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Rob Carson
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Rob Carson
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Rob Carson
You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show in America on air and on the World Wide Web. This is the Rob Carson show.
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And by the grace of God, it is finally Friday.
Rob Carson
We're talking about the Democratic base, right? But what about all, what about all Americans, right? How about all voters? Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal. Look at this percentage. 42% in 96, 48% in 2013, now 58% in 2025 of all Democrats. All voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The Democrats are moving to the left. The far left is gaining power. And there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters, the clear majority, say that they are too liberal.
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Yeah, there you go. I mentioned this, that the Democrat Party did not learn a lesson from getting keel hauled in November of last of 2024. And they still haven't learned a dang thing. And it's interesting because, you know, the left is winning in little bastards like New York City and in Seattle and whatnot. And they're causing the people to leave the state or leave the, leave the city. Leave the state. Same goes with California. So good luck with that. Good luck with that in the midterms. Yeah. And of course the Democrat Party is back. Guano crazy. We just need to stay positive and patriotic and soldier on and get out there and vote and everything. Because all they have, all, all they have right now, the Democrat Party has nothing is Donald Trump's. You know, economy steamrolls, brings back manufacturing. We've got new inflation report. Inflation has cooled. We found out this week that job creation is going through the ceiling and the Democrats want to reopen the borders, defund DHS and then impeach Donald Trump and give him the 25th Amendment for no good reason other than that it's a great party. You should get behind them here is an inflation report. An inflation report from, of all places, cnn. Ladies and gentlemen, more bad news for Democrats.
Rob Carson
Well, look, this is some encouraging news on the cost of living. Inflation took a big step in the right direction to start the year off. So consumer prices up by 2.4% year over year. That is an improvement from 2.7% in December. That beat expectations, which were for 2.5%.
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They always think that the expectation is it's not going to be as good. And then Donald Trump ends up blowing away.
Rob Carson
In fact, this is a new 8.
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Low for annual inflation.
Rob Carson
Month over month, prices up 5.2%. Also a step in the right direction, also beating expectation. Now, economists look really closely at core inflation, which excludes food and energy. Core inflation came in at 2.5%. That's notable because that's the lowest annual inflation rate for core since March of 2021. Before the inflation crisis.
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Yeah, before Joe Biden blew up the economy and destroyed everything and caused the price of groceries to increase by 30%. Price of a used car to double and the price of a new car, you know, another 30% double. The price of a house, tripled or quadrupled the price of a home interest rate and all that. Other than that, he did a great job. Did a great job. And they're trying to convince you. Several polling companies are saying that people like Joe Biden better. Yeah, sure, keep telling yourself all of that stuff. But here's also the President of the United States. I don't know if you knew this, but there were some unbelievable job numbers this week. Unbelievable job numbers this week. And of course, they were better than expectation because the Democrat Party hopes it's not an expectation. It's a hope that it's not going to work. And they're always proven wrong. Do you know why? Because Donald Trump's doing what it takes to make the economy grow. So there's that.
Tony Kenneth
The jobs report's amazing in certain ways because we have.
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Are you saying that deregulation and lowering taxes and lowering the price of fuel and closing down the southern border might have a positive impact on business?
Tony Kenneth
Tremendously. Fewer federal employees.
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Oh, my God.
Tony Kenneth
Way down. And now I could have left them and added to what we did, and we would have had almost 100% employment. I could have gotten a great kick out of the fact that we're 100% employed.
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Well, in that case, you better defund ICE.
Tony Kenneth
But we got rid of tremendous numbers of federal workers and they hated me for it. Now they love me because that's okay.
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Weren't going to work 94% of the time when after Covid and here in Washington, D.C. as a government employment employee now you can get actually get a real job, meet some people. You weren't really enjoying it very much.
Tony Kenneth
As most of them have gotten jobs in the private sector for two or three times more money than they were being paid by the federal government. We had some jobs where you had 10 workers for one job.
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Wow.
Tony Kenneth
10 workers for a job that one person should be doing.
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I know. And we've gotten rid of that's called a government job of a lot of the those jobs.
Tony Kenneth
And by getting rid of them, these people became available to work in the private sector. And as you know, the numbers are incredible. So the job numbers are incredible.
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Yeah.
Tony Kenneth
The financial numbers are beyond belief. Again, they thought it couldn't be done in four years and I did it in one year.
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Yeah, pretty much.
Tony Kenneth
And the numbers you're going to see is these. I don't know if you notice also construction numbers, the jobs for construction workers.
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You know, they're building stuff.
Tony Kenneth
Why? Because they're building plants all over the United States. That's why.
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You know why they're doing that? Because Donald Trump is bringing manufacturing back to America and he's got $18 trillion of investment from around the world, which is un. Unheard of in world history. Unheard of in world history. And he's saying if you build a factory here in the United States, you can write off all of the expenses, all of the infrastructure, all of the equipment this year. That's why it's happening.
Tony Kenneth
When these plants open in a year from now, some sooner, some a little bit later. But when these auto plants, plants and thousands of other types of plants, when they open over the next period of a year, year and a half, you're going to see numbers like we've never seen before.
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And yet a year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better. Maybe it's because of Apple News. Maybe, maybe it's because of Apple news, because every ounce of news on that is left wing. Harris Capps says that, that 51% of registered voters say Trump is doing worse than Biden. What it being cognizant at showing up at work or I mean, not going on vacation? He's doing much. Yes, he's doing much worse. He hasn't been on a vacation. Rasmussen, 48% of voters say that Biden did a better job as president. What the hell? Really? Sure. 40% of the time on vacation, 60% after they removed him from the race because his brain didn't work. YouGov economists found that 46% of adults say Trump is doing worse than Biden. Okay, go with that. And then, of course, Gallup has quit tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years. So there's that, too. So you want to believe the polls? Go right ahead. You know what I'd rather believe? I'd rather believe the results. And right now the results are pretty much kicking butt.
Rob Carson
You look at overall inflation for the first year of Trump versus Biden. Biden overall inflation was up 4.3%. Higher than Trump, just up 1 point.
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Then it went to 9.
Rob Carson
10%, 6%. Groceries under Biden in that time, up 3.8%.
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I remember that.
Rob Carson
Up 1.3.
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Oh, wow.
Rob Carson
Then when it comes to gas. This is crazy.
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Yeah, what about gas? It's got to be. It's got to be so bad for Donald Trump because, you know, Joe Biden was such a better president.
Rob Carson
Biden, up 24.4% with Trump, is actually down 5.4%.
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That's really interesting because I remember the, like the first or second year of the Biden administration, it cost me $94 to fill my little, my little truck. And now it costs like 40.
Rob Carson
That is where the biggest difference is. And we heard from the HUD secretary. Yes, Scott Turner, this afternoon. They are racing to cut red tape for construction projects because the belief it's.
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A new home building because you see, he's the Housing and Urban Development secretary.
Rob Carson
Officials here is that if housing is the number one place where people are getting killed when it comes to affordability, if people are cutting red tape and able to build more houses and apartments, then the prices will come down.
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Well, that is just amazing how, how these things happen. You actually make America business friendly. Business comes, people get hired, the government gets smaller. This is Jim Gossett as the President.
Tony Kenneth
It's wonderful.
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Come on.
Tony Kenneth
It's marvelous.
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Yes, it is.
Tony Kenneth
It's one big beautiful bell.
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Yes, it is. And it's working very fine.
Tony Kenneth
Traitors like Thom Tillis. This bill, he wants to kill Tillis is the latest defection.
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But it did pass, actually.
Tony Kenneth
He's not seeking re election.
Rob Carson
Come on now.
Tony Kenneth
It's wonderful. It's gigantic. It is a beauty. The Senate's duty to pass the big beautiful bill.
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There you go. And they did. And it's working very well. It's just starting, actually. It's just starting. All right, so. Oh, and then there's this in Venezuela. I don't know if you knew this But Donald Trump went in and he did a surgical strike to get a dictator who's been wanted by the United States with a bounty that Joe Biden doubled during his presidency. And, and Donald Trump went and got him quicker than you could get an Uber Eats order. And now Venezuela is kicking butt.
Rob Carson
Think in the first year we'll see pretty significant 30, 40% growth in Venezuelan oil production. This year you could continue production growth.
Tony Kenneth
Rate at a pretty good clip.
Rob Carson
Venezuela does have the largest proved oil reserves, which is a technical concept, much larger than the US but yet we produce 20 times more oil than Venezuela does.
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So, yes.
Rob Carson
Are they underexploited resources? Absolutely. The people of Venezuela are underexploited resources. Here's people with a lot of technical education, a lot of passion for their country that have been living in dire poverty. 8 million have fled abroad. We got to change the game in Venezuela For a win for Venezuelans, a win for America, a win for our hemisphere.
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You got it. And you know what? Freedom is spreading through the Southern hemisphere. Freedom is spreading around the world. Patriotism, freedom and faith and all of that. And if you just hang in there, soldier on. The results are becoming very obvious on the way. Donald Trump got rid of a whole bunch of green energy nonsense. You know that, that start stop feature on your car, you can, you can pull up to a, you know, stop sign and your engine sets. It's really bad for the engine, by the way, to turn on and off that much. He got rid of it yesterday. The Democrats were all butthurt, including David Manure over on abc. So we'll get to that in a minute. This, my friends, is a Friday edition of the Rob Carson Show.
Tony Kenneth
The Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for detail.
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It is a Rock Carson Show. Tony, Kenneth, the Daily Signals going to join us at the bottom of the hour. And a lot of good news today. The weather's warming up. I don't know where you are, but it's going to be nice where I live like in the 50s this weekend, which, you know, is crazy. Key inflation MEASURE hits level not seen in five years. Have you noticed, have you noticed that the Democrats aren't saying affordability anymore? And I mentioned this literally two weeks ago, I said they're not saying affordability anymore. And I've had other pundits on this show. I'm not a pundit, by the way, but, but I've had pundits on there and they' oh yeah, you know, there's definitely gonna be affordability In November, they're gonna be really talking about affordability in memory. I said, no, they're not. No, they're not. Because inflation is going to end and in jobs are, you know, rates are going through the ceiling, your. Your salaries are going up and all of this. And so this is why they're focusing on nonsense like it's racist and sexist to show an ID to vote your Democrat Party. They're so off the rails. They're so off the rails. We'll get to that. By the way, say that passed through. You know, we have people with. How do I put this? No balls in the, in the Senate. And so they, it's amazing. The Republicans, when they're in power and they don't have, you know, they've got both houses of Congress, they roll over like armadillo in the middle of a highway and just get kind of spun around by cars, just spun around by Democrats driving by either direction. But when Democrats are in charge, even when they're not in charge, they get what they want. Because you know what? Some of our Republicans, again, did I mention they don't have balls? Yeah, they said that. I actually said that on the radio. Holy hell. Wow, that is just crazy. But things, you know, here's the deal. We've got to succeed in a vacuum of no good news being reported by the media. We heard Caroline Levitt earlier this week said, well, since you're not going to ask about all the good news, I'm going to go ahead and tell you because you want to focus on the empty well of Epstein with regard to Donald Trump. You want to focus on voter ID being racist and sexist, which means that, by the way, and ladies, I would use this, and you, too, you people of color, when you go in to get a car loan and they asked to see your id, you tell them that is racist and sexist. And you're not going to show them that id. Do that. Do that and see what happens. Maybe if you're trying to apply for a loan to get a home or something, just tell the people you don't need to show an ID because it's racist and sexist. There you go. And did you know that they passed voter ID in the state of Arizona? And have you heard the stories about all of the people of color and women who are streaming out of Arizona and all of the lawsuits against Arizona because it is racist and sexist to require an ID to vote? Oh, yeah. No, it's not happening. Because it's not racist and sexist to require An ID for anything. So there's that. Let's talk a little bit about Donald Trump getting rid of all this nonsense, regulation, green energy nonsense. By the way, here is Donald Trump yesterday with Lee Zeldin.
Tony Kenneth
But I'm pleased to be joined today by EPA administrator Lee Zeldin who you.
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All know he's probably a racist.
Tony Kenneth
Announced the single largest deregulatory action in.
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American history which will really hurt people of color and indigenous people and women, I guess.
Tony Kenneth
Yeah, that's a big statement in American history and I think we can add the words by far.
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By far. Yes, yes.
Tony Kenneth
Under the process just completed by the epa, we are officially terminating the so called endangerment finding.
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Yeah.
Tony Kenneth
A disastrous Obama era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.
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It also made cars suck like the, the Ford F150 Lightning. Oh my God. If you still have one of those, I mean what are you doing with it really? Is it lawn ornament? What are you doing places I'd use that, that front end trunk of that and open it up and this fellow with some nice dirt and some azaleas or something, I don't even know flowers. But you know, kind of like you used to do in the, you know with the bathtub grotto when you were a little kid, if you're a Catholic.
Tony Kenneth
One up. Incredible.
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You can make it a grotto. You could put the Virgin Mary in there and then put some azaleas around.
Tony Kenneth
It for a worse product. This action will eliminate.
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We got a bathtub grotto over $1.3.
Tony Kenneth
Trillion of regulatory cost and help bring car prices tumbling down.
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Yeah, they say 2400-3000 price cut on the cars radically.
Tony Kenneth
Yeah, you're going to get a better car. You're going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better.
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And you don't have to buy a piece of crap ev. That is for posers by the way. Here he is talking about that st, that feature that turns the engine off when you pull up to a stop sign or a stop light and it turns off and you got to hit that little A button, turn it off. I have to do that every time I get in. Buck my Bronco. It's just ridiculous. And it's really not good for the engine to start and stop the dang engine every time you stop in traffic. It's the dumbest thing ever. It doesn't save any fuel. It doesn't make the animals, the planet better. It doesn't keep the polar bears from dying of heat exhaustion or something. It's the dumbest thing ever.
Tony Kenneth
Forced the hated start, stop, feature dumb thing onto American consumers, which unnecessarily shuts off a car's engine when you stop at a red light. In other words, the engine goes off. That's great.
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You know, they need that for Democrats when they sit down on the couch. If they just shut up, you know, and then stop talking, wouldn't that be kind of cool? There's no feature. There's no feature for that.
Tony Kenneth
The endangerment finding was also used to impose the massive.
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You have some leftist people over to the House for dinner. As soon as they sit down, the start, stop option starts and they just shut up. It'd be kind of nice, really.
Tony Kenneth
Very expensive electric.
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Yeah. But you know, last night, David Manure on abc, oh, he was. He had his panties on a bunch. And I mean that literally.
Rob Carson
Tonight, President Trump has repealed US power to regulate climate in this country.
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The US power to regulate climate in this country. Everything he just said there was so stupid. Because you can't regulate the climate for your country because we're a part of this thing called the planet Earth.
Rob Carson
And officially rejecting the science and what.
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This now the science is bull crap. David Manure now clears the way for.
Rob Carson
Critics tonight arguing this is not only dangerous for the environment, but for your health.
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Yeah, sure, yeah. And none of that bull crap has come true. You don't believe me? Here, just listen to. Listen to this little mole tire.
Rob Carson
Federal report today predicted possible catastrophic warming of the earth by the 1990s with a strong climate change. What scientists are telling us now is.
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That the threat of an ice age.
Rob Carson
Is not as remote as they once thought. During the lifetime of our grandchildren, Arctic.
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Cold and perpetual snow could turn most.
Rob Carson
Of the inhabitable portions of our planet into a polar desert.
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But the scientists are telling us we don't get our act together within the.
Rob Carson
Next eight or nine years.
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We're talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater. Yeah, that's a bunch of crap. Here's another one. This is from years ago with Matt Lauer, who hasn't worked in years because he used to lock women in his office.
Rob Carson
Today, life on Earth is disappearing faster than the days when dinosaurs breathed their last.
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No, it's not.
Rob Carson
But for a very different reason. Why us Homo sapiens are turning out to be as destructive a force as any aspect.
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Hey, that's Homo sapien, phobic.
Rob Carson
Earth's intricate web of ecosystems thrived for millions of years as natural paradises. So we came along, paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
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Oh, my God, he quoted Joni Mitchell. That even made it worse. Paid paradise, put up a parking lot. The dumbest song ever, by the way. He's talking about ddt, which getting rid of it killed hundreds of thousands of Africans of malaria, even though it isn't toxic. I know. Hey, we got Tony Kennett from the Daily Signal coming up. You know it's gonna get good. As though it could. I don't know. Anyway, it's coming up. Don't go anywhere. Hey, guys, it's Carson for Relief Factor. You know, one of the most rewarding parts of sharing Relief Factor with you is all the real stories like Sandra's she tells us. I'd been hearing about Relief Factor on the radio for a couple of years. Finally decided to try it because nothing else has helped my back. With the three week quick start. I went for it. Now I feel like a new person. Those are Sandra's own words. And it's just so gratifying to hear. I've experienced that kind of relief myself. And knowing folks like Sandra out there are feeling better makes it all worth it. Try it for yourself with a three week quick start. See how Relief Factor could be a game changer too. Call 804 RELIEF. That's 804 RELIEF. Or go to relieffactor.com. that's really factor.com. how will it feel to be out of pain?
Rob Carson
Women obviously have a higher capacity for empathy, yes, than men. But that empathy can be manipulated into giving empathy for people who don't deserve it.
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That's a problem. Yeah.
Rob Carson
And they can be manipulated into doing things that are not in their best interest. And that's why, Greg, I want our audience to consider amending the 19th amendment.
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Really? How's that?
Rob Carson
Now, I'm not saying. I'm not saying women. I'm not saying I don't want you to vote. I'm just saying not for the important stuff.
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Yeah.
Rob Carson
You can still vote. No, no, no. There's plenty of ladies. There's plenty of things for you to still vote for. America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, the school board employee of the month at Whole Foods. There's plenty for you to still get excited about and vote. I'm just saying for the big star stuff, leave it to the less suicidal, empathetic humans.
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Men. There you go. That is Rap Schneider. I mean, obviously no one would consider that. Well, Tony Kenneth is with the Daily Signal. He also hosts a great radio show on WIBC in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana. How you doing this glorious Friday, my friend?
Rob Carson
Dude, it's Friday. I've wanted it to be Friday for several days.
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Yes.
Rob Carson
I'm probably going to break a few people over my knee. I am saltier than the Pacific, my man.
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Are you. Are you even the Great Salt Lake?
Rob Carson
Oh, sir, I don't know if there's enough Mormons. Scoop up the salt for this lake over here, man.
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I know, I know. You know, it's really funny. You got these great, you know, employment number this week through the ceiling. You've got inflation completely flatlined in all of this. You've got polls saying that people miss Joe Biden and. And the Democrat answer to all of it is to go after the guy from ice, then go after Pam Bondi, and then shut down the DHS and then say that voter ID is racist and sexist. That's their plan.
Rob Carson
You know, I really don't think that when we're looking at the kind of broader country perspective right now, they realized how much rope they are handing themselves to hang themselves. Because right now you have the far left, like the Bernie Sandos kind of people, taking over the rest of the party. You have the young socials going out there, while at the same time, Harry Ensign is out on CNN on the poll side begging the left to realize the country thinks they are way too liberal. So at some point, I mean, goodness gracious, Rob, I mean, something has to pop or break or stretch or something.
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Well, it's. It's certainly stretching. But, you know, the thing is, they didn't learn anything from 2024. And it was immediate that they didn't learn anything. And they decided, okay, you know, we need to. We didn't give them something that was left enough. We needed to take it even more left. Now this. In the meantime, we've seen, like, you know, California. People are streaming out of California once again. I did sixth year. The most outward bound state in America. Even though it is paradise on earth, they've made it into a crap sandwich. We see Zoran Mandami, who is ushering in this new era of a socialist workers paradise with, what was it, the warmth of collectivism, killing 19 people from exposure. And nobody's moving there, and nobody's moving to New York. Nobody's going, oh, my God, socialism won. We gotta go to New York. Nobody's looking at Seattle and going, oh, my God, socialism won. We gotta move to Seattle. And yet the Democrat Party is saying, that's a winning ticket.
Rob Carson
Exactly. Great example. You got Tim Walls up there in Minnesota, and then you got Keith Ellison doing the same nonsense in front of the Senate. But that's Zoran Mamdani. Point is really the best encapsulation of where the left is going because it's the millennials and the Gen z, you know, 45 and under that is driving this at this point. That is who is behind the wheel for the left. And they have decided that whenever they get in power they're just going to start tearing things down. Maybe it's just a divider wall, maybe it's a load bearing wall, who cares? They know it's racist and sexist and xenophobic and polyphobic and photosynthesis and so they tear it all down and then stand there in awe as the building falls and on and kills a bunch of people. Like the 19 in New York.
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Yeah, listen to this.
Rob Carson
No idea that would happen.
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Listen to this. This is an idiot Gen Z er in New York City talking about what happens when all the millionaires, the entrepreneurs pull up stakes, take their businesses and leave.
Rob Carson
What do you say to these folks who say, well if you tax millionaires, they're going to leave the city and the top 1% pays 40% of the taxes in the city. So what happens if they leave? What's your response?
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Well, that's what I would say. It's like we should take their business and we run it like for our.
Tony Kenneth
Like the city ourselves.
Rob Carson
If they take their business to Florida, you feel like you can make it, keep it.
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I mean they, they can't leave the building. They can't like just yeah, we just take over the building. I mean if Donald Trump takes his, you know, leaves, we can run the Trump Hotel. We've never run anything before.
Rob Carson
Do they believe that that factories just spawn the resources to turn into finished products in the factories? They really do believe that. Every morning the fairy godmother visits Walmart, Bibbidi boppity Boo. And the groceries just appear in the store.
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Yeah. Did you see the state run grocery store in New York yesterday? It looked like when I was growing up with these real discount. This is where my family shop, these discount grocery stores that were called a generic store or whatever. And you go in and they still have the produce in the boxes and you would just grab it out of the box and all these idiots are standing in line and they each get a bag, okay, A bag. They stand in line, you know, two or three blocks down the street with a bag. It was so reminiscent of pre fall of the Berlin Wall, East Berlin. They think it's a great thing that they get a free bag of groceries from the state run grocery store.
Rob Carson
And on the flip side, this has Buddy Sanders crying into his pillow every night. Polymarket, like the ultimate capitalist. Throw your money around, betting market. Just the fetish hedonistic dream of the capitalist. In the 1920s, they've opened up a supermarket also in New York City. And the food is just flowing. It's just flowing out of pipes and gutters, it's flying off the shelves and it's restocked instantly and it makes the state run grocery store look like. Well, a state run grocery store.
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Yeah, I give it a year. If that. If that. Now I lived in Kansas City and I remember I was kind house hunting, thinking about staying in Kansas City. Dear God, what was I thinking? But anyway, and nothing against Kansas City. Just I need, I need to get out of there. So I'm driving around, I go to this because I like to go to grocery stores, right? I don't know, I do all the shopping. I like to discover stuff whenever, you know. And so I go to this grocery store and I'm wondering why at noon on a whatever day there's nobody in the parking lot. And so I get out of the car to go into this grocery store and I walk in and it was a dystopian. There was nothing in any of the boxes. The cashiers looked at me like I was, you know, alien. Over in the prepared food section. No prepared foods. And I find out, oh yeah, it's the city slash state run grocery store. And it went out of business two weeks later.
Rob Carson
There's this weird concept that people have where we have to innovate things that already work. And I don't understand this idea that like oh man, the system is clearly failing because Switzerland complains about things or some Nordic country says we do things better. And then they try that out here and it fails miserably. And why don't we just do the stuff that works? Where's the if it ain't broke, don't fix it maneuver? I don't understand it.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
The interesting thing is the Norway Sweden model collapsed 30 years ago. And they still think that Norway and Sweden are using that model. They're not. They abandoned it. They completely.
Rob Carson
If Sweden is an oil funded state, mercantilist approach.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Wow, look at you. My God. Did you get a declaration?
Rob Carson
Milton Friedman there for you, sailor.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Learn that at the Daily Signal. Holy hell. All right, Tony, Kenneth, I got more coming up. I've got a whole bunch of stuff on the other side of the break. Tony is saltier than a pretzel today. And we will continue this conversation on the other side of the break. This is the Rob Carson show. Hey, guys, it's Carson. For Quince, you know, a well built wardrobe is about pieces that work together and hold up over time. That's what Quince does best. Premium materials, thoughtful design, everyday stables that feel easy to wear even as the weather shifts. Quince has everyday essentials. I love the quality that lasts, by the way. Organic cotton sweaters, polos for every occasion, lighter jackets to keep you warm in the changing season. The list goes on. Now, Quince works directly with top factories and cuts out the middleman. So you're not paying for brand markup, just quality clothing. Everything is built to hold up to daily wear and still look good season after season. I have a great wool blazer that has the ladies turning their heads even if they're not looking at me. And then of course, a cashmere sweater, ridiculously soft, doesn't cost a fortune as well. Refresh your wardrobe with quince. Go to quince.com newsmax for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's quince.com q u I n c e.com newsmax free shipping and 365 day return. Quince.com newsmax.
Rob Carson
It's the ag, the attorney general of.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Minnesota, Keith Ellison, who, by the way, has been out there calling Trump a.
Rob Carson
Fascist, a dictator, all the usual left wing garbage nonsense. And the reason he's doing it, Jack, is because he's a crook himself.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Yeah, and he just wants to talk about anything other than the fact that.
Rob Carson
He was right at the center of the Minnesota fraud scheme. This is the attorney general of the state. He should be prosecuting bad guys. And instead he had this Somali crime ring into his own office. He took $10,000 in donations from these people and in return, he asked his staff to get the investigators off their backs.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
I mean, it's unbelievable. He should be in jail and he.
Rob Carson
Was trying to fight me on it and talk over me. I mean, he couldn't.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
You should have seen his eyes, you know, he couldn't believe. Oh, yeah, totally. You know, I think it's a pretty good deal here. You can go to Minnesota, open up a daycare center with no children or claim your kid has auto autism. Make millions and millions of dollars and buy off the AG for $10,000. Holy hell, what a plan. Tony. Kenny.
Rob Carson
So I've got a cool business proposition for you. I know you're a man of Business. You're a man of culture, your man of finance. Here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna steal $18 billion from you. Okay? Step number one, hear me out. Hear me out. I know, I know you're skeptical. Then, then, then after I send the money to terrorists, I'm gonna look at you, I'm gonna wiggle my lower lip, I'm gonna sweat a little bit, and I'm gonna ask you for 10 million more dollars. What do you say?
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Yes. You know, the hubris of these people, and maybe hubris isn't even enough of a word. The audacity of these people.
Rob Carson
Hubris.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
What?
Rob Carson
Now that's an insult to hubris.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
It is an insult to hubris, for God's sake. But, you know, and a lot of Democrats think that's something you put on salad. Can I have the hu. Little more hubris over here, but no, they are Tim Vaults. Tim wants money, and Jacob Fry wants money from the federal government for the damage caused when their protesters went after ICE and wrecked hotels and stuff. Now, realize in every other state where ICE was going in and getting illegals, no damage has taken place. But. But these jackasses want money from us to fix the mess that they promoted.
Rob Carson
Do you recall the money that Tim Walls doled out after the Summer of Love riots burned down? For example, businesses, Restaurants owned by firefighters.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Yeah.
Rob Carson
In downtown Minneapolis, nothing. They got a middle finger and the National Guard telling them to stay in their homes unless they were rioting. They got back in 2020. Now all of a sudden, though, because some illegal immigrants are too scared to go out because they're not citizens. They can't prove their citizens. They're staying there in their homes. Therefore, I guess, crippling the dirt, beans and rice restaurants of the Somali restaurant scene or whatever, you know, I'm surprised.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
That they aren't franchising these Somali restaurants because Somali food is. I don't even know what the hell it is.
Rob Carson
Actually, not even to be fair, the topsoil franchise market is rather saturated.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Well, how many restaurants can serve. You know, you in paid for rice dropped from an airplane.
Rob Carson
I mean, honestly, an Indiana health inspector will shut you down down if you serve me up a plate of Miracle Gro.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Yeah, you can't. You can't bring your kids in here unless there are flies buzzing around their heads. You can't do it. It's just that's the way they do things.
Rob Carson
Speaking of the way they do things, this is where, since we're on this particular thing, they've now decided to say that this is going to cause generational trauma everlasting. Like it's a Willy Wonka gobstopper.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
This is the most ridiculous gobstopper of suffering.
Rob Carson
Oh, my gosh. It's Ilhan Omar. You probably don't know me. I'm Ilhan. What is this? Are we seriously trotting this out now?
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Should have listened to Amy Klobuchar putting on an Oscar winning performance yesterday. You know, you ever notice, like, when my mom. I love my mother. I miss her so much. But there were times that she would put on the tears just to lay on the guilt. Good cat, Catholic mom. You know. You know, you Jewish people can understand this. This is what she tried yesterday.
Rob Carson
So you tell me how these actions have made our state more safe. It's the opposite.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
No, actually, Tom Homan said that they got. They rescued 3,364 children who'd been trafficked.
Rob Carson
And lost school attendance. Down.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Here comes a tear.
Rob Carson
Families living in fear. People staying home. Restaurants and businesses. That's feeling.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
You made him stay home.
Rob Carson
During COVID The impact Operation Metro surge costing our Minnesota economy an estimated $80 million per week. All for the shock and awe. We're such a.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
You know, and. And that never works. It never work. You never have sympathy. You just get mad at your mom. You're just like, oh, God, mom, come on.
Rob Carson
Has anyone noticed at this point that Amy Klobuchar just sounds and looks like Tim Walls doing a girl voice with.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
A witch of kind of similar.
Rob Carson
Kind of obviously same place, same accent. But I mean, seriously, it's the same thing. At some point you got to wonder, it's like how no one has ever seen that one actress, the homeless lady from Home Alone 2 and Piers Morgan in the same room. You know what I'm talking about. This is the same thing. Have you ever seen Klobuchar and Tim Walls next to each other?
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Have you noticed that Jacob Fry doesn't sound like either one? Did not. Like, he doesn't sound like he's from Minnesota. He, like, walks in, hello, I'm Jacob Fry.
Rob Carson
There's no tech products.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
What?
Rob Carson
He sounds like he's trying to scam me into a cheap tech product like a Facebook knockoff. That's Jacob Fry.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Well, he's the Justin Trudeau of Minneapolis. He's totally the Justin dude. He's the. He's totally the Justin Trudeau of. So what's going to happen with this. This government shutdown? The stupidity of it, by the way, is that ICE has already been funded through the end of the Trump administration. And so here we go again. I think it's gonna backfire more than ever because people like we just saw two weeks ago, Harry Hinton, saying, people love the deportations. They may disappear. Disagree a little bit because they believe the propaganda about ice, but Donald Trump defused that. So what's gonna happen now?
Rob Carson
Well, I can't speak for the political futures of guys like Justin. True discount, as far as Jacob Fry is concerned. I made that one up just for you. You're welcome. But I think that in the next couple of weeks, I do agree with some of the analysis from Gu Ben Shapiro. For example, the Democrats may have theoretically kind of won the battle here, but they are already losing the war because they wasted all of the 1 1/2 ounces of political capital that they shoehorned in here on going against voter ID and then insulting all black people, all women, all poor people. I mean, you know, they think black people and poor people are the same thing.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Yes.
Rob Carson
So, I mean, again, it's a lose the war situation for him. And I think that, again, all of this does, in fact, once again hinge on whichever crew acts the most mature and normal. And, yeah, I mean, if this means we get Tom Holman instead of Christine Ohm. If this means we get Todd Blanche instead of Pam Bondi. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
You know, and by the way, Metro Surge. Operation Metro Surge, which is being winded down, was the counter to Justin Trudeau, AKA Jacob Fry's insertion, which was called Operation Metrosexual. Hey. Thank you. I'll be here. I'll week.
Rob Carson
Ah, Boo.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Wasn't worth it. Not even worth it. Not even worth it. Not even. I didn't want to try to counter some of your punch lines on a Friday. It's just. It's. It's a. It's a fool's errand is what it is.
Rob Carson
No, I. I thought Fool's errand was what we were calling Tim Wall's VP Run. Hey.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
Okay. All right, brother Tony. Kenneth, where can people find your glorious presence online?
Rob Carson
Go find us over on YouTube. Daily Signal stuff. You. You can just search us on your. Your fancy, fancy Internet machine. We'll come up, I promise. All right.
Co-host (possibly a conservative commentator or guest)
We'll talk again. Zoom, bro. Have a good weekend. Let's come back in a second. This is the Rob Carson Show. Tony. Ken. It's always a lot of fun. So gold is at just over 5,000 bucks. Just over 5,000 bucks today. 5,019. Gold is tempting you. Gold is telling you. Hey, man, the price is down a little bit. It's time for you to you to get some gold. I'm looking up here on some of the trending headlines. Jim Cramer says gold is where you need to put your money. Tokenized gold having a major impact on the broader bullion market. Gold holds $5,000 floor as consumer delinquencies reach highest level since 2017. Those are the kind of things that are uncertain in society that cause gold to be more valuable. Whenever there's uncertainty, and there's still uncertainty around the world, but it's coming together. There's a number of reasons why gold has gone up 700% in the last 20 years. Like Nancy Pelosi's portfolio, more than any other commodity on earth, gold thrives during uncertainty, which is why it's a crucial part of a balanced strategy. I just turned over a 401k that has just been lying there like Joe Biden on the beach a couple weeks ago and I got in at about $4,700. $4,700. It was $5,600 a couple weeks ago. I got it, 4,700. I'm going to sit on it because I'm not going to be retiring for about another 10 years or so. And I'm just going to let it ride. Just going to let it ride. And if it performs anything like it has the last 10 years, let alone the last two years, you know, I'm going to have a nice little nest egg. It's not going to take care of everything, but it's a nice little nest egg. If you want to begin the ball rolling as far as investing in gold, maybe take that IRA or 401k or savings that's doing nothing and get it into gold. Just go to text my name. Rob to 989-898. Rob to 989-890 8. That's the number for Burch Gold. They'll give you information. No pressure, no nonsense. They have an A plus rating for the bbb. I trust them. I'm not screwing around when I tell you they've got my money. Guys. They're a client of me and Newsmax. They've got my money. I said I trust them enough to do this. So you know what? Just dip your toes in. Okay? Text my name. Rob to 989-898. Rob to 989-8784. Birch Gold. So coming up, we got some of that Ellison grilling yesterday on Capitol Hill. That was really funny. Also more on the SAVE act and Democrats right now it has passed through the House. It hasn't passed through the Senate. The Republicans can't get it through the Senate because they have no testicles. And we will talk a little bit about that. And a week's worth of Democrat excuses not to require an ID when you vote. It is remarkable, all of that. Your call is welcome. 800-922-6680. This, my friends, is a Friday edition of the Rob Carson Show. Don't go anywhere.
Episode: Big Beautiful Bills & Bigger Democrat Meltdowns
Date: February 13, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Guests/Contributors: Co-host (name not specified, possibly a rotating commentator), Tony Kenneth (The Daily Signal)
This episode of "The Rob Carson Show" centers on the perception of the Democratic Party as increasingly left-leaning, contrasted with the economic and legislative successes attributed to Donald Trump’s current presidency. The show mixes sharp conservative satire with news analysis, tackling issues including inflation, deregulation, Democratic Party strategies, media narratives, and controversial voter ID requirements. Regular guest Tony Kenneth (The Daily Signal) joins for in-depth commentary.
Quote:
"Democrats are moving to the left. The far left is gaining power. And there could be some electoral repercussions..." — Rob Carson, 00:53
Notable Exchange:
Co-host: "Are you saying that deregulation and lowering taxes...might have a positive impact on business?" — 04:30
Tony Kenneth: "Tremendously. Fewer federal employees...now they love me, because that’s okay." — 04:38
Quote:
"Maybe it’s because of Apple News, because every ounce of news on that is left wing." — Co-host, 06:38
Quote:
"Freedom is spreading through the Southern hemisphere. Freedom is spreading around the world..." — Co-host, 11:14
Memorable Quote (parody):
"That feature that turns the engine off when you pull up to a stop sign...It’s the dumbest thing ever." — Co-host, 16:45
Media Satire:
Rob Carson mocks historical climate change alarmism, playing clips of exaggerated past warnings about ice ages and global warming (18:36–19:32).
Quote:
"When you go in to get a car loan and they ask to see your ID, you tell them that is racist and sexist..." — Rob Carson, 14:00
Quote:
"He should be prosecuting bad guys. And instead, he had this Somali crime ring into his own office." — Rob Carson, 30:28
Quote:
"They have decided that whenever they get in power they're just going to start tearing things down..." — Rob Carson, 24:32
"Democrats are moving to the left...the clear majority say that they are too liberal."
— Rob Carson, 00:53
"Good luck with that in the midterms. Yeah. And of course the Democrat Party is back. Guano crazy."
— Co-host, 01:23
"Inflation took a big step in the right direction...consumer prices up by 2.4% year over year."
— Rob Carson, 02:37
"Are you saying that deregulation and lowering taxes...might have a positive impact on business?"
— Co-host, 04:30
"Deregulation...tremendously. Fewer federal employees."
— Tony Kenneth, 04:38
"Results are pretty much kicking butt."
— Rob Carson, 07:43
"If housing is the number one place where people are getting killed when it comes to affordability...then the prices will come down."
— Rob Carson, 08:42
"It's one big beautiful bill."
— Tony Kenneth (parody song), 09:14
"Freedom is spreading through the Southern hemisphere. Freedom is spreading around the world."
— Co-host, 11:14
"They passed voter ID in the state of Arizona...is it racist and sexist to require an ID to vote? Oh, yeah. No, it's not happening."
— Rob Carson, 14:00–15:08
"That feature that turns the engine off when you pull up to a stop sign...It’s the dumbest thing ever."
— Co-host, 16:45
"Women obviously have a higher capacity for empathy...but that empathy can be manipulated."
— Rob Carson (satirical segment), 21:06
"The Democrat answer to all of it is to go after the guy from ICE, then go after Pam Bondi, and then shut down the DHS and then say that voter ID is racist and sexist. That's their plan."
— Co-host, 22:32
"When all the millionaires, the entrepreneurs pull up stakes, take their businesses and leave...we should take their business and we run it like for our...like the city ourselves."
— Co-host & Tony Kenneth, 25:36–25:41
"Sweden is an oil-funded state, mercantilist approach."
— Rob Carson, 28:48
"He should be prosecuting bad guys. And instead, he had this Somali crime ring into his own office."
— Rob Carson, 30:28
"They think black people and poor people are the same thing. So, I mean, again, it's a lose the war situation for him."
— Rob Carson, 37:13
This episode deftly blends news breakdown, conservative critique, and satire, especially focusing on what the hosts see as the self-destructive overreach of the Democratic Party and vindication of Trump-era economic and policy shifts. Tony Kenneth’s dry humor and Carson’s punchy style keep the commentary lively and accessible, pairing detailed economic observations with colorful ridicule of the opposition. Listeners are left with an energetic rallying call to “stay positive and patriotic” while continuing to question media and legislative narratives from the left.