April 28, 2025 • 34 mins
They're singing from the steps of the Capitol, and when that doesn't work - Democrats are slamming President Trump for wearing a blue suit to the funeral of Pope Francis. Even though several other world leaders and dignitaries also wore blue suits. They've got nothing, and they know it. And Dan talks about where it leaves an opposition party in shambles.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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victory for the American way in Colorado Springs with that
big raid. We're going to keep talking about it and
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want to get to your take on, Hey, what do
you think was really behind it? Do you expect to
see more? What else do you want to see the
Trump administration do here in Colorado. We'll tie that into
the President sign in a number of additional executive orders
today dealing with illegal immigration, but really want to focus
on the Springs and very specific action you would like
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to see the administration take next three or three seOne
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right here in Colorado, which has been a notorious sanctuary
state and sanctuary city. Right And the thing that infuriates
me the most because listen, I can underst and having
different political ideologies and disagreeing on major issues, etc. But
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there are some things that just cross all lines of
human decency. And every single top elected Democrat in Colorado
is guilty of this as our top party officials making
a deliberate decision to sacrifice innocent human life at this
altar of getting as many illegal folks into the country
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as possible because they're going to be Democrat voters. And
that's why, time and time again you've seen these top
elected Democrats try to protect people here illegally who are
committing serious crimes. And how just basic human decency, How
could somebody ever support.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That, let alone use their power they got from.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The voters to protect people here illegally who committed other crimes.
Often those crimes are committed against other folks here illegally,
very often the crimes are committed against US citizens. But
as a matter of basic human decency, how to the
Johnstons and polices and hicken Loopers and Bennetts of the world,
the wisers of the world justify that. Yeah, I can't
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even begin to comprehend that. But my personal belief is
that it comes back to on the left, just this
what's become a distorted, perverted view of the value of
human life. And very much, and I'm not colon any
of these people Marxists, but very much is kind of
communist Marxist view, right, that the individual human life doesn't
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have any inherent dignity or value or worse. And so
all these innocent US citizens, all these women being raped,
all these people being murdered, all the people who their
father or mother don't come home tonight because they've been
killed by an illegal immigrant on the roadway, they're just
an acceptable casualty rate to these Democrats. So I really
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do think this sanctuary city, sanctuary states stuff, and you
look at what it really means, providing sanctuary to people
committing illegal acts, providing sanctuary and protection. What a sanctuary,
I mean protection, providing protection against law enforcement to people
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who are here committing brutal, violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And I so I.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Support absolutely everything under the sun that Trump administration can
legally and constitutionally do to stand up for innocent human
life because it's it's you know, the pro life movement.
Obviously it's about protecting masses of people, millions from being
killed before they're born, but it's protecting innocent human life
at every stage. And so this idea of ending sanctuary
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cities and states where people committing crimes are given protection.
That's very much in my view of pro life issue
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your take on what you want to see the administration do.
Next related story this in the Denver Post, Colorado Springs
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landlord shocked underground club was operating on property Colorado Springs.
The owner of a Colorado Springs building that was the
site of a federal raids Sunday morning told Denver seven
investigates he had no idea an underground nightclub was operating
on his property.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Quote, I've never even seen a.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Lot of trash in the parking lot to even suspect
anything like an after hours nightclub is going on. So
it's pretty shocking, told investigative reporter Tony Koveleski. Does a
great job over there at Channel seven. But yeah, Ryan,
there's one thing about MS thirteen and trend Aragua, right,
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they're very very neat.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They always pick up their litter.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So yeah, I'm sure there just wasn't even anything in
the parking lot. But yeah, the DEAIS, multiple other agencies.
I think there were how many, maybe three hundred law
enforcement involved in this rate bust Colorado Springs underground club
quote frequented by TDA and MS thirteen terrorists. Why didn't
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Phil Wiser do this earlier? Why didn't police get involved? Yeah,
and you just sent me something, right, Ryan, I think
we've had a condemnation, right, And I'm sure it was
a condemnation of you know, just the fact that this
terrible nightclub existed.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, al Paso County Democratic Party condemns Colorado Springs dea. Right, Wow,
can we send them some money just so they can
keep sending out stuff like this? City and counter leadership
failed their constituents by refusing to call for restraint, compassion,
or due process for the very residents they represent. Residents,
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including US citizens, are at real risk of wrongful detention, deportation,
and imprisonment or worse that from the Alpasso County Democratic Party. Right,
do you remember that missuing a statement of condolence or
empathy or condemnation for any of the innocent people in
al Paso County raped by somebody here illegally or or
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brutally violated by MS thirteen or TDA, or people whose
children died of fetanol that was brought into the country
through the open border. I bet there's a long string
of text from the Alpasso County Democratic Party condemning all
of those horrors.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
None of what you mentioned comes to Mina. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What's so good right now is everything we were talking
about during the campaign. Remember where I was talking about, Okay,
vitally important obviously the Trump win, But what's very, very
important is that the left then collapses. And to collapse,
the left has to reveal itself, right, because only the
people can collapse the left. The left is never going
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to collapse itself. But my prediction was, and fortunately it's
born out, that as it became more and more obvious
that Trump was going to win, and then once he
did win, the Left would lose its self control and
the Left would just expose itself to the people for
what it really is. And then at that point we
get the double barrel. We get the election of President
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Trump and all the good that has brought, but then
we also get the left kind of eating itself, the
Left destroying itself.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
By exposing itself.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And fortunately we're getting the benefit of that as well.
If we get really lucky, then AOC is going to
be their presidential nominee right, or at least be a
viable enough presidential candidate. Shall certainly be viable enough, I think,
to pull the party even further to the left. Which
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where are they on the scale? Then once AOC pulls
the Democrats even further to the left, where are they
on the deskpot scale? Where do they compare to say,
g and the Communist Party of China?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean, how much further left can you go? The
good news is we're about to find out, because the
further left this Democratic Party goes in Colorado and nationally,
the sooner it will meet its demise, and Colorado tougher
not to craft. But we're up for that challenge. Three
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church organist, I've played hundreds of Catholic funerals. Not once,
says a Texter, did anyone complain about black not being worn,
no matter how supposedly important the dead person was? Right,
I have to admit I've been a bit oblivious to
this controversy over President Trump wearing a blue suit to
the funeral of the Pope. I'd be very surprised if
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that would offend God in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Remember, Dan, these are the same people that always go
to the criticism of President Obama's tan suit by conservatives
and made fun of that, And now they're engaging in
what color was.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Now a tan suit's a different, different animal. Where where?
What do you wear a tan suit too?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I think it was a press briefing or something pretty innocuous.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, there's no reason to criticize that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
That's I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, No, if you wore a tan suit to the
Pope's funeral.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That'd be different.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, that'd be different.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That aren't blue and black and most instances interchangeable.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Right, And I know one texter mentioned that that what
that that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Pope had wanted everybody to wear black.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I yeah, but listen, I don't think there was anything
even remotely disrespectful. Listen, we talked about in the last segment.
It was the ultimate respect of President Trump to go.
It was respect for for Catholics throughout America, respect for
the Catholic Church, and there should be a lot of
respect on a lot of levels. And he said it's
starting with the fact that the Catholic vote was he
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won it in America and that was obviously very important,
but also all the great work the Catholic Church does,
because you can bet on this as a matter of fact,
Colorado falls apart Denver first, much more quickly and without
all the great work done in the trenches by Catholics.
The Catholic Church Catholic Charities obviously not the only group
or faith or anything else doing a lot of great
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work in Colorado, but in terms of scale, enormity of scale,
all the different diverse services provided, literally, Denver would fall
apart in one week without the Catholic Church and Catholic
Charities ministering to the poor the way that it does.
So Trump showed I think, ultimate respect to the Catholic
Church into Catholics by going to the funeral, and I'm
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glad he did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The left track to make a big deal out of
President Trump wearing a blue suit and blue tie to
the Pope's funeral, and you know, please, I hope they
keep spouting that kind of nonsense because it was a
Catholic myself, and flawed, far from perfect work in progress Catholic,
but one who loves the church, and I'm grateful for
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my faith. I can tell you I was so appreciative
to President Trump for the respect that he showed by
attending and in respect to you know, American Catholics as well.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And as he mentioned, hey, he won the Catholic vote
and he wanted to show respect. So I think that
is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Why did you feel it was important to go to
the folks.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I just thought it was out of respect.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You know, I won the Catholic vote, and I think it's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
The first time that ever happened where a Republican won
the vote.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But I wanted by a lot, and you know, I
have a great relationship to the Catholics. Oh, he actually
won it in sixteen, and I do think it was
undeniably the difference maker in sixteen Upper Midwest Blue Wall
States Catholic surge for Trump at the very end, in
part rebelling against Hillary Clinton's glorification of late term abortions.
So no, it's great, and it's great he showed that respect.
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By the way, there were plenty of other people there
in blue. Biden wore a blue tie. And the people
who are making this argument that Trump broke dress code.
They're citing a document about protocol being black tie black
coup well, and then Biden broke it to and then
Prince William and a bunch of other people. So again
that kind of nonsense from the left, Bring on more
of it, because it's just going to mean more Republicans
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get elected. Three or three someone three eight two five
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Speaker 2 (12:43):
Anybody you want to see is an ex pope there,
Ryan saw nominee that I was going to bring your
attention to it. I thought, I sent you a text,
but I gotta find it, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And then in that next segment we will play this
hilarious thing that's just out there in X right now.
Somebody did a great job working this up where they
did a mock draft for the next pope, a vaticant
draft for the next Pope, and I just think it's
done in good cheer and everything else and kind of fun.
My hope is that obviously somebody has to be right
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on the faith right, because the whole idea within the
Catholic Church is, hey, you're the mailman. You can't change
the mail, right, You don't get to write the mail.
Jesus writes the mail, God writes the mail. You just
carry the mail. You can't change the mail. I hope
we get a male carrying pope, but boy, I would
love to see I'd love to see a pope from Africa.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, I think I'm gonna be along the same lines
as you, Dan, and we might be on the same
page here. So a pope has chosen, I don't know
a lot about this. You do this conclave process from.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
An existing cardinal or what's cardinal?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Cardinal Robert Sarah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, yeah, no, so impressive. I'd love to see him
as pope. I think he's considered a long shot. But
then again, John Paul the Great probably wasn't even on
the board.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think he's a native of Guinea uh in Africa.
And then also the only thing maybe working against him,
But I don't know if this has been a big
factor in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Is he is up there in years? He's seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Which could work for you, right right, depending on what
people want. If they're looking for a shorter term pope.
You know, thank God literally that John Paul the Great
was picked when he was young enough to then have
that big long term impact.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But yeah, no, I I follow him on X and
I love some of the I love a lot of
the stuff he's done.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So yeah, in Africa, man, I'll tell you, Catholicism is
just exploding in Africa. So I would love to see,
you know, an African pope again, assuming the you know
doctrine is right. Yeah, it's going to be really interesting
to watch. Three seven three eight two five five text
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we have throughout the show about the a big raid
down in Colorado Springs. I've been, and obviously the illegal
immigrant piece of it was very important, but there's also
the drug aspect and the two intersect right when it
comes to fentonyl open borders, et cetera. What do you
make of the fact that I've seen reports running up
to twelve active US military arrested there.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What do you make of those reports?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
That is a curve ball?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, right, yeah, And I think some of the reports
I've seen as suggested, you know, working as security things
like that. But I think it just goes back to
an undeniable point that even our most revered institutions, consisting
of our very best and bravest and brightest, and that
would be the military police fire. For me, as a Catholic,
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it'd be priest. Any human endeavor is going to have
a few bad apples because were you. And then the
challenge is to just root that out and to be
just ruthless and clear eyed about it. So, yeah, I
do hope we get some pretty thorough reporting, meaning from
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the administration none on what that was all about.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I'm having Kelly reach out right now to John Fabricatory,
who is under consideration for a post in the Trump administration,
and if he's unable to join us, hopefully he'll be
able to recommend us somebody that can join us to
talk about the western Colorado springs.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What else do you want to see the administration do
here in Colorado? We covered earlier in the show this
really important announcement today that President Trump, now and I've
been pushing this for years on air, is going to
require all truck drivers to be proficient in English.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
And then the third executive order, which actually speaks the
heart of your question earlier about the uber drivers, will
be a order directing the Department of Transportation to include
English literacy tests for our truckers. This is a big
problem in the trucking community.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That, oh, amen to that.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I mean, as I mentioned to you, I was over
at jeff Co Jail a few weeks ago deposing for
almost six hours a trucker who had killed my client's
beloved husband, spilling pipe on him on a Colorado roadway.
And then the DA out there only prosecutes it as
a misdemeanor. Lots of other people hurt too, by the way,
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it's only prosecuted as a misdemeanor. And so the guy's
going to be out in less than a year. And
I had to get the deposition before he was released
from jail, and you know, you're doing it through an interpreter,
and it's like, obviously, this cannot be safe. You've got
to be proficient, proficient in English to operate safely, you know,
a semi truck on America's roadways. And so I'm so
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happy to see President.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Trump do that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But where's the leadership at the Colorado state level on that, right?
I mean, we have become this killing field, you know,
when it comes to trucks. And hey, the good truckers,
I've said this for decades on air, the good truckers
are heroes. Really hard job without them, we can't have
our lives. Our lifestyle would still be alive, but we
can't have our lifestyle. They're backbone of America. But the
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industry has a dark underbelly, extraordinarily dangerous. I mean, in
terms of the dangers facing you and your family right now,
probably reckless Trucker is very, very very.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
High up on the list.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And so it's something any sane society wants to protect
its own should be ruthlessly acting against.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Every single day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But you look at policy coddles, the guy who calls
that massive fireball on the highway, all those people burned up.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Look, i started borgital in nineteen eighty four. I've been
at this for over forty years. I worked for six presidents,
Star O Round Reagan. Every president ever worked for it
to boris security seriously, because you can't have national security
if you don't have strong Boris security. We got to
know who's coming in, what's coming in, where's coming in,
why's coming in?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to
secure the border because they understood and national security was important.
Joe Biden was the first president in the history of
this nation who came in office an unsecured a border
on purpose.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, and remember with the support of Michael Bennet and
John Hickenlooper and Mike Johnston and Jared Polis right, remember
that hopefully the voters of Colorado will three or three
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lines quickly. But Texter Dan, did you see that Tennessee
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is now requiring autopsies for mass shooters for purpose of
identifying links to psychiatric drugs. I think it would also
show marijuana or other drugs too. You've talked a lot
about the drug connection of the shooting.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You bet you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You go back and you look at these mass shooters
in Colorado and elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's really rare.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That a mass shooter is not a heavy marijuana user.
Doesn't mean every marijuana user heavy marijuana user is going
to be a mass shooter, of course not. But when
you look at this, when you look at this common
denominator among most of the mass shooters, isn't that something
that we should be studying. Isn't that a concern? Isn't
that something that should weigh against the legalization of marijuana, right?
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But that's just not talked about right because the legalization
of marijuana is holy grail for the left, because the
left knows that a drug society is more dependent on
government and more likely to vote for Democrats. That's that's
been their game for a long time now. Jerry Brown
announced you remember Jerry Brown, the uber liberal was called
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liberal back then governor of California, and he said, hey,
how many stoners can you have and still be a
great state. But yeah, so that's why you don't have
this focus on mass shooters often being heavy marijuana users.
And for those who don't spend a lot of time
studying this issue, it's it's not that, okay, they get
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so intoxicated they go out and do something tom like that.
It's causing psychotic breaks. It's causing psychotic breaks that cause
them to go out and do demonic things like that.
Let's go to Steven in Denver.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You're on the Dan Kapla show. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I just wanted to follow up on the Tim tebow
Ye was very yeah, I'm so glad you see this.
I'm no one will ever convince me that he could
not play in the NFL. Well, he proved he could
start that down. Yeah, once you start, you know, once
you get rejected by one team, that becomes a kind
of a snowball.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, listen, Stephen, thank you for my call my friend
to call my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's a beautiful thing about this tebou debate. There is
no debate. He proved it. Go back and google up.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I had two.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Pieces, one in the Post and one in the Gazette,
just documenting, you know, the success of Tim Tebow compared
to the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
If you study the first couple of years in the league.
He proved he could succeed in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He didn't get run out of Denver because he didn't
succeed in the NFL. He succeeded at historic levels. He
got ran out of Denver over ego because Tim Tebow
became the most popular athlete in the world. And a
big part of it was what a good person he
was and his faith and all the positives he was
doing for faith and Christianity. But none of that would
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have mattered if he wasn't a winning football player. But
he was both and it was his popularity that got
him run out of Denver, and so yeah, it's under
his success on the field, it's undeniable, that was proven.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And none of that's not a knock on Manning.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Manning's one of the coolest people and greatest quarterbacks ever.
But Manning was always going to be a sugar high,
a short term fix because we got him at the
end of his career. Tebow would have been ten or
twelve more years, and so that's what we lost out on.
Three or three, he seOne, three, eight, two, five, five,
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fare over all those years? Yeah, yeah, not great. But
I do think we're coming back from the wilderness now,
not a sports show or I go further down that road.
We'll save those conversations for the breaks. I did want
to get to this though, because it is so typical
of what's going on on the left, and they really
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do believe in this violence stuff, right because they can't
win arguments on the merit, on the facts, on the logic,
on the morality. They can't win there so so often
the left is about politics of personal destruction and implicit
or explicit threats of violence. I mean, before I get
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to the latest example, who can ever forget this greatest
hit that should have had him criminally prosecuted. I mean,
it just goes to show how the Biden administration corrupted
justice and weaponized the justice system, not only by misusing
it against political endsies, but by protecting political friends from
being prosecuted when they should have been as Chuck Schumer
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should have been prosecuted for this direct threat against specific
by name US Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Tell you, Gorzaz, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you
have released the whirlwind and you will pay the rice.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You won't know what hits you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You won't know what hit you if you go forward
with these awful decisions. Yeah, and then any surprise that
somebody came to Gorsuch's house to kill him in his family,
No surprise couldn't have been a surprise to Schumer who
said those words.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
He should have been prosecuted. But Governor J. B.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Pritzker, who now wants to be president, wants to be
the Democrat nominee. Now, he tried to be a little
more careful with it, but the message is the same.
And again, all these people they note they're speaking to
a wide range of folks, including deranged folks who can
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take messages like this pretty easily as a call to violence.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Never before in.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
My life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization,
for disruption.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But I am that peace. Repulments cannot know the moment
of peace.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They have to understand that we will fight their falty with.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Every megaphone and microphone.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That we have.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We must fascinate them on the soapbox and then punish
them at the ballot box. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So what he does, obviously, right, is he throws out
that first piece separately, these Republicans can never know a
moment of peace, and then he tries to cover it
with the back part, fully knowing that already there have
been two very serious assassination attempts. I'm Trump serious, right,
I mean, without divine intervention, in my opinion, he's dead
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after the first one. But that's just who they are.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Again.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The beautiful thing is, I think America is on to him,
So it really Ryan. Remember when I instituted that rule
on the show that nobody followed because nobody cares when
I instituted a rule here. But remember that rule I
instituted that there would be no more discussion on this
show of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee. And I
instituted that rule months before he finally got, you know,
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cout out, because it was so obvious he was never
going to make it to election. He was never going
to be their nominee. And so I think we need
I think we need some more rules on this show.
I think we need some more rules on this show.
And one of those I think has to be or
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where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No talk of JB.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Pritzker as president or the Democrat nominee because he's not
going to be.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Do you think I'm missing something there? No? What about
Paula's Oh my lord, come on?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean, and you see all the articles now right,
but by these lefty publications, whether it's New York Times
or any basis, he's not even on any lists anymore. Now,
why do you think he's falling off those lists?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He's a nonentity, and he's just blended in with the
fire left and signing this gunband bill and everything else.
He did nothing to stand out Dan as a unique
candidate that might be in his own lane.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But that's been true for a long time, right, And
he was on the list for a while. But now,
I mean, I'm sure somebody can find some list somewhere,
but he's just not on the lists anymore. What do
you think I think there was something that caused everybody
to just write him off.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
How do you think he feels about being surpassed by
the likes of AOC in those conversations because she's being
seriously bandied about by the left as a presidential candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, you know, I would bet that doesn't bother
him nearly as much as some of the other people
are surpassing him. Yeah, you know, because they're like people
nobody's ever heard of. They're like people who don't have
one hundred or two hundred million dollars to spread around
to try to get more political influence or win another.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Office or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So I don't know the answer to this, but I
am really intrigued by it, because all of a sudden
he just fell off the list.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My own belief, and it's not meant to be at all, mean,
just just realistic. Is that the more people saw, including
the more people saw in the media of different performances
on air, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The more he saw. Yeah, that's that's not going anywhere,
not after he.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Gets out of the money bubble in Colorado, and the
money he has is enough to buy Colorado elections, not
enough to buy national elections. Three or three se one
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Speaker 4 (28:40):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Glad you're here on this pretty evening and probably one
of the most important texts in a long time. This
from Peter in beautiful Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's why it's so ironic that four to twenty is
the weed holiday. They weren't exactly potheads, but Harrison Cleebold
were both marijuana users, well documented. First of all, rearding
Harris and documented marijuana use. I'm not sure the details
of that. I'm just not You know, you looked at
the way she spoke and acted sometimes and it was
consistent with that, But that doesn't mean that was the
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cause of it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
In terms of Cleve Bald and Harris. Yeah. I mean,
if you look at almost.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All the mass shooters, I'm trying to think of an
exception in Colorado, I can't think of one. I think
all the Colorado mass shooters have been potheads, heavy pot users,
and the same is true for most mass shooters across
the country. But we don't have that part of its studied. Right,
you don't see the Democrats at the Colorado legislature now
wanting to you know, reverse Amendment sixty four or even
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limit potency of marijuana, which has become krackawana, right, because
it's the holy grail. They need a drugged up population
and so it's more dependent on government, more.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Likely to vote for the left.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So yeah, so every time they talk about, Okay, we
need to take away your Second Amendment rights to stop
these mass shootings, when obviously mass shooters don't care about
our murder laws. They're not going to care about our
gun laws. But they won't talk about limiting the availability
high potency marijuana, right, or the common thread of having
marijuana use of mass shooters because no, that's, yeah, that's
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too important to them politically. So you know, screw the
innocent victims of the next mass shooter. You know, they're
just not willing to go there. But the other reason
I think this text is so important, Ryan, and it's
something we've touched on in air, but never really directly addressed.
But now we must is to what extent is this lunacy,
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like really truly bizarre lunatic stuff that we're seeing from
a lot of these top elected Democrats, including some who
used to appear wrong, But saying, to what extent do
you think that's due to legalized marijuana? I mean, how
many top elected officials in the Democratic Party here in
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Colorado and elsewhere do you think have become Maria?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I want to users could be a better explanation than
whatever the alternative would be.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I mean, and listen, I have no worth the idea.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I've never asked him, none whatsoever, no idea whether Mike
Johnston uses marijuana or not. But when you see a
guy who I always used to have great conversations with
and we disagreed on most everything, but a guy who
used to be kind of rational and stable, though wrong
on things, A guy like that come out and talk
about Tienaman Square and sending Denver cops out at the
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border to stop the Feds from enforcing federal law, just
really goofy bizarre stuff. I think it's a fair question
in a state where marijuana is legal, not accusing him
of anything illegal I'm not accusing him of anything. I
don't know if he uses or not, but I think
it is a fair question now when you see otherwise
smart people saying and doing really really goofy things. So
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just across America, how many of these Democrat leaders and
officials who are saying all this goofy stuff? How many
of them do you think?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Are you and dope? Do you think Bernie Sanders uses AOC?
I don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, I mean I and is it a fair question?
Is it a fair question now that you have marijuana
legal in these different places? Because at that expression, that
old expression, I'll have guys like he's acting like he
used on drugs. That expression exists for a good reason, right,
because when people are on drugs, they do a lot
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of crazy stuff and they say a lot of crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah. Wow. Dan is a fellow Catholic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
What are your thoughts on Latin Mass versus the New Math,
both both personally and politically these days, I find it
harder and harder to go to the New Mass, although
it meets my obligation. I see a lack of respect
for the Mass T shirt and food like a movie anyway,
Just curious or hey, thank you for the text.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I can tell you've been to both.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
And there's a Latin Mass church you know, out here
and at the South Denver area and the South suburbs
and just an absolutely wonderful place to go. And then
mostly I'm going to you know, the more traditional Mass, and.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I just enjoy both myself.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
This business about lack of respect for the Mass, my friend,
I have not encountered that, maybe we're going to different places.
What I'm encountering, and I hate to sound like such
a cheerleader, but it's just legit.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What I'm encountering is.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Just an explosion of attend and said Catholic churches, and
I you know, depending upon where I'm in trial or whatever,
maybe we're traveling, I'll hit a lot of different Catholic
churches around the metro area. And then I have a
trial coming up in Fort Collins. They'll be in church
up there next week of trial in Colorado Springs being
church down there.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Everywhere I go, it's packed.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I mean, Ryan, we went out to the seven point
thirty yesterday and I hope I don't have to go
to confession for this one.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Try to beat the crowds. It was packed.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
It's just so I'm not seeing the lack of respect
for the mass in the more traditional masses. But Texter,
thank you for noting. If you want to write back
or call, please, we'd love to talk with you. It's
going to be an interesting show tomorrow. A lot lots
shaping up for the show tomorrow, and some of it
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is still being confirmed right now, so I can't really
promote that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But I one of the.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Things that I'm really intrigued by because I think President
Trump very focused on Colorado right for lots of legitimate reasons,
and the sanctuary state in the sanctuary city and Mayor
Johnston coming out and calling Trump out publicly and everything else.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think Trump is determined to.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Protect the people of Colorado because our elected officials on
the left have not been willing to. We'll talk tomorrow
about what you want to see the Trump administration do here.
Thank you, Ryan, Thank you, Kelly. Catch you tomorrow.
This is Dan Caplis 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. We're in a
victory for the American way in Colorado Springs with that
big raid. We're going to keep talking about it and
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want to get to your take on, Hey, what do
you think was really behind it? Do you expect to
see more? What else do you want to see the
Trump administration do here in Colorado. We'll tie that into
the President sign in a number of additional executive orders
today dealing with illegal immigration, but really want to focus
on the Springs and very specific action you would like
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to see the administration take next three or three seOne
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right here in Colorado, which has been a notorious sanctuary
state and sanctuary city. Right And the thing that infuriates
me the most because listen, I can underst and having
different political ideologies and disagreeing on major issues, etc. But
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there are some things that just cross all lines of
human decency. And every single top elected Democrat in Colorado
is guilty of this as our top party officials making
a deliberate decision to sacrifice innocent human life at this
altar of getting as many illegal folks into the country
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as possible because they're going to be Democrat voters. And
that's why, time and time again you've seen these top
elected Democrats try to protect people here illegally who are
committing serious crimes. And how just basic human decency, How
could somebody ever support.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
That, let alone use their power they got from.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The voters to protect people here illegally who committed other crimes.
Often those crimes are committed against other folks here illegally,
very often the crimes are committed against US citizens. But
as a matter of basic human decency, how to the
Johnstons and polices and hicken Loopers and Bennetts of the world,
the wisers of the world justify that. Yeah, I can't
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even begin to comprehend that. But my personal belief is
that it comes back to on the left, just this
what's become a distorted, perverted view of the value of
human life. And very much, and I'm not colon any
of these people Marxists, but very much is kind of
communist Marxist view, right, that the individual human life doesn't
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have any inherent dignity or value or worse. And so
all these innocent US citizens, all these women being raped,
all these people being murdered, all the people who their
father or mother don't come home tonight because they've been
killed by an illegal immigrant on the roadway, they're just
an acceptable casualty rate to these Democrats. So I really
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do think this sanctuary city, sanctuary states stuff, and you
look at what it really means, providing sanctuary to people
committing illegal acts, providing sanctuary and protection. What a sanctuary,
I mean protection, providing protection against law enforcement to people
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who are here committing brutal, violent crimes.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And I so I.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Support absolutely everything under the sun that Trump administration can
legally and constitutionally do to stand up for innocent human
life because it's it's you know, the pro life movement.
Obviously it's about protecting masses of people, millions from being
killed before they're born, but it's protecting innocent human life
at every stage. And so this idea of ending sanctuary
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cities and states where people committing crimes are given protection.
That's very much in my view of pro life issue
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your take on what you want to see the administration do.
Next related story this in the Denver Post, Colorado Springs
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landlord shocked underground club was operating on property Colorado Springs.
The owner of a Colorado Springs building that was the
site of a federal raids Sunday morning told Denver seven
investigates he had no idea an underground nightclub was operating
on his property.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Quote, I've never even seen a.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Lot of trash in the parking lot to even suspect
anything like an after hours nightclub is going on. So
it's pretty shocking, told investigative reporter Tony Koveleski. Does a
great job over there at Channel seven. But yeah, Ryan,
there's one thing about MS thirteen and trend Aragua, right,
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they're very very neat.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
They always pick up their litter.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So yeah, I'm sure there just wasn't even anything in
the parking lot. But yeah, the DEAIS, multiple other agencies.
I think there were how many, maybe three hundred law
enforcement involved in this rate bust Colorado Springs underground club
quote frequented by TDA and MS thirteen terrorists. Why didn't
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Phil Wiser do this earlier? Why didn't police get involved? Yeah,
and you just sent me something, right, Ryan, I think
we've had a condemnation, right, And I'm sure it was
a condemnation of you know, just the fact that this
terrible nightclub existed.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, al Paso County Democratic Party condemns Colorado Springs dea. Right, Wow,
can we send them some money just so they can
keep sending out stuff like this? City and counter leadership
failed their constituents by refusing to call for restraint, compassion,
or due process for the very residents they represent. Residents,
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including US citizens, are at real risk of wrongful detention, deportation,
and imprisonment or worse that from the Alpasso County Democratic Party. Right,
do you remember that missuing a statement of condolence or
empathy or condemnation for any of the innocent people in
al Paso County raped by somebody here illegally or or
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brutally violated by MS thirteen or TDA, or people whose
children died of fetanol that was brought into the country
through the open border. I bet there's a long string
of text from the Alpasso County Democratic Party condemning all
of those horrors.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
None of what you mentioned comes to Mina. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What's so good right now is everything we were talking
about during the campaign. Remember where I was talking about, Okay,
vitally important obviously the Trump win, But what's very, very
important is that the left then collapses. And to collapse,
the left has to reveal itself, right, because only the
people can collapse the left. The left is never going
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to collapse itself. But my prediction was, and fortunately it's
born out, that as it became more and more obvious
that Trump was going to win, and then once he
did win, the Left would lose its self control and
the Left would just expose itself to the people for
what it really is. And then at that point we
get the double barrel. We get the election of President
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Trump and all the good that has brought, but then
we also get the left kind of eating itself, the
Left destroying itself.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
By exposing itself.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And fortunately we're getting the benefit of that as well.
If we get really lucky, then AOC is going to
be their presidential nominee right, or at least be a
viable enough presidential candidate. Shall certainly be viable enough, I think,
to pull the party even further to the left. Which
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where are they on the scale? Then once AOC pulls
the Democrats even further to the left, where are they
on the deskpot scale? Where do they compare to say,
g and the Communist Party of China?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean, how much further left can you go? The
good news is we're about to find out, because the
further left this Democratic Party goes in Colorado and nationally,
the sooner it will meet its demise, and Colorado tougher
not to craft. But we're up for that challenge. Three
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church organist, I've played hundreds of Catholic funerals. Not once,
says a Texter, did anyone complain about black not being worn,
no matter how supposedly important the dead person was? Right,
I have to admit I've been a bit oblivious to
this controversy over President Trump wearing a blue suit to
the funeral of the Pope. I'd be very surprised if
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that would offend God in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Remember, Dan, these are the same people that always go
to the criticism of President Obama's tan suit by conservatives
and made fun of that, And now they're engaging in
what color was.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Now a tan suit's a different, different animal. Where where?
What do you wear a tan suit too?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I think it was a press briefing or something pretty innocuous.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, there's no reason to criticize that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
That's I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, No, if you wore a tan suit to the
Pope's funeral.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That'd be different.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, that'd be different.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That aren't blue and black and most instances interchangeable.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Right, And I know one texter mentioned that that what
that that.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Pope had wanted everybody to wear black.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I yeah, but listen, I don't think there was anything
even remotely disrespectful. Listen, we talked about in the last segment.
It was the ultimate respect of President Trump to go.
It was respect for for Catholics throughout America, respect for
the Catholic Church, and there should be a lot of
respect on a lot of levels. And he said it's
starting with the fact that the Catholic vote was he
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won it in America and that was obviously very important,
but also all the great work the Catholic Church does,
because you can bet on this as a matter of fact,
Colorado falls apart Denver first, much more quickly and without
all the great work done in the trenches by Catholics.
The Catholic Church Catholic Charities obviously not the only group
or faith or anything else doing a lot of great
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work in Colorado, but in terms of scale, enormity of scale,
all the different diverse services provided, literally, Denver would fall
apart in one week without the Catholic Church and Catholic
Charities ministering to the poor the way that it does.
So Trump showed I think, ultimate respect to the Catholic
Church into Catholics by going to the funeral, and I'm
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glad he did.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The left track to make a big deal out of
President Trump wearing a blue suit and blue tie to
the Pope's funeral, and you know, please, I hope they
keep spouting that kind of nonsense because it was a
Catholic myself, and flawed, far from perfect work in progress Catholic,
but one who loves the church, and I'm grateful for
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my faith. I can tell you I was so appreciative
to President Trump for the respect that he showed by
attending and in respect to you know, American Catholics as well.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And as he mentioned, hey, he won the Catholic vote
and he wanted to show respect. So I think that
is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Why did you feel it was important to go to
the folks.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I just thought it was out of respect.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You know, I won the Catholic vote, and I think it's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
The first time that ever happened where a Republican won
the vote.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But I wanted by a lot, and you know, I
have a great relationship to the Catholics. Oh, he actually
won it in sixteen, and I do think it was
undeniably the difference maker in sixteen Upper Midwest Blue Wall
States Catholic surge for Trump at the very end, in
part rebelling against Hillary Clinton's glorification of late term abortions.
So no, it's great, and it's great he showed that respect.
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By the way, there were plenty of other people there
in blue. Biden wore a blue tie. And the people
who are making this argument that Trump broke dress code.
They're citing a document about protocol being black tie black
coup well, and then Biden broke it to and then
Prince William and a bunch of other people. So again
that kind of nonsense from the left, Bring on more
of it, because it's just going to mean more Republicans
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get elected. Three or three someone three eight two five
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Speaker 2 (12:43):
Anybody you want to see is an ex pope there,
Ryan saw nominee that I was going to bring your
attention to it. I thought, I sent you a text,
but I gotta find it, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And then in that next segment we will play this
hilarious thing that's just out there in X right now.
Somebody did a great job working this up where they
did a mock draft for the next pope, a vaticant
draft for the next Pope, and I just think it's
done in good cheer and everything else and kind of fun.
My hope is that obviously somebody has to be right
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on the faith right, because the whole idea within the
Catholic Church is, hey, you're the mailman. You can't change
the mail, right, You don't get to write the mail.
Jesus writes the mail, God writes the mail. You just
carry the mail. You can't change the mail. I hope
we get a male carrying pope, but boy, I would
love to see I'd love to see a pope from Africa.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, I think I'm gonna be along the same lines
as you, Dan, and we might be on the same
page here. So a pope has chosen, I don't know
a lot about this. You do this conclave process from.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
An existing cardinal or what's cardinal?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Cardinal Robert Sarah.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh, yeah, no, so impressive. I'd love to see him
as pope. I think he's considered a long shot. But
then again, John Paul the Great probably wasn't even on
the board.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I think he's a native of Guinea uh in Africa.
And then also the only thing maybe working against him,
But I don't know if this has been a big
factor in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Is he is up there in years? He's seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Which could work for you, right right, depending on what
people want. If they're looking for a shorter term pope.
You know, thank God literally that John Paul the Great
was picked when he was young enough to then have
that big long term impact.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But yeah, no, I I follow him on X and
I love some of the I love a lot of
the stuff he's done.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So yeah, in Africa, man, I'll tell you, Catholicism is
just exploding in Africa. So I would love to see,
you know, an African pope again, assuming the you know
doctrine is right. Yeah, it's going to be really interesting
to watch. Three seven three eight two five five text
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we have throughout the show about the a big raid
down in Colorado Springs. I've been, and obviously the illegal
immigrant piece of it was very important, but there's also
the drug aspect and the two intersect right when it
comes to fentonyl open borders, et cetera. What do you
make of the fact that I've seen reports running up
to twelve active US military arrested there.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
What do you make of those reports?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
That is a curve ball?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, right, yeah, And I think some of the reports
I've seen as suggested, you know, working as security things
like that. But I think it just goes back to
an undeniable point that even our most revered institutions, consisting
of our very best and bravest and brightest, and that
would be the military police fire. For me, as a Catholic,
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it'd be priest. Any human endeavor is going to have
a few bad apples because were you. And then the
challenge is to just root that out and to be
just ruthless and clear eyed about it. So, yeah, I
do hope we get some pretty thorough reporting, meaning from
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the administration none on what that was all about.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, I'm having Kelly reach out right now to John Fabricatory,
who is under consideration for a post in the Trump administration,
and if he's unable to join us, hopefully he'll be
able to recommend us somebody that can join us to
talk about the western Colorado springs.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
What else do you want to see the administration do
here in Colorado? We covered earlier in the show this
really important announcement today that President Trump, now and I've
been pushing this for years on air, is going to
require all truck drivers to be proficient in English.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
And then the third executive order, which actually speaks the
heart of your question earlier about the uber drivers, will
be a order directing the Department of Transportation to include
English literacy tests for our truckers. This is a big
problem in the trucking community.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That, oh, amen to that.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I mean, as I mentioned to you, I was over
at jeff Co Jail a few weeks ago deposing for
almost six hours a trucker who had killed my client's
beloved husband, spilling pipe on him on a Colorado roadway.
And then the DA out there only prosecutes it as
a misdemeanor. Lots of other people hurt too, by the way,
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it's only prosecuted as a misdemeanor. And so the guy's
going to be out in less than a year. And
I had to get the deposition before he was released
from jail, and you know, you're doing it through an interpreter,
and it's like, obviously, this cannot be safe. You've got
to be proficient, proficient in English to operate safely, you know,
a semi truck on America's roadways. And so I'm so
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happy to see President.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Trump do that.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
But where's the leadership at the Colorado state level on that, right?
I mean, we have become this killing field, you know,
when it comes to trucks. And hey, the good truckers,
I've said this for decades on air, the good truckers
are heroes. Really hard job without them, we can't have
our lives. Our lifestyle would still be alive, but we
can't have our lifestyle. They're backbone of America. But the
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industry has a dark underbelly, extraordinarily dangerous. I mean, in
terms of the dangers facing you and your family right now,
probably reckless Trucker is very, very very.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
High up on the list.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And so it's something any sane society wants to protect
its own should be ruthlessly acting against.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Every single day.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But you look at policy coddles, the guy who calls
that massive fireball on the highway, all those people burned up.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Look, i started borgital in nineteen eighty four. I've been
at this for over forty years. I worked for six presidents,
Star O Round Reagan. Every president ever worked for it
to boris security seriously, because you can't have national security
if you don't have strong Boris security. We got to
know who's coming in, what's coming in, where's coming in,
why's coming in?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to
secure the border because they understood and national security was important.
Joe Biden was the first president in the history of
this nation who came in office an unsecured a border
on purpose.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, and remember with the support of Michael Bennet and
John Hickenlooper and Mike Johnston and Jared Polis right, remember
that hopefully the voters of Colorado will three or three
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lines quickly. But Texter Dan, did you see that Tennessee
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is now requiring autopsies for mass shooters for purpose of
identifying links to psychiatric drugs. I think it would also
show marijuana or other drugs too. You've talked a lot
about the drug connection of the shooting.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You bet you.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You go back and you look at these mass shooters
in Colorado and elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's really rare.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That a mass shooter is not a heavy marijuana user.
Doesn't mean every marijuana user heavy marijuana user is going
to be a mass shooter, of course not. But when
you look at this, when you look at this common
denominator among most of the mass shooters, isn't that something
that we should be studying. Isn't that a concern? Isn't
that something that should weigh against the legalization of marijuana, right?
(20:13):
But that's just not talked about right because the legalization
of marijuana is holy grail for the left, because the
left knows that a drug society is more dependent on
government and more likely to vote for Democrats. That's that's
been their game for a long time now. Jerry Brown
announced you remember Jerry Brown, the uber liberal was called
(20:35):
liberal back then governor of California, and he said, hey,
how many stoners can you have and still be a
great state. But yeah, so that's why you don't have
this focus on mass shooters often being heavy marijuana users.
And for those who don't spend a lot of time
studying this issue, it's it's not that, okay, they get
(20:57):
so intoxicated they go out and do something tom like that.
It's causing psychotic breaks. It's causing psychotic breaks that cause
them to go out and do demonic things like that.
Let's go to Steven in Denver.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
You're on the Dan Kapla show. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I just wanted to follow up on the Tim tebow
Ye was very yeah, I'm so glad you see this.
I'm no one will ever convince me that he could
not play in the NFL. Well, he proved he could
start that down. Yeah, once you start, you know, once
you get rejected by one team, that becomes a kind
of a snowball.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, listen, Stephen, thank you for my call my friend
to call my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's a beautiful thing about this tebou debate. There is
no debate. He proved it. Go back and google up.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I had two.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Pieces, one in the Post and one in the Gazette,
just documenting, you know, the success of Tim Tebow compared
to the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
If you study the first couple of years in the league.
He proved he could succeed in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He didn't get run out of Denver because he didn't
succeed in the NFL. He succeeded at historic levels. He
got ran out of Denver over ego because Tim Tebow
became the most popular athlete in the world. And a
big part of it was what a good person he
was and his faith and all the positives he was
doing for faith and Christianity. But none of that would
(22:25):
have mattered if he wasn't a winning football player. But
he was both and it was his popularity that got
him run out of Denver, and so yeah, it's under
his success on the field, it's undeniable, that was proven.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And none of that's not a knock on Manning.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Manning's one of the coolest people and greatest quarterbacks ever.
But Manning was always going to be a sugar high,
a short term fix because we got him at the
end of his career. Tebow would have been ten or
twelve more years, and so that's what we lost out on.
Three or three, he seOne, three, eight, two, five, five,
text d an seven thirty nine. And how did Denver
(23:02):
fare over all those years? Yeah, yeah, not great. But
I do think we're coming back from the wilderness now,
not a sports show or I go further down that road.
We'll save those conversations for the breaks. I did want
to get to this though, because it is so typical
of what's going on on the left, and they really
(23:23):
do believe in this violence stuff, right because they can't
win arguments on the merit, on the facts, on the logic,
on the morality. They can't win there so so often
the left is about politics of personal destruction and implicit
or explicit threats of violence. I mean, before I get
(23:43):
to the latest example, who can ever forget this greatest
hit that should have had him criminally prosecuted. I mean,
it just goes to show how the Biden administration corrupted
justice and weaponized the justice system, not only by misusing
it against political endsies, but by protecting political friends from
being prosecuted when they should have been as Chuck Schumer
(24:06):
should have been prosecuted for this direct threat against specific
by name US Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Tell you, Gorzaz, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you
have released the whirlwind and you will pay the rice.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You won't know what hits you.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You won't know what hit you if you go forward
with these awful decisions. Yeah, and then any surprise that
somebody came to Gorsuch's house to kill him in his family,
No surprise couldn't have been a surprise to Schumer who
said those words.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
He should have been prosecuted. But Governor J. B.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Pritzker, who now wants to be president, wants to be
the Democrat nominee. Now, he tried to be a little
more careful with it, but the message is the same.
And again, all these people they note they're speaking to
a wide range of folks, including deranged folks who can
(25:06):
take messages like this pretty easily as a call to violence.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Never before in.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
My life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization,
for disruption.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But I am that peace. Repulments cannot know the moment
of peace.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They have to understand that we will fight their falty with.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Every megaphone and microphone.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That we have.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We must fascinate them on the soapbox and then punish
them at the ballot box. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So what he does, obviously, right, is he throws out
that first piece separately, these Republicans can never know a
moment of peace, and then he tries to cover it
with the back part, fully knowing that already there have
been two very serious assassination attempts. I'm Trump serious, right,
I mean, without divine intervention, in my opinion, he's dead
(25:57):
after the first one. But that's just who they are.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Again.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The beautiful thing is, I think America is on to him,
So it really Ryan. Remember when I instituted that rule
on the show that nobody followed because nobody cares when
I instituted a rule here. But remember that rule I
instituted that there would be no more discussion on this
show of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee. And I
instituted that rule months before he finally got, you know,
(26:25):
cout out, because it was so obvious he was never
going to make it to election. He was never going
to be their nominee. And so I think we need
I think we need some more rules on this show.
I think we need some more rules on this show.
And one of those I think has to be or
(26:47):
where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No talk of JB.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Pritzker as president or the Democrat nominee because he's not
going to be.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Do you think I'm missing something there? No? What about
Paula's Oh my lord, come on?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean, and you see all the articles now right,
but by these lefty publications, whether it's New York Times
or any basis, he's not even on any lists anymore. Now,
why do you think he's falling off those lists?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
He's a nonentity, and he's just blended in with the
fire left and signing this gunband bill and everything else.
He did nothing to stand out Dan as a unique
candidate that might be in his own lane.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But that's been true for a long time, right, And
he was on the list for a while. But now,
I mean, I'm sure somebody can find some list somewhere,
but he's just not on the lists anymore. What do
you think I think there was something that caused everybody
to just write him off.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
How do you think he feels about being surpassed by
the likes of AOC in those conversations because she's being
seriously bandied about by the left as a presidential candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, you know, I would bet that doesn't bother
him nearly as much as some of the other people
are surpassing him. Yeah, you know, because they're like people
nobody's ever heard of. They're like people who don't have
one hundred or two hundred million dollars to spread around
to try to get more political influence or win another.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Office or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So I don't know the answer to this, but I
am really intrigued by it, because all of a sudden
he just fell off the list.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
My own belief, and it's not meant to be at all, mean,
just just realistic. Is that the more people saw, including
the more people saw in the media of different performances
on air, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
The more he saw. Yeah, that's that's not going anywhere,
not after he.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Gets out of the money bubble in Colorado, and the
money he has is enough to buy Colorado elections, not
enough to buy national elections. Three or three se one
three eight, two five five text d an five seven
seven three nine.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Glad you're here on this pretty evening and probably one
of the most important texts in a long time. This
from Peter in beautiful Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
That's why it's so ironic that four to twenty is
the weed holiday. They weren't exactly potheads, but Harrison Cleebold
were both marijuana users, well documented. First of all, rearding
Harris and documented marijuana use. I'm not sure the details
of that. I'm just not You know, you looked at
the way she spoke and acted sometimes and it was
consistent with that, But that doesn't mean that was the
(29:15):
cause of it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
In terms of Cleve Bald and Harris. Yeah. I mean,
if you look at almost.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All the mass shooters, I'm trying to think of an
exception in Colorado, I can't think of one. I think
all the Colorado mass shooters have been potheads, heavy pot users,
and the same is true for most mass shooters across
the country. But we don't have that part of its studied. Right,
you don't see the Democrats at the Colorado legislature now
wanting to you know, reverse Amendment sixty four or even
(29:42):
limit potency of marijuana, which has become krackawana, right, because
it's the holy grail. They need a drugged up population
and so it's more dependent on government, more.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Likely to vote for the left.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So yeah, so every time they talk about, Okay, we
need to take away your Second Amendment rights to stop
these mass shootings, when obviously mass shooters don't care about
our murder laws. They're not going to care about our
gun laws. But they won't talk about limiting the availability
high potency marijuana, right, or the common thread of having
marijuana use of mass shooters because no, that's, yeah, that's
(30:15):
too important to them politically. So you know, screw the
innocent victims of the next mass shooter. You know, they're
just not willing to go there. But the other reason
I think this text is so important, Ryan, and it's
something we've touched on in air, but never really directly addressed.
But now we must is to what extent is this lunacy,
(30:35):
like really truly bizarre lunatic stuff that we're seeing from
a lot of these top elected Democrats, including some who
used to appear wrong, But saying, to what extent do
you think that's due to legalized marijuana? I mean, how
many top elected officials in the Democratic Party here in
(30:56):
Colorado and elsewhere do you think have become Maria?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I want to users could be a better explanation than
whatever the alternative would be.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
I mean, and listen, I have no worth the idea.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I've never asked him, none whatsoever, no idea whether Mike
Johnston uses marijuana or not. But when you see a
guy who I always used to have great conversations with
and we disagreed on most everything, but a guy who
used to be kind of rational and stable, though wrong
on things, A guy like that come out and talk
about Tienaman Square and sending Denver cops out at the
(31:28):
border to stop the Feds from enforcing federal law, just
really goofy bizarre stuff. I think it's a fair question
in a state where marijuana is legal, not accusing him
of anything illegal I'm not accusing him of anything. I
don't know if he uses or not, but I think
it is a fair question now when you see otherwise
smart people saying and doing really really goofy things. So
(31:51):
just across America, how many of these Democrat leaders and
officials who are saying all this goofy stuff? How many
of them do you think?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Are you and dope? Do you think Bernie Sanders uses AOC?
I don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, I mean I and is it a fair question?
Is it a fair question now that you have marijuana
legal in these different places? Because at that expression, that
old expression, I'll have guys like he's acting like he
used on drugs. That expression exists for a good reason, right,
because when people are on drugs, they do a lot
(32:28):
of crazy stuff and they say a lot of crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah. Wow. Dan is a fellow Catholic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
What are your thoughts on Latin Mass versus the New Math,
both both personally and politically these days, I find it
harder and harder to go to the New Mass, although
it meets my obligation. I see a lack of respect
for the Mass T shirt and food like a movie anyway,
Just curious or hey, thank you for the text.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I can tell you've been to both.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
And there's a Latin Mass church you know, out here
and at the South Denver area and the South suburbs
and just an absolutely wonderful place to go. And then
mostly I'm going to you know, the more traditional Mass, and.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
I just enjoy both myself.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
This business about lack of respect for the Mass, my friend,
I have not encountered that, maybe we're going to different places.
What I'm encountering, and I hate to sound like such
a cheerleader, but it's just legit.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
What I'm encountering is.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Just an explosion of attend and said Catholic churches, and
I you know, depending upon where I'm in trial or whatever,
maybe we're traveling, I'll hit a lot of different Catholic
churches around the metro area. And then I have a
trial coming up in Fort Collins. They'll be in church
up there next week of trial in Colorado Springs being
church down there.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Everywhere I go, it's packed.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I mean, Ryan, we went out to the seven point
thirty yesterday and I hope I don't have to go
to confession for this one.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Try to beat the crowds. It was packed.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
It's just so I'm not seeing the lack of respect
for the mass in the more traditional masses. But Texter,
thank you for noting. If you want to write back
or call, please, we'd love to talk with you. It's
going to be an interesting show tomorrow. A lot lots
shaping up for the show tomorrow, and some of it
(34:21):
is still being confirmed right now, so I can't really
promote that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
But I one of the.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Things that I'm really intrigued by because I think President
Trump very focused on Colorado right for lots of legitimate reasons,
and the sanctuary state in the sanctuary city and Mayor
Johnston coming out and calling Trump out publicly and everything else.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think Trump is determined to.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Protect the people of Colorado because our elected officials on
the left have not been willing to. We'll talk tomorrow
about what you want to see the Trump administration do here.
Thank you, Ryan, Thank you, Kelly. Catch you tomorrow.
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