Zohran Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and he just used a viral online campaign and good old-fashioned shaking hands and kissing babies to earn the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor over former governor Andrew Cuomo. What does this mean for the future of America's signature city?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Four oh six. Glad you're here on this pretty afternoon.
Feels a little bit different for this time of the year,
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but a pretty afternoon. Yeah, let us count the ways
that things keep getting better. Right, where do you want
to start? Do you want to start closer to home,
further away, etc. Well, let's start further away, because closer
to home that's a tougher nut to crack, right, because
Colorado is so deep blue right now, it's just going
to take more. It's going to take more for things
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to change here. But the fact that things are changing
pretty quickly, you know other places as you move further
out from the state, that's encouraging because no matter how
bad Colorado remains politically, it still really affects you and me, etc.
If you're listening to Colorado, who has the White House?
You know how the Republicans are doing nationally, et cetera.
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And of course, the safety or elect thereof of the world.
So it's once you get outside Colorado that things are
are getting a lot better. In a hurry three or
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in this sense that it's going to help more people
see more quickly how crazy the Dems have become. Yes,
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the election of this socialist as the likely almost certain
to be next mayor of New York is a good
thing in this sense. Again, it opens eyes to to
just how crazy this modern Democratic party has become. Because
make no mistake about it, there are many many Democrats
across the country right now, particularly those you know in
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powerful positions. You know who view this this socialist who
is just elected there as the future. Right I mean,
who's leading the Democrat polls right now? I don't know
each and every poll, but certainly you know aoc is
very has a lot of energy surrounding her potential campaign.
And then you get this goofball winning in New York.
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So again, and I'm telling you as a former Democrat,
I know it's hard to believe if you were never
a Democrat, but as a guy like me, I was
a Democrat for a long time. I was born into
a proud Democrat family, and still the vast majority, maybe
every single relative outside of Colorado's a Democrat. And these
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are good, patriotic Americans who just have this very negative
view of the GOP and they became part of while
they were born into the Democratic Party, but became active
because you know, they care about the week, they care
about the defenses, etc. And the fact that the Democratic
Party is no longer that engine, it's no longer about that.
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You know, it's hard to change habits. And then when
you get this deeply rooted negative view of the GOP,
the thought of going there possible for so many Democrats.
So it's against that backdrop that the election of a
nut job socialist like this in New York it's one
of those dramatic things that can help open eyes to
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what the modern Democratic Party is really all about. Because
I guarantee you there are a whole lot of people
who are registered Democrats now, or even if they aren't,
they often vote Democratic who who just have no idea
how crazy far left their party's going right because look
at what their party does in so many places, including Colorado.
It throws people up there who pretend to be some
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kind of moderates and then they go out and they're
as far left as the next guy or Gale, like
crazy far left, and you can put you know, polists
in that bucket. Johnston, Hickenlooper, Bennett. You know, on the surface,
do you look at them and say, you know, holy cow,
those guys are like straight out of the old Soviet
Union or something. No, you don't. But then you look
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at how they act and how they vote, and with
very few exceptions, it's far far left stuff. So you
need a guy if you want to open eyes of
Democrat voters and independent voters, you need a guy like this,
just flat out raw to the bone socialist who just
won in New York. A little taste of that magic.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The Mayamum, Donnie, would you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to
New York City for the for whatever he comes for
given the US is not the signature to the ICC,
so he can travel to the US unlike a lot
of other countries with a Mam Donny, welcome Benjamin to
the city.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
No, as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Let's add flaming anti semi okay to that. Wow, Yeah,
that's going to help both semis about about who they
really are.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Hold On, let's just as a practical matter, how is
he going to arrest beating Natan Yahoo when he wants
to defund NYPD and not have any police.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think he intends to do it himself or maybe
with some mob to some mob. Right, Yeah, so now
this this is good. You gotta open eyes to what
the left has really become. Because think about it. Think
if you were born into a Democratic family as I was,
and I was born into the greatest family in America,
as I often say, I was born into the wealthiest
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family in America if you measure wealth correctly, but we're Democrats.
He imagine being born into a Democrat family. How hard
it is to change those habits over the years. You
need you need nutjobs like this becoming the face of
the Democratic Party to start to realize a little bit
what's going on. And Ryan, that's what happened on November fourth, Right,
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one of the most critical tools, second maybe only to
the McDonald's appearance was you know this one hundred and
thirty five million in ads about She's about they them,
He's about you, and just this whole utter ultimate goofiness
of the Democratic Party now standing for men in women's
locker rooms and men taking over for women's sports. Say, yeah,
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that's just nutty stuff. That's the kind of stuff that'll
cut through the noise and blast loose enough normally Democrat
voters to just swing an election big time. And I
think that's exactly what happened there. Three oh three someone
three two five five the number. I think he also
wants what like government run grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs
and milk has skyrocket. Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing,
jacking up the cost over the course of a day
depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't
need to be this way.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What they can get away with. How about what the
market will bear? Right? Yeah, hey, can you get the
guy in the show? I really want to find out
where socialism has ever worked and I'd love to just
start with.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That question times of Rommbani, and as mayor, I will
create a network of city owned grocery stores. It's like
a public option for produce.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It has I mean, he does call it right. I
even't followed this until recently. He he does just refer
to this as socialism at some point, right, Okay, so
now the government's going to run the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Well, no, he doesn't hide it, Dan, He is a
yap for a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And that's the thing I want to throw out to folks.
I mean, is that where the Democratic Party is going
in America? I mean not everywhere, right, It's going to
be different in some places, but overall, is that where
the Democrat Party's going? And will that work from it?
And I know that sounds like a really silly question,
but it's a very exciting moment in America now because
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I don't believe it's going to work for him for
a second. I think it's going to blast enough voters loose,
blast them away from the Democrats, even if they don't
vote for Republicans, to further the fuel of GOP gains.
But there is some danger, right because the temptation, the
sirens song of income redistribution, and yeah, no, just take
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it away from those people and give it to me.
You do worry that. The reason I don't lose a
second sleep over it is is one of the many
blessings I've had is growing up in a working family.
And you know south Side of Chicago, heart of the
South Side of Chicago, seventy six and Aberdeen and then
later over at sixty seventh and Colon. Yes, the name
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of the street was Colan Ryan. Go ahead, but but
my point being that I know the truth, and you
know the truth if you happen to be, you know,
a working person. And the truth is the vast majority
of working people in America, no matter what color, background,
et cetera, do not sit around wanting income distribution, redistribution.
They do not sit around jealous of the people who
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have more money, et cetera. That's the the elitist view,
that's the left's view of working people. But that's not
the reality. What working people really want or one dred
thousand percent title to is equal opportunity. And that's what
the left deprives them of. So that's why I'm very
confident that Nose they're not going to go for this
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socialism stuff. They're going to thoroughly reject it. But make
no mistake, that's where the Democrats are going. And in fact,
let's have this conversation too when we come back. Is
for example, Mike Johnston. Is he just in many ways
a socialist like that guy who just covers it up better.
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The truth about all these socialists. And you know, I
don't like to get caught up in the semantics, right,
because then you get bogged on and a boring kind
of linguistic analysis thing. You know when you see them, right,
it's like obscenity, you know, when you see him and
they come in different packages. You know, you have the
bland version. And I'm again I'm not using labels here.
I'm just talking about a political philosophy of taking your
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money and giving it to other people, and a political
philosophy of advancing the favored group over the unfavored groups,
and a political philosophy driven by envy and income redistribution
in various forms. And whether you have the bland looking
versions like the Johnston and Polis and Bennett and Hickenloopers,
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or you have the flaming versions like this seemed to
be new mayor of New York who's just going to
open all these government run grocery stores and everything else.
And how do you think that's going to work out.
We'll get into that conversation one way or the other.
It's the same approach, right. And so here's the question
I'd love to ask each of them right out of
the gate. Well, two questions, but the first is personal. Okay,
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open the books, show us how much of your own
money you've given to fill in the blank. How much
of your own money have you given to the newcomers.
I'll stand up and I'll open my books and compare
them to Polis or Johnston or hicken Looper or Bennett.
Let's identify how much of our own personal money we've
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given to help people in a bad situation like that. Yeah,
and I would bet your dinner what you're going to
find is very very little, if any, of their own
personal money. They want to give them your money. They
don't want to give them their own money. See, And
I'm sitting here saying they shouldn't give them your money.
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I'll give them some of my money, you know, because Hey,
I'm a Christian and I believe that, and I believe,
as the Archbishop always says, we will be judged in
large part by how we care for the poor. Am
I saying I do enough. No, I don't do nearly enough,
but I do more than those guys. I'll bet you that. Yeah,
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let's see if they'll open their books. Three or three seven,
three eight two five five the number techs d A
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one hand, you got this wild man in New York
who's going to be great for the left by scaring
a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
A mayamum, Donnie, would you welcome Prime Minister net and
you know who to New York City for the for
whatever he comes full given the US is not the
signature to the ICC, so he can travel to the
US unlike a lot of other countries with a ma'm
I'm donny, welcome Benjamin into the city.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No, as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
That.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, it gets even more insidious. Well, it doesn't get
more insidious in that, but pretty darn insidious if you
care about the founders and freedom and what's worked in
this country and everything else, and if you care about
the economically disadvantaged, because it's it's another thing about these
leftist jokers is they are so bad for the poor.
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They are so they pretend to care and then they
do all this stuff that screws the poor and leaves
the poor poor forever and then claim to be holier
than now.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oost three. Prices are out of control. The cost of
eggs and milk has skyrocket. Dumb stores are even using
dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of
a day depending on what they can get away with.
It doesn't need to be this way. I'm z of
arm Mamdani, and as mayor, I will create a network
of city owned grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So how is that any different? Ryan? And obviously it's
horrible and it's going to cause all First of all,
if if any of this ever gets past a court
or an appellate court, you think of the obvious damage
it's going to do in a hurry. But how is
that in theory any different? You know that then a
diamond Mike Johnston, who loves giving away your money, who
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has told the entire world come to Denver, and what
come to Denver, and what everybody should be able to
say this altogether? Now, we will get you a home,
gend you a home. We will get you a home.
We will get you a home. Yeah, it's transfixing isn't
it so? In theory, how are they any different? Right?
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I mean it's it's Johnston is just out there saying, Okay,
the government is going to get you a home, no
work requirements, anything else. You just you come to Denver.
We will get you a home. But we're not going
to do it with Mike Johnston's money. It's not going
to come out of any of his accounts. It's going
to come out of your account, Ryan Schuling, if you
happen to live in Denver, or indirectly in other ways.
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So how is that any different in theory? Right? So
this is where the Democratic Party is going. I don't
think there can be any doubt about that. As much
as they'll try to lie and deny it here and
there and put a more bland face on it in
certain places, is it going to work for I really
want your take on that. Three H three seOne three
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five seven seven three nine. I'm not talking about the
actual policies. I mean, we all know those are going
to fail miserably. But if you disagree with me on that, hey,
we'll take your call. First, I want to get to
some textures also, so we got all that to look
forward to interesting takes, And I'm not going to spend
the whole show on this guy. The point is not
so much him, though, you know, it does hurt to
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think of all the misery New York's about to go through.
But I'm at this point more interested in just kind
of the national impact because Ryan, you can make no
mistake about it, right, can you imagine the peak levels
of I was going to use the wrong term, the
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peak levels of political excitement that were experienced in Colorado
after that victory last night, because it is going to
be so interesting to watch now, you know, whether these
kind of quasi openly socialist, communist, etc. Operating within the
Democratic Party in Colorado now just openly takeover or even
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more emboldant by what happened in New York last night
and just demand that they be front and center. What
could that mean for say John Hickenlooper in a primary, right,
who just votes lefty all the time, but he has
this act you know where he's he's you know, some
moderate kind of guy. But if this is where the
energy is, and there's no doubt, right we saw it
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down at Civic Center Park. If this is where the
energy is in the Colorado Democratic Party and among Democratic
voters in Colorado. Are they really going to sit back
and just tolerate another Hickenlooper term or is somebody going
to make a serious run at him, because hey, nothing
says right, nothing says enlightenment, nothing says progress, nothing says
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the future like eighty year old John Hickeloper.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The thing is, though, her is the least of our
worries when it comes to policies like this, Dan, this
is it's eye opening, it's stunning, it's jaw dropping. But
I get replies like this when I posted the video
that you just played for our audience, the audio, the
sound from that on making government run grocery store? What
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could go wrong? Exactly? I got this response, Dan, from
an absolute neo fight when it comes to economics.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Did you mean to tag this video?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Not sure how this makes him look bad like the
people were dealing here?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, Ryan, but we have to understand. I think in
that category we have a couple of different groups. You
have the groups of just yeah, I'm socialist, I'm communists.
I want America to be socialist or communist is what
some would say. Others are just naive and well intentioned
and think this as a way toward a more just society.
That's part of what's fueling all these lefties in Colorado
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and nationally is is people who are just not well
enough informed and just they're well intentioned. They just think
this is actually it's going to lead to a more
fair society. So you've got those combinations working there, and
that's why you're seeing within the Colorado Democratic Party rights
so many pretty much open socialist you know, when offices win, primaries,
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win general elections and in Democrat districts.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Socialism has only not worked on everywhere it's been tried exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But here's what we ignore at our own peril. Okay,
but we ignore at our own peril. And if you
disagree with this, please you know, we'll send the lemo
for you. Is there is a large, a large number
of people, most of them younger, though young people in
general are changing in their voting patterns obviously, but a
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large number of people who are well intentioned and know
they don't know that it's never worked anywhere. They just
want a more just, fair balanced society. They see the inequities,
they want to heal those. So you got a bunch
of well intentioned people who will just bite on this
and get behind it. And it's our job. You have
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to shine the light on this because the truth is
I used to be a Democrat, not one of these
goofy socialist democrats. But it took a long time to understand.
Wait a second, this conservative free market approach. You want
to serve the poor, help the poor, help the weekend defenses.
Be a Republican.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They know for Terry General, I mean we may do
papers on it. Marvell, maybe we're going to do papers.
I don't even know if you need him. They're not
going to be fighting each other.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
They've had it.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
They had a big fight, like two kids at a
school yard.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You know, they fight like hell, you can't stop them.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Let him fight for about two three minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Then it's easier to stop him.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
And then Daddy has said sometimes strong languages strong, you
have to use a certain word. I think.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's a NATO Secretary general referring to Trump as daddy.
That's when you know that you're in a good place
in America's in a good place. And then the President
was questioned about.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
That Mark writa the NATO chief, who is your friend?
He called you daddy earlier? Do you regard your NATO
allies as kind of children?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now? He likes me. I think he likes me. If
he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and
I'll hit him hard. Okay, but he did. He did
it very affect your daddy.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
You're my daddy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But that's where peace comes from. I'm sorry, peace comes
from stre and not. It's that's where you want to
be the best. That's where you want to be. It
doesn't make all the evil go away, but it puts
you in a much better position.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Listeners couldn't see this, but Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
standing in the back round the question was asked to,
started cracking up yeah before Trump even answered, like you
got to be kidneyed.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, yeah, no, And that's going Can you imagine when
a heck of a race that's going to be between
Rubio and JD. Vance and it won't just be the
two of them, whalen between this call being from a
Whalan and Colorado Springs. I've got to take it, Mama.
Don't let your babies grow up to be how you
doing my friends. Yeah, I hope we get that bumped
sometime today. And she had another one? What is it?
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What's that other one from Whaling Chain's leave my Boots
by the door? What is that song? You guys know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
A yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks are taking my call.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
My question is, how would that what Zohan just said
about arresting it and yahoo?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (21:05):
How would that not open up an investigation like adj
of investigation for threatening a foreign dignitary? Now I'm that constitutional?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Well, grit, thank you for the brilliant question. Whalen. I
wouldn't immediately view it as any kind of threat of violence.
I mean, what he's talking about is is using the
New York Police Department to arrest it. Yeah? Who Now
that would be illegal, right, and that would be a
violation of Section nineteen eighty three, So it would be
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federal offense. It'd be it to violate multiple federal laws.
So your question is, if an elected official is threatening
to do illegal things against another elected official, does that
constitute the crime of threats at fascinating? I don't know
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the answer to it. My gut tells me that's probably
not going to hold up in court. But listen, if
he does it, he's going to be in jail for
so many other reasons. It probably isn't going to matter.
And Nottan Yahoo, I'm not talking about Dan Yahoo being
in jail. I'm talking about this this nutjob socialist who's
going to be mayor of New York.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Yeah, then poor New Yorkers do not understand what they
just voted in. So they'll they'll realize that once they
have to stand in mind to get some paper towels
or some poil paper.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh amen to that. Can you imagine how quick those
those other grocery stores, et cetera are going to leave town.
I mean, it's uh, we have some leaving here in Colorado.
I'll tell you somebody who agrees with this analysis, though
he didn't mention me by name, and he actually wrote
this before the show is President Trump. He tweeted it
finally happened. The Democrats have crossed the lines. Zarn Man
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mom Fani, a communist lunatic, has just won the dumb
primary and is on his way to becoming mayor. We've
had radical lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
He looks terrible, his voice is grating he's not very smart.
He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him, and
even our great Palestinian senator crying Shuck Shumer is grobbling
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over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the
history of the country. My point is this, it's absolutely
brilliant by Trump, right because he wants a spotlight on
this guy. He wants a spotlight on mom Donnie. And
he's so wise to do that. I think every Republican
in the country should be trying to put the spotlight
on mom Donnie and make him the face of the
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Democratic Party. Doug and Frederick, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome, Hey,
Dan ay Man.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Hey, yeah, that's uh, you get me through, Okay, Oh
you sound great? Okay, yeah, uh this this race in
New York, Well, yeah, he's he's a Democrat primary winner.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Now does Eric Adams and Cuomo run independent then split
the vote from Curtis and you know, if they split
up like that, this guy will win. But I think
if they all stand together they can stop him. And
Dan just how far are we gone?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I mean, our economics course is taught at all in
high school. It's unbelievable how there people are well.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But Doug, I mean wait a second, he will fail, right,
and it'll be a disaster. But but his plan is
not to try to make this work like the government
owned grocery stores work in a typical economic structure. His
plan is for socialism. And there are a lot of
Democrats around the country, right, I mean, that's where they
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want to take this thing. It's just all out socialism.
So yeah, it's it's not going to work. But it's
not like they're sitting there just having been dropped on
their head for twenty stories and they can't process. They
just have all these terrible ideas that socialism is going
to be better for America, and that's what he's here
to implement.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
There's so many people under forty that I don't want.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
To ping with a broad brush, but they have no
clue of economics.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What well, that's right, and.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
This is going to be This will be.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Just horrific for New York. But if it happens, this
is going to be great for the Republican Party exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hey appreciate the call, that's what all said, my friend,
thank you. But here is the coalition that these social
listenerre aimed at okay. And so that's why we can't
just completely blow them off because they're winning some races
some places, including here in Colorado. And yes, I believe
in the end, clearly it's going to help the Republican Party.
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It's going to bury the Democrat Party because Americans don't
want this for the obvious reasons. But here's the coalition
that has to concern you, and that is some young people.
Remember you look at the polling right now, and one
of the many things Trump has accomplished is you have
so many more young people who are openly identifying as
conservative or at least not as Democrats. And so we
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can't just take blanket all the young people that way.
But here's the point. You still have another significant group
of young people who, yes, you know, some just want socialism,
they want communism, some just hate Jews, some are just
you know, all those terrible far left things you would imagine.
But then you have another pretty significant group who they
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aren't those awful things. They're just uninformed, and they're early
in their life and that they the circles they run in.
They haven't really plugged in yet to how things really work.
I was part of that group at one point in
my life. And they they're very well intentioned, you know
that they want good things to happen. They're not sitting
there thinking, oh, America's awful, I want to destroy America. No,
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they just want a more just and equitable and putting
all this in quotes fair America where you don't see
all this economic disparity. So that's a very important part
of this coalition, that that's voting for socialists, et cetera,
and in part of it here in Colorado. And then
you get then you get some older people who you know,
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some older people with wacky ideas, but more older people
they're just desperate. They're just desperate financially right, because they're
wondering how the heck they're going to put food on
the table. And so as much as they hate to
do it, there's a powerful temptation to vote for somebody
who's just promising economic redistribution, just out of necessity. So
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that's the kind of coalition that can win certain places,
and that in theory poses a broader danger three at
three seOne three eight, two five five text d an
five seven seven three nine. So obviously the president wisely
trying to make this knucklehead the face of the Democratic Party?
Is he should he be? Is Is that fair? I
(27:58):
think it probably is. You're on the in Capitalis Show.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And now back to the Dan Kaeplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You know, the picture that would go viral like in
a heartbeat is one I don't think the world can
ever see. But the hat is so popular. The hat
is so popular. I'm so popular around the house. We're
talking about these tremendous friends and clients who came in
last week and gave me this gift of the same
(28:29):
Stetson that and it's not Stetson, it's another high end company,
but the exact same cowboy hat that Coach Prime has.
And they had it sized and everything else, and how
did you get this perfect size? And they said, well,
your wife measured your head for us. I have no
memory of this happening. I wonder if I was as
sleep you must have been. Caroline insists, no, she came up.
(28:51):
They had a tape measure, they put it around my
head and I was totally oblivious. I was working. But anyway,
the point be it. Not many things look good on me,
but this looks so good. I was. I think I
just had a workout. So I'm walking through the house
and I just have my jim shorts on or whatever,
and I threw the hat on. The hat was sitting
(29:13):
there on the table, and I threw the hat on.
Somebody snapped a picture, and it's I'm telling you, man,
somebody I'm telling you are there like free range? Now
are you? Are you suggesting? I said to Amy, here
take my picture.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh, I'm just speculating as to who the somebody would
have been.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It had to be. All I can tell you is
that should be in a calendar. But I'm just holidaying there.
I'm just gonna leave it there. Hold on, let's slow
down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
What is Amy's assessment of you looking how you look
in this hat?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think it's very positive. The hit, I think it's
very positive.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And you got to go with it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, three oh three someone three eight two five five
takes d a N five seven seven three nine. But
a man cannot sit on his own jury. Let me
get back to us some of the text heap, if
you just joined us, we're talking about the latest great
thing tapping for the Republican part in America and so
by extension America, and that is the face of the
Democratic Party has now become this nutjob socialist who just
(30:09):
is about to get elected mayor of New York. You know,
the guy who wants to have governments take over the
grocery stores, for example. Yeah, what what could go wrong?
Just don't get used to eating.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs
and milk has skyrocketed. Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing,
jacking up the cost over the course of a day
depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't
need to be this way. I'm Zarambani, and as mayor,
I will create a network of city owned grocery stores.
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Puplic what he goes on to say, like a public
option for the groceries. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Right? Well,
one thing's for sure. Uh, New Yorkers are going to
save a lot of money on ozempic. Your obesity issues
are going to go a weigh immediately now because you're
the only grocery stores you're going to have are going
(30:59):
to be government run grocery stores. And we all know
how that's going to work out. But this issue of
affordability and people not being able to afford basics in life.
That's a huge deal. His solution is the worst possible
thing you could do to people facing economic challenges. But
what this hypocrite won't do is actually care about those
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people enough to say, Okay, we're going to do the
things that will really help you be able to afford
the things you want, really help you have a better life.
For example, we're going to give you an equal opportunity
in education. We're going to support true school choice. We're
going to empower all of these lower and middle income
parents with large, large, large economic power to go out
(31:46):
and use these vouchers to choose and in the free
market where they want to have their children educated. And
that's how now all of a sudden, people are going
to be able to afford more because if they have
a roughly equal opportunity in education, guess what, they're probably
going to earn a lot more in their lives and
a lot fewer are going to end up in jail.
And so you're going to be able to go out
and buy what you want. But what Mom, Donnie and
(32:09):
the rest of these democrats want, no matter what kind
of costume they're wearing, is is they want people fighting
over scraps. You know that that is their vision. That's
what serves the left better. Whereas as I've been both,
I've been a Democrat, now I'm a Republican, and there
is no doubt Republicans want people to prosper through equal
(32:29):
opportunity and freedom and getting government out of the way
everywhere you can and just base it on merit and
let people go out and have that opportunity. You know,
Democrats like this mom, Donnie and Polis and Johnston, et cetera.
You know, some of them talk a better game than others,
but they're all the same. They're all the same. It's
maximum government, limited freedom, and just drill down on that. Yeah,
(32:52):
I'd love to hear somebody ask mon Donnie about Okay,
where do you come down on you know, where do
you come down on school choice? Because you can see
a go get the movie Waiting for Superman, and you
can see all these families of color, all these parents
of color standing with their children in blocks long lines
hoping to win the lottery and get into one of
(33:13):
these school choice schools, charter schools, etc. But guys like Mandani,
Bennett Hickenlooper, all those guys for all their talk drilled
down on it. What are they going to do? They're
going to crush those programs almost without exception, right, because
they care more about the boots on the ground and
the money from the teachers' unions and the government run
schools being able to indoctrinate these kids than they do
(33:34):
given the kids any real chance in life, Dan, Why
are people so uncomfortable with unequal outcomes in life? Income
rey distribution suggest to me that everyone should drive a Toyota,
not a Mercedes, and it goes on from there. Yeah,
I think what it comes back to is the same
kind of different groups we talked about before. You just
(33:56):
have those hardcore committed socialist lefties, right, and they want
to do that because they want to be in power,
and they believe they're the ones who are going to
be in power, et cetera. And then you've got that
group who are well intentioned. And then you have another
group are just kind of financially really stressed and desperate
and they don't like it, but they're willing to throw
in with that crew just to get a little income redistribution.
(34:16):
That's the dangerous coalition. But the reason they will fail,
and the reason they felt in the past in America
is they don't get it right because these elitists, and
that's who runs a Democratic party now, they look down
on working people Like I grew up in the wealthiest
family in America and my dad was a cop and
my mom could have been anything. She was a housewife.
She stayed home and raised us and we had what
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really mattered. But it's not like we had a ton
of money. We felt very blessed and fortunate. We had
a roof over heads, we had food on the table,
parents who worked hard. But we didn't sit around jealous
of people who had more money. We didn't sit around
resenting them or wanting some of their money. We set
(34:59):
around grateful for what we had, but just wanting a
fair shot, equal opportunity. And that's what the vast, fast,
vast majority of working people in America want. Democrats don't
want to have a fair shot. Democrats look down on them.
But that's where the Democrat bet goes way off the wires,
betting that people resent people who have more money than
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they do, that they want to take that money away.
That is not how the that is not how the
vast majority of working people in America are built. That
is not how we were raised. And that's what the
left has all wrong and that's why they will fail.
And so the fact you now have this mom Donnie
Win in New York and become the face of the
Democratic Party, that's a beautiful thing because that's going to
(35:42):
open a lot of eyes to what the Democratic Party
has actually become. Here on The Dan Kapla Show,
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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Four oh six. Glad you're here on this pretty afternoon.
Feels a little bit different for this time of the year,
(00:21):
but a pretty afternoon. Yeah, let us count the ways
that things keep getting better. Right, where do you want
to start? Do you want to start closer to home,
further away, etc. Well, let's start further away, because closer
to home that's a tougher nut to crack, right, because
Colorado is so deep blue right now, it's just going
to take more. It's going to take more for things
(00:41):
to change here. But the fact that things are changing
pretty quickly, you know other places as you move further
out from the state, that's encouraging because no matter how
bad Colorado remains politically, it still really affects you and me, etc.
If you're listening to Colorado, who has the White House?
You know how the Republicans are doing nationally, et cetera.
(01:03):
And of course, the safety or elect thereof of the world.
So it's once you get outside Colorado that things are
are getting a lot better. In a hurry three or
three someone three eight two five five the number text
d A N five seven seven three nine. And yes,
in this sense that it's going to help more people
see more quickly how crazy the Dems have become. Yes,
(01:25):
the election of this socialist as the likely almost certain
to be next mayor of New York is a good
thing in this sense. Again, it opens eyes to to
just how crazy this modern Democratic party has become. Because
make no mistake about it, there are many many Democrats
across the country right now, particularly those you know in
(01:46):
powerful positions. You know who view this this socialist who
is just elected there as the future. Right I mean,
who's leading the Democrat polls right now? I don't know
each and every poll, but certainly you know aoc is
very has a lot of energy surrounding her potential campaign.
And then you get this goofball winning in New York.
(02:07):
So again, and I'm telling you as a former Democrat,
I know it's hard to believe if you were never
a Democrat, but as a guy like me, I was
a Democrat for a long time. I was born into
a proud Democrat family, and still the vast majority, maybe
every single relative outside of Colorado's a Democrat. And these
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are good, patriotic Americans who just have this very negative
view of the GOP and they became part of while
they were born into the Democratic Party, but became active
because you know, they care about the week, they care
about the defenses, etc. And the fact that the Democratic
Party is no longer that engine, it's no longer about that.
(02:51):
You know, it's hard to change habits. And then when
you get this deeply rooted negative view of the GOP,
the thought of going there possible for so many Democrats.
So it's against that backdrop that the election of a
nut job socialist like this in New York it's one
of those dramatic things that can help open eyes to
(03:12):
what the modern Democratic Party is really all about. Because
I guarantee you there are a whole lot of people
who are registered Democrats now, or even if they aren't,
they often vote Democratic who who just have no idea
how crazy far left their party's going right because look
at what their party does in so many places, including Colorado.
It throws people up there who pretend to be some
(03:36):
kind of moderates and then they go out and they're
as far left as the next guy or Gale, like
crazy far left, and you can put you know, polists
in that bucket. Johnston, Hickenlooper, Bennett. You know, on the surface,
do you look at them and say, you know, holy cow,
those guys are like straight out of the old Soviet
Union or something. No, you don't. But then you look
(03:57):
at how they act and how they vote, and with
very few exceptions, it's far far left stuff. So you
need a guy if you want to open eyes of
Democrat voters and independent voters, you need a guy like this,
just flat out raw to the bone socialist who just
won in New York. A little taste of that magic.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The Mayamum, Donnie, would you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to
New York City for the for whatever he comes for
given the US is not the signature to the ICC,
so he can travel to the US unlike a lot
of other countries with a Mam Donny, welcome Benjamin to
the city.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
No, as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Let's add flaming anti semi okay to that. Wow, Yeah,
that's going to help both semis about about who they
really are.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Hold On, let's just as a practical matter, how is
he going to arrest beating Natan Yahoo when he wants
to defund NYPD and not have any police.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think he intends to do it himself or maybe
with some mob to some mob. Right, Yeah, so now
this this is good. You gotta open eyes to what
the left has really become. Because think about it. Think
if you were born into a Democratic family as I was,
and I was born into the greatest family in America,
as I often say, I was born into the wealthiest
(05:16):
family in America if you measure wealth correctly, but we're Democrats.
He imagine being born into a Democrat family. How hard
it is to change those habits over the years. You
need you need nutjobs like this becoming the face of
the Democratic Party to start to realize a little bit
what's going on. And Ryan, that's what happened on November fourth, Right,
(05:37):
one of the most critical tools, second maybe only to
the McDonald's appearance was you know this one hundred and
thirty five million in ads about She's about they them,
He's about you, and just this whole utter ultimate goofiness
of the Democratic Party now standing for men in women's
locker rooms and men taking over for women's sports. Say, yeah,
(06:01):
that's just nutty stuff. That's the kind of stuff that'll
cut through the noise and blast loose enough normally Democrat
voters to just swing an election big time. And I
think that's exactly what happened there. Three oh three someone
three two five five the number. I think he also
wants what like government run grocery stores.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs
and milk has skyrocket. Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing,
jacking up the cost over the course of a day
depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't
need to be this way.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What they can get away with. How about what the
market will bear? Right? Yeah, hey, can you get the
guy in the show? I really want to find out
where socialism has ever worked and I'd love to just
start with.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That question times of Rommbani, and as mayor, I will
create a network of city owned grocery stores. It's like
a public option for produce.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It has I mean, he does call it right. I
even't followed this until recently. He he does just refer
to this as socialism at some point, right, Okay, so
now the government's going to run the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Well, no, he doesn't hide it, Dan, He is a
yap for a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And that's the thing I want to throw out to folks.
I mean, is that where the Democratic Party is going
in America? I mean not everywhere, right, It's going to
be different in some places, but overall, is that where
the Democrat Party's going? And will that work from it?
And I know that sounds like a really silly question,
but it's a very exciting moment in America now because
(07:34):
I don't believe it's going to work for him for
a second. I think it's going to blast enough voters loose,
blast them away from the Democrats, even if they don't
vote for Republicans, to further the fuel of GOP gains.
But there is some danger, right because the temptation, the
sirens song of income redistribution, and yeah, no, just take
(07:56):
it away from those people and give it to me.
You do worry that. The reason I don't lose a
second sleep over it is is one of the many
blessings I've had is growing up in a working family.
And you know south Side of Chicago, heart of the
South Side of Chicago, seventy six and Aberdeen and then
later over at sixty seventh and Colon. Yes, the name
(08:17):
of the street was Colan Ryan. Go ahead, but but
my point being that I know the truth, and you
know the truth if you happen to be, you know,
a working person. And the truth is the vast majority
of working people in America, no matter what color, background,
et cetera, do not sit around wanting income distribution, redistribution.
They do not sit around jealous of the people who
(08:39):
have more money, et cetera. That's the the elitist view,
that's the left's view of working people. But that's not
the reality. What working people really want or one dred
thousand percent title to is equal opportunity. And that's what
the left deprives them of. So that's why I'm very
confident that Nose they're not going to go for this
(09:01):
socialism stuff. They're going to thoroughly reject it. But make
no mistake, that's where the Democrats are going. And in fact,
let's have this conversation too when we come back. Is
for example, Mike Johnston. Is he just in many ways
a socialist like that guy who just covers it up better.
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The truth about all these socialists. And you know, I
don't like to get caught up in the semantics, right,
because then you get bogged on and a boring kind
of linguistic analysis thing. You know when you see them, right,
it's like obscenity, you know, when you see him and
they come in different packages. You know, you have the
bland version. And I'm again I'm not using labels here.
I'm just talking about a political philosophy of taking your
(09:52):
money and giving it to other people, and a political
philosophy of advancing the favored group over the unfavored groups,
and a political philosophy driven by envy and income redistribution
in various forms. And whether you have the bland looking
versions like the Johnston and Polis and Bennett and Hickenloopers,
(10:16):
or you have the flaming versions like this seemed to
be new mayor of New York who's just going to
open all these government run grocery stores and everything else.
And how do you think that's going to work out.
We'll get into that conversation one way or the other.
It's the same approach, right. And so here's the question
I'd love to ask each of them right out of
the gate. Well, two questions, but the first is personal. Okay,
(10:39):
open the books, show us how much of your own
money you've given to fill in the blank. How much
of your own money have you given to the newcomers.
I'll stand up and I'll open my books and compare
them to Polis or Johnston or hicken Looper or Bennett.
Let's identify how much of our own personal money we've
(11:00):
given to help people in a bad situation like that. Yeah,
and I would bet your dinner what you're going to
find is very very little, if any, of their own
personal money. They want to give them your money. They
don't want to give them their own money. See, And
I'm sitting here saying they shouldn't give them your money.
(11:20):
I'll give them some of my money, you know, because Hey,
I'm a Christian and I believe that, and I believe,
as the Archbishop always says, we will be judged in
large part by how we care for the poor. Am
I saying I do enough. No, I don't do nearly enough,
but I do more than those guys. I'll bet you that. Yeah,
(11:41):
let's see if they'll open their books. Three or three seven,
three eight two five five the number techs d A
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one hand, you got this wild man in New York
who's going to be great for the left by scaring
a lot of Democrats.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
A mayamum, Donnie, would you welcome Prime Minister net and
you know who to New York City for the for
whatever he comes full given the US is not the
signature to the ICC, so he can travel to the
US unlike a lot of other countries with a ma'm
I'm donny, welcome Benjamin into the city.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
No, as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
That.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, it gets even more insidious. Well, it doesn't get
more insidious in that, but pretty darn insidious if you
care about the founders and freedom and what's worked in
this country and everything else, and if you care about
the economically disadvantaged, because it's it's another thing about these
leftist jokers is they are so bad for the poor.
(12:35):
They are so they pretend to care and then they
do all this stuff that screws the poor and leaves
the poor poor forever and then claim to be holier
than now.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Oost three. Prices are out of control. The cost of
eggs and milk has skyrocket. Dumb stores are even using
dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of
a day depending on what they can get away with.
It doesn't need to be this way. I'm z of
arm Mamdani, and as mayor, I will create a network
of city owned grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So how is that any different? Ryan? And obviously it's
horrible and it's going to cause all First of all,
if if any of this ever gets past a court
or an appellate court, you think of the obvious damage
it's going to do in a hurry. But how is
that in theory any different? You know that then a
diamond Mike Johnston, who loves giving away your money, who
(13:26):
has told the entire world come to Denver, and what
come to Denver, and what everybody should be able to
say this altogether? Now, we will get you a home,
gend you a home. We will get you a home.
We will get you a home. Yeah, it's transfixing isn't
it so? In theory, how are they any different? Right?
(13:46):
I mean it's it's Johnston is just out there saying, Okay,
the government is going to get you a home, no
work requirements, anything else. You just you come to Denver.
We will get you a home. But we're not going
to do it with Mike Johnston's money. It's not going
to come out of any of his accounts. It's going
to come out of your account, Ryan Schuling, if you
happen to live in Denver, or indirectly in other ways.
(14:09):
So how is that any different in theory? Right? So
this is where the Democratic Party is going. I don't
think there can be any doubt about that. As much
as they'll try to lie and deny it here and
there and put a more bland face on it in
certain places, is it going to work for I really
want your take on that. Three H three seOne three
eight two five five the number text d A N
(14:31):
five seven seven three nine. I'm not talking about the
actual policies. I mean, we all know those are going
to fail miserably. But if you disagree with me on that, hey,
we'll take your call. First, I want to get to
some textures also, so we got all that to look
forward to interesting takes, And I'm not going to spend
the whole show on this guy. The point is not
so much him, though, you know, it does hurt to
(14:51):
think of all the misery New York's about to go through.
But I'm at this point more interested in just kind
of the national impact because Ryan, you can make no
mistake about it, right, can you imagine the peak levels
of I was going to use the wrong term, the
(15:12):
peak levels of political excitement that were experienced in Colorado
after that victory last night, because it is going to
be so interesting to watch now, you know, whether these
kind of quasi openly socialist, communist, etc. Operating within the
Democratic Party in Colorado now just openly takeover or even
(15:36):
more emboldant by what happened in New York last night
and just demand that they be front and center. What
could that mean for say John Hickenlooper in a primary, right,
who just votes lefty all the time, but he has
this act you know where he's he's you know, some
moderate kind of guy. But if this is where the
energy is, and there's no doubt, right we saw it
(15:56):
down at Civic Center Park. If this is where the
energy is in the Colorado Democratic Party and among Democratic
voters in Colorado. Are they really going to sit back
and just tolerate another Hickenlooper term or is somebody going
to make a serious run at him, because hey, nothing
says right, nothing says enlightenment, nothing says progress, nothing says
(16:18):
the future like eighty year old John Hickeloper.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The thing is, though, her is the least of our
worries when it comes to policies like this, Dan, this
is it's eye opening, it's stunning, it's jaw dropping. But
I get replies like this when I posted the video
that you just played for our audience, the audio, the
sound from that on making government run grocery store? What
(16:42):
could go wrong? Exactly? I got this response, Dan, from
an absolute neo fight when it comes to economics.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Did you mean to tag this video?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Not sure how this makes him look bad like the
people were dealing here?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Well, Ryan, but we have to understand. I think in
that category we have a couple of different groups. You
have the groups of just yeah, I'm socialist, I'm communists.
I want America to be socialist or communist is what
some would say. Others are just naive and well intentioned
and think this as a way toward a more just society.
That's part of what's fueling all these lefties in Colorado
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and nationally is is people who are just not well
enough informed and just they're well intentioned. They just think
this is actually it's going to lead to a more
fair society. So you've got those combinations working there, and
that's why you're seeing within the Colorado Democratic Party rights
so many pretty much open socialist you know, when offices win, primaries,
(17:43):
win general elections and in Democrat districts.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Socialism has only not worked on everywhere it's been tried exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But here's what we ignore at our own peril. Okay,
but we ignore at our own peril. And if you
disagree with this, please you know, we'll send the lemo
for you. Is there is a large, a large number
of people, most of them younger, though young people in
general are changing in their voting patterns obviously, but a
(18:10):
large number of people who are well intentioned and know
they don't know that it's never worked anywhere. They just
want a more just, fair balanced society. They see the inequities,
they want to heal those. So you got a bunch
of well intentioned people who will just bite on this
and get behind it. And it's our job. You have
(18:32):
to shine the light on this because the truth is
I used to be a Democrat, not one of these
goofy socialist democrats. But it took a long time to understand.
Wait a second, this conservative free market approach. You want
to serve the poor, help the poor, help the weekend defenses.
Be a Republican.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
They know for Terry General, I mean we may do
papers on it. Marvell, maybe we're going to do papers.
I don't even know if you need him. They're not
going to be fighting each other.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
They've had it.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
They had a big fight, like two kids at a
school yard.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You know, they fight like hell, you can't stop them.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Let him fight for about two three minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Then it's easier to stop him.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
And then Daddy has said sometimes strong languages strong, you
have to use a certain word. I think.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's a NATO Secretary general referring to Trump as daddy.
That's when you know that you're in a good place
in America's in a good place. And then the President
was questioned about.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
That Mark writa the NATO chief, who is your friend?
He called you daddy earlier? Do you regard your NATO
allies as kind of children?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now? He likes me. I think he likes me. If
he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and
I'll hit him hard. Okay, but he did. He did
it very affect your daddy.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
You're my daddy.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But that's where peace comes from. I'm sorry, peace comes
from stre and not. It's that's where you want to
be the best. That's where you want to be. It
doesn't make all the evil go away, but it puts
you in a much better position.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Listeners couldn't see this, but Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
standing in the back round the question was asked to,
started cracking up yeah before Trump even answered, like you
got to be kidneyed.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, yeah, no, And that's going Can you imagine when
a heck of a race that's going to be between
Rubio and JD. Vance and it won't just be the
two of them, whalen between this call being from a
Whalan and Colorado Springs. I've got to take it, Mama.
Don't let your babies grow up to be how you
doing my friends. Yeah, I hope we get that bumped
sometime today. And she had another one? What is it?
(20:41):
What's that other one from Whaling Chain's leave my Boots
by the door? What is that song? You guys know
what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
A yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks are taking my call.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
My question is, how would that what Zohan just said
about arresting it and yahoo?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (21:05):
How would that not open up an investigation like adj
of investigation for threatening a foreign dignitary? Now I'm that constitutional?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Well, grit, thank you for the brilliant question. Whalen. I
wouldn't immediately view it as any kind of threat of violence.
I mean, what he's talking about is is using the
New York Police Department to arrest it. Yeah? Who Now
that would be illegal, right, and that would be a
violation of Section nineteen eighty three, So it would be
(21:37):
federal offense. It'd be it to violate multiple federal laws.
So your question is, if an elected official is threatening
to do illegal things against another elected official, does that
constitute the crime of threats at fascinating? I don't know
(21:58):
the answer to it. My gut tells me that's probably
not going to hold up in court. But listen, if
he does it, he's going to be in jail for
so many other reasons. It probably isn't going to matter.
And Nottan Yahoo, I'm not talking about Dan Yahoo being
in jail. I'm talking about this this nutjob socialist who's
going to be mayor of New York.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Yeah, then poor New Yorkers do not understand what they
just voted in. So they'll they'll realize that once they
have to stand in mind to get some paper towels
or some poil paper.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh amen to that. Can you imagine how quick those
those other grocery stores, et cetera are going to leave town.
I mean, it's uh, we have some leaving here in Colorado.
I'll tell you somebody who agrees with this analysis, though
he didn't mention me by name, and he actually wrote
this before the show is President Trump. He tweeted it
finally happened. The Democrats have crossed the lines. Zarn Man
(22:51):
mom Fani, a communist lunatic, has just won the dumb
primary and is on his way to becoming mayor. We've
had radical lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
He looks terrible, his voice is grating he's not very smart.
He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him, and
even our great Palestinian senator crying Shuck Shumer is grobbling
(23:15):
over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the
history of the country. My point is this, it's absolutely
brilliant by Trump, right because he wants a spotlight on
this guy. He wants a spotlight on mom Donnie. And
he's so wise to do that. I think every Republican
in the country should be trying to put the spotlight
on mom Donnie and make him the face of the
(23:38):
Democratic Party. Doug and Frederick, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show. Welcome, Hey,
Dan ay Man.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Hey, yeah, that's uh, you get me through, Okay, Oh
you sound great? Okay, yeah, uh this this race in
New York, Well, yeah, he's he's a Democrat primary winner.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Now does Eric Adams and Cuomo run independent then split
the vote from Curtis and you know, if they split
up like that, this guy will win. But I think
if they all stand together they can stop him. And
Dan just how far are we gone?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I mean, our economics course is taught at all in
high school. It's unbelievable how there people are well.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
But Doug, I mean wait a second, he will fail, right,
and it'll be a disaster. But but his plan is
not to try to make this work like the government
owned grocery stores work in a typical economic structure. His
plan is for socialism. And there are a lot of
Democrats around the country, right, I mean, that's where they
(24:45):
want to take this thing. It's just all out socialism.
So yeah, it's it's not going to work. But it's
not like they're sitting there just having been dropped on
their head for twenty stories and they can't process. They
just have all these terrible ideas that socialism is going
to be better for America, and that's what he's here
to implement.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
There's so many people under forty that I don't want.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
To ping with a broad brush, but they have no
clue of economics.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What well, that's right, and.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
This is going to be This will be.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Just horrific for New York. But if it happens, this
is going to be great for the Republican Party exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hey appreciate the call, that's what all said, my friend,
thank you. But here is the coalition that these social
listenerre aimed at okay. And so that's why we can't
just completely blow them off because they're winning some races
some places, including here in Colorado. And yes, I believe
in the end, clearly it's going to help the Republican Party.
(25:44):
It's going to bury the Democrat Party because Americans don't
want this for the obvious reasons. But here's the coalition
that has to concern you, and that is some young people.
Remember you look at the polling right now, and one
of the many things Trump has accomplished is you have
so many more young people who are openly identifying as
conservative or at least not as Democrats. And so we
(26:08):
can't just take blanket all the young people that way.
But here's the point. You still have another significant group
of young people who, yes, you know, some just want socialism,
they want communism, some just hate Jews, some are just
you know, all those terrible far left things you would imagine.
But then you have another pretty significant group who they
(26:29):
aren't those awful things. They're just uninformed, and they're early
in their life and that they the circles they run in.
They haven't really plugged in yet to how things really work.
I was part of that group at one point in
my life. And they they're very well intentioned, you know
that they want good things to happen. They're not sitting
there thinking, oh, America's awful, I want to destroy America. No,
(26:52):
they just want a more just and equitable and putting
all this in quotes fair America where you don't see
all this economic disparity. So that's a very important part
of this coalition, that that's voting for socialists, et cetera,
and in part of it here in Colorado. And then
you get then you get some older people who you know,
(27:14):
some older people with wacky ideas, but more older people
they're just desperate. They're just desperate financially right, because they're
wondering how the heck they're going to put food on
the table. And so as much as they hate to
do it, there's a powerful temptation to vote for somebody
who's just promising economic redistribution, just out of necessity. So
(27:36):
that's the kind of coalition that can win certain places,
and that in theory poses a broader danger three at
three seOne three eight, two five five text d an
five seven seven three nine. So obviously the president wisely
trying to make this knucklehead the face of the Democratic Party?
Is he should he be? Is Is that fair? I
(27:58):
think it probably is. You're on the in Capitalis Show.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And now back to the Dan Kaeplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You know, the picture that would go viral like in
a heartbeat is one I don't think the world can
ever see. But the hat is so popular. The hat
is so popular. I'm so popular around the house. We're
talking about these tremendous friends and clients who came in
last week and gave me this gift of the same
(28:29):
Stetson that and it's not Stetson, it's another high end company,
but the exact same cowboy hat that Coach Prime has.
And they had it sized and everything else, and how
did you get this perfect size? And they said, well,
your wife measured your head for us. I have no
memory of this happening. I wonder if I was as
sleep you must have been. Caroline insists, no, she came up.
(28:51):
They had a tape measure, they put it around my
head and I was totally oblivious. I was working. But anyway,
the point be it. Not many things look good on me,
but this looks so good. I was. I think I
just had a workout. So I'm walking through the house
and I just have my jim shorts on or whatever,
and I threw the hat on. The hat was sitting
(29:13):
there on the table, and I threw the hat on.
Somebody snapped a picture, and it's I'm telling you, man,
somebody I'm telling you are there like free range? Now
are you? Are you suggesting? I said to Amy, here
take my picture.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh, I'm just speculating as to who the somebody would
have been.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It had to be. All I can tell you is
that should be in a calendar. But I'm just holidaying there.
I'm just gonna leave it there. Hold on, let's slow
down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
What is Amy's assessment of you looking how you look
in this hat?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I think it's very positive. The hit, I think it's
very positive.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
And you got to go with it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, three oh three someone three eight two five five
takes d a N five seven seven three nine. But
a man cannot sit on his own jury. Let me
get back to us some of the text heap, if
you just joined us, we're talking about the latest great
thing tapping for the Republican part in America and so
by extension America, and that is the face of the
Democratic Party has now become this nutjob socialist who just
(30:09):
is about to get elected mayor of New York. You know,
the guy who wants to have governments take over the
grocery stores, for example. Yeah, what what could go wrong?
Just don't get used to eating.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs
and milk has skyrocketed. Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing,
jacking up the cost over the course of a day
depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't
need to be this way. I'm Zarambani, and as mayor,
I will create a network of city owned grocery stores.
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Puplic what he goes on to say, like a public
option for the groceries. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Right? Well,
one thing's for sure. Uh, New Yorkers are going to
save a lot of money on ozempic. Your obesity issues
are going to go a weigh immediately now because you're
the only grocery stores you're going to have are going
(30:59):
to be government run grocery stores. And we all know
how that's going to work out. But this issue of
affordability and people not being able to afford basics in life.
That's a huge deal. His solution is the worst possible
thing you could do to people facing economic challenges. But
what this hypocrite won't do is actually care about those
(31:22):
people enough to say, Okay, we're going to do the
things that will really help you be able to afford
the things you want, really help you have a better life.
For example, we're going to give you an equal opportunity
in education. We're going to support true school choice. We're
going to empower all of these lower and middle income
parents with large, large, large economic power to go out
(31:46):
and use these vouchers to choose and in the free
market where they want to have their children educated. And
that's how now all of a sudden, people are going
to be able to afford more because if they have
a roughly equal opportunity in education, guess what, they're probably
going to earn a lot more in their lives and
a lot fewer are going to end up in jail.
And so you're going to be able to go out
and buy what you want. But what Mom, Donnie and
(32:09):
the rest of these democrats want, no matter what kind
of costume they're wearing, is is they want people fighting
over scraps. You know that that is their vision. That's
what serves the left better. Whereas as I've been both,
I've been a Democrat, now I'm a Republican, and there
is no doubt Republicans want people to prosper through equal
(32:29):
opportunity and freedom and getting government out of the way
everywhere you can and just base it on merit and
let people go out and have that opportunity. You know,
Democrats like this mom, Donnie and Polis and Johnston, et cetera.
You know, some of them talk a better game than others,
but they're all the same. They're all the same. It's
maximum government, limited freedom, and just drill down on that. Yeah,
(32:52):
I'd love to hear somebody ask mon Donnie about Okay,
where do you come down on you know, where do
you come down on school choice? Because you can see
a go get the movie Waiting for Superman, and you
can see all these families of color, all these parents
of color standing with their children in blocks long lines
hoping to win the lottery and get into one of
(33:13):
these school choice schools, charter schools, etc. But guys like Mandani,
Bennett Hickenlooper, all those guys for all their talk drilled
down on it. What are they going to do? They're
going to crush those programs almost without exception, right, because
they care more about the boots on the ground and
the money from the teachers' unions and the government run
schools being able to indoctrinate these kids than they do
(33:34):
given the kids any real chance in life, Dan, Why
are people so uncomfortable with unequal outcomes in life? Income
rey distribution suggest to me that everyone should drive a Toyota,
not a Mercedes, and it goes on from there. Yeah,
I think what it comes back to is the same
kind of different groups we talked about before. You just
(33:56):
have those hardcore committed socialist lefties, right, and they want
to do that because they want to be in power,
and they believe they're the ones who are going to
be in power, et cetera. And then you've got that
group who are well intentioned. And then you have another
group are just kind of financially really stressed and desperate
and they don't like it, but they're willing to throw
in with that crew just to get a little income redistribution.
(34:16):
That's the dangerous coalition. But the reason they will fail,
and the reason they felt in the past in America
is they don't get it right because these elitists, and
that's who runs a Democratic party now, they look down
on working people Like I grew up in the wealthiest
family in America and my dad was a cop and
my mom could have been anything. She was a housewife.
She stayed home and raised us and we had what
(34:39):
really mattered. But it's not like we had a ton
of money. We felt very blessed and fortunate. We had
a roof over heads, we had food on the table,
parents who worked hard. But we didn't sit around jealous
of people who had more money. We didn't sit around
resenting them or wanting some of their money. We set
(34:59):
around grateful for what we had, but just wanting a
fair shot, equal opportunity. And that's what the vast, fast,
vast majority of working people in America want. Democrats don't
want to have a fair shot. Democrats look down on them.
But that's where the Democrat bet goes way off the wires,
betting that people resent people who have more money than
(35:20):
they do, that they want to take that money away.
That is not how the that is not how the
vast majority of working people in America are built. That
is not how we were raised. And that's what the
left has all wrong and that's why they will fail.
And so the fact you now have this mom Donnie
Win in New York and become the face of the
Democratic Party, that's a beautiful thing because that's going to
(35:42):
open a lot of eyes to what the Democratic Party
has actually become. Here on The Dan Kapla Show,
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