February 3, 2025 • 36 mins
In this hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan discusses the greatness of America and why Americans shouldn't apologize for their greatness. Dan also looks at how the left has tried to negatively impact that image. Dan also spends time on Donald Trump's potential trade war with Canada and Mexico and how it would affect Colorado.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. The greatest headline
I've ever seen on CNN just came up, starts their
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six o'clock hour back East headline, Canada is bending the
knee just like Mexico. Right that's on CNN. Think about
the moment we're living through right now, and how great
it is for the entire world, and how great it
is obviously for all of us as Americans. We have
had the greatest country in the history of the world.
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Not perfect, right, There's never been a perfect human endeavor,
but the greatest nation on earth ever. The only reason
the world is free right now and not under the
total control of evil is the United States of America.
Others have helped and contributed and deserve great credit for that,
but without the United States of America, the higher world
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is ruled by evil right now, Hitler and his successors,
Saddam and his successors, et cetera. The whole world is
in darkness. If not for the United States. So the
most generous people in the history of the world live here,
and yet we've allowed ourselves to become a punching bag,
to get kicked around, to be constantly apologizing, and then
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administration after administration saying no, we're not great, We're not
better than anybody else. Barack Obama made it his whole centerpiece,
and now every lefty to follow that's their core belief.
We are no better than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No world order that elevates one nation or group of
people over another will.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Succeed, really better than anybody among nations will hold. And they,
the Democrats, have become even more radical since them, well,
no blank that we are better. We're better than an
awful lot of people. We're better in an awful lot
of nations. We're not perfect, but the United States of
America is better than most nations on Earth. The United
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States of America is the reason the world is free,
or at least the parts of it that are free
are free. So the fact that we let ourselves get
killed off by the tens and hundreds of thousands from
evil regimes that conduct these chemical attacks in our country
via open borders, and they do it through fentanyl. That
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that is suicidal. That's a national strategy only doctor Kavorkian
could support. So thank god literally for Donald Trump stepping
up and saying, no, we're the United States of America.
We're just not going to flex our muscle. We're going
to use our muscle not for wrong, but for right. See,
that's the key distinction. If you use your power to
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do wrong, well, that's an abuse. If you fail to
use your power to do right and do stop wrong,
that's surrender. What's been going on year after year after
year these Democrats right here in Colorado, rather that's Johnston,
Hick and Looper Bennett, the whole crew of them, whether
it's nationally, Obama, Biden, the whole crew of them. They
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have been surrendering. They have made a conscious decision not
to use our power to protect our own citizens. That
they've been making a conscious effort to surrender and to
not use the power to do good, to not use
the power to stop bad. Donald Trump is saying enough
of that. We're the greatest nation in history. We're going
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to use our power to do good things and stop
bad things. It's called peace through strength, and it works
on multiple levels. And we're watching it work right now
with the terriffs. I'm sure you've seen the news of
the day at this point that Trump imposes the tariffs
and what happens. I've read to you the CNN ondline
that started the show. Canada bends the knee, just like Mexico.
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And so now both of those governments have agreed to
all of this very specific concrete action, including massive troops, etc.
At the border to stop the flow of fentanyl, to
stop the flow of illegal immigration. Promise is made, Promises keptain.
My hope is that the benefit of this goes even
beyond saving all of these precious, innocent human lives that
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otherwise would have been lost to fentanyl, and some still
will be because under the Left there's already so much
fentanyl circulating in this country because the Left intentionally left
the borders open. But lives will be saved because of this,
and each of those lives is precious. And my hope
is that over time this lives beyond these four years
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of Trump, that this is now first of all, the
new GOP and the way the GOP is going to
act and orient itself, and it gets to some great
news locally. I'll get to in a second, but also
that this now, this now becomes the new norm. This
now becomes what America expects. And that's the big change
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since election day, right and certainly since inauguration Day. It's
Americans saying, hey, wait a second, we don't have to
live this way. Have you ever had that happen in
your own life where you just you are convinced that
something was always going to be with you. It could
be a someone, it could be a something, it could
be some problem in your life, and then all of
a sudden something happened and you realize, I don't have
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to live that way anymore. No, it can be better,
it can be different. That's what America has tasted since
the election of Donald Trump and getting a big gulp
since election days, since he was inaugurated. So America can
see right now, no, we don't have to live that
way anymore. We can be safer, we can use our
power to stop bad things. Yeah, and once America's had
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a taste to that, America's not going back unless the
GOP screws it up royally. And I understand the GOP
could do that, but if people are sitting around thinking,
oh no, no, no, no, it really is not going
to continue on this tremendous arc because the Democrats are
going to get their act together and they're going to
see what I just said, that America is not going
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back and the Democrats are going to change. Anybody who
think that's the case, you got to hear this sound.
This is the outgoing chair of the DNC, just on
Saturday explaining to that the Democratic delegates who are electing
the new chair what the rules are. And as you
listen to this, you'll know, No, the Democrats they're not
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coming back. They're not coming back anytime soon. We're going
to export. We're finding out ways to expert. I guess
because of our gender balance provisions. On this next ballot,
you will be able to vote for two candidates of
any gender.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
On the next ballot.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Listen to that. In the crowd, this hard left Democrat
crowd starts clapping, Oh, now we can vote for who
we want to. You will be allowed to vote for
two candidates of any gender. So think about it under
their rules that they're not allowed to vote for who
they want to, that they have got to vote for
one candidate of one gender, one candidate of another. The
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only good news in all of that is, at least
for this vote, the Democratic Party is acknowledging the undeniable
medical biological reality there are only two genders. Think about that.
But then when there's this moment of sanity that some
of the crowd are now cheering for, I can vote
for who I want to. I'm not being told I
have to vote for somebody because of their gender. Then
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he corrects himself or somebody corrects him and says, oh, no,
that's actually not true.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay, so on this next ballot you will be able
to vote for two candidates of any gender.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On the next.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Ballot, have.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Perceive I'm going to turn to.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Helen to clarify this last one.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So now Helen comes out and says, oh, no, no,
that's not the case. You cannot vote for any candidate
you want to. You've still got to vote for at
least one of each gender. Think about that. So, yeah,
they're not coming back. But if there was any doubt
about that, then you have the DNC vice chair get
up and say, pay attention to me, not because of
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what I have to say, but because of the color
of my skin. The opposite of doctor King. Hey, I
am speaking and I would love your attention. There is
a black woman at this podium, and I deserve your attention. Wow. Seeah,
they are not coming back anytime soon. And we haven't
even gotten to the hog wild stuff. Yeah that David
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hog Yeah, the guy wants to take away everybody's guns.
Who is now their vice chair? So yeah, they're not
coming back now. Colorado. Hey, you know, you still get
the Democrats all over the country who will lie about
who they really are and what their agenda really is.
And we got some of those in Colorado and Hicking,
Looper and Bennett and Polis and they've been able to
get away with it for a while. Yeah, Polus's case
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because of the big money and the other case protective media.
But this country, now, this country has seen what life
can be like, life can be like that we can
return to sanity. The scales have fallen off of eyes.
They're starting to see these lefties, even the milk toast
ones who play this moderate con like Bennett and Hick
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and Looper, that they're starting to see these people for
who they really are. And when we come back, you know,
we'll celebrate Trump in America's big victories today. But I
want to give you some polling from the left that
confirms what I've been telling you on air. The worm's turning.
Even here in Colorado. There is hope. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I had a great talk with Mexico and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We had President Jean Baum.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There's a woman. I like her very much and we've
had good relationships. But we have to stop venton off
from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and
we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in.
I think we've lost too one hundred thousand people on
average a year for many years. Much higher than one
hundred thousand, could be even closer to three hundred thousand.
And they've agreed to put it in ten thousand sold
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is permanently like forever, ten thousand soldiers at their side
of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from
coming into our country.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
They have a big incentive to do. Yeah. And then
the CNN headline we started the show with Canada like
Mexico bends the knee, right, So Canada later in the
day agreed to do the same thing and listen as
the United States of America. We have every right to
demand that demand that no more chemical weapons attacks on
our country out of Mexico or Canada. And that's what
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fentanyl is. Listen to those numbers, right, Yeah, I'm sure
you've had some contact with, if not know intimately somebody
who's died offen a young person from fetanyl. What same nation,
let alone, the strongest nation in the history of the world,
would stand here and put up with that for a day,
for a day. But the left not only puts up
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with it, they expanded no, no more, no more. That's
why I think this change is likely permanent here. But
I want to get to something that ties into that,
which is, Okay, what would it take for that to
really affect Colorado? Because we've seen it affect so many
other places in America in the last election. But Colorado,
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we know is deep deep blues, so and much of
the media deeply, deeply committed to the Democratic Party. So
what does it take to break that stranglehold in Colorado? Well,
I think it's happening right now. Here's a headline from
the Denver Post in a warning for Colorado Democrats. A
new poll shows their popularity slipping. Now, what that from
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the Denver Post. But you know what, it's even better
than that for Republicans, and I'll get to that in
a second first paragraph. A majority of Colorado voters have
a negative view about the Democratic and Republican parties, according
to a recent poll that also found they increasingly identify
Republicans with the working class and solutions to economic problems. Now,
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what have we been talking about here forever? We've been
talking about for the GOP to win and for the
GOP to matter, the GOP has to be the party
of the working class. And now in deep blue Colorado,
voters are seeing Republicans as the party of the working
class and the party with solutions to economic problems. That's
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right where you need to be.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It doesn't guarantee victory in a state like Colorado, but
the door is open, the piece goes on to say,
and I'll skim around a little bit. The poll comes
as the National Democratic Party searches for a path forward
in the wake of the trouncing, my word, etc. The
strength of Republicans identification with working class issues is a
warning shot for a party that's lost ground across the country.
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And then it starts, you know, quoting some political scientists
and Democratic Party people, etc. The poll conducted by Keating
Research found that forty five percent of respondents had a
favorable view of the Democratic Party against fifty one percent
who viewed the party negatively. Just thirty seven percent had
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a favorable view of the Republican Party versus fifty six
who viewed it unfavorably. Listen, if you're talking about an
eight point spread, and I'm not seeing that translates directly,
but if you're talking about an eight point spread now
in Colorado, that is real improvement over where it's been.
But the bigger thing is the weakening of support for Democrats.
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Because you have to start right. You have to start
with what's true, and we know what's true that the
people who pay a lot of attention to this I
assume you do because you're listening to a show like this,
that the simple truth is a Colorado Democratic Party is
controlled by far far left, secular radicals. We know that's true,
and it's allowed so much unnecessary, horrible stuff to happen
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in Colorado. The point is this that for the GOP
to win, starting point, not the end, has to be
eyes getting open to what the Democratic Party in Colorado
really is. And this pole confirms and by the way,
Keating research is not from the right, that is not
a conservative polster. This poll confirms that Colorado's are starting
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to see who the Democratic Party really is and they're
starting to cut through the lie and the con right.
So and that's the reason why this radical party in
Colorado has as its statewide officeholders these boring old white guys,
you know, Hick and Looper Bennett Polis who acts like
the boring old white guy I mean publicly, you know,
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feeding this phony moderate image. And so people are starting
to see, wait a second, that's a facade. That's not
who that party really is. That's key to the GOP.
Hav any chance that doesn't guarantee the GOP any success.
For that to happen, the GOP's got to have some
great candidate, run really good campaigns, have some luck, have
some things go right, and then Ryan, It's what I've
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always been saying, Once the GOP has that one big
breakthrough statewide winner, okay, then things start to turn quickly
because once that happens, you know it's possible, it's going
to be easier to get the big money in here.
For other races, and now you've got a face of
the party who the people of Colorado, at least in
that one race, have elected, and then the whole thing
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can start to change, just like the whole history of
the GOP. If Jane Norton had won that primary, everybody recognizes,
including Michael Bennett. I've had multiple people close to Bennett
tell me they thought he would have lost by eight
points to Jane Norton. I think it would have been ten.
But the point being that, hey, Ken Peter Farren square
in the primary, no gripe about that. He won a
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close race. But if she had won that primary and
been our senator, I think the whole rest of the
history changes for Colorado because then you've got that clearly
recognized statewide leader. You know who's who's got that level
of success, has that big office. Things change, and that's
what that's what's going to happen in Colorado here. Eventually,
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the question is this cycle the next cycle five cycles later?
THEMS aren't going to change, right, thems aren't going to change.
They are who they are. So it's up to the
GOP now to do those other things that have to
be done. And part of it is a united GOP
because none of us have to be you know, math
majors to get that. For a GOP candidate to have
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a chance in Colorado, the GOP has to be united.
And is that even possible? Love your take on that?
Eight five to five for zero five eight two five
five text d An five seven seven three nine Ryan,
do you think that's possible in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I wonder how much of the national scene is going
to impact what happens in Colorado. And well, they're speaking
with George Brockler here coming up in just a little bit,
that we witness these ice rates working deporting bad people
from Denver, Aurora, etc.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Witness the tariff's working, watching.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Everything like that work Dan, watching Gabe Evans be a
tremendous representative of the eighth Congressional District, watching Jeff Crank
and Jeff Hurd succeed in their freshman terms as members
of Congress, watching Lauren Bobert continue to be a big
part of the Republican Party in Colorado. It's not going
to happen overnight, but I think a sequence in series
of victories in the Trump administration over the next two
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years could go a long way.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, but for Colorado is going to take a great
Colorado candidate winning a big race for that worm to
really turn. But what I'm saying, Ryan, what I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Saying is that they've got to we have to break
through with a win here, and that's really hard to
do when we're not in power in any way.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But what I'm saying is this poll confirms what we've
been talking about on this show. The door is open
now because scales are falling off eyes and people are
seeing who the Democrats really are. Listen, you could not
get a poll in Colorado, and this is the significant
finding showing that that voters are identify find Republicans as
the party of the working class. That only happens in
Colorado because you know, historically Trump hasn't done great here,
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although they came within five points and sixteen. But the
point is Trump has done a tremendous service to all
of Colorado and everybody who wants to see the radical
left the throned. Because clearly, the only reason you have
voters in Colorado now saying Republicans are the party of
the working class is because Trump exposed the Democrats. He
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exposed them in this campaign and people can see, as
we've talked about even since he was elected, the Trump effects.
So the door's open now in Colorado. Well that's George
Brockler about that a little bit. George is going to
join us at four thirty six, we're going to talk
to you legal immigration here in Colorado. This poll also
showing that it's a big issue here as it should be,
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and I think it's becoming a bigger issue as people say, wait,
there is hope. We don't have to live with people
here illegally committing other crimes here on the day. And Captain.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It doesn't look to me like Trump is getting tired
of winning. But we have never seen this much winning
so fast from any president. Let's go to the VIP
line talk to a guy quite familiar with the habit
of winning. That would be George Brockler, who just won
out in the New twenty third. He is the first
DA of the twenty third. So George is the statue
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up yet And I know you wouldn't use taxpayer dollars,
but maybe some private donations. I mean, think about it.
You are the very first DA two hundred years from now,
when the great people of Douglas County are celebrating things
at the courthouse, numero uno, George Brockler, that's all they're
going to talk about. I thought George might have been speechless.
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He's probably never had an introduction like that. I think
it's a cell phoney. I think you're introduction jumbled the signal. Oh,
that could do it too, that could do it too.
When we, you know, back to the future, George, how
you doing, I'm living the dream?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Well, thank you, my friend. When do I get that
royalty check?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
But you know, and we've been having this debate for
over twenty years, I think at this point, and I
don't think I have the ability to claim credit for
it entirely, but I can't pay I use it every day.
I use it every single day.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where'd you get it? You got it from me?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I can't remember where it was. I want to say
it predated you, but I.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Know I have given you credit relentlessly, year after year
after year for all those great jokes you gave me
for the big SmackDown at Invesco. But I take full
credit for this one. But George, Georg, you just published
another piece. You're like another Alexander Hamilton with this prolific writing,
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this one in the Denver Gazette calling out Polus on
his sanctuary city. I think flip flop would be the
light term. So lay it honors for those who haven't
seen it yet. Yeah, tell folks all about it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I heard the governor denounce the suggestion that Colorado was
a sanctuary state, not just in description, but in any way,
shape or form, and then he counted the cooperation between
Nice and I thought, and I think I mentioned this
to Ryan, was this Ai You know what I mean?
Was this like bizarro world? Because that is not at
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all what I recalled taking place since he took office
in January of twenty nineteen. So inspired by John Fabricatory
and Jimmy Sangenberger and others, I'd have said, you know
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna dip in and take
a look at all the bills that got signed since then,
and they're signed by him. I don't recall a single
veto that he has put in place on any pro
legal immigrant bill. And at the end of the day,
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the question that you have to ask yourself, if you
read through the calm at the end is what single
individual in Colorado is more responsible for us becoming a
stand or Ben Jon Polish.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
He is the founding father of the sanctuary state. I mean,
because I like you, George, I went back and I
actually pulled eleven twenty four. Is his signature really on it?
And it's not only on it, it's like this big flourish.
Everybody else is a normal sized signature, and his takes
up half the page. I mean, he was so proud
of that, And to me, eleven twenty four was the
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probably the worst and the most dangerous of everything he did.
I can't even imagine how many people have been raped
or killed because of it. But give people your take
if you would on eleven twenty four.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, I one, I think there's a little bit of
a mystique that has flown out of the gold Dome
and intentionally so that this thing is an absolute barrier
between anything that can take place between law enforcement and ICE.
And we just know that that's not true, and that
you know, whether it's a Steve Reims or Darren Weakley
or any other share out there, they can communicate and
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coordinate with ICE and they do the good ones certainly do.
The barriers that it starts to create, though, are the
flow of information, and it starts with eleven twenty four.
But if you look at the rest of the bills
that happened about that time and since then, everything has
been this methodical approach to create more and more sanctuary
spaces and to cut ICE off from information. Probation we
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have a law that prohibits probation from sharing information with ICE.
You can't get to probation until you've been convicted. So
we're talking about illegal immigrants convicted of crimes and probation
cannot tell anything to ICE about it. That is part
of sanctuary state.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yep. And that is such a brilliant point because George
Brockler our guests, the great new DA out in the
first time the twenty third has existed. But George, think
about that, as you were saying, that means that Polus
and the rest of the left went out of the
way to protect people here ilegally who had already not
only found their way into the system, which isn't that
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easy to do, but it had been convicted. So why
are they so committed at that point to protecting people
who've been convicted of other crimes. I mean, it really
seems like that monkey jumping on the wing of the
plane seen out of Twilight Zone. I mean, how do
you get to that point?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, one, I think you have to convince yourself that
what's wrong with America is America and that borders are
the things that separate us from the good people out there,
and that we need to be changed by them. I
think the other thing is, based on the conversation you
had leading up to this, including the polling you are
now seeing the Americans have taken a good look at
what the Democrats bring to the table and they're like, wait, wait,
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this is not the America that we wanted. And I
think in Colorado we're starting to see that too. We're
not there yet. You're right, we're not there yet. But
when I can stand up in this part of the
metch and announce we're going to start sending thieves to jail,
and people everywhere reach out to me and say, way
to go, that's great. You know we have a problem
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because that's the norm, right like I should be the
expected norm. The legal immigrant part of this thing, I
think the frustrating part for people is pol us in
an attempt to make the state of sanctuary state has
tried to put them on equal footing with you and me,
and Ryan and Kelly and every other lawful citizen here
in America. And it's not just the criminal stuff that
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Colin points out. He's like, well, you know what, they
should be able to get professional licenses too, so they
can compete against citizens. They should be able to get
housing assistants too, so they can compete for those limited
resources with citizens. All along the way, they're trying to
turn citizenship into something meaningless.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What a great point George Bronckler's piece today in the Gazette. George,
I would argue to extend that a step and argue
that when Polus and the rest of the left go
out of their way to protect people of already been
convicted of committing other crimes here, at that point they're
putting those people on a pedestal above citizens, because at
that point they're saying, we have weighed this, and we
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have decided that your safety is less important than protecting
these people committing other crimes.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I think that's right. I think it's also a great
how to describe it, hypocrisy or insanity, But They're taking
people that they know have no lawful business here in
the country, let alone the state of Colorado, and then
creating a system where they can go on to probation
that orders them to stay here in Colorado in the
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United States. I mean, because when you're on probak, you
can't just come and go as you You shouldn't be
here at all. But now we going to order you
to stay here.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You want to protect you to be able to do
it because they don't want their potential voters leaving, right,
I mean, isn't that what drives all this in the beginning,
Because this modern left, this modern secular left that controls
the Democratic Party, to me as a whole, doesn't care
about anybody except themselves. So I don't believe for a
second they actually care about the folks here illegally. I
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think they see them as tools for their own perpetual
power on the left. And so yeah, I think they
don't want their potential voters leaving.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I think that whatever benefit they think they were achieving,
they now have to reassess that. And you know what,
Polus ain't a dumb man, and he is a shrewd politician.
He's not like wiser and Griswold. Dude can read the
tea leaves. And so when you see him rush to
the microphone to announce we're not the thing he's been
helping to create us to be for the last six years,
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you know he senses a turn, not just in Colorado
but America. He wants it. One other quick shout out
by the way, today we got another sentencing. Another illegal
immigrant part of a retail theft ring down here in
Douglas County, just got sentenced to eight years in prison.
And I wish I could speak Spanish, because I do
the press release in Spanish for these folks to say,
please stop coming down here to break the law. If
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you can't get legal with your citizenship and you can't
stop committing crimes, stay north of county line.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah. And a great message to send everywhere across the country, right,
because who other than the people in power on the
left could ever argue in favor of protecting people not
only here illegally, but who have committed other crimes. I mean,
it's a form of insanity. And I just want to
make sure everybody understands when I say, and I believe
this to my core, that all of this from the
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left is motivated by protecting future voters. I'm not saying
those people are voting illegally in our current elections, and
I'm not doubting that somebody occasionally has. I'm saying that
the Democratic Party sees all these folks coming in illegally,
including those committing other crimes, as eventually being legal voters.
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And so I think the left, I think, George, the
left is willing to have lots of women raped over
the course of time, lots of people killed over the
course of time, as the price of eventually, through political changes,
acquiring millions more new voters. I think that's been their
diabolical calculation. And I think America's onto that now.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They are, and the great insensitivity to their approach would
be their response to you, Dan would be, well, Americans rape,
Americans field, Americans commit murder, as if to say, because
that part is true, we can't possibly judge these illegal
aliens for having broken into the country then done this.
We got to keep them here like everybody else. It's nuts, it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is nuts, But Americans are seeing that, George, can you
stay for another segment or part of it? Sure? Yeah,
something else I want to bounce off. George Brockler, the
DA in the new twenty third year on The Dan Kapla.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Carville, we ran a presidential election. If we were playing
a super Bowl, we started our seventh string quarterback. Funny
he wasn't saying that at the time. Was he eight?
Five to five for zero five e two five to
five in the number texts DAN five, seven, seven through nine?
First string for sure. George Brockler, the first DA ever
in the twenty third kind of enough to join us
(30:19):
as a piece in the Gazette today talking about Wow,
the big ol' one to eighty switcheroo from Polis on
sanctuary State, when George is very well documented how wait
a second, Polis was responsible for all of this? So
George extending the point to, okay, why so I don't
think anybody's buying it to begin with. I mean, I
(30:42):
think Polis has been exposed on this and it's not pretty.
We know he's trying to get ahead of the national
curve on this, but do you think that's going to
work for him? And what do you make of this
keating poll? As you know, not a right wing Polster
the Denver Post is talking about that. That shows people
in Colorado now viewing the GOP as a party of
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the working people. That's a dramatic pause for effect or
the cell has gone bad on our friend, George. George,
can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I can? I'm sorry I said that in my big
fat head pressed the mute button.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Sorry about that. That's okay.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I was saying, you got it. It's a cause for
optimism and shoots the green. But your point earlier in
the hour was well made, which is, we just got
to find that at least one candidate that can play
off that message, win over the majority of Colorado's and
get into office. And then man, I don't know, Man,
I think we're a really good spot.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, no, that's right because in my view that the
secular left that controls the Democratic Party, they're not going
to change, and so it's all about the GOP now
getting that one breakthrough win, and then I think that
just opens the floodgates to money and volunteers and hope
and lots of other good things. So speaking of that,
(32:00):
I mean, looking at this cycle right now, Bobo's hick
and loopro up. Obviously in the governor's seat open. Which
of those two do you think are most winnable? Is
most winnable?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
That's a tough one. I think you've seen this too.
Crow is auditioning to run for hickspot. Everybody's convinced Hick
isn't going to run for reelection.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So I think, whoa whoaha, See you're an insider. Is
that the word on the street? Now that because, as
you know, Hick said at the DNC he's running for
one more term. Because if Hick's not running, do you
mean now or do you mean six years from now?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
No, I mean now. Oh okay, that's stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And again that's what the kids are saying.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I don't get.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Texts from John, as you know, but if you look
at what else is taking place within the party, Jason
Kroscher thinks Hick isn't going to run, or at least
he's hedging his bets, because he has amped up his
profile on the m NBCs and CNNs and all that
stuff in a way that you just don't see when
you're running in a super safe seat the way he is.
(33:07):
So it wouldn't shock me if he bows out.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So that one.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Could be an open scene I don't know that we
can win that one yet, but maybe, Governor. I mean, look,
Polus is going to be struck to no matter what
he says about the state, people are gonna view Colorado
by what Denver is. And that's just how it goes.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
If we ever got a state before, I think I've
wont to stake off of everybody I know except you.
Can we do our first? Can wet tomahawk? Bet? Okay?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Oh my gosh, yeah, sure, I'll start saving money now, man.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I'm telling you, truly a tomahawk right now, if you
were to go to one of these steakhouses, would cost
twice as much as my first car literally literally. But anyway,
So the point being, George, I would bet you that
Jason Crowe is completely irrelevant to any of this, and
that if hick and Looper is not running, then the
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nomination is Polisit and that even if Hickenlooper intends to run,
as he said recently does that police may very well
steamroll him out of the race because where's Polist going
to go? You think he's going to go back to
greeting cards or flowers. Where's Polist going to go?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I know? But when you have that kind of money,
you can launch your own effort early. And whether it's
some sort of a nonprofit that is, you know, all
about redefining himself as a true libertarian or something. I
can see that taking place, becoming one of the tech bros,
or trying to win over that unaffiliated vote. I don't
(34:36):
think he has to be in public office. He's not
a Buddha judge. Buddha judge has to be in political
office for him to be relevant because he's got nothing else.
Police can do something else because he's got the money
to do it. So I don't know, but I'm not
telling you your logic isn't good.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And the only other thing I'd suggest here is you
look at all of these gazillionaires right who just are
obsessed with buying their way into office and staying there.
We see it all across the country, and and there's
a reason for that, right it's and it's the same
reason some owners of Major League Baseball teams won't sell
even though people would give them five billion dollars or
(35:12):
whatever they'd give them, because you want to be treated
like a king, and you sell that baseball team for billions, Well, okay,
you got all these billions, but nobody's kissing your ass.
Pardon me, kids, nobody's kissing your behind. You know, I
bet your Polis is one of those guys who who
needs the title. He needs that. But we'll find out
together because he has nowhere to go right now unless
(35:34):
Hickenlooper is out.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Let's do the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Let's the tomahawk. What is it?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
And it's a bet on what outcome for the Tomahawk.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
My bet is that Jason Crow doesn't even run for
us Senate. That if hicken Looper's out, it's Polis and
Crow doesn't run against him. That okay, if nothing else,
we can have a stake. We'll have to borrow money
from Ryan for it, but hey, appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
They we'll get calendar to pay.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's right, that's right, and uh, hopefully everybody sees your
piece in the gazette. Well done again, my friend, Thanks
for the time. Thanks take care. You're on the Dan
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six o'clock hour back East headline, Canada is bending the
knee just like Mexico. Right that's on CNN. Think about
the moment we're living through right now, and how great
it is for the entire world, and how great it
is obviously for all of us as Americans. We have
had the greatest country in the history of the world.
(00:41):
Not perfect, right, There's never been a perfect human endeavor,
but the greatest nation on earth ever. The only reason
the world is free right now and not under the
total control of evil is the United States of America.
Others have helped and contributed and deserve great credit for that,
but without the United States of America, the higher world
(01:01):
is ruled by evil right now, Hitler and his successors,
Saddam and his successors, et cetera. The whole world is
in darkness. If not for the United States. So the
most generous people in the history of the world live here,
and yet we've allowed ourselves to become a punching bag,
to get kicked around, to be constantly apologizing, and then
(01:22):
administration after administration saying no, we're not great, We're not
better than anybody else. Barack Obama made it his whole centerpiece,
and now every lefty to follow that's their core belief.
We are no better than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
No world order that elevates one nation or group of
people over another will.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Succeed, really better than anybody among nations will hold. And they,
the Democrats, have become even more radical since them, well,
no blank that we are better. We're better than an
awful lot of people. We're better in an awful lot
of nations. We're not perfect, but the United States of
America is better than most nations on Earth. The United
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States of America is the reason the world is free,
or at least the parts of it that are free
are free. So the fact that we let ourselves get
killed off by the tens and hundreds of thousands from
evil regimes that conduct these chemical attacks in our country
via open borders, and they do it through fentanyl. That
(02:23):
that is suicidal. That's a national strategy only doctor Kavorkian
could support. So thank god literally for Donald Trump stepping
up and saying, no, we're the United States of America.
We're just not going to flex our muscle. We're going
to use our muscle not for wrong, but for right. See,
that's the key distinction. If you use your power to
(02:44):
do wrong, well, that's an abuse. If you fail to
use your power to do right and do stop wrong,
that's surrender. What's been going on year after year after
year these Democrats right here in Colorado, rather that's Johnston,
Hick and Looper Bennett, the whole crew of them, whether
it's nationally, Obama, Biden, the whole crew of them. They
(03:08):
have been surrendering. They have made a conscious decision not
to use our power to protect our own citizens. That
they've been making a conscious effort to surrender and to
not use the power to do good, to not use
the power to stop bad. Donald Trump is saying enough
of that. We're the greatest nation in history. We're going
(03:30):
to use our power to do good things and stop
bad things. It's called peace through strength, and it works
on multiple levels. And we're watching it work right now
with the terriffs. I'm sure you've seen the news of
the day at this point that Trump imposes the tariffs
and what happens. I've read to you the CNN ondline
that started the show. Canada bends the knee, just like Mexico.
(03:51):
And so now both of those governments have agreed to
all of this very specific concrete action, including massive troops, etc.
At the border to stop the flow of fentanyl, to
stop the flow of illegal immigration. Promise is made, Promises keptain.
My hope is that the benefit of this goes even
beyond saving all of these precious, innocent human lives that
(04:15):
otherwise would have been lost to fentanyl, and some still
will be because under the Left there's already so much
fentanyl circulating in this country because the Left intentionally left
the borders open. But lives will be saved because of this,
and each of those lives is precious. And my hope
is that over time this lives beyond these four years
(04:36):
of Trump, that this is now first of all, the
new GOP and the way the GOP is going to
act and orient itself, and it gets to some great
news locally. I'll get to in a second, but also
that this now, this now becomes the new norm. This
now becomes what America expects. And that's the big change
(04:56):
since election day, right and certainly since inauguration Day. It's
Americans saying, hey, wait a second, we don't have to
live this way. Have you ever had that happen in
your own life where you just you are convinced that
something was always going to be with you. It could
be a someone, it could be a something, it could
be some problem in your life, and then all of
a sudden something happened and you realize, I don't have
(05:18):
to live that way anymore. No, it can be better,
it can be different. That's what America has tasted since
the election of Donald Trump and getting a big gulp
since election days, since he was inaugurated. So America can
see right now, no, we don't have to live that
way anymore. We can be safer, we can use our
power to stop bad things. Yeah, and once America's had
(05:40):
a taste to that, America's not going back unless the
GOP screws it up royally. And I understand the GOP
could do that, but if people are sitting around thinking,
oh no, no, no, no, it really is not going
to continue on this tremendous arc because the Democrats are
going to get their act together and they're going to
see what I just said, that America is not going
(06:03):
back and the Democrats are going to change. Anybody who
think that's the case, you got to hear this sound.
This is the outgoing chair of the DNC, just on
Saturday explaining to that the Democratic delegates who are electing
the new chair what the rules are. And as you
listen to this, you'll know, No, the Democrats they're not
(06:24):
coming back. They're not coming back anytime soon. We're going
to export. We're finding out ways to expert. I guess
because of our gender balance provisions. On this next ballot,
you will be able to vote for two candidates of
any gender.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
On the next ballot.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Listen to that. In the crowd, this hard left Democrat
crowd starts clapping, Oh, now we can vote for who
we want to. You will be allowed to vote for
two candidates of any gender. So think about it under
their rules that they're not allowed to vote for who
they want to, that they have got to vote for
one candidate of one gender, one candidate of another. The
(07:02):
only good news in all of that is, at least
for this vote, the Democratic Party is acknowledging the undeniable
medical biological reality there are only two genders. Think about that.
But then when there's this moment of sanity that some
of the crowd are now cheering for, I can vote
for who I want to. I'm not being told I
have to vote for somebody because of their gender. Then
(07:23):
he corrects himself or somebody corrects him and says, oh, no,
that's actually not true.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Okay, so on this next ballot you will be able
to vote for two candidates of any gender.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
On the next.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Ballot, have.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Perceive I'm going to turn to.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Helen to clarify this last one.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
So now Helen comes out and says, oh, no, no,
that's not the case. You cannot vote for any candidate
you want to. You've still got to vote for at
least one of each gender. Think about that. So, yeah,
they're not coming back. But if there was any doubt
about that, then you have the DNC vice chair get
up and say, pay attention to me, not because of
(08:07):
what I have to say, but because of the color
of my skin. The opposite of doctor King. Hey, I
am speaking and I would love your attention. There is
a black woman at this podium, and I deserve your attention. Wow. Seeah,
they are not coming back anytime soon. And we haven't
even gotten to the hog wild stuff. Yeah that David
(08:28):
hog Yeah, the guy wants to take away everybody's guns.
Who is now their vice chair? So yeah, they're not
coming back now. Colorado. Hey, you know, you still get
the Democrats all over the country who will lie about
who they really are and what their agenda really is.
And we got some of those in Colorado and Hicking,
Looper and Bennett and Polis and they've been able to
get away with it for a while. Yeah, Polus's case
(08:50):
because of the big money and the other case protective media.
But this country, now, this country has seen what life
can be like, life can be like that we can
return to sanity. The scales have fallen off of eyes.
They're starting to see these lefties, even the milk toast
ones who play this moderate con like Bennett and Hick
(09:11):
and Looper, that they're starting to see these people for
who they really are. And when we come back, you know,
we'll celebrate Trump in America's big victories today. But I
want to give you some polling from the left that
confirms what I've been telling you on air. The worm's turning.
Even here in Colorado. There is hope. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I had a great talk with Mexico and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We had President Jean Baum.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There's a woman. I like her very much and we've
had good relationships. But we have to stop venton off
from coming in, whether I like somebody or not, and
we have to stop the illegal aliens from coming in.
I think we've lost too one hundred thousand people on
average a year for many years. Much higher than one
hundred thousand, could be even closer to three hundred thousand.
And they've agreed to put it in ten thousand sold
(10:11):
is permanently like forever, ten thousand soldiers at their side
of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from
coming into our country.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
They have a big incentive to do. Yeah. And then
the CNN headline we started the show with Canada like
Mexico bends the knee, right, So Canada later in the
day agreed to do the same thing and listen as
the United States of America. We have every right to
demand that demand that no more chemical weapons attacks on
our country out of Mexico or Canada. And that's what
(10:41):
fentanyl is. Listen to those numbers, right, Yeah, I'm sure
you've had some contact with, if not know intimately somebody
who's died offen a young person from fetanyl. What same nation,
let alone, the strongest nation in the history of the world,
would stand here and put up with that for a day,
for a day. But the left not only puts up
(11:02):
with it, they expanded no, no more, no more. That's
why I think this change is likely permanent here. But
I want to get to something that ties into that,
which is, Okay, what would it take for that to
really affect Colorado? Because we've seen it affect so many
other places in America in the last election. But Colorado,
(11:22):
we know is deep deep blues, so and much of
the media deeply, deeply committed to the Democratic Party. So
what does it take to break that stranglehold in Colorado? Well,
I think it's happening right now. Here's a headline from
the Denver Post in a warning for Colorado Democrats. A
new poll shows their popularity slipping. Now, what that from
(11:44):
the Denver Post. But you know what, it's even better
than that for Republicans, and I'll get to that in
a second first paragraph. A majority of Colorado voters have
a negative view about the Democratic and Republican parties, according
to a recent poll that also found they increasingly identify
Republicans with the working class and solutions to economic problems. Now,
(12:07):
what have we been talking about here forever? We've been
talking about for the GOP to win and for the
GOP to matter, the GOP has to be the party
of the working class. And now in deep blue Colorado,
voters are seeing Republicans as the party of the working
class and the party with solutions to economic problems. That's
(12:30):
right where you need to be.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
It doesn't guarantee victory in a state like Colorado, but
the door is open, the piece goes on to say,
and I'll skim around a little bit. The poll comes
as the National Democratic Party searches for a path forward
in the wake of the trouncing, my word, etc. The
strength of Republicans identification with working class issues is a
warning shot for a party that's lost ground across the country.
(12:55):
And then it starts, you know, quoting some political scientists
and Democratic Party people, etc. The poll conducted by Keating
Research found that forty five percent of respondents had a
favorable view of the Democratic Party against fifty one percent
who viewed the party negatively. Just thirty seven percent had
(13:15):
a favorable view of the Republican Party versus fifty six
who viewed it unfavorably. Listen, if you're talking about an
eight point spread, and I'm not seeing that translates directly,
but if you're talking about an eight point spread now
in Colorado, that is real improvement over where it's been.
But the bigger thing is the weakening of support for Democrats.
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Because you have to start right. You have to start
with what's true, and we know what's true that the
people who pay a lot of attention to this I
assume you do because you're listening to a show like this,
that the simple truth is a Colorado Democratic Party is
controlled by far far left, secular radicals. We know that's true,
and it's allowed so much unnecessary, horrible stuff to happen
(13:59):
in Colorado. The point is this that for the GOP
to win, starting point, not the end, has to be
eyes getting open to what the Democratic Party in Colorado
really is. And this pole confirms and by the way,
Keating research is not from the right, that is not
a conservative polster. This poll confirms that Colorado's are starting
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to see who the Democratic Party really is and they're
starting to cut through the lie and the con right.
So and that's the reason why this radical party in
Colorado has as its statewide officeholders these boring old white guys,
you know, Hick and Looper Bennett Polis who acts like
the boring old white guy I mean publicly, you know,
(14:44):
feeding this phony moderate image. And so people are starting
to see, wait a second, that's a facade. That's not
who that party really is. That's key to the GOP.
Hav any chance that doesn't guarantee the GOP any success.
For that to happen, the GOP's got to have some
great candidate, run really good campaigns, have some luck, have
some things go right, and then Ryan, It's what I've
(15:05):
always been saying, Once the GOP has that one big
breakthrough statewide winner, okay, then things start to turn quickly
because once that happens, you know it's possible, it's going
to be easier to get the big money in here.
For other races, and now you've got a face of
the party who the people of Colorado, at least in
that one race, have elected, and then the whole thing
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can start to change, just like the whole history of
the GOP. If Jane Norton had won that primary, everybody recognizes,
including Michael Bennett. I've had multiple people close to Bennett
tell me they thought he would have lost by eight
points to Jane Norton. I think it would have been ten.
But the point being that, hey, Ken Peter Farren square
in the primary, no gripe about that. He won a
(15:51):
close race. But if she had won that primary and
been our senator, I think the whole rest of the
history changes for Colorado because then you've got that clearly
recognized statewide leader. You know who's who's got that level
of success, has that big office. Things change, and that's
what that's what's going to happen in Colorado here. Eventually,
(16:11):
the question is this cycle the next cycle five cycles later?
THEMS aren't going to change, right, thems aren't going to change.
They are who they are. So it's up to the
GOP now to do those other things that have to
be done. And part of it is a united GOP
because none of us have to be you know, math
majors to get that. For a GOP candidate to have
(16:33):
a chance in Colorado, the GOP has to be united.
And is that even possible? Love your take on that?
Eight five to five for zero five eight two five
five text d An five seven seven three nine Ryan,
do you think that's possible in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I wonder how much of the national scene is going
to impact what happens in Colorado. And well, they're speaking
with George Brockler here coming up in just a little bit,
that we witness these ice rates working deporting bad people
from Denver, Aurora, etc.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Witness the tariff's working, watching.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Everything like that work Dan, watching Gabe Evans be a
tremendous representative of the eighth Congressional District, watching Jeff Crank
and Jeff Hurd succeed in their freshman terms as members
of Congress, watching Lauren Bobert continue to be a big
part of the Republican Party in Colorado. It's not going
to happen overnight, but I think a sequence in series
of victories in the Trump administration over the next two
(17:29):
years could go a long way.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, but for Colorado is going to take a great
Colorado candidate winning a big race for that worm to
really turn. But what I'm saying, Ryan, what I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Saying is that they've got to we have to break
through with a win here, and that's really hard to
do when we're not in power in any way.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But what I'm saying is this poll confirms what we've
been talking about on this show. The door is open
now because scales are falling off eyes and people are
seeing who the Democrats really are. Listen, you could not
get a poll in Colorado, and this is the significant
finding showing that that voters are identify find Republicans as
the party of the working class. That only happens in
Colorado because you know, historically Trump hasn't done great here,
(18:08):
although they came within five points and sixteen. But the
point is Trump has done a tremendous service to all
of Colorado and everybody who wants to see the radical
left the throned. Because clearly, the only reason you have
voters in Colorado now saying Republicans are the party of
the working class is because Trump exposed the Democrats. He
(18:30):
exposed them in this campaign and people can see, as
we've talked about even since he was elected, the Trump effects.
So the door's open now in Colorado. Well that's George
Brockler about that a little bit. George is going to
join us at four thirty six, we're going to talk
to you legal immigration here in Colorado. This poll also
showing that it's a big issue here as it should be,
(18:52):
and I think it's becoming a bigger issue as people say, wait,
there is hope. We don't have to live with people
here illegally committing other crimes here on the day. And Captain.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It doesn't look to me like Trump is getting tired
of winning. But we have never seen this much winning
so fast from any president. Let's go to the VIP
line talk to a guy quite familiar with the habit
of winning. That would be George Brockler, who just won
out in the New twenty third. He is the first
DA of the twenty third. So George is the statue
(19:31):
up yet And I know you wouldn't use taxpayer dollars,
but maybe some private donations. I mean, think about it.
You are the very first DA two hundred years from now,
when the great people of Douglas County are celebrating things
at the courthouse, numero uno, George Brockler, that's all they're
going to talk about. I thought George might have been speechless.
(19:56):
He's probably never had an introduction like that. I think
it's a cell phoney. I think you're introduction jumbled the signal. Oh,
that could do it too, that could do it too.
When we, you know, back to the future, George, how
you doing, I'm living the dream?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Well, thank you, my friend. When do I get that
royalty check?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
But you know, and we've been having this debate for
over twenty years, I think at this point, and I
don't think I have the ability to claim credit for
it entirely, but I can't pay I use it every day.
I use it every single day.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Where'd you get it? You got it from me?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I can't remember where it was. I want to say
it predated you, but I.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Know I have given you credit relentlessly, year after year
after year for all those great jokes you gave me
for the big SmackDown at Invesco. But I take full
credit for this one. But George, Georg, you just published
another piece. You're like another Alexander Hamilton with this prolific writing,
(20:53):
this one in the Denver Gazette calling out Polus on
his sanctuary city. I think flip flop would be the
light term. So lay it honors for those who haven't
seen it yet. Yeah, tell folks all about it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I heard the governor denounce the suggestion that Colorado was
a sanctuary state, not just in description, but in any way,
shape or form, and then he counted the cooperation between
Nice and I thought, and I think I mentioned this
to Ryan, was this Ai You know what I mean?
Was this like bizarro world? Because that is not at
(21:31):
all what I recalled taking place since he took office
in January of twenty nineteen. So inspired by John Fabricatory
and Jimmy Sangenberger and others, I'd have said, you know
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna dip in and take
a look at all the bills that got signed since then,
and they're signed by him. I don't recall a single
veto that he has put in place on any pro
legal immigrant bill. And at the end of the day,
(21:53):
the question that you have to ask yourself, if you
read through the calm at the end is what single
individual in Colorado is more responsible for us becoming a
stand or Ben Jon Polish.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
He is the founding father of the sanctuary state. I mean,
because I like you, George, I went back and I
actually pulled eleven twenty four. Is his signature really on it?
And it's not only on it, it's like this big flourish.
Everybody else is a normal sized signature, and his takes
up half the page. I mean, he was so proud
of that, And to me, eleven twenty four was the
(22:27):
probably the worst and the most dangerous of everything he did.
I can't even imagine how many people have been raped
or killed because of it. But give people your take
if you would on eleven twenty four.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, I one, I think there's a little bit of
a mystique that has flown out of the gold Dome
and intentionally so that this thing is an absolute barrier
between anything that can take place between law enforcement and ICE.
And we just know that that's not true, and that
you know, whether it's a Steve Reims or Darren Weakley
or any other share out there, they can communicate and
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coordinate with ICE and they do the good ones certainly do.
The barriers that it starts to create, though, are the
flow of information, and it starts with eleven twenty four.
But if you look at the rest of the bills
that happened about that time and since then, everything has
been this methodical approach to create more and more sanctuary
spaces and to cut ICE off from information. Probation we
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have a law that prohibits probation from sharing information with ICE.
You can't get to probation until you've been convicted. So
we're talking about illegal immigrants convicted of crimes and probation
cannot tell anything to ICE about it. That is part
of sanctuary state.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yep. And that is such a brilliant point because George
Brockler our guests, the great new DA out in the
first time the twenty third has existed. But George, think
about that, as you were saying, that means that Polus
and the rest of the left went out of the
way to protect people here ilegally who had already not
only found their way into the system, which isn't that
(24:05):
easy to do, but it had been convicted. So why
are they so committed at that point to protecting people
who've been convicted of other crimes. I mean, it really
seems like that monkey jumping on the wing of the
plane seen out of Twilight Zone. I mean, how do
you get to that point?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, one, I think you have to convince yourself that
what's wrong with America is America and that borders are
the things that separate us from the good people out there,
and that we need to be changed by them. I
think the other thing is, based on the conversation you
had leading up to this, including the polling you are
now seeing the Americans have taken a good look at
what the Democrats bring to the table and they're like, wait, wait,
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this is not the America that we wanted. And I
think in Colorado we're starting to see that too. We're
not there yet. You're right, we're not there yet. But
when I can stand up in this part of the
metch and announce we're going to start sending thieves to jail,
and people everywhere reach out to me and say, way
to go, that's great. You know we have a problem
(25:10):
because that's the norm, right like I should be the
expected norm. The legal immigrant part of this thing, I
think the frustrating part for people is pol us in
an attempt to make the state of sanctuary state has
tried to put them on equal footing with you and me,
and Ryan and Kelly and every other lawful citizen here
in America. And it's not just the criminal stuff that
(25:31):
Colin points out. He's like, well, you know what, they
should be able to get professional licenses too, so they
can compete against citizens. They should be able to get
housing assistants too, so they can compete for those limited
resources with citizens. All along the way, they're trying to
turn citizenship into something meaningless.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What a great point George Bronckler's piece today in the Gazette. George,
I would argue to extend that a step and argue
that when Polus and the rest of the left go
out of their way to protect people of already been
convicted of committing other crimes here, at that point they're
putting those people on a pedestal above citizens, because at
that point they're saying, we have weighed this, and we
(26:11):
have decided that your safety is less important than protecting
these people committing other crimes.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I think that's right. I think it's also a great
how to describe it, hypocrisy or insanity, But They're taking
people that they know have no lawful business here in
the country, let alone the state of Colorado, and then
creating a system where they can go on to probation
that orders them to stay here in Colorado in the
(26:40):
United States. I mean, because when you're on probak, you
can't just come and go as you You shouldn't be
here at all. But now we going to order you
to stay here.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You want to protect you to be able to do
it because they don't want their potential voters leaving, right,
I mean, isn't that what drives all this in the beginning,
Because this modern left, this modern secular left that controls
the Democratic Party, to me as a whole, doesn't care
about anybody except themselves. So I don't believe for a
second they actually care about the folks here illegally. I
(27:09):
think they see them as tools for their own perpetual
power on the left. And so yeah, I think they
don't want their potential voters leaving.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I think that whatever benefit they think they were achieving,
they now have to reassess that. And you know what,
Polus ain't a dumb man, and he is a shrewd politician.
He's not like wiser and Griswold. Dude can read the
tea leaves. And so when you see him rush to
the microphone to announce we're not the thing he's been
helping to create us to be for the last six years,
(27:41):
you know he senses a turn, not just in Colorado
but America. He wants it. One other quick shout out
by the way, today we got another sentencing. Another illegal
immigrant part of a retail theft ring down here in
Douglas County, just got sentenced to eight years in prison.
And I wish I could speak Spanish, because I do
the press release in Spanish for these folks to say,
please stop coming down here to break the law. If
(28:03):
you can't get legal with your citizenship and you can't
stop committing crimes, stay north of county line.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah. And a great message to send everywhere across the country, right,
because who other than the people in power on the
left could ever argue in favor of protecting people not
only here illegally, but who have committed other crimes. I mean,
it's a form of insanity. And I just want to
make sure everybody understands when I say, and I believe
this to my core, that all of this from the
(28:31):
left is motivated by protecting future voters. I'm not saying
those people are voting illegally in our current elections, and
I'm not doubting that somebody occasionally has. I'm saying that
the Democratic Party sees all these folks coming in illegally,
including those committing other crimes, as eventually being legal voters.
(28:52):
And so I think the left, I think, George, the
left is willing to have lots of women raped over
the course of time, lots of people killed over the
course of time, as the price of eventually, through political changes,
acquiring millions more new voters. I think that's been their
diabolical calculation. And I think America's onto that now.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
They are, and the great insensitivity to their approach would
be their response to you, Dan would be, well, Americans rape,
Americans field, Americans commit murder, as if to say, because
that part is true, we can't possibly judge these illegal
aliens for having broken into the country then done this.
We got to keep them here like everybody else. It's nuts, it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Is nuts, But Americans are seeing that, George, can you
stay for another segment or part of it? Sure? Yeah,
something else I want to bounce off. George Brockler, the
DA in the new twenty third year on The Dan Kapla.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Show and now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Carville, we ran a presidential election. If we were playing
a super Bowl, we started our seventh string quarterback. Funny
he wasn't saying that at the time. Was he eight?
Five to five for zero five e two five to
five in the number texts DAN five, seven, seven through nine?
First string for sure. George Brockler, the first DA ever
in the twenty third kind of enough to join us
(30:19):
as a piece in the Gazette today talking about Wow,
the big ol' one to eighty switcheroo from Polis on
sanctuary State, when George is very well documented how wait
a second, Polis was responsible for all of this? So
George extending the point to, okay, why so I don't
think anybody's buying it to begin with. I mean, I
(30:42):
think Polis has been exposed on this and it's not pretty.
We know he's trying to get ahead of the national
curve on this, but do you think that's going to
work for him? And what do you make of this
keating poll? As you know, not a right wing Polster
the Denver Post is talking about that. That shows people
in Colorado now viewing the GOP as a party of
(31:04):
the working people. That's a dramatic pause for effect or
the cell has gone bad on our friend, George. George,
can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I can? I'm sorry I said that in my big
fat head pressed the mute button.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Sorry about that. That's okay.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I was saying, you got it. It's a cause for
optimism and shoots the green. But your point earlier in
the hour was well made, which is, we just got
to find that at least one candidate that can play
off that message, win over the majority of Colorado's and
get into office. And then man, I don't know, Man,
I think we're a really good spot.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, no, that's right because in my view that the
secular left that controls the Democratic Party, they're not going
to change, and so it's all about the GOP now
getting that one breakthrough win, and then I think that
just opens the floodgates to money and volunteers and hope
and lots of other good things. So speaking of that,
(32:00):
I mean, looking at this cycle right now, Bobo's hick
and loopro up. Obviously in the governor's seat open. Which
of those two do you think are most winnable? Is
most winnable?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
That's a tough one. I think you've seen this too.
Crow is auditioning to run for hickspot. Everybody's convinced Hick
isn't going to run for reelection.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
So I think, whoa whoaha, See you're an insider. Is
that the word on the street? Now that because, as
you know, Hick said at the DNC he's running for
one more term. Because if Hick's not running, do you
mean now or do you mean six years from now?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
No, I mean now. Oh okay, that's stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
And again that's what the kids are saying.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I don't get.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Texts from John, as you know, but if you look
at what else is taking place within the party, Jason
Kroscher thinks Hick isn't going to run, or at least
he's hedging his bets, because he has amped up his
profile on the m NBCs and CNNs and all that
stuff in a way that you just don't see when
you're running in a super safe seat the way he is.
(33:07):
So it wouldn't shock me if he bows out.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So that one.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Could be an open scene I don't know that we
can win that one yet, but maybe, Governor. I mean, look,
Polus is going to be struck to no matter what
he says about the state, people are gonna view Colorado
by what Denver is. And that's just how it goes.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
If we ever got a state before, I think I've
wont to stake off of everybody I know except you.
Can we do our first? Can wet tomahawk? Bet? Okay?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Oh my gosh, yeah, sure, I'll start saving money now, man.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I'm telling you, truly a tomahawk right now, if you
were to go to one of these steakhouses, would cost
twice as much as my first car literally literally. But anyway,
So the point being, George, I would bet you that
Jason Crowe is completely irrelevant to any of this, and
that if hick and Looper is not running, then the
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nomination is Polisit and that even if Hickenlooper intends to run,
as he said recently does that police may very well
steamroll him out of the race because where's Polist going
to go? You think he's going to go back to
greeting cards or flowers. Where's Polist going to go?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I know? But when you have that kind of money,
you can launch your own effort early. And whether it's
some sort of a nonprofit that is, you know, all
about redefining himself as a true libertarian or something. I
can see that taking place, becoming one of the tech bros,
or trying to win over that unaffiliated vote. I don't
(34:36):
think he has to be in public office. He's not
a Buddha judge. Buddha judge has to be in political
office for him to be relevant because he's got nothing else.
Police can do something else because he's got the money
to do it. So I don't know, but I'm not
telling you your logic isn't good.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
And the only other thing I'd suggest here is you
look at all of these gazillionaires right who just are
obsessed with buying their way into office and staying there.
We see it all across the country, and and there's
a reason for that, right it's and it's the same
reason some owners of Major League Baseball teams won't sell
even though people would give them five billion dollars or
(35:12):
whatever they'd give them, because you want to be treated
like a king, and you sell that baseball team for billions, Well, okay,
you got all these billions, but nobody's kissing your ass.
Pardon me, kids, nobody's kissing your behind. You know, I
bet your Polis is one of those guys who who
needs the title. He needs that. But we'll find out
together because he has nowhere to go right now unless
(35:34):
Hickenlooper is out.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Let's do the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Let's the tomahawk. What is it?
Speaker 4 (35:39):
And it's a bet on what outcome for the Tomahawk.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
My bet is that Jason Crow doesn't even run for
us Senate. That if hicken Looper's out, it's Polis and
Crow doesn't run against him. That okay, if nothing else,
we can have a stake. We'll have to borrow money
from Ryan for it, but hey, appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
They we'll get calendar to pay.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's right, that's right, and uh, hopefully everybody sees your
piece in the gazette. Well done again, my friend, Thanks
for the time. Thanks take care. You're on the Dan
Kapla Show.
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