August 7, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour of today's edition of the show, Dan Caplis reacts to the latest updates surrounding Jared Polis' special session to address Colorado's budget shortfall.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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fight for the American Way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Special session has been called. Where do you think these
lefties should cot? What should they protect? They've got to
get rid of one point two billion, you know, which
is a lot by any measure, forty four billion dollar
state budget, but yeah, one point two billion. Where do
you think they should get that from? We'll talk some
more about do Better Denver, and you know, we've talked
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about that a lot on the show since the Denver
post hit piece and do Better Denver, and it's a
very important thing to talk about for all the reasons
we have so far, and we want to continue to
talk about ways to help do Better Denver since it's
become a major platform for reporting truthfully the many obvious
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failures of the Johnston administration, poll lists other lefties and
how it's just tanking Denver, so we want to continue
that conversation. My friend christ kayfer I saw something pop
up in the Denver Post where she's defending the Denver
Post reporting on this. So I will want to address
that as well as we work our way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Through the show.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we have all that going on in much more
when we broughten it out. We're talking about Prime Minister
net and Yahoo now talking about Israel taking control of
Gaza right now, not to govern it, but to stabilize things,
make sure everybody gets fat, etc. Would love to get
your reaction on that a potential Trump Putin's summit. Want
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to get you the latest, get your take on, Hey,
should this happen and if so, under what conditions? You
may remember, the President had given Putin until Friday in
order to make some meaningful move toward peace or face
additional sanctions, etc. I don't think any threat of sanctions
at this point is going to move Putent right, because,
I mean, listen, this guy's a monster, right, He's the
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devil on earth. He's willing to have mass number of
people raped, murdered, slaughtered in the most terrific ways.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's just a monster.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So what does Putin care how the people of Russia suffer?
I mean, the ultimate suffering is losing your child, right,
and how many hundreds of thousands At this point the
exact numbers are hard to pin down, but how many
Russian moms and Russian dads, et cetera have had to
go through that misery? And then think about it. Russia
the aggressor here, Russia the murderer, the rapist. And you know,
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Ukraine is innocent in this. I'm not saying Zelenski or
anybody else in the country is perfect, but Ukraine is
the innocent victim. So you start with all this pain
Putin is inflicted on Russia, but then the true victim Ukraine,
you know, in the mass pain and misery there. So
obviously sanctions aren't going to move Putin. What would I
would love to get your take on that. I think
I know the answer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
To it doesn't make it easy.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Three oh three seven to one three eight two five
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three nine because going back to Ukraine for a second,
as I've said from day one, there right, there's no
question about the right and wrong, no question whatsoever. And Russia,
you know, through Putin, is one thousand percent in the wrong.
But there's also no question that Putin is going to
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win unless Europe is willing to put boots on the ground.
Because unless Europe is willing to put boots on the ground,
Putin knows that he can outlast and he will eventually
get territory. You know, you know, I think if Joe
Biden had had his way, Putin would have taken all
of Ukraine, because remember what Biden did in the first
few days was offer Zelenski, you know, transport out of
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the country, and what happens at that point probably Ukraine falls.
So so yeah, unless Europe is willing to put boots
on the ground and make it clear to Putin that
he will have to fight a ground war against European
forces to take more land in Ukraine, well then Putin's
going to get more and in Ukraine, it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's wrong. Shouldn't come down that way. Evil should not win.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But that's been the equation from day one, and Europe
knows it, and they haven't been willing to go there. Obviously,
there should never be a single American boot on the
ground in Ukraine. American support, financial support if it's spent
well and wisely, and there's a plan to win, sure,
but never an American boot on the ground. So Europe
unwilling to step up. Putin knows it, and that's why
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he will come out of this with additional land, which
will be a great sadness. Three h three seven one
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Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We will continue this ongoing conversation because it's so important
and so many people interested and have so many different
twists on it. It's ongoing conversation about the reach of
government power into lives.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And this is where as you know now that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Polis has stepped up and said, poor people of Colorado,
no coke for you, meaning cocaine. I mean, Poulus would
be three art. He's made it clear there's no bigger
cheerleader for dope. And certainly marijuana has always been a
dangerous drug, but now it's Krakowana with the potency that
Polis and others on the left have cheerleaded. So now
you've got this hard drug Krakwana, you'd be perfectly happy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Does anybody doubt it? To see poor people.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All over Colorado on Krakawana, but their kids can't have
a coke, at least not via food stamp, so we'll
continue that conversation. I appreciate that a large portion of
the audience, very intelligently, logically, analytically, has the exact opposite
opinion of me on this and thinks that, hey, if
the government's paying for it, the government can say what
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you can get and not get. And of course you
know you shouldn't have coke, and I agree with that.
I haven't had a coke in probably thirty or forty years.
But who am I to tell somebody else they can't
have their coke? And I understand, I'm a taxpayer is
helping to pay for it, But wait a second. If
somebody's qualified for the program because they're in such a
bad spot, who am I to tell them they can't
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have a coke when you've got a program set up
that allows them to have ice cream. And all I'm
saying is, if the government's going to infringe on freedom,
then the government better have a very compelling reason to
do so, and it must be done in a very
clear and consistent way. And we don't have any of
those seas going on here.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We have a.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Spasmatic reaction from Jared Poulis, who's trying to find a
lane somewhere anywhere in the Democratic Party so that he
can somehow get involved in the national conversation. The better
chance that I'm going to beat bo Nicks out this
year right than that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But that's Polus's play.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So all of a sudden, because of that, you want
to set this precedent of government can reach in and say, yeah,
you can't have your coke, you can have all this
other stuff. And does anybody really think Polus in the
left want to stop with the.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Poor people's coke? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Three at three seven, one three eight two five five
five seven seven three nine. So we'll continue that conversation
text rolling in already, Dan, I have shoulder lengthd hair,
grow it out, like Samson, that is great advice.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I've been talking about how when I finished, I've got
a month on trial in September, and when I finished that,
I don't have another trial for six or eight weeks.
I was talking about it's going to grow out, the hair,
draw out the beard. Just kind of enjoy all of
that for a couple of months. But thank you for
the suggestion. Like Samson, I've never quite pictured that another texture, Dan,
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since Christa Kaefer was one of the plaintiffs and removing
Trump from the Colorado Ballachi is not my favorite person.
Please mention that lawsuit on air. Thank you always a
great show, and no he believe me, and nobody hit
that goofy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lawsuit harder than we did on this show.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right now, we're going to save democracy by telling you
you can't vote for the person you want to vote for.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Right, I mean, the whole thing from the jump was crazy,
But think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Think about the great things that lawsuit accomplished.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It united the US Supreme Court against it in a
nine zip vote. In terms of Christ to yourself, I've
always liked Kristin, respected her and enjoyed and we disagree
on all sorts of things. I've always enjoyed doing radio
with her, and I will spend some time today on
her piece that just went up in the Denver Post
defending the Denver Post for its I call it a
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blatant attack. I call it blatant intimidation attempt. I've compared
it two mob tactics in Chicago, having caddied for some
actual mobsters, and I was the luckiest.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Guy in the world for lots of reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Right, greatest parents ever got to Caddy at this great
country club on the South side of Chicago, and the
members and others sent me off to college.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Through the Evan Scholarship, and just.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just wonderful, wonderful stuff. And part of the great thing
about Caddy. And by the way, if you have a
kid in that age, and about half of the Evan
scholars now I think our girls, if you had a
kid in that age, it is a.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Great summer job.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And if you know you're below certain income requirements, the
kids and good academics, really good academics, the kids can
get this wonderful scholarship. But the point being that I
got to Caddy for all sorts of people, all sorts
of great people, and then also some not so great,
like some of the mobsters. And all I'm saying is his,
in my constitutionally protected opinion, what the Post was doing
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to these housewives, to these women who just want to
remain anonymous, do their public records requests and put out
information on the failings of the city of Denver. The
Post out at them, the Post out at him, and
then included in the piece of conversation about threats, brought
in an expert to say, oh yeah, they're partial. Public
figures and threats are just part of the business. I'm paraphrasing,
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but fairly so. Christa defending that I think is as
much as I appreciate and enjoy christ I think there's
an obvious, screaming fatal flaw in that logic that I
will get to shortly.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You're on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And now back to the dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Ray special Session on August twenty first. The second is,
we are implementing a state hiring freeze effect of August
twenty seventh. If we were to wait till next year,
it would be a lot more draconium in terms of
cuts or changes when they have to be spread only
across four months or five months.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Of the year rather than now Here's what I want
to know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How can Colorado, of all the states in the country,
how can Colorado ever have a budget problem?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I how can it ever have to have a hiring freeze?
How can it ever have any of these issues? I mean, listen,
and this is no knock on any other state, right
but hey, if we were sitting there and we're North
Dakota or South Dakota or something like that, But we're Colorado.
And if you just take a forty thousand foot feud,
look at the map of the United States of America
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and then broaden it out to the world, and you
look at Colorado and look at where it's located, and
you look at the climate, and you look at all
of the natural beauty and everything we've been blessed with geographically,
our population, etc. How can we ever have any of
these problem answer is obvious, right, The only way is
gross mismanagement, because with all the advantages we've been given,
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there's no excuse for having any of these problems on
any kind of significant level in any of these categories.
Pick any of the problem categories in the state, and
then you match it up with the advantages we've been given.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We shouldn't have any of these.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The only way to get here is is with gross
mismanagement over a long period of time. Three all three
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paul As says twice as many Fortune five hundred companies
as just stuff like that. Right, But when you run
a state the way the left has run this place
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over all these years, what we've had one Republican governor
in the last sixty years. I think it is that then, yeah,
you're going to get this right, because you have all
these self inflicted wounds, and you scare off business and
you drive out business, and then you tracked the people
you don't want to attract, like druggies, right. I mean
it's the very liberal governor at the time of California,
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Jerry Brown said how many stoners can you have and
still be a great state. And I'm not criticizing on
a moral level or anything else. Any adult who in
the privacy their own home they want to get high
or whatever, I don't care. But if you legalize marijuana
like this and you green lighted, you're gonna have a
lot more stoners. You're gonna have when you have more
marijuana STOs, then you have Starbucks and McDonald's combined, and
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you're gonna be attracting. You're going to be attracting a
bunch of stoners, a bunch of druggies. Everything else. Well,
then all of a sudden, you get a bunch of
problems that go with that. You legalize drugs in the
way nobody else has, you're going to get a whole
lot more homeless coming here. Right, You got the mayor
of Denver out there saying, we will get you a home.
What are you going to get? You're gonna get a
whole lot of homeless people. And folks are illegally coming
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to Denver because the mayor of Denver promised to get
him a home and he is delivering on that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The problem is a whole.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Bunch of citizens are about to get laid off by
the city of Denver, and they have kids, and they're
about to get laid off. So Mike Johnston can fulfill
his socialist promise to get everybody home. And yeah, so
that's the way you end up taking. You end up
taking a place where God essentially put us right, picture
the Indy five hundred right. God essentially put us like
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four hundred and ninety five laps ahead of the field
in Colorado, and then the Democrats decided to rip out
the engine. That's what we got here. Three out three
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Speaker 2 (13:33):
Do you like that one, Zach? That was fun? I
liked the N. Have you have you heard that one
before anywhere?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
That's a fresh one for me, But I still liked it.
I think it's absolutely original paints. The picture just popped
into my head. Yeah, so glad you're here. Zack behind
the glass today, our friend Ryan. I hope he's okay,
and we always love working.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That's a big banquet. Oh he is, he's being honored again.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
No, he's a keynote speaker for Lindsey dac Was Organizations.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh that is a tremendous organization.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yea very worthy cause his job for but no, very worthy.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Well, I don't know if he necessarily gave up his
because you know, Zach is a very very.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh no, no, Zach, I'll tell you, zachkay, Holy cow,
It's like I was trying to work in a Sydney
Sweeney reference here. Yeah, Zach is like the station's Sydney Sweeney.
I think that's a fair way to put it, right, Amen,
I will definitely take it, you know what I get?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Can somebody explain this one to me?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
How in these United States of America do we not
already are we not already looking at a corps light,
Sidney Sweeney and a bud light. If you were a
bud light, wouldn't you give her a billion dollars, Please
rescue us from this. Dylan mulvaniy nonsense gets Sydney Sweeney
right now as hot as she is. And I'm not
talking about physically, I'm talking about the popular culture.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, wild stuff. You've got to imagine we're going to
see that soon. Quick theory on that as well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I think the odds are overwhelming that of all of this,
you know, heckling of Sydney Sweeney at events over her
genes ad and the stuff you see online and everything else,
ninety five percent of it is probably probably sponsored by
American Eagle, don't you think. I mean, even the crazy
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goofy insane left we have right now, could they be
that insane? And listen, I'm joking about American Egle, But
couldn't just see a scenario where a company would be thinking, hey,
this is really good for us, kind of like the WNBA,
and it's a family show, so I'm not going to
get too specific, but the WNBA has this phenomenon now
where people are throwing objects on the floor at games
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and these are you know, like adult type objects that
should not be thrown on the floor, et cetera. But
that's getting the w NBA more attention now than anything else.
What are the chances the w n B A is
behind the explosion of objects throwing? I don't know, just
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putting it out there, I mean, how do you even
get those objects through security? Isn't there some kind of
wink in a nod going on here.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Or something worse is going on? But there there have been.
Cryptocurrency company has claimed credit for these attacks for lack
of a better at the w NBA games right, for
these these objects and let's just put it this way.
Let's call them sex toys, all in a bright green
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color that are being thrown onto the floor at w
So Crypto company is claiming that is there color scheme
that same point called green name of object?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, okay, so that's the tie in.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, But you could see a scenario where the WNBA
would say this is great for the WNBA as long
as nobody trips on one.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Wow, just see that scene where the player had her
wig knocked off on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, that's that's tough.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Feel bad for her, all right, getting a lot of
text here, Dan, We all know that comment employees are
never fired. They just move them to another department. Or
set up a new department that's been going on a
blank and long time in Colorado. Dad, I'd like to
know who's putting money in Krista Kiffer's pockets.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That is.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't think that's fair at all. Listen, I know, Chris,
we disagree on plenty. We agree on plenty. Think she's
a person of great principle. Say I disagree to the
absolute max with certain things, such as that lawsuits saying
you shouldn't be able to vote for Trump. Disagree very
strongly with her column today supporting the Denver Post on
its attacks as I label them on do Better Denver.
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Christa would tell you it's just the Post doing good journalism.
But I'll get into some of the specifics of that.
But no, please, there's not one chance in a trillion
that any of this has to do with any financial incentive.
D And I take Putin as my president, says a
text one hundred times before I ever support another liberal.
There are more Communists in Denver leadership than in Moscow.
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You know Putin truly is. I mean, he's just right
up there with the worst demons to ever walk the
face of the earth. So I just don't understand this
text for a second. The difference between and we do
have plenty of socialist communists, etc. Some height it better
than others in leadership and Democratic party positions and elected
positions in Colorado right now.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But the difference is.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They're not out there perpetuating mass killing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Now. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
A big part of the lefty playbook is politics and
personal destruction, and I think you've just seen it at
work here in.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What I view as these attacks on these.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Just women, private women doing corror requests for do better Denver.
And we've seen the lefts encouragement, et cetera of violence
play out in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Multiple other ways.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But to compare them to Prutin, who's actually out there
massa killing people, AD's a bridge too far.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
The total number cases in Trump one that I brought
eleven as we are here today six months a little
bit more in I brought thirty three. I don't have
a different standard. And you can look at the Kaudasan
article headline is the wiser sue the Trumpinstration thirty to
three times.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's mostly winning.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That score card actually is conservative against.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Me on that score card.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'm not winning the tariff case even though we want
it at the district court.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
It's just being stayed.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Why the federal looks at the tariff case, I think
we're gonna went into the circuit court too, based on your.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Arguments and how many times has he sued the Biden administration. Yeah, right,
So listen to the beautiful thing is people get it right.
That doesn't mean all of a sudden they're going to
start voting for Republicans. It's going to take more than
realizing how awful the Democrats are. But Wiser clearly is
just an extension of this lawfare that voters rejected in
the last election. And though it isn't against Trump personally,
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it's the same idea right now. I think that I
think a lot of Coloradin's probably expect that now from Democrats,
and they probably aren't shocked that Phil Wiser at this
point is using that position for political purposes. That probably
doesn't shock them. I think that what probably has gotten
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the attention of Coloraden's is the Secretary of State's office,
right because when you come down to just the sanctity
of elections, I don't think there's any honest person in Colorado,
inside or outside the Griswold family, who would say that
they can look at the Colorado Secretary of State Jenna
Griswold and have any confidence in her as a fair
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and honest arbiter of elections. I don't think anybody could
honestly say that, because she's gone out of her way.
She has to undermine confidence in her as anything other
than a hyper politicized operative. And so that's just the reality.
The wiser thing. I think people probably expect that given
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how Democrats use the legal system, but the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Of State's office, I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Think Coloraden's are good with that at all. Now will
that play out in the attorney general's race, Well, I
don't know. It depends on who the GOP fields as
a nominee for attorney general, and it depends on whether
she's the dem nominee. You have Michael Doherty, who's the
Democrat DA out of Boulder. He's been on the show
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pretty regularly. You know, we disagree on some things, obviously, right,
he's a Democrat, but he is a true law enforcement officer,
He is a true prosecutor. He is a person of
honor and integrity, and you know, while I disagree politically
and I'd rather see a Republican ag, you know he's
somebody who would fill that role in a serious way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
She would not.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You'd be taking one hyperpartisan secretary of state, which really
tells you a lot, right, because some positions are sacred,
like DA. Positions should be sacred because you have the
power there to ruin somebody with just a word, and
then there are.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
These other powers. You have the power to.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Leave victims empty because you're unwilling to pursue guilty people
for political reasons. So das have this massive power. That
job should be considered sacred. Unfortunately, we're seeing more and
more of these sorrows type das who are doing the
opposite with the position. You do have a lot of
noble exceptions who understand that DA's job for what it is,
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and Michael Doherty's one of them who happens to be
a Democrat. And then you have a bunch of Republicans
who see the position the way they should too. But
the secretary of State thing, Wow, I talk about and
talk about how wrong that is, and she has to
realize it's wrong, right, because you've got to have this
confidence in elections, And obviously since twenty twenty, you look
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at the polls, you've got a lot of Americans who
don't have confidence in elections, and Jenna Griswold just throws
fuel on that fire. And so it'll be interesting to
see if that carries over to the ages race. My
usual disqualifier, I have not seen proof that any of
these races were stolen, including presidential in twenty twenty. So
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short of that proof, I conclude the outcome was legitimate.
But I sure understand why people have the questions. And
then you look at the way it's like the Democrats
right in this twenty four cycle, It's like they sat
down and said, all right, what can we do. What
can we do to make sure people believe the twenty
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twenty election was stolen. Oh yeah, here's what we'll do.
We'll try to put Trump in jail. So we can't
win in twenty four. We can't beat them at the
ballot box, so this time we don't have COVID, but
but this time we're going to put him in jail.
And then they abuse the legal system to try to
jail their political opponent. Well, didn't the Democrats just cause
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an awful lot of people to think, oh, yeah, they
probably did steal it in twenty if they're willing to
do what they're doing in twenty four. So yeah, that's
just how the Democrats are are undermining confidence in our
election system. And unfortunately Griswold and Colorado the worst of
the worst three out three seven one three eight, two
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three nine. Again, that doesn't mean people are going to
start electing Republicans. There's going to have to be more
on top of that, which is really sad, right because
they're is a ton of Republican talent. I mean that
there was a time when you had some real Republican
talent here and there. There is a ton of Republican
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talent out there right now, and so what's it going
to take for that breakthrough to happen? Love your take
on that, Dan, Phil Budwiser. That from Alexa? What am
I missing? What am I missing? You guys pick up
the reference that I'm missing?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Right? Oh, I see, but he's drunk.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I think she's just doing the butt in front of Wiser.
I was looking for something else there, But of course
that's my bad.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Alexaid, No, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that
Phil Wiser.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
No, I would, I would never say that about him.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know, he came on the show a couple of times.
We enjoyed the conversation, you know, unlike say a Michael Bennett.
And yeah, Bennett's obviously going to crush Wiser in that
dem primary. But unlike Bennett, Wiser is accomplished. Not in
this AG's job, right. But Wiser is a serious, accomplished guy.
(26:05):
You know, he clerked for a couple of US Supreme
Court justices. He's done some meaningful stuff in the legal world.
He shouldn't be Attorney general. I mean he's not a
trial or he doesn't go into courtrooms, et cetera. He
has a lot of good people in his office, he
has a lot of good attorneys in his office.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But he shouldn't be Attorney general. He's no lawman. He
calls himself the people's lawyer or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Give me a break. To be the people's lawyer, you
got to go into court. So, yeah, he's got a
lot of good lawyers in his office, but he is.
He's an accomplished guy. Bennett is not. Bennett is not so.
The irony is Bennett will crush him in the Democrat primary. Right,
Neither should be governor in my humble opinion, because of
their ideologies.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But Bennett is the last.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He may be one of the last people in Colorado
should be governor because think about it, Think about all
the challenges in that job, and all the work that
has to be done, and all the leaderships skills a
person needs. And has anybody ever done less with more
in public life than Michael Bennett. I mean, you look
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at everything he's been given and all the advantages in
this US Senate seat and everything has anybody ever done
less with the US Senate seat? Which I guess we
should be grateful for his conservatives, right, because because if
you had a productive lefty in that US Senate seat,
then more bad things would have happened.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
But to take a guy a bump now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
On a log, hide under the desk guy like Bennett
and put him in the governor's office Separate apart from
the ideological problems with Bennett. You need a governor who's
able to take action, and nothing in Bennett's past suggests
he will do that in any kind of positive way.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
At least Wiser.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
You know, you don't get to clerk for a US
Supreme Court justice unless unless you have proven yourself. Doesn't
mean he'd be a good up and he be terrible governor.
But but you don't get a position like that unless
you've really earned it along the way. You know, nobody
gets a pass into clerking for a US Supreme Court
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justice because they know somebody now knowing somebody might help you,
you know, along the way somewhere. But that's all I'm saying. So, yeah,
Wiser will get creamed in the primary. And let's just hope, let's,
you know, because we've got a lot of talented guys
and gals in the GOP who would make great attorney generals.
Let's hope that one of them ends up the nominee
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and that you know, Griswold I think will be the
dumb nominee and that people just say.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, no, we've seen enough of her. Three or three
someone three eight, two five five.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
When we come back, I will read to you what
Polus is Colorado snap program.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Will now allow you to buy.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But now Jared Polis says, no coke, how do you
resolve that inconsistency? You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Stuff on the table today? So far at will anything
you're interested in? I do the overview, but it would
take up the whole segment. So let me get some
text in here. One of my favorite of the year, Dan,
where did you get so much hate in your heart?
You said you had great parents and a Christian upbringing
that honestly can't figure it out. Well, I would recommend
(29:24):
that you go back to the Bible. That would be
my recommendation to you, Texter. And because now, wait a second.
We are put on this planet, right, We are put
on this planet to speak the truth, to stop bad things,
to do good things. The only way you can accomplish
(29:46):
that is speaking truth to power, is speaking the truth
about what power is doing wrong. So yeah, power decides,
Oh okay, I want to be an elected Democrats. So
I'm going to be all or killing about a million
and a half humans a year, about a million and
a half a year, and I'm willing to do that
(30:07):
so I can get power in the Democratic Party. I
guess the loving thing in our Texter's mind would be
to say, oh okay, Democrats, Well I hope you don't
get too tired.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is not Christianity, is I understand Christianity as I understand
it is trying to model Christ as well as possible. Now,
obviously I have a very very long way to go
in that regard, hopefully not for lack of effort. But no,
if you're going to model Christ, then you're gonna speak
truth to power.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You're gonna go out and.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Try to stand up for what's right and against what's wrong.
And yeah, that's Christians are supposed to be active in
doing that. So I hope the Texter would call the show.
And of course love is at the core of all
of it, right because Christian teaching, and I thoroughly believe
it is. If you don't have love, then none of
the rest of them matters. But again, and I credit
(31:03):
my great parents, et cetera, and great fortune in terms
of the woman I married in the family I have
that I am so full of love. Ask Zach ask Kelli.
You know, sometimes they just have to let me out
of the studio during the break. It can't be contained
in here three or three seven, one, three eight two
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nine and speaking of which Colorado SNAP program. Let me
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read you, and again we're talking about this in I
view it in the context of government overreach. I think
it's government overreach for polists to be saying to poor people,
you can't have a coke. You can't buy a coke
with your SNAP benefits. And it's like, what I mean,
if people qualify, why should polis to be able to
step in and pick out that one thing and say
(31:49):
you can't have a sugary drink, especially when look at
what you can buy with the SNAP program. Breads and cereals, okay,
no disagreement there, fruits and vegetables all four it, meat,
fish and poultry, great stuff, dairy products, no problem there,
seeds and plants which produce food for the household to eat.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Interesting, grow your own. Now, listen to this next one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack, crackers, and ice cream. So
if the program's going to allow that, where does polst
get off coming in and the Trump administration is doing
the same, And as I said, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I think that's just Trump throwing a bone. RF kid Junior.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But where does polist get off saying okay, you can
have soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream,
but you can't have coke, you can't have sugary drinks.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
See to me, that's what's so wrong here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I just think there needs to be a very high
threshold for government interfering in your life and directing what
you can eat or drink. I think there has to
be an extraordinarily high threshold for that. We would all agree, right,
taxpayers are paying for this stuff. There's no way you
can get alcohol, and the program doesn't allow that. You know,
there's no way you can buy weed with it, and
the program hopefully doesn't allow that. I don't see it
(33:06):
addressed one way or the other on the list. Let's
assume it doesn't allow it yet. And so but the
government telling somebody what they can buy and eat when
you've got a whole category of cookies, ice cream, candy,
that precedent I think should really worry all of us.
(33:28):
If you just want to say, hey, it's just meat,
fish and poultry, I got no beef for that.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But once you're opening up on all this other stuff, yeah,
I just I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I also don't like it from the perspective of the
dignity of the poor. And I understand folks who say, hey,
wait a second, they're on the government payroll, and at
that point you lose some of all that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I don't think you should.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think if people truly qualify, then they shouldn't have
to give up dignity to get those benefits. You know,
have strict work requirements. Don't let anybody abuse the program.
It's the Democrats, you know, whose policies put most of
these people on food stamps to begin with. Change those
policies so people can prosper. Yeah, but as an absolute
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last resort, true safety, that stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Somebody's on that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, I don't think you should have to trade your
dignity to get that.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
So we'd love to get your take on it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Three or three someone three eight two five five the
number text d an five seven seven three nine A
text you're saying, Dan, Coca cola just the first step.
The next step would be telling people on Medicare they
can have a cheeseburger. Amen to that, brother or sister,
Amen to that. Because does anybody think tared Polis wants
to stop with poor people's coke? No, they want to
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be able to tell you what to eat or drink
right in the rationale And we talked about this during COVID.
The rationale would would be, hey, emergency powers, right, because
the government now it's running out of money because it
has to spend all this stuff on, you know, Medicare
and Medicaid and emergency powers.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know, we got a crisis in.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
This country, a true emergency caused by these medical expenses.
So no, now, no, you can't buy this, you can't
eat that. I mean, you saw what they did with COVID, right,
and you see where they're at. Does anybody doubt any
of that. I'll get to calls after the break, starting
with David and Pueblo. I do want to get back
to the latest on the Denver posts. I call it
(35:27):
hit job, intimidation, attempt of do better Denver. I hope
it backfires and that do better Denver just grows more
and more and more, hopefully with your.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Help and mine.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the latest on that is Krista Kaefer, who I
disagree with unplenty, agree with unplenty truly like and enjoy
and respect. We did a radio show together for a while,
but she has written a piece today supporting what the
Denver Post did I think it has multiple fatal flaws logically,
and so.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We'll get into that a little bit as well. So
lots of fun ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Glad you're here three or three seven, one three eight
two five five the number text d A N five
seven seven three nine You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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fight for the American Way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Special session has been called. Where do you think these
lefties should cot? What should they protect? They've got to
get rid of one point two billion, you know, which
is a lot by any measure, forty four billion dollar
state budget, but yeah, one point two billion. Where do
you think they should get that from? We'll talk some
more about do Better Denver, and you know, we've talked
(00:38):
about that a lot on the show since the Denver
post hit piece and do Better Denver, and it's a
very important thing to talk about for all the reasons
we have so far, and we want to continue to
talk about ways to help do Better Denver since it's
become a major platform for reporting truthfully the many obvious
(00:59):
failures of the Johnston administration, poll lists other lefties and
how it's just tanking Denver, so we want to continue
that conversation. My friend christ kayfer I saw something pop
up in the Denver Post where she's defending the Denver
Post reporting on this. So I will want to address
that as well as we work our way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Through the show.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So we have all that going on in much more
when we broughten it out. We're talking about Prime Minister
net and Yahoo now talking about Israel taking control of
Gaza right now, not to govern it, but to stabilize things,
make sure everybody gets fat, etc. Would love to get
your reaction on that a potential Trump Putin's summit. Want
(01:41):
to get you the latest, get your take on, Hey,
should this happen and if so, under what conditions? You
may remember, the President had given Putin until Friday in
order to make some meaningful move toward peace or face
additional sanctions, etc. I don't think any threat of sanctions
at this point is going to move Putent right, because,
I mean, listen, this guy's a monster, right, He's the
(02:02):
devil on earth. He's willing to have mass number of
people raped, murdered, slaughtered in the most terrific ways.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's just a monster.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So what does Putin care how the people of Russia suffer?
I mean, the ultimate suffering is losing your child, right,
and how many hundreds of thousands At this point the
exact numbers are hard to pin down, but how many
Russian moms and Russian dads, et cetera have had to
go through that misery? And then think about it. Russia
the aggressor here, Russia the murderer, the rapist. And you know,
(02:35):
Ukraine is innocent in this. I'm not saying Zelenski or
anybody else in the country is perfect, but Ukraine is
the innocent victim. So you start with all this pain
Putin is inflicted on Russia, but then the true victim Ukraine,
you know, in the mass pain and misery there. So
obviously sanctions aren't going to move Putin. What would I
would love to get your take on that. I think
I know the answer.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
To it doesn't make it easy.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Three oh three seven to one three eight two five
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three nine because going back to Ukraine for a second,
as I've said from day one, there right, there's no
question about the right and wrong, no question whatsoever. And Russia,
you know, through Putin, is one thousand percent in the wrong.
But there's also no question that Putin is going to
(03:20):
win unless Europe is willing to put boots on the ground.
Because unless Europe is willing to put boots on the ground,
Putin knows that he can outlast and he will eventually
get territory. You know, you know, I think if Joe
Biden had had his way, Putin would have taken all
of Ukraine, because remember what Biden did in the first
few days was offer Zelenski, you know, transport out of
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the country, and what happens at that point probably Ukraine falls.
So so yeah, unless Europe is willing to put boots
on the ground and make it clear to Putin that
he will have to fight a ground war against European
forces to take more land in Ukraine, well then Putin's
going to get more and in Ukraine, it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's wrong. Shouldn't come down that way. Evil should not win.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But that's been the equation from day one, and Europe
knows it, and they haven't been willing to go there. Obviously,
there should never be a single American boot on the
ground in Ukraine. American support, financial support if it's spent
well and wisely, and there's a plan to win, sure,
but never an American boot on the ground. So Europe
unwilling to step up. Putin knows it, and that's why
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he will come out of this with additional land, which
will be a great sadness. Three h three seven one
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Speaker 2 (04:36):
So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We will continue this ongoing conversation because it's so important
and so many people interested and have so many different
twists on it. It's ongoing conversation about the reach of
government power into lives.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And this is where as you know now that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Polis has stepped up and said, poor people of Colorado,
no coke for you, meaning cocaine. I mean, Poulus would
be three art. He's made it clear there's no bigger
cheerleader for dope. And certainly marijuana has always been a
dangerous drug, but now it's Krakowana with the potency that
Polis and others on the left have cheerleaded. So now
you've got this hard drug Krakwana, you'd be perfectly happy.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Does anybody doubt it? To see poor people.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All over Colorado on Krakawana, but their kids can't have
a coke, at least not via food stamp, so we'll
continue that conversation. I appreciate that a large portion of
the audience, very intelligently, logically, analytically, has the exact opposite
opinion of me on this and thinks that, hey, if
the government's paying for it, the government can say what
(05:39):
you can get and not get. And of course you
know you shouldn't have coke, and I agree with that.
I haven't had a coke in probably thirty or forty years.
But who am I to tell somebody else they can't
have their coke? And I understand, I'm a taxpayer is
helping to pay for it, But wait a second. If
somebody's qualified for the program because they're in such a
bad spot, who am I to tell them they can't
(06:00):
have a coke when you've got a program set up
that allows them to have ice cream. And all I'm
saying is, if the government's going to infringe on freedom,
then the government better have a very compelling reason to
do so, and it must be done in a very
clear and consistent way. And we don't have any of
those seas going on here.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We have a.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Spasmatic reaction from Jared Poulis, who's trying to find a
lane somewhere anywhere in the Democratic Party so that he
can somehow get involved in the national conversation. The better
chance that I'm going to beat bo Nicks out this
year right than that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But that's Polus's play.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So all of a sudden, because of that, you want
to set this precedent of government can reach in and say, yeah,
you can't have your coke, you can have all this
other stuff. And does anybody really think Polus in the
left want to stop with the.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Poor people's coke? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Three at three seven, one three eight two five five
five seven seven three nine. So we'll continue that conversation
text rolling in already, Dan, I have shoulder lengthd hair,
grow it out, like Samson, that is great advice.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I've been talking about how when I finished, I've got
a month on trial in September, and when I finished that,
I don't have another trial for six or eight weeks.
I was talking about it's going to grow out, the hair,
draw out the beard. Just kind of enjoy all of
that for a couple of months. But thank you for
the suggestion. Like Samson, I've never quite pictured that another texture, Dan,
(07:22):
since Christa Kaefer was one of the plaintiffs and removing
Trump from the Colorado Ballachi is not my favorite person.
Please mention that lawsuit on air. Thank you always a
great show, and no he believe me, and nobody hit
that goofy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lawsuit harder than we did on this show.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right now, we're going to save democracy by telling you
you can't vote for the person you want to vote for.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Right, I mean, the whole thing from the jump was crazy,
But think about it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Think about the great things that lawsuit accomplished.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It united the US Supreme Court against it in a
nine zip vote. In terms of Christ to yourself, I've
always liked Kristin, respected her and enjoyed and we disagree
on all sorts of things. I've always enjoyed doing radio
with her, and I will spend some time today on
her piece that just went up in the Denver Post
defending the Denver Post for its I call it a
(08:14):
blatant attack. I call it blatant intimidation attempt. I've compared
it two mob tactics in Chicago, having caddied for some
actual mobsters, and I was the luckiest.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Guy in the world for lots of reasons.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Right, greatest parents ever got to Caddy at this great
country club on the South side of Chicago, and the
members and others sent me off to college.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Through the Evan Scholarship, and just.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just wonderful, wonderful stuff. And part of the great thing
about Caddy. And by the way, if you have a
kid in that age, and about half of the Evan
scholars now I think our girls, if you had a
kid in that age, it is a.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Great summer job.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
And if you know you're below certain income requirements, the
kids and good academics, really good academics, the kids can
get this wonderful scholarship. But the point being that I
got to Caddy for all sorts of people, all sorts
of great people, and then also some not so great,
like some of the mobsters. And all I'm saying is his,
in my constitutionally protected opinion, what the Post was doing
(09:08):
to these housewives, to these women who just want to
remain anonymous, do their public records requests and put out
information on the failings of the city of Denver. The
Post out at them, the Post out at him, and
then included in the piece of conversation about threats, brought
in an expert to say, oh yeah, they're partial. Public
figures and threats are just part of the business. I'm paraphrasing,
(09:30):
but fairly so. Christa defending that I think is as
much as I appreciate and enjoy christ I think there's
an obvious, screaming fatal flaw in that logic that I
will get to shortly.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You're on the Dankapla Show.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
And now back to the dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Ray special Session on August twenty first. The second is,
we are implementing a state hiring freeze effect of August
twenty seventh. If we were to wait till next year,
it would be a lot more draconium in terms of
cuts or changes when they have to be spread only
across four months or five months.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Of the year rather than now Here's what I want
to know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How can Colorado, of all the states in the country,
how can Colorado ever have a budget problem?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I how can it ever have to have a hiring freeze?
How can it ever have any of these issues? I mean, listen,
and this is no knock on any other state, right
but hey, if we were sitting there and we're North
Dakota or South Dakota or something like that, But we're Colorado.
And if you just take a forty thousand foot feud,
look at the map of the United States of America
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and then broaden it out to the world, and you
look at Colorado and look at where it's located, and
you look at the climate, and you look at all
of the natural beauty and everything we've been blessed with geographically,
our population, etc. How can we ever have any of
these problem answer is obvious, right, The only way is
gross mismanagement, because with all the advantages we've been given,
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there's no excuse for having any of these problems on
any kind of significant level in any of these categories.
Pick any of the problem categories in the state, and
then you match it up with the advantages we've been given.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
We shouldn't have any of these.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The only way to get here is is with gross
mismanagement over a long period of time. Three all three
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d an five seven seven three. I mean Minneapolis Saint
paul As says twice as many Fortune five hundred companies
as just stuff like that. Right, But when you run
a state the way the left has run this place
(11:46):
over all these years, what we've had one Republican governor
in the last sixty years. I think it is that then, yeah,
you're going to get this right, because you have all
these self inflicted wounds, and you scare off business and
you drive out business, and then you tracked the people
you don't want to attract, like druggies, right. I mean
it's the very liberal governor at the time of California,
(12:09):
Jerry Brown said how many stoners can you have and
still be a great state. And I'm not criticizing on
a moral level or anything else. Any adult who in
the privacy their own home they want to get high
or whatever, I don't care. But if you legalize marijuana
like this and you green lighted, you're gonna have a
lot more stoners. You're gonna have when you have more
marijuana STOs, then you have Starbucks and McDonald's combined, and
(12:31):
you're gonna be attracting. You're going to be attracting a
bunch of stoners, a bunch of druggies. Everything else. Well,
then all of a sudden, you get a bunch of
problems that go with that. You legalize drugs in the
way nobody else has, you're going to get a whole
lot more homeless coming here. Right, You got the mayor
of Denver out there saying, we will get you a home.
What are you going to get? You're gonna get a
whole lot of homeless people. And folks are illegally coming
(12:52):
to Denver because the mayor of Denver promised to get
him a home and he is delivering on that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The problem is a whole.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Bunch of citizens are about to get laid off by
the city of Denver, and they have kids, and they're
about to get laid off. So Mike Johnston can fulfill
his socialist promise to get everybody home. And yeah, so
that's the way you end up taking. You end up
taking a place where God essentially put us right, picture
the Indy five hundred right. God essentially put us like
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four hundred and ninety five laps ahead of the field
in Colorado, and then the Democrats decided to rip out
the engine. That's what we got here. Three out three
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Speaker 2 (13:33):
Do you like that one, Zach? That was fun? I
liked the N. Have you have you heard that one
before anywhere?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
That's a fresh one for me, But I still liked it.
I think it's absolutely original paints. The picture just popped
into my head. Yeah, so glad you're here. Zack behind
the glass today, our friend Ryan. I hope he's okay,
and we always love working.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That's a big banquet. Oh he is, he's being honored again.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
No, he's a keynote speaker for Lindsey dac Was Organizations.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh that is a tremendous organization.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yea very worthy cause his job for but no, very worthy.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Well, I don't know if he necessarily gave up his
because you know, Zach is a very very.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Oh no, no, Zach, I'll tell you, zachkay, Holy cow,
It's like I was trying to work in a Sydney
Sweeney reference here. Yeah, Zach is like the station's Sydney Sweeney.
I think that's a fair way to put it, right, Amen,
I will definitely take it, you know what I get?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Can somebody explain this one to me?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
How in these United States of America do we not
already are we not already looking at a corps light,
Sidney Sweeney and a bud light. If you were a
bud light, wouldn't you give her a billion dollars, Please
rescue us from this. Dylan mulvaniy nonsense gets Sydney Sweeney
right now as hot as she is. And I'm not
talking about physically, I'm talking about the popular culture.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, wild stuff. You've got to imagine we're going to
see that soon. Quick theory on that as well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I think the odds are overwhelming that of all of this,
you know, heckling of Sydney Sweeney at events over her
genes ad and the stuff you see online and everything else,
ninety five percent of it is probably probably sponsored by
American Eagle, don't you think. I mean, even the crazy
(15:30):
goofy insane left we have right now, could they be
that insane? And listen, I'm joking about American Egle, But
couldn't just see a scenario where a company would be thinking, hey,
this is really good for us, kind of like the WNBA,
and it's a family show, so I'm not going to
get too specific, but the WNBA has this phenomenon now
where people are throwing objects on the floor at games
(15:55):
and these are you know, like adult type objects that
should not be thrown on the floor, et cetera. But
that's getting the w NBA more attention now than anything else.
What are the chances the w n B A is
behind the explosion of objects throwing? I don't know, just
(16:16):
putting it out there, I mean, how do you even
get those objects through security? Isn't there some kind of
wink in a nod going on here.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Or something worse is going on? But there there have been.
Cryptocurrency company has claimed credit for these attacks for lack
of a better at the w NBA games right, for
these these objects and let's just put it this way.
Let's call them sex toys, all in a bright green
(16:49):
color that are being thrown onto the floor at w
So Crypto company is claiming that is there color scheme
that same point called green name of object?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, okay, so that's the tie in.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, But you could see a scenario where the WNBA
would say this is great for the WNBA as long
as nobody trips on one.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Wow, just see that scene where the player had her
wig knocked off on the floor.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, that's that's tough.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Feel bad for her, all right, getting a lot of
text here, Dan, We all know that comment employees are
never fired. They just move them to another department. Or
set up a new department that's been going on a
blank and long time in Colorado. Dad, I'd like to
know who's putting money in Krista Kiffer's pockets.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
That is.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't think that's fair at all. Listen, I know, Chris,
we disagree on plenty. We agree on plenty. Think she's
a person of great principle. Say I disagree to the
absolute max with certain things, such as that lawsuits saying
you shouldn't be able to vote for Trump. Disagree very
strongly with her column today supporting the Denver Post on
its attacks as I label them on do Better Denver.
(18:01):
Christa would tell you it's just the Post doing good journalism.
But I'll get into some of the specifics of that.
But no, please, there's not one chance in a trillion
that any of this has to do with any financial incentive.
D And I take Putin as my president, says a
text one hundred times before I ever support another liberal.
There are more Communists in Denver leadership than in Moscow.
(18:24):
You know Putin truly is. I mean, he's just right
up there with the worst demons to ever walk the
face of the earth. So I just don't understand this
text for a second. The difference between and we do
have plenty of socialist communists, etc. Some height it better
than others in leadership and Democratic party positions and elected
positions in Colorado right now.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But the difference is.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
They're not out there perpetuating mass killing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Now. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
A big part of the lefty playbook is politics and
personal destruction, and I think you've just seen it at
work here in.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What I view as these attacks on these.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Just women, private women doing corror requests for do better Denver.
And we've seen the lefts encouragement, et cetera of violence
play out in.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Multiple other ways.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
But to compare them to Prutin, who's actually out there
massa killing people, AD's a bridge too far.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
The total number cases in Trump one that I brought
eleven as we are here today six months a little
bit more in I brought thirty three. I don't have
a different standard. And you can look at the Kaudasan
article headline is the wiser sue the Trumpinstration thirty to
three times.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's mostly winning.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That score card actually is conservative against.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Me on that score card.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I'm not winning the tariff case even though we want
it at the district court.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
It's just being stayed.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Why the federal looks at the tariff case, I think
we're gonna went into the circuit court too, based on your.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Arguments and how many times has he sued the Biden administration. Yeah, right,
So listen to the beautiful thing is people get it right.
That doesn't mean all of a sudden they're going to
start voting for Republicans. It's going to take more than
realizing how awful the Democrats are. But Wiser clearly is
just an extension of this lawfare that voters rejected in
the last election. And though it isn't against Trump personally,
(20:27):
it's the same idea right now. I think that I
think a lot of Coloradin's probably expect that now from Democrats,
and they probably aren't shocked that Phil Wiser at this
point is using that position for political purposes. That probably
doesn't shock them. I think that what probably has gotten
(20:48):
the attention of Coloraden's is the Secretary of State's office,
right because when you come down to just the sanctity
of elections, I don't think there's any honest person in Colorado,
inside or outside the Griswold family, who would say that
they can look at the Colorado Secretary of State Jenna
Griswold and have any confidence in her as a fair
(21:09):
and honest arbiter of elections. I don't think anybody could
honestly say that, because she's gone out of her way.
She has to undermine confidence in her as anything other
than a hyper politicized operative. And so that's just the reality.
The wiser thing. I think people probably expect that given
(21:32):
how Democrats use the legal system, but the Secretary.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Of State's office, I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Think Coloraden's are good with that at all. Now will
that play out in the attorney general's race, Well, I
don't know. It depends on who the GOP fields as
a nominee for attorney general, and it depends on whether
she's the dem nominee. You have Michael Doherty, who's the
Democrat DA out of Boulder. He's been on the show
(21:58):
pretty regularly. You know, we disagree on some things, obviously, right,
he's a Democrat, but he is a true law enforcement officer,
He is a true prosecutor. He is a person of
honor and integrity, and you know, while I disagree politically
and I'd rather see a Republican ag, you know he's
somebody who would fill that role in a serious way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
She would not.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You'd be taking one hyperpartisan secretary of state, which really
tells you a lot, right, because some positions are sacred,
like DA. Positions should be sacred because you have the
power there to ruin somebody with just a word, and
then there are.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
These other powers. You have the power to.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Leave victims empty because you're unwilling to pursue guilty people
for political reasons. So das have this massive power. That
job should be considered sacred. Unfortunately, we're seeing more and
more of these sorrows type das who are doing the
opposite with the position. You do have a lot of
noble exceptions who understand that DA's job for what it is,
(23:04):
and Michael Doherty's one of them who happens to be
a Democrat. And then you have a bunch of Republicans
who see the position the way they should too. But
the secretary of State thing, Wow, I talk about and
talk about how wrong that is, and she has to
realize it's wrong, right, because you've got to have this
confidence in elections, And obviously since twenty twenty, you look
(23:25):
at the polls, you've got a lot of Americans who
don't have confidence in elections, and Jenna Griswold just throws
fuel on that fire. And so it'll be interesting to
see if that carries over to the ages race. My
usual disqualifier, I have not seen proof that any of
these races were stolen, including presidential in twenty twenty. So
(23:45):
short of that proof, I conclude the outcome was legitimate.
But I sure understand why people have the questions. And
then you look at the way it's like the Democrats
right in this twenty four cycle, It's like they sat
down and said, all right, what can we do. What
can we do to make sure people believe the twenty
(24:06):
twenty election was stolen. Oh yeah, here's what we'll do.
We'll try to put Trump in jail. So we can't
win in twenty four. We can't beat them at the
ballot box, so this time we don't have COVID, but
but this time we're going to put him in jail.
And then they abuse the legal system to try to
jail their political opponent. Well, didn't the Democrats just cause
(24:28):
an awful lot of people to think, oh, yeah, they
probably did steal it in twenty if they're willing to
do what they're doing in twenty four. So yeah, that's
just how the Democrats are are undermining confidence in our
election system. And unfortunately Griswold and Colorado the worst of
the worst three out three seven one three eight, two
five five the number text d an five seven seven
(24:49):
three nine. Again, that doesn't mean people are going to
start electing Republicans. There's going to have to be more
on top of that, which is really sad, right because
they're is a ton of Republican talent. I mean that
there was a time when you had some real Republican
talent here and there. There is a ton of Republican
(25:10):
talent out there right now, and so what's it going
to take for that breakthrough to happen? Love your take
on that, Dan, Phil Budwiser. That from Alexa? What am
I missing? What am I missing? You guys pick up
the reference that I'm missing?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Right? Oh, I see, but he's drunk.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
She's not.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I think she's just doing the butt in front of Wiser.
I was looking for something else there, But of course
that's my bad.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Alexaid, No, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that
Phil Wiser.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
No, I would, I would never say that about him.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know, he came on the show a couple of times.
We enjoyed the conversation, you know, unlike say a Michael Bennett.
And yeah, Bennett's obviously going to crush Wiser in that
dem primary. But unlike Bennett, Wiser is accomplished. Not in
this AG's job, right. But Wiser is a serious, accomplished guy.
(26:05):
You know, he clerked for a couple of US Supreme
Court justices. He's done some meaningful stuff in the legal world.
He shouldn't be Attorney general. I mean he's not a
trial or he doesn't go into courtrooms, et cetera. He
has a lot of good people in his office, he
has a lot of good attorneys in his office.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But he shouldn't be Attorney general. He's no lawman. He
calls himself the people's lawyer or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Give me a break. To be the people's lawyer, you
got to go into court. So, yeah, he's got a
lot of good lawyers in his office, but he is.
He's an accomplished guy. Bennett is not. Bennett is not so.
The irony is Bennett will crush him in the Democrat primary. Right,
Neither should be governor in my humble opinion, because of
their ideologies.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
But Bennett is the last.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
He may be one of the last people in Colorado
should be governor because think about it, Think about all
the challenges in that job, and all the work that
has to be done, and all the leaderships skills a
person needs. And has anybody ever done less with more
in public life than Michael Bennett. I mean, you look
(27:10):
at everything he's been given and all the advantages in
this US Senate seat and everything has anybody ever done
less with the US Senate seat? Which I guess we
should be grateful for his conservatives, right, because because if
you had a productive lefty in that US Senate seat,
then more bad things would have happened.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
But to take a guy a bump now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
On a log, hide under the desk guy like Bennett
and put him in the governor's office Separate apart from
the ideological problems with Bennett. You need a governor who's
able to take action, and nothing in Bennett's past suggests
he will do that in any kind of positive way.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
At least Wiser.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
You know, you don't get to clerk for a US
Supreme Court justice unless unless you have proven yourself. Doesn't
mean he'd be a good up and he be terrible governor.
But but you don't get a position like that unless
you've really earned it along the way. You know, nobody
gets a pass into clerking for a US Supreme Court
(28:12):
justice because they know somebody now knowing somebody might help you,
you know, along the way somewhere. But that's all I'm saying. So, yeah,
Wiser will get creamed in the primary. And let's just hope, let's,
you know, because we've got a lot of talented guys
and gals in the GOP who would make great attorney generals.
Let's hope that one of them ends up the nominee
(28:33):
and that you know, Griswold I think will be the
dumb nominee and that people just say.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, no, we've seen enough of her. Three or three
someone three eight, two five five.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
When we come back, I will read to you what
Polus is Colorado snap program.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Will now allow you to buy.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
But now Jared Polis says, no coke, how do you
resolve that inconsistency? You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Stuff on the table today? So far at will anything
you're interested in? I do the overview, but it would
take up the whole segment. So let me get some
text in here. One of my favorite of the year, Dan,
where did you get so much hate in your heart?
You said you had great parents and a Christian upbringing
that honestly can't figure it out. Well, I would recommend
(29:24):
that you go back to the Bible. That would be
my recommendation to you, Texter. And because now, wait a second.
We are put on this planet, right, We are put
on this planet to speak the truth, to stop bad things,
to do good things. The only way you can accomplish
(29:46):
that is speaking truth to power, is speaking the truth
about what power is doing wrong. So yeah, power decides,
Oh okay, I want to be an elected Democrats. So
I'm going to be all or killing about a million
and a half humans a year, about a million and
a half a year, and I'm willing to do that
(30:07):
so I can get power in the Democratic Party. I
guess the loving thing in our Texter's mind would be
to say, oh okay, Democrats, Well I hope you don't
get too tired.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is not Christianity, is I understand Christianity as I understand
it is trying to model Christ as well as possible. Now,
obviously I have a very very long way to go
in that regard, hopefully not for lack of effort. But no,
if you're going to model Christ, then you're gonna speak
truth to power.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You're gonna go out and.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Try to stand up for what's right and against what's wrong.
And yeah, that's Christians are supposed to be active in
doing that. So I hope the Texter would call the show.
And of course love is at the core of all
of it, right because Christian teaching, and I thoroughly believe
it is. If you don't have love, then none of
the rest of them matters. But again, and I credit
(31:03):
my great parents, et cetera, and great fortune in terms
of the woman I married in the family I have
that I am so full of love. Ask Zach ask Kelli.
You know, sometimes they just have to let me out
of the studio during the break. It can't be contained
in here three or three seven, one, three eight two
five five text d A N five seven seven, three
nine and speaking of which Colorado SNAP program. Let me
(31:28):
read you, and again we're talking about this in I
view it in the context of government overreach. I think
it's government overreach for polists to be saying to poor people,
you can't have a coke. You can't buy a coke
with your SNAP benefits. And it's like, what I mean,
if people qualify, why should polis to be able to
step in and pick out that one thing and say
(31:49):
you can't have a sugary drink, especially when look at
what you can buy with the SNAP program. Breads and cereals, okay,
no disagreement there, fruits and vegetables all four it, meat,
fish and poultry, great stuff, dairy products, no problem there,
seeds and plants which produce food for the household to eat.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Interesting, grow your own. Now, listen to this next one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack, crackers, and ice cream. So
if the program's going to allow that, where does polst
get off coming in and the Trump administration is doing
the same, And as I said, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I think that's just Trump throwing a bone. RF kid Junior.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But where does polist get off saying okay, you can
have soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream,
but you can't have coke, you can't have sugary drinks.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
See to me, that's what's so wrong here.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I just think there needs to be a very high
threshold for government interfering in your life and directing what
you can eat or drink. I think there has to
be an extraordinarily high threshold for that. We would all agree, right,
taxpayers are paying for this stuff. There's no way you
can get alcohol, and the program doesn't allow that. You know,
there's no way you can buy weed with it, and
the program hopefully doesn't allow that. I don't see it
(33:06):
addressed one way or the other on the list. Let's
assume it doesn't allow it yet. And so but the
government telling somebody what they can buy and eat when
you've got a whole category of cookies, ice cream, candy,
that precedent I think should really worry all of us.
(33:28):
If you just want to say, hey, it's just meat,
fish and poultry, I got no beef for that.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
But once you're opening up on all this other stuff, yeah,
I just I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I also don't like it from the perspective of the
dignity of the poor. And I understand folks who say, hey,
wait a second, they're on the government payroll, and at
that point you lose some of all that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I don't think you should.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think if people truly qualify, then they shouldn't have
to give up dignity to get those benefits. You know,
have strict work requirements. Don't let anybody abuse the program.
It's the Democrats, you know, whose policies put most of
these people on food stamps to begin with. Change those
policies so people can prosper. Yeah, but as an absolute
(34:14):
last resort, true safety, that stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Somebody's on that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, I don't think you should have to trade your
dignity to get that.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
So we'd love to get your take on it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Three or three someone three eight two five five the
number text d an five seven seven three nine A
text you're saying, Dan, Coca cola just the first step.
The next step would be telling people on Medicare they
can have a cheeseburger. Amen to that, brother or sister,
Amen to that. Because does anybody think tared Polis wants
to stop with poor people's coke? No, they want to
(34:46):
be able to tell you what to eat or drink
right in the rationale And we talked about this during COVID.
The rationale would would be, hey, emergency powers, right, because
the government now it's running out of money because it
has to spend all this stuff on, you know, Medicare
and Medicaid and emergency powers.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know, we got a crisis in.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
This country, a true emergency caused by these medical expenses.
So no, now, no, you can't buy this, you can't
eat that. I mean, you saw what they did with COVID, right,
and you see where they're at. Does anybody doubt any
of that. I'll get to calls after the break, starting
with David and Pueblo. I do want to get back
to the latest on the Denver posts. I call it
(35:27):
hit job, intimidation, attempt of do better Denver. I hope
it backfires and that do better Denver just grows more
and more and more, hopefully with your.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Help and mine.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
But the latest on that is Krista Kaefer, who I
disagree with unplenty, agree with unplenty truly like and enjoy
and respect. We did a radio show together for a while,
but she has written a piece today supporting what the
Denver Post did I think it has multiple fatal flaws logically,
and so.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We'll get into that a little bit as well. So
lots of fun ahead.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Glad you're here three or three seven, one three eight
two five five the number text d A N five
seven seven three nine You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
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