my brilliant wife, but I
Speaker 1: take this stuff very seriously. And I look at this
Speaker 1: right now and I am so angry at myself because
Speaker 1: I was involved in a very important trial today. This
Speaker 1: is pre trial trial testimony. Sometimes a witness in this case,
Speaker 1: a doctor isn't going to be available, so you have
Speaker 1: to take their trial testimony before trial, you put it
Speaker 1: on videotape, and then you play it for the jury.
Speaker 1: And we did that today. So I was tied up
Speaker 1: in that and did not get to invest before the
Speaker 1: market's closed it too. So I'm kicking myself because if
Speaker 1: I had been free, you bet I would have. And
Speaker 1: because this is this is the craziest thing I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life, because what you've got, this is
Speaker 1: just my opinion, is you've got a media that is
Speaker 1: so anti Trump, right, and Trump has been on such
Speaker 1: a role they just can't they're ready to grasp onto
Speaker 1: anything to try to rip him. And so you know tariffs,
Speaker 1: now that's their excuse all this panic and they're driving
Speaker 1: so much panic selling right now and to me just
Speaker 1: as a guy, and I'm going to back it up
Speaker 1: with my own money. Again, I'm kicking myself that I
Speaker 1: didn't have the time today to do it before too,
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you, all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: too late in the day to day and the nastag's
Speaker 1: down about ten percent over the last two days.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, if I had been free, I would have done
Speaker 1: what for me would be significant, but a significant additional
Speaker 1: move into the market because wait, when you stop and
Speaker 1: think about it, I mean COVID, right. I did the
Speaker 1: same thing during COVID when the market crash during COVID.
Speaker 1: But that was a little bit scary because you couldn't
Speaker 1: be sure that what I thought was going to happen
Speaker 1: was going to happen. But I'm glad we did it
Speaker 1: because you saw the same kind of panic selling in COVID.
Speaker 2: And then I just sat there and.
Speaker 1: Thought, well, wait a second, it's got to come back, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then you just think it through.
Speaker 2: It's got to come back.
Speaker 1: So we made as a couple of very significant for
Speaker 1: us in our little world move then and We're well
Speaker 1: rewarded for it. Glad it did it. This to me
Speaker 1: is a more obvious no brainer, right because Trump's in
Speaker 1: control of it.
Speaker 4: COVID.
Speaker 1: COVID, the Communist Party of China kind of inflicted it
Speaker 1: on the world by not warning people once the outbreak occurred.
Speaker 1: Out of that lab now here, Trump's in control of this.
Speaker 1: Trump's in control is he could pull the tariffs any time.
Speaker 1: Does anybody really think Donald Trump is going to let
Speaker 1: the economy tank? And if you do, what would make
Speaker 1: you believe that? What would make you think that for
Speaker 1: a second? I would bet you this, Ryan, if we
Speaker 1: had subpoena power and we could put these people under oath,
Speaker 1: I would bet you that Chucky Schumer and Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: and all these howling at the moon Democrats, they're out
Speaker 1: there investing right now, They're putting money back in the market.
Speaker 1: Would be my guests, Well, I have no way to know,
Speaker 1: but it would be my guest, Well, you do.
Speaker 4: Have a way to know. Oh yeah, you have that
Speaker 4: way to know.
Speaker 5: You just named two out of the three who absolutely
Speaker 5: sang from the same hymnal on this issue back in
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 2: Yes, they did it. But here's Here's what I would
Speaker 2: point out.
Speaker 1: I would just guess that they're out putting money into
Speaker 1: the market right now totally because this is totally illogical
Speaker 1: right now, this panic selling because Trump is in control
Speaker 1: of it now. First of all, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to work in all the ways we described over the
Speaker 1: last few days. But if it's not working, he pulls
Speaker 1: the plug and then what happens to markets? They come
Speaker 1: right back up. So this, to me is is really
Speaker 1: illogical panic selling right now driven by a politically motivated media.
Speaker 1: Not entirely, I understand there's plenty of professional selling going
Speaker 1: on right now as well, but I just think it's
Speaker 1: a great buying opportunity.
Speaker 2: Please do not act on that. But I'm going to look.
Speaker 6: I think the President's doing the right thing. China has
Speaker 6: been taking advantage of us for two decades. They're stealing
Speaker 6: our intellectual property, which means stealing our good paying jobs.
Speaker 6: And I, frankly am closer on this issue, not on
Speaker 6: many but on this issue with President Trump than I
Speaker 6: was with President's Bush or Obama.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so now.
Speaker 4: I was twenty eighteen, by the way, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Right, And obviously these problems have only gotten worse since
Speaker 1: and and so we'll be discussed kind of the broader
Speaker 1: terror fishing in more depth coming up in these other segments.
Speaker 1: But but my goodness, yeah, I just think as Trump's right,
Speaker 1: it's a great time to get rich, and everybody's got
Speaker 1: to make their own decision based on risk tolerance, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Three someone three eight.
Speaker 1: Two five five text d An five seven seven three
Speaker 1: nine Dan. Do you hear any appreciable outrage expressed by
Speaker 1: the OLGBT et cetera groups about sex with minor.
Speaker 2: Steve in Littleton?
Speaker 1: No, But but the reason for that is I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a front and center issue.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to sit here and condemn.
Speaker 1: Any politician, any group, et cetera for not coming out
Speaker 1: and condemning sex with minors, because sex with minors is
Speaker 1: so obviously horrific and heinous and demonic that that nobody
Speaker 1: in the right mind could ever be expected to support it.
Speaker 1: So to me, and if you just joined the conversation,
Speaker 1: here's why we're off on this tangent because my good
Speaker 1: friend Ryan surprised me by saying that he believes a
Speaker 1: driving motive behind these awful radical trans bills that trumple
Speaker 1: parental rights and harm kids, et cetera, is a desire
Speaker 1: to have sex with children. I disagree with him on that.
Speaker 1: I think there are plenty of bad motives behind these bills.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that's one of them. So that's why
Speaker 1: we're having this conversation.
Speaker 5: Well, you're connecting dots here that you're only one dot away. Dan,
Speaker 5: you're asking the question. You're asking the question, why are
Speaker 5: they sexualizing kids?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, and I am giving good answers. I think your
Speaker 1: answer is unsupported and way too far.
Speaker 5: I think there is some there, And speaking to Steve's
Speaker 5: point on the text, yes, there is a group speaking
Speaker 5: out against that. They're called Gays Against Groomers and the
Speaker 5: log Cabin Republicans. They are speaking out against what he's asking.
Speaker 1: My only point is, aren't there plenty of obvious bad
Speaker 1: motives behind these horrible bills? I just think to take
Speaker 1: that next step and say that's a motive they actually
Speaker 1: want to have sex with the young children. Isn't enough
Speaker 1: to say they're trying to recruit, trample parental rights, etc.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Capitla Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Boy My Mom, was so wise.
Speaker 1: She taught us very young the key to happiness in
Speaker 1: life is to understand the true definition of rich, right,
Speaker 1: And for those who decide it means money, how many
Speaker 1: of those do you think end up happy versus those
Speaker 1: who get it right?
Speaker 2: Right? Hey, let's go to the VIP line.
Speaker 1: Welcome our friend, Representative ty Winter, whose assistant minority leader
Speaker 1: down at the legislature, which would explain all of the
Speaker 1: bumps and bruises on your head right now, my friend,
Speaker 1: it has to be like banging your head against the
Speaker 1: wall of the State Capitol like every day when.
Speaker 2: You show up. But God, love you for doing it.
Speaker 2: How you doing good?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 7: It's great to talk to you. And sometimes we equate
Speaker 7: it to a mixture of Groundhog Day and Rocky three.
Speaker 7: Up every morning and you fight, club or laying and
Speaker 7: then you get up and do it the next day
Speaker 7: all over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but thank god you and others are willing
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, every day there's something new and even more
Speaker 1: crazy out of that place.
Speaker 2: But what has you really going right now?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 7: Just the whole issue with Senate Bill three is the
Speaker 7: first thing that's going to kick it off. I mean,
Speaker 7: we spent over I mean, the House Republicans sor have
Speaker 7: been fighting tooth and nail on everything, but we spent
Speaker 7: over thirty hours between committees and floor work. We held
Speaker 7: them in nine hours, just in the stage of the beginning.
Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't need to get out of the
Speaker 7: committees to run amendments when of course we were done.
Speaker 7: So you know, we fought really hard on that. And
Speaker 7: we've been you know, drilling down in committees, trying to
Speaker 7: fight you know, censure, trying to fight being silence. You know,
Speaker 7: our motive is being impugned. You know, down here they
Speaker 7: just live off of emotions and feelings. Facts don't matter
Speaker 7: so much. So you know, we're fighting all of those things.
Speaker 7: But we don't mind being in the fight. And we
Speaker 7: appreciate all the thanks and the prayers, and just know
Speaker 7: that your House Republicans, we are in the fight and
Speaker 7: we will continue to fight until the last day, you know.
Speaker 2: Which brings us to I think a really key point.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why I'm quoting my late mom
Speaker 1: sat Mom so much today, but so many of these issues.
Speaker 2: Just call for it is.
Speaker 1: And I actually went back and I checked this to
Speaker 1: make sure I wasn't going to botch this because I'm
Speaker 1: not known as a biblical expert. But it is I
Speaker 1: have fought the good fight. I have finished the race.
Speaker 1: I have kept the faith. It isn't that I won
Speaker 1: the race, right, because all you can do in a
Speaker 1: situation like you're in right now is fight as hard
Speaker 1: as you can. And to me, that's more admirable than
Speaker 1: people in situations where they're just guaranteed to win, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as they can fog a mirror. They're in
Speaker 1: a political situation where they are guaranteed to win no
Speaker 1: matter what. I have more respect for the people like
Speaker 1: you who are fighting against these impossible odds. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: all want to win, right, I mean, you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: where you are, Nobody listening the show would be where
Speaker 1: they are if they didn't want to win, and if
Speaker 1: they weren't winners. But there's extra admiration for those in
Speaker 1: an impossible position like this who keep fighting.
Speaker 7: That's right. So every once in a while I wake
Speaker 7: up and I read Roosevelt's Man in the Arena. I
Speaker 7: think that that's also something that motivates me and is
Speaker 7: also important. MIGHT have a huge portrait of the saying
Speaker 7: in my office and there are days I have to
Speaker 7: come in here and recenter myself with that. And you know,
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, you know, all God
Speaker 7: asked us to do is to fight, because we all
Speaker 7: know we're going to win in the end. He isn't
Speaker 7: guarantee a win here, but we know in the end
Speaker 7: we win. So we show up every day and we fight.
Speaker 7: And that's the commitment we've made not only to the
Speaker 7: Republicans in Colorado, but the Independence and even the conservative
Speaker 7: Democrats that want us to fight for affordability, who want
Speaker 7: us to fight against crime and for safer streets, who
Speaker 7: want to fight for parental rights and to have them
Speaker 7: keep their hands off out of our pockets when it
Speaker 7: comes to Tabor. So we take up those fights every day.
Speaker 7: And you know, I just appreciate you, you know, talking
Speaker 7: about the quote that your mom used to use out
Speaker 7: of the Bible, because that's the stuff that really matters, sir.
Speaker 7: And when we have good people like you standing behind us,
Speaker 7: it makes this job a lot easier.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 1: Obviously I have the easy job I just talked here,
Speaker 1: But the reality is that whether somebody I mean you
Speaker 1: and I happen to share a Christian faith. But whether
Speaker 1: somebody has that faith or they don't, everybody, I think,
Speaker 1: just knows that it's a basic obligation of being on
Speaker 1: this planet that you have to stand up to evil.
Speaker 1: And there is some evil, evil stuff, you know, coming
Speaker 1: out of the left in this legislative session. I don't
Speaker 1: mean the individuals are evil, but there's some evil stuff
Speaker 1: coming out. I mean this business yesterday trying to make
Speaker 1: it illegal for a dad to say to his son, Hey, no,
Speaker 1: you're really Johnny. You're not Jane, no matter what those
Speaker 1: teachers at school tell you, or a mom to say
Speaker 1: to her daughter, hey you're really Jane. You're not Johnny.
Speaker 1: You know, no matter what those people at school tell you,
Speaker 1: that's now going to be criminalized.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, and that's where it comes to the
Speaker 7: parental rights fight. I mean, they're always to the extreme
Speaker 7: on one end, and I mean parents can even take
Speaker 7: their kids through the process. I mean, I think that
Speaker 7: they think all parents are closed minds and parents love
Speaker 7: their kids. But if parents think their kids need to
Speaker 7: see the priest or a pastor, or if they want
Speaker 7: them to see a therapist and talk about the issues
Speaker 7: that these kids are facing. They totally shot that out.
Speaker 7: If your kid comes home and feels a certain way
Speaker 7: and you automatically just don't affirm the way they feel,
Speaker 7: your kids can be taken from you by the state.
Speaker 7: We're actually hearing that bill on seconds today and we
Speaker 7: fought for parental rights and we did all day. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: we were rule fourteen today all four bills when we start.
Speaker 7: That means that they limited debate to two hours a
Speaker 7: piece per bill. So we started this morning, we gabbled
Speaker 7: in at nine o'clock. They rule fourteen to every bill.
Speaker 7: Right now, we're on the last bill as we speak,
Speaker 7: but we were only given two hours. And I mean,
Speaker 7: you've got twenty two legislators, Yeah, just on our side,
Speaker 7: and if everybody wants to speak, and then with them speaking,
Speaker 7: so then they're silencing the voices of our constitutions. Well,
Speaker 7: that's the unfortunate thing.
Speaker 2: But that just tells you you're right and they're wrong. Right.
Speaker 1: It's just like this garbage in committee where they come
Speaker 1: out and said, oh no, we're not going to confer
Speaker 1: with the stakeholders on this new bill that says in
Speaker 1: a custody fight, it's held against a parent if they
Speaker 1: tell their boys, really a boy, you know, they say, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't confer with the KKK and civil
Speaker 1: rights legislation. So that kind of of hateful line garbage
Speaker 1: is just an admission by them that they can't win
Speaker 1: a discussion. They can't win an argument, right, they can't
Speaker 1: win a fair fight in the legislature. So all they
Speaker 1: can do is say, no, we're not going to engage
Speaker 1: in discussion because you're the KKK. When they sound like,
Speaker 1: you know, stupid little kids on a playground. But it's
Speaker 1: all because they know they can't win the argument.
Speaker 7: Well, you think they'd learned something from the last election cycle.
Speaker 7: I mean they were a little bit insulated and call
Speaker 7: Colorado and we did gain three seats back in the House,
Speaker 7: in the congressional seat. That's great, but they feel insulated
Speaker 7: and they can't look outside the borders of Colorado and
Speaker 7: see exactly what you said. The house of cards for
Speaker 7: that way of thinking is falling all over the nation.
Speaker 7: And I think that we're going to get to that
Speaker 7: point in Colorado. I mean, you look at today. We
Speaker 7: are going to spend from nine in the morning till
Speaker 7: seven o'clock tonight debating these which we need to have
Speaker 7: our side heard for our constituents. When we could have
Speaker 7: been working on affordability, we could have been working on safety,
Speaker 7: we could have been working on lowering taxes, we could
Speaker 7: have working about making our streets safer. But that isn't
Speaker 7: what they're about. There's no money for them to spend
Speaker 7: this year, so they're just bringing a social agenda. And
Speaker 7: basically what this is, this is anti Trump language all
Speaker 7: the time. They don't like Trump, and they're going to
Speaker 7: make Republicans pay in the state House with some of
Speaker 7: the most egregious bills that we've seen through here in
Speaker 7: my three years here. So you know, it's a knee
Speaker 7: jerk reaction for them, and I just don't think they
Speaker 7: realize where they're sitting, because I think in the next
Speaker 7: election cycle, if the people of Colorado that want to
Speaker 7: save the state get out and vote and vote in force,
Speaker 7: we're going to be a formidable opponent.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the eight key across the state representative
Speaker 1: time winner our guest is that people vote their faith.
Speaker 1: I don't mean Catholics voting for Catholics or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just mean people voting for the core principles of
Speaker 1: their faith. And voting for people who will reflect those
Speaker 1: in the type of policies they enact. If that happened
Speaker 1: across Colorado, this thing would flip overnight.
Speaker 2: That's why I.
Speaker 1: Remember when Jared Paulus, the day after he won the
Speaker 1: governor's office the first time, came out and said people
Speaker 1: have to keep their faith out of the public square
Speaker 1: because he knew if people vote consistent with their faith,
Speaker 1: the left loses.
Speaker 7: That's right, and those are the values that we need
Speaker 7: to talk about when we're talking to the general public,
Speaker 7: and we're speaking from the well to the people of Colorado.
Speaker 7: Is believe it or not, I believe the Republican Party
Speaker 7: in this House is more aligned with people than they think.
Speaker 7: And I think more and more people are starting to
Speaker 7: see the attacks on the nuclear family, parental rights, I mean,
Speaker 7: their ability to make a living. So I think that
Speaker 7: the message that we're speaking outside of this building is
Speaker 7: starting to resonate with people. We see a huge up
Speaker 7: tick on our social media. Hired everybody to go to
Speaker 7: the House, Republicans on Facebook, on x all of those platforms,
Speaker 7: sign up for our Mighty twenty two newsletter, go to
Speaker 7: our website. Because people are starting to see We've had
Speaker 7: numerous groups. I mean Representative Calwell just did an interview
Speaker 7: on the Daily Wire podcast. I mean that's huge. I
Speaker 7: mean we're being shared by influencers, lives of TikTok. I
Speaker 7: mean we have David Harris Junior. So like we're starting
Speaker 7: to get the word out where people are even calling
Speaker 7: and going, what the hell's going on in Colorado. So
Speaker 7: Fox News we're starting to hit some of the big news.
Speaker 7: So the more attention we can bring on the insanity
Speaker 7: in this building, not only the better it will be
Speaker 7: for Republicans and people with great values in this state.
Speaker 7: That'll be good for the electric because they're going to
Speaker 7: get to see what's going on.
Speaker 2: Amen, do that. Take keep fighting the good fight, my friend,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dad, have a good one. Brother, God bless
Speaker 7: America you too.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Representative Tie Winter fighting really really hard down there.
Speaker 2: And you see, Ryan, I know we.
Speaker 1: Have did this break but the latest and it ties
Speaker 1: right into this right Obviously, the Democrats in Colorado field
Speaker 1: are electorally bulletproof because the latest from them they dropped
Speaker 1: a late bill today. We'll talk about it when we
Speaker 1: come back, which will change Colorado law to further protect
Speaker 1: people here illegally. At the same time police is insisting
Speaker 1: we're not a sanctuary state. We're not a sanctuary state.
Speaker 1: And some of this stuff they want to do now
Speaker 1: is beyond mind blowing. You're on the dan Caplas.
Speaker 4: Show and now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 8: We're the largest consumer market in the world, and yet
Speaker 8: the only thing we export as services, and we.
Speaker 2: Need to stop that.
Speaker 8: We need to get back to a time of country
Speaker 8: that can make things, and to do that we have
Speaker 8: to reset the global order of trade.
Speaker 2: And the other question, well, the.
Speaker 8: Worst thing is to leave it the way it is forever.
Speaker 8: I mean, this just can't continue. We can't continue to
Speaker 8: be a country that doesn't make things. We have to
Speaker 8: be able to make things to provide jobs for Americans.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 8: It's that's simple. China as an example, it's outrageous. I mean,
Speaker 8: they don't consume anything. All they do is export and
Speaker 8: flood and the store markets. In addition to all the
Speaker 8: tariffs and barriers they put in place.
Speaker 1: How does anybody argue with that logic at least about
Speaker 1: the underlying problem?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: I understand that reasonable and smart people can disagree about
Speaker 1: the solution, but I think the two things that cannot
Speaker 1: be disagreed about reasonably are We've got an enormous problem
Speaker 1: in this country, starting with a national security problem, then
Speaker 1: a national health problem, and then a long term national
Speaker 1: economic health problem. And that is that we're not making stuff.
Speaker 1: We're not making stuff at anywhere near the level we
Speaker 1: need to. We're not making the stuff at anywhere near
Speaker 1: the level we need to that this nation needs to
Speaker 1: live and to function day in and day out. What
Speaker 1: We're just going to sit here and just just be
Speaker 1: confident that China and the rest of the world isn't
Speaker 1: going to turn off the spigot I mean, or that
Speaker 1: there isn't going to be another pandemic or some other
Speaker 1: kind of disaster which interrupts those supply mean I mean, no,
Speaker 1: I really admire Trump for having the guts to stand
Speaker 1: up and be willing to endure political pain in order
Speaker 1: to try to change this course that we're on now.
Speaker 1: In the end, well, tariffs have been proven to be
Speaker 1: the right move or not, I'm not certain, but I
Speaker 1: know the status quo isn't And who from either party
Speaker 1: has had the courage before to be willing to try
Speaker 1: to change that status quo. But this market thing. I
Speaker 1: want to get to the phone lines and again, please
Speaker 1: do the opposite of anything I suggest on stocks. And
Speaker 1: I'll never suggest anything on stocks. I'll just tell you
Speaker 1: what I do. And I look at this right now,
Speaker 1: and I think this is utter madness panic selling.
Speaker 2: I understand institutional investors.
Speaker 1: They've got their algorithms and they've got to sell here
Speaker 1: and they've got to sell there. I'm not saying any
Speaker 1: of that's crazy. I'm just saying when you look at
Speaker 1: this Trump hating media, which sees this chance now to
Speaker 1: hammer them, and they're so gleefully helping the market drops,
Speaker 1: so they run all these panic stories and then you
Speaker 1: have all these hard working people go out there and
Speaker 1: l in a panic moment. It's madness, right because unlike COVID,
Speaker 1: which created a great buying opportunity, and I'm grateful we
Speaker 1: were able to take advantage of that, but but here
Speaker 1: Trump's in control. COVID there was limited control. Trump's in
Speaker 1: control here. He could change course at any time. So
Speaker 1: why would anybody be sitting here thinking that that that
Speaker 1: Wait a second, this market isn't going to come back up.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike the Millennial, probably a ninety year
Speaker 1: old guy, but I love the spirit.
Speaker 2: You're on the Dan Kapla Show. Welcome Mike.
Speaker 9: No, Dan, you don't remember me. I've called into your
Speaker 9: show many.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you you are Mike the Millennial.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I thought it was an imposter.
Speaker 9: No, no, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Now do you go buy that on X two? Are
Speaker 1: you actually Mike the Millennial?
Speaker 9: Well, it's funny, you know, I've I've listened to talk
Speaker 9: radio for a lot of my life. I called and
Speaker 9: used to call into the Jimbo Hannan show before he died,
Speaker 9: and also Coast to Coast am George Nori over on KOA.
Speaker 9: But that's kind of what they usually call me on
Speaker 9: when I call in. But anyways, No, it's good to
Speaker 9: talk to you again, Dan, and you know, thank you.
Speaker 9: It's always for your very thoughtful assessments on every show
Speaker 9: you do. And I just had a quick comment about
Speaker 9: tarriffs at orright and so yeah. So yesterday Chuck Grassley
Speaker 9: did something pretty astonishing. He joined with Democrat Maria Cantwell
Speaker 9: introduce introducing a bill giving Congress the power to stop
Speaker 9: any and all of Trump's tarots. The measure which was
Speaker 9: introduced Thursday, would limit the president's power to impose tarriffs.
Speaker 9: It would require the president to notify Congress within forty
Speaker 9: eight hours of such an imposition, and the bill also
Speaker 9: would allow Congress to end any tariff at any time.
Speaker 9: And you know, I think it's significant because you know,
Speaker 9: we've seen I think the four other Republican senators join
Speaker 9: in the issue of tariffs on camp to go with
Speaker 9: the Democrats. But I think this is significant because this
Speaker 9: is the first time we've seen an actual Republican senator
Speaker 9: join a Democrat in introducing a bill to essentially oppose
Speaker 9: Trump's wishes, right, And I think also, you know, part
Speaker 9: of what Trump is thinking is going to happen is
Speaker 9: that all of these countries are going to line up
Speaker 9: to come to Washington to renegotiate the price of you know,
Speaker 9: goods that they're selling to the United States. I don't
Speaker 9: know if that's the reality or not. And so the
Speaker 9: ends have to justify the means, right, because people are
Speaker 9: obviously losing money. But now Jones obviously tanked from over
Speaker 9: forty thousand to into the thirties. So you know, Trump
Speaker 9: was saying that the last month's jobs report says, it's
Speaker 9: all working, it's all great, But I don't know if
Speaker 9: that's going to be enough to justify the continuing tariffs
Speaker 9: in the long term. Now, Trump is kind of a negotiator, right,
Speaker 9: He's a businessman, so he wants to negotiate. But I
Speaker 9: just you know, he tries to force respect all these countries,
Speaker 9: and you have to realize respect is earned, it's not
Speaker 9: just getting well you willy willy.
Speaker 1: But eminem, let me jump in here for a second there,
Speaker 1: in terms of trying to force respect, No, what Trump
Speaker 1: is trying to do.
Speaker 2: Is to use the might of the United States of.
Speaker 1: America, to use the leverage, because it's easy to forget
Speaker 1: at times, right, might because of the way the Democrats
Speaker 1: in their media arm have tried to portray things that
Speaker 1: we are the greatest country in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: The economic might of the US is unsurpassed. So as
Speaker 1: long as we're willing to use that ethically and within
Speaker 1: the bounds of the law, there is an awful lot
Speaker 1: that can be accomplished to level the playing field. Now,
Speaker 1: your excellent point about Chuck Grassley Ran Paul, who I
Speaker 1: also respect. Seeing these tariffs are disaster. I think This
Speaker 1: just comes back to a key point, Mike, and that
Speaker 1: is that any kind of bold move to try to
Speaker 1: stop this country from going off a cliff is going
Speaker 1: to run some risk, and it's certainly going to involve
Speaker 1: some at least short term pain. And there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people politically who just aren't willing to risk that.
Speaker 1: Yet the GOP could get wiped out in the midterms
Speaker 1: if this play doesn't work. So I get the concerns
Speaker 1: out there, but we know status quo won't work, and
Speaker 1: Trump's in control here.
Speaker 2: This is going to work somehow, sometime