Jon Caldara gets into it with 'Eerie Mike' on the hearts of left-wing pundits who constantly referred to Donald Trump as a Hitler-like figure, not being surprised a would-be assassin tried to kill him, and many on the left actually wishing the former President had been killed.
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go? Can you do it?No, that's long shift. I can't
do it. It's two hour shift, Sir. Man was not made to
work two hours. Oh he needa break. M Hey, I'm John
Keldare give me a call? Threeoh three seven to one three eight two
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five five In an hour, actuallyless than an hour, Our commander in
chief takes to an Oval office speechto explain why he's dropping out of the
race. Oh and by the way, it's not because he's old. Mm
hmm. According to The Hill,President Biden's decision to step aside was as
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was the expected Democratic nominee. Quotehas nothing to do with his health.
Let me say it again, histop spokesperson said today ahead of his primetime
speech. The decision had nothing todo with the health with his health.
The president is going to speak directlyto the American people in prime time.
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Okay. In his letter, hetalked about the country, he talked about
the party, he talked about themoment we're in right now. She said
it is not about his health.I can say, no, that's not
the reason. But hear him outtonight. Really, how you have to
be the spokesman for basically any presidentand spin this kind of BS is a
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talent that I never really want tohave. Go to the phones, three
or three, seven to one,three eight, two five, five.
Let's talk to Faith out in Thornton. Hey, Faith, glad to have
you. Hey, how are you? Thank you for mine? Thank you?
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What do you got to say?Sam Terris, I don't know how
people are so dumb to vote,Oh, because she's a woman, she's
black, whatever, vote on themerit, not on the secret service or
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ooh right. It is so frustratedright now, don't get frustrated. Let
me see if I can articulate whatI think you're trying to say, which
is to vote for someone because ofthe identity politics boxes they check is pure
racism. It is ugly and weshould say no to it. To say,
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oh, look, we need thefirst person who has female genitals as
president because that matters. We needto have the first person with this skin
color because that matters. No,it doesn't matter. There are positions on
policy matter. You need to knowthe policies and you need to be able
to run the country. And Iknow one thing Trump can't because I live
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the days of him, and Ilive them better than I have lived last
four years. I think that's truewith most. There's a wonderful piece in
the Wall Street Journal I think It'llbe tomorrow. Daniel Henninger, who I
enjoyed quite a bit, really laysit on that that Kamala can win.
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That in other words, Donald Trumpcan lose. And he had the perfect
opportunity to put this election away thenight he received his nomination and did his
acceptance speech. It was a terriblespeech. He did not reach out to
the middle. He instead went downhis usual stump speech towards MAGA Republicans instead
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of having a speech that really taughtusing that word. But I am not
kidding you. I think he misseda terrible I think he missed a huge
opportunity that night, and I thinkhe could have put away the election.
I think it would have been sewnedup no matter who the Democrats put up
if if he if he didn't godown the path he went. That long,
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meandering, ninety two minute speech wasnot a good plan. If he
stayed on the script, I thinkthis election would be a slam dunk.
And you just report John that thedump button was reached in time, just
so you know. Yeah, good, good, good to know. So
you don't don't don't swear we're bigboys and girls. We can come up
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with better words. I do believeTrump missed an opportunity. It was not
a great speech, and it didn'thave it didn't have that come together feel
that that we were told it mighthave. And that was a shame.
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It was a missed opportunity. Butit shows that Trump cannot help himself.
He just cannot help himself. Hecannot help himself. But to say things
like crazy Nancy Pelosi, true asit might be, it doesn't help you
get those swing voters. You desperatelyneed those swing voters who have up until
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that point a considerable amount of empathybecause you got shot, you were almost
killed. And to have a speechwhere he he said I'm going to be
a president for all and instead ofgoing on a tear against his critics to
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say, here's what we're going todo. If he just kept to the
script, I think he'd be spikingthe football in the end zone right now.
So, in about forty five minutesor so, the president takes the
air to talk about why he decidednot to run. Wouldn't it be refreshing?
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Wouldn't it be refreshing if he said, listen, guys, I really
wanted to run again, but I'mjust not remembering things. You know.
I just I'm not mentally agile enoughto be president. Now he cannot say
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that, because if he does,it leads to the very next question,
then why don't you resign? Shouldn'tyou resign? If you're incapable of doing
the job, you should resign now. Now, all of us who have
dealt with people who have Alzheimer's ordementia or even just getting old, understand
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that things do not get better.It's not like it's not like Biden is
going to get sharper as he getsolder, that he's gonna get more sane
and make more sense and be ableto think more clearly. He's only going
to do it less and for hispress spokesman spoke Lady to say, Oh,
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it's not about his health. Yeah, it's not about his health.
It's about his mental acuity, whichhas something to do with his health.
She also rejected the idea I'm readingfrom the Hill that she and White House
aides were engaged in a cover upto mask Biden's decline from the public.
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There's been no cover up, wantto be very clear about that, she
said. No. The real villainin this is the mainstream media. Yes,
of course, those people around Bidentried to cover up how incredibly frail
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and mentally checked out he was.That was their job. I don't blame
them for that. The people Iblame are the media who knew this,
who've seen it, who've talked aboutit privately. But it wasn't until the
debate where we Americans got to seethis guy for ninety minutes unplugged to find
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out really what's going on or notgoing on in his brain. At that
point, the media turned on himlike a bunch of jackals, absolute jackals.
They turned on him as part ofa very well coordinated pressure campaign to
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get him out. Every rumor,every every story of people who were asking
him to leave shot up to thefront page. Where in the world were
they for the last three and ahalf years while the guy was losing his
marbles? They were complicit. Theywere complicit in the cover up of his
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failed mental health. And as soonas the secret was out and everyone knew
it, well, then they justjumped on the bandwagon to get rid of
them. Even people. It's funnythat some of the leftists I know had
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no idea how bad he was.You and I know we listened to his
clips. They really thought all theseclips that we have and all the silliness
that we played, or just youknow, Fox News and talk radio coming
up with with with deep fake stuffand pulling this out of the out of
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thin air. No, once theygot ninety minutes alone with Biden, they're
like, oh my god, thisguy, this guy has the nuclear codes.
You could you could launch the weapons. And he can't find his way
off a stage anyway. Three orthree seven, one, three eight,
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two five five. Why wasn't Kamalaat this joint meeting of Congress? This
is big stuff. She wasn't therebecause it was a no win situation for
her, Because the left is turningits back on Israel and so she can't
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be seen as supporting Israel. Buta bad time to be her. Oh
and also what is the man gonnasay tonight? Is there any bit of
news that he's gonna give that youmight be surprised if you were If you
were Biden, what would you sayin your speech tonight? Three or three
seven one, three eight two fivefive? I'm John and keldera and for
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the big man, keep it righthere six point thirty k how and now
back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. I know JJ's first albums. It
was put out on the Beatles recordlyOh Yes, and this song was on
it. It was faster tempo,this one omens and I think it was
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Peter Asher who introduced him to PaulMcCartney. Peter Asher was Jane Asher's brother
and that was the girl he washe was dating. There. There you
have it. You heard it herefirst. Now there's a couple comparisons here,
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and I want to get your thoughtson it as a noted Beatles historian,
as I know you are, John, and I fancy myself a big
fan as well. But what youjust said about Carolina in my mind,
and slowing the tempo or having itbe a faster tempo reminds me of John
Lennon's original compost composition of Revolution andhow he wanted Revolution one correct slower and
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then they sped it up, andI think I'm not a mistaken Tom Hanks
mimicked that can kind of conflict withthat thing you do, and that the
John Lennon type character that was featuredin that film. Not sure if you
saw it, I imagine you wouldhave. No. I love that song.
I wanted that song to be slower, and then they sped it up
and it became their one hit wonderexactly. Yeah, that thing you do,
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I think that was the name ofthe song. And the drummer hit
it at a faster beat and it'sd yeah. Yeah, But do you
like the slower version of Revolution betteror the faster one? I like the
faster. The stinging guitar by Harrisonstinging, yeah, the stinging guitar just
hits it. And of course everynow and then you've got to pull out
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Revolution nine from the White album justto go I don't I don't get it,
man, I just don't get it. Number nine, number nine,
number nine, and that was fromone of the guys and some other I
took it from a tape of thisis tape number nine, number nine.
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Yeah, they were not Asseid oranything, right. He was on Heroin.
Who's doing a lot of Heroin then? And if you've ever seen the
Get Back documentary that's on Disney's right, which was taken from all the old
Let It Be film footage, hewas He and Yoko were on Heroin quite
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a bit during all that. Ohmy yeah. Yeah, and Yoko is
like ninety. I think she's ninetyyears old now, no one's seen her
and I'm you know how when whensomeone dies, you have to say all
the nice things, right, I'mjust wondering how many people are going to
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say the nice things when when Yokofinally he's this world. I just she's
a cringe worthy individual. Well,the more the more I learn about her,
the more I realized she she wasnot a nice lady. No.
But on the opposite side of that, maybe same coin John, And maybe
you've seen this on Twitter slash x. Their son Sean, who's about the
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same age as I am. He'sI think like you. I think he's
a libertarian though when I noticed himtweeting he is not a leftist and knew
my friend so John's first son,Julian, is my age ye, and
he seems to be pretty sane fromwhat I can tell. Right when I
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saw Sean Lennon doing a bunch ofanti petroleum, anti fracking stuff with his
mother, this was years ago.Maybe he's changed. I think she has.
I think he has changed. Yeah, Oh, that would be that
would be delightful. One of thethings he's hinted at too, and maybe
this will also please you. Andthe audience was that he's not so sure
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his dad would be a committed leftistin today's climate. He's not at all
convinced of that. I don't thinkhe was a committed leftist. Then.
I think he was just out ofhis gourd, and I think people took
advantage of him. Lenin had justso many demons. You know, he
was abandoned by his father, hewas abandoned by his mother. Then his
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mother dies and then he's raised bythis very stuffy uh and you know it's
just he had he had demons ofthe wazoo. And that's why when Yogo
came along, you know, thisthis very authoritarian figure to you know,
to be the mom he never had. He just walked right into it.
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No, he just Oh that poorguy was was was messed up. It's
it's sad. It's sad, andit's amazing to be able for those of
us who are real Beatles fans,you can just dive into this stuff for
years and years and years and yearsand just keep going. I do like
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so when Yoko goes, and everyone'sgonna have to go, oh, she
was such a wonderful person. Itreminds me of what happened with Trump recently
that for the last eight years,the left has been screaming, he is
Hitler, He's a threat to democracy, and especially after January sixth, he
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has to he has to be stoppedby any means possible because he's Hitler.
He is Hitler. He will destroyour nation, destroy our freedom, destroy
our democracy because he's Hitler. He'sHitler. He's Hitler. And then he
gets shot, and the very samepeople are basically saying, are thought and
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prayers go out to the family andloved ones of Hitler. We hope,
we hope, we hope Hitler hasa a speedy recovery, and we hope
Hitler gets backed into the world soon. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show
podcast. I love that movie.I think it was Tom hanks first directorial
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movie, and it was about thislittle band that had a one hit wonder.
As a guy who's a no hitwonder, I would love to be
a one hit wonder, even ifyou were part of the on Eaters.
That's part of the on Eaters Iused to do back when I had a
real job. I used to doa lot of stage lighting, a lot
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of rock and roll concerts. Andthere's a group called the Fornicators and they
were just a great, old,funny cover band. But if if if
they had to go to some placethat was polite, they would just go
by the four Nicoteurs. That's good, it worked. Hey, three oh
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three seven one three eight two fivefive is my telephone number, Give me
a call. Let's go out toEurie and talk to Mike. Mike,
welcome, Hey, thanks, Hey. The kind of partying shot at the
bottom of the hour there was directedtoward folks that are probably like me,
who who do feel like Trump isdangerous and a danger to our future democracy
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or constitutional republic, whatever you want. To say, but I don't think
it's fair to characterize people like meand maybe being happy that he got shot
or hoping that he would have gottenshot. Yeh, I didn't say that.
I said it was fascinating that thepeople who kept calling him Hitler then
had to basically say, we wishHitler a speedy recovery. You know,
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it was just so ridiculous that allthese people who compared him to Hitler,
who who created a created a tonethat this guy was Hitler, and my
god, who wouldn't kill Hitler toto save to save millions and millions of
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lives? And then there's say,oh, well, you know, we
hope Hitler gets better. It's it'sit's it's doing two different things, setting
a tone that this guy is Hitlerand then saying I'm I'm sorry Hitler got
shot. I find it, well, I think funny. I think the
comparisons to Hitler are relative to earlyHitler. I don't think anybody is you're
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you're splitting hair saying this is earlyHitler. Well, I mean, I
think with the comparisons are his strategyis similar to what Hitler's strategy was in
terms of gaining power. I don'tthink there are people are saying he's killed
six million twos. We all knowthat that's still its strategy and gaining power
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is very similar to how Hitler gainedpower. I think it'd be hard to
argue is that. Yeah, it'svery easy to argue against that. And
first of all, to say thatthis was this was some sort of that
this is early Hitler. Listen,for eight years I have heard people call
this man Hitler and a tyrant anda threat to democracy. There they sowed
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the seeds of this shooting. Theymade it palatable to think this way,
and then when somebody actually pulls thetrigger, they're like, oh, I'm
really sorry he got shot. You'relike, no, I don't believe it.
You know you are happy, youare happy he not you personally,
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but I think a lot of people, a lot of people set the tone.
Did you ever compare him to Hitler? You just did recently? Uh?
I no. I think he hasa similar strategy that Hitler had,
But I didn't call him Hitler likeJD. Vance did. And Vance Vance
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pulled that one back, uh along time ago, and I think that
other folks on the left never did. So do you believe that that the
media who's been calling him a tyrantand Hitler and people like you who've been
comparing him to Hitler bear any sortof responsibility for the shooting. Of course
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not, of course not. There'sa sick a sick young kid who who
knows what what is? Uh,you know what his reasoning was, But
a sick young kid did that.He bears the responsibility. So setting the
tone, do you think it waswise to constantly compare this man to Hitler?
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I don't know. It don't dependson the context, right, I
mean, if somebody's saying, yeah, he killed killed millions of people,
of course not that would be silly. But if you wanted to say,
well, it's strategy to get thepower by blaming other people, you know,
through nationalism, well yeah, that'sa similar strategy. So yeah,
and that's the same strategy from socialistswho continue to blame problems to the wealthy
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or the white people or a systematicracism. You know, they're they're blaming
other people and doing the same sortof power trip. It's not I'm not
listen, I'm not a I'm nota Trump, I'm not a Trump fan,
but it is it's amazing to seehow many people from the left are
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now stepping back from their attacks,the personal attacks on Trump as as a
death spot. Well, would youhave preferred that people like me would say,
damn, I wish say that he'djust hit him it right in the
head and killed him. Would youprefer us to say that? Yeah?
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I think I would. I thinkI would because it would be honest,
because I think there's a whole bunchof people out there who really do wish
that. Do you disagree with that? I would never wish somebody getting shot.
I would not wish that upon anybody. Do you believe that there's a
whole bunch of people out there whowish that he was killed during that assassination?
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I would be happy if he diedtonight. I didn't ask you let
me try it again for a thirdtime. Do you, Mike, think
that there are a whole lot ofTrump hating people out there who would have
been happy if he was killed duringthat assassination attempt. I'm sure there are
people out there like that. I'msure there's a whole bunch of them,
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including Jack Black's partner in a groupcalled Tenacious d and including our very own
state legislator who said, oh,look at this sympathy for the devil.
You know, I think I thinkthere's a ton Now we can't know us
in people's minds, but we can'ttake the words that they've been using for
the last eight years and and projectsome of that. Sure, but but
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we don't know. You don't know, and I don't know. So there's
no sense in really debating that,I guess. No, I think there's
a lot of sense in debating itbecause it is interesting how the language has
changed after the assassination attempt and howit really puts it really puts Trump haters
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in in a bizarre spot. Aftereight years of calling him hitler, now
they really can't call him hitler.I think I think it's just showing that
people have some compassion and that whenthey when they talk about comparing him to
suck to some despot, it's notnecessarily on the exact same level. So
I think I think you're I thinkyou're stretching it. Then you're just trying
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to create some good radio get it. No, I don't think that's it
at all. I truly believe manymany Trump haters would have liked to see
this guy dead. All right,Bye, that's what you believe. Great,
don't put me in that, Iguess. Is my point. You
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compared him to hit that, andI just you compared him to Hitler,
and that comparison brings certain certain consequences. Yeah, there, there might compare
you to Hitler if I wanted to. I can compare anybody to Hitler.
Sure what, But when it's doneon mass as a way to scare people,
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you know, there, it's amazingthat no one is taking responsibility for
for this. Yes, crazed kiddid this, but you can't tell me
there was there was a that therewas that no one set the stage for
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it was. It was not asurprise, It was not Was it a
surprise that someone was going to takea shot at Trump? No? Really,
why was it not a surprise?The reporting is is that he also
googled up potentially Biden. You're verygood at answering questions. I didn't ask
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why wasn't it a surprise to peoplethat Trump was shot? Well, we
have more guns in the nation thanwe have people, so it's easy to
take a shot at him if youwanted to. Really, that's what you
want to go with. It waseasy. So you so when it took
from uh, twenty year old kid? Did it? Indeed? Indeed?
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So? So that's that was it. It's just because there's more guns,
toy. Do you feel a littleashamed of trying to push one of your
issues gun control? As as thereason for this. This gun was purchased
legally and it was taken by dude. Dude, I own guns, so
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I'm not. Gun control isn't anissue for me. You asked me if
it was, you know, youasked me how difficult it was. It's
not difficult. Of course, lotsof people are crazy and lots of that
wasn't. That wasn't really the question. Let's let's try this again. People
weren't surprised by the assassination attempt becausethe culture against Donald Trump has been so
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vicious and vitriolic that it's set astage that we all we all weren't surprised
when this happened. It wasn't.It wasn't like Reagan getting shot. It
wasn't. I don't none of usexpected George w to get shot. But
I think a lot of us werenot at all surprised because of the tone
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set against Trump that something like thiswas going to happen. Well, look,
our history states that there are crazypeople that try to assassinate our president.
That means that's clear. And sowhether it's it's more likely that Trump
or somebody else would get shot,I don't. It's beyond it doesn't matter.
It happened. It happened many times. So why would you even worry
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about it? Why are you thinkingthat? Yeah, I know what you're
trying to say that the rhetoric thatthe mainstream media and people like me create
some kind of a victorol of peoplethat go shoot Trump. Come on,
you don't believe that the victory allfrom the mainstream media and people like you
had any bearing in this. Idon't, Okay, I think he was
a crazy kid. He's a crazykid. Man, he's a crazy kid.
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And and also, yeah, therewas an opportunity there, But we
weren't surprised. You weren't surprised.At least we both can agree that there
are many people who wanted to seehim dead. And I think a lot
of people were saying, in theprivacy of their own homes and privacy over
over a few beers, if onlythat bullet was just a little farther over.
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Not you, of course, notyou. Thanks for the call,
Mike. Three O three seven onethree eight two five five. I'm John
kelderic keep it here six point thirtyk how and now back to the Dan
Kapla Show podcast. One of theworst lyrics ever JFK blown away? What
else do I have to say?There is no question that Trump derangement syndrome
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has dialed up the rhetoric so muchthat none of us were surprised that someone
took a shot at at Donald Trump. Yep, people have tried to kill
president. It's it's not that unusual. But there's no question in my mind
that when you constantly compare a guyto Hitler as a as a tactic to
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scare people, it means that peoplewant to see him dead. That's,
you know, the great question.You have the time machine and you could
strangle Hitler in his crib? Wouldyou do so? I hope so?
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Three or three seven, one threeeight two five five seven to one three
talk in for Dan Caplis. I'mJohn Kelder. Let's go down to the
springs and talk to David. Hey, David, glad to have you.
Hey, how are you there?Man? I'm great coeople. Think.
First off, First off, I'mgoing to invest my own money. I'm
going to find a virtual drug testingprogram so you can test these people that
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call you my god. Really,that guy was just down there. Yeah,
he's If he gets any more dumber, they're going to have to do
a study on him. Man,I couldn't believe it. He must be
Kamala. I think he's Kamala's nephew. Anyway, why do you think I
want to dive in that? Justreal fast. We don't have much time.
But what makes them dumb? Whatmakes them crazy? Because two things.
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First off, he's a typical liberalbecause you asked him the question that
any that a ten year old wouldhave understood, and he has to come
back with it answer not even close. And he keeps trying to push it
back on you when you're right,and you haven't. You haven't taken one
side. You're being a neutral guy. Now. People who love Trump hate
me. People who hate Trump hateme because I'm not. I'm yeah,
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I'm not a hardcore trumpy, butyou know I would much prefer Trump as
president then Biden. You know what'ssad is the young kids are the ones
that are going to get the worstout of I'm older, year older.
These young kids, I don't knowwhat their future is going to be,
like my nephews, my kids,I don't know, and that's what scares
me. My god, you're kiddingme. Anyway, Thanks and keep up
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the good work. Man, Welldone, well, thank you very much.
Will do so. In about threeminutes, the President will go on
a national speech, which I don'tthink many people are going to watch,
and he's going to say why he'she's dropping out of the race, and
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it's going to be for the goodof the country. It's going to be
to help Kamala. There'll be alot of passing the torch to a younger
generation, and Kamala is the onewho can do that. It will be
deflection after deflection after deflection, whichyou know, of course, is going
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to happen instead of the honesty oflisten. I'm old. I've been pressured
and pressured and pressured, and finallyI have come to the conclusion I don't
have a path to victory and thereforeI'm not gonna run for president. Wouldn't
that just be refreshing, wouldn't itbe refreshing? Just? Yeah, I
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was convinced I can't win. That'swhy I'm not running, because I can't
win. Hey, check out theIndependence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org,
sign up for my newsletter. I'lltalk to you tomorrow and keep it
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This is Dan Kaples and welcome totoday's online podcast edition of The Dan Kaplis
Show. Please be sure to giveus a five star rating if you'd be
so kind, and to subscribe,download and listen to the show every single
day on your favorite podcast platform.I'm eating what are you eating? The
power bar? What are you doingthat for? Because I want to be
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a fighting strength. So I needa little protein here and an hour to
go? Can you do it?No, that's long shift. I can't
do it. It's two hour shift, Sir. Man was not made to
work two hours. Oh he needa break. M Hey, I'm John
Keldare give me a call? Threeoh three seven to one three eight two
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five five In an hour, actuallyless than an hour, Our commander in
chief takes to an Oval office speechto explain why he's dropping out of the
race. Oh and by the way, it's not because he's old. Mm
hmm. According to The Hill,President Biden's decision to step aside was as
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was the expected Democratic nominee. Quotehas nothing to do with his health.
Let me say it again, histop spokesperson said today ahead of his primetime
speech. The decision had nothing todo with the health with his health.
The president is going to speak directlyto the American people in prime time.
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Okay. In his letter, hetalked about the country, he talked about
the party, he talked about themoment we're in right now. She said
it is not about his health.I can say, no, that's not
the reason. But hear him outtonight. Really, how you have to
be the spokesman for basically any presidentand spin this kind of BS is a
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talent that I never really want tohave. Go to the phones, three
or three, seven to one,three eight, two five, five.
Let's talk to Faith out in Thornton. Hey, Faith, glad to have
you. Hey, how are you? Thank you for mine? Thank you?
(02:22):
What do you got to say?Sam Terris, I don't know how
people are so dumb to vote,Oh, because she's a woman, she's
black, whatever, vote on themerit, not on the secret service or
(02:49):
ooh right. It is so frustratedright now, don't get frustrated. Let
me see if I can articulate whatI think you're trying to say, which
is to vote for someone because ofthe identity politics boxes they check is pure
racism. It is ugly and weshould say no to it. To say,
(03:13):
oh, look, we need thefirst person who has female genitals as
president because that matters. We needto have the first person with this skin
color because that matters. No,it doesn't matter. There are positions on
policy matter. You need to knowthe policies and you need to be able
to run the country. And Iknow one thing Trump can't because I live
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the days of him, and Ilive them better than I have lived last
four years. I think that's truewith most. There's a wonderful piece in
the Wall Street Journal I think It'llbe tomorrow. Daniel Henninger, who I
enjoyed quite a bit, really laysit on that that Kamala can win.
(04:00):
That in other words, Donald Trumpcan lose. And he had the perfect
opportunity to put this election away thenight he received his nomination and did his
acceptance speech. It was a terriblespeech. He did not reach out to
the middle. He instead went downhis usual stump speech towards MAGA Republicans instead
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of having a speech that really taughtusing that word. But I am not
kidding you. I think he misseda terrible I think he missed a huge
opportunity that night, and I thinkhe could have put away the election.
I think it would have been sewnedup no matter who the Democrats put up
if if he if he didn't godown the path he went. That long,
(04:55):
meandering, ninety two minute speech wasnot a good plan. If he
stayed on the script, I thinkthis election would be a slam dunk.
And you just report John that thedump button was reached in time, just
so you know. Yeah, good, good, good to know. So
you don't don't don't swear we're bigboys and girls. We can come up
(05:20):
with better words. I do believeTrump missed an opportunity. It was not
a great speech, and it didn'thave it didn't have that come together feel
that that we were told it mighthave. And that was a shame.
(05:42):
It was a missed opportunity. Butit shows that Trump cannot help himself.
He just cannot help himself. Hecannot help himself. But to say things
like crazy Nancy Pelosi, true asit might be, it doesn't help you
get those swing voters. You desperatelyneed those swing voters who have up until
(06:04):
that point a considerable amount of empathybecause you got shot, you were almost
killed. And to have a speechwhere he he said I'm going to be
a president for all and instead ofgoing on a tear against his critics to
(06:28):
say, here's what we're going todo. If he just kept to the
script, I think he'd be spikingthe football in the end zone right now.
So, in about forty five minutesor so, the president takes the
air to talk about why he decidednot to run. Wouldn't it be refreshing?
(06:54):
Wouldn't it be refreshing if he said, listen, guys, I really
wanted to run again, but I'mjust not remembering things. You know.
I just I'm not mentally agile enoughto be president. Now he cannot say
(07:15):
that, because if he does,it leads to the very next question,
then why don't you resign? Shouldn'tyou resign? If you're incapable of doing
the job, you should resign now. Now, all of us who have
dealt with people who have Alzheimer's ordementia or even just getting old, understand
(07:35):
that things do not get better.It's not like it's not like Biden is
going to get sharper as he getsolder, that he's gonna get more sane
and make more sense and be ableto think more clearly. He's only going
to do it less and for hispress spokesman spoke Lady to say, Oh,
(08:01):
it's not about his health. Yeah, it's not about his health.
It's about his mental acuity, whichhas something to do with his health.
She also rejected the idea I'm readingfrom the Hill that she and White House
aides were engaged in a cover upto mask Biden's decline from the public.
(08:24):
There's been no cover up, wantto be very clear about that, she
said. No. The real villainin this is the mainstream media. Yes,
of course, those people around Bidentried to cover up how incredibly frail
(08:46):
and mentally checked out he was.That was their job. I don't blame
them for that. The people Iblame are the media who knew this,
who've seen it, who've talked aboutit privately. But it wasn't until the
debate where we Americans got to seethis guy for ninety minutes unplugged to find
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out really what's going on or notgoing on in his brain. At that
point, the media turned on himlike a bunch of jackals, absolute jackals.
They turned on him as part ofa very well coordinated pressure campaign to
(09:31):
get him out. Every rumor,every every story of people who were asking
him to leave shot up to thefront page. Where in the world were
they for the last three and ahalf years while the guy was losing his
marbles? They were complicit. Theywere complicit in the cover up of his
(09:54):
failed mental health. And as soonas the secret was out and everyone knew
it, well, then they justjumped on the bandwagon to get rid of
them. Even people. It's funnythat some of the leftists I know had
(10:16):
no idea how bad he was.You and I know we listened to his
clips. They really thought all theseclips that we have and all the silliness
that we played, or just youknow, Fox News and talk radio coming
up with with with deep fake stuffand pulling this out of the out of
(10:37):
thin air. No, once theygot ninety minutes alone with Biden, they're
like, oh my god, thisguy, this guy has the nuclear codes.
You could you could launch the weapons. And he can't find his way
off a stage anyway. Three orthree seven, one, three eight,
(11:03):
two five five. Why wasn't Kamalaat this joint meeting of Congress? This
is big stuff. She wasn't therebecause it was a no win situation for
her, Because the left is turningits back on Israel and so she can't
(11:26):
be seen as supporting Israel. Buta bad time to be her. Oh
and also what is the man gonnasay tonight? Is there any bit of
news that he's gonna give that youmight be surprised if you were If you
were Biden, what would you sayin your speech tonight? Three or three
seven one, three eight two fivefive? I'm John and keldera and for
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the big man, keep it righthere six point thirty k how and now
back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. I know JJ's first albums. It
was put out on the Beatles recordlyOh Yes, and this song was on
it. It was faster tempo,this one omens and I think it was
(12:16):
Peter Asher who introduced him to PaulMcCartney. Peter Asher was Jane Asher's brother
and that was the girl he washe was dating. There. There you
have it. You heard it herefirst. Now there's a couple comparisons here,
(12:37):
and I want to get your thoughtson it as a noted Beatles historian,
as I know you are, John, and I fancy myself a big
fan as well. But what youjust said about Carolina in my mind,
and slowing the tempo or having itbe a faster tempo reminds me of John
Lennon's original compost composition of Revolution andhow he wanted Revolution one correct slower and
(13:01):
then they sped it up, andI think I'm not a mistaken Tom Hanks
mimicked that can kind of conflict withthat thing you do, and that the
John Lennon type character that was featuredin that film. Not sure if you
saw it, I imagine you wouldhave. No. I love that song.
I wanted that song to be slower, and then they sped it up
and it became their one hit wonderexactly. Yeah, that thing you do,
(13:24):
I think that was the name ofthe song. And the drummer hit
it at a faster beat and it'sd yeah. Yeah, But do you
like the slower version of Revolution betteror the faster one? I like the
faster. The stinging guitar by Harrisonstinging, yeah, the stinging guitar just
hits it. And of course everynow and then you've got to pull out
(13:48):
Revolution nine from the White album justto go I don't I don't get it,
man, I just don't get it. Number nine, number nine,
number nine, and that was fromone of the guys and some other I
took it from a tape of thisis tape number nine, number nine.
(14:13):
Yeah, they were not Asseid oranything, right. He was on Heroin.
Who's doing a lot of Heroin then? And if you've ever seen the
Get Back documentary that's on Disney's right, which was taken from all the old
Let It Be film footage, hewas He and Yoko were on Heroin quite
(14:35):
a bit during all that. Ohmy yeah. Yeah, and Yoko is
like ninety. I think she's ninetyyears old now, no one's seen her
and I'm you know how when whensomeone dies, you have to say all
the nice things, right, I'mjust wondering how many people are going to
(14:56):
say the nice things when when Yokofinally he's this world. I just she's
a cringe worthy individual. Well,the more the more I learn about her,
the more I realized she she wasnot a nice lady. No.
But on the opposite side of that, maybe same coin John, And maybe
you've seen this on Twitter slash x. Their son Sean, who's about the
(15:20):
same age as I am. He'sI think like you. I think he's
a libertarian though when I noticed himtweeting he is not a leftist and knew
my friend so John's first son,Julian, is my age ye, and
he seems to be pretty sane fromwhat I can tell. Right when I
(15:41):
saw Sean Lennon doing a bunch ofanti petroleum, anti fracking stuff with his
mother, this was years ago.Maybe he's changed. I think she has.
I think he has changed. Yeah, Oh, that would be that
would be delightful. One of thethings he's hinted at too, and maybe
this will also please you. Andthe audience was that he's not so sure
(16:03):
his dad would be a committed leftistin today's climate. He's not at all
convinced of that. I don't thinkhe was a committed leftist. Then.
I think he was just out ofhis gourd, and I think people took
advantage of him. Lenin had justso many demons. You know, he
was abandoned by his father, hewas abandoned by his mother. Then his
(16:29):
mother dies and then he's raised bythis very stuffy uh and you know it's
just he had he had demons ofthe wazoo. And that's why when Yogo
came along, you know, thisthis very authoritarian figure to you know,
to be the mom he never had. He just walked right into it.
(16:52):
No, he just Oh that poorguy was was was messed up. It's
it's sad. It's sad, andit's amazing to be able for those of
us who are real Beatles fans,you can just dive into this stuff for
years and years and years and yearsand just keep going. I do like
(17:15):
so when Yoko goes, and everyone'sgonna have to go, oh, she
was such a wonderful person. Itreminds me of what happened with Trump recently
that for the last eight years,the left has been screaming, he is
Hitler, He's a threat to democracy, and especially after January sixth, he
(17:37):
has to he has to be stoppedby any means possible because he's Hitler.
He is Hitler. He will destroyour nation, destroy our freedom, destroy
our democracy because he's Hitler. He'sHitler. He's Hitler. And then he
gets shot, and the very samepeople are basically saying, are thought and
(18:00):
prayers go out to the family andloved ones of Hitler. We hope,
we hope, we hope Hitler hasa a speedy recovery, and we hope
Hitler gets backed into the world soon. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show
podcast. I love that movie.I think it was Tom hanks first directorial
(18:26):
movie, and it was about thislittle band that had a one hit wonder.
As a guy who's a no hitwonder, I would love to be
a one hit wonder, even ifyou were part of the on Eaters.
That's part of the on Eaters Iused to do back when I had a
real job. I used to doa lot of stage lighting, a lot
(18:47):
of rock and roll concerts. Andthere's a group called the Fornicators and they
were just a great, old,funny cover band. But if if if
they had to go to some placethat was polite, they would just go
by the four Nicoteurs. That's good, it worked. Hey, three oh
(19:08):
three seven one three eight two fivefive is my telephone number, Give me
a call. Let's go out toEurie and talk to Mike. Mike,
welcome, Hey, thanks, Hey. The kind of partying shot at the
bottom of the hour there was directedtoward folks that are probably like me,
who who do feel like Trump isdangerous and a danger to our future democracy
(19:33):
or constitutional republic, whatever you want. To say, but I don't think
it's fair to characterize people like meand maybe being happy that he got shot
or hoping that he would have gottenshot. Yeh, I didn't say that.
I said it was fascinating that thepeople who kept calling him Hitler then
had to basically say, we wishHitler a speedy recovery. You know,
(19:56):
it was just so ridiculous that allthese people who compared him to Hitler,
who who created a created a tonethat this guy was Hitler, and my
god, who wouldn't kill Hitler toto save to save millions and millions of
(20:18):
lives? And then there's say,oh, well, you know, we
hope Hitler gets better. It's it'sit's it's doing two different things, setting
a tone that this guy is Hitlerand then saying I'm I'm sorry Hitler got
shot. I find it, well, I think funny. I think the
comparisons to Hitler are relative to earlyHitler. I don't think anybody is you're
(20:41):
you're splitting hair saying this is earlyHitler. Well, I mean, I
think with the comparisons are his strategyis similar to what Hitler's strategy was in
terms of gaining power. I don'tthink there are people are saying he's killed
six million twos. We all knowthat that's still its strategy and gaining power
(21:02):
is very similar to how Hitler gainedpower. I think it'd be hard to
argue is that. Yeah, it'svery easy to argue against that. And
first of all, to say thatthis was this was some sort of that
this is early Hitler. Listen,for eight years I have heard people call
this man Hitler and a tyrant anda threat to democracy. There they sowed
(21:32):
the seeds of this shooting. Theymade it palatable to think this way,
and then when somebody actually pulls thetrigger, they're like, oh, I'm
really sorry he got shot. You'relike, no, I don't believe it.
You know you are happy, youare happy he not you personally,
(21:53):
but I think a lot of people, a lot of people set the tone.
Did you ever compare him to Hitler? You just did recently? Uh?
I no. I think he hasa similar strategy that Hitler had,
But I didn't call him Hitler likeJD. Vance did. And Vance Vance
(22:15):
pulled that one back, uh along time ago, and I think that
other folks on the left never did. So do you believe that that the
media who's been calling him a tyrantand Hitler and people like you who've been
comparing him to Hitler bear any sortof responsibility for the shooting. Of course
(22:40):
not, of course not. There'sa sick a sick young kid who who
knows what what is? Uh,you know what his reasoning was, But
a sick young kid did that.He bears the responsibility. So setting the
tone, do you think it waswise to constantly compare this man to Hitler?
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I don't know. It don't dependson the context, right, I
mean, if somebody's saying, yeah, he killed killed millions of people,
of course not that would be silly. But if you wanted to say,
well, it's strategy to get thepower by blaming other people, you know,
through nationalism, well yeah, that'sa similar strategy. So yeah,
and that's the same strategy from socialistswho continue to blame problems to the wealthy
(23:30):
or the white people or a systematicracism. You know, they're they're blaming
other people and doing the same sortof power trip. It's not I'm not
listen, I'm not a I'm nota Trump, I'm not a Trump fan,
but it is it's amazing to seehow many people from the left are
(23:55):
now stepping back from their attacks,the personal attacks on Trump as as a
death spot. Well, would youhave preferred that people like me would say,
damn, I wish say that he'djust hit him it right in the
head and killed him. Would youprefer us to say that? Yeah?
(24:15):
I think I would. I thinkI would because it would be honest,
because I think there's a whole bunchof people out there who really do wish
that. Do you disagree with that? I would never wish somebody getting shot.
I would not wish that upon anybody. Do you believe that there's a
whole bunch of people out there whowish that he was killed during that assassination?
(24:41):
I would be happy if he diedtonight. I didn't ask you let
me try it again for a thirdtime. Do you, Mike, think
that there are a whole lot ofTrump hating people out there who would have
been happy if he was killed duringthat assassination attempt. I'm sure there are
people out there like that. I'msure there's a whole bunch of them,
(25:02):
including Jack Black's partner in a groupcalled Tenacious d and including our very own
state legislator who said, oh,look at this sympathy for the devil.
You know, I think I thinkthere's a ton Now we can't know us
in people's minds, but we can'ttake the words that they've been using for
the last eight years and and projectsome of that. Sure, but but
(25:30):
we don't know. You don't know, and I don't know. So there's
no sense in really debating that,I guess. No, I think there's
a lot of sense in debating itbecause it is interesting how the language has
changed after the assassination attempt and howit really puts it really puts Trump haters
(25:51):
in in a bizarre spot. Aftereight years of calling him hitler, now
they really can't call him hitler.I think I think it's just showing that
people have some compassion and that whenthey when they talk about comparing him to
suck to some despot, it's notnecessarily on the exact same level. So
I think I think you're I thinkyou're stretching it. Then you're just trying
(26:15):
to create some good radio get it. No, I don't think that's it
at all. I truly believe manymany Trump haters would have liked to see
this guy dead. All right,Bye, that's what you believe. Great,
don't put me in that, Iguess. Is my point. You
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compared him to hit that, andI just you compared him to Hitler,
and that comparison brings certain certain consequences. Yeah, there, there might compare
you to Hitler if I wanted to. I can compare anybody to Hitler.
Sure what, But when it's doneon mass as a way to scare people,
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you know, there, it's amazingthat no one is taking responsibility for
for this. Yes, crazed kiddid this, but you can't tell me
there was there was a that therewas that no one set the stage for
(27:25):
it was. It was not asurprise, It was not Was it a
surprise that someone was going to takea shot at Trump? No? Really,
why was it not a surprise?The reporting is is that he also
googled up potentially Biden. You're verygood at answering questions. I didn't ask
(27:45):
why wasn't it a surprise to peoplethat Trump was shot? Well, we
have more guns in the nation thanwe have people, so it's easy to
take a shot at him if youwanted to. Really, that's what you
want to go with. It waseasy. So you so when it took
from uh, twenty year old kid? Did it? Indeed? Indeed?
(28:07):
So? So that's that was it. It's just because there's more guns,
toy. Do you feel a littleashamed of trying to push one of your
issues gun control? As as thereason for this. This gun was purchased
legally and it was taken by dude. Dude, I own guns, so
(28:30):
I'm not. Gun control isn't anissue for me. You asked me if
it was, you know, youasked me how difficult it was. It's
not difficult. Of course, lotsof people are crazy and lots of that
wasn't. That wasn't really the question. Let's let's try this again. People
weren't surprised by the assassination attempt becausethe culture against Donald Trump has been so
(28:52):
vicious and vitriolic that it's set astage that we all we all weren't surprised
when this happened. It wasn't.It wasn't like Reagan getting shot. It
wasn't. I don't none of usexpected George w to get shot. But
I think a lot of us werenot at all surprised because of the tone
(29:15):
set against Trump that something like thiswas going to happen. Well, look,
our history states that there are crazypeople that try to assassinate our president.
That means that's clear. And sowhether it's it's more likely that Trump
or somebody else would get shot,I don't. It's beyond it doesn't matter.
It happened. It happened many times. So why would you even worry
(29:36):
about it? Why are you thinkingthat? Yeah, I know what you're
trying to say that the rhetoric thatthe mainstream media and people like me create
some kind of a victorol of peoplethat go shoot Trump. Come on,
you don't believe that the victory allfrom the mainstream media and people like you
had any bearing in this. Idon't, Okay, I think he was
a crazy kid. He's a crazykid. Man, he's a crazy kid.
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And and also, yeah, therewas an opportunity there, But we
weren't surprised. You weren't surprised.At least we both can agree that there
are many people who wanted to seehim dead. And I think a lot
of people were saying, in theprivacy of their own homes and privacy over
over a few beers, if onlythat bullet was just a little farther over.
(30:21):
Not you, of course, notyou. Thanks for the call,
Mike. Three O three seven onethree eight two five five. I'm John
kelderic keep it here six point thirtyk how and now back to the Dan
Kapla Show podcast. One of theworst lyrics ever JFK blown away? What
else do I have to say?There is no question that Trump derangement syndrome
(30:48):
has dialed up the rhetoric so muchthat none of us were surprised that someone
took a shot at at Donald Trump. Yep, people have tried to kill
president. It's it's not that unusual. But there's no question in my mind
that when you constantly compare a guyto Hitler as a as a tactic to
(31:11):
scare people, it means that peoplewant to see him dead. That's,
you know, the great question.You have the time machine and you could
strangle Hitler in his crib? Wouldyou do so? I hope so?
(31:34):
Three or three seven, one threeeight two five five seven to one three
talk in for Dan Caplis. I'mJohn Kelder. Let's go down to the
springs and talk to David. Hey, David, glad to have you.
Hey, how are you there?Man? I'm great coeople. Think.
First off, First off, I'mgoing to invest my own money. I'm
going to find a virtual drug testingprogram so you can test these people that
(31:56):
call you my god. Really,that guy was just down there. Yeah,
he's If he gets any more dumber, they're going to have to do
a study on him. Man,I couldn't believe it. He must be
Kamala. I think he's Kamala's nephew. Anyway, why do you think I
want to dive in that? Justreal fast. We don't have much time.
But what makes them dumb? Whatmakes them crazy? Because two things.
(32:21):
First off, he's a typical liberalbecause you asked him the question that
any that a ten year old wouldhave understood, and he has to come
back with it answer not even close. And he keeps trying to push it
back on you when you're right,and you haven't. You haven't taken one
side. You're being a neutral guy. Now. People who love Trump hate
me. People who hate Trump hateme because I'm not. I'm yeah,
(32:45):
I'm not a hardcore trumpy, butyou know I would much prefer Trump as
president then Biden. You know what'ssad is the young kids are the ones
that are going to get the worstout of I'm older, year older.
These young kids, I don't knowwhat their future is going to be,
like my nephews, my kids,I don't know, and that's what scares
me. My god, you're kiddingme. Anyway, Thanks and keep up
(33:08):
the good work. Man, Welldone, well, thank you very much.
Will do so. In about threeminutes, the President will go on
a national speech, which I don'tthink many people are going to watch,
and he's going to say why he'she's dropping out of the race, and
(33:30):
it's going to be for the goodof the country. It's going to be
to help Kamala. There'll be alot of passing the torch to a younger
generation, and Kamala is the onewho can do that. It will be
deflection after deflection after deflection, whichyou know, of course, is going
(33:52):
to happen instead of the honesty oflisten. I'm old. I've been pressured
and pressured and pressured, and finallyI have come to the conclusion I don't
have a path to victory and thereforeI'm not gonna run for president. Wouldn't
that just be refreshing, wouldn't itbe refreshing? Just? Yeah, I
(34:19):
was convinced I can't win. That'swhy I'm not running, because I can't
win. Hey, check out theIndependence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org,
sign up for my newsletter. I'lltalk to you tomorrow and keep it
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