Beware the Ides of March, Virginia...

Summary

The Rob Carson Show – “Beware the Ides of March, Virginia…”

Date: January 27, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Fred Flights (Senior Fellow, America First Policy Institute)

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Episode Overview

In this fast-paced, comedic, and sharply critical episode, Rob Carson examines the rapid political shifts in Virginia under new leadership, broader Democratic policy excesses, and national and international issues ranging from election integrity to foreign policy. Lampooning government overreach and progressive policies, Carson weaves in personal anecdotes, parodies, and commentary. The second half of the episode features an in-depth foreign policy discussion with Fred Flights, exploring US-European alliances, Canadian politics, and the volatile situation with Iran.

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Main Themes & Purpose

• Sharp Critique of Virginia’s Political Direction: Carson focuses heavily on how Virginia's Democratic leadership, particularly Governor Abigail Spanberger, has drastically shifted to the left after winning on so-called moderate promises, enacting sweeping policy changes.
• Government Overreach and Fraud: Extended riff on bureaucracy, election changes, and wasteful or fraudulent public spending.
• Culture & Political Satire: Personal stories, humorous bits (notably with Jim Gossett), and signature comedic takes.
• Global Foreign Policy: A substantive conversation with Fred Flights about the West’s reliance on the US, Europe’s so-called “woke” policies, Canada’s China flirtation, and an assertive US stance on Iran.
• Mockery of Progressive Symbolism and Literature: A mocking review of progressive cultural proposals in NYC snowstorm guidance, connecting to wider socialist themes.
• Reader Interaction & Personal Endorsements: Carson’s candid, personal endorsements of products and direct audience engagement.

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Detailed Breakdown

1. Virginia Politics & Accusations of Deception

[01:23–07:40]

• Betrayal of Moderation:

  • Carson asserts Governor Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate but “lied” and supports radical left policies, such as:
    • “Massive gun control legislation”
    • Abolishing hand-counting of ballots
    • Permitting ballots up to two weeks late
    • Restricting charity fraud investigations
  • "They lied to get into office and now they are springing this on the people of Virginia and it will not stand.” (Rob Carson, 01:55)

• Personal Lament:

  • Recently moved to Virginia from Maryland; details decay he saw in Maryland.
  • “Maryland is escape from New York. You drive across the Potomac into Maryland, looks like… into Virginia, it's like driving into Oz. It's beautiful.” (Rob Carson, 03:09)

• Election and Policy Frustrations:

  • Concerns over election integrity (“They're going to steal elections. They're going to take your guns. They're going to take your friggin leaf blowers…”).

2. Bureaucratic Frustration & Personal Anecdotes

[04:15–08:24]

• Studio Desk Saga (Comic Story):

  • Rob relays his ordeal importing a broadcast desk: customs, fees, and required documentation for “genus and species” of the wood.
  • "Customs needed to know the genus and species of the wood the damn desk is made from. I don't know what it is. It was made in Asia, for God's sake.” (Rob Carson, 06:43)

• Comic Relief – Song Parody:

  • Jim Gossett performed a song parody (“You don’t f around with ICE”) to break the tension.

3. Systemic Fraud & Wasteful Spending

[08:24–12:25]

• Fraud in Government Spending:
  • Reports of billions in improper rental assistance, including to “dead people.”
    • “That includes money that went to nearly 30,000 dead people. That is ludicrous. Ridiculous…” (Rob Carson, 09:18)
• Horrific Waste in California’s Care Initiatives:
  • $236m spent in California's “Care Court” for only 22 people: “Over $10 million per person.”
• Hospice Industry Fraud:
  • Fraudulent LA hospices allegedly run by Russian-Armenian mafia, as reported by Dr. Oz.

4. Immigration Satire & Critiques

[13:59–15:02]

• Childcare and Somali Migration:

  • Jokes about Somalis running childcare centers.
  • “Who is letting their kids be watched by Somalian? Didn’t anybody see Captain Phillips… They're pirates. We're taking over the ship and the childcare center…” (Fred Flights/Rob Carson, 14:08–14:27)

• Comic Barbs at US Immigration Policy:

  • Satirical takes on New York politics—jokes about marrying one’s brother, referencing Ilhan Omar rumors.

5. Satire: NYC Socialist Politics & Progressive Culture

[15:53–20:25]

• Mockery of Zoran Mamdani:
  • Ridicules his snow shoveling and recommends reading “Heated Rivalry,” a homoerotic hockey novel, during a snowstorm.
  • “How about you teach us how to shovel the bull crap that you leave behind you every day? … Heated Rivalry doesn’t just sound like a porn movie… is that a Zamboner?” (Rob Carson, 17:40)
• Bill Maher Critique (Clip):
  • “These are utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Bryn Mawr… But these are statements made as an adult… He's a straight up communist.” (Bill Maher, 19:04–20:25)

6. Broader Foreign Policy Discussion with Fred Flights

[22:15–36:17]

a. Europe’s Dependency & Woke Policies

[22:15–26:12]

• NATO Reliance:

  • NATO Secretary General Mark Rudy’s recognition that Europe can’t defend itself without US leadership.

• “Mean Tweet Syndrome”:

  • Flights argues Europe is angry at Trump for “being right,” but hates his style.
  • “[Europe] would have to spend 10% of its GDP on defense if the US was not around.” (Fred Flights, 24:24)

• Leftist Policy Failures:

  • Parallels between US “blue state” urban decline and failed European policies (unlimited migration, green energy mandates).

b. Canadian Politics & US Relations

[26:13–29:44]

• Canadian Trade Dependency:
  • Flights: “75% of Canadian exports go to the US… they can't survive without the US…”
• Canadian and EU Flirtation with China:
  • Both see dangerous consequences, ridicule idea of “replacing” US partnership with China.

c. Momentum Shift in Europe

[29:44–30:34]

• Rise of Populists:
  • Noting increasing support for nationalist and anti-globalist politicians in Germany, France, and UK.

d. Iran: Strategy & Opportunity

[32:07–36:17]

• US and Allied Posture:
  • Carson and Flights discuss an “armada” in the Persian Gulf and strategies for weakening the Iranian regime.
    • Flights: “We have to turn the Internet back on… cyber warfare… payments to defectors… make clear their elites have nowhere to run.”
    • "If you have the opportunity to bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitz, you bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitz." (Rob Carson, 33:43)
  • Flights: “30 to 50,000 Iranians have been executed… This is a regime on the scale of the Nazis.”
• Hope for Regime Change:
  • “If [freedom] happens in Iran, it would certainly be as big as the Berlin Wall.” (Fred Flights, 35:53)

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7. Closing Segments & Additional Commentary

[36:17–end]

• Trump’s Popularity Among Hispanics:
  • Carson highlights rising poll numbers and posits reasons (“rescued Venezuelan people from Maduro,” “machismo,” stance on deportation).
• COVID’s Lasting Damages on Education:
  • Sarah Perry blames Biden and Democrats for “lost years” in public education.
• Mock and Ridicule as Strategy:
  • Carson’s recurring theme: laughter and exposure as political tools—"I'm here to mock, ridicule and make fun of them every day. And it's working.”

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Virginia politics and betrayal:
  • “They lied to get into office and now they are springing this on the people of Virginia and it will not stand.” (Rob Carson, 01:55)
• On bureaucracy/customs delays:
  • “Customs needed to know the genus and species of the wood the damn desk is made from. I don't know what it is. It was made in Asia, for God's sake.” (Rob Carson, 06:43)
• Fraud in public spending:
  • “Over $10 million per person. Gavin Newsom needs to… be introduced to a jail cell. Democrats got to go to jail across this damn country.” (Rob Carson, 12:17)
• On Somali immigration:
  • “Who is letting their kids be watched by Somalian? Didn’t anybody see Captain Phillips at Tom Hanks movie? … We're taking over the ship and the childcare center.” (Fred Flights/Rob Carson, 14:08)
• On NYC’s socialist culture:
  • “Heated Rivalry doesn’t just sound like a porn movie… is that a Zamboner?” (Rob Carson, 17:40)
• Bill Maher on leftist dogma:
  • “These are utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Bryn Mawr… But these are statements made as an adult. … He's a straight up communist.” (Bill Maher, 19:44–20:25)
• On Europe’s dependency (Flights):
  • “Europe has destroyed itself with out of control immigration policies… It cannot survive without the U.S.” (Fred Flights, 24:24)
• On Canadian trade:
  • “75% of Canadian exports go to the U.S. 75%. They import 50% of their goods from the U.S. … they can't survive without the U.S. they can’t possibly transition to China.” (Fred Flights, 26:59)
• On Iran and oppression:
  • “30 to 50,000 Iranians have been executed… This is a regime on the scale of the Nazis. … If this happens in Iran, it would certainly be as big as the Berlin Wall.” (Fred Flights, 33:52 & 35:53)
• On education post-COVID:
  • “My youngest has lost two years of learning instruction.” (Sarah Perry, 37:19)

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Segment Timestamps

• [01:23–07:40]: Virginia politics, election changes, and personal moving saga
• [07:40–08:24]: Comedy song parody break
• [08:24–12:25]: Fraud in government spending, hospice abuse, CA Care Courts, Medicaid
• [13:59–15:02]: Immigration satire, Somali-Americans
• [15:53–20:25]: Culture war satire, NYC snowstorm reading, Bill Maher clip
• [22:15–36:17]: Foreign policy interview with Fred Flights (Europe, Canada, Iran)
• [36:17–End]: Poll numbers, COVID aftermath in education, closing commentary

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Tone & Language

• Conversational, irreverent, rant-driven, and comedic—Rob Carson is highly opinionated, sharply satirical, and uses hyperbole and sarcasm liberally.
• Guests and clips (Fred Flights, Bill Maher, etc.) are serious but match Carson’s skeptical stance toward progressive policy and Western political elites.
• Heavy use of running jokes and pop-culture references (e.g., Captain Phillips, Zamboner, Brokeback Mountain).

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For Listeners New & Regular

This episode is a quintessential Rob Carson broadcast: part news rundown, part cultural roast, and part ideological call-to-arms. Expect brash humor, policy analysis (both tongue-in-cheek and substantive), and a clear ideological stance against the progressive/leftist direction in US and global politics.

Key Listening Points:

• The Virginia political section (01:23–07:40) is central for understanding Carson’s alarm over local governance issues.
• The Fred Flights interview (from 22:15 onwards) offers a strong, detailed foreign policy perspective mixed with Carson’s characteristic humor and exasperation.
• For pure satire and comedic moments, tune in to the bits on immigration, cultural policy, and city politics throughout the first 25 minutes.

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If you haven’t listened:
You’ll come away understanding both the substance and spectacle of American political commentary, Newsmax-style—with laughs, exasperation, and a distinct right-of-center worldview.

Transcript

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They're going to steal elections. They're going to take your guns. They're going to take your friggin leaf blowers. Okay, it is nuts. It's even further left than Zoran Mandami. It was a lie. They lied to get into office and now they are springing this on the people of Virginia and it will not stand. It will not stand. Ridiculous. This cannot Happen. This cannot happen. You cannot run for office and gain the trust of the voters and then pull this. If she would have said any of this that they're planning, she would have never been elected. This cannot be allowed to happen. You cannot run for office and misrepresent yourself in such a fashion. Utterly, utterly ridiculous. We'll try and get him on, and then we'll begin doing battle with, to stay Virginia. Because this will destroy Virginia. This will destroy a great state. I just moved here. I remember I lived in Maryland. I used to live in Maryland. Maryland is escaped from New York. You drive across the Potomac river into Maryland, looks like into Virginia. It's like driving into Oz. It's beautiful. I drove up to my old neighborhood a couple months ago where I used to live in Germantown. Everything's going to crap. The mall that was going out of business as I left is an empty hulk. It's been sitting there for 10 years where my kids went to school. They are literally selling fruit out of the back of pickup trucks like Tijuana. All of the intersections are overgrown with weeds. There was a homeless, abandoned homeless encampment literally blocks away from my home in the woods. That's Maryland. That's Maryland. And, and I had always, you know, when I lived in Maryland, I always wanted to live in Virginia. I said there was no damn way I was going to live in, in Maryland when I moved back. And now this nonsense cannot be allowed to stand. It can't. It can't. By the way, I'm, I'm, I. I've been on this. An ordeal. I'll just call this, call this. I moved here six months ago. It's hard to believe it's been six months. Packed up all of my belongings, had them delivered. They lost a lot of stuff, by the way. All my jeans, they lost. The idiots who, who, who moved my stuff, lost all of my jeans, even the ones I've had for like 20 years, gone. So I moved my studio out here myself. This studio that I built, I built it all myself. No help, just me. This is me. A guy named Mark Giuliani. He gave me the studio and he has allowed me to use his space. But I built this thing myself. I ordered everything myself. Spent every damn dime that I have on this everything. And I ordered this glorious desk from the same place that Stephen A. Smith got his from the same place that Fox NFL coverage got theirs. Spent my own money to do it. Had it built overseas. Because if you put it, you put TV or broadcast on anything over here, they'll charge you five times as much as a normal desk, just like they do with flowers at weddings. You know, you can order a bouquet of flowers somewhere else, but when it's a wedding, it costs five times as much. You go to a bakery, you can buy a cake for $30. If you want to buy a cake for a wedding, it's $500. And that's the way it is with broadcast desks. So I ordered this damn thing four months ago, went through the building process, decided after looking at different models, change the LED lights on it, correspondent with these people. Then. Then after paying for it, I discover I have to get through customs. So months ago, I had to come up with all this paper. All of it had to be, you know, signed, notarized it. All of this and all this. And then the other day. The other day, it's right in the dock. It's at the dock in Baltimore. It's ready to be delivered. And all of a sudden, I got to come up with $2,400 in fees and bullcrap from the government. And then on top of all of that, are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? Listen to this. Customs needed to know the genus and species of the wood the damn desk is made from. I don't know what it is. It was made in Asia, for God's sake. I don't know what wood they use. Bamboo. I don't know. So I said oak. And then I had to look up online the genus and species of oak and put the genus and species of oak on a pressed wood desk. What the hell kind of sense does that make? And I think that call was the call for the desk delivery. It's supposed to be delivered today. And I've had to change two movie companies because it was supposed to be delivered on the 8th, and now it's gonna be delivered today, and I don't even know it's gonna get through the door. But it's worth it. Yes, it's worth it. It's gonna look really good, by the way. It's gonna look really, really, really, really good. You know what I think I need? I think I need a palate cleanser. I think I need a little comedy from Jim Gossett about ice. That's what I think I need. A little. Little comedy from Jim gusset about ice on the Rob Carson show. Oh, oh, oh. Protesters in Minnesota. They're out of control. I want a desk.

[Fred Flights]

Jacob Fry. All he does is lie because he has no soul.

[Rob Carson]

Genus and species.

[Fred Flights]

Tim Walls.

[Rob Carson]

He is just as bad criminals.

[Fred Flights]

He'll defend each assault is the protesters fault. This madness has to end.

[Rob Carson]

Tom Holman says. Hey friend. Hey friend. You don't bring a gun to protest. Not a good ide. You don't run an agent down with your car and you don't f around with ice before you show up with a gun. Not a good idea.

[Fred Flights]

You should think twice.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you don't use an SUV as.

[Fred Flights]

A weapon and you don't f around with ice.

[Rob Carson]

Not a good idea. You don't f around with ice. All right, I needed that. I needed that. Genus and species of oak. I have no freaking idea. I'm surprised you're like, it's not the correct genus of species of oak. More fraud. More fraud. The Democrat crime family is bigger than we could have ever, ever, ever imagined. Ever imagined. Scott Turner is the HUD Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. And, and we got. We were buying housing for dead people. We also take stewardship.

So we're cracking down on waste and fraud and abuse.

Our office of the Chief Financial Officer uncover more than $5 billion in potential payment errors. That's nothing. Over 50 billion in total rental assistance for the fiscal year 2024. And that includes money that went to nearly 30,000 dead people. That is ludicrous. It's ridiculous to even think or talk in such a way.

It's a violation of our sacred trust to American taxpayers.

And it has to end and it will. Trillions of dollars. Trillions of dollars. Dr. Oz, he decided to go to California because there's a. Apparently the hospice industrial complex, they got whole buildings filled with offices that just kill you. Just, you know, your final days in it. But it turns out not so much. It's all a lie.

So you can see these are medical buildings. They've got Cyrillic writing, Russian, Armenian writing.

Both sides, Russian and Armenian writing.

Lots of action it seems.

Not Somalia.

I don't know how many patients are getting care, but in this four block area in Los Angeles there are 42 hospices. So either there are a lot of people dying here or you've got a fraudulent activity that is so good that everyone wants to get in on it.

Oh, I'm thinking that's it.

I'm in Van Nuys in Los Angeles and this boarded up area above my head here is a big hospice center. There are apparently quite a few hospices around here. 42 within a four block radius. And these guys stole $16 million. Listen carefully. The main guy went to jail for two years stealing $16 million. It's a good Trade off for a lot of folks. And if you look at it, it's pretty indescript. There wasn't anyone really in there. They weren't doing any services. They just got an address they could claim was a hospice and then they ran the business claiming people were at home getting services, which they really weren't.

Yeah.

Well, we have learned this. There's roughly three and a half billion dollars of fraud taking place here in Los Angeles in hospice and home care. It's run quite a bit of it by the Russian Armenian mafia. You notice the lettering and language behind me is.

It's like, not only will we take care of your hospice care, we'll kill you, too.

Of that dialect. And it also highlights the fact that.

I'm sorry, I should have done the Russian accent. Not only will we take care of your end of life, we will end your life.

This is an organized crime mafia deal where you've folks who have systemically recruited doctors to write false prescriptions. You know, hundreds of doctors.

Y' all got tired of this Bullcrap. Oh, here's Dr. Oz talking about illegals getting health care in California.

Talk about illegal immigrants. So Gavin Newsom has given us a hard time for threatening the health insurance of illegal immigrants. Just to be very transparent. If you're on Medicare, you don't get free dental, you don't get free vision. You do if you're an illegal immigrant in California.

This is the infuriary.

So you've got taxpayers in New Mexico, right, which is a blue state, but a poor state, paying extra tax dollars to the federal government that are recycled back into LA to deal with the fraud that I'm talking about. So illegal immigrants. He's mad. He's mad.

He's mad.

He's mad. We're horrible people. We're Republicans. You have no conscience, you have no heart. As soon as we made it clear we were no longer going to pay for illegal immigrants in California, what did he do? He took them off medcal. Now. He didn't take them off, he come up on the federal side. So in theory, only emergency services are going to get paid for for illegal immigrants in California, which is a national.

Law, and it's reasonable. Did you realize for every Medicaid dollar that's sent into these states, $9 of ours goes with it? We pay $9, they pay one. Yeah. I mentioned this earlier. Gavin Newsom launched Care Court with great fanfare. He promised to help people with severe mental illness who go back and forth between homelessness, jail and emergency rooms. California boasted that the CARE court would be completely paradigm that would compassionately force people's mentally ill loved ones off the streets and into treatment. A state assembly analysis said it would take care of 50,000 people. They could be eligible. However, after spending $236 million in taxpayer dollars on care since March 2022. You want to guess how many people were helped? You better sit down for this. 22 people. 22 people. Over $10 million per person. Gavin Newsom needs to. He needs to be introduced to a jail cell. Democrats got to go to jail across this damn country for what? They're done. We have to be relentless on this. We have an opening here. We have an opportunity. They've exposed their flank. Now it's time to kick their butts. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Fred Flights]

Starting to think Somalia is not sending us their best.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Fred Flights]

Who is letting their kids be watched by Somalian? Didn't anybody see Captain Phillips at Tom Hanks movie?

[Rob Carson]

They're pirates. We are taking over the ship and the child care center. We're doing both.

[Fred Flights]

That's how amazing this country is though. You can come over here from Somalia.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Fred Flights]

You don't even have to be here, you know, legally.

[Rob Carson]

You could just marry your brother. Yeah, I know.

[Fred Flights]

What an amazing country.

[Rob Carson]

And you can open up a child care center, a leering center.

You don't even have to have kids.

[Fred Flights]

It's the best part.

[Rob Carson]

I know. I know. Rob Schneider. Rob Schneider. He's experiencing a career rebirth after being black listed by. By the. The left by Hollywood and whatnot. And he's doing stand up. It's just fantastic stuff. I hope to get him on the. The air maybe in studio here in Washington D.C. oh, by the way, the. The genus of oak is. Hold on one second. I just forgot it. Quercus. It's quercus. There you go. Now you know that. Yeah. Oh, no. It's a species Quercus robur, which is the English oak or the quercus rubera, which is the northern red oak. Specific genus name for oak trees belonging to the beech family of fagacea. This genus includes a wide variety of species which approximately 400 to 50 to 500 species distributed in the northern hemisphere. I don't even know if my desk is made of it. I just lied to customs because I don't know what freaking tree did my. My desk is that, you know, and it's coming tomorrow between 9am and 1pm Six months to get the damn thing. And they can only give me a window of 9 to 11 or 9 to 1. Zoran Mandami is. Did you see him trying to shovel snow yesterday? Oh, my God. Did you see Kathy Hochul trying to shovel snow? How about this? How about you teach us how to shovel the bull crap that you leave behind you every day? Zoran Bondami mocked for his snow shoveling technique because he's never done it before, because he's never done labor at all. He tried to bench press 135 pounds. Needed a spotter. I'm. I just turned twice 30 and I can do 135. I probably. If I, if I just did 135, 35 to 40 times. I just do it 20 times. Then I add 10. Then I add 25. 15. 15. Yeah, I know, I know. Pretty cool. Thank you. Relief factor. Ding. NYC socialist mayor mocked for his show snubbling technique after a Big Apple was hit with the worst blizzard. And he's never worked in his life. It's so, I mean, just so stupid. And then he's also urging readers to read homoerotic sports novels during the snowstorm. And I mean, honestly, you know, I just streamed Pluribus. I never thought about reading a homoerotic hockey novel. Oh, and by the way, Pluribus, I watched, I finished the series first one season. Apple TV main character is one badass lesbian. I'll just tell you that. She's a good. Her character is fantastic. Democrat Socialist Zoran Mandami specifically encouraged Big Apple residents to read Heated Rivalry, a homoerotic hockey novel, during a Sunday news conference with the New York City Emergency Management. Heated Rivalry doesn't just sound like a porn movie. Mandami called on residents to stay home, avoid the storm, occupy themselves by reading the popular romance novel. Sure, I'm gonna read Heated Rivalry. Sure. Like the Brokeback Mountain of hockey novels. I mean, is that a Zamboner? Bony. Bony. Is that a Zamboni? Okay. Heated Rivalry, written by Canadian author Rachel Reed, is the first novel in a six book series called Game Changer. Stop it. Television adaptation based on the series titled Heated rivalry premiered in November 2025. The book recommendation by Mondami followed the New York Public Library Saturday X Post announcing the Game Changer series would be available as ebooks and audiobooks. My God, really? Really? Really, really, really? Really? That's the book you recommend? Okay, okay, just go with that. You know, catch her in the rye. You could do that. But now let's just go with Heated Exchange or Bodily Fluid exchange or, you know, hotness on the ice or whatever. I don't even care. I don't care. Here's Bill Maher. He's not too crazy about Zorad Mondani.

It matters that the mayor stands by. And I, so I assume, stands with someone who says things like, if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over. Seize private property? Home ownership is racist.

Yeah.

Elect more communists. Private property, especially homeownership.

They did this in Virginia, but they didn't tell you. Abigail Spamberger lied about who she is.

Ownership is a weapon of white supremacy.

It's criminal. Yeah, I said. Really?

Even among the 20 million black Americans who own their own home?

Yeah. I mean.

These are the kind of utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Bryn Mawr.

He's talking about his rid to czar or whatever the hell she is.

Because it's the kind of privilege hating you can only learn for $95,000 a year. But these are statements made as an adult.

Yeah.

Yes, for co EDS from elite private colleges, you're only a lesbian until graduation. But the communism lasts a lifetime. Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not Mayor Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Listen, listen, let me settle it.

What's that?

He's a straight up communist.

Yeah, he is.

How do I know this? Well, I'm reading between the lines. When one of his major advisors says, elect more communists, which is fine. It's fine. It's a belief system. He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to vote for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's just going through a goth phase, they're going to lose more elections.

And this is what they're doing. They're running on something else than springing communism and Marxism on the voters. It cannot exist. It cannot live in New York City, it cannot live in Seattle, and it cannot live in the state of Virginia. That's it. That's all. That's that Tom Fitton. I'm putting up the Tom Fitton bat signal over here in Alexandria. Come and rescue us, Tommy. We appreciate it. All right. Coming up, Fred Flights talk about Iran and other stuff.

[Fred Flights]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Fred Flights]

You can't because we need each other.

[Rob Carson]

And why do we need each other? I tell you first of all because also the US needs NATO and US is not only in NATO to prevent a mistake after the second, after the.

[Fred Flights]

First World War, not to re engage with Europe.

[Rob Carson]

And then again the long arm of history reaching out to the US again in the second World War, as Churchill famously said in his speech in 1941.

[Fred Flights]

In the US Congress, they are also.

[Rob Carson]

NATO because for the US to stay.

[Fred Flights]

Safe and by the way, Arctic region.

[Rob Carson]

Is evidence here, they need a secure.

[Fred Flights]

Arctic, they need to secure Euro Atlantic.

[Rob Carson]

And they also need to secure Europe. So the US has every interest in NATO as much as Canada and the European NATO. NATO, that is NATO Secretary Mark Rudy dropping nukes on Europe. Truth nukes is what he dropped on on Europe. And I think a lot of the elitists in Davos there was a hard pill to swallow having a US President who is just kind of tired, you know, them running over America and then expecting us to bail them out. Join us to talk about this and so much more. I mean it is a foreign policy extravaganza. And, and I know that Mark, or I should say Fred Flights likes to, likes to pony up at the all you can eat foreign policy buffet we serve here. Fred, how are you today?

[Fred Flights]

Pretty good. How you doing?

[Rob Carson]

Excellent. Fred is a senior fellow of the American First Policy Institute. That's NATO Secretary General Mark Rudy bas saying that if you think you can get along with America without America, you're out of your net. The same thing happened with the leader of Finland at the summit in Davos and he said we can do that. Eleven minutes later says not so much. Do you think Donald Trump is getting to them that they're realizing that they can't survive without us?

[Fred Flights]

I think so. This speech given by the Canadian prime minister about how middle powers have to find a new arrangement because they can't trust the United States, maybe situate themselves equally between China and the U.S. this is so incredibly absurd. It sort of reminds me of the mean tweet syndrome. They're mad at Trump because he sends a mean tweet even though he's right. Europe has destroyed itself with out of control immigration policies, are wrecking its economy, crazy environmental policy. It's not defending itself. And as you said earlier, Europe would have to spend 10% of its GDP on defense if the US was not around. And it would have to develop a nuclear arsenal which would cost billions and billions of dollars. It cannot survive without the U.S. yeah.

[Rob Carson]

And you know, isn't this kind of what happens in. It's a macrocosm of what's happened in the United States? Because in liberal bastions, all of these idiotic policies of open border and unlimited migration and sanctuary cities and green energy nonsense have all failed. They've all failed. They were defeated in the election of 2024, although there are strongholds in New York and Seattle and whatnot. Isn't that kind of the same thing that's happening with Europe? They're realizing the folly of this leftist nonsense.

[Fred Flights]

It really is happening. And you can see all these European countries rolling back their mandate to outlaw gasoline powered vehicles because people don't want them and they don't work in the cold. It's really amusing when you think about Canada. You know, the Canadian Prime Minister wants to allow ultra cheap Chinese electric vehicles to come into Canada. Did you know that in many Canadian cities, these environmentals who like green vehicles, they have to have two cars because their green vehicle won't work in the cold. In Ottawa today it's about one degree green vehicles. Green EVs won't work. So, so that's the state of play with these electric vehicles in Canada.

[Rob Carson]

They haven't learned their lesson in Canada. And I know that Paul Vier is waiting in the wings to turn the country around. Alberta, the lines are getting longer. People waiting to get into meetings for Alberta to secede. They've had about enough of this nonsense. And then you've got Mark Carney visiting China, then coming back and we're going to have a trade deal with China. Donald Trump saying, okay, well you do that, you do that. We're going to tariff your imports 100%. And he backed. Then I see Doug Ford who looks like a Chris Farley impersonator from 20 years ago, saying that no, no, we ought to let those EVs come in anyway and that will kill the Canadian auto industry when Is relief going to come from the long suffering Canadians who are tired of this bull crap?

[Fred Flights]

Well, I think Trump was exactly right. 75% of Canadian exports go to the U.S. 75%. They import 50% of their goods from the U.S. they can't survive without the U.S. they can'T possibly transition to China. When I was in Canada in December, I heard Canadian Parliament members saying that let's replace the US With China because we're married to Donald Trump. It's ridiculous.

[Rob Carson]

What the hell? I mean, it's like saying, you know, let's kick the puppy out of the bed and invite a rattlesnake to sleep with you. I mean, honestly, that's what it is. The same damn thing with Europe, France. Emile Macron the other day at Davos, he says, oh, we need to do more trade, we need to be more involved with China. Do we, do we see that China, I don't know, about 36 years ago, crushed to death a whole lot of students to put down a democratic rebellion and of course enslave their people. I mean, honestly, who the hell thinks like this other than a group of people who have never learned lessons from history? Isn't that what it's really all about?

[Fred Flights]

That's exactly right. There's Macron meeting with China to invest more in France for our Ukraine policy. Why isn't Macron calling on China to cut off oil purchases from Russia, supporting Russia in the war in Ukraine, something that President Trump is trying to do? I mean, it's simply so hypocritical to see these people faulting Trump for his policies, supposedly for being too close to Putin and the Europeans don't want to do anything about this war.

[Rob Carson]

This is what happens with, and I don't like to use the word liberal because liberal means open minded. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm liberal because I'll sit and have a, you know, break bread with someone who disagrees with me politically. So it's kind, kind of an insult to liberals. These are adults who have never learned anything. They go through their entire lives with this elite, kind of effete, Marxist, communist socialist ideology that is always tried and failed. It always results in body pits by the, you know, hundreds of millions of people, and yet they never grow up enough. And then eventually they get bitten by it again and the United States have to step in. I don't know what it takes to, to make these people learn because they forget history as soon, you know, the event is over and they return to.

[Fred Flights]

The same crap and Everyone has to conform. There's basically politically correct things you have to say, things you have to support green energy, open borders. Trump doesn't support that. He's saying all the things you're not supposed to say in meetings within our country, in campaign speeches. Europeans aren't used to all this honesty. All these things they know are true.

[Rob Carson]

But won't admit that. Yeah, it looks like though there's some movement in like Germany. The Chancellor of Germany is, is really given the leftists a little what fur it looks like there's some movement in, in France, Great Britain as well. You've got, you've got Nigel Farage waiting in the, the wings. A major possibility of some momentum shift happening in there. Do you think that Europe is going to be Trumpified like so many Latin American nations?

[Fred Flights]

I think there's real movement away from these globalists. And the chancellor, Germany is very good. He thinks the government in Iran has to go. Yes, heard that from Macron.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Fred Flights]

But I mean he's actually been pretty good. When we bombed Iran, Mertz came right out and said it was the right thing to do because this is a state sponsored terror pursuing nuclear weapons. We didn't hear that from the UK or France.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I want to talk about that next. Fred, if you can hold on. Fred Flights joining us on the Newsmax hotline talking the senior fellow of the American First Policy Institute. Iran is next because we are amassing an armada off the nearby ready to you know, help out, give the, give the Iranian people a little nudge to get rid of the Ayatollah. We'll see what Fred thinks about that in a second. This is the Rob Carson Show. Between now and the end of the century, China will lose probably 2/3 to 3/4 the of of its population. So it reports 1.4 billion. Now it'll probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 450 million. Whoa. No country has ever undergone a demographic collapse like this, not even Europe during the Black Death. So really what we're talking about is something nobody has ever seen before. And I don't think China can remain a great power when its population falls apart. Gordon, always great to see you my friend. Thank you. Gordon Chang, friend of the show, talking last night about China. He wrote a book called the Coming Collapse of China. We, we shall see also and by the way, Fred Flights, I had heard that China has been inflating its population numbers to convince us that they over over a billion people. So, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I hope, I hope he's right, Fred. Let's talk about Iran. Let's talk about the armada that we've assembled in the Persian Gulf. What do you think is going to happen, man?

[Fred Flights]

Well, I think that the President certainly wants to put military force there to pressure the regime. He may plan to attack maybe headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard and other military and security units that are attacking the people. Maybe weapons depots. But we have to be realistic. We're not going to bomb away the Supreme Leader and the mullahs. We may weaken them. There has to be a long strategy to weaken this regime. We have to turn the Internet back on. There has to be cyber warfare against the regime. Large payments we will make to Iranian officials and military officials who defect and make clear to all the elites in the country, if you don't defect, we're going to kick your kids out of our countries. They won't be allowed to study in American or European universities. You may have heard that the children of some of Iran's leadership live in the United States. One was a professor at a Georgia university, although she was just kicked out of her job.

[Rob Carson]

Maybe we should take them hostage. I'm just kidding.

[Fred Flights]

Let's expel them. Let's deport them back to Iran. They don't want to live in Iran. I wonder why they did.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, I wonder why. I wonder why that is. But I mean we shouldn't have to do this alone. I mean you just talked about Germany. We just talked about Israel. Isn't it in the world's best interest since Iran for 47 friggin years has waged a terrorist war on the entire world? You would think we. I mean they can't stay in power. Fred. This is an opportunity. There has to be. If you have the opportunity to bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitz, you bomb the railroad tracks to Auschwitz.

[Fred Flights]

I mean that's, it's really important to frame it that way. 30 to 50,000 Iranians have been executed.

[Rob Carson]

That's unbelievable.

[Fred Flights]

The Chinese killed and Tiananmen. This is a regime on the scale of the Nazis. They're that evil. Their diplomats shouldn't be admitted to the us. We should break off relations with Iran. Kick them out of the United Nations. Make it clear there's no place that's safe for the leaders of this regime. And look, Israel is with us. An Iranian nuclear site had mysterious explosions today. And I imagine that the Israelis are behind that. I'm sure we're working very close with the Israelis. It's just too bad that the Europeans don't have the backbone Porters in an operation like that.

[Rob Carson]

Well, Scott Besson, who, by the way, is now my new official favorite cabinet member, he said he's gonna. He says if you think you can move your money out of Iran and hide it in another country, you mullahs, you guess again. The United States is going to take that money away. You are not going to have a safe haven. You're not going to retire rich in Turkey. It's not going to happen. So I thought that was kind of interesting. I think he said that in Davos the other day. I have a feeling something very big and very heavy is happening because I don't know, the same thing happened just off the coast of Venezuela a little while ago. A little targeted strike. And I think the same thing is coming to Iran. I don't think that. I think the Ayatollah better. Better start looking at a place in, you know, wherever on Zillow.

[Fred Flights]

I think he has a very deeply buried bunker somewhere. I understand that they have. They have spread out decision making in the country because they're worried we may take out or not just we, the US and the Israelis may take out their leaders. It will be much harder to get control of this country. Even if we captured the Ayatollah, that wouldn't do it. This country isn't as incompetently run as Venezuela was.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I think it's going to come real soon and real hot and heavy. I hope so anyway. I'm praying for the people of Persia. They'll walk free. Because I was a kid when the Ayatollah came into power and I'd love to see this. And Fred, you must admit, if this happens, if Cuba falls, if Venezuela has a free and fair election, this is. This is as big as the Berlin Wall.

[Fred Flights]

If this happens in Iran, it would certainly be as big as the Berlin Wall. This is state sponsored terror. Tried to kill the President of the United States.

[Rob Carson]

Yep.

[Fred Flights]

If we can take them out, we should.

[Rob Carson]

Amen, brother. Fred, always great to have your expertise. Where can people find your glorious work online?

[Fred Flights]

If you go to the AFPI website, americafirstpolicy.com, you can see our foreign policy work and our work on many other America first policies.

[Rob Carson]

All right, thanks for talking to me. I appreciate you.

[Fred Flights]

Good to be here.

[Rob Carson]

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