Drag Queens at Harvard & Communists on The View

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode: Drag Queens at Harvard & Communists on The View
Date: October 2, 2025
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Tom Borelli

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Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show dives humorously and critically into current cultural and political flashpoints: Harvard’s hiring of a drag queen professor, the embrace of “democratic socialism” on The View, and the larger struggles within the Democratic Party. Rob Carson unpacks viral TV clips, lampoons progressive narratives, and brings on Newsmax’s Tom Borelli for a spirited critique of New York politics and broader national trends.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media and Political Gatherings

• Rob recounts a Washington DC event with high-profile journalists and personalities like Judge Jeanine, Monica Crowley, and Cash Patel.
• Carson observes a pronounced reaction from mainstream media figures when he mentions Newsmax and his Rush Limbaugh writing credentials:

  "You should have seen them...their faces drop when I say Newsmax. And I wrote for Rush Limbaugh." [00:54]

• He stresses self-confidence in the face of media disdain, bringing levity and anecdotes from his personal life.

2. Democratic Party on Immigration and Healthcare

• Carson points to a Fox News segment (Sen. Shaheen on healthcare for undocumented immigrants) and says:

  "Literally every member of your party, from moderate to more progressive, that have said that in the past...they cannot out-lie the truth." [06:29]

• He asserts the mainstream media’s declining influence allows “truth” to surface, referencing plummeting ratings for figures like Jimmy Kimmel.

3. The View’s Embrace of Democratic Socialism

• Rob skewers The View’s interview with NYC mayoral candidate Zoran Mandami, whom he brands as a "communist" covered by the “sheepish adulation” of the show's hosts.
• Key Exchange [09:40]:
  • Host: "Trump says you are a communist. Are you?"
  • Mandami: "No, I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity for all people."
  • Carson: "Oh, okay. Well, obviously only democrat socialists believe in the dignity of all people. Certainly not you and me." [09:55]
• Carson criticizes the lack of follow-up from the hosts, calling their acceptance of Mandami’s slogans evidence of shallow journalism.

4. Policy Critiques: Defunding the Police and Wealth Redistribution

• Carson rebukes Mandami for past calls to defund the police, linking it to increased crime, and mocks The View’s audience as gullible:

  "Should disqualify you from office because it shows you have no judgment at all and you're a complete whack." [13:56]

• Mandami references Martin Luther King Jr. to defend his vision of wealth redistribution; Rob retorts that this rhetoric is “the same nonsense” repeated by historical autocrats.

5. Guest Segment: Tom Borelli on New York Politics

• Borelli calls Mandami “reckless” and “dangerous,” predicting economic decline and exodus from NYC if his policies succeed.

  "His policy will accelerate the decline of New York City...Rich people will leave, only leaving the poor. Then they have to raise the tax base on whoever's left." [21:50]

• Rob and Tom bemoan the lack of Republican outreach, especially to black and inner-city voters, and cite positive examples (John Myrick in Baltimore).

6. Democrat Party, Urban Crime, and Government Shutdown

• Both hosts analyze the backlash against crime and illegal immigration, claiming Americans of all backgrounds are fed up with lawlessness. [32:00]
• Borelli notes that national polling places blame for the government shutdown on Democrats, predicting the impasse won’t last:

  "Americans are opposed to it. Democrats already know they're at a record low in terms of approval." [33:27]

7. Drag Queens at Harvard (Closing Segment)

• Rob lampoons Harvard’s hiring of Kareem Khubchandani (stage name Lahore Vagistan) as a visiting drag queen professor:

  "Their new professor was expected to teach a class on TV show RuPaul's Drag Race in the spring semester... If I had a drag queen name, it would be Chesty Drawers." [35:22]

• Argues that drag performances were historically comic and non-political, noting discomfort with the cultural trajectory.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On media scorn:
  "I enjoyed playing with their little minds like little cat toys." – Rob Carson [01:45]

• On immigration debates:
  "They cannot cover up the truth with massive amounts of lies because they don't own the networks anymore." – Rob Carson [06:29]

• On The View and Mandami:
  "If The View is supposed to be representative of women, I'd be embarrassed to be a woman, honestly." – Rob Carson [08:20]

• Mandami defining his politics:
  "No, I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity for all people." – Zoran Mandami [09:52]

• Carson on Mandami’s answer:
  "I believe in dignity. That's your answer. Okay, sure. And there they gobble it up." – Rob Carson [10:54]

• On crime and policing:
  "When you raise the carjackings by 800% and they come down...20%, honestly, what have you done?" – Rob Carson [13:44]

• On NYC’s future under the left:
  "They elected de Blasio. That was a disaster. Now double down on stupid with this guy." – Tom Borelli [21:50]

• On GOP outreach:
  "...it's just so dumb to be afraid to go into a black neighborhood because we're the Republicans, because we have nothing to be ashamed of." – Rob Carson [25:38]

• On Harvard drag queen professor:
  "If I was going to be a drag queen, it would be Chesty Drawers." – Rob Carson [35:22]

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Important Segments with Timestamps

• Rob’s media event and reaction to Newsmax reputation – [00:03 – 02:20]
• Healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants – [05:55 – 06:29]
• The View: Zoran Mandami's ideology, host responses – [07:57 – 12:20]
• Defunding the police, Mandami’s 2020 rhetoric – [13:52 – 15:39]
• Wealth redistribution and King quote – [17:57 – 18:25]
• Tom Borelli segment on NYC politics – [19:37 – 26:37]
• Crime and inner city voter sentiment – [30:19 – 33:07]
• Harvard drag queen professor story – [35:02 – 36:40]

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Tone and Style

Rob Carson’s tone is satirical, irreverent, and energetic—firing off one-liners, analogies, and mock outrage at political developments. The episode combines pointed analysis with comedic commentary, reminiscent of conservative talk radio laced with parody.

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Conclusion

This episode weaves together critiques of left-wing ideology in media, higher education, and urban politics with a healthy dose of humor and skepticism. Carson and Borelli argue that progressive policies have failed American cities and communities, and they call for more robust Republican engagement with neglected voters. The show closes on a satirical note about cultural changes at elite institutions like Harvard.

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Transcript

[Rob Carson]

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It's, it's an important, very important to me and I hope that this show is important to you. There you go. There you go. I'm going to be out this weekend, by the way. I'm very excited about it. You know, last night I went out and I was invited to a deal with Article 3 Project, which is Mike Davis's organization and he is, I just think one of the best journalists out there. Just an amazing human being and big fan. I've had him on the show many times and, and I went to this to do over on Pennsylvania Avenue and it was just really cool. If you want to see, look at my social media at Rob Carson or Rob Carson Show. And I got to meet Judge Janine. She's cute as a bugs here. My good. I would be her shirtless pool boy any day of the year. But anyway, her. And then also, who else did I meet? I met Cash Patel, met Cash Patel, met, let's see, Monica Crowley. Monica Crowley. Just a, just a great person, just a really cool person. I had a delightful conversation with her and a delightful conversation with her. And then I met a bunch of people from like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. You should have seen them. Guys. I talked about this earlier in the show when, when I introduced myself and who I work for and you see their faces drop when I say Newsmax. And I wrote for Rush Limbaugh and you see this, I mean just this drop in the face. Just like Clark in Christmas vacation when, when Randy Quaid and his family arrive in that old beat up rv. That's the look they had. Like, oh, boy, oh, boy. It was so fun. Oh, my God. And you know, the cool thing is I don't even care. So, like, this Wall Street Journal guy, I, you know, he just. His face dropped. I said, wow, that's quite a reaction. I didn't react that way when I found out you worked for the Wall Street Journal. That reminds me of. My mom would say. My mom would say something like that because she just did not let things bother her or people bother her. And she could just take down a room in a couple of words. I'm not there yet. But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed playing with their little minds like little cat toys. Because I don't even care. You work for the Wall Street Journal. I don't care. Who cares if you don't like that? I work at Newsmax. I don't care. There you go. I'm gonna go get some more meatballs. Can I get you guys something while I'm up? Okay, fine. I'm gonna move on. I'm gonna go say hi to Monica Crowley. Hi, Monica. How you doing there? What's up? All right. I'm gonna be out at Wings and Wheels. And as much as I, you know, I enjoy these little gatherings that I've been invited to but I'd rather hang out with you guys any day of the week. So I'm gonna be at this thing called Wings and Wheels and what they do, airport called Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, Delaware. And they get all these antique planes flying in and all. Everybody brings their cool cars and. And so we're gonna be hanging out there and I'm broadcasting with one of our affiliate stations WGMD 92.7and 98.5. And we're gonna hang out and we're gonna. We're gonna broadcast live there Saturday from 10am to 2pm and I got some don't catch the stupid T shirts. I ordered them myself. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna sell them for $10 because I bought them. It's my money and I'm not making any, really any money on them. But I'm selling for $10 and bring cash because I, you know, I'm not gonna. I don't have a card reader and all that crap. If you want a T shirt, I'll sell it to you. I only want people who want. Who listen to the show. I'm not just gonna hand out T shirts to people I don't know who don't know the show who just look at it as another T shirt. And I figure $10 is not much to pay for a t shirt. So 10am to 2pm and then we're gonna chill. You and I are going to hang out. We might all just walk around, look at cars. And then I'm going to go to give me a Grotto pizza on, on Saturday night. I'm going to give me a Grotto pizza on Saturday night or maybe Friday night. I don't know yet. But I'm going to get a Grotto pizza while I'm out there. If you don't know Grotto pizza, it's the kind of pizza that you really love when you don't live near it. You know what I'm talking about? It's that way when you live near something, you know, it's not as special, but when you're away from it, you're like, damn. So I love Grotto pizza. This is kind of funny. They had the janitor, janitor, Janitor, janitor. Senator Shaheen was on Fox talking about, you know, the Democrat Party and wanting illegal aliens to have health care. And she was denying that Democrats did that. And then Lawrence Jones, old LJ, he showed footage of a 2019 debate with all the Democrats on stage who were running. And Eric Swallow's well was on there and everything. And they asked about giving illegal health care. And every one of them raised their hands.

Listen, anybody in my party saying that illegal immigrants should get access to the health insurance marketplace?

I'm so glad you said that. Actually, I have some tape of, of your Democratic Party members saying this on the debate. So they've all said. And let's play the clip.

A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question and hold them up for a moment so, so people can see, raise your hand if, if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.

Everybody's hands. Everybody. Senator, that's, that's literally every member of your party, from moderate to more progressive, that have said that in the past. And she's shaking her head. And this is what they want, honestly. And this is why the Democrat Party is not going to win in the midterms. I'm not saying we need to be lackl days gold or we need to, you know, not work our butts off to make sure it happens. But honestly, the Democrat Party, this is a different moment for the Democrat Party than they've had a very long because A very long time because they cannot lie out lie the truth. They cannot cover up the truth with massive amounts of lies because they don't own the networks anymore. The networks that slavishly devote their time to covering up the Democrat lie. They are not popular anymore. Did you hear, by the way, Jimmy Kimmel came back to television, had some big ratings like for a night or two. Back in the toilet. Back in the toilet. You know why? Because they tried to make him to some sort of martyr for free speech and nobody bought it because he's just a jerk. There you go. That's all you need to know. So the View had Zoran Mandami on the show. And the View, they, they, they acted like little, little baby birds waiting for their mother to vomit up, you know, whatever she's gathered worm parts or whatever. Just eager little birds ready to old gobble up the. The socialist, the communist, Zoran Mandami. Here's the, here's the intro with a well fluffed crowd. Welcome back.

Zoran Mandami has been a political lightning rod since pulling off a stunning victory in the New York City mayoral primary, winning the Democratic nomination with more votes than Anthony Intro. Zoran Mondam.

The communist, the socialist. Oh my God. Communism only left 100 million people dead in body pits last century. But he's gonna put a new sticker on and my God, it's gonna be awesome. If the View is supposed to be representative of women, I'd be embarrassed to be a woman, honestly. And you know I'm talking conservative women in the audience. I know they don't speak for you and you've got to be going, oh my God, are you kidding me? It is just, it just so ridiculous. Here she is, he's being asked about being a communist. Now I want you to listen. This guy is so fricking slick and yet that's that gross fake smile on all the time that you know is covering up what he really wants to do. And he revealed it in the interview. Because if you have to ask him questions about, like you said you wanted to defund the police if you have to ask that question, you can't vote for somebody who did that. That's a void in their character, in their judgment. It is, it is something that is so profound as a lapse in judgment that resulted in death and destruction and crime, you can't consider them as a candidate ever. But that's your Democrat party. Here he is trying to explain away the fact that he's a Communist.

Let's quickly tick through all the things that Trump said about him, about you. And let's get that out the way. All right, number one, he's attacking.

He's got this fake. I know. It's so crazy what he called me. Oh, my God, it's so crazy.

You as a communist, are you?

[Zoran Mandami]

No, I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity for all people.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, okay. Well, obviously only democrat socialists believe in the dignity of all people. Certainly not you and me. What the hell kind of answers? And you know what? The thing is, she's so stupid, she didn't offer a follow up, literally. Okay, so you're a communist. Now here's what the question have been. So you, you're a communist. Donald Trump says you're a communist. Communism murdered a whole lot of people in the last century. It did across China that murdered 60 million of their own people in the Soviet union, you know, 60 million people, you know, and all other places around the world. Socialism and communism. The, the, the, the German Socialist Workers Party was the Nazis and all of that, you know, Donald Trump says you're a communist. A communist than a socialist. So how do you explain that?

Get that out of the way. Right. Number one, he's attacking you as a communist, are you?

[Zoran Mandami]

No, I'm a democratic socialist. That means I believe in dignity for all people.

[Rob Carson]

I believe in dignity. That's your answer. Okay, sure. And there they gobble it up. Gobble it up. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The ignoram. Ignoramus is in the seats.

More than that.

Yeah.

I think you're not a communist. I agree with that.

[Zoran Mandami]

No, I'm not a communist. I think, you know, a lot of New Yorkers have asked me, what does it mean that you're a democratic socialist. Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Here we go. He's going to bring up Martin Luther King.

[Zoran Mandami]

Tell them to think about the words of Dr. King from decades ago. He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism. There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country. And that's, that's the hard.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you see, he also wants to buy up all the housing and make it public housing. He also wants to socialize the grocery stores, et cetera. He's a communist. Now I've got more of this on the other side of the break. It's. It gets even worse. I know it's not possible, but. Yeah, it does. We're gonna take a break and come. This is the Rob Carson show.

[Zoran Mandami]

I've proposed is that we raise $10 billion to pay for our entire economic agenda and start to trump proof our city. Because we know he'll use federal funding as leverage over this city. And we will do so in two key ways. The first is to match the state's top corporate tax rate to that of New Jersey. We are at 7.25%. They're at 11.5%. Corporations can pay it over there, they can pay it over here. And the beauty of it is that it doesn't just apply to corporations headquartered in New York City, because when you say this, people will say, well, they're going to go to Florida. Wherever you are headquartered, as long as you do business in the state of New York, you are taxable for that corporate tax.

[Rob Carson]

That is Zoran Mandami, the communist. And, you know, there's a point where you got to kind of, you know, it's like your. Your kids, you know, they got a daughter dating a guy who's a complete jerk or whatever, and there's a point where you go, okay, well, you're just gonna have to find out, you know, as long as it's not dangerous, you know, but it's with New York, you're like, oh, you want to vote? Vote in economy. That's okay. Well, you're on Yon Yan. Yo. Yon yon. Two words. Yawn. Y O N. Y O N E Yan. Yo. There you go. Good luck. Good luck with that. But of course, over on the View, I mean, wow. Just an embarrassment. Just an embarrassment. They just. They're like hungry little birds just ready to gobble up the pablum, you know, that he vomited out yesterday. This is Sonny hosting about. He said he wanted to defund the police. And when Democrats defunded the police, that was what caused the gigantic rise in violence around the country. And thousands of police officers have been injured and police forces have been depleted, and carjackings and murders and everything went through the ceiling. It started to drop a little bit, and they're claiming victory. But I mean, when raise the carjackings by 800% and they come down, you know, 20%, honestly, what have you done? But, you know, here he is being asked about that, and of course, the View hosts, who are just. They're just all twinkly eyed and they're just, oh, my goodness, we got the Communists on here. He's got a nice smile on his face. I just, you know, honestly, it's. It's. It's just amazing.

Listen, Suzanne, back in 2020, you called for defunding the police, something you've since.

Which should disqualify you from office because it shows you have no judgment at all and you're a complete whack.

Walked back. You also called the NYPD racist, anti queer and a threat to public safety in 2020.

But now, that was five years ago.

They deserve an apology. You initially refused to denounce highly charged rhetoric related to Israel, then later said you would.

He's an anti Semite.

Discourage its use. How can New Yorkers trust you and not not be concerned that consultants are getting in your ear to get you elected, but you still hold all of them.

Well, that's because they can't trust you. But all he's got to do is say a couple nice words with a pretty smile on his face and the girls on the View just go, gobble, gobble, gobble those possessions.

[Zoran Mandami]

Well, they can rest assured that it isn't consultants in my ear. And I think this is another part of.

[Rob Carson]

He's got that fake smile on his face. I mean, it was only five years ago that I had all of these beliefs and I've just stopped talking about that like in the last couple of months. And I still haven't said, you know, globalize the inner fat. I still haven't denied that. But I got a smile on my face when I'm on the View right now. Hey, ladies, how are you? Ding.

[Zoran Mandami]

To be a young person looking to lead is also to leave the opening for.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you might need some experience there, junior. You've never run anything and never had a job.

[Zoran Mandami]

Growth and understanding. And I can tell you, growing up in this city, I thought often about safety and justice and I saw how justice was often left aside. Whether it was the Central Park Five, whether it was Sean Bell, whether it was Eric Garner, whether it was watching the news of Michael Brown and then in 2020.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, Mike Brown. That was a lie.

[Zoran Mandami]

To see the murder of George Floyd, it felt as if there had never been a wider chasm in my life.

[Rob Carson]

Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. All of that stuff is been refuted, actually. Yeah, especially the, the George Floyd thing because he died of a drug overdose and they used it as a. A trigger event for a revolution, a Maoist style revolution across the country. Here he is. Oh, talking about sanctuary cities because, you know, New York is going to remain a sanctuary city. They put up all these illegals and hotels and I mean, literally for a year, like in The Roosevelt Hotel. $500 a night. You couldn't afford that. You might dream about that. Maybe One day, saving up money to go maybe stay in New York City and hotel like that for a couple of days would have been a really big deal, you know, would have had to save your whole life. But they put them up in those hotels, they wrecked those hotels. Those hotels made hundreds of millions of dollars and the New York taxpayer paid for it. But he wants to keep, he says that he'll withhold.

This really is something he's.

Oh God. Her voice.

Trump says that he will withhold federal funding for New York City if you win. Can he do that? Number one? And my question is, is that going to stop people from voting for you?

[Zoran Mandami]

You know, this is just one of the many threats that Donald Trump makes. Every day he wakes up, he makes another threat.

[Rob Carson]

It's not a threat, it's a promise. Junior.

[Zoran Mandami]

A lot of the times about the city that he actually comes from.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, because you Democrats have made it into a hellhole.

[Zoran Mandami]

And what, what is angering to me is not what Donald Trump does because we've come to expect that from him.

[Rob Carson]

He's a great leader.

[Zoran Mandami]

But it's the idea that we have.

[Rob Carson]

You've never run a damn thing to.

[Zoran Mandami]

Accept that as the law.

[Rob Carson]

You never made change the idea that.

[Zoran Mandami]

We have to accept that as normal. We have to fight that because we know not only is it an overreach from a federal administration, it's an example of what he's done elsewhere.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Zoran Mandami]

You know, in California he's spoken about withholding federal funding. The attorney general there has estimated that for every dollar they spend in legal fees, they've won more than 30,000 back in funds. They would have lost.

[Rob Carson]

Sure.

[Zoran Mandami]

I'm, I'm proud and lucky to say that here in New York we have an incredible Attorney General Tish James.

[Rob Carson]

And also by the way, California spent $30 billion on homeless. Now they have the highest homeless population. They, they were originally supposed to spend like $30 billion on this high speed rail. They've spent 120 billion so far. Not a damn track has been laid down. California is bankrupt and people are streaming out of California. Keep. People are streaming out of New York. But gobble, gobble, gobble, just in time for Thanksgiving. That is your, that is your the view cast. My God in heaven, honestly. Wow. And here is Zoran talking about wealth redistribution.

[Zoran Mandami]

This vision of a democratic, of democratic socialism. It's one that often comes back to what Martin Luther King said.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, you already said that. He's been talking about that talk point. And all it takes is some wide eyed dimwits on Places like the View to go, oh, lookie, lookie, and forget that he's spewing the same nonsense. Castro spewed the same nonsense with the same smile on his face. So did Mao, so did Stalin, so did, so did Adolf Hitler. They always promise, promise, promise, sometimes doing it with a big smile on their face, just going in there and people gobble, gobble, gobble. And then ultimately what ends up happening, Absolute disaster. And everybody knows it. And just because he's a new face on an old concept that has resulted in body pits galore with, with every kind of person left in them, from Jews to Christians to Catholics to whatever it is, the same old, same old. Here's a guy with no life experience, comes along with the same sort of nonsense that he learned in academia. Gonna give it one more try. Gonna put some bread on a crap sandwich and put some stuff on the plate, maybe some fries over here, maybe, you know, some parsley, make it look delectable. But you know what? It's just gonna end up killing you. That's generally what happens. Tom Borelli lives in the New York area. He works on Newsmax. He's going to join us next to talk about all this and more. Don't go anywhere.

Let's quickly tick through all the things that Trump said about him about you, and let's get that out of the way. All right, number one, he's attacking you as a communist.

[Tom Borelli]

Are you?

[Zoran Mandami]

No, I'm a Democratic Socialist. That means I believe in dignity for all people.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That's. They believes in dignity for all people. Thank God. Only the communists and the, the Marxists and the socialists believe in that because the rest of us certainly don't. Wow, what a non answer. What a, what a. Just a pablum fest yesterday on the View with a, just a fake smiling communist on the show and them just gobbling it up. Somebody who didn't gobble it up is Tom Borelli. Tom Borelli works on Newsmax. He's one of our favorite guests here on the Rob Carson show, and he joins us right now on the Newsmax hotline. How you doing, my brother?

[Tom Borelli]

Hey, Rob. Great to be back with you and your listeners.

[Rob Carson]

But Tom, did you watch this yesterday? I gotta tell you, Mandami, that fake smile that he does is so disturbing to me, knowing that, you know, yesterday they were on their talking, well, five years ago you said get rid of the police. You know, five years ago you said that, you know, that, you know, Israel should be driven into the sea. And now it's Five years later, would you vote for somebody who five years ago said, defund the police?

[Tom Borelli]

Absolutely not. I mean, wearing a mask, you know, it's like, you know, the wizard of Oz, he's there trying to fool everybody. Who's the man behind that curtain? That man has many curtains.

[Rob Carson]

It is. It's frightening. And for the city of New York. I. I only started visiting New York City five years ago. Chris Ruddy hired me. I got to do my first radio show there, across the street and five stories up from where Rush Limbaugh started at wabc. And I looked at that city in the throes of COVID and I said, I understand why people thought this was the greatest city in the. In the world at one point. And it is. And what's really a damn shame about it is that it could be better. It could be much better. And right now, the left is going to make it a whole lot worse. And are you worried about that? You don't live in New York City, but you work in New York City. You've got to have some sort of sense of dread about this.

[Tom Borelli]

Oh, absolutely. I mean, this is truly frightening. The man is reckless. He's dangerous. His policy will accelerate the decline of New York City. It'll put it in a death spiral. Rich people will leave, only leaving the poor. Then they have to raise the tax base on whoever's left. Then corporations are going to move. You don't need Wall Street. Doesn't need to be Wall street anymore. You don't need to be attached downtown. You could be anywhere. It is a real problem. And what's most frightening from my perspective, is people can't learn. They elected de Blasio. That was a disaster. Now double down on stupid with this guy.

[Rob Carson]

It's remarkable. And I remember. And obviously you've got young people who've been indoctrinated in schools they don't remember five years ago is, you know, one third or one fourth of their life ago. So they don't remember the absurdity of the COVID lockdowns. I remember people sitting out on the damn sidewalk in a blizzard trying to pour a glass of wine. Couldn't even go in the damned restaurant for to go to the bathroom. It was so stupid. They build all these bubbles outside of restaurants so you could eat outside. It was just the most. It was a clown show, dude. It was a clown show. And they've already forgotten that.

[Tom Borelli]

If you can't learn from that Covid example in New York City, which is a great point on your part, you can't learn from anything. What it did show is that a mayor, a governor, they could ruin your life, literally. And your livelihood. You know, closing restaurants lives. Cuomo put COVID positive patients into nursing homes. It really showed in broad daylight how dangerous the wrong elected official could do and how they really can harm your person and your property. You know, back in the day. And wild enough, you know, Republican, Democrat, Democrats raise taxes. All right, I could deal with that. Now they're just plain old dangerous. They will ruin you and your family.

[Rob Carson]

And, you know, Eric Adams pulled out of the race. I basically said, okay, well, we still have a crap sandwich. It's just we don't have any bread anymore. I mean, what a terrible, terrible choice you have as Democrats. You got a guy who killed a bunch of elderly people, completely mismanaged. Covid. I mean, my God, what the hell? That's your choice. Or a communist. You know, it is a clown show. The Democrat Party is a clown show. And, you know, I know I've met Curtis Sliwa. I think he's great. People say he's unelectable, you know, but honestly, I gotta throw my support behind him. I ain't gonna vote. You know, I can't vote for him unless I was illegal. I could come to New York and vote as an illegal. I might be able to do it then. But I gotta tell you, I would. I would rather fight for Curtis Sliwa then vote for Cuomo any day of the year.

[Tom Borelli]

Yeah, I mean, it's a bad choice. And, you know, the Republican Party should be, you know, ashamed of itself, you know, the way they support or don't support Republican candidates. So, you know, a lot of times they just give up the, you know, the establishment, you know, just like God bless him, Charlie Kirk, you know, he was the only one who. The only one really successfully to go into college campuses. There's a problem here. I'm going to go in. Where was the RNC sitting on the hands, you know, dancing the same dance step that hadn't worked. How many Republicans have actually gone into the black community? Yes, the problem. And you know, some from some people can actually see the vision and then execute.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I was at a little gathering the other day in. In Maryland. I live in Virginia, chose to live in Virginia. I lived in Maryland for a dozen years and I wasn't about to do that again. And I was talk to a group of people with several candidates there and including the candidate for governor for Maryland and John Myrick. And John Myrick, he went into the hood in Baltimore And Baltimore is as hood as hood gets, okay? And he walked a mile in the hood. The West Moore, the governor of Maryland, walked a block with 25 security guards around him. And this guy, John Myrick sat on the stoop and talked to people. And you know what they said? They didn't say, get out of here, Republican, you're a racist. They said, we want the National Guard. These days are over. The days of being afraid to go into. It's just so stupid. It's just so dumb to be afraid to go into a black neighborhood because we're the Republicans, because we have nothing to be ashamed of. The Democrats party should be ashamed. And they don't want. They want change, Tom.

[Tom Borelli]

So true. They want change. All that takes is a little outreach. Years ago, my wife, Deneen Borrelli, as you know, she happens to be black. She worked for a policy group. They did an event in Baltimore and there were one or two black individuals say, well, I never saw a Republican before. Glad you're here. Could you imagine that? It's like the Republicans are some sort of ghost or something that aren't real.

[Rob Carson]

Well, we've had reason to be to some degree because we, we've been treated so violently by the Democrats, called every name in the book. And, and so there is a certain degree of fear when you walk into a neighborhood where everybody thinks you're a Nazi, you know, But I gotta tell you, I think that there is this Berlin Wall that exists between urban, inner city America, which encompasses a host of ethnic groups, not just black people, and the rest of the country and the Democrat Party have best to keep them uneducated, poorly educated, needy, dependent and angry. And that's all beginning to fall. And now Republicans have to realize they have to go into those neighborhoods and show them what they can do for them. Tom, can you hold on for the break? Okay, I want to hold on because I got a few other things I want to talk to you about. The shutdown, how long you think that's going to last? Also, the ice in Chicago and the National Guard in Memphis. That's coming up. This is the Rob Carson Show. Got more with Tom Borelli coming up in a second. Here's a headline for you. Gold Climbs on Weaker Dollar, Fed Independence and jitters. Yeah, gold has gone up pretty dramatically, about 40% this year. This year since January. You've got also 73% of central banks are looking to massively increase gold holdings. Sometimes maybe the classic ways to invest your money in things that have real value, that have had lasting value. For thousands of years. Are your best bet. Are your best bet. Gold has always had value. Gold has always been precious. Gold is becoming more Precious. And as 73% of central banks are looking to massively increase their gold holdings, it's got to become more precious because it's going to get harder to get. Demand will increase. Supply will decrease. The price is going. Do you understand? Do I need to explain to you? I'm not Zo Ron Mondame. He's like, oh, I don't care. I'm an idiot. Whatever. But that's just the way it works. So they've got a lot of money. They can buy up gold. You don't have so much money. You want to invest it wisely. Maybe it's time to look at gold. Maybe it's time to look at precious metals in general. Birch Gold is the company that I have invested my money in. And I would suggest that you do the same. Just get in touch with them. Try to get some information from them. They will provide you information about owning gold, about transferring a 401k or an IRA or even cash into gold. They'll send it to you if you want to have it in person. They'll store it for you if you want to as well. But I'd get on it right now before another 50% uptick and you're not able to afford as much. Okay. Been talking about this for a couple years now. Text my name. Rob to 989-898. Rob to 989-890 8. Rob to 989-899 8. Gold is about $3,800. It was only $1100 a few years a couple years ago. Might want to get on this. Text Rob to 989-8984. Birch Gold. Here's a woman from the south side of Chicago.

No, because I'm sick of it. Hey, ice. Come to the south side of Chicago. I promise you we're gonna keep our hands off of you. Gonna let you just throw people to the ground and tackle them?

Yeah.

We're not gonna jump in and jump on you.

Yeah. I think the American people, no matter where you live, are tired of. Of illegals running rough shot over the country. Antifa running over places like. Like Portland or. Yeah, Portland. Portland is kind of funny. I saw some of these antifa thugs who thought they were really big and. And cocky. This one was pouring red paint on the. On the ground in front of the ICE facility. Got arrested. He was in awe. He was in the jail. He had his hand chained to this bar. And he was crying like a little baby. Crying like a little. Americans like to see that, don't they? They like to see people who, who do bad things get a little what fur, don't they?

[Tom Borelli]

Tom Borelli Absolutely. It's called Law and Order. Eastwood films. Oh yes, make my day.

[Rob Carson]

That's a perfect analogy. You think about this, you know, I watched the Denzel movie, Denzel Washington, he's does these movies where he goes around, he, you know, he gets revenge on people who've done, you know, bad things. And like there's a movie called Nobody that I really love and, and all of these movies it's about, yeah, I love Isn't Nobody fan. Nobody too. Was absolutely terrible. By the way, have you seen Don't Buy it. Don't buy it. Tom. I spent $20. Oh my, I can't, I can't get that time in my life back and I can't get my $20. But what we do, we like it when evil is allowed to run. Rough shot. You like it with good kicks, a little butt. And that's what Donald Trump's doing in Memphis and that's what Donald Trump did in Washington DC. I live in D.C. tom, you've been to D.C. lately.

[Tom Borelli]

Fortunately not.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Is it because I live here? Tom?

[Tom Borelli]

No, not at all.

[Rob Carson]

But no. People I think are sick and damn tired of it. And in America's inner cities, they're tired of it. New York City, they were tired of it, man, they had roving gangs on friggin mopeds, riding around on scooters, riding around stealing. They had a, almost a miniature version of Tijuana with, with young women being trafficked there. You had Trinidad, New York City, people are just damn tired of it.

[Tom Borelli]

The rank and file, everyday hardworking American taxpayer is tired of it. The problem is you have the radical Democrats who, who aren't tired of it for some crazy reason because they double down on illegal immigration this way to save their party. That's drowning as we speak. That was their plan. But the blacks in Chicago, around the country are seeing the difference. They want safety and security just like every other American. And they've seen what illegals have done with crime, the illegals taking away their jobs and they've had enough. And that's why the Democrats are in panic mode.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, and they're also in panic mode because the government shutdown, 65% of Americans are blaming it on the Democrat party. They can't lie about this anymore, they can't outlie the truth and they don't have the sway over the media, the narrative, and people don't trust them anymore. What do you think is going to happen? What do you think is going to happen with this?

[Tom Borelli]

Well, you mentioned the poll numbers, that New York Times poll. You know, Americans are opposed to it. Democrats already know they're at a record low in terms of approval. So what do they do? They shut down the government because the radicals are in charge. Chuck Schumer is afraid of them. All the Democrats are afraid of them. They're saying that no money's going to go to illegal aliens. Wrong. Even Representative Democrat Ro Kahana was on saying, well, yeah, just a few, few illegals are going to get health care. So much for that Chucky boy.

[Rob Carson]

Nobody believes it, dude. Nobody believes it anymore. And I got to tell you, it's a glorious day. And I don't believe this is going to last long. I really don't. They already had five Democrats signed on. I think it's going to end. I don't know. But I don't like to predict things because sometimes when you predict, you know, doesn't end up so well. But I don't think it's going to last very long. I think, I think the American people see through it and the Democrats sees that they're a losing battle. And if anything, it's just going to cost them more because Donald Trump's just going to make the government smaller while they're sitting on their hands. It's kind of, kind of, kind of cool, kind of cool situation. Tom, we got to run, man. Where can people find you and your glorious wife Deneen on Newsmax and on the. On the way.

[Tom Borelli]

Yep, we're on Newsmax almost every Sunday morning through 7 to 10 as panelists and Ombarelli on Instagram and on X. Ombarelli.

[Rob Carson]

Well, I hope that New York can. I don't know, it's hoping against hope that, that the Republican candidate can win. But I, I would. If you're gonna, if you're gonna go all in, you might as well go on on for him because it's much better than either one of the Democrats. Tom, thanks, man. I appreciate your time.

[Tom Borelli]

Heck, yeah. Thank you.

[Rob Carson]

You bet. You bet. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. It is a Rob Carson Show. I'll be listening to this when I go to the gym today. When I look at the pictures that I had taken last night with Judge Jeanine Pirro and I realized, yeah, I gotta get back on the, you know, when I moved and all the Trauma of moving and all that. I. I didn't stop working out. I just ate things that probably shouldn't have eaten and I need to lose a couple of pounds. So I'm gonna work on that today. Got some good music. I get some good music and listen to some really good music on Spotify. Harvard hires a drag queen professor. I'm just reading the name, so chill out. Are you ready? Drag queen named Lahore Vajistan. Lahore Vagistan. You know, I'm doing this story so I can say that on the air, right? I'm just saying that's. If I had a drag queen name, it would be Chesty Drawers. I think about this. If I was going to be a drag queen, it would be Chesty Drawers. I think that's what my name would be. Or Hedda Lettuce. One of those. Harvard University hired a drag queen performer. Their new professor was expected to teach a class on TV show RuPaul's Drag Race in the spring semester. The institute welcomed Kareem Kubachandi in a July message to the college community revealed that the visiting professor from Tufts. Tufts will teach a study of gender and sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. That's meaningful if you're looking for a job as a drag queen. Kuba Jabba Dibada is perhaps better known by the stage name Lahore Vagistan, a Persona that the academic has made an integral part of their pedagogy. Okay. The professor will often lecture in the guise of Lahore, which has been a Persona project, personal project for a decade, even spawning a music video called Sorry, whatever the hell that is. We used to go see this drag Queen in Minneapolis, Ms. Richfield, 1988. And that person was funny. I'll say he. Because he was a. He was a. Worked as a mailman and. And then became Ms. Richfield, 1988. It was a funny show. It was a funny show. And that's what drag queens are meant to be. There. But they're meant to be clowns. They are clowns. They're not meant to be, you know, what they're becoming. But anyway, Lahore Vagistan. I said it. What else we got here? Before I go. Before I go. Kim Jong Un has ordered an emergency crackdown on antisocialist breast augmentation surgeries. He says you can't get fake boobs in. In. In North Korea. He says they're. They're antisocialist. So there you go. The. No fake. So much for the North Korean Baywatch. They were planning on filming you know later this year. That's gonna do it for the show today. If you want to check out the podcast, please do go to your usual podcast platforms. Look up Rob Carson's show, will ya? If you want to see all the pictures with like Judge Jeanine and everything, go to my social media at robcarson or Rob Carson show. Okay? In the meantime, have a glorious Thursday. God bless you America's founder Donald Trump what he's doing for the country. And until tomorrow, which by the grace of God is Friday, do not catch the stupid Lahore Banjistan. Morning Zoe. Got donuts.

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