December 9, 2025 • 34 mins
Dan marvels at the inadequacy of the current justice system in Colorado as it pertains to the standard of 'competency' for defendants to stand trial.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) has entered the U.S. Senate race in Texas, and uses race for political points in an interview - suggesting 'black folk' shouldn't pay federal income taxes and should probably also receive reparations for slavery.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) has entered the U.S. Senate race in Texas, and uses race for political points in an interview - suggesting 'black folk' shouldn't pay federal income taxes and should probably also receive reparations for slavery.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
give us 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. Well, I'm glad
every day when you're here, so thank you for that.
But today more than even most, because there are so
many important things going on today that really aren't being
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talked about that much, and they need to be and
I want to cover a few of those things right
off the bat here three or three seven, one, three eight,
two five five the number techs DN five seven seven
three nine. For example, we have talked before, of course,
we have about this horror in Colorado right now. It's
a five alarm fire. It's completely unacceptable, should not be
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allowed to continue another day. Where we have this law
passed by Democrats with some pretty significant Republican support, this
law that says, if you've got this horrific violent offender
and he or she is really not to the point
they're never be going to be competent to stand trial,
you have to dismiss the charges. And so many of
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those being tossed right back out on the street to
do it again. That is a five alarm fire that
should not be allowed to go on another minute. There
should be a special session of the legislature tomorrow, and
we've been talking about that a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's like bizarro world. It's like surreal. I think, am
I in a dream that just hasn't ended yet. Any sane,
civilized society would have fixed that problem immediately, no matter
who you blame for it in the beginning, as Democrat
bills and Democrat governor signed it, but a lot of
Republicans supported it. No matter who you blame for it,
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you fix it. It's insane, and we have another example of
an ultra dangerous offender who now the charges are being dismissed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I mean, it's his bizarro world.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So I want to talk to you about that because
the only conclusion I can draw is that there just
aren't that many people who care about you. And I'm
not trying to be rhetorical or naive. I think one
of the most important things in life is that you
be able to sit there and think of at least
one person who really cares about you, and for those
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people who don't have that. I think that is just profoundly,
profoundly sad on a human level. When we sit here
as tax paying citizens who are and I know none
of us like to be dependent on government for everything, right,
We all want to be totally self sufficient. But there
are certain things only government can provide. I don't care
how much money you have or how many weapons you have,
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you cannot go out there right now and on your
own provide a law enforcement capability. You can surround yourself
with armed guards, but you can't provide a broader law
enforcement capability, a court system, the ability to put people
in jail. I don't care if you're elon Musk, you
can't do that. Only government can do that. So when
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you've got the Colorado's government in control of the Democrats,
but I don't see Republicans right now making this a
twenty four to seven five alarm fire thing.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
As they should.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When you got the Colorado State government the only outfit
that can make laws and put people in jail, when
you've got them just deciding okay, this is the new normal,
just the way it's going to be. If somebody is
dangerous enough and whack enough, we're just never going to
be able to charge them. That's what's going on right now.
So I do want to talk to you about that.
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I also have some other plans, but this one text, really,
I think goes to the heart of something very important
we better be honest about or we're really going to
be in deep, deep trouble nationally. Right now in Colorado,
we're already in deep, deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hopefully there's a way out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's tech, says Dan Quote. Affordability is apparently the latest buzzword.
Every time I hear that word spewing out of a
Democrat or Republican mouth, I feel like vomit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
How often do you throw up?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Very rarely?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How often?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Once every two years?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh you're looking man, And I feel so fortunate because
for me it's about once a year, and I just
hate throwing up. I know, hate throwing up. I wonder
if we could hear from everybody in the audience right now,
what do you think the consensus would be, how often
they throw up? Probably not that often, right, unless somebody say,
is battling cancer or something horrible like that, right, not
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that often. All I'm saying is if here in affordability
makes that person want to throw up. I feel sorry
for them because they're going to be thrown up about
fifty times a day. Listen, don't mock that. Don't mock
that just because mom Donnie was able to write it
to victory in New York. It is where an awful
lot of people are living right now. And all these
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slogans and messages and consultants and everything else, none of
that garbage matters unless people are feeling it, unless they're
living it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And there are an.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Awful lot of people out there in all different income
ranges who are feeling it. They're feeling that it just
isn't affordable. Now Trump's doing infinitely better than Biden. But
unless people are feeling it, you know, then GOP is
going to get wiped out in the midterms. So that person,
if they want the GOP to thrive, they better be
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thinking about that. But I here's the critical point. Here's
the critical point, and it's the word I just used.
GOP candidates addressing this issue of affordability and affordability is
a legitimate topic. It can't be mocked as socialism or otherwise,
you know, just spat upon. The point has to be Yeah, no,
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I want you to be able to afford the things
you want to afford. But what we're about in the
Republican Party, we are not the fighting for scraps party
that the Democrats are. We are the party of prosperity.
We are the party of you reaching your full economic potential,
and more importantly, we're the party of your children reaching
their full economic potential. And you know what, if you
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are unleashed and permitted to fulfill your full economic potential,
affordability is not going to be an issue in the meantime.
It's important, let's address it. But the Democrats really have
become the fighting for scraps party. And you know what,
I hope the GOP is thinking about this, because it's real.
It's happening right now. We just haven't seen the numbers
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pop in the really big ways they're about to. But
so many jobs are about to be lost to AI,
so many jobs that right now, what people just need
to be gearing to in their life. Forget Republicans or
Democrats or government. People need to be gearing toward some
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type of entrepreneurship, some type of their own business, some
type of self sufficiency. If not your main income right
now is some kind of backup because it has started.
I mean, Ryan, I'll give you an example, Okay. I
have this wonderful, wonderful sports nutritionist who has helped me
so much and earns every dollar I pay her lover,
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I'll give anybody your name. She's fantastic, but my need
for her is going out the window as AI advances,
and it's no reflection on her. She's magnificent, but thousands
and thousands of other examples. So I do want to
talk about all those things with you today. Here's a
well done piece on KUSA about the latest psycho killer
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and in this case, paralyzed woman who, thanks to this
horrible lawn Colorado, just gets the charges dismissed.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Nearly eighteen months after a gunfire echoed through in a
raw neighborhood, upending the lives of three innocent people, The
man accused of pulling the trigger remains in jail, but
won't ever face a jury. Doctors found Austin Benson incompetent
to stand trial, meaning he's too mentally ill to understand
the proceedings or assist in his own defense. It's not
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the first time he's been accused of doing something like that.
In twenty eighteen, prosecutors charged Benson with attempted murder after
he was accused of randomly shooting at people along at
Douglas County Road. Found incompetent to stand trial with no
hope treatment would change that, A judge dismissed the case,
which was required by state law, and Benson walked free.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
But he is currently being guarded at a hospital with
an officer right now in custody.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Less than a year later, he was charged with the
Aurora shootings. In this case, the charges are again expected
to be dismissed, but this time Benson won't walk free.
Late this morning, in a court hearing, Benson's attorney said
the plan is to have him committed to a locked
mental health facility where he will be held indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is unprecedented as creative, and what it does is
tech the public and ensure that Benson will actually receive treatment.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
My News legal analyst Scott Robinson praised Benson's attorneys and
prosecutors for coming up with a plan to keep a
mentally ill defendant from being tried and protecting the public.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
WHOA wait a second, and this is no reflection on
Scott Robinson, great man, great lawyer, former law partner, has
nothing to do with Scott, and I don't have access
to this court file, so I can't give you the
actual facts of this agreement and this confinement. But maya
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I sit here with zero confidence, given the state of
this current Colorado law, that this obviously extraordinarily dangerous actor
is going to be confined in a mental hospital for
any particular period of time or any particular long period
of time. Don't blame the judge. Don't blame the judge,
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I'd say, don't blame the prosecutor, because I'm assuming at
this point the evidence is such that this guy is
a mentally incompetent. Though some prosecutors might not fight as
hard as they should on that, at least in theory,
I think most do do what they should. But all
I'm saying is, don't sit here saying, Oh, we don't
have to worry about that Benson guy because he's going
to be in indefinitely. What does indefinitely mean? What does
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that word mean to you? No, we got a five
blank and alarm fire, and the fact that Polis, as
governor of the state, did not call for an immediate
special session to fix it. None of the other Democrats did.
Johnston isn't and Republicans, Hey, where are the Republicans in leadership?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They don't have the power to make it happen, but
they have the power to be reminding people every day.
This is a five alarm fire. Is it being buried?
Because both Republicans and Democrats supported this crazy law, and
I assumed they were very well intentioned at the time,
but they've known for a long time. This is more
than a clear and present danger. This is an atrocity.
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It's got to be fixed. Now you're on the Dan Caplis.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Well, it's up to the president first and foremost. He
can certainly say yeah, I leave it up to you,
but he is, well the.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
President, he's in charge. He could make the call on that.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
He could certainly order it be released, just like he
could order the Epstein files to actually be released. He's
choosing not to and allowing Secretary Haig Seth to make
that decision. And as I said, I think Secretary Haig
Seth is reluctant to release it because if the public
actually saw the video, as I did they would find
what a lot of Republicans, the President and Secretary Haigsath
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have been saying as just patently ridiculous data.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Democrat Adam Smith listen, yeah, I think the video needs
to be released. If there's something in there that does
identify as something particularly sensitive tactically, and I don't know
what that might be. I haven't seen the video, then
of course you protect that so you can keep these
missions effective. But other than that, I think Americans should
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see the video. What do you think about that? Three
or three? Someone three eight two five five text d
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just fighting off this cold and I'm so lucky. I
get sick like once a year. But I'm in that
stage now. You know that stage, right Ryan, where that's
the worst You're past contagious, I'm sure. Oh yeah, By
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the grace of God, this didn't start to hit me
until closing arguments in that Jerry trial ended about six
o'clock Friday night. Started to hit me around seven, and
so I'm past any contagious stage. But then you get
into this kind of final funk, death rattle stage where
where you're it's going away, but every now and then
it just fills your nose and stuff like that.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
I had the same thing right like before you and
before anybody asked, No, I did not infect Dan because
he wasn't around me.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Last week was a trial.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yes, yes, so no, I cannot blame you. I just
think it's kind of out there everywhere, and it's got
to be really strong, yeah, to have got because you
know we all have a lance count. I just almost
never get sick, So it's got to be a beast
a beast, not flu like or anything. And I know
it's not COVID because before I went back into court yesterday,
I tested I'm not going to walk into a courthouse
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with COVID, but not COVID three or three someone three
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Our friend Alexa weird how affordability was not focused on
from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four. I am
loving the gas prices. Yeah, obviously Trump knows what he's
doing with an economy. He proved that before in the
first term. He's proven it again now. But that doesn't
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mean Americans are not having some affordability issues. And I
love seeing we've got the president in Pennsylvania right now.
We'll drop in there in a second. I love seeing
him on the stump right now because obviously the media
is never going to give him credit for all the
great stuff he's doing. They're just going to focus on
whatever's bad. And right now, as we sit here today,
in my humblest of opinions, the GOP has headed toward
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major losses in the midterms and a big majority in
the House. So I love seeing President Trump out on
the stump right now so that he can just get
that message out there cut the losses as much as
possible in the mid terms. How can we duck in Ryan.
He's in Pennsylvania right now. He's saying, we're the hottest
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country in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I would agree with you.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
And he has all the expertise that drills the oil,
and I said, you know, we'll do a friendly merger here.
This is pretty good. And that's what we did, and
we're right now drilling more oil that we've ever done
ever before. Prices are way down. We just had four states.
Who was just reported that four states had one dollar
and ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Hey, I think we of that somewhere in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
So I want to just I want to introduce Chris
Wrights it up.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
This isn't like that time Biden told this Jenman.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
Who would think you look at him, he's a nice
looking guy and all that. Who would think that's he's rated.
I mean, he's the most talented oil guy. He can
put his nose on the ground and tell you whether
or not there's oil. Other people have to spend billions
of dollars on machinery and equipment and it doesn't work.
So I want to thank you. You're doing a great job.
And is it true we are right now energy overall,
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not only the oily. I guess we are right now
involved in more energy and have more energy in the
works by far than we've ever had before.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Yeah, not even close.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And Trump loves the stump. I hope he stays out
there a lot. Thank you, Ryan. We'll pop back and
I expect.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
This, we'll go about forty five minutes. But love seeing
him out there. He loves being out there, and he
is doing so much great stuff that just doesn't get
enough attention. And at the same time, yeah, Americans, a
lot of Americans are feeling the affordability singing and it's
it's the old thing. We all know that nobody cares
what you know until they know that you care. And
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I do believe, and I think it's been a key
to his success that Trump truly does care, you know,
starting with working people, truly does care. And people just
need to be reminded of that. So I'm glad he's out.
I hope he's traveling all over the country all the time.
Threeout three seven one three eight two five five takes
d a N five seven seven three nine dan. In Colorado,
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when you're in traffic, the person on your left is
a transplant blank word on the right the same, but
in a garbage socialist tesla. In back of you as
a flaming shroom head, and in front of you is
a locust blank from Illinois high on dope. Remember a
Republican senator not happening here. I hope that person calls
the show one day. They have very creative vocabulary. But
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if you stop and think about what the left has
done to Colorado. And when I'm talking about type of people,
I don't care if they're rich or poor, young or old,
black or white or red or brown, none of that stuff.
I just don't want a state full of drug addicts.
I don't want a state full of people who are
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coming here to sell drugs or buy drugs. I don't
want our state to be overrun with folks who are
homeless to the point we can't afford to operate this state.
I sure, I don't want this state to be a
magnet for criminals, which it is right now, because the
Left has made this so criminal friendly. So that's what
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I don't want, and that's what we're getting because these
horrible policies the Left. You know, this state is so blessed,
our location, all the resources, all the opportunities, we could
have a whole lot of otherwise poor people come here
and we'd end up we'd end up doing just fine
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because there'd be a way to get there. But when
you end up actively attracting folks who are already criminals,
folks who are drug addicts, et cetera, that's civic suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Charlie Kirk kid is best.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Is it a human being in the womb? Yes or no?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Why don't you get the human being rights? Well, that's
what I'm trying to just ask answer the question why
does that human not get rights? And you do?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Well, my question, I answered the question why do you
get rights and the baby doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I'm not saying it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Yeah, you'd right to life, eliminate it. That's the first
and most fundamental right of the West. Why don't you
get that right to the baby? Well, I'm not saying yes,
you are no, No, very fundamentally do you believe that
every human being has a right to life, regardless of
how small you are, what level of development that you
are on.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I do believe that every person does have a right.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Okay, then we agree abortion should be eliminated in out lock.
There is no excuse for murder.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Period. We believe that in the West. Correct.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Now you want to make the self defense argument, we
can go back there. I've heard every argument that I've heard
that the baby is a parasit. I've heard the baby's invader.
I've heard the baby that is, you know, currently taking
the nutrients. None of them are morally applicable to the
actual circumstance of gestation.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Period.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Every human being has a right to life. You can
check your notes again if you'd like, But every human
being has a right to life. Yes or no, it's
what built the West.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Well, it's it's what I'm asking.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
I stand for the abolition of abortion and all circumstances
against life of the mother, because life matters. Every human being,
I believe, is made in the image of the Divine,
is sacred, is unique. And if we get away from
this principle as we have, we not only have moral degradation,
we not only have the collapsing society around us, but
it's bad for that being itself. That being itself is unique,
that being has rights. And who are we to say,
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just because we're older, that we get to murder it?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Wow. Charity Kerk is best and purely won back. The
rest is just fun for him. Where you won. That
was the first point.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Which is is that a human being in the womb
or not? And once people acknowledge that, which they have
to or look like an idiot, because it undeniably is.
It's not philosophy, it's not religion. It's just basic physics,
not physics, pardon me, it's basic biology. It's basic medicine.
That's a human being in the womb. Argument over because
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once you make that point, for the vast majority of
people they're going to say, yeah, you can't kill it.
It doesn't matter how challenging the problem is, because we
know there are so many challenging problems. You just the
solution can never be killing an innocent human life. So no,
Charlie Kirk won that in the first five words, well
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maybe the first sentence three or three seven, three eight
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We're ducking in and out of President Trump in Pennsylvania.
Great to see him on the stump.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He needs to be out there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
He's accomplishing so much that doesn't get fairly reported, and
he loves being on the stump. Plus, we're heading into
the midterm mirror and right now it's not looking so
good for the GP.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Ryan, who do we have? Oh we love that. Robin Hudson,
you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, enjoy your show always. I was I
guess what I should ask you is what what is
your support that the Republicans are going to get get
hit pretty bad in the midterms. Beyond you know, the
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party in power usually does not so great in the
mid terms. I was wondering if you could question you
could make that argument just somewhat concise to me. I'm
not saying I agree or disagree, although I might say
it's a little early to tell, and that could be
mitigated by the Republicans coming together and then you know,
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putting a basically supporting their candidates very well in the midterms.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, I'll let you go, and I'm not saying we
should give up, but we are up against a powerful,
powerful opposing force, and you're right to ask for it
to be concise. You tell me how many words are
you allowing me, and I will limit it to those words.
I mean that seriously.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I don't know you're you're I guess a pretty fair,
pretty good lawyer, So whatever you feel is appropriate, I
would defer that to you.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, no, and thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's that's very generous, because you'd be you'd be very
fair to say to me limited to four words, and
I will, well, I'll limit it. I'll explain it in
four words. Sure, no Trump Democrat anger, because we know now,
unfortunately from experience, my friend, that they're a pretty significant
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number of Trump voters who don't show up for anybody
other than Trump, no matter how Trump be in the
congressional or Senate candidate number two. Uh, Dems have an anger,
red hot anger fueled by their impotence, and they are
going to explode in the midterms. Just they're anger at
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being crushed by Trump, They're anger at Trump's success, They're
anger at their own political impotence. And you have it
taken the form of physical violence in some places from Democrats.
But it is going to It is going to hit
with a fury in the midterms.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
So we're probably dan talking about certain specific areas like
right now. Obviously Trump is in northeast Pennsylvania, like Scranton,
so somebody said either he's figured out or somebody said
to him, no, this is going to be a key race.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Wise point.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
My friend and I don't claim to know where all
of the key close congressional races are. We know our
good friend Gabe Evans a true star. He'll be in
another one up there in CD eight. I don't know
if that means we'll see the president in Colorado, but
but yeah, he's going to be strategic, and I hope
he's out there all the time, you know, to a
you know, we can't give up, we can't quit. We
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still have to fight to win. But if nothing else,
limit the losses as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, So then my question would be, and I guess
this is I'm not really trying to make a point,
but my question would then be, so the things countering
that would be, obviously, how does how do the Republicans mobilize?
How well is there how well does their grassroots go?
Is there you know, something really behind the Charlie like
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you were mentioning before, obviously Charlie Kirk movement, which I
think they're sure is. I don't want to, you know,
go down that path, but I've seen you know, trucks
with bumper stickers and different things which we seem to
indicate that. But you know what what forces would go
against that that you can see?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, you're a wise man because these race has all
come down to passion intensity, who's willing to show up,
who's willing to cast that vote? And so you hit
some important points on the conservative side, which is so
many more young conservatives who care more, they have more
at stake, they have this longer future ahead of them,
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you know, Trump being out there more often, so just
asking you know, his core supporters to get out there
and vote for him, because you have a lot of
people who won't come out and vote for anybody but Trump.
But if Trump's saying I need them, whether Trump comes
all the way out and says if I don't get them,
they're going to impeach me again, but Trump coming out
and saying I need you, I really need you to
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go out and vote for these people. And those words
don't matter unless they come from Trump on the stump,
you know, because love is spelled time, and you know
that means where you show up, where you spend your time,
that shows what you really care about. So yeah, that
that matters too. The fact that the Democrats are so whack,
you know, that'll help offset it some. But we can't
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sit back and count on that to offset it completely.
If Republicans think, my friend, if Republican thinks that that
they're just going to go out there and say those
guys are socialists and that's going to win the race,
they're crazy because guess what, there are a whole lot
of people who will never admit it right now, but
they'd be okay with a little bit of socialism. You know,
they're they're still you know, consider themselves American patriots and
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everything else. But but they feel you know, the rich
have gotten really rich, and they'd be okay with a
little income redistribution. And there are a lot of people
out there thinking that way who would never admit it.
So Republicans better not plan on just running this race
saying oh, they're a socialist and because they are. But
I'm not sure that's going to.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Work as well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Interesting well, I guess honestly, my hope would be that
what Trump got on and said was that he you know,
has drawn a lot of investments to particular areas. So
one of them, I mean, we're putting in like basically
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data centers, We're doing a bunch of different things. I
know some of that is in Virginia, if that's helpful
to the Republican cause. But my question would be, you know,
does some of that investment in different places materialize and
does it, you know, start to affect things and maybe
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spur people on. But I think you're spot on with
you know, the just how into it are the Republicans
And it's definitely a danger if you know, they don't
feel as much as in stake at stake and they're
not you know, super angry and super upset like some
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of the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Man, hey man, appreciate the call a lot, a lot
of wise thoughts on your parts. You do appreciate that.
But we got to sit here and knowing we got
to do everything we can, but also being realistic about
the battlefield. There is no way the GOP intensity is
going to match the Democrat intensity come midterms. That doesn't
mean we give up. We just recognize that reality and
tactically figure out, Okay, then how do we get where
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we need to go or at least cut the losses
as much as we can. But seeing the President out
there right now kicking off a tour, that's a very
good start because he's starting early. We'll duck into that
too when we come back.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
And here's something from President A lot of time a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So sorry my friend, So sorry, my friend. So we
will what we'll do, And didn't mean to cut off
our good friend there. We're up against a mandatory break,
but we will duck back in with President Trump when
we come back here on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast representing Crocket.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Just this past week, I saw I don't remember which celebrity,
but it was actually a celebrity, and I was like,
I don't know that that's not necessarily a bad idea,
but I'd have to think of it a lot. One
of the things that they proposed is black folk not
have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time,
because then again, that puts money back in your pocket.
But at the same time, it may not be as
objectionable to some people.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know who would hate that. But she just doesn't get.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It Black people.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I mean, it's insane whether they're white or brown or
these radicals who have this bigotry, not even soft bigotry
of low expectations, who infantalize people because of their skin color,
and Representative Crockett is one of those. So what kind
of bubble does she live in where she thinks that
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would appeal to black people? Know, all black people want
is a fair opportunity. Yeah, yeah, And they just don't
get it. These lefties just don't get it. They don't
understand faith, they don't understand pride, self pride, they don't
understand the American work ethic. And yeah, anybody can take
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any group people. Take white people, a group of this people,
group of that people, and you can find a handful
of knuckleheads of any race, and then you can just
turn the whole race into a cartoon character. You know
that that's exemplified by that outlier knucklehead. But that's idiotic.
You can call a racist, you can call it idiotic.
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But people like Crockett and that ideology, and whether the
person with that ideology in her case happens to be
black or at some other color, they're just wrong that.
They're just wrong about black people, they're wrong about any
type of people who they try to stereotype. There way
no Black people just want a fair opportunity to succeed,
and they have not had it. And you know who
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has stripped him of that and robbed them of that
and stolen that from them is the Democratic Party. So
how much longer will the Democratic Party enjoy overwhelming Black
support or overwhelming Brown support? It should end today, Why
doesn't it?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A big part of that is a gop.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I mean, obviously you're up against the whole mass media
that covers for the Democratic Party. But people are smart,
and I think you have a whole lot of people
right now of all colors, white, black, brown, whatever, But
you got a whole lot of black people who understand
that the Democratic Party has been terrible for them, but
just can't make that move yet to the GOP. What
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does a GOP candidate have to do? What does the
party have to do? Ryan It drives me crazy that
the party hasn't done one very obvious thing in Colorado
and everywhere it hasn't been doing it for twenty or
thirty years. The Republican Party is up against the stereotype.
I was one of the people who had that awful
stereotype of the Republican Party before I became a Republican
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started to go to some stuff and say, well, you
know what their ideas. They are different than I thought
they were, and then they really will work, and the
people are different than I thought they were, and they
really do care very deeply, you know, about everybody getting
a fair shot, and about people of color and the weakened, defenseless,
and their ideas actually work better for those people. It
took me becoming a Republican to figure that out. But
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we're out of our minds if we think that in
any kind of large numbers, we're going to have people
who've been voting Democrat all their life and all their
families' lives who are going to start going to GOP
events that ain't happening, So how do you win them over?
And there are ways, but Crockett, she just does not
get it to sit there and say, oh, yeah, we
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just won't taxt black people. Black people would Black people
would be offended by that. All people want is a
fair shot.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Well in the reparations, this whole thing, Dan, it's a canard.
You know what black people? What about people who are
mixed race? One half black, three quarter black, one quarter black.
You know, how do you divvy that up? What's that
all about?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's obvious pandering, insanity, and it's not what people want.
Black people in this country have been systematically deprived of
a fair chance, just as you have a lot of
lower income white people who have been to their children
have been but it's been by the Democrats and it's systematic,
and I think a lot of people are starting to
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realize that. And it starts with education, right because what
do you have, I mean top priority for Democrats because
a Democrat party understands math, and it understands that once
people start making a certain amount of money, a majority
vote Republican. So it literally cannot have people making that
amount of money. And it depends on the stats. You see,
it's probably currently more like sixty grand a year, but
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it just can't have people making that amount of money.
And the modern Democratic Party can be Hick and looperor
ben at Johnston, any of them, they will fight true
school choice to their dying breath. And the reason they
will is they know, you take these kids in this example,
it could be any race, but you take say these
young African American kids, and you and power their parents
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with true purchasing power, like the amount of money that's
now just pumped into the public schools per pupil, and
you let those parents now have power, now have economic power,
and they take it out into the free market, and
the free market rises up to get that money by
meeting that need. And then all of a sudden, these
little kids who have just been shoveled into the furnace
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of failing public schools, they have an opportunity to reach
their true God given potential. What the hell do you
think is going to happen? They're going to succeed, and
Colorado and America are going to change, and the Democratic
Party is going to be out of business because they
depend on the failure. They depend on the failure of people.
Thank you, Ryan,
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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But today more than even most, because there are so
many important things going on today that really aren't being
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talked about that much, and they need to be and
I want to cover a few of those things right
off the bat here three or three seven, one, three eight,
two five five the number techs DN five seven seven
three nine. For example, we have talked before, of course,
we have about this horror in Colorado right now. It's
a five alarm fire. It's completely unacceptable, should not be
(00:45):
allowed to continue another day. Where we have this law
passed by Democrats with some pretty significant Republican support, this
law that says, if you've got this horrific violent offender
and he or she is really not to the point
they're never be going to be competent to stand trial,
you have to dismiss the charges. And so many of
(01:05):
those being tossed right back out on the street to
do it again. That is a five alarm fire that
should not be allowed to go on another minute. There
should be a special session of the legislature tomorrow, and
we've been talking about that a long time.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's like bizarro world. It's like surreal. I think, am
I in a dream that just hasn't ended yet. Any sane,
civilized society would have fixed that problem immediately, no matter
who you blame for it in the beginning, as Democrat
bills and Democrat governor signed it, but a lot of
Republicans supported it. No matter who you blame for it,
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you fix it. It's insane, and we have another example of
an ultra dangerous offender who now the charges are being dismissed.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I mean, it's his bizarro world.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So I want to talk to you about that because
the only conclusion I can draw is that there just
aren't that many people who care about you. And I'm
not trying to be rhetorical or naive. I think one
of the most important things in life is that you
be able to sit there and think of at least
one person who really cares about you, and for those
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people who don't have that. I think that is just profoundly,
profoundly sad on a human level. When we sit here
as tax paying citizens who are and I know none
of us like to be dependent on government for everything, right,
We all want to be totally self sufficient. But there
are certain things only government can provide. I don't care
how much money you have or how many weapons you have,
(02:37):
you cannot go out there right now and on your
own provide a law enforcement capability. You can surround yourself
with armed guards, but you can't provide a broader law
enforcement capability, a court system, the ability to put people
in jail. I don't care if you're elon Musk, you
can't do that. Only government can do that. So when
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you've got the Colorado's government in control of the Democrats,
but I don't see Republicans right now making this a
twenty four to seven five alarm fire thing.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
As they should.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When you got the Colorado State government the only outfit
that can make laws and put people in jail, when
you've got them just deciding okay, this is the new normal,
just the way it's going to be. If somebody is
dangerous enough and whack enough, we're just never going to
be able to charge them. That's what's going on right now.
So I do want to talk to you about that.
(03:29):
I also have some other plans, but this one text, really,
I think goes to the heart of something very important
we better be honest about or we're really going to
be in deep, deep trouble nationally. Right now in Colorado,
we're already in deep, deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hopefully there's a way out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's tech, says Dan Quote. Affordability is apparently the latest buzzword.
Every time I hear that word spewing out of a
Democrat or Republican mouth, I feel like vomit.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
How often do you throw up?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Very rarely?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How often?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Once every two years?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh you're looking man, And I feel so fortunate because
for me it's about once a year, and I just
hate throwing up. I know, hate throwing up. I wonder
if we could hear from everybody in the audience right now,
what do you think the consensus would be, how often
they throw up? Probably not that often, right, unless somebody say,
is battling cancer or something horrible like that, right, not
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that often. All I'm saying is if here in affordability
makes that person want to throw up. I feel sorry
for them because they're going to be thrown up about
fifty times a day. Listen, don't mock that. Don't mock
that just because mom Donnie was able to write it
to victory in New York. It is where an awful
lot of people are living right now. And all these
(04:44):
slogans and messages and consultants and everything else, none of
that garbage matters unless people are feeling it, unless they're
living it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And there are an.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Awful lot of people out there in all different income
ranges who are feeling it. They're feeling that it just
isn't affordable. Now Trump's doing infinitely better than Biden. But
unless people are feeling it, you know, then GOP is
going to get wiped out in the midterms. So that person,
if they want the GOP to thrive, they better be
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thinking about that. But I here's the critical point. Here's
the critical point, and it's the word I just used.
GOP candidates addressing this issue of affordability and affordability is
a legitimate topic. It can't be mocked as socialism or otherwise,
you know, just spat upon. The point has to be Yeah, no,
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I want you to be able to afford the things
you want to afford. But what we're about in the
Republican Party, we are not the fighting for scraps party
that the Democrats are. We are the party of prosperity.
We are the party of you reaching your full economic potential,
and more importantly, we're the party of your children reaching
their full economic potential. And you know what, if you
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are unleashed and permitted to fulfill your full economic potential,
affordability is not going to be an issue in the meantime.
It's important, let's address it. But the Democrats really have
become the fighting for scraps party. And you know what,
I hope the GOP is thinking about this, because it's real.
It's happening right now. We just haven't seen the numbers
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pop in the really big ways they're about to. But
so many jobs are about to be lost to AI,
so many jobs that right now, what people just need
to be gearing to in their life. Forget Republicans or
Democrats or government. People need to be gearing toward some
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type of entrepreneurship, some type of their own business, some
type of self sufficiency. If not your main income right
now is some kind of backup because it has started.
I mean, Ryan, I'll give you an example, Okay. I
have this wonderful, wonderful sports nutritionist who has helped me
so much and earns every dollar I pay her lover,
(07:09):
I'll give anybody your name. She's fantastic, but my need
for her is going out the window as AI advances,
and it's no reflection on her. She's magnificent, but thousands
and thousands of other examples. So I do want to
talk about all those things with you today. Here's a
well done piece on KUSA about the latest psycho killer
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and in this case, paralyzed woman who, thanks to this
horrible lawn Colorado, just gets the charges dismissed.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Nearly eighteen months after a gunfire echoed through in a
raw neighborhood, upending the lives of three innocent people, The
man accused of pulling the trigger remains in jail, but
won't ever face a jury. Doctors found Austin Benson incompetent
to stand trial, meaning he's too mentally ill to understand
the proceedings or assist in his own defense. It's not
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the first time he's been accused of doing something like that.
In twenty eighteen, prosecutors charged Benson with attempted murder after
he was accused of randomly shooting at people along at
Douglas County Road. Found incompetent to stand trial with no
hope treatment would change that, A judge dismissed the case,
which was required by state law, and Benson walked free.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
But he is currently being guarded at a hospital with
an officer right now in custody.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Less than a year later, he was charged with the
Aurora shootings. In this case, the charges are again expected
to be dismissed, but this time Benson won't walk free.
Late this morning, in a court hearing, Benson's attorney said
the plan is to have him committed to a locked
mental health facility where he will be held indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
This is unprecedented as creative, and what it does is
tech the public and ensure that Benson will actually receive treatment.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
My News legal analyst Scott Robinson praised Benson's attorneys and
prosecutors for coming up with a plan to keep a
mentally ill defendant from being tried and protecting the public.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
WHOA wait a second, and this is no reflection on
Scott Robinson, great man, great lawyer, former law partner, has
nothing to do with Scott, and I don't have access
to this court file, so I can't give you the
actual facts of this agreement and this confinement. But maya
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I sit here with zero confidence, given the state of
this current Colorado law, that this obviously extraordinarily dangerous actor
is going to be confined in a mental hospital for
any particular period of time or any particular long period
of time. Don't blame the judge. Don't blame the judge,
(09:57):
I'd say, don't blame the prosecutor, because I'm assuming at
this point the evidence is such that this guy is
a mentally incompetent. Though some prosecutors might not fight as
hard as they should on that, at least in theory,
I think most do do what they should. But all
I'm saying is, don't sit here saying, Oh, we don't
have to worry about that Benson guy because he's going
to be in indefinitely. What does indefinitely mean? What does
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that word mean to you? No, we got a five
blank and alarm fire, and the fact that Polis, as
governor of the state, did not call for an immediate
special session to fix it. None of the other Democrats did.
Johnston isn't and Republicans, Hey, where are the Republicans in leadership?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
They don't have the power to make it happen, but
they have the power to be reminding people every day.
This is a five alarm fire. Is it being buried?
Because both Republicans and Democrats supported this crazy law, and
I assumed they were very well intentioned at the time,
but they've known for a long time. This is more
than a clear and present danger. This is an atrocity.
(11:01):
It's got to be fixed. Now you're on the Dan Caplis.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Well, it's up to the president first and foremost. He
can certainly say yeah, I leave it up to you,
but he is, well the.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
President, he's in charge. He could make the call on that.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
He could certainly order it be released, just like he
could order the Epstein files to actually be released. He's
choosing not to and allowing Secretary Haig Seth to make
that decision. And as I said, I think Secretary Haig
Seth is reluctant to release it because if the public
actually saw the video, as I did they would find
what a lot of Republicans, the President and Secretary Haigsath
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have been saying as just patently ridiculous data.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Democrat Adam Smith listen, yeah, I think the video needs
to be released. If there's something in there that does
identify as something particularly sensitive tactically, and I don't know
what that might be. I haven't seen the video, then
of course you protect that so you can keep these
missions effective. But other than that, I think Americans should
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see the video. What do you think about that? Three
or three? Someone three eight two five five text d
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just fighting off this cold and I'm so lucky. I
get sick like once a year. But I'm in that
stage now. You know that stage, right Ryan, where that's
the worst You're past contagious, I'm sure. Oh yeah, By
(12:31):
the grace of God, this didn't start to hit me
until closing arguments in that Jerry trial ended about six
o'clock Friday night. Started to hit me around seven, and
so I'm past any contagious stage. But then you get
into this kind of final funk, death rattle stage where
where you're it's going away, but every now and then
it just fills your nose and stuff like that.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
I had the same thing right like before you and
before anybody asked, No, I did not infect Dan because
he wasn't around me.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Last week was a trial.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yes, yes, so no, I cannot blame you. I just
think it's kind of out there everywhere, and it's got
to be really strong, yeah, to have got because you
know we all have a lance count. I just almost
never get sick, So it's got to be a beast
a beast, not flu like or anything. And I know
it's not COVID because before I went back into court yesterday,
I tested I'm not going to walk into a courthouse
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with COVID, but not COVID three or three someone three
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Our friend Alexa weird how affordability was not focused on
from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four. I am
loving the gas prices. Yeah, obviously Trump knows what he's
doing with an economy. He proved that before in the
first term. He's proven it again now. But that doesn't
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mean Americans are not having some affordability issues. And I
love seeing we've got the president in Pennsylvania right now.
We'll drop in there in a second. I love seeing
him on the stump right now because obviously the media
is never going to give him credit for all the
great stuff he's doing. They're just going to focus on
whatever's bad. And right now, as we sit here today,
in my humblest of opinions, the GOP has headed toward
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major losses in the midterms and a big majority in
the House. So I love seeing President Trump out on
the stump right now so that he can just get
that message out there cut the losses as much as
possible in the mid terms. How can we duck in Ryan.
He's in Pennsylvania right now. He's saying, we're the hottest
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country in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I would agree with you.
Speaker 10 (14:27):
And he has all the expertise that drills the oil,
and I said, you know, we'll do a friendly merger here.
This is pretty good. And that's what we did, and
we're right now drilling more oil that we've ever done
ever before. Prices are way down. We just had four states.
Who was just reported that four states had one dollar
and ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Hey, I think we of that somewhere in Colorado.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
So I want to just I want to introduce Chris
Wrights it up.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
This isn't like that time Biden told this Jenman.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
Who would think you look at him, he's a nice
looking guy and all that. Who would think that's he's rated.
I mean, he's the most talented oil guy. He can
put his nose on the ground and tell you whether
or not there's oil. Other people have to spend billions
of dollars on machinery and equipment and it doesn't work.
So I want to thank you. You're doing a great job.
And is it true we are right now energy overall,
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not only the oily. I guess we are right now
involved in more energy and have more energy in the
works by far than we've ever had before.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Yeah, not even close.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And Trump loves the stump. I hope he stays out
there a lot. Thank you, Ryan. We'll pop back and
I expect.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
This, we'll go about forty five minutes. But love seeing
him out there. He loves being out there, and he
is doing so much great stuff that just doesn't get
enough attention. And at the same time, yeah, Americans, a
lot of Americans are feeling the affordability singing and it's
it's the old thing. We all know that nobody cares
what you know until they know that you care. And
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I do believe, and I think it's been a key
to his success that Trump truly does care, you know,
starting with working people, truly does care. And people just
need to be reminded of that. So I'm glad he's out.
I hope he's traveling all over the country all the time.
Threeout three seven one three eight two five five takes
d a N five seven seven three nine dan. In Colorado,
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when you're in traffic, the person on your left is
a transplant blank word on the right the same, but
in a garbage socialist tesla. In back of you as
a flaming shroom head, and in front of you is
a locust blank from Illinois high on dope. Remember a
Republican senator not happening here. I hope that person calls
the show one day. They have very creative vocabulary. But
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if you stop and think about what the left has
done to Colorado. And when I'm talking about type of people,
I don't care if they're rich or poor, young or old,
black or white or red or brown, none of that stuff.
I just don't want a state full of drug addicts.
I don't want a state full of people who are
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coming here to sell drugs or buy drugs. I don't
want our state to be overrun with folks who are
homeless to the point we can't afford to operate this state.
I sure, I don't want this state to be a
magnet for criminals, which it is right now, because the
Left has made this so criminal friendly. So that's what
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I don't want, and that's what we're getting because these
horrible policies the Left. You know, this state is so blessed,
our location, all the resources, all the opportunities, we could
have a whole lot of otherwise poor people come here
and we'd end up we'd end up doing just fine
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because there'd be a way to get there. But when
you end up actively attracting folks who are already criminals,
folks who are drug addicts, et cetera, that's civic suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Charlie Kirk kid is best.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Is it a human being in the womb? Yes or no?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Why don't you get the human being rights? Well, that's
what I'm trying to just ask answer the question why
does that human not get rights? And you do?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Well, my question, I answered the question why do you
get rights and the baby doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I'm not saying it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Yeah, you'd right to life, eliminate it. That's the first
and most fundamental right of the West. Why don't you
get that right to the baby? Well, I'm not saying yes,
you are no, No, very fundamentally do you believe that
every human being has a right to life, regardless of
how small you are, what level of development that you
are on.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I do believe that every person does have a right.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Okay, then we agree abortion should be eliminated in out lock.
There is no excuse for murder.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Period. We believe that in the West. Correct.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Now you want to make the self defense argument, we
can go back there. I've heard every argument that I've heard
that the baby is a parasit. I've heard the baby's invader.
I've heard the baby that is, you know, currently taking
the nutrients. None of them are morally applicable to the
actual circumstance of gestation.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Period.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Every human being has a right to life. You can
check your notes again if you'd like, But every human
being has a right to life. Yes or no, it's
what built the West.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Well, it's it's what I'm asking.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
I stand for the abolition of abortion and all circumstances
against life of the mother, because life matters. Every human being,
I believe, is made in the image of the Divine,
is sacred, is unique. And if we get away from
this principle as we have, we not only have moral degradation,
we not only have the collapsing society around us, but
it's bad for that being itself. That being itself is unique,
that being has rights. And who are we to say,
(19:45):
just because we're older, that we get to murder it?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Wow. Charity Kerk is best and purely won back. The
rest is just fun for him. Where you won. That
was the first point.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Which is is that a human being in the womb
or not? And once people acknowledge that, which they have
to or look like an idiot, because it undeniably is.
It's not philosophy, it's not religion. It's just basic physics,
not physics, pardon me, it's basic biology. It's basic medicine.
That's a human being in the womb. Argument over because
(20:20):
once you make that point, for the vast majority of
people they're going to say, yeah, you can't kill it.
It doesn't matter how challenging the problem is, because we
know there are so many challenging problems. You just the
solution can never be killing an innocent human life. So no,
Charlie Kirk won that in the first five words, well
(20:41):
maybe the first sentence three or three seven, three eight
two five five text d an five seven seventh three nine.
We're ducking in and out of President Trump in Pennsylvania.
Great to see him on the stump.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
He needs to be out there.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
He's accomplishing so much that doesn't get fairly reported, and
he loves being on the stump. Plus, we're heading into
the midterm mirror and right now it's not looking so
good for the GP.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Ryan, who do we have? Oh we love that. Robin Hudson,
you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Welcome, Hi, Dan, enjoy your show always. I was I
guess what I should ask you is what what is
your support that the Republicans are going to get get
hit pretty bad in the midterms. Beyond you know, the
(21:29):
party in power usually does not so great in the
mid terms. I was wondering if you could question you
could make that argument just somewhat concise to me. I'm
not saying I agree or disagree, although I might say
it's a little early to tell, and that could be
mitigated by the Republicans coming together and then you know,
(21:54):
putting a basically supporting their candidates very well in the midterms.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, I'll let you go, and I'm not saying we
should give up, but we are up against a powerful,
powerful opposing force, and you're right to ask for it
to be concise. You tell me how many words are
you allowing me, and I will limit it to those words.
I mean that seriously.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I don't know you're you're I guess a pretty fair,
pretty good lawyer, So whatever you feel is appropriate, I
would defer that to you.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, no, and thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That's that's very generous, because you'd be you'd be very
fair to say to me limited to four words, and
I will, well, I'll limit it. I'll explain it in
four words. Sure, no Trump Democrat anger, because we know now,
unfortunately from experience, my friend, that they're a pretty significant
(22:48):
number of Trump voters who don't show up for anybody
other than Trump, no matter how Trump be in the
congressional or Senate candidate number two. Uh, Dems have an anger,
red hot anger fueled by their impotence, and they are
going to explode in the midterms. Just they're anger at
(23:09):
being crushed by Trump, They're anger at Trump's success, They're
anger at their own political impotence. And you have it
taken the form of physical violence in some places from Democrats.
But it is going to It is going to hit
with a fury in the midterms.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
So we're probably dan talking about certain specific areas like
right now. Obviously Trump is in northeast Pennsylvania, like Scranton,
so somebody said either he's figured out or somebody said
to him, no, this is going to be a key race.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Wise point.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
My friend and I don't claim to know where all
of the key close congressional races are. We know our
good friend Gabe Evans a true star. He'll be in
another one up there in CD eight. I don't know
if that means we'll see the president in Colorado, but
but yeah, he's going to be strategic, and I hope
he's out there all the time, you know, to a
you know, we can't give up, we can't quit. We
(24:07):
still have to fight to win. But if nothing else,
limit the losses as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, So then my question would be, and I guess
this is I'm not really trying to make a point,
but my question would then be, so the things countering
that would be, obviously, how does how do the Republicans mobilize?
How well is there how well does their grassroots go?
Is there you know, something really behind the Charlie like
(24:39):
you were mentioning before, obviously Charlie Kirk movement, which I
think they're sure is. I don't want to, you know,
go down that path, but I've seen you know, trucks
with bumper stickers and different things which we seem to
indicate that. But you know what what forces would go
against that that you can see?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, you're a wise man because these race has all
come down to passion intensity, who's willing to show up,
who's willing to cast that vote? And so you hit
some important points on the conservative side, which is so
many more young conservatives who care more, they have more
at stake, they have this longer future ahead of them,
(25:18):
you know, Trump being out there more often, so just
asking you know, his core supporters to get out there
and vote for him, because you have a lot of
people who won't come out and vote for anybody but Trump.
But if Trump's saying I need them, whether Trump comes
all the way out and says if I don't get them,
they're going to impeach me again, but Trump coming out
and saying I need you, I really need you to
(25:38):
go out and vote for these people. And those words
don't matter unless they come from Trump on the stump,
you know, because love is spelled time, and you know
that means where you show up, where you spend your time,
that shows what you really care about. So yeah, that
that matters too. The fact that the Democrats are so whack,
you know, that'll help offset it some. But we can't
(25:58):
sit back and count on that to offset it completely.
If Republicans think, my friend, if Republican thinks that that
they're just going to go out there and say those
guys are socialists and that's going to win the race,
they're crazy because guess what, there are a whole lot
of people who will never admit it right now, but
they'd be okay with a little bit of socialism. You know,
they're they're still you know, consider themselves American patriots and
(26:21):
everything else. But but they feel you know, the rich
have gotten really rich, and they'd be okay with a
little income redistribution. And there are a lot of people
out there thinking that way who would never admit it.
So Republicans better not plan on just running this race
saying oh, they're a socialist and because they are. But
I'm not sure that's going to.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Work as well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Interesting well, I guess honestly, my hope would be that
what Trump got on and said was that he you know,
has drawn a lot of investments to particular areas. So
one of them, I mean, we're putting in like basically
(27:04):
data centers, We're doing a bunch of different things. I
know some of that is in Virginia, if that's helpful
to the Republican cause. But my question would be, you know,
does some of that investment in different places materialize and
does it, you know, start to affect things and maybe
(27:25):
spur people on. But I think you're spot on with
you know, the just how into it are the Republicans
And it's definitely a danger if you know, they don't
feel as much as in stake at stake and they're
not you know, super angry and super upset like some
(27:45):
of the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Man, hey man, appreciate the call a lot, a lot
of wise thoughts on your parts. You do appreciate that.
But we got to sit here and knowing we got
to do everything we can, but also being realistic about
the battlefield. There is no way the GOP intensity is
going to match the Democrat intensity come midterms. That doesn't
mean we give up. We just recognize that reality and
tactically figure out, Okay, then how do we get where
(28:09):
we need to go or at least cut the losses
as much as we can. But seeing the President out
there right now kicking off a tour, that's a very
good start because he's starting early. We'll duck into that
too when we come back.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
And here's something from President A lot of time a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So sorry my friend, So sorry, my friend. So we
will what we'll do, And didn't mean to cut off
our good friend there. We're up against a mandatory break,
but we will duck back in with President Trump when
we come back here on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast representing Crocket.
Speaker 11 (28:44):
Just this past week, I saw I don't remember which celebrity,
but it was actually a celebrity, and I was like,
I don't know that that's not necessarily a bad idea,
but I'd have to think of it a lot. One
of the things that they proposed is black folk not
have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time,
because then again, that puts money back in your pocket.
But at the same time, it may not be as
objectionable to some people.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know who would hate that. But she just doesn't get.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
It Black people.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I mean, it's insane whether they're white or brown or
these radicals who have this bigotry, not even soft bigotry
of low expectations, who infantalize people because of their skin color,
and Representative Crockett is one of those. So what kind
of bubble does she live in where she thinks that
(29:36):
would appeal to black people? Know, all black people want
is a fair opportunity. Yeah, yeah, And they just don't
get it. These lefties just don't get it. They don't
understand faith, they don't understand pride, self pride, they don't
understand the American work ethic. And yeah, anybody can take
(29:59):
any group people. Take white people, a group of this people,
group of that people, and you can find a handful
of knuckleheads of any race, and then you can just
turn the whole race into a cartoon character. You know
that that's exemplified by that outlier knucklehead. But that's idiotic.
You can call a racist, you can call it idiotic.
(30:19):
But people like Crockett and that ideology, and whether the
person with that ideology in her case happens to be
black or at some other color, they're just wrong that.
They're just wrong about black people, they're wrong about any
type of people who they try to stereotype. There way
no Black people just want a fair opportunity to succeed,
and they have not had it. And you know who
(30:41):
has stripped him of that and robbed them of that
and stolen that from them is the Democratic Party. So
how much longer will the Democratic Party enjoy overwhelming Black
support or overwhelming Brown support? It should end today, Why
doesn't it?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A big part of that is a gop.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I mean, obviously you're up against the whole mass media
that covers for the Democratic Party. But people are smart,
and I think you have a whole lot of people
right now of all colors, white, black, brown, whatever, But
you got a whole lot of black people who understand
that the Democratic Party has been terrible for them, but
just can't make that move yet to the GOP. What
(31:25):
does a GOP candidate have to do? What does the
party have to do? Ryan It drives me crazy that
the party hasn't done one very obvious thing in Colorado
and everywhere it hasn't been doing it for twenty or
thirty years. The Republican Party is up against the stereotype.
I was one of the people who had that awful
stereotype of the Republican Party before I became a Republican
(31:49):
started to go to some stuff and say, well, you
know what their ideas. They are different than I thought
they were, and then they really will work, and the
people are different than I thought they were, and they
really do care very deeply, you know, about everybody getting
a fair shot, and about people of color and the weakened, defenseless,
and their ideas actually work better for those people. It
took me becoming a Republican to figure that out. But
(32:12):
we're out of our minds if we think that in
any kind of large numbers, we're going to have people
who've been voting Democrat all their life and all their
families' lives who are going to start going to GOP
events that ain't happening, So how do you win them over?
And there are ways, but Crockett, she just does not
get it to sit there and say, oh, yeah, we
(32:35):
just won't taxt black people. Black people would Black people
would be offended by that. All people want is a
fair shot.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Well in the reparations, this whole thing, Dan, it's a canard.
You know what black people? What about people who are
mixed race? One half black, three quarter black, one quarter black.
You know, how do you divvy that up? What's that
all about?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It's obvious pandering, insanity, and it's not what people want.
Black people in this country have been systematically deprived of
a fair chance, just as you have a lot of
lower income white people who have been to their children
have been but it's been by the Democrats and it's systematic,
and I think a lot of people are starting to
(33:18):
realize that. And it starts with education, right because what
do you have, I mean top priority for Democrats because
a Democrat party understands math, and it understands that once
people start making a certain amount of money, a majority
vote Republican. So it literally cannot have people making that
amount of money. And it depends on the stats. You see,
it's probably currently more like sixty grand a year, but
(33:40):
it just can't have people making that amount of money.
And the modern Democratic Party can be Hick and looperor
ben at Johnston, any of them, they will fight true
school choice to their dying breath. And the reason they
will is they know, you take these kids in this example,
it could be any race, but you take say these
young African American kids, and you and power their parents
(34:01):
with true purchasing power, like the amount of money that's
now just pumped into the public schools per pupil, and
you let those parents now have power, now have economic power,
and they take it out into the free market, and
the free market rises up to get that money by
meeting that need. And then all of a sudden, these
little kids who have just been shoveled into the furnace
(34:22):
of failing public schools, they have an opportunity to reach
their true God given potential. What the hell do you
think is going to happen? They're going to succeed, and
Colorado and America are going to change, and the Democratic
Party is going to be out of business because they
depend on the failure. They depend on the failure of people.
Thank you, Ryan,
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