November 22, 2024 • 34 mins
Two days after Denver mayor Mike Johnston compares his city's stand against ICE to Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, news breaks of a Venezuelan illegal alien raping the 14-year-old daughter of his employer in the family's basement.
Alicia Garcia, one of Colorado's top second amendment activists, and Spartan Defense Armory & Training owner Teddy Collins both join Ryan with their reaction to Colorado's passage of Proposition KK - an excise tax on guns and ammunition which has infuriated those who most strongly support our right to bear arms.
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Alicia Garcia, one of Colorado's top second amendment activists, and Spartan Defense Armory & Training owner Teddy Collins both join Ryan with their reaction to Colorado's passage of Proposition KK - an excise tax on guns and ammunition which has infuriated those who most strongly support our right to bear arms.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And illegal immigrants from Venezuela now under arrest in Colorado
after allegedly committing a brutal crime. He is accused of
sexually assaulting a fourteen year old girl. Jeff Paula Scott
the details force from Los Angeles Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
John Investigators say this suspect was staying in the basement
of his employer's Jefferson County home when the incident took place.
Is a one night in late August, the twenty year
old Venezuelan migrant forced himself on his employer's fourteen year
old daughter, sexually assaulting her. Jezeus Castillo was eventually arrested
by the sheriff's office after being on the run.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
For nearly three months.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Azorsdell's Fox News. He's currently being held on a charge
of sex assault on a child now. According to The
New York Post, Castillo arrived from Venezuela last year, crossing
the border in the El Paso area. He reportedly was
released because of overcrowding. The New York Post also reporting
the suspect had previously been arrested in May, accused of
possessing tools for forgery or counterfeiting and theft Also in Colorado,
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the mayor of Denver, seemingly adding questions from reporters for
comments he made over President Elex proposed deportation operation involving
federal agents. He told Denver Right on Wednesday, quote, more
than us having DPD stationed at the county line to
keep them out, he would have fifty thousand Denver rights there.
It's like the Tenemn Square moment with the rose in
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the gun.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right, You'd have every one of those.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Highland moms who came out from migrants, and you do
not want to mess with them.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yesterday, this is what happened when a local reporter tried
following up with the mayor regarding those comments. You can
see the mayor getting into an suv. He closes the
door and then they drive away. The mayor also telling
Denver Wright his city will maintain its sanctuary city status.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Jeff Paul reporting for Spox News. There, Ryan Schuling live
with you on this Friday, looking forward to a very
entertaining four hours ahead. It's an odyssey, and I apologize
in advance if that's too much, but we're going to
do everything we can to make it as entertaining possible
because I am being forced into duty to fill in
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for Dan Kaplis for his two hours as well. So
buckle up, here we go. Your texts at five, seven, seven,
three nine, start those. Ryan Jesse Thomas on the other
side of the glass. He's very excited because Pam Anderson
is going to be joining us at the bottom of
this hour. Not quite the Pam Anderson maybe that he's
thinking of, but a Pam Anderson. Nevertheless, that's very important
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here in Colorado. And who should have been our Secretary
of state pick. She was the only Republican candidate for
office in the midterm elections back in twenty twenty two
who earned the endorsement of the Denver Post. Even the
Denver Post wouldn't endorse Jenna Griswold. We'll talk about everything
that's going on with the Password League scandal that has
engulfed Griswold in her office. Still no call for her
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to resign from her own side. And that's what it's
going to take. I mean, I can shout it from
the rocky mountaintops. We can have Rocky Mountain voice in
Heidi Ganal. We can have all the voices on the
right clamoring and calling rightfully for Jenna Griswel to resign,
but it will simply bounce off as long as the
powers that be in the state of Colorado protect, or
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defend or simply merely ignore her, which I think the
latter of those is what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Whether it's Governor.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Wiser, or anybody else in
the Democratic body politic and the General Assembly. It would
just I think, take one Democrat voice coming on, going,
you know what, we can't have this in our own party.
We've got a clean house. She needs to resign and
we need to move on. But the Democrats don't feel
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compelled to do that. They are suffering from fat cat syndrome,
and I get it. They've been dominating elections ever since
we went to all mail in balloting. It's also coincided
with the legalization of marijuana, the influx of people coming
here the undesired element of those who really put marijuana
smoking as a priority in their lives. So they funneled
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in from Texas from California. Keep Austin weird. They brought
the weird here to Colorado. California. Same thing Portlandia, Seattle.
I mean, these are the types of transplants that we've
gotten here in Colorado that has turned it from somewhat
red to very purple to extremely blue. And insomuch as
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single party rule creates tyranny, we're going to talk about
that as kind of a main theme today, because they
do not feel answerable or accountable to their populace, whether
it's for this or anything else. Election integrity, the border crisis.
Jared Poulos has already stood up and taken a far
left stance saying, we will not cooperate with Ice, we
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will not give in to the Trump administration's efforts to
deport illegals from Colorado. And this is in lockstep with
Mayor Mike Johnston, as you just heard. But this story
that was just reported upon it is not an isolated incident.
We know that Trendia Ragua has taken over apartment complexes
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plural in Aurora. We know this because of the first
hand account of both Cindy and Ed Romero, whose video
not only went viral, went international, is still being used
by Fox News, was featured on Doctor Phil and is
the very evidence showing exactly what they were alleging that
it wasn't some kind of fever dream that it wasn't
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a factor of Danielle Jurinsky's imagination, that John Fabricatory wasn't
just running on it as a campaign issue to try
to get leverage against Representative Jason Crowe. All of this
was happening, but they want to sweep it under the rug.
And the question that I asked on a post on
x here and this one went viral thanks in large part,
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I believe to John Fabricatory himself was regarding this story, sorry,
and how it was piecemeal reported and slowly revealed, trickled
out from the media to the public. And at first
it was just Colorado man, Colorado man charged with raping
his boss's fourteen year old daughter while living in their
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Jefferson County home. No, it was not a Colorado man.
It was a Venezuelan illegal migrant. In that word, I
don't even like how about illegal alien. This guy is
here cross the border illegally, as you heard, does not
belong in this country, as you heard, does not have
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a right to be in this country, as I've said,
And because it goes back to the axiom that I
have told you time and again on this program. If
the very first act of an individual is to break
our laws of sovereignty to come across our border illegally.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Then what compels them to obey any.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Of our other laws to assimilate to our society, culture
and laws. Now wherever this degenerate comes from the fact
that he was being housed by his employer. What was
this individual's line of work, What was this venezuelan being paid?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
How was this venezuelan being paid? Was it in cash?
Under the table? Off the books?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
The Democrats are saying the quiet part out loud, and
they're sounding a lot like slave owners from the eighteen fifties,
who will.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Pick our crops?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
That is an actual post on x that I saw
from a snobby liberal coastal elite, much like the Nancy
Pelosi portion of that party that looks down upon us
working folk, that doesn't want to have to be bothered
by the agricultural aspect of our society that feeds our people,
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and in so doing, we must have these under the
table borderline slave wages, driving down what those who might
work in the agriculture industry would earn otherwise. But because
these are illegals and the laws don't apply to them
in any way, shape matter of form, workers' rights laws,
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labor union laws and regulations, minimum wage concerns. I mean,
they're coming right out and saying, well, we need these
illegals to come pick our crops because we can pay
them less then we would have to pay an American
with fully instilled American rights as a laborer.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That is disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
We should not advocate for slave labor or indentured servant labor.
Those were eighteen hundreds conversations that led to a Civil war.
There are plenty of out of work individuals here, and
there are jobs that need to be filled, but not
by illegals, by Americans first. And their argument is, what
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these are jobs? Don't you know that Americans don't want
to do It's beneath them, and we need these dirty
folk to come across the border. Who are the racists here?
Who are the xenophobes here? Who are the people that
are treating these poor people as less than.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
As underlings, as servants?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You remember, I always make this reference because it's just
so emblematic of their hypocrisy on the left.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They don't care about these people. They pretend that they do.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
But the test was executed by Governor Ron DeSantis from
Florida and Governor Greg Abbott from Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And there was a.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Bus the illegal migrants that was sent to Martha's Vineyard.
These are where all those liberal coastal elites live, you know,
like the Obamas, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They're in Massachusetts. It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
And there they were dropped right on their doorstep and
within twenty four hours the residence of Martha's a vineyard
who have the signs on their lawns and say, in
this home, no human is illegal.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
We're so much better than those in fly over country
who drink beer, and we're at nine to five jobs.
We're above themly, we are more high minded than them.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh wait, whoa, whoa, they're here? Oh no, no, no,
are they the help? Oh no, well, we didn't mean
like here. As long as it's somebody else's problem, you know,
somebody that lives on the in the border counties of
Texas or in Florida, they deal with it. We have
to mock them and condescend to them and look down
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on them because.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're racist and there's enophobis. But oh hold on, let's.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Get a bus and we'll put all of these migrants
on the bus and send them packing gt to the
fo from Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod and we'll never
hear from them again. We'll wave goodbye, and we'll have
a single tear going just down the left cheek, not
the right cheek, the left cheek, just one tier and
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big Jackie O sunglasses, you know, the fashionable ones that
costs a lot of money, you know, because they have
the money for that. And the straw hat or the
felt hat or the Rakish derby just in the hands
together in mock prayer, and the smile. You gotta have
the smile with that single tier, and you bid them
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well and you wish them the best as long as.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's anywhere but here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
That's what played out on Martha's Vineyard by these absolutely
hypocritical clowns who they themselves. What they're doing is it's
an overcompensation for the truly racist feelings that they have inside.
They know that they think that they're better than these
people who come from these lands, but they have to
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project this image. They have to pretend, they have to
virtue signal that they're the righteous ones, they're the ones
that really care, except that they don't care at all.
And they don't want these migrants anywhere near them, okay,
unless they're they're the help those that truly have compassion
for these people realize. And why Tom Holman is such
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a champion for this cause, and why he is probably
the most important appointment higher that Donald Trump will make
is we know that when you open the back door
of illegal immigration, the floodgates open, the Pandora's box open.
You can't put that genie back in the bottle.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And you give.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Credence and clearance to the cartels to traffic humans from
Central America all the way across Mexico across the border.
You pay a coyote, then you owe them something once
they get you across the border, and women and children
are subjected to being sex slaves, being trafficked. You don't
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hear democrats talking about that. You don't hear democrats giving
one iota's care. And I have to watch my language
here about what happens to these people once they cross
the border, and where do they go and who is
looking out for them? And are they just simply coming
over to nestle at the teat of government services without
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providing any kind of work in return.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There's a lot of those.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Just ask Eric Adams in New York City. As I've
said many times, as the son of an immigrant, as
a champion for legal immigration, who wants people that want
to live the American dream, that want to come here
and contribute to our society, to become Americans, To learn
our language English, to assimilate to our culture, to salute
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our flag, to learn our Pledge of Allegiance, to learn
our national anthem, to adhere to our customs and our
traditions and our laws. When it's done the right way,
it's a magical, beautiful thing when you provide that path
and they go on through the front door, and there's
proper vetting, and they go through the process. And can
that process be simplified and accelerated. We can work on that,
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but not at the expense of letting illegals flooding across
the border willy nilly to do whatever they want and
go wherever they want and not answer to anybody, not
be accountable to anyone. The liberals are willing to pay
the price of a Lake and Riley. The liberals are
willing to pay the price of a Rachel Morin. The
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Liberals are willing to pay the price of a Jost
and Nungary, And those are just a handful of stories
that we've heard about. There are so many that we
haven't heard about, and there are others that are underreported.
John Fabricatory makes the point, and it's well stated that
there might be crimes that are being hidden because DPD
Denver police and others in urban municipalities with solid blue
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leadership like a Mike Johnston mayor, they don't want word
to get out that illegals are committing crimes, so they're
not filling out the entire portion of the police report, race, ethnicity, etc.
Or they're flat out lying and reporting a lot of
these as white or Americans or whatever. So a lot
of these crimes are being swept under the rug. This one, however,
was found out and it was finally properly reported raping
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his boss's fourteen year old daughter while living in their
Colorado home. This is a Venezuelan migrant who had no
regard for our laws, customs, traditions, boundaries of any kind,
and it's far from an isolated incident. Jose Ahbar, another
example who was coddled by our American government, committed a
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crime in the United States was paroled by Alvin Bragg
in Manhattan. Was then bankrolled and sent on a plane
paid for by you the taxpayer and me the taxpayer
by the Biden administration, flown from New York City to Georgia,
where he ended up in Athens, where he ended up
stalking Lake and Riley, where he ended up taking a
rock to her skull, and over a seventeen minute or
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deal in which she fought off her attacker as he
tried to rape her, he instead murdered her. And then
we see a headline in MSNBC and I couldn't believe
that this was real when I saw it, but it
was Lake and Riley's murderer.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Never had a chance.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Oh that's too bad. Oh that's just tragic. He never
had a chance in our judicial system, you know, once
he bashed Lake and Riley's head in with a rock. Hey,
you know, he didn't have a chance at a fair trial.
He waived his right to a jury trial, I might add,
and put his fate in the hands of a judge
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who came down like hell fire and brimstone upon him.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
As he should have.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
But the post that I put out on X and again,
I am looking for answers because they're not even willing
to have the conversation because they can't go down that
road even one step. If they do, they acknowledge that
it's a problem and that something needs to be done
about it. And I post about this story about what
happened to jeffco here with the rape of the fourteen
year old daughter of an employer who was housing a
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Venezuelan migrant employee in this country illegally must be emphasized
for a reason I cannot fathom Jared Polis, Phil Wiser,
Mike Johnston, and Jason Crowe are okay with this and
want to protect degenerates like him from federal arrest, prosecution
and deportation. Someone please explain this worldview to me. And
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I asked John Fabricatory, and he comments, it's only getting worse.
We have no idea how many illegal alien crimes Denver
County has hidden from ICE, how many have been released
on probation and were registered as sex offenders instead of
notifying ICE so they can be deported. Every Democrat politician
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in Colorado is complicit. That from John Fabricatory, and I
see no flaw in that evaluation. It is a price
they are willing to pay. It is collateral damage they
are willing to absorb because they will go to the mats,
They will go to the hill for people that are
in this country illegally rather than protect their own citizens
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in their own jurisdictions. And Mike Johnston comparing this to
a Tienem and Square moment is a disgrace to all
those Chinese freedom fighters who stood up to those tanks back.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
In nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Outright outrageous, take this time out, will come back. Pam
Anderson is next here on row and shooting life.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Sendbiers, guns and money.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Dead, get me out of this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
That's in fact, exactly what we need right now. Maybe
all three of those to pursue this matter.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Lawyers.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Definitely guns and money as a recap one of the
most mind boggling measures that was passed on the twenty
twenty four ballot. And I just shook my head because
if there's two things that the state of Colorado, as
left leaning as it is, tends to protect, it's tabor
so our right to be free from taxes without our approval,
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that's great, and guns, gun ownership libertarian. I think we
have a strong bent in this state toward that our
wild West kind of heritage. Then how did this pass?
I don't know. I couldn't believe it. I was doing
live election night coverage over on KOA with Floyd Cerule,
and when these numbers were coming in, I'm like, who
voted for this? And it even states at the beginning
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it's not exactly a great sales pitch. I'll just read
it word for word. You saw it on your ballot
if you've voted against it, like I did, and like
our next guests did, quote, shall state taxes be increased
by thirty nine million dollars annually to fundamental health services,
including for military veterans and at risk youth, school safety
and gun violence prevention and support services for victims of
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domestic violence and other violent crimes. And here's the meat
of the matter. They bury it. Of course, they don't
lead with this.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
How do you do this? How do you pay for all?
This sounds great?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
By authorizing a tax on gun dealers, gun manufacturers, and
ammunition vendors at the rate of six point five percent
of the net taxable sales from the retail sale of
any gun, gun precursor part, or ammunition, with the state
keeping and spending all of the new tax revenue as
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a voter approved revenue change. They work their way around tabor.
It literally says this is a tax and spend measure.
This used to sink liberals and elections. Not in this
one and on this case. And guess whose lead we
followed with this, you guessed at California. Well, joining us
now two very prominent voices in guns' rights, the first
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of which you can follow her on x at Boomstick Babe,
and she has testified at the state capitol many times.
Alicia Garcia and also joining us, Teddy Collins.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He is the.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Owner of Spartan Defense that is a gun store in
Colorado Springs.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We thank you both for your time today.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Hey, Ryan, how you doing doing doing all right?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I'm so glad you brought this to my attention. And Alicia,
I'll start with you since you're kind of the vocal
advocate for this and you've been, like I said, testifying
at the General Assembly. How did this proposal pass and
what does it mean for Colorado gun owners?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Well, I believe the reason that it passed is because
they just went for a hill mary to pass as
many gun legislation bills as they possibly could. And they
knew that if they flooded the bills and you know,
policy with tons of it, that at least most of
it would pass. And I think one of the things was,
it's just kind of that smoke and mirrors or look
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over here kind of deflection. They said, hey, let's let's
be outrageous and let's do an assault weapons ban, and
then we can write these other bills up. So regardless
if everybody's over here focused on the assault weapons ban,
we could probably pass these other things through. So it
was originally voted upon saying, hey, should we put this
on the ballot. Of course that pass because it's you know,
at the time was a supreme majority of Democrats. So
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then they get it on the ballot and they, you know,
Monica durand the bill sponsor is you know, tugging on
the heartstrings of all the bleeding heart in the city
and county of Denver and across the state, saying, hey,
this is for mental health for veterans, Hey, this is
for crime victim services. Hey, this is for domestic violence,
And so they make it seem like they're going to
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use this money for something good or something notable. But
instead it's like I said, it's all smoke and mirrors
and they're not actually going to do it for anything
of those types of things at all. They're actually going
to probably raid the fund, which ironically they lied about
the money and where the money's going to go. And
I have it on good authority as of yesterday that
that's exactly what Jared Polis wants to do. He wants
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to raid the fund and use it to hire more
unelected government bureaucrafts. So they spent forty three billion dollars
last year, and they spent so much money because of
Tabor that now they have to cut either salaries and personnel.
So instead of doing that, he wants to you know,
protect his unelected bureaucraft friends, so they literally blew the money.
Now they want to dip into this fund. So again
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people thought they were going to support something noble, and
it's just for another way for them to attack with
bias and discrimination gunshops and gun owners in America and
also serve, you know, their agenda to get more bureau
bureaucrafts in office.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
What Alicia says is so important that we follow this.
Then we learn from this as voters and I know
many of you already know this, but whenever a proposals
on the ballot says if we use the tax for X,
and we'll be spending it on this and the mental
health services. Tax revenues are fungible, and like Alicias said,
they can be rated by the government. Once it's in
one pot, it could be spent on anything. There is
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no guarantee, no accountability, no audit that will show yeah,
X dollar was spent on. Why measure? That's not what
this was. It opens the floodgates for taxing and spending.
It is pure leftist ideology and they're able to work
around tabor with it.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So what is the practical effect of.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This on somebody like we want to mention our next guest,
Teddy Collins, who owns Spartan Defense Armory and Training. You
find out more online at spartandefense dot com. So, Teddy,
with that plug, I hope to help you out. But
what does this measure do to you as somebody that
owns and operates a gun shop like yours.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Well, I can tell you there's a lot of uncertainty
in this bill as well. It's worded very weekly, it's
not very descriptive on how this is going to be enforced.
I'll give you example. For example, am I am I
going to be required to collect a six and a
half percent excise tax on things that I'm sending out
of state? That makes me less competitive to be able
to compete with other stores that are not located in
the state of Colorado. Are transfers coming in from out
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of state going to be subject to the same tax
on the value of the item being transferred in? Because
if not, now every Colorado store, every local owned store
in the state of Colorado, is now at a disadvantage
to compared to their out of state competitors that can
send guns in for a transfer fee, avoiding xcise tax
and in some cases sales tax. The biggest thing I
want to point out on this bill is on this
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proposition is in states, in the proposition that the store
can choose to pass this on to the customer, There's
no choice about it, and I want to make that clear.
One of the dirty secrets about the gun industry is
how low margins are actually on firearms. It's extremely low.
In most cases, we're seeing single digit returns after we
see after card fees, background check employees and everything else
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that we are investing in in the store, everything else
that we have to pay. So there's no ifans or
butts about it that six and a half percent has
to be packs passed on to the consumer. So that
the wording in the prop KK was very deceptive and
it was made, in my opinion, it was made to
pull on the hard strings of those voters to say, hell,
this is going for a good cause. We're going to
do basically a synd tax, but this is a constitutional
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right tax tax. Essentially, they're taxing the right you had
to keep in bare arms at a very high percentage
of six and a half percent. After you're already paying
a federal eleven percent excise tax on handguns to the
manufacturer has to pay, and you're paying an eight point
two percent for example in Colorado Springs sales tax. Now
you have an additional six and a half percent excise tax.
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It's just really pricing people out. Firearms and amo are
already super expensive because of demand and because of regulation.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Teddy Collins, you own Spartan Defense down in Colorado Springs,
joining us along with Alicia Garcia, who is a gun
rights advocate and does great work on this front, Alicia,
I want to focus on the ladder of what Teddy
just mentioned, and that is a financial barrier to a
constitutional right. For instance, we did away with poll taxes.
You can't force somebody to have to pay in order
to vote. And in fact, they would defend to the
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hilt a lot of people on the left a person's
mythical constitutional right, let's say, to an abortion as Roe v.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Wade was in place.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
They wouldn't want that financial barrier if a woman had
to have it in their view. So constitutionally, I know
that you've had the conversation with our mutual friend Dave
Koppel from the Independence Institute about what our standing is
here to fight Proposition KK before it's enforced. I think
one of the barriers is we voters voted this upon ourselves.
So it's very clever by the General Assembly to do that.
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But is there a path to fight this constitutionally and legally?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
In your view?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Well, so there's a big positive and a big negative
to this. So right now, there is currently an ongoing
case in California that's about a similar tax that was
enacted by the Kami California Legislature and the NRA is
a part of that case. If you guys want to
look at us, it's a XI tax on firearms and
ammunition sales that's going on there. And so also there's
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another weakness that's the federal Pittman and Robertson eleven percent
x five tax on firearms and ammunition that's existed without
controversy since the nineteen thirties. So it's going to be
a challenge for you know, people in California and Colorado
to distinguish the difference. So we if we take it
to court, and you know, I know other people that
I've talked to about this that are very predominant in
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the two way space, like Rocky Mountain governors, et cetera.
The truth is they don't want to spend and take
you know, fifty thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars from
each one of these firearms licensees that are willing to
sue and willing to go to court over it and
take it all the way and just get shut down
because we'll get a judge. And you know, if we
look at the tenth circuit that we have right now,
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everything's very left leaning. So we would basically exhaust funds
that could be used to get people into office or
get better candidates that would help fight this in legislation
or with protection that we would just exhaust the money
and then get a judge that says, hey, you know what,
Pittman Robertson has existed since in the nineteen thirties, So
what's the difference. And the difference is is that, like
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I said, this is this is a right. And if
you look at the legislation that we have and the
legislators in Colorado that we have, it's a big wretch
lag that this is based on bias and discrimination. They
want to do everything they can to one make it
very very hard for the people of Colorado to arm themselves.
And how do they do that, death by thousand cups
like you've seen throughout the entire twenty twenty four legislative session.
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If they can make it difficult for small businesses like
FFL to exist, boom, that's less access and that's pushing
business towards the big box stores. Who the big box
stores are into hoots with a lot of these gun
control people because why it doesn't affect their bottom line
like it does in a small business. So Obviously, the
people that need guns the most are usually the people
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that are poverty stricken. So if you think about it,
if someone's paying you five hundred dollars for a decent handgun,
and you add all these taxes on there, that's anywhere
from one hundred and thirty one hundred and fifty dollars
in addition to just the cost of the gun. So
if you're in a time of desperation and you need
a gun to defend your life, it becomes more and
more hard for you to do that because you can't
afford it. And I don't think that that should be
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a barrier to somebody exercising their right to self defense.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Follow her on exit Boomstick Babe, and be sure to
support his business at Spartan Deefence dot com at Spartan
Defense Armory and Training in Colorado Springs. Teddy Collins, I
know this is hitting you hard. We want to do
everything we can to support you. Best of luck going forward.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
I appreciate you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
All right, Teddy Collins there, and Alicia Garcia as well.
When we come back, we'll have our nominees for our
Friday Fool of the Week. Stay tuned to Ryan Schuling
Life our first nominee, Joe and Mika going to mar
A Lago to meet with litteral Orange Hitler.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from
from so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens,
deeply dismayed by several of President Elect Trump's cabinet selections and.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
They are scared.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast
and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak
with the President elect himself. On Friday, we were given
the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went
to mar A Lago to meet personally with President Elect Trump.
It was the first time we have seen him in
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seven years now.
Speaker 10 (31:37):
We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation,
threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
We talked about that a good bit and that's going
to come as no.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it
over the past year or over the past decade, that
we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
We told him so, and ratings of Tanked and Rosie
O'Donnell Boycott's you Jen Saki saying there aren't that many
trans women and women's sports, You're worrying about it too much.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And then last week in Congress and Milton came on
this network to discuss those comments.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
I was just speaking authentically as a dad about one
of many issues where I think we're just out of
touch with the majority of voters.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And I stand by my position.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
You know, maybe I didn't get all the words exactly right,
but the point is that the backlash I perceived proves
my point that we can't even have these discussions as
a party.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Look, reflection is good, but if that were actually an
issue at thousands of schools across the country, it would
be worthy of a debate. But there are just incredibly
few examples of transgender girls playing in youth sports, and
when we see those examples, there is an evidence that
these kids are a threat to safety, your fairness.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
I want to say a few examples.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean that if you were to account the examples
of transgender girls playing youth sports in any single state,
the number often runs two zero.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Total gas lighting Sonny houstin.
Speaker 12 (33:06):
How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking
across the or trafficking across state lines and having sex
with a seventeen year old my understanding. Further on in
the interview, they discussed the fact that once he finds
out that she's seventeen, he stops having sex with her.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Ooh, but then the lawyer's gotten her.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Year.
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Sonny, you have a legal I do have a legal note.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thank you, whoopy pause.
Speaker 12 (33:32):
Matt Gates has long denied all allegations, calling the claims
quote invented, and saying in a statement to ABC News
that this false near following a three year criminal investigation,
should be viewed with great skepticism. That DOJ investigation was
closed with no charges being brought.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We'll be right back, like she drank a glass of vinegar.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
And she had to do it again yesterday. Well have
that much more, Hollywood and Toto up next, Ryan shuling
line if
And illegal immigrants from Venezuela now under arrest in Colorado
after allegedly committing a brutal crime. He is accused of
sexually assaulting a fourteen year old girl. Jeff Paula Scott
the details force from Los Angeles Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
John Investigators say this suspect was staying in the basement
of his employer's Jefferson County home when the incident took place.
Is a one night in late August, the twenty year
old Venezuelan migrant forced himself on his employer's fourteen year
old daughter, sexually assaulting her. Jezeus Castillo was eventually arrested
by the sheriff's office after being on the run.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
For nearly three months.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Azorsdell's Fox News. He's currently being held on a charge
of sex assault on a child now. According to The
New York Post, Castillo arrived from Venezuela last year, crossing
the border in the El Paso area. He reportedly was
released because of overcrowding. The New York Post also reporting
the suspect had previously been arrested in May, accused of
possessing tools for forgery or counterfeiting and theft Also in Colorado,
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the mayor of Denver, seemingly adding questions from reporters for
comments he made over President Elex proposed deportation operation involving
federal agents. He told Denver Right on Wednesday, quote, more
than us having DPD stationed at the county line to
keep them out, he would have fifty thousand Denver rights there.
It's like the Tenemn Square moment with the rose in
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the gun.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right, You'd have every one of those.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Highland moms who came out from migrants, and you do
not want to mess with them.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yesterday, this is what happened when a local reporter tried
following up with the mayor regarding those comments. You can
see the mayor getting into an suv. He closes the
door and then they drive away. The mayor also telling
Denver Wright his city will maintain its sanctuary city status.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Jeff Paul reporting for Spox News. There, Ryan Schuling live
with you on this Friday, looking forward to a very
entertaining four hours ahead. It's an odyssey, and I apologize
in advance if that's too much, but we're going to
do everything we can to make it as entertaining possible
because I am being forced into duty to fill in
(02:03):
for Dan Kaplis for his two hours as well. So
buckle up, here we go. Your texts at five, seven, seven,
three nine, start those. Ryan Jesse Thomas on the other
side of the glass. He's very excited because Pam Anderson
is going to be joining us at the bottom of
this hour. Not quite the Pam Anderson maybe that he's
thinking of, but a Pam Anderson. Nevertheless, that's very important
(02:24):
here in Colorado. And who should have been our Secretary
of state pick. She was the only Republican candidate for
office in the midterm elections back in twenty twenty two
who earned the endorsement of the Denver Post. Even the
Denver Post wouldn't endorse Jenna Griswold. We'll talk about everything
that's going on with the Password League scandal that has
engulfed Griswold in her office. Still no call for her
(02:48):
to resign from her own side. And that's what it's
going to take. I mean, I can shout it from
the rocky mountaintops. We can have Rocky Mountain voice in
Heidi Ganal. We can have all the voices on the
right clamoring and calling rightfully for Jenna Griswel to resign,
but it will simply bounce off as long as the
powers that be in the state of Colorado protect, or
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defend or simply merely ignore her, which I think the
latter of those is what's happening right now.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Whether it's Governor.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Wiser, or anybody else in
the Democratic body politic and the General Assembly. It would
just I think, take one Democrat voice coming on, going,
you know what, we can't have this in our own party.
We've got a clean house. She needs to resign and
we need to move on. But the Democrats don't feel
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compelled to do that. They are suffering from fat cat syndrome,
and I get it. They've been dominating elections ever since
we went to all mail in balloting. It's also coincided
with the legalization of marijuana, the influx of people coming
here the undesired element of those who really put marijuana
smoking as a priority in their lives. So they funneled
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in from Texas from California. Keep Austin weird. They brought
the weird here to Colorado. California. Same thing Portlandia, Seattle.
I mean, these are the types of transplants that we've
gotten here in Colorado that has turned it from somewhat
red to very purple to extremely blue. And insomuch as
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single party rule creates tyranny, we're going to talk about
that as kind of a main theme today, because they
do not feel answerable or accountable to their populace, whether
it's for this or anything else. Election integrity, the border crisis.
Jared Poulos has already stood up and taken a far
left stance saying, we will not cooperate with Ice, we
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will not give in to the Trump administration's efforts to
deport illegals from Colorado. And this is in lockstep with
Mayor Mike Johnston, as you just heard. But this story
that was just reported upon it is not an isolated incident.
We know that Trendia Ragua has taken over apartment complexes
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plural in Aurora. We know this because of the first
hand account of both Cindy and Ed Romero, whose video
not only went viral, went international, is still being used
by Fox News, was featured on Doctor Phil and is
the very evidence showing exactly what they were alleging that
it wasn't some kind of fever dream that it wasn't
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a factor of Danielle Jurinsky's imagination, that John Fabricatory wasn't
just running on it as a campaign issue to try
to get leverage against Representative Jason Crowe. All of this
was happening, but they want to sweep it under the rug.
And the question that I asked on a post on
x here and this one went viral thanks in large part,
(05:55):
I believe to John Fabricatory himself was regarding this story, sorry,
and how it was piecemeal reported and slowly revealed, trickled
out from the media to the public. And at first
it was just Colorado man, Colorado man charged with raping
his boss's fourteen year old daughter while living in their
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Jefferson County home. No, it was not a Colorado man.
It was a Venezuelan illegal migrant. In that word, I
don't even like how about illegal alien. This guy is
here cross the border illegally, as you heard, does not
belong in this country, as you heard, does not have
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a right to be in this country, as I've said,
And because it goes back to the axiom that I
have told you time and again on this program. If
the very first act of an individual is to break
our laws of sovereignty to come across our border illegally.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Then what compels them to obey any.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Of our other laws to assimilate to our society, culture
and laws. Now wherever this degenerate comes from the fact
that he was being housed by his employer. What was
this individual's line of work, What was this venezuelan being paid?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
How was this venezuelan being paid? Was it in cash?
Under the table? Off the books?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
The Democrats are saying the quiet part out loud, and
they're sounding a lot like slave owners from the eighteen fifties,
who will.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Pick our crops?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
That is an actual post on x that I saw
from a snobby liberal coastal elite, much like the Nancy
Pelosi portion of that party that looks down upon us
working folk, that doesn't want to have to be bothered
by the agricultural aspect of our society that feeds our people,
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and in so doing, we must have these under the
table borderline slave wages, driving down what those who might
work in the agriculture industry would earn otherwise. But because
these are illegals and the laws don't apply to them
in any way, shape matter of form, workers' rights laws,
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labor union laws and regulations, minimum wage concerns. I mean,
they're coming right out and saying, well, we need these
illegals to come pick our crops because we can pay
them less then we would have to pay an American
with fully instilled American rights as a laborer.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That is disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
We should not advocate for slave labor or indentured servant labor.
Those were eighteen hundreds conversations that led to a Civil war.
There are plenty of out of work individuals here, and
there are jobs that need to be filled, but not
by illegals, by Americans first. And their argument is, what
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these are jobs? Don't you know that Americans don't want
to do It's beneath them, and we need these dirty
folk to come across the border. Who are the racists here?
Who are the xenophobes here? Who are the people that
are treating these poor people as less than.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
As underlings, as servants?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You remember, I always make this reference because it's just
so emblematic of their hypocrisy on the left.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They don't care about these people. They pretend that they do.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
But the test was executed by Governor Ron DeSantis from
Florida and Governor Greg Abbott from Texas.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
And there was a.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Bus the illegal migrants that was sent to Martha's Vineyard.
These are where all those liberal coastal elites live, you know,
like the Obamas, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
They're in Massachusetts. It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
And there they were dropped right on their doorstep and
within twenty four hours the residence of Martha's a vineyard
who have the signs on their lawns and say, in
this home, no human is illegal.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
We're so much better than those in fly over country
who drink beer, and we're at nine to five jobs.
We're above themly, we are more high minded than them.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh wait, whoa, whoa, they're here? Oh no, no, no,
are they the help? Oh no, well, we didn't mean
like here. As long as it's somebody else's problem, you know,
somebody that lives on the in the border counties of
Texas or in Florida, they deal with it. We have
to mock them and condescend to them and look down
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on them because.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're racist and there's enophobis. But oh hold on, let's.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Get a bus and we'll put all of these migrants
on the bus and send them packing gt to the
fo from Martha's Vineyard to Cape Cod and we'll never
hear from them again. We'll wave goodbye, and we'll have
a single tear going just down the left cheek, not
the right cheek, the left cheek, just one tier and
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big Jackie O sunglasses, you know, the fashionable ones that
costs a lot of money, you know, because they have
the money for that. And the straw hat or the
felt hat or the Rakish derby just in the hands
together in mock prayer, and the smile. You gotta have
the smile with that single tier, and you bid them
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well and you wish them the best as long as.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's anywhere but here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
That's what played out on Martha's Vineyard by these absolutely
hypocritical clowns who they themselves. What they're doing is it's
an overcompensation for the truly racist feelings that they have inside.
They know that they think that they're better than these
people who come from these lands, but they have to
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project this image. They have to pretend, they have to
virtue signal that they're the righteous ones, they're the ones
that really care, except that they don't care at all.
And they don't want these migrants anywhere near them, okay,
unless they're they're the help those that truly have compassion
for these people realize. And why Tom Holman is such
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a champion for this cause, and why he is probably
the most important appointment higher that Donald Trump will make
is we know that when you open the back door
of illegal immigration, the floodgates open, the Pandora's box open.
You can't put that genie back in the bottle.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And you give.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Credence and clearance to the cartels to traffic humans from
Central America all the way across Mexico across the border.
You pay a coyote, then you owe them something once
they get you across the border, and women and children
are subjected to being sex slaves, being trafficked. You don't
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hear democrats talking about that. You don't hear democrats giving
one iota's care. And I have to watch my language
here about what happens to these people once they cross
the border, and where do they go and who is
looking out for them? And are they just simply coming
over to nestle at the teat of government services without
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providing any kind of work in return.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There's a lot of those.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Just ask Eric Adams in New York City. As I've
said many times, as the son of an immigrant, as
a champion for legal immigration, who wants people that want
to live the American dream, that want to come here
and contribute to our society, to become Americans, To learn
our language English, to assimilate to our culture, to salute
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our flag, to learn our Pledge of Allegiance, to learn
our national anthem, to adhere to our customs and our
traditions and our laws. When it's done the right way,
it's a magical, beautiful thing when you provide that path
and they go on through the front door, and there's
proper vetting, and they go through the process. And can
that process be simplified and accelerated. We can work on that,
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but not at the expense of letting illegals flooding across
the border willy nilly to do whatever they want and
go wherever they want and not answer to anybody, not
be accountable to anyone. The liberals are willing to pay
the price of a Lake and Riley. The liberals are
willing to pay the price of a Rachel Morin. The
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Liberals are willing to pay the price of a Jost
and Nungary, And those are just a handful of stories
that we've heard about. There are so many that we
haven't heard about, and there are others that are underreported.
John Fabricatory makes the point, and it's well stated that
there might be crimes that are being hidden because DPD
Denver police and others in urban municipalities with solid blue
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leadership like a Mike Johnston mayor, they don't want word
to get out that illegals are committing crimes, so they're
not filling out the entire portion of the police report, race, ethnicity, etc.
Or they're flat out lying and reporting a lot of
these as white or Americans or whatever. So a lot
of these crimes are being swept under the rug. This one, however,
was found out and it was finally properly reported raping
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his boss's fourteen year old daughter while living in their
Colorado home. This is a Venezuelan migrant who had no
regard for our laws, customs, traditions, boundaries of any kind,
and it's far from an isolated incident. Jose Ahbar, another
example who was coddled by our American government, committed a
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crime in the United States was paroled by Alvin Bragg
in Manhattan. Was then bankrolled and sent on a plane
paid for by you the taxpayer and me the taxpayer
by the Biden administration, flown from New York City to Georgia,
where he ended up in Athens, where he ended up
stalking Lake and Riley, where he ended up taking a
rock to her skull, and over a seventeen minute or
(16:28):
deal in which she fought off her attacker as he
tried to rape her, he instead murdered her. And then
we see a headline in MSNBC and I couldn't believe
that this was real when I saw it, but it
was Lake and Riley's murderer.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Never had a chance.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Oh that's too bad. Oh that's just tragic. He never
had a chance in our judicial system, you know, once
he bashed Lake and Riley's head in with a rock. Hey,
you know, he didn't have a chance at a fair trial.
He waived his right to a jury trial, I might add,
and put his fate in the hands of a judge
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who came down like hell fire and brimstone upon him.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
As he should have.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
But the post that I put out on X and again,
I am looking for answers because they're not even willing
to have the conversation because they can't go down that
road even one step. If they do, they acknowledge that
it's a problem and that something needs to be done
about it. And I post about this story about what
happened to jeffco here with the rape of the fourteen
year old daughter of an employer who was housing a
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Venezuelan migrant employee in this country illegally must be emphasized
for a reason I cannot fathom Jared Polis, Phil Wiser,
Mike Johnston, and Jason Crowe are okay with this and
want to protect degenerates like him from federal arrest, prosecution
and deportation. Someone please explain this worldview to me. And
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I asked John Fabricatory, and he comments, it's only getting worse.
We have no idea how many illegal alien crimes Denver
County has hidden from ICE, how many have been released
on probation and were registered as sex offenders instead of
notifying ICE so they can be deported. Every Democrat politician
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in Colorado is complicit. That from John Fabricatory, and I
see no flaw in that evaluation. It is a price
they are willing to pay. It is collateral damage they
are willing to absorb because they will go to the mats,
They will go to the hill for people that are
in this country illegally rather than protect their own citizens
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in their own jurisdictions. And Mike Johnston comparing this to
a Tienem and Square moment is a disgrace to all
those Chinese freedom fighters who stood up to those tanks back.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
In nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Outright outrageous, take this time out, will come back. Pam
Anderson is next here on row and shooting life.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Sendbiers, guns and money.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Dead, get me out of this.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
All right.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
That's in fact, exactly what we need right now. Maybe
all three of those to pursue this matter.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Lawyers.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Definitely guns and money as a recap one of the
most mind boggling measures that was passed on the twenty
twenty four ballot. And I just shook my head because
if there's two things that the state of Colorado, as
left leaning as it is, tends to protect, it's tabor
so our right to be free from taxes without our approval,
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that's great, and guns, gun ownership libertarian. I think we
have a strong bent in this state toward that our
wild West kind of heritage. Then how did this pass?
I don't know. I couldn't believe it. I was doing
live election night coverage over on KOA with Floyd Cerule,
and when these numbers were coming in, I'm like, who
voted for this? And it even states at the beginning
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it's not exactly a great sales pitch. I'll just read
it word for word. You saw it on your ballot
if you've voted against it, like I did, and like
our next guests did, quote, shall state taxes be increased
by thirty nine million dollars annually to fundamental health services,
including for military veterans and at risk youth, school safety
and gun violence prevention and support services for victims of
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domestic violence and other violent crimes. And here's the meat
of the matter. They bury it. Of course, they don't
lead with this.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
How do you do this? How do you pay for all?
This sounds great?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
By authorizing a tax on gun dealers, gun manufacturers, and
ammunition vendors at the rate of six point five percent
of the net taxable sales from the retail sale of
any gun, gun precursor part, or ammunition, with the state
keeping and spending all of the new tax revenue as
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a voter approved revenue change. They work their way around tabor.
It literally says this is a tax and spend measure.
This used to sink liberals and elections. Not in this
one and on this case. And guess whose lead we
followed with this, you guessed at California. Well, joining us
now two very prominent voices in guns' rights, the first
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of which you can follow her on x at Boomstick Babe,
and she has testified at the state capitol many times.
Alicia Garcia and also joining us, Teddy Collins.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
He is the.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Owner of Spartan Defense that is a gun store in
Colorado Springs.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We thank you both for your time today.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Hey, Ryan, how you doing doing doing all right?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I'm so glad you brought this to my attention. And Alicia,
I'll start with you since you're kind of the vocal
advocate for this and you've been, like I said, testifying
at the General Assembly. How did this proposal pass and
what does it mean for Colorado gun owners?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Well, I believe the reason that it passed is because
they just went for a hill mary to pass as
many gun legislation bills as they possibly could. And they
knew that if they flooded the bills and you know,
policy with tons of it, that at least most of
it would pass. And I think one of the things was,
it's just kind of that smoke and mirrors or look
(22:20):
over here kind of deflection. They said, hey, let's let's
be outrageous and let's do an assault weapons ban, and
then we can write these other bills up. So regardless
if everybody's over here focused on the assault weapons ban,
we could probably pass these other things through. So it
was originally voted upon saying, hey, should we put this
on the ballot. Of course that pass because it's you know,
at the time was a supreme majority of Democrats. So
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then they get it on the ballot and they, you know,
Monica durand the bill sponsor is you know, tugging on
the heartstrings of all the bleeding heart in the city
and county of Denver and across the state, saying, hey,
this is for mental health for veterans, Hey, this is
for crime victim services. Hey, this is for domestic violence,
And so they make it seem like they're going to
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use this money for something good or something notable. But
instead it's like I said, it's all smoke and mirrors
and they're not actually going to do it for anything
of those types of things at all. They're actually going
to probably raid the fund, which ironically they lied about
the money and where the money's going to go. And
I have it on good authority as of yesterday that
that's exactly what Jared Polis wants to do. He wants
(23:23):
to raid the fund and use it to hire more
unelected government bureaucrafts. So they spent forty three billion dollars
last year, and they spent so much money because of
Tabor that now they have to cut either salaries and personnel.
So instead of doing that, he wants to you know,
protect his unelected bureaucraft friends, so they literally blew the money.
Now they want to dip into this fund. So again
(23:45):
people thought they were going to support something noble, and
it's just for another way for them to attack with
bias and discrimination gunshops and gun owners in America and
also serve, you know, their agenda to get more bureau
bureaucrafts in office.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
What Alicia says is so important that we follow this.
Then we learn from this as voters and I know
many of you already know this, but whenever a proposals
on the ballot says if we use the tax for X,
and we'll be spending it on this and the mental
health services. Tax revenues are fungible, and like Alicias said,
they can be rated by the government. Once it's in
one pot, it could be spent on anything. There is
(24:19):
no guarantee, no accountability, no audit that will show yeah,
X dollar was spent on. Why measure? That's not what
this was. It opens the floodgates for taxing and spending.
It is pure leftist ideology and they're able to work
around tabor with it.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
So what is the practical effect of.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This on somebody like we want to mention our next guest,
Teddy Collins, who owns Spartan Defense Armory and Training. You
find out more online at spartandefense dot com. So, Teddy,
with that plug, I hope to help you out. But
what does this measure do to you as somebody that
owns and operates a gun shop like yours.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Well, I can tell you there's a lot of uncertainty
in this bill as well. It's worded very weekly, it's
not very descriptive on how this is going to be enforced.
I'll give you example. For example, am I am I
going to be required to collect a six and a
half percent excise tax on things that I'm sending out
of state? That makes me less competitive to be able
to compete with other stores that are not located in
the state of Colorado. Are transfers coming in from out
(25:16):
of state going to be subject to the same tax
on the value of the item being transferred in? Because
if not, now every Colorado store, every local owned store
in the state of Colorado, is now at a disadvantage
to compared to their out of state competitors that can
send guns in for a transfer fee, avoiding xcise tax
and in some cases sales tax. The biggest thing I
want to point out on this bill is on this
(25:37):
proposition is in states, in the proposition that the store
can choose to pass this on to the customer, There's
no choice about it, and I want to make that clear.
One of the dirty secrets about the gun industry is
how low margins are actually on firearms. It's extremely low.
In most cases, we're seeing single digit returns after we
see after card fees, background check employees and everything else
(25:59):
that we are investing in in the store, everything else
that we have to pay. So there's no ifans or
butts about it that six and a half percent has
to be packs passed on to the consumer. So that
the wording in the prop KK was very deceptive and
it was made, in my opinion, it was made to
pull on the hard strings of those voters to say, hell,
this is going for a good cause. We're going to
do basically a synd tax, but this is a constitutional
(26:21):
right tax tax. Essentially, they're taxing the right you had
to keep in bare arms at a very high percentage
of six and a half percent. After you're already paying
a federal eleven percent excise tax on handguns to the
manufacturer has to pay, and you're paying an eight point
two percent for example in Colorado Springs sales tax. Now
you have an additional six and a half percent excise tax.
(26:41):
It's just really pricing people out. Firearms and amo are
already super expensive because of demand and because of regulation.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Teddy Collins, you own Spartan Defense down in Colorado Springs,
joining us along with Alicia Garcia, who is a gun
rights advocate and does great work on this front, Alicia,
I want to focus on the ladder of what Teddy
just mentioned, and that is a financial barrier to a
constitutional right. For instance, we did away with poll taxes.
You can't force somebody to have to pay in order
to vote. And in fact, they would defend to the
(27:09):
hilt a lot of people on the left a person's
mythical constitutional right, let's say, to an abortion as Roe v.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Wade was in place.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
They wouldn't want that financial barrier if a woman had
to have it in their view. So constitutionally, I know
that you've had the conversation with our mutual friend Dave
Koppel from the Independence Institute about what our standing is
here to fight Proposition KK before it's enforced. I think
one of the barriers is we voters voted this upon ourselves.
So it's very clever by the General Assembly to do that.
(27:40):
But is there a path to fight this constitutionally and legally?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
In your view?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Well, so there's a big positive and a big negative
to this. So right now, there is currently an ongoing
case in California that's about a similar tax that was
enacted by the Kami California Legislature and the NRA is
a part of that case. If you guys want to
look at us, it's a XI tax on firearms and
ammunition sales that's going on there. And so also there's
(28:07):
another weakness that's the federal Pittman and Robertson eleven percent
x five tax on firearms and ammunition that's existed without
controversy since the nineteen thirties. So it's going to be
a challenge for you know, people in California and Colorado
to distinguish the difference. So we if we take it
to court, and you know, I know other people that
I've talked to about this that are very predominant in
(28:28):
the two way space, like Rocky Mountain governors, et cetera.
The truth is they don't want to spend and take
you know, fifty thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars from
each one of these firearms licensees that are willing to
sue and willing to go to court over it and
take it all the way and just get shut down
because we'll get a judge. And you know, if we
look at the tenth circuit that we have right now,
(28:48):
everything's very left leaning. So we would basically exhaust funds
that could be used to get people into office or
get better candidates that would help fight this in legislation
or with protection that we would just exhaust the money
and then get a judge that says, hey, you know what,
Pittman Robertson has existed since in the nineteen thirties, So
what's the difference. And the difference is is that, like
(29:11):
I said, this is this is a right. And if
you look at the legislation that we have and the
legislators in Colorado that we have, it's a big wretch
lag that this is based on bias and discrimination. They
want to do everything they can to one make it
very very hard for the people of Colorado to arm themselves.
And how do they do that, death by thousand cups
like you've seen throughout the entire twenty twenty four legislative session.
(29:32):
If they can make it difficult for small businesses like
FFL to exist, boom, that's less access and that's pushing
business towards the big box stores. Who the big box
stores are into hoots with a lot of these gun
control people because why it doesn't affect their bottom line
like it does in a small business. So Obviously, the
people that need guns the most are usually the people
(29:52):
that are poverty stricken. So if you think about it,
if someone's paying you five hundred dollars for a decent handgun,
and you add all these taxes on there, that's anywhere
from one hundred and thirty one hundred and fifty dollars
in addition to just the cost of the gun. So
if you're in a time of desperation and you need
a gun to defend your life, it becomes more and
more hard for you to do that because you can't
afford it. And I don't think that that should be
(30:14):
a barrier to somebody exercising their right to self defense.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Follow her on exit Boomstick Babe, and be sure to
support his business at Spartan Deefence dot com at Spartan
Defense Armory and Training in Colorado Springs. Teddy Collins, I
know this is hitting you hard. We want to do
everything we can to support you. Best of luck going forward.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
I appreciate you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
All right, Teddy Collins there, and Alicia Garcia as well.
When we come back, we'll have our nominees for our
Friday Fool of the Week. Stay tuned to Ryan Schuling
Life our first nominee, Joe and Mika going to mar
A Lago to meet with litteral Orange Hitler.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from
from so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens,
deeply dismayed by several of President Elect Trump's cabinet selections and.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
They are scared.
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast
and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak
with the President elect himself. On Friday, we were given
the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went
to mar A Lago to meet personally with President Elect Trump.
It was the first time we have seen him in
(31:35):
seven years now.
Speaker 10 (31:37):
We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation,
threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
We talked about that a good bit and that's going
to come as no.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it
over the past year or over the past decade, that
we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
We told him so, and ratings of Tanked and Rosie
O'Donnell Boycott's you Jen Saki saying there aren't that many
trans women and women's sports, You're worrying about it too much.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
And then last week in Congress and Milton came on
this network to discuss those comments.
Speaker 11 (32:15):
I was just speaking authentically as a dad about one
of many issues where I think we're just out of
touch with the majority of voters.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And I stand by my position.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
You know, maybe I didn't get all the words exactly right,
but the point is that the backlash I perceived proves
my point that we can't even have these discussions as
a party.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Look, reflection is good, but if that were actually an
issue at thousands of schools across the country, it would
be worthy of a debate. But there are just incredibly
few examples of transgender girls playing in youth sports, and
when we see those examples, there is an evidence that
these kids are a threat to safety, your fairness.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
I want to say a few examples.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean that if you were to account the examples
of transgender girls playing youth sports in any single state,
the number often runs two zero.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Total gas lighting Sonny houstin.
Speaker 12 (33:06):
How could you nominate someone with allegations of child trafficking
across the or trafficking across state lines and having sex
with a seventeen year old my understanding. Further on in
the interview, they discussed the fact that once he finds
out that she's seventeen, he stops having sex with her.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Ooh, but then the lawyer's gotten her.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Year.
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Sonny, you have a legal I do have a legal note.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Thank you, whoopy pause.
Speaker 12 (33:32):
Matt Gates has long denied all allegations, calling the claims
quote invented, and saying in a statement to ABC News
that this false near following a three year criminal investigation,
should be viewed with great skepticism. That DOJ investigation was
closed with no charges being brought.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We'll be right back, like she drank a glass of vinegar.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
And she had to do it again yesterday. Well have
that much more, Hollywood and Toto up next, Ryan shuling
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